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1. Sound of Freedom (2023)
PG-13 | 131 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
The incredible true story of a former government agent turned vigilante who embarks on a dangerous mission to rescue hundreds of children from traffickers.
Director: Alejandro Monteverde | Stars: Jim Caviezel, Mira Sorvino, Bill Camp, Cristal Aparicio
Votes: 115,484
2. Crash (I) (2004)
R | 112 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
Los Angeles citizens with vastly separate lives collide in interweaving stories of race, loss and redemption.
Director: Paul Haggis | Stars: Don Cheadle, Sandra Bullock, Thandiwe Newton, Karina Arroyave
Votes: 449,600 | Gross: $54.58M
3. La haine (1995)
Not Rated | 98 min | Crime, Drama
24 hours in the lives of three young men in the French suburbs the day after a violent riot.
Director: Mathieu Kassovitz | Stars: Vincent Cassel, Hubert Koundé, Saïd Taghmaoui, Abdel Ahmed Ghili
Votes: 197,318 | Gross: $0.31M
4. Master Gardener (2022)
R | 111 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
A meticulous horticulturist is devoted to tending the grounds of a beautiful estate and pandering to his employer, the wealthy dowager.
Director: Paul Schrader | Stars: Joel Edgerton, Sigourney Weaver, Quintessa Swindell, Esai Morales
Votes: 10,247
5. Loving (2016)
PG-13 | 123 min | Biography, Drama, Romance
The story of Richard and Mildred Loving, a couple whose arrest for interracial marriage in 1960s Virginia began a legal battle that would end with the Supreme Court's historic 1967 decision.
Director: Jeff Nichols | Stars: Ruth Negga, Joel Edgerton, Will Dalton, Dean Mumford
Votes: 36,422 | Gross: $7.70M
6. Berlin Alexanderplatz (1980)
Not Rated | 931 min | Crime, Drama
In late-1920s Berlin, Franz Biberkopf is released from prison and vows to go straight. However, he soon finds himself embroiled in the city's criminal underworld.
Stars: Günter Lamprecht, Claus Holm, Hanna Schygulla, Franz Buchrieser
Votes: 4,912
7. North Sea is Dead Sea (1976)
87 min | Drama
Two 14-year-old boys try to escape their oppressive home in a working-class suburb of Hamburg, first by taking a homemade raft and later a stolen sailboat down the Elbe towards the open sea.
Director: Hark Bohm | Stars: Dschingis Bowakow, Uwe Bohm, Marquard Bohm, Herma Koehn
Votes: 467
8. Mike Bassett: England Manager (2001)
Not Rated | 89 min | Comedy, Sport
The manager of England's national football unexpectedly succumbs to a heart attack, and suddenly the search is on for a replacement. Most people who seem qualified for the position have the... See full summary »
Director: Steve Barron | Stars: Kevin Piper, Ricky Tomlinson, Malcolm Terris, Philip Dunbar
Votes: 7,112
9. A Case of Rape (1974 TV Movie)
100 min | Drama
When she was raped, Ellen Harrod thought it was the worst thing to ever happen to her. What was worse was the treatment by the hospital staff, police, and the court system when she reported... See full summary »
Director: Boris Sagal | Stars: Elizabeth Montgomery, William Daniels, Cliff Potts, Rosemary Murphy
Votes: 383
10. Ariel (1988)
Not Rated | 72 min | Comedy, Crime, Romance
A Finnish man goes to the city to find a job after the mine where he worked is closed and his father commits suicide.
Director: Aki Kaurismäki | Stars: Turo Pajala, Susanna Haavisto, Matti Pellonpää, Eetu Hilkamo
Votes: 8,382
11. Two Men in Town (1973)
Not Rated | 100 min | Crime, Drama
A former bank robber is released after 10 years in prison. He gets help from a social-worker, but gets harassed by an old cop from his past.
Director: José Giovanni | Stars: Alain Delon, Jean Gabin, Mimsy Farmer, Victor Lanoux
Votes: 5,049
12. Little Ladies of the Night (1977 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 100 min | Drama
The sister of ex-pimp and current Los Angeles Police detective Kyle York was murdered working the streets a few years ago. Since his reform, he has teamed with Officer Russ Garfield to ... See full summary »
Director: Marvin J. Chomsky | Stars: David Soul, Louis Gossett Jr., Linda Purl, Clifton Davis
Votes: 216
13. Riot in Cell Block 11 (1954)
Not Rated | 80 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Fed up with the inhumane prison living conditions, a general prison riot breaks out, leading to hostage-taking, a stand-off with the guards and eventual negotiations with the prison administration officials.
