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51. The Girl in the Café (2005 TV Movie)
TV-14 | 94 min | Drama, Romance
Lawrence, an aging, lonely civil servant falls for Gina, an enigmatic young woman. When he takes her to the G8 Summit in Reykjavik, however, their bond is tested by Lawrence's professional obligations.
Director: David Yates | Stars: Bill Nighy, Kelly Macdonald, Meneka Das, Anton Lesser
Votes: 8,742
52. Cuba (1979)
R | 122 min | Adventure, Romance, Thriller
A British mercenary arrives in pre-Revolution Cuba to help train General Batista's Army against Castro's guerrillas while he also romances a former lover now married to an unscrupulous plantation owner.
Director: Richard Lester | Stars: Sean Connery, Brooke Adams, Jack Weston, Hector Elizondo
Votes: 2,988 | Gross: $0.53M
53. The Trial (1993)
PG-13 | 120 min | Drama, Thriller
Joseph K. (Kyle MacLachlan) awakens one morning to find two strange men in his room, telling him he has been arrested. Joseph is not told with what he is charged, and despite being "... See full summary »
Director: David Hugh Jones | Stars: Kyle MacLachlan, Anthony Hopkins, Jason Robards, Juliet Stevenson
Votes: 2,534
54. Company Business (1991)
PG-13 | 98 min | Action, Comedy, Crime
A retired CIA agent is recruited to participate in a prisoner exchange with the Russians.
Director: Nicholas Meyer | Stars: Gene Hackman, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Kurtwood Smith, Terry O'Quinn
Votes: 3,298 | Gross: $1.50M
55. On My Skin: The Last Seven Days of Stefano Cucchi (2018)
TV-MA | 100 min | Biography, Drama
The incredible true story behind the most controversial Italian court cases in recent years. Stefano Cucchi was arrested for a minor crime but in just one week's time, a family is changed forever.
Director: Alessio Cremonini | Stars: Alessandro Borghi, Massimiliano Tortora, Milvia Marigliano, Jasmine Trinca
Votes: 10,197
56. Eichmann (2007)
TV-MA | 96 min | Biography, Drama, History
Based upon the final confession of Adolf Eichmann, made before his execution in Israel as he accounts to Captain Avner Less, a young Israeli police officer, of his past as the architect of ... See full summary »
Director: Robert Young | Stars: Avner W. Less, Thomas Kretschmann, Troy Garity, Franka Potente
Votes: 3,535
57. The Girl from Petrovka (1974)
PG | 103 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
The friendship between an American journalist in Moscow, Joe, and a free-spirited and emotionally vulnerable Russian girl, Oktyabrina, develops into romance. But will they be able to carry on under Socialist constraints?
Director: Robert Ellis Miller | Stars: Goldie Hawn, Hal Holbrook, Anthony Hopkins, Grégoire Aslan
Votes: 679 | Gross: $0.48M
58. The Story of Qiu Ju (1992)
PG | 100 min | Comedy, Drama
A peasant woman seeks justice after the headman of her village has kicked her husband in the groin.
Director: Yimou Zhang | Stars: Gong Li, Peiqi Liu, Liuchun Yang, Kesheng Lei
Votes: 6,669 | Gross: $1.89M
59. Tarzan and the Leopard Woman (1946)
Passed | 72 min | Action, Adventure, Romance
As a spate of leopard attacks causes panic, a sceptical Tarzan joins a hunting expedition, only to face a pagan cult of leopard-god worshippers and their fiendish high priestess. Can he escape the sharp claws of the savage Leopard Woman?
Director: Kurt Neumann | Stars: Johnny Weissmuller, Brenda Joyce, Johnny Sheffield, Acquanetta
Votes: 2,445
60. Standard Operating Procedure (2008)
R | 116 min | Documentary, Crime, War
Errol Morris examines the incidents of abuse and torture of suspected terrorists at the hands of U.S. forces at the Abu Ghraib prison.
Director: Errol Morris | Stars: Megan Ambuhl Graner, Javal Davis, Ken Davis, Anthony Diaz
Votes: 4,116 | Gross: $0.23M
61. The Master and Margaret (1972)
95 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
A writer and his assistant are working on a biblical story about Pontius Pilate who convicted Jesus of Nazereth, while the Satan (here called Woland) and his lieutenants are harassing the writer duo in various ways.
