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1. Shrek (2001)
PG | 90 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy
A mean lord exiles fairytale creatures to the swamp of a grumpy ogre, who must go on a quest and rescue a princess for the lord in order to get his land back.
Directors: Andrew Adamson, Vicky Jenson | Stars: Mike Myers, Eddie Murphy, Cameron Diaz, John Lithgow
Votes: 734,023 | Gross: $267.67M
2. The House That Jack Built (2018)
R | 152 min | Crime, Drama, Horror
In five episodes, failed architect and vicious sociopath Jack recounts his elaborately orchestrated murders -- each, as he views them, a towering work of art that defines his life's work as a serial killer in the Pacific Northwest.
Director: Lars von Trier | Stars: Matt Dillon, Bruno Ganz, Uma Thurman, Siobhan Fallon Hogan
Votes: 91,977 | Gross: $0.09M
3. The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996)
G | 91 min | Animation, Drama, Family
A deformed bell-ringer must assert his independence from a vicious government minister in order to help his friend, a gypsy dancer.
Directors: Gary Trousdale, Kirk Wise | Stars: Demi Moore, Jason Alexander, Mary Kay Bergman, Corey Burton
Votes: 171,645 | Gross: $100.14M
4. Tears of the Sun (2003)
R | 121 min | Action, Drama, Thriller
A Special-Ops commander leads his team into the Nigerian jungle in order to rescue a doctor who will only join them if they agree to save 70 refugees too.
Director: Antoine Fuqua | Stars: Bruce Willis, Cole Hauser, Monica Bellucci, Eamonn Walker
Votes: 130,527 | Gross: $43.73M
5. Seven Years in Tibet (1997)
PG-13 | 136 min | Adventure, Biography, Drama
Heinrich Harrer, an Austrian climber, breaks out of prison and travels to the holy city of Lhasa. He is employed as an instructor to the 14th Dalai Lama and soon becomes his close confidante.
Director: Jean-Jacques Annaud | Stars: Brad Pitt, David Thewlis, BD Wong, Mako
Votes: 155,912 | Gross: $37.96M
6. Behind Enemy Lines (2001)
PG-13 | 106 min | Action, Drama, Thriller
A disillusioned pilot shot down over war-torn Bosnia goes on the run from the local military and an assassin, as his commanding officer risks all to save him.
Director: John Moore | Stars: Gene Hackman, Owen Wilson, Gabriel Macht, Charles Malik Whitfield
Votes: 112,855 | Gross: $59.07M
7. The Hunted (2003)
R | 94 min | Action, Crime, Drama
An FBI deep-woods tracker attempts to capture a trained assassin who has made a sport of hunting humans.
Director: William Friedkin | Stars: Tommy Lee Jones, Benicio Del Toro, Connie Nielsen, Leslie Stefanson
Votes: 51,408 | Gross: $34.24M
8. The Kashmir Files (2022)
Not Rated | 170 min | Drama
A heart-wrenching tale that captures the pain, suffering, and struggle of the Kashmiri Pandit community in 1990 and leads Krishna, a young college student, to set out on a quest to uncover the truth.
Director: Vivek Agnihotri | Stars: Mithun Chakraborty, Anupam Kher, Darshan Kumaar, Pallavi Joshi
Votes: 573,705
9. The Interpreter (2005)
PG-13 | 128 min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Political intrigue and deception unfold inside the United Nations, where a U.S. Secret Service agent is assigned to investigate an interpreter who overhears an assassination plot.
Director: Sydney Pollack | Stars: Nicole Kidman, Sean Penn, Catherine Keener, Jesper Christensen
Votes: 110,923 | Gross: $72.71M
10. Praying for Armageddon (2023)
97 min | Documentary, Thriller
An influential movement of Christian fundamentalists in the US, who with millions of dollars in backing and threads into the government are fighting for the end of the world.
Directors: Tonje Hessen Schei, Michael Rowley | Stars: Arik Ascherman, Gary Burd, Ralph Drollinger, Mohammed el Kurd
Votes: 292
11. Hatred (2016)
150 min | Drama, War
Despite being in love with a Ukrainian boy from the same village, Polish girl named Zosia is forced into marrying a wealthy widower. Soon World War II begins and ethnic tensions arise. Amidst the war chaos Zosia tries to survive.
Director: Wojciech Smarzowski | Stars: Michalina Labacz, Arkadiusz Jakubik, Wasyl Wasylik, Adrian Zaremba
Votes: 6,796
12. Transit (I) (2018)
Not Rated | 101 min | Drama, Sci-Fi
A man attempting to escape occupied France falls in love with the wife of a dead author whose identity he has assumed.
