Fighting Back
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1. The Comet (1999)
TV-PG | 92 min | Musical, Adventure, Drama
At the time of the Mexican Revolution, Valentina is forced to hide with a traveling circus after the death of her father. There she establishes a friendship with Victor, a young man fascinated by the new cinema.
Directors: José Buil, Marisa Sistach | Stars: Diego Luna, Ana Claudia Talancón, Gabriel Retes, Carmen Maura
Votes: 191
2. Cuartelazo (1977)
117 min | Action, Drama, History
Director: Alberto Isaac | Stars: Héctor Ortega, Bruno Rey, Arturo Beristáin, Eduardo López Rojas
Votes: 42
3. México de mis recuerdos (1944)
91 min | Musical, Comedy, Drama
Chucho Flores, a bohemian composer writes a waltz "Carmelita" dedicated to the wife of president Diaz, after listening the waltz the president instructs to Susanito Peñafiel y Somellera ... See full summary »
Director: Juan Bustillo Oro | Stars: Fernando Soler, Sofía Álvarez, Joaquín Pardavé, Luis Aldás
Votes: 125
4. Thunder Over Mexico (1933)
70 min | Drama, History
As was common in Diaz's Mexico, a young hacienda worker finds his betrothed imprisoned and his life threatened by his master for confronting a hacienda guest for raping the girl.
Director: Sergei Eisenstein | Stars: Martín Hernández, Isabel Villaseñor, Félix Balderas, Julio Saldívar
Votes: 157
5. Viva Villa! (1934)
Passed | 115 min | Biography, Western
After enacting revenge on the overseer who murdered his father, Pancho Villa becomes a bandit, earning the respect of the poor by brutally attacking the wealthy.
Directors: Jack Conway, Howard Hawks, William A. Wellman | Stars: Wallace Beery, Fay Wray, Leo Carrillo, Donald Cook
Votes: 1,570 | Gross: $1.11M
6. Let's Go with Pancho Villa (1936)
PG-13 | 92 min | Drama, War
The Mexican Revolution is on its way when six brave peasants, known as "Los Leones de San Pablo", decide to join Pancho Villa's army and help end the suffering in their community by ... See full summary »
Director: Fernando de Fuentes | Stars: Antonio R. Frausto, Domingo Soler, Manuel Tamés, Ramón Vallarino
Votes: 816
7. And Starring Pancho Villa as Himself (2003 TV Movie)
TV-MA | 112 min | Biography, Drama, History
Hollywood makes a deal with Mexican revolutionary Pancho Villa to film his war and recreate his life.
Director: Bruce Beresford | Stars: Antonio Banderas, Eion Bailey, Alan Arkin, Jim Broadbent
Votes: 3,624
8. Villa Rides (1968)
R | 125 min | Drama, War, Western
Mexican rebel Pancho Villa leads a revolution helped by an American aviator imprisoned in Mexico.
Director: Buzz Kulik | Stars: Yul Brynner, Robert Mitchum, Maria Grazia Buccella, Herbert Lom
Votes: 2,327 | Gross: $2.64M
9. Old Gringo (1989)
R | 119 min | Adventure, History, Romance
When school teacher Harriet Winslow goes to Mexico to teach, she is kidnapped by Gen. Tomas Arroyo and his revolutionaries. An aging American, Ambrose "Old Gringo" Bierce also in Mexico, ... See full summary »
Director: Luis Puenzo | Stars: Jane Fonda, Gregory Peck, Jimmy Smits, Patricio Contreras
Votes: 2,108 | Gross: $3.57M
10. Pancho Villa (1972)
PG | 92 min | Action, Biography, Comedy
A double-cross in an arms deal prompts Mexican revolutionary Pancho Villa to raid a US Army weapons depot in Columbus, New Mexico.
Director: Eugenio Martín | Stars: Telly Savalas, Clint Walker, Chuck Connors, Anne Francis
Votes: 716
11. La soldadera (1966)
88 min | Action, Drama, War
"La soldadera" (the female soldier) focuses upon Lázara, a simple country girl who is caught up in the Mexican Revolution. At the beginning of the film, she is a newlywed whose husband, ... See full summary »
Director: José Bolaños | Stars: Silvia Pinal, Jaime Fernández, Narciso Busquets, Sonia Infante
Votes: 84
12. Reed: Insurgent Mexico (1972)
124 min | Biography, Drama, War
A dramatization of John Reed's newspaper accounts of the Mexican Revolution. Considered the first real film in Mexican cinema to be made on the Mexican Revolution.
