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51. Katips (2021)
142 min | Crime, Drama, History
A tale of the young, in their fight for their ideals, how big can one get against a force too much bigger than yourself?
Director: Vince Tañada | Stars: Afi Africa, OJ Arci, Joshua Bulot, Mon Confiado
Votes: 3,686
52. In the Name of the Son (2012)
80 min | Drama
Quand une femme de foi, animatrice d'une tribune sur une station de radio catholique, dévouée à sa famille et la souffrance du monde, est confrontée à la pédophilie des prêtres et au ... See full synopsis »
Director: Vincent Lannoo | Stars: Astrid Whettnall, Philippe Nahon, Achille Ridolfi, Albert Chassagne-Baradat
Votes: 391
53. A Mother Brings Her Son to Be Shot (2017)
84 min | Documentary
One night, Majella O'Donnell took her teenage son Philly to be shot in both legs. Majella, Philly, and his shooters all live in an extraordinary community in Derry, Northern Ireland. 'The ... See full summary »
Director: Sinéad O'Shea
Votes: 103
54. Heroes in Chains Vol. 2: Deadly Interrogation (2007)
36 min | Short, Action, War
A paramilitary group has captured a CIA operative spying on them. Taken to a secluded location, a prisoner will be subjected to all types of torture.
Director: Alan Smithee | Stars: Lance Lyman, Mark Johnson, Sam Tyson, Rob Powers
Votes: 6
55. Arkan's Legacy: The Serbian Mafia (2018 TV Movie)
Documentary
Directors: Olivia Mokiejewski, Jérôme Pierrat | Stars: Milomir Maric, Mile Novakovic, Borislav Pelevic, Zeljko Raznatovic
Votes: 21
56. Wackersdorf (2018)
123 min | Drama, History
District of Schwandorf, Upper Palatinate, in the 1980s. The Bavarian state government is quietly planning to build a nuclear reprocessing plant (WAA). The structurally weak region with ... See full summary »
Director: Oliver Haffner | Stars: August Zirner, Johannes Zeiler, Anna Maria Sturm, Frederic Linkemann
Votes: 537
57. The Suspect (1998)
109 min | Action, Crime, Thriller
Louis Koo plays an assassin who wants to go straight after getting out of prison, so he turns down a job from his former employer Simon Yam to kill a politician. Yam carries out the hit himself and manages to frame Koo for the crime.
Director: Ringo Lam | Stars: Eric Moo, Simon Yam, Louis Koo, Julian Cheung
Votes: 281
58. Nightmare at Bittercreek (1988 TV Movie)
PG-13 | 100 min | Action, Thriller
Four women play a terrifying game of cat and mouse when they encounter a Neo-Nazi hideout while making a trip through the Sierra Mountans.
Director: Tim Burstall | Stars: Lindsay Wagner, Tom Skerritt, Constance McCashin, Joanna Cassidy
Votes: 288
59. Unquiet Graves (2018)
75 min | Documentary
This feature-length documentary investigates the role the British government played in the murder of over 120 civilians in Counties Armagh and Tyrone from July 1972 to 1978.
Director: Sean A Murray | Stars: Chris Patrick-Simpson, Patrick Buchanan, Chris McMahon, Andrew McNeill
Votes: 102
60. Alias Maria (2015)
TV-MA | 91 min | Drama, War
A vision of Colombia's inhuman armed conflict, seen through the eyes of a young - and pregnant - girl soldier.
Director: José Luis Rugeles | Stars: Carlos Clavijo, Anderson Gomez, Carmenza González, Lola Lagos
Votes: 401
61. Beyond the Myth: The SS Unveiled (2022– )
Documentary, History, War
It showcases the twisted motivations and origins of the SS (the Schutzstaffel), which was Nazi Germany's paramilitary unit that was a key architect of the Holocaust.
Stars: Richard John Evans, Bastian Hein, James Newton, Alexandra Richie
Votes: 17
62. Yellow Wasps (1995)
69 min | Documentary
The story of the Yellow Wasps, a Serbian paramilitary unit operating in Bosnia in 1992, and the crimes they committed in Eastern Bosnia provides frightening insights into the microcosm of the "Ethnic Cleansing" campaign.
