Military coup movies and TV shows

The list contains the best, new and most relevant military coup movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out realistic, serious, captivating, tense, suspenseful and political films and TV shows about / with military coup, military, coup d'etat, politics, revolution, state affairs, soldier, dictatorship, political unrest and heroes plots mostly in Drama, History and Thriller genres shot in USA, UK, France and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as military coup: Invisible Heroes (2019), World War III (1982), We Want the Colonels (1973), The Black Pimpernel (2007), Night Over Chile (1977), Of Love and Shadows (1994), Hunter Killer (2018), Mercenaries (2011), The Official Story (1985), Seven Days in May (1964).

List of military coup movies

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Invisible Heroes (2019)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Finland, Chile
Duration: 285 min.
TV show
Story: Invisible Heroes tells the heroic tale of young Finnish diplomats in Chile during 1973’s infamous military coup. Finnish diplomats Tapani Brotherus and Ilkka Jaamala along with Tapani’s wife Lysa Brotherus helped over 2000 left-wing Chileans ...
Style: captivating, disturbing, serious, realistic
Plot: military coup, dictatorship, diplomat, army, cold war, military, human rights, politics, refugee, communism, embassy, diplomacy ...
Time: 70s, year 1973
Place: chile, finland, east germany
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 6.5
 788
World War III (1982)
Genre: Drama, Thriller, War
Country: USA
Duration: 200 min.
TV show
Story: Soviet paratroopers drop into Alaska to sabotage the oil pipeline in retaliation against a United States grain embargo. A skirmish occurs at a pumping station, lightly defended by Col. Jake Caffey and a National Guard reckon unit. A stalemate ensues ...
Style: serious, realistic, exciting, epic, rough ...
Plot: world war three, cold war, president, u.s. president, spy, apocalypse, end of the world, disaster, spy thriller, distopia, world war, die hard ...
Time: 80s, year 1987, near future
Place: alaska, russia, usa, moscow russia, soviet union
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We Want the Colonels (1973)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Italy 1973. Giuseppe Tritoni (Ugo Tognazzi) is an ultra-right-wing congressman that doesn't agree anymore with his fascist party policy. He contacts many Italian Army officers and built a net of relationship in order to organize a Coup ...
Plot: fascism, coup d'etat, military coup, satire, politics, right wing, democracy, fascist, italian army, curfew, military officer, italian soldier ...
Time: 70s
Place: italy
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The Black Pimpernel (2007)
Genre: Drama, History, Romance, Thriller
Country: Sweden, Mexico, Denmark
Duration: 95 min.
Story: The story about Swedish ambassador in Chile - Harald Edelstam - and his heroic actions to protect the innocent people from the execution during and after the military coup on September 11th 1973.
Style: serious, captivating, rough, suspenseful, realistic ...
Plot: ambassador, political intrigue, military coup, politics, life is a bitch, political unrest, society, injustice, human spirit, revolution, human rights, diplomacy ...
Time: 20th century, 70s, year 1973
Place: chile, latin america
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Night Over Chile (1977)
Genre: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A Soviet docudrama chronicling the events surrounding the military coup which toppled the leftists Chilean government of Salvador Allende. This film confines its efforts to the main events themselves and is based on interviews with eyewitnesses, ...
Plot: military coup, dictatorship, dictator, capitalism, coup d'etat, operation condor, history of chile, soviet
Time: 70s, year 1973
Place: soviet union, chile
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Of Love and Shadows (1994)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller, War
Country: USA, Argentina
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Irene is a magazine editor living under the shadow of the Pinochet dictatorship in Chile. Francisco is a handsome photographer and he comes to Irene for a job. As a sympathizer with the underground resistance movement, Francisco opens her eyes and ...
Style: erotic, political, scenic, eros, independent film ...
Audience: adult
Plot: dictatorship, politics, resistance movement, lust, military coup, military, photographer, hospital, rebellion, male nudity, truth, freedom ...
Time: 70s, year 1994, year 1973
Place: chile, south america, latin america
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 6.6
 73K
Hunter Killer (2018)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: UK, China, France, USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story: An untested American submarine captain teams with U.S. Navy SEALs to rescue the Russian president, who has been kidnapped by a rogue general.
