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51. Chuck Norris vs. Communism (2015)
Not Rated | 78 min | Documentary, Comedy, History
In the oppressive 1980s communist Romania, the smuggled VHS tapes of banned Hollywood films become an inspirational ray of hope. A hybrid feature about the magic of film and the power it has to change lives.
Director: Ilinca Calugareanu | Stars: Irina Margareta Nistor, Teodor Zamfir, Mircea Cojocaru, Vlad Craioveanu
Votes: 2,459
52. Madonna: Justify My Love (1990 Music Video)
Unrated | 5 min | Music
A distressed, tired woman becomes seduced into a sexual encounter with a mysterious man and woman.
Director: Jean-Baptiste Mondino | Stars: Madonna, Amanda Cazalet, Wallis Franken, Jose Guitierez
Votes: 808
53. GirlFight: inVite (2016)
Not Rated | 13 min | Short, Action, Adventure
Sinister fatal femme Rachel inVites four unlikely model hopefuls into an underground death fight inside a barbaric steel cage surrounded by razor-sharp barb-wire. An all-female nightmare horror concept short film inspired by true events.
Director: Kelcey Coe | Stars: Becca Chanay, Kelly Culbertson, Brianna Culp, Amanda Dicapo
Votes: 380
54. Absolute Proof (2021)
120 min | Documentary
MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell's film claiming a Chinese cyberattack 'flipped' the 2020 election.
Directors: Brannon Howse, Mike Lindell | Stars: Mike Lindell, Phil Waldron, Russ Ramsland, Shiva Ayyadurai
Votes: 885
55. Trace of Stones (1966)
139 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A film about living and working conditions in the GDR of the 1960s, including a little love story, of course.
Director: Frank Beyer | Stars: Manfred Krug, Krystyna Stypulkowska, Jutta Hoffmann, Eberhard Esche
Votes: 985
56. Büyük Adam Küçük Ask (2001)
120 min | Drama
The paths of 75-year-old retired judge Rifat Bey and little Hejar, who was left with a relative because he lost all his relatives in the operation carried out in his village, cross paths in Istanbul.
Director: Handan Ipekçi | Stars: Sükran Güngör, Dilan Erçetin, Füsun Demirel, Yildiz Kenter
Votes: 1,820
57. Naná (1979)
100 min | Drama, Musical, Romance
Mexican adaptation of the Emile Zola novel.
Directors: Rafael Baledón, José Bolaños, Irma Serrano | Stars: Irma Serrano, Isela Vega, Verónica Castro, Manuel Ojeda
Votes: 41
58. A Beautiful Mistake (2010)
110 min | Drama
A boy, an old man, 2 beautiful twin sisters get caught up in a voyeuristic scandal during the Cultural Revolution in China. This controversial film was subsequently banned and was never made public in China/Mandarin with English subtitles.
Directors: Wei Hao, Huizhou Lu | Stars: Xuanrui Chen, Lu Zhou Wu, Liping You, Xin Zhang
Votes: 44
59. Born in '45 (1990)
100 min | Drama, Romance
DDR film from the mid-60s: Li and Al, not long married, want to divorce. They feel trapped in their marriage and in their one-room apartment. They long for an unconventional, meaningful life, but the search for meaning confounds them.
Director: Jürgen Böttcher | Stars: Monika Hildebrand, Rolf Römer, Paul Eichbaum, Holger Mahlich
Votes: 269
60. Art/Crime (2011)
100 min | Documentary
A Documentary about violence, horror, censorship and legislation on the web. In 2009, Remy Couture, a special effects makeup artists from Quebec was arrested by the police right in front of... See full summary »
Director: Frederick Maheux | Stars: Nacho Cerdá, Rémy Couture, Joseph Elfassi, Éric Falardeau
Votes: 19
61. Duran Duran: Girls on Film (1981 Music Video)
6 min | Music
The band performs on an elevated stage behind a model's catwalk, which resembles a boxing ring, as various scantily clad women act out a series of erotic vignettes. A number of these ... See full summary »
Directors: Lol Creme, Godley & Creme, Kevin Godley | Stars: Duran Duran, Simon Le Bon, Nick Rhodes, Andy Taylor
Votes: 247
62. The Tied-Up Balloon (1967)
98 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
A large balloon suddenly appears above villages and fields and grabs the attention of the peasants. They start liking the sudden guest from nowhere for the beauty of the free existence. A policeman comes and the dreams of freedom vanish.
