Some useful movies for political reflection
by guisreis | created - 06 Jan 2015 | updated - 3 weeks ago | PublicTo be added: Adriana Sager's doc "Central"
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1. The Ox-Bow Incident (1942)
Passed | 75 min | Drama, Western
When a posse captures three men suspected of killing a local farmer, they become strongly divided over whether or not to lynch the men.
Director: William A. Wellman | Stars: Henry Fonda, Dana Andrews, Mary Beth Hughes, Anthony Quinn
Votes: 24,951 | Gross: $1.64M
2. Chicken Little (1943)
Approved | 8 min | Comedy, Family, Animation
A bold and colorful retelling of the classic tale of the not-so-bright little chicken's encounter with an acorn and gravity. Crazy-eyed Chicken and all his panicked friends run away from the sky and right into an eye-catching surprise.
Directors: Jack Cutting, Clyde Geronimi | Stars: Florence Gill, Frank Graham, Dorothy Lloyd, Clarence Nash
Votes: 933
3. Afrique 50 (1950)
17 min | Documentary, Short
Documentary about the living conditions in a small Ivorian village during French colonization.
Director: René Vautier | Star: René Vautier
Votes: 321
4. Salt of the Earth (1954)
Not Rated | 94 min | Drama, History
Mexican workers at a zinc mine call a general strike. It is only through the solidarity of the workers, and importantly the indomitable resolve of their wives, mothers, and daughters, that they eventually triumph.
Director: Herbert J. Biberman | Stars: Juan Chacón, Rosaura Revueltas, Will Geer, David Bauer
Votes: 4,043
5. 12 Angry Men (1957)
Approved | 96 min | Crime, Drama
The jury in a New York City murder trial is frustrated by a single member whose skeptical caution forces them to more carefully consider the evidence before jumping to a hasty verdict.
Director: Sidney Lumet | Stars: Henry Fonda, Lee J. Cobb, Martin Balsam, John Fiedler
Votes: 864,905 | Gross: $4.36M
6. Paths of Glory (1957)
Approved | 88 min | Drama, War
After a failed attack on a German position, a general orders three soldiers, chosen at random, court-martialed for cowardice and their commanding officer must defend them.
Director: Stanley Kubrick | Stars: Kirk Douglas, Ralph Meeker, Adolphe Menjou, George Macready
Votes: 212,235
7. Spartacus (1960)
PG-13 | 197 min | Adventure, Biography, Drama
The slave Spartacus survives brutal training as a gladiator and leads a violent revolt against the decadent Roman Republic, as the ambitious Crassus seeks to gain power by crushing the uprising.
Directors: Stanley Kubrick, Anthony Mann | Stars: Kirk Douglas, Laurence Olivier, Jean Simmons, Charles Laughton
Votes: 143,170 | Gross: $30.00M
8. Boccaccio '70 (1962)
Unrated | 205 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Inspired by Boccaccio's novellas, each episode focuses on sex, love and seduction in Italy in the 1960s, an era of economic growth and major cultural changes.
Directors: Vittorio De Sica, Federico Fellini, Mario Monicelli, Luchino Visconti | Stars: Anita Ekberg, Sophia Loren, Romy Schneider, Marisa Solinas
Votes: 5,047
Mario Monicelli's segment Luciana and Renzo.
9. The Millionaire (1963)
Not Rated | 11 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
A dog inherits a fortune and become a influential capitalist snob in the human world.
Directors: Vitold Bordzilovskiy, Yuriy Prytkov | Stars: Emmanuil Kaminka, Yuriy Khrzhanovskiy
Votes: 154
https://youtu.be/taJmiAPCYVM
10. Maioria Absoluta (1964)
20 min | Documentary, Short
Statistics, interviews and historical information on illiteracy and inequality in land distribution in Brazil's countryside.
Director: Leon Hirszman | Star: Ferreira Gullar
Votes: 130
11. The First Teacher (1965)
102 min | Drama
Soviet Union, near the Chinese border, 1923. A stranger has just come in this little country village. He is a teacher, sent by the Communist Party to teach the ignorant masses. But the ... See full summary »
Director: Andrey Konchalovskiy | Stars: Bolot Beyshenaliev, Natalya Arinbasarova, Idris Nogajbayev, Darkul Kuyukova
Votes: 615
12. Case of the Naves Brothers (1967)
92 min | Drama
The innocent brothers are wrongly accused of a crime by a corrupt and violent police officers and are forced to face the injustices of the brazilian penal system.
