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MUBI
79
7.3
/124663/
72
/6102/
70
/2059/
3.8
/265735/
94
/254/
79
/722/
88
/43/
cc age 15+

The Death of Stalin (2017)
When dictator Joseph Stalin dies, his parasitic cronies square off in a frantic power struggle to become the next Soviet leader. As they bumble, brawl and back-stab their way to the top, the question remains — just who is running the government?
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Kanopy
78
7.3
/3696/
74
/115/
71
/94/
3.8
/5311/
99
/88/
77
/51/
87
/23/

The Missing Picture (2013)
Rithy Panh uses clay figures, archival footage, and his narration to recreate the atrocities Cambodia's Khmer Rouge committed between 1975 and 1979.
poster
77
7.1
/46357/
69
/947/
69
/816/
3.5
/29349/
100
/39/
81
/1216/
77
/11/

Sleeper (1973)
Miles Monroe, a clarinet-playing health food store proprietor, is revived out of cryostasis 200 years into a future world in order to help rebels fight an oppressive government regime.
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Amazon Prime Video
71
7.0
/86735/
69
/2663/
67
/1581/
3.4
/72841/
75
/32/
71
/2111/
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.
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Netflix
74
51
7.5
/3267/
72
/153/
74
/82/
3.7
/2423/
77
/6/

Hitler: A Career (1977)
A keen chronicle of the unlikely rise to power of Adolf Hitler (1889-1945) and a dissection of the Third Reich (1933-1945), but also an analysis of mass psychology and how the desperate crowd can be deceived and shepherded to the slaughterhouse.
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Amazon Prime Video
50
6.4
/79207/
66
/3314/
62
/1752/
2.9
/23435/
30
/84/
42
/446/
41
/25/
cc age 17+

Child 44 (2015)
Set in Stalin-era Soviet Union, a disgraced MGB agent is dispatched to investigate a series of child murders -- a case that begins to connect with the very top of party leadership.
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Kanopy
64
37
5.8
/955/
56
/20/
53
/25/
3.5
/2647/
86
/7/
62
/5/

Kamikaze '89 (1982)
In a totalitarian society of the future, in which the government controls all facets of the media, a homicide detective investigates a string of bombings and finds out more than he bargained for.
poster
75
36
7.6
/3691/
75
/38/
77
/34/
3.4
/573/
80
/5/

The Guide (2014)
American boy Peter and blind minstrel Ivan are thrown together by fate amidst the turbulent mid-30s Soviet Ukraine.
poster
66
25
7.1
/298/
66
/23/
60
/16/
3.5
/637/
6.2
/2469/

Mermaid (1964)
A dreamy boy in a distant country saves a fish beached on the shore. When he lets it loose in a pool of water, the fish turns into a beautiful mermaid.
poster
68
17
7.1
/286/
71
/10/
62
/17/
3.5
/746/

The Box (2017)
You have probably heard of the phrase “to think outside the box”? Well, this is a film about such a box and the flat-headed creatures that live inside of it. Life in the Box is boring and miserable. Until one day a new baby boy starts to grow in the middle of the Box! This boy is very different from other flat-headed inhabitants of the Box. He’s happy, lively and curious. As the boy grows bigger and bigger, the flat-headed neighbours are becoming more and more annoyed with him. Until one day when he literally grows over their heads.
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52
14
6.4
/436/
62
/19/
53
/10/
29

3 Seasons in Hell (2009)
A 19 year old nonconformist poet living in 1947 Czechoslovakia is blind to the Communist behemoth looking over him, and instead lives a bohemian life with sexually liberated girls.
poster
43
12
4.2
/707/
47
/41/
41
/19/
2.8
/530/
35
/7/

Test Tube Teens from the Year 2000 (1994)
In the future, corporations have taken over the world and banned sex. A group of rebellious high school students devise a way to go back in time to the present day and try change history to prevent that from happening.
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Hoopla
50
?
4.4
/117/
50
/13/
42
/5/
3.0
/227/
55
/11/

Hemet, or the Landlady Don't Drink Tea (2024)
During a cannibalistic bath salts epidemic in Hemet, California, a tyrannical landlady lords it over her tenants, pitting them against each other in a web of paranoia spun for deadly results.
poster
59
?
6.6
/51/
51
/15/
60
/2/

