Underground movement movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant underground movement movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out tense, period piece, bleak, suspenseful, suspense and captivating films and TV shows about / with underground movement, betrayal, sacrifice, espionage, resistance, moral ambiguity, heroism, patriotism, propaganda and violence plots mostly in Drama, History and Action genres shot in China, Canada, UK and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as underground movement: Executive Order (2020), Hidden Blade (2023), The Secret Agent (2025), The Day of the Jackal (1973), Johnny Shortwave (1995), The Message (2020), Conspiracy (2005), G.O.D.Tech (2026), Secret Army (1977), The Righteous (2010).
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List of underground movement movies
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Brazil
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
In a dystopian future, the Brazilian government decrees a measure that forces black citizens to migrate to Africa in an attempt to return to their origins. Seeing themselves in the center of terror, two cousins take refuge in an apartment, where ...
Style:
tense, captivating, thought provoking, disturbing
Plot:
gay relationship, dystopia, gay, distopia, racism, underground movement, fighting the system, dystopian future, society, social problems, black people, government ...
Time:
future, near future
Place:
brazil, rio de janeiro
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Genre: Drama, History, Thriller
Country: China
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
Follows the story of underground workers who risked their lives to send intelligence and defend the motherland, set after Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor when the Wang Jingwei regime declared war on Britain and the U.S.
Style:
thrilling, tense, captivating, suspenseful, patriotic ...
Plot:
japanese occupation of china, espionage, underground movement, undercover agent, world war two, resistance, soldier, special agent, mission, agent, spy, war ...
Time:
1940s, 1930s
Place:
china, east asia
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Brazil, France, Netherlands, Germany
Duration: 161 min.
Story:
In 1977 Recife, Marcelo, a technology expert in his early forties, returns in the midst of Carnaval to reunite with his son and plot a dangerous escape under the ever-watchful eyes of Brazil’s repressive military regime.
Style:
political thriller, non-linear, period drama
Plot:
male nudity, gas station, projectionist, corruption, hitman, underground movement, resistance movement, public nudity, dead body, teenage boy, carnival, shark ...
Time:
year 1977, 20th century, 70s, 2020s
Place:
brazil, northeast brazil
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, France
Duration: 143 min.
Story:
An international assassin known as ‘The Jackal’ is employed by disgruntled French generals to kill President Charles de Gaulle, with a dedicated gendarme on the assassin's trail.
Style:
political thriller, suspenseful, political, exciting, intense ...
Plot:
conspiracy, hitman, terrorism, assassin, police investigation, spy thriller, politics, assassination plot, serial killer, assassination attempt, espionage, french president ...
Time:
year 1963, 20th century, 60s, year 1973, 70s
Place:
paris france, france, algeria, europe, big ben london ...
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Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Story:
A resistance movement rises against a totalitarian regime.
Style:
tense, grim, bleak, political thriller, suspenseful ...
Plot:
dystopia, underground movement, resistance, totalitarianism, defiant, rebellion, propaganda, underdog, conspiracy, sabotage, betrayal, espionage ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: China
TV show
Story:
1942, Nanjing. Following a series of assassination attempts on officials of the Japanese-controlled puppet government, the Japanese spy chief gathers a group of suspects in a mansion for questioning, and eventually, torturing. A tense game of ...
Style:
suspense, intense, tension, period piece
Plot:
espionage, japanese occupation, spy thriller, interrogation, underground movement, secret identity, deception, political intrigue, claustrophobia, resistance movement, double agent, torture ...
Time:
1940s
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Genre: Drama
Country: China
Duration: 40 min.
TV show
Style:
captivating, suspense, psychological, disturbing, tense ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
intelligence, underground movement, spy thriller, espionage, relationships, life is a bitch, lifestyle, social problems, city life, political intrigue, surveillance, cryptography ...
Place:
china
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
You are following the lives of a family who have chosen not to take the microchip implant but instead live a life with no home and consistently on the run from the one world government known as the F.A.T.H.E.R.
Style:
tense, suspenseful, action adventure, futuristic, christian film
Plot:
new world order, dystopia, underground movement, government conspiracy, totalitarianism, religious persecution, mind control, post apocalyptic, survival, identity crisis, ethical dilemma, propaganda ...
Time:
near future
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Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: UK
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story:
World War II drama about covert organisation Lifeline helping allied airmen escape after being shot down in occupied Europe, working with the Resistance and hiding from the Gestapo.
Style:
costume drama, tension, period piece, suspense, grim ...
Plot:
world war two, resistance, escape, gestapo, luftwaffe, underground movement, nazi germany, occupation, sacrifice, survival, courage, heroism ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
belgium, brussels, brussels belgium
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: Poland
TV show
Story:
Basia and Stefan are a young married couple during World War II who risk their lives to bring aid to Jews. He is an architect, she a nurse--a member of "Zegota" (the Polish underground organization to aid Jews in occupied Poland which ...
