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1. Carne apaleada (1978)
102 min | Drama, Romance
Autobiography of a woman who spent much of her life in prison.
Director: Javier Aguirre | Stars: Esperanza Roy, Bárbara Rey, Tota Alba, Sandra Alberti
Votes: 107
Basada en la novela homónima de la escritora catalana Inés Palou editada en el año 1975 por la Editorial Planeta, quien relató su propia experiencia en una cárcel de mujeres durante el franquismo y que terminó arrojándose a las vías del tren.
2. Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
PG | 124 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy
After the Rebel Alliance are overpowered by the Empire, Luke Skywalker begins his Jedi training with Yoda, while his friends are pursued across the galaxy by Darth Vader and bounty hunter Boba Fett.
Director: Irvin Kershner | Stars: Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, Billy Dee Williams
Votes: 1,379,817 | Gross: $290.48M
Ganan los malos, al menos de momento.
3. Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith (2005)
PG-13 | 140 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Three years into the Clone Wars, Obi-Wan Kenobi pursues a new threat, while Anakin Skywalker is lured by Chancellor Palpatine into a sinister plot to rule the galaxy.
Director: George Lucas | Stars: Hayden Christensen, Natalie Portman, Ewan McGregor, Samuel L. Jackson
Votes: 845,432 | Gross: $380.26M
ganan los malos, de momento.
4. The Punishment (1976)
112 min | Drama
In 1919 at the end of WW1 Romanian peasant Manolache Preda returns to his native village where he finds his woman taken by another and his land sold to the local landowner.
Director: Sergiu Nicolaescu | Stars: Amza Pellea, Ernest Maftei, Gheorghe Dinica, Ioana Pavelescu
Votes: 729
Rumanía, 1919. Tras ser condenado a 10 años de cárcel después del levantamiento de 1907 y después de dos años en el frente, Manlache Preda regresa a su pueblo natal. Cuando llega, se encuentra con que su esposa le ha abandonado y ha vendido sus tierras. Para recuperar sus tierras Manlache trabajará para el actual propietario, el terrateniente León. Pero cuando el dueño es asesinado por dos campesinos, la culpa recae sobre el ex-convicto, y comienzan a aparecer de nuevo las desgracias para él. El final es un símbolo de los fracasos sucesivos de la historia rumana.
5. Michael the Brave (1971)
203 min | Action, Biography, Drama
At the end of the 16th century Wallachian ruler Prince Michael the Brave overcame the adversity of the Ottoman and Austrian Empires to unite Wallachia, Moldavia and Transylvania into one country.
Director: Sergiu Nicolaescu | Stars: Amza Pellea, Ion Besoiu, Olga Tudorache, Irina Gardescu
Votes: 6,566
Héroe que acaba mal al encontrarse en medio de 2 grandes imperios.
6. Un comisar acuzã (1974)
114 min | Action, Crime, Drama
The Iron Guard, also known as Legion of Archangel Michael, was a Romanian nationalist and patriotic movement of extreme right; as such, after it rose to power, it supported Nazi Germany and... See full summary »
Director: Sergiu Nicolaescu | Stars: Amza Pellea, Gheorghe Dinica, Ion Besoiu, Jean Constantin
Votes: 1,097
El final. Pero en la secuela vuelve a estar vivo...
7. Amen. (2002)
Not Rated | 132 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
During WWII SS officer Kurt Gerstein tries to inform Pope Pius XII about Jews being sent to extermination camps. Young Jesuit priest Riccardo Fontana helps him in the difficult mission to inform the world.
Director: Costa-Gavras | Stars: Ulrich Tukur, Mathieu Kassovitz, Ulrich Mühe, Michel Duchaussoy
Votes: 14,977 | Gross: $0.27M
Al giual que le pasó a los polacos y eslovacos que tras infiltración y/o fuga aportaron testimonio sobre los campos de exterminio, los aliados hicieron poco caso. El final es similar al de la película El otro señor Klein.
8. Mr. Jones (2019)
119 min | Biography, Drama, Thriller
A Welsh journalist breaks the news in the western media of the famine in Ukraine in the early 1930s.
Director: Agnieszka Holland | Stars: James Norton, Vanessa Kirby, Peter Sarsgaard, Joseph Mawle
Votes: 16,247
Occidente hace poco caso a la verdad sobre Holodomor. Similar pasará con las purgas, en ese caso habrá juicios enn Francia. Élite cultural occidental de izquierdas negando la verdad y ganando siempre la batalla cultural y el relato.
9. A Dangerous Man: Lawrence After Arabia (1992 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 107 min | Adventure, Biography, Drama
Lawrence and Feisal go to argue for Arab independence at the 1919 Paris Peace Conference.
Director: Christopher Menaul | Stars: Ralph Fiennes, Alexander Siddig, Denis Quilley, Nicholas Jones
Votes: 730
GB y Francia traicionan a los hachemitas en favor de los Saud y sin la unificación árabe. El final de Lawrence harto de todo y sobre el que además hay teorías de que fuera asesinato.
10. The China Syndrome (1979)
PG | 122 min | Drama, Thriller
A reporter finds what appears to be a cover-up of safety hazards at a nuclear power plant.
Director: James Bridges | Stars: Jane Fonda, Jack Lemmon, Michael Douglas, Scott Brady
Votes: 33,037 | Gross: $51.72M
Ni caso al que alerta, porque da mal en cámara, porque la gente no se lo cree oporque prefiere no creérselo. Similar a Cuando el destino nos alcance. El mito de Casandra.