Director: Luiz Sérgio Person | Stars: Anselmo Duarte, Raul Cortez, Juca de Oliveira, Sérgio Hingst
Votes: 494
13. O Bravo Guerreiro (1968)
80 min | Drama
An ambitious and well-meaning congressman change parties attempting to achieve political change but has to deal with the tough realities of Brazilian politics.
Director: Gustavo Dahl | Stars: Paulo César Peréio, Mário Lago, Ítalo Rossi, César Ladeira
Votes: 77
14. 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: 116,935 | Gross: $41.73M
15. Megalópolis (1973)
11 min | Documentary, Short
An analysis of the phenomenon of accelerated urbanization in Brazil, and more particularly in Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo.
Director: Leon Hirszman | Star: Paulo César Peréio
Votes: 25
16. Children of War (1976)
10 min | Documentary, Short
A few days after a massacre in a shantytown near Beirut, the director finds the children who survived.
Director: Jocelyne Saab
Votes: 58
17. Life of Brian (1979)
R | 94 min | Comedy
Born on the original Christmas in the stable next door to Jesus Christ, Brian of Nazareth spends his life being mistaken for a messiah.
Director: Terry Jones | Stars: Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Michael Palin, Terry Gilliam
Votes: 421,826 | Gross: $20.05M
18. Revolução de 30 (1980)
118 min | Documentary
Collage of more than 30 documentaries and fiction films, photographs and some sound recordings about the 1930 Brazilian Revolution, its origins and consequences.
Director: Sylvio Back
Votes: 32
19. Reds (1981)
PG | 195 min | Biography, Drama, History
A radical American journalist becomes involved with the Communist revolution in Russia, and hopes to bring its spirit and idealism to the United States.
Director: Warren Beatty | Stars: Warren Beatty, Diane Keaton, Edward Herrmann, Jerzy Kosinski
Votes: 24,715 | Gross: $40.38M
20. Go Ahead, Brazil! (1982)
105 min | Crime, Drama
This movie is about one of the worst periods for the Brazilian people. Shows the days of military dictatorship when the Brazilian people against the government were put in jails, tortured, ... See full summary »
Director: Roberto Farias | Stars: Reginaldo Faria, Carlos Zara, Antônio Fagundes, Natália do Vale
Votes: 524
21. The Next Victim (1983)
98 min | Crime, Thriller
TV reporter tries to find out who is killing prostitutes in a São Paulo neighborhood.
Director: João Batista de Andrade | Stars: Antônio Fagundes, Louise Cardoso, Mayara Magri, Othon Bastos
Votes: 117
22. Beirut My City (1983)
38 min | Documentary, Short
In July 1982, the Israeli army besieged Beirut. Four days earlier, Jocelyne Saab sees her house burn and 150 years of family existence go up in smoke.
Director: Jocelyne Saab
Votes: 41
23. Isle of Flowers (1989)
13 min | Documentary, Short
The ironic, heartbreaking and acid "saga" of a spoiled tomato: from the plantation of a "Nisei" (Brazilian with Japanese origins); to a supermarket; to a consumer's kitchen to become sauce ... See full summary »
Director: Jorge Furtado | Stars: Paulo José, Ciça Reckziegel, Douglas Trainini, Júlia Barth
Votes: 6,522
24. Germinal (1993)
R | 160 min | Drama, Romance
In mid-nineteenth-century northern France, a coal mining town's workers are exploited by the mine's owner. One day, they decide to go on strike, and the authorities repress them.
Director: Claude Berri | Stars: Renaud, Gérard Depardieu, Miou-Miou, Jean Carmet
Votes: 5,744 | Gross: $0.38M
25. Once Brothers (1993)
Documentary
The story of how the war between Croatia and Serbia destroys the friendship between Drazen Petrovic and Vlade Divac, which results in months of silence amongst them before the fatal automobile accident that Petrovic suffers in june 1993.
