| Martin Luther (2002) | 7.1 | |
| Aladdin (2019) | 6.9 | |
| Purlie (1982) | 8.3 | |
| Before It Ends (2023) | 7.0 | |
| Murder In Aveyron (2014) | 6.6 |
Liberation movies and TV shows – page 2
Best films
New films
| Bad Girlz (2025) | 9.4 | |
| Kora (2025) | 7.1 | |
| Freedom (2023) | 7.4 | |
| Emancipation (2022) | 6.3 | |
| Our Times (2025) | 5.4 |
List of liberation movies
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Czechoslovakia, East Germany
Duration: 140 min.
Story:
On 20th of April 1945 the Soviet army launches its attack on Berlin. The end has come for Nazi Germany and Hitler decides to commit suicide. In Prague K.H. Frank (Nazi Secretary of State and Chief of police in the Protectorate of Bohemia a Moravia) ...
Style:
historical drama
Plot:
world war two, nazi germany, occupation, resistance, german occupation, czech history, liberation, end of war, soviet army, insurrection, nazism, solidarity ...
Time:
1940s, year 1945
Place:
central europe, prague, czechoslovakia
Is relevant?
1K
Country: India
Duration: 144 min.
Story:
GOPD MOVIE LOVE
Style:
historical drama, tense, period piece
Plot:
liberation, enslavement, oppression, survival, justice, resistance, betrayal, solidarity, class conflict, escape plan, rebellion, power struggle ...
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
A group of suppressed women from a village in Gujarat find someone in the desert and their lives are changed forever.
Style:
gujarati, poignant, emotional, uplifting, mind blowing ...
Plot:
liberation, patriarchy, village life, gender roles, oppression, emancipation, resistance, social realism, identity, community, bonding, rebellion ...
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, USA, UK, India
Duration: 146 min.
Story:
A Canadian-Brith film adaptation of Salman Rushdie's novel of the same name. The film tells the story of a pair of children born within moments of India gaining independence from England grow up in the country that is nothing like their ...
Style:
captivating, surreal, stylized, psychological, epic ...
Plot:
hopes, family relations, political unrest, youth, coming of age, love and romance, society, siblings relations, rich and poor, magic realism, coup, colonialism ...
Time:
20th century, 1940s, 50s, 60s, year 1917 ...
Place:
india, bombay india, pakistan, asia, kashmir ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
TV show
Story:
Banshee: Origins is a series of webisodes based on the American drama television series produced by Cinemax called Banshee. The series offers flashbacks in-between the time where Lucas Hood was arrested and when Sheriff Lucas Hood first arrived in ...
Style:
serious, tense, disturbing, thrilling, exciting ...
Plot:
prison, prison guard, prison sentence, prison life, imprisonment, jail, liberation, prison warden, released from prison, jail cell, jailed, vigilante ...
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
After serving a 20-year jail sentence for a crime she did not commit, all Marcia wants is to see her children again. However, their father Esteban has led them to believe she is dead.
Style:
soap opera, emotional, captivating, thrilling, exciting ...
Plot:
stepmother, motherhood, family drama, prisoner, obsessive quest, searching for the truth, jail, jailed, liberation, female prisoner, confined, released from prison ...
Time:
2020s
Is relevant?
Genre: Animation, Family
Country: Denmark, Estonia, Germany
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
Hodja is a dreamer. He wants to experience the world, but his father insists he stays home and takes over the family's tailor shop. Fortunately, Hodja meets the old rug merchant El Faza, who gives him a flying carpet. In exchange he has to ...
Style:
funny, humorous, light, feel good, entertaining ...
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
magic, friendship, happy ending, arabian nights, first love, palace, treasure, rivalry, liberation, imagination, quest, rescue mission ...
Is relevant?
Genre: Adventure, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
A young boy finds a magic lantern that contains a genie, and when he frees the genie he's granted three wishes. He uses the wishes to help the princess of Baghdad and her father fight off an evil sorcerer who's trying to take over the ...
Style:
fairy tale, light, funny, feel good, romantic ...
Plot:
arabian nights, magic, rags to riches, happy ending, magic spell, friendship, heroes, palace, wish fulfillment, liberation, mythology, princess ...
Place:
middle east, soviet union, ussr
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
An emotional and poetic story of Elise, a beautiful young woman haunted by a tragic event in her youth. As Elise attempts to piece together the mystery of her sister's disappearance at the beach, twenty years before when both were children, she ...
Style:
emotional, realistic, atmospheric, touching, serious ...
Plot:
missing child, self discovery, haunted by the past, hopes, sister sister relationship, journey, redemption, secret, friendship, liberation, society, love ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
australia, south australia, adelaide south australia
Is relevant?
Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Country: China, Hong Kong
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
Taking place 500 years after the Havoc in Heaven, the Tang Priest is appointed by Buddha to go to the West to fetch the sacred scriptures, only to accidentally free the Monkey King. With Lady White (Gong Li) aiming to break up the team assembled to ...
