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1. The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes (2023)
PG-13 | 157 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Coriolanus Snow mentors and develops feelings for the female District 12 tribute during the 10th Hunger Games.
Director: Francis Lawrence | Stars: Rachel Zegler, Tom Blyth, Viola Davis, Dexter Sol Ansell
Votes: 116,782
2. 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: 82,086 | Gross: $111.72M
3. Farewell My Concubine (1993)
R | 171 min | Drama, Music, Romance
Two boys meet at an opera training school in Peking in 1924. Their resulting friendship will span nearly 70 years and endure some of the most troublesome times in China's history.
Director: Kaige Chen | Stars: Leslie Cheung, Fengyi Zhang, Gong Li, You Ge
Votes: 33,146 | Gross: $5.22M
4. The Silent Revolution (2018)
PG | 111 min | Drama, History
A group of twelfth-grade pupils in East Germany decide to show their solidarity with the victims of the 1956 Hungarian uprising by staging two minutes of silence during lessons.
Director: Lars Kraume | Stars: Leonard Scheicher, Tom Gramenz, Lena Klenke, Isaiah Michalski
Votes: 6,017
5. Danton (1983)
PG | 136 min | Biography, Drama, History
In 1793, as the Terror begins in France, Georges Danton, a champion-of-the-people, returns to clash against Maximilien Robespierre and his extremist party.
Director: Andrzej Wajda | Stars: Gérard Depardieu, Wojciech Pszoniak, Anne Alvaro, Roland Blanche
Votes: 7,775
6. Reilly: Ace of Spies (1983)
TV-MA | 720 min | Crime, Drama
A dramatization of the missions and adventures of the greatest spy in British history.
Stars: Sam Neill, Michael Bryant, Norman Rodway, Tom Bell
Votes: 1,690
7. The Official Story (1985)
Not Rated | 112 min | Drama, History
During the final months of Argentinian Military Dictatorship in 1983, a high school teacher sets out to find out who the mother of her adopted daughter is.
Director: Luis Puenzo | Stars: Norma Aleandro, Héctor Alterio, Chunchuna Villafañe, Hugo Arana
Votes: 10,859 | Gross: $0.03M
8. The Raspberry Reich (2004)
Unrated | 90 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A left-wing terrorist group, consisting of several homosexual men and a female leader, kidnaps the son of a wealthy industrialist.
Director: Bruce La Bruce | Stars: Susanne Sachße, Daniel Bätscher, Andreas Stich, Dean Monroe
Votes: 1,760
9. Born in Flames (1983)
Not Rated | 79 min | Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi
Set ten years after the most peaceful revolution in United States history, it presents a dystopia in which the issues of many groups - minorities, liberals, gay rights organizations, feminists - are dealt with by the government.
Director: Lizzie Borden | Stars: Honey, Adele Bertei, Jean Satterfield, Florynce Kennedy
Votes: 2,060
10. Illustrious Corpses (1976)
PG | 120 min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller
An investigation of the judges' assassinations reveals a political background.
Director: Francesco Rosi | Stars: Lino Ventura, Tino Carraro, Marcel Bozzuffi, Paolo Bonacelli
Votes: 2,797
11. Horatio Hornblower: The Wrong War (1999 TV Movie)
100 min | Adventure, Drama, War
Lt. Hornblower and his mates are sent to accompany a doomed royalist invasion of revolutionary France.
Director: Andrew Grieve | Stars: Ioan Gruffudd, Robert Lindsay, Antony Sher, Samuel West
Votes: 4,287
12. Jack Strong (2014)
Not Rated | 128 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
The most spectacular Polish spy of the Cold War era, Colonel Ryszard Kuklinski, informs Americans about the Communist Bloc's top secrets in the face of the upcoming martial law.
Director: Wladyslaw Pasikowski | Stars: Marcin Dorocinski, Maja Ostaszewska, Patrick Wilson, Dimitri Bilov
Votes: 5,356
13. Bonhoeffer: Agent of Grace (2000 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 88 min | Crime, Drama, History
The story of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a German clergyman of great distinction, who actively opposed Hitler and the Nazis. His convictions cost him his life.
Director: Eric Till | Stars: Ulrich Tukur, Johanna Klante, Robert Joy, R.H. Thomson
Votes: 810 | Gross: $0.30M
14. Knight Without Armor (1937)
Approved | 107 min | Adventure, Drama, History
After two years as a Czarist British agent posing as a Russian Commissar, he rescues a Russian countess from her Bolshevik captors.
Director: Jacques Feyder | Stars: Marlene Dietrich, Robert Donat, Irene Vanbrugh, Herbert Lomas
Votes: 1,460
15. Appointment in Honduras (1953)
Approved | 79 min | Adventure, Crime, Thriller
A wealthy American couple are hostages on an arduous jungle journey.
