Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "emancipation"

1. The Ten Commandments (1956)

G | 220 min | Adventure, Drama, Family

Moses, raised as a prince of Egypt in the Pharaoh's household, learns of his true heritage as a Hebrew and his divine mission as the deliverer of his people from slavery.

Director: Cecil B. DeMille | Stars: Charlton Heston, Yul Brynner, Anne Baxter, Edward G. Robinson

Votes: 77,945 | Gross: $93.74M

2. Ben-Hur (1959)

G | 212 min | Adventure, Drama

After a Jewish prince is betrayed and sent into slavery by a Roman friend in 1st-century Jerusalem, he regains his freedom and comes back for revenge.

Director: William Wyler | Stars: Charlton Heston, Jack Hawkins, Stephen Boyd, Haya Harareet

Votes: 253,834 | Gross: $74.70M

3. Lincoln (2012)

PG-13 | 150 min | Biography, Drama, History

As the Civil War rages on, U.S President Abraham Lincoln struggles with continuing carnage on the battlefield as he fights with many inside his own cabinet on his decision to emancipate the slaves.

Director: Steven Spielberg | Stars: Daniel Day-Lewis, Sally Field, David Strathairn, Joseph Gordon-Levitt

Votes: 272,766 | Gross: $182.21M

4. Exodus: Gods and Kings (2014)

PG-13 | 150 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

The defiant leader Moses rises up against Egyptian Pharaoh Ramses II, setting six hundred thousand slaves on a monumental journey of escape from Egypt and its terrifying cycle of deadly plagues.

Director: Ridley Scott | Stars: Christian Bale, Joel Edgerton, Ben Kingsley, Sigourney Weaver

Votes: 179,333 | Gross: $65.01M

5. Emancipation (2022)

R | 132 min | Action, Thriller

A runaway slave forges through the swamps of Louisiana on a tortuous journey to escape plantation owners that nearly killed him.

Director: Antoine Fuqua | Stars: Will Smith, Ben Foster, Charmaine Bingwa, Gilbert Owuor

Votes: 27,235

6. The Underground Railroad (2021)

TV-MA | 59 min | Drama, Fantasy, History

A young woman named Cora makes an amazing discovery during her attempt to break free from slavery in the deep south.

Stars: Thuso Mbedu, Chase Dillon, Joel Edgerton, Reshonnah Harvey

Votes: 8,452

7. The Birth of a Nation (1915)

TV-PG | 195 min | Drama, History, War

The Stoneman family finds its friendship with the Camerons affected by the Civil War, both fighting in opposite armies. The development of the war in their lives plays through to Lincoln's assassination and the birth of the Ku Klux Klan.

Director: D.W. Griffith | Stars: Lillian Gish, Mae Marsh, Henry B. Walthall, Miriam Cooper

Votes: 26,354 | Gross: $10.00M

8. Infinity Train (I) (2019–2021)

TV-PG | 11 min | Animation, Short, Action

Various people get trapped on a mysterious train with an endless number of cars, each one being its own universe, and they must resolve their psychological trauma and emotional issues in order to get home in this animated anthology series.

Stars: Ashley Johnson, Owen Dennis, Jeremy Crutchley, Kirby

Votes: 9,668

9. Mary Shelley (2017)

PG-13 | 120 min | Biography, Drama, History

Life and facts of Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, who at 16 met 21 year old poet Percy Shelley, resulting in the writing of Frankenstein.

Director: Haifaa Al-Mansour | Stars: Elle Fanning, Bel Powley, Owen Richards, Joanne Froggatt

Votes: 17,797 | Gross: $0.11M

10. Quo Vadis (1951)

Not Rated | 171 min | Biography, Drama, Romance

After fierce Roman commander Marcus Vinicius becomes infatuated with beautiful Christian hostage Lygia, he begins to question the tyrannical leadership of the despotic emperor Nero.

Directors: Mervyn LeRoy, Anthony Mann | Stars: Robert Taylor, Deborah Kerr, Leo Genn, Peter Ustinov

Votes: 16,761 | Gross: $24.29M

11. Manderlay (2005)

Not Rated | 139 min | Drama

A story of slavery, set in the southern U.S. in the 1930s.

Director: Lars von Trier | Stars: Bryce Dallas Howard, Isaach De Bankolé, Danny Glover, Willem Dafoe

Votes: 25,190 | Gross: $0.08M

12. The Good Lord Bird (2020)

TV-MA | 48 min | Drama, War, Western

Ethan Hawke stars as abolitionist John Brown in this series based on the novel. "Onion" is a fictional enslaved boy who becomes a member of Brown's family of abolitionist soldiers and finds himself in the 1859 raid at Harpers Ferry.