Director: Ilan Ziv | Stars: Jovan Dulovic, Lawrence Eagleburger, Ibrahim Effendic, John Fox
63. Völkische Siedler - Schattenwelten auf dem Land (2017 TV Movie)
44 min | Documentary
Structurally weak and sparsely populated regions of Germany, especially in the north, such as Mecklenburg Switzerland, attract a very special form of ideologically extreme right-wing ... See full summary »
Directors: Marijke Engel, Detlev Konnerth | Stars: Lutz Bachmann, Heidi Benneckenstein, Alice Blum, Gideon Botsch
64. Granitsa. Tayozhnyy roman (2000)
53 min | Crime, Romance
The series is about three different Soviet families of military personnel, but the plot is based on the so-called "love triangle" - the line of relations between Ivan, Marina and her legal husband Nikita.
Stars: Aleksey Guskov, Marat Basharov, Olga Budina, Elena Panova
Votes: 587
65. Hitler's Coup 1923 (2023 TV Special)
Documentary, History
In 1923, Adolf Hitler led the infamous Beer Hall Putsch, an attempt to take power in Germany by force. It was a day that changed the world forever, birthing Hitler's regime.
Directors: Dominic Saville, Lyndy Saville | Stars: Giles Milton, Clare Mulley, Nicholas O'Shaughnessy, Richard John Evans
66. Paper Dove (2003)
90 min | Drama
Juan, a young man convicted of terrorism, is given amnesty from a Lima prison; he boards a bus to return home and, in his mind's eye, recalls events in his village near Huaraz when he was ... See full summary »
Director: Fabrizio Aguilar | Stars: Antonio Callirgos, Eduardo Cesti, Aristóteles Picho, Liliana Trujillo
Votes: 381
67. The Man on the Shore (1993)
106 min | Drama, History, War
Haiti during papa Doc's reign: not a fun place!
Director: Raoul Peck | Stars: Jennifer Zubar, Toto Bissainthe, Patrick Rameau, Jean-Michel Martial
Votes: 132
68. The Secret Government: The Constitution in Crisis (1987 TV Movie)
90 min | Documentary, History, War
This special report by Bill Moyers illustrates and evidences about the contradictions revolving U.S. government when it comes to actually follow and obey the Constitution and its rulings. ... See full summary »
Stars: Scott Armstrong, Richard Bissell, Jackson Browne, Carl Channel
Votes: 39
69. Nad Tissoy (1958)
Not Rated | 84 min | Thriller
The story of the exposure of a foreign intelligence agent who came under suspicion of vigilant collective farmers and law enforcement officials.
Director: Dmitriy Vasilev | Stars: Afanasi Kochetkov, Tatyana Konyukhova, Nina Nikitina, Andrei Goncharov
Votes: 73
70. The Algerian War, 1954-1962 (1984)
280 min | Documentary, History, War
The Algerian War was a momentous struggle for independence from France by Algerian nationalists between 1954 and 1962. This eight-year conflict caused the fall of six French Prime Ministers... See full summary »
Star: Jim Norton
Votes: 17
71. WAAhnsinn - Der Wackersdorf-Film (1986)
94 min | Documentary, Music
A report on the fifth anti-WAAhnsinns festival, which took place in Burglengenfeld on July 26 and 27, 1986, just 90 days after the Chernobyl disaster. The festival marked the high point of ... See full summary »
Directors: Helge Cramer, Uwe Heitkamp, Michael Herl, Christian Wagner | Stars: Wolfgang Ambros, BAP, Biermösl Blosn, Heinz-Josef Braun
Votes: 12
72. Král Sumavy (1959)
90 min | Crime, Drama
A communist film about Czechoslovak border guards in the late 1940s and their struggle against smugglers and refugees.
Director: Karel Kachyna | Stars: Radovan Lukavský, Jirí Vala, Jirina Svorcová, Stanislav Remunda
Votes: 203
73. Covert Action (1988)
Not Rated | 82 min | Action, War
Inside the stately Senate Hearing Room, Frank White, professional soldier, Vietnam vet and CIA operative, is fighting the toughest battle of his life: he's on trial for the assassination of a Central American diplomat.
