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51. I, Dolours (2018)
82 min | Documentary
Documentary about Dolours Price, one of very few women who rose to the top of the IRA and who was involved in bombings during the Troubles in the 1970s.
Director: Maurice Sweeney | Stars: Lorna Larkin, Lauren Beale, Gail Brady, Frank Cannon
Votes: 317
52. Mr. Azaad (1994)
Not Rated | 123 min | Action, Comedy, Drama
Satyaprakash and his wife live in a poor community of mill workers. Satyaprakash is a union leader, and this puts him in deadly conflict with the mill management and he is killed, leaving ... See full summary »
Director: Rama Rao Tatineni | Stars: Anil Kapoor, Niki Walia, Ishrat Ali, Shakti Kapoor
Votes: 128
53. Servants (2020)
Unrated | 80 min | Drama
Two students of a theological seminary in totalitarian Czechoslovakia must decide if they'll choose the easier way of collaboration, or if they'll subject themselves to the surveillance of the secret police.
Director: Ivan Ostrochovský | Stars: Samuel Skyva, Samuel Polakovic, Vlad Ivanov, Vladimír Strnisko
Votes: 995
54. Omar Killed Me (2011)
85 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
In the summer of 1991 an elderly woman Ghislaine Marchal is found murdered in the basement of her home with the message "Omar M'a Tuer" (Omar has kill me) written beside in her own blood. ... See full summary »
Director: Roschdy Zem | Stars: Sami Bouajila, Denis Podalydès, Maurice Bénichou, Salomé Stévenin
Votes: 1,610
55. 23rd March 1931: Shaheed (2002)
188 min | Biography, Drama, History
When his mentor Lala Lajpat Rai is beaten to death by the Britishers, Bhagat Singh sets out to avenge his death. Upon killing the responsible British official, Bhagat Singh is sentenced to death for his actions.
Directors: Guddu Dhanoa, Tinu Verma | Stars: Bobby Deol, Sunny Deol, Amrita Singh, Rahul Dev
Votes: 808
56. Il compagno Don Camillo (1965)
93 min | Comedy
Priest Don Camillo blackmails his friendly rival Peppone into letting him join a Communist delegation visiting the Soviet Union.
Director: Luigi Comencini | Stars: Fernandel, Gino Cervi, Leda Gloria, Gianni Garko
Votes: 1,986
57. 400 Against 1: A History of Organized Crime (2010)
98 min | Action, Crime, Drama
The real story behind creation of Comando Vermelho (Red Commando), powerful criminal organization terrorized Rio de Janeiro for several decades.
Director: Caco Souza | Stars: Daniel de Oliveira, Fabrício Boliveira, Daniela Escobar, Branca Messina
Votes: 595
58. Suffragettes with Lucy Worsley (2018 TV Movie)
90 min | Documentary, History
An overview of the events of the Suffragette Movement for Votes For Women. It follows the individual women who were part of the movement and uses dramatised testimony to tell their stories at key points of their dangerous campaign.
Director: Emma Frank | Stars: Amy Gavin, Lucy Worsley, Joanne Thomson, Kate Burdette
Votes: 173
59. Tiananmen (2019)
Documentary, History
It's been thirty years since the massacre at Tianamen Square in Beijing, where upwards of a few thousand students were killed in the military crackdown on their protests, the massacre which... See full summary »
Star: Shen Tong
Votes: 138
60. Journey to the Sun (1999)
104 min | Drama
Mehmet, a young Turkish man newly migrated from the village Tire, takes a job searching for water leaks below the surface of the streets of Istanbul. Due to a strange set of events, he is ... See full summary »
Director: Yesim Ustaoglu | Stars: Nazmi Kirik, Newroz Baz, Mizgin Kapazan, Ara Güler
Votes: 1,890 | Gross: $0.00M
61. La banquière (1980)
131 min | Comedy, Drama
Emma Eckhert, from a modest background, became a big sensation between 1914 and 1938 as a banker and the head of a financial paper specialized in public savings.
