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1. The Secret in Their Eyes (2009)

R | 129 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance

A retired legal counselor writes a novel hoping to find closure for one of his past unresolved homicide cases and for his unreciprocated love with his superior - both of which still haunt him decades later.

Director: Juan José Campanella | Stars: Ricardo Darín, Soledad Villamil, Pablo Rago, Carla Quevedo

Votes: 222,631 | Gross: $6.39M

2. Quantum of Solace (2008)

PG-13 | 106 min | Action, Adventure, Mystery

James Bond descends into mystery as he tries to stop a mysterious organisation from eliminating a country's most valuable resource.

Director: Marc Forster | Stars: Daniel Craig, Olga Kurylenko, Mathieu Amalric, Judi Dench

Votes: 471,146 | Gross: $168.37M

3. Missing (1982)

PG | 122 min | Biography, Drama, History

When an idealistic American writer disappears during the Chilean coup d'état in September 1973, his wife and father try to find him.

Director: Costa-Gavras | Stars: Jack Lemmon, Sissy Spacek, Melanie Mayron, John Shea

Votes: 23,401 | Gross: $14.00M

4. The Lady (2011)

R | 132 min | Biography, Drama, History

The story of Aung San Suu Kyi as she becomes the core of Burma's democracy movement, and her relationship with her husband, writer Michael Aris.

Director: Luc Besson | Stars: Michelle Yeoh, David Thewlis, Jonathan Raggett, Jonathan Woodhouse

Votes: 11,301 | Gross: $0.36M

5. Cabo Blanco (1980)

R | 87 min | Action, Adventure, Crime

In 1948, an assortment of shady characters are searching for Nazi loot, sunken off the coast of Peru.

Director: J. Lee Thompson | Stars: Charles Bronson, Jason Robards, Dominique Sanda, Fernando Rey

Votes: 1,359

6. The Photograph (1986)

102 min | Drama

A young furrier leaves Castoria in 1971 to emigrate to France to live with a relative. He finds a photograph, leading to a confrontation with his relative.

Director: Nikos Papatakis | Stars: Hristos Tsagas, Aris Retsos, Zozo Zarpa, Despina Tomazani

Votes: 482

7. The Wall (1983)

Not Rated | 117 min | Drama

Teens in a Turkish prison struggle to survive under hideous conditions.

Director: Yilmaz Güney | Stars: Tuncel Kurtiz, Ayse Emel Mesci Kuray, Malik Berrichi, Nicolas Hossein

Votes: 4,434

8. Machuca (2004)

Not Rated | 121 min | Biography, Drama, History

Two 12-year-old Chilean children from different social classes become friends in 1973. They both discover each other's world as political tensions in their country increase.

Director: Andrés Wood | Stars: Matías Quer, Ariel Mateluna, Manuela Martelli, Aline Küppenheim

Votes: 12,664

9. Loafing and Camouflage (1984)

99 min | Comedy

The "adventures" of some friends during their military service.

Director: Nicos Perakis | Stars: Nikos Kalogeropoulos, Giorgos Kimoulis, Takis Spyridakis, Stavros Xenidis

Votes: 3,647

10. The Falklands Play (2002 TV Movie)

Not Rated | 90 min | Drama, War

On April 2, 1982, Britain went to war to regain the Falkland Islands. This movie is a gripping account of how Prime Minister Rt Hon Margaret Thatcher MP's government handled the biggest ... See full summary »

Director: Michael Samuels | Stars: Patricia Hodge, James Fox, John Standing, Michael Cochrane

Votes: 659

11. Chronicle of an Escape (2006)

R | 103 min | Crime, Thriller

The goalkeeper of a little-known soccer team is kidnapped by a Argentinean government squad and sent to a detention center. After months of torture, he plots his escape with three other young men.

Director: Israel Adrián Caetano | Stars: Rodrigo de la Serna, Pablo Echarri, Nazareno Casero, Lautaro Delgado

Votes: 3,705 | Gross: $0.00M

12. The City and the Dogs (1985)

Unrated | 135 min | Drama

Four angry cadets form an inner circle to beat the system, boredom and the stifling confinement of the military academy, sparking a chain of events that begins with a robbery and leads to murder.

Director: Francisco J. Lombardi | Stars: Pablo Serra, Gustavo Bueno, Luis Álvarez, Juan Manuel Ochoa

Votes: 718

13. Kamchatka (2002)

106 min | Drama

The film is seen through the eyes of a ten-year-old boy, Harry (Matías del Pozo), who does not know that Argentina's 1976 coup d'état is impacting his life. After witnessing the "... See full summary »

Director: Marcelo Piñeyro | Stars: Ricardo Darín, Cecilia Roth, Héctor Alterio, Fernanda Mistral

Votes: 3,715

14. Dead Letter Office (1998)

95 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

Alice's father left when she was a child. She continued to share her life with him in letters that she sent not realising that he never received them. Eventually, they all come back with "... See full summary »

Director: John Ruane | Stars: Miranda Otto, George DelHoyo, Alicia Banit, Tess Mornana

Votes: 463

15. The Christmas Tango (2011)

102 min | Drama, Romance

At the time of the Greek junta, in an isolated army camp, a lieutenant forces a soldier to teach him the tango in order to ask the wife of his Colonel to dance with him.

