colonialism

The Flood | Australia
Genre
When Jarah loses her husband, her child, her land and her innocence she embarks on a brutal journey of of retribution and revenge that transforms into redemption and reconciliation.

Bacurau | France| Brazil
Genre
IMDB
7.7 (10,705 votes)
Bacurau, a small town in the Brazilian sertão, mourns the loss of its matriarch, Carmelita, who lived to be 94. Days later, its inhabitants notice that their community has vanished from most maps.

The New World | United States of America
Genre
IMDB
6.7 (80947 votes)
Budget
30,000,000.00$
A drama about explorer John Smith and the clash between Native Americans and English settlers in the 17th century.

Genre
IMDB
6.5 (31831 votes)
Budget
35,000,000.00$
The story, set in 1875, follows a British officer (Heath Ledger) who resigns his post when he learns of his regiment's plan to ship out to the Sudan for the conflict with the Mahdi. His friends and fiancée send him four white feathers which symbolize cowardice. To redeem his honor he disguises himself as an Arab and secretly saves the lives of those who branded him a coward.

The Wind That Shakes the Barley | France| Spain| Germany| United Kingdom| Italy| Belgium| Switzerland| Netherlands| Ireland
Genre
IMDB
7.5 (44170 votes)
Budget
6,500,000.00$
In 1920s Ireland young doctor Damien O'Donovan prepares to depart for a new job in a London hospital. As he says his goodbyes at a friend's farm, British Black and Tans arrive, and a young man is killed. Damien joins his brother Teddy in the Irish Republican Army, but political events are soon set in motion that tear the brothers apart.

The Ghost and the Darkness | Germany| United States of America
Genre
IMDB
6.8 (54274 votes)
Budget
50,000,000.00$
Sir Robert Beaumont is behind schedule on a railroad in Africa. Enlisting noted engineer John Henry Patterson to right the ship, Beaumont expects results. Everything seems great until the crew discovers the mutilated corpse of the project's foreman, seemingly killed by a lion. After several more attacks, Patterson calls in famed hunter Charles Remington, who has finally met his match in the bloodthirsty lions.