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The Manchurian Candidate(1962)

FSK: 16+ years
| 2h 6min | Thriller, Drama, Mystery
3.8/5 (with 291 votes)

Near the end of the Korean War, a platoon of U.S. soldiers is captured by communists and brainwashed. Following the war, the platoon is returned home, and Sergeant Raymond Shaw is lauded as a hero by the rest of his platoon. However, the platoon commander, Captain Bennett Marco, finds himself plagued by strange nightmares and soon races to uncover a terrible plot.

Directed by John Frankenheimer - With Frank Sinatra, Janet Leigh, Angela Lansbury, Laurence Harvey, James Gregory, Henry Silva, ...
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The Way We Were(1973)

FSK: 12+ years
| 1h 58min | Drama, Romance / Love
3.5/5 (with 198 votes)

Two desperate people have a wonderful romance, but their political views and convictions drive them apart.

Directed by Sydney Pollack - With Barbra Streisand, Robert Redford, Bradford Dillman, Lois Chiles, Patrick O'Neal, Viveca Lindfors, ...
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To Live(1994)

2h 13min | Drama, Romance / Love, War
4.0/5 (with 120 votes)

Fugui and Jiazhen endure tumultuous events in China as their personal fortunes move from wealthy landownership to peasantry. Addicted to gambling, Fugui loses everything. In the years that follow he is pressed into both the nationalist and communist armies, while Jiazhen is forced into menial work.

Directed by Zhang Yimou - With Ge You, Gong Li, Niu Ben, Guo Tao, Jiang Wu

The Motorcycle Diaries(2004)

FSK: 6+ years
| 2h 6min | Drama
3.7/5 (with 562 votes)

Based on the journals of Che Guevara, leader of the Cuban Revolution. In his memoirs, Guevara recounts adventures he and best friend Alberto Granado had while crossing South America by motorcycle in the early 1950s.

Directed by Walter Salles - With Gael García Bernal, Rodrigo de la Serna, Mía Maestro, Mercedes Morán, Jean Pierre Noher, Marina Glezer, ...
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The Photographer of Mauthausen(2018)

1h 51min | Drama, History, Thriller
3.5/5 (with 310 votes)

Spanish photographer Francesc Boix, imprisoned in the Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp, works in the SS Photographic Service. Between 1943 and 1945, he hides, with the help of other prisoners, thousands of negatives, with the purpose of showing the freed world the atrocities committed by the Nazis, exhaustively documented. He will be a key witness during the Nuremberg Trials.

Directed by Mar Targarona - With Mario Casas, Macarena Gómez, Alain Hernández
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Indochine(1992)

2h 39min | Drama, Romance / Love
3.6/5 (with 90 votes)

Eliane Devries is the seemingly repressed owner of a prosperous rubber plantation in French Indochina, circa 1930. Her steely exterior, however, is only a mask intended to hide her torrid love affairs from upper class society.

Directed by Régis Wargnier - With Catherine Deneuve, Vincent Perez, Linh Dan Pham, Jean Yanne, Dominique Blanc, Alain Fromager, ...

The Spy Who Came in from the Cold(1965)

FSK: 16+ years
| 1h 52min | Drama, Thriller
3.5/5 (with 116 votes)

British agent Alec Leamas refuses to come in from the Cold War during the 1960s, choosing to face another mission, which may prove to be his final one.

Directed by Martin Ritt, Paul Dehn, Guy Trosper - With Richard Burton, Claire Bloom, Oskar Werner, Sam Wanamaker, Robert Hardy, Rupert Davies, ...
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One, Two, Three(1961)

FSK: 6+ years
| 1h 55min | Comedy
3.8/5 (with 169 votes)

C.R. MacNamara will do anything to get a promotion within the Coca-Cola company, including looking after boss W.P. Hazeltine's rebellious teenage daughter, Scarlett. When Scarlett visits Berlin, where C.R. is stationed, she reveals that she is married to a communist named Otto Piffl -- and C.R. recognizes that Otto's anti-establishment stance will clash with his boss's own political views, possibly jeopardizing his promotion.

Directed by Billy Wilder - With Horst Buchholz, Pamela Tiffin, Arlene Francis, James Cagney, Liselotte Pulver, Ralf Wolter, ...

Frankenstein's Army(2013)

FSK: 18+ years
| 1h 24min | Action, Horror
3.1/5 (with 107 votes)

Toward the end of World War II, Russian soldiers pushing into eastern Germany stumble across a secret Nazi lab, one that has unearthed and begun experimenting with the journal of one Dr. Victor Frankenstein. The scientists have used the legendary Frankenstein's work to assemble an army of super-soldiers stitched together from the body parts of their fallen comrades -- a desperate Hitler's last ghastly ploy to escape defeat.

