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The Last Emperor(1987)

PG-13
| 2h 43min | Drama, History
3.8/5 (with 712 votes)

A dramatic history of Puyi, the last of the Emperors of China, from his lofty birth and brief reign in the Forbidden City, the object of worship by half a billion people; through his abdication, his decline and dissolute lifestyle; his exploitation by the invading Japanese, and finally to his obscure existence as just another peasant worker in the People's Republic.

Directed by Bernardo Bertolucci - With John Lone, Joan Chen, Peter O'Toole, Ying Ruocheng, Victor Wong, Ryuichi Sakamoto, ...
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The Way Back(2010)

PG-13
| 2h 13min | Drama, Adventure, History
3.5/5 (with 651 votes)

At the dawn of WWII, several men escape from a Russian gulag—to take a perilous and uncertain journey to freedom as they cross deserts, mountains and several nations.

Directed by Peter Weir - With Jim Sturgess, Colin Farrell, Ed Harris, Saoirse Ronan, Mark Strong, Gustaf Skarsgård, ...
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Vixen!(1968)

1h 11min | Drama
2.7/5 (with 32 votes)

Vixen lives in a Canadian mountain resort with her naive pilot husband. While he's away flying in tourists, she gets it on with practically everybody including a husband and his wife, and even her biker brother. She is openly racist, and she makes it clear that she won't do the wild thing with her brother's biker friend, who is black.

Directed by Russ Meyer - With Erica Gavin, Russ Meyer, Harrison Page, Jon Evans

Don Camillo(1952)

1h 47min | Comedy
3.8/5 (with 123 votes)

In a village of the Po valley where the earth is hard and life miserly, the priest and the communist mayor are always fighting to be the head of the community. If in secret, they admired and liked each other, politics still divided them as it is dividing the country. And when the mayor wants his "People's House"; the priest wants his "Garden City" for the poor. Division exist between the richest and the poorest, the pious and the atheists and even between lovers. But if the people are hard as the country, they are good in the bottom of there heart.

Directed by Julien Duvivier - With Fernandel, Gino Cervi, Vera Talchi, Franco Interlenghi, Saro Urzì, Leda Gloria, ...

Secretly, Greatly(2013)

2h 4min | Action, Drama, Comedy
3.6/5 (with 82 votes)

As a North Korean sleeper cell agent, Ryu-han infiltrates the South and assumes the role of a village idiot in a rural town. He observes the townsfolk and waits patiently for his mission. One day, after 2 years of playing the role of the village idiot, fellow elite spies Hae-rang, posed as a rock star and Hae-jin, posed as an ordinary student, are dispatched to the same town as Ryu-han. He helps the other two spies settle in and teach them how to adjust in the South. There is a sudden drastic political power shift in the North and all three spies receive an urgent and ultimate mission.

Directed by Jang Cheol-soo - With Kim Soo-hyun, Park Ki-woong, Lee Hyun-woo

1900(1976)

R
| 5h 17min | Drama, History
4.0/5 (with 271 votes)

The epic tale of a class struggle in twentieth century Italy, as seen through the eyes of two childhood friends on opposing sides.

Directed by Bernardo Bertolucci - With Robert De Niro, Gérard Depardieu, Burt Lancaster, Donald Sutherland, Dominique Sanda, Alida Valli, ...
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My Brother Is an Only Child(2007)

R
| 1h 48min | Comedy, Drama, History
3.4/5 (with 183 votes)

Accio and Manrico are two working-class brothers in 1960s Italy: older Manrico is handsome, charismatic, womanizing, and loved by all, while younger Accio is moody, hotheaded, and lives everything as if it was a war, much to his parents' chagrin. When the former is drawn into left-wing politics, Accio joins the fascists out of spite. His flimsy beliefs are put to test when he meets Manrico's like-minded girlfriend, falling in love with her.

Directed by Daniele Luchetti - With Elio Germano, Riccardo Scamarcio, Angela Finocchiaro, Diane Fleri, Massimo Popolizio, Alba Rohrwacher, ...

The Unbearable Lightness of Being(1988)

R
| 2h 51min | Comedy, Romance / Love, Drama
3.5/5 (with 180 votes)

Successful surgeon Tomas leaves Prague for an operation, meets a young photographer named Tereza, and brings her back with him. Tereza is surprised to learn that Tomas is already having an affair with the bohemian Sabina, but when the Soviet invasion occurs, all three flee to Switzerland. Sabina begins an affair, Tom continues womanizing, and Tereza, disgusted, returns to Czechoslovakia. Realizing his mistake, Tomas decides to chase after her.

