Anti fascism movies and TV shows

The list contains the best, new and most relevant anti fascism movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out realistic, serious, political, captivating, emotional and clever films and TV shows about / with anti fascism, fascism, politics, society, death, rebellion, husband wife relationship, world war two, cigarette smoking and female nudity plots mostly in Drama, War and Comedy genres shot in USA, France, Italy and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as anti fascism: Anthropoid (2016), Freedomfighters (1996), The Women on the 6th Floor (2010), Ridley Road (2021), The First Purge (2018), Dialogues of the Exiled (1975), Naked Among Wolves (1963), We Were Young (1961), Anni ruggenti (1962), Mr. Freedom (1968).

List of anti fascism movies

 7.2
 50K
Anthropoid (2016)
Genre: Action, Biography, Drama, History, Romance, Thriller, War
Country: Czech Republic, UK, USA, France
Duration: 120 min.
Story: In December 1941, Czech soldier Jozef Gabčík and Jan Kubiš parachute into their occupied homeland to assassinate Nazi officer Reinhard Heydrich
Style: factual, realistic, clever, emotional, dramatic ...
Plot: nazi, world war two, assassination, nazi occupation, gestapo, conspiracy, torture, third reich, friendship between men, suspicion, repression, war ...
Time: 1940s, 1930s, year 1938, year 1942
Place: germany, prague, berlin germany, england, israel ...
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Freedomfighters (1996)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Spain, Italy, Belgium
Duration: 125 min.
Story: At the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War, the nun Maria is forced to flee her convent. She takes refuge in a brothel, until it is liberated by a woman's anarchist group. Maria joins the group and eventually goes to the front. The women's ...
Style: political, sad, realistic, serious, emotional ...
Plot: spanish civil war, anarchist, anarchism, civil war, rebellion, feminism, female warrior, sex, gender, spanish history, working class, utopia ...
Time: 1930s
Place: iberian peninsula, europe, spain
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The Women on the 6th Floor (2010)
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Paris, in the early 1960s. Jean-Louis Joubert is a serious but uptight stockbroker, married to Suzanne, a starchy class-conscious woman and father of two arrogant teenage boys, currently in a boarding school. The affluent man lives a steady yet ...
Style: romantic, feel good, sentimental, unusual plot structure, inspirational ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: adultery, working class, couples, immigrants, high society, peeping, maid, women, strong female character, hopes, starting over, self discovery ...
Time: 20th century, 60s, year 1962, year 1965
Place: france, paris france, spain, egypt, europe ...
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 6.8
 3K
Ridley Road (2021)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, USA, Ireland
Duration: 229 min.
TV show
Story: During London's swinging sixties, young Jewish Vivien Epstein follows her lover into danger and when he is caught between life and death, she finds herself going undercover with the fascists, not only for him but for the sake of her country.
Style: disturbing, captivating, suspenseful, political
Plot: fascism, double life, suspense, social problems, relationships, political intrigue, political unrest, male female relationship, relationship problems, dual role, tragic love, love affair ...
Time: year 1962, 60s, 20th century
Place: east end london, manchester, london
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Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 138 min.
Story: Returning for his fifth year of study at Hogwarts, Harry is stunned to find that his warnings about the return of Lord Voldemort have been ignored. Left with no choice, Harry takes matters into his own hands, training a small group of students – ...
Style: exciting, scenic, tense, entertaining, fairy tale ...
Audience: teens, kids, family outing, pre-teens, chick flick ...
Plot: magic, witch, magical, harry potter, school, wizards, chosen one, wizards and magicians, supernatural, boarding school, best friends, supernatural ability ...
Time: 90s, year 1995, year 1994, year 1996, 21st century
Place: england, london, europe, scotland
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The First Purge (2018)
Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, China, Japan
Duration: 97 min.
Story: To push the crime rate below one percent for the rest of the year, the New Founding Fathers of America test a sociological theory that vents aggression for one night in one isolated community. But when the violence of oppressors meets the rage of ...
Style: rough, suspenseful, slasher, psychological, scary ...
