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87
8.0
/104627/
79
/2457/
78
/2080/
4.2
/213062/
96
/163/
92
/7559/
90
/31/
cc age 15+

Persepolis (2007)
In 1970s Iran, Marjane 'Marji' Satrapi watches events through her young eyes and her idealistic family of a long dream being fulfilled of the hated Shah's defeat in the Iranian Revolution of 1979. However as Marji grows up, she witnesses first hand how the new Iran, now ruled by Islamic fundamentalists, has become a repressive tyranny on its own.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
85
8.2
/599567/
81
/15316/
78
/6222/
4.1
/633829/
92
/131/
95
/33992/
91
/24/
cc age 13+

Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)
King Arthur, accompanied by his squire, recruits his Knights of the Round Table, including Sir Bedevere the Wise, Sir Lancelot the Brave, Sir Robin the Not-Quite-So-Brave-As-Sir-Lancelot and Sir Galahad the Pure. On the way, Arthur battles the Black Knight who, despite having had all his limbs chopped off, insists he can still fight. They reach Camelot, but Arthur decides not to enter, as "it is a silly place".
poster
Criterion Channel
83
7.7
/105178/
75
/2443/
75
/3265/
4.1
/150233/
91
/135/
81
/658/
86
/34/
cc age 17+

The Great Beauty (2013)
Jep Gambardella has seduced his way through the lavish nightlife of Rome for decades, but after his 65th birthday and a shock from the past, Jep looks past the nightclubs and parties to find a timeless landscape of absurd, exquisite beauty.
poster
Kanopy
82
8.2
/12004/
81
/243/
78
/240/
4.4
/40688/
100
/5/
62
/5/
91
/20/

I Am Cuba (1964)
Four vignettes on the lives of the Cuban people in the pre-revolutionary era. In Havana, Maria is ashamed when a man she loves discovers how she makes a living. Pedro, an old farmer, discovers that the land he cultivates is being sold to an American company. A student sees his friends attacked by the police while they distribute leaflets supporting Fidel Castro. Finally, a peasant family is threatened by Batista's army.
poster
Kanopy
82
7.6
/14898/
72
/283/
74
/397/
4.1
/31812/
89
/37/
86
/177/

The Gospel According to St. Matthew (1965)
Along a rocky, barren coastline, Jesus begins teaching, primarily using parables. He attracts disciples; he's stern, brusque, and demanding. His parables often take on the powers that be, so he and his teachings come to the attention of the Pharisees, the chief priests, and elders. They conspire to have him arrested, beaten, tried, and crucified, just as he prophesied to his followers.
poster
Criterion Channel
82
7.4
/6242/
76
/105/
70
/96/
3.9
/9593/
92
/13/
85
/77/
84
/12/

High Hopes (1989)
Working-class couple Shirley and Cyril are in conflict over whether they should have children, their problems with 'yuppies' moving into the neighbourhood and outpricing them, and the advent of Cyril's ageing mother's seventieth birthday.
poster
Criterion Channel
80
6.9
/16595/
68
/290/
68
/308/
3.7
/33205/
93
/27/
78
/559/

Weekend (1967)
A supposedly idyllic weekend trip to the countryside turns into a never-ending nightmare of traffic jams, revolution, cannibalism and murder as French bourgeois society starts to collapse under the weight of its own consumer preoccupations.
poster
Criterion Channel
82
77
7.6
/11051/
75
/201/
77
/509/
3.9
/26255/
100
/16/
88
/56/

Accattone (1961)
A pimp with no other means to provide for himself finds his life spiralling out of control when his prostitute is sent to prison.
poster
Criterion Channel
76
7.2
/6191/
70
/127/
72
/358/
3.8
/14605/
85
/13/
85
/42/

The Hawks and the Sparrows (1966)
A man and his son take an allegorical stroll through life with a talking bird that spouts social and political philosophy.
poster
Kanopy
76
7.4
/5369/
73
/273/
71
/118/
3.7
/5598/
94
/32/
70
/14/
81
/14/

