Dictatorship Movies

Fernando Lemos, a Portuguese surrealist artist, fled from dictatorship to Brazil in 1952 searching for something better. The movie follows the last...

In a dystopian society where every detail of life is strictly controlled by mandatory pre-written scripts, an obedient clerk and his state-assigned...

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,...

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...

Three widows of political prisoners united against the dictatorship in Brazil and the repression of the military regime.

Who is Kim Yo-jong? In a context of maximum tensions between North Korea and the United States, Pierre Haski paints an unprecedented portrait of the...

Flash Gordon, Dale Arden and Dr. Hans Zarkov travel to the planet Mongo to fight the evil emperor Ming the Merciless.

Long ago, Geamăna was a Romanian village in the Apuseni Mountains, home to about 1000 people. Today, only the church spire rises from the...

In the winter of 1988, in the depths of the Iraq/Iran war, the border town of Halabja was attacked by chemical weapons with all its people and their...

The story is set in the 1970s during the period of military dictatorship. Schools were frequently closed and society seemed to face bleak prospects...

21 sequence shots depict moments in a defining night of the Battle of Rua Maria Antônia, in October 1968, from the point of view of the...

Story of the 1974 coup that overthrew the right-wing Portuguese dictatorship--which continued the fascist policies of long-time dictator Antonio...

An unemployed man wanders the streets of Santiago de Chile in the 80s (Pinochet's Chile), looking for a chance to be a hero. In an old cinema in the...

A documentary about the sea and memory. Its movement is its form. Its strength.

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

A plea against the government of General Hugo Banzer (1971-1978) and specifically against the Bolivian military during the seven-year dictatorship....

In an empty warehouse, four women remember the rooms of the house where they were tortured during the last dictatorship. After testifying about their...

While traveling undercover throughout Burma, Henry Rollins exposes the country's repressive military dictatorship.