When the great potato famine hits Ireland, the diaspora begins as thousands emigrate. Among those leaving the Emerald Isle is Katie O'Neill and her husband, who decide that the promised land is South Africa and make their way there. Once there, they discover the hardships that are the reality of the homesteader experience.

Angela's Ashes

1999

English

7.3

♡ 18

52%

socially deprived family

Alan Parker Director

Emily Watson as Angela McCourt

Robert Carlyle as Malachy

Eileen Pollock as Mrs. Finucane

Kerry Condon as Theresa

An Irish Catholic family returns to 1930s Limerick after a child's death in America. The unemployed I.R.A. veteran father struggles with poverty, prejudice, and alcoholism as the family endures harsh slum conditions.

Bitter Harvest

2017

English

5.9

♡ 18

15%

George Mendeluk Director

Terence Stamp as Ivan

Malcolm Freeman as Molotov

Edward Akrout as Professor Temchuck

Kane Ogieva as Willard

Set between the two World Wars and based on true historical events, Bitter Harvest conveys the untold story of the Holodomor, the genocidal famine engineered by the tyrant Joseph Stalin. The film displays a powerful tale of love, honour, rebellion and survival at a time when Ukraine was forced to adjust to the horrifying territorial ambitions of the burgeoning Soviet Union.

American Experience The Great Famine

2011

English

7.3

♡ 2

Biography

Documentary

environmental documentary

Austin Hoyt Director

Aysyuak Yumagulov as Bell Tribute

Andrey Noskov as Office Worker

George H. Nash as Self - Hoover Biographer

David Ogden Stiers as Self - Narrator

When a devastating famine descended on Soviet Russia in 1921, it was the worst natural disaster in Europe since the Black Plague in the Middle Ages. Examine Herbert Hoover’s American Relief Administration—an operation hailed for its efficiency, grit and generosity. By the summer of 1922, American kitchens were feeding nearly 11 million Soviet citizens a day.

Kandahar

2001

English

6.8

♡ 4

89%

Mohsen Makhmalbaf Director

Monica Hankievich as

Zahra Shafahi as

Fahim Fazli as Commander Latif

Hoyatala Hakimi as Hayat

After an Afghanistan-born woman who lives in Canada receives a letter from her suicidal sister, she takes a perilous journey through Afghanistan to try to find her.

A Man There Was

1917

Swedish

7.3

♡ 5

88%

Action

based on song, poem or rhyme

Victor Sjöström Director

Julius Hälsig as English Officer in Prisoner

Eric Abrahamsson as Fisherman

Emil Fjellström as Fisherman at the Beach

Bergliot Husberg as Mrs. Vigen

Terje Vigen, a sailor, suffers the loss of his family through the inflexibility of another man. Years later, when his enemy's family finds itself dependent on his benevolence, Terje must decide whether to avenge himself.

Samson

2018

English

4.5

♡ 74

27%

Bruce Macdonald Director

Brandon Auret as Ashdod

Billy Zane as King Balek

Rutger Hauer as Manoah

Lindsay Wagner as Zealphonis

After losing the love of his life to a cruel Philistine prince, a young Hebrew with Supernatural strength defends his people, sacrificing everything to avenge his love, his people, and his God.

Samurai Fury

2025

Japanese

6.0

♡ 6

Action

Adventure

based on novel or book

Yû Irie Director

Rina Takeda as Chohi

Yô Ôizumi as Hasuda Hyoe

Wakana Matsumoto as Hoji

Kazuki Kitamura as Yoshiomi Nawa

Set in war-torn 15th century Kyoto, on the eve of the Onin War, the movie centers on a band of outlaws led by Hyoe, a scoundrel whose lethal sword skills place him at the tip of the spear in a deadly uprising against the corrupt Shogunate and its army, led by former friend-turned-archrival Doken.

Black '47

2018

English

♡ 89

78%

Lance Daly Director

Hugo Weaving as Hannah

Barry Keoghan as Hobson

Jim Broadbent as Lord Kilmichael

John Quinn as McDonagh

In 1847, when Ireland is in the grip of the Great Famine that has ravaged the country for two long years, Feeney, a hardened Irish Ranger who has been fighting for the British Army abroad, returns home to reunite with his estranged family, only to discover the cruelest reality, a black land where death reigns.