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Kanopy
82
8.0
/9547/
79
/321/
76
/158/
3.9
/6800/
100
/70/
89
/140/
84
/21/
cc age 16+

The Square (2013)
The Square looks at the hard realities faced day-to-day by people working to build Egypt’s new democracy. Cairo’s Tahrir Square is the heart and soul of the film, which follows several young activists. Armed with values, determination, music, humor, an abundance of social media, and sheer obstinacy, they know that the thorny path to democracy only began with Hosni Mubarak’s fall. The life-and-death struggle between the people and the power of the state is still playing out.
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Criterion Channel
77
7.5
/78719/
71
/1621/
72
/1207/
4.1
/280871/
75
/92/
81
/1132/
79
/27/

The Piano Teacher (2001)
Erika Kohut, a sexually repressed piano teacher living with her domineering mother, meets a young man who starts romantically pursuing her.
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HBO Max Amazon Channel
73
5.8
/42225/
60
/3072/
60
/593/
3.5
/711722/
85
/235/
71
/15/
86
/48/
cc age 13+

I Saw the TV Glow (2024)
Teenager Owen is just trying to make it through life in the suburbs when his classmate Maddy introduces him to a mysterious TV show — a vision of a supernatural world beneath their own. In the pale glow of the television, Owen’s view of reality begins to crack.
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Disney Plus
78
64
7.7
/5841/
76
/504/
78
/300/
3.6
/11771/
88
/8/

Inner Workings (2016)
This is the story of the internal struggle between a man's Brain—a pragmatic protector who calculates his every move, and his Heart—a free-spirited adventurer who wants to let loose.
poster
73
61
7.3
/3937/
75
/114/
73
/121/
3.9
/17009/
60
/5/
81
/30/

Entranced Earth (1967)
Eldorado, a fictitious country in America, is sparkling with the internal struggle for political power. In the eye of this social convulsion, the jaded journalist Paulo Martins opposes two equally corrupt political candidates: a pseudopopulist and a conservative. In this context, Paulo is torn between the madness of the elite and the blind submission of the masses. But, in this complex tropical reality, nothing really is what it seems to be.
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Netflix
60
6.0
/3087/
57
/120/
54
/64/
3.1
/1750/
50
/14/
53
/52/

Bliss (1997)
On his wedding day, Joseph nervously admits that his wife is not quite like other women. But his beautiful bride is more than just the "impulsive, compulsive, obsessive" woman he thinks he knows. And when Joseph discovers she is hiding troubling secrets, it sends them both on a sexual odyssey that will either destroy or redeem their relationship.
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MGM Plus
60
6.7
/18812/
67
/431/
67
/399/
3.8
/22960/
57
/46/
54
/364/
57
/15/
cc age 16+

Heaven's Gate (1980)
Harvard graduate James Averill serves as the sheriff of prosperous Jackson County, Wyoming, standing at the center of a conflict between impoverished immigrants and affluent cattle farmers. Politically connected ranchers enlist mercenary Nathan Champion—who is also vying for the affections of local madam Ella Watson—to combat the immigrant uprising. As tensions escalate, both Averill and Champion start to question their decisions.
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Netflix
55
5.7
/290093/
58
/10755/
55
/6114/
2.5
/228958/
63
/238/
29
/14066/
54
/40/
cc age 13+

Hulk (2003)
Bruce Banner, a genetics researcher with a tragic past, suffers massive radiation exposure in his laboratory that causes him to transform into a raging green monster when he gets angry.
poster
76
51
7.5
/2320/
67
/35/
72
/63/
3.8
/1727/
80
/5/
87
/12/

Family Life (1971)
A young woman, Janice, is living with her restrictive and conservative parents, who lead a dull working-class life and consider their daughter to be “misbehaving” whenever she’s trying to find her own way in life.
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MGM Plus
49
5.4
/12393/
62
/952/
61
/536/
2.6
/26145/
20
/10/
49
/1395/

Carrie (2002)
An awkward, telekinetic teenage girl's lonely life is dominated by relentless bullying at school and an oppressive religious fanatic mother at home. When her tormentors pull a humiliating prank at the senior prom, she unleashes a horrifying chaos on everyone, leaving nothing but destruction in her wake.
poster
62
47
6.4
/2371/
66
/105/
65
/67/
3.4
/1914/
48
/40/

The Blind Sunflowers (2008)
Orense, Spain, 1940, just after the end of the Civil War. Every time Elena locks the door of her home, she and her children become the faithful guardians of a sacred secret: Ricardo, her husband, their father, hides in the house, trying to avoid the brutal political persecution of the victors, who hunt, as if they were wild animals, and imprison or execute, those who have lost the bloody and tragic struggle…
poster
69
44
6.7
/550/
52
/4/
60
/2/
3.6
/6415/
89
/89/
76
/20/
cc age 15+

