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1. The Luminaries (2020– )
TV-MA | Adventure, Drama, Mystery
Adventure mystery set in the midst of New Zealand's 1860's gold rush period. It has all the stuff that makes a good drama: murder, love and revenge, as men and women travel the world making their fortunes.
Stars: Eve Hewson, Eva Green, Himesh Patel, Marton Csokas
Votes: 1,922
2. Hunt for the Wilderpeople (2016)
PG-13 | 101 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama
A national manhunt is ordered for a rebellious kid and his foster uncle who go missing in the wild New Zealand bush.
Director: Taika Waititi | Stars: Sam Neill, Julian Dennison, Rima Te Wiata, Rachel House
Votes: 112,364 | Gross: $5.20M
3. Gretel & Hansel (2020)
PG-13 | 87 min | Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
A long time ago in a distant fairy tale countryside, a young girl leads her little brother into a dark wood in desperate search of food and work, only to stumble upon a nexus of terrifying evil.
Director: Oz Perkins | Stars: Sophia Lillis, Samuel Leakey, Alice Krige, Jessica De Gouw
Votes: 24,400
4. Child 44 (2015)
R | 137 min | Crime, Drama, History
A disgraced member of the Russian military police investigates a series of child murders during the Stalin-era Soviet Union.
Director: Daniel Espinosa | Stars: Tom Hardy, Gary Oldman, Noomi Rapace, Joel Kinnaman
Votes: 66,282 | Gross: $1.21M
5. Level 16 (2018)
Not Rated | 102 min | Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
In a highly regimented boarding school, a pair of students discover that things are not as they seem.
Director: Danishka Esterhazy | Stars: Katie Douglas, Celina Martin, Sara Canning, Peter Outerbridge
Votes: 5,975
6. The Birth of a Nation (2016)
R | 120 min | Biography, Drama, History
Nat Turner, a literate slave and preacher in the antebellum South, orchestrates an uprising.
Director: Nate Parker | Stars: Nate Parker, Armie Hammer, Penelope Ann Miller, Jackie Earle Haley
Votes: 20,135 | Gross: $15.86M
7. The Breadwinner (2017)
PG-13 | 94 min | Animation, Drama, Family
In 2001, Afghanistan is under the control of the Taliban. When her father is captured, a determined young girl disguises herself as a boy in order to provide for her family.
Director: Nora Twomey | Stars: Saara Chaudry, Soma Chhaya, Noorin Gulamgaus, Laara Sadiq
Votes: 20,990 | Gross: $0.31M
8. Jodhaa Akbar (2008)
Not Rated | 213 min | Action, Drama, History
A sixteenth century love story about a marriage of alliance that gave birth to true love between a great Mughal emperor, Akbar, and a Rajput princess, Jodha.
Director: Ashutosh Gowariker | Stars: Hrithik Roshan, Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, Sonu Sood, Poonam Sinha
Votes: 29,995 | Gross: $3.44M
9. Central Station (1998)
R | 110 min | Drama
An emotive journey of a former school teacher, who writes letters for illiterate people, and a young boy, whose mother has just died, as they search for the father he never knew.
Director: Walter Salles | Stars: Fernanda Montenegro, Vinícius de Oliveira, Marília Pêra, Soia Lira
Votes: 36,558 | Gross: $5.60M
10. Teachers (1984)
R | 107 min | Comedy, Drama
A well meaning but burned-out high school teacher tries to maintain order against the backdrop of a pending lawsuit against his school district when it comes to light they gave a diploma to an illiterate student.
Director: Arthur Hiller | Stars: Nick Nolte, JoBeth Williams, Judd Hirsch, Ralph Macchio
Votes: 3,874 | Gross: $27.77M
11. No Mercy (1986)
R | 106 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
A Chicago detective, seeking to avenge his partner's death, travels to New Orleans, where he unexpectedly becomes involved in a cat and mouse game of survival.
Director: Richard Pearce | Stars: Richard Gere, Kim Basinger, Jeroen Krabbé, George Dzundza
Votes: 6,851 | Gross: $12.30M
12. Band of the Hand (1986)
R | 109 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Five juvenile lost causes are sent to the Everglades where a war veteran tries to reform them using survival tactics. Their new skills and resolve are tested when a Miami drug lord targets them for trying to clean up their neighborhood.
