On 24th August 1992 in the eastern German city of Rostock, a rampaging mob, to the applause and cheering of more than 3,000 bystanders, besieged and set fire to a residential building containing, among others, more than 120 Vietnamese men, women, and children on what has since become known as "The Night of the Fire." The riots became a symbol of xenophobia in the just-reunited Germany. This film recounts the incident from the perspectives of three very different characters.

Obey

2018

English

5.5

♡ 9

100%

mother son relationship

riot

Jamie Jones Director

T'Nia Miller as Chelsea

Marcus Rutherford as Leon

Jasmine Jobson as Little M

Lee Nicholas Harris as Police officer

Nineteen-year old Leon returns home to take care of his alcoholic mother and adjust to life as an adult after an adolescence spent in and out of foster care. Frustrated by his lack of an education and his bleak financial prospects, Leon finds solace in the boxing ring. He soon meets the rebellious and beautiful Twiggy, who is squatting in abandoned houses to escape her family’s unfeeling affluence. As rumblings of riots begin in the streets and police and protesters engulf his neighborhood, Leon must decide whether to join his friends and fight or seek a new life with Twiggy.

No Intenso Agora

2017

Portuguese

7.3

♡ 2

83%

João Moreira Salles Director

A personal essay which analyses and compares images of the political upheavals of the 1960s. From the military coup in Brazil to China's Cultural Revolution, from the student uprisings in Paris to the end of the Prague Spring.

Screaming Queens: The Riot at Compton's Cafeteria

2005

English

7.4

♡ 2

san francisco, california

Susan Stryker Director

Mollie Menzies as Actor

Lawrence Helman as Actor

Gary Fembot as Actor

Ed Hansen as Self

The first major uprising against police brutality, harassment, and societal oppression was not at Stonewall in 1969, but at Compton's Cafeteria in San Francisco three years earlier. Those who stood up were trans women and gay men. Now, nearly 40 years on, Susan Stryker and Victor Silverman tell the story of this oft-overlooked event in the history of American civil rights.

Kings

2017

English

5.1

♡ 31

10%

los angeles, california

Deniz Gamze Ergüven Director

Halle Berry as Millie Dunbar

Daniel Craig as Obie Hardison

Issac Ryan Brown as Shawnte

Kaalan Walker as William MCgee

A foster family in South Central a few weeks before the city erupts in violence following the verdict of the Rodney King trial in 1992.

Pardon Us

1931

English

6.8

♡ 18

67%

smuggling (contraband)

James Parrott Director

Charlie Hall as Dental Assistant

Jack Hill as Insurgent Convict

Baldwin Cooke as Insurgent Convict

Gordon Douglas as Typist

It's Prohibition, and the boys wind up behind bars after Stan sells some of their home-brew beer to a policeman.

The Trigger Effect

1996

English

5.7

♡ 20

72%

David Koepp Director

Elisabeth Shue as Annie Kay

Michael Rooker as Gary

Dermot Mulroney as Joe

Rick Worthy as Johnny

A blackout leaves those affected to consider what is necessary, what is legal, and what is questionable, in order to survive in a predatory environment.

The Reliant

2019

English

3.3

♡ 14

28%

Action

anarchy

based on novel or book

Paul Munger Director

Blake Burt as Jimmy

Eric Roberts as Mr. Jones

Kevin Sorbo as Rick

Mollee Gray as Sophie

Economic collapse causes widespread rioting and social unrest, leaving a lovesick 19-year-old girl struggling to care for her siblings in a stretch of woods bordered by lawless anarchy, wondering why a good God would let this happen.

'71

2014

English

7.2

♡ 80

96%

ira (irish republican army)

Yann Demange Director

Charlie Murphy as Brigid

Killian Scott as Quinn

Barry Keoghan as Sean Bannon

Paul Anderson as Sergeant Leslie Lewis

A young British soldier must find his way back to safety after his unit accidentally abandons him during a riot in the streets of Belfast.

Four Hours at the Capitol

2021

English

7.5

♡ 6

89%

Jamie Roberts Director

Donald Trump as Self

Mike Pence as Self

Eric Swalwell as Self - Calfornia Congressman

Chuck Schumer as Self - Senate Majority Leader

The documentary is an immersive chronicle of the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021, when thousands of American citizens from across the country gathered in Washington D.C. to protest the results of the 2020 presidential election, many with the intent of disrupting the certification of Joe Biden's presidency.

