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1. Zodiac (2007)
R | 157 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Between 1968 and 1983, a San Francisco cartoonist becomes an amateur detective obsessed with tracking down the Zodiac Killer, an unidentified individual who terrorizes Northern California with a killing spree.
Director: David Fincher | Stars: Jake Gyllenhaal, Robert Downey Jr., Mark Ruffalo, Anthony Edwards
Votes: 598,659 | Gross: $33.08M
2. 20th Century Women (2016)
R | 119 min | Comedy, Drama
The story of a teenage boy, his mother, and two other women who help raise him among the love and freedom of Southern California of 1979.
Director: Mike Mills | Stars: Annette Bening, Elle Fanning, Greta Gerwig, Billy Crudup
Votes: 49,405 | Gross: $5.66M
3. Apt Pupil (1998)
R | 111 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A boy blackmails his neighbor after suspecting him to be a Nazi war criminal.
Director: Bryan Singer | Stars: Ian McKellen, Brad Renfro, Joshua Jackson, Mickey Cottrell
Votes: 41,638 | Gross: $8.84M
4. Venus in Fur (2013)
Not Rated | 96 min | Drama
An actress attempts to convince a director how she's perfect for a role in his upcoming production.
Director: Roman Polanski | Stars: Emmanuelle Seigner, Mathieu Amalric
Votes: 20,976 | Gross: $0.34M
5. Hotel Coolgardie (2016)
83 min | Documentary
On a road between Australia's most isolated town and its largest gold mine lies Coolgardie, where the arrival every three months of a new foreign backpacker couple is a much-anticipated event.
Director: Pete Gleeson | Stars: Nicolina, Stephanie, Peter Coffey, John Joseph Lowe
Votes: 1,319
6. The Edge of Heaven (2007)
Not Rated | 122 min | Drama
A Turkish man travels to Istanbul to find the daughter of his father's former girlfriend.
Director: Fatih Akin | Stars: Baki Davrak, Gürsoy Gemec, Cengiz Daner, Tuncel Kurtiz
Votes: 33,524 | Gross: $0.74M
7. Where the Green Ants Dream (1984)
R | 100 min | Drama
A geologist employed by an Australian mining company finds himself disputing the rights of some aborigines who believe their land to be sacred.
Director: Werner Herzog | Stars: Bruce Spence, Wandjuk Marika, Roy Marika, Ray Barrett
Votes: 2,632
8. Leviathan (I) (2012)
Not Rated | 87 min | Documentary
A documentary shot in the North Atlantic and focused on the commercial fishing industry.
Directors: Lucien Castaing-Taylor, Verena Paravel | Stars: Brian Jannelle, Adrian Guillette, Arthur Smith, Asterias Vulgaris
Votes: 3,794 | Gross: $1.09M
9. Mutluluk (2007)
105 min | Drama
When an unmarried teenage girl is believed by her family to have given up her virginity, she is ordered to be killed out of shame. But before her relative is able to complete the task, the two encounter a college professor.
Director: Abdullah Oguz | Stars: Talat Bulut, Özgü Namal, Murat Han, Mustafa Avkiran
Votes: 7,831 | Gross: $0.04M
10. Just Like a Woman (2020)
84 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Under the pressure of her mother and sister, failed-writer Eleonore Berthier undergoes a complete makeover and gets hired as an assistant in a publishing house specializing in erotic romances.
Director: Amro Hamzawi | Stars: Nora Hamzawi, André Marcon, Julia Faure, Dominique Reymond
Votes: 243
11. The American Nightmare (2000)
Not Rated | 73 min | Documentary, Horror
An examination into the nature of 1960s-'70s horror films, the artists involved, and how they reflected contemporary society.
