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1. Doctor Zhivago (2002)
TV-14 | 113 min | Drama, Romance
Young and beautiful Lara is loved by three men: a revolutionary, a mogul, and a doctor. Their lives become intertwined with the drama of Russian revolution. Doctor Zhivago is about to get ... See full summary »
Stars: Keira Knightley, Sam Neill, Hans Matheson, Alexandra Maria Lara
Votes: 5,463
2. The Secret 6 (1931)
Passed | 83 min | Crime, Drama
After rising bootlegger Slaughterhouse Scorpio eliminates his gangland competition, two reporters and a cabal of six businessmen work to expose him.
Director: George W. Hill | Stars: Wallace Beery, Lewis Stone, Johnny Mack Brown, Jean Harlow
Votes: 1,049
3. Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar (2000)
197 min | Biography, History
Biopic of B. R. Ambedkar, known mainly for his contributions in the emancipation of the downtrodden and oppressed classes in India and shaping the Constitution of India.
Director: Jabbar Patel | Stars: Mammootty, Sonali Kulkarni, Mohan Gokhale, Mrinal Kulkarni
Votes: 2,739
4. The Inheritor (1973)
PG | 112 min | Action, Drama, Thriller
A heir of media empire investigates who the enemy of his family is.
Director: Philippe Labro | Stars: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Carla Gravina, Jean Rochefort, Charles Denner
Votes: 1,370
5. Tom Brown's School Days (1940)
Approved | 86 min | Drama
A young boy starts at Rugby boarding school. He is tormented by Flashman, the school bully.
Director: Robert Stevenson | Stars: Cedric Hardwicke, Freddie Bartholomew, Jimmy Lydon, Josephine Hutchinson
Votes: 532
6. Crime School (1938)
Passed | 85 min | Crime, Drama
A gang of underprivileged teenagers are sentenced to serve two years in a reform school after almost killing a criminal fence who attacked them.
Directors: Lewis Seiler, William Clemens | Stars: Humphrey Bogart, The Dead End Kids, Gale Page, Billy Halop
Votes: 1,400
7. The Wet Parade (1932)
Passed | 118 min | Drama, History, Romance
The evils of alcohol before and during prohibition become evident as we see its effects on the rich Chilcote family.
Director: Victor Fleming | Stars: Dorothy Jordan, Lewis Stone, Neil Hamilton, Emma Dunn
Votes: 582
8. Convicted Woman (1940)
Approved | 65 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Jobless Betty Andrews, although innocent, is convicted of a department store theft and, despite the best efforts of her lawyer and noted social worker Mary Ellis and a reporter, Jim Brent ... See full summary »
Director: Nick Grinde | Stars: Rochelle Hudson, Frieda Inescort, June Lang, Lola Lane
Votes: 285
9. We Live Again (1934)
Approved | 85 min | Drama, Romance, War
Nekhlyudov, a Russian nobleman serving on a jury, discovers that the young girl on trial, Katusha, is someone he once seduced and abandoned and that he himself bears responsibility for ... See full summary »
Director: Rouben Mamoulian | Stars: Anna Sten, Fredric March, Jane Baxter, C. Aubrey Smith
Votes: 529
10. The Prime Minister (1941)
Approved | 94 min | Biography, Drama, History
A biopic of the legendary Benjamin Disraeli, his rise from a foppish young novelist to the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and confidante of Queen Victoria.
Director: Thorold Dickinson | Stars: John Gielgud, Diana Wynyard, Will Fyffe, Owen Nares
Votes: 303
11. Before I Die (IV)
Documentary, Short | Completed
"Before I die" is an Uncommon Story of a Social reformer who came to the Forefront and triggered a Movement that has the potential to save our planet from the perils of Habitat obliteration... See full summary »
Directors: Mukesh Grover, Nakul Dev
12. The Reformer and the Redhead (1950)
Approved | 90 min | Comedy, Romance
Hot-tempered Kathleen Maguire enlists the services of a young attorney to help her zookeeper father get his job back after he is fired for political reasons. In the midst of uncovering ... See full summary »
Directors: Melvin Frank, Norman Panama | Stars: June Allyson, Dick Powell, David Wayne, Cecil Kellaway
Votes: 420
13. A Force More Powerful (1999)
TV-G | 110 min | Documentary
This two-part Emmy-nominated series explores one of the 20th century's most important but least understood stories: how nonviolent power has overcome oppression and authoritarian rule all ... See full summary »
Director: Steve York | Stars: Ben Kingsley, Mohandas K. Gandhi, Salvador Allende, Shahla Arasteh
Votes: 62
14. Rao Saheb (1986)
123 min | Comedy, Drama
Adaptation of a literary work on the slow deterioration of an orthodox family, where the women are unable to achieve emancipation and the men succumb to insanity.
