Radicalism movies and TV shows

The list contains the best, new and most relevant radicalism movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out tense, suspense, political, realistic, serious and dramatic films and TV shows about / with radicalism, radical, politics, violence, dialogue, rebellion, betrayal, runaway, corruption and mentor plots mostly in Drama, Thriller and Biography genres shot in USA, UK, France and other countries.
radicalism movies
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TOP 10 movies tagged as radicalism: The Cost of Deception (2021), A Violent Life (2017), Sons of Denmark (2019), Say Your Prayers (2020), Layla M. (2016), Svarte pantere (1992), R.P.M. (1970), The Anarchists (2000), Prologue (1969), The Ploy (2016).

List of radicalism movies

The Cost of Deception (2021)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, History, Thriller
Country: Hungary
Duration: 125 min.
Story: When a young, ambitious market researcher finds out her boss is involved in the leaking of a scandalous Prime Minister speech, she decides to investigate the case to gain a position among the big-shots. Based on actual events.
Style: political, serious, realistic, captivating, suspense ...
Plot: radicalism, political conspiracy, vandalism, political leader, street fight, police violence, henchman, democracy, obscenity, political scandal, true crime, morality ...
Time: year 2006, 2000s, 21st century
Place: hungary, budapest, central europe, europe
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 6.1
 476
A Violent Life (2017)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Despite the life threat hanging over his head, Stéphane decides to go back to Corsica for the funeral of Christophe, a childhood friend and companion in arms, murdered the day before. On this occasion, the chain of events which made him, the ...
Style: tense, suspense, captivating
Plot: funeral, radicalism, nationalist, radical, murder, death, prison, violence, life is a bitch, criminal, confronting the past, haunted by the past ...
Time: year 2017
Place: corsica
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Sons of Denmark (2019)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Denmark
Duration: 123 min.
Story: Denmark, in the near future. One year after a major bomb attack in Copenhagen, political radicalization has intensified and ethnic tensions are increasing. As next year's parliamentary elections approach, in which nationalist leader Martin ...
Style: suspense, captivating, disturbing, psychological, suspenseful ...
Plot: nationalism, politics, terrorist, terrorist attack, election, political protest, racial segregation, domestic terrorism, racial slur, racial tension, ethnic slur, political unrest ...
Time: near future, future
Place: copenhagen, denmark
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Say Your Prayers (2020)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Two orphaned brothers turned radical Christian hitmen venture to rural Ilkley under the instruction of Father Enoch. Their mission: assassinate the famed atheist writer Professor John Huxley.
Style: tense, captivating, satirical, disturbing, suspense
Plot: murder, brother brother relationship, murderer, radicalism, attempted murder, orphan, religious cult, radical, countryside, satire, religion, criminal ...
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 6.6
 2K
Layla M. (2016)
Genre: Drama
Country: Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, Jordan
Duration: 98 min.
Story: 18-year-old Layla, a Dutch girl with Moroccan roots, joins a group of radical Muslims. She encounters a world that nurtures her ideas initally, but finally confronts her with an impossible choice.
Style: disturbing, psychological, captivating, tense
Plot: jihad, islam, islamic terrorism, muslim, teen rebel, terrorism, society, radical, social misfits, juvenile delinquency, suspicion, teenage life ...
Place: netherlands
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 5.4
 121
Svarte pantere (1992)
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: Norway
Duration: 85 min.
Story: After a series of ever more daring raids on laboratories and farms to rescue what they believe are mistreated animals, a radical commune of animal liberationists find themselves under a vicious attack by the very groups they had expected the least ...
Style: dark, tense, intense, controversial, atmospheric ...
Plot: animal rights, animal liberation, activism, moral ambiguity, sabotage, law enforcement, radicalism, social activism, underground movement, false accusation, betrayal, propaganda ...
Time: 90s
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 5.3
 740
R.P.M. (1970)
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
Is relevant?
 5.6
 328
The Anarchists (2000)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: South Korea, China
Duration: 104 min.
Story: A group of Korean anarchists in 1920s China are determined to overthrow the military and government.
