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1. No End (1985)
Not Rated | 107 min | Drama, Romance
The wife of the recently deceased lawyer tries to cope with grief after his loss and to keep his last case going in court.
Director: Krzysztof Kieslowski | Stars: Grazyna Szapolowska, Maria Pakulnis, Aleksander Bardini, Jerzy Radziwilowicz
Votes: 5,755
2. Navalny (2022)
R | 99 min | Documentary, Biography
Follows the man who survived an assassination attempt by poisoning with a lethal nerve agent in August 2020. During his months-long recovery he makes shocking discoveries about the attempt on his life and decides to return home.
Director: Daniel Roher | Stars: Alexei Navalny, Yulia Navalnaya, Christo Grozev, Dasha Navalnaya
Votes: 30,099
3. Before Night Falls (2000)
R | 133 min | Biography, Drama, Romance
The life of Cuban poet and novelist, Reinaldo Arenas.
Director: Julian Schnabel | Stars: Javier Bardem, Johnny Depp, Olatz López Garmendia, Giovani Florido
Votes: 26,418 | Gross: $4.22M
4. Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion (1970)
R | 115 min | Crime, Drama
A chief of detectives, homicide section, kills his mistress and deliberately leaves clues to prove his own responsibility for the crime.
Director: Elio Petri | Stars: Gian Maria Volontè, Florinda Bolkan, Gianni Santuccio, Orazio Orlando
Votes: 13,418 | Gross: $0.27M
5. The Prague Orgy (2019)
103 min | Drama
When a famous American writer accepts a quest from a Czech emigrant to bring him back unique Yiddish manuscripts, he accepts not only a dangerous journey to Prague, where he is watched at ... See full summary »
Director: Irena Pavlásková | Stars: Jonas Chernick, Kseniya Rappoport, Pavel Kríz, Jirí Havelka
Votes: 185
6. Citizen K (2019)
Not Rated | 126 min | Documentary
The strange case of Mikhail Khodorkovsky, once believed to be the wealthiest man in Russia, who rocketed to prosperity and prominence in the 1990s, served a decade in prison, and became an unlikely martyr for the anti-Putin movement.
Director: Alex Gibney | Stars: Mikhail Khodorkovsky, Vladimir Putin, Leonid Nevzlin, Boris Berezovsky
Votes: 1,617
7. Star Trek: The Next Generation - A Final Unity (1995 Video Game)
E | Adventure, Sci-Fi
Captain Jean-Luc Picard of the U.S.S. Enterprise NCC-1701-D agrees to help Garidian dissidents locate a mythical scroll that might convince their government to give rights to slaves. The search takes them to Unity, a strange ancient alien device.
Stars: Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, Brent Spiner, LeVar Burton
Votes: 318
8. Eternal Spring (2022)
86 min | Documentary, Animation
Falun Gong practitioners were persecuted in China, they tried to tell the truth but they were kidnapped, some Falun Gong practitioners died.
Director: Jason Loftus | Stars: Henry Guo, Shi Jian, Yu Feng, Tan Junfeng
Votes: 1,700 | Gross: $0.09M
9. 1971 (2014)
Unrated | 79 min | Documentary, History, Thriller
The story of a notorious 1971 activist burglary of an FBI office that led to the Bureau's numerous abuses against dissidents being exposed.
Director: Johanna Hamilton | Stars: Bonnie Raines, John Raines, Bob Williamson, Keith Forsyth
Votes: 915
10. Kruso (2018 TV Movie)
100 min | Drama
The young student Ed (Jonathan Berlin) wants to get out, leave everything behind. He finds refuge on the Baltic Island of Hiddensee, at a time when the GDR is in its last legs. Many have ... See full summary »
Director: Thomas Stuber | Stars: Albrecht Schuch, Jonathan Berlin, Andreas Leupold, Peter Schneider
Votes: 139
11. Santa & Andrés (2016)
105 min | Drama
The story of an improbable friendship between a revolutionary country girl and a noncompliant gay writer she has to watch over for three consecutive days.
Director: Carlos Lechuga | Stars: Lola Amores, Eduardo Martinez, Cesar Domínguez, Luna Tinoco
Votes: 233
12. Flucht in den Norden (1986)
117 min | Drama
A film based on Klaus Mann's novel about a woman's escape from Nazi Germany to Finland.
Director: Ingemo Engström | Stars: Katharina Thalbach, Jukka-Pekka Palo, Käbi Laretei, Lena Olin
Votes: 113
13. An Unsung Hero: Musine Kokalari (2017)
4 min | Short, History
Albanian writer and dissident Musine Kokalari stood trial before the military court in 1946, for supporting multi-party elections. The trial was transmitted live via loud speakers to the crowds outside. Her stoic stance is her legacy.