Style:
tense, entertaining, captivating, stylized, exciting ...
Audience:
teens, date night
Plot:
dragon, monkey king, medieval, monk, demon, martial arts, fistfight, dishonesty, heroes, deity, heroic mission, friendship ...
Place:
ancient china, china
Is relevant?
Genre: Animation, Biography
Country: Spain, Poland, Belgium, Germany, France, Hungary
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
In 1975, Ryszard Kapuściński, a veteran Polish journalist, embarked on a seemingly suicidal road trip into the heart of the Angola's civil war. There, he witnessed once again the dirty reality of war and discovered a sense of helplessness ...
Style:
adult animation, thought provoking, psychological, suspenseful, rough ...
Plot:
life risking, conflict, civil war, investigation, independence movement, african, war, frontline, wartime, military life, road trip, travel ...
Time:
20th century, 2010s, year 1975
Place:
angola, africa, portugal, cuba, poland ...
Is relevant?
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
Country: Australia, New Zealand
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
Story:
Follow a teenage girl and a trio of fallen gods on a perilous journey as they attempt to bring an end to a demonic reign of chaos and restore balance to their world. Inspired by the 16th Century Chinese fable “Journey to the West.”
Style:
tense, stylized, semi serious, exciting
Plot:
monkey king, good versus evil, medieval, fistfight, hand to hand combat, heroes, demon, danger, escapades, heroic mission, dishonesty, liberation ...
Place:
australia
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Genre: War, Action
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
At the beginning of the war the Germans come to the mine Trepca in Kosovo and occupy it. Communist Party and the workers do not agree with that and under constant repression, beginning small diversions, which will be transferred in the conquest and ...
Style:
tense, historical drama, suspenseful
Audience:
adult
Plot:
world war two, partisan, sabotage, mine, occupation, anti fascist, liberation, repression, solidarity, underground movement, class struggle, communist party ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
former yugoslavia, kosovo
Is relevant?
Genre: Adventure
Country: Italy
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A wizard summons Ali Baba to transport a sacred crown to a nearby country. An evil ruler has taken over the land, and the crown is needed to free the people from his influence.
Style:
fantasy adventure, action packed, suspenseful, period piece, costume drama
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
peplum, sword fight, liberation, magic, wizard, rebellion, rescue mission, supernatural, folklore, ancient, epic battle, prophecy ...
Is relevant?
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: Brazil
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
The diabolical Ratam (Paul Reis) takes over the planet Antar, after the death of the emperor, and orders that all children be enslaved. Always kept within the palace, Princess Xeron (Xuxa) believes that the people of her kingdom are happy. ...
Style:
fantasy adventure, slapstick comedy, buddy comedy, colorful, surreal ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
princess, children, royalty, liberation, friendship, teamwork, tyranny, rescue mission, palace, rebel army, desolation, spaceship ...
Is relevant?
343
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Norway
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
The first of Anja Breiens Wives trilogy.
Style:
satirical, experimental
Plot:
women's liberation, female empowerment, female friendship, gender roles, feminist, sexism, switching roles, liberation, escapism, rebellion, working woman, midlife crisis ...
Time:
70s
Is relevant?
Genre: Animation, Action, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story:
It is the Universal Century, year 153. The Zanscare Empire, which rules almost all of Side 2, has declared its independence from the old government, the hollow and corrupt Earth Federation. Under the justification of creating a new, space-based ...
Style:
anime, mecha, action adventure, adult animation
Plot:
military, mobile suit gundam, space wars, resistance, coming of age, occupation, rebellion, space opera, political intrigue, liberation, guerilla warfare, political corruption ...
Place:
eastern europe
Is relevant?
132
Genre: Comedy, Family, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 142 min.
Story:
Based on Davis' 1961 play Purlie Victorious (which was later translated into the 1963 film Gone Are the Days! and which included all of the original Broadway cast, including Ruby Dee, Alan Alda, Beah Richards, and Godfrey Cambridge), it is set ...
Style:
historical drama, inspirational, uplifting, comedy drama, period piece ...
Plot:
african american, civil rights, social justice, oppression, racial tension, racism, plantation, community, church, religion, empowerment, liberation ...
Time:
60s
Is relevant?
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Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
Story:
Chōdenji Machine Voltes V (超電磁マシーン ボルテスＶ Chōdenji Mashīn Borutesu Faibu?, Super Electromagnetic Machine Voltes Five) more popularly known as Voltes V, is a Japanese anime television series that was first aired on TV Asahi ...
Style:
anime, mecha, action packed, dramatic, tense ...
Plot:
alien invasion, robot, giant robot, brotherhood, teamwork, family drama, space opera, extraterrestrial, father son relationship, liberation, space battle, resistance movement ...
Time:
70s
Place:
japan
Is relevant?
4K
Genre: Comedy
Country: India
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Thamara, Paru, Kajal and Suganya are four friends who are rather tired of their uneventful routine. However, things take a turn for the better with the arrival of the spirited and outgoing Rita, a young woman who encourages them to live their lives ...
