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1. 1984 (1984)
R | 113 min | Drama, Sci-Fi
In a totalitarian future society, a man, whose daily work is re-writing history, tries to rebel by falling in love.
Director: Michael Radford | Stars: John Hurt, Richard Burton, Suzanna Hamilton, Cyril Cusack
Votes: 79,408 | Gross: $8.40M
2. Top Secret! (1984)
PG | 90 min | Comedy, Crime, Music
An American rock and roll singer is invited to a cultural festival in East Germany in order to distract from a plot to destroy NATO submarines, but he accidentally becomes involved in a resistance plot to rescue an imprisoned scientist.
Directors: Jim Abrahams, David Zucker, Jerry Zucker | Stars: Val Kilmer, Omar Sharif, Jeremy Kemp, Warren Clarke
Votes: 73,360 | Gross: $20.50M
3. Die Another Day (2002)
PG-13 | 133 min | Action, Adventure, Thriller
James Bond is sent to investigate the connection between a North Korean terrorist and a diamond mogul, who is funding the development of an international space weapon.
Director: Lee Tamahori | Stars: Pierce Brosnan, Halle Berry, Rosamund Pike, Toby Stephens
Votes: 230,306 | Gross: $160.94M
4. The Interview (II) (2014)
R | 112 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
Dave Skylark and his producer Aaron Rapaport run the celebrity tabloid show "Skylark Tonight". When they land an interview with a surprise fan, North Korean dictator Jong-Un Kim, they are recruited by the CIA to assassinate him.
Directors: Evan Goldberg, Seth Rogen | Stars: James Franco, Seth Rogen, Randall Park, Lizzy Caplan
Votes: 356,363 | Gross: $6.11M
5. Doctor Zhivago (1965)
PG-13 | 197 min | Drama, Romance, War
The life of a Russian physician and poet who, although married to another, falls in love with a political activist's wife and experiences hardship during World War I and then the October Revolution.
Director: David Lean | Stars: Omar Sharif, Julie Christie, Geraldine Chaplin, Rod Steiger
Votes: 82,495 | Gross: $111.72M
6. Octopussy (1983)
PG | 131 min | Action, Adventure, Thriller
A fake Fabergé egg recovered from the body of a fellow agent leads James Bond to uncover a jewel smuggling operation led by the mysterious Octopussy, and a plot to blow up a NATO air base.
Director: John Glen | Stars: Roger Moore, Maud Adams, Louis Jourdan, Kristina Wayborn
Votes: 113,555 | Gross: $67.90M
7. The Living Daylights (1987)
PG | 130 min | Action, Adventure, Thriller
James Bond is sent to investigate a KGB policy to kill all enemy spies, and uncovers an arms deal that potentially has major global ramifications.
Director: John Glen | Stars: Timothy Dalton, Maryam d'Abo, Jeroen Krabbé, Joe Don Baker
Votes: 106,320 | Gross: $51.19M
8. 1900 (1976)
Unrated | 317 min | Drama, History
The epic tale of a class struggle in twentieth-century Italy as seen through the eyes of two childhood friends on opposing sides.
Director: Bernardo Bertolucci | Stars: Robert De Niro, Gérard Depardieu, Dominique Sanda, Francesca Bertini
Votes: 27,503
9. The Manchurian Candidate (1962)
PG-13 | 126 min | Drama, Thriller
An American POW in the Korean War is brainwashed as an unwitting assassin for an international Communist conspiracy.
Director: John Frankenheimer | Stars: Frank Sinatra, Laurence Harvey, Janet Leigh, Angela Lansbury
Votes: 80,173
10. Sunshine (1999)
R | 181 min | Drama, History, Romance
The fate of a Hungarian Jewish family throughout the 20th century.
Director: István Szabó | Stars: Ralph Fiennes, Rosemary Harris, Rachel Weisz, Jennifer Ehle
Votes: 15,885 | Gross: $5.10M
11. 1984 (1956)
Not Rated | 90 min | Drama, Sci-Fi
In a totalitarian future society, Winston Smith, whose daily work is re-writing history, tries to rebel by falling in love.
Director: Michael Anderson | Stars: Edmond O'Brien, Michael Redgrave, Jan Sterling, David Kossoff
Votes: 4,189
12. Stalin (1992 TV Movie)
TV-MA | 172 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
The life and career of the brutal Soviet dictator, Joseph Stalin.
Director: Ivan Passer | Stars: Robert Duvall, Julia Ormond, Maximilian Schell, Jeroen Krabbé
Votes: 2,800
13. The Journey (1959)
Approved | 126 min | Drama, Romance, War
A British woman trying to escape Hungary with her freedom fighter lover and a group of Westerners, as the Soviet Union moves to crush the Hungarian Revolution of 1956, finds herself the obsession of an enigmatic Communist officer.
Director: Anatole Litvak | Stars: Deborah Kerr, Yul Brynner, Jason Robards, Robert Morley
Votes: 1,860
14. Cuba and the Cameraman (2017)
113 min | Documentary
Life in Cuba for three struggling families over the course of 45 years, from the cautious optimism of the early 1970s to the harrowing 1990s after the fall of the Soviet Union and the 2016 death of Fidel Castro.
