| Shinsengumi! (2004) | 7.9 | |
| Freedom (2023) | 7.4 | |
| Hawayein (2003) | 7.4 | |
| Het Jaar van Fortuyn (2022) | 8.1 | |
| Methagu (2021) | 8.5 |
Civil unrest movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant civil unrest movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out tense, captivating, suspense, political drama, suspenseful and psychological films and TV shows about / with civil unrest, violence, moral ambiguity, riot, corruption, protest, conspiracy, police officer, social commentary and fight plots mostly in Drama, Thriller and History genres shot in UK, USA, France and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as civil unrest: Election Night (2021), Dear Comrades! (2020), Michael Collins (1996), Gangs of New York (2002), Enforcement (2020), Kadaisi Ulaga Por (2024), Hunt (2022), Kung Fu Hustle (2004), Activists (2019), Volt (2016).
Best films
List of civil unrest movies
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Story:
Five friends hold an Election Night party in a politically-divided Britain, with a populist right-wing party and a radical left-wing party battling for the keys to 10 Downing Street.
Style:
political thriller, tense, thrilling, suspenseful, captivating ...
Plot:
civil unrest, party, riot, friends, home invasion, right wing, collision, political activism, relationship problems, political repression, political unrest, social commentary ...
Place:
britain, london
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Genre: Drama, History
Country: Russia
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
Novocherkassk, USSR, 1962. Liudmila is a Party executive and devout communist who fought at the front of WWII for Stalin’s ideology. Certain that her contribution will create a communist society, she detests any anti-Soviet sentiment. During a ...
Style:
realistic, psychological, suspense, exciting, black and white ...
Plot:
anti communism, brutality, communist party, communist, demonstration, army vs civilians, civil unrest, rebellion, lovers, riot, mother daughter relationship, strike ...
Time:
year 1962, 60s
Place:
ussr, russia, soviet union
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Thriller, War
Country: Ireland, UK, USA
Duration: 133 min.
Story:
Michael Collins plays a crucial role in the establishment of the Irish Free State in the 1920s, but becomes vilified by those hoping to create a completely independent Irish republic.
Style:
political, brutal, harsh, factual, intense ...
Plot:
politics, irish history, civil war, terrorism, revolution, biopic, ira, freedom, british empire, civil unrest, independence movement, fight ...
Time:
1920s, 20th century, edwardian era, 90s, 1910s ...
Place:
ireland, england, london, northern ireland, europe ...
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA, Italy
Duration: 167 min.
Story:
It's 1863. America was born in the streets. Amsterdam Vallon returns to the Five Points of America to seek vengeance against the psychotic gangland kingpin, Bill the Butcher, who murdered his father years earlier. With an eager pickpocket by ...
Style:
tense, rough, bloody, epic, atmospheric ...
Audience:
boys' night, adult
Plot:
revenge, gang, vengeance, gangster, organized crime, street gang, violence, betrayal, racism, courage, violent, gang war ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, 1800s, 1860s, 50s ...
Place:
new york, usa, manhattan new york city
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Denmark, Belgium, France
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
The exact details of what took place while Talib Ben Hassi was in police custody remain unclear. Police officers, Jens and Mike, are on routine patrol in Svalegården's ghetto when news of Talib's death comes in over the radio, igniting ...
Style:
tense, suspense, captivating, social, hood ...
Plot:
ghetto, police partner, gang, police officer, civil unrest, riot, urban ghetto, showdown, struggle for survival, criminal gang, trapped, partner ...
Place:
denmark, copenhagen
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Genre: Sci-Fi
Country: India
Duration: 140 min.
Story:
In a dystopian near-future, new world order arises, leading to world war 3. India tries to remain neutral leading to capturing of Tamil Nadu from the South.
Style:
political thriller, tense, dark, bleak, suspense ...
