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The Manchurian Candidate

1962 ★ 7.5

Near the end of the Korean War, a platoon of U.S. soldiers is captured by communists and brainwashed. Following the war, the platoon is returned home, and Serge

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Citizen X

1995 ★ 7.2

Based on the true story of a Russian serial killer who, over many years, claimed victim to over 50 people. His victims were mostly under the age of 17. In what

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Pickup on South Street

1953 ★ 7.4

In New York City, an insolent pickpocket, Skip McCoy, inadvertently sets off a chain of events when he targets ex-prostitute Candy and steals her wallet. Unawar

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Land and Freedom

1995 ★ 7.3

David Carr is a British Communist who is unemployed. In 1936, when the Spanish Civil War begins, he decides to fight for the Republican side, a coalition of lib

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Every kilometer

1969 ★ 6.7

The series consists of 26 episodes divided into two parts as 13 episodes - the first covering the period between 1923 and September 9, 1944, and the second one

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Twenty Hours

1965 ★ 5.9

A crusading newspaper reporter covers the Soviet invasion of Hungary in 1956. Initially critical of the communists, the feature later espouses the virtues of th

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The Mind Benders

1963 ★ 6.3

A British scientist is discovered to have been passing information to the Communists, then kills himself. Another scientist decides that they might have brainwa

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The Quiet American

1958 ★ 5.8

Cynical British journalist Fowler falls in love with a young Vietnamese woman but is dismayed when a naïve U.S. official also begins vying for her attention. In

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Trial

1955 ★ 6.9

A Mexican boy accused of rape and murder becomes a pawn for Communists and red-baiters. A courtroom drama set in 1947 and underlying post-WW2 acute problems fac

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Frankie Drake Mysteries

2017 ★ 6.3

Toronto’s only female private detective in the 1920s takes on the cases the police don’t want or can’t handle. From airplanes and booze running to American G-me

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The Quiet American

2002 ★ 6.6

Cynical British journalist Fowler falls in love with a young Vietnamese woman but is dismayed when a naïve U.S. official also begins vying for her attention. In

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