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1. Malena (2000)
R | 108 min | Drama, Romance, War
Amidst the war climate, a teenage boy discovering himself becomes love-stricken by Malèna, a sensual woman living in a small, narrow-minded Italian town.
Director: Giuseppe Tornatore | Stars: Monica Bellucci, Giuseppe Sulfaro, Luciano Federico, Matilde Piana
Votes: 112,153 | Gross: $3.45M
2. The Elephant Man (1980)
PG | 124 min | Biography, Drama
A Victorian surgeon rescues a heavily disfigured man who is mistreated while scraping a living as a side-show freak. Behind his monstrous façade, there is revealed a person of kindness, intelligence and sophistication.
Director: David Lynch | Stars: Anthony Hopkins, John Hurt, Anne Bancroft, John Gielgud
Votes: 258,692
3. 1900 (1976)
Unrated | 317 min | Drama, History
The epic tale of a class struggle in twentieth-century Italy as seen through the eyes of two childhood friends on opposing sides.
Director: Bernardo Bertolucci | Stars: Robert De Niro, Gérard Depardieu, Dominique Sanda, Francesca Bertini
Votes: 27,298
4. Biutiful (2010)
R | 148 min | Drama, Romance
A man dying of cancer tries his best to leave the world on his own terms.
Director: Alejandro G. Iñárritu | Stars: Javier Bardem, Maricel Álvarez, Hanaa Bouchaib, Guillermo Estrella
Votes: 94,666 | Gross: $5.10M
5. Goodbye Uncle Tom (1971)
Unrated | 123 min | Drama
Two documentary filmmakers go back in time to the pre-Civil War American South, to film the slave trade.
Directors: Gualtiero Jacopetti, Franco Prosperi | Stars: Stefano Sibaldi, Susan Hampshire, Dick Gregory, Gualtiero Jacopetti
Votes: 1,758
6. I Am Cuba (1964)
Not Rated | 141 min | Drama
Four vignettes about the lives of the Cuban people set during the pre-revolutionary era.
Director: Mikhail Kalatozov | Stars: Sergio Corrieri, Salvador Wood, José Gallardo, Raúl García
Votes: 10,684
7. Blood Sucking Freaks (1976)
Unrated | 84 min | Comedy, Horror
In the Theatre of the Macabre in New York Sardu and his assistants present a show involving the torture and mutilation of young women. The audience assumes it is just an act but the torture is real, as are the deaths.
Director: Joel M. Reed | Stars: Seamus O'Brien, Viju Krem, Niles McMaster, Dan Fauci
Votes: 6,288
8. The Slasher ...is the Sex Maniac! (1972)
X | 88 min | Crime, Drama, Horror
A serial killer is on the loose. His victims are unfaithful wives and he always leaves compromising photographs at the crime scene.
Director: Roberto Bianchi Montero | Stars: Farley Granger, Sylva Koscina, Silvano Tranquilli, Annabella Incontrera
Votes: 1,095
9. This Girl's Life (2003)
R | 104 min | Drama
A "slice of life" take on the life of international porn celebrity, Moon, and her musings on modern life, love, and loss.
Director: Ash Baron-Cohen | Stars: Juliette Marquis, James Woods, Kip Pardue, Tomas Arana
Votes: 3,018
10. I Am Not a Witch (2017)
93 min | Comedy, Drama
In a remote Zambian community a girl is denounced as a witch and sent on a trajectory of exploitation, as a tethered member of a witches' camp, a witch for hire and a tourist exhibit.
Director: Rungano Nyoni | Stars: Maggie Mulubwa, Henry B.J. Phiri, Nancy Murilo, Margaret Spinella
Votes: 4,211 | Gross: $0.05M
11. Black Venus (2010)
Not Rated | 159 min | Drama, History
In the 19th century, a black woman from Africa is on display throughout Europe as an exotic curiosity.