Director: Michael Tolajian
Votes: 420
26. Kanya Ya Ma Kan, Beyrouth (1995)
104 min | Drama
Two young girls of the war generation, Yasmin and Leila, are in search of Beirut. When they meet an elderly film enthusiast with a secret store of Lebanese films, they persuade him to ... See full summary »
Director: Jocelyne Saab | Stars: Emile Accar, Pierre Chamassian, Abou El Abed, Khaled El Sayed
Votes: 57
27. Gosford Park (2001)
R | 137 min | Comedy, Drama, Mystery
Set in the 1930s, a group of pretentious rich and famous get together for a weekend of relaxation at a hunting resort. But when a murder occurs, each one of these interesting characters becomes a suspect.
Director: Robert Altman | Stars: Maggie Smith, Ryan Phillippe, Michael Gambon, Kristin Scott Thomas
Votes: 94,016 | Gross: $41.31M
28. Baixio das Bestas (2006)
80 min | Drama, Horror
A man gets obsessed by a teenage girl, who is exploited by her own grandfather, who sometimes takes her to a gas station to show her naked to whomever pays him some money.
Director: Cláudio Assis | Stars: Fernando Teixeira, Caio Blat, Matheus Nachtergaele, Dira Paes
Votes: 1,267
29. Serras da desordem (2006)
135 min | Documentary
The documentary, using re-enactments, traces the steps of an indigenous man from a small Amazon tribe, who may be the sole survivor of a 1970s era massacre.
Director: Andrea Tonacci
Votes: 184
30. El Golpe (crónica de una conspiración) (2006)
96 min | Documentary
The return of the democracy in the Argentina in 1973 marks the beginning of the countdown towards the following "coup d'état". On March 24 1976 the worst dictatorship of the history of this... See full summary »
Director: Matías Gueilburt | Star: Gastón Pauls
Votes: 32
31. Borgen (2010–2022)
TV-14 | 58 min | Drama
A political drama about a prime minister's rise to power, and how power changes a prime minister.
Stars: Sidse Babett Knudsen, Birgitte Hjort Sørensen, Søren Malling, Lisbeth Wulff
Votes: 29,911
32. Desert Ambush (2011 TV Movie)
85 min | Action, Drama, Thriller
In northern Nigeria, two French scientists working for an environmental NGO disappear. Hugo Geoffroy, leader of a French police emergency unit, is sent to negotiate the freedom of the hostages.
Director: Frédéric Garson | Stars: Laurent Lucas, Natacha Régnier, Daniel Martin, Emile Abossolo M'bo
Votes: 81
33. 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
34. Free Angela and All Political Prisoners (2012)
Not Rated | 102 min | Documentary, Crime, History
A documentary that chronicles the life of young college professor Angela Davis, and how her social activism implicates her in a botched kidnapping attempt that ends with a shootout, four dead, and her name on the FBI's 10 most wanted list.
Director: Shola Lynch | Stars: Angela Davis, Eisa Davis, Brandon J. Dirden
Votes: 784
35. Against Their Will (2012 TV Movie)
TV-14 | 92 min | Drama, History
France 1943. Two pretty and different girls, Alice and Lisette, 17, are torn from their families by the Germans and, along with many other Alsatians, sent to labor in Germany.
Director: Denis Malleval | Stars: Flore Bonaventura, Macha Méril, Louise Herrero, Pierre Kiwitt
Votes: 471
36. The Spirit of '45 (2013)
94 min | Documentary, History
A documentary on how the spirit of unity, which buoyed Britain during the war years, carried through to create a vision of a fairer, united society.
Director: Ken Loach | Stars: Eileen Thompson, Julian Tudor Hart, Dai Walters, Sam Watts
Votes: 1,304
37. Seré Millones (2013)
103 min | Documentary
Directors: Fernando Krichmar, Omar Neri, Mónica Simoncini | Stars: Angel Abuz, Gonzalo Alfonsin, Rocío Domínguez, Walter Hernández
Votes: 32
38. Two Days, One Night (2014)
PG-13 | 95 min | Drama
Liège, Belgium. Sandra is a factory worker who discovers that her workmates have opted for a EUR1,000 bonus in exchange for her dismissal. She has only a weekend to convince her colleagues to give up their bonuses in order to keep her job.
