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1. Star Wars: Visions (2021– )
TV-PG | 22 min | Animation, Short, Action
An anthology of animated shorts from around the world celebrating the mythology of Star Wars through unique cultural perspectives.
Stars: Michael Sinterniklaas, Neil Kaplan, Adam Sietz, JP Karliak
Votes: 24,046
2. Welcome to Chippendales (2022–2023)
TV-MA | 45 min | Biography, Drama
The origin story of Somen "Steve" Banerjee, the Indian-American entrepreneur who started the stripper troupe Chippendales.
Stars: Kumail Nanjiani, Murray Bartlett, Annaleigh Ashford, Darren Lipari
Votes: 7,968
3. Cosmic Slop (1994 TV Movie)
83 min | Sci-Fi
A science fiction anthology series that aired on HBO. It was hosted by Parliament lead singer George Clinton. It also starred Casey Kasem, Robert Guillaume, and Anthony Anderson.
Directors: Reginald Hudlin, Warrington Hudlin, Kevin Rodney Sullivan | Stars: Jorge Ameer, Larry Anderson, Noëlle Balfour, Jason Bernard
Votes: 286
4. Shaq (2022)
TV-14 | 196 min | Documentary, Biography, Sport
It showcases the life of the Lakers champion O'Neal from sports phenom to cultural figure.
Stars: Shaquille O'Neal, Magic Johnson, Chris Lines, Rick Fox
Votes: 1,638
5. High on the Hog: How African American Cuisine Transformed America (2021–2023)
TV-14 | 210 min | Documentary, History
Black food is American food. Chef and writer Stephen Satterfield traces the delicious, moving throughlines from Africa to Texas in this docuseries.
Stars: Stephen Satterfield, Jessica B. Harris, Adrian Miller, Larry Callies
Votes: 927
6. The Other Fellow (2022)
80 min | Documentary, Biography, Thriller
A film about Men, Real Men. Named James Bond.
Director: Matthew Bauer | Stars: Gunnar James Bond Schäfer, James Alexander Bond, James Bond Jr., Gregory Itzin
Votes: 185
7. Outstanding: A Comedy Revolution (2024)
100 min | Documentary | Completed
A feature length documentary that explores the history of LGBTQ+ stand up comedy, considering its importance as an instrument for social change over the past five decades.
Director: Page Hurwitz | Stars: Mae Martin, Tig Notaro, Eddie Izzard, Rosie O'Donnell
8. The Clay Bird (2002)
95 min | Drama, History
A family must come to grips with its culture, its faith, and the brutal political changes entering its small-town world.
Director: Tareque Masud | Stars: Nurul Islam Bablu, Russell Farazi, Jayanto Chattopadhyay, Rokeya Prachy
Votes: 4,237
9. Ben and Suzanne: A Reunion in 4 Parts (2024)
109 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
The romantic reunion of Ben Santhanaraj and Suzanne Hopper is thwarted when Suzanne's boss asks her to work during their holiday road trip.
Director: Shaun Seneviratne | Stars: Anastasia Olowin, Sathya Sridharan
10. ABCD (1999)
Unrated | 105 min | Drama
The only goal of an ageing Asian-American widow is to see her son and rebellious daughter (described as an American Born Confused Deshi or ABCD) married off to respectable Indian families.
Director: Krutin Patel | Stars: David Ari, Sheetal Sheth, Madhur Jaffrey, Faran Tahir
Votes: 325 | Gross: $0.12M
11. Cuba feliz (2000)
96 min | Documentary, Music
Seventy-six-year-old Cuban street musician Miguel Del Morales, known as El Gallo (The Rooster), travels around Cuba with his guitar, making music in the homes of friends, in bars, and on ... See full summary »
Director: Karim Dridi | Stars: Miguel Del Morales, Pepín Vaillant, Mirta Gonzáles, Aníbal Ávila
Votes: 246 | Gross: $0.02M
12. Banaue: Stairway to the Sky (1975)
TV-PG | 154 min | Drama, Romance
The Ifugao tribe's quest for the promised land is paved with good intentions.
