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3.4
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80
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A World Apart (1988)
A White enclave in Johannesburg, South Africa, in the 1960s. Molly Roth, 13 years old, is the daughter of leftist parents, and she must piece together what's happening around her when her father disappears one night, barely evading arrest, and, not long after, her mother is detained by the authorities. Some of Molly's White friends turn against her, and her family's friendships with Blacks take on new meaning. Relationships are fragile in the world of apartheid. How will she manage?
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Criterion Channel
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75
7.8
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76
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74
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4.1
/18584/
90
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92
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Camera Buff (1979)
Filip buys an 8mm movie camera when his first child is born. Because it's the first camera in town, he's named official photographer by the local Party boss. His horizons widen when he is sent to regional film festivals with his first works but his focus on movie making also leads to domestic strife and philosophical dilemmas.
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64
7.8
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80
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74
/51/
3.9
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Waves (2024)
At the end of the 1960s, when the air is filled with rock-and-roll and student rebellions are changing the world, the older of two brothers joins a prestigious newsroom of the public radio broadcaster. Not long after, he finds himself in the middle of a dangerous conflict between journalists and the secret service.
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Kanopy
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64
7.3
/3401/
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/29/
72
/29/
3.7
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88
/26/
98
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62
/6/

Amerikatsi (2022)
In 1948, decades after fleeing Armenia to the US as a child, Charlie returns in the hopes of finding a connection to his roots, but what he finds instead is a country crushed under Soviet rule. After being unjustly imprisoned, Charlie falls into despair, until he discovers that he can see into a nearby apartment from his cell window - the home of a prison guard.
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60
7.1
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72
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3.7
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76
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Yellow Earth (1984)
A communist soldier is sent to a remote region of China in order to collect folk songs. Staying with a peasant family (a widower with two small children), he discovers a community whose way of life is completely alien to him, but he gradually wins their trust…
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Sun Nxt
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59
7.5
/4743/
80
/97/
72
/38/
3.6
/4276/
88
/23/

Thattathin Marayathu (2012)
Vinod is madly in love with a Muslim girl, Aisha. Aisha, who gradually falls in love with Vinod, is disappointed to see their difference in religion acting as a barrier in their marriage plans.
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Kanopy
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7.3
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/65/
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3.7
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The Seduction of Mimi (1972)
Voting against the Mafia in what he thinks is a secret ballot costs Sicilian laborer Mimi his livelihood. He leaves his wife, flees to Turin and romances a Communist organizer – but he just can’t shake the Mafia. When they lure Mimi back to Sicily with a better job, he must keep his lover – and love child – under wraps. That’s when his wife announces she’s pregnant.
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Kanopy
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7.5
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/28/
77
/27/
3.7
/867/
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/18/
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87
/8/

The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceausescu (2010)
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 National Archives of Romania.
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7.8
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The Oak (1992)
A description of Romania before Ceausescu's downfall, through the story of Nela. Daughter of a former colonel of the Securitate, the romanian political police. She refused to become like her sister, an agent of this Securitate, and lives with her father. After he died, she leaves Bucharest, and ends up in a little town, where she meets Mitica, a surgeon, another herself, laughing at everything.
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7.1
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3.6
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The Joke (1969)
In the 1950s, Ludvik Jahn was expelled from the Communist Party and the University by his fellow students, because of a politically incorrect note he sent to his girlfriend. Fifteen years later, he tries to get his revenge by seducing Helena, the wife of one of his accusers.
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Walking Too Fast (2010)
The psyche of a ruthless secret agent in Cold War Czechoslovakia begins to unravel when he obsesses over the girlfriend of a suspected subversive he is tracking. This taut political thriller is a bleak and potent rendering of the emotional destruction wreaked by totalitarianism.
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7.3
/21/

The Case of Filip Franjic (1978)
Due to idealism, honesty and resoluteness, a driver in a transport company faces numerous problems in his living and working environment.
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10
/1/

Albanian Heroic Women (1967)
Documentary about Congres VI of the Women's Union.
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7.1
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68
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The Redhead (1976)
During the summer of 1944, while Romanians turn weapons against Nazis, Mihai, an orphan teenager whose parents died in a bombing, tries to enlist in order to fight in the front line but he discovers that former police commissioner Potra tortured and beaten prisoners, including his father, who was political detained. Mihai will fight to bring Potra in front of the justice.
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70
/1/

Georges Marchais, l’homme qui avait choisi son camp (2022)
Both a political narrative and a psychological reflection, this documentary explores the personal journey of a quarry worker’s son from Calvados who rose to become the last great figure of the French Communist Party. It delves into the logic that shaped his path and his lasting impact on France’s history.
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7.7
/7/

WHAT GOES AROUND Rudolf Slánský (2020)
The full-length television documentary, using currently found audio-visual records, tells the story of the fabricated political process from November 1952, the story of its victims and its masterminds. At its end, 11 executed high-ranking officials of the Communist Party of the Czech Republic, committed to the communist party, who mechanically "recited" memorized confessions and accusations of "accomplices", former friends and colleagues in front of the court in response to prearranged questions from the prosecutors and judges.
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Danube (2021)
Argentina, 1968. In the midst of the Cold War, the dictatorship of Juan Carlos Onganía (1966-70) organizes the 9th Mar del Plata Film Festival in order to show the world its friendly face, while exercising censorship and repressing dissidence.
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6.6
/8/
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Le Parti du cinéma (2021)
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10
/1/