Plot:
dystopia, civil unrest, new world order, civil war, rebellion, resistance, propaganda, survival, martial law, military coup, nationalism, battlefield ...
Time:
near future
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Genre: Action, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 131 min.
Story:
After a high-ranking North Korean official requests asylum, KCIA Foreign Unit chief Park Pyong-ho and Domestic Unit chief Kim Jung-do are tasked with uncovering a North Korean spy, known as Donglim, who is deeply embedded within their agency. When ...
Style:
suspenseful, captivating, psychological, surprise ending
Plot:
inter-korean relations, politics, espionage, secret agent, double agent, civil unrest, intelligence agency, assassination plot, spy mission, counter intelligence, special agent, agent ...
Time:
80s
Place:
south korea, north korea, washington d.c., asia, seoul ...
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Genre: Action, Comedy, Fantasy
Country: Hong Kong, China, USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Set in Canton, China in the 1940s, the story revolves in a town ruled by the Axe Gang, Sing who desperately wants to become a member. He stumbles into a slum ruled by eccentric landlords who turns out to be the greatest kung-fu masters in disguise. ...
Style:
spoof, humorous, cult classic, stylized, surreal ...
Audience:
kids, teens
Plot:
martial arts, wuxia, kung fu, lone hero, kung fu fighting, gangster, master warrior, heroes, mob boss, chaos, violence, violent ...
Time:
1940s, 2000s, year 2004, 20th century
Place:
hong kong, china, east asia, shanghai, asia
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Genre: Drama, History
Country: Finland
Duration: 154 min.
TV show
Story:
Activists follows the years from 1899 to 1906 when Finland as an independent nation started to form. At the center stage are young restless souls who operate against the backdrop of the phenomena of the time: deep social divisions, political ...
Style:
period piece, historical drama, dramatic, tension, tense ...
Plot:
activism, nationalism, civil unrest, independence movement, realism, political intrigue, class conflict, revolutionary, frustration, power struggle, idealism, riot ...
Time:
turn of the century
Place:
finland, russia
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Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: Germany, France
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
Germany in the not-too-distant future: The borders are closed, refugees are collected in camps and turned away or accepted. The mood is charged, a police detachment is responsible for keeping the crowd in check. Volt is one of the cops. He ...
Style:
captivating, suspense, disturbing, psychological, bleak ...
Plot:
police, civil unrest, ethical dilemma, dystopia, violence, refugee, guilt, police brutality, social commentary, xenophobia, moral ambiguity, dystopian future ...
Time:
near future, future
Place:
germany
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Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
The world had changed. Streets day by day were filled with protest. The unemployed. The lost. Chaos. Then something happened. Something though it had no name had arrived. Fear. Fear over took rationale. The streets became empty. The new age of ...
Style:
dark, suspenseful, bleak, tense, political thriller ...
Plot:
fear, civil unrest, uncertainty, dystopia, political unrest, desperation, protest, survival, anxiety, chaos, social commentary, post apocalyptic ...
Time:
near future
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Genre: Biography, History
Country: India
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
The true events that happened in Tamileelam to suppress Tamil ethnicity and why Tamil leader Prabhakaran emerged in the Tamil freedom struggle in the Indian Ocean Island nation Srilanka.
Style:
social, realistic, thrilling, psychological, captivating ...
Plot:
freedom, police brutality, biopic, oppression, ethnic conflict, civil unrest, social issues, social injustice, fighting the system, social problems, assassination, activism ...
Time:
2020s
Place:
sri lanka, india
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Moldova
Duration: 73 min.
Story:
After two years spent as a student in Boston, a 22-year-old visits his native Moldova. It is April 2009. People gather in the streets of Chisinau, the call having spread through social networking sites. They are demonstrating against the communist ...
Style:
intense, emotional, political thriller, independent film, political drama
Plot:
abuse of power, civil unrest, police brutality, human rights, protest, realism, oppression, civil liberties, post soviet, police station, corruption, false arrest ...
