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96 - Rotten Tomatoes Audience
121808 votes

The Lives of Others (2006)

Summary: In 1984 East Berlin, an agent of the secret police, conducting surveillance on a writer and his lover, finds himself becoming increasingly absorbed by their lives.

Release Date: March 30, 2007

Genres: Drama, Thriller, Mystery

Director: Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck

Writer: Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck

Runtime: 2 h 17 min

MPAA: R

Production: Wiedemann & Berg Filmproduktion, Bayerischer Rundfunk (BR), ARTE, Creado Film

Distributor: Sony Pictures Classics, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, The Criterion Channel

Countries: Germany, France

Language: German

Movie budget: $ 2,000,000

Domestic: $ 11,286,112

International: $ 66,070,830

94 - Rotten Tomatoes Audience
122 votes

The Oak (1992)

Summary: A description of Romania before Ceausescu's downfall, through the story of Nela. Daughter of a former colonel of the Securitate, the romanian political police. She refused to become as her sister, an agent of this Securitate, and ...

Release Date: January 22, 1993

Genres: Comedy, Drama

Director: Lucian Pintilie

Writers: Ion Baiesu

, Lucian Pintilie

Runtime: 1 h 45 min

Production: MK2 Productions, Parnasse Production, Les Films du Scarabée, Studio of Cinematographic Creation of the Romanian Ministry of Culture, Canal+, La Sept Cinéma, Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée (CNC), Filmex

Distributor: MK2 Productions

Countries: France, Romania

Language: Romanian

Movie budget: $ 3,700,000

92 - Rotten Tomatoes Audience
50508 votes

Persepolis (2007)

Summary: A precocious and outspoken Iranian girl grows up during the Islamic Revolution.

Release Date: February 22, 2008

Genres: Drama, Biography, Animation

Directors: Vincent Paronnaud

, Marjane Satrapi

Writers: Marjane Satrapi

, Vincent Paronnaud

Runtime: 1 h 36 min

MPAA: PG-13

Production: 2.4.7. Films, France 3 Cinéma, The Kennedy/Marshall Company, Celluloid Dreams, Sony Pictures Classics, Soficinéma, Sofica Europacorp, Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée (CNC), La Région Île-de-France, Fondation GAN pour le Cinéma, Société des Producteurs de Cinéma et de Télévision (Procirep), Agence Nationale de Gestion des Oeuvres Audiovisuelles (ANGOA)

Distributor: Sony Pictures Classics, Sony Pictures Releasing, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, The Criterion Channel

Countries: France, United States

Language: French

Movie budget: $ 7,300,000

Domestic: $ 4,445,756

International: $ 18,338,222

92 - Rotten Tomatoes Audience
6712 votes

Kolya (1996)

Summary: A confirmed bachelor is in for the surprise of his life when a get-rich-quick scheme backfires and leaves him with a pint-sized new roommate.

Release Date: January 24, 1997

Genres: Comedy, Drama, Music

Director: Jan Sverák

Writers: Pavel Taussig

, Zdenek Sverák

Runtime: 1 h 45 min

MPAA: PG-13

Production: Biograf Jan Sverak, Pandora Cinema, Ceská Televize, Portobello Pictures, Pandora Cinema, CinemArt, Eurimages, Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée (CNC), The Czech Republic State Fund for Support and Development of Cinematography

Distributor: Miramax

Countries: Czechia, United Kingdom, France, Czech Republic

Language: Czech

Domestic: $ 5,770,254

91 - Rotten Tomatoes Audience
1629 votes

Burma VJ: Reporting from a Closed Country (2008)

Summary: Using smuggled footage, this documentary tells the story of the 2007 protests in Burma by thousands of monks.

Release Date: January 09, 2009

Genres: Documentary, History, News

Director: Anders Østergaard

Runtime: 1 h 24 min

MPAA: Unrated

Production: Kamoli Films, Magic Hour Films ApS, Mediamente, WG Film

Distributor: Home Box Office (HBO), Oscilloscope, Topic

Countries: Denmark, Sweden, Norway, United Kingdom, United States, Germany, Netherlands, Israel, Spain, Belgium, Canada

Language: English

Domestic: $ 51,672

International: $ 75,391

88 - Rotten Tomatoes Audience
22458 votes

Sophie Scholl: The Final Days (2005)

Summary: A dramatization of the final days of Sophie Scholl, one of the most famous members of the German World War II anti-Nazi resistance movement, The White Rose.

Release Date: February 24, 2005

Genres: Drama, Crime, Biography

Director: Marc Rothemund

Writer: Fred Breinersdorfer

Runtime: 2 h 00 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Broth Film, Goldkind Filmproduktion, ARTE, Bayerischer Rundfunk (BR)

Distributor: Zeitgeist Films

Country: Germany

Language: German

Domestic: $ 680,331

International: $ 10,123,984

88 - Rotten Tomatoes Audience
2517 votes

East/West (1999)

Summary: In June 1946, Stalin invites the Russian exiled from the 1917 Revolution to return home. When the ships comes ashore in Odessa, the passengers are divided in two groups and one of them is executed. Among the survivors are Dr. Alek...

