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1. A Painted House (2003 TV Movie)
PG | 97 min | Drama, Family
A young boy, his family, and the migrant workers they hire to work their cotton farm struggle against difficult odds to raise and sell the crop. Meanwhile, the boy dreams of living in ... See full summary »
Director: Alfonso Arau | Stars: Scott Glenn, Arija Bareikis, Robert Sean Leonard, Melinda Dillon
Votes: 1,124
2. The Naked Island (1960)
Not Rated | 96 min | Drama
A family of four are the sole inhabitants of a small island where they struggle each day to irrigate their crops.
Director: Kaneto Shindô | Stars: Nobuko Otowa, Taiji Tonoyama, Shinji Tanaka, Masanori Horimoto
Votes: 6,187
3. Critical Zone (2023)
99 min | Drama, Sci-Fi
A man driving through Tehran's underworld with his dog, dealing drugs and healing troubled souls.
Director: Ali Ahmadzadeh | Stars: Saba Bagheri, Mina Hasanloo, Alireza Keymanesh, Amir Poosti
Votes: 345
4. Orca (2021)
107 min | Drama
A young Iranian woman, having reached the lowest point in her life, fights back against an abusive spouse and religious and governmental obstacles to set the Guinness world record in endurance swimming with both her hands and feet tied.
Director: Sahar Mosayebi | Stars: Taraneh Alidoosti, Mahtab Keramati, Ayoub Afshar, Arash Aghabeik
Votes: 566
5. Zandy's Bride (1974)
PG | 97 min | Drama, Western
An American settler marries an European mail-order bride and together they learn how to thrive in the harsh wilderness while working on their relationship too.
Director: Jan Troell | Stars: Gene Hackman, Liv Ullmann, Eileen Heckart, Susan Tyrrell
Votes: 1,274 | Gross: $0.14M
6. The Steppe (1962)
100 min | Adventure, Drama, Family
In 19th century Russia, an 8 year-old boy is sent from his home village to the big city to go to school. On his long way there, he gets to witness the often harsh realities of life in the steppe. Based on allegorical novel by Chekhov.
Director: Alberto Lattuada | Stars: Charles Vanel, Daniele Spallone, Cristina Gaioni, Pavle Vuisic
Votes: 31
7. Door to Door (2009 TV Movie)
123 min | Drama
Real story about about a man who was told for many years that he was not employable, but threw all of his effort into working as a door-to-door salesman. Despite the pain attributed to his ... See full summary »
Director: Ken Yoshida | Stars: Kazunari Ninomiya, Rosa Katô, Ikkei Watanabe, Akio Kaneda
Votes: 124
8. Damy i wiesniaczki. PL (2016– )
44 min | Reality-TV
Stars: Sylwia Bomba, Caroline Derpienski, Izabela Macudzinska, Joanna Paszkowska
9. Spadijer-jedan zivot (1986)
109 min | Drama
A reporter who's about to lose his job, and who's daughter is very ill, starts a relationship with a married woman. Tragedy ensues.
Director: Miljenko Dereta | Stars: Mladen Nelevic, Mira Furlan, Katarina Durakovic, Dalibor Djakovic
Votes: 23
10. Vanka (1960)
31 min | Short, Family
Director: Eduard Bocharov | Stars: Aleksandr Barsov, Nikolai Nikitich, Nikolai Plotnikov, Nonna Mordyukova
Votes: 12
12. Inima Apelor (2015)
5 min | Documentary, Short
The Power of Love explained by the simple words of an old, life-tested lady from the countryside.
Director: Theodor Inelus | Star: Maria
13.
Screen Two (1985–1998)
Episode:
The Grass Arena
(1991)
TV-14 | 90 min | Drama
The Grass Arena is a biopic based on the autobiography of John Healy. Raised in an ultra religious family, with an abusive father, young Johnny soon learns that he has to learn to defend ... See full summary »
Director: Gillies MacKinnon | Stars: Mark Rylance, Pete Postlethwaite, Lynsey Baxter, Marian McLoughlin
Votes: 123
14.
Tony Robinson's History of Britain (2020–2022)
Episode:
1950s
(2022)
45 min | Documentary, History
Tony takes us back to the 1950s, fondly remembered as an optimistic time when 'people have never had it so good'. Life was tough, but people still managed to have a lot of fun.
Director: Toral Dixit | Star: Tony Robinson
Votes: 7
15.
Les mystères de Paris (1980– )
Episode:
Fleur de Marie
(1980)
52 min | Drama, Crime
Director: André Michel | Stars: Sigmar Solbach, Christine Deschaumes, Jacques Seiler, Noëlle Leiris
16.
Planet Earth II (2016)
Episode:
Islands
(2016)
TV-PG | 51 min | Documentary
Wildlife documentary series with David Attenborough, beginning with a look at the remote islands which offer sanctuary to some of the planet's rarest creatures.
Director: Elizabeth White | Stars: David Attenborough, Pete McCowen, Jerome Poncet, Elizabeth White
Votes: 5,066