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1. The Battle of Algiers (1966)
Not Rated | 121 min | Drama, War
In the 1950s, fear and violence escalate as the people of Algiers fight for independence from the French government.
Director: Gillo Pontecorvo | Stars: Brahim Hadjadj, Jean Martin, Yacef Saadi, Samia Kerbash
Votes: 65,582 | Gross: $0.06M
2. 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: 1,749
3. Freedom to Love (1969)
90 min | Documentary
Documentary, dramatized at times, on human sexual behaviour. Daring for its time for its approach to some of the most delicate aspects of this taboo subject.
Directors: Eberhard Kronhausen, Phyllis Kronhausen | Stars: Marie Antoinette, Daniel D. Halleck, Monique Kraamwinkel, Sacha Kraamwinkel
Votes: 278 | Gross: $0.03M
4. The F.B.I. Files (1998–2009)
TV-PG | 60 min | Documentary, Biography, Crime
Real FBI cases are recounted through reenactments and interviews with law enforcement and forensic scientists.
Stars: James Kallstrom, Anthony D. Call, Bob Featherer, Susan Rae
Votes: 1,334
5. Glen or Glenda (1953)
PG | 65 min | Drama
A psychiatrist tells the stories of a transvestite (Glen or Glenda) and a pseudohermaphrodite (Alan or Anne).
Director: Edward D. Wood Jr. | Stars: Edward D. Wood Jr., Bela Lugosi, Lyle Talbot, Timothy Farrell
Votes: 9,180
6. The Song Remains the Same (1976)
PG | 137 min | Documentary, Music
The line forms here for the world's greatest and possibly most influential band--Led Zeppelin. This mesmerizing movie built around Zep's famed 1973 concerts at New York's Madison Square Garden is convincing proof why.
Directors: Peter Clifton, Joe Massot | Stars: Robert Plant, Jimmy Page, John Paul Jones, John Bonham
Votes: 9,024
7. The War Game (1966)
48 min | Drama, War
A docudrama depicting a hypothetical nuclear attack on Britain.
Director: Peter Watkins | Stars: Michael Aspel, Peter Graham, Dave Baldwin, Kathy Staff
Votes: 7,294
8. Schoolgirls Growing Up (1972)
X | 97 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
After the first part of the legendary report dealing with the sexual behavior of underage schoolgirls, and the second part dealing with the psychological background, the third part is devoted to striking individual cases.
Directors: Walter Boos, Ernst Hofbauer | Stars: Friedrich von Thun, Werner Abrolat, Gerd Arnau, Johannes Buzalski
Votes: 483
9. What the #$*! Do We (K)now!? (2004)
Not Rated | 109 min | Documentary, Comedy, Drama
A fictional photographer's quest to spiritually rediscover herself is interspersed with documentary footage of scientists and theologians discussing the philosophical aspects of quantum physics.
Directors: William Arntz, Betsy Chasse, Mark Vicente | Stars: Marlee Matlin, Elaine Hendrix, John Ross Bowie, Robert Bailey Jr.
Votes: 13,847 | Gross: $10.94M
10. Language of Love 2000 (2004)
96 min | Drama
Sabine is in love with Julia, but pulled simultaneously to the irresistible television program host Stella Moon.
Director: Anders Lennberg | Stars: Regina Lund, Jan Mybrand, Bert-Åke Varg, Kim Anderzon
Votes: 600
11. The Life (2004)
R | 87 min | Drama
An anthropology student exploring the nature of prostitution is drawn deeper into that profession than she expected.
Director: María Lidón | Stars: Daryl Hannah, Denise Richards, Joaquim de Almeida, María Jiménez
Votes: 1,784
12. Mandragora (1997)
Unrated | 126 min | Drama
Two gay teenage runaways thrown out of their repressive homes try to survive on the streets of Prague. Hunger and desperation forces them into a life of prostitution, drugs, and teen-porn.
Director: Wiktor Grodecki | Stars: Miroslav Caslavka, David Svec, Pavel Skrípal, Kostas Zerdolaglu
Votes: 1,274
13. Jane B. for Agnes V. (1988)
Not Rated | 99 min | Biography, Fantasy
"I'll look at you, but not at the camera. It could be a trap," whispers Jane Birkin shyly into Agnès Varda's ear at the start of JANE B. PAR AGNES V. The director of CLEO FROM 5 TO 7 and ... See full summary »
Director: Agnès Varda | Stars: Jane Birkin, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Philippe Léotard, Farid Chopel
Votes: 1,527
14. People on Sunday (1930)
Not Rated | 73 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Two men and two women enjoy a pleasant Sunday at the beach amid the unending toil of the working week.
