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51. The Anarchists vs ISIS
Action, Drama | Announced
A group of American activists join forces with a Kurdish militia group to help defeat ISIS in Syria.
Director: Daniel Espinosa | Star: Jake Gyllenhaal
52. Amber: The Girl Behind the Alert (2023)
TV-PG | 92 min | Documentary, Crime
Amber Hagerman's mother details her daughter's shocking murder and shares chilling documentary footage that captures the 9-year-old's final days; Amber's legacy is an alert system that has saved over a thousand children.
Director: Elizabeth Fisher | Stars: Dee Anderson, Deanna Boyd, Rae-Leigh Bradbury, George W. Bush
Votes: 505
53. The Edukators (2004)
R | 127 min | Drama, Romance
Three activists cobble together a kidnapping plot after they encounter a businessman in his home.
Director: Hans Weingartner | Stars: Daniel Brühl, Julia Jentsch, Stipe Erceg, Burghart Klaußner
Votes: 32,396 | Gross: $0.18M
54. Paradise Lost 2: Revelations (2000 TV Movie)
Unrated | 130 min | Documentary, Crime
The case of the West Memphis Three, its questionable circumstances and the parties involved are followed up years later.
Directors: Joe Berlinger, Bruce Sinofsky | Stars: Damien Wayne Echols, Melissa Byers, Norris Deajon, Tim Sullivan
Votes: 9,677
55. Ukraine Is Not a Brothel (2013)
Not Rated | 78 min | Documentary, News
Ukraine's topless feminist sensation Femen has created a media frenzy across Europe, but before they take the world by storm, these bold and beautiful women must confront the dark and perverse forces that power their organisation.
Director: Kitty Green | Stars: Inna Shevchenko, Sasha Shevchenko, Anna Hutsol, Oksana Shachko
Votes: 542
56. The Internet's Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz (2014)
Not Rated | 105 min | Documentary, Biography, Crime
The story of programming prodigy and information activist Aaron Swartz, who took his own life at the age of 26.
Director: Brian Knappenberger | Stars: Aaron Swartz, Tim Berners-Lee, Cindy Cohn, Gabriella Coleman
Votes: 18,049 | Gross: $0.05M
57. The Solid Gold Cadillac (1956)
Approved | 99 min | Comedy, Romance
A minority stockholder takes on the crooked board of directors at a billion dollar corporation.
Director: Richard Quine | Stars: Judy Holliday, John Williams, Paul Douglas, Fred Clark
Votes: 2,291
58. School's Out (2018)
Not Rated | 104 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
A substitute teacher is put in charge of a class of future geniuses after their teacher commits suicide.
Director: Sébastien Marnier | Stars: Laurent Lafitte, Emmanuelle Bercot, Luàna Bajrami, Victor Bonnel
Votes: 3,121
59. Toppuresu (2008)
108 min | Comedy, Drama
The ever-lively and upbeat Natsuko tries to mend a broken heart by carrying on with a string of short-lived affairs after her break-up with Tomomi. But when Tomomi announces her plans to ... See full summary »
Director: Eiji Uchida | Stars: Mina Shimizu, Erika Okuda, Aya Ohmasa, Akifumi Uchida
Votes: 108
60. Racing Extinction (2015)
Not Rated | 90 min | Documentary, Adventure, News
A documentary that follows undercover activists trying to stave off a man-made mass extinction.
Director: Louie Psihoyos | Stars: Elon Musk, Joel Sartore, Louie Psihoyos, Charles Hambleton
Votes: 8,205
61. Mariposas Verdes (2017)
101 min | Drama
Mateo an intelligent and popular school-boy falls in love with Daniel, but when that relationship is made public, Mateo is at a crossroads, and will have to decide between fighting his adversaries, or giving up everything.
Director: Gustavo Nieto Roa | Stars: Deivi Duarte, Kevin Bury, Cecilia Suárez, Maria Helena Doering
Votes: 717
62. The Architect (2006)
R | 82 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
An architect engages in conflict with an activist who lives in a dangerous complex the architect designed.
Director: Matt Tauber | Stars: Anthony LaPaglia, Viola Davis, Isabella Rossellini, Hayden Panettiere
Votes: 1,392 | Gross: $0.01M
63. I Am Greta (2020)
TV-14 | 97 min | Documentary, Biography
The documentary follows Greta Thunberg, a teenage climate activist from Sweden, on her international crusade to get people to listen to scientists about the world's environmental problems.