Style: political, historical drama, bleak, tense, period piece ...
Plot: anarchism, japanese occupation, anarchist, anarchy, revolution, imperialism, resistance, activism, nationalism, rebellion, militant, underground movement ...
Time: 1920s
Place: korea, shanghai, japan, china
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 6.3
 27
Prologue (1969)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Directed by acclaimed filmmaker Robin Spry, Prologue was the first Canadian film to screen at the Venice Film Festival. Set and filmed during the sixties, this fiction feature tells the story of a young Montrealer who edits an underground newspaper ...
Style: historical drama, period piece, independent film, political, political drama ...
Plot: counterculture, frustration, deserter, activism, protest, anti war, commune, social commentary, violence, police brutality, riot police, anti establishment ...
Time: 60s
Place: montreal
Is relevant?
 6.3
 546
The Ploy (2016)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 100 min.
Story: In the summer of '75 Pier Paolo Pasolini's film, "Salò", is stolen from the lab where he is editing it. This is just the first step of an intricate plan that will bring the great poet to his violent death.
Style: suspenseful, tense, disturbing, captivating, suspense ...
Plot: assassination, conspiracy, investigation, corruption, true crime, gay, deathtrap, trap, political conspiracy, theft, biopic, film history ...
Time: 70s
Place: italy, rome italy
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 5.7
 91
Burnface (2010)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Spain
Duration: 98 min.
Story: "Caracremada" ("Burnface" in Catalan), a nickname given by the Spanish Civil Guard to Ramon Vila Capdevila, reflects about the libertarian resistance against Franco's regime through the last active guerrilla fighter. In 1951 ...
Style: historical drama, bleak, realistic, tense, melancholic ...
Plot: resistance, partisan, guerilla warfare, spanish history, anti fascism, political repression, anarchism, persecution, biopic, militant, isolation, legacy ...
Time: 1950s, 20th century, year 1951, 50s
Place: catalonia
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Hvem har bestemt? (1978)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Norway
Duration: 83 min.
Story: The anarchist Ottar is being locked up in a mental institution after a serious of tantrums that involves rage against the machine.
Style: bleak, period piece, political drama
Plot: mental institution, paranoia, social commentary, anti establishment, character study, authoritarianism, alienation, existential crisis, surveillance, isolation, nonconformity, counterculture ...
Time: 70s, year 1978, 20th century
Place: europe
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Running on Empty (1988)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story: The Popes are a family who haven't been able to use their real identity for years. In the late sixties, the parents set a weapons lab afire in an effort to hinder the government's Vietnam war campaign. Ever since then, the Popes have been ...
Style: touching, serious, political, feel good, retro ...
Audience: teen drama
Plot: coming of age, music, musician, hidden identity, radical, follow your dream, love, haunted by the past, parents and children, eccentric family, hopes, rebelliousness ...
Time: 80s, 70s, year 1988, 20th century, 60s ...
Place: new jersey, new york, oakland california, usa, yale university ...
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 5.5
 272
Mother's Heart (1969)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Lorenz has three young children who are victims of a media who wishes to turn out terrorists. She contends with her monstrous offspring and student revolts until she can't take it anymore. Lorenz takes matters into her own hands by planting a ...
Audience: toddlers
Plot: death of child, terrorism, communism, fascism, nanny, single mother, children, boy, evil child, redheaded woman, lesbian, male nudity ...
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Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
Genre: Comedy, War
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: After the insane General Jack D. Ripper initiates a nuclear strike on the Soviet Union, a war room full of politicians, generals and a Russian diplomat all frantically try to stop the nuclear strike.
Style: black comedy, dark comedy, cerebral, satirical, funny ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: satire, cold war, military, nuclear war, nuclear threat, nuclear explosion, u.s. air force, nuclear holocaust, nuclear bomb, doomsday, anti war, absurdism ...
Time: 20th century, 60s, year 1942, 1930s
Place: soviet union, washington d.c., persia, united kingdom, england ...
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 8.1
 469K
Platoon (1986)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 120 min.
Story: As a young and naive recruit in Vietnam, Chris Taylor faces a moral crisis when confronted with the horrors of war and the duality of man.