Director: Jon Alpert
Votes: 5,558
15. Chuck Norris vs. Communism (2015)
Not Rated | 78 min | Documentary, Comedy, History
In the oppressive 1980s communist Romania, the smuggled VHS tapes of banned Hollywood films become an inspirational ray of hope. A hybrid feature about the magic of film and the power it has to change lives.
Director: Ilinca Calugareanu | Stars: Irina Margareta Nistor, Teodor Zamfir, Mircea Cojocaru, Vlad Craioveanu
Votes: 2,476
16. China Cry: A True Story (1990)
PG-13 | 101 min | Biography, Drama, History
This is the true story of Sung Neng Yee, now known as Nora Lam, who fled from Communist China to Hong Kong for her palpably real Christian faith.
Director: James F. Collier | Stars: Julia Nickson, France Nuyen, James Shigeta, Russell Wong
Votes: 576 | Gross: $4.21M
17. Freedom's Fury (2006)
90 min | Documentary, Sport
A documentary on the 1956 Olympic semifinal water polo match between Hungary and Russia. Held in Australia, the match occurred as Russian forces were in Budapest, stomping out a popular revolt.
Director: Colin K. Gray | Stars: Viktor Ageyev, Antal Bolvári, János Bük, Sándor Csoóri
Votes: 742
18. Red Monarch (1983 TV Movie)
101 min | Comedy, Drama
About Stalin's inner circle who he starts seeing as untrustworthy.
Director: Jack Gold | Stars: Colin Blakely, David Suchet, Carroll Baker, Ian Hogg
Votes: 329
19. Európa messze van (1995)
105 min | Drama, Family
The story starts in Romania in the last years of the Ceaucescu regime. The main character of the film is Petru, a ten-year-old Romanian boy. His world is one of action and dreams but, at ... See full summary »
Director: Barna Kabay | Stars: Levente Tamási, Géza Kaszás, Denisa Dér, Ferenc Zenthe
Votes: 47
20. Tiananmen (2019)
Documentary, History
It's been thirty years since the massacre at Tianamen Square in Beijing, where upwards of a few thousand students were killed in the military crackdown on their protests, the massacre which... See full summary »
Star: Shen Tong
Votes: 138
21. Portret Ilije Pevca (1988– )
67 min | Drama
Three-part dramatic show that tells the story of a man who returns to his native village after taking part in WWII. Once renown farmer doesn't find his place in post-war collectivization introduced by new, communist authorities.
Stars: Marinko Sebez, Danilo Lazovic, Miodrag 'Miki' Krstovic, Aleksandar Bercek
Votes: 48
22. Sakharov (1984 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 118 min | Biography, Drama
Biography of Russian physicist & dissident Andrei Sakharov focuses on his first acts in his civil rights movement to his receiving the Nobel Peace prize. Sakharov's actions first caused him... See full summary »
Director: Jack Gold | Stars: Jason Robards, Glenda Jackson, Nicol Williamson, Frank Finlay
Votes: 141
23. The Death of the Horse (1992)
80 min | Drama
Set during the sweeping purges in 1980s Albania, a military regiment raising horses is disbanded under suspicion of being involved in a coup against dictator Enver Hoxha. One man, Agroni, ... See full summary »
Director: Saimir Kumbaro | Stars: Timo Flloko, Raimonda Bulku, Niko Kanxheri, Fitim Makashi
Votes: 124
24. Singularity (2010 Video Game)
M | Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
A U.S. Marine captain unravels a mysterious conspiracy while investigating a time anomaly on a remote island in former Soviet Union.
Director: Michael McCormick | Stars: Nolan North, Steve Blum, Kari Wahlgren, Graham McTavish
Votes: 945
25. Duch, Master of the Forges of Hell (2011)
Not Rated | 110 min | Documentary, History
Between 1975 and 1979, the Khmer Rouge regime caused the death of some 1.8 million people, representing one-quarter of the population of Cambodia. Kaing Guek Eav, better known as Duch, was ... See full summary »
Director: Rithy Panh | Star: Kaing Guek Eav
Votes: 110
26. Kampuchea: The Untold Story (1985)
98 min | Drama, War
When Vietnam invades Cambodia (Kampuchea) in 1978, a 12 year old Cambodian boy (So Sombat) escapes to Thailand with his little sister. After meeting a group of Khmer Rouge child soldiers, he decides to join them and fight the Vietnamese.
Director: Toranong Srichua | Stars: So Sombat, So Wanpen, David Phanampai, Tinakarn Srisungmaun
Votes: 14
27. Collin (1981 TV Movie)
181 min | Drama
Hans Collin is a disillusioned GDR writer suffering from writer's block who must deal with his bitter adversary from the Stasi, Wilhelm Urack. Based on the novel of the same name by Stefan Heym.
Director: Peter Schulze-Rohr | Stars: Curd Jürgens, Hans Christian Blech, Thekla Carola Wied, Margot Werner
Votes: 9
28. The Life of an Agent (2004)
82 min | Documentary
Selection of clips from top secret training films made between the 1950s and 1970s for the Hungarian secret police of communist János Kádár era that teach the agents how to surveil and investigate possible traitors and recruit informants.
