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, captivating, psychological, suspenseful and political films and TV shows about / with dissident, female nudity, politics, murder, society, love, escape, police, nudity and communist plots mostly in Drama, Thriller and Action genres shot in USA, France, Italy and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as dissident: The Baltic Love (1994), Child 44 (2015), The Cry of the Butterflies (2023), The Theme (1979), Capri-Revolution (2018), The Lives of Others (2006), Lektor (2011), The Dictator (2012), Twist Again in Moscow (1986), The Great Game (2015).

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The Baltic Love (1994)
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 ...
Plot: stripper, tragic love, catholic priest, prisoner, cultural conflict, female nudity, skinny dipping, political prisoner, celibacy, priest, coward, prison ...
Place: lithuania, estonia, latvia
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 6.4
 76K
Child 44 (2015)
Genre: Crime, Drama, History, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Czech Republic, UK, USA, Russia, Romania
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, detective, serious, factual ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: serial killer, murder, murder mystery, child murder, stalinism, investigation, child murder investigation, murder investigation, politics, fighting the system, betrayal, justice ...
Time: 1940s, 1930s, 1950s, year 2015, 20th century ...
Place: soviet union, moscow russia, russia, ukraine, berlin germany
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The Cry of the Butterflies (2023)
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 LeĆ³nidas Trujillo. The heinous crime would set in motion not only the end of a vicious ...
Style: captivating, thrilling, psychological, period drama
Plot: dissident, politics, dictatorship, female protagonist, problem, dictator, resistance, against the rules, social problems, strong female lead, women, battles ...
Place: dominican republic
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 7.2
 569
The Theme (1979)
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, talky, captivating, realistic ...
Plot: midlife crisis, playwright, dissident, emigration, society, writer's life, fighting the system, fall in love, lifestyle, love and romance, unfulfillment, artists and showbiz ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: soviet union, russia, ussr, moscow russia
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Capri-Revolution (2018)
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: captivating, psychological, disturbing
Plot: nudism, nudist camp, world war one, nudist, commune, female nudity, dissident, relationship problems, money problems, social problems, love triangle, romantic triangle ...
Time: year 1914, 1910s
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The Lives of Others (2006)
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: political thriller, gloomy, political, sincere, suspense ...
Audience: date night, adult
Plot: surveillance, cold war, berlin wall, spy, stasi, communism, iron curtain, secrets, loneliness, voyeurism, politics, suicide ...
Time: 80s, year 2006, 20th century, 2000s, year 1984 ...
Place: east germany, germany, berlin germany, europe, soviet union ...
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 6.3
 84
Lektor (2011)
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 Ā«under a capĀ» at the British investigation. The dissident poisoned in London. The monk from Kosovo, rescuing a unique icon. ...
Style: tense, psychological, tricky, serious, exciting ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: counter intelligence, espionage, spy, secret service, scandal, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, undercover agent, secret agent, relationship problems, rescue, society, terrorist ...
Place: moscow russia
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 6.4
 332K
The Dictator (2012)
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: funny, absurd, hilarious, humorous, entertaining ...
Audience: girls' night, chick flick, adult
Plot: satire, dictator, farce, culture clash, dark humor, un, fictional country, prejudice, society, megalomaniac, head of state, dissident ...
Time: year 2012, 2010s, year 1973, 20th century, 70s ...
Place: new york, usa, middle east, asia, israel ...
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Twist Again in Moscow (1986)
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, corruption, hotel manager, kgb, rock singer, black market, escape, government official, christmas, corrupt politician, corrupt system ...
Time: 80s
Place: soviet union, moscow russia, kiev ukraine
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 5.4
 438
The Great Game (2015)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Pierre Blum, 40, is a writer who had his time of glory in the early 2000s. One evening, on a casino terrace, he meets Joseph Paskin. This mysterious man, charismatic and manipulative, is influential in the world of politics and persuades Pierre to ...
Style: ambiguous ending, political thriller
Plot: ghost writer, paranoia, murder of friend, female journalist, casino, puppet master, bribery, dissident, dead body, on the run, escape, political manipulation ...
Time: 2010s
Place: paris france, england
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 7.9
 33K
The Conformist (1970)
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, neo noir ...
Plot: fascism, assassination, italian fascism, fascist, murder, honeymoon, professor, politics, existentialism, confession, child molestation, ambush ...
Time: 1930s, 1940s, 20th century, year 1970, year 1917 ...
Place: italy, paris france, rome italy, france, europe
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Superman: Red Son (2020)
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 Stalinā€™s brand of communism.
Style: anime, suspense, heroic, adult animation, psychotronic ...
Audience: teens, family outing, kids, pre-teens
Plot: superhero, monster, villain, violence, revenge, superman, symbolism, destruction, fictional city, artificial intelligence, human alien, escalation ...
Time: 2020s, year 1955, year 1946, year 1967, 80s ...
Place: russia, berlin germany, nevada, washington d.c., moscow russia ...
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 7.4
 2K
Dollybirds (1997)
Genre: Comedy, Musical, Romance
Country: Hungary
Duration: 100 min.
Story: The movie is set in the actual "Ki Mit Tud?" talent contest in 1962. In reality the contest in dance music category was won by an army brass band. "Omega" which later became one of the most successful Hungarian rock bands came ...
Style: cult classic, independent film, parody
Plot: musician, tram, lgbt, socialism, young man, argument, alcoholism, father son relationship, fraud, dispute, female police officer, frustration ...
Time: 60s
Place: hungary, canada, budapest
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The Dissidents (2017)
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, light, captivating, contemplative, feel good
Plot: thief, escape, friendship, bank robber, refugee, criminal, friend, heist, iron curtain, black market, socialism, pregnancy ...
