Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "radical"

51. Interrogation (1989)

TV-MA | 118 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

Tonia goes out drinking. She wakes up in prison, not having a clue why she's there. She is tortured to encourage her to confess to a crime she is not aware of.

Director: Ryszard Bugajski | Stars: Krystyna Janda, Adam Ferency, Janusz Gajos, Agnieszka Holland

Votes: 3,700

52. Byron (2003 TV Movie)

147 min | Biography, Drama, Romance

Following the success of his poem "Childe Harold's Pilgrimage", Byron becomes the toast of London.

Director: Julian Farino | Stars: Stephen Campbell Moore, Oliver Milburn, Michael Elwyn, Jonny Lee Miller

Votes: 1,159

53. Irmão do Jorel (2014– )

TV-PG | 11 min | Animation, Short, Comedy

This Brazilian TV show tells the story of young Irmão do Jorel (Jorel's Brother) daily life, including dealing with his family, school and friends.

Stars: Melissa Garcia, Andrei Duarte, César Marchetti, Hugo Picchi

Votes: 1,359

54. Gonzo (2008)

R | 120 min | Documentary, Biography, Music

A portrait of the late gonzo journalist Hunter S. Thompson.

Director: Alex Gibney | Stars: Hunter S. Thompson, Johnny Depp, Joe Cairo, David Carlo

Votes: 8,507 | Gross: $1.25M

55. The Passion of Ayn Rand (1999 TV Movie)

TV-MA | 104 min | Biography, Drama, Romance

The rather eccentric (especially in her thinking) author of "The Fountainhead" and "Atlas Shrugged" becomes involved with a much younger, and married man, to the dismay of those close to her.

Director: Christopher Menaul | Stars: Helen Mirren, Eric Stoltz, Julie Delpy, Peter Fonda

Votes: 1,654

56. The Raspberry Reich (2004)

Unrated | 90 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

A left-wing terrorist group, consisting of several homosexual men and a female leader, kidnaps the son of a wealthy industrialist.

Director: Bruce La Bruce | Stars: Susanne Sachße, Daniel Bätscher, Andreas Stich, Dean Monroe

Votes: 1,763

57. Catch a Fire (2006)

PG-13 | 101 min | Biography, Drama, History

A drama about terrorism in Apartheid-era South Africa, revolving around a policeman and a young man who carries out solo attacks against the regime.

Director: Phillip Noyce | Stars: Derek Luke, Tim Robbins, Bonnie Mbuli, Mncedisi Shabangu

Votes: 11,060 | Gross: $4.29M

58. The 9th Guest (1934)

Passed | 65 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery

Eight people are invited to dinner in a fashionable penthouse apartment. After they are wined and dined, a voice on the radio informs them that they will be murdered unless they manage to outwit the ninth guest: Death.

Director: Roy William Neill | Stars: Donald Cook, Genevieve Tobin, Hardie Albright, Edward Ellis

Votes: 681

59. Women Without Men (2009)

Not Rated | 89 min | Drama

Against the tumultuous backdrop of Iran's 1953 CIA-backed coup d'état, the destinies of four women converge in a beautiful orchard garden, where they find independence, solace and companionship.

Directors: Shirin Neshat, Shoja Azari | Stars: Shabnam Toloui, Pegah Ferydoni, Arita Shahrzad, Orsolya Tóth

Votes: 2,719 | Gross: $0.18M

60. Beware the Gonzo (2010)

TV-14 | 94 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

A young muckraker decides to start his own underground newspaper at his high school.

Director: Bryan Goluboff | Stars: Ezra Miller, Zoë Kravitz, Griffin Newman, Stefanie Y. Hong

Votes: 1,830

61. DMT: The Spirit Molecule (2010)

Not Rated | 75 min | Documentary

An investigation into the long-obscured mystery of dimethyltryptamine (DMT), a molecule found in nearly every living organism and considered the most potent psychedelic on Earth.

Director: Mitch Schultz | Stars: Joe Rogan, Ralph Abraham, Joel Bakst, Steven Barker

Votes: 4,858

62. Alien Nation (1989 TV Movie)

Unrated | 102 min | Crime, Drama, Sci-Fi

A bigoted human policeman in the L.A. of the future and his alien partner learn to live with each other's differences while attempting to solve a drug conspiracy hidden in the subculture of... See full summary »

Director: Kenneth Johnson | Stars: Gary Graham, Eric Pierpoint, Michele Scarabelli, Lauren Woodland

Votes: 1,271

63. La vie sexuelle des Belges 1950-1978 (1994)

85 min | Biography, Comedy, Romance

A semi-autobiography of the first 28 years of the director, the Flemish anarchist Jan Bucquoy.

