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1. Che: Part One (2008)
Not Rated | 134 min | Biography, Drama, History
In 1956, Ernesto 'Che' Guevara and a band of Castro-led Cuban exiles mobilize an army to topple the regime of dictator Fulgencio Batista.
Director: Steven Soderbergh | Stars: Julia Ormond, Benicio Del Toro, Oscar Isaac, Pablo Guevara
Votes: 47,974 | Gross: $1.80M
2. The Ugly American (1963)
Approved | 120 min | Adventure, Drama, Thriller
An ambitious American scholar becomes the ambassador to Sarkan, a southeast Asian country where civil war is brewing.
Director: George Englund | Stars: Marlon Brando, Eiji Okada, Sandra Church, Pat Hingle
Votes: 2,468
3. Coast of Skeletons (1965)
Not Rated | 90 min | Adventure, Drama
Harry Sanders returns to England after losing his job as a police inspector in West Africa. However, he soon returns to the continent to investigate the offshore diamond operation of a shady American tycoon.
Director: Robert Lynn | Stars: Richard Todd, Dale Robertson, Heinz Drache, Marianne Koch
Votes: 289
4. Saint Jack (1979)
R | 112 min | Drama
Jack Flowers, an American hustler in early-1970s Singapore, dreams of building a fortune by running a brothel and returning to the States to live a life of luxury.
Director: Peter Bogdanovich | Stars: Ben Gazzara, Denholm Elliott, James Villiers, Joss Ackland
Votes: 2,845
5. Of Gods and Men (2010)
PG-13 | 122 min | Drama, History
Under threat by fundamentalist terrorists, a group of Trappist monks stationed with an impoverished Algerian community must decide whether to leave or stay.
Director: Xavier Beauvois | Stars: Lambert Wilson, Michael Lonsdale, Olivier Rabourdin, Philippe Laudenbach
Votes: 16,106 | Gross: $3.95M
6. Earth (1998)
Not Rated | 110 min | Drama, Romance, War
It's 1947 and the borderlines between India and Pakistan are being drawn. A young girl witnesses tragedy as her ayah (nanny) is caught between the love of two men and the rising tide of political and religious violence.
Director: Deepa Mehta | Stars: Aamir Khan, Nandita Das, Rahul Khanna, Maia Sethna
Votes: 8,116 | Gross: $0.53M
7. Black Girl (1966)
Not Rated | 65 min | Drama
A black girl from Senegal becomes a servant in France.
Director: Ousmane Sembene | Stars: Mbissine Thérèse Diop, Anne-Marie Jelinek, Robert Fontaine, Momar Nar Sene
Votes: 6,029
8. Even the Rain (2010)
Not Rated | 103 min | Drama, History
As a director and his crew shoot a controversial film about Christopher Columbus in Cochabamba, Bolivia, local people rise up against plans to privatize the water supply.
Director: Icíar Bollaín | Stars: Gael García Bernal, Luis Tosar, Karra Elejalde, Juan Carlos Aduviri
Votes: 14,230 | Gross: $0.56M
9. Midnight's Children (2012)
Not Rated | 146 min | Drama
A pair of children born within moments of India gaining independence from Britain grow up in the country that is nothing like their parents' generation.
Director: Deepa Mehta | Stars: Rajat Kapoor, Vansh Bhardwaj, Anupam Kher, Neha Mahajan
Votes: 3,395 | Gross: $0.14M
10. Greed in the Sun (1964)
122 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
A rough trucker assigns his new truck and its mysterious cargo to his newest employee, only to see it hijacked by one of his experienced drivers. Now, his friends are after him to retrieve the goods. Are 100,000 dollars worth dying for?
Director: Henri Verneuil | Stars: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Lino Ventura, Reginald Kernan, Bernard Blier
Votes: 2,723
11. Gumshoe (1971)
GP | 86 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
Inspired by his love for Dashiell Hammett novels, nightclub comedian Eddie Ginley puts an ad in the paper as a private eye. The case he gets turns out to be a strange setup and as he digs to the bottom of it his life starts falling apart.
