Marxism movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant marxism movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out realistic, political, bleak, melancholic, art house and thought provoking films and TV shows about / with marxism, politics, society, nude, marriage, murder, family relations, revolution, father son relationship and female nudity plots mostly in Drama, Comedy and Biography genres shot in France, UK, Italy and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as marxism: Comrade Pedersen (2006), Rosa Luxemburg (1986), Maggie's Plan (2015), Another Country (1984), Morgan! (1966), Southland Tales (2006), The Elusive Summer of '68 (1984), Milena (1990), The Brothers (1969), Gulag Vorkuta (2016).
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List of marxism movies
Genre: Drama
Country: Norway
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
A drama focused on Norwegian society in the 1970s, an era politically influenced by Marxism and Leninism.
Style:
philosophical, political, political drama
Plot:
communist, communism, marxism, political activist, outdoor sex, butt, working class, revolution, political activism, sex, erotica, scandinavian culture ...
Time:
70s, 60s
Place:
scandinavia
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: West Germany, Czechoslovakia
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
Wronke Prison, 1916. Social democrat Rosa Luxemburg faces a mock execution. Twenty years earlier, Rosa's political gifts are acknowledged by everyone, as she struggles for democratic government in Germany and revolution in Poland. There she ...
Style:
political, political thriller, philosophical, suspense, social ...
Plot:
communist, women, revolution, communism, biopic, capitalism, revolutionary, anarchist, world war one, protest, strike, union ...
Time:
20th century, year 1916
Place:
germany, berlin germany
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Maggie 's plan to have a baby on her own is derailed when she falls in love with John, a married man, destroying his volatile marriage to the brilliant and impossible Georgette. But one daughter and three years later, Maggie is out of love and ...
Style:
romantic, melancholic, talky, stylized, sentimental ...
Plot:
writers, stepmother, relationships, marriage, divorce, hotel, friendship, marxism, blended family, narcissist, character study, eccentricity ...
Place:
new york, manhattan new york city, quebec, brooklyn new york city, california
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Set in the 1930s, Guy Bennett and Tommy Judd are friends because they are both outsiders in their own ways. Bennett is openly gay, Judd is a Marxist. It explores his homosexuality and exposure to Marxism, while examining the hypocrisy and snobbery ...
Style:
serious, realistic, lgbt cinema, rough, captivating ...
Plot:
gay, lgbt, boys' school, gays and lesbians, gender, gay lead character, youth, homosexuality, boarding school, homosexual, homosexual love, lgbtq ...
Time:
1930s, 80s, year 1983, 20th century, post world war two
Place:
england, moscow russia, ussr, russia, britain ...
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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, dark comedy ...
Plot:
gorilla, divorce, political satire, skeleton, class differences, disguise, marxism, marriage, obsession, satire, swing, eccentricity ...
Time:
year 1966, 60s, 20th century
Place:
england, london, europe, wales, united kingdom
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: France, Germany, USA
Duration: 145 min.
Story:
Set in the futuristic landscape of Los Angeles on July 4, 2008, as it stands on the brink of social, economic and environmental disaster. Boxer Santaros is an action star who's stricken with amnesia. His life intertwines with Krysta Now, an ...
Style:
surreal, futuristic, cynical, apocalyptic, postmodern ...
Plot:
time travel, dystopian future, apocalypse, alternate reality, memory, prophecy, chaos, distopia, dark humor, alternate history, amnesia, drug ...
Time:
future, year 2005, year 2006, near future, 2000s ...
Place:
los angeles, syria, middle east, nevada, southern california ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
For the young man who lives in Serbian province town, the maturing coincides with the turbulent political events of the year 1968.
Style:
parody, realistic, semi serious, humorous, touching ...
Plot:
fall in love, coming of age, cold war, summer, domineering father, skinny dipping, grandfather grandson relationship, traumatic childhood, family relations, revolution, teenage life, chaos and mayhem ...
