Battle of the Commandos

Umberto Lenzi Director

Jack Palance as Col. Charley MacPherson

Curd Jürgens as Gen. von Reilow

Bruno Corazzari as Pvt. Frank Madigan

Aldo Sambrell as Sgt. Karim Habinda

A British Colonel is angry with his superiors after his entire platoon is slaughtered by the Germans in what he saw as a suicide mission. So for his next mission, he takes along a platoon a convicted criminals - to prepare the Normandy beaches for the D-Day landings.

One Battle After Another

2025

English

♡ 143

94%

85%

Action

based on novel or book

Washed-up revolutionary Bob exists in a state of stoned paranoia, surviving off-grid with his spirited, self-reliant daughter, Willa. When his evil nemesis resurfaces after 16 years and she goes missing, the former radical scrambles to find her, father and daughter both battling the consequences of his past.

A Good Day to Die

2010

English

7.8

♡ 3

93%

David Mueller Director

Wes Studi as Self

Marshall McKay as Self

Wilmar Mesteth as Self

Rick Thomas as Self

Interviews and archival footage profile the life of Dennis Banks, American Indian Movement leader who looks back at his early life and the rise of the Movement.

Concerning Violence

2014

Swedish

7.5

♡ 4

90%

Göran Olsson Director

Lauryn Hill as Narrator in English version

Amilcar Cabral as Self - founder of Partido Africano da Independência da Guiné e Cabo Verde

William Tubman as Self - president of Liberia

Simão Elias as Self - The Mozambique Liberation Front

Based on powerful archival material documenting the most daring moments in the struggle for liberation in the Third World, this documentary is accompanied by classic text from The Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon.

It Happened Here

1964

English

6.7

♡ 13

71%

nazi collaborationism

Kevin Brownlow Director

Michael Mellinger as Announcer

Sebastian Shaw as Doctor Richard Fletcher

John Herrington as Dr. Westerman

Peter Dyneley as German Officer

World War II, 1940. When the Nazi hordes invade and occupy Great Britain, the English citizens are soon divided between those who choose to submissively collaborate and those who are willing to fight.

The Principal

1987

English

6.3

♡ 21

44%

Christopher Cain Director

Jacob Vargas as Arturo Diego

Esai Morales as Raymi Rojas

James Belushi as Rick Latimer

Kelly Jo Minter as Treena Lester

Burglary. Drugs. Assault. Rape. The students at Brandel High are more than new Principal Rick Latimer bargained for. Gangs fight to control the school using knives - even guns - when they have to. When Latimer and the head of security try to clean up the school and stop the narcotics trade, they run up against a teenage mafia. A violent confrontation on the campus leads to a deadly showdown with the drug dealer's gang, and one last chance for Latimer to save his career... and his life.

The Edelweiss Pirates

2004

German

6.1

♡ 3

65%

Niko von Glasow Director

Oleg Korytin as Alterer Wachmann

Anna Thalbach as Cilly Serve

Irina Sokolova as Friedel Krämer Bela B.

Bela B. as Hans Steinbrück

Cologne towards the end of the Second World War. The city is in ruins, everyone is afraid, many are dead. It is a time of great inhumanity. Cologne’s young Edelweiss Pirates refuse to submit to the pressure of the Nazi regime. They fight with the Hitler Youth and scrawl anti-war propaganda on walls. Karl is an Edelweiss Pirate; his younger brother, Peter, is in the Hitler Youth movement. The two young men have been alone ever since their mother’s death in a bombing raid; their father is serving at the front, and their older brother, Otto, has been killed in action. Otto’s financée, Cilly, is doing her best to survive the war with her children. Carl is trying to help her.