11. Lifesize (1974)
X | 101 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Michel is a middle aged man with a troubled marriage. He feels lonely, has been unfaithful to his wife Isabelle in various occasions, and despite she seems to accept this situation, they ... See full summary »
Director: Luis García Berlanga | Stars: Michel Piccoli, Valentine Tessier, Rada Rassimov, Lucienne Hamon
Votes: 450
La gnete no te deja vivir tu vida. En No es bueno que el hombre esté solo el protagonista le echa huevos al final, pero no creo que le fuera bien tampoco...
12. Sacco & Vanzetti (1971)
GP | 125 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
In 1920s Boston, Italian immigrants Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti are scrutinized for their anarchist beliefs while on trial for robbery and murder.
Director: Giuliano Montaldo | Stars: Gian Maria Volontè, Riccardo Cucciolla, Cyril Cusack, Rosanna Fratello
Votes: 3,728 | Gross: $0.19M
13. Un borghese piccolo piccolo (1977)
122 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
A meek middle-aged man finally takes justice into his own hands.
Director: Mario Monicelli | Stars: Alberto Sordi, Shelley Winters, Vincenzo Crocitti, Renzo Carboni
Votes: 3,053
14. Forces occultes (1943)
53 min | Drama
A French politician in the 1930s is drawn into a huge Masonic conspiracy.
Director: Jean Mamy | Stars: Maurice Rémy, Gisèle Parry, Marcel Vibert, Auguste Bovério
Votes: 317
La masonería haciendo de las suyas, imposible salir. Aún hay debate sobre si te pueden matgar o no si traicionas a la masonería, si sólo es un juramento sin importancia o sobre si no existe.
15. Katyn (2007)
Not Rated | 121 min | Drama, History, War
An examination of the Soviet slaughter of thousands of Polish officers and citizens in the Katyn forest in 1940.
Director: Andrzej Wajda | Stars: Andrzej Chyra, Maja Ostaszewska, Artur Zmijewski, Danuta Stenka
Votes: 17,415 | Gross: $0.12M
Impunidad, hecho real.
16. Il Divo (2008)
Not Rated | 110 min | Biography, Drama
The story of Italian politician Giulio Andreotti, who has served as Prime Minister of Italy seven times since the restoration of democracy in 1946.
Director: Paolo Sorrentino | Stars: Toni Servillo, Anna Bonaiuto, Giulio Bosetti, Flavio Bucci
Votes: 19,010 | Gross: $0.24M
Andreotti finalmente no pisa la cárcel. Pero al menos en Italia tiene todo el mundo claro que la estrategia de la tensión y Gladio fueron reales. no como en España que es cosa de conspiranoicos.
17. The New Centurions (1972)
R | 103 min | Action, Crime, Drama
An idealistic rookie cop joins the L.A.P.D. to make ends meet while finishing law school, and is indoctrinated by a seasoned veteran. As time goes on, he loses his ambitions and family as police work becomes his entire life.
Director: Richard Fleischer | Stars: George C. Scott, Stacy Keach, Jane Alexander, Scott Wilson
Votes: 3,286
18. Carlito's Way (1993)
R | 144 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A Puerto Rican former convict, just released from prison, pledges to stay away from drugs and violence despite the pressure around him and lead on to a better life outside of N.Y.C.
Director: Brian De Palma | Stars: Al Pacino, Sean Penn, Penelope Ann Miller, John Leguizamo
Votes: 232,390 | Gross: $36.95M
19. Max Manus: Man of War (2008)
Not Rated | 118 min | Action, Biography, Crime
The true story about one of the most brilliant saboteurs during World War II and his battle to overcome his inner demons.
Directors: Joachim Rønning, Espen Sandberg | Stars: Aksel Hennie, Agnes Kittelsen, Nicolai Cleve Broch, Ken Duken
Votes: 29,775
Victoria final de la Resistencia pero al precio de ver morir a casi todos tus amigos.
20. Riphagen (2016)
131 min | Biography, Drama, War
The story about Riphagen, a cunning Dutch traitor during WW2 who helped Nazi round up Jews, stealing their treasures for himself. He destroyed Resistance groups, making many who pursued justice after the war look like fools.
Director: Pieter Kuijpers | Stars: Steef de Bot, Huub Smit, Sigrid ten Napel, Anna Raadsveld
Votes: 8,712
21. Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion (1970)
R | 115 min | Crime, Drama
A chief of detectives, homicide section, kills his mistress and deliberately leaves clues to prove his own responsibility for the crime.
Director: Elio Petri | Stars: Gian Maria Volontè, Florinda Bolkan, Gianni Santuccio, Orazio Orlando
Votes: 13,340 | Gross: $0.27M
22. Burn! (1969)
R | 112 min | Action, Drama, War
In 1844, a British mercenary helps the revolting slaves of an Antilles island colony gain independence from Portugal, but later returns to hunt down a local rebel leader and former protégé.
Director: Gillo Pontecorvo | Stars: Marlon Brando, Evaristo Márquez, Renato Salvatori, Dana Ghia
Votes: 5,810 | Gross: $0.43M
23. Looking for Mr. Goodbar (1977)
R | 136 min | Drama
A dedicated schoolteacher spends her nights cruising bars, looking for abusive men with whom she can engage in progressively extreme sexual encounters.