Time:
year 1968, year 1984, 60s, 20th century
Place:
former yugoslavia, prague, balkan, europe, serbia ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A Marxist-Leninist expelled from the British Communist Party joins the Revolutionary Party of the Third World, sleeps around, and attempts to rethink his place within the revolution after the events of the 1968 May uprising in Paris.
Style:
avant garde, political drama
Plot:
marxism, frustration, moral ambiguity, cold war era, urban, sexually liberated, promiscuity, class struggle, political protest, working class, womanizer, irony ...
Time:
year 1968
Place:
london
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: France, Germany, Canada
Duration: 139 min.
Story:
Prague, 1920. Milena's father wants her to follow in his footsteps and be one of the first female doctors in Czechoslovakia, but she is determined to be a writer. She elopes to Vienna with the Jewish music critic Ernst Pollak, and starts a ...
Style:
historical drama, period piece, bleak, atmospheric, melancholic ...
Plot:
father daughter relationship, concentration camp, female protagonist, persecution, marxism, communism, biopic, writers, journalism, feminism, political activism, identity ...
Time:
1920s, 1930s
Place:
prague, vienna, czechoslovakia, europe
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Genre: Drama
Country: Finland
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Two brothers, two different lifestyles collide. Eero is a young married man who opens up a print shop and struggles to get it going. Eki is a student with Marxist ideas, although he dates the daughter of a wealthy shipowner.
Style:
realistic, melancholic, political drama
Plot:
brothers, marxism, character study, sibling rivalry, class conflict, family drama, everyday life, working class, social realism, coming of age, moral dilemma, urban ...
Time:
60s
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Two dissidents, fall in love in a Marxist USSR Gulag death camp. As their friends die, they commit to the seeming impossible, escape, but both must first answer their deepest moral questions about the meaning of life, sacrifice and freedom.
Style:
bleak, dark, historical drama, period piece, political drama
Plot:
gulag, prisoner of war camp, oppression, totalitarianism, sacrifice, survival, brutality, escape, communism, marxism, prison break, desperation ...
Time:
1950s, 1940s
Place:
soviet union, ussr
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
The dramatic and scandalous life of the variously renowned and reviled poet, screenwriter and film director Pier Paolo Pasolini (1922-1975) is reportedly poorly served in this highly allegorical and intellectual film which focuses rather more on his ...
Style:
intellectual, philosophical, thought provoking, allegory, controversial ...
Plot:
poet, biopic, symbolism, marxism, screenwriter, portrait, italian politics, religion, life & death, scandal, violent death, blasphemy ...
Time:
80s
Place:
rome italy
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Russia
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
Having dedicated his life to the preparation of the revolution in the Russian Empire, Vladimir Lenin, living in exile in Switzerland, desperately seeks a way back to Russia to take control. Options are few when Lenin receives an offer from Alexander ...
Style:
serious, realistic, exciting, captivating, dramatic ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
lenin, revolutionary, power struggle, political unrest, biopic, communist, state affairs, communist propaganda, politics, bolshevik, protest, pursuit ...
Time:
year 1917
Place:
russia, switzerland, germany
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Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
Country: UK
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
King Arthur, accompanied by his squire, recruits his Knights of the Round Table, including Sir Bedevere the Wise, Sir Lancelot the Brave, Sir Robin the Not-Quite-So-Brave-As-Sir-Lancelot and Sir Galahad the Pure. On the way, Arthur battles the Black ...
Style:
humorous, absurd, parody, spoof, surreal ...
Audience:
chick flick, teens
Plot:
monty python, medieval, knight, holy grail, satire, king arthur, arthurian legend, sword fight, surrealism, monk, absurd humor, camelot ...
Time:
medieval times, middle ages, 10th century, year 1975, 20th century ...
Place:
arizona, britain, europe, england, xian ...
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Genre: Drama, Musical, War
Country: Hungary
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Set in the 1890s on the Hungarian plains, a group of farm workers go on strike in which they face harsh reprisals and the reality of revolt, oppression, morality and violence.