Directors: Robert Siodmak, Edgar G. Ulmer, Rochus Gliese, Curt Siodmak, Fred Zinnemann | Stars: Erwin Splettstößer, Brigitte Borchert, Wolfgang von Waltershausen, Christl Ehlers
Votes: 3,543
15. Out 1 (1971)
Not Rated | 776 min | Drama, Mystery
Following the May 1968 civil unrest in France, a deaf-mute and a con artist simultaneously stumble upon the remnants of a secret society.
Directors: Jacques Rivette, Suzanne Schiffman | Stars: Michèle Moretti, Hermine Karagheuz, Karen Puig, Pierre Baillot
Votes: 1,550 | Gross: $0.03M
16. The Protagonists (1999)
92 min | Crime, Thriller
An Italian movie crew goes to London to make a documentary about a murder case that took place a few years before.
Director: Luca Guadagnino | Stars: Tilda Swinton, Fabrizia Sacchi, Andrew Tiernan, Claudio Gioè
Votes: 481
17. Sasquatch: The Legend of Bigfoot (1976)
G | 95 min | Adventure, Horror, Mystery
Scientists mount an expedition to find a Bigfoot-type creature.
Director: Ed Ragozzino | Stars: George Lauris, Steve Boergadine, Jim Bradford, Ken Kenzle
Votes: 795
18. Seventeen Moments of Spring (1973)
830 min | Drama, History, War
During World War II, a Soviet undercover spy manages to infiltrate the Nazi elite.
Stars: Vyacheslav Tikhonov, Yefim Kopelyan, Leonid Bronevoy, Ekaterina Gradova
Votes: 4,965
19. Pompeii: The Last Day (2003 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 120 min | Drama, History
A dramatized recreation of the destruction of Pompeii and Herculaneum when Mount Vesuvius erupted in 79 AD.
Director: Peter Nicholson | Stars: Alisdair Simpson, Tim Pigott-Smith, Jim Carter, Jonathan Firth
Votes: 1,031
20. My American Uncle (1980)
PG | 125 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
The intersecting stories of three people who face difficult choices in life-changing situations are used to illustrate the theories espoused by Henri Laborit about human behavior and the relationship between the self and society.
Director: Alain Resnais | Stars: Gérard Depardieu, Nicole Garcia, Roger Pierre, Nelly Borgeaud
Votes: 6,843
21. Teenage Sex Report (1971)
R | 95 min | Drama
A gynecologist describes seven cases of young girls between the ages of 15 and 18 who have encountered him in his practice.
Director: Ernst Hofbauer | Stars: Monika Dahlberg, Christine Schuberth, Brigitte Harrer, Evelyne Traeger
Votes: 109
22. Arabian Nights: Volume 1 - The Restless One (2015)
Not Rated | 125 min | Drama
Some of the chapters from Arabian Nights are adapted to a modern Portugal in this epic.
Director: Miguel Gomes | Stars: Crista Alfaiate, Miguel Gomes, Maria Rueff, Bruno Bravo
Votes: 2,405 | Gross: $0.01M
23. Doomsday Gun (1994 TV Movie)
Unrated | 120 min | Action, Drama, History
How the brilliant Canadian munitions engineer, Dr. Gerald Bull, agreed to build a super-gun for Saddam Hussein in 1988, when the U.S. cut his funding for the experiment, and how it attracted the attention of several intelligence agencies.
Director: Robert Young | Stars: Frank Langella, Alan Arkin, Kevin Spacey, Michael Kitchen
Votes: 1,192
24. The Street with No Name (1948)
Approved | 91 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A covert FBI agent infiltrates a ruthless gangster mob, but his life is at risk from a mysterious informant who funnels inside information to the hoodlums.
Director: William Keighley | Stars: Mark Stevens, Richard Widmark, Lloyd Nolan, Barbara Lawrence
Votes: 3,337
25. The House on 92nd Street (1945)
Approved | 88 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Bill Dietrich becomes a double agent for the F.B.I. in a German spy ring.
Director: Henry Hathaway | Stars: William Eythe, Lloyd Nolan, Signe Hasso, Gene Lockhart
Votes: 3,290
26. Whore 2 (1994)
R | 85 min | Drama
Jack sets himself up in the Hotel St James to work on his book on prostitution in New York. Along the way he meets and grows fond of Mary Lou.