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story:
Following the fateful aftermath of a demonstration, tensions rise within a riot squad that struggles to separate work from personal life.
Style:
tense
Plot:
police procedural, civil unrest, social commentary, moral dilemma, brotherhood, isolation, criminal, police, riot police, police officer, riot, rookie ...
Place:
rome italy
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Nineteen-year old Leon returns home to take care of his alcoholic mother and adjust to life as an adult after an adolescence spent in and out of foster care. Frustrated by his lack of an education and his bleak financial prospects, Leon finds solace ...
Style:
psychological, disturbing, captivating, social, hood
Plot:
first love, civil unrest, adolescence vs adulthood, relationships, society, social problems, family relations, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, grownups, moral dilemma, black lives matter, homeless ...
Place:
london
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Genre: Action, Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
In prewar Japan under the military regime, a bloody battle between the extremely oppressive Special Higher Police and villagers begins!
Style:
captivating, suspense, enigmatic, psychological, disturbing ...
Plot:
world war two, woman, world war, wartime, aerial combat, war, violence, top secret, falling from height, society, fear, military base ...
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 90 min.
TV show
Story:
When Katarina Huss starts as a police officer, she must learn to cope with the hard everyday life on the streets of Gothenburg. At the same time, her colleagues seem to be hiding something and soon she is drawn into a tangle of corruption and ...
Style:
tense, suspenseful, crime drama, detective, disturbing ...
Plot:
female protagonist, corruption, police, policewoman, investigation, police procedural, disorder, coworker, fighting crime, civil unrest, police station, betrayal ...
Place:
scandinavia, eastern europe
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Genre: Drama, History, Mystery, Romance, Thriller, War
Country: China
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story:
Set during the Japanese occupation of Shanghai in 1941, the drama follows Chen Shan who was forced to be a Japanese spy to save his younger sister who was held in captive; and his journey to become a patriotic fighter.
Style:
suspense, captivating, disturbing, psychological, tense ...
Plot:
patriotism, conflict, spy, world war two, wartime, japanese occupation, espionage, society, civil unrest, patriot, battles, fight for supremacy ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
shanghai, china
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Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Faced with the tyranny of Caesar who acts as absolute master over Rome, Senators Rufus and Cassius form a plot to assassinate him.
Style:
not serious, light, humorous, captivating, entertaining ...
Plot:
roman, ancient history, roman empire, julius caesar, goofy hero, ancient rome, conspiracy, assassination plot, escapades, political conspiracy, underdog, fight scenes ...
Place:
rome italy, europe
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
R.P.M. stands for (political) revolutions per minute. Anthony Quinn plays a liberal college professor at a west coast college during the hedy days of campus activism in the late 1960s. Radical students take over the college, the president resigns, ...
Style:
serious, tense, intense, period piece, political ...
Plot:
counterculture, student protest, social change, radicalism, civil unrest, liberalism, power struggle, civil disobedience, character study, civil liberties, anarchy, moral ambiguity ...
Time:
60s
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Genre: Crime, Drama, History, Thriller
Country: USA, Philippines, Australia, UK
Duration: 162 min.
TV show
Story:
A Dangerous Life is a 1988 English-language Australian film about the final years of the Philippines under Ferdinand Marcos' rule, from the assassination of Benigno Aquino, Jr. in 1983 to the People Power EDSA Revolution in 1986 that ousted ...
Style:
historical drama, suspense, tension, bleak, inspirational ...
Plot:
martial law, corruption, dictatorship, protest, authoritarianism, nonviolent resistance, civil unrest, journalism, propaganda, political conspiracy, rebellion, nationalism ...
Time:
80s
Place:
the philippines, manila philippines
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A 90-minute documentary with dramatic reconstructions of the police shooting of Mark Duggan in Tottenham in August 2011.
