Anti fascist movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant anti fascist movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out realistic, bleak, serious, suspenseful, period piece and political films and TV shows about / with anti fascist, world war two, resistance, fascism, nazi, fascist, friendship, death, betrayal and revenge plots mostly in Drama, War and History genres shot in Italy, UK, Yugoslavia and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as anti fascist: The White Rose (1982), Christ Stopped at Eboli (1979), The Edelweiss Pirates (2004), The Anarchist's Wife (2008), Imperium (2016), 13 Minutes (2015), Salvador (2006), In Praise of Older Women (1997), The Moon and the Stars (2007), Red Blow (1974).
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List of anti fascist movies
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, History, Thriller, War
Country: West Germany
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
During the Second World War, a small group of students at Munich University begin to question the decisions and sanity of Germany's Nazi government. The students form a resistance cell which they name the "White Rose" after a ...
Style:
bleak, realistic, serious, emotional, thought provoking ...
Plot:
world war two, resistance, nazi, anti fascist, fascism, death sentence, resistance movement, nude girl, dying young, german history, intrigue, world war ...
Time:
year 1943, 1940s, 20th century, year 1982, 1920s
Place:
germany, europe, munich germany, california, paris france ...
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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, serious, realistic, uplifting, sincere ...
Plot:
fascism, artist, world war two, painter, world war one, biopic, world war, anarchist, solar eclipse, italian fascism, priest, peasant ...
Time:
year 1979, year 1936, 1930s, year 1935
Place:
rome italy, naples italy, italy, europe, new york ...
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Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Germany, Netherlands
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
Im Kölner Stadtteil Ehrenfeld lebt eine Gruppe von Arbeiterkindern kurz vor Ende des Zweiten Weltkriegs ihren ganz eigenen Alltag. Die selbsternannten „Edelweißpiraten“ träumen von einer gerechten Welt und sehnen sich nach der unbeschwerten ...
Style:
tense, captivating, realistic, suspenseful, serious ...
Plot:
resistance, wartime life, world war two, nazi germany, human spirit, rebellion, young heroes, captivity, rebelliousness, life is a bitch, against humanity, idealism ...
Time:
1940s, year 1944, 20th century, post world war two
Place:
europe, germany
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Genre: Drama, History
Country: Germany, Spain, France
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
"The Anarchist's Wife" is the story of Manuela who is left behind when her husband Justo fights for his ideals against Franco's Nationalists during the Spanish Civil War. He is deported to a concentration camp, and upon his ...
Style:
psychological, disturbing, captivating
Plot:
spanish civil war, civil war, world war two, fascism, anarchism, anarchist, anti fascist, anti nazi, anarchy, love story, relationships, male female relationship ...
Place:
south of france, madrid
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Nate Foster, a young, idealistic FBI agent, goes undercover to take down a radical white supremacy terrorist group. The bright up-and-coming analyst must confront the challenge of sticking to a new identity while maintaining his real principles as ...
Style:
realistic, disturbing, suspenseful, political, suspense ...
Plot:
skinhead, racism, neo nazi, terrorism, fbi, gangster, patriot, fbi agent, politics, organized crime, undercover, conspiracy ...
Time:
year 2016, year 1969, 70s
Place:
washington d.c., usa
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Genre: Biography, Drama, War
Country: Germany, Italy
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
The breath-taking story of a man who nearly would have changed the world. 1939, when Hitler tricked millions of people at the height of his power, one said a radical No: Georg Elser, disparaged as an assassin, is one of the greatest resistance ...
Style:
realistic, serious, tense, suspenseful
Audience:
kids
Plot:
hitler, nazi germany, world war two, gestapo, resistance fighter, battered woman, bolshevik, nazi, hitler youth, assassination attempt, anti fascist, third reich ...
Time:
year 1939, 1930s, pre world war two, year 1929, year 1932 ...
Place:
germany, munich germany, europe, switzerland, berlin germany
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Spain, UK
Duration: 134 min.
Story:
The story of Salvador Puig Antich, one of the last political prisoners to be executed under Franco's Fascist State in 1974.
Style:
thought provoking, disturbing, rough, suspenseful, realistic ...
Plot:
dictatorship, anarchist, politics, death penalty, against humanity, legal, legal investigation, rebellion, missing person, demonstration, state affairs, journalism ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, year 1974
Place:
barcelona, spain, iberian peninsula, europe
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Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: East Germany
Duration: 178 min.
Story:
East German film about the history of Red Orchestra, a real life German pro-Soviet spy ring created after the rise of Hitler that turned into a resistance movement led by a leftist Nazi officer, Harro Schulze-Boysen, and Arvid Harnack.
Style:
political, bleak, suspenseful, tension, period drama ...
Plot:
resistance, anti fascist, world war two, spy, espionage, nazism, underground movement, betrayal, surveillance, biopic, propaganda, spying ...