Directors: Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne | Stars: Marion Cotillard, Fabrizio Rongione, Catherine Salée, Baptiste Sornin
Votes: 50,535 | Gross: $1.44M
39. O Brasil de Darcy Ribeiro - O Paraiso Perdido (2014– )
52 min | Documentary
Star: Darcy Ribeiro
Votes: 8
40. Panama Canal Stories (2014)
TV-14 | 106 min | Drama
Five shorts spanning a century on lives impacted by the Panama Canal.
Directors: Abner Benaim, Carolina Borrero, Luis Franco Brantley, Pinky Mon, Pituka Ortega-Heilbron | Stars: Lakisha May, Andre Morris, Carlos Eduardo Goldstein Alemán, Kathleen Wise
Votes: 160
41. The President (2014)
119 min | Drama
A brutal dictator comes face to face with the injustices committed by his regime when his country is taken over by revolutionists.
Director: Mohsen Makhmalbaf | Stars: Mikheil Gomiashvili, Dachi Orvelashvili, Ia Sukhitashvili, Guja Burduli
Votes: 1,797
42. The Second Mother (2015)
R | 112 min | Comedy, Drama
When the estranged daughter of a hard-working live-in housekeeper suddenly appears, the unspoken class barriers that exist within the home are thrown into disarray.
Director: Anna Muylaert | Stars: Regina Casé, Helena Albergaria, Michel Joelsas, Camila Márdila
Votes: 16,710 | Gross: $0.38M
43. Look Who's Back (2015)
Not Rated | 116 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Adolf Hitler wakes up in the 21st century. He quickly gains media attention, but while Germany finds him hilarious and charming, Hitler makes some serious observations about society.
Director: David Wnendt | Stars: Oliver Masucci, Thomas M. Köppl, Marc-Marvin Israel, David Gebigke
Votes: 49,631
44. Trumbo (2015)
R | 124 min | Biography, Drama
In 1947, Dalton Trumbo was Hollywood's top screenwriter, until he and other artists were jailed and blacklisted for their political beliefs.
Director: Jay Roach | Stars: Bryan Cranston, Diane Lane, Helen Mirren, Louis C.K.
Votes: 84,777 | Gross: $7.86M
45. Requiem for the American Dream (2015)
Not Rated | 73 min | Documentary, Biography, News
Renowned academic and author Noam Chomsky elucidates 10 principles of concentration of wealth and power that have led to unprecedented inequality and the hollowing out of the American middle class.
Directors: Peter D. Hutchison, Kelly Nyks, Jared P. Scott | Stars: Noam Chomsky, Alan Greenspan, Malcolm X, Richard Nixon
Votes: 9,885 | Gross: $0.13M
46. Martírio (2016)
162 min | Documentary
A analysis about the violence and the struggle suffered by the Guarani Kaiowá group, one of the biggest Indian populations of Brazil.
Directors: Vincent Carelli, Tatiana Almeida, Ernesto de Carvalho | Stars: Celso Aoki, Myriam Medina Aoki, Oriel Benites, Vincent Carelli
Votes: 205
47. 13th (2016)
TV-MA | 100 min | Documentary, Crime, History
An in-depth look at the prison system in the United States and how it reveals the nation's history of racial inequality.
Director: Ava DuVernay | Stars: Melina Abdullah, Michelle Alexander, Cory Booker, Dolores Canales
Votes: 37,671
48. The Offended (2016)
85 min | Documentary
"In the Salvadoran civil war, my father and thousands more were captured and tortured by the State. These are some of their stories. When I turned 33, my mother told me that my father, ... See full summary »
Director: Marcela Zamora
Votes: 24
50. The Student (2016)
Unrated | 118 min | Drama
Contemporary Russia. A high school student becomes convinced that the world has been lost to evil, and begins to challenge the morals and beliefs of the adults around him.
Director: Kirill Serebrennikov | Stars: Pyotr Skvortsov, Viktoriya Isakova, Yuliya Aug, Aleksandr Gorchilin
Votes: 6,073 | Gross: $0.00M
51. Groundhog Day for a Black Man (2016 Video)
4 min | Short
When a black man lives the same day over and over again, he tries to change his behavior in order to survive a police interaction.
Director: Cynthia Kao | Stars: Matt Cordova, Celia Finkelstein, Marshall Givens, Burl Moseley
Votes: 304
52.
Black Mirror (2011– )
Episode:
Men Against Fire
(2016)
TV-MA | 60 min | Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Future soldiers Stripe and Raiman must protect frightened villagers from an infestation of vicious feral mutants.