Director: Paul Leduc | Stars: Claudio Obregón, Eduardo López Rojas, Ernesto Gómez Cruz, Juan Ángel Martínez
Votes: 206
13. Caballo prieto azabache (1968)
85 min | Adventure, Drama, War
Jesus is a horse breeder, providing the federals and the revolutionists with horses during the revolution, trying his best to steer clear of politics of which he has little interest. ... See full summary »
Director: René Cardona | Stars: Antonio Aguilar, Flor Silvestre, Jaime Fernández, Jorge Russek
Votes: 28
14. El principio (1973)
135 min | Action, Drama, History
A man returns from Paris to find his home of Chihuahua Mexico occupied by Francisco Villa's revolutionary troops.
Director: Gonzalo Martínez Ortega | Stars: Lucha Villa, Narciso Busquets, Andrés García, Fernando Balzaretti
Votes: 70
15. Un dorado de Pancho Villa (1967)
95 min | Adventure, Drama, War
Un Dorado de Pancho Villa opens on Pancho Villa addressing his faithful at the end of the Mexican Revolution. The story proceeds to follow the return of Aurelio Perez (a Major and one of ... See full summary »
Director: Emilio Fernández | Stars: Emilio Fernández, Maricruz Olivier, Carlos López Moctezuma, Sonia Amelio
Votes: 33
16. The Treasure of Pancho Villa (1955)
Approved | 92 min | Romance, War, Western
In 1915, an American adventurer joins the supporters of Mexican revolutionary Pancho Villa.
Director: George Sherman | Stars: Rory Calhoun, Shelley Winters, Gilbert Roland, Joseph Calleia
Votes: 519
17. Wild Flower (1943)
TV-PG | 94 min | Drama, Romance, War
One of the gratest love stories ever told!!
Director: Emilio Fernández | Stars: Dolores Del Río, Pedro Armendáriz, Emilio Fernández, Miguel Ángel Ferriz
Votes: 241
18. Los de abajo (1940)
TV-PG | 89 min | Drama, War
Liderados por el capitán Anastasio Montañez, el recién formado ejército de campesinos -hartos de las injusticias de los federales-, toma como código de honor saquear las casas para repartir las riquezas.
Director: Chano Urueta | Stars: Miguel Ángel Ferriz, Esther Fernández, Isabela Corona, Domingo Soler
Votes: 55
19. La muerte de Pancho Villa (1974)
85 min | Action, Biography, Drama
The role of the legendary Pancho Villa in the Mexican Revolution. Beginning at the end of the Revolution, Villa is at an outside dance party in Parral, when reporter Llergo and the ... See full summary »
Director: Mario Hernández | Stars: Antonio Aguilar, Jaime Fernández, Ana Luisa Peluffo, Flor Silvestre
Votes: 20
20. Under Strange Flags (1937)
Passed | 64 min | Romance
In 1914 Mexico, the revolution, led by Pancho Villa, is preventing many Americans from getting their mined-in-Mexico silver across the American border. Tom Kenyon, American manager of the ... See full summary »
Director: Irvin Willat | Stars: Tom Keene, Luana Walters, Budd Buster, Maurice Black
Votes: 38
21. They Came to Cordura (1959)
Approved | 123 min | Adventure, Drama, History
An army major, himself guilty of cowardice, is asked to recommend soldiers for the Congressional Medal of Honor during the Mexican Border Incursion of 1916.
Director: Robert Rossen | Stars: Gary Cooper, Rita Hayworth, Van Heflin, Tab Hunter
Votes: 2,455
22. Viva Zapata! (1952)
Approved | 113 min | Biography, Drama, History
The story of Mexican revolutionary Emiliano Zapata, who led a rebellion against the corrupt, oppressive dictatorship of President Porfirio Díaz in the early 20th century.
Director: Elia Kazan | Stars: Marlon Brando, Jean Peters, Anthony Quinn, Joseph Wiseman
Votes: 12,464
23. Zapata (1970)
R | 120 min | Action, Biography, Drama
Emiliano Zapata was a peasant who understood the ideals of the working class. He became a figurehead of the revolutionary uprising in Mexico and his life as a leader, his wife and the ... See full summary »
Director: Felipe Cazals | Stars: Antonio Aguilar, Armando Acosta, David Alejandro, Mario Almada
Votes: 75
24. Zapata: Amor en rebeldía (2004– )
261 min | Biography, Drama
Stars: Demián Bichir, Lorena Rojas, Giovanna Zacarías, Carlos Torrestorija
Votes: 34
25. Zapata - El sueño del héroe (2004)
Biography, Drama, Fantasy
A look at the life of Mexican Revolution Hero Emiliano Zapata.
