Political Drama
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    Cal (1984)

    A young IRA recruit (John Lynch) has an affair with the widow (Helen Mirren) of a slain Ulster...

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    The Prisoner (1955)

    A Catholic bishop is arrested and interrogated by the state "authorities" and coerced into making a...

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    The Blonds (2004)

    Los rubios focuses on the directors search for her dissappeared parents. Is it possible to get to...

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    Jaime

    Jaime is 13 and lives in the rough city of Oporto, Portugal. When his father loses his job he must...

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    Dangerous Moves (1984)

    Michel Piccoli plays Akiva Liebskind, a Russian chess genius in the Swiss-filmed Dangerous Moves. He...

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    Such A Long Journey (2000)

    An upstanding Parsee (Roshan Seth) receives a letter from a vanished friend imploring him to launder...

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    The Girl From Petrovka

    A Moscow-based U.S. journalist (Hal Holbrook) falls in love with a ballerina (Goldie Hawn) being...

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    The Tin Drum (1980)

    In the East Prussia of Danzig before the war, three-year-old Oskar Matzerath decides to stop...

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    Olga

    Based on the life of Olga Benario, a German-Jewish communist activist and political prisoner who was...

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    Lost in the Stars

    Lost in the Stars was an American Film Theatre adaptation of the musical play by Maxwell Anderson...

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    The Killing Fields (1984)

    Newsman Sydney Schanberg (Sam Waterston) loses his friend Dith Pran (Haing S. Ngor) in the 1975 fall...

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    Morgen in Alabama

    Man under Suspicion begins at a German political assembly reduced to chaos by neo-fascist activists....

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    R.P.M.

    Set against the political turmoil of the late 60's, R.P.M. (Revolutions Per Minute) stars Anthony...

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    The Revolutionary (1970)

    In this symbolic drama of social and political turmoil, Jon Voight plays an aspiring revolutionary...

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    Prince Jack (1984)

    This pseudo-documentary on the life of President John F. Kennedy stars Robert Hogan as the...

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    Bitter Sugar (1996)

    Somewhere between hope and despair, a beautiful relationship triumphs and, despite the odds, two...

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    A World Apart (1988)

    A 13-year-old girl (Jodhi May) responds to taunts and her activist mother's (Barbara Hershey)...

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    Heading South (2006)

    Three embittered women (Charlotte Rampling, Karen Young, Louise Portal) travel to a Haitian beach...

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    The Devil Strikes at Night (1958)

    A serial killer terrorizes Hamburg, Germany, during World War II. When the local police can't seem...

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    Tokyo Senso Sengo Hiwa

    Here, director Oshima (best-known in America for Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence and Empire of the...

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    How I Killed a Saint (2006)

    A young woman returns from America, the land of jobs, money and peace, to a world a million miles...

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    Film 1

    When Billy's father is put on trial in the Belgian High Courts over a political scandal precipitated...

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    Carla's Song (1998)

    Set in 1987, the year of the Contra rebels' assault against the Sandinista government in Nicaragua,...

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    Chronicle of a Disappearance (1997)

    Told through a series of vignettes centered in and around Jerusalem, a look at how Israel's Arab...

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    City Hall (1996)

    The New York mayor (Al Pacino) and his idealistic deputy (John Cusack) cope with scandal generated...

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    Something of Value (1957)

    A Kenyan native (Sidney Poitier) is torn between his tribe and his British friend (Rock Hudson)...

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    Blaze (1989)

    Story of Earl Long and his romance with stripper Blaze Starr.

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    True Colors (1991)

    Two 1980s law-school buddies (John Cusack, James Spader) are divided by a senator's daughter (Imogen...

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    Age of Innocence (1977)

    Veterans and war-sympathizers get angry when a Canadian professor begins speaking out with his...

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    Alambrista! (1977)

    A Mexican farmer finds hardship and a startling revelation about his missing father after illegally...