Style: exciting, suspenseful, realistic, serious, tense ...
Audience: boys' night, adult
Plot: submarine, u.s. navy, navy, military coup, warship, swat team, battleship, save the day, daring rescue, danger, chases and races, tough heroes ...
Time: year 2017, 2010s, 21st century
Place: pentagon, moscow russia, washington d.c., usa, scotland ...
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 3.4
 1K
Mercenaries (2011)
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Andy Marlow, an ex British S.A.S serviceman turned mercenary, is sent into the Balkans after a military coup has arisen to rescue a U.S ambassador and his aide.
Style: serious, rough, suspenseful, tense, independent film ...
Plot: military coup, military, danger, daring rescue, undercover, escapades, murder, coup, genocide, cavalry, ethnic cleansing, coup d'etat ...
Time: 21st century
Place: balkan, serbia, europe
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The Official Story (1985)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Argentina
Duration: 112 min.
Story: After the end of the Dirty War, a high school teacher sets out to find out who the mother of her adopted daughter is.
Style: political, captivating, disturbing, suspenseful, sincere ...
Plot: adoption, politics, family relations, uncover truth, dictatorship, society, revolution, parents and children, military coup, state affairs, haunted by the past, political unrest ...
Time: 80s, year 1985, 20th century, year 1983
Place: latin america, argentina, spain, buenos aires argentina, bolivia
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Seven Days in May (1964)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story: A U.S. Army general alerts the president of a planned military coup against him.
Style: political thriller, tense, political, black and white, suspense ...
Plot: cold war, conspiracy, politics, white house, u.s. air force, terrorism, president, secret service, u.s. president, coup d'etat, betrayal, espionage ...
Time: 20th century, 60s, future
Place: austin texas, russia, soviet union, america, el paso texas ...
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April Captains (2000)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Portugal, Spain, Italy, France
Duration: 123 min.
Story: Story of the 1974 coup that overthrew the right-wing Portuguese dictatorship--which continued the fascist policies of long-time dictator Antonio Salazar--and of two young army captains who were involved in it.
Style: serious, tense, rough, realistic, thought provoking ...
Plot: dictatorship, military coup, military, rebellion, coup d'etat, family relations, politics, state affairs, society, rebelliousness, siblings relations, political unrest ...
Time: 20th century, 70s, year 1974
Place: portugal, africa, angola
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 7.7
 23K
Missing (1982)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 122 min.
Story: Based on the real-life experiences of Ed Horman. A conservative American businessman travels to a South American country to investigate the sudden disappearance of his son after a right-wing military takeover. Accompanied by his son's wife he ...
Style: political, political thriller, emotional, talky, tense ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: dictatorship, politics, military coup, political conspiracy, corruption, conspiracy, journalist, political intrigue, military, missing person, capitalism, coup d'etat ...
Time: 20th century, 70s, year 1982, year 1973
Place: chile, latin america, south america, washington d.c., santiago chile
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Four Days in September (1997)
Genre: Action, Drama, History, Thriller
Country: Brazil, USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Fernando, a journalist, and his friend César join terrorist group MR8 in order to fight Brazilian dictatorial regime during the late sixties. Cesare, however, is wounded and captured during a bank hold up. Fernando then decides to kidnap the ...
Style: realistic, political, talky, suspenseful, manga ...
Plot: military coup, dictator, terrorist, kidnapping, politics, freedom, communism, revolution, drinking, brazilian military dictatorship, secrets, espionage ...
Time: 20th century, year 1997, 60s, year 1967, year 1969 ...
Place: brazil, latin america, mexico city, algeria, portugal ...
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Loaf and Camouflage (1984)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Greece
Duration: 99 min.
Story: The film is the story of a group of soldiers, who, in the course of their compulsory military service in 1967 and 1968, before and during the military dictatorship in Greece, are assigned to the then recently founded Armed Forces Television. This TV ...
Style: realistic, semi serious, exciting, witty, offbeat ...
Plot: porn, military coup, army, dictatorship, military, soldier, filmmaking, greek, satire, rebelliousness, rebellion, society ...