Director: Aleksandar Petrovic | Stars: Ugo Tognazzi, Mimsy Farmer, Alain Cuny, Velimir 'Bata' Zivojinovic
Votes: 792
62. Blue Mountains, or Unbelievable Story (1983)
97 min | Comedy, Drama
An author - a passive young man - enters the Soviet-controlled bureaucracy of Georgia attempting to get his novel published only to be neglected and compartmentalized at every turn.
Director: Eldar Shengelaia | Stars: Ramaz Giorgobiani, Vasil Kakhniashvili, Teimuraz Chirgadze, Ivane Sakvarelidze
Votes: 2,250
63. Notes from Underground (1995)
88 min | Drama
Society will always present problems--we can look for the best outcome within our beliefs.
Director: Gary Walkow | Stars: Henry Czerny, Seth Green, Sheryl Lee, Vic Polizos
Votes: 455
64. Death of a Bureaucrat (1966)
Unrated | 85 min | Comedy
A young man attempts to fight the system in an entertaining account of bureaucracy amok and the tyranny of red tape.
Director: Tomás Gutiérrez Alea | Stars: Salvador Wood, Silvia Planas, Manuel Estanillo, Gaspar De Santelices
Votes: 1,463
65. The Spooks (2016)
Comedy, Fantasy
A young clerk is delegated to sort out the affairs of a certain property. It is an old castle belonging to the city with a garden, in which nobody is really interested, but the tenants of ... See full summary »
Director: Zdenek Troska | Stars: Bronislav Kotis, Tereza Kostková, Carmen Mayerová, Jirí Dvorák
Votes: 77
66. Carnival Night (1956)
Not Rated | 78 min | Comedy, Drama, Musical
A new chief of a "Culture House" is planning to hold a terribly boring New Year concert. A group of young amateur actors are doing their best to liven up the concert.
Director: Eldar Ryazanov | Stars: Igor Ilyinsky, Lyudmila Gurchenko, Yuri Belov, Georgiy Kulikov
Votes: 3,100
67. Farewell (1983)
121 min | Drama
Matyora is a small village on a beautiful island with the same name. The existence of the village is threatened with flooding by the construction of a dam. This is the story of the ... See full summary »
Director: Elem Klimov | Stars: Stefaniya Stanyuta, Lev Durov, Aleksey Petrenko, Leonid Kryuk
Votes: 765
68. Vlastníci (2019)
97 min | Comedy, Drama
Mrs. Zahrádková has a plan to convince the other co-owners of the flats to finally save the house in which they live together and which is in emergency condition.
Director: Jirí Havelka | Stars: Tereza Ramba, Vojtech Kotek, Dagmar Havlová, Jirí Lábus
Votes: 1,095
69. Umbrella Flower (2000)
116 min | Drama
A government employee meets a hostess of a "pink club," and together they set out on a journey.
Director: Shinji Sômai | Stars: Kyôko Koizumi, Tadanobu Asano, Kumiko Asô, Akira Emoto
Votes: 344
70. Touching Wild Horses (2002)
PG | 91 min | Drama
After a car accident that claimed his father and sister's lives and left his mother in a coma, a boy is sent to live with his reclusive aunt on Sable Island, a world-renowned wild horse preserve.
Director: Eleanore Lindo | Stars: Mark Rendall, Jane Seymour, Charles Martin Smith, Gloria Slade
Votes: 512
71. Die Schweizermacher (1978)
107 min | Comedy
Foreigners who apply to become Swiss citizens have no easy task - especially when the police lets Bodmer loose to check upon their background, their integration in the society, and the ... See full summary »
Director: Rolf Lyssy | Stars: Emil Steinberger, Walo Lüönd, Beatrice Kessler, Wolfgang Stendar
Votes: 1,187
72. The Decent One (2014)
Not Rated | 94 min | Documentary, Drama, History
A documentary that uses a cache of letters, diaries and documents to reveal the life of SS-leader Heinrich Himmler.
Director: Vanessa Lapa | Stars: Tobias Moretti, Sophie Rois, Antonia Moretti, Lotte Ledl
Votes: 720
73. She's the Mayor (2011)
30 min | Comedy
Stars: Janet-Laine Green, Scott Wentworth, Tonya Williams, Joseph Motiki
Votes: 156
74. Bombs Over Burma (1942)
Approved | 65 min | Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Chinese girl risks her life on espionage mission against Japanese in World War 2.