Director: Jan Bucquoy | Stars: Jean-Henri Compère, Noe Francq, Isabelle Legros, Sophie Schneider

Votes: 650

64. The Long Firm (2004)

220 min | Crime, Drama

The lives of characters who live, love, and suffer through their association with the charismatic charms of gangster Harry Starks.

Stars: Mark Strong, George Costigan, Neil Conrich, Geoff Bell

Votes: 733

65. Pigskin Parade (1936)

Passed | 93 min | Comedy, Musical, Sport

Married coaches Slug and Bessie find hillbilly football tosser Amos and the team gets invited to the Yale Bowl.

Director: David Butler | Stars: Stuart Erwin, Patsy Kelly, Jack Haley, The Yacht Club Boys

Votes: 794

66. Harry and Walter Go to New York (1976)

PG | 115 min | Comedy, Crime

In 1892, two vaudevillians and petty con artists get involved, together with the most notorious bank robber, in a New York City bank heist.

Director: Mark Rydell | Stars: James Caan, Elliott Gould, Michael Caine, Diane Keaton

Votes: 1,216

67. The Pilgrimage of Gilbert and George (2024)

88 min | Documentary

Gilbert and George have been on an art pilgrimage for six decades - their life is their art. As it and they enter a whole new period, they reflect on their shared commitment to art both behind them and, they assert, still ahead of them.

Director: Mike Christie | Stars: Julian Cole, Sandra Esqulant, Jay Jopling, George Passmore

68. The Weather Underground (2002)

Unrated | 92 min | Documentary, History, War

The remarkable story of The Weather Underground, radical activists of the 1970s, and of radical politics at its best and most disastrous.

Directors: Sam Green, Bill Siegel | Stars: Lili Taylor, Pamela Z, Jim Lange, Evan White

Votes: 3,775 | Gross: $0.56M

69. Mio fratello è figlio unico (2007)

R | 108 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

Two brothers come of age in a small Italian town in the '60s and '70s.

Director: Daniele Luchetti | Stars: Elio Germano, Riccardo Scamarcio, Angela Finocchiaro, Massimo Popolizio

Votes: 6,766 | Gross: $0.25M

70. Follow Me Home (1996)

Unrated | 100 min | Drama

Three muralists (one Chicano, one Black, one American Indian) and the socially-maladjusted cousin of the Chicano muralist set off on a road trip with the intent of painting their images on ... See full summary »

Director: Peter Bratt | Stars: Alfre Woodard, Jesse Borrego, Salma Hayek, Calvin Levels

Votes: 233

71. Threshold (1981)

PG | 97 min | Drama, Sci-Fi

In this gripping sci-fi drama, a celebrated heart surgeon (Donald Sutherland, "The Hunger Games") collaborates with an offbeat scientist (Jeff Goldblum, "Jurassic Park") to perform the first artificial heart transplant.

Director: Richard Pearce | Stars: Donald Sutherland, John Marley, Sharon Acker, Mare Winningham

Votes: 534

72. Isabelle Eberhardt (1991)

Not Rated | 113 min | Biography, Drama, History

Eberhardt converted to Islam in her teens. After her father's death, the wife of a Marquis summons her to Paris; her husband has gone missing in North Africa.

Director: Ian Pringle | Stars: Mathilda May, Tchéky Karyo, Peter O'Toole, Richard Moir

Votes: 129

73. Steal This Movie (2000)

R | 107 min | Biography, Drama, Romance

After years of hiding, the notorious American leftist radical, Abbie Hoffman, discusses his life, his cause and the opposition he endured.

Director: Robert Greenwald | Stars: Vincent D'Onofrio, Janeane Garofalo, Jeanne Tripplehorn, Kevin Pollak

Votes: 2,413 | Gross: $0.08M

74. Steel Toes (2006)

R | 87 min | Crime, Drama

A Jewish humanist and lawyer (Academy-Award® nominated David Strathairn) is court-appointed to represent a Neo-Nazi Skinhead on trial for the racially-motivated murder of an East Indian immigrant.

Directors: Mark Adam, David Gow | Stars: David Strathairn, Andrew W. Walker, Marina Orsini, Ivana Shein

Votes: 1,257

75. The Mystery of Oberwald (1980)

129 min | Drama, Romance

One long decade after the assassination of her husband, a reclusive queen comes face-to-face with the deceased's doppelgänger and anarchist poet, and strikes a three-day pact; however, fate has other plans. What is the mystery of Oberwald?

Director: Michelangelo Antonioni | Stars: Monica Vitti, Paolo Bonacelli, Franco Branciaroli, Luigi Diberti

Votes: 979

76. Tattoo (2013)

Not Rated | 110 min | Drama

The romance between a 18-year-old soldier and the cultural ringleader of an anarchist cabaret.