Director: Alfonso Arau | Stars: Alejandro Fernández, Lucero, Patricia Velasquez, Jesús Ochoa
Votes: 1,081
26. Godfather Mendoza (1934)
85 min | Drama, War
During Mexican Revolution, Rosalio Mendoza (Del Diestro) survives by making and winning favors from both factions, the governmental forces and Zapata's Army. His hacienda welcomes everybody... See full summary »
Directors: Juan Bustillo Oro, Fernando de Fuentes | Stars: Alfredo del Diestro, Carmen Guerrero, Antonio R. Frausto, Luis G. Barreiro
Votes: 608
27. La casta divina (1977)
120 min | Drama, History, War
In the South Yucatan at the turn of the 20th century, a Revolutionary Republican general battles against the region's wealthy land owners.
Director: Julián Pastor | Stars: Ignacio López Tarso, Ana Luisa Peluffo, Pedro Armendáriz Jr., Tina Romero
Votes: 75
28. Cannon for Cordoba (1970)
PG-13 | 104 min | Action, Romance, Western
In 1916, when a Mexican rebel steals cannons from the American army, General Pershing sends out a group of misfits to retrieve the stolen weapons.
Director: Paul Wendkos | Stars: George Peppard, Giovanna Ralli, Raf Vallone, Pete Duel
Votes: 761
29. La sombra del Caudillo (1960)
129 min | Drama, History, Romance
The movie situated in post-revolutionary Mexico describes the way politics were done in those times. Ignacio Jimenez is chosen as the candidate of the Partido Radical Progresista, but he ... See full summary »
Director: Julio Bracho | Stars: Tito Junco, Roberto Cañedo, Tito Novaro, Tomás Perrín
Votes: 230
30. Peregrina (1974)
83 min | Drama, War
Based on true events love story of how a Mexican governor falls in love for an American journalist.
Director: Mario Hernández | Stars: Antonio Aguilar, Sasha Montenegro, Jaime Fernández, Julián Pastor
Votes: 18
31. La guerra santa (1979)
110 min | Action, Drama, History
The action is located in the 1927 rural Mexico. It refers to the Cristero War and the way the clerical groups, in a fanatical struggle against the Government of Calles, manipulate the peasants.
Director: Carlos Enrique Taboada | Stars: Jorge Luke, José Carlos Ruiz, Víctor Junco, Enrique Lucero
Votes: 104
32. Is Paris Burning? (1966)
Approved | 173 min | Drama, History, War
August 1944. The Allies are approaching Paris and resistance groups within the city start to plan an uprising against the Germans. However, Hitler wants the city destroyed if it looks like the Allies will take it.
Director: René Clément | Stars: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Charles Boyer, Leslie Caron, Jean-Pierre Cassel
Votes: 5,196
33. Army of Crime (2009)
Not Rated | 139 min | Drama, History, War
The poet Missak Manouchian leads a mixed bag of youngsters and immigrants in a clandestine battle against the Nazi occupation. Twenty-two men and one woman fighting for an ideal and for ... See full summary »
Director: Robert Guédiguian | Stars: Simon Abkarian, Virginie Ledoyen, Robinson Stévenin, Lola Naymark
Votes: 3,562 | Gross: $0.04M
34. Goodbye, Children (1987)
PG | 104 min | Drama, War
A French boarding school run by priests seems to be a haven from World War II until a new student arrives. Occupying the next bed in the dormitory to the top student in his class, the two young boys begin to form a bond.
Director: Louis Malle | Stars: Gaspard Manesse, Raphael Fejtö, Francine Racette, Stanislas Carré de Malberg
Votes: 36,120 | Gross: $4.54M
35. The Battle of the Rails (1946)
85 min | Drama, War
Recounts the courageous efforts by French railroad workers who were part of an organized resistance during German World War II occupation.
Director: René Clément | Stars: Marcel Barnault, Jean Clarieux, Jean Daurand, Lucien Desagneaux
Votes: 1,268
36. Charlotte Gray (2001)
PG-13 | 121 min | Drama, Romance, Thriller
A young Scottish woman joins the French Resistance during World War II to rescue her Royal Air Force boyfriend who is lost in France.