Director: Nathan Grossman | Stars: Greta Thunberg, Svante Thunberg, Niclas Svenningsen, António Guterres
Votes: 8,389
64. Children of the Revolution (1996)
R | 101 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Few knew that Stalin spent his last night in the arms of a young Australian woman. Few still knew that their "love-child" brought Australia to the brink of civil war. Until now.
Director: Peter Duncan | Stars: Judy Davis, Sam Neill, F. Murray Abraham, Richard Roxburgh
Votes: 2,428 | Gross: $0.83M
65. Woke (2017–2018)
Drama
The series describes the abundant, colorful world and the every day life of several engaging and passionate activists who run a Lesbian, Gay, Bi and Trans Center.
Stars: Mehdi Meskar, Éric Pucheu, Denis D'Arcangelo, Claudine Charreyre
Votes: 296
66. Aruanas (2019–2021)
60 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Three friends leading a nonprofit organisation investigate environmental crimes in the Amazon involving a major mining company.
Stars: Débora Falabella, Taís Araújo, Leandra Leal, Thainá Duarte
Votes: 268
67. Walkout (2006 TV Movie)
TV-14 | 110 min | Drama
A teacher becomes a mentor to Chicano high-school students protesting injustices in schools in 1968.
Director: Edward James Olmos | Stars: Alexa PenaVega, Michael Peña, Yancey Arias, Laura Harring
Votes: 1,577
68. The Garden Left Behind (2019)
88 min | Drama
A young Mexican trans woman and her grandmother navigate life as undocumented immigrants in New York City.
Director: Flavio Alves | Stars: Michael Madsen, Edward Asner, Carlie Guevara, Danny Flaherty
Votes: 624
69. Aftershock (2022)
TV-MA | 86 min | Documentary
Following the deaths of two young women due to childbirth complications, two bereaved families galvanize activists, birth-workers and physicians to reckon with one of the most pressing American crises today: the US maternal health crisis.
Directors: Paula Eiselt, Tonya Lewis Lee | Stars: Helena Grant, Twila Miles, Neel Shah
Votes: 371
70. The Giants (2023)
110 min | Documentary, Animation, Biography
The Giants explores the intertwined fates of trees and humans in this poetic portrait of environmentalist Bob Brown and the Forest. From a seedling to forest elder: the film is a ... See full summary »
Directors: Rachael Antony, Rachel Antony, Laurence Billiet | Star: Bob Brown
Votes: 98
71. Perfect Strangers (1984)
R | 91 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A hit-man tries to seduce the mother of a child who witnessed his most recent kill.
Director: Larry Cohen | Stars: Anne Carlisle, Brad Rijn, John Woehrle, Matthew Stockley
Votes: 581
72. Carnage (2017)
68 min | Comedy
It's 2067, the U.K. is vegan, but older generations are suffering the guilt of their carnivorous past. Writer and Director Simon Amstell asks us to forgive them for the horrors of what they swallowed.
Director: Simon Amstell | Stars: Racheal Ofori, Myles Sembi, Robert Wilde, Alex Lawther
Votes: 1,563
73. Gregory's Two Girls (1999)
116 min | Comedy
Bill Forsyth returns to the romantic comedy of 'Gregory's Girl.' 20 years after his teenage crush on a football-mad schoolgirl, Gregory is back at his old school, teaching English. When two... See full summary »
Director: Bill Forsyth | Stars: Carly McKinnon, John Gordon Sinclair, John Murtagh, Hugh McCue
Votes: 650
74. An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power (2017)
PG | 98 min | Documentary
A decade after An Inconvenient Truth (2006) brought climate change to the heart of popular culture, the follow-up shows just how close we are to a real energy revolution.
Directors: Bonni Cohen, Jon Shenk | Stars: Al Gore, Cory Booker, George W. Bush, Bill Clinton
Votes: 8,365 | Gross: $3.50M
75. Marianne & Juliane (1981)
106 min | Drama
Two sisters both fight for women's rights. Juliane is a journalist and Marianne a terrorist. When Marianne is jailed, Juliane feels obligated to help her despite their differing views on how to live.
Director: Margarethe von Trotta | Stars: Jutta Lampe, Barbara Sukowa, Rüdiger Vogler, Doris Schade
Votes: 2,639
76. Time (I) (2020)
PG-13 | 81 min | Documentary, Biography
Fox Rich fights for the release of her husband, Rob, who is serving a 60-year sentence in prison.