Birth of a Nation

1983

English

7.1

♡ 3

Mike Newell Director

Bruce Payne as Barratt

Julia Deakin as Deputy Headmistress Grunsell

Jim Broadbent as Geoff Figg

Robert Stephens as Vic Griffiths

A new teacher at a highly problematic comprehensive school feels that corporal punishment may just be inflaming the problems, and so begins to campaign against it.

When Liberty Burns

6.2

Dudley Alexis Director

Marc McDuffie as Self

Linda Saunders as Self

Forestine Reid as Self

Sam Stubbs as Self

An in-depth analysis on the 40th Anniversary of the life and untimely death of Arthur Lee McDuffie at the hands of Miami Dade police officers.

Behind 98

2015

Indonesian

6.0

♡ 2

Lukman Sardi Director

Donny Alamsyah as Bagus

Iang Darmawan as Harmoko

Verdi Solaiman as Karumga

T. Rifnu Wikana as Rachmat

During a turning point in Indonesian history, a family must endure personal turmoil while their nation faces drastic political upheaval.

The Third Wave

2003

Swedish

6.3

♡ 5

62%

Anders Nilsson Director

Marie Richardson as Helén

Ben Pullen as Kane

Lennart Hjulström as Sellberg

Robert Giggenbach as Sorensen

Johan Falk hasn't been working for over a year since he resigned from the police. Most of all he wants to move out to the countryside, but fate has a different thought.

Stir

1980

English

6.8

♡ 4

Stephen Wallace Director

Bryan Brown as China Jackson

James Cameron as Kitchen Warder

Max Phipps as Norton

Peter Barton as Warder with Rifle

Filmed in the Clare Valley, Gladstone and the Flinders Ranges in South Australia, this prison movie was inspired by the true life prison riot at Bathurst Jail in 1974 and its subsequent Royal Commission into New South Wales Prisons.

Harry Brown

2009

English

7.2

♡ 43

64%

Daniel Barber Director

Emily Mortimer as D.I. Alice Frampton

Michael Caine as Harry Brown

David Bradley as Leonard Attwell

Iain Glen as S.I. Childs

An elderly ex-serviceman and widower looks to avenge his best friend's murder by doling out his own form of justice.

Brighton Rock

2010

English

♡ 14

51%

32%

Action

based on novel or book

Rowan Joffe Director

Andy Serkis as Colleoni

Helen Mirren as Ida

John Hurt as Phil Corkery

Adrian Schiller as Registrar

Charts the headlong fall of Pinkie, a razor-wielding disadvantaged teenager with a religious death wish.

Bullet in the Head

1990

Cn

7.5

♡ 17

100%

John Woo Director

Tony Chiu Wai Leung as Ben / Siu Bun

Simon Yam as Luke / Lok

Waise Lee as Paul / Sau Ming

John Woo as Policeman

Three childhood friends from the slums of Hong Kong flee to war-time Saigon after accidentally murdering a gang leader, but their troubles only escalate.

Across the Universe

2007

English

7.3

♡ 57

53%

Julie Taymor Director

Dylan Baker as Mr. Carrigan - Lucy's Father

Linda Emond as Mrs. Carrigan - Lucy's Mother

Nikky Smedley as Sergeant

Salma Hayek as Singing Nurse

When young dockworker Jude leaves Liverpool to find his estranged father in the United States, he is swept up by the waves of change that are re-shaping the nation. Jude falls in love with Lucy, who joins the growing anti-war movement. As the body count in Vietnam rises, political tensions at home spiral out of control and the star-crossed lovers find themselves in a psychedelic world gone mad.

Les Misérables

2019

French

7.6

♡ 32

88%

89%

Action

based on novel or book

Ladj Ly Director

Damien Bonnard as Brigadier Stéphane Ruiz, dit Pento

Djebril Zonga as Gwada

Romain Gavras as Homme de main du Maire

Jeanne Balibar as La commissaire

Stéphane has recently joined the Anti-Crime Squad in Montfermeil, in the suburbs of Paris, France, where Victor Hugo set his famed novel “Les Miserables”. Alongside his new colleagues Chris and Gwada – both experienced members of the team – he quickly discovers tensions running high between local gangs. When the trio finds themselves overrun during the course of an arrest, a drone captures the encounter, threatening to expose the reality of everyday life.

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