Plot: murder, sadism, atrocity, social injustice, survival horror, suspense, abuse of power, experiment, racism, politics, violence, distopia ...
Time: year 2014, year 2017, 2010s
Place: new york, new jersey, usa
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Dialogues of the Exiled (1975)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Chile, France
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Chilean exiles in Paris discuss the problems facing them. They kidnap and attempt to re-educate a touring singer from their fatherland.
Plot: exile, singer, kidnapping, absurdism, anti fascist, dishonesty, anti fascism, guitarist, refugee, solidarity, radical, diaspora ...
Time: 70s
Place: paris france, chile
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Naked Among Wolves (1963)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: East Germany
Duration: 124 min.
Story: No overview found.
Style: complex
Plot: world war two, holocaust, concentration camp, military, wartime life, nazism, prisoner, war criminal, gas chamber, baby, nazi occupied poland, destiny ...
Place: germany, poland, east germany, frankfurt germany, spain ...
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 7.7
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We Were Young (1961)
Genre: Drama
Country: Bulgaria
Duration: 110 min.
Story: During Second World War a beautiful love between two young people burns out against the background of the Nazi reality.
Plot: girl, propaganda, photographer, burned alive, torture, bombing, young love, ballet, anti fascism
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 7.4
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Anni ruggenti (1962)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 106 min.
Story: In the thirties, during the Fascist Dictatorship, an insurance broker, Omero Battifiori, reaches a small country town from Rome seeking for new customers. The main authorities, expecting an incognito inspection from the Fascist Party of the capital, ...
Style: surprise ending
Plot: fascism, fake identity, switching roles, carabinieri, cabaret, cow, anti fascism, fascist, broker, italian fascism, false identity, cheating wife ...
Time: 1930s
Place: italy, rome italy
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 6.4
 1K
Mr. Freedom (1968)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: France
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A pro-America superhero destroys France to prevent Communists from taking over.
Style: political, mind bending, surreal, psychedelic, satirical ...
Plot: surrealism, superhero, satire, social satire, intrigue, manipulation, fascism, anarchist, woman strangled to death, political satire, politics, fight ...
Place: france, paris france
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 7.2
 5K
Uprising (2001)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 177 min.
Story: Jews rise up in the Warsaw Ghetto against the Nazis in 1943.
Style: uplifting, captivating, serious, rough, political ...
Plot: holocaust, world war two, jewish ghetto, rebellion, human spirit, anti semitism, life is a bitch, survival, wartime life, against humanity, politics, society ...
Time: post world war two, 1940s, 20th century, year 1943
Place: germany, europe, warsaw poland, poland
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Blame it on Fidel (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A 9-year-old girl weathers big changes in her household as her parents become radical political activists in 1970-71 Paris.
Style: realistic, serious, sentimental, emotional, touching ...
Plot: politics, coming of age, radical, family problems, family life, political unrest, journalism, hopes, state affairs, immigrants, parents and children, dysfunctional family ...
Time: 70s
Place: france, cuba, paris france, europe, chile ...
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The War Is Over (1966)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: France, Sweden
Duration: 121 min.
Story: A group of Spanish refugees try to organize protests from France. Their network is under constant threat by the police and some of them have recently been arrested. The main character (played by Yves Montand) dedicated his whole life to the battle ...
Style: political, thought provoking, tense, serious, realistic ...
Plot: espionage, spy, revolution, spanish civil war, female nudity, protest, spanish history, secret mission, time travel, idealism, franco regime (francoism), mission gone awry ...
Time: 60s, year 1965
Place: france, paris france, spain, europe, brazil ...
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Love & Anarchy (1973)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 124 min.
Story: Set in Fascist Italy before the outbreak of World War II, the story centers on Giannini's character, an anarchist who stays in a brothel while preparing to kill Benito Mussolini. Giannini's character, while preparing to assassinate ...
Style: political, uplifting, witty, clever, humorous ...
Plot: prostitute, anarchism, anarchist, brothel, assassination, reform, sex, interwar period, chaos, protest, fascism, peasant ...