Director: J. Christian Ingvordsen | Stars: Rick Washburn, J. Christian Ingvordsen, Stuart Garrison Day, Amanda Zinsser
Votes: 55
74. Radiant (2005)
100 min | Drama, Sci-Fi
A genetically-engineered virus, meant for good, but never before tested on humans, has found a host. This is the story of four desperate people who, in their search for medical answers, ... See full summary »
Director: Steve Mahone | Stars: James Cable, Jim Covault, Sandy Fish, Jeremy Schwartz
Votes: 49
75. Azemi (2014)
97 min | War, Action
Rrahman Fetahu and his two brothers in arms survive during the Yugoslavia war between Serbia and Kosovo.
Stars: Fastwebo, James Fetahu, Rrahman Fetahu, Avni Hoti
Votes: 159
76. Gosudarstvennaya granitsa (1980–1989)
70 min | Action, Drama, History
Historical adventure television series, telling about the service of the Soviet border guards. The action takes place in the period from 1917 to the end of the 1980s and takes place on the ... See full summary »
Stars: Aleksandr Denisov, Avgustin Milovanov, Igor Starygin, Vladimir Novikov
Votes: 61
77. Gosudarstvennaya granitsa (2013–2016)
Drama
The action of the new tape takes place against the backdrop of the collapse of the USSR. Border guard officer Anton Pekarsky, having gone through the war in Afghanistan and having served ... See full summary »
Stars: Andrey Frolov, Said Dashuk-Nigmatulin, Alyona Kozyreva, Anastasiya Shaposhnikova
78. Signed: Lino Brocka (1987)
90 min | Documentary, Biography
Documentary portrait of the Philippine filmmaker Lino Brocka.
Director: Christian Blackwood | Stars: Lino Brocka, Lorna Tolentino, Christopher De Leon, Dina Bonnevie
Votes: 58
79. Croisade américaine en Afrique (2019 TV Movie)
59 min | Documentary
So gigantic the success, so reprehensible the backgrounds. The video of the social campaign 'KONY 2012' of the NPO 'Invisible Children, Inc.' was clicked one hundred million times within a ... See full summary »
Director: Jean-Baptiste Renaud | Stars: Milton Allimadi, Joseph Bowo, Guillaume Cailleaux, Colonel W.
Votes: 6
80. Loyalists (1999– )
60 min | Documentary
Journalist Peter Taylor investigates loyalist paramilitaries in Northern Ireland.
Star: Peter Taylor
Votes: 19
81. Zastava v gorakh (1953)
99 min | Adventure
Senior Lieutenant Lunin, appointed deputy head, arrives at the border post from Moscow. A gang of Ismail Bek is trying to attack the Soviet territory.
Directors: Konstantin Yudin, Vladimir Gerasimov | Stars: Vladlen Davydov, Marina Kuznetsova, Yelena Shatrova, Sergei Gurzo
Votes: 71
82. Escadrons de la mort: L'école française (2003 TV Movie)
60 min | Documentary
The French army was very influential in how modern suppression of independence movements has been and is carried out. This documentary reveals why.
Director: Marie-Monique Robin | Stars: Anibal Acosta, Alcides Lopez Aufranc, Carl Bernard, Michel Besineau
Votes: 64
83. Im Wahn - Trump und die Amerikanische Katastrophe (2020)
89 min | Documentary
In 2020 the USA experienced a multiple catastrophe: No other country in the world was so badly affected by the corona virus pandemic, the economic slump was dramatic, the rise in ... See full summary »
Directors: Klaus Brinkbäumer, Stephan Lamby | Stars: Susan Glasser, Anthony Scaramucci, Cathryn Clüver Ashbrook, Heiko Maas
Votes: 18
84. Mampuján, crónicas de un desplazamiento (2009 Video)
28 min | Documentary, Short
Mampujan's Women, record the facts on embroidered blankets to preserve memories for future generations.