Under the Sun (2015)
Over the course of one year, this film follows the life of an ordinary Pyongyang family whose daughter was chosen to take part in Day of the Shining Star (Kim Jong-il's birthday) celebration. While North Korean government wanted a propaganda film, the director kept on filming between the scripted scenes. The ritualized explosions of color and joy contrast sharply with pale everyday reality, which is not particularly terrible, but rather quite surreal.
poster
Criterion Channel
74
7.0
/16735/
67
/303/
70
/438/
3.9
/51391/
83
/30/
79
/168/

Theorem (1968)
A wealthy Italian household is turned upside down when a handsome stranger arrives, seduces every family member and then disappears. Each has an epiphany of sorts, but none can figure out who the seductive visitor was or why he came.
poster
Criterion Channel
73
7.3
/5276/
68
/87/
69
/102/
3.7
/5622/
83
/18/
85
/69/

The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum (1975)
After a chance encounter with a wanted man, a woman is harassed by the police and press until she takes violent action.
poster
77
72
8.2
/6169/
77
/280/
71
/113/
3.9
/6073/

The Mole: Undercover in North Korea (2020)
A real-life undercover thriller about two ordinary men who embark on an outrageously dangerous ten-year mission to penetrate the world's most secretive and brutal dictatorship: North Korea.
poster
Kanopy
75
70
6.9
/8938/
71
/209/
69
/230/
3.7
/50368/
95
/20/
73
/55/

La Chinoise (1967)
A small group of French students are studying Mao, trying to find out their position in the world and how to change the world to a Maoistic community using terrorism.
poster
AMC+ Amazon Channel
70
7.1
/49539/
70
/1078/
68
/801/
3.8
/31762/
67
/138/
75
/1928/
64
/24/

Che: Part One (2008)
Ernesto Guevara, known as 'Che', leads a group of Cuban exiles under Fidel Castro in a revolution to overthrow Fulgencio Batista, the dictator of Cuba.
poster
80
66
7.8
/4727/
77
/76/
72
/89/
4.2
/5869/
87
/15/
82
/26/

The Travelling Players (1975)
A traveling theatre troupe tours the Greek countryside from 1939 to the early 1950s, staging “Golfo the Shepherdess”. As the years pass, its members endure persecution, betrayal, executions, and exile. Their personal stories become entangled with the country’s major historical events, in a seemingly endless cycle of violence and loss.
poster
74
65
6.8
/4592/
70
/330/
69
/147/
3.5
/3884/
93
/14/
77
/15/

The Propaganda Game (2015)
North Korea. The last communist country in the world. Unknown, hermetic and fascinating. Formerly known as “The Hermit Kingdom” for its attempts to remain isolated, North Korea is one of the largest sources of instability as regards world peace. It also has the most militarized border in the world, and the flow of impartial information, both going in and out, is practically non-existent. As the recent Sony-leaks has shown, it is the perfect setting for a propaganda war.
poster
Criterion Channel
70
62
6.9
/6055/
68
/95/
65
/186/
3.7
/14677/
73
/11/
75
/48/

Medea (1969)
Based on the plot of Euripides' Medea. Medea centers on the barbarian protagonist as she finds her position in the Greek world threatened, and the revenge she takes against her husband Jason who has betrayed her for another woman.
poster
Hoopla
62
6.7
/3224/
61
/37/
63
/30/
3.3
/637/
55
/80/
62
/87/
53
/27/

Focus (2001)
In the waning months of World War II, a man and his wife are mistakenly identified as Jews by their anti-Semitic Brooklyn neighbors. Suddenly the victims of religious and racial persecution, they find themselves aligned with a local Jewish immigrant in a struggle for dignity and survival.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
67
62
7.0
/7777/
68
/203/
65
/172/
3.3
/14579/
60
/10/
74
/129/

Another Country (1984)
In Moscow in 1983, an American journalist interviews Guy Bennett, who recalls his last year at public school, fifty years before, and how it contributed to him becoming a spy.
poster
Criterion Channel
75
60
7.4
/3018/
74
/127/
71
/92/
4.1
/33086/