Director: Christian Petzold | Stars: Franz Rogowski, Paula Beer, Godehard Giese, Lilien Batman
Votes: 11,852 | Gross: $0.82M
13. The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Adventure, Comedy, Drama | Announced
Live-action adaptation of Disney's animated musical version of 'The Hunchback of Notre Dame'.
14. Tantura (2022)
94 min | Documentary, History
In the war of 1948 hundreds of Palestinian villages were depopulated. Israelis call it 'The War of Independence. Palestinians call it 'Nakba"'. The film examines one village- Tantura and why "Nakba" is taboo in Israeli society.
Director: Alon Schwarz | Stars: Avigdor Feldman, Yoav Gelber, Teddy Katz, Ilan Pappe
Votes: 1,253
15. Sometimes in April (2005 TV Movie)
TV-MA | 140 min | Drama, History, War
When the Hutu nationalists raised arms against their Tutsi countrymen in Rwanda in April 1994, the violent uprising marked the beginning of one of the darkest times in African history which resulted in the deaths of almost 800,000 people.
Director: Raoul Peck | Stars: Idris Elba, Carole Karemera, Pamela Nomvete, Oris Erhuero
Votes: 6,045
16. Savior (1998)
R | 103 min | Drama, War
A hardened mercenary in the Foreign Legion begins to find his own humanity when confronted with atrocities during the fighting in Bosnia.
Director: Predrag Antonijevic | Stars: Dennis Quaid, Nastassja Kinski, Pascal Rollin, Catlin Foster
Votes: 11,499 | Gross: $0.01M
17. The Hunting Party (2007)
R | 101 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama
A young journalist, a seasoned cameraman and a discredited war correspondent embark on an unauthorized mission to find the No.1 war criminal in Bosnia. However, their extremely dangerous target decides to come after them.
Director: Richard Shepard | Stars: Richard Gere, Terrence Howard, Jesse Eisenberg, Gordana Vukres
Votes: 25,995 | Gross: $0.97M
18. The Journey (III) (2016)
PG-13 | 94 min | Biography, Drama, History
During the 2006 Northern Ireland peace talks, Sinn Féin leader Martin McGuinness (Colm Meaney) and Democratic Unionist Party leader Ian Paisley (Timothy Spall) are forced to travel by car together.
Director: Nick Hamm | Stars: Timothy Spall, Colm Meaney, John Hurt, Freddie Highmore
Votes: 2,064
19. Ararat (2002)
R | 115 min | Drama, War
Interrogated by a customs officer, a young man recounts how his life was changed during the making of a film about the Armenian genocide.
Director: Atom Egoyan | Stars: Charles Aznavour, Brent Carver, Eric Bogosian, Simon Abkarian
Votes: 14,778 | Gross: $1.55M
20. Warriors (1999)
175 min | Drama, War
After seeing devastating results of ethnic war in former Yugoslavia soldiers from UNPROFOR peace units find it impossible to return back to their civil lives in the UK.
Stars: Jodhi May, Damian Lewis, Matthew Macfadyen, Shaun Dooley
Votes: 2,566
21. Amen. (2002)
Not Rated | 132 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
During WWII SS officer Kurt Gerstein tries to inform Pope Pius XII about Jews being sent to extermination camps. Young Jesuit priest Riccardo Fontana helps him in the difficult mission to inform the world.
Director: Costa-Gavras | Stars: Ulrich Tukur, Mathieu Kassovitz, Ulrich Mühe, Michel Duchaussoy
Votes: 14,975 | Gross: $0.27M
22. As If I Am Not There (2010)
109 min | Drama
A young female teacher from Sarajevo who travels to a remote village. Soon after arriving, the village is attacked by a group of soldiers. The men are killed, the women separated from the children, and placed in a makeshift brothel.
Director: Juanita Wilson | Stars: Natasha Petrovic, Fedja Stukan, Jelena Jovanova, Sanja Buric
Votes: 1,325
23. Born in Gaza (2014)
54 min | Documentary
Filmed shortly after the 2014 Gaza war, this documentary examines how violence has transformed the lives of 10 Palestinian children.
Director: Hernán Zin | Stars: Walaa Eltiti, Yazeed Faruja
Votes: 2,051
24. Harrison's Flowers (2000)
R | 121 min | Drama, Romance, War
When a Newsweek photojournalist disappears in war-torn Yugoslavia, his wife travels to Europe to find him.
Director: Élie Chouraqui | Stars: Andie MacDowell, Scott Anton, Elias Koteas, Brendan Gleeson
Votes: 6,768 | Gross: $1.84M
25. The Midwife (2015)
119 min | Drama, History, Romance
A Finnish midwife falls in love with a German-Finnish SS-officer during the Lapland War, in the middle of WWII.