Director: Binka Zhelyazkova | Stars: Georgi Kaloyanchev, Grigor Vachkov, Ivan Bratanov, Georgi Georgiev-Getz
Votes: 213
63. Birth Control (1917)
Documentary
A documentary film based on the family-planning work of Margaret Sanger.
Director: Margaret Sanger | Star: Margaret Sanger
64. Inner Depravity: Vol 1 (2005)
10 min | Short, Horror
A masked man practices various tortures on women while some dark ambient music plays.
Stars: Rémy Couture, Amellya, Anne Marie D., Sophie R.
Votes: 83
65. Judea Declares War on Germany (2004 Video)
73 min | Documentary, History, War
Adelaide Institute founder Fredrick Toben travels to various sites around Europe and discusses the Holocaust being a hoax, and the supporting "evidence".
Star: Fredrick Töben
Votes: 10
66. Hullumeelsus (1969)
79 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
A Gestapo officer must find an enemy agent from the asylum.
Director: Kaljo Kiisk | Stars: Jüri Järvet, Vaclovas Bledis, Valeriy Nosik, Bronius Babkauskas
Votes: 276
67. Karla (1965)
128 min | Drama, Romance
An idealistic teacher is shocked to discover her pupils are already cynical and opportunistic. Her colleague soon grows resentful when she uses new and challenging techniques to help her students overcome obstacles.
Director: Herrmann Zschoche | Stars: Jutta Hoffmann, Klaus-Peter Pleßow, Hans Hardt-Hardtloff, Inge Keller
Votes: 195
68. Überfall (1928)
21 min | Short, Crime, Drama
A coin found on the street turns out to be unlucky for those who attempt to possess it.
Director: Ernö Metzner | Stars: Heinrich Gotho, Eva Schmid-Kayser, Sybille Schmitz, Alfred Loretto
Votes: 426
69. Nathan der Weise (1922)
128 min | Drama, History
One of the main works of the Age of Enlightenment, a powerful plea in favour of tolerance, humanity and freedom of opinion. Set in the age of the crusades, it deals with the relations ... See full summary »
Director: Manfred Noa | Stars: Fritz Greiner, Carl de Vogt, Lia Eibenschütz, Werner Krauss
Votes: 152
70. Sex en gros (1971)
83 min | Documentary
The aftermath of the summer of pornography 1970 in Copenhagen, Denmark. Live-show-clubs close down. Young Christians protest against the lack of morals.
Director: Nils Vest | Stars: Bodil Joensen, Jens Theander, Peter Theander
Votes: 12
71. Toro Loco: Bloodthirsty (2015)
R | 95 min | Action, Comedy, Horror
Toro Loco: Bloodthirsty stars Francisco Melo as a vigilante who enlists the support of a young beauty, her geeky brother and a trigger-happy drag queen to avenge the murder of his son.
Director: Patricio Valladares | Stars: Francisco Melo, Mauricio Pesutic, Simón Pesutic, Constanza Piccoli
Votes: 74
72. Sumorna jesen (1969)
48 min | Drama, War
In autumn of 1941, a group of antifascist young men and women in Zagreb, the capital of a newly formed Nazi puppet state known as the Independent State of Croatia, are pursued by Nazi and Ustasha agents for illegal Partisan activity.
