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Schindler's List
1993 film directed by Steven Spielberg
Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace
1999 film directed by George Lucas
Spartacus
1960 film directed by Stanley Kubrick
The Prince of Egypt
1998 animated film directed by Brenda Chapman, Steve Hickner and Simon Wells
Blue Velvet
1986 film by David Lynch
Planet of the Apes
2001 film by Tim Burton
The Ten Commandments
1956 American film directed by Cecil B. DeMille
Cloud Atlas
2012 film directed by Tom Tykwer and the Wachowskis
Exodus: Gods and Kings
2014 film by Ridley Scott
Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes
2024 film directed by Wes Ball
The Animatrix
2003 American-Japanese anthology anime film
Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire
2024 film by Adam Wingard
El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie
2019 American film by Vince Gilligan
Battlefield Earth
2000 film directed by Roger Christian
Pompeii
2014 film directed by Paul W. S. Anderson
The Northman
2022 film directed by Robert Eggers
Amazing Grace
2006 film by Michael Apted
Arabian Nights
1974 film directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini
The Woman King
2022 film directed by Gina Prince-Bythewood
Sansho the Bailiff
1954 film by Kenji Mizoguchi
Enemy Mine
1985 film by Wolfgang Petersen
Aferim!
Aferim! ('''') is a 2015 Western tragicomedy film co-written and directed by Radu Jude and produced by Ada Solomon. It was screened in the main competition section of the 65th Berlin International Film Festival, where Radu Jude won the Silver Bear for Best Director. It was selected as the Romanian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 88th Academy Awards.
All the Way, Boys
1972 film by Giuseppe Colizzi
Belle
2013 film directed by Amma Asante
Burn!
Burn! (original title: Queimada, Portuguese for "Burnt" or "Burned") is a 1969 historical war drama film directed by Gillo Pontecorvo. Set in the mid-19th century, the film stars Marlon Brando as a British agent provocateur sent to overthrow a Portuguese colony in the Caribbean by manipulating a slave revolt to serve the interests of the sugar trade, and the complications that arise from the formation of a subsequent puppet state. The film is said to be a celebration of the "proletarian strength of Third World faces, the Algerians and the slaves."
Cobra Verde
1987 film
Skin Trade
2015 film by Ekachai Uekrongtham
The Chipmunk Adventure
1987 animated film directed by Janice Karman
Ashanti
1979 film by Richard Fleischer
Aadujeevitham: The Goat Life
2024 film directed by Blessy
Ceddo
1977 Sengalese drama film
Souls at Sea
1937 film by Henry Hathaway
At the Earth's Core
1976 film directed by Kevin Connor
Young Toscanini
1988 film by Franco Zeffirelli
Bilal: A New Breed of Hero
2015 action animation film directed by Khurram H. Alavi and Ayman Jamal
The Amazing Grace
2006 Nigerian film directed by Jeta Amata
Sweet Country
2017 film directed by Warwick Thornton
Case départ
2011 film by Lionel Steketee
The Mole People
1956 film by Virgil W. Vogel
Adanggaman
Adanggaman is a 2000 historical drama film directed by Roger Gnoan M'Bala. It was an international co-production between the Ivory Coast, Burkina Faso, Switzerland, Italy and France. The film premiered at the 57th Venice International Film Festival on 31 August 2000.
Yankee Pasha
1954 film by Joseph Pevney
Slave Ship
1937 film by Tay Garnett
Squanto: A Warrior's Tale
1994 film by Xavier Koller
The Last Supper
1976 film by Tomás Gutiérrez Alea
Audrey
1916 American silent drama film directed by Robert G. Vignola
Miss Zombie
2013 film directed by Sabu
Girls Marked Danger
1952 film by Luigi Comencini
Stico
Stico is a 1985 Spanish comedy film directed by Jaime de Armiñán about a broke Roman law professor who offers himself as a slave to an old student in exchange for house and food. It was entered into the 35th Berlin International Film Festival where Fernando Fernán Gómez won the Silver Bear for Best Actor.
Captain Kidd and the Slave Girl
1954 film by Lew Landers
Tamango
Tamango is a 1958 French/Italian film directed by John Berry, a blacklisted American director who exiled himself to Europe. The film stars Dorothy Dandridge, Curd Jürgens, Alex Cressan and Jean Servais.
Deadtime Stories
1986 film
Singapore Sling
1990 film by Nikos Nikolaidis
Yambaó
Yambaó (also known as Cry of the Bewitched) is a 1957 Mexican-Cuban drama film directed by Alfredo B. Crevenna and starring Ninón Sevilla.
Empire
2023 film by Frederikke Aspöck