Director: Gillian Armstrong | Stars: Cate Blanchett, James Fleet, Abigail Cruttenden, Charlotte McDougall
Votes: 13,184 | Gross: $0.67M
37. Female Agents (2008)
TV-MA | 148 min | Drama, War
London, 1944: SOE's section for French ops parachute 4 women into France, plus a woman there, to free an English geologist and kill SS colonel Heindrich.
Director: Jean-Paul Salomé | Stars: Sophie Marceau, Julie Depardieu, Moritz Bleibtreu, Marie Gillain
Votes: 7,954
38. Don't Look Now... We're Being Shot At! (1966)
G | 132 min | Adventure, Comedy, War
Several ordinary Frenchmen go on an epic voyage through the occupied country to the free zone as they help British pilots avoid German captivity.
Director: Gérard Oury | Stars: Bourvil, Louis de Funès, Claudio Brook, Andréa Parisy
Votes: 20,220
39. Line of Demarcation (1966)
92 min | Drama, War
1941. A little town in the Jura is cut in half by a river that forms the border between German-occupied France and the free zone.
Director: Claude Chabrol | Stars: Jean Seberg, Maurice Ronet, Daniel Gélin, Jacques Perrin
Votes: 890
40. The Longest Day (1962)
G | 178 min | Action, Drama, History
The events of D-Day, told on a grand scale from both the Allied and German points of view.
Directors: Ken Annakin, Andrew Marton, Gerd Oswald, Bernhard Wicki, Darryl F. Zanuck | Stars: John Wayne, Robert Ryan, Richard Burton, Henry Fonda
Votes: 59,072 | Gross: $39.10M
41. Lucie Aubrac (1997)
R | 115 min | Biography, Drama, War
A love story or a tale of the resistance, this poignant movie tells both the haunting story of a French resistance cell in Lyon but also the love of Lucie Aubrac for her husband, and the ... See full summary »
Director: Claude Berri | Stars: Carole Bouquet, Daniel Auteuil, Patrice Chéreau, Eric Boucher
Votes: 1,404 | Gross: $0.46M
42. A Man Escaped (1956)
Not Rated | 101 min | Drama, Thriller, War
A captured French Resistance fighter during World War II engineers a daunting escape from a German prison in France.
Director: Robert Bresson | Stars: François Leterrier, Charles Le Clainche, Maurice Beerblock, Roland Monod
Votes: 25,002
43. Paris Calling (1941)
Passed | 95 min | Action, Adventure, Romance
Marianne Jannetier, a well-to-do Parisian, engaged to Andre Benoit, a high-ranking government official, flee the city when the goose-stepping German storm troopers arrive. After her mother ... See full summary »
Director: Edwin L. Marin | Stars: Elisabeth Bergner, Randolph Scott, Basil Rathbone, Gale Sondergaard
Votes: 127
44. Paris Underground (1945)
Approved | 97 min | Action, Drama, Mystery
Among the terrified refugees jamming the roads out of Paris in 1940 are Kitty de Mornay, a rich American divorced from her French husband, and her companion Emmyline (Emmy) Quayle. A German... See full summary »
Director: Gregory Ratoff | Stars: Constance Bennett, Gracie Fields, Jorge Rigaud, Kurt Kreuger
Votes: 317
45. Reunion in France (1942)
Passed | 104 min | Drama, Romance, War
In German-occupied Paris, a Frenchwoman tries to help smuggle a downed RAF pilot into Portugal despite strict surveillance by suspicious Gestapo officers.
Director: Jules Dassin | Stars: Joan Crawford, John Wayne, Philip Dorn, Reginald Owen
Votes: 1,891
46. Secret Mission (1942)
Not Rated | 94 min | Drama, Thriller, War
Three British spies and a French resistance fighter sneak into occupied France to gather information about the German forces for a planned invasion.
Director: Harold French | Stars: Hugh Williams, James Mason, Carla Lehmann, Roland Culver
Votes: 450
47. Soeurs en résistance (2002 TV Movie)
60 min | Documentary
Four women in the French Resistance tell of their adventures, arrest and deportation to Ravensbrück women's concentration camp during the Nazi Occupation.
Director: Maia Wechsler | Stars: Geneviève de Gaulle Anthonioz, Kate Mulgrew, Jacqueline Pery, Anise Postel-Vinay
48. The Sorrow and the Pity (1969)
PG | 251 min | Documentary, History, War
An in-depth exploration of the various reactions by the French people to the Vichy government's acceptance of the German invasion.
