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see all genres ›Politics and politicians from the petty to the all-powerful drive these tales of how decisions made at the top "trickle down" on the proles below.
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Abraham Lincoln
Returning to the historic era of his greatest success, D.W. Griffith paid homage to the sixteenth President in this moving drama (his first talking picture) starring Walter Huston. Focusing on Abraham Lincoln’s personal tragedies as well as his great accomplishments, Griffith’s film depicts the American icon with a...Start your free trial to watch
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Accomplice
An artist-criminal far from home asks his assistant to pirate a rare videotape before the German Post Office Authorities come to confiscate it. Featuring Jordana Maurer and an ersatz appearance by Jean-Luc Godard along with the voices of DJ Mendel, Professor David Poeppel and David Bordwell.Start your free trial to watch
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Appointment in Honduras
An adventurer (Glenn Ford) carrying a vast sum of money, a husband and wife (Ann Sheridan and Zachary Scott) whose marriage is on the rocks and a murderous band of cutthroats trek through the jungles of Central America on a mission to save an ousted political leader. On their incredible journey they must...Start your free trial to watch
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Army of Crime
In Robert Guédiguian’s taut, internationally acclaimed thriller, set during the French Resistance, Armenian poet Missak Manouchian (Simon Abkarian) and his French wife (Virginie Ledoyen) lead a ragtag assortment of volunteers (Jews, Poles, Hungarians, Italians, Spaniards and Armenians) in an assassination plot against the...Start your free trial to watch
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Battleship Potemkin
For eight decades, Sergei Eisenstein's 1925 masterpiece has remained one of the most influential silent films of all time. Yet each successive generation has seen BATTLESHIP POTEMKIN subjected to censorship and recutting, its unforgettable power diluted in unauthorized public domain editions from dubious...Start your free trial to watch
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Beaufort
After eighteen years dug into a heavily fortified mountain deep in occupied Lebanon, the last Israeli soldiers enduring constant bombardment at the site of an ancient crusader stronghold called Beaufort receive orders to abandon their posts, detonate the warren of bunkers in which they've tenuously clung to life and victory...Start your free trial to watch
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The Big Road
Six friends decide to head "north" and become involved in the construction of a highway crucial for the Chinese army. A hymn to the solidarity necessary for China to move ahead (and defeat the enemy), THE BIG ROAD shows its young protagonists only discovering who they are when they become part of a collective action. The...Start your free trial to watch
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The Black and White Milk Cow
A young schoolteacher unknowingly enters a tangled web of politics in Yang Jin’s unsentimental dissection of the Chinese countryside. When his father dies from AIDS following a botched blood transfer, Jinsheng must return to his home village to take care of his aging grandmother. Taking on the role of a...Start your free trial to watch
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Bombs and Brides
When a new reformist mayor refuses to cave to corruption, his opponents plot terroristic reprisal. Their efforts go awry in very goofy ways (including some wild stunts). This rambunctious comedy from Mack Sennett's Keystone Studios features his stars Charles Murray as a scheming campaign manager and Louise...Start your free trial to watch
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Campfire
The year is 1981. Rachel Gerlik, a forty-two year old widow and mother of two beautiful teenage daughters, Esti and Tami, wants to join the founding group of a new religious settlement in the West Bank. The problem is that the acceptance committee won't accept her unless she remarries and proves that she and her daughters can...Start your free trial to watch
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The Castle
A land surveyor identified simply as K is summoned to a remote mountain village by the local government, known as (and housed in) "the castle." Unable to convince underlings of the legitimacy of his position, he tries to take his case to castle officials. But the more K struggles to gain entrance, the more obstructive the...Start your free trial to watch
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The Chess Players
In the kingdom of Awadh, rich landowners Meer (Saeed Jaffrey) and Mirza (Sanjeev Kumar) pour every ounce of passion into a never-ending game of chess. At the same time, an ambitious British General (Sir Richard Attenborough) plots his own moves against Awadh's King (Amjad Khan) and Prime Minister (Victor...Start your free trial to watch
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Cinema, Aspirins and Vultures
In the middle of northeastern Brazil in 1942, two very different men meet along the road: Johan, an aspirin salesman avoiding the German draft, and Ranulpho, a rural Brazilian seeking escape from the drought. Although their personalities and lives are worlds apart, the two men develop a deep friendship, as...Start your free trial to watch
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Le combat dans l'île
A hidden gem of 1960s New French Cinema, Alain Cavalier’s LE COMBAT DANS L’ÎLE is as coolly modern as it is tensely gripping. Filled with thrilling plot twists, jazzy gun battles and stormy betrayals, this scintillating neo-noir unfolds against a backdrop of ’60s political turmoil and is strikingly shot in...Start your free trial to watch
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Connected
Bob, a single father in a dead-end job as a debt collector, is trapped by his easy-going helpful nature. He’s under tremendous stress to become a better father and a better person. All these things are about to change when Bob receives a mysterious call. Loosely based on CELLULAR, this movie will have you jumping out of your...Start your free trial to watch
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Contraband
Set in England during the early days of WW II, CONTRABAND stars Conrad Veidt and Valerie Hobson as a Danish sea captain and his enigmatic passenger who are kidnapped by a cell of Nazi spies operating from a basement in London's Soho. In evocatively Hitchcockian fashion, the plot progresses as a chase that puts the characters...Start your free trial to watch
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Cuban Rebel Girls
No one would likely ever claim that CUBAN REBEL GIRLS is a good film. The title, alone, should be a bit of a giveaway. But it is a fascinating story, regardless. This curious effort was the final film by actor (and, in this case, writer) Errol Flynn. Flynn portrays a war correspondent in Cuba intent on...Start your free trial to watch
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The Custodian
As a bodyguard for a high profile politician, Ruben is reduced to a mere shadow of a man. Every action in his life is regulated by a series of mundane routines. Everywhere his boss goes he must follow, watching but never speaking. Resigned to his invisibility, his life is a series of days without meaning, punctuated only by...Start your free trial to watch