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Brazil (1985)
Brazil
★ 8.1 270 ratings
other title: 妙想天开 / 巴西 …
Low-level bureaucrat Sam Lowry escapes the monotony of his day-to-day life through a recurring daydream of himself as a virtuous hero saving a beautiful damsel. Investigating a case that led to the wrongful arrest and eventual death of an innocent man instead of wanted terrorist Harry Tuttle, he meets the woman from his daydream, and in trying to help her gets caught in a web of mistaken identities, mindless bureaucracy and lies.

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Network (1976)
Network
★ 8.6 165 ratings
other title: 네트워크 / ネットワーク …
When veteran anchorman Howard Beale is forced to retire his 25-year post because of his age, he announces to viewers that he will kill himself during his farewell broadcast. Network executives rethink their decision when his fanatical tirade results in a spike in ratings.

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AlphaGo (2017)
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★ 8.7 152 ratings
other title: 阿尔法围棋 / AlphaGo世纪对决(台) …
The ancient Chinese game of Go has long been considered a grand challenge for artificial intelligence. Yet in 2016, Google's DeepMind team announced that they would be taking on Lee Sedol, the world's most elite Go champion. AlphaGo chronicles the team as it prepares to test the limits of its rapidly-evolving AI technology. The film pits man against machine, and reveals as much about the workings of the human mind as it does the future of AI.

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The Corporation (2003)
The Corporation
★ 7.6 19 ratings
other title: 기업의 숨겨진 진실 / A Corporação …
Since the late 18th century American legal decision that the business corporation organizational model is legally a person, it has become a dominant economic, political and social force around the globe. This film takes an in-depth psychological examination of the organization model through various case studies. What the study illustrates is that in the its behaviour, this type of "person" typically acts like a dangerously destructive psychopath without conscience. Furthermore, we see the profound threat this psychopath has for our world and our future, but also how the people with courage, intelligence and determination can do to stop it.

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Why We Fight (2005)
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尤金·加里奇 actor: Ken Adelman / John Ashcroft …
other title: 我们为何而战 / 决战的理由
该片检视美国军事与工业的共生关系,表达这一体系的存续仰赖持续不断的战争的论点。

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Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media (1999)
Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media
★ 8.4 7 ratings
Mark Achbar / Peter Wintonick actor: 诺姆·乔姆斯基 / 马克·阿克巴
other title: 制造共识:乔姆斯基与媒体 / 制造共识:乔姆斯基论媒体 …
This film showcases Noam Chomsky, one of America's leading linguists and political dissidents. It also illustrates his message of how government and big media businesses cooperate to produce an effective propaganda machine in order to manipulate the opinions of the United States populous. The key example for this analysis is the simultaneous events of the massive coverage of the communist atrocities of Khmer Rouge regime of Cambodia and the suppression of news of the US supported Indonesian invasion and subjugation of East Timor.

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The Fog of War (2003)
The Fog of War
★ 8.2 17 ratings
other title: 战争迷雾 / 越战回忆录 …
Using archival footage, cabinet conversation recordings, and an interview of the 85-year-old Robert McNamara, The Fog of War depicts his life, from working as a WWII whiz-kid military officer, to being the Ford Motor Company's president, to managing the Vietnam War as defense secretary for presidents Kennedy and Johnson.

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HyperNormalisation (2016)
HyperNormalisation
★ 8.9 26 ratings
other title: 超正常化 / 生活在虚幻的世界 …
We live in a world where the powerful deceive us. We know they lie. They know we know they lie. They do not care. We say we care, but we do nothing, and nothing ever changes. It is normal. Welcome to the post-truth world. How we got to where we are now…

TV

From the New World (2012)
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★ 8.9 316 ratings
actor: Risa Taneda / Yuki Kaji …
other title: 来自新世界 / 新世界より …
Born into a world 1000 years in our future, Saki and her friends live in utopia. Not only is their idyllic community overflowing with resources, but technology is obsolete, thanks to a magical power that grants the ability to materialize anything. However, when Saki discovers a lost artifact, the facade is shattered! Faced with a startling truth about their town, Saki and her companions face dangers they never knew existed, and their choices may change the fate of everyone.