Black Panthers (1968)
A film shot during the summer of 1968 in Oakland, California around the meetings organised by the Black Panthers Party to free Huey Newton, one of their leaders, and to turn his trial into a political debate. They tried and succeeded in catching America’s attention.
poster
77
60
7.1
/2736/
78
/54/
73
/210/
3.9
/11291/
89
/183/

A Drama of Jealousy (and other things) (1970)
Construction worker Oreste and young fiancee Adelaide meet Nello, a cook in a pizzeria. This love triangle often goes to communist rallies, and enjoys the filthy beaches of Ostia. Will the hostile environment pave a way to jealousy?
poster
Criterion Channel
66
57
6.6
/4283/
67
/89/
70
/161/
3.5
/12006/
60
/10/
65
/44/

Pigsty (1969)
Two dramatic stories. In an undetermined past, a young cannibal (who killed his own father) is condemned to be torn to pieces by some wild beasts. In the second story, Julian, the young son of a post-war German industrialist, is on the way to lie down with his farm's pigs, because he doesn't like human relationships.
poster
Kanopy
61
57
6.1
/7423/
59
/208/
57
/177/
3.2
/13366/
68
/19/
61
/216/

Blood for Dracula (1974)
Deathly ill Count Dracula and his slimy underling, Anton, travel to Italy in search of a virgin's blood. They're welcomed at the crumbling estate of indebted Marchese Di Fiore, who's desperate to marry off his daughters to rich suitors. But there, instead of pure women, the count encounters incestuous lesbians with vile blood and Marxist manservant Mario, who's suspicious of the aristocratic Dracula.
poster
82
56
8.1
/2065/
70
/27/
71
/35/
4.0
/2817/
100
/7/
93
/14/

The Adversary (1970)
Siddhartho Chowdhury, a brilliant young medical student, is forced to leave his studies after his father's sudden demise. He is forced to navigate the high unemployment rate and the communist socio-political climate of 1960s Calcutta in search of a job. He lives in a flat with his younger, employed sister, revolutionary brother and widowed mother. The strain of the situation ultimately causes him to hallucinate.
poster
DocAlliance Films
81
55
7.9
/1187/
83
/19/
78
/24/
4.1
/3237/
81
/9/

A Grin Without a Cat (1977)
Chris Marker’s A Grin Without a Cat is an epic political essay tracing the rise and decline of the global left from the 1960s to the 1970s. Through archival footage and commentary, the film examines revolutionary movements in France, Latin America, and beyond, reflecting on the ideals, failures, and fading hopes of a generation.
poster
54
6.3
/60725/
65
/1191/
61
/835/
3.0
/13288/
38
/115/
43
/751/
45
/29/
cc age 16+

Proof of Life (2000)
When American engineer Peter Bowman is kidnapped while working in South America, his wife Alice enlists special agent Terry Thorne to help free him. However, complications arise when Thorne falls in love with her. Their lives are on the line, their hearts out on a limb.
poster
79
51
8.4
/6635/
79
/68/
74
/43/
3.8
/2558/
82
/4/

The Elusive Summer of '68 (1984)
For the young man who lives in Serbian province town, the maturing coincides with the turbulent political events of the year 1968.
poster
Kanopy
78
50
7.7
/1081/
76
/38/
77
/22/
3.6
/508/
89
/28/
92
/95/
63
/14/

A State of Mind (2005)
Two young North Korean gymnasts prepare for an unprecedented competition in this documentary that offers a rare look into the communist society and the daily lives of North Korean families. For more than eight months, film crews follow 13-year-old Pak Hyon Sun and 11-year-old Kim Song Yun and their families as the girls train for the Mass Games, a spectacular nationalist celebration.
poster
77
47
7.4
/885/
79
/39/
72
/20/
3.5
/414/
90
/21/
85
/46/
71
/8/

