While working in England, an American surgeon Dr. John Marlowe is invited to Vosnia (a fictitious East-European country) to receive an award and demonstrate his life-saving surgery. Unwittingly caught in the middle of a dangerous and corrupt series of political events, Marlowe then becomes the object of a shoot-to-kill, vicious pursuit. Fleeing, he seeks help from an English-speaking actress, Lisa Robinson, and the two attempt to escape across the treacherous mountains of Vosnia.

The Beautician and the Beast

1997

English

5.5

♡ 14

23%

parent child relationship

Romance

Ken Kwapis Director

Timothy Dalton as Boris Pochenko

Ed Cambridge as Elderly Man

Billy Brown as Fireman

Ian McNeice as Ira Grushinsky

A New York City beautician is mistakenly hired as the school teacher for the children of the president of a small Eastern European country.

Megaforce

1982

English

3.7

♡ 8

6%

43%

Action

dictator

electronic music score

military unit

Sci-Fi

soldier

Hal Needham Director

Barry Bostwick as Ace Hunter

Edward Mulhare as Byrne-White

Bobby Bass as Motorcycle Driver

Anthony Pena as Sixkiller

MegaForce is an elite multi-national military unit that does the jobs that individual governments won't. When the peaceful Republic of Sardun in under threat from their more aggressive neighbor, the beautiful Major Zara and General Byrne-White see the help of Ace Hunter and MegaForce.

The Colonel's Stray Dogs

2021

English

6.6

♡ 3

military dictatorship

political activism

Khalid Shamis Director

In 1981, seven Libyan exiles formed the core opposition group to Colonel Muammar Gaddafi. Thirty years later, they are back to their country only to inherit the mess he left. The film is an intricate blend of rare first-hand accounts, propaganda archival material turned on its head, evocative cinematography and an untold history of a country.

Dancing Pirate

1936

English

5.2

♡ 4

31%

Lloyd Corrigan Director

Pat Nixon as Dance-Class Student

Marjorie Reynolds as Dancer

Ellen Lowe as Miss Ponsonby

Max Wagner as Pirate

Jonathan Pride is a mild-mannered dance instructor in 1820 Boston. En route to visit relatives, Jonathan is shanghaied by a band of zany pirates and forced to work as a galley boy. When the pirate vessel arrives at the port of Las Palomas, Jonathan, clad in buccaneer's garb, makes his escape. Everyone in Las Palomas, including Governor Alcalde (Frank Morgan) and fetching senorita Serafina (Steffi Duna), assumes that Jonathan is the pirate chieftain, leading to a series of typical comic-opera complications.

Going Overboard

1989

English

1.8

♡ 7

11%

Valerie Breiman Director

Billy Bob Thornton as Dave

Billy Zane as King Neptune

Terry Moore as Mistress

Adam Sandler as Schecky Moskowitz

A struggling young comedian takes a menial job on a cruise ship where he hopes for his big chance to make it in the world of cruise ship comedy.

North Korea: Inside the Mind of a Dictator

2021

English

7.0

♡ 3

Rob Coldstream Director

Salvatore Vecchio as Narrator

Jong-un Kim as Self

Siti Aisyah as Self

Anna Fifield as Self

A journey through Kim Jong Un’s past and present to understand the man and the myth who holds North Korea’s uncertain future in his hands.

Hissein Habre, A Chadian Tragedy

2016

French

7.0

♡ 1

86%

dictator

Documentary

republic of chad

Mahamat-Saleh Haroun Director

Mahamat-Saleh Haroun as Self

Hissène Habré as Self

In 2013, former Chadian dictator Hissein Habré’s arrest in Senegal marked the end of a long combat for the survivors of his regime. Accompanied by the Chairman of the Association of the Victims of the Hissein Habré Regime, Mahamat Saleh Haroun goes to meet those who survived this tragedy and who still bear the scars of the horror in their flesh and in their souls. Through their courage and determination, the victims accomplish an unprecedented feat in the history of Africa: that of bringing a Head of State to trial.

The Interpreter

2005

English

6.4

♡ 47

57%

destruction of a civilization

Sydney Pollack Director

David Zayas as Charlie Russell

Nicole Kidman as Silvia Broome

Sean Penn as Tobin Keller

Jossara Jinaro as Voice

After Silvia Broome, an interpreter at United Nations headquarters, overhears plans of an assassination, an American Secret Service agent is sent to investigate.