Director: Richard Brooks | Stars: Diane Keaton, Richard Gere, Tuesday Weld, William Atherton
Votes: 8,503 | Gross: $16.90M
24. Three Men to Kill (1980)
93 min | Thriller
A man is pursued by killers after helping someone at a car crash.
Director: Jacques Deray | Stars: Alain Delon, Dalila Di Lazzaro, Michel Auclair, Pascale Roberts
Votes: 2,020
25. 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: 17,268
26. Confessions of a Police Captain (1971)
PG | 92 min | Crime, Drama
In a city rife with corruption, a cynical police captain clashes with an idealistic district attorney as they attempt to nab an elusive Mafia boss.
Director: Damiano Damiani | Stars: Franco Nero, Martin Balsam, Marilù Tolo, Claudio Gora
Votes: 1,746
27. Vera, un cuento cruel (1974)
90 min | Drama
Southern France, nineteenth century: Alfredo de Quiroga, a Spanish gentleman in exile, is unable to accept the idea that Vera, his wife, has died. He is so concerned that everything in the ... See full summary »
Director: Josefina Molina | Stars: Fernando Fernán Gómez, Mel Humphreys, Víctor Valverde, Julieta Serrano
Votes: 39
28. La noche más larga (1991)
82 min | Drama, War
Fifteen years after the plot a lawyer and a military ex-attorney meet and recall the intense days of 1975 when both participated in the decission of war or peace. The film is told in flashbacks of the two protagonists.
Director: José Luis García Sánchez | Stars: Juan Echanove, Carmen Conesa, Gabino Diego, Fernando Guillén Cuervo
Votes: 103
29. Platoon (1986)
R | 120 min | Drama, War
Chris Taylor, a neophyte recruit in Vietnam, finds himself caught in a battle of wills between two sergeants, one good and the other evil. A shrewd examination of the brutality of war and the duality of man in conflict.
Director: Oliver Stone | Stars: Charlie Sheen, Tom Berenger, Willem Dafoe, Keith David
Votes: 439,547 | Gross: $138.53M
30. Beach Red (1967)
GP | 105 min | Drama, War
As a US marine unit fight against the defenders of a Japanese held island, both sides are haunted by their own thoughts and memories.
Director: Cornel Wilde | Stars: Cornel Wilde, Rip Torn, Burr DeBenning, Patrick Wolfe
Votes: 1,702
31. The Devils (1971)
R | 111 min | Biography, Drama, History
In 17th-century France, Father Urbain Grandier's protection of the city of Loudun from the corrupt Cardinal Richelieu is undermined by a sexually repressed nun's accusation of witchcraft.
Director: Ken Russell | Stars: Vanessa Redgrave, Oliver Reed, Dudley Sutton, Max Adrian
Votes: 18,668 | Gross: $1.13M
32. The Crucible (1996)
PG-13 | 124 min | Drama, History
A Salem resident attempts to frame her ex-lover's wife for being a witch in the middle of the 1692 witchcraft trials.
Director: Nicholas Hytner | Stars: Daniel Day-Lewis, Winona Ryder, Paul Scofield, Joan Allen
Votes: 40,184 | Gross: $7.34M
33. Basic Instinct (1992)
R | 127 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
A violent police detective investigates a brutal murder that might involve a manipulative and seductive novelist.
Director: Paul Verhoeven | Stars: Michael Douglas, Sharon Stone, George Dzundza, Jeanne Tripplehorn
Votes: 219,149 | Gross: $117.73M
34. Kill the Messenger (2014)
R | 112 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
Journalist Gary Webb, California 1996, started investigating CIA's role in the 1980s in getting crack cocaine to the black part of LA to get money and weapons to the Contra insurgents in Nicaragua.
Director: Michael Cuesta | Stars: Jeremy Renner, Robert Patrick, Jena Sims, Robert Pralgo
Votes: 48,758 | Gross: $2.45M
35. The Departed (2006)
R | 151 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
An undercover cop and a mole in the police attempt to identify each other while infiltrating an Irish gang in South Boston.
Director: Martin Scorsese | Stars: Leonardo DiCaprio, Matt Damon, Jack Nicholson, Mark Wahlberg
Votes: 1,422,370 | Gross: $132.38M
36. Soldadito español (1988)
96 min | Comedy, Drama
A young man, son and grandson of soldiers, refuses to do his military service, causing great shock to the entire family. Finally, social and family pressures will force him to make a decision that will have unforeseeable consequences.
Director: Antonio Giménez Rico | Stars: Maribel Verdú, Juan Luis Galiardo, María Garralón, Luis Escobar
Votes: 109
37. The Last Circus (2010)
R | 107 min | Comedy, Drama, Horror
A young trapeze artist must decide between her lust for Sergio, the Happy Clown, or her affection for Javier, the Sad Clown, both of whom are deeply disturbed.
Director: Álex de la Iglesia | Stars: Carlos Areces, Antonio de la Torre, Carolina Bang, Manuel Tallafé
Votes: 15,230 | Gross: $0.04M
38. Flame & Citron (2008)
Not Rated | 130 min | Action, Drama, History
A drama centered on two fighters in the Holger Danske World War II resistance group.
Director: Ole Christian Madsen | Stars: Thure Lindhardt, Mads Mikkelsen, Stine Stengade, Peter Mygind
Votes: 19,945 | Gross: $0.15M
39. Yoyes (2000)
104 min | Drama
A former terrorist living in exile endangers her life when she returns to Spain with her family.
