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Buñuel in the Labyrinth of the Turtles(2019)

PG-13
| 1h 22min | Animation, Drama, History
3.5/5 (with 45 votes)

Paris, 1930. Luis Buñuel is penniless after the scandal surrounding the release of his last movie. Sculptor Ramón Acín, a good friend, buys a lottery ticket and promises Buñuel that he will pay for his next movie if he wins the prize.

Directed by Salvador Simó

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.

The Legend of Billie Jean(1985)

R
| 1h 36min | Action, Comedy, Drama
3.3/5 (with 76 votes)

Average Texas teen, Billie Jean Davy, is caught up in an odd fight for justice. She is usually followed and harrased around by local boys, who, one day, decide to trash her brother's scooter for fun. The boys' father refuses to pay them back the price of the scooter. The fight for "fair is fair" takes the teens around the state and produces an unlikely hero.

Batti Gul Meter Chalu(2018)

2h 41min | Comedy, Drama
3.0/5 (with 10 votes)

The life of three friends takes a tragic turn due to an inflated electricity bill, which leads to a courtroom drama and social awakening.

Bankrolled(2021)

1h 37min | Comedy
2.9/5 (with 14 votes)

While blind drunk, two unemployed millennials entrepreneurs drunkenly post a video pitch about their revolutionary app to a crowdfunding site. When the app catches fire and they accidentally raise millions of dollars they actually have to create the app.

Directed by Marcos Bucay - With Ricardo Polanco, Natalia Téllez, María Chacón, Giuseppe Gamba, Sebastián Zurita

There's Something in the Water(2019)

1h 13min | Documentary
3.6/5 (with 6 votes)

Elliot Page brings attention to the injustices and injuries caused by environmental racism in his home province, in this urgent documentary on Indigenous and African Nova Scotian women fighting to protect their communities, their land, and their futures.

Directed by Elliot Page, Ian Daniel

The Final Year(2018)

1h 29min | Documentary
3.6/5 (with 22 votes)

Featuring unprecedented access inside the White House and State Department, The Final Year offers an uncompromising view of the inner workings of the Obama Administration as they prepare to leave power after eight years.

Directed by Greg Barker - With Barack Obama

Aruvi(2017)

2h 2min | Drama
3.8/5 (with 25 votes)

A gentle girl born and brought up amidst the ever growing eco-social-consumeristic environment finds it difficult to fit in the society. She decides to take it hard on the people.

With Aditi Balan

Dacait(1987)

2h 38min | Action, Crime, Drama
2.0/5 (with 1 vote)

Arjun Yadav return from the city after completing his studies to get settled in his village with his family consisting of his mother Devi Chaudaran, his older brother Amrit and sister. Arjun finds out that Amrit and Thakur Bhanwar Singh does not get along quiet well and attempts to be a peace-maker between the two. One day situation takes a turn for the worse when Amrit is killed, Devi Chaudaran loses her senses, Arjun's sister is raped and he himself is beaten and tied to a tree. Arjun is then rescued by some sympathetic villagers and run off with his childhood friend Makan Malla in the deep ravines only to turn an outlaw whose only motive is to avenge the killings of his family members.

The New Corporation: The Unfortunately Necessary Sequel(2020)

1h 46min | Documentary
3.5/5 (with 6 votes)

Exposes how companies are desperately rebranding as socially responsible — and how that threatens democratic freedoms.

The Cabin in the Cotton(1932)

NR
| 1h 18min | Drama
3.2/5 (with 7 votes)

Sharecropper's son Marvin tries to help his community overcome poverty and ignorance.

Atacada: la teoría del dolor(2015)

2h 5min | Thriller
3.8/5 (with 15 votes)

A young woman is sexually assaulted by a powerful businessman, starting a public trial in which she will have to endure the abuse of those who do not want justice to be made.

Directed by Aldo Miyashiro
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One Book at a Time(2020)

5.0/5 (with 1 vote)

Sarah Kamya is a school counselor in New York City. She began the project Little Diverse Libraries on June 3rd and has already raised over $13,000, supported black owned bookstores, and has distributed 775 books to Little Free Libraries across all 50 states. Sarah is helping educate communities while most importantly amplifying and empowering black voices.

Circus of Life(2020)

4.7/5 (with 2 votes)

Zindagi Tamasha (Circus of Life) is an intimate portrait of a family, who lives in Lahore.

Directed by Sarmad Sultan Khoosat - With Samiya Mumtaz, Eman Suleman, Adeel Afzal, Nadia Afghan, Mehar Bano, Sarmad Sultan Khoosat, ...

Once Upon a Time in Venezuela(2020)

1h 36min | Documentary
4.2/5 (with 17 votes)

Once upon a time, the Venezuelan village of Congo Mirador was prosperous, alive with fisherman and poets. Now it is decaying and disintegrating—a small but prophetic reflection of Venezuela itself.

