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In the antebellum United States, Solomon Northup, a free black man from upstate New York, is abducted and sold into slavery.
Year: 2013
Runtime: 134 min
Director: Steve McQueen
Actors: Chiwetel Ejiofor, Dwight Henry, Dickie Gravois, Bryan Batt
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- The Danish Girl
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- Jamón, Jamón
- The Devil's Double
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- Escape from Sobibor
- Corpus Christi
- Glory
- The Hunt
- Love! Valour! Compassion!
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Amistad
Actors: Morgan Freeman, Nigel Hawthorne, Anthony Hopkins, Djimon Hounsou
In 1839, the revolt of Mende captives aboard a Spanish owned ship causes a major controversy in the United States when the ship is captured off the coast of Long Island. The courts must decide whether the Mende are slaves or legally free.
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Unbroken
Actors: Jack O'Connell, Domhnall Gleeson, Garrett Hedlund, Miyavi
After a near-fatal plane crash in WWII, Olympian Louis Zamperini spends a harrowing 47 days in a raft with two fellow crewmen before he's caught by the Japanese navy and sent to a prisoner-of-war camp.
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Roots
Actors: Robert Reed, John Amos, Louis Gossett Jr., Lynda Day George
A dramatization of author Alex Haley's family line from ancestor Kunta Kinte's enslavement to his descendants' liberation.
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Bel Ami
Actors: Robert Pattinson, Uma Thurman, Kristin Scott Thomas, Christina Ricci
A chronicle of a young man's rise to power in Paris via his manipulation of the city's wealthiest and most influential women.
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Uncertain Glory
Actors: Marcel Borràs, Núria Prims, Oriol Pla, Bruna Cusí
In war-torn Spain, during the tumultuous 1937, a Republican young officer will hopelessly fall for the charms of a deceitful femme-fatale who will not hesitate to use him in her best interest.
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Uncertain Glory
Actors: Marcel Borràs, Núria Prims, Oriol Pla, Bruna Cusí
In war-torn Spain, during the tumultuous 1937, a Republican young officer will hopelessly fall for the charms of a deceitful femme-fatale who will not hesitate to use him in her best interest.
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Yanks
Actors: Richard Gere, Lisa Eichhorn, Vanessa Redgrave, William Devane
During WWII, the United States set up army bases in Great Britain as part of the war effort. Against their proper sensibilities, many of the Brits don't much like the brash Yanks, ...
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The Danish Girl
Actors: Alicia Vikander, Eddie Redmayne, Tusse Silberg, Adrian Schiller
A fictitious love story loosely inspired by the lives of Danish artists Lili Elbe and Gerda Wegener. Lili and Gerda's marriage and work evolve as they navigate Lili's groundbreaking journey as a transgender pioneer.
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Manderlay
Actors: Bryce Dallas Howard, Isaach De Bankolé, Danny Glover, Willem Dafoe
A story of slavery, set in the southern U.S. in the 1930s.
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The Survivalist
Actors: Martin McCann, Mia Goth, Olwen Fouéré, Douglas Russell
In a time of starvation, a survivalist lives off a small plot of land hidden deep in forest. When two women seeking food and shelter discover his farm, he finds his existence threatened.
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Jamón, Jamón
Actors: Stefania Sandrelli, Anna Galiena, Juan Diego, Penélope Cruz
When a mother disapproves of her daughter's lover, she hires an underwear model and former bullfighter to seduce her daughter.
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The Devil's Double
Actors: Dominic Cooper, Ludivine Sagnier, Raad Rawi, Philip Quast
A chilling vision of the House of Saddam Hussein comes to life through the eyes of the man who was forced to become the double of Hussein's sadistic son.
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Beasts of No Nation
Actors: Abraham Attah, Emmanuel Affadzi, Ricky Adelayitor, Andrew Adote
A drama based on the experiences of Agu, a child soldier fighting in the civil war of an unnamed African country.
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Boxing Helena
Actors: Julian Sands, Sherilyn Fenn, Bill Paxton, Kurtwood Smith
A surgeon becomes obsessed with the seductive woman he once was in an affair with. Refusing to accept that she has moved on, he amputates her limbs and holds her captive in his mansion.
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Wilde
Actors: Stephen Fry, Jude Law, Vanessa Redgrave, Jennifer Ehle
The story of Oscar Wilde, genius, poet, playwright and the First Modern Man. The self-realization of his homosexuality caused Wilde enormous torment as he juggled marriage, fatherhood and ...
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Hardcore
Actors: Katerina Tsavalou, Danae Skiadi, Ioannis Papazisis, Omiros Poulakis
Leaving behind a hard life with their families, two young girls end up in a brothel, fall in love and support one another against the adversities and violence of the night.
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Escape from Sobibor
Actors: Alan Arkin, Joanna Pacula, Rutger Hauer, Hartmut Becker
During WWII, the death camp at Treblinka had an escape, causing the Commandant at a similar camp in Sobibor to vow that his camp would never experience the same thing. But those who were ...
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Corpus Christi
Actors: Bartosz Bielenia, Aleksandra Konieczna, Eliza Rycembel, Tomasz Zietek
Daniel experiences a spiritual transformation in a detention center. Although his criminal record prevents him from applying to the seminary, he has no intention of giving up his dream and decides to minister a small-town parish.
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Glory
Actors: Matthew Broderick, Denzel Washington, Cary Elwes, Morgan Freeman
Robert Gould Shaw leads the U.S. Civil War's first all-black volunteer company, fighting prejudices from both his own Union Army, and the Confederates.
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The Hunt
Actors: Mads Mikkelsen, Thomas Bo Larsen, Annika Wedderkopp, Lasse Fogelstrøm
A teacher lives a lonely life, all the while struggling over his son's custody. His life slowly gets better as he finds love and receives good news from his son, but his new luck is about to be brutally shattered by an innocent little lie.
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Love! Valour! Compassion!
Actors: Jason Alexander, Stephen Spinella, Stephen Bogardus, Randy Becker
Gregory invites seven friends to spend the summer at his large, secluded 19th-century home in upstate New York. The seven are: Bobby, Gregory's "significant other," who is blind but who ...
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Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom
Actors: Paolo Bonacelli, Giorgio Cataldi, Umberto Paolo Quintavalle, Aldo Valletti
In World War II Italy, four fascist libertines round up nine adolescent boys and girls and subject them to one hundred and twenty days of physical, mental and sexual torture.
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Shadowboxer
Actors: Cuba Gooding Jr., Helen Mirren, Vanessa Ferlito, Macy Gray
When an assassin is diagnosed with terminal cancer, she decides to carry out one final killing, assisted by her lover and stepson, Mikey.
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Braveheart
Actors: James Robinson, Sean Lawlor, Sandy Nelson, James Cosmo
When his secret bride is executed for assaulting an English soldier who tried to rape her, Sir William Wallace begins a revolt against King Edward I of England.
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