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1. Hairspray (2007)
PG | 117 min | Comedy, Drama, Musical
Pleasantly plump teenager Tracy Turnblad teaches 1962 Baltimore a thing or two about integration after landing a spot on a local TV dance show.
Director: Adam Shankman | Stars: John Travolta, Queen Latifah, Nikki Blonsky, Michelle Pfeiffer
Votes: 138,848 | Gross: $118.87M
2. The Leopard (1963)
PG | 186 min | Drama, History
The Prince of Salina, a noble aristocrat of impeccable integrity, tries to preserve his family and class amid the tumultuous social upheavals of 1860s Sicily.
Director: Luchino Visconti | Stars: Burt Lancaster, Alain Delon, Claudia Cardinale, Paolo Stoppa
Votes: 28,887
3. American Dreams (2002–2005)
TV-PG | 60 min | Drama, Family, History
In the 1960s, a family experiences life and the struggles of the era, accompanied by the well-known pop songs of the period.
Stars: Gail O'Grady, Tom Verica, Brittany Snow, Jonathan Adams
Votes: 3,262
4. Hairspray Live! (2016 TV Movie)
TV-PG | 120 min | Comedy, Drama, Musical
A teenage girl living in Baltimore in the early 1960s dreams of appearing on a popular TV dance show.
Directors: Kenny Leon, Alex Rudzinski | Stars: Dove Cameron, Martin Short, Ariana Grande, Kristin Chenoweth
Votes: 3,818
5. Pignorant (2024)
TV-14 | 102 min | Documentary
An ex gang member's love for pigs spurs him on a life-risking mission to uncover the truth behind 'bacon'.
Director: Joey Carbstrong | Stars: Joey Carbstrong, Tarion Partridge, Dan Sheppard
Votes: 1,652
6. Mondays in the Sun (2002)
R | 113 min | Comedy, Drama
This is the story of those who live as if every day was a constant Sunday, those who spend their Mondays in the sun. The story of people who worked in a dockyard but are now unemployed.
Director: Fernando León de Aranoa | Stars: Javier Bardem, Luis Tosar, José Ángel Egido, Nieve de Medina
Votes: 15,415 | Gross: $0.15M
7. The Celluloid Closet (1995)
R | 102 min | Documentary, History
A documentary surveying the various Hollywood screen depictions of homosexuals and the attitudes behind them throughout the history of North American film.
Directors: Rob Epstein, Jeffrey Friedman | Stars: Lily Tomlin, Tony Curtis, Susie Bright, Arthur Laurents
Votes: 7,523 | Gross: $1.51M
8. Shame (1988)
R | 94 min | Crime, Drama
A barrister visiting a town in Western Australian town battles police corruption and the silence of the locals to help a teenage girl seek justice against a gang of young rapists.
Director: Steve Jodrell | Stars: Deborra-Lee Furness, Tony Barry, Simone Buchanan, Gillian Jones
Votes: 733 | Gross: $0.30M
9. Indian Summer (1972)
132 min | Drama, Romance
In Italy, gambler and poetry professor Daniele Dominici arrives in the seaside town of Rimini and is hired to teach for four months at a high school, replacing another teacher. His ... See full summary »
Director: Valerio Zurlini | Stars: Alain Delon, Giancarlo Giannini, Sonia Petrovna, Renato Salvatori
Votes: 2,626
10. I Am Greta (2020)
TV-14 | 97 min | Documentary, Biography
The documentary follows Greta Thunberg, a teenage climate activist from Sweden, on her international crusade to get people to listen to scientists about the world's environmental problems.
Director: Nathan Grossman | Stars: Greta Thunberg, Svante Thunberg, Niclas Svenningsen, António Guterres
Votes: 8,383
11. Cheers for Miss Bishop (1941)
Passed | 95 min | Drama, Romance
Dedicated Midwestern teacher Ella Bishop is distressed when her fiancé runs off with her vixenish cousin Amy. After Amy dies in childbirth, Ella is left to care for Amy's daughter Hope.
Director: Tay Garnett | Stars: Martha Scott, William Gargan, Edmund Gwenn, Sterling Holloway
Votes: 830
12. John Lewis: Good Trouble (2020)
PG | 96 min | Documentary
The film explores Georgia representative's, 60-plus years of social activism and legislative action on civil rights, voting rights, gun control, health care reform, and immigration.
Director: Dawn Porter | Stars: Elijah Cummings, Anthony Johnson, Hillary Clinton, Ayanna Pressley
Votes: 1,060
13. Tehran Taboo (2017)
Not Rated | 96 min | Animation, Drama
In their desperate search for freedom and happiness, four young people from Tehran, Iran are forced to break the taboos of a restrictive, islamic society.