Director: Jakob Verbruggen | Stars: Malachi Kirby, Madeline Brewer, Ariane Labed, Sarah Snook
Votes: 41,548
53. Among Righteous Men (2016)
102 min | Documentary, Biography
The film shows the prologue of the crisis of representation and the polarization of Brazilian politics as we accompany the steps of the Deputy, spokesman for the LBGT cause Jean Wyllys.
Directors: Carlos Juliano Barros, Caio Cavechini | Stars: Jean Wyllys, Silas Malafaia, Marco Feliciano, Eurico da Silva
Votes: 45
54. Les Bleus une autre histoire de France (2016 TV Movie)
104 min | Documentary, History, Sport
This documentary follows the French national team for 20 years, from 1996 to 2016. Successes and setbacks that mirrored the French Society.
Directors: David Dietz, Sonia Dauger, Pascal Blanchard
Votes: 814
55. I Am Not Your Negro (2016)
PG-13 | 93 min | Documentary, History
Writer James Baldwin tells the story of race in modern America with his unfinished novel, Remember This House.
Director: Raoul Peck | Stars: Samuel L. Jackson, James Baldwin, Martin Luther King, Malcolm X
Votes: 23,500 | Gross: $7.12M
56. The Insult (2017)
R | 113 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
After an emotional exchange between a Lebanese Christian and a Palestinian refugee escalates, the men end up in a court case that gets national attention.
Director: Ziad Doueiri | Stars: Adel Karam, Kamel El Basha, Camille Salameh, Diamand Abou Abboud
Votes: 18,081 | Gross: $1.00M
57. The Young Karl Marx (2017)
Not Rated | 118 min | Biography, Drama, History
The early years of Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels and Jenny Marx, between Paris, Brussels and London.
Director: Raoul Peck | Stars: August Diehl, Stefan Konarske, Vicky Krieps, Olivier Gourmet
Votes: 7,275 | Gross: $0.13M
58. Araby (2017)
97 min | Drama
Andre is a young boy that lives in an industrial neighborhood in Ouro Preto, Brazil, near an old aluminum factory. One day he finds a notebook from one of the factory workers.
Directors: João Dumans, Affonso Uchoa | Stars: Aristides de Sousa, Murilo Caliari, Gláucia Vandeveld, Renata Cabral
Votes: 1,337 | Gross: $0.04M
59. Praça Paris (2017)
110 min | Drama
Glória is a woman from Rio de Janeiro who tries to move on with her life despite the traumas caused by an abusive father and a drug dealer brother. She starts therapy with Camila, a young Portuguese psychoanalyst.
Director: Lúcia Murat | Stars: Grace Passô, Joana de Verona, Marco Antonio Caponi, Alex Brasil
Votes: 299
60. Henfil (2017)
75 min | Documentary
This movie presents parallel narratives exploring the life of the Brazilian cartoonist and activist Henfil. It shows how young artists can reinterpret his work in modern days, while also ... See full summary »
Director: Angela Zoé | Stars: Aroeira, Chacal, Herbert De Souza, Tárik de Souza
Votes: 27
61. No Intenso Agora (2017)
127 min | Documentary, History
A personal essay which analyses and compares images of the political upheavals of the 1960s. From the military coup in Brazil to China's Cultural Revolution, from the student uprisings in Paris to the end of the Prague Spring.
Director: João Moreira Salles
Votes: 609 | Gross: $0.02M
Particularly the discussion on France.
63. Lénine-Gorki, la révolution à contretemps (2017 TV Movie)
53 min | Documentary, History
Director: Stan Neumann | Stars: Bruno Abraham-Kremer, Sandrine Blancke, Denis Lavant
Votes: 10
64. Rend Your Heart (2018)
115 min | Drama
An adaptation of the namesake play by Oduvaldo Vianna Filho, which tells the story of Manguari Pistolão, an anonymous militant, that after 40 years of fighting for what he thought was new ... See full summary »
Director: Jorge Furtado | Stars: Marco Ricca, Drica Moraes, Chay Suede, George Sauma
Votes: 266
65.
3% (2016–2020)
Episode:
Capítulo 01: Espelho
(2018)
TV-MA | Action, Drama, Sci-Fi
With days to go before the next Process, Joana tries to prove herself to the leader of the Cause, and Michele faces an ultimatum from Ezequiel.