Příprava výstavy „30 let KSČ“ (1951)
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7.6
/97/
73
/3/
78
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The World According to Xi Jinping (2018)
Under the leadership of Xi Jinping, China is on its way to becoming the leading world power of the 21st century. What goals is the mysterious autocrat, who was deeply influenced by Maoism in his youth, pursuing? What drives him? In terms of domestic policy, Xi is striving for the "perfect dictatorship"; in terms of foreign policy, he wants to rewrite the international rules.
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10
/1/

La universidad vota en contra (1968)
Demonstrations, confrontations, parties and divisions marked one of the most important university campaigns of the decade: the 1968 student elections.
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10
/1/

Rok stranického učení (1950)
Political documentary film about the second year of party training of the Communist Party of the Czech Republic.
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2.0
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Dvacátý devátý (1975)
In the era of normalisation, a number of (pseudo)historical films were made, even described as reconstructions, which glorified the world-building mission of the Communist Party and attributed to it exclusively humanitarian intentions ("Days of Betrayal", "Sokolovo", "Liberation of Prague", "The Victorious People"). In 1929, when its fifth congress met, Klement Gottwald, who had taken the line of the Russian Bolsheviks, took over the leadership of the Communists...
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6.0
/60/
10
/1/

No Time for Flowers (1952)
A young girl's loyalty to the Communist Party is tested in Prague when she falls in love with an attache who has just arrived from the United States.
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7.4
/91/
60
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65
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The Way of the Psychonaut (2020)
The Way of the Psychonaut explores the life and work of Stanislav Grof, Czech-born psychiatrist and psychedelic psychotherapy pioneer. Stan’s quest for knowledge and insights into the healing power of non-ordinary states of consciousness, influenced the discipline of psychology and profoundly changed many individual lives. One of those transformed by Stan is filmmaker Susan Hess Logeais. The documentary utilizes Susan’s personal existential crisis as a gateway to Grof’s impact, from the micro to the macro.
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7.6
/54/
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Después de… Segunda parte: atado y bien atado (1983)
A history of the Spanish Transition told in first person by the main protagonists: on the one hand, the politicians, idealistic or merely opportunistic, who brought it to a successful conclusion in the tribunes and offices; on the other hand, the citizens who, in the streets, supported it sincerely or fought it with ferocity.
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7.5
/69/
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80
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Después de… Primera parte: no se os puede dejar solos (1983)
A history of the Spanish Transition told in first person by the main protagonists: on the one hand, the politicians, idealistic or merely opportunistic, who brought it to a successful conclusion in the tribunes and offices; on the other hand, the citizens who, in the streets, supported it sincerely or fought it with ferocity.
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5.0
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Murder in the Central Committee (1982)
The plot follows a private detective, an ex communist and former CIA agent, who travels from Barcelona to Madrid to discover the identity of the assassin of the leader of the Spanish Communist party who was stabbed during a blackout while presiding over a meeting of the party's central committee. The film is a thriller with ironic political overtones.
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6.6
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3.6
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General Report (1977)
How does a country go from a dictatorship to a democracy? A detailed report on the political representation in the heart of the Spanish Transition, only a few months after General Franco’s death, when the sincere democratic vocation of Spanish people must effort to destroy, one heavy brick after another, the wall that those who supported the dictatorship and those who fought it from the exile built with resentment, hatred and prejudices.
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50
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Never Speak Ill of the Dead (1984)
Tragicomic story about Communist activist who wants to bring the benefits of Communism to the inhabitants of a Serbian village after WW2.
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100
/1/

Jacques Doriot, le petit Führer français (2018)
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51
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3.4
/300/

Mercedes (1993)
Nubi, a wealthy man with Communist ties, sets out to find his half-brother Gamal, who has been disowned for being gay, to let him inherit his father's fortune. In the process, Nubi is supposed to kill Gamal's stepmother Raifa, a suspected drug dealer, before she can kill his half-brother.
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Kanopy
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3.6
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Seeing Red: Stories of American Communists (1983)
A unique documentary that looks at the political activities of the American Communist Party in the early to mid-twentieth century.
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Kanopy
65
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6.6
/470/
72
/61/
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Toman (2018)
This fascinating historical drama looks at the life of "the Czech Schindler," Zdenek Toman, a controversial figure who was an unsavory politician and dubious entrepreneur, but also the savior of hundreds of Eastern European Jews.
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Que faire ? (1993)
How did the end of the Soviet Union change the way of thinking, the way of behaviour of militant French Communists ? For the first time and during several months meetings of a Communist Party cell in one of Paris' industrial suburbs were filmed by André Van In. Set against these meetings, the militants are filmed discussing their commitments, their dreams, their mistakes. Beyond questions about power or the political machinery, they share their faith in militancy and their hopes for a fairer society.
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La dannazione della sinistra - Cronache di una scissione (2021)
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Fomos, Somos e Seremos Comunistas (2012)
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