Director: Ali Soozandeh | Stars: Jasmina Ali, Hasan Ali Mete, Zar Amir Ebrahimi, Milinko Ametovic Beganovic
Votes: 4,994 | Gross: $0.07M
14. The Last Journey of the Vikings (2020)
50 min | Documentary, History
Nearly 1,000 years ago, the Vikings left Scandinavia and settled across Europe - giving their name to Normandy along the way - before their Norman descendants seized the English throne at ... See full summary »
Stars: Dmitry Vinokurov, Clodagh Moriarty, Brian Matthews Murphy, Pernilla August
Votes: 124
15. The Most Beautiful Wife (1970)
108 min | Crime, Drama
A young poor girl receives a marriage proposal from a mafia novice. She's going to refuse, but he's going to insist - at all cost.
Director: Damiano Damiani | Stars: Alessio Orano, Ornella Muti, Tano Cimarosa, Joe Sentieri
Votes: 1,029
16. Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media (1992)
Not Rated | 167 min | Documentary, Biography, War
A film about the noted American linguist/political dissident and his warning about corporate media's role in modern propaganda.
Directors: Mark Achbar, Peter Wintonick | Stars: Noam Chomsky, Mark Achbar, Karin Aguilar-San Juan, Paul Andrews
Votes: 4,940
17. Rocca Changes the World (2019)
101 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama
11-year-old Rocca, a clever, creative and brave girl who lives all by herself in defiance of her teachers and the authorities has to fight to keep her independence and prove to everyone that a child also has the power to change the world.
Director: Katja Benrath | Stars: Luna Maxeiner, Caspar Fischer-Ortmann, Luise Richter, Leo Knizka
Votes: 583
18. Checosamanca (2006)
98 min | Documentary
From a Calabrian river to a night in Catania where stray dogs roam the city aimlessly: between these two extremes "full of emptiness" is built Checosamanca, a collective work, born with the... See full summary »
Directors: Chiara Bellosi, Marco Berrini, Enrico Cerasuolo, Francesco Cressati, Andrea D'Ambrosio, Sergio Fergnachino, Martina Parenti, Alice Rohrwacher, Andrea Segre, Nicola Zucchi | Stars: Clelia, Consiglia, Daniele, Donato
Votes: 17
19. Sir! No Sir! (2005)
Not Rated | 85 min | Documentary, History, War
NO! SIR! tells an almost entirely forgotten story of the military men and women who forced the U.S. government to end the Vietnam War
Director: David Zeiger | Stars: Michael Alaimo, Edward Asner, Joe Bangert, Tom Bernard
Votes: 839 | Gross: $0.11M
20. The Treat (1998)
R | 94 min | Comedy, Romance
The lives of four strange prostitutes will change forever when they go to the Mayor's birthday party.
Director: Jonathan Gems | Stars: Julie Delpy, Georgina Cates, Pamela Gidley, Larry Drake
Votes: 515
21. The Trap: What Happened to Our Dream of Freedom (2007)
180 min | Documentary
The many ways in which Western notions of personal and political freedom are changing in the 21st Century are explored in this three-part documentary from writer and filmmaker Adam Curtis.
Stars: John Nash, Robert Spitzer, Jerome Wakefield, Paul McHugh
Votes: 2,021
22. Victorian Slum House (2016– )
59 min | Documentary, History, Reality-TV
A group of 15 volunteers aged between 10 and 59 are transported back to Victorian London as they spend three weeks living and working in a recreation of the notorious Old Nichol slum in Bethnal Green in London's East End.
Star: Michael Mosley
Votes: 210
23. A House Through Time (2018– )
60 min | Documentary, Biography, History
Historian David Olusoga charts 180 years of British history as lived by the successive inhabitants of a single home in a British city - from its construction to the present day.