Crossing the Line (2006)
In 1962, a U.S. soldier sent to guard the peace in South Korea deserted his unit, walked across the most heavily fortified area on earth and defected to the Cold War enemy, the communist state of North Korea. He became a star of the North Korean propaganda machine, but then disappeared from the face of the earth. Now, after 45 years, the story of James Dresnok, the last American defector in North Korea, is being told for the first time. Crossing the Line follows Dresnok as he recalls his childhood, desertion, and life in the DPRK.
poster
Kanopy
72
46
7.1
/945/
70
/22/
63
/31/
3.7
/1174/
100
/15/
64
/15/
67
/5/

United Red Army (2007)
Two of the most radical student groups form the United Red Army (URA) and head into the mountains to conduct a training camp. Ideology devolves into despotism, and the URA's leaders begin to arbitrarily persecute their followers, a harrowing ordeal that culminates in violence and murder.
poster
Criterion Channel
68
46
6.9
/2087/
67
/54/
66
/53/
3.6
/2721/
80
/10/
54
/5/

Rosa Luxemburg (1986)
Polish socialist and Marxist Rosa Luxemburg works tirelessly in the service of revolution in early 20th century Poland and Germany. While Luxemburg campaigns for her beliefs, she is repeatedly imprisoned as she forms the Spartacist League offering a new vision for Germany.
poster
HBO Max Amazon Channel
81
45
7.5
/647/
74
/29/
70
/8/
4.2
/2628/
100
/7/
83
/3/
86
/4/

The Murder of Fred Hampton (1971)
Fred Hampton was the leader of the Illinois Chapter of the Black Panther Party. This film depicts his brutal murder by the Chicago police and its subsequent investigation, but also documents his activities in organizing the Chapter, his public speeches, and the programs he founded for children during the last eighteen months of his life.
poster
Kanopy
65
45
6.5
/2215/
60
/20/
62
/37/
3.3
/1110/
65
/20/
75
/32/

Morgan: A Suitable Case for Treatment (1966)
Morgan, an aggressive and self-admitted dreamer, a fantasist who uses his flights of fancy as refuge from external reality, where his unconventional behavior lands him in a divorce from his wife, Leonie, trouble with the police and, ultimately, incarceration in a lunatic asylum.
poster
72
43
7.2
/707/
64
/23/
67
/24/
3.7
/2186/
82
/335/

The Society of the Spectacle (1974)
Guy Debord's analysis of a consumer society.
poster
Kanopy
73
42
8.0
/3647/
73
/62/
72
/36/
3.4
/453/

The Soviet Story (2008)
“The Soviet Story” is a story of an Allied power, which helped the Nazis to fight Jews and which slaughtered its own people on an industrial scale. Assisted by the West, this power triumphed on May 9th, 1945. Its crimes were made taboo, and the complete story of Europe’s most murderous regime has never been told. Until now...
poster
Kanopy
70
41
6.8
/1821/
63
/69/
62
/45/
3.6
/5717/
85
/10/

Celia (1989)
In 1950s Australia, young Celia is growing up with a sense of isolation and mistrust of the world that surrounds her. Her mother and father won't let her play with the kids next door because their parents are communists. Then her pet bunny is taken away because of rabbit overpopulation. And, more traumatizing yet, when her grandmother dies, she's the one to discover the corpse. To cope, she retreats into elaborate fantasies.
poster
68
39
6.1
/1006/
69
/10/
59
/30/
3.4
/1332/
91
/11/
60
/18/

Partner (1968)
The story of a young man who meets his own likeness and uses him to fulfill his dreams.
poster
68
39
6.7
/1864/
70
/36/
65
/61/
3.4
/873/
72
/28/

The Soul Keeper (2003)
Zurich, 1905. Nineteen-year-old Russian Sabina Spielrein is put by her parents in a psychiatric hospital, suffering from a severe form of hysteria and refusing to eat. A compassionate doctor, Carl Gustav Jung, takes her under his care and, for the first time, experiments with the psychoanalytical method of his teacher Sigmund Freud. Thus is born a sweeping story of love and passion, of body and soul, soaring to the utmost heights, but also plunging to the darkest depths of the 20th century.
poster
76
38
7.6
/1305/
65
/20/
71
/29/
4.0
/4326/
92
/8/