Director: Helena Taberna | Stars: Ana Torrent, Ernesto Alterio, Florence Pernel, Ramón Langa
Votes: 390
40. Tucker: The Man and His Dream (1988)
PG | 110 min | Biography, Comedy, Drama
The story of Preston Tucker, the maverick car designer and his ill-fated challenge to the auto industry with his revolutionary car concept.
Director: Francis Ford Coppola | Stars: Jeff Bridges, Joan Allen, Martin Landau, Frederic Forrest
Votes: 21,847 | Gross: $19.65M
41. American Beauty (1999)
R | 122 min | Drama
A sexually frustrated suburban father has a mid-life crisis after becoming infatuated with his daughter's best friend.
Director: Sam Mendes | Stars: Kevin Spacey, Annette Bening, Thora Birch, Wes Bentley
Votes: 1,211,019 | Gross: $130.10M
Final pesimista tras lograr encontrarse a sí mismo, por culpa de la Karen de su mujer y el vecino nazi.
42. Syriana (2005)
R | 128 min | Drama, Thriller
A politically charged epic about the state of the oil industry in the hands of those personally involved in and affected by it.
Director: Stephen Gaghan | Stars: George Clooney, Matt Damon, Amanda Peet, Kayvan Novak
Votes: 134,263 | Gross: $50.82M
El terrorismo es en realidad terrorismo de Estado.
43. Vice (I) (2018)
R | 132 min | Biography, Comedy, Drama
The story of Dick Cheney, an unassuming bureaucratic Washington insider, who quietly wielded immense power as Vice President to George W. Bush, reshaping the country and the globe in ways that are still felt today.
Director: Adam McKay | Stars: Christian Bale, Amy Adams, Steve Carell, Sam Rockwell
Votes: 162,425 | Gross: $47.84M
Impunidad, menitras, ascenso por flata de escrúpulos. Vicepresidente con poder, algo inédito, porque Bush dejó que fuera así por vagancia.
44. W. (I) (2008)
PG-13 | 129 min | Biography, Comedy, Drama
A chronicle of the life and Presidency of George W. Bush.
Director: Oliver Stone | Stars: Josh Brolin, Elizabeth Banks, Ioan Gruffudd, Colin Hanks
Votes: 50,038 | Gross: $25.53M
Tarugo con contactos deja el alcohol para ser presidente de EEUU. Impunidad de la guerra ilegal de Irak con las mentiras sobre las armas de destrucción masiva.
45. I... For Icarus (1979)
120 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Conspiracy thriller inspired by the conspiracy theories surrounding the assassination of JFK. After a fictional president is assassinated, a determined, tough prosecutor investigates the emerging conspiracy behind it.
Director: Henri Verneuil | Stars: Yves Montand, Michel Albertini, Roland Amstutz, Jean-Pierre Bagot
Votes: 4,563
Basado en JFK, MKUltra y el experimento Milgram.
46. Two Men in Town (1973)
Not Rated | 100 min | Crime, Drama
A former bank robber is released after 10 years in prison. He gets help from a social-worker, but gets harassed by an old cop from his past.
Director: José Giovanni | Stars: Alain Delon, Jean Gabin, Mimsy Farmer, Victor Lanoux
Votes: 5,038
Las autoridades y la mala suerte te dificultan la reinserción. La pena de muerte.
47. Dog Day Afternoon (1975)
R | 125 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
Three amateur bank robbers plan to hold up a bank. A nice simple robbery: Walk in, take the money, and run. Unfortunately, the supposedly uncomplicated heist suddenly becomes a bizarre nightmare as everything that could go wrong does.
Director: Sidney Lumet | Stars: Al Pacino, John Cazale, Penelope Allen, Sully Boyar
Votes: 273,081 | Gross: $50.00M
El fracaso, pese a lograr el apoyo momentáneo de la gente.
48. Mad City (1997)
PG-13 | 115 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A distraught man inadvertently takes a group of children hostage in a museum while a hungry, seasoned reporter tries to resurrect his career covering the story.
Director: Costa-Gavras | Stars: John Travolta, Dustin Hoffman, Alan Alda, Mia Kirshner
Votes: 21,102 | Gross: $10.56M
El final. Los linchamientos mediáticos.
49. Mambrú se fue a la guerra (1986)
99 min | Comedy, Drama
The news of the Franco's death has a special resonance in the family formed by Florentina, her daughter Encarna, her son Hilario, and the children of the marriage, Juanita and Manolín. At ... See full summary »
Director: Fernando Fernán Gómez | Stars: Fernando Fernán Gómez, María Asquerino, Agustín González, Emma Cohen
Votes: 207
A los allegados les molesta que vuelvas a tu vida normal.
50. Con uñas y dientes (1979)
94 min | Drama, Thriller
Marcos, a union leader, is beaten by the bosses' thugs and is forced to retire while his colleagues hesitate to continue the strike they are carrying out. The one in charge of protecting ... See full summary »
Director: Paulino Viota | Stars: Alicia Sánchez, Santiago Ramos, Alfredo Mayo, Guadalupe Güemes
Votes: 45
51. A Time to Love and a Time to Die (1958)
Approved | 132 min | Drama, Romance, War
On the Russian front in 1944, German private Ernst Graeber receives a leave and visits his family in Germany but Germany isn't the same country he left behind.
