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1. Godzilla vs. Kong (2021)
PG-13 | 113 min | Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
The epic next chapter in the cinematic Monsterverse pits two of the greatest icons in motion picture history against each other--the fearsome Godzilla and the mighty Kong--with humanity caught in the balance.
Director: Adam Wingard | Stars: Alexander Skarsgård, Millie Bobby Brown, Rebecca Hall, Brian Tyree Henry
Votes: 243,227 | Gross: $100.92M
2. Das Boot (1981)
R | 149 min | Drama, War
A German U-boat stalks the frigid waters of the North Atlantic as its young crew experience the sheer terror and claustrophobic life of a submariner in World War II.
Director: Wolfgang Petersen | Stars: Jürgen Prochnow, Herbert Grönemeyer, Klaus Wennemann, Hubertus Bengsch
Votes: 264,790 | Gross: $11.49M
3. The Chosen (1981)
PG | 108 min | Drama
In 1944, in Brooklyn, two Jewish kids become friends. One is from a very conservative family, and the other is more liberal. The issues of importance of tradition, parental expectations and the formation of Israel cause constant friction.
Director: Jeremy Kagan | Stars: Maximilian Schell, Rod Steiger, Robby Benson, Barry Miller
Votes: 2,414
4. Valley of the Wolves: Homeland (2017)
105 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Polat Alemdar Erhan and Cahit are yet again on the front lines only to discover a military coup attempt in Turkey.
Directors: Serdar Akar, Necati Sasmaz | Stars: Necati Sasmaz, Cahit Kayaoglu, Ertugrul Sakar, Erhan Ufak
Votes: 3,440
5. Ranczo (2006–2016)
636 min | Comedy
Lucy Wilska (Ilona Ostrowska), an American of Polish descent, comes from New York to Wilkowyje, a small town in eastern Poland, to deal with the matters of a house she inherited after her ... See full summary »
Stars: Ilona Ostrowska, Pawel Królikowski, Cezary Zak, Piotr Pregowski
Votes: 865
6. El Greco (2007)
119 min | Biography, Drama
The story of the uncompromising artist and fighter for freedom, Domenicos Theotokopoulos, known to the world as "El Greco".
Director: Yannis Smaragdis | Stars: Nick Clark Windo, Juan Diego Botto, Laia Marull, Lakis Lazopoulos
Votes: 4,949
7. The Merry Widow (1952)
Approved | 105 min | Musical, Mystery, Romance
Operating under royal orders, a count must woo a young and wealthy widow in order to save a kingdom from bankruptcy.
Director: Curtis Bernhardt | Stars: Lana Turner, Fernando Lamas, Una Merkel, Richard Haydn
Votes: 671
8. Mafioso (1962)
Not Rated | 105 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
When a good-natured factory supervisor living in Milan with his Northern wife returns to his native Sicily, a decades'-old oath forces him to fulfill a nightmarish obligation.
Director: Alberto Lattuada | Stars: Alberto Sordi, Norma Bengell, Gabriella Conti, Ugo Attanasio
Votes: 2,975 | Gross: $0.40M
9. Begin the Beguine (1982)
PG | 87 min | Drama
A renowned Spanish writer returns to his natal city after 40 years and embarks on a journey back to his roots, triggering memories of his past.
Director: José Luis Garci | Stars: Antonio Ferrandis, Encarna Paso, José Bódalo, Agustín González
Votes: 1,616
10. Ever After High: Way Too Wonderland (2015 TV Movie)
TV-G | 90 min | Animation, Adventure, Drama
With the Storybook of Legends still in Wonderland, Raven attempts to teleport her friends there despite still getting the hand of her powers. Apple, Raven, Briar, Lizzie, Kitty and Maddie ... See full summary »
Directors: Mike Csunyoscka, Dan Fraga | Stars: Robbie Daymond, Jonquil Goode, Kate Higgins, Delaney Moline
Votes: 497
11. Paris Underground (1945)
Approved | 97 min | Action, Drama, Mystery
Among the terrified refugees jamming the roads out of Paris in 1940 are Kitty de Mornay, a rich American divorced from her French husband, and her companion Emmyline (Emmy) Quayle. A German... See full summary »
Director: Gregory Ratoff | Stars: Constance Bennett, Gracie Fields, Jorge Rigaud, Kurt Kreuger
Votes: 319
12. The Jump (2020)
84 min | Documentary, History
In 1970 Lithuanian sailor Simas Kudirka made a desperate leap for freedom from his Soviet vessel to a US Coast Guard cutter, but the Americans sent him back - inciting one of the Cold War's most complex and suspenseful political blunders.