Director: Abdellatif Kechiche | Stars: Yahima Torres, Andre Jacobs, Olivier Gourmet, Elina Löwensohn
Votes: 3,004
12. Xiu Xiu: The Sent-Down Girl (1998)
R | 99 min | Drama
Young teen girl Xiu Xiu is sent away to a remote corner of the Sichuan steppes for manual labor in 1975 (sending young people to there was a part of Cultural Revolution in China). A year ... See full summary »
Director: Joan Chen | Stars: Xiaolu Li, Lopsang, Zheng Qian, Jie Gao
Votes: 3,677 | Gross: $1.00M
13. Katie Tippel (1975)
R | 100 min | Drama
The young girl Keetje moves to Amsterdam in 1881 with her impoverished family, and is led into prostitution in order to survive. In the process she sees the corrupting influence of money.
Director: Paul Verhoeven | Stars: Monique van de Ven, Rutger Hauer, Andrea Domburg, Hannah de Leeuwe
Votes: 2,709
14. Django, Prepare a Coffin (1968)
Not Rated | 92 min | Action, Drama, Western
A gunfighter forms a gang of "deceased" execution victims to get revenge on the politician and outlaw who killed his wife.
Director: Ferdinando Baldi | Stars: Terence Hill, Horst Frank, George Eastman, Bruna Simionato
Votes: 3,164
15. Matroesjka's (2005–2008)
TV-MA | 50 min | Crime, Drama
Each year hundreds of women are taken from their homes and forced into a life of prostitution and sexual slavery. This is the story of ten of them. A Belgian criminal gang head east to ... See full summary »
Stars: Axel Daeseleire, Manou Kersting, Indre Jaraite, Luk Wyns
Votes: 2,505
16. Civil Brand (2002)
R | 95 min | Drama, Thriller, Crime
Frances is in the pen for killing her abusive husband. The abused the prisoners rise up against the "new plantation" that harvest human labor for profit. Nothing will stop Frances and her fellow inmates in this brutal battle for justice.
Director: Neema Barnette | Stars: LisaRaye McCoy, N'Bushe Wright, Yasiin Bey, Monica Calhoun
Votes: 817 | Gross: $0.24M
17. Zeitgeist: Addendum (2008 Video)
Not Rated | 123 min | Documentary, History, War
Zeitgeist: Addendum attempts to locate the root causes of the pervasive social corruption, while also offering a solution.
Director: Peter Joseph | Stars: Jacque Fresco, Roxanne Meadows, John Perkins, George Carlin
Votes: 18,693
18. The Elephant Man (1982 TV Movie)
PG | 90 min | Biography, Drama
A taped version of the stage play about a hideously deformed 19th-century London man and how he managed to triumph over his disease.
Director: Jack Hofsiss | Stars: Philip Anglim, Kevin Conway, Penny Fuller, Richard Clarke
Votes: 310
19. Twin Flower (2018)
Unrated | 96 min | Drama
In a South of Italy full of beauty and hidden dangers, two adolescents, abused and damaged by life, Anna, whose father has been murdered and Basim, an immigrant orphan, escape together towards a new start.
Director: Laura Luchetti | Stars: Anastasiya Bogach, Kallil Kone, Aniello Arena, Mauro Addis
Votes: 228
20. Darwin's Nightmare (2004)
107 min | Documentary
A documentary on the effect of fishing the Nile perch in Tanzania's Lake Victoria. The predatory fish, which has wiped out the native species, is sold in European supermarkets, while starving Tanzanian families have to make do with the leftovers.
Director: Hubert Sauper | Stars: Elizabeth 'Eliza' Maganga Nsese, Raphael Tukiko Wagara, Dimond Remtulia, Marcus Nyoni
Votes: 5,664 | Gross: $0.20M
21. Boys Cry (2018)
95 min | Crime, Drama
Mirko and Manolo are best friends and live in the suburbs of Rome. They both live in poor conditions with their single parents, are still in school and struggle with occasional odd jobs to ... See full summary »
Directors: Damiano D'Innocenzo, Fabio D'Innocenzo | Stars: Andrea Carpenzano, Matteo Olivetti, Milena Mancini, Massimiliano Tortora
Votes: 1,966
22. Sugar Cane Alley (1983)
PG | 103 min | Drama, History
Set in 1931, Sugar Cane Alley paints a rich impasto of native life under French colonial rules, filtered through the coming-of-age of a bright, sweetly opportunistic boy.