Director: Nikos Koutelidakis | Stars: Giannis Bezos, Giannis Stankoglou, Antinoos Albanis, Vicky Papadopoulou

Votes: 3,773

16. The Defenders (2023)

90 min | Documentary, Biography, Sport

The gripping true story of how a former Australian football captain and a ragtag team of social media warriors, challenged two monarchies, a military junta and the world's richest and most ... See full summary »

Director: Matthew Bate | Stars: Hakeem Al-Araibi, Craig Foster, Ming-Zhu Hii, Mark Saturno

Votes: 45

17. Bütün Kapilar Kapaliydi (1990)

90 min | Drama

Nil spends years in jail and is being tortured during September 12 junta period and alienates the new life after she is released.

Director: Memduh Ün | Stars: Asli Altan, Ugur Polat, Nalan Sayar, Ali Uyandiran

Votes: 78

18. Baptism of Blood (2006)

110 min | Drama, History

During the period of 1964 to 1985, Brazil lived a military dictatorship. In the 60s, the Dominican friars Tito, Betto, Fernando and Ivo help leftist organizations. However, they are ... See full summary »

Director: Helvecio Ratton | Stars: Caio Blat, Daniel de Oliveira, Léo Quintão, Odilon Esteves

Votes: 750

19. The Battle of Chile: Part II (1976)

Not Rated | 88 min | Documentary, History

Filmmaker Patricio Guzmán tracks the deterioration of Salvador Allende's position following the attempted coup d'état of 29 June 1973, and analyzes the 10 weeks before Augusto Pinochet's CIA-backed seizure of power.

Director: Patricio Guzmán | Stars: Salvador Allende, Carlos Altamirano, Fernando Castillo, Luis Corvalán

Votes: 1,283

20. The Assignment (1977)

95 min | Thriller

A Swedish diplomat travels to a civil war in a Latin American country. His mission is to mediate between the two extremist groups.

Director: Mats Arehn | Stars: Christopher Plummer, Thomas Hellberg, Carolyn Seymour, Fernando Rey

Votes: 110

21. Mathe paidi mou grammata (1981)

96 min | Comedy, Drama

In a small Greek village, short time after the collapse of the Junta regime, a memorial of those who died in the German occupation of Greece brings in the surface the political differences of a conservative teacher and his two sons.

Director: Thodoros Maragos | Stars: Vasilis Diamantopoulos, Anna Matzourani, Nikos Kalogeropoulos, Christos Kalavrouzos

Votes: 1,218

22. Monsenor: The Last Journey of Oscar Romero (2011)

97 min | Documentary, Biography, History

In the 1970s, as El Salvador moved irrevocably closer to civil war, one man was known as the voice of the poor, the disenfranchised, the disappeared. Appointed Archbishop in 1977, Monsenor ... See full summary »

Directors: Ana Carrigan, Juliet Weber | Stars: Pablo Alvarenga, Alberto Arene, Salvador Carranza, Marta Cerna

Votes: 31

23. Augusto Pinochet: The Coup, the Torture & the West (2023 TV Special)

45 min | Documentary, History

September 11th, 2023 marks the 50th anniversary of the military coup that brought General Pinochet to power in Chile. With the support of world democracies, including the US and UK, the dictator ruled through terror and torture.

Director: Lyndy Saville | Stars: Cal Seville, Roberto Navarrete, Nicholas O'Shaughnessy, Grace Livingston

Votes: 15

24. A Tank in My... Bedroom (1975)

97 min | Comedy, Drama

In Greece, during the turbulent years between 1967-1974, a hard-working toiler who avoids marriage on grounds of political instability tries to stay out of trouble by keeping a low profile.

Director: Giannis Dalianidis | Stars: Kostas Voutsas, Eleni Mavromati, Kaiti Ibrohori, Koula Agagiotou

Votes: 184

25. Parangelia! (1980)

87 min | Crime, Drama

The real story of Nikos Koemtzis, who one night knifed a company of men in a tavern, just because they wanted to dance on the song he had "ordered" from the musicians.

Director: Pavlos Tasios | Stars: Antonis Antoniou, Antonis Kafetzopoulos, Katerina Gogou, Sofia Roubou

Votes: 784

26. Hesus, rebolusyunaryo (2002)

112 min | Action, Drama, Sci-Fi

Hesus Mariano is caught in a deadly match between his mentor Rebel Leader Miguel Reynante and military Colonel Arnold Simon. Drawing inspiration from his childhood sweetheart Hilda, Hesus ... See full summary »

Director: Lav Diaz | Stars: Mark Anthony Fernandez, Donita Rose, Joel Lamangan, Ronnie Lazaro

Votes: 83

27. Crossing Salween (2010)

Short, Adventure

Having survived the massacre of her family, a young girl must make the long journey through the horrors of the Burmese jungle to the Salween river, beyond which lies the freedom of Thailand.