Release Date: May 05, 2000

Genres: Adventure, Drama, History

Director: Régis Wargnier

Writers: Rustam Ibragimbekov

, Sergei Bodrov

, Louis Gardel

Runtime: 2 h 01 min

MPAA: PG-13

Production: UGC YM, France 3 Cinéma, NTV, Canal+, Sofica Sofinergie 5, Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée (CNC), Studio 1+1

Distributor: Columbia TriStar Home Video

Countries: Russia, Ukraine, Bulgaria, France, Spain

Language: French

Movie budget: $ 11,500,000

Domestic: $ 2,321,029

International: $ 3,710,492

87 - Rotten Tomatoes Audience
8461 votes

Porco Rosso (1992)

Summary: In 1930s Italy, a veteran World War I pilot is cursed to look like an anthropomorphic pig.

Release Date: December 16, 1994

Genres: Adventure, Comedy, Animation, Anime

Director: Hayao Miyazaki

Writer: Hayao Miyazaki

Runtime: 1 h 34 min

MPAA: PG

Production: Japan Airlines (JAL), Nibariki, Nippon Television Network (NTV), Studio Ghibli, TNNG

Distributor: Toho Company

Country: Japan

Language: Japanese

Domestic: $ 443,059

International: $ 1,015,477

85 - Rotten Tomatoes Audience
23096 votes

The Wind Rises (2013)

Summary: A look at the life of Jiro Horikoshi, the man who designed Japanese fighter planes during World War II.

Release Date: February 21, 2014

Genres: Drama, Biography, Animation, Anime

Director: Hayao Miyazaki

Writer: Hayao Miyazaki

Runtime: 2 h 06 min

MPAA: PG-13

Production: Studio Ghibli, Touchstone Pictures, Wild Bunch, Nippon Television Network (NTV), Dentsu, Hakuhodo DY Media Partners, Walt Disney Animation Japan, d-rights, Toho Company, KDDI Corporation

Distributor: GKIDS, Touchstone Pictures, Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures, HBO Max, Shout! Factory

Country: Japan

Language: Japanese

Movie budget: $ 30,000,000

Domestic: $ 5,209,580

International: $ 131,625,981

83 - Rotten Tomatoes Audience
1874 votes

Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore (2022)

Summary: Albus Dumbledore knows that Gellert Grindelwald is moving to take control of the wizarding world. Unable to stop him alone, he asks Newt Scamander to lead an intrepid team on a dangerous mission.

Release Date: April 15, 2022

Genres: Adventure, Family, Fantasy

Director: David Yates

Writers: J.K. Rowling

, Steve Kloves

Runtime: 2 h 22 min

MPAA: PG-13

Production: Warner Bros., Heyday Films

Distributor: Amazon Studios, HBO Max, Studio Distribution Services (SDS), Warner Bros. Home Entertainment

Countries: United Kingdom, United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 200,000,000

Domestic: $ 95,850,844

International: $ 311,300,000

83 - Rotten Tomatoes Audience
89 votes

A Taxi Driver (2017)

Summary: A widowed father and taxi driver who drives a German reporter from Seoul to Gwangju to cover the 1980 uprising, soon finds himself regretting his decision after being caught in the violence around him.

Release Date: August 11, 2017

Genres: Action, Drama, History

Director: Hun Jang

Writer: Yu-na Eom

Runtime: 2 h 17 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: The Lamp

Distributor: Well Go USA Entertainment, Showbox Entertainment

Country: South Korea

Language: Korean

Domestic: $ 1,527,829

International: $ 84,725,111

82 - Rotten Tomatoes Audience
80 votes

Man on a Tightrope (1953)

Summary: A Czech circus owner/clown and his entire troupe employ a daring stratagem in order to escape en masse from behind the iron curtain.

Release Date: June 29, 1953

Genres: Drama, Thriller

Director: Elia Kazan

Writers: Robert E. Sherwood

, Neil Paterson

Runtime: 1 h 45 min

MPAA: Approved

Production: Twentieth Century Fox, Bavaria Film

Distributor: Twentieth Century Fox, National Broadcasting Company (NBC)

Countries: United States, West Germany

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 1,200,000

81 - Rotten Tomatoes Audience
7737 votes

Death and the Maiden (1994)

Summary: A political activist is convinced that her guest is a man who once tortured her for the government.

Release Date: January 27, 1995

Genres: Drama, Thriller, Mystery

Director: Roman Polanski

Writers: Ariel Dorfman

, Rafael Yglesias

Runtime: 1 h 43 min

MPAA: R

Production: Fine Line Features, Capitol Films, Channel Four Films, Les Films de l'Astre, TF1 Films Production

Distributor: Image Entertainment, New Line Home Video, Turner Home Entertainment

Countries: United Kingdom, France

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 12,000,000

Domestic: $ 3,103,716

80 - Rotten Tomatoes Audience
12776 votes

No (2012)

Summary: An advertising executive comes up with a campaign to defeat Augusto Pinochet in Chile's 1988 referendum.

