Dhurandhar

2025

Hindi

♡ 15

In the early 2000s, an Indian undercover operative infiltrates Karachi's underworld , breaking into its inner circle to dismantle a violent nexus from within.

Australia Day

2017

English

5.7

♡ 23

50%

Kriv Stenders Director

Christopher Sommers as Desk Sergeant

Matthew Le Nevez as Detective Mitchell Collyer

Daniel Webber as Jason Patterson

Bryan Brown as Terry Friedman

On Australia's most controversial national holiday, the lives of three Australians from diverse cultural backgrounds will collide, illuminating contemporary issues of racial tension and national identity that simmer beneath the surface of modern Australia.

1921

2021

Chinese

4.4

♡ 5

Action

based on true story

chinese communist party

chinese republican era

Jianxin Huang Director

Shawn Dou as Chen Tanqiu

Karry Wang as Deng Enming

Roy Wang as Deng Xiaoping Ni Ni

Ni Ni as Wang Huiwu

Tells the story of a Communist Party's early history during the turbulent era, examining the remarkable Chinese revolutionary leaders' zeal and contrition for the ascension of the Chinese people.

Stone of Destiny

2008

English

6.7

♡ 7

53%

Charles Martin Smith Director

Charlie Cox as Ian Hamilton

Juliet Cadzow as Ian's Mother

Robert Carlyle as John MacCormick

Kate Mara as Kay Matheson

Tells of the daring heist of The Stone of Destiny in the 1950s by a charming group of idealistic Scottish undergraduates, whose action rekindled Scottish nationalistic pride.

Hatred

2016

Polish

7.6

♡ 17

94%

Wojciech Smarzowski Director

Maciej Winkler as Chaim Kac

Maria Sobocinska as Helena Glowacka-Huk

Julian Swiezewski as Lieutenant

Ireneusz Czop as Priest Adam

Summer of 1939. Zosia is a young Polish girl who is deeply in love with Ukrainian Petro. Their great love will be put to the test when her father decides to marry her to a wealthy widower Skiba. Right after wedding she is left alone because her husband is drafted to the Polish army for the war with Germany. Meanwhile, tensions grow due to Jews, Poles, and Ukrainians living side by side.

Silence and Cry

1968

Hungarian

6.8

♡ 1

Miklós Jancsó Director

Károly Eisler as

Ferenc Kamarás as

Mária Boga as (as Mari Boga)

Philippe Haudiquet as Photographer

Set during a turbulent era of disquiet, fear, persecution and terror, which permeates every corner of post-WWI Hungarian society. In 1919, after just a few months of communist rule the Hungarian Republic of Councils falls victim to a nationalist counter-revolution. Admiral Horthy, leader of the nationalist far right movement, becomes the self-proclaimed regent of Hungary, and assumes power as the legal Head of State. Soldiers of the short-lived Hungarian Red Army are now on the run from relentless secret policemen and patrol units of the nationalist Royal Gendarme. If caught, ex-Red Army soldiers are executed without mercy or proper trial. István Cserzi, a former soldier of the Red Army has fled to the Great Hungarian Plains and has taken refuge on a farm, which is run by two sympathetic women.

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.

Ten Years Thailand

2018

Thai

6.2

100%

Apichatpong Weerasethakul Director

Chotiros Naksut as (segment "Catopia")

Nantarat Sawaddikul as (segment "Song of the City")

Waranyaa Punamsap as (segment "Sunset")

Angkrit Ajchariyasophon as (segment "Sunset")

A collection of short films by five Thai directors imagining their country ten years into the future.

Bad Faith

2024

English

7.4

♡ 6

100%

87%

christianity

christian nationalism

Documentary

historical documentary

nationalism

political documentary

religion

Stephen Ujlaki Director

George W. Bush as Self - 43rd President of the United States

Donald Trump as Self - 45th President of the United States

Peter Coyote as Self - Narrator

Vladimir Putin as Self - President of Russia

On January 6, 2021, Americans witnessed an attack on the U.S. Capitol without precedent in our history. Armed militiamen and QAnon followers made headlines, but among them were a sea of crosses and Christian flags, rosaries and "Jesus Saves" signs. What motivated so many Christians to participate in this violent assault?

Coup 53

2019

English

7.8

♡ 10

100%

teheran (tehran), iran

Taghi Amirani Director

Ralph Fiennes as Norman Darbyshire

Dwight D. Eisenhower as Self

Winston Churchill as Self

Allen Dulles as Self

Tehran, Iran, August 19, 1953. A group of Iranian conspirators who, with the approval of the deposed tyrant Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, have conspired with agents of the British MI6 and the US CIA, manage to put an end to the democratic government led by Mohammad Mosaddegh, a dramatic event that will begin the tragic era of coups d'état that, orchestrated by the CIA, will take place, over the following decades, in dozens of countries around the world.

The Boy in the Striped Pajamas

2008

English

7.7

♡ 140

65%

85%

Action

based on novel or book

Mark Herman Director

Asa Butterfield as Bruno

David Thewlis as Father

Rupert Friend as Lieutenant Kotler

Vera Farmiga as Mother

When his family moves from their home in Berlin to a strange new house in Poland, young Bruno befriends Shmuel, a boy who lives on the other side of the fence where everyone seems to be wearing striped pajamas. Unaware of Shmuel's fate as a Jewish prisoner or the role his own Nazi father plays in his imprisonment, Bruno embarks on a dangerous journey inside the camp's walls.

Welcome to Dongmakgol

2005

Korean

7.6

♡ 14

88%

Kwang-Hyun Park Director

Nam-Hee Park as Jon Emm

Jon Emm as Colonel

Leif Gantvoort as Major

Hye-jeong Kang as Yeo-il

Based on the long running play by Jang Jin, the story is set in Korea during the Korean War in 1950. Soldiers from both the North and South, as well as an American pilot, find themselves in a secluded and naively idealistic village, its residents unaware of the outside world, including the war.

The Cove

2009

English

♡ 31

95%

Louie Psihoyos Director

Hayden Panettiere as Herself: Whateman Foundation / Save the Whales

Isabel Lucas as Herself: Whateman Foundation / Save the Whales

Paul Watson as Himself

C. Scott Baker as Himself

The Cove tells the amazing true story of how an elite team of individuals, films makers and free divers embarked on a covert mission to penetrate the hidden cove in Japan, shining light on a dark and deadly secret. The shocking discoveries were only the tip of the iceberg.

Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters

1985

Japanese

7.9

♡ 21

79%

Paul Schrader Director

Alan Poul as American Reporter

Kôichi Satô as Kashiwagi

Toshio Hosokawa as 'Rokumeikan' Producer

Yasuaki Kurata as Takei

A fictional account of the life of Japanese author Yukio Mishima, combining dramatizations of three of his novels and a depiction of the events of November 25th, 1970.

Sissi - Schicksalsjahre einer Kaiserin

1957

German

6.6

♡ 3

husband wife relationship

Ernst Marischka Director

Magda Schneider as Duchess Ludovika of Bavaria

Gustav Knuth as Duke Max of Bavaria

Romy Schneider as Empress Elisabeth of Austria / Sissi

Senta Wengraf as Gräfin Bellegarde

After a wonderful time in Hungary Sissi falls extremely ill and must retreat to a Mediterranean climate to rest. The young empress’ mother takes her from Austria to recover in Madeira.

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Australia Day

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Bad Faith

Coup 53

The Boy in the Striped Pajamas

Welcome to Dongmakgol

The Cove

Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters

Sissi - Schicksalsjahre einer Kaiserin