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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Beast Wars II: Super Lifeform Transformers

1998 ★ 6.7

Beast Wars II refers to the 1998 Japanese Transformers television animated series, and the movie and toyline that resulted from it. The series was preceded by B

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The Battle of Algiers

1966 ★ 7.9

Paratrooper commander Colonel Mathieu, a former French Resistance fighter during World War II, is sent to Algeria to reinforce efforts to squelch the uprisings

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March or Die

1977 ★ 5.8

Just after World War I, Major Foster is incorporating new recruits into his French Foreign Legion platoon when he is sent to his former remote outpost located i

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Lafayette

1962 ★ 5.9

The story of Lafayette, the 19 year old pacifist who takes the side of the Colonials during the American war of Independence. Drama War History

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War and Remembrance

1988 ★ 7.9

Following the attack on Pearl Harbor, the extended Henry and Jastrow families navigate the personal, social and political impacts of World War II, including the

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The Battleship Island

2017 ★ 7.2

During the Japanese colonial era, roughly 400 Korean people, who were forced onto Battleship Island 'Hashima Island' to mine for coal, attempt to escape. Drama

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A People on the March

1963 ★ 6.5

Collectively directed by the members of the Centre audiovisuel d'Alger at Ben Aknoun, the film traces, in two parts, Algeria's recent history, from colonial rep

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Elephant Walk

1954 ★ 5.9

Colonial tea planter John Wiley (Peter Finch), visiting England at the end of World War II, wins and weds lovely English rose Ruth (Dame Elizabeth Taylor) and t

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The Human Condition I: No Greater Love

1959 ★ 8.1

After handing in a report on the treatment of Chinese colonial labor, Kaji is offered the post of labour chief at a large mining operation in Manchuria, which a

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Islam

1949 ★ 10.0

"Islam" by Georges Régnier (1949) is a documentary about Islamic art in Algeria, Tunisia, Morocco, and Spain. The documentary received a special mention at the

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