Pussy Riot - A Punk Prayer

2013

English

7.0

♡ 4

83%

Maxim Pozdorovkin Director Madonna

Madonna as Self

Yoko Ono as Self

Vladimir Putin as Self

Dmitry Medvedev as Self

In the winter of 2011, after a controversial election, Vladimir Putin was reinstalled as president of Russia. In response, hundreds of thousands of citizens rose up all over the country to challenge the legitimacy of Putin’s rule. Among them were a group of young, radical-feminist punk rockers, better known as Pussy Riot. Wearing colored balaclavas, tights, and summer dresses, they entered Moscow’s most venerated cathedral and dared to sing “Mother Mary, Banish Putin!” Now they have become victims of a “show” trial.

The Last Sentence

2012

Swedish

6.2

♡ 1

74%

Jan Troell Director

Peter Andersson as Christian Günther

Adam Lundgren as Hans Forssman

Lennart Hjulström as Marcus Wallenberg

Sonja Richter as Modern

Renowned journalist Torgny Segerstedt declares war against Hitler as he criticizes Swedish politicians who tried to look away from the tyranny of the Nazis with the good excuse of “neutralism”. His only weapon is his pen and his life is full of gossip such as an affair with his boss’ wife, a love scandal with a secretary younger than his daughter, and the suicide of his wife. However, he continues to fight a one man battle against Hitler and the Nazi regime until his death, throwing the question “Can one person really change history?” to the audience.

Five Last Days

1982

German

6.8

♡ 3

Percy Adlon Director

Irm Hermann as Else Gebel

Michael Cornelius as Hans Scholl

Philip Arp as Philip

Lena Stolze as Sophie Scholl

At Gestapo head quarters a young woman establishes a relationship with another inmate. This young woman is Sophie Scholl who tells the story of her life and of her resistance movement′s courageous fight against Hitler′s Nazi regime.

Rome, Open City

1945

Italian

8.0

♡ 21

100%

Roberto Rossellini Director

Ákos Tolnay as Austrian Deserter

Vito Annichiarico as Piccolo Marcello

Anna Magnani as Pina

Carlo Sindici as Police Commissioner

In WWII-era Rome, underground resistance leader Manfredi attempts to evade the Gestapo by enlisting the help of Pina, the fiancée of a fellow member of the resistance, and Don Pietro, the priest due to oversee her marriage. But it’s not long before the Nazis and the local police find him.

Villa Rides

1968

English

6.3

♡ 3

42%

Buzz Kulik Director

John Ireland as Barbershop Client

Julio Peña as General

Charles Bronson as Rodolfo Fierro

Nazzareno Natale as Villista

Pulled into the Mexican Revolution by his own greed, Texas gunrunner and pilot Lee Arnold joins bandit-turned-patriot Pancho Villa and his band of dedicated men in a march across Mexico battling the Colorados and stealing women's hearts as they go. But each has a nemesis among his friends: Arnold is tormented by Fierro, Villa's right-hand-man; and Villa must face possible betrayal by his own president's naiveté

Blanche and Marie

1985

French

5.9

♡ 4

Jacques Renard Director

Miou-Miou as Blanche

Jacques Bonnaffé as Louis

Sandrine Bonnaire as Marie

Gérard Klein as Victor

A little town in the north of France, 1941. Blanche has three children. She worries about her husband Victor, who often goes out at night. Actually, Victor belongs to the Resistance. Soon, Blanche will be a resistant too. In the network, there is also Germinal, the hairdresser. His daughter Marie knows everything and asks to be part of it... Chronicle of the occupation and of the resistance through the eyes of the women.

Heval

2021

English

6.5

♡ 1

86%

Adam R. Wood Director

William Denjoy as Self

Jason Fritz as Self

Nuri Mahmoud as Self

Keith Caraway as Self

When a British-born actor abandons his Hollywood career to volunteer to Join the Kurdish YPG to fight ISIS in Syria, many see him as a selfless hero battling America's most insidious enemy. But others think he's a hot-tempered narcissist, staging a publicity stunt to further his career - and when his service ends, neither the UK nor the US welcome him back. Through incisive interviews with the actor, his supporters, his detractors, and top-tier experts - and featuring the actor's own jaw-dropping helmet-cam video of deadly battles with and interrogations of ISIS fighters - Heval gives viewers unprecedented access into a war against evil and one man's controversial role in it.