Stars: Zvonimir Crnko, Dragan Mijatovic, Edo Perocevic, Magda Fedor
Votes: 32
73. Video Nasties: Draconian Days (2014)
Not Rated | 97 min | Documentary
Prepare to be corrupted and depraved once more by the sequel to the definitive guide to the Video Nasties phenomenon--the most extraordinary and scandalous era in the history of British ... See full summary »
Director: Jake West | Stars: Sian Barber, Martin Barker, Graham Bright, Lavinia Carey
Votes: 333
74. Inner Depravity 2 (2005)
10 min | Short, Horror
Director: Rémy Couture | Stars: Andréanne Slythe, Cloé Huard, Laurie Poirier, Rémy Couture
Votes: 55
75. Nazi Titanic (2012 TV Movie)
TV-14 | 120 min | Documentary, History, War
Nazi Titanic is the amazing and unknown story of one of the most bizarre chapters of WWII. In the middle of the war, Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels, who was fascinated by the ... See full summary »
Director: Oscar Chan | Stars: Lee Williams, Adolf Hitler, Steve Luckert, Andy Webb
Votes: 109
76. Kinoautomat (1967)
63 min | Comedy
This Czech comedy was arguably the first theatrical interactive movie ever created. The audience could vote what should happen next by pressing buttons of different color. As intentional irony, there's only one ending.
Directors: Radúz Cincera, Ján Rohác, Vladimír Svitácek | Stars: Karla Chadimová, Leopolda Dostalová, Miroslav Hornícek, Vlasta Jelínková
Votes: 98
77. Just Don't Think I'll Cry (1990)
91 min | Drama
High-school senior Peter considers the adults around him to be hypocritical, self-congratulatory, and immersed in the past. He gets suspended for writing an essay that his teachers consider... See full summary »
Director: Frank Vogel | Stars: Peter Reusse, Anne-Kathrein Kretzschmar, Hans Hardt-Hardtloff, Jutta Hoffmann
Votes: 63
78. Triumf (2000)
80 min | Crime, Drama
Directors: Vladimir Alenikov, Oleg Pogodin | Stars: Pyotr Ulyanov, Ekaterina Cherepukhina, Aram Gevorkyan, Lyanka Gryu
Votes: 92
79. Straka v hrsti (1983)
96 min | Drama, Mystery
Director: Juraj Herz | Stars: Georgiana Tarjan, Zdenka Sajfertová, Jan Hrusínský, Boris Rösner
Votes: 43
80. Chopper Down: Helicopter Deaths in the Movies (1989)
12 min | Documentary, Short
An examination on helicopter related deaths and accidents in film; from the Twilight Zone: Movie to Delta Force 2: The Colombian Connection with interviews from those involved.
Stars: Charlie Brewer, Geoff Brewer, Tammy Brewer, Bob Carlson
81. Democrats (2014)
100 min | Documentary
In politically unstable Zimbabwe, a new constitution is being put together by the ruling party of strongman Robert Mugabe and the divided opposition. Various political, local and personal interests are bogging the process down.
Director: Camilla Nielsson | Stars: Paul Mangwana, Robert Mugabe, Douglas Mwonzora, Morgan Tsvangirai
Votes: 382
82. Frank Zappa: You Are What You Is (1981 Music Video)
4 min | Music
The music video for Frank Zappa's "You Are What You Is."
Director: Frank Zappa | Stars: Ike Willis, Frank Zappa
Votes: 16
83. Blacks Britannica (1978)
54 min | Documentary
Analyses from a black perspective systematic racism in all segments and social institutions in British society. Reflects the growing militancy of black communities in Britain and the establishment response.
Director: David Koff | Stars: Courtney Hay, Darcus Howe, Jessica Huntley, Gus John
Votes: 44
84. Monty Python in Aberystwyth (2009 TV Movie)
28 min | Documentary
In a strange turn of events, Sue Jones-Davies became the mayor of a Welsh town where Monty Python's Life of Brian was still banned - the film where she played the female lead.
Director: James Strong | Stars: Terry Jones, Sue Jones-Davies, Michael Palin, David Tennant
Votes: 14
85. The Day Amazon Murdered History (2018 Video)
40 min | Documentary, Short, History
On March 6, 2017 Amazon banned more than 100 books about the Holocaust.