Director: Euzhan Palcy | Stars: Garry Cadenat, Darling Légitimus, Douta Seck, Joby Bernabé
Votes: 1,023
23. The Vice of Hope (2018)
96 min | Drama
The story of a difficult birth set against the backdrop of child trafficking in Castel Volturno, an area outside Naples known for being the most lawless area in Italy.
Director: Edoardo De Angelis | Stars: Pina Turco, Massimiliano Rossi, Marina Confalone, Cristina Donadio
Votes: 661
24. Outlanders (2007)
95 min | Drama, Crime, Romance
After his father's death, Adam hitchhikes to London from his hometown in Poland to find his older brother, a former Polish football star, now supplying illegal migrant workers to the ... See full synopsis »
Director: Dominic Lees | Stars: Jakub Tolak, Przemyslaw Sadowski, Alexis Raben, Shaun Dingwall
Votes: 210
25. The Sixth Part of the World (1926)
68 min | Documentary
"Sixth Part of the World" was the size of Soviet Union of the time. Many peoples of many customs composed it. Ice and desert, forest and ocean. Bread, furs, machines. All and every is a part of great unity.
Director: Dziga Vertov
Votes: 593
26. Stopping Traffic: The Movement to End Sex-Trafficking (2017)
TV-14 | 79 min | Documentary, Crime
With 27 million victims worldwide, Stopping Traffic starts the conversation on a taboo topic through the eyes of survivors, activists, and front-line rescue teams to launch a movement to end modern-day slavery in the U.S. and abroad.
Director: Sadhvi Siddhali Shree | Stars: Susanne Dietzel, Carolina Douthit, Cecilia Flores-Oebanda, Mario Garfias
Votes: 138
27. The Woman for Joe (1955)
91 min | Drama, Romance
A sideshow owner and his main attraction, a midget, fall for the same woman.
Director: George More O'Ferrall | Stars: Diane Cilento, George Baker, Jimmy Karoubi, David Kossoff
Votes: 131
28. China Express (1929)
62 min | Drama
In a train where social classes are strictly separated (wealthy in the front, poor in the back), a revolt erupts.
Director: Ilya Trauberg | Stars: Sergei Minin, Igor Chernyak, I. Arbenin, Yakov Gudkin
Votes: 142
29. Curse of the Ubangi (1946)
60 min | Documentary
A group of Ubangi women and their chief on an exhibit in 1932.
Director: Dwain Esper | Star: Thurston Knudson
Votes: 15
30. Child Slavery with Rageh Omaar (2007 TV Movie)
90 min | Documentary
Rageh Omaar examines child slavery in such places as Cambodia, Ethiopia, India and Saudi Arabia.
Director: Richard Alwyn | Star: Rageh Omaar
Votes: 19
31. L'empire du milieu du sud (2002)
86 min | Documentary, History, War
Directors: Eric Deroo, Jacques Perrin
Votes: 24
32. H-2 Worker (1990)
Not Rated | 70 min | Documentary
Expose on the exploitation of workers in the Florida sugar cane industry.
Director: Stephanie Black | Stars: Jervis Anderson, George Cesvette, Belinda Goffe, Homer Heron
Votes: 31
33. White Men (2011)
65 min | Documentary
Alfred is the chairman of the Tanzania Albino Society and he makes a living carrying out the everyday activities typical of a small society, but now he is sought after by the international ... See full summary »
Directors: Alessandro Baltera, Matteo Tortone | Stars: Said Abdallah, Samson Biseko, Dixon Dalla, Maneno Idd
34. Dans le noir (2023)
15 min | Short, Drama
Director: Mor Talla Ndione | Stars: Judicael Boni, Heza Botto, Aboubakar Camara, Ibrahima Diop
35. This Is the Life (1935)
Approved | 63 min | Comedy, Drama, Musical
After obtaining her from an orphanage a couple exploit entertainer Withers till she runs away and later becomes a professional.