Director: Marcel Ophüls | Stars: Helmut Tausend, Marcel Verdier, Alexis Grave, Louis Grave
Votes: 4,097
49. This Land Is Mine (1943)
Approved | 103 min | Drama, War
A mild-mannered school teacher in a German-occupied town during World War II finds himself torn between collaboration and resistance.
Director: Jean Renoir | Stars: Charles Laughton, Maureen O'Hara, George Sanders, Walter Slezak
Votes: 3,731
50. The Train (1964)
Not Rated | 133 min | Action, Thriller, War
In 1944, a German colonel loads a train with French art treasures to send to Germany. The Resistance must stop it without damaging the cargo.
Directors: John Frankenheimer, Arthur Penn | Stars: Burt Lancaster, Paul Scofield, Jeanne Moreau, Suzanne Flon
Votes: 18,890 | Gross: $7.41M
51. The Old Gun (1975)
R | 103 min | Drama, Thriller, War
During World War II, a peaceful French surgeon decides to ruthlessly exterminate an SS squad because of the atrocities they'd just committed in his countryside home and childhood village.
Director: Robert Enrico | Stars: Philippe Noiret, Romy Schneider, Jean Bouise, Joachim Hansen
Votes: 4,856
52. Mr. Klein (1976)
PG | 123 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
In German-occupied Paris, an immoral art dealer, Robert Klein, leads a life of luxury, until a copy of a Jewish newspaper brings him to the attention of the police, linking him with a mysterious doppelgänger. Will Mr. Klein clear his name?
Director: Joseph Losey | Stars: Alain Delon, Jeanne Moreau, Francine Bergé, Juliet Berto
Votes: 8,898 | Gross: $0.03M
53. To Have and Have Not (1944)
Passed | 100 min | Adventure, Comedy, Film-Noir
During World War II, American expatriate Harry Morgan helps transport a French Resistance leader and his beautiful wife to Martinique while romancing a sensuous lounge singer.
Director: Howard Hawks | Stars: Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, Walter Brennan, Dolores Moran
Votes: 38,006
54. The Last Metro (1980)
PG | 131 min | Drama, Romance, War
In occupied Paris, an actress married to a Jewish theater owner must keep him hidden from the Germans while doing both of their jobs.
Director: François Truffaut | Stars: Catherine Deneuve, Gérard Depardieu, Jean Poiret, Andréa Ferréol
Votes: 15,822
55. Passage to Marseille (1944)
Passed | 109 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance
Five patriotic convicts are helped to escape imprisonment in Devil's Island so they can fight for occupied Free French forces against the Nazis.
Director: Michael Curtiz | Stars: Humphrey Bogart, Claude Rains, Michèle Morgan, Philip Dorn
Votes: 5,039
56. The Cross of Lorraine (1943)
Approved | 90 min | War, Drama
A group of French soldiers during WWII are captured by German troops and sent to a POW camp. There they have to make use of his best resources to stay alive - and sane, while at the same time scheming a way out.
Director: Tay Garnett | Stars: Jean-Pierre Aumont, Gene Kelly, Cedric Hardwicke, Richard Whorf
Votes: 960
57. Army of Shadows (1969)
Not Rated | 145 min | Drama, War
An account of underground resistance fighters in Nazi-occupied France.
Director: Jean-Pierre Melville | Stars: Lino Ventura, Paul Meurisse, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Simone Signoret
Votes: 25,853 | Gross: $0.74M
58. Free Men (2011)
Unrated | 99 min | Drama, History, Romance
In Paris during World War II, an Algerian immigrant is inspired to join the resistance by his unexpected friendship with a Jewish man.
