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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

8.01

5,615

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

7.86

27,922

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

7.76

3,670

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

7.45

62,546

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

7.36

39,197

6

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

7.34

157

7

Another Day of Life (2018) Spain

Raúl de la Fuente, Damian Nenow

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

7.29

3,411

8

The Chess Players (1977) India

Satyajit Ray

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

7.22

706

9

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

7.20

439

10

Burn! (1969) Italy

Gillo Pontecorvo

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

7.18

1,767

11

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

7.18

4,615

12

La controverse de Valladolid (TV) (TV) (1992) France

Jean-Daniel Verhaeghe

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

7.11

125

13

A Passage to India (1984) United Kingdom

David Lean

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

7.08

3,845

14

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

7.06

8,937

15

The Four Feathers (1939) United Kingdom

Zoltan Korda

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

7.05

2,633

16

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

7.05

1,376

17

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

7.03

14,688

18

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

Ashutosh Gowariker

Aamir Khan, Gracy Singh, Rachel Shelley, Paul Blackthorne, Suhasini Mulay, Kulbhushan Kharbanda, Raghuvir Yadav, Rajendra Gupta, Rajesh Vivek, Shri Vallabh Vyas

7.02

1,107

19

Storm Over Asia (1928) Soviet Union (USSR)

Vsevolod Pudovkin

Valery Inkijinoff, Aleksandr Chistyakov, Viktor Tsoppi, Karl Gurnyak, Boris Barnet, Anel Sudakevich, Leonid Obolensky

7.01

333

20

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

7.01

1,698

21

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

7.00

85

22

Gunga Din (1939) United States

George Stevens

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

6.97

1,815

23

Chronicle of the Burning Years (1975) Algeria

Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina

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

6.91

316

24

Rebellion (2011) France

Mathieu Kassovitz

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

6.86

260

25

Indian Summers (TV Series) (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

6.81

81

26

India Song (1975) France

Marguerite Duras

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

6.81

471

27

The Real Glory (1939) United States

Henry Hathaway

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

6.79

854

28

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

6.79

34

29

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

6.75

3,468

30

Warriors of the Rainbow: Seediq Bale (2011) Taiwan

Wei Te-Sheng

Lin Ching-Tai, Da-Ching, Ma Chih-Hsiang, Lin Yuanjie, Jian Yan, Masanobu Ando, Landy Wen, Vivian Hsu, Chie Tanaka, Sabu Kawahara

6.75

113

31

Warriors of the Rainbow: Seediq Bale (2011) Taiwan

Wei Te-Sheng

Lin Ching-Tai, Da-Ching, Ma Chih-Hsiang, Lin Yuanjie, Jian Yan, Masanobu Ando, Landy Wen, Vivian Hsu, Chie Tanaka, Sabu Kawahara

6.68

146

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

6.60

535

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

6.59

1,361

34

Zarafa (2012) France

Rémi Bezançon, Jean-Christophe Lie

Animation

6.57

264

35

The Last Post (TV Miniseries) (2017) United Kingdom

Miranda Bowen, Jonny Campbell

Jeremy Neumark Jones, Jessie Buckley, Ben Miles, Stephen Campbell Moore, Toby Woolf, Richard Dillane, Amanda Drew, Ouidad Elma, Tom Glynn-Carney, Louis Greatorex

6.55

60

36

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

6.54

259

37

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

6.50

4,801

38

La 317ème section (1965) France

Pierre Schoendoerffer

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

6.50

172

39

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

6.46

59

40

The Lover (1992) France

Jean-Jacques Annaud

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

6.44

4,995

41

Coup de torchon (Clean Slate) (1981) France

Bertrand Tavernier

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

6.40

636

42

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

6.39

2,724

43

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

6.39

1,186

44

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

6.36

145

45

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

6.30

504

46

The Four Feathers (1929) United States

Lothar Mendes, Merian C. Cooper, Ernest B. Schoedsack

Richard Arlen, Fay Wray, Clive Brook, William Powell, Theodore von Eltz, Noah Beery, Zack Williams, Noble Johnson, Harold Hightower, Philipe de Lacy

6.30

33

47

The Long Song (TV Series) (2018) United Kingdom

Mahalia Belo

Tamara Lawrance, Hayley Atwell, Lenny Henry, Michael Culkin, Leo Bill, Jack Lowden, Arinzé Kene, Jordan Bolger, Sharon Duncan-Brewster, Madeleine Mantock

6.29

125

48

Chinese Box (1997) United States

Wayne Wang

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

6.27

2,159

49

Sambizanga (1973) Angola

Sarah Maldoror

Domingos de Oliveira, Elisa Andrade, Jean M'Vondo, Dino Abelino, Benoît Moutsila, Talagongo, Henriette Meya, Manuel Videira, Ana Wilson

6.27

44

50

Conduct Unbecoming (1975) United Kingdom

Michael Anderson

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

6.25

132

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