Director: Marshall Neilan | Stars: Jane Withers, John McGuire, Sally Blane, Sidney Toler
Votes: 60
36. La légende de la terre dorée (2007)
55 min | Documentary
State of Para, in the south part of the Brazilian Amazon. Hundreds of settlers are moving to this state, hoping they will find a better life there. But most of the time, they are trapped ... See full summary »
Director: Stéphane Brasey | Star: Henri Burin des Roziers
37. To Dust (2014– )
Animation, Action, Drama
Five years. It has been five years since the end of the Great War. The land is mostly unrecoverable, amounts of dirt unable to grow things, almost everything a vast desert. One stretch of ... See full summary »
Stars: Michael Hall, David Reiverson, Dallas Reid, Rebekah Amber Clark
38.
Bogan Pride (2008)
Episode:
The Fugly Fringe
(2008)
25 min | Comedy, Musical
Just before school starts back, the hunk of Jennie's grade, Nick Lazzarri, returns from a juvenile detention facility. Jennie has a huge crush on Nick and decides that this is the year she has to become cool and make a move.
Director: Peter Templeman | Stars: Rebel Wilson, Sally-Anne Upton, Lulu McClatchy, Fanny Hanusin
39.
Bogan Pride (2008)
Episode:
The Parachute of Healing
(2008)
24 min | Comedy, Musical
Jennie's mother has been chair-bound for weeks after a spider bit her leg, but the doctor assesses that her problem is her morbid obesity. Cassandra however, is more concerned with the wellbeing of her new cat.
Director: Peter Templeman | Stars: Rebel Wilson, Sally-Anne Upton, Lulu McClatchy, Fanny Hanusin
40.
Bogan Pride (2008)
Episode:
The Maths Olympiad
(2008)
25 min | Comedy, Musical
For Jennie and her friends, Amy Lee and Nigella, the Maths Olympiad is the highlight of their academic calendar, but when it seems that Amy Lee has found a boyfriend on an opposing team, Jennie becomes jealous.
Director: Peter Templeman | Stars: Rebel Wilson, Sally-Anne Upton, Lulu McClatchy, Fanny Hanusin
41.
Bogan Pride (2008)
Episode:
The Roller Skank Rink
(2008)
25 min | Comedy, Musical
Jennie needs to raise $10,000 for her mother's stomach stapling operation. Cassandra starts a Bonsai Cats franchise and ropes Jennie into selling them for her
Director: Peter Templeman | Stars: Rebel Wilson, Sally-Anne Upton, Lulu McClatchy, Fanny Hanusin
42.
Bogan Pride (2008)
Episode:
The Need for Mongs
(2008)
24 min | Comedy, Musical
Cassandra is sacked as a professional carer due to her negligence but discovers that one of her charges, Marilyn, has won a colouring competition and that Cassandra will need Marilyn's help if she's to collect the prize for herself.
Director: Peter Templeman | Stars: Rebel Wilson, Sally-Anne Upton, Lulu McClatchy, Fanny Hanusin
43.
Bogan Pride (2008)
Episode:
The Dance Battle
(2008)
25 min | Comedy, Musical
Cassandra uses Jennie as a 'replacement mong' in order to collect the prize for the colouring-in competition. Jennie enlists Nick into her dance battle team.
Director: Peter Templeman | Stars: Rebel Wilson, Sally-Anne Upton, Lulu McClatchy, Fanny Hanusin
44.
Scouting for Girls: Fashion's Darkest Secret (2022)
Episode:
The Reckoning
(2022)
Documentary
Directors: Clare Richards, Chloe Fairweather | Stars: Lesa Amoore, Marie P. Anderson, Jean-Luc Brunel, Carla Bruni
Votes: 9
45.
Docs interdits (2011– )
Episode:
La France est Notre Patrie
(2015)
Documentary, History
Director: Rithy Panh
Votes: 33