Director: Stephen Frears | Stars: Albert Finney, Billie Whitelaw, Frank Finlay, Janice Rule
Votes: 1,796 | Gross: $0.14M
12. Garm Hava (1974)
146 min | Drama
In post-partition India, a Muslim businessman and his family struggle for their rights in a country which was once their own.
Director: M.S. Sathyu | Stars: Balraj Sahni, A.K. Hangal, Geeta Kak, Jamal Hashmi
Votes: 830
13. The Hour of the Furnaces (1968)
Unrated | 260 min | Documentary, History, War
Divided into three segments, namely 1 Neocolonialism, 2 Act for liberation, 3 Violence and liberation, the documentary lasts more than 4 hours this deals with the defense of the revolution ... See full summary »
Directors: Octavio Getino, Fernando E. Solanas | Stars: María de la Paz, Fernando E. Solanas, Edgardo Suárez, Julio Troxler
Votes: 1,189
14. In Vanda's Room (2000)
Not Rated | 171 min | Drama
The film follows the daily life of Vanda Duarte, a heroin addict in Lisbon, and the community she lives in.
Director: Pedro Costa | Stars: Vanda Duarte, Lena Duarte, Zita Duarte, Manuel Gomes Miranda
Votes: 1,734
15. Xala (1975)
Not Rated | 123 min | Comedy, Drama
A corrupt politician is cursed with impotence on the night of his third wedding after embezzling 100 tons of rice.
Director: Ousmane Sembene | Stars: Thierno Leye, Myriam Niang, Seune Samb, Fatim Diagne
Votes: 1,941
16. Amigo (2010)
R | 124 min | Drama, War
A fictional account of events during the Philippine-American War.
Director: John Sayles | Stars: Joel Torre, Chris Cooper, Garret Dillahunt, Arthur Acuña
Votes: 667 | Gross: $0.18M
17. General Idi Amin Dada: A Self Portrait (1974)
Not Rated | 92 min | Documentary
A documentary on the military dictator of Africa's Uganda.
Director: Barbet Schroeder | Stars: Idi Amin, Fidel Castro, Golda Meir
Votes: 2,020
18. Space Chickens in Space (2018–2019)
TV-Y7 | 11 min | Animation, Action, Adventure
Three chickens have to face unthinkable challenges of technology, school and sibling relationships on a diplomacy school in outer space.
Stars: Kylie Loveday, Lynette Callaghan, Laura Aikman, David Menkin
Votes: 125
19. Colossal Youth (2006)
Not Rated | 156 min | Drama
With the destruction of Fontainhas nearly complete, the old man Ventura wanders around a bleak housing project and the ruins of the slums, meeting with his kids and old friends.
Director: Pedro Costa | Stars: Ventura, Vanda Duarte, Beatriz Duarte, Gustavo Sumpta
Votes: 1,745
20. Teza (2008)
Not Rated | 140 min | Drama
The Ethiopian intellectual Anberber returns to his native country during the repressive totalitarian regime of Haile Mariam Mengistu and the recognition of his own displacement and ... See full summary »
Director: Haile Gerima | Stars: Aaron Arefe, Abiye Tedla, Takelech Beyene, Teje Tesfahun
Votes: 630
21. Ossos (1997)
Not Rated | 94 min | Drama
A suicidal young woman gives her newborn child up to his deadbeat father in the Fontainhas slums of Lisbon.
Director: Pedro Costa | Stars: Vanda Duarte, Nuno Vaz, Mariya Lipkina, Isabel Ruth
Votes: 1,736
22. Cotton Mary (1999)
R | 124 min | Drama
A British family is trapped between culture, tradition, and the colonial sins of the past.
