Dissident movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant dissident movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out serious, realistic, suspenseful, captivating, intellectual and suspense films and TV shows about / with dissident, female nudity, politics, murder, society, violence, communist, communism, cold war and betrayal plots mostly in Drama, Thriller and History genres shot in USA, France, UK and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as dissident: The Baltic Love (1994), Lektor (2011), The Theme (1979), The Prague Orgy (2019), The Lives of Others (2006), The Cry of the Butterflies (2023), Sakharov (1984), Gulag Barashevo (2015), Diagnosis: Dissent (2023), Capri-Revolution (2018).
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Genre: Drama
Country: Estonia, Finland
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Lost love and politics: three episodes from three Baltic nations. In Estonia a political prisoner leaves the jail, only to discover that his best friend had stolen his girl. In Latvia a Russian soldier has a Latvian girlfriend. Her Latvian friends ...
Style:
melancholic, poignant, art house, grim
Plot:
stripper, political prisoner, lost love, priest, betrayal, violence, post soviet, forbidden love, military, religion, russian soldier, skinny dipping ...
Time:
90s
Place:
lithuania, estonia, latvia
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Genre: Action, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Russia
TV show
Story:
Car explosion in the centre of Moscow. The double agent in the Russian secret services. The international dealer the weapon «under a cap» at the British investigation. The dissident poisoned in London. The monk from Kosovo, rescuing a unique icon. ...
Style:
psychological, serious, tricky, exciting, tense ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
counter intelligence, espionage, spy, terrorist, scandal, secret service, forbidden love, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, secret agent, undercover agent, relationship problems, society ...
Place:
moscow russia
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
A self-pitying but popular playwright drives to Vladimir to relax with a doting female student and another writer. He's convinced his writing is of no lasting value, but he still has an ego, about his work and his masculine appeal. He's ...
Style:
intelligent, contemplative, captivating, talky, realistic ...
Plot:
midlife crisis, playwright, emigration, dissident, society, lifestyle, fighting the system, unfulfillment, writer's life, love and romance, artists and showbiz, fall in love ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
soviet union, russia, ussr, moscow russia
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Genre: Drama
Country: Czech Republic, Slovakia
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
In 1976 a famous American writer Nathan Zuckerman is challenged by Czech immigrant Sisovsky who implores him to retrieve valuable manuscripts from communist Czechoslovakia. The writer accepts this dangerous mission, where his every step is observed ...
Style:
captivating, disturbing, suspense, suspenseful
Plot:
writers, relationship problems, resentment, manuscript, secret police, male female relationship, communism, group sex, topless woman, pub, attempted rape, bare breasts ...
Time:
70s
Place:
central europe, prague, czech republic
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Germany, France
Duration: 137 min.
Story:
A tragic love story set in East Berlin with the backdrop of an undercover Stasi controlled culture. Stasi captain Wieler is ordered to follow author Dreyman and plunges deeper and deeper into his life until he reaches the threshold of doubting the ...
Style:
gloomy, political thriller, sincere, political, emotional ...
Audience:
date night, adult
Plot:
surveillance, cold war, spy, communism, berlin wall, stasi, politics, redemption, espionage, iron curtain, life philosophy, voyeurism ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, year 1989, 2000s, 90s ...
Place:
east germany, germany, berlin germany, europe, soviet union ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Spain, Argentina
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story:
This series examines the events leading up the brutal murder of Dominican activist Minerva Mirabal and her two activist sisters, on the orders of dictator Rafael Leónidas Trujillo. The heinous crime would set in motion not only the end of a vicious ...
Style:
historical drama, psychological, captivating, thrilling, emotional ...
Plot:
dictatorship, resistance, dissident, politics, activism, women's rights, courage, human rights, political repression, oppression, latin american history, injustice ...
Place:
dominican republic, latin america
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
Biography of Russian physicist & dissident Andrei Sakharov focuses on his first acts in his civil rights.
Style:
serious, thought provoking, historical drama, period piece, political drama
Plot:
dissident, exile, hunger, human rights, authoritarianism, oppression, political repression, biopic, activism, civil rights movement, nobel prize, cold war ...