Director: Douglas Sirk | Stars: John Gavin, Liselotte Pulver, Jock Mahoney, Don DeFore
Votes: 3,716
52. We All Loved Each Other So Much (1974)
124 min | Comedy, Drama
Three partisans bound by a strong friendship return home after the war, but the clash with everyday reality puts a strain on their bond.
Director: Ettore Scola | Stars: Nino Manfredi, Vittorio Gassman, Stefania Sandrelli, Stefano Satta Flores
Votes: 7,289
La integridad no tiene cabida en la sociedad.
53. Electra Glide in Blue (1973)
PG | 114 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Ambitious but diminutive motorcycle cop John Wintergreen patrols the Arizona highways, yearning for promotion to Homicide Detective, while investigating a murder tied to hippies.
Director: James William Guercio | Stars: Robert Blake, Billy Green Bush, Mitchell Ryan, Jeannine Riley
Votes: 6,427 | Gross: $1.60M
54. A Clockwork Orange (1971)
R | 136 min | Crime, Sci-Fi
In the future, a sadistic gang leader is imprisoned and volunteers for a conduct-aversion experiment, but it doesn't go as planned.
Director: Stanley Kubrick | Stars: Malcolm McDowell, Patrick Magee, Michael Bates, Warren Clarke
Votes: 881,357 | Gross: $6.21M
55. The Consul of Sodom (2009)
110 min | Biography, Drama, Romance
Fascinating journey through the life and work of the prestigious Catalan poet Jaime Gil de Biedma, both marked by sexuality and eroticism. Charismatic and somewhat eccentric, brilliant ... See full summary »
Director: Sigfrid Monleón | Stars: Jordi Mollà, Bimba Bosé, Alex Brendemühl, Josep Linuesa
Votes: 436
56. Rose Island (2020)
TV-14 | 117 min | Adventure, Biography, Comedy
An idealistic engineer builds his own island off the Italian coast and declares it a nation, drawing the world's attention. Values are tested when the Italian Government declares him an enemy, but to change the world risks must be taken.
Director: Sydney Sibilia | Stars: Elio Germano, Leonardo Lidi, Matilda De Angelis, Tom Wlaschiha
Votes: 24,862
57. Soylent Green (1973)
PG | 97 min | Crime, Mystery, Sci-Fi
A nightmarish futuristic fantasy about the controlling power of big corporations and an innocent cop who stumbles on the truth.
Director: Richard Fleischer | Stars: Charlton Heston, Edward G. Robinson, Leigh Taylor-Young, Chuck Connors
Votes: 70,572 | Gross: $7.92M
58. Africa: Blood and Guts (1966)
R | 122 min | Documentary, Horror
The cruel acts of animal poaching and violence, executions, and tribal slaughtering, all taking place on the African continent.
Directors: Gualtiero Jacopetti, Franco Prosperi | Stars: Sergio Rossi, Gualtiero Jacopetti, Jomo Kenyatta, Julius Nyerere
Votes: 1,876
Desastre absoluto del proceso descolonizador en África.
59. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
PG | 95 min | Comedy, War
An unhinged American general orders a bombing attack on the Soviet Union, triggering a path to nuclear holocaust that a war room full of politicians and generals frantically tries to stop.
Director: Stanley Kubrick | Stars: Peter Sellers, George C. Scott, Sterling Hayden, Keenan Wynn
Votes: 518,295 | Gross: $0.28M
60. I'm a Killer (2016)
117 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Inspired by true events from the 1970s, the story revolves around a young detective who becomes the head of a police unit focused on catching a rampant serial killer of women, nicknamed 'The Silesian Vampire'.
Director: Maciej Pieprzyca | Stars: Miroslaw Haniszewski, Arkadiusz Jakubik, Agata Kulesza, Magdalena Poplawska
Votes: 3,258
61. Girolimoni, the Monster of Rome (1972)
98 min | Crime, Drama, History
In Mussolini's Rome a murderer is targeting young girls. The movie explores how the fascist mind works, how it plays its values off the sentiment of the masses and explores the role of the press in creating a unified narrative.
Director: Damiano Damiani | Stars: Nino Manfredi, Gabriele Lavia, Guido Leontini, Orso Maria Guerrini
Votes: 308
62. The Case Is Closed, Forget It (1971)
106 min | Crime, Thriller
An architect jailed for a traffic violation discovers the grim reality of life behind bars, including corrupt staff and inmates, an inhuman judicial system, and the power of the Mafia.
Director: Damiano Damiani | Stars: Franco Nero, Riccardo Cucciolla, Georges Wilson, John Steiner
Votes: 727
Similar a Detenido en espera de juicio. En este caso la consecuencia no es el estrés post traumático, sino el abandonar tus valores para sobrevivir.
63. Ultras (2020)
108 min | Drama
Naples. At almost fifty years old Sandro is the leader of the Apache, a group of ultras with whom he has spent his whole life at the stadium: a life of violence, clashes, passions, and ... See full summary »
Director: Francesco Lettieri | Stars: Aniello Arena, Ciro Nacca, Antonia Truppo, Daniele Vicorito
Votes: 5,431
Su final. Similar a American History X. Abandonar tu personalidad por un grupo de inadaptados.. y las consecuencias que tiene para los allegados.
64. Fahrenheit 451 (1966)
Not Rated | 112 min | Drama, Sci-Fi
In an oppressive future, a fireman whose duty is to destroy all books begins to question his task.