Directors: Ismail Merchant, Madhur Jaffrey | Stars: Greta Scacchi, Madhur Jaffrey, James Wilby, Sarah Badel
Votes: 542 | Gross: $0.30M
23. It Rained All Night the Day I Left (1980)
Not Rated | 95 min | Comedy, Crime
A tough rich female ranch owner in Africa wants to cut off the water supply to the locals, since she holds them responsible for the murder of her husband. She hires two charming gunrunners as help, but they suspect her shady competitor.
Director: Nicolas Gessner | Stars: Tony Curtis, Louis Gossett Jr., Sally Kellerman, John Vernon
Votes: 153
24. The Paragraph Man (2012)
23 min | Short, Comedy, Drama
The Paragraph Man is the faltering, stumbling, comic, sad and tragic story of an immigrant youngsters journey towards sociopolitical awareness, a very first attempt to understand his true situation as an immigrant in post-colonial Sweden.
Director: Foad Aram | Stars: Allan Abdi, Foad Aram, Aryan Batti, Tarik Gumus
Votes: 11
25. Statues also Die (1953)
30 min | Documentary, Short
A documentary of black art.
Directors: Ghislain Cloquet, Chris Marker, Alain Resnais | Stars: Jean Négroni, François Mitterrand, Pope Pius XII, Sugar Ray Robinson
Votes: 1,374
26. Raja (2003)
Not Rated | 112 min | Drama
A cross-cultural drama about a wealthy middle-aged Frenchman's yearning for a nineteen year local girl. Raja is an orphan literally and figuratively scarred by life. Fred is an emotionally ... See full summary »
Director: Jacques Doillon | Stars: Pascal Greggory, Najat Benssallem, Ilham Abdelwahed, Hassan Khissal
Votes: 433
27. Ya bon les blancs (1988)
95 min | Comedy, Drama
The humanitarian aid expedition "Angeles Azules" (Blue Angels), comprising twelve Europeans and six trucks loaded with provisions to alleviate hunger in Sub-Saharan Africa, advances across ... See full summary »
Director: Marco Ferreri | Stars: Maruschka Detmers, Michele Placido, Juan Diego, Evelyne Pieiller
Votes: 205
28. Colombia in My Arms (2020)
91 min | Documentary, Drama
The peace agreement between FARC guerrillas and the Colombian Government throws the country into chaos. What happens to a fragile peace in an unequal country if doing the 'wrong' thing may easily be justified as the only means of struggle?
Directors: Jenni Kivistö, Jussi Rastas | Stars: Ernesto, Juan Manuel Santos, Pacho, María Fernanda Cabal
Votes: 120
29. The Rooftops (2013)
92 min | Drama
On the structure of the five daily prayers of the Muslim rite, the film tells us a day like any other in Algiers lived from various terraces of the buildings.
Director: Merzak Allouache | Stars: Adila Bendimerad, Nassima Belmihoub, Ahcène Benzerrari, Aïssa Chouat
Votes: 84
30. Omar Gatlato (1977)
90 min | Comedy, Drama
A somewhat cynical but realistic look at the alienation of men in Algerian society.
Director: Merzak Allouache | Stars: Boualem Benani, Aziz Degga, Farida Guenaneche, Rabah Leghaa
Votes: 193
31. Le salamandre (1969)
93 min | Drama
A white photographer seduces a black model.
Director: Alberto Cavallone | Stars: Erna Schurer, Beryl Cunningham, Antonio Casale, Tony Carrel
Votes: 48
32. Apsara (1966)
150 min | Drama
Director: Norodom Sihanouk | Stars: Bopha Devi, Nhiek Tioulong, Prince Sisowath Chivanmonriak, Norodom Narindrapong
Votes: 11
33. Bad Friday: Rastafari After Coral Gardens (2011)
63 min | Documentary
The history of violence against Rastafari through the eyes of a Rasta community of in western Jamaica who annually commemorate the 1963 Coral Gardens "incident".
Directors: John L. Jackson, Deborah A. Thomas
34. The Raven and the Seagull (2018)
70 min | Documentary
The relationship between Greenland and Denmark is full of fantasy and myths. And these are exactly what Danish artist Lasse Lau reflects upon - and in turn documents - in his first feature-length film.