Place:
soviet union, ussr, russia
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 168 min.
Story:
Artists, Poets, Writers, Musicians, and Dissidents, Husbands and Wives, in the Marxist USSR GULAG camps of Barashevo and Vorkuta, suffer in and survive their Gulag death camps. It is a ultimately a spiritual struggle.
Style:
emotional, period piece, historical drama, grim, spiritual
Plot:
gulag, dissident, love, survival, prisoner of war camp, repression, genocide, escape, resistance, political persecution, communism, oppression ...
Place:
soviet union, ussr
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Genre: Drama, History, Thriller
Country: Ukraine
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
The protagonist Andrii Dovzhenko finds out a horrible truth, that has been hidden in USSR for years - most of those accused of «anti-Soviet propaganda» were never sent to prison, but to special psychiatric hospitals with a diagnosis of "slow ...
Style:
historical drama, bleak, intense, tense, suspenseful ...
Plot:
oppression, totalitarianism, dissident, kgb, brutality, psychological torture, human rights, fear, conscience, resistance, trauma, interrogation ...
Time:
70s
Place:
soviet union, ukraine
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Genre: Drama, History
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
In 1914, with Italy about to enter World War I, a commune of young artists from Northern Europe establishes itself on the rural island of Capri, a safe haven for dissidents and nonconformists from all over the world, like Russian exiles led by Maxim ...
Style:
disturbing, psychological, captivating
Plot:
nudism, commune, skinny dipping, male pubic hair, world war one, nudist camp, dissident, relationship problems, nudist, lifestyle, island, couple relations ...
Time:
1910s, 20th century, year 1914
Place:
italy
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 46 min.
Story:
It is 1985 and a Cold War is raging between East and West. A young woman named Carmen, while attempting to smuggle Bibles into Romania, is captured by communist forces. Unfortunately, Carmen’s father was a Soviet Nuclear Physicist who became ...
Style:
political thriller, suspenseful, tension, thrilling, serious ...
Plot:
smuggling, cold war, rescue mission, hostage, espionage, religious persecution, government agent, defector, spy thriller, faith, assassin, covert operation ...
Time:
80s
Place:
romania, soviet union
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Genre: Crime, Drama, History, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Czech Republic, USA, Russia, UK
Duration: 137 min.
Story:
Set in Stalin-era Soviet Union, a disgraced MGB agent is dispatched to investigate a series of child murders -- a case that begins to connect with the very top of party leadership.
Style:
suspense, suspenseful, serious, factual, intense ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
serial killer, child murder, murder mystery, stalinism, investigation, murder, child murder investigation, politics, murder investigation, totalitarian regime, justice, betrayal ...
Time:
1930s, 1940s, 1950s, year 2015, 50s ...
Place:
moscow russia, soviet union, russia, ukraine, berlin germany ...
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Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Igor, who manages a fancy hotel and is on the take, has to juggle several problems at once. He has a two-hour window to get his ill-got gain out of the hotel, he must misdirect and obstruct the inquiries of a Party auditor who suspects that all is ...
Plot:
spy, dissident, hotel manager, corruption, rock singer, kgb, black market, christmas, government official, corrupt politician, escape, corrupt system ...
Time:
80s
Place:
soviet union, moscow russia, kiev ukraine, ussr
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
The heroic story of a dictator who risks his life to ensure that democracy would never come to the country he so lovingly oppressed.
Style:
hilarious, funny, absurd, parody, entertaining ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, boys' night, adult
Plot:
satire, farce, dictator, culture clash, stupidity, dark humor, un, female bodyguard, fictional country, prejudice, head of state, dissident ...
Time:
2010s, 70s, 20th century, year 1973, year 2012 ...
Place:
new york, middle east, asia, israel, andalusia ...
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Finland, Chile
Duration: 285 min.
TV show
Story:
Invisible Heroes tells the heroic tale of young Finnish diplomats in Chile during 1973’s infamous military coup. Finnish diplomats Tapani Brotherus and Ilkka Jaamala along with Tapani’s wife Lysa Brotherus helped over 2000 left-wing Chileans ...
