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91
8.2
/17194/
83
/632/
79
/242/
4.6
/99917/
100
/105/
100
/64/
93
/24/

No Other Land (2024)
This film made by a Palestinian-Israeli collective shows the destruction of the occupied West Bank's Masafer Yatta by Israeli soldiers and the alliance which develops between the Palestinian activist Basel and Israeli journalist Yuval.
poster
Criterion Channel
87
8.1
/33431/
78
/548/
77
/590/
4.3
/43874/
94
/51/
93
/387/
86
/19/

Z (1969)
A prominent politician is murdered during a demonstration. The government and army are trying to suppress the truth. But, a tenacious magistrate is determined to not to let them get away with it.
poster
Kanopy
86
8.4
/256461/
82
/4183/
82
/3567/
4.3
/170573/
92
/52/
95
/1899/
cc age 10+

The Great Dictator (1940)
Dictator Adenoid Hynkel tries to expand his empire while a poor Jewish barber tries to avoid persecution from Hynkel's regime.
poster
Kanopy
86
7.9
/38232/
76
/662/
76
/731/
4.2
/65400/
98
/58/
90
/658/
100
/11/

The Conformist (1971)
A weak-willed Italian man becomes a fascist flunky who goes abroad to arrange the assassination of his old teacher, now a political dissident.
poster
Criterion Channel
85
8.0
/33436/
79
/616/
80
/948/
4.2
/61669/
100
/46/
92
/277/

Rome, Open City (1945)
In WWII-era Rome, underground resistance leader Manfredi attempts to evade the Gestapo by enlisting the help of Pina, the fiancée of a fellow member of the resistance, and Don Pietro, the priest due to oversee her marriage. But it’s not long before the Nazis and the local police find him.
poster
Netflix
84
7.6
/125276/
75
/5840/
80
/3189/
4.0
/632989/
96
/298/
89
/605/
79
/49/
cc age 11+

Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio (2022)
During the rise of fascism in Mussolini's Italy, a wooden boy brought magically to life struggles to live up to his father's expectations.
poster
Criterion Channel
86
84
8.1
/18013/
79
/354/
80
/728/
4.3
/39393/
100
/10/
91
/80/

A Special Day (1977)
Two neighbours — a persecuted journalist and a resigned housewife — forge a strong bond on the day of Adolf Hitler's historic 1938 visit to Rome.
poster
Criterion Channel
84
7.8
/50784/
75
/816/
78
/1169/
4.1
/65328/
88
/49/
90
/772/
cc age 17+

Amarcord (1973)
In an Italian seaside town, young Titta gets into trouble with his friends and watches various local eccentrics as they engage in often absurd behavior. Frequently clashing with his stern father and defended by his doting mother, Titta witnesses the actions of a wide range of characters, from his extended family to Fascist loyalists to sensual women, with certain moments shifting into fantastical scenarios.
poster
Kanopy
83
8.6
/799339/
86
/13126/
84
/13660/
4.4
/640578/
80
/92/
96
/15227/
58
/32/
cc age 13+

Life Is Beautiful (1997)
A touching story of an Italian book seller of Jewish ancestry who lives in his own little fairy tale. His creative and happy life would come to an abrupt halt when his entire family is deported to a concentration camp during World War II. While locked up he tries to convince his son that the whole thing is just a game.
poster
HBO Max Amazon Channel
81
7.7
/113438/
77
/5056/
77
/3553/
4.0
/463242/
95
/21/
87
/8412/
83
/11/
7.9
/176374/
cc age 10+

Porco Rosso (1992)
In Italy in the 1930s, sky pirates in biplanes terrorize wealthy cruise ships as they sail the Adriatic Sea. The only pilot brave enough to stop the scourge is the mysterious Porco Rosso, a former World War I flying ace who was somehow turned into a pig during the war. As he prepares to battle the pirate crew's American ace, Porco Rosso enlists the help of spunky girl mechanic Fio Piccolo and his longtime friend Madame Gina.
poster
81
8.5
/1256428/
84
/23335/
83
/12194/
4.2
/754967/
84
/88/
96
/34093/
62
/32/
cc age 17+

American History X (1998)
Derek Vineyard is paroled after serving 3 years in prison for killing two African-American men. Through his brother, Danny Vineyard's narration, we learn that before going to prison, Derek was a skinhead and the leader of a violent white supremacist gang that committed acts of racial crime throughout L.A. and his actions greatly influenced Danny. Reformed and fresh out of prison, Derek severs contact with the gang and becomes determined to keep Danny from going down the same violent path as he did.
poster
Criterion Channel
84
81
8.5
/10706/
82
/303/
81
/268/
4.5
/32508/
73
/15/
95
/56/