Director: Gerardo de Leon | Stars: Nora Aunor, Christopher De Leon, Gloria Sevilla, Johnny Delgado
Votes: 40
13. Berlin in Berlin (1993)
99 min | Drama
A young German engineer photographs a beautiful Turkish woman without her permission. Her husband finds out and starts a fight. In the midst of the argument the German engineer accidentally... See full summary »
Director: Sinan Çetin | Stars: Hülya Avsar, Cem Özer, Armin Block, Aliye Rona
Votes: 1,465
14. Palermo or Wolfsburg (1980)
173 min | Drama
An impoverished young man from Sicily travels to Wolfsburg, West Germany to find work. He takes a job in the Volkswagen factory after he travels through Northern Italy by train.
Director: Werner Schroeter | Stars: Nicola Zarbo, Otto Sander, Ida Di Benedetto, Magdalena Montezuma
Votes: 272
15. Marungka tjalatjunu (2022)
23 min | Documentary, Short
An Anangu Yankunytjatjara man escapes the city life to return to country for spiritual healing.
Directors: Derik Lynch, Matthew Thorne | Stars: Derik Lynch, Dale Baker, Dominic Roberts, Christopher Stewart
Votes: 54
16. NBC GIGA (1998–2006)
300 min
Stars: Dennis Richtarski, Joey Grit Winkler, Uta Fußangel, Daniel van Moll
Votes: 42
17. Maralinga Tjarutja (2020 TV Movie)
52 min | Documentary, History
When the dust settles, culture remains...The Maralinga people survive aggressive colonisation, including dispossession to enable atomic testing, and through their tenacious spirit and cultural strength fight to retain their country.
Director: Larissa Behrendt | Stars: Jeremy Lebois, Mima Smart, Hilary Williams, Tommy Baker
Votes: 31
18. Hijab (2023)
12 min | Short, Drama | Post-production
'Hijab' is a coming-of-age cultural drama of a young Muslim girl who is handed her first hijab and must navigate through tradition, bullying, a complex mother-daughter relationship, and limited beliefs in search of her freedom.
Director: Shahad Alruhaimi | Stars: Chiara Argirov, Karina Sorelli
19. Crushed Wings (2021)
97 min | Drama
Ria, a seven-year-old girl growing up in a village, is led by her mother to a place where a group of women from her community await her. Here she is mutilated by an unqualified cutter, who ... See full summary »
Director: Lalit Bhusal | Stars: Bhasker Patel, Tania Staite, Jetinder Summan, Nisaro Karim
Votes: 27
20. The Sixties: The Years That Shaped a Generation (2005 TV Movie)
120 min | Documentary, History
It was a time when a generation rebelled and lost its innocence. From the Vietnam War to the struggle for racial equality to the birth of a counter-culture explosion, the 1960s was a decade... See full summary »
Directors: David Davis, Stephen Talbot | Stars: Paul Herlinger, Muhammad Ali, Robert Bork, Susan Brownmiller
Votes: 88
21. Kulturzeit (1995– )
40 min | News
Culture time on 3sat.
Stars: Cécile Schortmann, Vivian Perkovic, Nina Brunner, Peter Schneeberger
Votes: 52
22. Jews and Baseball: An American Love Story (2010)
Not Rated | 91 min | Documentary, Biography, History
Celebrates the contributions of Jewish major leaguers and the special meaning that baseball has had in the lives of American Jews.