Directors: Philippe Barcinski, Jotagá Crema, Daina Giannecchini, Dani Libardi | Stars: João Miguel, Bianca Comparato, Vaneza Oliveira, Rodolfo Valente
Votes: 478
66. The Trial (2018)
140 min | Documentary, History
The Trial documents the trial of Dilma Rousseff, focusing on the defense team, who struggles to prove her innocence against a majority vote by a Congress riddled with corruption. A tale of ... See full summary »
Director: Maria Ramos | Stars: Dilma Rousseff, Jair Bolsonaro, José Eduardo Cardozo, Eduardo Cunha
Votes: 1,476
67. Marcha Cega (2018)
88 min | Documentary
Brazil has the most lethal police in the world and it reflects directly in the violent performance during the street demonstrations: leaving people blind, injured and dozens of political ... See full summary »
Director: Gabriel Di Giacomo | Stars: Adilson Paes de Souza, Luiz Eduardo Soares, Felipe Zolesi
Votes: 19
68. Torre das Donzelas (2018)
97 min | Documentary
"The Virgin's Tower" - Memoires of a group of rebel women that were imprisioned by the Brazilian dictatorship in the 60's.
Director: Susanna Lira | Stars: Dilma Rousseff, Ana Bursztyn-Miranda, Maria Aparecida Costa, Rita Sipahi
Votes: 108
69. Assassination Nation (2018)
R | 108 min | Action, Comedy, Crime
After a malicious data hack exposes the secrets of the perpetually American town of Salem, chaos descends and four girls must fight to survive, while coping with the hack themselves.
Director: Sam Levinson | Stars: Odessa Young, Abra, Suki Waterhouse, Hari Nef
Votes: 21,750 | Gross: $1.96M
70. A Cidade dos Piratas (2018)
TV-MA | 90 min | Animation
Inspired by the famous comics of cartoonist Laerte. The story merges the transition journey of the artist and the director, who faces death after being diagnosed with cancer.
Director: Otto Guerra | Stars: Antonio Abujamra, Marco Arruda, Jean-Claude Bernardet, Márcia Caspary
Votes: 123
71. I Am Not an Easy Man (2018)
98 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
A shameless chauvinist gets a taste of his own medicine when he wakes up in a world dominated by women and locks horns with a powerful female author.
Director: Eléonore Pourriat | Stars: Vincent Elbaz, Marie-Sophie Ferdane, Pierre Benezit, Blanche Gardin
Votes: 15,761
72. Histories of Hunger in Brazil (2018 TV Movie)
52 min | Documentary, History | Completed
Histories of Hunger in Brazil is a documentary that sets a timeline of hunger in the country. From Colonial Brazil, where the seeds of social inequalities were planted, to the recent public... See full summary »
Director: Camilo Tavares
Votes: 11
73. Dukla 61 (2018)
150 min | Drama, History
A fire in a Dukla mineshaft in Havirov on July 7, 1961 is the basis for this TV family drama in two episodes.
Stars: Martha Issová, Marek Taclík, Oskar Hes, Antonie Formanová
Votes: 282
74. BlacKkKlansman (2018)
R | 135 min | Biography, Comedy, Crime
Ron Stallworth, an African American police officer from Colorado Springs, Colorado, successfully infiltrates the local Ku Klux Klan branch aided by a Jewish surrogate who eventually becomes its leader. Based on actual events.
Director: Spike Lee | Stars: John David Washington, Adam Driver, Laura Harrier, Topher Grace
Votes: 291,072 | Gross: $49.28M
75. Roma (2018)
R | 135 min | Drama
A year in the life of a middle-class family's maid in Mexico City in the early 1970s.
Director: Alfonso Cuarón | Stars: Yalitza Aparicio, Marina de Tavira, Diego Cortina Autrey, Carlos Peralta
Votes: 169,787
76. Tito and the Birds (2018)
73 min | Animation, Action, Drama
The film tells the story of a boy who is responsible, along with his father, for finding the cure for an illness that is contracted after the person takes a fright.