Director: Don Siegel | Stars: Neville Brand, Emile Meyer, Frank Faylen, Leo Gordon
Votes: 2,448
14. Lindenstraße (1985–2020)
30 min | Drama, Family
This weekly soap opera focuses on the lives of normal people living in an average quarter of Munich. Besides the typical storyline like love, marriage, and death, the show has treated many ... See full summary »
Stars: Marie-Luise Marjan, Andrea Spatzek, Moritz A. Sachs, Joachim Hermann Luger
Votes: 788
15. Dawn: Portrait of a Teenage Runaway (1976 TV Movie)
100 min | Drama
A 15-year-old girl runs away from home and arrives in Hollywood, but winds up becoming a prostitute to support herself and gets involved with a tough-talking pimp.
Director: Randal Kleiser | Stars: Eve Plumb, Leigh McCloskey, Lynn Carlin, William Schallert
Votes: 403
16. Cry Rape (1973 TV Movie)
75 min | Crime, Drama
A man who is arrested for rape swears it wasn't him but somebody who looks just like him, but the victim insists it was him.
Director: Corey Allen | Stars: Andrea Marcovicci, Peter Coffield, Greg Mullavey, Joseph Sirola
Votes: 122
17. Do You Know the Muffin Man? (1989 TV Movie)
Unrated | 90 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A police officer and his wife are shocked to find that molestation has been going on at the neighborhood day care. They're devastated when they find that their own son might be a victim too. Should they have known, should they have seen?
Director: Gilbert Cates | Stars: Pam Dawber, John Shea, Stephen Dorff, Brian Bonsall
Votes: 390
18. Mindwalk (1990)
PG | 112 min | Drama
Philosophical conversations between a poet, politician, and scientist.
Director: Bernt Amadeus Capra | Stars: Liv Ullmann, Sam Waterston, John Heard, Ione Skye
Votes: 3,253 | Gross: $0.77M
19. The Blue Knight (1973 TV Movie)
240 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Bumper Morgan is a veteran Los Angeles Police Department street cop. He is due to retire after twenty years on the job, but is not letting up on the criminal element on his beat.
Director: Robert Butler | Stars: William Holden, Lee Remick, Joe Santos, Sam Elliott
Votes: 664
20. Eight Hours Don't Make a Day (1972–1973)
Not Rated | 476 min | Drama
The young toolmaker Jochen fights with his colleagues to a performance bonus. He gets to know the girl Marion. For both, it is love at first sight.
Stars: Gottfried John, Wolfrid Lier, Anita Bucher, Werner Finck
Votes: 654 | Gross: $0.02M
21. The House I Live In (1945)
Approved | 11 min | Short, Drama, Music
Frank Sinatra teaches a group of young boys a lesson in religious tolerance.
Director: Mervyn LeRoy | Stars: Frank Sinatra, Freddie Chapman, Vincent Graeff, Teddy Infuhr
Votes: 721
22. When He's Not a Stranger (1989 TV Movie)
100 min | Drama
At a California university, Lyn goes to meet her best friend Melanie in the dorm room of Melanie's boyfriend Ron, a football star. When Lyn arrives, Melanie is not there. Ron forces himself... See full summary »
Director: John Gray | Stars: Annabeth Gish, John Terlesky, Kevin Dillon, Kim Myers
Votes: 273
23. East Side/West Side (1963–1964)
60 min | Drama
In this weekly drama show, George C. Scott plays a dedicated social worker trying to solve the problems of his clients in the fascinating mix of cultures that makes up New York City.
Stars: George C. Scott, Elizabeth Wilson, Cicely Tyson, Linden Chiles
Votes: 207
24. Proc? (1987)
86 min | Drama, Sport
Based on true event, football hooligans who support Sparta, are coming home after the away game and they demolished the train that they are traveling by.
Director: Karel Smyczek | Stars: Jirí Langmajer, Martin Sobotka, Pavel Zvaric, Pavlína Mourková
Votes: 345
25. 75 (2017)
97 min | Crime, Drama
A crash victim, a housewife and two repressed teens are connected by hard-working therapist Viola, who helps them battle their addictions while two disillusioned detectives struggle with the mounting war against heroin in Cincinnati.
