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The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes(2023)

FSK: 12+ years
| 2h 45min | Action, Adventure, Science Fiction
3.7/5 (with 87 votes)

64 years before he becomes the tyrannical president of Panem, Coriolanus Snow sees a chance for a change in fortunes when he mentors Lucy Gray Baird, the female tribute from District 12.

The Dreamers(2003)

FSK: 16+ years
| 1h 52min | Drama, Romance / Love
3.6/5 (with 1,267 votes)

When Isabelle and Theo invite Matthew to stay with them, what begins as a casual friendship ripens into a sensual voyage of discovery and desire in which nothing is off limits and everything is possible.

The Hate U Give(2018)

FSK: 12+ years
| 2h 13min | Crime, Drama
4.1/5 (with 950 votes)

Raised in a poverty-stricken slum, a 16-year-old girl named Starr now attends a suburban prep school. After she witnesses a police officer shoot her unarmed best friend, she's torn between her two very different worlds as she tries to speak her truth.

Across the Universe(2007)

FSK: 12+ years
| 2h 13min | Drama, Romance / Love, Fantasy
3.6/5 (with 596 votes)

When young dockworker Jude leaves Liverpool to find his estranged father in the United States, he is swept up by the waves of change that are re-shaping the nation. Jude falls in love with Lucy, who joins the growing anti-war movement. As the body count in Vietnam rises, political tensions at home spiral out of control and the star-crossed lovers find themselves in a psychedelic world gone mad.

'71(2014)

FSK: 16+ years
| 1h 39min | Thriller, Action, Drama, War
3.4/5 (with 487 votes)

A young British soldier must find his way back to safety after his unit accidentally abandons him during a riot in the streets of Belfast.

The Trigger Effect(1996)

1h 34min | Drama, Thriller
2.9/5 (with 43 votes)

A blackout leaves those affected to consider what is necessary, what is legal, and what is questionable, in order to survive in a predatory environment.

Dark Blue(2002)

FSK: 16+ years
| 1h 58min | Crime, Drama, Thriller, Action
3.1/5 (with 125 votes)

Set during the Rodney King riots, a robbery homicide investigation triggers a series of events that will cause a corrupt LAPD officer to question his tactics.

Hotel Artemis(2018)

FSK: 16+ years
| 1h 34min | Thriller, Science Fiction, Action
3.0/5 (with 674 votes)

Los Angeles, June 21st, 2028. While the streets are being torn apart by riots, the Nurse, who runs a clandestine hospital for criminals in the penthouse of the Artemis, a closed old hotel, has a rough night dealing with troublemaker clients: thieves, assassins, someone from the past and the one who owns the place and the whole city.

Harry Brown(2009)

FSK: 16+ years
| 1h 43min | Thriller, Crime, Drama, Action
3.4/5 (with 434 votes)

An elderly ex-serviceman and widower looks to avenge his best friend's murder by doling out his own form of justice.

Kings(2017)

FSK: 12+ years
| 1h 32min | Romance / Love, Drama, Crime
2.9/5 (with 67 votes)

A foster family in South Central a few weeks before the city erupts in violence following the verdict of the Rodney King trial in 1992.

Miracle Mile(1988)

3.5/5 (with 95 votes)

After 30 years of searching, Harry has finally met the girl of his dreams. Unfortunately, before they even have a chance to go on their first date, Harry intercepts some chilling news: WWIII has begun and nuclear missiles will destroy Los Angeles in less than an hour!

Hey Ram(2000)

FSK: 12+ years
| 3h 19min | History, Drama, Crime
3.3/5 (with 18 votes)

Saketh Ram's wife is raped and killed during direct action day riots in Calcutta. He is convinced that Mahatma Gandhi is responsible for all the problems happening in the country. He sets out to kill him.

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Brighton Rock(2010)

FSK: 16+ years
| 1h 51min | Drama, Thriller, Crime
2.9/5 (with 47 votes)

Charts the headlong fall of Pinkie, a razor-wielding disadvantaged teenager with a religious death wish.

Scum(1979)

1h 38min | Crime, Drama
3.6/5 (with 79 votes)

Powerful, uncompromising drama about two boys' struggle for survival in the nightmare world of Britain's notorious Borstal Reformatory. [This is the feature film version Alan Clarke made after the BBC banned the original before its scheduled TV broadcast (see Scum (1977)].

We Are Young. We Are Strong.(2014)

2h 3min | Drama
3.5/5 (with 33 votes)

On 24th August 1992 in the eastern German city of Rostock a rampaging mob, to the applause and cheering of more than 3,000 bystanders, besieged and set fire to a residential building containing, among others, more than 120 Vietnamese men, women and children on what has since become known as "The Night of the Fire." The riots became a symbol for xenophobia in the just recently reunited Germany. This film recounts the incident from the perspectives of three very different characters.

