political-unrest
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    Movies

    House of Flying Daggers (2004)

    During the Tang dynasty, two lawmen (Takeshi Kaneshiro, Andy Lau) go under cover at a house of...

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    The Dreamers (2004)

    A young woman (Eva Green) and her twin brother (Louis Garrel) play sexual games with an American...

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    Ghosts of Cite Soleil (2007)

    Filmmaker Asger Leth documents the violent lives of gang leaders in Haiti's worst slum, focusing on...

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    The Wind That Shakes the Barley (2007)

    In 1920s Ireland a young doctor (Cillian Murphy) joins the Irish Republican Army after witnessing...

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    The Bandits of Corsica

    A Gypsy (Richard Greene) covets his noble twin's wife (Paula Raymond) and goods when the brothers...

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    Queimada! (1969)

    A British colonist is sent to instigate a revolution on a Caribbean island instrumental to the sugar...

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    Viva Maria (1965)

    A Latin revolution gets a lift from an anarchist's daughter (Brigitte Bardot) and a circus dancer...

  • The Year My Parents Went on Vacation picture
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    The Year My Parents Went on Vacation (2008)

    A boy is left alone in a Jewish neighborhood in the year of 1970, where both world cup and...

  • Little Miss Rebellion picture
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    Little Miss Rebellion

    Lively comedian Dorothy Gish plays an unlikely grand duchess in this Paramount picture. Marie Louise...

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    People

    Rob Kramer

    Robert Kramer will probably go down in film history as the premier director of political dissidence...

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    The Ugly American (1963)

    The United States sends a new ambassador (Marlon Brando) to a divided Southeast Asian country about...

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    Movies

    Moon Over Parador (1988)

    A banana-republic police chief (Raul Julia) forces a U.S. actor (Richard Dreyfuss) to impersonate a...

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    Summer Palace (2007)

    Country girl Yu Hong leaves her village to study in Beijing. At university, she falls madly in love...

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    Live for Life (1967)

    A married television journalist travels around the world in an affair with a beautiful model, gets...

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    The Last September (2000)

    In a 1920s English country home, a couple's (Maggie Smith, Michael Gambon) niece finds romance with...

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    Bopha! (1993)

    Unrest swells in an African township when a government officer (Malcolm McDowell) usurps power from...

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    Ryan's Daughter (1970)

    A teacher's (Robert Mitchum) wife (Sarah Miles) has an affair with a British soldier (Christopher...

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    Frontier

    Deep in the heart of Eastern Europe, nestled at the base of the Carpathian Mountains lies a...

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    Movies

    Labyrinth of Passion (1990)

    Spanish director Pedro Almodovar's films are colorful, sexy, and very funny, and this one is a...

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    Liberty Belle

    Julien (Jerome Zucca) is a left-leaning student whose politics and love interest end up clashing as...

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    Chico (2002)

    The adventures of a young man as he moves from the Latin-American revolutions in the sixties and...

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    Butterfly Tongues (2000)

    An 8-year-old (Manuel Lozano) forms a strong bond with his elderly teacher (Fernando Fernán Gómez),...

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    Four Days in September (1998)

    Revolutionaries (Pedro Cardoso, Fernanda Torres) kidnap the U.S. ambassador (Alan Arkin) to Brazil...

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    Torzok

    Hungary 1960, after his parents' divorce, 9-year-old Aron Soproni is left in his father's custody....

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    King Lear (1971)

    Shakespeare's tragedy of an aging monarch's battles with his daughters as he prepares to divide his...

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    The War Is Over (1966)

    An aging revolutionary is forced to re-examine his past before he can build a new future.

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    The Fever

    A well-to-do Englishwoman (Vanessa Redgrave) ponders consumerism and poverty while staying in a...

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    Promises (2002)

    Several Jewish and Palestinian children are followed for three years and put in touch with each...

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    The Dawning

    An IRA gunman on the run from the government. He meets up with an idealistic young woman and...

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    Movies

    Michael Collins (1996)

    An Irish freedom fighter (Liam Neeson) engineers the assassinations of British officials following...