The Dictator

2012

English

6.5

♡ 307

56%

Larry Charles Director

Aasif Mandvi as Doctor

Edward Norton as Edward Norton

Megan Fox as Megan Fox

Anna Faris as Zoey

The heroic story of a dictator who risks his life to ensure that democracy would never come to the country he so lovingly oppressed.

The Great Dictator

1940

English

♡ 152

92%

Charles Chaplin Director

Carter DeHaven as Bacterian Ambassador

Ethelreda Leopold as Blonde Secretary

Paulette Goddard as Hannah

Charles Chaplin as Hynkel - Dictator of Tomania / A Jewish Barber

Dictator Adenoid Hynkel tries to expand his empire while a poor Jewish barber tries to avoid persecution from Hynkel's regime.

La Llorona

2019

Spanish

6.6

♡ 58

96%

Jayro Bustamante Director

María Mercedes Coroy as Alma

Margarita Kenéfic as Carmen

Juan Pablo Olyslager as Letona

Alejandra Colom as Periodista

Accused of the genocide of Mayan people, retired general Enrique is trapped in his mansion by massive protests. Abandoned by his staff, the indignant old man and his family must face the devastating truth of his actions and the growing sense that a wrathful supernatural force is targeting them for his crimes.

Downfall

2004

German

8.2

♡ 187

90%

94%

Action

based on novel or book

Oliver Hirschbiegel Director

André Hennicke as General Mohnke

Justus von Dohnányi as General Wilhelm Burgdorf

Ulrich Noethen as Heinrich Himmler

Dietrich Hollinderbäumer as Ritter Robert von Greim

In April of 1945, Germany stands at the brink of defeat with the Russian Army closing in from the east and the Allied Expeditionary Force attacking from the west. In Berlin, capital of the Third Reich, Adolf Hitler proclaims that Germany will still achieve victory and orders his generals and advisers to fight to the last man. When the end finally does come, and Hitler lies dead by his own hand, what is left of his military must find a way to end the killing that is the Battle of Berlin, and lay down their arms in surrender.

6 Underground

2019

English

6.1

♡ 653

36%

Michael Bay Director

Dave Franco as

Adria Arjona as

Ryan Reynolds as One

Michael Bay as Reporter #4

After faking his death, a tech billionaire recruits a team of international operatives for a bold and bloody mission to take down a brutal dictator.

Dienstbereit - Nazis und Faschisten im Auftrag der CIA

2013

German

6.2

♡ 4

Action

central intelligence agency (cia)

Dirk Pohlmann Director

Queen Elizabeth II as Self

Christopher Simpson as Self - American University

Karl Weiß as Self - Augenzeuge

Andreas von Bülow as Self - Minister für Forschung und Technologie a.D.

Florian Hartung and Dirk Pohlmann have reconstructed a previously unknown dimension of the collaboration between Nazis and the CIA in the Cold War. Drawing upon recently released documents, the film exposes for the first time a perfidious, worldwide net that reaches deep into the power structures of the Federal Republic of Germany. Lending their authority to the fact-finders’ mission are high-ranking statesmen, journalists and historians.

The Death of Stalin

2017

English

7.3

♡ 92

94%

79%

Action

based on a true story

Armando Iannucci Director

Olga Kurylenko as Maria Veniaminovna Yudina

Steve Buscemi as Nikita Khrushchev

Diana Quick as Polina Molotova

Rupert Friend as Vasily

When dictator Joseph Stalin dies, his parasitic cronies square off in a frantic power struggle to become the next Soviet leader. As they bumble, brawl and back-stab their way to the top, the question remains — just who is running the government?

The Propaganda Game

2015

Spanish

6.8

♡ 2

93%

inter-korean relations

north korea

pyongyang, north korea

Álvaro Longoria Director

Barack Obama as Self

Harry S. Truman as Self

Bill O'Reilly as Self

Jong-un Kim as Self

North Korea. The last communist country in the world. Unknown, hermetic and fascinating. Formerly known as “The Hermit Kingdom” for its attempts to remain isolated, North Korea is one of the largest sources of instability as regards world peace. It also has the most militarized border in the world, and the flow of impartial information, both going in and out, is practically non-existent. As the recent Sony-leaks has shown, it is the perfect setting for a propaganda war.