Director: Francis Girod | Stars: Romy Schneider, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Marie-France Pisier, Claude Brasseur
Votes: 843
62. Joshua: Teenager vs. Superpower (2017)
TV-14 | 79 min | Documentary
When the Chinese Communist Party backtracks on its promise of autonomy to Hong Kong, teenager Joshua Wong decides to save his city. Rallying thousands of kids to skip school and occupy the ... See full summary »
Director: Joe Piscatella | Stars: Agnes Chow, Joshua 'Chi-Fung' Wong
Votes: 1,680
63. The Hand That Rocks the Cradle (1917)
Passed | 60 min | Drama
A doctor's wife is the head of a bureau that publishes and hands out literature on birth control. However, the police stop it and forbid her to speak in meetings about the secret that was ... See full summary »
Directors: Phillips Smalley, Lois Weber | Stars: Phillips Smalley, Lois Weber, Priscilla Dean, Wedgwood Nowell
Votes: 33
64. H3 (2001)
88 min | Drama
A moving insight into the 1981 Irish hunger strike in the Maze prison near Belfast.
Director: Les Blair | Stars: Brendan Mackey, Dean Lennox Kelly, Aidan Campbell, Tony Devlin
Votes: 149
65. Red Elvis: The Cold War Cowboy (2022)
91 min | Documentary, Biography, History
The extraordinary tale of Dean Reed, the American pop star who packed out stadiums in the 70s and inspired a generation, until he was found drowned in a lake in East Berlin.
Director: Thomas Latter | Stars: Dean Reed, Ramona Reed, Mike Wallace, James Reed
Votes: 152
66. Sakharov (1984 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 118 min | Biography, Drama
Biography of Russian physicist & dissident Andrei Sakharov focuses on his first acts in his civil rights movement to his receiving the Nobel Peace prize. Sakharov's actions first caused him... See full summary »
Director: Jack Gold | Stars: Jason Robards, Glenda Jackson, Nicol Williamson, Frank Finlay
Votes: 141
67. Samaritan: The Mitch Snyder Story (1986 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 96 min | Drama
Fact-based story about Mitch Snyder (Martin Sheen), a Washington crusader for the homeless, who took their case to Congress. Working for the Community for Creative Non-violence, Snyder ... See full summary »
Director: Richard T. Heffron | Stars: Martin Sheen, Roxanne Hart, Joe Seneca, Stan Shaw
Votes: 133
68. The Sinners (1949)
108 min | Drama, Romance
Story takes place in a dreadful girls' reformatory. A couple of lovers will try to escape from this living hell.
Director: Julien Duvivier | Stars: Serge Reggiani, Jean Davy, Monique Mélinand, Suzy Prim
Votes: 146
69. I megali apofraxi (1987 Video)
82 min | Comedy
The 2 protagonists, Trifon and his assistant, Vassilakis work as plumbers, try to survive with dignity, but instead they destroy everything they undertake to repair, while demonstrating brazen behavior to their clients.
Director: Takis Vougiouklakis | Stars: Kostas Tsakonas, Tasos Kostis, Magda Tsagani, Thomas Konstantinidis
Votes: 622
70. Der schwarze Tanner (1986)
107 min | Drama, History, War
Rival families of farmers disagree about which is the most suitable crop to plant.
Director: Xavier Koller | Stars: Otto Mächtlinger, Renate Steiger, Dietmar Schönherr, Ernst C. Sigrist
Votes: 85
71. Crulic - The Path to Beyond (2011)
73 min | Documentary, Animation, Biography
While being in Poland, Romanian Claudio Crulic is wrongly accused of theft. In jail he goes on a hunger strike.
Director: Anca Damian | Stars: Vlad Ivanov, Jamie Sives, Sandrine Bonnaire
Votes: 820
72. Coluche (2008)
100 min | Biography, Comedy, Drama
October 1980. Michel Colucci, better known as Coluche, is the French people's favorite comedian. He performs every night to a packed house at the Théâtre du Gymnase. One day, always ... See full summary »
Director: Antoine de Caunes | Stars: François-Xavier Demaison, Léa Drucker, Olivier Gourmet, Laurent Bateau
Votes: 731
73. Moving the Mountain (1994)
83 min | Documentary, History
The film is a documentary about the demonstrations of students in Peking on the 4th of June 1989 for more democracy in the People's Republic which were ended by army forces. The story is told from students point of view.
Director: Michael Apted | Stars: Jinming Zhang, Yiming Huang, Yi-fen Kan, Ke-Hsi Hsiang
Votes: 146 | Gross: $0.04M
74. Eskapo (1995)
TV-PG | 114 min | Action, Drama, Thriller
Serge Osmeña and Geny Lopez are wrongly accused of plotting to assassinate President Ferdinand Marcos.