Directed by Anabel Rodríguez Ríos

The Stone Speakers(2018)

1h 32min | Documentary
2.8/5 (with 1 vote)

In present-day Bosnia and Herzegovina, economically depressed towns turn themselves into tourist destinations in order to survive—deliberately forming their own cultural narratives. Centering on four different locations, The Stone Speakers interrogates a nation’s contradictory memories. Made with subtlety and tactful distance, director Igor Drljaca’s film reveals the traumatic consequences of being a country that is stuck in a postwar identity crisis.

Directed by Igor Drljaca

The Judge(2017)

1h 19min | Documentary
3.4/5 (with 4 votes)

A verité legal drama about Judge Kholoud Al-Faqih, the first woman appointed to a Shari'a court in the Middle East, whose career provides rare insights into both Islamic law and gendered justice.

We Want the Airwaves(2022)

1h 23min | Documentary

Hollywood is perhaps the most elusive animal. "We Want the Airwaves" follows three first time TV makers who set out on the ultimate adventure: to change television as we know it. The trio creates, films and pitches their advocacy docuseries masterpiece, "Manifesto!" all over the world, with the goal of giving a broadcast voice to a generation.

Riotsville, USA(2022)

1h 31min | Documentary
3.1/5 (with 2 votes)

An archival documentary about the U.S. military’s response to the political and racial injustices of the late 1960s: take a military base, build a mock inner-city set, cast soldiers to play rioters, burn the place down, and film it all.

Rebellion(2019)

51min | Documentary
3.5/5 (with 1 vote)

As the 'one country two systems' policy in Hong Kong has slowly eroded, resentment among the territory's citizens has steadily grown. What began as a series of spontaneous protests against an extradition law in March 2019 has now escalated in to a full-blown popular uprising that shows no signs of abating. ABC Four Corners reports from the frontline of the action, capturing extraordinary footage of the growing tension and violence.

Nefarious: Merchant of Souls(2011)

R
| 1h 36min | Documentary
4.0/5 (with 2 votes)

Travel across four continents, through 19 countries, and into dingy Cambodian karaoke bars, Amsterdam’s infamous red-light district, Moldovan orphanages, legal Nevada brothels, and the street corners and alleyways of metropolises worldwide for more than a glance at the fastest-growing organized crime industry in the world with the groundbreaking, tell-all Nefarious: Merchant of Souls.

Directed by Benjamin Nolot - With Bill Oberst, Jr.

Worthy(2018)

21min | Drama, Crime
5.0/5 (with 1 vote)

Fresh off a winning case that brought her unwanted internet fame, a rising ADA learns of the district's most respected judge allegedly assaulting her best friend. She starts a case but is surprised to be met with resistance by the district attorney who mentored her, her best friend who questions the system and her motives, and the judge himself who knows her own dark secret.

We're Not Here(2019)

When tragedy interrupts their secret seaside tryst, the prospect of going public brings two men to a standoff.

Big Charity: The Death of America's Oldest Hospital(2014)

1h 4min | Documentary
5.0/5 (with 1 vote)

This documentary film includes never-before-seen footage and exclusive interviews to tell the story of Charity Hospital, from its roots to its controversial closing in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. From the firsthand accounts of healthcare providers and hospital employees who withstood the storm inside the hospital, to interviews with key players involved in the closing of Charity and the opening of New Orleans’ newest hospital, “Big Charity” shares the untold, true story around its closure and sheds new light on the sacrifices made for the sake of progress.

Dignity Keeper(2022)

9min | Drama

When mobile nurse Esma finds one of her patients dead, the strictly timed schedule of her day is thrown off balance. Between professional ethics and family obligations, she is faced with a difficult decision.

Seema(1955)

2h 21min | Drama
2.5/5 (with 1 vote)

Gauri, an orphan, is falsely accused of theft and lands up in a reformatory run by Ashok. Due to her rebelliousness, she gets into trouble. But, gradually she comes into her own with Ashok's help.

Diary Of A Disgraced Soldier(2009)

1h 8min | Documentary
5.0/5 (with 1 vote)

In Iraq 2003 Corporal Martin Webster filmed fellow soldiers beating Iraqi youths during rioting in Al Amara. Two years later, a British newspaper obtained his footage. The story that ran led to outrage across the world.

752 Is Not a Number(2022)

1h 38min | Documentary
2.5/5 (with 1 vote)

On January 8, 2020, Ukraine International Airlines Flight 752 went down as it was leaving Iranian air space. All 176 people on board were killed, many of them Iranian Canadians. For weeks Iranian authorities vociferously denied responsibility, but foreign governments and agencies were certain the plane was shot down by Iranian military, a fact Iran’s government eventually admitted. There were no answers as to why the plane was fired on or even why it was allowed to take off, since hostilities had broken out in the region in preceding days.

Directed by Babak Payami

Bonobo(2018)

19min | Drama
2.8/5 (with 1 vote)

A mosaic of interrelated characters living in the same social housing project and all in search of happiness, forgiveness and meaning.

Shouting Down Midnight(2022)

1h 37min | Documentary

Both cautionary tale and rallying cry, Shouting Down Midnight recounts how the Wendy Davis filibuster of 2013 galvanized a new generation of activists and reveals what is at stake for us all in the struggle for reproductive freedom.

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