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1. Quantum of Solace (2008)
PG-13 | 106 min | Action, Adventure, Mystery
James Bond descends into mystery as he tries to stop an organisation from eliminating a country's most valuable resource.
Director: Marc Forster | Stars: Daniel Craig, Olga Kurylenko, Mathieu Amalric, Judi Dench
Votes: 471,805 | Gross: $168.37M
2. Mary Queen of Scots (2018)
R | 124 min | Biography, Drama, History
Mary Stuart's (Saoirse Ronan's) attempt to overthrow her cousin Elizabeth I (Margot Robbie), Queen of England, finds her condemned to years of imprisonment before facing execution.
Director: Josie Rourke | Stars: Saoirse Ronan, Margot Robbie, Jack Lowden, Joe Alwyn
Votes: 55,494 | Gross: $16.47M
3. Persepolis (2007)
PG-13 | 96 min | Animation, Biography, Drama
A precocious and outspoken Iranian girl grows up during the Islamic Revolution.
Directors: Vincent Paronnaud, Marjane Satrapi | Stars: Chiara Mastroianni, Catherine Deneuve, Gena Rowlands, Danielle Darrieux
Votes: 100,393 | Gross: $4.45M
4. Cold War (2018)
R | 89 min | Drama, Music, Romance
In the 1950s, a music director falls in love with a singer and tries to persuade her to flee communist Poland for France.
Director: Pawel Pawlikowski | Stars: Joanna Kulig, Tomasz Kot, Borys Szyc, Agata Kulesza
Votes: 62,055 | Gross: $4.57M
5. Senso (1954)
Not Rated | 123 min | Drama, Romance, War
An Italian Countess is allied with Nationalists during the Italian-Austrian war of unification. However, she risks betraying their cause when she falls in love with an Austrian lieutenant.
Director: Luchino Visconti | Stars: Farley Granger, Alida Valli, Massimo Girotti, Heinz Moog
Votes: 7,548 | Gross: $0.03M
6. The Young Karl Marx (2017)
Not Rated | 118 min | Biography, Drama, History
The early years of Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels and Jenny Marx, between Paris, Brussels and London.
Director: Raoul Peck | Stars: August Diehl, Stefan Konarske, Vicky Krieps, Olivier Gourmet
Votes: 7,300 | Gross: $0.13M
7. The Fighting Kentuckian (1949)
Passed | 100 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance
In 1818 Alabama, French settlers are pitted against greedy land-grabber Blake Randolph but Kentucky militiaman John Breen, who's smitten with French gal Fleurette De Marchand, comes to the settlers' aid.
Director: George Waggner | Stars: John Wayne, Vera Ralston, Philip Dorn, Oliver Hardy
Votes: 3,606
8. Soldier of Fortune (1955)
Approved | 96 min | Adventure, Crime, Drama
After Jane Hoyt's journalist husband disappears, she arrives in Hong Kong determined to find him but instead meets shady shipping magnate Hank Lee.
Director: Edward Dmytryk | Stars: Clark Gable, Susan Hayward, Michael Rennie, Gene Barry
Votes: 1,732
9. Christ Stopped at Eboli (1979)
150 min | Drama
A doctor in Fascist Italy is exiled to a remote village for his political views.
Director: Francesco Rosi | Stars: Gian Maria Volontè, Paolo Bonacelli, Alain Cuny, Lea Massari
Votes: 2,749 | Gross: $0.07M
10. Rhino Season (2012)
88 min | Drama, Thriller
Kurdish-Iranian poet Sahel has just been released from a thirty-year prison sentence in Iran. Now the one thing keeping him going is the thought of finding his wife, who thinks him dead for over twenty years.
Director: Bahman Ghobadi | Stars: Behrouz Vossoughi, Monica Bellucci, Yilmaz Erdogan, Caner Cindoruk
Votes: 7,310
11. Freddy (2023)
109 min | Biography, Drama
The life of Dominican comedian, writer, TV producer and philanthropist Freddy Beras-Goico.