Director: Germar Rudolf | Star: Ken Meyercord
Votes: 10
86. Peter Watkins Reflects on 'The War Game' and the Media (1983 Video)
43 min | Documentary, Short, History
Director: Mark Sanders | Star: Peter Watkins
87. Video Nasties, la liste maudite (2012–2014)
25 min | Horror
Simon reviews some of the worst, gore, violent, depraved, VHS-era films from the famous "Video Nasties" list, created in the UK as part of their cinematic censorship at the beginning of the 80's.
Star: Simon Predj
89. Der Frühling braucht Zeit (1965)
96 min | Drama
Even in the political environment of Marx and Engels, it happened that bosses took short cuts to complete safety critical work ahead of schedule. When an experienced and honest engineer, ... See full summary »
Director: Günter Stahnke | Stars: Eberhard Mellies, Günther Simon, Doris Abeßer, Karla Runkehl
Votes: 30
90. Banned (1991 TV Special)
55 min | Documentary
About the mission of the British Board of Film Classification (BBFC) in the UK film industry and import. All classification decisions are based on the BBFC's published and regularly updated... See full summary »
Directors: Nicholas Fraser, Michael Jones | Stars: Charlotte Cornwell, Sonia Ritter, Alex Mollo, Tony Aldgate
91. The Absurd Files (2017)
14 min | Documentary, Short, Horror
George Eastman, real name Luigi Montefiori, candidly talks about the sequel to the infamous Antropophagus: Absurd, again directed by the prolific Joe D'Amato.
Director: Eugenio Ercolani | Star: George Eastman
92. Banned! (2019)
26 min | Short
'Banned!' is a dystopian film, set in an imaginary future, when a Fascist government bans the songs and literature of Rabindranath Tagore, due to some ideological differences.
Director: Ritam Banerjee | Stars: Somnath Bhadra, Suddhayan Chattopadhyay, Sandipan Das, Medha Bose Roy
93. El mundo sigue: La resurreción de una obra maestra del cine español (2015 Video)
21 min | Documentary, Short
Stars: Fernando Colomo, Fernando Trueba, Rosa Salgado, Gemma Cuervo
94. Casper och den förbjudna filmen (2009 TV Movie)
55 min | Documentary, Biography
This television documentary is about film maker Casper Wrede and his "forbidden" film about Russian writer Alexander Solzhenitsyn. This documentary tries to find answers for why Capser's film was banned in Finland.
Director: Klas Fransberg | Stars: Casper Wrede, Ronald Harwood, Ben Hellman, Erik Borge
95. Návstevy (1970)
Drama
Directors: Vladimír Drha, Otakar Fuka, Milan Jonás | Stars: Karel Belohradský, Vilém Besser, Dagmar Bláhová, Milos Cervinka
96. The Ultimate Survivor (2011)
60 min | Documentary, History
The untold story of a legendary cinema.
Director: Philip Hind | Stars: Brian Aldiss, John Buckley, Jane Derricott, Philippa Farrow
97. Eräs elämän murhenäytelmä (1916)
62 min | Drama
Arvid Skog falls in love with a cabaret singer and, much to the shock of his mother, marries her. Soon after the wedding, she embarks on an affair with the Russian Lieutenant, which eventually leads to tragic events.
Director: Konrad Tallroth | Stars: Mia Backman, Konrad Tallroth, Oscar Tengström, Aino Manner
98. Darf der das denn? (1958)
12 min | Short
Director: Wolfgang E. Struck | Stars: Erich Franz, Erwin Geschonneck, Wilhelm Koch-Hooge, Hildegard Wensch
99. Cisté ruky (1956)
100 min | Drama
Director: Andrej Lettrich | Stars: Karol Machata, Katarína Vrzalová, Viliam Záborsky, Ctibor Filcík
Votes: 8
100. Wer hat dich, du schöner Wald... oder Wie ein Film verhindert wurde (1990)
38 min | Documentary, Short
The documentary shows environmental damage to the forests in the German Ore Mountains and locals' attempts to repair it.
Director: Günter Lippmann | Star: Michael Walke