Directors: Gabriel Bitar, André Catoto, Gustavo Steinberg | Stars: Pedro Henrique, Denise Fraga, Matheus Nachtergaele, Mateus Solano
Votes: 732 | Gross: $0.00M
77. Mormaço (2018)
94 min | Drama
Rio de Janeiro, 2016. The hottest summer in history. The city is preparing for the Olympic Games. Ana, a 32-year-old public defender, works in the defense of a community threatened with ... See full summary »
Director: Marina Meliande | Stars: Marina Provenzzano, Sandra Maria, Pedro Gracindo, Analú Prestes
Votes: 141
78.
Slavery Routes (2018)
Episode:
1620 - 1789: Du sucre à la révolte
(2018)
53 min | Documentary, Animation, History
1620 - 1789: From sugar to rebellion: 17th century. The Atlantic has become the battleground of the sugar war. French, English, Dutch and Spanish fight for the Caribbean to grow sugar cane.... See full summary »
Directors: Daniel Cattier, Fanny Glissant, Juan Gélas, Philippe Lacôte | Stars: Gaël Kamilindi, Nathan Willcocks, Nikolaj A. Brucker, Mathieu Amalric
Votes: 20
79. Bacurau (2019)
Not Rated | 131 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
After the death of her grandmother, Teresa comes home to her matriarchal village in a near-future Brazil to find a succession of sinister events that mobilizes all of its residents.
Directors: Juliano Dornelles, Kleber Mendonça Filho | Stars: Bárbara Colen, Thomas Aquino, Silvero Pereira, Thardelly Lima
Votes: 30,689
80. Resistance (2019)
122 min | Drama, History
In 1961, Gov. Leonel Brizola leads the unparalleled Legality movement, a first in the history of Brazil. Fighting for the Constitution, he mobilizes the resistance to ensure President João ... See full summary »
Director: Zeca Brito | Stars: Cleo, Letícia Sabatella, Fernando Alves Pinto, Leonardo Machado
Votes: 162
81. Joker (I) (2019)
R | 122 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
During the 1980s, a failed stand-up comedian is driven insane and turns to a life of crime and chaos in Gotham City while becoming an infamous psychopathic crime figure.
Director: Todd Phillips | Stars: Joaquin Phoenix, Robert De Niro, Zazie Beetz, Frances Conroy
Votes: 1,488,397 | Gross: $335.45M
82. The Laundromat (I) (2019)
R | 96 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
A widow investigates an insurance fraud, chasing leads to a pair of Panama City law partners exploiting the world's financial system.
Director: Steven Soderbergh | Stars: Gary Oldman, Antonio Banderas, AJ Meijer, Arsenio Castellanos
Votes: 54,917
83. Invisible Life (2019)
R | 139 min | Drama
Kept apart by a terrible lie and a conservative society, two sisters born in Rio de Janeiro make their way through life each believing the other is living out her dreams half a world away.
Director: Karim Aïnouz | Stars: Julia Stockler, Carol Duarte, Flávia Gusmão, António Fonseca
Votes: 9,657
84. The Two Popes (2019)
PG-13 | 125 min | Biography, Comedy, Drama
Behind Vatican walls, the conservative Pope Benedict XVI and the liberal future Pope Francis must find common ground to forge a new path for the Catholic Church.
Director: Fernando Meirelles | Stars: Jonathan Pryce, Anthony Hopkins, Juan Minujín, Luis Gnecco
Votes: 132,964
85. Parasite (2019)
R | 132 min | Drama, Thriller
Greed and class discrimination threaten the newly-formed symbiotic relationship between the wealthy Park family and the destitute Kim clan.
Director: Bong Joon Ho | Stars: Song Kang-ho, Lee Sun-kyun, Cho Yeo-jeong, Choi Woo-sik
Votes: 959,126 | Gross: $53.37M
86. Papicha (2019)
R | 108 min | Drama
In 1997 Algiers, terrorists wanting an archaic Islamic state are everywhere. They oppress women, determined to control their bodies, clothing, and public space. Young student Nedjma is passionate about creating a fashion show.
Director: Mounia Meddour | Stars: Lyna Khoudri, Shirine Boutella, Hilda Amira Douaouda, Yasin Houicha
Votes: 3,638
87. GIG: A Uberização do Trabalho (2019)
60 min | Documentary
The work mediated by digital apps and platforms is growing worldwide. But the advance of the "gig economy", called in Brazil "uberization", has aroused debates about the precariousness and intensification of work.