Directed by Philip Kaufman - With Daniel Day-Lewis, Juliette Binoche, Lena Olin, Derek de Lint, Erland Josephson, Donald Moffat, ...
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Citizen X(1995)

R
| 1h 45min | Crime, Drama
3.6/5 (with 126 votes)

Based on the true story of a Russian serial killer who, over many years, claimed victim to over 50 people. His victims were mostly under the age of 17. In what was then a communists state, the police investigations were hampered by bureaucracy, incompetence and those in power. The story is told from the viewpoint of the detective in charge of the case.

Directed by Chris Gerolmo - With Stephen Rea, Donald Sutherland, Max von Sydow, Jeffrey DeMunn, Joss Ackland, John Wood, ...
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1987: When the Day Comes(2017)

2h 9min | Drama, History, Thriller
4.1/5 (with 58 votes)

In 1987 Korea, under an oppressive military regime, a college student gets killed during a police interrogation involving torture. Government of officials are quick to cover up the death and order the body to be cremated. A prosecutor who is supposed to sign the cremation release, raises questions about a 21-year-old kid dying of a heart attack, and he begins looking into the case for truth. Despite a systematic attempt to silence everyone involved in the case, the truth gets out, causing an eruption of public outrage.

Directed by Jang Joon-hwan - With Kim Yun-seok, Ha Jung-woo, Yoo Hai-Jin, Kim Tae-ri, Park Hee-soon, Lee Hee-joon, ...

4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days(2007)

1h 54min | Drama
3.8/5 (with 333 votes)

Two college roommates have 24 hours to make the ultimate choice as they finalize arrangements for a black market abortion.

Directed by Cristian Mungiu - With Anamaria Marinca, Laura Vasiliu, Vlad Ivanov, Luminița Gheorghiu, Alexandru Potocean, Mădălina Ghițescu, ...
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Trumbo(2015)

R
| 2h 4min | Drama
3.6/5 (with 708 votes)

The career of screenwriter Dalton Trumbo is halted by a witch hunt in the late 1940s when he defies the anti-communist HUAC committee and is blacklisted.

Directed by Jay Roach - With Bryan Cranston, Diane Lane, Helen Mirren, Louis C.K., Elle Fanning, John Goodman, ...
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La Chinoise(1967)

1h 39min | Comedy, Drama
3.5/5 (with 88 votes)

A small group of French students are studying Mao, trying to find out their position in the world and how to change the world to a Maoistic community using terrorism.

Directed by Jean-Luc Godard - With Jean-Pierre Léaud, Juliet Berto, Anne Wiazemsky, Francis Jeanson, Michel Séméniako, Omar Blondin Diop, ...
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Baaria(2009)

2h 30min | Drama, Comedy, Romance / Love
3.6/5 (with 287 votes)

Giuseppe Tornatore traces three generations of a Sicilian family in in the Sicilian town of Bagheria (known as Baarìa in the local Sicilian dialect), from the 1930s to the 1980s, to tell the story of the loves, dreams and delusions of an unusual community.

Directed by Giuseppe Tornatore - With Francesco Scianna, Margareth Madè, Lina Sastri, Ángela Molina, Nicole Grimaudo, Salvatore Ficarra, ...

Earth(1930)

1h 15min | Drama
3.4/5 (with 57 votes)

Vasyl, a member of the Komsomol, with the help of a local party organization, gets a tractor and plows private boundaries "on kulak fields". However, this enthusiasm will cost him dearly.

Directed by Alexander Dovzhenko, Yuliya Solntseva - With Yuliya Solntseva, Ivan Franko, Semen Svashenko, Stepan Shkurat, Yelena Maksimova, Petro Masokha, ...

Balkan Spy(1984)

1h 32min | Drama, Comedy
3.8/5 (with 23 votes)

Convinced that his subtenant is a spy and an enemy of the state, Ilija Čvorović falls into deep paranoia which leads to absurd and destructive chain of events.

Directed by Dušan Kovačević - With Velimir Bata Živojinović, Danilo Stojković, Mira Banjac, Borivoje Todorović, Sonja Savić, Branka Petrić, ...