Time: 60s, 20th century, 80s, year 1967
Place: greece, europe, hellas, athens greece
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 7.1
 258K
Valkyrie (2008)
Genre: Drama, History, Thriller, War
Country: USA, Germany, Italy, Spain, France, Japan, UK
Duration: 121 min.
Story: Wounded in Africa during World War II, Nazi Col. Claus von Stauffenberg returns to his native Germany and joins the Resistance in a daring plan to create a shadow government and assassinate Adolf Hitler. When events unfold so that he becomes a ...
Style: factual, bad ending, tense, captivating, realistic ...
Audience: teens
Plot: world war two, nazi, nazism, war, nazi germany, hitler, conspiracy, resistance, german soldier, politics, wehrmacht, espionage ...
Time: 1940s, year 2008, year 1944, year 1943, 20th century
Place: germany, berlin germany, europe, bavaria, tunisia ...
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 7.0
 57K
Colonia (2015)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Romance, Thriller
Country: Germany, France, Luxembourg, UK, USA
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, political, exciting ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: religious fanatic, kidnapping, religion, genocide, torture chamber, escape, sect, torture, military coup, prison, survival, military dictatorship ...
Time: 70s, year 2015, year 1973
Place: chile, peru, south america, latin america
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The Ugly American (1963)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: An intelligent, articulate scholar, Harrison MacWhite, survives a hostile Senate confirmation hearing at the hands of conservatives to become ambassador to Sarkan, a southeast Asian country where civil war threatens a tense peace. Despite his ...
Style: political, disturbing, thought provoking, realistic, serious
Plot: anti communist, cold war, politics, colonialism, revolutionary, fictitious country, travel, diplomacy, american culture, labor, social commentary, liberal ...
Time: year 1963, 1950s
Place: southeast asia, indochina, asia
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Dirilis: Ertugrul (2014)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, History, War
Country: Turkey
Duration: 120 min.
TV show
Story: Ertuğrul Bey and the Knights Templar in the 13th century Alba and step and step with the struggle against brutal Mongols depicts the process of establishing the Ottoman principality.
Style: exciting, suspense, tense, brutal, stylized ...
Plot: historical character, betrayal, military coup, turkish history, heroes, father son relationship, life & death, rivalry, war, vengeance, mongol empire, medieval ...
Time: 14th century, 13th century, medieval times
Place: turkey, ottoman empire
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The Good Shepherd (2006)
Genre: Drama, History, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 167 min.
Story: Edward Wilson, the only witness to his father's suicide and member of the Skull and Bones Society while a student at Yale, is a morally upright young man who values honor and discretion, qualities that help him to be recruited for a career in ...
Style: tense, realistic, suspense, political, factual ...
Plot: cold war, spy, cia, espionage, double agent, corruption, politics, betrayal, conspiracy, secret agent, patriotism, invasion ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, year 2006, 60s, year 1958 ...
Place: cuba, usa, london, berlin germany, washington d.c. ...
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 6.3
 37K
Evita (1996)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 135 min.
Story: The hit musical based on the life of Evita Duarte, a B-movie Argentinian actress who eventually became the wife of Argentinian president and dictator Juan Perón, and the most beloved and hated woman in Argentina.
Style: intense, lyrical, emotional, serious, sentimental ...
Plot: politics, dancing, rise to power, political unrest, broadway, music, biopic, redemption, ambition, female protagonist, hopes, rock ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, 1930s, 1950s, year 1996 ...
Place: argentina, latin america, buenos aires argentina, spain, south america ...
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 7.7
 13K
Machuca (2004)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Chile, Spain, UK, France
Duration: 116 min.
Story: Santiago, capital of Chile during the Marxist government of elected, highly controversial president Salvador Allende. Father McEnroe supports his leftist views by introducing a program at the prestigious "collegio" (Catholic prep school) ...
Style: political, touching, sincere, emotional, serious ...
Plot: childhood, coming of age, sexual initiation, politics, friendship, poverty, youth, dictatorship, communism, demonstration, boy, children ...
Time: 70s, 20th century, year 1973
Place: chile, latin america, santiago chile
Is relevant ?
 5.7
 69
Ernesto (2017)
Genre: Biography
Country: Japan, Cuba
Duration: 124 min.
