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51. Samurai Spy (1965)
Not Rated | 99 min | Action, Drama
The legendary samurai Sasuke Sarutobi gets caught in a web of political intrigue, deception and espionage during the early 17th century.
Director: Masahiro Shinoda | Stars: Hiroshi Aoyama, Jun Hamamura, Osamu Hitomi, Minoru Hodaka
Votes: 1,861
52. Night Bus (2007)
90 min | Drama, Romance, War
Two young Iranian soldiers guard a bus load of prisoners of war on a trip to prison.
Director: Kiumars Poorahmad | Stars: Khosro Shakibai, Mohammad Reza Forutan, Amir Mohammad Zand, Elnaz Shakerdoost
Votes: 631
53. A Sense of Loss (1972)
135 min | Documentary
Shot over six weeks in December 1971, and January 1972, the film consisted of interviews with Protestants, Catholics, politicians, and some soldiers, combined with TV news clips of bombings and violence.
Director: Marcel Ophüls | Stars: Bridget Andrews, Bridget Bond, Noël Browne, Mr. and Mrs. George Caldwell
Votes: 70
54. Chroniques d'un Iran interdit (2011 TV Movie)
90 min | Documentary
While winds of freedom blow through the Arab world, the Iranian youth waits. They were the first to rise up against their leaders in 2009.
Director: Manon Loizeau | Stars: Neda Agha-Soltan, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Sohrab Arabi, Mehdi Chamran
Votes: 28
55. Patmos (1985)
Not Rated | 72 min | Drama, History
The elderly apostle John lives as a prisoner in the penal colony on the island of Patmos, where he gets inspiration to write the Book of Revelation.
Director: Jimmy Murphy | Stars: Louis Rolston, Mark Mulholland, Joe McPartland, John Hewitt
Votes: 37
56. Ferestadeh (1983)
103 min | Drama
An Iranian assassin is sent to the United States to kill a former Iranian official who served under the Shah of Iran. The night before the assassination he find out that his target (Mr. ... See full summary »
Director: Parviz Sayyad | Stars: Parviz Sayyad, Mary Apick, Houshang Touzie, Saeed Rajai
Votes: 238
57. Maryam (2002)
Not Rated | 87 min | Drama
An Iranian-born teenager living in suburban New Jersey thinks of herself as simply an American until anti-Iranian sentiment erupts in her community after American hostages are held in Iran.
Director: Ramin Serry | Stars: Mariam Parris, David Ackert, Shaun Toub, Shohreh Aghdashloo
Votes: 299 | Gross: $0.10M
58. And Should We Die (1966)
53 min | Drama, Action, Western
Pancho Villa's men harass and kill Americans during the Mexican Revolution (early 20th Century) for aiding Villa's enemies. Rafael Monroy and Vincente Morales (leaders of a small Mormon ... See full summary »
Director: Judge Whitaker | Stars: Nathan Hale, Klair Bybee, Dana Rosado, Jean Jenkins
Votes: 34
59. A Respectable Family (2012)
90 min | Drama
Upon returning home to Iran after more than two decades abroad, visiting professor Arash is quickly thrust into a past he's spent his whole life trying to escape.
Director: Massoud Bakhshi | Stars: Babak Hamidian, Mehrdad Sedighian, Mehran Ahmadi, Ahoo Kheradmand
Votes: 551
60. Lawa. Opowiesc o 'Dziadach' Adama Mickiewicza (1989)
129 min | Drama, History, Mystery
In the eve of the Day of the Dead, among mysterious old rituals of the Vilnius region, ghosts of the past and present start to appear.
Director: Tadeusz Konwicki | Stars: Gustaw Holoubek, Jolanta Pietek-Górecka, Artur Zmijewski, Teresa Budzisz-Krzyzanowska
Votes: 337
61. Crónicas de una generación trágica (1993– )
60 min | Action, Biography, Drama
From the point of view of a tailor, the story of a generation of national heroes is told. Their lives, risks and hardships to achieve the independence of the New Kingdom of Granada (today ... See full summary »
Stars: Juan Ángel, Gerardo Calero, Edgardo Román, Luis Fernando Montoya
Votes: 33
62. All My Tomorrows (2014)
100 min | Action, Comedy, Drama
This romantic comedy, shot in a road-movie style, tells the story of businessman Petr Kraus (Pavel Batek) and his personal transformation. After returning from China, where he supervised ... See full summary »
Director: Rudolf Havlik | Stars: Pavel Batek, Vica Kerekes, Filip Blazek, Jirí Lábus
Votes: 117
63. Martin a Venuse (2013)
Comedy, Romance
A young artist Vendula meets and marries Martin, a toy designer. They start a family, and have twin girls and a baby boy. Martin is busy building his career while Vendula takes care of the ... See full summary »
Director: Jirí Chlumský | Stars: Marek Taclík, Kristýna Boková, Kitty Hort, Ella Dvoráková
Votes: 111
64. Dita Saxová (1968)
98 min | Drama
A beautiful, underachieving, 18 year old orphan considers various suitors, ponders philosophy, and takes a young girl under her wing.
