Marxist movies and TV shows

The list contains the best, new and most relevant marxist movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out realistic, serious, political, philosophical, thought provoking and captivating films and TV shows about / with marxist, politics, society, communism, revolution, rebellion, revolutionary, leftist, anarchist and protest plots mostly in Drama, Biography and History genres shot in USA, France, UK and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as marxist: Reds (1981), Malcolm X (1992), In the Name of the Father (1993), Panther (1995), Land and Freedom (1995), The Motorcycle Diaries (2004), La chinoise (1967), Persepolis (2007), Morgan! (1966), Privilege (1967).

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Antonio Gramsci: The Days of Prison (1977)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 127 min.
Story: Antonio Gramsci: The Days of Prison is a 1977 Italian drama directed by Lino Del Fra.
Style: political
Plot: prison, nazi, fascism, gulag, philosopher, marxist, political oppression, political prisoner, anti fascist, jail cell, communism, marxism ...
Place: italy
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 7.3
 25K
Reds (1981)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Romance
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 195 min.
Story: A radical American journalist becomes involved with the Communist revolution in Russia and hopes to bring its spirit and idealism to the United States.
Style: epic, political, serious, tense, captivating ...
Plot: journalism, politics, russian revolution, revolutionary, biopic, communism, reporter, journalist, cold war, writers, love story, adaptation ...
Time: 1920s, 1910s, year 1917, 20th century, year 1981 ...
Place: russia, soviet union, new york, st. petersburg russia, usa ...
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 7.7
 101K
Malcolm X (1992)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 202 min.
Story: A tribute to the controversial black activist and leader of the struggle for black liberation. He hit bottom during his imprisonment in the '50s, he became a Black Muslim and then a leader in the Nation of Islam. His assassination in 1965 left ...
Style: inspirational, political, factual, intense, stylized ...
Plot: civil rights, racism, politics, african american, black history, civil rights movement, assassination, biopic, islam, childhood, society, prison ...
Time: 20th century, year 1992, 90s, 60s, 50s ...
Place: usa, africa, new york, nebraska, indiana ...
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In the Name of the Father (1993)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: Ireland, UK
Duration: 133 min.
Story: A small time thief from Belfast, Gerry Conlon, is falsely implicated in the IRA bombing of a pub that kills several people while he is in London. He and his four friends are coerced by British police into confessing their guilt. Gerry's father ...
Style: political, sentimental, inspirational, dramatic, factual ...
Plot: prison, terrorist, lawyer, father son relationship, courtroom, terrorism, trial, biopic, legal, justice, politics, courtroom drama ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, year 1993, 80s, 70s
Place: ireland, northern ireland, england, britain, nepal ...
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 6.4
 3K
Panther (1995)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story: Panther is a semi-historic film about the origins of The Black Panther Party for Self-Defense. The movie spans about 3 years (1966-68) of the Black Panther's history in Oakland. Panther also uses historical footage (B/W) to emphasize some ...
Style: political, controversial, disturbing, hood, philosophical ...
Plot: black panthers, hip hop, racism, black, african american, conspiracy, revolution, politics, marxist, drug, civil rights movement, civil rights ...
Time: 20th century, 60s
Place: america, vietnam
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Land and Freedom (1995)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: UK, Spain, Germany, Italy, France, USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: The movie narrates the story of David Carr, an unemployed worker and member of the Communist Party of Great Britain. In 1936 he decides to fight for the Republican side in the Spanish Civil War, an anti-fascist coalition of liberals, communists and ...
Style: political, informative, sad, social, hispanic ...
Plot: spanish civil war, revolution, politics, working class, communist, civil war, anarchist, anarchy, trench warfare, radical, dictator, dictatorship ...
Time: 1930s, 20th century, 90s, year 1995
Place: spain, barcelona, catalonia, europe, england
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The Motorcycle Diaries (2004)
Genre: Adventure, Biography, Drama
Country: UK, USA, France, Argentina, Peru, Chile, Germany
Duration: 126 min.
Story: "The Motorcycle Diaries" is based on the journals of Che Guevara, leader of the Cuban Revolution. In his memoirs, Guevara recounts adventures he, and best friend Alberto Granado, had while crossing South America by motorcycle in the early ...
Style: road movie, touching, inspirational, political, breathtaking ...