Director: François Truffaut | Stars: Oskar Werner, Julie Christie, Cyril Cusack, Anton Diffring
Votes: 45,424
Al igual que en 1984 el agente del sistema fracasa en su rebelión tras toma de conciencia.
65. Lumumba (2000)
Not Rated | 115 min | Biography, Drama, History
The true story of controversial leader of independent Congo Patrice Lumumba.
Director: Raoul Peck | Stars: Eriq Ebouaney, Alex Descas, Théophile Sowié, Maka Kotto
Votes: 2,083 | Gross: $0.68M
Su final, caso real. Y de Sankara no hay película, que es similar.
66. Allende en su laberinto (2014)
90 min | Action, Biography, Drama
The last 7 hours of former President of Chile Salvador Allende, and his closest collaborators inside the Palace of La Moneda, during the brutal military coup d'etat on Sept. 11, 1973, the day democracy in Chile ended. Based on true events.
Director: Miguel Littin | Stars: Daniel Muñoz, Aline Küppenheim, Horacio Videla, Juvel Vielma
Votes: 572
67. No (I) (2012)
R | 118 min | Drama, History
An advertising executive comes up with a campaign to defeat Augusto Pinochet in Chile's 1988 referendum.
Director: Pablo Larraín | Stars: Gael García Bernal, Alfredo Castro, Antonia Zegers, Luis Gnecco
Votes: 26,219 | Gross: $2.34M
Ganar el referéndum peropagando el precio de olvidar casi todo.
68. Garage Olimpo (1999)
R | 98 min | Drama
In the 70's, eighteen year-old Maria Fabiani lives with her French mother Diane in an old house in Buenos Aires, subletting rooms and giving classes to illiterate adults in the slums. One ... See full summary »
Director: Marco Bechis | Stars: Antonella Costa, Carlos Echevarría, Enrique Piñeyro, Pablo Razuk
Votes: 2,870
69. Il prefetto di ferro (1977)
118 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
In 1925, Cesare Mori - known as the "Iron Prefect" for his iron-fisted methods - wages a one-man war against the Mafia in Fascist Sicily.
Director: Pasquale Squitieri | Stars: Giuliano Gemma, Claudia Cardinale, Stefano Satta Flores, Massimo Mollica
Votes: 650
Final con patada hacia arriba. El sistema en realidad protege a unos mafiosos frente a otros, con tal de que aparentemente respeten que el Estado, en este caso fascista, es la única autoridad. Basado en el caso real de Cesare Mori novelado por Leonardo Sciascia. Se trata la omertà, mal llamada ley del silencio, pues no es sólo no denunciar, sino ser un Estado dentro del Estado, no recurrir para tus problemas económicos, familiares, sociales... a la policía, los jueces... sino a la mafia, que tiene sus propios códigos y leyes. Relacionada con Los secetos de la Cosa Nostra y Sicario.
70. Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978)
PG | 115 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
When strange seeds drift to earth from space, mysterious pods begin to grow and invade San Francisco, replicating the city's residents one body at a time.
Director: Philip Kaufman | Stars: Donald Sutherland, Brooke Adams, Jeff Goldblum, Veronica Cartwright
Votes: 69,861 | Gross: $24.95M
71. Executive Action (1973)
PG | 91 min | Crime, Drama, History
Rogue intelligence agents, right-wing politicians, greedy capitalists, and free-lance assassins plot and carry out the JFK assassination.
Director: David Miller | Stars: Burt Lancaster, Robert Ryan, Will Geer, Gilbert Green
Votes: 3,245
72. The Parallax View (1974)
R | 102 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
An ambitious reporter gets in way-over-his-head trouble while investigating a senator's assassination which leads to a vast conspiracy involving a multinational corporation behind every event in the world's headlines.
Director: Alan J. Pakula | Stars: Warren Beatty, Paula Prentiss, William Daniels, Walter McGinn
Votes: 21,780 | Gross: $2.15M
73. Cut-Throats Nine (1972)
R | 90 min | Crime, Horror, Thriller
Bandits attack a wagonload of convicts, and only a sergeant, his daughter, and seven sadistic prisoners survive. The sergeant must get his prisoners to their destination while a web of lies, greed, and betrayal unfolds.
Director: Joaquín Luis Romero Marchent | Stars: Robert Hundar, Emma Cohen, Alberto Dalbés, Antonio Iranzo
Votes: 1,387
74. The Mission (1986)
PG | 125 min | Adventure, Drama, History
Eighteenth-century Spanish Jesuits try to protect a remote South American tribe in danger of falling under the rule of pro-slavery Portugal.
Director: Roland Joffé | Stars: Robert De Niro, Jeremy Irons, Ray McAnally, Aidan Quinn
Votes: 65,696 | Gross: $17.22M
Rebelión fracasada. Caybaté.
75. Inquisition (1977)
90 min | Horror
A witch-finder general falls in love with the village beauty, who has supposedly made a pact with the devil.
Director: Paul Naschy | Stars: Paul Naschy, Daniela Giordano, Mónica Randall, Ricardo Merino
Votes: 630
76. Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters (1985)
R | 120 min | Biography, Drama
A fictionalized account in four chapters of the life of celebrated Japanese writer Yukio Mishima.
