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The Hunger Games: Catching Fire(2013)

FSK: 12+ years
| 2h 26min | Adventure, Action, Science Fiction
3.7/5 (with 7,909 votes)

Katniss Everdeen has returned home safe after winning the 74th Annual Hunger Games along with fellow tribute Peeta Mellark. Winning means that they must turn around and leave their family and close friends, embarking on a "Victor's Tour" of the districts. Along the way Katniss senses that a rebellion is simmering, but the Capitol is still very much in control as President Snow prepares the 75th Annual Hunger Games (The Quarter Quell) - a competition that could change Panem forever.

Full Metal Jacket(1987)

FSK: 16+ years
| 1h 57min | Drama, War
4.1/5 (with 4,893 votes)

A pragmatic U.S. Marine observes the dehumanizing effects the U.S.-Vietnam War has on his fellow recruits from their brutal boot camp training to the bloody street fighting in Hue.

The Great Dictator(1940)

FSK: 6+ years
| 2h 5min | Comedy, War
4.2/5 (with 1,461 votes)

Dictator Adenoid Hynkel tries to expand his empire while a poor Jewish barber tries to avoid persecution from Hynkel's regime.

The White Ribbon(2009)

FSK: 12+ years
| 2h 24min | Drama, Mystery
3.8/5 (with 439 votes)

Strange events happen in a small village in the north of Germany during the years just before World War I, which seem to be ritual punishment. The abused and suppressed children of the villagers seem to be at the heart of this mystery.

The Great Hack(2019)

1h 54min | Documentary
3.5/5 (with 112 votes)

Data—arguably the world’s most valuable asset—is being weaponized to wage cultural and political wars. The dark world of data exploitation is uncovered through the unpredictable, personal journeys of players on different sides of the explosive Cambridge Analytica/Facebook data story.

Directed by Karim Amer, Jehane Noujaim - With Carole Cadwalladr, Brittany Kaiser, Donald Trump, Paul-Olivier Dehaye, David Carroll

My Führer(2007)

FSK: 12+ years
| 1h 29min | War, Comedy, Drama
2.8/5 (with 43 votes)

Hitler no longer believes in himself, and can barely see himself as an equal to even his sheep dog. But to seize the helm of the war he would have to create one of his famous fiery speeches to mobilize the masses. Goebbels therefore brings a Jewish acting teacher Grünbaum and his family from the camps in order to train the leader in rhetoric. Grünbaum is torn, but starts Hitler in his therapy ...

Jacky in the Kingdom of Women(2014)

FSK: 12+ years
| 1h 30min | Comedy
2.8/5 (with 94 votes)

The film is set in a world, the Popular Democratic Republic of Bubunne, in which women hold the power and men are forced to wear veils and stay at home.

Heaven Will Wait(2016)

1h 45min | Drama
3.6/5 (with 83 votes)

Mélanie, 16 years old, lives with her mother. She likes going to school, her friends, playing the cello, and she wants to change the world. But when she meets a boy on the Internet and falls in love with him, her world changes as she is gradually recruited by Daesh. Sonia is 17 years old, and she almost did something irrevocable to “guarantee” her family a place in paradise. These teenage girls might be called Anaïs, Manon or Leila, and one day they all might go some way down the recruitment process. But can they ever come back from it?

Lions for Lambs(2007)

FSK: 12+ years
| 1h 32min | Action, Adventure, Drama, History
3.0/5 (with 326 votes)

Three stories told simultaneously in ninety minutes of real time: a Republican Senator who's a presidential hopeful gives an hour-long interview to a skeptical television reporter, detailing a strategy for victory in Afghanistan; two special forces ambushed on an Afghani ridge await rescue as Taliban forces close in; a poli-sci professor at a California college invites a student to re-engage.

I Am Cuba(1964)

2h 15min | Drama
3.9/5 (with 79 votes)

Four vignettes about the lives of the Cuban people set during the pre-revolutionary era.

This Gun for Hire(1942)

1h 21min | Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
3.5/5 (with 66 votes)

Sadistic killer-for-hire Philip Raven becomes enraged when his latest job is paid off in marked bills. Vowing to track down his double-crossing boss, nightclub executive Gates, Raven sits beside Gates' lovely new employee, Ellen, on a train out of town. Although Ellen is engaged to marry the police lieutenant who's hunting down Raven, she decides to try and set the misguided hit man straight as he hides from the cops and plots his revenge.

Der Fuehrer's Face(1943)

8min | Animation
3.5/5 (with 61 votes)

A marching band of Germans, Italians, and Japanese march through the streets of swastika-motif Nutziland, serenading "Der Fuehrer's Face." Donald Duck, not living in the region by choice, struggles to make do with disgusting Nazi food rations and then with his day of toil at a Nazi artillery factory. After a nervous breakdown, Donald awakens to find that his experience was in fact a nightmare.

Directed by Jack Kinney
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Sky Hunter(2017)

1h 58min | Action
3.5/5 (with 23 votes)

An elite group of Chinese pilots must take part in a dangerous mission to thwart a terrorist plot and resolve a hostage situation.

49th Parallel(1941)

3.5/5 (with 44 votes)

In the early days of World War II, a German U-boat is sunk in Canada's Hudson Bay. Hoping to evade capture, a small band of German soldiers led by commanding officer Lieutenant Hirth attempts to cross the border into the United States, which has not yet entered the war and is officially neutral. Along the way, the German soldiers encounter brave men such as a French-Canadian fur trapper, Johnnie, a leader of a Hutterite farming community, Peter, an author, Philip and a soldier, Andy Brock.