Plot: self discovery, motorcycle, travel, freedom, on the road, revolutionary, poverty, revolution, road trip, journey, traveler, biopic ...
Time: 20th century, year 2004, 50s, y2k, 2000s ...
Place: latin america, chile, cuba, south america, argentina ...
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The Wind That Shakes the Barley (2006)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Ireland, UK, Germany, Italy, Spain, France, Switzerland
Duration: 127 min.
Story: In 1920s Ireland young doctor Damien O'Donovan prepares to depart for a new job in a London hospital. As he says his goodbyes at a friend's farm, British Black and Tans arrive, and a young man is killed. Damien joins his brother Teddy in ...
Style: political, bleak, factual, brutal, bloody ...
Audience: date night
Plot: rebellion, civil war, ira, resistance, war, politics, freedom, rebel, traitor, injustice, occupation, debate ...
Time: 1920s, year 2006, 20th century, 2000s, post world war one ...
Place: ireland, england, northern ireland, dublin ireland, europe ...
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 6.9
 8K
La chinoise (1967)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A small group of French students are studying Mao, trying to find out their position in the world and how to change the world to a Maoistic community using terrorism.
Style: political, philosophical, art house, artsy, cult classic ...
Plot: revolution, communism, politics, anarchist, protest, marxist, legal, anarchy, communist, hippie, modernism, isolation ...
Time: year 1967, 60s
Place: france, paris france, europe, britain, usa ...
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 8.0
 100K
Persepolis (2007)
Genre: Animation, Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: France, USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: In 1970s Iran, Marjane 'Marji' Statrapi watches events through her young eyes and her idealistic family of a long dream being fulfilled of the hated Shah's defeat in the Iranian Revolution of 1979. However as Marji grows up, she ...
Style: adult animation, political, black and white, serious, realistic ...
Audience: teens, kids, teen drama, adult
Plot: revolution, coming of age, feminist, iraq iran war, female protagonist, politics, freedom, biopic, self discovery, childhood, social problems, adolescence ...
Time: 80s, year 2007, 70s, 20th century, near future ...
Place: iran, middle east, france, tehran iran, asia ...
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 6.5
 2K
Morgan! (1966)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: UK
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Morgan, an aggressive and self-admitted dreamer, a fantasist who uses his flights of fancy as refuge from external reality, where his unconventional behavior lands him in a divorce from his wife, Leonie, trouble with the police and, ultimately, ...
Style: independent film, cynical, biting, witty, cult classic ...
Plot: gorilla, divorce, skeleton, political satire, class differences, marxism, disguise, marriage, obsession, satire, swing, eccentricity ...
Time: year 1966, 60s, 20th century
Place: england, london, europe, united kingdom, wales
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 6.8
 1K
Privilege (1967)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Steven Shorter is the ultimate British music star. His music is listened to by everyone from pre-teens to grandparents. He has no trace of public bad habits or drug involvement. Everyone in Britain loves him. His handlers begin to use his popularity ...
Style: grindhouse, offbeat, apocalyptic, semi documentary, serious ...
Plot: dystopia, rock and roll, rock star, swing, social commentary, marxist, angry, social satire, distopia, pop music, human experiment, satire ...
Time: year 1967, future
Place: england, birmingham alabama, london, jerusalem
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 7.0
 15K
Teorema (1968)
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: Italy
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A wealthy Italian household is turned upside down when a handsome stranger (Terence Stamp) arrives, makes love to every family member and then disappears. Each has an epiphany of sorts, but none can figure out who the seductive visitor was or why he ...
Style: surreal, allegory, erotic, disturbing, controversial ...
Plot: bourgeoisie, surrealism, lgbt, mysterious stranger, gay, parable, homosexuality, lgbtq, erotica, sex, seduction, female nudity ...
Time: year 1968, 20th century, 60s
Place: italy, europe, milan italy
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 5.8
 835
Love and Anger (1969)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Five short stories with contemporary settings. In New York, people are indifferent to derelicts sleeping on sidewalks, to a woman's assault in front of an apartment building, and to a couple injured in a car crash. A man, stripped of his ...
Style: anthology, spiritual
Plot: marxist, spirituality, flowers, dying man, class struggle, female nudity, rape, male nudity, pursuit, argument, politics, actor ...