Style:
controversial, political, tense
Audience:
adult
Plot:
protest, interview, controversy, civil unrest, investigation, interracial relations, urban violence, anger, trauma, grief, media coverage, inquest ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
london
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Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Andrew Angus Dalrymple's realistic portrait of a British soldier, his Irish lover and her twin sister amidst the strife of Northern Ireland.
Style:
tense, bleak, period piece, suspenseful, independent film
Plot:
trouble, political conflict, british soldier, civil unrest, social realism, violence, trauma, family drama, twin sister, occupation, forbidden romance, moral ambiguity ...
Time:
70s
Place:
belfast, ireland, northern ireland
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Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 73 min.
Story:
Kieślowski’s study of a political strike, controversially told from the viewpoint of a Communist functionary trying to keep order.
Style:
historical drama, period piece, serious, intense, educational ...
Plot:
working class, violence, civil unrest, character study, cold war era, social realism, ethical dilemma, bureaucracy, renaissance, political party, government, clerk ...
Time:
70s
Place:
poland, eastern europe
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Mystery
Country: China
Duration: 136 min.
Story:
In 1900, a white woman was murdered in Chinatown in San Francisco, and the suspect was a Chinese man. The murder caused social shock, and people demanded the closure of Chinatown.
Style:
detective, tense, suspenseful, atmospheric, dark ...
Plot:
murder, investigation, racial tension, suspect, xenophobia, whodunit, civil unrest, police procedural, justice, immigration, false accusation, conspiracy ...
Time:
1900s, 20th century
Place:
san francisco
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK
TV show
Story:
Follows the Driscolls, an ordinary family caught in between power struggles that forces them to leave the country they call home.
Style:
political thriller, suspenseful, psychological, thrilling, captivating ...
Plot:
revolution, power struggle, ambitious, political unrest, problem, political intrigue, power, class struggle, family drama, moral dilemma, civil unrest, fugitives ...
Place:
wales
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Genre: Drama, History, Thriller
Country: Argentina
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story:
This Spanish-language series chronicles the politics and events leading up to the most severe economic and social crisis in Argentina’s history since its return to democracy. At the center of a government in crisis, a political appointee works as ...
Style:
suspenseful, serious, captivating, exciting, political thriller ...
Plot:
economic crisis, political intrigue, economist, crisis, politics, politician, political candidate, political activism, political conflict, financial crisis, political leader, political unrest ...
Place:
argentina, buenos aires argentina
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Brazil
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
To protect herself from a revolt by the workers on her family's farm, a reclusive designer locks herself in her armored car. The clock is ticking and the tension rises. Separated by an impenetrable layer of glass, two universes are about to ...
Style:
tense, psychological, captivating, suspense, psychological thriller ...
Plot:
armored car, farm hand, claustrophobia, isolation, problem, threat, female protagonist, civil unrest, class conflict, locked room, privilege, paranoia ...
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Genre: Action
Country: France
TV show
Story:
In 2005, in a French suburb, a drug bust shatters the network of a family of drug dealers. Driss, a brilliant student, is forced to take over the family business, setting off on a downward spiral. Facing him is William, an ambitious and idealistic ...
Style:
suspenseful, thrilling, captivating, dramatic, realistic ...
Plot:
drug, police, investigation, drug crime, police investigation, organized crime, drug dealing, police officer, drug lord, criminal, fighting crime, drug dealer ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
france
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Genre: Action, Drama, History, Thriller
Country: Egypt
Duration: 175 min.
Story:
The movie focuses on the fury state that was among the people in synchronization with the main event in Egypt: The Egyptian revolution "1919" which unites the fates of Kira and El Gin to participate in the struggle against the English ...
Style:
tense, historical drama, suspense, disturbing, captivating ...
Plot:
revolution, war, wartime, wartime life, battles, rebellion, revolutionary, power struggle, fight, nationalism, civil unrest, bravery ...
Time:
year 1919
Place:
cairo egypt, egypt
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