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Snowden(2016)

R
| 2h 14min | Drama, History, Crime, Thriller
3.5/5 (with 1,968 votes)

CIA employee Edward Snowden leaks thousands of classified documents to the press.

Silkwood(1983)

R
| 2h 11min | Drama, Thriller
3.5/5 (with 137 votes)

The story of Karen Silkwood, a metallurgy worker at a plutonium processing plant who was purposefully contaminated, psychologically tortured and possibly murdered to prevent her from exposing blatant worker safety violations at the plant.

Paths of Glory(1957)

NR
| 1h 28min | Drama, War
4.1/5 (with 1,309 votes)

A commanding officer defends three scapegoats on trial for a failed offensive that occurred within the French Army in 1916.

Invictus(2009)

PG-13
| 2h 14min | Drama, History
3.6/5 (with 1,861 votes)

Newly elected President Nelson Mandela knows his nation remains racially and economically divided in the wake of apartheid. Believing he can bring his people together through the universal language of sport, Mandela rallies South Africa's rugby team as they make their historic run to the 1995 Rugby World Cup Championship match.

Serpico(1973)

2h 10min | Crime, History, Drama
3.8/5 (with 838 votes)

Frank Serpico is an idealistic New York City cop who refuses to take bribes, unlike the rest of the force. His actions get Frank shunned by the other officers, and often placed in dangerous situations by his partners. When his superiors ignore Frank's accusations of corruption, he decides to go public with the allegations. Although this causes the Knapp Commission to investigate his claims, Frank has also placed a target on himself.

Quiz Show(1994)

PG-13
| 2h 13min | History, Drama, Mystery
3.6/5 (with 383 votes)

Lawyer Richard Goodwin discovers that 'Twenty-One', a successful TV quiz show, is rigged and decides to expose the team behind the show.

Guru(2007)

PG-13
| 2h 46min | Drama, Romance / Love
3.4/5 (with 52 votes)

Gurukant Desai hails from Idhar, a small village in Gujarat, but dreams of setting up his own business in Mumbai. After he returns from Turkey, he marries Sujatha for getting the dowry and arrives in Mumbai to start his business. This film chronicles the obstacles he meets, his subsequent rise and the huge backlash he receives when it is revealed that he used unethical means to rise in the business circuit.

The Mosquito Coast(1986)

PG
| 1h 59min | Adventure, Drama
3.2/5 (with 201 votes)

Allie Fox, an American inventor exhausted by the perceived danger and degradation of modern society, decides to escape with his wife and children to Belize. In the jungle, he tries with mad determination to create a utopian community with disastrous results.

Max Manus: Man of War(2008)

1h 58min | Drama, History, War, Action
3.5/5 (with 99 votes)

Max Manus is a Norwegian 2008 biographic war film based on the real events of the life of resistance fighter Max Manus (1914–96), after his contribution in the Winter War against the Soviet Union. The story follows Manus through the outbreak of World War II in Norway until peacetime in 1945.

King of California(2007)

PG-13
| 1h 33min | Comedy, Drama
3.2/5 (with 145 votes)

Charlie gets released from an insane asylum and moves in with Miranda, the young daughter he left behind. Charlie believes that there is treasure hidden beneath the local Costco, so he puts together a plan to unearth the loot. By convincing Miranda to quit her job at McDonald's and instead work at the wholesale store, he is able to obtain a key. Although Miranda is skeptical, she helps her father with his irrational quest.

Allonsanfan(1974)

1h 51min | History, Drama
3.5/5 (with 14 votes)

After the 1815 Restoration, an aging revolutionary finds himself reluctantly involved in an attempted insurrection in Southern Italy while growing increasingly disillusioned with his cause.

Why Me?(2015)

2h 5min | Thriller, Crime, Drama
3.5/5 (with 11 votes)

Cristian, a young idealistic prosecutor whose career is on the rise, tries to crack a case against a senior colleague accused of corruption. The dilemma of choosing between his career and the truth weighs heavily on his shoulders. Looking further to solve the case, he enters a danger zone paved with unexpected and painful revelations.