Release Date: August 09, 2012

Genre: Drama

Director: Pablo Larraín

Writers: Pedro Peirano

, Antonio Skármeta

Runtime: 1 h 58 min

MPAA: R

Production: Participant, Funny Balloons, Fabula, Consejo Nacional de la Cultura y las Artes, Corfo

Distributor: Sony Pictures Classics, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment

Countries: Chile, France, Mexico, United States

Language: Spanish

Domestic: $ 2,343,664

International: $ 5,355,431

80 - Rotten Tomatoes Audience
2538 votes

Romero (1989)

Summary: The life and work of Archbishop Oscar Romero who opposed, at great personal risk, the tyrannical repression in El Salvador.

Release Date: August 25, 1989

Genres: Drama, Crime, Biography

Director: John Duigan

Writer: John Sacret Young

Runtime: 1 h 42 min

MPAA: PG-13

Production: Consejo estatal de cine, teatro y televisión, Paulist Pictures, Paulist Productions

Distributor: Four Square, CBS, Trimark Home Video, Vidmark Entertainment, Vision Video

Countries: United States, Mexico

Language: English

Domestic: $ 1,316,495

79 - Rotten Tomatoes Audience
89 votes

Chronicle of an Escape (2006)

Summary: The goalkeeper of a little-known soccer team is kidnapped by a Argentinean government squad and sent to a detention center. After months of torture, he plots his escape with three other young men.

Release Date: April 27, 2006

Genres: Crime, Thriller

Director: Israel Adrián Caetano

Writers: Israel Adrián Caetano

, Esteban Student

, Julian Loyola

Runtime: 1 h 43 min

MPAA: R

Production: 20th Century Fox Argentina, Instituto Nacional de Cine y Artes Audiovisuales (INCAA), K&S Films

Distributor: IFC First Take, The Weinstein Company

Country: Argentina

Language: Spanish

Domestic: $ 2,370

International: $ 761,372

79 - Rotten Tomatoes Audience

Deutschland 83 (2015)

Summary: Martin Rauch is recruited by the HVA to infiltrate the West Germany army. As a rookie spy, his decisions constantly put his cover at risk and force his agency to take extreme measures.

Release Date: June 17, 2015

Genres: Drama, Romance, Thriller

Runtime: 0 h 42 min

MPAA: TV-MA

Production: RTL, UFA Fiction

Country: Germany

Language: German

78 - Rotten Tomatoes Audience
6803 votes

The Death of Stalin (2017)

Summary: Moscow, 1953. After being in power for nearly 30 years, Soviet dictator Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin takes ill and quickly dies. Now the members of the Council of Ministers scramble for power.

Release Date: March 09, 2018

Genres: Comedy, Drama, History

Director: Armando Iannucci

Writers: Fabien Nury

, Thierry Robin

, Armando Iannucci

Runtime: 1 h 47 min

MPAA: R

Production: Quad, Main Journey, Gaumont, France 3 Cinéma, La Compagnie Cinématographique, Panache Productions, Canal+, Ciné+, France Télévisions, Free Range Films, Title Media

Distributor: IFC Films, Paramount Home Entertainment

Countries: France, United Kingdom, Belgium, Canada, United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 13,000,000

Domestic: $ 8,047,856

International: $ 16,598,199

78 - Rotten Tomatoes Audience
1687 votes

Nicholas and Alexandra (1971)

Summary: Tsar Nicholas II, the inept last monarch of Russia, insensitive to the needs of his people, is overthrown and exiled to Siberia with his family.

Release Date: December 13, 1971

Genres: Drama, Biography, History

Director: Franklin J. Schaffner

Writers: Robert K. Massie

, Edward Bond

, James Goldman

Runtime: 3 h 03 min

MPAA: PG

Production: Horizon Pictures (II)

Distributor: Columbia TriStar Home Video, Pioneer Entertainment, RCA/Columbia Pictures Home Video, Twilight Time

Country: United Kingdom

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 9,000,000

78 - Rotten Tomatoes Audience
61 votes

Detective Byomkesh Bakshy! (2015)

Summary: Detective Byomkesh Bakshy is set in the 2nd World War torn Calcutta during the 1940s. Enter a magical world of nostalgia and 'Expect the Unexpected'.

Release Date: April 03, 2015

Genres: Action, Drama, Crime

Director: Dibakar Banerjee

Writers: Urmi Juvekar

, Dibakar Banerjee

, Saradindu Bandopadhyay

Runtime: 2 h 19 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Dibakar Banerjee Productions, Skywalk Films, Skyway Films

Country: India

Language: Hindi

Domestic: $ 579,055

International: $ 3,973,610

The Lives of Others (2006)

The Oak (1992)

Persepolis (2007)

Kolya (1996)

Burma VJ: Reporting from a Closed Country (2008)

Sophie Scholl: The Final Days (2005)

East/West (1999)

Porco Rosso (1992)

The Wind Rises (2013)

Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore (2022)

A Taxi Driver (2017)

Man on a Tightrope (1953)

Death and the Maiden (1994)

No (2012)

Romero (1989)

Chronicle of an Escape (2006)

Deutschland 83 (2015)

The Death of Stalin (2017)

Nicholas and Alexandra (1971)

Detective Byomkesh Bakshy! (2015)

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