Director: Joe Zappa | Stars: Tifani Winkfield, Kip Bennett, Marcus B. Jackson, Shannon Faith
Votes: 60
26. ...One Third of a Nation... (1939)
Approved | 79 min | Drama
A fire in a run-down tenement building injures young Joey Rogers. Wealthy passerby Peter Cortlant rushes the boy and his attractive older sister Mary to the hospital and pays the medical ... See full summary »
Director: Dudley Murphy | Stars: Sylvia Sidney, Leif Erickson, Myron McCormick, Hiram Sherman
Votes: 325
27. Die letzten Jahre der Kindheit (1979)
105 min | Drama
A 14-year-old repeatedly comes into conflict with the authorities and into the vicious circle of juvenile home stays and escapes, until he commits suicide in custody.
Director: Norbert Kückelmann | Stars: Gerhard Gundel, Dieter Mustaffof, Norbert Bauhuber, Karl Obermayr
Votes: 88
28. My Name Was Bette: The Life and Death of an Alcoholic (2011)
59 min | Documentary
A documentary about women's alcoholism chronicles the progression of the disease in Bette VandenAkker-a nurse, wife, and mother-who died in the fall of 2007. Filmmakers Sherri ... See full summary »
Director: Sherri L. VandenAkker
Votes: 265
29. Diese Drombuschs (1983–1994)
105 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
This critically-acclaimed drama focuses on the Drombuschs, an average German family living in Darmstadt near Frankfurt. Siegfried, the father, runs an antique shop, while his wife Vera ... See full summary »
Stars: Witta Pohl, Grete Wurm, Eike Hagen Schweikhardt, Günter Strack
Votes: 229
30. Under the Skin of the City (2001)
92 min | Drama
A valuable visual commentary on modern society, 'Under The Skin Of The City' follows one Iranian family in their eternal struggle to stay afloat financially and emotionally. Touba works ... See full summary »
Director: Rakhshan Banietemad | Stars: Golab Adineh, Mohammad Reza Forutan, Baran Kosari, Ebrahim Sheibani
Votes: 1,678
31. Palermo or Wolfsburg (1980)
173 min | Drama
An impoverished young man from Sicily travels to Wolfsburg, West Germany to find work. He takes a job in the Volkswagen factory after he travels through Northern Italy by train.
Director: Werner Schroeter | Stars: Nicola Zarbo, Otto Sander, Ida Di Benedetto, Magdalena Montezuma
Votes: 272
32. Journey Through Rosebud (1972)
GP | 93 min | Drama
A group of young Indians living on the Sioux Indian Reservation in South Dakota stage a protest against the U.S. Government and years of lies and deception come to a violent climax.
Director: Tom Gries | Stars: Robert Forster, Kristoffer Tabori, Victoria Racimo, Eddie Little Sky
Votes: 67
33. Playgirls of Frankfurt (1966)
85 min | Crime, Drama
After the brutal murder of the prostitute Vera Paterny, Inspector Reinisch hardly makes any progress with the investigation. Vera's colleague Sonja reports on wild sex parties of the murdered and mentions names, prominent names.
Director: Rolf Olsen | Stars: Vera Tschechowa, Erik Schumann, Richard Münch, Konrad Georg
Votes: 79
34. Täältä tullaan, elämä! (1980)
118 min | Drama, Romance
In the punk rock era of the late 1970s three restless teenagers, two boys and a girl, spend their time in and out of a special class for problem kids. Jussi seldom sees his parents at home,... See full summary »
Director: Tapio Suominen | Stars: Esa Niemelä, Tony Holmström, Kati Outinen, Risto Piskunen
Votes: 815
35. Houligans: Kato ta heria ap' ta niata (1983)
106 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A young man joins a group of hooligans.
Director: Kostas Karagiannis | Stars: Giorgos Kyrlidis, Katiana Balanika, Petros Zarkadis, Giorgos Siskos
Votes: 316
36. Dreamcatcher (I) (2015)
TV-MA | 104 min | Documentary, Crime, Drama
Takes us into a hidden world of prostitution and sexual trafficking through the eyes of one of its survivors, Brenda Myers-Powell.
Director: Kim Longinotto | Stars: Brenda Myers-Powell, T.T., Keena, Temeka
Votes: 434
37. Massacre (1934)
Passed | 70 min | Action, Drama
Joe Thunderhorse, a Sioux Indian who has become the wealthy star of a Wild West show, returns home to his reservation after years away and finds that his father is dying and his people are being abused by corrupt white officials.