Director: Garrett Bradley | Stars: Sibil Fox Richardson, Robert G. Richardson, Mahlik Richardson, Remington B. Richardson
Votes: 6,307
77. The French Detective (1975)
91 min | Crime, Drama
Two policemen risk of interfering with a corrupt politician.
Director: Pierre Granier-Deferre | Stars: Lino Ventura, Patrick Dewaere, Victor Lanoux, Julien Guiomar
Votes: 1,861
78. Freedom Riders (2010)
Not Rated | 117 min | Documentary, History
The story of the Civil Rights Movement interstate busing protest campaign.
Director: Stanley Nelson | Stars: Raymond Arsenault, Genevieve Houghton, Gordon Carey, Derek Catsam
Votes: 429
79. The Cleaners (2018)
88 min | Documentary
A look at the shadowy underworld of the Internet where questionable content is removed.
Directors: Hans Block, Moritz Riesewieck | Stars: Mark Zuckerberg, Donald Trump, Nicole Wong, Sarah T. Roberts
Votes: 1,829
80. The Weather Underground (2002)
Unrated | 92 min | Documentary, History, War
The remarkable story of The Weather Underground, radical activists of the 1970s, and of radical politics at its best and most disastrous.
Directors: Sam Green, Bill Siegel | Stars: Lili Taylor, Pamela Z, Jim Lange, Evan White
Votes: 3,771 | Gross: $0.56M
81. The King of the Cattle (1996–1997)
60 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance
The enmity between two rancher families in territorial dispute, and the forbidden love between a drover and a landless, mysterious woman with no past.
Stars: Vanusa Spindler, Antônio Fagundes, Glória Pires, Patricia Pillar
Votes: 756
82. Jeanne and the Perfect Guy (1998)
Unrated | 105 min | Drama, Musical, Romance
Jeanne has an appetite for love that can never be satisfied. Lovers at every corner of her life she is still in search of that "one". When a impromptu tryst on the subway with Olivier gives... See full summary »
Directors: Olivier Ducastel, Jacques Martineau | Stars: Virginie Ledoyen, Mathieu Demy, Jacques Bonnaffé, Valérie Bonneton
Votes: 784 | Gross: $0.01M
83. Accidental Activist (2013)
Not Rated | 58 min | Drama, Horror
Ted and Lynn Murphy lead a simple life. But when Ted signs a petition, Ted and his wife become the focus of local protect that threatens not only to destroy their business but to suffocate their religious freedom as well.
Director: Duane Barnhart | Stars: Larry Bukovey, Kristin Wollett, David Mackey, Hannah Malone
Votes: 153
84. Prohibition (2011)
60 min | Documentary, History
The story of the American activist struggle against the influence of alcohol, climaxing in the failed early 20th century nationwide era when it was banned.
Stars: Peter Coyote, Pete Hamill, Catherine Gilbert Murdock, Michael Lerner
Votes: 3,433
85. Rosa Luxemburg (1986)
Not Rated | 122 min | Biography, Drama, History
After years of political agitation, Rosa Luxemburg, Karl Liebknecht, and Leo Jogiches form a revolutionary German party, the Spartacists.
Director: Margarethe von Trotta | Stars: Barbara Sukowa, Daniel Olbrychski, Otto Sander, Adelheid Arndt
Votes: 1,926
86. The New Corporation: The Unfortunately Necessary Sequel (2020)
105 min | Documentary
Exposes how companies are desperately rebranding as socially responsible - and how that threatens democratic freedoms.
Directors: Jennifer Abbott, Joel Bakan | Stars: Anjali Appadurai, Chris Barrett, Heidi Boghosian, Wendy Brown
Votes: 650
87. Reel Injun (2009)
Not Rated | 85 min | Documentary, Western
The history of the depiction of Native Americans in Hollywood films.
Directors: Neil Diamond, Catherine Bainbridge, Jeremiah Hayes | Stars: Adam Beach, Chris Eyre, Russell Means, John Trudell
Votes: 1,653
88. It Is Not the Homosexual Who Is Perverse, But the Society in Which He Lives (1971)
67 min | Documentary, Drama
A harsh but deeply sympathetic sociological essay film about gay life in Berlin in a time of secrecy and oppression, with no diegetic sound and constant narration, following Daniel's unsatisfying immersion into gay society.