Director: Giedre Zickyte | Stars: Walter Cronkite, Simas Kudirka, Richard Nixon, Ralph W. Eustis
Votes: 1,046
13. Horizon in the Middle of Nowhere (2011–2012)
TV-MA | 25 min | Animation, Action, Comedy
When humans came down from the sky they brought the Testament, the guide to the path they must follow if they wish to return to the skies. Now, in a world where only the islands of Japan ... See full summary »
Stars: Aoi Yûki, Mai Nakahara, Kris Carr, Jennifer Alyx
Votes: 184
14. Palermo or Wolfsburg (1980)
173 min | Drama
An impoverished young man from Sicily travels to Wolfsburg, West Germany to find work. He takes a job in the Volkswagen factory after he travels through Northern Italy by train.
Director: Werner Schroeter | Stars: Nicola Zarbo, Otto Sander, Ida Di Benedetto, Magdalena Montezuma
Votes: 272
15. The Directive (2019)
113 min | Action, Comedy, Sci-Fi
One year after a catastrophic pandemic wipes out most of humanity, a lone survivor embarks on a journey to find Safe Zone 57 with the help of a broken robot.
Director: Alexander Raye Pimentel | Stars: Kyle Abraham, Paul Askedall, Scott Thompson, Nicholas Winand
Votes: 1,317
16. Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania (1972)
Not Rated | 88 min | Documentary
Filmmaker Jonas Mekas creates an elegiac diary of a trip to his home country of Lithuania.
Director: Jonas Mekas | Stars: Jonas Mekas, Adolfas Mekas, Pola Chapelle, Ken Jacobs
Votes: 1,253
17. My Childhood, My Country: 20 Years in Afghanistan (2021)
90 min | Documentary, Biography, History
Award-winning filmmakers, Phil Grabsky and Shoaib Sharifi, present a real-life epic of boyhood and manhood, filmed across twenty years in one of the most embattled corners of the globe.
Directors: Phil Grabsky, Shoaib Sharifi | Stars: Tony Blair, Lyse Doucet, Robert Gates, Mir Hussain
Votes: 135
18. Sons of the Good Earth (1965)
107 min | Adventure, Drama, History
The year is 1937, just prior to the Japanese invasion of China. Painters Ju Rui and Lao San stumble upon He Hua, a woman sold into the sex industry at a local brothel.
Director: King Hu | Stars: Peter Chen Hou, Betty Loh Ti, Pao-Shu Kao, Kuang-Chao Chiang
Votes: 123
19. Nine Songs of the Moving Heavens (2016– )
Animation, Action, Adventure
During the Warring States period in China, danger seems to lurk within the Han State which is seen to be the weakest of the Seven States. It is under threat from the more powerful Qin State... See full summary »
Star: Bo Peng
Votes: 27
20. Rodina (2015)
45 min | Drama
A soldier who was considered dead for six years is quickly becoming the property of the media. The released Bragin is in a difficult psychological and physical condition, he is exhausted by torture and long years of solitary confinement.
Stars: Vladimir Mashkov, Viktoriya Isakova, Sergey Makovetskiy, Mariya Mironova
Votes: 162
21. Pashmina
Animation, Adventure, Comedy | Pre-production
Pashmina is an animated tale of a Indian-American girl who rediscovers her heritage through her magical pashmina.
Director: Gurinder Chadha
22. Ernesto (2017)
124 min | Biography
The first film in forty years to be co-produced by Cuba and Japan, it recounts the story of Freddy Maymura Hurtado who was a Bolivian man of Japanese descent. He joined the freedom fighters... See full summary »
Director: Junji Sakamoto | Stars: Joe Odagiri, Alexis Díaz de Villegas, Roberto Espinosa, Giselle Lominchar
Votes: 71
23. Top Priority: The Terror Within (2012)
98 min | Documentary, Crime, Drama
"One generally tags a doc, a doc, but the chills swim upstream, my spine argues that some factual films deserve a second tag. In this case, there's no more fitting a second category than horror, the scariest bit of celluloid you'll watch."