Director: Paul Schrader | Stars: Ken Ogata, Masayuki Shionoya, Hiroshi Mikami, Junya Fukuda
Votes: 13,777 | Gross: $0.44M
Golpe fracasado como fue en la realidad, con los reclutas que no le hacen ni caso y los fallos en el suicidio.
77. Scarface (1983)
R | 170 min | Crime, Drama
In 1980 Miami, a determined Cuban immigrant takes over a drug cartel and succumbs to greed.
Director: Brian De Palma | Stars: Al Pacino, Michelle Pfeiffer, Steven Bauer, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio
Votes: 916,539 | Gross: $45.60M
Ícaro. Y precisamente es una buena acción la que lo condena.
78. Who Can Kill a Child? (1976)
R | 112 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
A couple of English tourists arrive on an island where all the children have gone crazy and are murdering the adults.
Director: Narciso Ibáñez Serrador | Stars: Lewis Fiander, Prunella Ransome, Antonio Iranzo, Miguel Narros
Votes: 8,029
79. New Order (2020)
R | 86 min | Crime, Drama, Sci-Fi
A lavish high-society wedding unexpectedly turns into a class struggle that leads to a violent coup.
Director: Michel Franco | Stars: Naian González Norvind, Eligio Meléndez, Mónica Del Carmen, Fernando Cuautle
Votes: 9,481
80. The Assassination of Richard Nixon (2004)
R | 95 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
Based on real life events, Assassination is set in 1974 and centers on a businessman who decides to take extreme measures to achieve his American dream.
Director: Niels Mueller | Stars: Sean Penn, Naomi Watts, Don Cheadle, Jack Thompson
Votes: 26,112 | Gross: $0.70M
81. Farewell to the King (1989)
PG-13 | 117 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Borneo, 1942: An American soldier escapes WWII and becomes the king of the headhunters in the jungle. Two British soldiers are parachuted into the area to find local support for the battle against the Japanese.
Director: John Milius | Stars: Nick Nolte, Nigel Havers, Frank McRae, Gerry Lopez
Votes: 3,133 | Gross: $2.42M
82. The House Without Frontiers (1972)
92 min | Drama
Country boy Daniel arrives in the big city looking for a job. He meets an old man who hires him to find Laura, a girl who has been abducted by an organization called 'The House Without Frontiers.'
Director: Pedro Olea | Stars: Geraldine Chaplin, Tony Isbert, Viveca Lindfors, José Orjas
Votes: 169
83. Main Street (1956)
99 min | Drama
A couple of friends decide to have a good time and play a trick on an unmarried woman. Therefore one of them has to pretend to fall in love with her.
Director: Juan Antonio Bardem | Stars: Betsy Blair, José Suárez, Yves Massard, Luis Peña
Votes: 1,662
Acoso a una solterona en una ciudad de provincias (seguramente Palencia) con bromas y engaños. Se acaba yendo de la ciudad. Misma actriz solterona de la película del solterón Marty.
84. Zodiac (2007)
R | 157 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Between 1968 and 1983, a San Francisco cartoonist becomes an amateur detective obsessed with tracking down the Zodiac Killer, an unidentified individual who terrorizes Northern California with a killing spree.
Director: David Fincher | Stars: Jake Gyllenhaal, Robert Downey Jr., Mark Ruffalo, Anthony Edwards
Votes: 598,409 | Gross: $33.08M
Asesinatos aún sin resolver, policías con vidas destruidas por el tiempo invertido en el caso y la obsesión por lograrlo.
85. Memorias de Leticia Valle (1979)
101 min | Drama
Based on the 1945 Memorias de Leticia Valle Memoirs of Leticia Valle is the fictionalized diary of an eleven-year-old girl who records an "inconceivable" seduction.
Director: Miguel Ángel Rivas | Stars: Ramiro Oliveros, Jeannine Mestre, Fernando Rey, Emma Suárez
Votes: 42
86. The Hunt (2012)
R | 115 min | Drama
A teacher lives a lonely life, all the while struggling over his son's custody. His life slowly gets better as he finds love and receives good news from his son, but his new luck is about to be brutally shattered by an innocent little lie.
Director: Thomas Vinterberg | Stars: Mads Mikkelsen, Thomas Bo Larsen, Annika Wedderkopp, Lasse Fogelstrøm
Votes: 364,399 | Gross: $0.69M
Nunca podrá estar tranquilo.
87. Special Section (1975)
PG | 110 min | Drama, History, Thriller
In occupied France during World War II a German officer is murdered. The collaborationist Vichy government decides to pin the murder on six petty criminals. Loyal judges are called in to convict them as quickly as possible.
Director: Costa-Gavras | Stars: Louis Seigner, Roland Bertin, Michael Lonsdale, Ivo Garrani
Votes: 1,591
88. The Case Is Closed, Forget It (1971)
106 min | Crime, Thriller
An architect jailed for a traffic violation discovers the grim reality of life behind bars, including corrupt staff and inmates, an inhuman judicial system, and the power of the Mafia.
Director: Damiano Damiani | Stars: Franco Nero, Riccardo Cucciolla, Georges Wilson, John Steiner
Votes: 727
89. The Sons of Sam: A Descent into Darkness (2021)
TV-MA | 60 min | Documentary, Crime, History
The Son of Sam case grew into a lifelong obsession for journalist Maury Terry, who became convinced that the murders were linked to a satanic cult.
