Socialism movies and TV shows – page 3

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Bulworth (1998)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: A suicidally disillusioned liberal politician puts a contract out on himself and takes the opportunity to be bluntly honest with his voters by affecting the rhythms and speech of hip-hop music and culture.
Style: political, humorous, witty, funny, thought provoking ...
Audience: date night
Plot: politics, political satire, hip hop, political corruption, election, interracial romance, fighting the system, senator, insurance, satire, campaign, media satire ...
Time: 20th century, year 1998, 90s
Place: california, los angeles, usa, america, washington d.c. ...
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Kichiku: Banquet of the Beasts (1997)
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 100 min.
Story: While the leader is in jail, his leftist group is controlled by his girlfriend, but her leadership lacks conviction and perspective. When the leader commits suicide in prison, despair and confusion rule the group and revenge and violence erupts in ...
Style: bloody, controversial, serious, realistic, suspenseful ...
Plot: extreme, female psychopath, exploitation, violent, violent content, profanity, gory, sexual relations, prison life, prison, political unrest, violence spree ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: japan
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Citizen Smith (1977)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Citizen Smith is a British television sitcom. The show was written by John Sullivan, who later wrote Only Fools and Horses. The pilot was transmitted on 12 April 1977 in the Comedy Special series of one-off plays, and the series proper ran from 3 ...
Style: sitcom, not serious, witty, humorous, realistic
Plot: marxism, unemployed, political humor, friendship, failed attempt, rebelliousness, friends, urban, unemployment, rebellion, radical, society ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: london, europe, england
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Diary for My Children (1984)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Hungary
Duration: 106 min.
Story: A semi-autobiographical story of a young woman's life in Budapest under Stalin.
Style: art house, masterpiece, banned
Plot: communism, orphan, woman, totalitarian regime, women, communist, biopic, crush, bitterness, male female relationship, death of father, friendship ...
Time: 1940s, year 1984, 1930s, 1950s, year 1947
Place: eastern europe, moscow russia, central europe, budapest
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Diary for My Father and My Mother (1990)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Hungary
Duration: 119 min.
Story: Directed by Márta Mészáros.
Style: art house
Plot: communism, woman, politics, anti communist, communist, tank, controversy, celebration, party, autobiography, traitor, revolution ...
Time: 1950s
Place: hungary, soviet union, budapest
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Bankett für Achilles (1975)
Genre: Drama
Country: East Germany
Duration: 89 min.
Story: For thirty years, Karl Achilles has been working at the chemical collective in Bitterfeld. But now his last day as a master at the plant has come. He is about to retire; even if Karl, who finds ending his working life difficult, wanted to stay on, ...
Style: amateur film
Plot: working conditions, worker, drinking, father son relationship, death, ambition, marriage, rivalry, communism, socialism, factory, self fulfillment ...
Place: german democratic republic, east germany
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Open Letter To The Evening News (1970)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 116 min.
Story: Hoping to shake up the complacent Italian Communist Party, a group of leftist radicals sends an incendiary letter to a major evening newspaper declaring their intention to volunteer to fight American troops in Vietnam as a political statement ...
Style: intellectual
Plot: female nudity, group, revolutionary, writers, love, newspaper, argument, party, student, anger, communism, political activism ...
Place: usa, italy, vietnam
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G.B.H. (1991)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 567 min.
TV show
Story: The epic – and sometimes hilarious – story of the madness of power, and how it affects the lives of two men.
Style: political, dark comedy, black comedy
Plot: politics, director, british politics, female nudity, strike, school, socialism, city council, nudity, gangster
Time: 20th century
Place: england
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Ten Thousand Days (1967)
Genre: Drama
Country: Hungary
Duration: 110 min.
Story: The changing and turbulent history of Hungary is seen through the eyes of three men over a 30-year period in this somber drama. The three recall the highlights of their lives in flashbacks as they reminisce in the mid 1960s. The venerable trio begin ...
Plot: prison, suicide, strike, poverty, execution, socialism, revolution, peasant
Time: year 1967
Place: hungary
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Here, Beneath the North Star (1968)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Finland
Duration: 186 min.
Story: Täällä Pohjantähden alla is based on the book with the same title. It is a story of the little village. The movie starts in the 1890's and it ends to the Finnish civil war in 1918. Story concentrates around a tenant farmer family, although ...
Style: epic
Plot: finnish civil war, rural setting, family relations, high society, prisoner of war camp, class society, labor union, priest, marriage, labor movement, inequality, execution ...
Time: 1890s, 1910s, 1800s, 1900s, 20th century
Place: finland
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Red Psalm (1972)
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
Plot: revolution, surrealism, anarchist, protest, reform, revolutionary, communism, revolt, peasant, female nudity, group, shootout ...
Time: 19th century, 1890s
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Sound Eroticism (1986)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Hungary
Duration: 94 min.