Director: Amos Kollek | Stars: Nancy McPherson, Pat 'Delightful' Kelly, Sylvia Hill, Mari Nelson
Votes: 291
27. Above Us the Waves (1955)
Approved | 92 min | Drama, War
The attack by British submarines on the German battleship "Tirpitz" in a Norwegian fjord during World War II.
Director: Ralph Thomas | Stars: John Mills, John Gregson, Donald Sinden, James Robertson Justice
Votes: 1,628
28. The Big Lift (1950)
Approved | 120 min | Drama, War
Experiences of two Air Force sergeants during the 1948 Berlin Airlift.
Director: George Seaton | Stars: Montgomery Clift, Paul Douglas, Cornell Borchers, Bruni Löbel
Votes: 1,730
29. The Phenix City Story (1955)
Passed | 100 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
A crime-busting lawyer and his initially reluctant attorney father take on the forces that run gambling and prostitution in their small Southern town.
Director: Phil Karlson | Stars: John McIntire, Richard Kiley, Kathryn Grant, Edward Andrews
Votes: 3,256
30. Love Meetings (1964)
Not Rated | 92 min | Documentary
Director Pasolini traverses Italy in 1963 with camera and microphone interviewing people in public places about sex, marriage and gender roles.
Director: Pier Paolo Pasolini | Stars: Lello Bersani, Alberto Moravia, Cesare Musatti, Peppino Di Capri
Votes: 2,635
31. Beefcake (1998)
91 min | Drama
This film looks at the 1950's muscle men's magazines and the representative industry that were popular supposedly as health and fitness magazines, but were in reality primarily being ... See full summary »
Director: Thom Fitzgerald | Stars: Daniel MacIvor, Joshua Peace, Jack Griffin Mazeika, Carroll Godsman
Votes: 1,066 | Gross: $0.28M
32. 24 City (2008)
Not Rated | 112 min | Documentary, Drama
When a factory is being torn down in Chengdu, China, workers reflect on their experiences and the importance of the factory in their lives.
Director: Zhangke Jia | Stars: Jianbin Chen, Joan Chen, Liping Lü, Tao Zhao
Votes: 2,333
33. Meerkat Manor (2005–2008)
26 min | Documentary
This is a documentary drama series which follows a meerkat family in the Kalahari Desert, South Africa, called the Whiskers.
Stars: Bill Nighy, Flower the Meerkat, Mozart the Meerkat, Zaphod the Meerkat
Votes: 1,301
34. The Burning Hell (1974)
Not Rated | 58 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Pastor Estus W. Pirkle preaches about hell, where all non-Christians will suffer eternal torment. He's also visited by two self-professed "Christians" who don't believe in hell.
Director: Ron Ormond | Stars: Jimmy Robbins, Tim Ormond, Robert G. Lee, Jack Hyles
Votes: 489
35. Love in the City (1953)
Not Rated | 115 min | Drama, Romance
Six separate episodes: would-be suicides discuss their despair. A provincial dance hall. An investigative reporter posing as a husband-to-be. A young unwed mother. Girl-watching techniques of Italian men. A glimpse into prostitution.
Directors: Michelangelo Antonioni, Federico Fellini, Alberto Lattuada, Carlo Lizzani, Francesco Maselli, Dino Risi, Cesare Zavattini | Stars: Rita Josa, Rosanna Carta, Enrico Pelliccia, Donatella Marrosu
Votes: 1,459
36. Jogo de Cena (2007)
100 min | Documentary, Drama
Following a newspaper ad, ordinary women tell part of their life stories to director Eduardo Coutinho, which are then re-enacted by actresses, blurring the barriers between truth, fiction and interpretation.
Director: Eduardo Coutinho | Stars: Marília Pêra, Andrea Beltrão, Fernanda Torres, Aleta Gomes Vieira
Votes: 1,310
37. The Beaches of Agnès (2008)
Not Rated | 112 min | Documentary, Biography
Agnès Varda explores her memories, mostly chronologically, with photographs, film clips, interviews, reenactments, and droll, playful contemporary scenes of her narrating her story.
Director: Agnès Varda | Stars: Agnès Varda, André Lubrano, Blaise Fournier, Vincent Fournier
Votes: 4,778 | Gross: $0.24M
38. In Vanda's Room (2000)
Not Rated | 171 min | Drama
The film follows the daily life of Vanda Duarte, a heroin addict in Lisbon, and the community she lives in.
