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5.9

♡ 1

Action

Documentary

Carl Gierstorfer Director

Tom Hanks as Self - Actor, Philadelphia

Rock Hudson as Self - AIDS Victim

Magic Johnson as Self - HIV+ Former NBA Player

Tom Brokaw as Self - Host, NBC Nightly News

There may never be a virus as deadly or as misunderstood as AIDS. Responsible for 36 million deaths since its discovery in 1981, it remains shrouded in myths, misconceptions, and mistruths... until now. Scientists deep in the African Congo have discovered forgotten clues that are rewriting the story of the global pandemic and revealing shocking facts about its origins. Now the race is on to see if these new findings are the key to developing a vaccine that could finally win the epic battle against HIV.

Last Day of the Dinosaurs

2010

7.3

♡ 6

Richard Dale Director

Richard Coyle as Narrator UK

Bill Mondy as Self - Narrator US

Last Day of the Dinosaurs is a 2010 Discovery Channel television documentary about the extinction of the dinosaurs. It portrays the Alvarez hypothesis as the cause of extinction.

Ram Setu

2022

Hindi

5.3

♡ 8

11%

Abhishek Sharma Director

Akshay Kumar as Dr. Aryan Kulshrestha

Jacqueline Fernandez as Dr. Sandra Rebello

Nushrat Bharucha as Gayatri Kulshrestha Nassar

Nassar as Indrakant Varma

An atheist archaeologist turned believer must race against time to prove the true existence of the legendary Ram Setu before evil forces destroy the pillar of India’s heritage.

A Compassionate Spy

2022

6.6

♡ 1

81%

Steve James Director

Joseph Stalin as Self

Ruth London as Self

Boria Sax as Self

Marcia Kunstel as Self

Physicist Ted Hall is recruited to join the Manhattan Project as a teenager and goes to Los Alamos with no idea what he'll be working on. When he learns the true nature of the weapon being designed, he fears the post-war risk of a nuclear holocaust and begins to pass significant information to the Soviet Union.

The Battle of Neretva

1969

Serbo-croatian

7.0

♡ 6

65%

Veljko Bulajic Director

Hardy Krüger as Kranzer

Curd Jürgens as Lohring

Franco Nero as Riva

Bozidar Smiljanic as Surgeon

In January 1943 the German army, afraid of an Allied invasion of the Balkans, launched a great offensive against Yugoslav Partisans in Western Bosnia. The only way out for Partisan forces and thousands of refugees was the bridge on the river Neretva.

1898: Our Last Men in the Philippines

2016

Spanish

6.5

♡ 2

Salvador Calvo Director

Luis Fernández de Eribe as

Eduard Fernández as Capitán Enrique de las Morenas

Miguel Herrán as Soldado Carvajal

Patrick Criado as Soldado Juan

The Philippines, 1898. Fifty Spanish soldiers arrive in the small village of Baler to rebuild an outpost. Although the war against the Filipinos and their American allies is almost lost, as is the Spanish Empire, the garrison will endure a cruel siege for eleven months. They will be the last to surrender.

The Scandalous Lady W

2015

6.5

♡ 8

49%

Sheree Folkson Director

Richard McCabe as Lord North

Peter Sullivan as Mr. James Farrar

Natalie Dormer as Seymour Worsley

Oliver Chris as Viscount Deerhurst

A gripping 18th century drama details the scandalous life of Lady Seymour Worsley, who dared to leave her husband and elope with his best friend, Captain George Bisset. Lady Seymour Worsley escapes her troubled marriage only to find herself at the centre of a very public trial brought by her powerful husband Sir Richard Worsley.

The Butcher of Prague

2011

Czech

6.8

♡ 7

based on novel or book

prague, czech republic

War

war crimes

world war ii

Petr Nikolaev Director

Karel Roden as Frantisek Síma

Joachim Paul Assböck as Harald Wiesmann

Norbert Lichý as Mayor

Roman Luknár as Vlcek

Czechoslovakia, 1941. As the war continues, Reich Protector Reinhard Heydrich arrives in Nazi-occupied Prague and establishes a regime of terror that will force freedom fighters to act. But the price to pay will be too high.

Marco Polo

1962

Italian

5.2

♡ 1

Adventure

Richard McNamara Director

Angelo Galassi as

Michael Chow as Ciu-Lin

Pierre Cressoy as Cuday

Rory Calhoun as Marco Polo

Italian explorer rescues the daughter of the Mongol leader Kublai Khan, meets a hermit who has invented gunpowder and builds a cannon.

Manor House

2020

Romanian

6.6

♡ 1

Cristi Puiu Director

Edith Alibec as Camerista

Levente Nemes as Contele / Colonelul

Diana Sakalauskaité as Ingrida

Bogdan Geambasu as Jancsi

Among the guests who come to the mansion of aristocratic landowner Nikolai over Christmas are a politician, a young countess, and a general with his wife. They dine and discuss topics such as progress and morality. As the debate becomes more heated, cultural differences become increasingly apparent.