Style:
political, contemplative, period drama
Plot:
revolt, surrealism, revolution, dancing, soldier, priest, female nudity, socialism, river, farmer, marxism, reform ...
Time:
1890s, 19th century
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Genre: Drama
Country: France, West Germany
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Night after night, not long before dawn, two young adults, Patricia and Emile, meet on a sound stage to discuss learning, discourse, and the path to revolution. Scenes of Paris's student revolt, the Vietnam War, and other events of the late ...
Style:
eros, avant garde, contemplative, tense, thought provoking ...
Plot:
revolution, politics, black panthers, capitalism, marxism, socialism, theory, television studio, swastika, vietnam war, imperialism, education ...
Time:
60s
Place:
vietnam, cuba, america, paris france, france ...
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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, erotic, experimental, avant garde ...
Plot:
cannibalism, cannibal, zoophilia, female nudity, bestiality, male pubic hair, surrealism, death, pig, social decay, murder, nudity ...
Time:
post world war two, 60s, 20th century, middle ages
Place:
germany, europe
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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, visually stunning, serious ...
Audience:
teens, kids, pre-teens, teen drama, adult
Plot:
coming of age, revolution, feminist, female protagonist, politics, iraq iran war, self discovery, biopic, childhood, repression, adolescence, culture clash ...
Time:
80s, year 2007, 70s, 20th century, year 1978 ...
Place:
iran, middle east, tehran iran, france, vienna ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 141 min.
Story:
Jep Gambardella has seduced his way through the lavish nightlife of Rome for decades, but after his 65th birthday and a shock from the past, Jep looks past the nightclubs and parties to find a timeless landscape of absurd, exquisite beauty.
Style:
philosophical, intellectual, visually stunning, breathtaking, art house ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
stripper, writer's life, party, high society, passion, female nudity, friendship, artist, aging, surrealism, skinny dipping, male nudity ...
Time:
2010s, year 2013, 21st century
Place:
rome italy, italy
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Genre: Drama
Country: West Germany
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Herr Raab is a technical draftsman. His wife pushes him to seek a promotion, which may be a long shot after he gives a dull and tipsy toast at an office dinner. But why would Herr Raab run amok?
Style:
art house, controversial, cult classic, existential, realistic ...
Plot:
uxoricide, family relations, murder, existentialism, losing-it hero, everyday life, colleague, serial killer, alienation, suicide, midlife crisis, marxism ...
Time:
year 1970, 60s
Place:
germany, europe
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: West Germany
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
Fox, a former circus performer, wins the lottery of DM 500,000 and can now have the life and things that he has always wanted. While he wants to climb up the social ladder, it isn't without turmoil, and being torn between his old working class ...
Style:
disturbing, sexual, serious, art house, bleak ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
gay, gay interest, infidelity, politics, subculture, working class, friends, money, betrayal, friendship, life is a bitch, rise to the top ...
Time:
year 1975, 70s, 20th century
Place:
munich germany, africa, germany, morocco, berlin germany ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium, France
Duration: 202 min.
Story:
A lonely widowed housewife does her daily chores, takes care of her apartment where she lives with her teenage son, and turns the occasional trick to make ends meet. Slowly, her ritualized daily routines begin to fall apart.
Style:
slow cinema, sexy, experimental, sentimental, serious ...
Plot:
loneliness, minimalism, feminism, female protagonist, housewife, prostitution, prostitute, single mother, feminist, widow, chores, mother son relationship ...
Time:
70s, year 1975
Place:
europe, brussels, belgium, france, brussels belgium
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Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
Because of a local blood feud, a peasant family decides to sell its sheep - a most precious commodity - in far away Ankara. During their long train ride, bribes must be paid to petty officials, sheep are stolen or die in the packed, airless wagons, ...
Style:
art house, family saga, bleak, period piece, political ...
Plot:
kurd, social realism, poverty, survival, feud, political corruption, loss, journey, bribery, train travel, class struggle, migration ...
Time:
70s, year 1979
Place:
kurdistan, turkey, balkan
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Genre: Drama, History
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 186 min.