Director: Peter Miller | Stars: Martin Abramowitz, Maury Allen, Rebecca Alpert, Charles Bronfman
Votes: 127
23. Black & Gold (2001)
75 min | Documentary, Crime, History
"Black and Gold offers a potent portrait of bootstraps idealism in an embattled community ... this energetically packaged documentary deserves to be seen." -Dennis Harvey, VARIETY
Directors: Rick Rowley, Jacqueline Soohen
Votes: 19
24. Senses of Cinema (2022)
89 min | Documentary, History
This history of the co-op film movements of Sydney and Melbourne comes from two of the major figures in Australian documentary who were intimately involved in the filmmaking groundswell ... See full summary »
Directors: John Hughes, Tom Zubrycki | Stars: Martha Ansara, Gillian Armstrong, Richard Brennan, Bryan Brown
Votes: 12
25. The Oath of Cyriac (2021)
73 min | Documentary, War
As war rages around them, a small group of archaeologists, museum curators and attendants struggle to save the monumental collections of the Museum of Aleppo during the Syrian conflict.
Director: Olivier Bourgeois | Stars: Maamoun Abdulkarim, Tarek Abu Ali, Desbina Baslan, Ahmad Deeb
Votes: 12
26. A Clown's Recovery (2013)
Not Rated | 90 min | Documentary
A story about family and the strength of the human spirit. A biopic about one man's road to recovery and the people that love him. A view into the life of modern American sideshow and the struggles to survive.
Director: Matthew Broomfield | Stars: Albert Cadabra, Laurie Barber, Madeleine Belle, Betty Bloomerz
Votes: 9
27. Alien Artifacts: The Lost World (2019 Video)
Not Rated | 76 min | Documentary
Explore the shocking existence of artifacts so technologically advanced they have mystified scientists for decades and defy comprehension. Prepare to have your mind blown with the most fascinating Alien Artifacts found on planet Earth.
Votes: 93
28. Glimpses of a Future (2021– )
25 min | Short
A few weeks into the first COVID-19 lockdown in 2020, Yaraqa asked nine creative movers and eight creative writers in Lebanon, France, Iran, Jordan and the USA what the future looks like to... See full summary »
Stars: Caroline Hatem, Sina Saberi, Reem Naamani, Alice Massabki
Votes: 11
29. Paradise Bent: Boys Will Be Girls in Samoa (1999)
51 min | Documentary
An exploration of the Samoan fa'afafine, boys who are raised as girls, fulfilling a traditional role in Samoan culture.
Director: Heather Croall | Stars: Derek Freeman, Tania Grey, Jeanette Mageo, Tom Pollard
Votes: 25
30. Treasure of the Rice Terraces
Documentary | Post-production
A Filipino-Canadian filmmaker travels to Buscalan, a secluded mountain community, to learn about the history and symbolism of Kalinga tattoos from the legendary artist Apo Whang-od and her ... See full summary »
Director: Kent Donguines | Stars: Michelle Dee, Kim Atienza, Whang-Od, Grace Palicas
31. Bontoc Eulogy (1995)
56 min | Documentary, History
A unique fusion of rare archival images, and carefully orchestrated visual sequences shot in the present, Bontoc Eulogy is an original and innovative investigation of memory and the spectacle of the "Other" in turn-of-the-century America.
Directors: Marlon Fuentes, Bridget Yearian | Stars: Marlon Fuentes, Jordan Porter, Nicole Antonio, Michael Porter
Votes: 63
32. Distress Signals (1990)
55 min | Documentary
A film about the predominance of American television programing around the world at the expense of regional cultural voices.
Director: John Walker | Star: Jackie Burroughs
35. Just Another Day in Indulkana (2021)
Animation, Short, Comedy
This First Nations led short film comes from First Nations owned and governed Aboriginal art centre Iwantja Arts, which is located in the rocky, desert country of Indulkana Community on the... See full summary »
Directors: Simon Eeles, Jackson Lee
36. Audacity of Host (2023)
194 min | Biography, Comedy
A documentary series that charts the Haitian-American experience of Motown Maurice, a future cultural icon, featuring interviews from his past and present.
Stars: Motown Maurice, Edwin Randolph, Roland Cherasard, Jovan Condé
37. Art Attack (2018– )
22 min | Reality-TV
Art Attack is a travelogue documentary series that explores the most unique, dangerous, and compelling art forms in the world.