Style: realistic, disturbing, epic, rough, suspense ...
Audience: manly, boys' night
Plot: vietnam war, military, soldier, battlefield, battles, squad, jungle warfare, combat, jungle, anti war, violent, conflict ...
Time: year 1967, year 1986, year 1968, 60s, 20th century
Place: vietnam, southeast asia, the philippines, america, asia ...
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Full Metal Jacket (1987)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story: A pragmatic U.S. Marine observes the dehumanizing effects the U.S.-Vietnam War has on his fellow recruits from their brutal boot camp training to the bloody street fighting in Hue.
Style: clever, suspense, visually stunning, bleak, psychological ...
Audience: manly, boys' night, adult
Plot: vietnam war, military, war, soldier, anti war, suicide, basic training, boot camp, violence, sniper, military life, brutality ...
Time: 20th century, year 1967, year 1968, year 1987, 60s ...
Place: vietnam, persia, america, asia, south carolina ...
Is relevant?
 7.3
 174K
Wall Street (1987)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 126 min.
Story: A young and impatient stockbroker is willing to do anything to get to the top, including trading on illegal inside information taken through a ruthless and greedy corporate raider whom takes the youth under his wing.
Style: political, talky, intense, suspense, captivating ...
Audience: manly
Plot: wall street, stock market, stock broker, stock exchange, business, businessman, capitalism, yuppie, entrepreneur, greed, top executive, workplace ...
Time: 80s, year 1987, 20th century
Place: new york, manhattan new york city, usa, california, canada
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Born on the Fourth of July (1989)
Genre: Biography, Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 145 min.
Story: The biography of Ron Kovic. Paralyzed in the Vietnam war, he becomes an anti-war and pro-human rights political activist after feeling betrayed by the country he fought for.
Style: factual, disturbing, intense, serious, captivating ...
Plot: vietnam war, war, anti war, politics, disability, profanity, desert, wartime, fighting the system, biopic, military, vietnam veteran ...
Time: year 1989, post world war two, 1950s, 50s, 20th century ...
Place: vietnam, bronx new york city, north america, texas, the philippines ...
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 8.0
 181K
JFK (1991)
Genre: Drama, History, Thriller
Country: USA, France
Duration: 189 min.
Story: New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison discovers there's more to the Kennedy assassination than the official story.
Style: tense, political thriller, controversial, political, disturbing ...
Plot: investigation, assassination, kennedy assassination, president, political conspiracy, conspiracy theory, legal, politics, cia, assassination of president, cold war era, courtroom ...
Time: 20th century, 60s, 90s, year 1991, year 1963
Place: america, washington d.c., north america, midwest, chile ...
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 7.8
 191K
The Insider (1999)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 157 min.
Story: Tells the true story of a 60 Minutes television series exposé of the tobacco industry, as seen through the eyes of a real tobacco executive, Jeffrey Wigand
Style: cerebral, political, sexy, suspense, clever ...
Plot: journalism, whistleblower, courtroom, politics, corruption, reporter, corporate crime, journalist, conspiracy, terrorist, tobacco, lawyer ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, year 1999
Place: new york, washington d.c., kentucky, south carolina, mississippi ...
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 7.3
 172K
Snowden (2016)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany, France
Duration: 134 min.
Story: CIA employee Edward Snowden leaks thousands of classified documents to the press.
Style: realistic, political thriller, thought provoking, factual, inspirational ...
Audience: chick flick, family friendly
Plot: espionage, journalism, whistleblower, hacking, fighting the system, moral dilemma, internet, spying, cia, technology, cryptography, ethics ...
Time: year 2016, 20th century, year 2015, year 2009, year 2011 ...
Place: japan, russia, hawaii, america, pakistan ...
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Pirates of the Airwaves (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: New Zealand
Story: In 1966 a group of determined young men defied the New Zealand government and launched a pirate radio station aboard a ship in the Hauraki Gulf.
Style: historical drama, period piece
Plot: rebellion, friendship, determination, seafaring, biopic, camaraderie, counterculture, shipwreck, rock music, nostalgia, innovation, boat ...