The Testament of Ann Lee (2025)
The extraordinary true legend of Ann Lee, founder of the devotional sect known as the Shakers.
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Kanopy
80
39
7.3
/837/
80
/61/
73
/55/
3.8
/4363/
100
/5/

The Monopoly of Violence (2020)
As anger and resentment grow in the face of social inequalities, many citizens-led protests are being repressed with an ever-increasing violence. In this documentary, David Dufresne gathers a panel of citizens to question, exchange and confront their views on the social order and the legitimacy of the use of force by the State.
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Kanopy
79
35
7.1
/445/
76
/27/
80
/7/
3.6
/1027/
100
/12/

Total Trust (2023)
By exploring the relationship between the watched and the watching, our film uncovers the trauma and hope engendered by the Chinese all-surveilling state and lends a voice to those that stand in resilient defiance of such blatant abuse of power.
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JustWatchTV
44
26
5.1
/2544/
62
/157/
51
/57/
2.9
/318/
25
/12/
42
/7/
24
/6/

Now & Later (2009)
Sex, politics and American culture are mixed into a combustible combination in Now & Later. Angela is an illegal Latina immigrant living in Los Angeles who stumbles across Bill, a disgraced banker on the run. She takes him in. Through passionate sex, soul-searching conversations ranging from politics to philosophy, and other worldly pleasures, Angela introduces Bill to another worldview. As their affair heats up, the course of Bill's life begins to take an abrupt and unexpected turn.
poster
63
14
6.3
/298/
60
/22/
63
/20/
3.3
/305/

What's in the Darkness (2016)
In the summer of 1991, a rape case broke the peace of a small town. The fathers of two girls in the local middle school were the policemen in charge of the case.
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Amazon Prime Video
60
12
6.4
/656/
59
/10/
71
/11/
48
/7/

Harlan County War (2000)
A Kentucky woman whose mine-worker husband is nearly killed in a cave-in, and whose father is slowly dying of black lung disease, joins the picket lines for a long, violent strike.
poster
?
80
/1/

Devant – Contrechamp de la rétention (2025)
Pauline, Norah, Kristina and others wait for hours, sitting under a hut deep in the Bois de Vincennes. In front of the administrative detention center (CRA) in Paris, they have all come to see their loved ones locked up. Lives on hold, awaiting deportation or release. On this stage, these women tell their stories, talk to each other, share their experience, their revolt and their dreams with new visitors. They are the mirror of migrant detention, its reverse view.
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?
80
/1/

La justice sous l'Occupation (2024)
N/A
poster
?
80
/1/

Iran : La Stratégie du chaos (2024)
N/A
poster
?
100
/1/

Entering The Rainbow (2023)
A hookup. A calisthenics session. An incredible view. An evening of repression. Two strangers unpack some of their most intimate feelings.
poster
87
?
7.9
/104/
93
/3/
90
/2/

Miners Shot Down (2014)
In August 2012, mineworkers in one of South Africa’s biggest platinum mines began a wildcat strike for better wages. Six days later the police used live ammunition to brutally suppress the strike, killing 34 and injuring many more. Using the point of view of the Marikana miners, Miners Shot Down follows the strike from day one, showing the courageous but isolated fight waged by a group of low-paid workers against the combined forces of the mining company Lonmin, the ANC government and their allies in the National Union of Mineworkers.
poster
?
8.2
/11/

Chubai. Speaking Again (2023)
A theatrical documentary about Hrytsko Chubai, a genius of Ukrainian poetry, a connoisseur of literature, art and music and the brightest representative of Lviv underground culture of late 60s early 70s.
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?
83
/10/
82
/3/

Hechos probados (2021)
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poster
?
10
/1/
80
/1/

Let It Be (1970-1974) (1993)
Chapter 15 of the series 18 decades of life in Mexico in the twentieth century. Images of the cultural, social and political life in Mexico from 1970 to 1974. During the presidential term of Luis Echeverria Alvarez fantasies of prosperous and modern country it dissolves; Mexico live in political crisis. It is a time of omnipotence, barbarism, and violence intervention: the world seeks new ways. In Mexico, it held the World Cup, unionism is strengthened and inflation responds to the continuing economic imbalances.
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?
8.4
/9/

1944. Deportation (2019)
In 1944 Crimean Tatars has suffered a long road in exile. It was accompanied by famine, illness and loss. In the first years of exile, almost half of deported Crimean Tatars died. But those, who survived, dreamed of only one thing - to return to Crimea. The documentary 1944 tells about the tragedy of all Crimean Tatars through several separate life stories. They are cherished by each Crimean Tatar family and must be remembered by all generations to come.
poster
?
70
/1/