Star: Robb Ortel
39. Weird Food Diaries (2018–2019)
23 min | Reality-TV
Avid food traveler Rosalyn Lee (Rozz Lee) goes in search of Asia's most bizarre eats.
Star: Rosalyn Lee
Votes: 9
40. Raja 420 (2024)
81 min | Action, Comedy, Drama
Raja, an Indian immigrant, starts a new job in USA and his first client is far from "ordinary". Chaos ensues as they unravel a dark secret and he is forced to join hands with a man named 420 (Fraudster) to escape this thrilling situation.
Director: Anand Bhatt | Stars: Anand Bhatt, Luisa Blanco, Pankaj Chopra, Tony Lee Gratz
41. American Heroin Addicts (2016 Video)
TV-14 | 70 min | Documentary
Many Americans have turned to drugs to cope with their lives and deal with the ever mounting socio-economic pressures of our modern day world. It is a nationwide problem that has now reached epidemic proportions among everyday people.
Votes: 9
42. Plano, Texas: A Cultural Study of Suburbia (1999)
30 min | Documentary, Short
Between 1994 and 1999, 18 Plano youths died of a heroin overdose. In 1997, city officials went to the media about the situation and dubbed Plano, "Heroin-City, USA." A slew of teenage ... See full summary »
Director: Travis Marriott
43. Shadows of Light (2020)
41 min | Short, Documentary
Shadows of Light combines the loud and soft tones of life. The centerpiece is an Austrian mountain pasture where the summer solstice is celebrated with international artists and where tradition and zeitgeist are not contradictory.
Director: Walter Fanninger | Stars: Alan Averill, Sturla Viðar Jakobsson, Okoi Thierry Jones, Mario Kolb
44. Le pays du chien qui chante (2002)
95 min | Drama
Tôyô, a musicologist, is looking for a singing dog; his wife is conducting a study on the ancient religious habitat in France and Japan.
Director: Yann Dedet | Stars: Katsuko Nakamura, Gen Shimaoka, Jules Dedet-Granel, Dominique Piard
Votes: 28
45. Estampas de mi Tierra (1964–1965)
Music, Talk-Show
Stars: Nóbel Alfonso, Guarionex Aquino, René Jolivet
46. Ayen's Cooking School for African Men (2007 Video)
TV-G | 52 min | Documentary, Biography
In Sudan it is taboo for a man to cook. But when a group of refugee Sudanese men in Australia is found starving because the men don't know what to do with a fridge full of groceries, ... See full summary »
Director: Sieh Mchawala | Stars: Sieh Mchawala, Ayen Kuol
47. Melodia: a short film in rondo form (2022)
9 min | Short, Music
A rendezvous in Taiwan's capital city. A musician gives voice to the day as contrasting lives intersect.
Director: A T Beaune | Stars: Yi-An Chen, Aaron Don Don, Dora Lo, Anna Tian
48. 100 Seconds to Midnight: Doomsday Clock (2022 Video)
70 min | Documentary
We, as a planet populated by humans with nowhere else to go, have 100 seconds left to live because humanity teeters on the brink of self-destruction. While this sounds like the start of an ... See full summary »
Director: Simon Oliver | Stars: Razor Keeves, Charles Washington
49. Die Generalprobe (1980)
90 min | Documentary
Commissioned by German TV to report on the 1980 World Theatre Festival in Nancy, France, Schroeter weaves a collection of performances, rehearsals and interviews (such as of Pina Bausch's ... See full summary »
Director: Werner Schroeter | Stars: Pina Bausch, Reinhold Hoffman, Pat Oleszko, Werner Schroeter
Votes: 29
50. Enjoy the Moment (I) (2019)
65 min | Documentary
A story about Life and Love. Bird migration is about commitment, the promise of returning. Overcoming countless obstacles, travelling thousands of miles, only for survival. This film is ... See full synopsis »
Director: Famei Tang