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 6.6
 4K
Porcile (1969)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Two dramatic stories. In an undetermined past, a young cannibal (who killed his own father) is condemned to be torn to pieces by some wild beasts. In the second story, Julian, the young son of a post-war German industrialist, is on the way to lie ...
Style: controversial, disturbing, experimental, erotic, art film ...
Plot: cannibalism, cannibal, zoophilia, female nudity, surrealism, death, bestiality, male nudity, social decay, murder, nudity, communism ...
Time: post world war two, 60s, 20th century, middle ages
Place: germany, europe
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The Way We Were (1973)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story: Two desperate people have a wonderful romance, but their political views and convictions drive them apart.
Style: sentimental, realistic, serious, captivating, intellectual ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: mccarthyism, naval officer, couples, politics, breakup, husband wife relationship, adultery, love story, passion, world war two, love and romance, friendship ...
Time: 1940s, 50s, 1930s, 1950s, pre world war two ...
Place: usa, new york, california, middle east, malibu california ...
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The Last Station (2009)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: Germany, UK, Russia
Duration: 112 min.
Story: A historical drama that illustrates Russian author Leo Tolstoy's struggle to balance fame and wealth with his commitment to a life devoid of material things. The Countess Sofya, wife and muse to Leo Tolstoy, uses every trick of seduction on her ...
Style: sentimental, factual, period piece, touching, melancholic ...
Plot: biopic, adultery, betrayal, love and romance, family relations, loss of virginity, lifestyle, writer's life, parents and children, art, poet, husband wife relationship ...
Time: 1910s, edwardian era, year 2009, 20th century
Place: russia, europe, moscow russia
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Film socialisme (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: Switzerland, France
Duration: 102 min.
Story: A symphony in three movements. Things such as a Mediterranean cruise, numerous conversations, in numerous languages, between the passengers, almost all of whom are on holiday... Our Europe. At night, a sister and her younger brother have summoned ...
Style: serious, contemplative, realistic, atmospheric, avant garde ...
Plot: family relations, politics, parents and children, state affairs, society, ship, social differences, parent child relationship, justice, filmmaking, family business, marxist ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: europe, barcelona, africa, italy, palestinian authority ...
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The Strawberry Statement (1970)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Simon (Bruce Davison), a student at a fictional university in San Francisco (based on San Francisco State College) is indifferent to the student protests around him, until walking in on a naked woman (Kristina Holland) in his dormitory ...
Style: political, social, serious, realistic
Plot: hippie, counterculture, vietnam war, chaos, university, marxist, anarchist, liberal, underground, feminism, anarchy, commune ...
Time: year 1970, 60s
Place: san francisco
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The Final Comedown (1972)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Black revolutionaries take action in the white suburbs.
Style: political, independent film, realistic, serious, rough ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: blaxploitation, racism, black, black lives matter, urban, exploitation, marxist, white supremacy, jazz, revolution, interracial relations, injustice ...
Time: 70s
Place: los angeles
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Germany in Autumn (1978)
Genre: Documentary, Drama
Country: West Germany
Duration: 123 min.
Story: Germany in Autumn does not have a plot per se; it mixes documentary footage, along with standard movie scenes, to give the audience the mood of Germany during the late 1970s. The movie covers the two month time period during 1977 when a businessman ...
Style: postmodern, political, art house, anthology, semi documentary ...
Plot: terrorism, raf, politics, funeral, society, german history, anarchist, marxist, dispute, autumn, police, television ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: germany, west germany
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 8.4
 95K
Come and See (1985)
Genre: Drama, Thriller, War
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 142 min.
Story: The invasion of a village in Byelorussia by German forces sends young Florya into the forest to join the weary Resistance fighters, against his family's wishes. There he meets a girl, Glasha, who accompanies him back to his village. On ...
Style: bleak, disturbing, rough, thought provoking, political ...
Audience: adult
Plot: world war two, genocide, war crime, against humanity, brutality, holocaust, atrocity, occupation, anti war, nazi, war, military ...
Time: 1940s, year 1943, 20th century, year 1985, near future
Place: germany, ussr, persia, europe, russia ...
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 7.4
 23K
Salvador (1986)
Genre: Drama, History, Thriller, War
Country: USA, Mexico, UK
Duration: 122 min.
Story: A second rated journalist from the US tries his luck in El Salvador during the military dictatorship in the 1980s.
Style: suspense, political, tense, factual, harsh ...