Director: Lasse Lau | Stars: Aannguaq René J. Hansen, Angunnguaq Larsen, Varna Marianne Nielsen, Vivi Nielsen
Votes: 51
35. La sporca guerra (1959)
50 min | Documentary
Director: Alberto Cavallone | Star: Giovanni Arpino
36. Cantata de Chile (1976)
119 min | Drama, History
An epic, revolutionary retelling of the events leading up to an infamous massacre of striking miners in Chile in 1907.
Director: Humberto Solás | Stars: Nelson Villagra, Shenda Román, Eric Heresmann, Alfredo Tornquist
Votes: 37
37. The Art of Dissent (2021)
105 min | Documentary
"The Art of Dissent" celebrates the resilience and power of artistic engagement in Czechoslovakia before and after the 1968 Soviet-led invasion. The documentary's main protagonists - Václav... See full synopsis »
Director: James Le Sueur | Stars: Timothy Garton Ash, Joan Bakewell, Shirley Bassey, Kamila Bendova
Votes: 15
38. The Change: History Through Guineans' Eyes (2010)
70 min | Documentary, History, News
What's happening in Tunisia, Syria, Egypt, Yemen, Algeria, Lybia, Bahrain, Burkina Faso, Cote d'Ivoire? Guinea has experienced these same events in 200, but its story has been hidden, ... See full summary »
Director: Chiara Cavallazzi | Stars: Moussa Dadis Camara, Kaba Saran Daraba, Rabiatou Diallo, Thierno Sow
41. The Crying Conch (2017)
20 min | Short, Drama
A man is drawn into the footsteps of the historic Haitian slave leader; Mackandal. Following a man trapped in a curse which started centuries ago, this modern fable folds accounts of the past with the resilience of the present.
Director: Vincent Toi | Stars: Zidor Montal, Ebby Angel Louis, Lovena Dieudonné, Jean Claude Exantus
Votes: 25
42. 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, Adela Legrá, Eduardo Manet
43. Thunder in Guyana (2003)
50 min | Documentary, Biography, History
Thunder in Guyana is a documentary film about my cousin, Janet Rosenberg Jagan, who was elected President of Guyana, South America on December 15th, 1997. She is the first American-born ... See full summary »
Director: Suzanne Wasserman | Star: Janet Jagan
Votes: 39
44. Syndromes of Mimicry (2016)
18 min | Short, Comedy
On the eve of Lithuania becoming the "brightest" new EU member, its citizens unconsciously continue to follow their mundane routines.
Director: Anastasija Pirozenko
Votes: 12
45. Unterwegs mit Maxim Gorkiy (2015)
11 min | Short
A film-immanent observation of the world as such.
Directors: Kolja Kunt, Bernd Lützeler
46. Le président (2010)
98 min | Documentary
Director: Yves Jeuland | Stars: Georges Frêche, Laurent Blondiau, Frédéric Bort, Gilles Cohen-Solal
Votes: 87
47.
Once Upon a Time in Iraq (2020)
Episode:
Insurgency
(2020)
59 min | Documentary, History, War
The Iraqi insurgency is examined through Lt Colonel Sassaman's descent into the darkest regions of his psyche. Alaa Adel was 12 years old when she suffered life-changing injuries from a roadside bomb.
Director: James Bluemel | Star: Andy Serkis
Votes: 76
48.
Conspiracy Clearinghouse (2020– )
Conspiracy Thinking in the Middle East w/Adel Aali
(2024 Podcast Episode)
Talk-Show
Conspiracy thinking thrives in the Middle East but why?
Director: Derek DeWitt | Stars: Adel Aali, Derek DeWitt
49.
Machine Gun: History Down the Barrel of a Gun (1999)
Episode:
Age of Kalashnikov's AK 47
(1999)
60 min | Documentary
Stars: Lawrence Bayne, Jack Blum, John Bolton, George Bush