Director: Pedro Costa | Stars: Vanda Duarte, Lena Duarte, Zita Duarte, Manuel Gomes Miranda
Votes: 1,727
39. Savage Man Savage Beast (1975)
Unrated | 94 min | Documentary, Adventure, Drama
A notorious mondo film depicting unbelievable and bizarre rituals, animal killing and cruelty, and people being killed and eaten, all by either animals or humans against each other or themselves.
Directors: Antonio Climati, Mario Morra | Stars: Giuseppe Rinaldi, Pit Dernitz, Ilona Staller, Michele Starck
Votes: 395
40. Stop The Pounding Heart (2013)
Not Rated | 98 min | Documentary, Drama
Sara, a girl being home-schooled on a goat farm alongside her 11 siblings, finds her devout values challenged after she meets Colby, an amateur bull rider.
Director: Roberto Minervini | Stars: Sara Carlson, Colby Trichell, Tim Carlson, LeeAnne Carlson
Votes: 1,062
41. DMT: The Spirit Molecule (2010)
Not Rated | 75 min | Documentary
An investigation into the long-obscured mystery of dimethyltryptamine (DMT), a molecule found in nearly every living organism and considered the most potent psychedelic on Earth.
Director: Mitch Schultz | Stars: Joe Rogan, Ralph Abraham, Joel Bakst, Steven Barker
Votes: 4,851
42. L'opéra-mouffe (1958)
16 min | Short, Drama, Romance
Impressions of the rue Mouffetard, Paris 5, through the eyes of a pregnant woman.
Director: Agnès Varda | Stars: Dorothée Blanck, Antoine Bourseiller, André Rousselet, Jean Tasso
Votes: 1,387
43. Fun in Balloon Land (1965)
TV-14 | 53 min | Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Sonny falls asleep while his mom reads him a bedtime story and wakes up in Balloon Land, a magical world filled with giant balloon people and animals.
Director: Joseph M. Sonneborn Jr. | Star: Patricia Ann Pearson
Votes: 591
44. The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum (1975)
R | 106 min | Crime, Drama
A young woman's life is scrutinized by police and tabloid press after she spends the night with a suspected terrorist.
Directors: Volker Schlöndorff, Margarethe von Trotta | Stars: Angela Winkler, Mario Adorf, Dieter Laser, Jürgen Prochnow
Votes: 4,879
45. Francofonia (2015)
Not Rated | 88 min | Drama, History
A history of the Louvre during the Nazi occupation and a meditation on the meaning and timelessness of art.
Director: Aleksandr Sokurov | Stars: Louis-Do de Lencquesaing, Benjamin Utzerath, Vincent Nemeth, Johanna Korthals Altes
Votes: 3,001 | Gross: $0.30M
46. FBI: Criminal Pursuit (2011– )
TV-PG | Documentary, Crime
FBI: Criminal Pursuit is a groundbreaking series that takes the audience inside the 21st Century FBI. The FBI is the most sophisticated law enforcement agency in the world ... pursuing the most dangerous criminals.
Stars: Bray Poor, John S. Howell Sr., Morgan Wilson, Kristine Cornils
Votes: 254
47. Bad Movie (1997)
144 min | Crime, Drama
A compilation of episodes from the lives of the 'bad teens' and the homeless of Seoul.
Director: Jang Sun-woo | Stars: Seul-ki Hang, Kyeong-won Park, Jae-kyeong Lee, Nam-kyeong Jang
Votes: 348
48. One Way or Another (1977)
78 min | Drama, Romance
In Miraflores, Cuba, the growing romance between Mario, a factory worker, and Yolanda, a schoolteacher, throws into relief the differences in their perspectives and values in Revolutionary Cuba.
Director: Sara Gómez | Stars: Mario Balmaseda, Yolanda Cuéllar, Mario Limonta, Isaura Mendoza
Votes: 642
49. India: Matri Bhumi (1959)
90 min | Documentary, Drama
Several stories depicting the landscapes and fauna of India are mixed with documentary footage.
Director: Roberto Rossellini
Votes: 728
50. Something Happened (1987)
24 min | Short, Drama
An educational film about AIDS contracted by the Swedish National Board of Health and Welfare, later to be withdrawn due to its controversial content.
Director: Roy Andersson | Stars: Klas-Gösta Olsson, Anne Tubin, Lennart Björklund, Sandy Mansson
Votes: 726