Director: Paul Michael Glaser | Stars: Stephen Lang, Michael Carmine, Lauren Holly, John Cameron Mitchell
Votes: 2,704 | Gross: $4.87M
13. El patrón, radiografía de un crimen (2014)
90 min | Crime, Drama
With dreams of a better life, a humble but illiterate labourer and his wife leave their poor village in Santiago to move to Buenos Aires. However, a sinister boss' promise of a bright future will come at a high price.
Director: Sebastián Schindel | Stars: Guillermo Pfening, Andrea Garrote, Joaquín Furriel, Gabriel Fernandez
Votes: 1,621
14. Mercury Plains (2016)
R | 102 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
A troubled man runs away to Mexico and is recruited to join a paramilitary group of teens fighting the drug cartels. He proves himself to the group, but questions their motive.
Director: Charles Burmeister | Stars: Scott Eastwood, Nick Chinlund, Andy Garcia, Jorge A. Jimenez
Votes: 1,208
15. Capri-Revolution (2018)
122 min | Drama, History
With Italy about to go to war in 1914, this is the story of the encounter between a goatherd called Lucia, the commune of young Northern Europeans led by Seybu and the town's young doctor on the unique island of Capri.
Director: Mario Martone | Stars: Marianna Fontana, Reinout Scholten van Aschat, Antonio Folletto, Jenna Thiam
Votes: 820
16. Le juge et l'assassin (1976)
128 min | Crime, Drama, History
An unstable former French Sergeant commits many atrocities. A judge considers how this case could benefit or damage his career.
Director: Bertrand Tavernier | Stars: Philippe Noiret, Michel Galabru, Isabelle Huppert, Jean-Claude Brialy
Votes: 1,646
17. Hükümet Kadin (2013)
99 min | Comedy
One day Midyat's Mayor loses his life in a car accident. His wife Xate must do his job.
Director: Sermiyan Midyat | Stars: Demet Akbag, Sermiyan Midyat, Mahir Ipek, Ercan Kesal
Votes: 7,450
18. Heidi (1952)
G | 97 min | Drama, Family
An adaptation of the famous childhood classic about a little girl taken away from her beloved grandfather, which benefits from filming in the actual picturesque Switzerland locations.
Director: Luigi Comencini | Stars: Heinrich Gretler, Elsbeth Sigmund, Thomas Klameth, Willy Birgel
Votes: 361
19. M (I) (2017)
100 min | Drama
Lila and Mo meet at a bus stop. Lila has a paralyzing speech impediment. Mo is chatty and exuberant. Lila is preparing for her exams. Mo illegally races cars for a living. Opposites attract... See full summary »
Director: Sara Forestier | Stars: Sara Forestier, Redouanne Harjane, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Liv Andren
Votes: 393
20. Menina (2017)
100 min | Drama
An 8-year old Portugees child fled with her parents to France in the early seventies. But the Portuguese terror travels along with her, with an alcoholic father and unloving mother.
Director: Cristina Pinheiro | Stars: Nuno Lopes, Naomi Biton, Beatriz Batarda, Thomas Brazete
Votes: 103
21. Falling Hare (1943)
Approved | 8 min | Animation, Short, Adventure
Bugs encounters wartime sabotage and takes to the air to do battle.
Director: Robert Clampett | Stars: Mel Blanc, Robert Clampett
Votes: 1,141
22. Lamma shoftak (2012)
Not Rated | 98 min | Drama
1967. The world is alive with change: brimming with reawakened energy, new styles, music and an infectious sense of hope. In Jordan, a different kind of change is underway as tens of ... See full summary »
Director: Annemarie Jacir | Stars: Mahmoud Asfa, Ruba Blal, Saleh Bakri, Anas Algaralleh
Votes: 655
23. La vida no vale nada (1955)
TV-PG | 100 min | Drama
Con una perspectiva un poco fatalista sobre la naturaleza humana y la búsqueda de la felicidad a través del amor, Pablo experimenta de manera cínica algunas relaciones sin éxito.
Director: Rogelio A. González | Stars: Pedro Infante, Rosario Granados, Domingo Soler, Magda Guzmán
Votes: 96
24. Brutal Glory (1989 Video)
111 min | Action, Adventure, Biography
The highly fictionalized making and breaking of Norman Selby, more recognizable as Kid McCoy, the real life American middleweight world boxing champion from the turn of the 20th century.