Director: Alan Crosland | Stars: Richard Barthelmess, Ann Dvorak, Dudley Digges, Claire Dodd
Votes: 295
38. Die große Flatter (1979– )
271 min | Drama
Stars: Günter Lamprecht, Katharina Tüschen, Franciszek Pieczka, Renate Küster
Votes: 89
39. Teenage Wolfpack (1956)
89 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
"Think of a law, they've broken it. Think of a crime, they've committed it." A tense, tough story of teenage gangs committing acts of robbery, violence, and murder. The leader of the gang ... See full summary »
Director: Georg Tressler | Stars: Horst Buchholz, Karin Baal, Christian Doermer, Jo Herbst
Votes: 538
40. The Terrible Truth (1951)
10 min | Drama, Short
A Juvenile Court judge is at a loss to understand why so many of America's youths are marijuana addicts, so he decides to investigate on his own. He visits Phyllis, a high school senior and... See full summary »
Star: William B. McKesson
Votes: 246
41. The Brutalization of Franz Blum (1974)
104 min | Crime, Drama
Born into a well-off family, Franz Blum had led a carefree youth until, some time after graduating from high school, he was arrested by the police. For, involved by a gang of bad boys, the ... See full summary »
Director: Reinhard Hauff | Stars: Jürgen Prochnow, Burkhard Driest, Fritz Hollenbeck, Marianne Kehlau
Votes: 187
42. Class Dismissed: How TV Frames the Working Class (2005 Video)
62 min | Documentary
Based on the forthcoming book by Pepi Leistyna, Class Dismissed navigates the steady stream of narrow working class representations from American television's beginnings to today's sitcoms,... See full summary »
Director: Loretta Alper | Stars: Stanley Aronowitz, Edward Asner, Roseanne Barr, George W. Bush
Votes: 70
43. Headfirst (2014)
93 min | Comedy, Drama
A single mother tries to rescue her daughter from state custody with the help of a teacher and a stranger with bad drinking habits.
Director: Antti Heikki Pesonen | Stars: Armi Toivanen, Eero Ritala, Kai Lehtinen, Mimosa Willamo
Votes: 645
44. Bambule (1970 TV Movie)
90 min | Drama
The film criticizes the authoritarian methods of home education in a girls' home. In the course of the action, there is a revolt against the oppressive structures.
Director: Eberhard Itzenplitz | Stars: Petra Redinger, Christine Diersch, Dagmar Biener, Helge Hennig
Votes: 110
45. Aliisa (1970 TV Movie)
80 min | Drama
Aliisa is a poor pensioner struggling to survive in the 1970s' Helsinki. This was the last role of the prolific finnish actor Siiri Angerkoski.
Director: Jukka Sipilä | Stars: Siiri Angerkoski, Selma Miettinen, Varma Lahtinen, Anja Pohjola
Votes: 115
46. Black Mold Exposure (2009)
PG | 101 min | Documentary
Imagine becoming so sensitive to almost everything you're exposed to daily like common chemicals, furniture, foods, and pollen that it makes you so ill you can't function. You must isolate ... See full summary »
Director: Michael Roland Williams | Stars: Cheryl Albert, Colin Albert, Frank Albert, Kerri Albert
Votes: 47
47. Gabriel Rose (2021)
16 min | Short, Comedy
A dark comedy about a beauty influencer.
Director: Léopold Kraus | Stars: Paolo Luka Noé, Apollonia Luisetti, Marie Colomb, Anne Charrier
48. Das Ende des Regenbogens (1979)
107 min | Drama
A 17 year old Berlin boy turns prostitute and petty thief. Despite the attempts of a social worker to help, the boy runs into real trouble when a burglary goes awry.
Director: Uwe Frießner | Stars: Thomas Kufahl, Slavica Rankovic, Henry Lutze, Udo Samel
Votes: 118
49. María y los niños pobres (2010)
80 min | Adventure, Crime, Drama
Due to different circumstances several kids work in the streets of La Paz (Bolivia). While a group of Catholic priests help them they are endangered by organ thieves and drug dealers. When ... See full summary »
Director: Leonidas Zegarra | Stars: Mariana Liquitaya, Sebastián Obermaier, Jorge Luis Villacorta Santamato, Mauricio Aparicio
Votes: 24
50. Ya no basta con rezar (1972)
80 min | Drama
A priest is so concerned about the harsh conditions of living of Chilean lower classes that he gradually becomes a political activist and 'worker-priest'.
Director: Aldo Francia | Stars: Marcelo Romo, Tennyson Ferrada, Leonardo Perucci, Roberto Navarrete
Votes: 132