Style:
feel good, inspirational, life affirming, comedy drama, lighthearted
Plot:
female friendship, personal growth, self discovery, female empowerment, liberation, young adult, lifestyle change, coming of age, youth culture, slice of life, city life, relationships ...
Time:
21st century
Is relevant?
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Marie and Eric, a couple in their thirties who have been together since college, buy their first apartment when Marie is suddenly overcome by doubt. Her encounter with a handsome, dark-haired man forces her to make a decision...
Style:
humorous, realistic, light, captivating, feel good ...
Plot:
friendship, breakup, introspection, strong female presence, singleness, unfulfillment, bittersweet, personal growth, female protagonist, self discovery, women, love and romance ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france
Is relevant?
Genre: Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 31 min.
TV show
Story:
In the early days of the 22nd Century, the human population reaches a staggering 12 billion. Global disease, famine and suffering have spread on an unimaginable scale. In the wake of epic brutal wars over food, water and medicine, an oppressive ...
Style:
bleak, dark, tense, suspenseful, allegory ...
Plot:
artificial intelligence, oppression, dystopia, revolution, liberation, cyberpunk, rebellion, moral ambiguity, survival, social commentary, heroine, class struggle ...
Time:
22nd century, future
Is relevant?
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Summer 1969 on the Mediterranean coast. Paul and Vincent are childhood buddies. On a beach one day, they meet Alice and her friend Eve. After a series of memorable adventures, couples fall into place but not quite in the right order. Alice blossoms ...
Style:
semi serious, humorous, touching, realistic, sexual ...
Plot:
beach, buddies, gender, love affair, revolution, couples, sexuality, infidelity, female nudity, adultery, relationships, sexually liberated ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
france
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Brazil
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Alice is a thirty-something woman married to João, has a son and is very successful professionally. Alice is the typical workaholic, whose work is her largest and only pleasure. On the other hand her personal life does not exist: no sexual ...
Style:
sexy, humorous, light hearted, romantic comedy, uplifting ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
sex shop, workaholic, sexual awakening, pleasure, liberation, self discovery, female protagonist, female friendship, empowerment, identity crisis, self esteem, career change ...
Time:
2010s
Is relevant?
387
Genre: Comedy, Music, Romance
Country: Finland
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Dramatic comedy about having fun, throwing yourself into life without inhibition, overcoming the feeling of shame and accepting that few things in life go as planned.
Style:
light hearted, feel good, realistic
Plot:
honest, personal growth, acceptance, self discovery, liberation, shame, slice of life, misadventure, friendship, empowerment, everyday life, identity ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
finland
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama, Thriller, War
Country: Romania, Hungary
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Sibiu, December 1989. In the chaos and panic generated by the protests of the crowd against the authorities, a unit of the militia becomes the target of a violent assault that escalates into a bloody confrontation between soldiers, militiamen, ...
Style:
historical drama, intense, political, period piece, political thriller ...
Plot:
soldier, revolution, freedom, oppression, secret police, civil unrest, conflict, protest, liberation, chaos, militia, accusation ...
Time:
80s, year 1989
Place:
romania, eastern europe
Is relevant?
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: New Zealand
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
The Strip is the story of corporate lawyer Melissa Walker, who decides her life needs a new direction and quits her job after finding her husband in bed with his male lover. She opens a male strip club, catering especially for women...
Style:
entertaining, captivating, dramatic, funny, sensual ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
strip club, adultery, extramarital affair, striptease, infidelity, female protagonist, club, nightclub, relationships, male nudity, adulterous husband, strip show ...
Is relevant?
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Eli has added some awesome new slugs to his arsenal: the extremely powerful Elemental Slugs. But in order to control them, Eli must learn Slug Fu -- the ancient form of slugslinging that Junjie mastered in the Eastern Caverns.
Style:
feel good, semi serious, captivating, entertaining, anime ...
Audience:
family outing, teens, kids
Plot:
teamwork, friendship, battles, save the day, young heroes, dream world, fantasy world, gang, fight, cave, escapades, heroes ...
Is relevant?
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Brazil
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Follows Moses leading and conducting the Hebrew people from the slavery of Egypt to the freedom towards the Promised Land according to the Ancient Testament Bible book of the Exodus. The story told like never before is faithful to the Scriptures.
Style:
biblical, psychological, contemplative, epic, serious ...
Plot:
ancient egypt, bible, mistress, moses, exodus, ten commandments, poison, life changing, saving a life, bible story, white lie, faith based ...
Place:
egypt
Is relevant?
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
In 2420, after aliens and powerful space wizards enslaved human villages, a group of rebels organize a counter attack against their alien overlords by piloting fully loaded spaceships.
Style:
gloomy, enigmatic, tense, epic, fast paced ...
Plot:
alien, human alien, alien invasion, space battle, space opera, outer space, survival, rebellion, supernatural, culture clash, peril, planet earth ...
Time:
future
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