Director: Antti J. Jokinen | Stars: Krista Kosonen, Lauri Tilkanen, Pirkka-Pekka Petelius, Tommi Korpela
Votes: 1,508
26. Welcome to Chechnya (2020)
TV-MA | 107 min | Documentary
A group of activists risk their lives fighting for LGBTQ+ rights in Chechnya.
Director: David France | Stars: Olga Baranova, David Isteev, Ramzan Kadyrov, Maxim Lapunov
Votes: 3,137
27. 1988 (I) (2023)
80 min | History, War
In the spring of 1988, in the depth of the Iraq-Iran war, the border town of Halabja was attacked by chemical weapons with all its people and their different stories.
Director: Hezhwan Zendi | Stars: Shamal Abarash, Eyam Ekrem, Qadir Jalal, Hasan Lashgari
Votes: 222
28. The Occupation of the American Mind (2016 Video)
82 min | Documentary
Israel's ongoing military occupation of Palestinian territory and repeated invasions of the Gaza strip have triggered a fierce backlash against Israeli policies virtually everywhere in the ... See full summary »
Directors: Loretta Alper, Jeremy Earp | Stars: Phyllis Bennis, Max Blumenthal, Noam Chomsky, Norman Finkelstein
Votes: 258
29. 100 Days (2001)
100 min | Drama
A local Hutu official is persuaded to implement the government's policy against the Tutsi: To completely wipe them out. Josette, a beautiful young Tutsi girl struggles to survive the ... See full summary »
Director: Nick Hughes | Stars: Eric Bridges Twahirwa, Cleophas Kabasita, Davis Kagenza, Mazimpaka Kennedy
Votes: 84
30. The Savage Peace (2015 TV Movie)
60 min | Documentary, History
When the Second World War ended, the people of liberated Europe celebrated their freedom from Nazi tyranny. Their years of suffering had ended, but for millions of Germans, the end of the conflict opened a new and terrible chapter.
Director: Peter Molloy | Stars: Christa Ronke, Marianne Becker, Meda Mládek, Stanislava Zverinova
Votes: 310
31. Occupation 101 (2006)
90 min | Documentary
A thought-provoking and powerful documentary film on the current and historical root causes of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and U.S. political involvement.
Directors: Abdallah Omeish, Sufyan Omeish | Stars: James Akins, Arik Ascherman, Bishop Barltlett Jr., Phyllis Bennis
Votes: 1,905
32. The Red Man's View
137 min | Action, Adventure, Drama | Pre-production
A film about a Shoshone band who lived in a secluded valley in the 1860's, during the time of the last 'Free' roaming Native Americans in the midst of the American Civil War. They are discovered by a group of Union soldiers and squatters, and forced to move from their home. They are moved from valley to valley as the Union takes more and more of their land in a plan to eradicate the country of '... See full summary »
Director: Thomas R. Bond II | Stars: Zahn McClarnon, Booboo Stewart, Crystle Lightning, Daniel Baldwin
33. Storm (I) (2009)
Not Rated | 105 min | Drama
Hannah Maynard, a prosecutor of Hague's Tribunal for war crimes in former Yugoslavia, charges a Serbian commander for killing Bosnians. However, her main witness might be lying, so the court sends a team to Bosnia to investigate.
Director: Hans-Christian Schmid | Stars: Kerry Fox, Anamaria Marinca, Stephen Dillane, Rolf Lassgård
Votes: 1,389 | Gross: $0.02M
34. Mercenaries (2011)
R | 97 min | Action, Drama
Andy Marlow, an ex British S.A.S serviceman turned mercenary, is sent into the Balkans after a military coup has arisen to rescue a U.S ambassador and his aide.
Director: Paris Leonti | Stars: Robert Fucilla, Kirsty Mitchell, Robert James-Collier, Danny Sapani
Votes: 1,223
35. The Lark Farm (2007)
Not Rated | 122 min | Drama, History
A stirring and stunning story of an aristocratic family who is unexpectedly swept into the ravages of World War I and a forbidden passion that may be the family's only hope.
Directors: Paolo Taviani, Vittorio Taviani | Stars: Paz Vega, Moritz Bleibtreu, Alessandro Preziosi, Ángela Molina
Votes: 2,327
36. The Empty Mirror (1996)
PG-13 | 118 min | Drama, History, War
Adolf Hitler faces himself and must come to terms with his infamous career in an imaginary post-war subterranean bunker where he reviews historical films, dictates his memoirs and ... See full summary »
Director: Barry J. Hershey | Stars: Norman Rodway, Camilla Søeberg, Peter Michael Goetz, Doug McKeon
Votes: 354 | Gross: $0.01M
37. Depth Two (2016)
80 min | Documentary, Drama, History
In 2001 a mass grave was discovered in a suburb of Belgrade. Soon there were more to come. "Depth Two" investigates the hidden story behind this horrid discovery and takes us back to 1999 and the NATO bombings in Serbia.