Story:
As Garibaldi's troops begin the unification of Italy in the 1860s, an aristocratic Sicilian family grudgingly adapts to the sweeping social changes undermining their way of life. Proud but pragmatic Prince Don Fabrizio Salina allows his war ...
Style:
epic, period piece, cerebral, visual, political ...
Plot:
decadence, revolution, politics, literary, italian history, civil war, melancholy, catholic, ambition, nobility, death, execution ...
Time:
19th century, ancient times, 1860s, turn of the century, year 1963 ...
Place:
italy, sicily, palermo italy, corsica, naples italy ...
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France, Algeria
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
Repression is the rule of the day in this film that skewers Greek governance of the 1960s. Z, a leftist rabble rouser, is killed in what appears to be a traffic accident. But given the political climate, the death of such a prominent activist raises ...
Style:
political thriller, political, realistic, tense, suspenseful ...
Plot:
conspiracy, politics, military, investigation, corruption, police, government, government corruption, justice, political corruption, politician, violence ...
Time:
year 1969, 60s, 20th century, 70s
Place:
greece, france, africa, europe
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: Greece, France, Italy, Germany, UK, Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, Romania, Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Duration: 176 min.
Story:
"A," a Greek filmmaker living in exile in the United States, returns to his native Ptolemas to attend a special screening of one of his extremely controversial films. But A's real interest lies elsewhere--the mythical reels of the ...
Style:
philosophical, road movie, contemplative, avant garde, devastating ...
Plot:
male nudity, filmmaking, greek, on the road, holy grail, odyssey, symbolism, male pubic hair, marxism, art, love letter, treasure hunt ...
Time:
year 1995
Place:
greece, belgrade serbia, sarajevo, ancient greece, bosnia herzegovina ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, War
Country: UK
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
In London, during October 1993, England is playing Holland in the preliminaries of the World Cup. The Bosnian War is at its height, and refugees from the ex-Yugoslavia are arriving. Football rivals, and political adversaries from the Balkans all ...
Style:
humorous, realistic, talky, semi serious, sad ...
Plot:
immigrant, politics, culture clash, working class, bosnian war, war, wartime, chase, refugee, british, dysfunctional family, honest ...
Time:
20th century, year 1999, 90s
Place:
london, england, bosnia, balkan, cyprus ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
An affectionate and refreshing East/West-Germany comedy about a boy who’s mother was in a coma while the Berlin wall fell and when she wakes up he must try to keep her from learning what happen (since she was an avid communist supporter) to avoid ...
Style:
sentimental, humorous, breathtaking, witty, feel good ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
berlin wall, coma, politics, capitalism, childhood, idealism, german reunification, society, amnesia, cold war, culture clash, communism ...
Time:
year 2003, year 1989, year 1990, year 2004, 2000s ...
Place:
east germany, german democratic republic, germany, berlin germany, soviet union ...
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 140 min.
Story:
In a Russian coastal town, Kolya is forced to fight the corrupt mayor when he is told that his house will be demolished. He recruits a lawyer friend to help, but the man's arrival brings further misfortune for Kolya and his family.
Style:
depressing, bleak, atmospheric, thought provoking, emotional ...
Plot:
lawyer, adultery, corruption, politics, courtroom, poverty, small town, corrupt mayor, alcohol abuse, drunk, alcoholism, small town life ...
Time:
2010s, year 2014, 21st century
Place:
russia, soviet union
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Germany, Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Inspired by the Baader-Meinhof gang, a film about modern left Germans adopting the culture of extreme left-wing movements of the 1970s. East German dominatrix Gudrun leads a revolutionary gang of her own in Berlin. She has her men kidnap the son of ...
Style:
sexy, parody, humorous, semi serious, cynical ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
father son relationship, naked man, gays and lesbians, gay love, male nudity, gay, sexual revolution, gay sex, erection, explicit sex, homoeroticism, masturbation ...
Time:
70s, year 1977
Place:
germany, europe, berlin germany, usa, middle east ...
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