Director: Brian O'Malley | Stars: Ronnachai Mai Wijitto, Thanawut Ketsaro, Danai Thiengdham, Jatuporn Hoasathikul

Votes: 69

28. America and Me (2017)

87 min | Documentary, Biography, History

Australian filmmaker David Bradbury has been coming and going to the United States for the last forty years. A one-man band political activist who always travels with his camera, the twice ... See full summary »

Director: David Bradbury | Star: David Vine

29. Gå på vattnet om du kan (1979)

100 min | Drama

Literature graduate Orlando begins a love affair with the Foreign Ministry official Anders. She follows him to Argentina. There she learns that he is already married.

Director: Stig Björkman | Stars: Lena Nyman, Tomas Pontén, Claire Wikholm, Norman Briski

Votes: 42

30. Hyenan ler faktiskt inte... (1980 TV Movie)

118 min | Drama, Thriller

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Director: Carlos Lemos | Stars: Thomas Hellberg, Lars Wiberg, Pia Garde, Peter Harryson

31. On the Line (2007)

Not Rated | 55 min | Documentary

An act of civil disobedience at America's largest ongoing protest brings graduate student Brian DeRouen face-to-face with the pressing constitutional issues of today. His non-violent action... See full summary »

Directors: Peter Glenn, Jason A. Schmidt | Stars: Roy Bourgeois, Brian DeRouen, John Perkins, Helen Prejean

Votes: 35

32. South of the Border (1988)

63 min | Documentary, Music, War

David Bradbury's documentary examines how the political and economic struggle in Central America is expressed through the music of the people south of the border, from Mexico to Managua.

Director: David Bradbury | Star: Peter Garrett

33. Destination Nicaragua (1986)

58 min | Documentary

Documentary about a group of Americans who go to Nicaragua to learn about the conflict between the Contras and the Sandinistas.

Director: Barbara Trent | Stars: Tyne Daly, Daniel Ortega, Ronald Reagan

Votes: 9

34. Myanmar Beneath the Surface (2009– )

24 min | Documentary

In the run up to the elections in Burma we examine what is going on behind the scenes. Is the junta trying to go nuclear? Is anyone planning a revolution? How are the ethnic minority groups surviving?

35. 'Herra ja ylhäisyys' (1944)

113 min | Adventure, Comedy, Western

Lieutenant general T. J. A. Heikkilä (Tauno Palo) is sent to Sierranueva on a secret mission with his adjutant Silvio (Jorma Nortimo). In Sierranueva, they get mixed up in a political ... See full summary »

Director: Jorma Nortimo | Stars: Tauno Palo, Regina Linnanheimo, Jorma Nortimo, Eine Laine

Votes: 89

36. Mission: Impossible (1966–1973)
Episode: The Crane (1970)

TV-PG | 50 min | Action, Adventure, Crime

The team finds inspiration from Poe's "The Purloined Letter" in their plan to rescue a resistance fighter, and sow discord among the leaders of the military junta hunting him.

Director: Paul Krasny | Stars: Peter Graves, Leonard Nimoy, Greg Morris, Peter Lupus

Votes: 151

37. Sheena (2000–2002)
Episode: Lost Boy (2000)

TV-PG | Action, Adventure

While photographing an AGMES team in the LaMistas, Cutter and journalist Peter Reynolds find themselves in the middle of a brutal war between a military junta and a tribe led by an unhinged young man kicked out of a Texan military academy.

Director: Nelson McCormick | Stars: Gena Lee Nolin, John Allen Nelson, Margo Moorer, Kevin Quigley

Votes: 31

38. The New Environmentalists (2013–2021)
Episode: From Myanmar to Scotland (2015)

Documentary

Biodiversity is a central component to the successful operation of Earth's natural systems. Meet people from Haiti, Myanmar, Honduras, Kenya, Canada, and Scotland who spend time and energy securing healthy local environmental regulations.

Directors: John Antonelli, Tom Dusenbery, Will Parrinello | Stars: Marilyn Baptiste, Berta Caceres, Melissa Cardoza, Bob Chamberlin

39. The Armchair Historian (2017– )
Episode: Falklands War from Argentina's Perspective (2022)

24 min | Documentary, Animation

Most documentaries discuss the Falklands War from a British perspective - in this short film, the Armchair Historian presents the 1982 conflict from an Argentine viewpoint, starting from ... See full summary »

Director: Griffin Johnsen | Star: Griffin Johnsen

40. Firstpost: Flashback (2023– )
Episode: How to Stage a Coup in Five Steps (2023)

10 min | Documentary, Short, News

Since the 1950s, there have been 242 successful military coups, including more than 100 in Africa. What does it take to stage a successful military takeover? How have coup leaders of the ... See full summary »

Star: Palki Sharma Upadhyay