Time: 1930s
Place: rome italy, italy, europe
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Fortunes of War (1987)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: UK
Duration: 407 min.
TV show
Story: Fortunes of War is a 1987 BBC television adaptation of Olivia Manning's cycle of novels Fortunes of War. It stars Kenneth Branagh as Guy Pringle, lecturer in English Literature in Bucharest during the early part of the Second World War, and ...
Style: realistic, serious, clever, gloomy, emotional ...
Plot: world war two, resistance, spy, activist, infidelity, lecturer, couples, betrayal, military, intrigue, unfulfillment, life is a bitch ...
Time: 1940s
Place: romania, europe, middle east, africa, greece ...
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 8.1
 59K
Underground (1995)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, War
Country: Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, France, Germany, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Hungary, UK, USA
Duration: 167 min.
Story: Black marketeers Marko and Blacky manufacture and sell weapons to the Communist resistance in WWII Belgrade, living the good life along the way. Marko's surreal duplicity propels him up the ranks of the Communist Party, and he eventually ...
Style: absurd, cynical, art house, political, satirical ...
Plot: world war two, surrealism, war, communism, satire, greed, freedom, lie, culture clash, genocide, propaganda, tragedy ...
Time: 1940s, 60s, 90s, year 1941, post world war two
Place: former yugoslavia, balkan, eastern europe, poland, germany ...
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 7.4
 31K
SLC Punk! (1998)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Two former geeks become 1980s punks, then party and go to concerts while deciding what to do with their lives.
Style: realistic, harsh, intense, sentimental, humorous ...
Audience: teens
Plot: punk, subculture, rebelliousness, self destructing, coming of age, rock, rebellion, breaking the fourth wall, drug overdose, friendship, drugs, antisocial behavior ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: north dakota, california, utah, england, woodstock ...
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Angel of Death (2001)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Germany, UK, France, Italy, Spain, Denmark
Duration: 91 min.
Story: The most spectacular Easter celebration in the World. Hosts of hooded Penitents parade through the ancient, narrow streets of the Old Town in time-honored ritual. But for one celebrant this Holy Week is different. For him Semana Santa is a time to ...
Style: slasher, disturbing, psychological, serious, scary ...
Plot: serial killer, sexual abuse, fascism, investigation, mind game, psychopath, clergy, rivalry, who done it, murder, woman in danger, spanish civil war ...
Place: spain, europe
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From Subway with Love (2005)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 100 min.
Story: This romantic comedy presents a story of two women, twenty-year-old Laura, an editor at a woman’s weekly, and her widowed mother, a translator-interpreter named Jana. The two of them tirelessly seek Mr. Right. Having once lived through an intense ...
Plot: love, vacation, subway, english class, hairdresser, grandmother, parachuting, widow, translator, journalist, neighbor, cheating on boyfriend ...
Place: central europe, czech republic
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Pink Floyd: The Wall (1982)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Music
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A troubled rock star descends into madness in the midst of his physical and social isolation from everyone.
Style: psychedelic, experimental, surreal, psychological, disturbing ...
Audience: teens
Plot: rock, drugs, music, rock and roll, teacher, surrealism, loss of father, hallucination, drug addiction, childhood, corporal punishment, rock music ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, 50s, 70s, 60s
Place: england, europe, london, los angeles
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The Passion of Ayn Rand (1999)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 104 min.
Story: The rather eccentric (especially in her thinking) author of "The Fountainhead" and "Atlas Shrugged" becomes involved with a much younger, and married man... to the dismay of those close to her.
Style: political, captivating, realistic, serious, emotional ...
Plot: writers, infidelity, philosopher, individualism, russian woman, art, marriage, psychologist, age-gap relationship, couples, teacher, dancing ...
Time: 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s, 1940s
Place: california, los angeles, new york, manhattan new york city
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Before the Fall (2004)
Genre: Drama, Sport, Thriller, War
Country: Germany
Duration: 110 min.