Director: Chito S. Roño | Stars: Christopher De Leon, Richard Gomez, Dina Bonnevie, Ricky Davao
Votes: 52
75. The Troubles (1981– )
Documentary
Six-part documentary series looking at Northern Ireland from the perspective of recent Irish history.
Votes: 10
76. Two Days (2011)
76 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Pyotr Drozdov, a high-ranking government official from Moscow, is summoned by the local governor to a provincial museum of a half-forgotten classical writer.
Director: Avdotya Smirnova | Stars: Fedor Bondarchuk, Kseniya Rappoport, Evgeniy Muravich, Irina Rozanova
Votes: 923
77. Artist of Fasting (2016)
104 min | Drama
Without saying any word, a man decide to get on hunger strike, creating a great mess around him and also media attention. An adaptation of one of the most famous Kafka's tales but nowadays in Japan.
Director: Masao Adachi | Stars: Hiroshi Yamamoto, Ukan Abeta, Shôichi Honda, Juri Ihata
Votes: 50
78. Delorean: Back from the Future (2021 TV Special)
99 min | Documentary
John Z DeLorean's extraordinary Life and how he build a car of the future in Northern Ireland in 1980s.
Director: Mike Connolly | Stars: John DeLorean, Jeremy Paxman, Chris Hegedus, Gail Sheehy
Votes: 53
79. Angry Rice Wives (2021)
106 min | Drama, History
Ito has a husband and three children. Life is difficult and food is expensive. Rice, which is a staple of their diet, is expensive and becoming more dear by the week. Needing to feed ... See full summary »
Director: Katsuhide Motoki | Stars: Mitsuru Fukikoshi, Tokie Hidari, Shota Ikoma, Mao Inoue
Votes: 58
80. Perla w koronie (1972)
111 min | Drama
Film set during the Silesian Uprising in the 1920's. The German owners of a mine decide that it is unprofitable and want to close it by flooding it. The miners go on strike.
Director: Kazimierz Kutz | Stars: Lucja Kowolik, Olgierd Lukaszewicz, Jan Englert, Franciszek Pieczka
Votes: 340
81. Endgame in Ireland (2001 TV Movie)
240 min | Documentary
A comprehensive look at the Irish people's struggle for Civil rights and how it transpired into a military campaign for independence, before a political agreement was made for fair ... See full summary »
Directors: Mark Anderson, Mick Gold | Stars: Gerry Adams, Bertie Ahern, Tony Blair, Denis Bradley
Votes: 42
82. Ireland, a Nation (1914)
50 min | Drama, History
The story of Ireland and her fight for Home Rule, as seen through the experiences of Father Tom Murphy, a patriot with a price on his head, and the famous Irish leader Robert Emmet.
Stars: Barry O'Brien, Patrick Ennis, Dominick Reilly, Barney Magee
Votes: 56
83. Peter Taylor: My Journey Through the Troubles (2019)
Documentary
In a uniquely personal journey on the 50th anniversary of the deployment of British troops in August 1969, Peter Taylor reflects on almost a half century of covering the Northern Ireland conflict.
Director: Maurice May | Star: Peter Taylor
Votes: 25
84. The Hunger Strike (2006 TV Movie)
58 min | Documentary
Of all the volatile periods in Northern Ireland's recent history the Hunger Strikes is one of the most impassioned and dramatic. It was a key event in the relationship between the British ... See full summary »
Director: Margo Harkin | Stars: Gerard McSorley, Bik McFarlane, Richard O'Rawe, Bernard Ingham
Votes: 9
85. The Maze (2002 TV Movie)
55 min | Documentary
The history of the notorious Maze prison and its role in the Northern Ireland conflict.
