Dictatorship Movies

In Western Germany, two brothers and their organization help people escape to non-communist Germany. A policeman chasing them falls in love with the...

This is the story of Pablo, a young uruguayan exiled in México, whose father was disappeared during the military dictatorship.

Barcelona, 1966. Laia is a Law student at the University of Barcelona. She works part time in the University library to help cover her tuition, and...

Brazil, 2030. The sisters Alayr and Sabrina are hearing on the cell radio the judgment that could change the course of a country "without energy"....

A short film produced between September and October of 1969, during the course of the Brazilian military dictatorship. It's authorship remained...

The movie is about dictatorships in Greece – first, the Metaxas regime (1936-1940), and then the Colonels’ Junta (1967-74). In Part One,...

On Christmas Eve, Dejair, a former resistance fighter against the military dictatorship, gathers with his family in the backyard. During a Secret...

Images of Argentinian companies and factories in the first light of day, seen from the inside of a car, while the director reads out documents in...

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

A semi-fictional correspondence between two women: one goes to Iran in 1979 to topple the Shah; the other experiences the onerous years of...

Five bricklayers work to construct and subsequently demolish a monument under the direction of a pseudo-architect. As they toil, the workers succumb...

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...

The political leader Alberto Carnevali, secretly returns to his country to plot against the dictatorship of Marcos Perez Jimenez. The Intense...

A documentary about the activities carried out by the Group of Relatives of Disappeared Detainees: We see presentation of writs of protection,...

In a drab, anonymous gray school governed by a strict authoritarian regime, an apparently unremarkable day is turned on its head following a...

Documentary about the life story of one of Argentina's sports idols. One of the forty-three soccer players who won a World Cup, a fight. Filmed in...

Never before in Russian history has the Russian domestic intelligence services been more powerful than today. The FSB is a murky organisation that...

On the night of July 19, 1977, Inés was traveling by bus when a military patrol detained all the passengers. That morning, almost everyone was...

A documentary about the controversial businessman Henning Boilesen Jr. and his involvement with the military regime as one of its most enthusiastic...

Four lucid grandmothers tell their story forgotten by history: the militancy and resistance of the young women of the leftist youth against the...