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Quiet as a Mouse(2004)

1h 25min | Comedy, Drama
3.4/5 (with 12 votes)

A pseudo documentary study of an archetypal German who tries to model his world according to his ideas of law and (sexual) order.

My Back Page(2011)

2h 21min | Drama
3.2/5 (with 2 votes)

In 1969, Sawada is filled with idealism that permeated that era and starts working as a gonzo journalist for a weekly magazine. Two years later, Sawada interviews activist Umeyama with senior reporter Nakahira. Umeyama boasts that his group will steal arms and take action in April. Sawada doubts Umeyama's claims but is attracted to his personality. An incident occurs... Sawada hears news that a man was killed at a army post...

Directed by Nobuhiro Yamashita

Africa Light / Gray Zone(2010)

2.8/5 (with 1 vote)

"Africa Light" - as white local citizens call Namibia. The name suggests romance, the beauty of nature and promises a life without any problems in a country where the difference between rich and poor could hardly be greater. Namibia does not give that impression of it. If you look at its surface it seems like Africa in its most innocent and civilized form. It is a country that is so inviting to dream by its spectacular landscape, stunning scenery and fascinating wildlife. It has a very strong tourism structure and the government gets a lot of money with its magical attraction. But despite its grandiose splendor it is an endless gray zone as well. It oscillates between tradition and modernity, between the cattle in the country and the slums in the city. It shuttles from colonial times, land property reform to minimum wage for everyone. It fluctuates between socialism and cold calculated market economy.

Don Quixote(1933)

NR
| 1h 13min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Music
2.8/5 (with 5 votes)

Inflamed by his readings of chivalric novels, Don Quixote, a knight with a sad face, accompanied by Sancho Panza, a peasant steeped in common sense, decides to set off across the world in search of improbable adventures.

No Place to Go(2000)

1h 50min | Drama
3.3/5 (with 4 votes)

Flanders, a famous female author, travels in 1989 after the fall of the Berlin wall into the German capital. She is deeply depressed by the events because she saw the communist state as a very good thing that has now ended. In the joy of these days she finds no one to understand her, so she has to travel back to Munich. After meeting several people, known and unknown, it seems as if there will be no way to go.

Your Happiness Depends on Me(2006)

1h 35min | Comedy, Drama
3.0/5 (with 1 vote)

When the hard-working bread-winner Katja and Hendrik the intellectual meet Saida, an illegal immigrant from Algeria, and accept to organize a "passport marriage" between her and Hendrik, they are caught up in a chain of events and feelings over which they have no control.

Police State 2000(1999)

2h 2min | Documentary
2.1/5 (with 1 vote)

Alex Jones exposes the growing militarization of American law enforcement and the growing relationship between the military and police. Witness US training with foreign troops and learning how to control and contain civilian populations. You will see Special Forces helicopter attacks on South Texas towns, concentration camps, broad unconstitutional police actions, search and seizure and more.

Lenin kam nur bis Lüdenscheid - Meine kleine deutsche Revolution(2008)

1h 28min | Documentary
3.5/5 (with 1 vote)

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Hotel E(1992)

28min | Animation
2.2/5 (with 7 votes)

In the film, Parn constantly switches between a sterile vision of the American dream, in which a dull living room is filled with paint-by-numbers pinks and blues and a grim vision of faceless Eastern European drones standing around a circular table.

Directed by Priit Pärn

Comrades in Dreams(2006)

1h 40min | Documentary
3.6/5 (with 2 votes)

Four lives that could not be more different and a single passion that unites them: the unconditional love for their cinemas, somewhere at the end of the world. Comrades in Dreams brings together six cinema makers from North Korea, America, India and Africa and follows their efforts to make their audiences dream every night.

Directed by Uli Gaulke