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1. Air Force One (1997)
R | 124 min | Action, Drama, Thriller
Communist radicals hijack Air Force One with the U.S. President and his family on board. The Vice President negotiates from Washington D.C., while the President, a veteran, fights to rescue the hostages on board.
Director: Wolfgang Petersen | Stars: Harrison Ford, Gary Oldman, Glenn Close, Wendy Crewson
Votes: 210,168 | Gross: $172.96M
2. The Dogs of War (1980)
R | 102 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Mercenary James Shannon, on a reconnaissance job to the African nation of Zangaro, is tortured and deported. He returns to lead a coup.
Director: John Irvin | Stars: Christopher Walken, Tom Berenger, Colin Blakely, Hugh Millais
Votes: 9,440
3. The Professional (1981)
Not Rated | 108 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Victim of a plot which has resulted in his imprisonment in a Central African jail for two years, a French secret agent arrives in Paris to settle accounts.
Director: Georges Lautner | Stars: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Jean Desailly, Cyrielle Clair, Marie-Christine Descouard
Votes: 17,273
4. The Lady (2011)
R | 132 min | Biography, Drama, History
The story of Aung San Suu Kyi as she becomes the core of Burma's democracy movement, and her relationship with her husband, writer Michael Aris.
Director: Luc Besson | Stars: Michelle Yeoh, David Thewlis, Jonathan Raggett, Jonathan Woodhouse
Votes: 11,295 | Gross: $0.36M
5. Caged Women (1980)
Not Rated | 80 min | Adventure, Action
Delinquent women are shipped to an island prison run by the sadistic warden Carla. Forced into situations of sexual perversion and violence and torture, the prisoners band together to try to overthrow Carla and escape the island.
Director: Erwin C. Dietrich | Stars: Karine Gambier, Brigitte Lahaie, Nadine Pascal, France Lomay
Votes: 575
6. Harsh Realm (1999–2000)
TV-14 | 45 min | Action, Drama, Mystery
Lt. Hobbes is sent into a VR wargame simulation where he is to terminate a renegade General who has taken control of the program.
Stars: Scott Bairstow, D.B. Sweeney, Terry O'Quinn, Cameron K. Smith
Votes: 1,200
7. Mussolini: The Untold Story (1985)
Unrated | 410 min | Biography, Drama, History
The rise and fall of the Italian fascist dictator, Benito Mussolini.
Stars: George C. Scott, Virginia Madsen, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Lee Grant
Votes: 647
8. The Big Bang (1987)
76 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy
Sex farce about Fred, an inept post WWIII superhero garbageman, who must prevent WW4 by disarming the continents of Virginia, where mutated feminists live, and USSSR, where mutated buttless men live. Beautiful Liberty is his only ally.
Director: Picha | Stars: Luis Rego, Georges Aminel, Perrette Pradier, Régine Teyssot
Votes: 345
9. The 100 Lives of Black Jack Savage (1991)
60 min | Adventure, Comedy, Crime
A notoriously greedy and corrupt blond Wall Street businessman hiding from the FBI on a Caribbean island run by a gaudy dictator teams up with the legendary ghost pirate Black Jack Savage to save 100 lives and avoid going to hell.
Stars: Daniel Hugh Kelly, Roma Downey, Bert Rosario, Steve Hytner
Votes: 107
10. Rage to Kill (1987)
R | 93 min | Action, Thriller
Race-car driver Blaine Striker grows concerned about his younger brother, a student at a medical school on the Caribbean island of St. Heron. General Turner has led a violent coup on this ... See full summary »
Director: David Winters | Stars: James Ryan, Oliver Reed, Cameron Mitchell, Henry Cele
Votes: 433
11. Evolution of Evil (2015)
50 min | Documentary, Biography, History
They are a rogues gallery of the most notorious despots in recent history. From Hitler to Saddam Hussein, from Stalin to Kim Jong-il of North Korea, from Chairman Mao to Colonel Gaddafi ... See full summary »
Stars: Alisdair Simpson, Mohammed Atta, Luigi Boccanfuso, Frank McDonough
Votes: 143
12. Black Jesus (1968)
GP | 89 min | Drama
Rebel Maurice Lalubi is arrested by the military on trumped up charges and tortured, which turns him into a martyr. Inspired by the final days of the first democratic Congolese leader, Patrice Lumumba.