Time: 60s, 70s
Place: new zealand
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In the Company of Women (2023)
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain, France
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Summer of 1976. Bea is 16 years old and she collaborates with a group of women to make visible the feminist cause and achieve the approval of the right to abortion. The rebellion she feels in the blood will mix with an unexpected feeling that will ...
Style: psychological, serious, social, exciting, thrilling ...
Audience: adult
Plot: lesbian, women's rights, women, coming of age, abortion rights, feminism, social problems, fighting the system, social injustice, fight for justice, fight, civil rights ...
Time: 70s
Place: spain
Is relevant?
 8.0
 55
Pogo 1104 (1984)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Drama, Romance, Music
Country: West Germany
Duration: 180 min.
TV show
Story: Three young men somehow get together and start a pirate broadcaster.
Style: satirical, comedy drama
Plot: friendship, youth culture, counterculture, coming of age, anti establishment, unhappiness, small town, satire, ambition, police chase, radicalism, experimental narrative ...
Time: 80s
Place: west germany, northern germany
Is relevant?
 7.0
 59K
Colonia (2015)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Romance, Thriller
Country: Germany, Luxembourg, UK, Argentina
Duration: 110 min.
Story: A young woman's desperate search for her abducted boyfriend that draws her into the infamous Colonia Dignidad, a sect nobody ever escaped from.
Style: suspense, harsh, psychological, emotional, political ...
Audience: chick flick, teens
Plot: religious fanatic, religion, genocide, dictatorship, torture chamber, sect, abuse, kidnapping, escape, torture, prison, man punching a woman ...
Time: 70s, year 2015, year 1973
Place: chile, peru, germany, south america, italy ...
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Ladies of Steel (2020)
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Country: Finland
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Inkeri, 75, has hit her husband on the head with a solid iron frying pan and is planning to bury him in their garden. Before facing the rest of her life in prison, there may yet be a moment left to really live. Inkeri makes her sisters Sylvi and ...
Style: road movie, black comedy, dark comedy
Plot: senior citizen, older woman younger man sex, sex scene, dysfunctional marriage, road trip, marriage, past, birthday, dying, sister sister relationship, birthday party, death ...
Time: 60s
Place: finland
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I Shot Andy Warhol (1996)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Based on the true story of Valerie Solanas who was a 1960s radical preaching hatred toward men in her "Scum" manifesto. She wrote a screenplay for a film that she wanted Andy Warhol to produce, but he continued to ignore her. So she shot ...
Style: independent film, disturbing, clever, edutainment, surreal ...
Plot: art, artist, feminist, writers, lesbian, biopic, women, feminism, painter, true crime, art history, lgbt ...
Time: 60s, 20th century, year 1996, year 1966, year 1968
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city
Is relevant?
 7.2
 2K
Lumumba (2000)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: France, Belgium, Germany, Haiti
Duration: 115 min.
Story: The true story of the rise to power and brutal assassination of the formerly vilified and later redeemed leader of the independent Congo, Patrice Lumumba. Using newly discovered historical evidence, Haitian-born and later Congo-raised writer and ...
Style: political, realistic, serious, suspenseful, contemplative ...
Plot: imperialism, politics, assassination, intrigue, colonialism, capitalism, politician, greed, revolution, scapegoat, betrayal, political corruption ...
Time: 20th century, 60s, 1950s, 50s
Place: africa, congo, belgium, south africa, tokyo ...
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Itty Bitty Titty Committee (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Anna is coming out. But not as gay as a revolutionary. Itty Bitty Titty Committee is a rockin love song to the heady rush of sex, freedom and rebellion that happens when an everyday girl discovers her own strength and the righteous indignation ...
Style: semi serious, witty, humorous, suspense, realistic ...
Audience: girls' night, teens
Plot: lesbian, cheerleader, lesbian sex, lesbian love, lgbt, feminism, feminist, fall in love, breakup, gays and lesbians, strong female presence, society ...
Time: year 1948, year 1984
Place: indiana, sacramento california, california, los angeles, bahamas ...
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