Director: Antonín Moskalyk | Stars: Krystyna Mikolajewska, Bohus Záhorský, Karel Höger, Martin Ruzek
Votes: 94
65. Round the Moons Between Earth and Sea (1997)
101 min | Drama
Pozzuoli and its surroundings are places with an ancient and distant history. Thus we are reliving some dramatic episodes of an almost forgotten past: the matricide of Agrippina by Nero; ... See full summary »
Director: Giuseppe M. Gaudino | Stars: Olimpia Carlisi, Tina Femiano, Salvatore Grasso, Aldo Bufi Landi
Votes: 98
66. The Amish Girl Book Trailer (2022 Video)
Short, Horror
Anna Beiler is too wicked to be Amish. Or so she is told. Well into her Rumspringa (the time when Amish teenagers are free to experience the modern world before deciding which life to ... See full summary »
Director: A.C. Ducey | Stars: Christy St. John, Eric Dieter, Maria Bruun
67. The Postman Doesn't Knock 3 Times (2009)
100 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
A man takes another man's girl as a hostage and goes to a deserted house outside of Tehran. But there another destiny is waiting him.
Director: Hasan Fathi | Stars: Pantea Bahram, Mohammad Reza Forutan, Amir Jafari, Baran Kosari
Votes: 612
68. Aisheen (Still Alive in Gaza) (2010)
86 min | Documentary, Family
Through encounters in these otherwise ordinary places (but places that, here, take on another meaning), the film portrays a different Gaza. Poetic, surreal at times. "Aisheen" is a tribute to life.
Director: Nicolas Wadimoff
Votes: 67
69. The Disintegration (2011)
78 min | Drama
A realistic description of unemployed young Muslims who live in the french suburbs, lost generation ostracized by the racism which slowly push them to the Muslim extremism.
Director: Philippe Faucon | Stars: Rashid Debbouze, Yassine Azzouz, Ymanol Perset, Mohamed Nachit
Votes: 313
70. Deh Namaki-ha (2008)
62 min | Documentary
Pegah Ahangarani sets out to a one woman manhunt for Masoud Dehnamaki.
Director: Pegah Ahangarani | Stars: Akbar Abdi, Mohammad Ali Abtahi, Pegah Ahangarani, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
Votes: 114
71. Tale of a Wolf (1960)
Passed | 7 min | Animation, Family, Short
Loopy de Loop's sole mission in life is to convince the world that wolves are really gentle, honest, law-abiding citizens but first he must teach the wolves that they are really gentle, ... See full summary »
Directors: Joseph Barbera, William Hanna | Stars: Daws Butler, Don Messick, Paul Frees
Votes: 29
72. Endgame in Ireland (2001 TV Movie)
240 min | Documentary
A comprehensive look at the Irish people's struggle for Civil rights and how it transpired into a military campaign for independence, before a political agreement was made for fair ... See full summary »
Directors: Mark Anderson, Mick Gold | Stars: Gerry Adams, Bertie Ahern, Tony Blair, Denis Bradley
Votes: 42
73. Paratiisin avaimet (2014)
27 min | Short, Drama, History
Iran, 1984. Homeless brothers struggle to survive in a country at war.
Director: Hamy Ramezan | Stars: Salar Ashtiyani, Yazdan Akhoondi, Shaghayeh Djodat, Muhammed Cangören
Votes: 108
74. Within Walls (2021)
47 min | Documentary
Every painting - a dead friend. Mohammed and Omar paint the faces of their dead friends on the walls in the streets of Dheisheh Refugee camp.
Director: Marina Schulz
75. Awakening Dreams (2010)
Drama, War
Hamid's brother has been missing in action, presumed dead, for twenty-two years. Coming to terms with the loss, Hamid has now moved on and, as custom dictates, married his brother's widow. But ...
Director: Mohammad Ali Bashe Ahangar | Stars: Mehri Sadat Alagha, Amir Hossein Arman, Hamid Reza Azarang, Habib Dehghan Nasab
Votes: 114
76. Minoo Watch Tower (1996)
82 min | Drama, War
Minoo who is married to Moosa recently, is moving to the new house. But Moosa receive a letter in which he being told to get back to the Minoo Island (a border island between Iran and Iraq)... See full summary »
Director: Ebrahim Hatamikia | Stars: Niki Karimi, Ali Mosaffa, Mohammad Reza Sharifinia, Ali Nasirian
Votes: 396
77. Il tempo dell'inizio (1974)
127 min | Drama, Sci-Fi
A "symbolic" character traces the path of man in search of salvation in this world within his own ghosts and deformations.
Director: Luigi Di Gianni | Stars: Sven Lasta, Rada Rassimov, Jean Martin, Claudio Camaso
Votes: 52
78.
Great Performances (1971– )
Episode:
Jesus Christ Superstar
(2000)
Unrated | 107 min | Music, Musical
A rock musical version of the Passion Play seen from the point of view of Judas.
Directors: Gale Edwards, Nick Morris | Stars: Glenn Carter, Jérôme Pradon, Renée Castle, Fred Johanson
Votes: 2,190
79.