Director: Ognjen Glavonic | Stars: Bosko Radojkovic, Caslav Golubovic, Bozidar Protic, Shyhrete Berisha
Votes: 190
38. Endless Corridor (2014)
52 min | Documentary, History
Narrated by Jeremy Irons, this definitive account tells of the heart-rending human rights tragedy in 1992 when hundreds of Azerbaijanis were massacred after Armenians stormed the city of Khojaly.
Directors: Aleksandras Brokas, Mindaugas Urbonavicius | Star: Jeremy Irons
Votes: 38,293
39. The Weight of Chains (2010)
Not Rated | 125 min | Documentary, History, News
The Weight of Chains is a Canadian documentary film that takes a critical look at the role that the US, NATO and the EU played in the tragic breakup of a once peaceful and prosperous ... See full summary »
Director: Boris Malagurski | Stars: Rade Aleksic, James Bissett, John Bosnitch, Michel Chossudovsky
Votes: 4,538
40. In the Crosswind (2014)
90 min | Drama, History
"Risttuules" is a very emotional, tragic movie about mass deportation to Siberia based on the memories of Erna. It all started on June 14, 1941, when trucks came for the innocent families ... See full summary »
Director: Martti Helde | Stars: Laura Peterson-Aardam, Tarmo Song, Mirt Preegel, Ingrid Isotamm
Votes: 1,705
41. Alija (2018)
100 min | Biography, Drama
Bosnia and Herzegovina's founding President Alija Izetbegovic tells his life from the first years of his youth to his last breath.
Stars: Yurdaer Okur, Görkem Yeltan, Dilsad Çelebi, Duygu Yurukce
Votes: 445
42. How the Holocaust Began (2023)
59 min | Documentary, History, War
The Nazi evolution from murderous anti-semitism into organised death camps, as documented in this sober piece of historical excavation from Holocaust specialist James Bulgin, is truly ... See full summary »
Directors: Nic Young, Ben Holgate | Star: James Bulgin
Votes: 115
43. Chris the Swiss (2018)
90 min | Documentary, Animation, Biography
Croatia, 7th of January 1992: In the middle of the war a young journalists' body is being found dressed with an uniform of the international mercenary group. 19 years later, his cousin Anja Kofmel detects his story.
Director: Anja Kofmel | Stars: Susanne-Marie Wrage, Megan Gay, Christian Würtenberg, Michael Würtenberg
Votes: 556
44. Easter (2023–2024)
Approved | Mystery
The mental illness of our sleuth, Pascha, pits him against his most formidable foe - himself.
Stars: Lnq, Reginald VelJohnson, Olkens Graham, Gina Martino
45. Etnistä puhdistusta pyhällä maalla (2024 TV Movie)
51 min | Documentary
Director: Pertti Pesonen | Stars: Pertti Pesonen, Shimrit Sefer, Saman Selbi, Guy Hircefeld
46. Tibet: Cry of the Snow Lion (2002)
Unrated | 104 min | Documentary, History
A film about the state of Chinese occupied Tibet and its history of oppression and resistance.
Director: Tom Piozet | Stars: Edward Edwards, Ed Harris, Shirley Knight, Tim Robbins
Votes: 688 | Gross: $0.58M
47. Yellow Wasps (1995)
69 min | Documentary
The story of the Yellow Wasps, a Serbian paramilitary unit operating in Bosnia in 1992, and the crimes they committed in Eastern Bosnia provides frightening insights into the microcosm of the "Ethnic Cleansing" campaign.
Director: Ilan Ziv | Stars: Jovan Dulovic, Lawrence Eagleburger, Ibrahim Effendic, John Fox
48. Kotimaa Kosovo-Suomi (2018 TV Movie)
73 min | Documentary
Director: Olli Laine | Stars: Mehmet Hetemaj, Fatbardhe Hetemaj, Emine Hetemaj, Fatlume Hetemaj
Votes: 10
49. The Weight of Chains 2 (2014)
124 min | Documentary, Comedy, History
'The Weight of Chains 2' is a documentary film largely dealing with the effects of the Washington Consensus economic doctrine on the newly established former Yugoslav republics, but also ... See full summary »
Director: Boris Malagurski | Stars: Boris Malagurski, Oliver Stone, Noam Chomsky, Carla Del Ponte
Votes: 1,440
50. Motherland (VI)
Documentary
Following the 2020 unprovoked genocidal attack against Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh) Armenians by Azerbaijan and Turkey that killed 5,000 Armenians, journalist and activist Vic Gerami travels to Armenia to document his ravaged Motherland.
Director: Vic Gerami | Stars: Adam Schiff, Bob Menendez, Katie Porter, Barbara Lee