The Repression
A therapist starts seeing a dark version of herself after creating a painting of her recently deceased daughter.
poster
?
6.1
/13/
10
/1/
40
/1/

Marlene (2020)
Marlene arrives in Berlin to begin a new life. She meets her upstairs neighbour Flo, seemingly a nice guy and starts a new job as a restorer. She finds new friends while simultaneously being drawn back into her past. But when Marlene finally realises how dangerous Flo really is, she is already wrapped up inside a game of life and death.
poster
?
7.4
/45/
60
/2/
42
/5/

Water (2020)
Camilo, an adolescent rower on a Xochimilco jetty, has his first sexual encounter with another man. One day he thinks he is being discovered by Beto, a colleague from work. When confronted, Camilo accidentally ends up revealing his homosexuality. Not knowing what to do, Camilo reacts violently and decides to flee Xochimilco.
poster
60
?
6.7
/383/
55
/5/
50
/9/
3.5
/238/

Come to My Voice (2014)
In a snowy Kurdish mountain village, in the east of Turkey, an old woman Berfé and her granddaughter Jiyan are distressed. The only man in the household, Temo, the son of one and the father of the other, was arrested by the Turkish military. The commanding officer has been told that the villagers are hiding weapons, so he arrested all the men and announced that they will be kept in prison until their families hand over the weapons. The problem is that there are no weapons in the village. Desperate, Berfé and Jiyan embark on a long journey, in search of a gun which they could exchange for their beloved Temo. Will the old woman and her innocent granddaughter find a way out of the inextricable Kurdish identity conflict?
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Kanopy
77
?
6.9
/122/
80
/1/
75
/6/
86
/7/

Revolution: New Art for a New World (2017)
Drawing on the collections of major Russian institutions, contributions from contemporary artists, curators and performers and personal testimony from the descendants of those involved, the film brings the artists of the Russian Avant-Garde to life. It tells the stories of artists like Chagall, Kandinsky and Malevich - pioneers who flourished in response to the challenge of building a new art for a new world, only to be broken by implacable authority after 15 short years and silenced by Stalin's Socialist Realism.
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?

Queer Egypt Under Attack (2023)
A BBC News investigation has revealed how violent criminal gangs are finding, abusing and extorting people from the LGBT community they meet online in Egypt. Using masking technology to hide the identities of the people he meets, Ahmed Shihab-Eldin navigates the complex online and real-life world of people who identify as queer and who have been repeatedly targeted by a gang with violent viral video humiliations and police arrests.
poster
?

Angustura
N/A
poster
?

The Second Circle
Drawing inspiration from the real life tragedy of Francesca da Rimini and Paolo Malatesta, this genre bending short follows a stifled rural housewife and her brother-in-law caught in a cruel cyclical limbo of death, love, and devotion.
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?

How Thick Is Your Carpet?
Housewife Ann sits over the dead body of her husband, rolled up in a bloodstained rug with his lifeless feet sticking out. When a mysterious man is called to dispose of the evidence, his no nonsense professionalism will clash with Ann's curiosity and emotional unpredictability.
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?

Broken Eyes (2023)
Arrancar los ojos is a project that proposes a constellation of works around the gaze and its political dimension. A reflection on the concepts of institutional violence, repression and collective trauma, focusing on the pattern of eye attacks by state security forces.
poster
?

Emilio Barreto: Angels and Demons (2024)
In Paraguay, during the regime of dictator Alfredo Stroessner, almost 400 people disappeared without a trace, and several hundred thousand were sent to prisons where they were tortured. One of these people was Emilio Barreto, an aspiring actor who spent a total of thirteen years in prison despite never being tried for any crime.
poster
?

Engenho Prado - Guerra de Baixa Intensidade na Zona da Mata Norte de Pernambuco (2003)
N/A
poster
?

The Cryptic Innocence (2022)
With a poem written and narrated by Leon Chaldranian, Marlina Shinta directs a coming-of-age short poetry film "The Cryptic Innocence" that tells the story of female youth alienation. Starring Nabila Zahranova Cinematography by Bima Utomo Audio arranged by Dewa Dayana
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?

Resistance (2007)
In the panorama of Kurdish music, Koma Berxwedan (Group Resistance) is one of the most interesting, innovative, experimental groups. To a deep love for music research the group has always associated a strong political commitment. Some of its members have joined the PKK guerrillas in the mountains of Kurdistan. Three of them died in combat. Some have been forced to live in exile and others continued to challenge the Turkish authorities by carrying out their work in Kurdistan.


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