The Tudors (2007–2010)
Episode:
His Majesty's Pleasure
(2008)
TV-MA | 55 min | Drama, History, Romance
Fisher and More continue to resist the coercion to take the oath and pay with their lives as Henry's ardor toward Anne subsides after her miscarriage.
Director: Ciaran Donnelly | Stars: Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Henry Cavill, Natalie Dormer, Maria Doyle Kennedy
Votes: 755
80.
The Tudors (2007–2010)
Episode:
The Definition of Love
(2008)
TV-MA | 52 min | Drama, History, Romance
When King Francis refuses to approve an engagement involving the baby but proposes one between Mary and the Dauphin, Henry begins to turn against Anne.
Director: Ciaran Donnelly | Stars: Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Henry Cavill, Natalie Dormer, Maria Doyle Kennedy
Votes: 680
81.
Frontline/World (2002– )
Episode:
Children of the Taliban
(2009)
Documentary
Director: Daniel Edge | Star: Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy
82.
Invitation à la danse (1963)
Episode:
Le martyre de Saint Sébastien
(1963)
Musical
Director: Roger Kahane | Stars: Ludmilla Tchérina, William Sabatier, Milenko Banovitch, Michel Ruhl
83.
Caprica (2009–2010)
Episode:
Apotheosis
(2010)
TV-14 | 60 min | Action, Drama, Sci-Fi
Daniel, Amanda, and Zoe race to stop Clarice's master plan and save thousands of lives before Caprica is changed forever.
Director: Jonas Pate | Stars: Eric Stoltz, Esai Morales, Paula Malcomson, Alessandra Torresani
Votes: 434
84.
Frontline (1983– )
Episode:
America and the Taliban (1)
(2023)
TV-PG | 53 min | Documentary, News
How America's 20-year investment in Afghanistan culminated in the Taliban victory. Drawing on decades of on-the-ground reporting and interviews with Taliban and US officials.
Directors: Marcela Gaviria, Martin Smith | Stars: Martin Smith, Jason Dempsey, Abdul Salam Zaeef, Marc Grossman
Votes: 54
85.
Edward and Mary: The Unknown Tudors (2002– )
Episode:
Mary I: The First Virgin Queen
(2002)
TV-14 | 49 min | Documentary, History
How did Queen Mary become known to history as Bloody Mary? After an imagined pregnancy, Henry VIII's eldest daughter took out her frustration upon Protestants, sending hundreds to be burned at the stake.
Director: Lucy Swingler | Stars: David Starkey, Rachel Jenkins, Emilie Smith
Votes: 10
86.
The Jews Are Coming (2014– )
Episode:
Episode #1.11
(2015)
Comedy, History
Director: Kobi Havia | Stars: Moni Moshonov, Yael Sharoni, Yaniv Biton, Ido Mosseri
87.
Taken (2017–2018)
Episode:
Off Side
(2017)
TV-14 | 41 min | Action, Drama, Thriller
Bryan and team search for a suspected terrorist who has been taken, leading them to uncover a deeper plot within their own government. Christina receives troubling news and turns to Harry ... See full summary »
Director: Tim Matheson | Stars: Clive Standen, Gaius Charles, Brooklyn Sudano, Monique Gabriela Curnen
Votes: 441
88.
Elizabeth I's Secret Agents (2017)
Episode:
Episode #1.2
(2017)
TV-PG | 54 min | Documentary, History
Robert Cecil is the son of Elizabeth I's original spymaster. He has been groomed since birth to inherit his father's network but he finally steps into his father's shoes.
Directors: Chris Durlacher, Julian Jones | Stars: Colin Tierney, Jerry Brotton, Dominic Green, Lisa Hilton
Votes: 43
89.
Elizabeth I's Secret Agents (2017)
Episode:
Episode #1.3
(2017)
TV-PG | 54 min | Documentary, History
King James of Scotland travels south to take the throne at the invitation of Robert Cecil. Meanwhile, John Gerard, a Catholic priest who has dedicated his life to the destruction of the ... See full summary »
Directors: Chris Durlacher, Julian Jones | Stars: Colin Tierney, Dominic Green, Alexander Courtney, Jessie Childs
Votes: 39
90.
American Dynasties: The Kennedys (2018)
Episode:
The Legend of Camelot
(2018)
42 min | Documentary, History
Numbed by grief after the assassination of her husband, Jackie crafts JFK's legacy, while Bobby becomes a champion of the dispossessed and the family's next great political hope.
Director: Jonathan Jones | Stars: Martin Sheen, Sally Bedell Smith, Richard Mahoney, Kate Andersen Brower
Votes: 54
91.
The Little Drummer Girl (2018)
Episode:
Episode #1.5
(2018)
TV-MA | 58 min | Drama, Thriller
Charlie joins a group of revolutionaries in Lebanon, with no one to save her if she is exposed as a spy. She works to earn the trust of Khalil and Michel's sister, Fatmeh.
Director: Park Chan-wook | Stars: Oulaya Amamra, Lubna Azabal, Shlomo Bar-Aba, Adel Bencherif
Votes: 556