Directed by Richard Raaphorst - With Karel Roden, Joshua Sasse, Robert Gwilym, Luke Newberry, Ivana Lokajová, Zdeněk Bařinka, ...
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Ninotchka(1939)

1h 50min | Comedy, Romance / Love
3.8/5 (with 156 votes)

A stern Russian woman sent to Paris on official business finds herself attracted to a man who represents everything she is supposed to detest.

Directed by Ernst Lubitsch - With Greta Garbo, Bela Lugosi, Melvyn Douglas, Ina Claire, Sig Ruman, Ernst Lubitsch, ...
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Trumbo(2015)

FSK: 6+ years
| 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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Good Night, and Good Luck.(2005)

FSK: 0+ years
| 1h 33min | Drama, History
3.5/5 (with 417 votes)

The story of journalist Edward R. Murrow's stand against Senator Joseph McCarthy's anti-communist witch-hunts in the early 1950s.

Directed by George Clooney - With David Strathairn, George Clooney, Patricia Clarkson, Jeff Daniels, Grant Heslov, Frank Langella, ...
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A King in New York(1957)

1h 50min | Comedy, Drama
3.5/5 (with 80 votes)

A recently-deposed "Estrovian" monarch seeks shelter in New York City, where he becomes an accidental television celebrity. Later, he's wrongly accused of being a Communist and gets caught up in subsequent HUAC hearings.

Directed by Charlie Chaplin - With Charlie Chaplin, Dawn Addams, Shani Wallis, Maxine Audley, Jerry Desmonde, Ollie Johnston, ...
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Don Camillo's Last Round(1955)

FSK: 12+ years
| 1h 37min | Comedy, History
3.6/5 (with 74 votes)

Bewildered, Don Camillo learns that Peppone intends to stand for parliament. Determined to thwart his ambitions, the good priest, ignoring the recommendations of the Lord, decides to campaign against him.

Directed by Carmine Gallone - With Fernandel, Gino Cervi, Leda Gloria, Umberto Spadaro, Memmo Carotenuto, Guido Celano, ...
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The Return of Don Camillo(1953)

FSK: 12+ years
| 1h 55min | Comedy
3.6/5 (with 82 votes)

Energetic priest Don Camillo returns to the town of Brescello for more political and personal duels with Communist mayor Peppone.

Directed by Julien Duvivier - With Fernandel, Gino Cervi, Paolo Stoppa, Arturo Bragaglia, Leda Gloria, Pina Gallini, ...
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The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum(1975)

FSK: 16+ years
| 1h 44min | Drama, Crime
3.5/5 (with 40 votes)

After a chance encounter with a wanted man, a woman is harassed by the police and press until she takes violent action.

Directed by Volker Schlöndorff, Margarethe von Trotta - With Angela Winkler, Mario Adorf, Dieter Laser, Jürgen Prochnow, Heinz Bennent, Hannelore Hoger, ...

Blood for Dracula(1974)

1h 43min | Horror
2.8/5 (with 58 votes)

Deathly ill Count Dracula and his slimy underling, Anton, travel to Italy in search of a virgin's blood. They're welcomed at the crumbling estate of indebted Marchese Di Fiore, who's desperate to marry off his daughters to rich suitors. But there, instead of pure women, the count encounters incestuous lesbians with vile blood and Marxist manservant Mario, who's suspicious of the aristocratic Dracula.

Directed by Paul Morrissey, Antonio Margheriti - With Joe Dallesandro, Udo Kier, Vittorio De Sica, Stefania Casini, Silvia Dionisio, Milena Vukotic, ...
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The Travelling Players(1975)

3h 44min | Drama, War, History
3.7/5 (with 29 votes)

This expansive Greek drama follows a troupe of theater actors as they perform around their country during World War II. While the production that they put on is entitled "Golfo the Shepherdess," the thespians end up echoing scenes from classic Greek tales in their own lives, as Elektra plots revenge on her mother for the death of her father, and seeks help from her brother, Orestes, a young anti-fascist rebel.

Directed by Thodoros Angelopoulos - With Eva Kotamanidou, Aliki Georgouli, Vangelis Kazan, Maria Vassiliou, Petros Zarkadis, Giorgos Tzifos, ...

Despite the Falling Snow(2016)

1h 34min | Drama, Romance / Love, Thriller
3.0/5 (with 36 votes)

New York, 1961. Alexander Ivanov, a high-ranked Soviet bureaucrat, reluctantly defects to the West while is part of a diplomatic mission, feeling the grief of being unable to know the fate of his wife Katya, whom he has had to leave behind in Moscow. Only many years later, in 1991, he will finally find out the truth when his niece Lauren travels to Moscow to participate in a painting exhibition.