Style:
historical drama, psychological, thrilling, captivating, period piece ...
Plot:
world war two, holocaust, married couple, nazi, underground movement, problem, wartime, jew persecution, military, social problems, war, life is a bitch ...
Place:
poland
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Genre: Biography, History
Country: Poland
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
The year 1901, a psychiatric hospital in the Russian partition. One of the patients is a political prisoner - Józef Piłsudski. The Polish underground independence movement is preparing their mission to rescue the famous activist. Piłsudski is ...
Style:
political, historical drama, psychological, captivating, disturbing ...
Plot:
revolution, biopic, independence, political prisoner, underground movement, revolutionary, wartime life, wartime, life is a bitch, political unrest, nationalism, leadership ...
Time:
1900s, 1910s, pre world war one
Place:
poland
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Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: China
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
The historical story of an enemy fighting the wits and courage of an extraordinary brave group of ordinary heroes known as the "Lunan Railway Brigade" who desperately fight to defend their homeland.
Style:
tense, historical drama, thrilling, captivating, period piece ...
Plot:
resistance, heroism, railway, courage, militia, sino japanese war, underground movement, wartime, anti communism, war, communism, fight ...
Place:
china
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Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story:
Set in an alternative 1970s where Germany won the Second World War and occupied Europe, a soap opera called 'An Englishman's Castle' plays out through writer Peter Ingram.
Style:
political thriller, thought provoking, tense, suspenseful, bleak ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
alternate history, dystopia, nazi occupation, totalitarian regime, resistance, underground movement, collaboration, social commentary, moral ambiguity, moral dilemma, propaganda, betrayal ...
Time:
70s, 1940s
Place:
united kingdom, britain
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Genre: Comedy, History, Musical
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 76 min.
Story:
In St. Petersburg, behind the Narva outpost, there is great excitement - the revolutionary Nechaev has appeared, who will incite the workers to fight. Neither the policeman, nor the policeman, nor the owner of the tavern - no one knows what he looks ...
Style:
historical drama, tense, intense, suspenseful, period piece ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
revolutionary, working class, class struggle, underground movement, political intrigue, conspiracy, suspicion, secret identity, manhunt, betrayal, propaganda, singing ...
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: Greece
Duration: 74 min.
Story:
One of filmmaker and expatriate writer Adonis Kyrou's best-known quotes translates roughly as "I urge you: Learn to look at 'bad' films, they are so often sublime." The same could be said of Kyrou's own directorial work ...
Style:
historical drama, tension, suspense, political, controversial ...
Plot:
resistance, world war two, occupation, traitor, nazi, betrayal, moral dilemma, black market, survival, underground movement, collaboration, guilt ...
Time:
1940s
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: Taiwan, Hong Kong, South Korea
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Kang-hie recalls from her cell how she was used by Japanese detectives to track down and destroy the Korean Independence fighters. She manages to escape from prison during a break and proceeds to hunt down her former lover who was a Japanese agent.
Style:
suspenseful, historical drama, dark, period piece, tense ...
Plot:
women in prison, female prisoner, prison break, japanese occupation, revenge, coercion, underground movement, political oppression, nationalism, collaboration, espionage, determination ...
Time:
year 1970
Place:
korea
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Genre: Adventure, War
Country: Ukraine, Russia, Kazakhstan
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story:
The prototype of the main character was the famous Soviet saboteur Kasym Kaysenov, who fought in Ukraine during the Great Patriotic War.
Style:
tense, suspense, captivating, period piece, historical drama ...
Plot:
sabotage, saboteur, great patriotic war, soldier, world war two, resistance, eastern front, one man army, behind enemy lines, struggle for survival, wartime, diversion ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
soviet union, kazakhstan
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: Soviet Union, Czechoslovakia, East Germany
Duration: 161 min.
Story:
A final episode in the trilogy about the Russian partisan's resistance during WWII. The film is set in 1944, when Russian partisans are making progress in their fighting against the Nazi occupation of Russia, Poland and Czechoslovakia. Lt. ...
Style:
period piece, tense, suspenseful, patriotic
Plot:
world war two, eastern front, behind enemy lines, guerilla warfare, resistance, occupation, sabotage, underground movement, sacrifice, resilience, heroism, patriotism ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
soviet union, russia, czechoslovakia, poland, ussr
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Genre: Drama, History
Country: Poland
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
The film is set in 1905, in a time of feverish revolutionary underground activity in Poland partitioned between three neighbours. All the characters are committed anarchists. The bomb maker puts an invention together to place it at the disposal of ...
Style:
tension, historical drama, bleak, period piece, intense ...
Plot:
bomb, anarchism, revolution, terrorism, political violence, political oppression, underground movement, paranoia, moral ambiguity, civil unrest, conspiracy, sacrifice ...