Stars: Ethan Hawke, Hubert Point-Du Jour, Beau Knapp, Nick Eversman

Votes: 7,408

13. The Mustang (2019)

R | 96 min | Drama

While participating in a rehabilitation program training wild mustangs, a convict at first struggles to connect with the horses and his fellow inmates, but he learns to confront his violent past as he soothes an especially feisty horse.

Director: Laure de Clermont-Tonnerre | Stars: Matthias Schoenaerts, Jason Mitchell, Bruce Dern, Gideon Adlon

Votes: 14,487 | Gross: $5.04M

14. Coco Before Chanel (2009)

PG-13 | 105 min | Biography, Drama

The story of Coco Chanel's rise from obscure beginnings to the heights of the fashion world.

Director: Anne Fontaine | Stars: Audrey Tautou, Benoît Poelvoorde, Alessandro Nivola, Marie Gillain

Votes: 42,132 | Gross: $6.11M

15. The Heiress (1949)

Not Rated | 115 min | Drama, Romance

A naive young woman falls for a handsome young man her emotionally abusive father suspects is only a fortune hunter.

Director: William Wyler | Stars: Olivia de Havilland, Montgomery Clift, Ralph Richardson, Miriam Hopkins

Votes: 17,358

16. True Women (1997)

PG-13 | 85 min | Action, Adventure, Biography

Covering nearly fifty years of mid-19th-century turmoil, from the tumultuous Texas Revolution to the early women's suffrage movement, "True Women" is a gripping tale of endurance, love, and above all, gritty female determination.

Stars: Dana Delany, Annabeth Gish, Angelina Jolie, Michael York

Votes: 2,512

17. Martin Eden (2019)

TV-PG | 129 min | Drama, Romance

Martin Eden struggles to rise above his destitute, proletarian circumstances through an intense and passionate pursuit of self-education, hoping to achieve a place among the literary elite.

Director: Pietro Marcello | Stars: Luca Marinelli, Jessica Cressy, Vincenzo Nemolato, Marco Leonardi

Votes: 7,671

18. Irreconcilable Differences (1984)

PG | 113 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

Alternating between the past and the present, a precocious little girl sues her selfish, career-driven parents for emancipation, surprising them both.

Director: Charles Shyer | Stars: Ryan O'Neal, Shelley Long, Drew Barrymore, Sam Wanamaker

Votes: 3,403 | Gross: $12.41M

19. Sansho the Bailiff (1954)

Not Rated | 124 min | Drama

In medieval Japan, a compassionate governor is sent into exile. His wife and children try to join him, but are separated, and the children grow up amid suffering and oppression.

Director: Kenji Mizoguchi | Stars: Kinuyo Tanaka, Yoshiaki Hanayagi, Kyôko Kagawa, Eitarô Shindô

Votes: 18,245

20. The French Revolution (1989)

335 min | Drama, History, Thriller

A chronicle of the French Revolution from the calling of the Etats General in 1789 until the end of the Jacobin Terror in 1794.

Directors: Robert Enrico, Richard T. Heffron | Stars: Klaus Maria Brandauer, Jane Seymour, François Cluzet, Jean-François Balmer

Votes: 1,851

21. The Student and Mister Henri (2015)

98 min | Comedy, Drama

An elderly curmudgeon lets out a room in his large apartment rent-free to a young student - on condition that she does everything in her power to ruin his son's marriage.

Director: Ivan Calbérac | Stars: Claude Brasseur, Guillaume de Tonquédec, Noémie Schmidt, Frédérique Bel

Votes: 4,674 | Gross: $0.00M

22. The Proposition (1998)

R | 110 min | Drama, Romance

Longing to have a baby, a sterile 1930s Bostonian hires a man to impregnate his wife.

Director: Lesli Linka Glatter | Stars: Kenneth Branagh, Madeleine Stowe, William Hurt, Robert Loggia

Votes: 2,358 | Gross: $0.12M

23. Day of the Wacko (2002)

Not Rated | 93 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

24 hours in the bitter life of a frustrated divorced teacher who stays in the vicious circle of his numerous obsessions.

Director: Marek Koterski | Stars: Marek Kondrat, Janina Traczykówna, Andrzej Grabowski, Michal Koterski

Votes: 11,817

24. C.S.A.: The Confederate States of America (2004)

PG-13 | 89 min | Comedy, Drama, War

Through the eyes of a British "documentary", this film takes a satirically humorous, and sometimes frightening, look at the history of an America where the South won the Civil War.