Directed by Shamim Sarif - With Rebecca Ferguson, Sam Reid, Oliver Jackson-Cohen, Charles Dance, Anthony Head, Antje Traue, ...
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The Funeral(1996)

FSK: 16+ years
| 1h 39min | Crime, Drama
3.4/5 (with 69 votes)

The story concerns the funeral of one of three brothers in a family of gangsters that lived in New York in 1930s. Details of the past of the brothers and their families are shown through a series of flashbacks.

Directed by Abel Ferrara - With Christopher Walken, Chris Penn, Annabella Sciorra, Isabella Rossellini, Vincent Gallo, Benicio del Toro, ...

Don Camillo: Monsignor(1961)

FSK: 6+ years
| 1h 49min | Comedy
3.4/5 (with 72 votes)

Don Camillo (now bishop) and Peppone (now senator) return to the town of Brescello and rekindle their friendly rivalry.

Directed by Carmine Gallone - With Fernandel, Gino Cervi, Leda Gloria, Gina Rovere, Valeria Ciangottini, Saro Urzì, ...
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Butterfly(1999)

1h 36min | Drama
3.7/5 (with 99 votes)

The film centres on Moncho and his coming-of-age experience in Galicia in 1936. Moncho develops a close relationship with his teacher Don Gregorio who introduces the boy to different things in the world. While the story centres on Moncho's ordinary coming-of-age experiences, tensions related to the looming Spanish Civil War periodically interrupt Moncho's personal growth and daily life.

Directed by José Luis Cuerda - With Fernando Fernán Gómez, Elena Fernández, Manuel Lozano, Uxía Blanco, Jesús Castejón, Guillermo Toledo, ...

Land and Freedom(1995)

FSK: 12+ years
| 1h 49min | Drama, History, War, Romance / Love
3.7/5 (with 108 votes)

David Carr is a British Communist who is unemployed. In 1936, when the Spanish Civil War begins, he decides to fight for the Republican side, a coalition of liberals, communists and anarchists, so he joins the POUM militia and witnesses firsthand the betrayal of the Spanish revolution by Stalin's followers and Moscow's orders.

Directed by Ken Loach - With Ian Hart, Rosana Pastor, Icíar Bollaín, Frédéric Pierrot, Tom Gilroy, Marc Martínez, ...

Don Camillo in Moscow(1965)

FSK: 12+ years
| 1h 35min | Comedy, History
3.6/5 (with 75 votes)

Priest Don Camillo blackmails his friendly rival Peppone into letting him join a Communist delegation visiting the Soviet Union.

Directed by Luigi Comencini - With Fernandel, Gino Cervi, Saro Urzì, Gianni Garko, Graziella Granata, Marco Tulli, ...
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Volunteers(1985)

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, ...

Newton(2017)

1h 46min | Comedy, Drama
3.5/5 (with 57 votes)

A government clerk on election duty in a conflict-ridden jungle of Central India tries his best to conduct free and fair voting despite the apathy of security forces and the looming fear of guerrilla attacks by communist rebels.

Directed by Amit Masurkar - With Rajkummar Rao

Chinese In Paris(1974)

1h 55min | Comedy
3.2/5 (with 10 votes)

Overnight, Paris is invaded - although peacefully - but the Chinese Army, and millions of Chinese people... It's the Nazi occupation all over again, with modern - funny - twists.

Directed by Jean Yanne - With Jean Yanne, Michel Serrault, Nicole Calfan, Daniel Prévost, Macha Méril, Jacques François, ...

Arsenal(1929)

1h 27min | Drama, War
3.5/5 (with 19 votes)

A soldier returns to Kyiv after surviving a train crash and encounters clashes between nationalists and collectivists.

Directed by Alexander Dovzhenko - With Semen Svashenko

The Human Factor(1979)

1h 55min | Thriller
2.9/5 (with 11 votes)

A low-ranking Secret Service agent is conned into supplying information to Eastern Bloc countries. Although he is not a suspect due to his unimportant position, when his office partner is hauled in as a suspect he realises he has got himself into very deep water.

Directed by Otto Preminger - With Richard Attenborough, Derek Jacobi, John Gielgud, Nicol Williamson, Robert Morley, Iman, ...

Uranya(2006)

1h 40min | Comedy
3.1/5 (with 11 votes)

Summer 1969. Dictatorship. In a small country town, young Achileas breaks his leg by falling off the yard wall of the local cinema. He wanted to see Brigit Bardot naked... However, during his visit to the city to treat his broken leg, for the first time in his life he sees a television! The program informs about the launching of Apollo to the moon. The idea of the launching becomes Achileas' obsession and along with his friends they collect money, in order to purchase a TV set. However, soon, the dilemma becomes imperative. Will they buy a television or "visit" all together Uranya in order to be taught the secrets of love?

Directed by Kostas Kapakas
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