Director: Hilton Lacerda | Stars: Maria de Jesus Baccarelli, Jesuíta Barbosa, Ariclenes Barroso, Arthur Canavarro

Votes: 2,179

77. Katherine (1975 TV Movie)

TV-14 | 97 min | Drama

A harrowing look at the 1960s and early 1970s through the eyes of Katherine Alman, a wealthy debutante who slowly, but inexorably spirals down into a fight for the causes that shook a nation, leading a path to the underground life.

Director: Jeremy Kagan | Stars: Art Carney, Sissy Spacek, Henry Winkler, Julie Kavner

Votes: 424

78. Johnny Was (2006)

R | 93 min | Action, Crime, Drama

Johnny Was is a gritty gangster drama set in the tough city of Brixton, London. Johnny (Vinnie Jones) is trying to escape his violent past by living a simple "quiet life".

Director: Mark Hammond | Stars: Vinnie Jones, Patrick Bergin, Laurence Kinlan, Eriq La Salle

Votes: 1,764

79. Trumbo (2007)

PG-13 | 96 min | Documentary, Biography

Through a focus on the life of Dalton Trumbo (1905-1976), this film examines the effects on individuals and families of a congressional pursuit of Hollywood Communists after World War II. ... See full summary »

Director: Peter Askin | Stars: Dalton Trumbo, Joan Allen, Brian Dennehy, Michael Douglas

Votes: 1,252 | Gross: $7.85M

80. American Hardcore (2006)

R | 100 min | Documentary, History, Music

The History of American Punk Rock 1980-1986

Director: Paul Rachman | Stars: Greg Ginn, Ian MacKaye, James Drescher, Lucky Lehrer

Votes: 3,608 | Gross: $0.28M

81. In the Year of the Pig (1968)

Not Rated | 103 min | Documentary, History, War

A documentary chronicling the background to, and history of, the Vietnam War.

Director: Emile de Antonio | Stars: Harry S. Ashmore, Daniel Berrigan, Joseph Buttinger, William R. Corson

Votes: 1,924

82. Bones Brigade: An Autobiography (2012)

PG | 90 min | Documentary, Sport

When six teenage boys came together as a skateboarding team in the 1980s, they reinvented not only their chosen sport but themselves too - as they evolved from insecure outsiders to the most influential athletes in the field.

Director: Stacy Peralta | Stars: Tony Alva, Steve Caballero, Fred Durst, Shepard Fairey

Votes: 2,733

83. Night and Fog in Japan (1960)

107 min | Drama

Long takes and a highly theatrical visual approach combine to form a tense and confrontational look at the decline of a socialist student activists' movement in Japan.

Director: Nagisa Ôshima | Stars: Miyuki Kuwano, Fumio Watanabe, Masahiko Tsugawa, Hiroshi Akutagawa

Votes: 858

84. Funny Dirty Little War (1983)

Unrated | 80 min | Comedy, Drama, War

A small revolution breaks out in a small Argentine town, as one group of Peronists calls they newly elected peronist a communist. The newly elected official enlists the aid of allies ... See full summary »

Director: Héctor Olivera | Stars: Federico Luppi, Víctor Laplace, Héctor Bidonde, Rodolfo Ranni

Votes: 566

85. The Search for Animal Chin (1987 Video)

66 min | Action

The Bones Brigade skate their way across America in search of legendary skater, Won Ton Animal Chin. The missing skater remains elusive, but the crew journey from Hawaii to Vegas and realise that Animal Chin is alive in them all.

Director: Stacy Peralta | Stars: Chris Borst, Steve Caballero, Adrian Demain, Skip Engblom

Votes: 441

86. What to Do in Case of Fire (2001)

R | 101 min | Action, Comedy, Drama

6 anarchists place a time bomb in a West Berlin building in 1987. It's a dud. It blows up in 2000. Only 2 remain anarchists. How can the 6 steal evidence from a police "fortress" and avoid 8 years prison?

Director: Gregor Schnitzler | Stars: Klaus Löwitsch, Til Schweiger, Martin Feifel, Sebastian Blomberg

Votes: 3,760

87. Frida (1983)

108 min | Biography, Drama

The most prominent female painter of Latin America, Frida Kahlo, is agonizing in her Coyoacán home. She evokes memories of her childhood, of the streetcar accident that caused her terrible ... See full summary »

Director: Paul Leduc | Stars: Ofelia Medina, Juan José Gurrola, Max Kerlow, Claudio Brook

Votes: 536

88. The Legend of Rita (2000)

103 min | Drama, History, Romance

The riveting true story of Rita Vogt, a 1970s West German terrorist who escapes to the East with the help of the Stasi. She lives in constant fear of having her cover blown, until it unavoidably happens after the German re-unification.

