dictatorship movies page 2

Fight for Us (1989)
6.4 / 10

Drama, Crime, Action

Set during the post-Marcos regime in a remote village of Dolores, chronicles the life of Jimmy Cordero, a political prisoner who have just been freed...

The Silence of Others (2019)
8.1 / 10

Documentary

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...

Chile '76 (2022)
7.2 / 10

Drama

Chile, 1976. Carmen heads off to her beach house. When the family priest asks her to take care of a young man he is sheltering in secret, Carmen...

The South (1988)
6.3 / 10

Drama, Music

After the end of the military dictatorship in Argentina in 1983, Floreal is released from prison. Instead of returning to his wife, he wanders...

The Pearl Button (2015)
6.9 / 10

Documentary

The ocean contains the history of all humanity. The sea holds all the voices of the earth and those that come from outer space. Water receives...

Red Rain (1950)
5.7 / 10

Adventure, Drama, History

Military leader is appointed to local government, becomes overly despotic in his leadership.

The Battle of Chile: Part I (1975)
7.267 / 10

Documentary, History

The chronicle of the political tension in Chile in 1973 and of the violent counter revolution against the democratically elected government of...

Sol Alegria (2018)
5.7 / 10

Comedy, Fantasy

While the country is under the yoke of a military junta and corrupt priests preach the apocalypse, a lawless, eccentric family – a kind of Bonnie &...

The Lovers and the Despot (2016)
6.9 / 10

Documentary, History

Hong Kong, 1978. South Korean actress Choi Eun-hee is kidnapped by North Korean operatives following orders from dictator Kim Jong-il.

The Messenger (2023)
0 / 10

Drama

Vera, imprisoned at a military fortress during the dictatorship, 1969, get to know a soldier, Armando, who, in the face of torture, decides to take...

The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceausescu (2010)
7.8 / 10

Documentary

The three-hour-long documentary covers 25 years in the life of Nicolae Ceaușescu and was made using 1,000 hours of original footage from the...

Loafing and Camouflage (1984)
7.4 / 10

Comedy

The film is the story of a group of soldiers, who, in the course of their compulsory military service in 1967 and 1968, before and during the...

Trago Comigo (2016)
6.2 / 10

Drama

Telmo is a retired theater director that realizes he doesn't remember the time he spent kept in jail during the military dictatorship in Brazil. He...

Black Box Syria: The Dirty War (2020)
8.3 / 10

Documentary, History

A look back over nine years of the Syrian Civil War, an inextricable conflict, like a black box, due to the competing interests of the many factions...

Prime Time Soap (2012)
4.7 / 10

Drama

In Brazil, in 1978, under the dictatorship, the country lives the euphoria of disco fever and the fantasy life of Dancin' Days, a prime time soap....

The White King (2017)
5.3 / 10

Drama, Science Fiction

Djata is a care-free 12-year-old growing up in a brutal dictatorship shut off from the outside world. When the government imprisons his father,...

Caligula helytartója (2018)
0 / 10

Drama

The Red Chapel (2010)
7.364 / 10

Comedy, Documentary

Two Danish comedians join the director on a trip to North Korea, where they have been allowed access under the pretext of wanting to perform a...

Fireflies at El Mozote (1969)
0 / 10

Action, Drama, History, War

During the 1980s civil war in El Salvador, a rebel group of leftist guerrillas fight to expose its government's death squads via an underground radio...

The Boys from Brazil: Rise of the Bolsonaros (2022)
8.5 / 10

Documentary

This documentary tells of the extraordinary rise of Jair Bolsonaro, from relative obscurity to the ultimate seat of South American power. Told...