Place:
poland, eastern europe
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Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Canada, France
Duration: 22 min.
TV show
Story:
Branded an enemy of the state, a cyborg supersoldier struggles to find a cause worth fighting for in a dystopian society where nothing is what it seems.
Style:
adult animation, action packed, neo noir, tense, grim ...
Plot:
dystopia, gay, betrayal, cyborgs, cyberpunk, rebellion, political corruption, underground movement, conspiracy, anti hero, violent, graphic violence ...
Time:
future, 20th century, year 1992, 90s
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Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada, New Zealand
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
The year is 2043. A military occupation controls disenfranchised cities in post-war North America. Children are property of the State. A desperate Cree woman joins an underground band of vigilantes to infiltrate a State children’s academy and get ...
Style:
bleak, political, suspense, intense, tense ...
Plot:
distopia, post apocalyptic, rescue, mother daughter relationship, dystopia, brutality, gang, resilience, mother and daughter, totalitarian regime, female protagonist, colonialism ...
Time:
future
Place:
usa, north america
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, History
Country: Bulgaria
Duration: 142 min.
Story:
One of the most ambitious Bulgarian projects in recent years, Heights is an adaptation of Milen Ruskov's novel of the same name, published in 2011. The film explores the Bulgarian realities of the 1870s a few years before the war, that would ...
Style:
serious, dramatic, patriotic, tense, bleak ...
Plot:
freedom fighter, revolution, underground movement, struggle, conflict, dangerous mission, national identity, heroism, mission, patriotism, literary, adaptation ...
Time:
19th century, 1870s
Place:
ottoman empire
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Genre: Action, Drama, History, War
Country: China
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
In 1932 Shanghai, a resistance leader and a gangster join forces to eliminate a Japanese military strategist. Their mission leads to violent encounters, public uprising, and ultimate sacrifice in the fight for freedom.
Style:
tense, heroic, bleak, political, dark ...
Plot:
assassination, resistance, japanese occupation, patriotism, espionage, double agent, betrayal, courage, sacrifice, spy thriller, underground movement, undercover ...
Time:
1930s
Place:
shanghai
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Genre: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
In an alternate present, genetically enhanced humans dominate society. Outcasts Leon and Chloe fight for justice against corrupt politicians exploiting genetic disparity, risking everything to challenge the oppressive system.
Style:
dark, action drama, emotional, tense, political drama
Plot:
oppression, class conflict, social inequality, dystopia, resistance, social commentary, justice, outsider, moral dilemma, anti establishment, underground movement, rebellion ...
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Genre: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
TV show
Story:
Follows Robyn Loxley and anti-authoritarian masked hip-hop band, The Hood, as they call out injustices and fight for freedom and equality in the city of New Nottingham.
Style:
crime drama, fast paced, parody, mockbuster
Plot:
african american protagonist, feminism, racial stereotype, authoritarianism, rebellion, urban, social justice, anti establishment, hip hop culture, inequality, protest, political satire ...
Time:
near future
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Family
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
“Keep it clean!” – The new president is serious about that, including looks. When Paul, whose large jug ears are quite apparent on class photo day, and some of the other “ugly” kids are taken on a surprise trip, they realize that the ...
Style:
bleak, suspense, disturbing, unusual plot structure, dark comedy ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
escape, children, deformity, coming of age, rebellion, politics, revolt, teenager, society, dictatorship, escapades, revolution ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
netherlands
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Genre: War
Country: China
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story:
In 1937, the Japanese imperialists launched a brutal war of aggression against China. Xu Tian was a color-blind accountant in Shanghai with military training who decided to stay close to his mother after the death of his father. After an accident ...
Style:
suspenseful, historical drama, captivating, psychological, period piece ...
Plot:
patriotism, resistance, occupation, wartime life, historical event, patriot, japanese soldier, life is a bitch, soldier, military officer, military, relationships ...
Place:
shanghai
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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: Action, Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 151 min.
Story:
Vennela has fallen for Aranya aka Ravanna’s poetry and the man both. What happens when she sets out on an arduous journey to be with him?
Style:
disturbing, captivating, psychological, period piece, historical drama ...
Plot:
battles, love and romance, love affair, love story, love interest, fight, underground movement, character study, class struggle, forbidden love, social realism, social injustice ...
Time:
90s
Place:
india
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Genre: Action, Crime, History, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 133 min.
Story:
In 1933, when Korea was under Japanese occupation, five people in Gyeongseong are suspected to be "Phantom" spies of the anti-Japanese organization.
Style:
tense, captivating, suspenseful, suspense, dark ...
Plot:
spy, independence movement, espionage, japanese occupation of korea, fight, spy mission, colony, betrayal, suspicion, patriotism, underground movement, political intrigue ...
Time:
1930s
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