Land Without Bread(1933)

29min | Documentary
3.6/5 (with 62 votes)

An exploration —manipulated and staged— of life in Las Hurdes, in the province of Cáceres, in Extremadura, Spain, as it was in 1932. Insalubrity, misery and lack of opportunities provoke the emigration of young people and the solitude of those who remain in the desolation of one of the poorest and least developed Spanish regions at that time. (Silent short, voiced in 1937 and 1996.)

Merchants of Doubt(2014)

1h 36min | Documentary
3.8/5 (with 41 votes)

Spin doctors spread misinformation and confusion among American citizens to delay progress on such important issues as global climate change.

Directed by Robert Kenner

The Atomic Cafe(1982)

1h 26min | Documentary, History
3.6/5 (with 28 votes)

A disturbing collection of 1940s and 1950s United States government-issued propaganda films designed to reassure Americans that the atomic bomb was not a threat to their safety.

Directed by Jayne Loader, Kevin Rafferty, Pierce Rafferty - With Paul Tibbets, Harry S. Truman, Lloyd Bentsen

Hillary's America: The Secret History of the Democratic Party(2016)

1h 47min | History, Documentary
2.8/5 (with 34 votes)

In Hillary's America, bestselling author and influential filmmaker Dinesh D’Souza reveals the sordid truth about Hillary Clinton and the secret history of the Democratic Party. This important and controversial film releases at a critical time leading up to the 2016 Presidential campaign and challenges the state of American politics.

Directed by Dinesh D'Souza, Bruce Schooley - With Dinesh D'Souza

Pulgasari(1985)

1h 35min | Horror, Drama, Fantasy
2.7/5 (with 22 votes)

In feudal Korea, a group of starving villagers grow weary of the orders handed down to them by their controlling king and set out to use a deadly monster under their control to push his armies back.

Under the Sun(2016)

1h 46min | Documentary
3.7/5 (with 43 votes)

Over the course of one year, this film follows the life of an ordinary Pyongyang family whose daughter was chosen to take part in Day of the Shining Star (Kim Jong-il's birthday) celebration. While North Korean government wanted a propaganda film, the director kept on filming between the scripted scenes. The ritualized explosions of color and joy contrast sharply with pale everyday reality, which is not particularly terrible, but rather quite surreal.

Directed by Vitaly Mansky

Tell Your Children(1938)

1h 6min | Drama
2.1/5 (with 43 votes)

High-school principal Dr. Alfred Carroll relates to an audience of parents that marijuana can have devastating effects on teens: a drug supplier entices several restless teens, Mary and Jimmy Lane, sister and brother, and Bill, Mary's boyfriend, into frequenting a reefer house. Gradually, Bill and Jimmy are drawn into smoking dope, which affects their family lives.

San Pietro(1945)

32min | War, Documentary
3.1/5 (with 28 votes)

This documentary movie is about the battle of San Pietro, a small village in Italy. Over 1,100 US soldiers were killed while trying to take this location, that blocked the way for the Allied forces from the Germans.

Directed by John Huston - With Mark W. Clark, John Huston

Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media(1992)

2h 47min | Documentary
3.8/5 (with 38 votes)

A film about the noted American linguist/political dissident and his warning about corporate media's role in modern propaganda.

Directed by Mark Achbar, Peter Wintonick - With Noam Chomsky, Mark Achbar, Peter Wintonick, Frits Bolkestein

Louisiana Story(1948)

1h 18min | Adventure, Drama
3.3/5 (with 19 votes)

The idyllic life of a young Cajun boy and his pet raccoon is disrupted when the tranquility of the bayou is broken by an oil well drilling near his home.

Directed by Robert J. Flaherty - With Frank Hardy

Inglorious Basterds: Stolz der Nation(2009)

6min | War, Action, Drama
3.6/5 (with 15 votes)

Director Quentin Tarantino tasked Eli Roth to craft a mini-movie called Stolz der Nation (Nation's Pride) that will be included in the theatrical cut of Inglourious Basterds. To help promote Inglourious Basterds via the film-within-a-film, Roth has slapped together a trailer for Nation's Pride blending black and white photography with modern multi-layered camera effects.

Propaganda: Engineering Consent(2018)

3.6/5 (with 6 votes)

How can the masses be controlled? Apparently, the American publicist Edward L. Bernays (1891-1995), a pioneer in the field of propaganda and public relations, knew the answer to such a key question. The amazing story of the master of manipulation and the creation of the engineering of consent; a frightening true story about advertising, lies and charlatans.

Directed by Jimmy Leipold

The Mystical Laws(2012)

2.2/5 (with 2 votes)

In 202X, Tathagata Killer, a mysterious military leader armed with extraterrestrial technology, stages a coup and becomes the new emperor of the world superpower of Asia. Sho Shishimaru, gifted with prophetic powers, may be the only one standing in the way of Killer’s take-over of the entire world. The future of humankind is at stake in this epic struggle, but in its midst, we learn about the mystical laws that rule the world around us.

Aerial Gunner(1943)

1h 18min | War, Drama
2.2/5 (with 2 votes)

Old rivals are pitted against each other in basic training and fight for the same woman.

Directed by William H. Pine - With Chester Morris

To Die For(2022)

1h 40min | Drama
5.0/5 (with 1 vote)

Frustrated by the liberal left and what he deems the destruction of the country he risked his life for, reclusive veteran Quint North (Schneider) is ordered by the court to keep his distance from the local high school with the American flag on the back of his El Camino or face a fine and jail time. In an ultimate exhibition of patriotism, he sets forth a series of events that just may get him killed in his own front yard.

Education for Death: The Making of the Nazi(1943)

3.5/5 (with 30 votes)

A propaganda film during World War II about a boy who grows up to become a Nazi soldier.

Directed by Clyde Geronimi
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