Director: Valerio Zurlini | Stars: Woody Strode, Franco Citti, Jean Servais, Pier Paolo Capponi
Votes: 324 | Gross: $0.33M
13. Hyojadong ibalsa (2004)
R | 116 min | Comedy, Drama
Follows a president's barber, his wife, and their only son through four decades of tumultuous Korean history.
Director: Chan-sang Lim | Stars: Song Kang-ho, Moon So-ri, Lee Jae-eung, Jo Yeong-jin
Votes: 1,036
14. Madballs: Escape from Orb! (1986 Video)
23 min | Animation, Short, Adventure
Based on the popular toys, a musical band made up of Madballs try to escape an oppressive planet. They plan to come to Earth and play rock and roll.
Director: Laura Shepherd | Stars: Geoffrey Bowes, Jeri Craden, Cree Summer, Keith Hampshire
Votes: 63
15. Baptism of Blood (2006)
110 min | Drama, History
During the period of 1964 to 1985, Brazil lived a military dictatorship. In the 60s, the Dominican friars Tito, Betto, Fernando and Ivo help leftist organizations. However, they are ... See full summary »
Director: Helvecio Ratton | Stars: Caio Blat, Daniel de Oliveira, Léo Quintão, Odilon Esteves
Votes: 750
16. Nowhere (2002)
100 min | Comedy, Drama
In a country (alluded to be Chile) under dictatorship, a police night raid comes up with a few usual anti-regime suspects. They are sent to a camp in the middle of nowhere. Their friends on the outside start to plan their escape.
Director: Luis Sepúlveda | Stars: Jorge Perugorría, Leonardo Sbaraglia, Luigi Maria Burruano, Fernando Guillén Cuervo
Votes: 221
17. Augusto Pinochet: The Coup, the Torture & the West (2023 TV Special)
45 min | Documentary, History
September 11th, 2023 marks the 50th anniversary of the military coup that brought General Pinochet to power in Chile. With the support of world democracies, including the US and UK, the dictator ruled through terror and torture.
Director: Lyndy Saville | Stars: Cal Seville, Roberto Navarrete, Nicholas O'Shaughnessy, Grace Livingston
Votes: 13
18. Chile: Hasta Cuando? (1986)
57 min | Documentary
Filmmakers enters Chile in 1985, one of the cruelest years of Augusto Pinochet right-wing military dictatorship. With the excuse of documenting religion and Viña del Mar Festival, they witness the truth about Chile under Pinochet.
Director: David Bradbury | Stars: Salvador Allende, Marion Campbell, John Denver, Berta Echegoyen
Votes: 59
19. La muerte de Pinochet (2011)
75 min | Documentary, History
On December 10th, 2006, General Pinochet dies unexpectedly at Santiago's Military Hospital. His decease triggers a 24 hours revival of political divisions that marked with violence and ... See full summary »
Directors: Iván Osnovikoff, Bettina Perut
Votes: 51
20. Pinochet (2012)
119 min | Documentary
A polemical film made in support of the brutal Chilean dictator.
Director: Ignacio Zegers | Stars: Salvador Allende, Augusto Pinochet
Votes: 42
21. On the Line (2007)
Not Rated | 55 min | Documentary
An act of civil disobedience at America's largest ongoing protest brings graduate student Brian DeRouen face-to-face with the pressing constitutional issues of today. His non-violent action... See full summary »
Directors: Peter Glenn, Jason A. Schmidt | Stars: Roy Bourgeois, Brian DeRouen, John Perkins, Helen Prejean
Votes: 35
22. El diario de Agustín (2008)
80 min | Documentary
Exposé of the CIA-financed efforts of the Edwards family of Chile to cover up the human rights abuses of the Pinochet dictatorship through its newspaper 'El Mercurio'.