The White Rose

1982

German

7.1

♡ 5

80%

Michael Verhoeven Director

Ágnes Csere as Lubjanka

Martin Benrath as Prof. Kurt Huber

Lena Stolze as Sophie Scholl

Ulrich Tukur as Willi Graf

During the Second World War, a small group of students at Munich University begin to question the decisions and sanity of Germany's Nazi government. The students form a resistance cell which they name the "White Rose" after a newsletter that is secretly distributed to the student body. At first small in numbers and fearful of discovery, the White Rose begins to gain massive support after a Nazi Gauleiter nearly incites a student riot after a provokative speech. At this point, the matter is taken over by the German Gestapo, who pledge to hunt down and destroy the members of the White Rose.

Trucker

2008

English

6.5

♡ 8

58%

James Mottern Director

Michelle Monaghan as Diane Ford

Benjamin Bratt as Len Bonner

Jimmy Bennett as Peter

Nathan Fillion as Runner

Loner Diane Ford is a truck driver with an 11-year-old son, Peter, whom she never sees, and that's fine with her. But, when Peter's father, Len, falls ill, he asks Diane to take care of their son for a while. Eventually, Diane reluctantly agrees, but she quickly realizes that caring for a child interferes with her independent lifestyle - and Peter isn't all that thrilled with the arrangement, either.

Wonderful Days

2003

Korean

6.6

♡ 36

55%

Moon-saeng Kim Director

David Naughton as Commander Locke / Dr. Noah

Bob Papenbrook as Goliath / Governor / Typon

Karl Wiedergott as Moe / Digger Foreman

Marc Worden as Shua

Civilization has been destroyed by war and pollution, but the survivors have built the last city of Ecoban. As most natural resources have been exhausted, Ecoban is powered by pollution. The citizens of Ecoban need to continue creating this pollution leading them into conflict with the inhabitants of Marr while one man just wants to clear away the clouds and see the sky.

1900

1976

Italian

7.6

♡ 41

52%

Bernardo Bertolucci Director

Robert De Niro as Alfredo Berlinghieri

Burt Lancaster as Alfredo Berlinghieri the Elder

Gérard Depardieu as Olmo Dalcò

Nazzareno Natale as Peasant at Attila's execution

The epic tale of a class struggle in twentieth century Italy, as seen through the eyes of two childhood friends on opposing sides.

Catch a Fire

2006

English

6.7

♡ 4

75%

71%

Action

anc (african national congress)

Phillip Noyce Director

Brandon Auret as Army Commandant

Tim Robbins as Col. Nic Vos

Marius Weyers as Police Brigadier

Nelson Mandela as Self

The true story of anti-apartheid activists in South Africa, and particularly the life of Patrick Chamusso, a timid foreman at Secunda CTL, the largest synthetic fuel plant in the world. Patrick is wrongly accused, imprisoned and tortured for an attempt to bomb the plant, with the injustice transforming the apolitical worker into a radicalised insurgent, who then carries out his own successful sabotage mission.

La verte moisson

1959

French

6.9

♡ 5

François Villiers Director

Reinhard Kolldehoff as (as Koldehoff)

Jacques Perrin as Jean-Louis Mesnier

Hélène Tossy as Mme Borelli

Marie-France Boyer as Sophie

In 1943, a group of high school students decide to take action against the Nazi occupying forces. Showing courage and imagination, they manage to blow up the Kommandantur and to release hostages. But after the killing of a German soldier the Nazi police apparatus strikes back. The young resisters are arrested and two of them are condemned to death.

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Battle of the Commandos

One Battle After Another

A Good Day to Die

Concerning Violence

It Happened Here

The Principal

The Edelweiss Pirates

Pussy Riot - A Punk Prayer

The Last Sentence

Five Last Days

Rome, Open City

Villa Rides

Blanche and Marie

Heval

The White Rose

Trucker

Wonderful Days

1900

Catch a Fire

La verte moisson