Stars: Paul Giamatti, Phil Amicone, Charlie Ott, Michael Zuckerman
Votes: 10,269
90. Cinema Paradiso (1988)
R | 174 min | Drama, Romance
A filmmaker recalls his childhood when falling in love with the pictures at the cinema of his home village and forms a deep friendship with the cinema's projectionist.
Director: Giuseppe Tornatore | Stars: Philippe Noiret, Enzo Cannavale, Antonella Attili, Isa Danieli
Votes: 282,919 | Gross: $11.99M
91. Cento giorni a Palermo (1984)
107 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
In the late 1970s and early 80s, assassinations in Sicily get the attention of Communist deputy, Pio La Torre, who appeals to General Carlo Alberto Dalla Chiesa to become prefect in Palermo... See full summary »
Director: Giuseppe Ferrara | Stars: Lino Ventura, Giuliana de Sio, Arnoldo Foà, Lino Troisi
Votes: 730
92.
Television Theater (1953– )
Episode:
Smierc rotmistrza Pileckiego
(2006)
85 min | Drama
The main hero is a historical personage Witold Pilecki, a cavalry Captain, who voluntarily entered German Concentration Camp Auschwitz, organized resistance there and a channel of ... See full summary »
Director: Ryszard Bugajski | Stars: Marek Probosz, Marek Kalita, Andrzej Niemirski, Jacek Rozenek
Votes: 52
93. General Nil (2009)
125 min | Biography, Drama, History
The tumultuous life of General August Emil Fieldorf aka "Nil", who commanded the underground Home Army against the Nazis and was killed after WW2 by communists.
Director: Ryszard Bugajski | Stars: Olgierd Lukaszewicz, Alicja Jachiewicz, Magdalena Emilianowicz, Anna Cieslak
Votes: 883
El final injusto para un héroe. Similar en ese aspecto a la película checa Un mundo azul oscuro.
94. La muerte de Mikel (1984)
90 min | Crime, Drama
Opening at the funeral mass for Mikel, we flashback to those that played a part in Mikel's life and death; his estranged wife, his traditional Basque mother, a female impersonator and ... See full summary »
Director: Imanol Uribe | Stars: Imanol Arias, Montserrat Salvador, Fernando Telletxea, Amaia Lasa
Votes: 214
El final.
95. Easy Rider (1969)
R | 95 min | Adventure, Drama
Two bikers head from L.A. to New Orleans through the open country and desert lands, and along the way they meet a man who bridges a counter-culture gap of which they had been unaware.
Director: Dennis Hopper | Stars: Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper, Jack Nicholson, Antonio Mendoza
Votes: 116,948 | Gross: $41.73M
El final con los rednecks.
96. The Founder (2016)
PG-13 | 115 min | Biography, Drama
The story of Ray Kroc, a salesman who turned two brothers' innovative fast food eatery, McDonald's, into the biggest restaurant business in the world, with a combination of ambition, persistence, and ruthlessness.
Director: John Lee Hancock | Stars: Michael Keaton, Nick Offerman, John Carroll Lynch, Linda Cardellini
Votes: 177,326 | Gross: $12.79M
Triunfa el pirata sin escrúpulos.
97. The Big Short (2015)
R | 130 min | Biography, Comedy, Drama
In 2006-2007 a group of investors bet against the United States mortgage market. In their research, they discover how flawed and corrupt the market is.
Director: Adam McKay | Stars: Christian Bale, Steve Carell, Ryan Gosling, Brad Pitt
Votes: 484,618 | Gross: $70.26M
Goldman Sachs, los Paulson de turno... se lo llevan crudo con información privilegiada, y alargan un año el desastre. Rescate sin posibilidad de denuncia, impunidad. Ganar en la apuesta a costa de aprovechar una desgracia.
98. The Last Valley (1971)
PG | 128 min | Adventure, Drama, War
During the Thirty Years' War of 1600s, a band of Protestant mercenaries peacefully coexist with German Catholic villagers in a hidden idyllic mountain valley untouched by war.
Director: James Clavell | Stars: Michael Caine, Omar Sharif, Florinda Bolkan, Nigel Davenport
Votes: 3,582 | Gross: $0.25M
El final del protagonista y de su amada, en medio de egoísmo, fanatismo, hipocresía, guerras inútiles...
99. Dirty Harry (1971)
R | 102 min | Action, Crime, Thriller
When a man calling himself "the Scorpio Killer" menaces San Francisco, tough-as-nails Police Inspector "Dirty" Harry Callahan is assigned to track down the crazed psychopath.
Directors: Don Siegel, Clint Eastwood | Stars: Clint Eastwood, Andrew Robinson, Harry Guardino, Reni Santoni
Votes: 168,300 | Gross: $35.90M
Policía hastiado al no poder salvar a la chica. No puedes tomarte la justicia por tu mano, pero es que la justicia da credibilidad y demasiados derechos a los criminales. Choco González deja el cuerpo tras ser herido, con lo cual sólo seguirá en él gente que no sabe hacer otra cosa como dice el propio Harry. Compañeros muertos en acto de servicio, la esposa murió atropellada por un borracho y harry no lo ha superado...
100. Gladiator (2000)
R | 155 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
A former Roman General sets out to exact vengeance against the corrupt emperor who murdered his family and sent him into slavery.
Director: Ridley Scott | Stars: Russell Crowe, Joaquin Phoenix, Connie Nielsen, Oliver Reed
Votes: 1,620,265 | Gross: $187.71M
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