Director: Giancarlo Beras-Goico | Stars: Héctor Aníbal, Ruairi Rhodes, Juan Luis Guerra, Pepe Sierra
Votes: 43
12. Heroes for Sale (1933)
Passed | 76 min | Drama, Romance, War
A veteran fights drug addiction to make his way in the business world.
Director: William A. Wellman | Stars: Loretta Young, Richard Barthelmess, Aline MacMahon, Gordon Westcott
Votes: 2,522
13. Napoleon (1955)
190 min | Biography, Drama, War
Napoléon Bonaparte's life, loves and exceptional destiny from 1769 to 1821, but as seen through the eyes of Talleyrand, the cynical and ironic politician who once was the Emperor of France's Minister of Foreign Affairs.
Director: Sacha Guitry | Stars: Jean-Pierre Aumont, Jeanne Boitel, Pierre Brasseur, Gianna Maria Canale
Votes: 618
14. Clandestine Childhood (2011)
Not Rated | 112 min | Drama
Juan lives in clandestinity. Just like his mum, his dad and his adored uncle Beto, outside his home he has another name. At school, Juan is known as Ernesto. And he meets María, who only ... See full summary »
Director: Benjamín Ávila | Stars: Ernesto Alterio, Natalia Oreiro, César Troncoso, Teo Gutiérrez Moreno
Votes: 2,694 | Gross: $0.01M
15. The Cold Summer of 1953 (1988)
101 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Former political inmates Sergei and Nikolai live as exiles in a remote Siberian village. After the general Soviet gulag amnesty of 1953 8 pardoned common criminals terrorize the inhabitants.
Director: Aleksandr Proshkin | Stars: Valeriy Priyomykhov, Anatoliy Papanov, Viktor Stepanov, Nina Usatova
Votes: 2,563
16. Counterforce (1988)
R | 98 min | Action, Drama
A team of specialists is dispatched to protect the leader of a Middle Eastern country from a neighboring dictator who has designs on his country.
Director: José Antonio de la Loma | Stars: Jorge Rivero, George Kennedy, Andrew Stevens, Isaac Hayes
Votes: 176
17. Our Brand Is Crisis (2005)
Unrated | 85 min | Documentary
A documentary on American political campaign marketing tactics and their consequences.
Director: Rachel Boynton | Stars: Mauricio Balcazar, James Carville, Tad Devine, Stanley Greenberg
Votes: 640 | Gross: $0.17M
18. La faute à Fidel! (2006)
Unrated | 99 min | Drama
A 9-year-old girl weathers big changes in her household as her parents become radical political activists in 1970-71 Paris.
Director: Julie Gavras | Stars: Nina Kervel-Bey, Julie Depardieu, Stefano Accorsi, Benjamin Feuillet
Votes: 5,210 | Gross: $0.17M
19. Roads to the South (1978)
100 min | Drama
The story of an exiled Spanish revolutionary, now a successful screenwriter, dangerously drawn back to his homeland and the "good fight" for freedom from fascism.
Director: Joseph Losey | Stars: Yves Montand, Miou-Miou, Laurent Malet, France Lambiotte
Votes: 253
20. On the Beaches (2019)
18 min | Short, Drama
England, 1933. Runaway siblings Kitty and David's game of soldiers takes a surprising turn when they find their clifftop hideout occupied by Jewish refugee Albert Einstein.
Director: Luke Rodgers | Stars: Bella Ramsey, Toby Woolf, Nicholas Woodeson, Simon Paisley Day
Votes: 30
21. Malas temporadas (2005)
115 min | Drama
Gonzalo is in the middle of an exam. He doesn't care if he fails or passes, he doesn't care if his mother gets angry, even though that's what he wants. He doesn't like what's around him and has decided that his world is going to stop.
Director: Manuel Martín Cuenca | Stars: Yolanda Serrano, Gonzalo Pedrosa, Nathalie Poza, Xosé Manuel Esperante
Votes: 335
22. Salvador Allende (2004)
Not Rated | 100 min | Documentary, Biography
From his childhood in Valparaiso to his death during the Pinochet military coup on September 11, 1973, the life and works of Chilean president Salvador Allende.
