A recently-deposed "Estrovian" monarch seeks shelter in New York City, where he becomes an accidental television celebrity. Later, he's wrongly accused of being a Communist and gets caught up in subsequent HUAC hearings.

Despite the Falling Snow

2016

English

5.8

♡ 50

9%

Shamim Sarif Director

Rebecca Ferguson as Katya / Lauren

Antje Traue as Marina

Oliver Jackson-Cohen as Misha

Charles Dance as Old Alexander

New York, 1961. Alexander Ivanov, a high-ranked Soviet bureaucrat, reluctantly defects to the West while is part of a diplomatic mission, feeling the grief of being unable to know the fate of his wife Katya, whom he has had to leave behind in Moscow. Only many years later, in 1991, he will finally find out the truth when his niece Lauren travels to Moscow to participate in a painting exhibition.

The Photograph

1986

Greek

7.5

♡ 6

83%

Nikos Papatakis Director

André Wilms as

Orestis Tsanakis as

Yiorgos Kalantzis as (as Giorgos Kalatzis)

Stratos Pahis as (as Stratos Pachis)

A young Greek man goes to Paris seeking help from a solitary and almost misanthropic distant relative who works as a furrier. With him, he takes nothing from his homeland but a photograph of a woman that he finds on the pavement. A misunderstanding regarding the photograph sets off a series of dramatic misunderstandings which trap him in a vicious circle of lies and fantasies.

One, Two, Three

1961

English

7.8

♡ 15

88%

Billy Wilder Director

Liselotte Pulver as Fräulein Ingeborg

Horst Buchholz as Otto Ludwig Piffl

Leon Askin as Peripetchikoff

Pamela Tiffin as Scarlett Hazeltine

C.R. MacNamara is a managing director for Coca Cola in West Berlin during the Cold War, just before the Wall is put up. When Scarlett, the rebellious daughter of his boss, comes to West Berlin, MacNamara has to look after her, but this turns out to be a difficult task when she reveals to be married to a communist.

Volunteers

1985

English

5.5

♡ 23

67%

33%

Action

Adventure

central intelligence agency (cia)

Nicholas Meyer Director

Tom Hanks as Lawrence Bourne III

George Plimpton as Lawrence Bourne Jr.

Shakti Chen as Lucille

John Candy as Tom Tuttle from Tacoma

After his rich father refuses to pay his debt, compulsive gambler Lawrence Bourne III joins the Peace Corps to evade angry creditors. In Thailand, he is assigned to build a bridge for the local villagers with the help of American-As-Apple-Pie WSU Grad Tom Tuttle and the beautiful and down-to earth Beth Wexler. What they don't realize is that the bridge is coveted by the U.S. Army, a local Communist force, and a powerful drug lord. Together with the help of At Toon, the only English speaking native, they must fight off the three opposing forces and find out what is right for the villagers, as well as themselves.

Roads to the South

5.5

franco regime (francoism)

older man younger woman relationship

paris, france

spain

Joseph Losey Director

France Lambiotte as Ève Larréa

Yves Montand as Jean Larréa

Miou-Miou as Julia

Eugene Braun Munk as Le producteur Egon

France, 1975. Jean, an exiled Spanish Communist, is a successful screenwriter who, after a tragic event, struggles with his political commitment, his love for his country, under the boot of General Franco, whose death he and his comrades have waited for years, and his complicated relationship with his son. (A sequel to “The War Is Over,” 1966.)

Servants

2020

Slovak

6.4

96%

Ivan Ostrochovský Director

Dusan Kuznecov as Minister

Martin Sulík as Physician

Ján Marcin as Seminarian

Svätozár Rúzicka as Seminarian

Michal and Juraj, two students of a theological seminary in totalitarian Czechoslovakia, must decide if they'll choose the easier way of collaboration, or if they'll subject themselves to the surveillance of the secret police.

The Motorcycle Diaries

2004

Spanish

7.7

♡ 33

83%

based on novel or book

Walter Salles Director

Rodrigo De la Serna as Alberto Granado

Mía Maestro as Chichina Ferreyra

Gael García Bernal as Ernesto Guevara de la Serna

Brandon Cruz as Miner

Based on the journals of Che Guevara, leader of the Cuban Revolution. In his memoirs, Guevara recounts adventures he and best friend Alberto Granado had while crossing South America by motorcycle in the early 1950s.

Communists

2014

German

6.1

♡ 2

Action

communist

Drama

Jean-Marie Straub Director

Gilles Pandel as (segment: "Le temps du mépris")

Jean-Marie Straub as (segment: "Le temps du mépris") (voice)

Rosalba Curatola as Siracusa

Aldo Fruttuosi as Ventura 'Faccia Cattiva'

Jean-Marie Straub pushes this musicality of blocks to a paroxysmal extreme, mixing blocks of time (40 years separate the various extracts that are going to be used, and what is to be filmed), blocks of text (Malraux, Fortini, Vittorini, Hölderlin) and blocks of language (French, Italian, German), and from this ruckus emerges the history of the world, yes, History with a capital H, and from the same movement, the political hope of its being overtaken. So this is an adventure film, about the Human adventure, still one that is always, in the end, overtaken by Nature.

Mother Kusters Goes to Heaven

1975

German

7.5

♡ 3

100%

parent child relationship

suicide

widow

Rainer Werner Fassbinder Director

Kurt Raab as Barbesitzer Gustav

Irm Hermann as Helene

Volker Spengler as Photograph

Peter Chatel as Photograph

After a worker kills a superior and commits suicide, each of his family members attempts to forge a path forward in life.