Director: Ignacio Agüero | Stars: Salvador Allende, Patricio Aylwin, Raquel Correa, John Dinges
Votes: 97
23. Récits d'une guerre quotidienne (1986)
59 min | Documentary
A record of everyday resistance and popular protest against Pinochet's military dictatorship in Chile in the mid-1980s.
Director: Gaston Ancelovici | Stars: Cynthia Brown, Manuel Aranguiz, Réjean Roy, Christiane Raymond
24. I Love Pinochet (2001)
52 min | Documentary
An investigation into why so many conservative Chileans continue to be supporters of the brutal Pinochet dictatorship of the 1970s and 1980s.
Director: Marcela Said
Votes: 83
25. Imageries de una dictatur (1999)
56 min | Documentary
An incisive analysis at the ruling of General Augusto Pinochet in Chile after a coup d'etat that deposed socialist president Salvador Allende, in 1973, and the reign of terror, ... See full summary »
Director: Patricio Henríquez | Star: Augusto Pinochet
Votes: 28
26. Svedkové obzaloby (1974 TV Movie)
Drama
Directors: Pavel Hása, Jaroslav Novotný | Stars: Otakar Brousek, Vera Bublíková, Tána Fischerová, Ladislav Frej
27.
The Tick (1994–1997)
Episode:
The Tick vs. Pineapple Pokopo
(1994)
TV-Y7 | 21 min | Animation, Action, Adventure
Island dictator captures smart astronaut monkey, wants to use him to take over Hawaii and Wyoming.
Director: Art Vitello | Stars: Townsend Coleman, Micky Dolenz, Kay Lenz, Dorian Harewood
Votes: 78
28.
DuckTales (1987–1990)
Episode:
Allowance Day
(1989)
TV-G | 23 min | Animation, Action, Adventure
Huey, Dewey and Louie's plan to make Scrooge think it's Saturday to get their allowances causes a global crisis.
Directors: James T. Walker, Bob Hathcock | Stars: Susan Blu, Hamilton Camp, Terence McGovern, Alan Oppenheimer
Votes: 165
29.
A Timewatch Guide (2015– )
Episode:
Dictators and Despots
(2017)
Documentary, History
David Olusoga examines fifty years of BBC documentary archives to try and discover why dictators can have such a powerful appeal and asks if our fascination has fed their power.
Director: Andy Webb | Stars: Fidel Castro, Muammar Gaddafi, Adolf Hitler, Saddam Hussein
Votes: 5
30.
Anno Domini (1974–1976)
Episode:
Soldier for Islam: Gaddafi
(1976)
Talk-Show
Exclusive interview with Libya's military ruler, Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, about his controversial regime and his devotion to Islam.
Stars: Muammar Gaddafi, Vanya Kewley
31.
La noche temática (1995– )
Episode:
Chile, la sombra del dictador: "¡A sus órdenes, mi senador!"
(1998)
Documentary
Stars: Gladys Marín, Augusto Pinochet, Antonio Skármeta
32.
The Cuba Libre Story (2015–2016)
Episode:
A Ragtag Revolution
(2015)
TV-14 | 45 min | Documentary, History
In exile, Fidel Castro joins forces with Che Guevara. They lead a group of rebels back to Cuba, but are hopelessly outnumbered and outgunned by Batista's army.
Directors: Emmanuel Amara, Kai Christiansen, Florian Dedio | Stars: Ken Eaken, Dariel Alarcón Ramirez, Fulgencio Batista, Fidel Castro
Votes: 92
33.
The Cuba Libre Story (2015–2016)
Episode:
Moments of Transition
(2016)
TV-14 | 45 min | Documentary, History
After ruling Cuba for decades, Fidel Castro hands the reigns to his brother Raúl, who ushers in a thaw in relations with the United States.
Directors: Emmanuel Amara, Kai Christiansen, Florian Dedio | Stars: Ken Eaken, Juan Juan Almeida, Jose Basulto, Fulgencio Batista
Votes: 78