Director: Ismaël Ferroukhi | Stars: Tahar Rahim, Michael Lonsdale, Mahmud Shalaby, Lubna Azabal
Votes: 1,463 | Gross: $0.05M
59. Osvobozhdenie: Proryv (1970)
87 min | Drama, History, Romance
A five part WW2 epic drama that gives a dramatized detailed account of Soviet Union's war against Nazi Germany from 1943 to 1945.Each of the five parts represents a separate major eastern ... See full summary »
Director: Yuriy Ozerov | Stars: Nikolay Olyalin, Larisa Golubkina, Boris Seidenberg, Sergey Nikonenko
Votes: 456
60. Osvobozhdenie: Ognennaya duga (1970)
93 min | Drama, History, Romance
The "Fiery Arc" tells of a grandiose battle on the Kursk Bulge in the summer of 1943. Here was the largest tank battle in the history of World War II. Along with the personal fate of the ... See full summary »
Director: Yuriy Ozerov | Stars: Nikolay Olyalin, Larisa Golubkina, Boris Seidenberg, Sergey Nikonenko
Votes: 538
61. More v ogne (1972)
146 min | War
The film recreates the heroic epic of the defense of Sevastopol, in 1941-1942. Autumn 1941 after breaking through the Soviet defenses at Perekop, Nazi troops penetrate the Crimean peninsula... See full summary »
Director: Lev Saakov | Stars: Grigoriy Antonenko, Nikolay Grinko, Rostislav Yankovskiy, Vsevolod Platov
Votes: 22
62. Soldaty svobody (1977– )
599 min | Drama, History, War
Tens of images of historical characters are shown. People who have taken part in fighting against Nazi Germany as well as the activity of the leaders of the communist parties of the USSR, ... See full summary »
Stars: Stefan Getsov, Bohus Pastorek, Horst Preusker, Yakov Tripolsky
Votes: 94
63. Algo más que soñar (1984– )
Drama, Romance
Stars: Jorge Brito, Luis Alberto García, Isabel Santos, Beatriz Valdés
Votes: 20
64. Belonging (2004 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 96 min | Drama
Middle-aged Jess Copplestone is left to look after the elderly relatives of her husband Jacob and to make a new life for herself, after he leaves her for a younger woman.
Director: Christopher Menaul | Stars: Brenda Blethyn, Kevin Whately, Rosemary Harris, Anna Massey
Votes: 310
65. Mayor 'Vikhr' (1967)
Not Rated | 216 min | Adventure, War
The Germans planted explosives to blow up the cities of Krakow and Prague, but the underground resistance in Poland works with the Soviets to stop the disaster.
Stars: Vadim Beroev, Anastasiya Voznesenskaya, Viktor Pavlov, Vladislav Strzhelchik
Votes: 116
66. Seventeen Moments of Spring (1973)
830 min | Drama, History, War
During World War II, a Soviet undercover spy manages to infiltrate the Nazi elite.
Stars: Vyacheslav Tikhonov, Yefim Kopelyan, Leonid Bronevoy, Ekaterina Gradova
Votes: 4,978
67. 20-e dekabrya (1982– )
276 min | Biography, Crime, History
In 1917 Lenin and the communists founded the Soviet secret service - Cheka, the predecessor of the KGB.
Stars: Kirill Lavrov, Mikhail Kozakov, Andrey Tolubeev, Igor Komarov
Votes: 109
68. TASS upolnomochen zayavit... (1984– )
700 min | Adventure
A spy is sent to Moscow. The task of the KGB is to neutralize him and thus prevent a revolt in a fictional state of Nagonia.
Stars: Vyacheslav Tikhonov, Yuriy Solomin, Nikolay Zasukhin, Aleksey Petrenko
Votes: 390
69. Protivostoyanie (1985)
392 min | Crime, Drama, War
Operatives are looking for a killer who has appropriated someone else's identity. The story of a real case based on the story of Yulian Semyonov.
Stars: Oleg Basilashvili, Andrei Boltnev, Yuriy Kuznetsov, Murman Jinoria
Votes: 356
70. Ballada o bombere (2011)
400 min | War
During the Second World War, a Soviet plane crashes on the territory occupied by the Germans, but the pilot Grivtsov and his beloved radio operator Katya, who were flying in it on a mission... See full summary »
Stars: Nikita Efremov, Ekaterina Astakhova, Aleksandr Davydov, Darya Ekamasova
Votes: 63
71. The Americans (2013–2018)
TV-MA | 44 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
At the height of the Cold War, two Russian agents pose as the average American couple, complete with family.
Stars: Keri Russell, Matthew Rhys, Keidrich Sellati, Holly Taylor
Votes: 111,321
72. Stride Across the Yalu River (2020–2021)
Drama
TV mini-series telling the PRC's official narrative of its involvement in the Korean War (1950-1953). It's one of several films produced in celebration of the 100th anniversary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) (founded in July 1921).
Stars: Darren Grosvenor, Kai Deng, C.T. / Gao Mingyu Evans, Temur Mamisashvili
Votes: 28
73. Mandela (1987 TV Movie)
TV-14 | 135 min | Drama
Nelson Mandela (1918-2013) become South Africa's first Black President, and was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his leadership in negotiating a bloodless revolution in that country.