Director: Asif Akbar | Stars: Julia Davis, BJ Davis, Mykola Kot, Galyna Kovalska
Votes: 135
24. Moscow Strikes Back (1942)
Approved | 55 min | Documentary, War
A number of frontline cameramen shot the footage used in this documentary of the Battle of Moscow, between October 1941 and January 1942,in which a people's war against the German invaders,... See full summary »
Directors: Ilya Kopalin, Leonid Varlamov | Stars: N. Dubravin, Edward G. Robinson, Joseph Stalin
Votes: 296
25. Finding Farideh (2018)
88 min | Documentary
"Farideh" an Iranian girl who has been adopted by a Dutch couple 40 years ago, travels to her motherland Iran for the first time to meet families who claim to be her real family, and to find out about her Iranian Identity and culture...
Directors: Kourosh Ataee, Azadeh Moussavi | Star: Eline Farideh Koning
Votes: 260
26. Well Kept Secrets, Athanassia (2008)
100 min | Drama, Romance
A young Greek-American woman living in New York returns to the island of her origin, searching for the truth about her mother's past and the identity of her real father.
Director: Panos Karkanevatos | Stars: R.H. Thomson, Stavroula Logothettis, Marina Kalogirou, Yorgos Karamihos
Votes: 250
27. Men and Beasts (1962)
178 min | Drama
A man returning to his family in the USSR of the 1960s revisits his past in flashbacks: his time with the Germans during WWII and after,and his time in Argentina.
Director: Sergey Gerasimov | Stars: Nikolay Yeryomenko, Tamara Makarova, Zhanna Bolotova, Tatyana Gavrilova
Votes: 110
28. Dead Donkeys Fear No Hyenas (2017)
80 min | Documentary
Farmland - the new green gold. Hoping for export revenues, Ethiopia's government leases millions of hectares of farmland to foreign investors. But the dream of prosperity has a dark side ... See full summary »
Director: Joakim Demmer | Stars: Alexander Karim, Mohammed Alamoudi, Ivan Holmes, Argaw Ashine
Votes: 98
29. Ameriken boy (1992)
117 min | Action, Thriller
After the Afghan captivity, Nikolai Naydenov, a former orphanage, ends up in the United States, gets a job as an instructor in one of the sports clubs, gets married and receives American ... See full summary »
Director: Boris Kvashnev | Stars: Aleksandr Peskov, Vladimir Gostyukhin, Oleg Rogachyov, Anna Unigorskaya
Votes: 145
30. Children of the Wind (2015)
5 min | Short
It takes on the journey of all people who have to leave their homeland behind due to any kind of racial atrocity, political force or economical hardship. It's about the struggle that is ... See full summary »
Director: Iván Vas-Zoltán | Star: Zoi Florosz
31. Melodii beloy nochi (1977)
97 min | Drama
A Russian composer and Japanese pianist enter a relationship strained by their geographic and cultural boundaries.
Directors: Kiyoshi Nishimura, Sergey Solovyov | Stars: Komaki Kurihara, Andrei Leontovich, Sergey Polezhaev, Elizaveta Solodova
Votes: 169
32. A Letter to Tarkovsky (2016)
Documentary, Short
A documentary visualizes a candid personal letter to Andrei Tarkovsky.
Director: Vyacheslav Bihun | Stars: Vyacheslav Bihun, Justyn Bihun-Sikorsky
Votes: 79
33. Alkisti (1986)
102 min | Drama
A writer goes to his hometown, looking for the girl he was in love,when he was young.
Director: Tonis Lykouresis | Stars: Antonis Theodorakopoulos, Olia Lazaridou, Maria Zafiraki, Alexandros Mylonas
Votes: 17
34. Cofralandes, rapsodia chilena (2002)
311 min | Documentary, Comedy, Drama
Director: Raúl Ruiz | Stars: Bernard Pautrat, Raúl Ruiz, Malcolm Coad, Rainer Krause
Votes: 54
35. Sanctuarium (2014)
Documentary, Short, History
There is a sacred place called Sanctuarium. It is not physically fixed. You can discover it within yourself. But if it's difficult to find it, you might visit such the place in Tallinn's Old Town where you can also meet its Founder.