Director: Joseph H. Lewis | Stars: Anna May Wong, Noel Madison, Leslie Denison, Nedrick Young
Votes: 254
75. Village of Dreams (1996)
112 min | Drama, Family, Fantasy
Tells of the childhood of nine-year-old twins in a rural village in Japan after World War 2. Includes the boys' relationships with their schoolteacher mother, civil servant father, elderly ... See full summary »
Director: Yôichi Higashi | Stars: Mieko Harada, Keigo Matsuyama, Shogo Matsuyama, Kyôzô Nagatsuka
Votes: 429
76. Sleepy Eyes of Death: Sword of Adventure (1964)
Not Rated | 83 min | Action, Drama
The orphan swordsman wanders into a town and stumbles upon the opportunity to do righteous deeds. He finds a larger plot is afoot with a corrupt court system, a well meaning public servant and lots of danger for all involved.
Director: Kenji Misumi | Stars: Raizô Ichikawa, Kôichi Aihara, San'emon Arashi, Shinjirô Asano
Votes: 295
77. Bhuvan Shome (1969)
Not Rated | 96 min | Comedy, Drama
A lonely bureaucrat goes on holiday to a Gujarat village where a young peasant woman helps him see beyond his job and develop a newfound empathy for people.
Director: Mrinal Sen | Stars: Utpal Dutt, Suhasini Mulay, Shekhar Chatterjee, Sadhu Meher
Votes: 581
78. The Whip (IV)
82 min | Drama, Thriller | Post-production
With the looming threat of devastating welfare reforms known as Independence Credit, a full-time carer plots an audacious heist in a bid to halt the scheme in its tracks.
Director: Christopher Presswell | Stars: Shian Denovan, Gala Wesson, Tom Knight, Daniel Davids
79. Secret Ballot (2001)
G | 123 min | Comedy, Drama
A female election agent and a gun-toting soldier try to collect votes among the local islanders with mixed success.
Director: Babak Payami | Stars: Nassim Abdi, Cyrus Abidi, Youssef Habashi, Farrokh Shoja
Votes: 1,279 | Gross: $0.11M
80. Bayside Shakedown (1998)
119 min | Action, Comedy, Crime
Aoshima, a police detective working in the Bayside Precinct, is continually frustrated by the hierarchy and red tape that plague the system. His friend Muroi is climbing the ladder of the ... See full summary »
Director: Katsuyuki Motohiro | Stars: Yûji Oda, Toshirô Yanagiba, Eri Fukatsu, Miki Mizuno
Votes: 950
81. The Specialist (1999)
128 min | Documentary
The incredible trial of an appallingly ordinary man. Drawn entirely on the 350 hours of rare footage recorded during the trial of Adolf Eichmann, in 1961, in Jerusalem, this film about ... See full summary »
Director: Eyal Sivan | Stars: Adolf Eichmann, Gideon Hausner, Gabriel Bach, Avraham Lindwasser
Votes: 384 | Gross: $0.02M
82. El ministro y yo (1976)
109 min | Comedy, Drama
A good-hearted clerk falls in grace to a minister who invites him to work for the government. His ethics on job alienates him from colleagues while making efforts to return speech to a girl.
Director: Miguel M. Delgado | Stars: Cantinflas, Chela Castro, Lucía Méndez, Ángel Garasa
Votes: 295
83. My Grandmother (1929)
Not Rated | 65 min | Comedy, Drama
The protagonist, a lazy pen-pusher, gets the sack for his bureaucratic idleness, and learns that the way back into the job market depends on getting a letter of recommendation from a "grandmother".
Director: Kote Mikaberidze | Stars: Aleksandre Takaishvili, Bella Chernova, Evgeniy Ovanov, Akaki Khorava
Votes: 404
84. Dr. Plonk (2007)
85 min | Action, Comedy, Sci-Fi
A scientist & inventor in 1907, Dr Plonk, predicts that the world will end in 101 years, unless something is done about it. A comedy in the Charlie Chaplin / Buster Keaton tradition.
Director: Rolf de Heer | Stars: Nigel Martin, Paul Blackwell, Magda Szubanski, Wayne Anthoney
Votes: 517
85. Collector Garu (1997)
Not Rated | 142 min | Action, Comedy, Drama
With the help of a journalist, a honest district collector fights political corruption.