Director: Adam Simon | Stars: George A. Romero, John Carpenter, Tom Savini, David Cronenberg
Votes: 1,988
12. The Road to Love (2001)
Not Rated | 70 min | Drama
This romantic-kitsch story goes from Paris to Marseille, from Amsterdam to Morocco via Jean Genet's grave in Larache, and on to Tangiers. The movie tells the story of an Algerian-French ... See full summary »
Director: Rémi Lange | Stars: Karim Tarek, Riyad Echahi, Sihem Benamoune, Zakariya Gouram
Votes: 396
13. The Blonds (2003)
Not Rated | 89 min | Documentary
Los rubios focuses on the directors search for her dissappeared parents. Is it possible to get to the truth or they are only fictions, imaginary characters from everyone who rememebers them?
Director: Albertina Carri | Stars: Analía Couceyro, Albertina Carri, Santiago Giralt, Jesica Suarez
Votes: 391
14. The Society of the Spectacle (1974)
91 min | Documentary
Guy Debord's cinematic analysis of consumer society based on his influential book "La société du spectacle" (1967).
Director: Guy Debord | Stars: Guy Debord, Leonid Brezhnev, Fidel Castro, Jacques Duclos
Votes: 662
15. From Caligari to Hitler: German Cinema in the Age of the Masses (2014)
119 min | Documentary, Biography, History
Focuses on the Weimar Republic (1918-1933) and its 'collective spirit' in cinema. The purpose of film as a cultural tool is examined. Based on celebrated sociologist Siegfried Kracauer's seminal book 'From Caligari to Hitler' (1947).
Director: Rüdiger Suchsland | Stars: Rüdiger Suchsland, Hans Henrik Wöhler, Fritz Lang, Volker Schlöndorff
Votes: 897
16. Videograms of a Revolution (1992)
106 min | Documentary, History, War
This documentary uses news footage and amateur video to paint a vivid picture of Romania's 1989 revolution and the fall of dictator Nicolae Ceausescu.
Directors: Harun Farocki, Andrei Ujica | Stars: Ion Caramitru, Elena Ceausescu, Nicolae Ceausescu, Mircea Dinescu
Votes: 655
17. Midnight Movies: From the Margin to the Mainstream (2005)
TV-14 | 86 min | Documentary
From 1970-1977, six low budget films shown at midnight transformed the way we make and watch films.
Director: Stuart Samuels | Stars: John Waters, Ben Barenholtz, Alejandro Jodorowsky, Alan Douglas
Votes: 1,643
18. The Stuart Hall Project (2013)
103 min | Documentary, Biography, History
Stuart Hall is one of the most influential and esteemed cultural theorists of a generation. A thinker and commentator, his peers include other giants of political commentary such as Noam ... See full summary »
Director: John Akomfrah | Stars: Stuart Hall, Catherine Hall
Votes: 181
19. The Death of Mario Ricci (1983)
100 min | Drama
The tragic accident of an Italian laborer ,working on the Mont Blanc tunnel.
Director: Claude Goretta | Stars: Gian Maria Volontè, Magali Noël, Heinz Bennent, Mimsy Farmer
Votes: 197
20. 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
21. Umberto Lenzi: Man from Deep River (2004 Video)
Not Rated | 10 min | Documentary, Short
Stars: Umberto Lenzi, Ong Ard, Prapas Chindang, Me Me Lai
22. Sociology Is a Martial Art (2001)
146 min | Documentary
For three years, Pierre Carles followed French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu, working to have his research understood and people prompted to action. Is sociology a martial art? Or an intellectual tool for the elite to validate their choices?
Director: Pierre Carles | Stars: Pierre Bourdieu, José Bové, Pierre Carles, Gaby Reich
Votes: 311
23. 1998: El Rumor
Documentary
A look at how the fake news of a tsunami mobilized almost the entire Dominican Republic one early morning in October 1998.
Directors: Freddy Jimenez, Elsa Turull de Alma | Star: Marcella Acuña Báez
24. Campus (1998)
126 min | Comedy
A prestigious sociology professor and candidate for the position of President of the University trips over a troublesomely ended affair with a student and is accused of sexual harassment and sexual assault by the university apparatus.