Director: Philip Saville | Stars: Danny Glover, Tam Mpofu, Priscilla Mundawarara, Mike Davey
Votes: 263
74. Death Is Part of the Process (1986 TV Movie)
150 min | Drama
The struggles of white intellectuals and their black activist friends in the apartheid of South Africa during the 1950s.
Director: Bill Hays | Stars: Art Malik, John Matshikiza, Jack Klaff, Estelle Kohler
75. Dockers: Writing the Wrongs (1999 TV Movie)
50 min | Documentary
Chronicles the fascinating way in which Jimmy McGovern wrote the 1999 TV play Dockers (1999) in collaboration with the very dockers whose lives it was based on.
Director: Sol Papadopoulos | Stars: Jimmy McGovern, Irvine Welsh, Ken Stott, Peter Armitage
76. Black Sails (2014–2017)
TV-MA | 60 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Follows Captain Flint and his pirates twenty years prior to Robert Louis Stevenson's classic novel "Treasure Island."
Stars: Jessica Parker Kennedy, Toby Stephens, Hannah New, Zach McGowan
Votes: 113,636
77. Shchit i mech (1968)
191 min | Adventure, Drama, Thriller
The title refers to the emblem of the Soviet NKVD. The story involves a spy who infiltrates the German SS during World War II.
Stars: Stanislav Lyubshin, Alla Demidova, Valentina Titova, Oleg Yankovskiy
Votes: 692
78. The Rebel (2021)
45 min | Drama, History, Mystery
In 1936, Lin Nan Sheng, a student of the China Reconstruction Society cadre training class, was taken to Shanghai to participate in the arrest of the underground party.
Stars: Yilong Zhu, Zhiwen Wang, Wayne Wang, Zixian Zhang
Votes: 172
79. Spartacus (2010–2013)
TV-MA | 60 min | Action, Adventure, Biography
The life of Spartacus, the gladiator who lead a rebellion against the Romans. From his time as an ally of the Romans, to his betrayal and becoming a gladiator, to the rebellion he leads and its ultimate outcome.
Stars: Andy Whitfield, Lucy Lawless, Manu Bennett, Daniel Feuerriegel
Votes: 257,020
80. Les Misérables (1934)
Not Rated | 281 min | Drama
The lives of numerous people over the course of 20 years in 19th century France, weaved together by the story of an ex-convict named Jean Valjean on the run from an obsessive police inspector, who pursues him for only a minor offense.
Director: Raymond Bernard | Stars: Harry Baur, Charles Vanel, Paul Azaïs, Max Dearly
Votes: 1,970
81. Age of Awakening (2021)
45 min | Drama, History
This series focuses on the period from New Culture Movement to birth of CCP, displays all attitudes of life during the awakening age.
Stars: Hewei Yu, Zina Blahusova, Lin Liu, Wanyi Zhang
Votes: 182
82. Damnation (2017–2018)
TV-MA | 60 min | Crime, Drama, Western
An epic saga about the secret history of the 1930s American heartland, centering on the mythic conflict and bloody struggle between big money and the downtrodden.
Stars: Logan Marshall-Green, Killian Scott, Sarah Jones, Chasten Harmon
Votes: 9,017
83. The Leader: Karl Marx (2019)
Animation, Drama, History
The Leader centers on the life of German thinker Karl Marx, focusing on his political and economic theories, his romance with Jenny von Westphalen, and his friendship with Friedrich Engels.
Stars: Xin Shan, Mingyue Liu, Lu Li, Yeqiao Yue
Votes: 64
84. Iz iskry plamya (1924–1925)
Stars: Nikolay Bravko, Evgeniy Lepkovskiy, Vasiliy Aristov, Olga Tretyakova
Votes: 6
85. Hemingway & Gellhorn (2012 TV Movie)
TV-MA | 155 min | Biography, Drama, Romance
A drama centered on the romance between Ernest Hemingway and World War II correspondent Martha Gellhorn, Hemingway's inspiration for For Whom the Bell Tolls, and the only woman who ever asked for a divorce from the writer.
Director: Philip Kaufman | Stars: Nicole Kidman, Clive Owen, David Strathairn, Rodrigo Santoro
Votes: 10,417
86. Spartacus: Gods of the Arena (2011)
TV-MA | 55 min | Action, Adventure, Biography
In the time before the arrival of Spartacus, the House of Batiatus faces many challenges from competitors, and within its own household.
