Äratus

1989

Estonian

6.6

♡ 3

Jüri Sillart Director

Kaie Mihkelson as I naine

Sergei Tserkassov as I ohvitser (noor)

Arvo Kukumägi as Kaarel Peterson

Maria Klenskaja as Linnanaine

It is the night of March 25, 1949. A full moon hangs over Estonia. Endless rows of cattle cars are waiting to transport thousands of Estonian families, asleep in their homes, to Siberia. The Stalinist regime is ready to treat people like animals.

Special Flight

2011

French

7.3

100%

Fernand Melgar Director

Switzerland still carries out special flights, where passengers, dressed in diapers and helmets, are chained to their seats for 40 hours at worst. They are accompanied by police officers and immigration officials. The passengers are flown to their native countries, where they haven't set foot in in up to twenty years, and where their lives might be in danger. Children, wives and work are left behind in Switzerland. Near Geneva, in Frambois prison, live 25 illegal immigrants waiting for deportation. They are offered an opportunity to say goodbye to their families and return to their native countries on a regular flight, escorted by plain-clothes police officers. If they refuse this offer, the special flight is arranged fast and unexpectedly. The stories behind the locked cells are truly heartbreaking.

Uprising

2001

English

7.2

♡ 17

100%

Jon Avnet Director

Andreas Patton as Border Guide

Dietrich Hollinderbäumer as Colonel Von Sammern

Jon Voight as Major-General Jurgen Stroop

Radha Mitchell as Mira Fruchner

In the Warsaw ghetto in 1943, Jews rise against the Nazis.

In the Crosswind

2014

Estonian

7.5

♡ 6

75%

Martti Helde Director

Mirt Preegel as Eliide

Laura Peterson as Erna Tamm

Tarmo Song as Heldur

Ingrid Isotamm as Hermiine

June 14, 1941, 3 a.m. Over 40000 people from Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania are deported by Soviets to Siberia. Among them is a philosophy student Erna, a happily married mother of a little girl. Separated from her husband, Erna and her daughter are dispatched together with other women and children to remote Siberian territories. Despite hunger, fear and brutal humiliation Erna never in next fifteen years loses her sense of freedom and hope of returning to homeland.

Comrades

1986

English

7.2

♡ 1

72%

Bill Douglas Director

Imelda Staunton as Betsy Loveless

Alex Norton as Diorama Showman / Lanternist / Laughing Cavalier / Sgt. Bell / Mr Wetham

Malcolm Terris as Gentleman Farmer

James Fox as Norfolk

The story of "The Tolpuddle Martyrs". A group of 19th century English farm labourers who formed one of the first trade unions and started a campaign to receive fair wages.

Let Joy Reign Supreme

1975

French

7.0

♡ 5

80%

Bertrand Tavernier Director

Michael Powell as John Law

Jean Rochefort as L'abbé Dubois

Thierry Lhermitte as le comte de Horn

Christian Clavier as Le valet de l'auberge

A look at 18th-century France, when the authorities depravity contributed to social oppression, and the uprisings flared up one after another.

Train of Life

1998

French

7.6

♡ 7

64%

Radu Mihaileanu Director

Constantin Draganescu as Le Paysan Comptoir

Gad Elmaleh as Manzatou

Florin Kevorkian as Miron

Luminita Gheorghiu as Rivka

In 1941, the inhabitants of a small Jewish village in Central Europe organize a fake deportation train so that they can escape the Nazis and flee to Palestine.

Welcome to Germany

2016

German

6.2

♡ 1

36%

Simon Verhoeven Director

Senta Berger as Angelika Hartmann

Elyas M'Barek as Dr. Tarek Berger

Florian David Fitz as Philipp Hartmann

Palina Rojinski as Sofie Hartmann

The Hartmann family is turned upside down when mother Angelika decides to take in the refugee Diallo, against her husband's will. Amidst the typical chaos of our time, hope remains that the family finds its stability, confidence and peace again - just like the whole country.

Executive Order

2020

Portuguese

6.6

♡ 5

88%

nonviolent resistance

racism

Sci-Fi

Lázaro Ramos Director

William Russell as

Alfred Enoch as Antônio Rodrigues

Taís Araújo as Capitu

Renata Sorrah as Dona Izildinha

In a dystopian future, the Brazilian government decrees a measure that forces black citizens to migrate to Africa in an attempt to return to their origins. Seeing themselves in the center of terror, two cousins take refuge in an apartment, where they debate social and racial issues, and share the same yearning for the change of country.