Director: Gopal B. | Stars: Babu Mohan, Mohan Babu, Brahmanandam, Dubbing Janaki
Votes: 300
86. Renuncia por motivos de salud (1976)
96 min | Drama
Director: Rafael Baledón | Stars: Ignacio López Tarso, Carmen Montejo, Silvia Mariscal, Aarón Hernán
Votes: 34
87. Bureaucracy (2009)
Not Rated | 87 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A loyal employee overburdened by a corrupt boss carefully plots a murder to save himself and his blind sister from economic hardship.
Director: Mark Perreault | Stars: Jack Robinson, David Simon, Kaitlyn Black, Jane Shepherd
Votes: 41
88. Bricklayer (1973)
18 min | Documentary, Short
A bricklayer and former communist party official looks back at his life, while taking part in a parade of May 1st.
Director: Krzysztof Kieslowski | Star: Józef Malesa
Votes: 329
89. Science Team (2014)
82 min | Action, Comedy, Horror
A battle between a young man, his dead mother, a telepathic space alien, and a bureaucratic government organization.
Director: Drew Bolduc | Stars: Vito Trigo, Richard Spencer, Emily Marsh, Mariea Terrell
Votes: 121
90. El saman wal karif (1967)
120 min | Drama
Director: Houssam El-Din Mustafa | Stars: Nadia Lutfi, Mahmoud Moursy, Abdalla Gleiss, Ihsan El-Kalawy
Votes: 115
91. The Man in the Frame (1966)
10 min | Animation, Short
The way bureaucracy works is told by men in the frames.
Director: Fyodor Khitruk
Votes: 279
92. De nuevo a la vida (1973)
98 min | Adventure, Crime, Drama
Director: Leonidas Zegarra | Stars: Benjamín Arce, Luis Cabrera, Leonidas Carvajal, Gerardo Casavilca
Votes: 14
93. Duncan Campbell Scott: The Poet and the Indians (1995)
Biography
Director: James Cullingham | Stars: R.H. Thomson, James Cullingham, Stan Dragland, Roy Kaminawaish
94. Adolf Eichmann - Begegnungen mit einem Mörder (2002 TV Movie)
90 min | Documentary
Director: Clara Glynn | Stars: Adolf Eichmann, Shlomo Nagar, Hanns-Peter Herz, Gabriel Bach
Votes: 21
95. The Button (1989)
8 min | Animation, Short
Every time a Soviet apparatchik presses a button, something explodes.
Director: Robert Sahakyants
Votes: 64
96. The Great Northern Candy Drop (2017 TV Movie)
22 min | Animation, Family
The pilot of an arctic community's candy air-drop is confronted by a visiting government bureaucrat who disapproves of the Christmas tradition.
Directors: Phil Lafrance, Jamie LeClaire | Stars: Tantoo Cardinal, Lorne Cardinal, Katie Griffin, Seán Cullen
Votes: 38
97. Zoetrope (1999)
18 min | Short, Horror
Director: Charlie Deaux | Stars: Nigel Bonfield, Michael Bradley, Robert Deacon
Votes: 290
98. Gia mia houfta... touvla (1987 Video)
80 min | Comedy
Tired of living on rent, a hard-working tailor has to deal with a Kafkaesque bureaucracy, a corrupt banking industry, a rapacious money shark, and money-grubbing contractors to own a home. Will he ever get his wish granted?
Director: Takis Vougiouklakis | Stars: Kostas Tsakonas, Vera Gouma, Tasos Kostis, Evdokia Pentzaki
Votes: 126
99. Eichmanns Ende (2010 TV Movie)
89 min | Documentary, Drama
Director: Raymond Ley | Stars: Herbert Knaup, Ulrich Tukur, Axel Milberg, Michael Hanemann
Votes: 151
100. Penguin fûfu no tsukurikata (2012)
90 min | Drama
Japanese woman Ayumi was a writer and contributor for a publishing house. Gyouku worked there as well and loved his photography. The employer goes broke, but never mind because the pair are... See full summary »
Director: Katsutoshi Hirabayashi | Stars: Eiko Koike, Motoki Fukami, Kingone Wang, Hayato Fujiki
Votes: 18