Director: Antonio Rubio
85. Murha Meksikossa (2016 TV Movie)
52 min | Documentary
Director: Simo Sipola | Stars: Eve Jaakkola, Raimo Jaakkola, Jyri Jaakkola, Turo Jaakkola
Votes: 10
86. Tranquilandia (2014)
Documentary
In the North of Colombia is a small place with a big story to tell. Here a group of farmers worked the land together. Each Family gave their farm a name to represent their hopes and dreams.... See full summary »
Director: Joel Stangle
87. Dva druga (1941)
70 min | Drama
Directors: Lev Brozhovsky, Lev Ishkov, Darya Shpirkan | Stars: Vasili Neshchiplenko, Grigori Pluzhnik, Lidiya Smirnova, Aleksandr Zrazhevsky
Votes: 13
88. Chiquita: Between Life and Law (2009– )
24 min | Documentary
Chiquita Bananas employed paramilitaries as security and they have been accused of human rights abuses, torture and murder. This program investigates these allegations
Star: Juliana Ruhfus
89. On the Line (2007)
Not Rated | 55 min | Documentary
An act of civil disobedience at America's largest ongoing protest brings graduate student Brian DeRouen face-to-face with the pressing constitutional issues of today. His non-violent action... See full summary »
Directors: Peter Glenn, Jason A. Schmidt | Stars: Roy Bourgeois, Brian DeRouen, John Perkins, Helen Prejean
Votes: 35
90. Rosita no se desplaza (2009)
52 min | Documentary, Biography, History
Directors: Alessandro Acito, Leonardo Valderrama | Stars: Rosa Poveda, Rosita Poveda
91. Subtle Voices: Cries from Colombia (2006)
PG | 60 min | Documentary
This is a film that highlights the complicated struggles of the Colombian people. From the capital city of Bogota and the corruption of Medellin, to the rural landscape of Apartado, follow ... See full summary »
Director: Andrew Patterson | Star: Andrew Patterson
92. Ya sluzhu na granitse (1974)
85 min | Action
Director: Naum Birman | Stars: Borislav Brondukov, Evgeniy Karelskikh, Boris Shcherbakov, Eleonora Shashkova
Votes: 24
93. Granitnye ostrova (1976 TV Movie)
75 min | Action
About the difficult military service of young border guards. The action takes place on the northern borders, on a distant island, where young soldiers, led by a sergeant, serve at a ... See full summary »
Director: Boris Durov | Stars: Vladimir Safronov, Yuriy Nikolskiy, Leonid Belozorovich, Aleksandr Milokostyj
Votes: 7
94. Luc Unleashed: An Interview with Luc Merenda (2021)
23 min | Documentary, Short
Legendary French actor Luc Merenda, famous for his unrelenting police commissioners, gives an unhinged interview in which he describes his rapport with director Sergio Martino, the making ... See full summary »
Director: Eugenio Ercolani | Star: Luc Merenda
95. Star Biathlon (2005– )
Game-Show, Sport
Star Biathlon.
Stars: Jörg Pilawa, Fritz Fischer, Frank-Peter Roetsch, Frank Luck
96. Rebels with a Cause: The Kremlin's Wolves in Ukraine (2016)
13 min | Documentary, Short
The Night Wolves are Russia's largest and most notorious biker gang, fiercely loyal to Vladimir Putin, and say they are motivated by Christianity and patriotism. Their base in Luhansk, east... See full summary »
Directors: Jack Losh, Sebastien Rabas | Stars: Vitaly Kishkinov, Sergey Komarov, Denis Kuznetsov, Nadia
97. Top Gunner (1986 Video Game)
Not Rated | Action, Adventure
A commando team (four soldiers on a jeep) are sent in to rescue POWs.
Votes: 51
98.
Tatort (1970– )
Episode:
Im Visier
(2003)
TV-14 | 89 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Director: Peter Fratzscher | Stars: Miroslav Nemec, Udo Wachtveitl, Michael Fitz, Wolfram Rupperti
Votes: 96
99.
Miami Vice (1984–1989)
Episode:
Borrasca
(1988)
TV-14 | 47 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Tubbs and Switek go undercover and pose as drug dealing middlemen to take down Borrasca, a very dangerous counter revolutionary who uses drug money to fight the war against communism in his country.
Director: Vern Gillum | Stars: Don Johnson, Philip Michael Thomas, Saundra Santiago, Michael Talbott
Votes: 297
100.
Walker, Texas Ranger (1993–2001)
Episode:
The Avenger
(1996)
TV-PG | Action, Adventure, Crime
Walker works with the FBI when they bust an arms dealer. The man in charge pulls a gun and Walker shoots him and his dying words are for him to watch out for his brother. The brother, who ... See full summary »
Director: Tony Mordente | Stars: Chuck Norris, Clarence Gilyard Jr., Noble Willingham, Sheree J. Wilson
Votes: 107