Stars: Liam Neeson, Denis Faul, Bik McFarlane, Mo Mowlam
Votes: 21
86. Sozdar, She Who Lives Her Promise (2007)
70 min | Documentary
As a twelve year old girl she refused to be given in marriage. Thirty years later Nuriye Kesbir is still fighting, now as a wanted leader of a guerrilla-movement. Why does a women turn her ... See full summary »
Director: Annegriet Wietsma | Stars: Riza Altun, Ali Haydar Kaytan, Nuriye Kesbir, Victor Koppe
Votes: 17
87. Das Rauschen des Meeres (2010)
27 min | Short, Drama
An African refugee, whose identity is unknown, is being interrogated in prison. He refuses to speak and eat, seems traumatized. When the prison guard, who is looking after the prisoner, ... See full summary »
Directors: Ana Rocha Fernandes, Torsten Truscheit | Stars: Tyron Ricketts, Sven Pippig, Ronnie Janot, Mayra Andrade
Votes: 24
88. Stop-Over (I) (2013)
PG-13 | 100 min | Documentary
In the course of living long months with a group of Iranian illegals in Athens, the director examines this radical choice of pursuing a better life through the most perilous of possibilities: clandestinity.
Director: Kaveh Bakhtiari
Votes: 115
89. 81 (1996)
28 min | Short
Comedy drama about a French T.V. crew that arrives in Belfast in 1981 to cover the hunger strike of IRA prisoner Bobby Sands..
Director: Stephen Burke | Stars: Philippe Missischi, Robert Hickey, Paula McFetridge, Lalor Roddy
Votes: 16
90. Nayam Vyakthamakkunnu (1991)
137 min | Drama
Sukumaran, a budding politician, neglects his wife as he focuses on his career. As a result, their relationship weakens leading to a separation.
Director: Balachandra Menon | Stars: Aby, Adoor Bhawani, Jagadish, Janardanan
Votes: 126
91. Starbuck Holger Meins (2002)
90 min | Documentary
"Starbuck", the name of the navigator from the book Moby Dick, was also the undercover alias of Holger Meins (1941-1974), the navigator of the Baader-Meinhof group. A documentary about a ... See full summary »
Director: Gerd Conradt | Stars: Michael Ballhaus, Suzanne Beyeler, Manfred Blessmann, George Clooney
Votes: 156
92. Thanasi, sfixe ki allo to zonari (1980)
95 min | Comedy, Drama
An honest--and above all--incorruptible IRS auditor who aspires to be a good husband and a reliable provider is rewarded with an unforeseen and disgraceful transfer instead. Now, only a hunger strike will make his superiors see his worth.
Director: Thodoros Maragos | Stars: Thanasis Vengos, Anna Matzourani, Ilias Logothetis, Antonis Antoniou
Votes: 264
93. Forced Disappearance (2023)
28 min | Documentary
Lateef Johar Baloch underwent a 46-day hunger strike to protest the forced disappearance of his friend Zahid Baloch.
Director: Robert Gow | Star: Lateef Johar Baluch
94. Bruno Manser - Fasten für den Regenwald (2017)
Documentary, Short
The environmental activist Bruno Manser aimed at reaching an import ban on tropical timber with his 60-days hunger strike in front of the Swiss federal parliament building in Berne, capital... See full summary »
Directors: Clara Puhlmann, Roman Stocker | Stars: Bruno Manser, Ruth Dreifuss, Nicolas Imboden, Petra Bolick
95. Nincs idö (1973)
92 min | Drama
A man is falsely accused, and imprisoned for life. In prison he experiences a ruthless fascist dictatorship, which is not at all different from the communist regime of the time of the film's making.
Director: Ferenc Kósa | Stars: Loránd Lohinszky, Tibor Szilágyi, Péter Haumann, János Konyorcsik
Votes: 34
96. The Holy Hunger (2017)
25 min | Short, Drama, Thriller
based on those who couldn't stay silent and fought for themselves. And this is the result.
Director: Mehrdad Amininasab | Stars: Mehrdad Amininasab, Mazyar Mirzadeh
Votes: 8
97. Hunger (1986 TV Movie)
90 min | Drama
A young man escapes from communist Romania and finds a new life in Australia. However, his attempts to get his wife to join him come to nothing and he decides to go on a hunger strike to force the authorities to act.
Director: Stephen Wallace | Stars: Robyn Archer, Bob Barrett, Corinne Bassett, Evette Bassett
Votes: 8
99. Anni (2018)
79 min | Documentary
Anni is a ten-year-old Chinese girl. In 2013, she was taken away by secret police and was banned from attending school shortly after she moved to an elementary school in Hefei city in China... See full summary »
Director: Rikun Zhu
100. Gandhi: Newsreel Footage (2001 Video)
10 min | Short, Biography, History