The Love of Jeanne Ney

1927

German

7.2

♡ 3

65%

Georg Wilhelm Pabst Director

Brigitte Helm as Gabrielle

Josefine Dora as Jeweler's Wife

Heinrich Gotho as Man in Train

Vladimir Sokoloff as Zacharkiewicz

In the Crimea, the Reds and the Whites aren't done fighting, and Jeanne discovers that the man she loves is a Bolshevik (when he kills her father). Penniless, she returns to Paris where she works for her uncle. Soon after, her lover Andreas is in France to organize the sailors in Toulon. So also is a thief, traitor, and libertine, Khalibiev, who wants to seduce Jeanne. His schemes, Jeanne and Andreas's naivete, and a lost diamond bring the lovers to the brink of tragedy.

Frankenstein's Army

2013

English

5.4

♡ 13

56%

Richard Raaphorst Director

Miroslav Lhotka as Crypt Monster

Emma Cerná as Old Woman Refugee

Joshua Sasse as Sergei

Karel Roden as Servant / Viktor

Toward the end of World War II, Russian soldiers pushing into eastern Germany stumble across a secret Nazi lab, one that has unearthed and begun experimenting with the journal of one Dr. Victor Frankenstein. The scientists have used the legendary Frankenstein's work to assemble an army of super-soldiers stitched together from the body parts of their fallen comrades -- a desperate Hitler's last ghastly ploy to escape defeat

The Birth of New China

1989

Chinese

5.9

♡ 2

Qiankuan Li Director

Xingli Niu as

Fazeng Guo as

Kai Huang as Yue Gu

Yue Gu as Mao Zedong

In the spring and summer of 1949, the People's Liberation Army launched an offensive under the orders of Mao Zedong and Zhu De, they crossed the Yangtze River and Nanjing was liberated on April 23 which signaled the fall of the KMT regime, Chiang Kai-Shek fled to Taiwan; on October 1, 1949, Mao Zedong standing on the rostrum of Tiananmen, solemnly declared the foundation of the People's Republic of China.

The Spy Who Came in from the Cold

1965

English

7.5

♡ 18

86%

Martin Ritt Director

Geoffrey Keen as British sentry

Walter Gotell as Holten

Warren Mitchell as Mr. Zanfrello - Grocery Customer

Sam Wanamaker as Peters

British agent Alec Leamas refuses to come in from the Cold War during the 1960s, choosing to face another mission, which may prove to be his final one.

My Perestroika

2010

Russian

7.2

♡ 3

93%

Robin Hessman Director

Tells the story of five people from the last generation of Soviet children who were brought up behind the Iron Curtain. Just coming of age when the USSR collapsed, they witnessed the world of their childhood crumble and change beyond recognition. Through the lives of these former schoolmates, this intimate film reveals how they have adjusted to their post-Soviet reality in today's Moscow.

Uranya

2006

Greek

6.4

♡ 1

63%

Costas Kapakas Director

Manolis Mavromatakis as Dimitrakopoulos

Dina Mihailidou as Evgenia

Despina Mirou as Girl in Photo

Maria Grazia Cucinotta as Uranya

A group of young boys must decide whether to buy a TV set to watch the launch of Apollo 11 or visit Uranya to learn about the secrets of love.

The Travelling Players

1975

Greek

7.8

♡ 6

87%

Theodoros Angelopoulos Director

Kaiti Ibrohori as

Stratos Pahis as Agamemnon

Giorgos Tzifos as Black Marketeer

Dimitris Kaberidis as Singer

This expansive Greek drama follows a troupe of theater actors as they perform around their country during World War II. While the production that they put on is entitled "Golfo the Shepherdess," the thespians end up echoing scenes from classic Greek tales in their own lives, as Elektra plots revenge on her mother for the death of her father, and seeks help from her brother, Orestes, a young anti-fascist rebel.

Indochine

1992

French

7.0

♡ 6

74%

parent child relationship

Romance

vietnam

War

Régis Wargnier Director

Linh Dan Pham as Camille

Catherine Deneuve as Éliane

Andrzej Seweryn as Hebrard

Vincent Perez as Jean-Baptiste

Set in colonial French Indochina during the 1930s to 1950s, this is the story of Éliane Devries, a French plantation owner, and of her adopted Vietnamese daughter, Camille, set against the backdrop of the rising Vietnamese nationalist movement.

The Funeral

1996

English

6.6

♡ 10

79%

Abel Ferrara Director

John Hoyt as Big John

Annabella Sciorra as Jean

David Patrick Kelly as Michael Stein

Edie Falco as Union Speaker

After the funeral of one of their own, a criminal family decides to embark on an emotionally unnerving journey in an attempt to exact bloody revenge.

Little Rose

2010

Polish

7.0

♡ 6

85%

Jan Kidawa-Blonski Director

Jakub Kamienski as

Marcin Czarnik as

Andrzej Seweryn as Adam Warczewski

Robert Wieckiewicz as Roman Rozek

Pressured by his superiors to disgrace public intellectual Warczewski, a professor and respected writer whom they believe to be a "camouflaged Zionist," rough security-services colonel Rozek enlists his sexy but naive girlfriend, Kamila, to insinuate herself into the distinguished older man's life and report on his every move. Not particularly interested in serving communism but eager to please her domineering lover, Kamila accepts the mission, reporting under the code name "Little Rose." As quick scenes contrast Kamila's crude pleasures with Rozek and her more refined experiences with Warczewski, it becomes clear that the more time the unschooled young woman spends with the professor, the more she comes to have true feelings for him.

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Despite the Falling Snow

The Photograph

One, Two, Three

Volunteers

Roads to the South

Servants

The Motorcycle Diaries

Communists

Mother Kusters Goes to Heaven

The Love of Jeanne Ney

Frankenstein's Army

The Birth of New China

The Spy Who Came in from the Cold

My Perestroika

Uranya

The Travelling Players

Indochine

The Funeral

Little Rose