Anbe Sivam(2003)

2h 40min | Comedy, Drama
3.7/5 (with 29 votes)

Nalla Sivam and Anbarasu meet under different circumstances and their lives are changed as they take the journey of their life.

Directed by Sundar C. - With Kamal Haasan, R. Madhavan, Kiran Rathod, Nassar, Santhana Bharathi
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Miss Marx(2020)

1h 47min | Drama, History
3.1/5 (with 51 votes)

In her public persona, Eleanor “Tussy” Marx was a translator, actress, a children’s rights activist, a feminist and a persuasive labour organizer, a tireless powerhouse determined to carry on her father’s work. She held her own with twentieth century gods, including both her father and his colleague Engels. In her privately life, however, she was vulnerable and her attraction to the self-indulgent and self-important Edward Aveling led her into misery and ultimately proved fatal.

Directed by Susanna Nicchiarelli - With Romola Garai, Felicity Montagu, Patrick Kennedy, George Arrendell, Karina Fernandez, Emma Cunniffe, ...

The Front(1976)

PG
| 1h 35min | Comedy, Drama
3.5/5 (with 65 votes)

A cashier poses as a writer for blacklisted talents to submit their work through, but the injustice around him pushes him to take a stand.

Directed by Martin Ritt - With Woody Allen, Zero Mostel, Herschel Bernardi, Michael Murphy, Andrea Marcovicci, Remak Ramsay, ...
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Zeitgeist: Moving Forward(2011)

2h 41min | Documentary
3.6/5 (with 86 votes)

A presentation of a case for a needed transition out of the current socioeconomic monetary paradigm which governs the entire world society. This subject matter will transcend the issues of cultural relativism and traditional ideology and move to relate the core, empirical 'life ground' attributes of human and social survival, extrapolating those immutable natural laws into a new sustainable social paradigm called a 'Resource-Based Economy'.

Directed by Peter Joseph - With Peter Joseph, Richard G. Wilkinson, Jacque Fresco, Adrian Bowyer, Colin Campbell, Gábor Máté, ...
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Mao's Last Dancer(2009)

PG
| 1h 57min | Drama, Romance / Love
3.4/5 (with 49 votes)

At the age of 11, Li was plucked from a poor Chinese village by Madame Mao's cultural delegates and taken to Beijing to study ballet. In 1979, during a cultural exchange to Texas, he fell in love with an American woman. Two years later, he managed to defect and went on to perform as a principal dancer for the Houston Ballet and as a principal artist with the Australian Ballet.

Directed by Bruce Beresford - With Bruce Greenwood, Kyle MacLachlan, Joan Chen, Amanda Schull, Penne Hackforth-Jones
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Volunteers(1985)

R
| 1h 47min | Comedy
2.7/5 (with 66 votes)

After his rich father refuses to pay his debt, compulsive gambler Lawrence Bourne III joins the Peace Corps to evade angry creditors. In Thailand, he is assigned to build a bridge for the local villagers with the help of American-As-Apple-Pie WSU Grad Tom Tuttle and the beautiful and down-to earth Beth Wexler. What they don't realize is that the bridge is coveted by the U.S. Army, a local Communist force, and a powerful drug lord. Together with the help of At Toon, the only English speaking native, they must fight off the three opposing forces and find out what is right for the villagers, as well as themselves.

Directed by Nicholas Meyer - With Tom Hanks, John Candy, Rita Wilson, Tim Thomerson, George Plimpton, Allan Arbus, ...

WR: Mysteries of the Organism(1971)

1h 24min | Drama, Fantasy, Comedy
3.0/5 (with 36 votes)

What does the energy harnessed through orgasm have to do with the state of communist Yugoslavia circa 1971? Only counterculture filmmaker extraordinaire Dušan Makavejev has the answers (or the questions). His surreal documentary-fiction collision WR: Mysteries of the Organism begins as an investigation into the life and work of controversial psychologist and philosopher Wilhelm Reich and then explodes into a free-form narrative of a beautiful young Slavic girl’s sexual liberation.

Directed by Dušan Makavejev - With Jackie Curtis, Zoran Radmilović, Milena Dravić, Ivica Vidović, Miodrag Andrić, Živka Matić, ...