Stars: David Olusoga, Deborah Sugg Ryan, Ian Hislop, Gaynor Evans
Votes: 196
24. Edie & Thea: A Very Long Engagement (2009)
Not Rated | 61 min | Documentary, Drama, Romance
After 42 years, feisty and delightful lesbian couple Edie and Thea are finally getting married. From the early '60s to the present day, the tireless community activists persevere through ... See full summary »
Directors: Susan Muska, Gréta Olafsdóttir | Stars: Thea Spyer, Edie Windsor
Votes: 420
25. God's Country (1985 TV Movie)
90 min | Documentary
Original footage of the prosperous farming community of Glencoe Minnesota, 60 miles west of Minneapolis, was filmed in 1979 for a PBS documentary. But for the next six years Malle was too ... See full summary »
Director: Louis Malle | Stars: Louis Malle, Lowell Barnum, Arnold Beneke, Millie Beneke
Votes: 941
26. One: The Movie (2005)
Not Rated | 79 min | Documentary, War
In a divided post 9-11 world, first-time filmmaker Ward Powers asks life's ultimate questions of world renowned spiritual leaders and ordinary people. ONE: The Movie weaves the diverse ... See full summary »
Director: Ward Powers | Stars: Scott Carter, Mantak Chia, Deepak Chopra, Ram Dass
Votes: 183
27. The Last Schoolbell (1989)
107 min | Drama
As high school students put on a politically-engaged school play, tensions begin to rise between them and their headmaster. The conflict seems to mirror the social situation in the 1980s Poland.
Director: Magdalena Lazarkiewicz | Stars: Zbigniew Suszynski, Agnieszka Kowalska, Aleksander Bednarz, Henryk Bista
Votes: 327
28. Kill the Poor (2003)
Not Rated | 85 min | Drama
When a marriage of convenience becomes the real thing, Joe moves his pregnant French wife to a tenement building on New York's Lower East Side. The street is like a war zone with none of ... See full summary »
Director: Alan Taylor | Stars: Clara Bellar, Jon Budinoff, Heather Burns, Paul Calderon
Votes: 241
29. Raccontami (2006– )
100 min | Comedy, Drama
Stars: Massimo Ghini, Lunetta Savino, Mariolina De Fano, Edoardo Natoli
Votes: 133
30. Fabulous! The Story of Queer Cinema (2006)
81 min | Documentary
A chronological look at films by, for, or about (or 'by, for, and about') gays and lesbians in the United States, from 1947 to 2005, from Kenneth Anger's "Fireworks" to Ang Lee's "Brokeback... See full summary »
Directors: Lisa Ades, Lesli Klainberg | Stars: Randy Barbato, Dan Bucatinsky, Jonathan Caouette, Ash Christian
Votes: 840
31. Cured (2020)
80 min | Documentary
"Cured" takes viewers inside the campaign that led to a pivotal yet largely unknown moment in the struggle for LGBT equality: the American Psychiatric Association's 1973 decision to remove ... See full summary »
Directors: Patrick Sammon, Bennett Singer | Stars: Harry Adamson, Gary Alinder, Irving Bieber, Robert Campbell
Votes: 167
32. No More Goodbyes
Adventure, Drama, Family
When their foster mother dies, unrelated foster brothers Mark (17yrs), and Tristan (11yrs) go on the run to escape the system. But to keep their secret safe they must put their trust in a gruff retired Army Colonel seeking redemption.
Director: James Ganiere | Stars: Eric Roberts, Stacy Haiduk, Tom Nowicki, Christian Ganiere
33. Croíthe Radacacha (2023)
70 min | Documentary
Director: Ciara Hyland | Stars: Síobhra Aiken, Jean Law, Bríona Nic Dhiarmada, Ailbhe Smyth
34. Vengeance of the Deep (1938)
Approved | 68 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance
A concert pianist, as concert panists are wont to do, goes pearl diving in the South Seas to find a giant pearl for his girlfriend. He does, and that's when all the trouble begins.
Director: Ken G. Hall | Stars: Lloyd Hughes, Ann Richards, Sidney Wheeler, James Raglan
Votes: 53
35. The Skin I'm In (2012)
Not Rated | 86 min | Documentary, Adventure, Biography
A young man is found on the Berlin subway tracks with his head split open and a lethal blood alcohol level of 0.47. Saved by strangers, he is propelled on a global journey that explores the limits of body, mind, spirit and art.
Director: Broderick Fox | Stars: Rande Cook, Broderick Fox, Zulu Zulu
Votes: 14
36. Behind the Mask (2006)
Not Rated | 72 min | Documentary
Behind the Mask: The Story Of The People Who Risk Everything To Save Animals is a 2006 documentary film about the Animal Liberation Front. It took three years of filming, interviewing, and editing to complete.
Director: Shannon Keith | Stars: Shannon Keith, Keith Mann, Kevin Kjonaas, Rod Coronado
Votes: 201
37. The Dancing Hawk (1977)
98 min | Drama
Michal Toporny is a poor country boy whose determination and hard work help him climb the social ladder and become the head of a large factory in the city. But at what cost?