Directors: Caue Angeli, Carlos Juliano Barros, Mauricio Monteiro Filho
Votes: 19
88. Che, memories of a secret year (2019)
79 min | Documentary, Biography, History
December 1965, in the heyday of the Cold War. Ernesto Che Guevara disappears from the international public scene. Under a fake identity and with a transformed face, the Argentinian ... See full summary »
Director: Margarita Hernandez Pascual
Votes: 12
89. The Seeker (2019)
88 min | Drama
In an attempt to reconnect with her family after four years, Isabela decides to introduce her liberal and free-loving boyfriend Giovani. HIs presence will be more important than they could ever imagine.
Director: Bernardo Barreto | Stars: Monique Alfradique, José Araújo, Bernardo Barreto, Aiman Braga
Votes: 38
90. Arid Zone (2019)
76 min | Documentary
How is it to live in United States' most conservative city? Arid Zone gives the experience of being in Mesa, Arizona, considered by the MIT and the UCLA, U.S's most conservative big city.
Director: Fernanda Pessoa
Votes: 31
91. Sob a Pata do Boi (2019 Video)
49 min | Documentary
This documentary covers the change in Brazil's rainforest, where a portion the size of France has been transformed into pastures for grazing cattle.
Director: Marcio Isensee e Sá | Stars: Paulo Adário, Daniel Azeredo, Paulo Barreto, João Bueno
Votes: 46
92. Sergio (2020)
R | 118 min | Biography, Drama, History
A sweeping drama set in the chaotic aftermath of the US invasion of Iraq, where the life of top UN diplomat Sergio Vieira de Mello hangs in the balance during the most treacherous mission of his career.
Director: Greg Barker | Stars: Wagner Moura, Ana de Armas, Brían F. O'Byrne, Bradley Whitford
Votes: 10,971
93. The Trial of the Chicago 7 (2020)
R | 129 min | Drama, History, Thriller
The story of 7 people on trial stemming from various charges surrounding the uprising at the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago, Illinois.
Director: Aaron Sorkin | Stars: Eddie Redmayne, Alex Sharp, Sacha Baron Cohen, Jeremy Strong
Votes: 193,312
94. Operação Pedro Pan (2020)
82 min | Documentary
Operation Peter Pan or Operación Pedro Pan was a clandestine mass exodus of over 14,000 unaccompanied Cuban minors ages 6 to 18 to the United States over a two-year span from 1960 to 1962.
Directors: Mauricio Dias, Kenya Zanatta
Votes: 7
96. Não Toque em Meu Companheiro (2020)
Documentary
The history of mobilizing of a group of 110 employees from Caixa Econômica Federal bank over the course of a year, after being unfairly dismissed in 1991 under the Fernando Collor de Mello government.
Director: Maria Ramos
Votes: 15
97. MLK/FBI (2020)
TV-PG | 104 min | Documentary, Biography, History
Based on newly declassified files, Sam Pollard's resonant film explores the US government's surveillance and harassment of Martin Luther King, Jr.
Director: Sam Pollard | Stars: Martin Luther King, J. Edgar Hoover, David Garrow, Clarence B. Jones
Votes: 1,750
98. Be Water (2020)
105 min | Documentary
Rejected by Hollywood, Bruce Lee returned to Hong Kong to complete four films. Charting his struggles in two worlds, Be Water explores questions of identity and representation through rare archive, intimate interviews, and his writings.
Director: Bao Nguyen | Stars: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Muhammad Ali, Linda Lee Cadwell, James Garner
Votes: 2,046
99. Morte e Vida Severina (1977)
85 min | Drama
The story of Severino, a man who tries to escape the misery and the drought prevailing in the rural backcountry of the Northeast of Brazil. He heads for Recife, passing through desert and forest regions, expecting to find a better life.
Director: Zelito Viana | Stars: Tânia Alves, José Dumont, Stênio Garcia, Luiz Mendonça
Votes: 89
100. The Hater (2020)
TV-MA | 135 min | Drama, Thriller
A young man searches for purpose in a net of hatred and violence that he tries to control.
Director: Jan Komasa | Stars: Maciej Musialowski, Vanessa Aleksander, Danuta Stenka, Jacek Koman
Votes: 17,614
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