Director: Patricio Guzmán | Stars: Salvador Allende, Patricio Guzmán, Jacques Bidou, Alejandro Gonzáles
Votes: 770
23. Ferestadeh (1983)
103 min | Drama
An Iranian assassin is sent to the United States to kill a former Iranian official who served under the Shah of Iran. The night before the assassination he find out that his target (Mr. ... See full summary »
Director: Parviz Sayyad | Stars: Parviz Sayyad, Mary Apick, Houshang Touzie, Saeed Rajai
Votes: 238
24. Maryam (2002)
Not Rated | 87 min | Drama
An Iranian-born teenager living in suburban New Jersey thinks of herself as simply an American until anti-Iranian sentiment erupts in her community after American hostages are held in Iran.
Director: Ramin Serry | Stars: Mariam Parris, David Ackert, Shaun Toub, Shohreh Aghdashloo
Votes: 299 | Gross: $0.10M
25. Guests of Hotel Astoria (1989)
124 min | Drama
Tale of a group of Iranian families, fleeing from Iran to Turkey in order to seek asylum from Turkey to some Western European country or USA. The movie shows the hardship and very sad days ... See full summary »
Director: Reza Allamehzadeh | Stars: Shohreh Aghdashloo, Marshall Manesh, Mohsen Marzban, Alan Desatti
Votes: 92
26. El Che (2017)
119 min | Documentary, Biography, History
Director: Matías Gueilburt | Stars: Paco Ignacio Taibo II, Horacio López, Carlos 'Calica' Ferrer, Carlos Soria Galvarro
Votes: 17
27. Diálogos de exiliados (1975)
100 min | Comedy, Drama
Chilean exiles in Paris discuss the problems facing them in the early years of the Pinochet regime. They kidnap and attempt to reeducate a touring singer from their homeland.
Director: Raúl Ruiz | Stars: Daniel Gélin, Françoise Arnoul, Huguette Faget, Sergio Hernández
Votes: 178
28. The Blue Exile (1993)
108 min | Biography, Drama
Cevat Sakir is an exile punished for publishing an article regarding that government executed deserters from army, subsequently he was sent to Bodrum where he realized Bodrum is a heavenly ... See full summary »
Director: Erden Kiral | Stars: Kürsat Alniaçik, Mevlüt Demiryay, Suavi Eren, Halil Ergün
Votes: 197
29. Public Enemy Number One (1981)
60 min | Documentary, Biography, War
Director: David Bradbury | Stars: Wilfred Burchett, Richard Oxenburgh, David Bradbury, Ross Symonds
Votes: 13
30. Acta General de Chile (1986)
240 min | Documentary
In 1985, exiled director Miguel Littin returned clandestinely to Pinochet's Chile to make this documentary about the socio-political reality of the country.
Director: Miguel Littin | Stars: Hortensia Allende, Salvador Allende, Fidel Castro, Joan Garcés
Votes: 46
31. For Liberty (1979)
111 min | Documentary
A documentary on last days of Shah's regime, the event ensued after the arson of cinema Rex in Abadan, which lead to final victory of 1979 revolution.
Director: Hossein Torabi | Stars: Shapour Bakhtiar, Mehdi Bazargan, Mohammad Beheshti, Mehdi Eraqi
Votes: 84
32. Sly (2018)
88 min | Comedy, Drama
Ghodrat Samadi wants to become a member of parliament, but he has a reputation for recklessness and taking arbitrary action. Deciding his best course of action is negotiating with assorted ... See full summary »
Director: Kamal Tabrizi | Stars: Hamed Behdad, Vishka Asayesh, Azadeh Samadi, Mani Haghighi
Votes: 775
33. Secretos (2008)
85 min | Comedy
What kind of secrets is this film talking about? There is a bit of everything: murder, robbery and treason. With seriousness and a dash of humour, Secretos reveals how, after a decades-long... See full summary »
Director: Valeria Sarmiento | Stars: Claudia Di Girólamo, Sergio Hernández, Álvaro Espinoza, Marcial Edwards
Votes: 71
34. A dos aguas (1987)
79 min | Drama
Buenos Aires, December 1983, Christmas Eve. Rey and Isabel, two old college buddies bump into each other at a restaurant. It has been fifteen years since last saw each other.