Director: Grzegorz Królikiewicz | Stars: Franciszek Trzeciak, Beata Tyszkiewicz, Beata Tumkiewicz, Czeslaw Przybyla
Votes: 120
38. The Experimental Eskimos (2009)
70 min | Documentary
In the early 1960s the Canadian government conducted an experiment in social engineering. Three young Inuit boys were separated from their families in the Arctic and were sent to Ottawa, ... See full summary »
Director: Barry Greenwald | Stars: Peter Ittinuar, Zebedee Nungak, Eric Tagoona
Votes: 25
39. Pays de cocagne (1971)
Not Rated | 80 min | Documentary
After the events of May 1968, the French went on vacations - and they were filmed during three months on the rural fairs, on the beaches, on promotional campaigns for products and ... See full summary »
Director: Pierre Étaix | Stars: Pierre Étaix, Maurice Biraud, Michel Lewin
Votes: 407
40. One Story (2013)
85 min | Drama
Third-generation Mexican teenagers Angie and Josh Navarro from Laguna Beach's upper class estates, are forced to move into their grandparent's house in the barrio. It is there they will ... See full summary »
Director: Clint Nitkiewicz Hernandez | Stars: Jessie Nickson, Tadie Acosta, Manny Alvarez Jr., Martin J. Ayala
41. Support: Web Series (2015– )
Support depicts the lives of 7 strangers attending an LGBT support group only to find that that stories have strange impacts on each others lives.
Stars: Emily Buchan, Benjamin Waters, Nija Okoro, Adrienne Brown
42. Si ji san ha (1972– )
Drama
According to Wikipedia, this is a TV show about the many people who fled to Hong Kong from Mainland China after the Chinese Civil War who lived as squatters in Kowloon, where the Lion Rock ... See full summary »
Stars: Ming Leung, Kenneth Tsang, Chi-Man Poon, Shui-Chun Fung
Votes: 6
43. From Pain to Power: A Revolt Special (2020)
22 min | Documentary, Short
REVOLT and AGA Agency present a powerful and timely look at the fight for social justice in America, starting at the March on Washington and spreading to the streets. Featuring T.I., Tamika... See full summary »
Directors: Jon Eckhaus, Steve Raze Julien | Stars: Tip 'T.I.' Harris, Drumma Boy, Benjamin Crump, Sybrina Fulton
44. Haiti Speaks (2020)
44 min | Documentary, Short
Haiti Speaks uncovers what neither centuries of colonialism, debt, discrimination or natural disaster could destroy: The depth of the Haitian spirit. Call it pride. Call it spirit. Call it hope. Whatever it is, you feel it in Haiti Speaks.
Director: Ashley Ellis | Stars: Ashley Ellis, T.D. Isaac, Alex Lavelanet, David Smith
Votes: 6
45. Free Swim (2009)
50 min | Documentary, Sport
A documentary about the paradox of Bahamian islanders not knowing how to swim.
Director: Jennifer Galvin
46. Kick Like a Girl (2008)
G | 25 min | Documentary, Short, Sport
The story of what happens when "The Mighty Cheetahs," an undefeated all-girls soccer team, competes in the boys division. With humor and candor this documentary gets at the heart of the ... See full summary »
Director: Jenny Mackenzie | Star: Mighty Cheetahs Soccer Team
Votes: 30
47. Street Fighting Men (2017)
101 min | Documentary, Crime, Drama
In a rapidly changing America where mass inequality and dwindling opportunity have devastated the black working class, three Detroit men must fight to build something lasting for themselves and future generations.
Director: Andrew James | Stars: James 'Jack Rabbit' Jackson, Deris Solomon, Luke Williams, Malik Shabazz
Votes: 16
48. Manscaping (2022)
62 min | Documentary
Manscaping is an intimate documentary portrait of three queer men who are reimagining the traditional barbershop. Devan Shimoyama is a Black American artist, fast on the rise, whose ... See full summary »
Director: Broderick Fox | Stars: Jessie Anderson, Richard Savvy, Devan Shimoyama
Votes: 15
49. Wings of Evolution (2007)
48 min | Documentary
The film revolves around the revolutionary educational system of Siragu, a school for homeless and underprivileged children, located in the remote outskirts of Chennai in Tamil Nadu, India.... See full summary »
Directors: Ramesh Mourthy, Stanzin Raghu
50. A Place Called Home (1991 Video)
Not Rated | 59 min | Documentary
This documentary examines the social, economic and political changes that shaped the baby boom generation: drugs, assassinations (Martin Luther King, JFK, RFK), the Vietnam War, divorce rate, AIDS, among others.
Director: Donald S. Hart | Stars: Charles Colson, Ralph Martin, N. Paul Stookey
Votes: 9