Time:
year 1970
Place:
berlin germany, europe, east germany
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Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: Spain
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
In the turmoil of the Spanish Civil War, a young man comes of age sexually, through a string of relationships with a wide range of mature, older women.
Style:
sexy, erotic, sexual, realistic, serious ...
Plot:
older woman teenage boy sex, older woman younger man relationship, nudity, frontline, prostitute, age-gap relationship, politics, love, francisco franco, female nudity, bare breasts, neighbor ...
Time:
year 1936, 90s
Place:
spain, europe, barcelona, italy
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Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: Italy, UK, Hungary
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
1939: Rome stands on the brink of World War II. In the midst of this political and social tension famed producer Davide Rieta is making a major film. The two lead actors, the German woman Kristina Baumgarten and the English man James Clavel ace each ...
Style:
touching, sexy, captivating, light, psychological ...
Plot:
world war two, soldier, dancing, movie star, war hero, betrayal, aristocrat, unrequited love, anti fascist, nazi officer, war, film set ...
Time:
year 1939
Place:
rome italy
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Genre: War, Action
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
At the beginning of the war the Germans come to the mine Trepca in Kosovo and occupy it. Communist Party and the workers do not agree with that and under constant repression, beginning small diversions, which will be transferred in the conquest and ...
Style:
tense, historical drama, suspenseful
Audience:
adult
Plot:
world war two, partisan, sabotage, mine, occupation, anti fascist, liberation, repression, solidarity, underground movement, class struggle, communist party ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
former yugoslavia, kosovo
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Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: Russia
Duration: 147 min.
Story:
Moldavia, 1944. An elite squad of Red Army scouts is sent to stop an equally elite squad of Germans soldiers committing war crimes behind Soviet lines.
Style:
suspenseful, bleak, rough, exciting, tense ...
Plot:
world war two, war crime, reconnaissance, behind enemy lines, battles, great patriotic war, military, heroic mission, danger, anti nazi, soviet army, eastern front ...
Place:
soviet union, russia, ukraine, crimea, ussr
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Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, West Germany, UK, France
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
'Dalla nube alla resistenza (From the Cloud to the Resistance ) (1978), based on two works by Cesare Pavese, falls into the category of History Lessons and Too Early, Too Late as well. It, too, has two parts—a twentieth-century text and a ...
Style:
experimental, intellectual, art house, reflective, poetic ...
Plot:
mythology, post war, literary, loss, adaptation, memory, anti fascist, minimalism, alienation, symbolism, mourning, village life ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
ancient greece, italy
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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.
Style:
period piece, poignant, bleak, intense, political drama
Plot:
world war two, torture, betrayal, sacrifice, resistance, occupation, nazi occupation, double agent, tragic romance, partisan, espionage, underground movement ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
bulgaria
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Genre: Comedy, War
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
A group of musicians, whose band is called "Balkan express", in fact a quintet of small-time crooks , trying to make some money in Nazi-occupied Serbia.
Style:
tragicomedy, black comedy, period piece, slapstick, dark comedy ...
Plot:
partisan, world war two, nazi occupation, resistance movement, anti fascist, brothel, espionage, hiding, dark humor, underground movement, escape, survival ...
Time:
1940s, year 1944
Place:
former yugoslavia, balkan, serbia
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Genre: Comedy, War
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Based on a TV sit-com series and set in World War II, about how an ordinary woodcutter develops into an active partisan fighter.
Style:
period piece, dark comedy, educational
Plot:
world war two, partisan, camaraderie, anti fascist, resistance, occupation, survival, bravery, humanism, resilience, village life, transformation ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
former yugoslavia
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Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
One man's fight against organized crime proves to have devastating consequences for himself and his loved ones in this drama from Italy. As a young man, Placido Rizzotto (Marcello Mazzarella) saw his father imprisoned by police for a crime he ...
Style:
historical drama, atmospheric, political drama
Plot:
labor union, biopic, mafia, assassination, post war, social justice, organized crime, labor leader, political corruption, anti fascist, oppression, class conflict ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
sicily, southern italy, italy
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Switzerland
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
In a dystopian Switzerland that has fallen under the fascist rule of an evil cheese tyrant, Swiss mountain girl Heidi transforms herself into a kick-ass female fighting force who sets out to liberate the country from a cheese-fueled machinery of ...
Style:
independent film, cult horror, dark comedy, bloody, offbeat ...
Plot:
female protagonist, women's prison, violence, chocolate, satire, dystopia, anti fascist, vigilante, heroine, liberation, revenge, political satire ...
Place:
switzerland, swiss alps
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Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Destinies of two friends-fighters during WW2.
Style:
bleak, period piece, tense, atmospheric, melancholic ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
world war two, sacrifice, friendship, occupation, resistance, partisan, survival, underground movement, loss, courage, fighter, duty ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
albania, kosovo, former yugoslavia
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Genre: Animation, Comedy
Country: Poland
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Jez Jerzy is a skateboarding hedgehog who likes to drink beer and fondle breasts. He finds it hard to pursue his passions, however, while being tormented by neo-nazi skinheads, mad scientists and a drooling, flatulent clone of himself.
