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1

The Battle of Algiers (1966) Italy

Jean Martin, Yacef Saadi, Brahim Haggiag, Fusia El Kader, Samia Kerbash, Ugo Paletti, Mohamed Ben Kassen, Michele Kerbash, Tommaso Neri

8.02

5,062

2

The Man Who Would Be King (1975) United States

John Huston

Sean Connery, Michael Caine, Christopher Plummer, Saeed Jaffrey, Doghmi Larbi, Shakira Caine, Karroom Ben Bouih, Jack May, Mohammed Shamsi, Albert Moses, Paul Antrim, Graham Acres

7.88

27,124

3

The River (1951) France

Jean Renoir

Patricia Walters, Adrienne Corri, Nora Swinburne, Esmond Knight, Arthur Shields, Thomas E. Breen, Radha Shri Ram, Suprova Mukerjee, Richard Foster

7.80

3,420

4

Out of Africa (1985) United States

Sydney Pollack

Meryl Streep, Robert Redford, Klaus Maria Brandauer, Michael Kitchen, Malick Bowens, Michael Gough, Suzanna Hamilton, Rachel Kempson, Stephen Kinyanjui, Joseph Thiaka, Leslie Phillips, Graham Crowden, ...

7.46

62,167

5

Gandhi (1982) United Kingdom

Richard Attenborough

Ben Kingsley, Roshan Seth, Martin Sheen, Ian Charleson, Edward Fox, Candice Bergen, Saeed Jaffrey, Amrish Puri, Athol Fugard, Alyque Padamsee, Rohini Hattangadi, John Gielgud, ...

7.38

39,238

6

Another Day of Life (2018) Spain

Raúl de la Fuente, Damian Nenow

Animation, Miroslaw Haniszewski, Vergil J. Smith, Tomasz Zietek, Olga Boladz, Rafal Fudalej, Pawel Paczesny, Jakub Kamienski

7.29

1,897

7

The Jewel in the Crown (TV Miniseries) (1984) United Kingdom

Christopher Morahan, Jim O'Brien

Peggy Ashcroft, Tim Pigott-Smith, Art Malik, Charles Dance, Geraldine James, Wendy Morgan, Judy Parfitt, Rosemary Leach, Geoffrey Beevers, Eric Porter, Nicholas Le Prevost, Derrick Branche

7.27

130

8

The Chess Players (1977) India

Satyajit Ray

Sanjeev Kumar, Saeed Jaffrey, Amjad Khan, Richard Attenborough, Shabana Azmi, Farida Jalai

7.27

667

9

Burn! (1969) Italy

Gillo Pontecorvo

Marlon Brando, Evaristo Márquez, Renato Salvatori, Norman Hill, Tom Lyons, Carlo Palmucci, Giampiero Albertini, Dana Ghia

7.19

1,570

10

The Time in Between (TV Series) (2012) Spain

Ignacio Mercero, Iñaki Peñafiel, Norberto López Amado

Adriana Ugarte, Hannah New, Peter Vives, Tristán Ulloa, Raúl Arévalo, Carlos Santos, Francesc Garrido, Mari Carmen Sánchez, Alba Flores, David Muro, Filipe Duarte, Rubén Cortada, ...

7.17

4,365

11

Black Girl (1966) Senegal

Ousmane Sembene

Mbissine Thérèse Diop, Anne-Marie Jelinek, Robert Fontaine, Momar Nar Sene, Ibrahima Boy, Bernard Delbard, Nicole Donati, Raymond Lemeri

7.17

350

12

The Earth (1969) Egypt

Youssef Chahine

Hamdy Ahmed, Yehia Chahine, Ezzat El Alaili, Tewfik El Dekn, Ali El Scherif, Mahmoud El-Meliguy, Salah El-Saadany, Nagwa Ibrahim

7.16

31

13

Taboo (TV Series) (2017) United Kingdom

Steven Knight (Creator), Kristoffer Nyholm, Anders Engström

Tom Hardy, Oona Chaplin, Leo Bill, David Hayman, Michael Kelly, Jonathan Pryce, Stephen Graham, Franka Potente, Jessie Buckley, Edward Hogg, James Greaves, Jefferson Hall, ...

7.11

7,926

14

A Passage to India (1984) United Kingdom

David Lean

Judy Davis, Victor Banerjee, Peggy Ashcroft, James Fox, Alec Guinness, Nigel Havers, Richard Wilson, Antonia Pemberton, Saeed Jaffrey, Art Malik, Michael Culver, Roshan Seth, ...

7.10

3,476

15

La controverse de Valladolid (TV) (1992) France

Jean-Daniel Verhaeghe

Jean-Pierre Marielle, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Jean Carmet, Jean-Michel Dupuis, Claude Laugier, Pascal Elso

7.07

119

16

The Four Feathers (1939) United Kingdom

Zoltan Korda

John Clements, Ralph Richardson, C. Aubrey Smith, June Duprez, Allan Jeayes, Jack Allen, Donald Gray

7.07

2,503

17

The Lives of a Bengal Lancer (1935) United States

Henry Hathaway

Gary Cooper, Franchot Tone, Richard Cromwell, Guy Standing, C. Aubrey Smith, Kathleen Burke, Douglass Dumbrille, Monte Blue, Colin Tapley, Akim Tamiroff, J. Carrol Naish, Noble Johnson, ...