Director: Patrick Titley | Stars: George Blackman, Alice Lloyd-Davies
14. Black Roses (1937)
93 min | Drama
Russian ballerina falls in love with sculptor Esmond Knight, a political dissident with a price on his head.
Director: Paul Martin | Stars: Lilian Harvey, Esmond Knight, Robert Rendel, Dennis Hoey
Votes: 22
15. The Art of Dissent (2021)
105 min | Documentary
"The Art of Dissent" celebrates the resilience and power of artistic engagement in Czechoslovakia before and after the 1968 Soviet-led invasion. The documentary's main protagonists - Václav... See full synopsis »
Director: James Le Sueur | Stars: Timothy Garton Ash, Joan Bakewell, Shirley Bassey, Kamila Bendova
Votes: 15
17.
Miami Vice (1984–1989)
Episode:
Free Verse
(1986)
TV-14 | 48 min | Action, Crime, Drama
The team is assigned to protect a renowned poet who has come to the US seeking political asylum. With sexy Carmen in the mix, things get complicated.
Director: John Nicolella | Stars: Don Johnson, Philip Michael Thomas, Saundra Santiago, Michael Talbott
Votes: 428
18.
Mod Squad (1968–1973)
Episode:
The Exile
(1970)
TV-PG | 50 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Julie becomes romantically involved with a foreign exchange student from a Middle Eastern country which is in political turmoil, not knowing that he is actually the son of the country's ... See full summary »
Director: Robert Michael Lewis | Stars: Michael Cole, Clarence Williams III, Peggy Lipton, Tige Andrews
Votes: 38
19.
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (1993–1999)
Episode:
Profit and Loss
(1994)
TV-PG | 46 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
A Cardassian woman named Natima Lang, who was once a flame of Quark's, visits the station under dubious circumstances.
Director: Robert Wiemer | Stars: Avery Brooks, Rene Auberjonois, Alexander Siddig, Terry Farrell
Votes: 2,136
20.
Secrets of the Dead (2000– )
Episode:
Umbrella Assassin
(2006)
TV-PG | 56 min | Documentary, History, War
The mysteries behind the apparent Cold War murder of political dissident and author, Georgi Markov, a vocal anti-communist Bulgarian defector assassinated in London in 1979, are revealed.
Director: Mark Radice | Stars: Dimitar Botschev, Rufus Crompton, Ole Damkjær, Christopher Green
Votes: 29
21.
Detective De Luca (2008)
Episode:
Indagine non autorizzata
(2008)
110 min | Drama, War
At the seaside resort of Riccione in 1938 the body of a young prostitute is found on a beach, not far from Mussolini's holiday residence. The local chief of police, terrified that the news ... See full summary »
Director: Antonio Frazzi | Stars: Alessandro Preziosi, Kasia Smutniak, Rolando Ravello, Corrado Fortuna
Votes: 55
22.
Chicago Med (2015– )
Episode:
I Will Come to Save You
(2021)
TV-14 | Drama
Carol receives a second chance at life when a new heart becomes available. Ethan and Dean find themselves in hot water with an old patient. Will faces the consequences of the stolen trial medication.
Director: Michael Pressman | Stars: Nick Gehlfuss, Yaya DaCosta, Torrey DeVitto, Brian Tee
Votes: 256
23.
Father Brown (2013– )
Episode:
The Man in the Tree
(2013)
TV-PG | 45 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Lady Felicia finds an unconscious, stripped man in a tree, apparently having been thrown from a train passing on the viaduct above.
Director: Dominic Keavey | Stars: Nancy Carroll, Jonathan Sidgwick, Sorcha Cusack, Mark Williams
Votes: 485
24.
Part of the Problem (2018– )
The War on Dissidents
(2023 Podcast Episode)
News, Talk-Show
Stars: Dave Smith, Robbie Bernstein
25.
Tucker on X (2023– )
Episode:
The National Security State Is the Main Driver of Censorship and Election Interference in the United States.
(2024)
News
Mike Benz describes the military rule, The national security state is the main driver of censorship and election interference in the United States.
Stars: Tucker Carlson, Mike Benz
Votes: 17
26.
The Styxhexenhammer666 Channel (2010– )
Episode:
Internet Personas Are the New Scapegoat for Society: Moral Panic
(2018)
19 min | News
Styx predicts the Deep State will start coming after self-publishers, while whipping the public into a moral panic over internet personas.
Star: Styxhexenhammer666