Director: Koos Roets | Stars: Robert Vaughn, Leah Pinsent, Timothy Brantley, James Ryan
Votes: 67
25. Los muertos no se tocan, nene (2011)
Comedy
Director: José Luis García Sánchez | Stars: Silvia Marsó, Carlos Iglesias, Mariola Fuentes, Blanca Romero
Votes: 79
26. The Kid from Chaaba (1997)
96 min | Comedy, Drama
In the sixties, around twenty families fled their Algerian village of el-Ouricia, driven by poverty or war. Refugees in Chaâba, a French shantytown, they face the hard learning of integration.
Director: Christophe Ruggia | Stars: Bouzid Negnoug, Nabil Ghalem, Galamelah Lagra, Kenza Bouanika
Votes: 158
27. Ta touvla (1985)
96 min | Comedy
Two streetwise childhood friends and powerful financial tycoons who never quite managed to graduate from high school will go back to class, only to fall for the same girl. But, are they willing to let the woman do the choosing?
Director: Omiros Efstratiadis | Stars: Kostas Voutsas, Sotiris Moustakas, Dinos Iliopoulos, Stamatis Tzelepis
Votes: 197
28. Le sorprese dell'amore (1959)
108 min | Comedy, Romance
Director: Luigi Comencini | Stars: Dorian Gray, Walter Chiari, Anna Maria Ferrero, Valeria Fabrizi
Votes: 77
29. Hop (2002)
106 min | Comedy, Drama
All Justin and his father want to do is sit down and enjoy a soccer game together. This simple act sparks a chain of events leading to Justin running from the law. He must embark on a ... See full summary »
Director: Dominique Standaert | Stars: Kalomba Mboyi, Jan Decleir, Antje de Boeck, Ansou Diedhiou
Votes: 426
30. Las Analfabetas (2013)
73 min | Drama
A bitter woman in her fifties accepts reluctantly the biggest challenge of her life, which is learning to read.
Director: Moisés Sepúlveda | Stars: Paulina García, Valentina Muhr
Votes: 142
31. Pravý rytír (2016 TV Movie)
Adventure, Comedy, Family
The king is returning from war - and awaiting him at home is a great surprise: he has a son - though one a bit different than the king - a true knight - had expected. He loves music and literature, and is the very opposite of his father.
Director: Martin Dolenský | Stars: Lukás Vaculík, Jan Komínek, Jaromír Hanzlík, Lucie Cerná
Votes: 83
32. Vekslák aneb Staré zlaté casy (1994)
85 min | Drama
Set in the eighties, the film tells of a young man who gets mixed up with black market moneychangers.
Director: Jan Prokop | Stars: Martin Zounar, Lucie Benesová, Marián Labuda, Stanislav Tríska
Votes: 38
33. D'une pierre deux coups (I) (2016)
85 min | Drama
Director: Fejria Deliba | Stars: Milouda Chaqiq, Brigitte Roüan, Claire Wauthion, Zinedine Soualem
Votes: 70
34. Zázracný nos (2016 TV Movie)
103 min | Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Director: Stanislav Párnicky | Stars: Kristína Kanátová, Anna Javorková, Ivan Romancík, Ján Dobrík
Votes: 71
35. Oshikkhito (1978)
127 min | Drama
Manik is a school going boy whose father died in boat drowning and lives from hand to mouth with his mother. One day the village head's evil eyes fell on his mother and not to be gratified ... See full summary »
Director: Azizur Rahman | Stars: Abdur Razzak, Anjana Sultana, Sumon, Rosy Samad
Votes: 16
36. Kaikkien naisten monni (1952)
80 min | Comedy
Director: Lasse Pöysti | Stars: Lasse Pöysti, Toini Vartiainen, Reino Valkama, Rauha Rentola
Votes: 78
37. O tlustém pradedeckovi (1970 TV Movie)
33 min | Comedy, Crime, Family
Director: Pavel Kraus | Stars: Josef Abrhám, Svatopluk Benes, Otakar Brousek, Jirí Holý
Votes: 7
38.
American Gangster (2006–2009)
Episode:
'Freeway' Ricky Ross
(2006)
TV-14 | 42 min | Documentary
Illiterate, but an athlete, "Freeway" Ricky Ross went from being a sports king to the crack king in the 70s and 80s when drugs were turning L.A. into the 'Hood' from hell.
Stars: Alex Alonso, Chico Brown, Jose R. Montalvan Jr., Bernard Parks
Votes: 6
39.
Ipaglaban mo (2014– )
Episode:
Abot hanggang sukdulan
(2015)
TV-14 | Crime, Drama, Thriller
Director: Jojo Saguin | Stars: Jose Sison, Jopet Sison, Nonie Buencamino, Dianne Medina
40.