The Human Condition I: No Greater Love (1959)
After handing in a report on the treatment of Chinese colonial labor, Kaji is offered the post of labor chief at a large mining operation in Manchuria, which also grants him exemption from military service. He accepts, and moves to Manchuria with his newly-wed wife Michiko, but when he tries to put his ideas of more humane treatment into practice, he finds himself at odds with scheming officials, cruel foremen, and the military police.
poster
Criterion Channel
81
7.6
/26353/
72
/566/
74
/536/
4.0
/49736/
84
/45/
87
/394/

The Trial (1962)
The surreal tale of an unassuming man who is accused of a never-specified crime and shambles through bizarre encounters to escape this nightmare.
poster
81
8.1
/1448/
80
/46/
77
/23/
3.7
/584/
97
/30/
84
/88/
cc age 9+

Anne Frank Remembered (1995)
Using previously unreleased archival material in addition to contemporary interviews, this Academy Award-winning documentary tells the story of the Frank family and presents the first fully-rounded portrait of their brash and free-spirited daughter Anne, perhaps the world's most famous victim of the Holocaust.
poster
MGM Plus
79
7.2
/8296/
70
/142/
69
/273/
3.6
/8059/
94
/16/
77
/70/

The Garden of the Finzi-Continis (1970)
In 1930s Italy, a wealthy Jewish family tries to maintain their privileged lifestyle, hosting friends for tennis and parties at their villa. As anti-Semitism intensifies under Fascism, they must ultimately face the horrors of the Holocaust.
poster
The Roku Channel
79
7.6
/10453/
76
/302/
74
/238/
3.8
/22072/
96
/25/
91
/219/
69
/23/

Butterfly (1999)
The film centres on Moncho and his coming-of-age experience in Galicia in 1936. Moncho develops a close relationship with his teacher Don Gregorio who introduces the boy to different things in the world. While the story centres on Moncho's ordinary coming-of-age experiences, tensions related to the looming Spanish Civil War periodically interrupt Moncho's personal growth and daily life.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
78
6.9
/12603/
70
/425/
67
/255/
3.9
/33547/
94
/183/
66
/58/
82
/31/

Transit (2018)
In an attempt to flee Nazi-occupied France, Georg assumes the identity of a dead author but soon finds himself stuck in Marseilles, where he falls in love with Maria, a young woman searching for her missing husband.
poster
77
8.1
/1233320/
81
/34519/
78
/15156/
3.9
/844592/
73
/254/
90
/58004/
62
/39/
cc age 18+

V for Vendetta (2006)
In a world in which Great Britain has become a fascist state, a masked vigilante known only as “V” conducts guerrilla warfare against the oppressive British government. When V rescues a young woman from the secret police, he finds in her an ally with whom he can continue his fight to free the people of Britain.
poster
The Roku Channel
79
75
7.5
/12721/
77
/262/
73
/289/
3.9
/12152/
79
/14/
94
/261/

Land and Freedom (1995)
David Carr is a British Communist who is unemployed. In 1936, when the Spanish Civil War begins, he decides to fight for the Republican side, a coalition of liberals, communists and anarchists, so he joins the POUM militia and witnesses firsthand the betrayal of the Spanish revolution by Stalin's followers and Moscow's orders.
poster
Kanopy
74
6.8
/18473/
68
/391/
66
/291/
3.5
/33841/
95
/103/
74
/377/
76
/21/

My Beautiful Laundrette (1985)
A young Pakistani Briton manages a rundown laundrette with his lover while dealing with tension in his family, the local Pakistani community, and a persistent mob of skinheads.
poster
Criterion Channel
72
6.8
/6724/
65
/105/
65
/98/
3.5
/5995/
74
/19/
71
/126/
70
/14/

Under the Volcano (1984)
Against a background of war breaking out in Europe and the Mexican fiesta Day of Death, we are taken through one day in the life of Geoffrey Firmin, a British consul living in alcoholic disrepair and obscurity in a small southern Mexican town in 1939. The consul's self-destructive behaviour, perhaps a metaphor for a menaced civilization, is a source of perplexity and sadness to his nomadic, idealistic half-brother, Hugh, and his ex-wife, Yvonne, who has returned with hopes of healing Geoffrey and their broken marriage.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
71
7.0
/86210/
69
/2640/
68
/1570/
3.4
/70557/
75
/32/
71
/2109/
67
/8/
cc age 16+

Nineteen Eighty-Four (1984)
Imagine a world where absolute conformity rules, and word and thought, including loyalty to Big Brother is demanded. It's the year 1984 and such a world exists. Divided into three vast states, whose inhabitants are dominated by all powerful governments, an illegal love affair begins. Soon, worker drone Winston becomes the target of a brain-washing campaign to force him back to conformity.
poster
MGM Plus
70
7.6
/28705/
73
/449/
78
/661/
3.9
/17954/
52
/23/
84
/386/
70
/14/