Style:
captivating, realistic, disturbing, serious, social ...
Plot:
military coup, dictatorship, diplomat, cold war, army, military, human rights, politics, refugee, communism, embassy, diplomacy ...
Time:
year 1973, 70s
Place:
chile, south america, finland, east germany, bolivia ...
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Genre: Drama, History
Country: Greece, USA
Duration: 150 min.
Story:
An American couple in Chile is drawn into the turmoil that followed President Salvador Allende's 1973 overthrow.
Style:
intellectual, social
Plot:
capitalism, politics, coup, coup d'etat, abuse of power, ambassador, youth, sadism, kidnapping, media, abuse, voting ...
Time:
year 1987
Place:
latin america, chile, south america, europe, santiago chile
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Chile, Spain, UK, France
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
Santiago, capital of Chile during the Marxist government of elected, highly controversial president Salvador Allende. Father McEnroe supports his leftist views by introducing a program at the prestigious "collegio" (Catholic prep school) ...
Style:
political, touching, sincere, emotional, serious ...
Plot:
childhood, coming of age, sexual initiation, politics, friendship, poverty, youth, dictatorship, boy, communism, trauma, demonstration ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, year 1973
Place:
chile, latin america, south america, santiago chile, spain ...
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
Based on the real-life experiences of Ed Horman. A conservative American businessman travels to a South American country to investigate the sudden disappearance of his son after a right-wing military takeover. Accompanied by his son's wife he ...
Style:
political, emotional, political thriller, thought provoking, talky ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
dictatorship, politics, military coup, missing person, coup d'etat, political conspiracy, political intrigue, corruption, conspiracy, journalist, violence, military ...
Time:
20th century, 70s, year 1982, year 1973
Place:
chile, latin america, south america, santiago chile, washington d.c. ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, France, West Germany
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
A weak-willed Italian man becomes a fascist flunky who goes abroad to arrange the assassination of his old teacher, now a political dissident.
Style:
political, art house, visual, breathtaking, sexual ...
Plot:
fascism, assassination, childhood trauma, italian fascism, fascist, professor, murder, betrayal, politics, homosexuality, chauffeur, honeymoon ...
Time:
1930s, 1940s, 20th century, year 1970, year 1917 ...
Place:
italy, paris france, rome italy, france, europe
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Genre: Animation, Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Set in the thick of the Cold War, Red Son introduces us to a Superman who landed in the USSR during the 1950s and grows up to become a Soviet symbol that fights for the preservation of Stalin’s brand of communism.
Style:
adult animation, anime, suspense, heroic, psychotronic ...
Audience:
teens, family outing, kids, pre-teens
Plot:
superhero, monster, villain, violence, revenge, superman, symbolism, fictional city, artificial intelligence, reporter, journalist, human alien ...
Time:
2020s, year 1961, year 1967, year 1983, 1940s ...
Place:
russia, south korea, nevada, ussr, washington d.c. ...
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Genre: Action, Comedy
Country: Estonia, Finland, Latvia
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
An upbeat comedy about three boys that escape from Soviet Estonia to Sweden via Finland in the 1980s to fulfill their dreams in the free world.
Style:
humorous, feel good, contemplative, captivating, light
Plot:
friendship, friend, bank robber, refugee, criminal, iron curtain, dissident, socialism, black market, pregnancy, girlfriend, jail cell ...
Time:
80s, 2010s
Place:
estonia, europe, finland, scandinavia, stockholm sweden ...
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
Heroes of Sung stars one of the original kung-fu ladies of the silver screen Shih Szu playing swordswoman Meng Hung who must work with Fan Tien-fu, played by perennial Shaws bad guy Lo Lieh (although he's good in this) to find then protect the ...
Style:
action packed, dramatic, tense, fast paced, period drama
Plot:
kung fu, martial arts, swordplay, wuxia, fight scenes, choreography, honor, palace intrigue, betrayal, loyalty, rescue mission, revenge ...