Director: Jacques Tourneur | Stars: Glenn Ford, Ann Sheridan, Zachary Scott, Rodolfo Acosta
Votes: 685 | Gross: $1.15M
16. Another Way (1982)
102 min | Biography, Drama, History
Political and sexual repression in Hungary, just after the revolution of 1956. In 1958, the body of Eva Szalanczky, a political journalist, is discovered near the border. Her friend Livia ... See full summary »
Director: Károly Makk | Stars: Jadwiga Jankowska-Cieslak, Grazyna Szapolowska, Jozef Kroner, Péter Andorai
Votes: 914
17. The Girl from Monday (2005)
R | 84 min | Action, Comedy, Sci-Fi
A comic drama about a time in the near future when citizens are happy to be property traded on the stock exchange.
Director: Hal Hartley | Stars: Bill Sage, Sabrina Lloyd, Tatiana Abracos, Leo Fitzpatrick
Votes: 1,160
18. The Swashbuckler (1971)
Not Rated | 98 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
Nicolas Philibert goes to America after killing a French aristocrat. On his return he tries to divorce his wife, Charlotte, but when he sees others trying to woo her his own interest is rekindled.
Director: Jean-Paul Rappeneau | Stars: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Marlène Jobert, Laura Antonelli, Michel Auclair
Votes: 1,659
19. Chouans! (1988)
143 min | Adventure, History, War
In 1793 when terror is widespread in France, peasants known as Chouans fight the revolutionaries in attempt to restore the monarchy.
Director: Philippe de Broca | Stars: Philippe Noiret, Vincent Schmitt, Raoul Billerey, Claudine Delvaux
Votes: 864
20. Charlotte Corday (2008 TV Movie)
93 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
Set In July 1793 During The Outbreak Of The Revolution In France In This 2008 Crime Thriller A Young Girl From Caen Named Charlotte Corday Who Assasinated A Jacobin Newspaper Editor ... See full summary »
Director: Henri Helman | Stars: Émilie Dequenne, Bernard Blancan, Thierry Gibault, Marc Fayet
Votes: 64
21. Diary for My Father and Mother (1990)
119 min | Biography, Drama
Direct follow-up to "Diary for my lovers". Juli and the people who she knew throughout her life have to face the events of the 1956 failed revolution in Hungary.
Director: Márta Mészáros | Stars: Zsuzsa Czinkóczi, Jan Nowicki, Tamás Végvári, Mari Törőcsik
Votes: 258
22. Diary for My Lovers (1987)
141 min | Biography, Drama
A continuation of "Diary for My Children," the film picks up in 1950, when Juli, the diarist, is 18 and determined to become a movie director.
Director: Márta Mészáros | Stars: Zsuzsa Czinkóczi, Ágnes Csere, Anna Polony, Mária Ronyecz
Votes: 323
23. The Royalists (1947)
99 min | Adventure, History
Director: Henri Calef | Stars: Jean Marais, Marcel Herrand, Pierre Dux, Louis Seigner
Votes: 85
24. Korona Rossiyskoy Imperii, ili Snova Neulovimye (1971)
134 min | Action, Adventure, History
The last part of the trilogy, consists of two series. The civil war is over, but not all enemies have been defeated yet. Grown up and matured guys are fighting bandits of all stripes, bringing the bright future of socialism closer.
Director: Edmond Keosayan | Stars: Mikhail Metyolkin, Viktor Kosykh, Vasiliy Vasilev, Valentina Kurdyukova
Votes: 1,003
25. Vent de galerne (1989)
105 min | Drama, History, War
Director: Bernard Favre | Stars: Jean-François Casabonne, Charlotte Laurier, Roger Jendly, Jean-François Blanchard
Votes: 15
26. The Trial (IV) (2018)
125 min | Documentary, History
In 1930 in Moscow, USSR. the Soviet government puts a group of top rank economists and engineers on trial, accusing them of plotting a coup d'état. The charges are fabricated and the punishment, if convicted, is death.
Director: Sergey Loznitsa | Stars: Aleksandr Aleksandrovitch Fedotov, Ivan Andreevitch Kalinnikow, Nikolai Krylenko, Sergey Viktorovitch Kupriyanov
Votes: 402
27. Dostoyanie respubliki (1972)
138 min | Action, Adventure, Crime
The swordsman and the commissar crossed their swords over the treasure.
Director: Vladimir Bychkov | Stars: Oleg Tabakov, Andrey Mironov, Spartak Mishulin, Yuriy Tolubeev
Votes: 419
28. Kontributsiya (2016)
100 min | Adventure, History, Mystery
Drama detective thriller in the best traditions of Agatha Christie. An immediate investigation starts following the disappearance of a diamond. Each of the people gathered in the room is ... See full summary »
Director: Sergey Snezhkin | Stars: Maksim Matveev, Elizaveta Boyarskaya, Ilya Noskov, Nadezhda Tolubeeva
Votes: 214
29. Pictures from a Revolution (1991)
93 min | Documentary, History
In 1981, Susan Meiselas published "Nicaragua, June 1978 to July 1979," 70 photographs she took documenting the Sandinista revolution. Ten years later, Meiselas returns looking for the ... See full summary »
Directors: Alfred Guzzetti, Susan Meiselas, Richard P. Rogers | Star: Susan Meiselas
Votes: 65
30. Les révoltés de Lomanach (1954)
88 min | Adventure
Lavish Revolutionary era spectacle in which a general has a romance with a young woman from the enemy aristocratic side.