Director: Sönke Wortmann | Stars: Heiner Lauterbach, Sandra Speichert, Axel Milberg, Sibylle Canonica
Votes: 400
25. Short of Breath (2020)
25 min | Drama
Set in the days leading up to the election of Donald Trump, "Short of Breath" follows Olissa, a single mother in her early 30s who loses her factory job in the series' first scene. It's ... See full summary »
Stars: Kristina Haddad, Tom Walton, Sami Yacob-Andrus
26. La sociologue et l'ourson (2016)
78 min | Documentary
From September 2012 to May 2013, France avidly instigates the bill of marriage equality. During these nine months of legislative gestation, sociologist Irène Théry exposes what's at stake ... See full summary »
Directors: Etienne Chaillou, Mathias Théry | Stars: Irène Théry, Mathias Théry, Frigide Barjot, Claude Bartolone
Votes: 108
27. Material Test (1981)
82 min | Documentary
Documentary about the lives of three generations of residents of Warsaw's Wola district.
Director: Kazimierz Karabasz | Stars: Zdzislaw Mrozewski, Mariusz Trelinski, Janusz Wróblewski
28. Edgar Morin, chronique d'un regard (2014)
81 min | Documentary
Directors: Olivier Bohler, Céline Gailleurd | Stars: Mathieu Amalric, Edgar Morin
Votes: 14
29. Complot internacional antilatinoamericano 2K (2021)
96 min | Comedy, Crime, Mystery
The Narrator shares with us how, by phone, a Latin American Sociologist explained a military-funded study on the feasibility of a coup d'état to the Intelligence Officer, visited by a Special Operations Officer after that.
Director: Jorge Luis Villacorta Santamato | Star: Jorge Luis Villacorta Santamato
Votes: 5
31. Kamera und Wirklichkeit (1992 TV Movie)
186 min | Documentary
Filmmakers Harun Farocki und Andrei Ujica discuss footage from their documentary Videograms of a Revolution (1992) about the revolution in Romania 1989 with scientists.
Directors: Harun Farocki, Andrei Ujica | Stars: Harun Farocki, Andrei Ujica, Andrei Plesu, Friedrich Kittler
32. A Study in Sociology (1913)
Short, Drama
A clause in the will of an old millionaire forbids his daughter from marrying any man but one who has become prominent through hard work. A relative of the girl introduces her to a supposed... See full summary »
Star: Harry Spingler
33. Urok po sotziologiya (1975)
8 min | Animation, Short
The rabbit was placed in a Lion reserve. Every lion that tries to eat a rabbit falls off a bullet. The lions begin to fear the rabbit and delight him. The rabbit swings the whip over the ... See full summary »
Director: Pencho Bogdanov
34. Noosfera (2012 Video)
55 min | Documentary, Biography, Family
A captivating portrait of sociology professor Nicolae Dumitru, who preaches a theory about true love but has difficulty putting it into practice in its own life.
Directors: Ileana Stanculescu, Artchil Khetagouri | Star: Nicolae Dumitru
Votes: 10
37.
Sympathy for the Devil (1972– )
Episode:
Magara oder Das Glück, Angst zu haben. Zur Sozialgeschichte der populären Musik der Afro-Amerikaner II.Teil
(1972)
Documentary, Music
Director: Michael Leckebusch | Stars: Alexis Korner, Maggie Bell, Joe Cocker, Champion Jack Dupree
38.
MUBUTV: Insider Video Series (2012– )
Episode:
Music Sociologist Kyle Bylin Pt.1
(2012)
Music
Director: Eric Knight
39.
MUBUTV: Insider Video Series (2012– )
Episode:
Music Sociologist Kyle Bylin Pt.2
(2012)
Music
Director: Eric Knight
40.
Mes chers contemporains (2014– )
Episode:
La Pensée 68 (sociologie et culture de l'excuse)
(2016)
Talk-Show
Director: Usul | Stars: Usul, Luc Boltanski, Pierre Bourdieu, Malek Boutih