The Book of Daniel

2013

6.1

♡ 7

68%

Anna Zielinski Director

Gallagher as Astrologer-Abib

Philip Anthony-Rodriguez as Belshazzar

Lance Henriksen as Cyrus

Rolf Saxon as Nebuchadnezzar

Taken into slavery after the fall of Jerusalem in 605 B.C., Daniel is forced to serve the most powerful king in the world, King Nebuchadnezzar. Faced with imminent death, Daniel proves himself a trusted Advisor and is placed among the king's wise men. Threatened by death at every turn Daniel never ceases to serve the king until he is forced to choose between serving the king or honoring God. With his life at stake, Daniel has nothing but his faith to stand between him and the lions' den.

Chinmoku

1971

Japanese

7.1

♡ 3

17th century

based on novel or book

christianity

jesuits (society of jesus)

religious persecution

Masahiro Shinoda Director

Eiji Okada as Inoue Chikugonokami

Tomo'o Nagai as Official

Kappei Matsumoto as Prisoner official

Yoshio Inaba as Prisoner official

Two Jesuit priests encounter persecution when they travel to Japan in the 17th century to spread Christianity and search for their mentor.

The Jump

2020

Lithuanian

8.3

♡ 1

100%

Giedre Zickyte Director

Henry Kissinger as Self

Gerald Ford as Self

Ann Ingham as Self

Cindy White Glazewski as Self

In the Cold War years of the 1970s, an American patrol boat meets a Soviet ship off the east coast of the United States for talks about fishing rights in the Atlantic. In the midst of this, while Russian commanders are aboard the U.S. Coast Guard vessel where the talks are being held, a Lithuanian sailor jumps across the ten feet of icy water separating the boats. Crash-landing on the deck of the American ship, he desperately begs for asylum. Though they try, the Americans ultimately fail to provide protection and the Soviets are allowed to capture him and brutally return him to their vessel. Thus begins a stranger-than-fiction story of imprisonment, discovery, fame, and freedom. Through rare archival footage and a dramatic first-person re-enactment of that fateful day by Simas Kudirka, the would-be defector himself, this tale of one of the biggest Cold War muddles takes us on a journey of uncanny twists of fate, and the emotional sacrifices of becoming a universal symbol of freedom.

Aftershock

2010

Chinese

7.5

♡ 4

Xiaogang Feng Director

Jin Chen as Dong Guilan

Jingchu Zhang as Fang Deng / Wang Deng

Ziwen Wang as Xiao He

Jiajun Zhang as Young Fang Da

The epic story of a family separated as a result of the Great Tangshan Earthquake of 1976. Based on the Tangshan Earthquake in 1976 that took the lives of 240,000 people.

Pippa

2023

Hindi

6.2

♡ 9

50%

Action

based on novel or book

Raja Menon Director

Soham Majumdar as Anirban

Priyanshu Painyuli as Major Ram Mehta

Rakesh Kumar as Pakistani Soldier

Mrunal Thakur as Radha Mehta

The story of Captain Balram Singh Mehta of India’s 45 Cavalry regiment who, along with his siblings, fought on the eastern front during the Indo-Pakistani war of 1971. Named after the Russian amphibious war tank “PT-76”, which floats on water like an empty ‘pippa’ (tin) of ghee, the film traces Mehta's coming-of-age as he steps up to prove himself in a war to liberate Bangladesh.

Dovbush

2023

Ukrainian

7.4

♡ 13

Oles Sanin Director

Oleg Drach as Dengoff

Jerzy Schejbal as Hetman Potocki

Mateusz Kosciukiewicz as Przeluski

Agata Buzek as Yablonowska

In the early eighteenth century, foreign rule means dark times for the Hutsuls of the Carpathians. The two Dovbush brothers become opryshkos - mountain outlaws. But the two brothers become enemies - one cares only about money, the other - Oleksa - fights for his people. The Carpathians are convulsed with a wave of uprisings. The aristocracy uses its military might to try to kill Dovbush and destroy his legend. But Dovbush outwits them. The desperate lords devise a devious plan and attack the invincible outlaw's Achilles heel - his love for his childhood sweetheart, Marichka. Who will be the assassin to attack the Opryshko whose immense strength and bravery inspired folk tales? Will the lords' treacherous plan destroy the hero before he can lead his people to freedom?

Regina

2013

6.3

♡ 2

Diana Groó Director

Máté Haumann as

Peter Bowing as

Eszter Bíró as

Rachel Weisz as Regina Jonas

The first woman rabbi in the world, Regina Jonas, comes to light, courtesy of Rachel Weisz – who plays her – and her father George Weisz, who was the executive producer for this poetic and beautiful documentary. The daughter of an Orthodox Jewish peddler, Jonas was ordained in Berlin in 1935. During the Nazi era and the war, her sermons and her unparalleled devotion brought encouragement to the persecuted German Jews. Regina Jonas was murdered in Auschwitz in 1944. The only surviving photo of Jonas serves as a leitmotif for the film, showing a determined young woman gazing at the camera with self-confidence.

The Beauty of Beauties

1965

Chinese

6.7

♡ 4

5th century bc

ancient china

four beauties of ancient china