Story: Freddy Maemura Hurtado, a second-generation Japanese-Bolivian, heads to Cuba to study medicine. He meets revolutionist Che Guevara. When civil war breaks out in Bolivia, he decides to join Guevara’s revolutionary army under the name of “Ernesto ...
Style: disturbing, exciting, serious, captivating
Plot: freedom fighter, military, heroism, soldier, coup d'etat, betrayal, imperialism, military dictatorship, traitor, strike, union, labor ...
Place: cuba, bolivia, soviet union, japan, hiroshima japan
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 6.9
 7K
While at War (2019)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Spain, Argentina
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Salamanca, Spain, 1936. In the early days of the military rebellion that began the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939), writer Miguel de Unamuno supports the uprising in the hope that the prevailing political chaos will end. But when the confrontation ...
Style: sincere, captivating, psychological, disturbing, intellectual
Plot: spanish civil war, spanish history, coup d'etat, dictatorship, moral dilemma, military coup, professor, arrest, military, civil war, danger, society ...
Time: 1930s, year 1936, 20th century
Place: morocco, spain
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 5.5
 123
Granit (2021)
Genre: Action
Country: Russia
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Mozambique requests from Russia is being helped in the fight against militants of the "Islamic State" and a special group led by a commander with the call sign Granit is coming to the country.
Style: tense, captivating, suspenseful, bleak, serious ...
Plot: group, russian abroad, wartime life, military coup, military service, military life, coup, captivity, pow, war zone, military base, captive ...
Is relevant ?
 5.4
 387
Tourist (2021)
Genre: Action
Country: Russia
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Story of Russian military advisors in the Central African Republic
Style: thrilling, tense, captivating, exciting, suspenseful ...
Plot: russian abroad, wartime life, military coup, military service, military life, coup, struggle for survival, military training, military base, coup d'etat, police officer, fight ...
Is relevant ?
 5.5
 14K
Freelance (2023)
Genre: Action, Comedy
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 108 min.
Story: An ex special forces operative stuck in a dead-end desk job reluctantly takes on a gig to provide private security for a washed-up journalist as she interviews a ruthless—but impeccably dressed—dictator. When a military coup breaks out just as ...
Style: captivating, exciting, funny, tense, humorous ...
Plot: survival, coup d'etat, dictator, interview, assassination, jungle, military coup, swat team, interviewer, coup, village, lawyer ...
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 8.8
 32
Fall In Love (2021)
Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Country: China
TV show
Story: In the year of 1926, Mu Wan Qing brings her mom's ashes back to China burial. On the pretense of surrendering to her father, Mu Wan Qing has an actual motive in finding the true reason why her parents separated and her siblings died. Meanwhile, ...
Style: disturbing, psychological, captivating
Plot: republican era china, crime investigation, life is a bitch, political conspiracy, relationship problems, military, male female relationship, investigation, couple relations, relationships, military life, love interest ...
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The (Silent) War (2019)
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 121 min.
Story: Northern Spain, October 1944. Several groups of guerrilla fighters, former Republican soldiers exiled in France after the end of the Spanish Civil War, infiltrate the country in order to provoke a popular uprising against General Franco's ...
Style: captivating, tense
Plot: political repression, sabotage, manhunt, franco regime (francoism), struggle for survival, military, coup d'etat, military coup, dangerous mission, fight, battles, soldier ...
Time: 1940s
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 6.7
 5K
Hunt (2022)
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: espionage, politics, secret agent, inter-korean relations, double agent, intelligence agency, civil unrest, traitor, assassination plot, special agent, spy mission, counter intelligence ...
Time: 80s
Place: korea, south korea, seoul, tokyo, north korea ...
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 6.8
 2K
Home Coming (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey, Greece
Duration: 101 min.
Story: September 1980. Mustafa 'Mehmet Ali Alabora' and his wife, who're both laborers are married for 5 years. The couple has nothing to do with politics and spend their days happily with their 3 year old daughter and their TV, despite the ...
Style: art house
Plot: mistaken identity, revolution, military coup, politics, prison, torture, wrongful arrest, homecoming, electric torture, male pubic hair, bare chested male, post traumatic stress disorder ...
Place: turkey, middle east
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