7.05

1,282

18

55 Days at Peking (1963) United States

Nicholas Ray

Charlton Heston, Ava Gardner, David Niven, Robert Helpmann, Flora Robson, Leo Genn, John Ireland, Kurt Kasznar, Paul Lukas, Harry Andrews, Massimo Serato, Philippe Leroy, ...

7.04

14,673

19

The Charge of the Light Brigade (1936) United States

Michael Curtiz

Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Patric Knowles, Nigel Bruce, David Niven, Donald Crisp, Henry Stephenson

7.04

1,601

20

Lagaan: Once Upon a Time in India (2001) India

Ashutosh Gowariker

Aamir Khan, Gracy Singh, Rachel Shelley, Paul Blackthorne, Suhasini Mulay, Kulbhushan Kharbanda, Raghuveer Yadav, Rajendra Gupta, Rajesh Vivek, Sri Vallabh Vyas, Raj Zutshi, Akhilendra Mishra, ...

7.02

1,004

21

Gunga Din (1939) United States

George Stevens

Cary Grant, Victor McLaglen, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Joan Fontaine, Eduardo Ciannelli, Montagu Love, Sam Jaffe

7.00

1,717

22

Chronicle of the Burning Years (1975) Algeria

Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina

Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina, Leila Shenna, Yorgo Voyagis, Cheikh Nourredine, François Maistre

6.98

320

23

Warriors of the Rainbow: Seediq Bale Part 2 (2011) Taiwan

Wei Te-sheng

Lin Ching-Tai, Da-Ching, Umin Boya, Lin Yuanjie, Tian Jun, Li Shihjia, Zen Borang, Masanobu Andô, Landy Wen, Vivian Hsu

6.94

80

24

India Song (1975) France

Marguerite Duras

Delphine Seyrig, Michael Lonsdale, Mathieu Carrière, Claude Mann, Vernon Dobtcheff, Didier Flamand, Claude Mann

6.90

374

25

Rebellion (2011) France

Mathieu Kassovitz

Mathieu Kassovitz, Sylvie Testud, Philippe Torreton, Malik Zidi, Mathieu Lardier, Iabe Lapacas

6.84

226

26

The Real Glory (1939) United States

Henry Hathaway

Gary Cooper, David Niven, Broderick Crawford, Reginald Owen, Andrea Leeds, Kay Johnson, Vladimir Sokoloff, Henry Kolker

6.81

780

27

Zulu (1964) United Kingdom

Cy Endfield

Stanley Baker, Michael Caine, Jack Hawkins, Ulla Jacobsson, James Booth, Nigel Green, Ivor Emmanuel, Paul Daneman, Glynn Edwards, Neil McCarthy, Gary Bond

6.77

3,185

28

Indian Summers (TV Miniseries) (2015) Malaysia

Anand Tucker, David Moore

Julie Walters, Nikesh Patel, Jemima West, Henry Lloyd-Hughes, Amber Rose Revah, Shachin Sailesh Kumar, Rick Warden, Olivia Grant, Lisa Kay, Ash Nair, Ashna Rabheru, Alexander Cobb, ...

6.76

66

29

Warriors of the Rainbow: Seediq Bale (2011) Taiwan

Wei Te-sheng

Lin Ching-Tai, Da-Ching, Umin Boya, Lin Yuanjie, Tian Jun, Masanobu Andô, Landy Wen, Vivian Hsu, Chie Tanaka, Sabu Kawahara, Mei-Ling Lo, Pawan Nawi, ...

6.75

111

30

Warriors of the Rainbow: Seediq Bale (2011) Taiwan

Wei Te-Sheng

Lin Ching-Tai, Da-Ching, Umin Boya, Lin Yuanjie, Tian Jun, Masanobu Andô, Landy Wen, Vivian Hsu, Chie Tanaka, Sabu Kawahara, Mei-Ling Lo, Pawan Nawi, ...

6.61

137

31

La 317ème section (1965) France

Pierre Schoendoerffer

Jacques Perrin, Bruno Cremer, Pierre Fabre, Manuel Zarzo, Boramy Tioulong

6.60

161

32

Outside the Law (2010) Algeria

Rachid Bouchareb

Jamel Debbouze, Roschdy Zem, Sami Bouajila, Samir Guesmi, Bernard Blancan, Jean-Pierre Lorit, Corentin Lobet, Régis Romele, Chafia Boudraa, Stéphane Temkine, Ahmed Benaissa, Mourad Khen, ...

6.60

512

33

Khartoum (1966) United Kingdom

Basil Dearden, Eliot Elisofon

Charlton Heston, Laurence Olivier, Richard Johnson, Ralph Richardson, Alexander Knox, Johnny Sekka, Michael Hordern, Zia Mohyeddin, Marne Maitland, Nigel Green, Hugh Williams, Ralph Michael, ...