Story: In a squirming Hungarian crate factory which only employs female workers, the newly appointed fireman not only buys fire extinguishers full of petrol to save money, but also proposes the installation of an expensive, hidden camera system that would ...
Plot: hidden camera, female nudity, sleaze, satire, ice cream, socialism, surveillance camera, peeping, strike, voyeur, fire, masturbation ...
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Trace of Stones (1966)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: East Germany
Duration: 139 min.
Story: A film about living and working conditons in the GDR of the 60's Includes a little lovestory of course.
Style: banned, banned film
Plot: construction worker, communism, love, rivalry, pregnancy, unwanted pregnancy, grudge, criticism, drinking, beer, flashback, dancing ...
Time: 60s
Place: east germany, german democratic republic
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The Interrogation (2009)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Finland
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Nuori nainen on saanut kutsun saapua poliisin kuultavaksi. Hän pelkää joutuvansa ansaan. Hän on täydellistä suomenkieltä puhuva Neuvosto-desantti, joka on varomattomuuttaan jättänyt vakoiluradionsa pesulaan säilytettäväksi.
Plot: russo finnish war, police interrogation, humanist, spying, convict, soviet spy, military officer, russian spy, socialist, cell, female spy, breakdown ...
Time: 1940s, year 1942, year 1943, year 1944
Place: soviet union, finland
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The Farewell (2000)
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany, Poland
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A portrait of a single day in the late summer of 1956, toward the end of Bertolt Brecht's life, as he prepares to leave his lakeside home, surrounded by the women who form his extended family.
Style: crying
Plot: writers, poet, art, vacation, quarrel, woods, unfaithfulness, privilege, heart condition, german culture, male female relationship, friendship ...
Time: 1950s
Place: berlin germany, moscow russia, munich germany, los angeles, london
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Testimony (1987)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Music
Country: Netherlands, UK, Denmark, West Germany, Sweden
Duration: 157 min.
Story: The story of the great Soviet composer Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975) and his life and career during the rule of Stalin.
Style: black and white, independent film
Plot: composer, musician, cold war, classical composer, art, biopic, dream, opera, propaganda, surrealism, irony, survival ...
Time: post world war two
Place: ussr, russia, new york, soviet union
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Talk of Angels (1998)
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: This is the story of a young Irish woman who comes to Spain to escape from the pressures she feels about her impending marriage to a political activist in Ireland. But in Spain in the 1930's, taking a job of governess in a wealthy family, she ...
Style: realistic, serious, touching, emotional, sincere ...
Plot: infidelity, forbidden love, fall in love, politics, social differences, love triangle, society, couples, love affair, spanish civil war, extramarital affair, war ...
Time: year 1998, 1930s, year 1936
Place: ireland, europe, madrid, spain
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The Legend of Rita (2000)
Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Rita Vogt is a radical West German terrorist who abandons the revolution and settles in East Germany with a new identity provided by the East German secret service. She lives in constant fear of having her cover blown, which unavoidably happens ...
Style: melancholic, captivating, tense, suspenseful, political ...
Plot: lesbian, politics, terrorism, berlin wall, loneliness, existentialism, raf, starting over, state affairs, danger, lesbian sex, lesbian relationship ...
Time: 70s, 80s, 20th century
Place: germany, east germany, angola, berlin germany, german democratic republic ...
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Love (1971)
Genre: Drama
Country: Hungary
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Luca regularly visits her bedridden mother-in-law. Luca's husband, János, has been arrested on a trumped up political charge, and Luca does not know if he is still alive. Luca hides this from his mother by making up letters purporting to be ...
Style: realistic, psychological, serious, emotional, touching
Plot: family relations, old age, communism, mother and son, old woman, immigrant, bittersweet, politics, life is a bitch, human nature, society, unfulfillment ...
Time: year 1971, 50s
Place: eastern europe, europe, hungary
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Siberiade (1979)
Genre: Drama, History, Romance, War
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 275 min.
Story: The evolution of a nation during six decades of turbulent history is dramatized via two families from opposing classes.
Style: family saga, serious, realistic, captivating, epic
Plot: parents and children, tragic love, culture clash, homecoming, wartime life, swamp, taiga, village life, political unrest, family life, revolution, forbidden love ...
Time: 1940s, year 1979, 60s, 20th century, 1920s ...
Place: siberia, soviet union, ussr, russia
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Cosy Dens (1999)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 115 min.
Story: Two families, Sebkovi and Krausovi, are celebrating christmas, but not everyone is in a good mood. Teenage kids think their fathers are totaly stupid, fathers are sure their children are nothing more than rebels, hating anything they say. Written by ...
Style: cult classic, touching, humorous, semi serious, realistic ...
Plot: christmas, coming of age, communism, communist, boy, comedian, dictatorship, dictator, renaissance, lovers, totalitarian regime, mission ...
Time: year 1968, year 1967, 60s
Place: czech republic, eastern europe, balkan, prague, europe ...
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The Elementary School (1991)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family, History
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 100 min.