King of Devil's Island(2010)

FSK: 12+ years
| 2h | Drama, Action
3.6/5 (with 99 votes)

Based on a true story: Norwegian winter, 1915. On the island Bastøy, outside Oslo, a group of young boys aged 11 to 18, are held in an institution for delinquent youth, notorious for its sadistic regime. One day a new boy, Erling, arrives, determined to escape from the island. After a tragic incident, he ends up leading the boys in a violent uprising. When the boys manage to take over the island, 150 soldiers are sent in to restore order.

Obey(2018)

1h 36min | Drama
2.9/5 (with 7 votes)

Nineteen-year old Leon returns home to take care of his alcoholic mother and adjust to life as an adult after an adolescence spent in and out of foster care. Frustrated by his lack of an education and his bleak financial prospects, Leon finds solace in the boxing ring. He soon meets the rebellious and beautiful Twiggy, who is squatting in abandoned houses to escape her family’s unfeeling affluence. As rumblings of riots begin in the streets and police and protesters engulf his neighborhood, Leon must decide whether to join his friends and fight or seek a new life with Twiggy.

Born Innocent(1974)

1h 38min | Drama, TV Movie
3.3/5 (with 18 votes)

A constant runaway is given over to the care of the state and finds herself in a remand centre for girls. She is soon caught between the uncaring bureaucracy, the sometimes brutal treatment from her peers and her own abusive family, and only one care worker sees her potential to rise above her tragic circumstances.

Quatermass and the Pit(1967)

3.4/5 (with 95 votes)

An ancient Martian spaceship is unearthed in London, and proves to have powerful psychic effects on the people around.

Working Slowly (Radio Alice)(2004)

1h 51min | Drama, Comedy, History
3.3/5 (with 18 votes)

Bologna, 1976. The paths of two aimless young friends intertwine with those of Radio Alice, a pirate radio politically aligned with the leftist student movement.

The Third Wave(2003)

1h 55min | Action, Thriller
3.1/5 (with 23 votes)

Johan Falk hasn't been working for over a year since he resigned from the police. Most of all he wants to move out to the countryside, but fate has a different thought.

Four Hours at the Capitol(2021)

1h 32min | Documentary
3.8/5 (with 17 votes)

The documentary is an immersive chronicle of the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021, when thousands of American citizens from across the country gathered in Washington D.C. to protest the results of the 2020 presidential election, many with the intent of disrupting the certification of Joe Biden’s presidency.

Directed by Jamie Roberts

Revolution of Our Times(2021)

2h 32min | Documentary
4.3/5 (with 10 votes)

Throughout Hong Kong’s history, Hongkongers have fought for freedom and democracy but have yet to succeed. In 2019, a controversial extradition bill was introduced that would allow Hongkongers to be tried in mainland China. This decision spurred massive protests, riots, and resistance against heavy-handed Chinese rule over the City-State. Award-winning director Kiwi Chow documents the events to tell the story of the movement, with both a macro view of its historical context and footage and interviews from protestors on the front lines.

London Town(2017)

1h 32min | Drama, Music
3.1/5 (with 14 votes)

A 14-year old boy’s life changes forever when his estranged mother introduces him to the music of The Clash in 1979 London.

Directed by Derrick Borte

Riot on Sunset Strip(1967)

1h 27min | Drama
1.9/5 (with 2 votes)

A police captain is caught between businesses operating on the Los Angeles Sunset Strip who don't like the punks hanging out, and his belief in allowing the kids their rights. But when his daughter gets involved with an unruly bunch, his attitude starts to change.

Directed by Arthur Dreifuss - With Frank Alesia

Próxima(2007)

1h 56min | Science Fiction
2.9/5 (with 2 votes)

Tony, the owner of a small fantastic film video shop, has found out that at times reality can defy science-fiction. The time has come to embark on a trip to a place nobody has ever been to before.

Directed by Carlos Atanes - With Hans Richter, Arantxa Peña, Abel Folk, Dani Mantero

On Hostile Ground(2000)

1h 30min | Action, Adventure
1.6/5 (with 5 votes)

A geologist (John Corbett) investigates a sinkhole under New Orleans that might engulf the city during Mardi Gras.

Insaniyat(1994)

2h 49min | Action, Crime, Drama
4.3/5 (with 1 vote)

A Police officer seeks the help of two gangsters to combat terrorism.

Birth of a Nation(1983)

1h 19min | Drama, TV Movie
3.6/5 (with 3 votes)

A new teacher at a highly problematic comprehensive school feels that corporal punishment may just be inflaming the problems, and so begins to campaign against it.

Stir(1980)

1h 37min | Thriller, Action, Drama
3.3/5 (with 7 votes)

Filmed in the Clare Valley, Gladstone and the Flinders Ranges in South Australia, this prison movie was inspired by the true life prison riot at Bathurst Jail in 1974 and its subsequent Royal Commission into New South Wales Prisons.

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