totalitarianism movies

Star Wars (1977)
8.203 / 10

Adventure, Action, Science Fiction

Princess Leia is captured and held hostage by the evil Imperial forces in their effort to take over the galactic Empire. Venturesome Luke Skywalker...

Demolition Man (1993)
6.709 / 10

Crime, Action, Science Fiction

Simon Phoenix, a violent criminal cryogenically frozen in 1996, escapes during a parole hearing in 2032 in the utopia of San Angeles. Police are...

Logan's Run (1976)
6.587 / 10

Action, Science Fiction

In the 23rd century, inhabitants of a domed city freely experience all of life's pleasures — but no one is allowed to live past 30. Citizens can...

The Handmaid's Tale (1990)
6.114 / 10

Drama, Science Fiction

In a dystopicly polluted rightwing religious tyranny, a young woman is put in sexual slavery on account of her now rare fertility.

Kin-dza-dza! (1986)
7.793 / 10

Comedy, Science Fiction

Two Soviet humans previously unknown to each other are transported to the planet Pluke in the Kin-dza-da galaxy due to a chance encounter with an...

1984 (1956)
6.614 / 10

Science Fiction, Drama

In a totalitarian future society, a man whose daily work is rewriting history tries to rebel by falling in love.

Nineteen Eighty-Four (1954)
7.4 / 10

Drama, Science Fiction, TV Movie

A man who works for 'The Party' (an all powerful empire led by a man known only as 'Big Brother') begins to have thoughts of rebellion and love for a...

Pereira Declares (1995)
6.6 / 10

Drama

Lisbon, 1938. Mr. Pereira is the editor of the culture section of an evening paper. Although fascism is on the rise in Europe, like in nearby civil...

1984 (2023)
7.4 / 10

Science Fiction, Drama

In a bleak and oppressive totalitarian society ruled by Big Brother, personal freedoms are nonexistent and surveillance is constant. Art is mocked...

Lessons at the End of Spring (1990)
4.3 / 10

Drama

A young boy loses his innocence in a pre-perestroika Russian prison during the chaotic last months of the Khrushchev regime

Big Brother: A World Under Surveillance (2020)
7.7 / 10

Documentary

Under the pretext of fighting terrorism or crime, the major powers have embarked on a dangerous race for surveillance technologies. Facial...

China: The Uighur Tragedy (2022)
6.5 / 10

Documentary

A relentless chronicle of the tragedy of the Uighurs, an ethnic minority of some eleven million people who live in the Xinjiang region of northwest...

Keepers of the Fog (1988)
0 / 10

Drama

Images and reality intermingle in this account of the writer's own experiences under totalitarian regime.

Plastic Jesus (1971)
6.2 / 10

Drama

Tom is a young guy from Zagreb, completely without money, trying to make films in Belgrade. He somehow manages to survive with a help of women. He...

329 (2014)
0 / 10

Drama, Comedy

The students of an isolated school are together bound by 10 strange rules. They are made to follow the rules without any question. One day, student...

The Time of the Beginning (1974)
3.5 / 10

Drama, Science Fiction

A "symbolic" character traces the path of man in search of salvation in this world within his own ghosts and deformations.

Pollinator (2022)
7.5 / 10

Science Fiction, Thriller, Drama

A dystopian future set in a totalitarian world , where a young man's life is about to change.

Canary Season (1993)
9.5 / 10

Drama

It's 1980. Malin is fatherless, angry, and in trouble. At 20, he's spent a year in jail for assaulting a lover of Lily, his mother. In her desk he...

Something to Do with the Wall (1991)
7 / 10

Documentary

In 1986, Ross McElwee (Sherman's March) and Marilyn Levine were making a film about the 25th anniversary of the Berlin Wall, when the imposing...

Nas Entranhas de Nicolópolis (2022)
10 / 10

Documentary, Comedy