Style:
adult animation, surreal, semi serious, humorous, captivating ...
Plot:
satire, anthropomorphic animal, cloning, irony, competitor, fight, clone, creature, animal, skateboard, dark humor, talking animal ...
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Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Italy, West Germany
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
In late 1930s Ferrara, Italy, the Finzi-Continis are a leading family: wealthy, aristocratic, and urbane; they are also Jewish. Their adult children, Micol and Alberto, gather a diverse circle of friends for tennis and parties at their villa with ...
Style:
political, disturbing, compassionate, breathtaking, talky ...
Plot:
fascism, holocaust, world war two, unrequited love, italian fascism, nazi germany, anti semitism, brother sister relationship, assassination, tennis, family relations, family life ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century, 1930s, ancient times, year 1970 ...
Place:
italy, europe, africa, germany, israel ...
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
Antonio Gramsci: The Days of Prison is a 1977 Italian drama directed by Lino Del Fra.
Style:
political, serious, thought provoking, period piece, intellectual ...
Plot:
jail cell, fascism, communism, historical figure, character study, biopic, political repression, italian history, flashback, ideology, solitude, introspection ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century
Place:
italy
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Genre: Action, Comedy, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
What To Do In Case of Fire? tells the humorous and touching story of six former creative anarchists who lived as house squatters in Berlin during its heyday in the 80s when Berlin was still an island in the middle of the former eastern Germany. At ...
Style:
political, compassionate, talky, melancholic, realistic ...
Plot:
politics, friendship, investigation, fighting the system, punk, anarchism, terrorism, anti fascist, anarchist, radical, revolution, political unrest ...
Time:
80s, year 1987, 90s, 2000s
Place:
germany, berlin germany, europe, brazil, rio de janeiro
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: 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.
Style:
black comedy, dark comedy
Plot:
exile, dialogue, migration, singer, diaspora, politics, kidnapping, solidarity, absurdism, radical, anti fascist, dishonesty ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
europe, chile, paris france
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Genre: Action, Drama, History, Thriller, War
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
The assassination of Heydrich in Prague during WWII.
Style:
political thriller, period drama
Plot:
world war two, nazi, paratrooper, parachutist, man on a mission, czech history, swordplay, cycling, shootout, woods, horse riding, hiding place ...
Time:
year 1942, year 1941, 1940s
Place:
czech republic, prague, berlin germany, central europe, czechoslovakia
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Autumn 1944. A doctor is accused in the collaboration with the Nazis and found guilty...
Style:
crying
Plot:
world war two, voice over narration, woods, bare butt, bare chested male, czech history, german history, european history, town, entrapment, hospital, nazi occupation ...
Time:
1940s, year 1944, 20th century
Place:
central europe
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Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia, USA, UK
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
Czechoslovakia, 1942. Three brave Czech patriots risk everything to rid their country of its brutal Nazi leader, SS-General Reinhard Heydrich.
Style:
dramatic, realistic, serious, suspenseful, bleak
Plot:
world war two, czech history, spy, world war, holocaust, nazi, espionage, secret mission, parachutist, double suicide, nazi occupation, traitor ...
Time:
1940s, year 1941, year 1975, 20th century, year 1942
Place:
prague, europe, england, czechoslovakia, czech republic ...
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Genre: Comedy, Romance, Drama
Country: Australia, Greece
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
Manos, a Greek school teacher, is forced to travel to Melbourne, Australia when the man who murdered his grandfather 57 years ago surfaces there. While the reluctant Manos is tutored in the art of revenge by old friend Stephanos, he also attempts to ...
Style:
realistic, semi serious, humorous, captivating
Plot:
vengeance, twins, murder, teacher, vigilantism, rivalry, couples, family relations, couple relations, old friend, fascism, vendetta ...
Time:
20th century, year 1971, 2000s, year 1943
Place:
australia, melbourne, hellas, crete, greece
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Nazis take over an ancient fortress that contains a mysterious entity that wreaks havoc and death upon them.
Style:
gothic, surreal, gothic horror, scary, atmospheric ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
world war two, nazi, demon, ss, magic, supernatural, monster, surrealism, fortress, jewish man, vampire, devil ...
Time:
year 1941, 1940s, 80s
Place:
germany, romania, transylvania, black sea, bucharest ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
A bombardier in World War II tries desperately to escape the insanity of the war. However, sometimes insanity is the only sane way to cope with a crazy situation. Catch-22 is a parody of a "military mentality" and of a bureaucratic society ...
Style:
dark comedy, black comedy, absurd, surreal, grim ...
Plot:
world war two, anti war, satire, military, bomber, male nudity, soldier, aviation, social commentary, literary, wartime, world war ...
Time:
1940s, year 1970, year 1944, 20th century, 70s
Place:
rome italy, alexandria egypt, sardinia, mediterranean sea, new york ...
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