Director: Volker Schlöndorff | Stars: Bibiana Beglau, Richard Kropf, Martin Wuttke, Nadja Uhl

Votes: 2,473 | Gross: $0.67M

89. The U.S. vs. John Lennon (2006)

PG-13 | 99 min | Documentary, Biography, Music

A documentary on the life of John Lennon, with a focus on the time in his life when he transformed from a musician into an antiwar activist.

Directors: David Leaf, John Scheinfeld | Stars: John Lennon, Yoko Ono, Stew Albert, Tariq Ali

Votes: 5,688 | Gross: $1.10M

90. This Revolution (2005)

R | 95 min | Drama, Romance, Thriller

In this politically charged homage to Medium Cool, a photographer covers the urban guerrilla war on New York streets during the RNC.

Director: Stephen Marshall | Stars: Rosario Dawson, Nathan Crooker, Amy Redford, Brett DelBuono

Votes: 558

91. Guerrilla: The Taking of Patty Hearst (2004)

Not Rated | 89 min | Documentary, History, Mystery

The story of the 1974 kidnap of teenage heiress Patty Hearst, which set off one of the most bizarre episodes in recent American history.

Director: Robert Stone | Stars: Russ Little, Michael Bortin, Timothy Findley, Dan Grove

Votes: 633

92. Fuck for Forest (2012)

Unrated | 86 min | Documentary, Drama

Berlin's Fuck for Forest is one of the world's most bizarre charities: based on the idea that sex can change the world, the NGO raises money for their environmental cause by selling home-made erotic films on the Internet.

Director: Michal Marczak | Stars: Tommy Hol Ellingsen, Leona Johansson, Dany DeVero, Kaajal

Votes: 612

93. Stammheim - The Baader-Meinhof Gang on Trial (1986)

107 min | Crime, Drama

Stammheim Prison in Stuttgart, West Germany, as the five defendants--Andreas Baader, Ulrike Meinhof Gudrun Ensslin, Jan-Carl Raspe, and Holger Meins--are brought before the judge and ... See full summary »

Director: Reinhard Hauff | Stars: Ulrich Tukur, Hans Kremer, Therese Affolter, Ulrich Pleitgen

Votes: 498

94. How U Like Me Now (1992)

R | 110 min | Comedy, Romance

An ambitious yuppie, bored with her unmotivated boyfriend, moves out and starts an interracial relationship with a man she meets at a party. When things don't work out she goes home to find her ex has a surprise for her.

Director: Darryl Roberts | Stars: Darnell Williams, Salli Richardson-Whitfield, Daniel Gardner, Debra Crable

Votes: 63 | Gross: $0.21M

95. You Won't See Winter (2022)

70 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller

The director of the Iranian internet censorship is trying to contain the scandal of viral sex footage on social media depicting his sister-in-law's alleged lesbian affair with an Iranian-Canadian girl.

Director: Abdolreza Kahani | Stars: Ghazal Partou, Sadaf Shakori, Aryan Abbasnia, Ali Aryana

Votes: 8

96. Ice (1970)

Not Rated | 130 min | Drama, Sci-Fi

In a dystopian 1970s America, a fascist government is at war with Mexico. An underground revolutionary is tortured by government agents, so radicals take action through guerrilla warfare, but victory may not come easy for them.

Director: Robert Kramer | Stars: Robert Kramer, Leo Braudy, Tom Griffin, Paul McIsaac

Votes: 291

97. La faute à Fidel! (2006)

Unrated | 99 min | Drama

A 9-year-old girl weathers big changes in her household as her parents become radical political activists in 1970-71 Paris.

Director: Julie Gavras | Stars: Nina Kervel-Bey, Julie Depardieu, Stefano Accorsi, Benjamin Feuillet

Votes: 5,210 | Gross: $0.17M

98. Taboo: Amos Guttman (2024)

76 min | Documentary

While he was alive, Amos Guttman remained a red flag for the notoriously conservative Israeli film establishment. As he was a Romanian migrant, he never truly found his place in his new ... See full summary »

Director: Shauly Melamed | Star: Amos Guttman

99. In the Name of the Pope King (1977)

105 min | Drama, History

In 1867, with Garibaldi's forces close to bringing Rome into the Italian kingdom, Monsignor Colombo da Priverno, a world-weary judge on the papal court, wants to resign, disgusted by the ... See full summary »

Director: Luigi Magni | Stars: Nino Manfredi, Danilo Mattei, Carmen Scarpitta, Giovannella Grifeo

Votes: 655

100. 8: The Mormon Proposition (2010)

R | 80 min | Documentary

A scorching indictment of the Mormon Church's historic involvement in the promotion & passage of California's Proposition 8 and the Mormon religion's secretive, decades-long campaign against LGBT human rights.

Directors: Reed Cowan, Steven Greenstreet | Stars: Spencer Jones, Tyler Barrick, Dustin Lance Black, Linda Williams Stay

Votes: 1,273 | Gross: $0.10M