Shinsengumi shimatsuki

1963

Japanese

6.7

♡ 6

Action

based on novel or book

Kenji Misumi Director

Tomisaburô Wakayama as Isami Kondô

Fujio Suga as Nishiki Niimi

Ryûzô Shimada as Shuntarô Furutaka

Raizô Ichikawa as Susumu Yamazaki

As winds of change sweep Japan, an honest man joins the Shinsengumi out of admiration for its leader, and because he wants to live and die as a samurai. However, as his involvement grows, reality and idealism come into deadly conflict.

Guru

2007

Hindi

7.7

♡ 12

92%

Mani Ratnam Director

Abhishek Bachchan as Gurukant Desai

Mallika Sherawat as Jhumpa

Vidya Balan as Meenakshi Gupta

Aishwarya Rai Bachchan as Sujata

A villager, Gurukant Desai, arrives in Bombay in 1958, and rises from its streets to become the biggest tycoon in India.

Mai bakku pêji

2011

Japanese

6.2

♡ 3

Nobuhiro Yamashita Director

Tomokazu Miura as

Hiroshi Yamamoto as

Daikichi Sugawara as

Shiori Kutsuna as (as Shiori Kutsuna)

In 1969, Sawada is filled with idealism that permeated that era and starts working as a gonzo journalist for a weekly magazine. Two years later, Sawada interviews activist Umeyama with senior reporter Nakahira. Umeyama boasts that his group will steal arms and take action in April. Sawada doubts Umeyama's claims but is attracted to his personality. An incident occurs... Sawada hears news that a man was killed at a army post...

Snowden

2016

English

♡ 538

61%

investigative journalism

national security agency (nsa)

surveillance

Thriller

Oliver Stone Director

Timothy Olyphant as CIA Agent Geneva

Joseph Gordon-Levitt as Edward Snowden

Nicolas Cage as Hank Forrester

Shailene Woodley as Lindsay Mills

CIA employee Edward Snowden leaks thousands of classified documents to the press.

Why Me?

2015

Romanian

7.5

♡ 3

Tudor Giurgiu Director

Andreea Vasile as Dora

George Remes as Ovidiu Florea

Radu Banzaru as Prim-ministrul

Corneliu Ulici as Sofer autocisterna

Cristian, a young idealistic prosecutor whose career is on the rise, tries to crack a case against a senior colleague accused of corruption. The dilemma of choosing between his career and the truth weighs heavily on his shoulders. Looking further to solve the case, he enters a danger zone paved with unexpected and painful revelations.

Serpico

1973

English

7.7

♡ 131

93%

Sidney Lumet Director

Tony Lo Bianco as Cop

F. Murray Abraham as Detective Partner

Al Pacino as Serpico

John Randolph as Sidney Green

New York cop Frank Serpico blows the whistle on the rampant corruption in the force only to have his comrades turn against him.

The Mosquito Coast

1986

English

6.6

♡ 31

78%

61%

Action

Adventure

based on novel or book

Peter Weir Director

Harrison Ford as Allie Fox

River Phoenix as Charlie Fox

Helen Mirren as Mother Fox

Dick O'Neill as Mr. Polski

An inventor spurns his city life and moves his family into the jungles of Central America to make a utopia.

Silkwood

1983

English

7.1

♡ 28

77%

Mike Nichols Director

Diana Scarwid as Angela Cher

Cher as Dolly Pelliker

Kurt Russell as Drew Stephens

Will Patton as Joe

A plutonium processing plant worker is purposefully contaminated, psychologically tortured, and possibly murdered to prevent her from exposing safety violations.

Invictus

2009

English

7.3

♡ 83

76%

based on a true story

Clint Eastwood Director

Matt Damon as Francois Pienaar

Morgan Freeman as Nelson Mandela

Gideon Emery as News Announcer

Scott Eastwood as South African Springbok

Newly elected President Nelson Mandela knows his nation remains racially and economically divided in the wake of apartheid. Believing he can bring his people together through the universal language of sport, Mandela rallies South Africa's rugby union team as they make their historic run to the 1995 Rugby World Cup Championship match.