1900 (1976)
The epic tale of a class struggle in twentieth century Italy, as seen through the eyes of two childhood friends on opposing sides.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
70
6.9
/2736/
63
/24/
61
/38/
3.4
/492/
70
/76/
72
/49/
74
/25/

Liam (2001)
A morality tale of xenophobia, religious prejudice, mob violence, poverty, and their effect on two children in Liverpool during the Depression. When a shipyard closes, Liam and Teresa's dad loses his job. Liam, who's about 8, making his first Holy Communion, gets a regular dose of fire and brimstone at church. Teresa, about 13, has a job as a maid to the Jewish family that owns the closed shipyard. The lady of that house is having an affair, and Teresa becomes an accomplice. Liam stutters terribly, especially when troubled. Dad comes under the sway of the Fascists, who blame cheap Irish labor and Jewish owners. A Molotov cocktail brings things to a head.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
69
6.7
/103201/
68
/4388/
69
/2686/
3.7
/504481/
65
/336/
72
/460/
64
/56/
cc age 17+

Suspiria (2018)
A darkness swirls at the center of a world-renowned dance company, one that will engulf the artistic director, an ambitious young dancer, and a grieving psychotherapist. Some will succumb to the nightmare. Others will finally wake up.
poster
76
69
7.6
/11038/
72
/143/
68
/121/
3.8
/6989/
81
/21/
84
/230/

The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1969)
A headstrong young teacher in a private school in 1930s Edinburgh ignores the curriculum and influences her impressionable 12-year-old charges with her over-romanticized worldview.
poster
73
67
7.0
/6889/
72
/126/
67
/404/
3.6
/3323/
84
/63/
78
/357/
71
/19/

My Brother Is an Only Child (2007)
Accio and Manrico are siblings from a working-class family in 1960s Italy: older Manrico is handsome, charismatic, and loved by all, while younger Accio is sulky, hot-headed, and treats life as a battleground — much to his parents' chagrin. After the former is drawn into left-wing politics, Accio joins the fascists out of spite, but his flimsy beliefs are put to test when he falls for Manrico's like-minded girlfriend.
poster
Kanopy
67
6.2
/7571/
62
/245/
62
/171/
3.4
/13714/
90
/67/
54
/51/
68
/20/

The Childhood of a Leader (2016)
The chilling story of a young American boy living in France in 1918 whose father is working for the US government on the creation of the Treaty of Versailles. What he witnesses helps to mold his beliefs – and we witness the birth of a terrifying ego.
poster
80
66
7.8
/4692/
77
/76/
72
/87/
4.1
/5462/
87
/15/
82
/26/

The Travelling Players (1975)
This expansive Greek drama follows a troupe of theater actors as they perform around their country during World War II. While the production that they put on is entitled "Golfo the Shepherdess," the thespians end up echoing scenes from classic Greek tales in their own lives, as Elektra plots revenge on her mother for the death of her father, and seeks help from her brother, Orestes, a young anti-fascist rebel.
poster
72
64
7.3
/4896/
73
/118/
72
/105/
3.7
/7097/
56
/9/
85
/164/

The Aerial (2007)
An entire city has lost its voice. Mr. TV, the owner of the city's only television channel, is carrying out a sinister plan to control all of the city's inhabitants.
poster
70
64
7.0
/6448/
67
/146/
64
/112/
3.7
/14560/
70
/10/
80
/280/

Desperate Living (1977)
After killing her husband, Peggy Gravel and her murderous maid Grizelda wind up in the crazy town of Mortville, where Queen Carlotta presides over a sleazy collection of misfits.
poster
Kanopy
63
7.3
/359148/
74
/10674/
70
/4824/
3.3
/133947/
39
/87/
81
/18143/
33
/22/
cc age 16+

Equilibrium (2002)
In a dystopian future, a totalitarian regime maintains peace by subduing the populace with a drug, and displays of emotion are punishable by death. A man in charge of enforcing the law rises to overthrow the system.
poster
Kanopy
78
63
7.6
/120295/
77
/4039/
74
/3496/
3.6
/139678/
93
/7/

The Wave (2008)
A school teacher discusses types of government with his class. His students find it too boring to repeatedly go over national socialism and believe that dictatorship cannot be established in modern Germany. He starts an experiment to show how easily the masses can become manipulated.
poster
Kanopy
83
61
8.0
/2500/
81
/110/
81
/82/
4.0
/6086/
100
/25/
86
/5/
73
/6/

The Silence of Others (2019)
The story of the tortuous struggle against the silence of the victims of the dictatorship imposed by General Franco after the victory of the rebel side in the Spanish Civil War (1936-1975). In a democratic country, but still ideologically divided, the survivors seek justice as they organize the so-called “Argentinian lawsuit” and denounce the legally sanctioned pact of oblivion that intends to hide the crimes they were subjects of.
poster
61
5.8
/71264/
54
/2269/
63
/2215/
3.1
/177406/
71
/42/
62
/1602/

Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom (1976)
Four corrupted fascist libertines round up 9 teenage boys and girls and subject them to 120 days of sadistic physical, mental and sexual torture.
poster
Kanopy
75
60
7.4
/4717/
72
/54/
67
/117/
3.8
/4217/
79
/19/
82
/24/

The Innocent (1976)
Tullio Hermil is a chauvinist aristocrat who flaunts his mistress to his wife, but when he believes she has been unfaithful he becomes enamored of her again.
poster
64
60
6.9
/8313/
69
/236/
72
/655/
3.6
/4613/
55
/11/
50
/109/

Baaria (2009)
Giuseppe Tornatore traces three generations of a Sicilian family in in the Sicilian town of Bagheria (known as Baarìa in the local Sicilian dialect), from the 1930s to the 1980s, to tell the story of the loves, dreams and delusions of an unusual community.
poster
57
6.2
/30403/
63
/834/
61
/771/
3.1
/21830/
60
/20/
53
/1032/
44
/5/

Frontier(s) (2007)
A gang of young thieves flee Paris during the violent aftermath of a political election, only to hole up at an Inn run by neo-Nazis.
poster
64
56
6.8
/10944/
67
/215/
65
/199/
3.2
/4319/
64
/14/
58
/13/
68
/10/

For Whom the Bell Tolls (1943)
Spain in the 1930s is the place to be for a man of action like Robert Jordan. There is a civil war going on and Jordan—who has joined up on the side that appeals most to idealists of that era—has been given a high-risk assignment up in the mountains. He awaits the right time to blow up a crucial bridge in order to halt the enemy's progress.
poster
Kanopy
79
55
7.3
/736/
67
/19/
74
/23/
4.0
/5870/
96
/27/
87
/9/

A Night of Knowing Nothing (2022)
L, a student in India witness to the government's violent response to university protests, writes letters to her estranged lover while he is away.
poster
77
51
7.5
/4894/
71
/137/
68
/162/
3.6
/6354/
100
/5/

Der Fuehrer's Face (1943)
A marching band of Germans, Italians, and Japanese march through the streets of swastika-motif Nutziland, serenading "Der Fuehrer's Face." Donald Duck, not living in the region by choice, struggles to make do with disgusting Nazi food rations and then with his day of toil at a Nazi artillery factory. After a nervous breakdown, Donald awakens to find that his experience was in fact a nightmare.
poster
73
49
7.4
/911/
62
/12/
67
/32/
3.8
/2481/
91
/130/

Chronicle of a Boy Alone (1965)
The story of a delinquent eleven-year-old orphan in authoritarian Argentina.
poster
69
48
7.1
/2337/
67
/38/
65
/39/
3.5
/2130/
76
/27/

Pressure Point (1962)
An African-American prison psychiatrist finds the boundaries of his professionalism sorely tested when he must counsel a disturbed inmate with bigoted Nazi tendencies.
poster
53
47
5.4
/3592/
56
/259/
59
/429/
2.9
/1722/
39
/230/

The Key (1983)
Art professor Nino Rolfe attempts to break down his wife Teresa's conventional modesty. Noticing her affection for their daughter's fiancé, Nino instigates her sexual interest in him - setting off a chain of unexpected events and emotional complications...
poster
56
46
5.2
/1882/
54
/61/
54
/44/
3.5
/2476/
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
63
44
6.5
/1667/
59
/28/
58
/40/
3.5
/1966/
64
/395/

Long Live Death (1971)
At the end of the Spanish civil war, Fando, a boy of about ten, tries to make sense of war and his father's arrest. His mother is religious, sympathetic to the Fascists; his father is accused of being a Red. Fando discovers that his mother may have aided in his father's arrest. Sometimes we witness Fando imagining explanations for what's going on; sometimes we see him at play, alone or with his friend Thérèse. Oedipal fantasies and a lad's natural curiosity about sex and death mix with his search for his mother's nature and his father's fate. Will Fando survive the search?
poster
63
41
6.2
/1323/
65
/33/
56
/31/
3.4
/1875/
68
/193/

Rampo Noir (2005)
An anthology film consisting of four segments based on literary works by Edogawa Ranpo.
poster
Criterion Channel
59
39
6.4
/1336/
59
/31/
51
/32/
3.4
/2633/
54
/50/

Mr. Freedom (1969)
Mr. Freedom, a bellowing good-ol'-boy superhero decked out in copious football padding, jets to France to cut off a Commie invasion from Switzerland. A destructive, arrogant patriot in tight pants, Freedom joins forces with Marie Madeleine to combat lefty freethinkers, as well as the insidious evildoers Moujik Man and inflatable Red China Man, culminating in a star-spangled showdown.


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