Director: Vijaya Mehta | Stars: Arvind Gadgil, Chandrakant Gokhale, Vasant Ingle, Pushkar Jog
Votes: 14
15. A Light in My Heart (1995)
102 min | Drama
The dramatization of the life of Kang Yeong-woo who became the first visually impaired Korean man to earn a Ph.D. Yeong-woo became famous for his work in developing a braille alphabet for the Korean language
Director: Ki-won Lee | Stars: Se-Chang Kim, Ye-ji Kim, Lee Jae-un, Kyeong-gi Lee
16. The Fourth Estate (1916)
50 min | Crime, Drama
Director: Frank Powell | Stars: Clifford Bruce, Ruth Blair, Victor Benoit, Alfred Hickman
17. The Iron Hand (1916)
50 min | Drama
After political boss Tim Noland adopts Roy, a dead crony's infant son, he reluctantly gives the boy up to a doctor who claims that if he's raised in a respectable environment, he will grow ... See full summary »
Director: Ulysses Davis | Stars: Edward Clark, Hobart Bosworth, Jack Curtis, William V. Mong
18. Little Lost Sister (1917)
50 min | Drama
Director: Alfred E. Green | Stars: Vivian Reed, Bessie Eyton, George Fawcett, Marion Warner
19. Dust (1916)
Drama
Marion Moore's sweetheart, Frank Kenyon, a young author interested in social reform, discovering that Marion's father is the owner of the worst factory in the city, pleads with her to ... See full summary »
Director: Edward Sloman | Stars: Franklin Ritchie, Winifred Greenwood, Harry von Meter, William Marshall
20. The Upheaval (1916)
50 min | Drama
On Jim Gordon falls the political mantle of his father, "Big Jim" Gordon. The father has been the leader of a corrupt ring, but the son determines to be true to the teaching of his dead ... See full summary »
Director: Charles Horan | Stars: Lionel Barrymore, Marguerite Skirvin, Franklyn Hanna, Edgar L. Davenport
21. A Son of the Immortals (1916)
50 min | Drama
General Stampoff takes control in Kosnovia, and to insure his position as the country's strong man, he installs Prince Alexis Delgrade, the idle son of Prince Michael, as the titular ruler.... See full summary »
Director: Otis Turner | Stars: J. Warren Kerrigan, Bertram Grassby, Lois Wilson, Harry Carter
22. Is Any Girl Safe? (1916)
50 min | Drama
The danger of modern "white slavery" is preached by a minister, who tells a story of one such case in his sermon.
Director: Jacques Jaccard | Stars: G. Raymond Nye, William Quinn, Jessie Arnold, Mina Cunard
23.
Murder Rooms: Mysteries of the Real Sherlock Holmes (2000–2001)
Episode:
The Photographer's Chair
(2001)
PG-13 | 90 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Dr. Arthur Conan Doyle and his mentor Dr. Joseph Bell investigate the strangulation deaths of two persons found floating in the river, as Doyle finds himself captivated by spiritualism.
Director: Paul Marcus | Stars: Charles Edwards, Claire Harman, Henry Goodman, Paul McNeilly
Votes: 369
24.
Beautiful Excursions (2006– )
Episode:
L'Inde: Kerala
(2014)
Documentary
A nice journey of Raphaël from Trivandrum to Kochi passing by the Ashram of Sivagiri (the teachings of Sree Narayana Guru, the nursing school), the backwaters near Kollam (the ecologic and ... See full summary »
Director: Laurent Lichtenstein | Star: Raphaël de Casabianca