Plot: civil war, photojournalist, journalism, revolution, dictator, politics, war correspondent, war, reporter, cold war, dictatorship, military ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, year 1986, 70s
Place: latin america, central america, san francisco
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 7.4
 32K
The Edukators (2004)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Germany, Austria
Duration: 127 min.
Story: Three activists cobble together a kidnapping plot after they encounter a businessman in his home.
Style: political, philosophical, psychological, sentimental, independent film ...
Audience: teens
Plot: rebelliousness, rebellion, debt, rebel, politics, boyfriend, friends, kidnapping, revolution, vandalism, fighting the system, twists and turns ...
Time: year 2004, 2000s, year 1968, 21st century
Place: germany, berlin germany, europe, barcelona
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The Baader Meinhof Complex (2008)
Genre: Action, Biography, Crime, Drama, History, Thriller
Country: Germany, France, Czech Republic
Duration: 150 min.
Story: Der Baader Meinhof Komplex depicts the political turmoil in the period from 1967 to the bloody "Deutschen Herbst" in 1977. The movie approaches the events based on Stefan Aust's standard work on Die Rote Armee Fraktion (RAF). The ...
Style: political, bleak, realistic, intellectual, harsh ...
Audience: teens
Plot: terrorism, anti war, revolution, protest, revolutionary, journalist, prison, politics, idealism, capitalism, assassination, terrorist attack ...
Time: 70s, year 2008, 60s, 20th century, year 1967 ...
Place: germany, somalia, west berlin west germany, berlin germany, africa ...
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Night Catches Us (2010)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: After growing up during the tumultuous 1960s, ex-Black Panther Marcus returns to his home in Philadelphia in 1976 and reconnects with Pat, the widow of a Panther leader. Marcus befriends Pat's young daughter and attempts to conquer his demons. ...
Style: uplifting, serious, sincere, realistic, emotional ...
Plot: injustice, social relations, homecoming, social differences, haunted by the past, political unrest, society, working class, teenage life, corrupt law enforcer, black, black history ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: philadelphia, usa
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 7.1
 48K
Che: Part One (2008)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: France, Spain, USA
Duration: 134 min.
Story: The Argentine, begins as Che and a band of Cuban exiles (led by Fidel Castro) reach the Cuban shore from Mexico in 1956. Within two years, they mobilized popular support and an army and toppled the U.S.-friendly regime of dictator Fulgencio Batista.
Style: political, intense, talky, sincere, captivating ...
Plot: revolution, cuban revolution, dictatorship, communism, violence, military, biopic, freedom, idealism, rebel, civil war, cold war ...
Time: 50s, 1950s, 20th century, year 2008, 60s ...
Place: cuba, latin america, caribbean, mexico city, new york
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United Red Army (2007)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 190 min.
Story: The film is told in three acts, beginning with a historical background of Japan's student movement of the 1960s and early 1970s, mostly using archive footage and a narrator. The second act follows the formation of the group to their mountain ...
Style: serious, atmospheric, rough, bleak, anime ...
Plot: revolution, radical, rebellion, idealism, society, life is a bitch, military, isolation, danger, communism, hostage, terrorism ...
Time: 2000s, 20th century, 70s, year 1960, year 1972 ...
Place: japan, asia
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 7.2
 1K
Mogadischu (2008)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Germany, France
Duration: 90 min.
Story: The incredible true story of Lufthansa Flight 181, which was hijacked by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine in October of 1977, and the noble efforts of stewardess Gabriele Dillmann (Nadja Uhl) to ensure the safety of the terrified ...
Style: tense, realistic, serious, suspenseful, rough
Plot: terrorism, terrorist attack, passenger, daring rescue, confined, danger, airplane, hysteria, raf, pilot, mossad, hijacking ...
Time: 70s, year 1977, 20th century
Place: germany, africa, west germany
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The Founding Of An Army (2017)
Genre: Action, Drama, History, War
Country: China
Duration: 133 min.
Story: The Founding of an Army is a Chinese historical film. Produced by Han Sanping and directed by Andrew Lau, it is the third installment of the trilogy called Founding of New China after The Founding of a Republic (2009) and The Founding of a Party ...
Style: captivating, thrilling, psychological, banned
Plot: chinese history, chinese army, problem, murder, social problems, soldier, marxist, chinese civil war, communism, historical figure, political leader, republican era china ...
Time: 1920s
Place: china
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