6.59

1,285

34

Zarafa (2012) France

Rémi Bezançon, Jean-Christophe Lie

Animation

6.58

233

35

Chocolat (1988) France

Claire Denis

Isaach de Bankole, Giulia Boschi, François Cluzet, Jean-Claude Adelin, Laurent Arnal, Jean Bediebe, Jean-Quentin Châtelain, Emmanuelle Chaulet, Kenneth Cranham, Jacques Denis

6.56

227

36

Indochine (1992) France

Régis Wargnier

Catherine Deneuve, Vincent Pérez, Jean Yanne, Dominique Blanc, Henri Marteau, Linh Dan Pham, Carlo Brandt, Gérard Lartigau, Thibault de Montalembert, Hubert SaintMacary, Andrzej Seweryn

6.51

4,564

37

Coup de torchon (Clean Slate) (1981) France

Bertrand Tavernier

Philippe Noiret, Isabelle Huppert, Jean-Pierre Marielle, Stéphane Audran, Eddy Mitchell, Guy Marchand

6.50

537

38

The Lover (1992) France

Jean-Jacques Annaud

Jane March, Tony Leung Ka-Fai, Frédérique Meininger, Arnaud Giovaninetti, Melvil Poupaud, Lisa Faulkner

6.48

4,873

39

Far from Men (2014) France

David Oelhoffen

Viggo Mortensen, Reda Kateb, Djemel Barek, Vincent Martin, Nicolas Giraud, Jean-Jérôme Esposito, Hatim Sadiki, Yann Goven, Antoine Régent, Sonia Amori, Antoine Laurent, Ángela Molina

6.40

2,571

40

UTU (1983) New Zealand

Geoff Murphy

Anzac Wallace, Bruno Lawrence, Tim Elliott, Kelly Johnson, Wi Kuki Kaa, Tania Bristowe, Ilona Rodgers, Merata Mita, Faenza Reuben, Tom Poata, Martyn Sanderson, John Bach, ...

6.40

45

41

Rang De Basanti (2006) India

Rakesh Omprakash Mehra

Alice Patten, Aamir Khan, Siddharth, Sharman Joshi, Kunal Kapoor, Atul Kulkarni, Soha Ali Khan, Steven Mackintosh, Madhavan, Waheeda Rehman, Anupam Kher, Kiron Kher, ...

6.39

128

42

Zulu Dawn (1979) United States

Douglas Hickox

Burt Lancaster, Peter O´Toole, Simon Ward, Denholm Elliott, Peter Vaughan, James Faulkner, Christopher Cazenove, Bob Hoskins, David Bradley, Paul Copley, Donald Pickering, Nicholas Clay, ...

6.38

1,128

43

Sirocco (1951) United States

Curtis Bernhardt

Humphrey Bogart, Märta Torén, Lee J. Cobb, Everett Sloane, Gerald Mohr, Zero Mostel, Nick Dennis, Onslow Stevens, Ludwig Donath, David Bond, Vincent Renno

6.31

472

44

Chinese Box (1997) United States

Wayne Wang

Jeremy Irons, Gong Li, Maggie Cheung, Michael Hui, Rubén Blades, Jared Harris, Josie Ho, Ralph Lister, François Chau, Ken Bennett, Winston Ellis

6.29

2,037

45

The Siege of Jadotville (2016) Ireland

Richie Smyth

Jamie Dornan, Guillaume Canet, Mark Strong, Emmanuelle Seigner, Jason O'Mara, Mikael Persbrandt, Sam Keeley, Robert Hobbs, Conor MacNeill, Fionn O'Shea, Alexander Tops, Jordan Mifsud, ...

6.27

2,584

46

Conduct Unbecoming (1975) United Kingdom

Michael Anderson

Michael York, Richard Attenborough, Trevor Howard, Stacy Keach, Christopher Plummer, Susannah York

6.26

106

47

Bhowani Junction (1956) United States

George Cukor

Ava Gardner, Stewart Granger, Bill Travers, Abraham Sofaer, Francis Matthews, Marne Maitland, Peter Illing, Edward Chapman, Freda Jackson, Lionel Jeffries, Alan Tilvern

6.25

623

48

A Short Film About the Indio Nacional (2006) Philippines

Raya Martin

Bodjie Pascua, Suzette Velasco, Lemuel Galman, Mark Joshua Maclang, Russell Ongkeko, The Barasoain Kalinangan Theater Group

6.23

78

49

Kim (1950) United States

Victor Saville

Errol Flynn, Dean Stockwell, Paul Lukas, Robert Douglas, Thomas Gomez, Cecil Kellaway, Reginald Owen, Arnold Moss, Laurette Luez, Richard Hale

6.20

627

50

Something of Value (Africa Ablaze!) (1957) United States

Richard Brooks

Rock Hudson, Dana Wynter, Sidney Poitier, Wendy Hiller, Juano Hernandez, William Marshall, Robert Beatty, Walter Fitzgerald, Michael Pate

6.16

169

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