Highway to Heaven (1984–1989)
Episode:
As Difficult as ABC
(1985)
TV-PG | 60 min | Drama, Fantasy
A promising basketball player whose coach has been making sure his grades are OK so he can play, learns he has a condition that means he can't play basket ball anymore. His coach then casts... See full summary »
Director: Victor French | Stars: Michael Landon, Victor French, Glenn-Michael Jones, Deborah Lacey
Votes: 72
41.
Blood Brothers (1993)
Episode:
Broken English
(1993)
55 min | Documentary, Drama
For 30 years, Arrernte man Rupert Max Stuart has maintained his innocence of the rape and murder of a young white girl. His story became the basis for the movie Black and White in 2002. In ... See full summary »
Director: Ned Lander | Stars: Bill Hunter, Tony Barry, John Blair, Basil Clarke
42.
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour (1962–1965)
Episode:
Consider Her Ways
(1964)
TV-PG | 48 min | Crime, Drama, Horror
Amnesiac woman awakens in a dystopian society formed after the extinction of all men where women are sorted at birth into one of four casts - Workers, Mothers (human incubators), Servitors and Doctors. She rebels against being a Mother.
Director: Robert Stevens | Stars: Alfred Hitchcock, Barbara Barrie, Gladys Cooper, Robert H. Harris
Votes: 237
43.
The Propaganda Report (2016– )
Episode:
DNB: #EnslaveMe, Mass Atrophy & Debunkery
(2020)
News
Stars: Monica Perez, Brad Binkley
44.
P.J. (1997–2009)
Episode:
Enfants errants
(2008)
Crime, Thriller
Chloé and Bernard have arrested Zlatan , a 18 years old adolescent coming from Serbia, for theft, assault and battery against Robert Corty, a volunteer in the association for helping ... See full summary »
Director: Pierre Leix-Cote | Stars: Charles Schneider, Valérie Bagnou-Beido, Raphaëlle Lubansu, Jalil Naciri
45.
This Time Next Year (2016–2019)
Episode:
Episode #3.6
(2019)
46 min | Reality-TV
Davina meets a grandfather determined to tackle his illiteracy, a little girl who wants to walk to school without her walking sticks and a man who wants to meet the stranger who saved his life twice.
Directors: Toby Baker, Ollie Bartlett, Alex Muchamore | Stars: Davina McCall, Tanni Grey-Thompson, Jenson Button
46.
Death Valley Days (1952–1970)
Episode:
Fighting Sky Pilot
(1965)
TV-PG | 25 min | Western
Reverend Ben Darniell believes he should practice what he preaches, and he refuses to resort to violence in the face of opposition. But he finds a minister in Carson City must be prepared to fight for those who cannot defend themselves.
Director: Lee Sholem | Stars: Skip Homeier, Carol Brewster, Raymond Guth, Sheldon Allman
Votes: 28
47.
New Looney Tunes (2015–2020)
Episode:
Formula One Bunny/Daffy Goes to Hollywood
(2020)
TV-Y7 | Animation, Short, Adventure
Bugs Bunny and Cecil Turtle compete in a Formula One Grand Prix. / Elmer Fudd foolishly decides to cast Daffy in his new commercial.
Director: Ian Wasseluk | Stars: Carlos Alazraqui, Dee Bradley Baker, Eric Bauza, Jeff Bergman
48.
Magpakailanman (2012– )
Episode:
Girl boy bakla tomboy: The Humawid Family Story
(2014)
Drama
Director: Joel Lamangan | Stars: Mel Tiangco, Shamaine Buencamino, John Arcilla, Rodjun Cruz
49.
The Ray Bradbury Theater (1985–1992)
Episode:
Great Wide World Over There
(1992)
TV-14 | 22 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Cora Gibbs is an illiterate woman living on an isolated farm with her much older husband. When her educated nephew Benjy visits for the summer, she sees her opportunity to connect with the ... See full summary »
Director: Ian Mune | Stars: Tyne Daly, David Orth, Bill Johnson, Helen Moulder
Votes: 80
50.
Der Lehrer (2009– )
Episode:
Ich glaub', Du bist hier das Problemkind
(2015)
45 min | Comedy
I think, you are the problem child here.
Director: Peter Gersina | Stars: Hendrik Duryn, Ulrich Gebauer, Rainer Piwek, Jessica Ginkel
Votes: 11