Director: Rosa von Praunheim | Stars: Bernd Feuerhelm, Berryt Bohlen, Ernst Kuchling, Volker Eschke
Votes: 574
89. Dracula Blows His Cool (1979)
R | 90 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
A descendant of the famous vampire gets a job as a photographer shooting beautiful fashion models at the family estate. Being around so much naked and semi-naked flesh has the expected effect on him.
Director: Carl Schenkel | Stars: Gianni Garko, Betty Vergès, Bea Fiedler, Giacomo Rizzo
Votes: 197
90. Believer (I) (2018)
TV-14 | 101 min | Documentary, Music
Believer.
Director: Don Argott | Stars: Dan Reynolds, Aja Volkman, Ben McKee, Daniel Platzman
Votes: 941
91. Taking Chances (2009)
R | 99 min | Comedy
A troubled town is having an Indian casino built on a historic battlefield. Chase, working at the town museum, opposes it. He meets the cute Lucy. They start a petition against the casino.
Director: Talmage Cooley | Stars: Justin Long, Emmanuelle Chriqui, Rob Corddry, Keir O'Donnell
Votes: 1,449
92. For the Bible Tells Me So (2007)
Unrated | 95 min | Documentary, Romance
An exploration of the intersection between religion and homosexuality in the U.S. and how the religious right has used its interpretation of the Bible to stigmatize the gay community.
Director: Daniel G. Karslake | Stars: Imogene Robinson, Victor Robinson, Gene Robinson, Isabella 'Boo' McDaniel
Votes: 4,524 | Gross: $0.31M
93. The Yes Men (2003)
R | 83 min | Documentary, Comedy
Anti-corporate activists travel from conference to conference, impersonating member of the World Trade Organization.
Directors: Dan Ollman, Sarah Price, Chris Smith | Stars: Andreas Bichlbauer, Mike Bonanno, Andy Bichlbaum, Michael Moore
Votes: 6,180 | Gross: $0.20M
94. Katherine (1975 TV Movie)
TV-14 | 97 min | Drama
A harrowing look at the 1960s and early 1970s through the eyes of Katherine Alman, a wealthy debutante who slowly, but inexorably spirals down into a fight for the causes that shook a nation, leading a path to the underground life.
Director: Jeremy Kagan | Stars: Art Carney, Sissy Spacek, Henry Winkler, Julie Kavner
Votes: 424
95. Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media (1992)
Not Rated | 167 min | Documentary, Biography, War
A film about the noted American linguist/political dissident and his warning about corporate media's role in modern propaganda.
Directors: Mark Achbar, Peter Wintonick | Stars: Noam Chomsky, Mark Achbar, Karin Aguilar-San Juan, Paul Andrews
Votes: 4,942
96. Poly Styrene: I Am a Cliché (2021)
96 min | Documentary, Biography, Music
The death of punk icon and X-Ray Spex front-woman Poly Styrene sends her daughter on a journey through her mother's archives in this intimate documentary.
Directors: Celeste Bell, Paul Sng | Stars: Celeste Bell, Poly Styrene, X-Ray Spex, Hazel Emmons
Votes: 725
97. Bigger Than Us (II) (2021)
95 min | Documentary
Melati Wijsen travels the world to meet young activists who have already helped the world with their perseverance and selflessness.
Director: Flore Vasseur | Stars: Greta Thunberg, Rene Silva, Melati Wijsen, Mohamad Al Jounde
Votes: 176
98. The Dreamlife of Georgie Stone (2022)
PG | 27 min | Documentary, Short, Biography
Sharing her journey from child to teen activist, Georgie Stone looks back at her life and historic fight for transgender rights in this documentary.
Director: Maya Newell | Stars: Georgie Stone, Rebekah Robertson, Greg Stone, Harry Stone
Votes: 357
99. Mur murs (1981)
80 min | Documentary
Agnes Varda's documentary on murals in Los Angeles.
Director: Agnès Varda | Stars: Juliet Berto, Agnès Varda, Judy Baca, Terry Schoonhoven
Votes: 1,141
100. The Battle of the Sexes (2013)
PG-13 | 83 min | Documentary, Biography, History
A look at the events leading up to the 1973 tennis match between retired men's champ Bobby Riggs and the current women's Wimbledon winner Billie Jean King.
Directors: James Erskine, Zara Hayes | Stars: Billie Jean King, Virginia Wade, Lornie Kuhle, Bobby Wilson
Votes: 725