Director: Kevin Willmott | Stars: Greg Kirsch, Renee Patrick, Molly Graham, William Willmott

Votes: 5,162 | Gross: $0.67M

25. Charming the Hearts of Men (2021)

107 min | Drama, History, Romance

A romantic drama set during the politically charged early 60s where a sophisticated woman returns to her Southern home town and discovers her options are limited yet discrimination is plentiful. With the help of a Congressional ally, she inspires historic legislation which allows opportunities and protections never before afforded to women.

Director: S.E. DeRose | Stars: Anna Friel, Kelsey Grammer, Starletta DuPois, Sean Astin

Votes: 2,841

26. 3 Generations (2015)

PG-13 | 92 min | Drama

After Ray decides to transition from female to male, Ray's mother Maggie must come to terms with the decision while tracking down Ray's biological father to get his legal consent.

Director: Gaby Dellal | Stars: Naomi Watts, Elle Fanning, Susan Sarandon, Tate Donovan

Votes: 6,958 | Gross: $0.07M

27. Red Ants (2007)

95 min | Drama

A teenager who runs with her father a filling station struggles to find her own path of life, since she is too much involved into her father's life since the death of her mother.

Director: Stéphan Carpiaux | Stars: Déborah François, Frédéric Pierrot, Arthur Jugnot, Julie Gayet

Votes: 129

28. Abe Lincoln in Illinois (1940)

Approved | 110 min | Biography, Drama, History

Humble Abraham Lincoln gains the respect of his Illinois neighbors, growing in stature and respect until he is elected President in 1860 and departs for Washington.

Director: John Cromwell | Stars: Raymond Massey, Gene Lockhart, Ruth Gordon, Mary Howard

Votes: 2,061

29. Flowers of Shanghai (1998)

Unrated | 113 min | Drama

In the "flower houses" (upscale brothels) of Shanghai, various interweaving stories of love, loyalty, and deceit play out subtly.

Director: Hsiao-Hsien Hou | Stars: Tony Leung Chiu-wai, Michiko Hada, Michelle Reis, Carina Lau

Votes: 4,079

30. Age Out (2018)

PG-13 | 91 min | Crime, Drama

Fresh out of foster care at age 18, a young drifter turns to petty crime to survive, and discovers an impossible love in an unlikely friend.

Director: A.J. Edwards | Stars: Tye Sheridan, Imogen Poots, Caleb Landry Jones, Jeffrey Wright

Votes: 1,101

31. Case départ (2011)

94 min | Comedy

Two black brothers send back to slavery time

Directors: Lionel Steketee, Fabrice Eboué, Thomas Ngijol | Stars: Fabrice Eboué, Thomas Ngijol, Stéfi Celma, Eriq Ebouaney

Votes: 3,181

32. The Divine Order (2017)

96 min | Comedy, Drama

In 1971, a young housewife organizes the women of her town to petition for the right to vote.

Director: Petra Biondina Volpe | Stars: Marie Leuenberger, Maximilian Simonischek, Rachel Braunschweig, Sibylle Brunner

Votes: 3,042 | Gross: $0.08M

33. UUelcome (1997– )

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Link Egglepple Starbureiy (lnq)

Stars: Lnq, Joey Koala, Puwun, Honne Bay

34. Dream Wife (1953)

Approved | 100 min | Comedy, Romance

A business tycoon decides to wed a Middle Eastern princess whose customs dictate the pair must live apart for several months before marrying. Even more complications settle in when the tycoon's ex-fiancée is assigned to chaperone the pair.

Director: Sidney Sheldon | Stars: Cary Grant, Deborah Kerr, Walter Pidgeon, Betta St. John

Votes: 2,224

35. Julie Johnson (2001)

Not Rated | 93 min | Drama, Romance

A woman attempts to realize the dreams she never knew she had.

Director: Bob Gosse | Stars: Lili Taylor, Courtney Love, Noah Emmerich, Mischa Barton

Votes: 720

36. Uncle Tom's Cabin (1927)

Passed | 144 min | Drama, History

Slavery tears apart a Black family in the South before the start of the Civil War.

Director: Harry A. Pollard | Stars: Margarita Fischer, James B. Lowe, Arthur Edmund Carewe, George Siegmann

Votes: 503

37. Anna's Engagement (1972)

87 min | Drama

Anna is a servant of an old lady for ten years. The old lady chooses a man for Anna.

Director: Pantelis Voulgaris | Stars: Anna Vagena, Smaro Veaki, Kostas Rigopoulos, Stavros Kalaroglou

Votes: 461

38. Die dressierte Frau (1972)

88 min | Drama, Comedy

An episodic battle of the sexes.

