A Dry White Season (1989)

Summary: A white middle class South African suburbanite with no interest in politics agrees to help his black gardener find his jailed son. His investigation opens his eyes to the horrors committed by the secret police and turns him into a...

Release Date: September 20, 1989

Genres: Drama, Thriller

Director: Euzhan Palcy

Writers: André P. Brink

, Colin Welland

, Euzhan Palcy

Runtime: 1 h 46 min

MPAA: R

Production: Davros Films, Star Partners II Ltd., Sundance Productions

Distributor: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), CBS/Fox, Fox Video, The Criterion Channel

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 9,000,000

Domestic: $ 3,766,879

The Nile Hilton Incident (2017)

Summary: A maid witnesses a murder at an upscale hotel and a policeman is assigned to the case, but it soon becomes clear that important people don't want the case solved.

Release Date: July 05, 2017

Genres: Drama, Crime, Mystery

Director: Tarik Saleh

Writers: Tarik Saleh

, Magdi Abdelhadi

Runtime: 1 h 51 min

MPAA: 14A

Production: Atmo Production, Ostlicht Filmproduktion, Final Cut for Real, Sveriges Television (SVT), Chimney, Scanbox Sweden AB, Copenhagen Film Fund, Svenska Filminstitutet (SFI), Eurimages, Mitteldeutsche Medienförderung (MDM), Det Danske Filminstitut, West Danish Film Fund, Co Made, Den Vestdanske Filmpulje, Jardman Haris Productions, Kasbah Films, La Voie Lactée, Metrix Media

Distributor: Strand Releasing

Countries: Sweden, Germany, Denmark, Morocco, France

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 4,250,000

Domestic: $ 81,089

International: $ 3,898,447

Battleship Potemkin (1925)

Summary: In the midst of the Russian Revolution of 1905, the crew of the battleship Potemkin mutiny against the brutal, tyrannical regime of the vessel's officers. The resulting street demonstration in Odessa brings on a police massacre.

Release Date: December 24, 1925

Genres: Drama, Thriller, History

Director: Sergei Eisenstein