The Hour of the Furnaces (1968)
An impassioned three-part documentary of the liberation struggle waged throughout Latin America, using Argentina as a historical example of the imperialist exploitation of the continent. Part I: Neo-Colonialism and Violence is a historical, geographic, and economic analysis of Argentina. Part II: An Act For Liberation examines the ten-year reign of Juan Perón (1945-55) and the activities of the Peronist movement after his fall from power. Part III: Violence and Liberation studies the role of violence in the national liberation process and constitutes a call for action.
poster
70
38
6.9
/1288/
71
/15/
61
/21/
3.5
/455/
73
/40/
73
/17/
75
/19/

On the Run (2003)
Après quinze ans passés derrière les barreaux, Bruno, qui prône la révolution prolétarienne, s'évade. Ce dernier veut continuer la lutte, faire sortir ses camarades de prison, libérer les masses du joug capitaliste. Tous ses anciens alliés n'y croient plus, même Jeanne qui s'est mariée et a maintenant des enfants.
poster
59
38
5.2
/1892/
54
/62/
55
/45/
3.5
/2875/
56
/16/
65
/70/
45
/5/

The Raspberry Reich (2004)
Gudrun has modeled her amateur German terrorist group after the 1970s Red Army Faction (Baader-Meinhof Gang). She attempts to imitate her heroes by kidnapping the son of a wealthy industrialist and hopes to negotiate leftist demands from the father. When Gudrun’s not spouting leftist verses (including during a hilariously brilliant fuck session), she’s trying to convince her all-male gang to abandon their heterosexuality, which she believes is the result of mass delusion.
poster
71
37
6.9
/194/
75
/4/
71
/5/
3.6
/1813/
83
/117/
59
/58/

Socialist Realism (2023)
A satirical take on President Salvador Allende's Popular Unity process prior to the 1973 Chilean coup d'état. The film is made up of a series of short stories, in which different worlds cross paths.
poster
Kanopy
59
37
6.1
/1256/
60
/22/
60
/26/
3.6
/3941/
46
/373/

Le Gai Savoir (1969)
Night after night, not long before dawn, two young adults, Patricia and Emile, meet on a sound stage to discuss learning, discourse, and the path to revolution. Scenes of Paris's student revolt, the Vietnam War, and other events of the late 1960s, along with posters, photographs, and cartoons, are backdrops to their words. Words themselves are often Patricia and Emile's subject, as are images, sounds, and juxtapositions.
poster
Kanopy
54
37
6.7
/2159/
55
/38/
62
/46/
3.7
/3171/
12
/2/

Red Psalm (1972)
Set in the 1890s on the Hungarian plains, a group of farm workers go on strike in which they face harsh reprisals and the reality of revolt, oppression, morality and violence.
poster
61
35
5.4
/746/
52
/21/
65
/30/
3.8
/2214/

Too Early / Too Late (1982)
Inspired by a letter by Friedrich Engels and a 1974 account of two militant Marxist writers who had been imprisoned by the Nasser regime, Straub-Huillet filmed this film in France and Egypt during 1980. They reflect on Egypt’s history of peasant struggle and liberation from Western colonization, and link it to class tensions in France shortly before the Revolution of 1789, quoting texts by Engels as well as the pioneering nonfiction film Workers Leaving the Lumière Factory (1895).
poster
Plex
46
34
4.6
/2672/
51
/105/
52
/82/
2.6
/6482/
33
/19/

Doom Asylum (1988)
A demented former lawyer uses autopsy equipment to kill off the teenagers who trespass on the long-abandoned asylum he inhabits. Filmed on location in an actual abandoned asylum.
poster
60
33
5.8
/771/
Trakt
45
/14/
68
/26/
3.5
/2149/

Wind from the East (1970)
A politically oriented film in which images suggestive of a mock western are accompanied by an attack on all cinematic conventions to date and a debate on the nature and possibility of revolutionary cinema.


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