Director: Gábor Zsigmond Papp | Stars: János Kulka, Zoltán Rátóti, Ferenc Elek, Róbert Kardos
Votes: 61
29. Ya sluzhil v okhrane Stalina, ili Opyt dokumentalnoy mifologii (1989)
90 min | Documentary
This controversial documentary created a storm in Russia by taking the cloak off a violent, repressive period of Soviet history. Filmmaker Semyon Aranovich found the last surviving personal... See full summary »
Director: Semyon Aranovich | Stars: Nadezhda Alliluyeva, Fyodor Fedorovsky, Alexey Rybin
Votes: 62
30. À la Chaleur des Années Froides (2022)
82 min | Documentary
This film shows the post-revolutionary dynamics which, for ten years, will make cinema in Cuba an extraordinary cultural event. A film in memory of these pioneers.
Directors: Darius Kaufmann, Eytan Jan | Stars: Mirta Ibarra, Enrique Pineda Barnet, Jerónimo Labrada, Adela Legrá
31. Albania. Spelniona obietnica (1996 TV Movie)
53 min | Documentary
Director: Ryszard Jaworski | Star: Joseph Stalin
32. The Longest Shadow (1991)
Documentary, Short
On Easter morning, 1951, seven years after the fall of Bulgaria to Communist rule, thousands of men disappeared. Among them were both of Kalina Ivanov's grandfathers. The Longest Shadow is ... See full summary »
Director: Kalina Ivanov
33.
BBC Sunday-Night Theatre (1950–1959)
Episode:
Nineteen Eighty-Four
(1954)
114 min | Drama
In a totalitarian future society, Winston Smith, whose daily work is re-writing history, tries to rebel by falling in love.
Director: Rudolph Cartier | Stars: Peter Cushing, André Morell, Yvonne Mitchell, Donald Pleasence
Votes: 688
34.
Taxi (1978–1983)
Episode:
The Road Not Taken: Part 2
(1982)
TV-PG | 30 min | Comedy
Latka, and Alex share their past, as for how they got where they are now.
Director: James Burrows | Stars: Judd Hirsch, Danny DeVito, Marilu Henner, Tony Danza
Votes: 140
35.
Secrets of the Dead (2000– )
Episode:
Umbrella Assassin
(2006)
TV-PG | 56 min | Documentary, History, War
The mysteries behind the apparent Cold War murder of political dissident and author, Georgi Markov, a vocal anti-communist Bulgarian defector assassinated in London in 1979, are revealed.
Director: Mark Radice | Stars: Dimitar Botschev, Rufus Crompton, Ole Damkjær, Christopher Green
Votes: 29
36.
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (2014– )
Episode:
China's One Child Policy
(2019)
TV-MA | 34 min | Comedy, News, Talk-Show
John explains the troubling history, brutal enforcement and questionable results of China's highly controversial, decades long, one-child policy, a punitive measure conceived originally as ... See full summary »
Director: Paul Pennolino | Stars: Ryan Barger, Susan Evans, David Kaye, John Oliver
Votes: 259
37.
Royal History's Biggest Fibs with Lucy Worsley (2020– )
Episode:
The Russian Revolution
(2020)
59 min | Documentary, History
Lucy explores the myths and fibs that swirl around the dramatic events of 1917. She finds it was really a group of women workers who kick started the Russian Revolution in February 1917.
Director: Andrew Thompson | Star: Lucy Worsley
Votes: 22
38.
Kennedy (2023)
Episode:
Crisis (January 1962 - October 1962)
(2023)
Documentary, Biography, History
After Nuclear weapons are placed 90 miles from the Florida coast in Cuba, Kennedy faces his ultimate trial, the most dangerous moment in human history.
Director: Ashton Gleckman | Stars: Peter Coyote, Andrew Cohen, Richard Lipsey, J. Randy Taraborrelli
Votes: 27
39.
The Balkans in Flames (2021–2022)
Episode:
Tinderbox Yugoslavia
(2021)
Documentary, History, War
We begin with the search for traces in Yugoslavia's prehistory. Under the influence of changing rulers and empires, the country's structure is formed over centuries as home to five ... See full summary »
Stars: Misha Glenny, Marie-Janine Calic, Herfried Münkler, James Gow
40.
South Park (1997– )
Episode:
Band in China
(2019)
TV-MA | 22 min | Animation, Comedy
Randy sees an opportunity for Tegridy Farms in China; Stan starts a band to work out his frustration over having to move away from South Park and scores a hit, but China interferes.
Director: Trey Parker | Stars: Trey Parker, Matt Stone, April Stewart, Mona Marshall
Votes: 3,579
41.
Foreign Correspondent (1996– )
Episode:
Leave No Dark Corner
(2018)
28 min | Documentary, News
China's plan to become the first digital dictatorship by introducing the so-called Social Credit, a personal digital scorecard for 1.4 billion citizens that determines who gets to have which rights depending on their behavior is explored.
Star: Matthew Carney