Story: In 1942, Friedrich Weimer's boxing skills get him an appointment to a National Political Academy (NaPolA) – high schools that produce Nazi elite. Over his father's objections, Friedrich enrolls. During his year in seventh ...
Style: melancholic, harsh, disturbing, emotional, sentimental ...
Plot: nazi, boxing, friendship, anti semitism, boarding school, nazi germany, war, pow, world war two, youth, military school, gay subtext ...
Time: 20th century, 1940s, post world war two, year 1942
Place: germany, berlin germany, poland, new jersey, europe ...
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Lion of the Desert (1980)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: USA, Libya
Duration: 173 min.
Story: This movie tells the story of Omar Mukhtar, an Arab Muslim rebel who fought against the Italian conquest of Libya in WWII. It gives western viewers a glimpse into this little-known region and chapter of history, and exposes the savage means by which ...
Style: epic, exciting, inspirational, controversial, sad ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: muslim, desert, bedouin, arab, rebel, battles, military, world war two, resistance, imperialism, italian history, tank ...
Time: 1920s, 1930s, 20th century
Place: libya, africa, middle east, italy, north africa ...
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Christ Stopped at Eboli (1979)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 150 min.
Story: In the fascist Italy of 1935, a painter trained as a doctor is exiled to a remote region near Eboli. Over time, he learns to appreciate the beauty and wisdom of the peasants, and to overcome his isolation.
Style: thought provoking, uplifting, serious, realistic, touching ...
Plot: fascism, artist, world war two, world war one, anarchist, solar eclipse, italian fascism, politics, village, priest, peasant, injustice ...
Time: 1930s, year 1935, year 1936
Place: italy, naples italy, europe, new york, turin italy ...
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Unfair Competition (2001)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Two linen fabric dealers with their shops close to one another, battle against each other for more and more costumers. Umberto constantly loses clients because of the tough competition brought by Leone, who offers the best prices in the ...
Style: thought provoking, serious, captivating, disturbing, bleak ...
Plot: fascism, anti semitism, holocaust, ghetto, family business, social decay, political unrest, moral dilemma, against humanity, human nature, life is a bitch, world war two ...
Time: 20th century, 1930s
Place: italy, rome italy
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Blues Brothers 2000 (1998)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Music, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story: Elwood, the now lone "Blues Brother" finally released from prison, is once again enlisted by Sister Mary Stigmata in her latest crusade to raise funds for a children's hospital. Once again hitting the road to re-unite the band and win ...
Style: humorous, feel good, captivating, scary, entertaining ...
Audience: teens
Plot: blues, car chase, chase, music, dancing, buddy, prison, on the road, starting over, rivalry, orphan, buddies ...
Time: 90s
Place: louisiana, usa, chicago illinois
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 7.0
 1K
The Assassin (1961)
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A socialite is murdered and her playboy lover is brought in for questioning. During his stay in custody we get to see the real sneaky playboy in action via flashback. Is he guilty or just a sleaze.
Plot: police, age-gap relationship, older woman younger man relationship, murder investigation, arrest, antique dealer, dog, suicide, false accusation, maid, police interrogation, accused of murder ...
Time: 60s
Place: italy, rome italy
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American History X (1998)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story: Derek Vineyard is paroled after serving 3 years in prison for killing two thugs who tried to break into/steal his truck. Through his brother, Danny Vineyard's narration, we learn that before going to prison, Derek was a skinhead and the leader ...
Style: rough, emotional, serious, cerebral, dramatic ...
Audience: boys' night, teens, date night
Plot: prison, racism, skinhead, gang, racial slur, character change, rape, juvenile delinquency, neo nazi, racial prejudice, violent, murder ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: los angeles, usa, california, venice beach california
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Hemingway & Gellhorn (2012)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 155 min.
Story: Writer Ernest Hemingway begins a romance with fellow scribe Martha Gellhorn.
Style: serious, stylized, captivating, psychological, edutainment ...
Plot: love affair, war correspondent, writers, divorce, media, spanish civil war, journalist, fame, world war two, couples, writer's life, life is a bitch ...
Time: 20th century, 1930s, 1940s
Place: europe, usa
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