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Psycho-Pass (2012)
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★ 8.1 733 ratings
other title: 사이코패스 / PSYCHO-PASS サイコパス …
Psycho-Pass is set in a futuristic era in Japan where the Sibyl System, a powerful network of psychometric scanners, actively measures the biometrics of its citizens' minds. The resulting assessment is called a Psycho-Pass. When the calculated likelihood of an individual committing a crime, measured by the Crime Coefficient index, exceeds an accepted threshold, he or she is pursued, apprehended, and either arrested or decomposed by the field officers of the Crime Investigation Department of the Public Safety Bureau.

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Ghost in the Shell (1995)
GHOST IN THE SHELL / 攻殻機動隊
★ 9.1 1382 ratings
other title: 攻壳机动队 / 攻殼機動隊 …
In the year 2029, the barriers of our world have been broken down by the net and by cybernetics, but this brings new vulnerability to humans in the form of brain-hacking. When a highly-wanted hacker known as 'The Puppetmaster' begins involving them in politics, Section 9, a group of cybernetically enhanced cops, are called in to investigate and stop the Puppetmaster.

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Why Poverty? (2012)
Why Poverty? Season 1 part of TV Series: Why Poverty? TMDB Douban
★ 9.1 62 ratings
布莱恩·希尔 / 本·刘易斯 … actor: Abu Badr / Umm Badr …
贫富不均对社会有什么影响?穷人真能掌握自己的未来?国际非营利组织STEPS INTERNATIONAL 所推动的《为什么贫穷?》(Why Poverty?)跨媒体计划,参与协同制作工作,与全球同步播出一系列探讨21世纪贫穷问题的纪录片。 《为什么贫穷?》是由总部位于丹麦的国际非营利组织STEPS INTERNATIONAL推动的非商业计划。Steps曾在2007年推动过《为什么要民主?》(Why Democracy?)。而《为什么贫穷?》即以此为基础,希望用影片刺激大众讨论贫穷问题;计划共同发起人还有英国广播公司(BBC)和丹麦广播公司(DR),这两家电视台也是本计划的主要合作伙伴和推动者。 这计划邀请了来自世界各地的纪录片导演,以“为什么贫穷”为共同题目,拍摄了每集一小时共八集的纪录片,让世界共同思考贫穷问题,探讨全球10亿赤贫人口的过去与未来。本系列纪录片于2012年11月起全球播放,台湾PTS与英国BBC、美国PBS、日本NHK、香港RTHK等在内的70余家电视台均加入联合播出,估计观众总数超过 5 亿人。 第1集 Poor Us: An Animated History of Poverty / 当我们穷在一起:动画贫穷史 第2集 Welcome to the World / 人之初 性本穷 第3集 Park Avenue: Money, Power and the American Dream / 有钱有庇护:金钱、权力和美国梦 第4集 Land Rush / 耕者无其田 第5集 Give Us the Money / 摇滚救贫穷 第6集 Stealing Africa / 生财有“盗” 第7集 Solar Mamas / 太阳能妈妈 第8集 Education, Education / 出路

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Her (2013)
Her
★ 8.3 1783 ratings
other title: 她 / 触不到的她(港) …
In the not so distant future, Theodore, a lonely writer, purchases a newly developed operating system designed to meet the user's every need. To Theodore's surprise, a romantic relationship develops between him and his operating system. This unconventional love story blends science fiction and romance in a sweet tale that explores the nature of love and the ways that technology isolates and connects us all.

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The Social Network (2010)
The Social Network
★ 8.1 1898 ratings
other title: 소셜 네트워크 / ソーシャル・ネットワーク …
In 2003, Harvard undergrad and computer programmer Mark Zuckerberg begins work on a new concept that eventually turns into the global social network known as Facebook. Six years later, Mark is one of the youngest billionaires ever, but his unprecedented success leads to both personal and legal complications when he ends up on the receiving end of two lawsuits, one involving his former friend.
Nov. 10, 2026