A White enclave in Johannesburg, South Africa, in the 1960s. Molly Roth, 13 years old, is the daughter of leftist parents, and she must piece together what's happening around her when her father disappears one night, barely evading arrest, and, not long after, her mother is detained by the authorities. Some of Molly's White friends turn against her, and her family's friendships with Blacks take on new meaning. Relationships are fragile in the world of apartheid. How will she manage?

The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceausescu

2010

Romanian

7.5

♡ 1

89%

Andrei Ujica Director

Prince Charles as Self

Jimmy Carter as Self

Leonid Brezhnev as Self

Pat Nixon as Self

The three-hour-long documentary covers 25 years in the life of Nicolae Ceaușescu and was made using 1,000 hours of original footage from the National Archives of Romania.

Amerikatsi

2022

Armenian

7.3

♡ 7

88%

Michael A. Goorjian Director

Michael A. Goorjian as Charlie Bakhchinyan

Jean-Pierre Nshanian as Prison Warden Sargsyan

Aram Karakhanyan as Sgt. Melikov

Hovik Keuchkerian as Tigran

In 1948, decades after fleeing Armenia to the US as a child, Charlie returns in the hopes of finding a connection to his roots, but what he finds instead is a country crushed under Soviet rule. After being unjustly imprisoned, Charlie falls into despair, until he discovers that he can see into a nearby apartment from his cell window - the home of a prison guard.

Toman

2018

Czech

6.7

♡ 7

Action

based on a true story

Ondrej Trojan Director

Jared Doreck as

Jaroslav Plesl as Imrich Rosenberg

Roman Luknár as Jan Masaryk

Miroslav Táborský as Jindrich Veselý

This fascinating historical drama looks at the life of "the Czech Schindler," Zdenek Toman, a controversial figure who was an unsavory politician and dubious entrepreneur, but also the savior of hundreds of Eastern European Jews.

The Oak

1992

Romanian

7.8

♡ 3

92%

Lucian Pintilie Director

Marcel Iures as

Constantin Draganescu as (as Costica Draganescu)

Maia Morgenstern as Nela

Anda Onesa as Nela's sister

A description of Romania before Ceausescu's downfall, through the story of Nela. Daughter of a former colonel of the Securitate, the romanian political police. She refused to become like her sister, an agent of this Securitate, and lives with her father. After he died, she leaves Bucharest, and ends up in a little town, where she meets Mitica, a surgeon, another herself, laughing at everything.

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