Before the Revolution(1964)

1h 55min | Romance / Love, Drama
3.6/5 (with 45 votes)

The study of a youth on the edge of adulthood and his aunt, ten years older. Fabrizio is passionate, idealistic, influenced by Cesare, a teacher and Marxist, engaged to the lovely but bourgeois Clelia, and stung by the drowning of his mercurial friend Agostino, a possible suicide. Gina is herself a bundle of nervous energy, alternately sweet, seductive, poetic, distracted, and unhinged. They begin a love affair after Agostino's funeral, then Gina confuses Fabrizio by sleeping with a stranger. Their visits to Cesare and then to Puck, one of Gina's older friends, a landowner losing his land, dramatize contrasting images of Italy's future. Their own futures are bleak.

Directed by Bernardo Bertolucci - With Adriana Asti, Francesco Barilli, Morando Morandini, Allen Midgette, Gianni Amico

When Father Was Away on Business(1985)

2h 16min | Drama
3.7/5 (with 52 votes)

Tito's break-up with Stalin in 1948 marked the beginning of not only confusing, but also very dangerous years for many hard-core Yugoslav communists. A careless remark about the newspaper cartoon is enough for Mesha to join many arrested unfortunates. His family is now forced to cope with the situation and wait for his release from prison.

Directed by Emir Kusturica - With Miki Manojlović, Mirjana Karanović, Mira Furlan, Mustafa Nadarević, Davor Dujmović, Pavle Vuisić, ...

Strawberry and Chocolate(1993)

1h 48min | Comedy, Drama
3.6/5 (with 35 votes)

Havana, Cuba, 1979. Flamboyantly gay artist Diego (Jorge Perugorría) attempts to seduce the straight and strait-laced David, an idealistic young communist, and fails dismally. But David conspires to become friends with Diego so he can monitor the artist's subversive life for the state. As Diego and David discuss politics, individuality and personal expression in Castro's Cuba, a genuine friendship develops between the two. But can it last? Strawberry and Chocolate became an instant hit when it was released, and has become a classic of Cuban cinema due to its charming and authentic exploration of a connection between two people under historical circumstances that seem levelled against them.

Directed by Juan Carlos Tabío, Tomás Gutiérrez Alea - With Jorge Perugorría Rodríguez, Vladimir Cruz, Francisco Gattorno, Mirtha Ibarra, Marilyn Solaya

Afterimage(2016)

1h 38min | Drama
3.3/5 (with 32 votes)

In 1945, as Stalin sets his hands over Poland, famous painter Wladislaw Strzeminski refuses to compromise on his art with the doctrines of social realism. Persecuted, expelled from his chair at the University, he's eventually erased from the museums' walls. With the help of some of his students, he starts fighting against the Party and becomes the symbol of an artistic resistance against intellectual tyranny.

Directed by Andrzej Wajda, Marek Brodzki - With Bogusław Linda, Zofia Wichłacz, Bronisława Zamachowska, Krzysztof Pieczyński, Szymon Bobrowski, Andrzej Konopka, ...

Variola Vera(1982)

1h 44min | Drama, History, Horror
3.6/5 (with 9 votes)

An Albanian pilgrim, infected with an unknown disease, is on his way back to Belgrade from the Middle East. When doctors realize that it is a disease that has been considered eradicated, it is already too late - variola vera begins to languish and the hospital is quarantined.

Directed by Goran Marković - With Rade Šerbedžija, Erland Josephson, Rade Marković, Dušica Žegarac, Varja Đukić, Aleksandar Berček, ...

Funan(2019)

1h 24min | Animation, Drama, History
3.5/5 (with 27 votes)

Cambodia, once the ancient kingdom of Funan, April 17th, 1975. The entire country falls under the tyranny of Angkar, the communist party of the Khmer Rouge. The cities are abandoned, the population is thrown to the roads and forced to walk towards an uncertain future….

Directed by Denis Do
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Rosa Luxemburg(1986)

2h 3min | Drama, History
3.3/5 (with 20 votes)

Polish socialist and Marxist Rosa Luxemburg works tirelessly in the service of revolution in early 20th century Poland and Germany. While Luxemburg campaigns for her beliefs, she is repeatedly imprisoned as she forms the Spartacist League offering a new vision for Germany.

Directed by Margarethe von Trotta - With Barbara Sukowa, Daniel Olbrychski, Otto Sander, Adelheid Arndt, Jürgen Holtz, Doris Schade, ...
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