Director: Ernst Hofbauer | Stars: Astrid Frank, Esther Konrad, Hansi Linder, Margot Mahler

Votes: 34

39. Cam Girl (2014)

Not Rated | 91 min | Drama

Desperate after losing her dream job in advertising, Alice starts a sexy webcam site with three friends. Successful from day one, the company expands so quickly that soon the women struggle... See full summary »

Director: Mirca Viola | Stars: Antonia Liskova, Alessia Piovan, Sveva Alviti, Ilaria Capponi

Votes: 256

40. Follow Me Home (1996)

Unrated | 100 min | Drama

Three muralists (one Chicano, one Black, one American Indian) and the socially-maladjusted cousin of the Chicano muralist set off on a road trip with the intent of painting their images on ... See full summary »

Director: Peter Bratt | Stars: Alfre Woodard, Jesse Borrego, Salma Hayek, Calvin Levels

Votes: 232

41. Sangaree (1953)

Approved | 94 min | Drama, History

Lamas plays an indentured servant who rises to power in Georgia shortly after the Revolutionary War.

Director: Edward Ludwig | Stars: Fernando Lamas, Arlene Dahl, Patricia Medina, Francis L. Sullivan

Votes: 253

42. A Free Woman (1972)

100 min | Drama

A divorced woman in her thirties fights a losing battle in Munich to attain belated self-fulfillment. The die is cast in a briskly impersonal society geared to male dominance and early training for career women.

Director: Volker Schlöndorff | Stars: Margarethe von Trotta, Friedhelm Ptok, Martin Lüttge, Walter Sedlmayr

Votes: 210

43. Thunder Rock (1942)

Unrated | 90 min | Drama, Fantasy, War

Cynical, embittered newspaperman David Charleston (Michael Redgrave) is tormented, then inspired, by visions he keeps having of people who have drowned.

Director: Roy Boulting | Stars: Michael Redgrave, James Mason, Barbara Mullen, Lilli Palmer

Votes: 808

44. Women Recruits (1979)

115 min | Comedy

As both mother and daughter struggle to establish the position of women in the male-dominated armed forces, an unforeseen affair and a dangerous spy threaten everything. Can the female recruits live up to the army's expectations?

Director: Dimis Dadiras | Stars: Rena Vlahopoulou, Dinos Iliopoulos, Mary Vidali, Danos Lygizos

Votes: 284

45. Slavery by Another Name (2012 TV Movie)

90 min | Documentary, History

A documentary that recounts the many ways in which American slavery persisted as a practice many decades after its supposed abolition.

Director: Sam Pollard | Stars: Laurence Fishburne, Turron Kofi Alleyne, Michael Bacon, Douglas A. Blackmon

Votes: 309

46. Personne ne m'aime (1994)

98 min | Comedy, Drama

Several lives intersect when a middle-aged woman is left by her husband, and she decides to trek him down with the help of her equally troubled sister.

Director: Marion Vernoux | Stars: Bernadette Lafont, Bulle Ogier, Lio, Michèle Laroque

Votes: 125 | Gross: $0.15M

47. Girl Power (2016)

92 min | Documentary

A thrilling story of a female graffiti writer from Prague and her long journey of rounding up female graffiti writers around the world.

Directors: Sany, Jan Zajícek | Star: Erenice Lohan

Votes: 49

48. The Chinese Exclusion Act (2017)

TV-PG | 114 min | Documentary, Biography, History

The origin, history and impact of the 1882 law that made it illegal for Chinese workers to come to America and for Chinese nationals already here to become U.S. citizens.

Directors: Ric Burns, Li-Shin Yu | Stars: Hoon Lee, Mae Ngai, Jean Pfaelzer, David Lei

Votes: 104

49. Vrazda ing. Certa (1970)

77 min | Comedy, Fantasy

She (Jirina Bohdalová) is approximately forty-years old, intelligent and attractive, but, unfortunately, lonesome as one could be. She handles her life quite well, but whenever nostalgia ... See full summary »

Director: Ester Krumbachová | Stars: Jirina Bohdalová, Vladimír Mensík, Ljuba Hermanová, Helena Ruzicková

Votes: 224

50. Hochzeitsnacht im Regen (1967)

105 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance

Young hairdresser Gabi from the Baltic coast desperately wants to be a jockey. One day, she packs her bags, drives to Hoppegarten and is soundly rejected by the head coach. She doesn't want... See full summary »

Director: Horst Seemann | Stars: Traudl Kulikowski, Frank Schöbel, Gerhard Bienert, Günter Junghans

Votes: 28