Director: Vyacheslav Bihun | Stars: Mykola Berestiuk, Taylor Hanson, Hannah Harkes, Tatiana Iakovleva
Votes: 102
36. Liebesau - die andere Heimat (2001–2002)
Drama, History, Romance
Stars: Lenn Kudrjawizki, Ursula Werner, Torsten Ranft, Ursula Karusseit
Votes: 32
37. My Country, My Kitchen (2001–2002)
Documentary
Each week, one of the country's foremost chefs returns to his or her homeland to revisit their culinary roots.
Stars: Ariane Daguin, Rocco DiSpirito, Tyler Florence, Cat Cora
38. The Men of Action: M.O.A. (2008)
111 min | Animation, Crime, Sci-Fi
Agents set out to retrieve a stolen technology disk.
Director: J. Lando | Stars: Shane Ashwood, Chris Fluker, Jin Kazama, J. Lando
Votes: 10
39. Pomiedzy wilki (1989 TV Movie)
92 min | Drama, Romance, War
Director: Juliusz Janicki | Stars: Piotr Dejmek, Grazyna Szapolowska, Katarzyna Gniewkowska, Zygmunt Bielawski
Votes: 8
40. Mama's Heart. Gongadze (2017)
77 min | Documentary, Biography, Crime
Most intimate, heartbreaking and inspiring confessions by and about Lesya Gongadze's life and her son's disappearance that prompted a revolution.
Director: Vyacheslav Bihun | Stars: Lesya Gongadze, Georgiy Gongadze, Lubomyr Husar, Tamila Alexanian
Votes: 545
41. Geschichten aus den Hunsrückdörfern (1982)
117 min | Documentary
Director: Edgar Reitz | Star: Edgar Reitz
Votes: 36
42. 73 °C (2017)
103 min | Documentary
Asia, Rayan and Ali find themselves imprisoned in their homeland, Iraq, because of the Western invasion. With their lives shattered and in a country where violence and religious war pose a threat to their health and well-being.
Director: Baz Shamoun | Stars: Ali, Asia, Rayan, Dinka Shamoun
Votes: 13
43. Endstation der Sehnsüchte (2009)
99 min | Documentary
After more than thirty years of absence, three Korean women return with their German husbands to their old homeland - to a land that is no longer theirs.
Director: Sung Hyung Cho | Stars: Young-Sook Theis, Armin Theis, Chun-Ja Engelfried, Willi Engelfried
Votes: 84
44. The Last Patriot (2007)
3 min | Short, Comedy
Bryan Dunn is a man whose duty knows no bounds. And he has asthma.
45. Da wo die Freundschaft zählt (2007 TV Movie)
88 min | Drama
The unscrupulous entrepreneur Viktoria wants to use Baron von Lien for her goals
Director: Heidi Kranz | Stars: Hansi Hinterseer, Anja Kruse, Simone Heher, Ingrid Burkhard
Votes: 22
46. Iran in Transit (2012)
30 min | Documentary, Short
There's no place like home...because it doesn't exist. After living in New Zealand as an immigrant for over 20 years, a young filmmaker takes a journey back to Iran after a 17-year absence ... See full summary »
Director: Ghazaleh Gol | Stars: Arezou Edalat, Ghazaleh Gol, Yves Gore
47. Da wo die Heimat ist (2004 TV Movie)
90 min | Drama, Family, Romance
Eine intrigante Architektin hat es auf den Familienbesitz ihrer Schwiegermutter abgesehen.
Director: Karl Kases | Stars: Hansi Hinterseer, Anja Kruse, Karina Thayenthal, Ingrid Burkhard
Votes: 39
48. Maralinga: Heart of the Country (1996 Video)
12 min | Documentary, Short, Biography
Made for Tandanya National Aboriginal Cultural Institute with the assistance of the Australia Foundation for Culture and the Humanities.
Director: Rick Cavaggion
49. Verhaal van verlangen (2001)
34 min | Documentary, Short
Verhaal van Verlangen tells the story of Lech from Poland, who went to Holland to earn some money for his family.
Director: Carin Goeijers
50. Homeland (II) (2009)
11 min | Short, Thriller
Tells the story of a young man who makes a routine stop at his local café after a long day at work. He sits with an apparent suicide bomber who forces him to ask himself: "Am I living the life I was meant to live?"
Director: Don Burton | Stars: Hansi Armentrout, Adam P. Cray, Dana R. DeBarros, Ada Mogilevsky