Story: The time is 1945-46. 10 year old Eda and his friend Tonda live in a small village outside Prague. In school, their class is so wild and indisciplined that their teacher quits and is replaced by the militant Igor Hnidzo. He is very strict - but also ...
Style: surreal, realistic, semi serious, touching, feel good ...
Plot: world war two, self discovery, communist, boy, education, renaissance, love letter, teacher, friendship, unfaithfulness, pregnancy, licking ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, year 1945, year 1946, post world war two
Place: eastern europe, czech republic, europe, czechoslovakia, prague
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Mr. & Mrs. Bridge (1990)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, USA, Canada
Duration: 126 min.
Story: It's about a five member family. The father is a conservative and traditional person who directs the family. The mother is at home, she tries to hold together the family, while Mr. Bridge works as a lawyer. The children have just grown up, and ...
Style: talky, melancholic, realistic, sentimental, family saga ...
Plot: lawyer, culture clash, family problems, human nature, society, introspection, parents and children, cancan dance, family relations, dysfunctional family, sorority, bittersweet ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, 1930s
Place: usa, missouri, kansas city, kansas, cleveland ohio ...
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Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears (1980)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 150 min.
Story: This is a life story of three girlfriends from youth to autumn ages. Their dreams and wishes, love, disillusions...
Style: touching, sentimental, romantic, uplifting, realistic ...
Plot: life, friendship, midlife crisis, love and romance, women, women in society, relationships, career, love story, working class, happy ending, single mother ...
Time: year 1980, 1950s, 70s, 50s, 20th century ...
Place: soviet union, moscow russia, ussr, russia, siberia
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Masculin Féminin (1966)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Sweden
Duration: 110 min.
Story: The film stars French New Wave icon Jean-Pierre Léaud as Paul, a romantic young idealist and literary lion-wannabe who chases budding pop star, Madeleine (Chantal Goya, a real life Yé-yé girl).
Style: intellectual, philosophical, talky, clever, erotic ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: counterculture, women, relationships, politics, revolution, hippie, european, sexuality, social commentary, violence, sex, hipster ...
Time: year 1966, 60s, 20th century
Place: france, paris france, europe, usa
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The Master and Margaret (1972)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Romance
Country: Yugoslavia, Italy
Duration: 95 min.
Story: The Master and Margaret (1972) is based on the eponymous book by Mikhail A. Bulgakov. The film is set in the Soviet Union under Stalin, it has several story-lines, that are intertwined. Maestro Nikolai Masoudov (Tognazzi), a talented writer, and his ...
Style: dark, black and white, bleak, disturbing, realistic ...
Plot: psychological manipulation, addiction, mental disorder, obsession, disorder, politics, satire, political repression, devil, dystopia, deal with the devil, government agency ...
Time: 1920s
Place: russia, moscow russia
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A Place in the World (1992)
Genre: Drama
Country: Argentina, Spain, Uruguay
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Mario and Ana, in voluntary exile from Buenos Aires, live in a remote Argentine valley with their 12-year-old son Ernesto. Mario runs a school and a wool cooperative; Ana, a doctor, heads a clinic with Nelda, a progressive nun. Into this idealistic ...
Style: realistic, serious, captivating, touching, sentimental ...
Plot: village life, anarchist, migration, exile, business, professor, nun, family relations, idealism, coming of age, spaniard, peasant ...
Time: year 1992, 70s, 90s
Place: argentina, latin america, madrid, spain, paris france ...
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Kundun (1997)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: Monaco, Morocco, USA
Duration: 134 min.
Story: The Tibetans refer to the Dalai Lama as 'Kundun', which means 'The Presence'. He was forced to escape from his native home, Tibet, when communist China invaded and enforced an oppressive regime upon the peaceful nation. The Dalai ...
Style: epic, philosophical, spiritual, cerebral, touching ...
Plot: buddhism, buddha, buddhist monk, biopic, religion, buddhist, medieval, politics, spirituality, historical epic, zen, world history ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, 50s, 1930s, 1950s
Place: tibet, china, hiroshima japan, asia, himalaya ...
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Rosa Luxemburg (1986)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: West Germany, Czechoslovakia
Duration: 120 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, philosophical, political thriller, suspense, tension ...
Plot: communist, revolution, women, communism, biopic, revolutionary, marxism, anarchist, capitalism, world war one, woman, gender ...
Time: 20th century, year 1916
Place: germany, berlin germany
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A Different Loyalty (2004)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Canada, UK, USA, Malta
Duration: 96 min.
Story: In January 1963, British journalist Leo Cauffield suddenly disappears from his home in Beirut. His wife Sally knew that he was working part-time for British intelligence, but was not prepared to be told by the British embassy that they suspect he ...
Style: suspenseful, realistic, serious
Plot: treason, cold war, betrayal, spy, undercover, working undercover, heroic mission, love affair, secret agent, danger, dishonesty, journalism ...
Time: year 2004, 60s
Place: middle east, russia, new york, soviet union, moscow russia ...
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