Director: Richard Pottier | Stars: Dany Robin, Amedeo Nazzari, Jacques Castelot, Robert Dalban
Votes: 36
31. Imposztorok (1969)
104 min | Drama, History
Director: Félix Máriássy | Stars: Nándor Tomanek, Péter Huszti, István Iglódi, Margit Bara
Votes: 27
32. Quatre-vingt-treize (1962 TV Movie)
Director: Alain Boudet | Stars: Michel Etcheverry, Jean Mercure, Pierre Michaël, Loleh Bellon
33. Adyutant ego prevoskhoditelstva (1970)
377 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance
During the civil war Captain Pavel Koltsov, a Red Army secret agent, is sent on a mission to the White Army headquarters.
Stars: Yuriy Solomin, Vladislav Strzhelchik, Vladimir Kozel, Tatyana Ivanitskaya
Votes: 296
34. Behind Closed Doors (1929)
Passed | 70 min | Adventure, Crime, Drama
Behind the doors of a foreign-government's embassy in Washington D. C. a group of royal loyalists are attempting to raise funds to aid a counter-revolution and restore the deposed emperor ... See full summary »
Director: Roy William Neill | Stars: Virginia Valli, Gaston Glass, Otto Matieson, Andrés de Segurola
Votes: 20
35. Destination Nicaragua (1986)
58 min | Documentary
Documentary about a group of Americans who go to Nicaragua to learn about the conflict between the Contras and the Sandinistas.
Director: Barbara Trent | Stars: Tyne Daly, Daniel Ortega, Ronald Reagan
Votes: 9
36. Trevozhnyye nochi v Samare (1970– )
182 min | Drama
Stars: Sergey Yakovlev, Valeri Karavayev, Vladimir Emelyanov, Svetlana Bogolyubova
37. Complot internacional antilatinoamericano 2K (2021)
96 min | Comedy, Crime, Mystery
The Narrator shares with us how, by phone, a Latin American Sociologist explained a military-funded study on the feasibility of a coup d'état to the Intelligence Officer, visited by a Special Operations Officer after that.
Director: Jorge Luis Villacorta Santamato | Star: Jorge Luis Villacorta Santamato
Votes: 5
38. The New Sexual Puritans (2017 Video)
Short, News
Paul Joseph Watson warns of third-wave feminists hijacking the recent sexual abuse scandals in order to further their agenda.
Stars: Paul Joseph Watson, Hillary Clinton, Chris Coons, Matt McGorry
Votes: 17
39. Complot internacional antilatinoamericano (2021)
93 min | Comedy, Crime
In a Latin American country, an Intelligence Officer and a Sociologist analyze the psychological operations required to remove a recently elected babysitter from the Presidency of the Republic.
Director: Jorge Luis Villacorta Santamato | Star: Jorge Luis Villacorta Santamato
41.
The Adventures of Tintin (1991–1992)
Episode:
The Red Sea Sharks: Part 1
(1992)
TV-G | 24 min | Animation, Action, Adventure
Tintin and Captain Haddock travel to Khemed to rescue the Emir from the danger of arms smugglers who have overthrown his government.
Director: Stéphane Bernasconi | Stars: Colin O'Meara, Thierry Wermuth, David Fox, Christian Pelissier
Votes: 297
42.
Poldark (1975–1977)
Episode:
Episode #2.4
(1977)
TV-MA | 53 min | Drama, History, Romance
Warleggan presses trumped-up charges against Drake in revenge for his romance with Rowenna, and Ross plans a daring rescue of Dwight from a French prison.
Director: Philip Dudley | Stars: Robin Ellis, Angharad Rees, Kevin McNally, Dave Carter
Votes: 27
43.
OverSimplified (2016– )
Episode:
The French Revolution: Part 2
(2019)
TV-14 | 22 min | Documentary, Animation, Comedy
Oversimplified explains The French Revolution, in two parts.
Director: Stuart Webster | Star: Stuart Webster
Votes: 38
44.
The Virtual Revolution (2010– )
Episode:
The Great Levelling?
(2010)
Documentary
In the first in this four-part series, Aleks charts the extraordinary rise of blogs, Wikipedia and YouTube, and traces an ongoing clash between the freedom the technology offers us, and our... See full summary »
Director: Philip Smith | Stars: Aleks Krotoski, Kudjo Agbevi, John Perry Barlow, Tim Berners-Lee
Votes: 13
45.
New Discourses (2020– )
A Biological Foundation for Socialism?
(2021 Podcast Episode)
106 min
James Lindsay offers a critical analysis of Herbert Marcuse's essay "An Essay on Liberation," examining his views on capitalism and socialism.
Star: James Lindsay
46.
New Discourses (2020– )
Marcuse's Subverting Forces in Transition
(2021 Podcast Episode)
151 min
James Lindsay discusses the third part of Herbert Marcuse's 1969 essay, "An Essay on Liberation."
Star: James Lindsay
47.
Days of Revolt (2015–2016)
Episode:
State Violence and Counter Violence
(2015)
News, Talk-Show
Stars: Eddie Conway, Chris Hedges, Ojore Lutalo