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Kundun (1997)

Kundun (1997)

7.0/10 Biography, Drama, History, War

From childhood to adulthood, Tibet's fourteenth Dalai Lama deals with Chinese oppression and other problems.

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Borstal Boy (2000)

Borstal Boy (2000)

6.8/10 Drama

Irish teenager political activist and future writer Brendan Behan is befriended in a British borstal (reformatory) by a liberal warden.

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Blame It on Fidel (2006)

Blame It on Fidel (2006)

9.3/10 Drama, History

Anna must deal with losing her privileges when her well-off parents become leftist activists.

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The Breadwinner (2017)

The Breadwinner (2017)

7.7/10 War, Drama, Animation, Family

In 2001, Afghanistan is under the control of the Taliban. When her father is captured, a determined young girl disguises herself as a boy in order to provide for her family.

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Farming (2018)

Farming (2018)

5.9/10 Drama

Based on the writer/director's childhood, FARMING tells story of a young Nigerian boy, 'farmed out' by his parents to a white British family in the hope of a better future. Instead, he becomes the feared leader of a white skinhead gang.

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Nowhere in Africa (2001)

Nowhere in Africa (2001)

8.5/10 Drama

A Jewish lawyer (Merab Ninidze), his wife (Juliane Köhler) and their 5-year-old daughter move to Kenya in 1938 to escape Nazi persecution.

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Women Without Men (2009)

Women Without Men (2009)

7.3/10 Drama

The streets of Tehran, Iran, are teeming with protesters objecting to the overthrow of the prime minister, but four disparate women have more immediate concerns. Farrokhlagha's (Arita Shahrzad) husband thinks he's entitled to be married to multiple women. Munis (Shabnam Toloui) is a virtual slave to her brother. Faezeh (Pegah Ferydoni) has physical and emotional troubles. And Zarin (Orsolya Tóth) is an unwilling prostitute. Boldly, the women pursue solutions to the problems foisted upon them.

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Before Night Falls (2000)

Before Night Falls (2000)

7.2/10 Romance, Drama, Biography

The life of Cuban poet and novelist, Reinaldo Arenas.

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Tehran Taboo (2017)

Tehran Taboo (2017)

7.1/10 Animation, Drama

In their desperate search for freedom and happiness, four young people from Tehran, Iran are forced to break the taboos of a restrictive, islamic society.

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Overseas (1990)

Overseas (1990)

6.6/10 Comedy, Drama

In French Algeria, after WWII, three daughters of wealthy settlers begin their adult lives. Zon marries an often absent sailor. Malene's husband, Gildas, refuses to work in the farm, so she has to take care of everything. Gritte, the youngest, does not want to marry and is a nurse for the natives. We will follow their three different destinies.

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Vincent and Me (1990)

Vincent and Me (1990)

6.4/10 Family, Adventure, Drama

While sketching one day, 13 year old Jo encounters a mysterious art dealer who buys a few of her drawings and commissions her to do some more. Some time thereafter she reads a news story about a million dollar sale of some drawings of a young Vincent Van Gogh. She enlists the aid of some friends and heads to Amsterdam in search of the mystery man. Or, should she go to...Read all

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Burning an Illusion (1981)

Burning an Illusion (1981)

6.4/10 Drama

A young black woman in England becomes increasingly frustrated with her life with her lazy, demanding boyfriend, and with the help of friends seeks something better.

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Patty Hearst (1988)

Patty Hearst (1988)

6.3/10 Drama

In the 1970s, Patricia Hearst is abducted by American revolutionaries, but eventually joins their cause instead.

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Miral (2010)

Miral (2010)

6.2/10 Drama, History

A drama centered on an orphaned Palestinian girl growing up in the wake of Arab-Israeli war who finds herself drawn into the conflict.

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Float Like a Butterfly (2018)

Float Like a Butterfly (2018)

5.8/10 Drama

From the producers of Once and Sing Street, Float Like a Butterfly is a powerful and timely story of a girl's fight for freedom and belonging. In a gender-reversal of classic film Billy Elliot, 15-year-old Frances has to fight for the right to fight back. Raised in roadside camps in rural Ireland, Frances wants to champion her people inside the boxing ring and out, li...Read all

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An American Rhapsody (2001)

An American Rhapsody (2001)

5.6/10 Drama

After fleeing Communist Hungary in the 1950s, a couple (Nastassja Kinski, Tony Goldwyn) reunites with their daughter after years of separation.

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Loving Vincent (2017)

Loving Vincent (2017)

7.8/10 Drama, Crime, Animation, Biography, Mystery

In a story depicted in oil painted animation, a young man comes to the last hometown of painter Vincent van Gogh to deliver the troubled artist's final letter and ends up investigating his final days there.

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Never Look Away (2018)

Never Look Away (2018)

7.7/10 Drama, History

German artist Kurt Barnert has escaped East Germany and now lives in West Germany, but is tormented by his childhood under the Nazis and the GDR-regime.

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