1984 (2008)
Inspired by one of the twentieth century's greatest novels, composer Lorin Maazel evokes Orwell's totalitarian nightmare, where "Big Brother" is always watching, and those guilty of "thoughtcrime" are condemned to face their worst fears in the infamous "Room 101". Filmed during world premiere performances of Robert Lepage's spectacular and psychologically gripping Royal Opera production and conducted by the composer, an international cast brings George Orwell's dark vision to shattering operatic life.
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Hoopla
69
?
7.3
/106/
75
/4/
64
/5/

Free to Rock (2017)
Rock & Roll spread the sound of freedom across the Iron Curtain and throughout Eastern Europe and the USSR, despite Communist attempts to outlaw it and to crush what they perceived was a contamination of their youth. Over the next thirty years, thousands of underground bands and millions of young fans who yearned for Western values helped fuel the nonvio- lent implosion of the Soviet regime. FREE TO ROCK features Presidents, diplomats, spies and rock stars from the West, the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe who reveal how Rock & Roll music was a contributing factor in ending the Cold
poster
48
?
7.3
/146/
10
/2/
62
/5/

The Death of a Horse (1992)
During a political purge, the Albanian government orders the disbanding of a military unit whose horses are also considered traitors.
poster
45
?
5.9
/234/
36
/3/
42
/9/

Stanley Beloved (1998)
James and Kevin are friends and live in Hong-Kong. When Kevin finds out that his Chinese father wants to send him away to England to study, he decides to spend a summer day with his friend James. Then something unexpected happens.
poster
72
?
7.6
/180/
70
/1/
70
/3/
3.6
/329/

Slovo House (2017)
Chain-smoking artists, poets and playwrights were among the colourful array of intellectuals living in the ‘Slovo House’ in 1920s Ukraine. The communist paradise was built under Stalin's approval, but it quickly became a prison. The brutal Soviet regime spied on the inhabitants, destroying their eccentric way of life and sealing their fate. This fascinating film explores the extraordinary story of the building and its residents.
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Hoopla
55
?
6.1
/168/
57
/4/
48
/8/

Kruso (2018)
"Kruso" tells of the last summer before the Wall came down on the small island of Hiddensee in the Baltic Sea. Beyond state-organized tourism, the isolated island became a kind of artist colony every year and a place of longing for dropouts and alternatives. Due to its proximity to Denmark, Hiddensee was also the starting point for the flight across the Baltic Sea.
poster
Hoopla
65
?
6.1
/190/
67
/34/
67
/9/

How to Stage a Coup (2017)
A guide to human history through its most audacious power grabs. From Julius Caesar to Napoleon; from Mussolini to the strongmen of the present day - we see how the world we know has been shaped by those who dream big.
poster
?
4.3
/78/
40
/4/
37
/6/

East Meets West in Bed (1973)
A Russian official and his three female coworkers are mistaken for a pimp and his three prostitutes.
poster
52
?
5.6
/303/
37
/7/
60
/5/
2.9
/236/

Red Nightmare (1962)
A man takes his American freedoms for granted, until he wakes up one morning to find out that the United States Government has been replaced with a Communist system. The basis for this short film, narrated by Jack Webb, is the alleged Soviet re-creation of US communities for the purpose of training infiltrators, spies, and moles.
poster
60
?
6.5
/141/
45
/5/
58
/10/

The Man by the Shore (1993)
Early 1960s Haiti during 'Papa Doc' Duvalier's dictatorship seen through the eyes of a young girl whose family has suffered heavily.
poster
55
?
6.6
/125/
53
/3/
41
/4/

Cuckoo in a Dark Forest (1985)
Set in World War 2 as the Germans occupy Czechoslovakia, teenage Emilka's father is murdered by the Nazis, but she is selected for special treatment by virtue of being blonde. She is billeted with the commandant of a concentration camp near the Baltic coast, where his kindness towards her provokes his wife's jealousy, but is compromised when Emilka witnesses his brutality towards the prisoners.
poster
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Have You Seen This Man or: I Think Someone Is Watching Us (2022)
Browsing memes turned out to be an unexpected encounter with a mysterious man.


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