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Daniel Ali, a rebellious schoolteacher in colonial Algeria

2012 ★ 10.0

In 1954, Daniel Vérin, a young schoolteacher of Algerian descent, made a radical decision: he turned his back on colonial France and joined the Algerian insurge

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Alborada

2005 ★ 7.5

Alborada is a telenovela made by the Mexican TV network Televisa. It is an historical drama, set in colonial Panama and Mexico a few years before Mexican Indepe

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The Last of the Mohicans

1992 ★ 7.4

In war-torn colonial America, in the midst of a bloody battle between British, the French and Native American allies, the aristocratic daughter of a British Col

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Palestine 36

2025 ★ 7.8

Year 1936. As villages across Palestine rise against British colonial rule, Yusuf drifts between his rural home and the restless energy of Jerusalem, longing fo

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Baddegama

1980 ★ 6.0

Baddegama or, more correctly, Beddegama is a 1980 award winning Sinhalese language film directed by Lester James Peries that follows the lives of village people

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Mārama

2026 ★ 6.3

1859. When a young Māori woman is summoned from New Zealand to North Yorkshire, she uncovers her horrific colonial heritage and is compelled to confront and des

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Your Face Will be the Last

2024 ★ 6.8

A child prodigy, a talented pianist, who fears the gift he was born with. A father persecuted and tormented by the infernal memory of the colonial war and a lum

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The Long Duel

1967 ★ 5.2

An idealistic colonial police officer is sent to capture a rebel leader who threatens the stability of the Raj's north-west frontier. Despite his official colon

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Gyeongseong Creature

2023 ★ 7.9

Gyeongseong, 1945. In Seoul's grim era under colonial rule, an entrepreneur and a sleuth fight for survival and face a monster born out of human greed. The tele

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Africa Blood and Guts

1966 ★ 6.2

A chronicle of the violence that occurred in much of the African continent throughout the 1960s. As many African countries were transitioning from colonial rule

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Algiers, the Mecca of Revolutionaries (1962-1974)

2016 ★ 10.0

From the early 1960s to the mid-1970s, independent Algeria provided significant support to anti-colonial movements and revolutionaries worldwide. Successive pre

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Aliens

1986 ★ 8.0

Ripley, the sole survivor of the Nostromo's deadly encounter with the monstrous Alien, returns to Earth after drifting through space in hypersleep for 57 years.

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Deseo

2013 ★ 6.5

Eight short stories of seduction and illicit encounters between lovers, filled with humor and eroticism, which use a circular structure located in the cosmopoli

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Claire Denis

Claire Denis is a French film director and screenwriter born on April 21, 1946, in Paris, France. She has directed numerous films, including Beau Travail, Troub

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For Your Eyes Only

1981 ★ 6.5

A British spy ship has sunk and on board was a hi-tech encryption device. James Bond is sent to find the device that holds British launching instructions before

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Rumpole of the Bailey

1975 ★ 7.1

Rumpole of the Bailey is a British television series created and written by the British writer and barrister John Mortimer. It stars Leo McKern as Horace Rumpol

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1776

1972 ★ 6.9

Colonial representatives gather in Philadelphia with the aim of establishing a set of governmental rules for the burgeoning United States. Benjamin Franklin and

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Ponthan Mada

1994 ★ 8.0

Set in 1940s,Ponthan Mada movie is about the irrational bonding of the low-caste Ponthan Mada with his colonial landlord Sheema Thampuran, who was expelled to

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North West Frontier

1959 ★ 6.8

In the rebellious northern frontier province of colonial India, British Army Captain Scott, a young prince and the boy's governess escape by an obsolete train a

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A Passage to India

1984 ★ 6.8

Cultural mistrust and false accusations doom a friendship in British colonial India between an Indian doctor, an Englishwoman engaged to marry a city magistrate

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The Sleeping Dictionary

2003 ★ 6.5

In the 1930s, British officer John Truscott journeys to a remote village in colonial Malaysia to educate and Westernize the local Iban population. There, he's i

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Vertical Remains

2026 ★ 0.0

Time ascends as history sinks. Thirty-two upward-tilting shots, across British Columbia’s Lower Mainland, excavate histories of Indigenous presence, colonial vi

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Callan

1967 ★ 7.0

Callan is the title of a British television series set in the murky world of espionage. Originally produced by ABC Weekend Television and later Thames Televisio

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The Alan Titchmarsh Show

2007 ★ 4.5

The Alan Titchmarsh Show is a British daytime chat show presented by Alan Titchmarsh. It was first broadcast on ITV on 3 September 2007 and currently airs on we

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