Director: Carlos Olguin-Trelawny | Stars: Miguel Ángel Solá, Bárbara Mujica, Cipe Lincovsky, Aldo Braga
Votes: 24
35. Antistrofi metrisi (1984)
94 min | Drama
Director: Panos Papakyriakopoulos | Stars: Giannis Voglis, Kitty Arseni, Kostas Koukios, Nikos Papakonstantinou
36. The Tree That Remembers (2002)
Not Rated | 50 min | Documentary
In 1992, a young Iranian student hanged himself on the outskirts of a small Ontario town. Having escaped the Ayatollah's regime and found a new home in Canada, he could not escape his past.... See full summary »
Director: Masoud Raouf | Stars: Niousha Farahi, Reza Gahfari, Shirin Ghanbari, Shokoufeh Sakhi
Votes: 26
37. Sotelo (1976)
15 min | Documentary, Short
A documentary on the exiled Chilean painter Sotelo which focuses on the painter's voice rather than the paintings themselves.
Director: Raúl Ruiz | Star: Raúl Sotomayor Sotelo
38. March Caresses (1990)
89 min | Drama
Young people in Poland of the late 1960s have to face life-changing dilemmas and make tough choices. Some of them are forced to leave their country for having Jewish origins. Others are persecuted for political reasons.
Director: Radoslaw Piwowarski | Stars: Malgorzata Piorun, Monika Bolly, Robert Kowalski, Robert Gonera
Votes: 122
40. Non è mai passato (2018)
20 min | Short, Adventure, Fantasy
Ludovico, a normal city boy, on his 18th birthday discovers that he had a previous life, and was reincarnated. Shortly thereafter, he learns that he had a task to accomplish.
Director: Christian Orlandi | Stars: Christian Orlandi, Alessandro Nannini, Giacomo Laudato, Luca Lasiu
Votes: 11
41.
American Experience (1987– )
Episode:
The Duel
(2000)
TV-PG | Documentary, Biography, History
This episode analyzes the reasons for and the consequences of the duel between Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr.
Director: Carl Byker | Stars: Rene Auberjonois, Guy Boyd, Keith de Brunner, Brian Dennehy
Votes: 29
42.
Robotech (1985)
Episode:
Paradise Lost
(1985)
TV-Y7 | 24 min | Animation, Action, Adventure
After the disaster in Ontario, the SDF-1 is ordered to launch into space as a practical exile. The three Zentraedi spies return and report, sparking curiosity about Micronian mores and music, Minmei in particular.
Director: Ippei Kuri | Stars: Robert Axelrod, Bill Capizzi, Frank Catalano, Cam Clarke
Votes: 48
43.
Bones (2005–2017)
Episode:
The Bod in the Pod
(2012)
TV-14 | 44 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
The Jeffersonian team investigates the death of a crime scene cleanup expert whose remains are found mysteriously sealed in an impenetrable pod that washed up on the beach. Meanwhile, ... See full summary »
Director: Tim Southam | Stars: Emily Deschanel, David Boreanaz, Michaela Conlin, Tamara Taylor
Votes: 869
44.
60 Minutes (1968– )
Episode:
The Capital of Free Russia/Healing Justice
(2024)
TV-PG | News
Vladimir Putin's political opponents flee to Vilnius, Lithuania; a rape victim learns years after her attack that an innocent man was sent to prison.
Stars: Mantas Adomenas, Sergei Davidis, Tatyana Felgenhauer, Scott Pelley
Votes: 13
45. Putinin myrkkyä paossa (2024 TV Movie)
49 min | Documentary
Director: Marko Lönnqvist | Star: Elena Kostyuchenko
46.
Trotsky (2017)
Episode:
Episode #1.1
(2017)
45 min | Biography, Drama, History
1940, Mexico. Leon Trotsky, one of the leaders of the Russian revolution, is certain that Stalin will try to assassinate him. He decides to share his story with a young journalist, starting with how he adopted the surname Trotsky.
Directors: Aleksandr Kott, Konstantin Statskiy | Stars: Konstantin Khabenskiy, Mikhail Porechenkov, Maksim Matveev, Evgeniy Stychkin
Votes: 106