The Sun Is Also a Star

2019

English

5.9

♡ 61

52%

60%

Action

based on young adult novel

Ry Russo-Young Director

Charles Melton as Daniel Jae Ho Bae

John Leguizamo as Jeremy Martinez

Cathy Shim as Min Soo Bae

Gbenga Akinnagbe as Samuel Kingsley

Two young New Yorkers begin to fall in love over the course of a single day, as a series of potentially life-altering meetings loom over their heads - hers concerning her family’s deportation to Jamaica, and his concerning an education at Dartmouth.

Au Revoir les Enfants

1987

French

8.0

♡ 32

97%

parent child relationship

resistance

vichy regime

War

Louis Malle Director

Stanislas Carré de Malberg as François Quentin

Sergio Kato as Jean-Pierre

Irène Jacob as Mlle Davenne, piano teacher

François Berléand as Père Michel

Au revoir les enfants tells a heartbreaking story of friendship and devastating loss concerning two boys living in Nazi-occupied France. At a provincial Catholic boarding school, the precocious youths enjoy true camaraderie—until a secret is revealed. Based on events from writer-director Malle’s own childhood, the film is a subtle, precisely observed tale of courage, cowardice, and tragic awakening.

Separated

2024

English

6.5

♡ 1

97%

Errol Morris Director

Jonathan White as Self

Gabriela Cartol as Self

Lee Gelernt as Self

Allan Bualoy as Self

Academy Award®-winning filmmaker Errol Morris confronts one of the darkest chapters in recent American history: family separations. Based on NBC News Political and National Correspondent Jacob Soboroff’s book, Separated: Inside an American Tragedy, Morris merges bombshell interviews with government officials and artful narrative vignettes tracing one migrant family’s plight. Together they show that the cruelty at the heart of this policy was its very purpose. Against this backdrop, audiences can begin to absorb the U.S. government’s role in developing and implementing policies that have kept over 1300 children without confirmed reunifications years later, according to the Department of Homeland Security.

One Life

2023

English

♡ 64

91%

James Hawes Director

Helena Bonham Carter as Babette Winton

Adrian Rawlins as Geoff

Lena Olin as Grete Winton

Anthony Hopkins as Nicholas Winton

British stockbroker Nicholas Winton visits Czechoslovakia in the 1930s and forms plans to assist in the rescue of Jewish children before the onset of World War II, in an operation that came to be known as the Kindertransport.

An American Pickle

2020

English

5.7

♡ 45

73%

43%

brooklyn, new york city

Brandon Trost Director

Betsy Sodaro as Defense Attorney

Efka Kvaraciejus as Fish Monger

Seth Rogen as Herschel Greenbaum / Ben Greenbaum

Sean Whalen as Scientist

An immigrant worker at a pickle factory is accidentally preserved for 100 years and wakes up in modern day Brooklyn. He learns his only surviving relative is his great grandson, a computer coder who he can’t connect with.

The Garden of the Finzi-Continis

1970

Italian

7.2

♡ 2

based on novel or book

Vittorio De Sica Director

Helmut Berger as Alberto Finzi Contini

Joshua Sinclair as (as Gianni Loffredo)

Dominique Sanda as Micòl Finzi Contini

Adolf Hitler as Self - Acknowledges Hess

In 1930s Italy, a wealthy Jewish family tries to maintain their privileged lifestyle, hosting friends for tennis and parties at their villa. As anti-Semitism intensifies under Fascism, they must ultimately face the horrors of the Holocaust.

Surviving with Wolves

2007

French

6.5

♡ 2

66%

Véra Belmont Director

Guy Bedos as Jean

Franck de la Personne as M. Valle

Kait Tenison as Nathalie

Benno Fürmann as Reuven

In 1942, the young Jewish girl Misha, her Russian mother Gerusha and her German father Reuven hide from the Germans in a small house in Ardennes, Belgium. Misha is very connected to her mother that advises her that if one day a person comes to her saying "love of my life", she would follow him or her without any question. When her parents are captured by the Nazis, Misha is delivered to a German family and the abusive matriarch gives a bad treatment to the girl. However, she finds support in the family of Ernest and his deranged wife Marthe that supplies groceries to foster family. Misha loves Ernest's dogs and the old man gives a compass to her and tells that her parents have been sent to East to forced labor. When the old couple is denounced for sheltering the girl and arrested by the Germans, Misha flees through the woods heading east. Along her journey seeking out her parents...