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: France
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
1957. For several months, Henri Charlègue, the ex-director of the newspaper "Alger democratic", banned, has been living in hiding. Suspected of belonging to the FLN, he is actively sought by paratroopers.
Plot:
french algerian war, french colonialism, exile, suspicion, paratrooper, political violence, wanted, writing a book, electric torture, torturer, dissident, political prisoner ...
Time:
year 1956, 60s, 1950s, year 1957, 50s
Place:
algeria, france
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A girl brought to modern Germany experiences events that occurred during the World War II era.
Style:
suspense, scary, mind bending, serious, suspenseful ...
Plot:
time travel, hotel, possessed girl, motel, room, possession, world war two, haunting, iron curtain, nazism, violent content, secret agent ...
Time:
80s, year 1984, 1930s, 20th century, 1940s ...
Place:
east berlin, europe, germany, berlin germany, east germany
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Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: Czech Republic, Slovakia, Germany
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
In the 1980s, Anna, a Czech sprinter, starts training for the Olympics. After she collapses during training, she learns she is being given steroids and decides to stop using them until her mother helps the coaches give them to her.
Style:
exciting, realistic, serious, touching, period drama
Plot:
female athlete, athlete's life, hopes, rivalry, ambition, family relations, life is a bitch, youth, contests and competitions, society, parents and children, boyfriend girlfriend relationship ...
Time:
80s, year 1983, 20th century, year 1984
Place:
europe, central europe, czechoslovakia, czech republic
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
An epic portrait of late Sixties America, as seen through the portrayal of two of its children: anthropology student Daria (who's helping a property developer build a village in the Los Angeles desert) and dropout Mark (who's wanted by the ...
Style:
road movie, erotic, surreal, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
hippie, desert, counterculture, on the road, crazy love, rebellion, sex orgy, male nudity, outdoor sex, politics, pink floyd, materialism ...
Time:
20th century, year 1970, 70s, 60s
Place:
los angeles, usa, california, phoenix arizona, italy ...
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Genre: Thriller
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Nada, named after a gang of Spanish anarchists, is a small, confused band of French terrorists. They kidnap the American ambassador after one of his regular visits to an exclusive brothel. The gang starts to quarrel amongst themselves as to the ...
Style:
erotic, political, realistic, serious, tense ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
terrorist, french algerian war, criminal, anarchism, anarchist, countryside, kidnapping, politics, terrorism, scapegoat, hostage, nudity ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, post world war two
Place:
paris france, france, europe, belgium
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Set in the late 1940s, the film concerns the treatment of suspect "bourgeois elements", a professor, a saxophonist, and a milkman, who are put to work in a junkyard for rehabilitation.
Style:
serious, realistic, gloomy, touching, black comedy ...
Plot:
nudity, peeping, female nudity, renaissance, bride and groom, nude girl, election, international relations, satire, politics, love of one's life, wedding ...
Time:
1940s, 50s, 1950s
Place:
czech republic, eastern europe, balkan, europe, prague ...
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Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
In the not-too-distant future the aging gene has been switched off. To avoid overpopulation, time has become the currency and the way people pay for luxuries and necessities. The rich can live forever, while the rest try to negotiate for their ...
Style:
futuristic, serious, philosophical, thought provoking, clever ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, family friendly, girls' night, boys' night
Plot:
time, dystopian future, immortality, fighting the system, dystopia, distopia, love, dystopic future, survival, life & death, class differences, social differences ...
Time:
future, year 2011, near future, distant future, 2010s
Place:
usa, los angeles, canada
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: West Germany
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
A mogul merrily funds terrorists to boost his computer sales, by panicking West German government and industry c. 1980, as the third generation of Western European left-wing activists forms, after crippling of the violent Red Army Faction. Released ...
Style:
political, black comedy, cult classic, postmodern, art house ...
Plot:
transvestism, businessman, junkie, terrorism, politics, satire, raf, gender bending, anarchist, female nudity, elimination, kidnapped man ...
Time:
year 1979, 70s
Place:
berlin germany, west berlin west germany, europe, west germany, germany
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