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Evita 1996

6.3 /10

The hit musical based on the life of Evita Duarte, a B-movie Argentinian actress who eventually became the wife of Argentinian president and dictator Juan PerĂ³n, and the most beloved and hated woman in Argentina.

Run Time: 135 Min . MMPA: 13 . Release: Dec 14, 1996

Director: Director: Alan Parker,

Stars: Madonna, Antonio Banderas, Jonathan Pryce, Jimmy Nail, Victoria Sus,

Munich 2005

7.5 /10

During the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich, eleven Israeli athletes are taken hostage and murdered by a Palestinian terrorist group known as Black September. In retaliation, the Israeli government recruits a group of Mossad agents to track down and execute those responsible for the attack.

Run Time: 164 Min . MMPA: 17 . Release: Dec 23, 2005

Director: Director: Steven Spielberg,

Stars: Eric Bana, Daniel Craig, Ciarn Hinds, Mathieu Kassovitz, Hanns Zischler,

The Baader Meinhof Complex 2008

7.3 /10

'Der Baader Meinhof Komplex' depicts the political turmoil in the period from 1967 to the bloody "Deutschen Herbst" in 1977. The movie approaches the events based on Stefan Aust's standard work on the Rote Armee Fraktion (RAF). The story centers on the leadership of the self named anti-fascist resistance to state violence: Andreas Baader, Ulrike Meinhof and Gudrun Ensslin.

Run Time: 150 Min . MMPA: 18 . Release: Sep 25, 2008

Director: Director: Uli Edel,

Stars: Martina Gedeck, Moritz Bleibtreu, Johanna Wokalek, Nadja Uhl, Stipe Erceg,

Indochine 1992

7 /10

Eliane Devries is the seemingly repressed owner of a prosperous rubber plantation in French Indochina, circa 1930. Her steely exterior, however, is only a mask intended to hide her torrid love affairs from upper class society

Run Time: 159 Min . MMPA: 13 . Release: Apr 15, 1992

Director: Director: Rgis Wargnier,

Stars: Catherine Deneuve, Vincent Perez, LinhDan Pham, Jean Yanne, Dominique Blanc,

Colonia 2015

7 /10

A young woman's desperate search for her abducted boyfriend draws her into the infamous Colonia Dignidad, a sect nobody ever escaped from.

Run Time: 106 Min . MMPA: 17 . Release: Jun 24, 2015

Director: Director: Florian Gallenberger,

Stars: Emma Watson, Daniel Brhl, Michael Nyqvist, Richenda Carey, Vicky Krieps,

Escape from Pretoria 2020

6.8 /10

South Africa, 1978. Tim Jenkin and Stephen Lee, two white political activists from the African National Congress imprisoned by the apartheid regime, put a plan in motion to escape from the infamous Pretoria Prison.

Run Time: 102 Min . MMPA: 14 . Release: Mar 06, 2020

Director: Director: Francis Annan,

Stars: Daniel Radcliffe, Daniel Webber, Ian Hart, Mark Leonard Winter, Nathan Page,