Stars: John Hannah, Manu Bennett, Peter Mensah, Dustin Clare
Votes: 145,408
87. The Heavy Water War: Stopping Hitler's Atomic Bomb (2015)
TV-14 | 45 min | Drama, History, War
The story behind Germany's attempt to develop an atomic bomb during World War II and the sabotage of the heavy water program in Rjukan, Norway from the points of view of the Germans, the Allies, the saboteurs, and the company.
Stars: Marc Ben Puch, Andreas Döhler, Robert Hunger-Bühler, Pip Torrens
Votes: 7,768
88. Cambridge Spies (2003)
59 min | Drama, History
The true story of a group of Cambridge University Students who are recruited to spy for the Soviet Union in the early 1930s.
Stars: Tom Hollander, Toby Stephens, Rupert Penry-Jones, Samuel West
Votes: 2,207
89. Moby Dick (2011)
PG | 184 min | Adventure, Drama
The sole survivor of a lost whaling ship relates the tale of his captain's self-destructive obsession to hunt the white whale, Moby Dick.
Stars: William Hurt, Ethan Hawke, Charlie Cox, Eddie Marsan
Votes: 2,216
90. Sniper: Weapon of Retaliation (2009– )
162 min | Action, Drama, Romance
In WW2, a Soviet sniper and a German sharpshooter develop a personal feud and their animosity continues even after the war, in the Soviet occupied Germany.
Stars: Dmitriy Pevtsov, Mariya Mironova, Alina Sergeeva, Sergey Belyaev
Votes: 197
91. Spyashchie (2017)
Thriller
The film's plot unfolds in 2013 during a period of aggravation of the situation in the Middle East and North Africa, the complication of the foreign policy situation in Europe and covers ... See full summary »
Stars: Igor Petrenko, Natalya Rogozhkina, Konstantin Strelnikov, Semyon Shkalikov
Votes: 235
92. Partizani (1976)
45 min | War
Partisans in Yugoslavia clash with the Germans that have invaded their homeland in several confrontations until the climactic battle at Hell River.
Stars: Rod Taylor, Adam West, Brioni Farrell, Velimir 'Bata' Zivojinovic
Votes: 26
93. Adyutant ego prevoskhoditelstva (1970)
377 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance
During the civil war Captain Pavel Koltsov, a Red Army secret agent, is sent on a mission to the White Army headquarters.
Stars: Yuriy Solomin, Vladislav Strzhelchik, Vladimir Kozel, Tatyana Ivanitskaya
Votes: 296
94. A Taxi Driver (2017)
Not Rated | 137 min | Action, Drama, History
A widowed father and taxi driver who drives a German reporter from Seoul to Gwangju to cover the 1980 uprising, soon finds himself regretting his decision after being caught in the violence around him.
Director: Hun Jang | Stars: Song Kang-ho, Thomas Kretschmann, Yoo Hae-jin, Ryu Jun-Yeol
Votes: 31,243 | Gross: $1.53M
95. The Magnificent Seven (2016)
PG-13 | 132 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Seven gunmen from a variety of backgrounds are brought together by a vengeful young widow to protect her town from the private army of a destructive industrialist.
Director: Antoine Fuqua | Stars: Denzel Washington, Chris Pratt, Ethan Hawke, Vincent D'Onofrio
Votes: 228,225 | Gross: $93.43M
96. Das unsichtbare Visier (1973–1979)
Crime, Drama, Thriller
The adventures of an East German secret agent.
Stars: Wolfgang Greese, Alfred Struwe, Walter Niklaus, Jessy Rameik
Votes: 56
97. General (2019–2020)
50 min | Biography, Drama, History
Follows the life of general Ante Gotovina.
Stars: Goran Visnjic, Boris Svrtan, Goran Navojec, Mustafa Nadarevic
Votes: 642
98. An Englishman Abroad (1983 TV Movie)
61 min | Drama
The actress Coral Browne travels to Moscow and meets a mysterious Englishman. It turns out that he's the notorious spy Guy Burgess.
Director: John Schlesinger | Stars: Alan Bates, Coral Browne, Charles Gray, Harold Innocent
Votes: 618
99. United Red Army (2007)
Not Rated | 190 min | Crime, Drama
The film outlines Japanese students movements in the 60s, then shows the formation of the Japanese United Red Army, a communist armed resistance group.
Director: Kôji Wakamatsu | Stars: Maki Sakai, Arata Iura, Akie Namiki, Gô Jibiki
Votes: 882 | Gross: $0.00M
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