Time: 80s, 2010s
Place: europe, estonia, scandinavia, stockholm sweden, helsinki finland ...
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Heroes of Sung (1973)
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 ...
Plot: kung fu, royalty, subterfuge, dissident, martial arts, heroic bloodshed, bodyguard, sword fight, fight to the death, mayhem, swordplay, female fight
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 6.5
 138
Sakharov (1984)
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.
Plot: inventor, dissident, protest, exile, physicist, political prisoner, russian history, civil rights, hunger
Place: ussr, soviet union, russia
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 5.4
 22
Archipelago (1992)
Genre: Drama
Country: Chile
Duration: 80 min.
Story: An architect witness the brutal massacre by the police of an anti-government meeting and escapes to a remote archipelago.
Style: surprise ending
Plot: massacre, architect, conquistador, escape, pursuit, police, surrealism, paranoia, police raid, student, dying, money ...
Place: santiago chile
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 6.4
 54
The Rescue (1971)
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 79 min.
Story: Renowned writer Shen Chiang had become so popular for his scripts that the studio let him direct as well. Here he continued his winning ways with this tale of the end of the Sung Dynasty and the survivors who band together to save their prime ...
Plot: martial arts, bare chested male, prison break, prison escape, dissident, torture, dungeon, patriotism, beating, hung by wrists
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Gulag Barashevo (2015)
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: spiritual
Plot: marxist, artist, love, genocide, humanity, courage, freedom, dissident, gulag
Place: soviet union, ussr
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 5.7
 112
Flight North (1986)
Genre: Drama
Country: West Germany, Finland
Duration: 117 min.
Story: Johanna (Katharina Thalbach) has fled Nazi Germany to visit a friend in Finland, and from there she continues on to her friend's family's estate. Once at the estate, Johanna passionately argues with her friend's pro-Nazi brother and ...
Plot: lesbian sex, nudity, sex scene, male nudity, escape, lapland, socialist, nazi, arctic, summer, breaking the fourth wall, dissident ...
Time: 1930s
Place: finland
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Flying Guillotine II (1978)
Genre: Action, Adventure
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Take two directors (Cheng Kang, who made the popular true crime thriller "The Criminals", and Hua Shan, who helmed the superheroes "Super Inframan"), a cast of the best and best-loved martial arts actors, then respected kung fu ...
Plot: martial arts, flying guillotine, kung fu, weapons, assassination, rebellion, guillotine, family relations, palace intrigue, dissident, martyrdom, exile ...
Place: china
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Gulag Vorkuta (2016)
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.
Plot: landscape, marxist, gulag, dissident, faith, marxism, christian, genocide, communism, love, artist
Place: soviet union, ussr
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 7.1
 93
The Question (1977)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: France
Duration: 112 min.
Story: 1957. For several months, Henri CharlĆØgue, 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, political violence, electric torture, writing a book, wanted, dissident, torturer, communist, tortured to death, political repression, french army, political prisoner ...
Time: 60s, year 1956, 1950s, year 1957
Place: algeria, france
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 4.9
 256
The Cold Room (1984)
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, mind bending, scary, serious, suspenseful ...
Plot: time travel, hotel, room, motel, world war two, possession, haunting, nazism, iron curtain, secret agent, violent content, supernatural ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, 1930s, year 1984, 1940s ...
Place: east berlin, germany, europe, berlin germany, east germany
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 6.8
 1K
Fair Play (2014)
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
Plot: female athlete, athlete's life, ambition, rivalry, family relations, youth, hopes, life is a bitch, contests and competitions, society, parents and children, boyfriend girlfriend relationship ...
Time: 80s, year 1983, 20th century, year 1984
Place: czechoslovakia, europe, czech republic
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Zabriskie Point (1970)
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, surreal, serious, realistic, atmospheric ...
Plot: hippie, desert, counterculture, on the road, sex orgy, rebellion, politics, materialism, love and romance, rebelliousness, twentysomething life, parents and children ...
Time: 20th century, year 1970, 70s, 60s
Place: los angeles, usa, california, italy, phoenix arizona ...
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The Nada Gang (1974)
Genre: Thriller
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 133 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: political, erotic, serious, realistic, tense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: criminal, anarchism, anarchist, hostage, kidnapping, countryside, terrorism, politics, scapegoat, nudity, surrender, french algerian war ...
Time: 20th century, 70s, post world war two
Place: paris france, europe, france, belgium
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Larks on a String (1969)
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, touching, gloomy, intellectual ...
Plot: peeping, nudity, female nudity, election, renaissance, international relations, totalitarian regime, politics, satire, bride and groom, women's prison, love of one's life ...
Time: 1940s, 50s, 1950s
Place: czech republic, eastern europe, balkan, europe, central europe ...
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Punishment Park (1971)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: In this fictional documentary, U.S. prisons are at capacity, and President Nixon declares a state of emergency. All new prisoners, most of whom are connected to the antiwar movement, are now given the choice of jail time or spending three days in ...
Style: mockumentary, political, realistic, philosophical, slasher ...
Plot: found footage, politics, hippie, anarchist, military, distopia, murder, anti war, counterculture, dystopian future, desert, soldier ...
Time: distant future, year 1971, 70s, 60s, 20th century
Place: usa, indochina, california, washington d.c., glendale california
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 6.7
 443K
In Time (2011)
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, philosophical, stylized, serious, suspense ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, family friendly, girls' night, boys' night
Plot: time, dystopian future, immortality, fighting the system, survival, love, distopia, dystopic future, dystopia, class differences, life & death, social differences ...
Time: future, year 2011, 2010s, near future, distant future
Place: usa, los angeles
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