Reform movies and TV shows

The list contains the best, new and most relevant reform movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out realistic, captivating, serious, political, thought provoking and tense films and TV shows about / with reform, society, protest, rebellion, life is a bitch, politics, revolution, fighting the system, political unrest and revolutionary plots mostly in Drama, History and Comedy genres shot in France, USA, Italy and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as reform: Forever Mary (1989), A Harlot's Progress (2006), Scum (1979), Shin Don (2005), Novitiate (2017), Pathonpatham Noottandu (2022), Ace Troops (2021), The Colour Room (2021), Maid Sama! (2010), Where Am I Going? (2016).

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How a Realist Hero Rebuilt the Kingdom (2021)
Genre: Animation, Action, Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
Story: Suddenly summoned to a fantasy world and betrothed to the princess, Kazuya Souma is crowned the new king. Unlike the royalty before him, he won’t be using swords and magic to rule; will administrative reform really get this kingdom back on track?
Style: anime, captivating, entertaining, humorous
Plot: economics, economic crisis, save the kingdom, political unrest, heroes, reform, king, dream world, military, parallel world, reformation, isekai ...
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 7.3
 1K
Forever Mary (1989)
Genre: Drama, Crime
Country: Italy
Duration: 102 min.
Story: A teacher discovers his calling. Marco relocates to Palermo from Milan and takes a job teaching in a reform school while he waits for a high school position. He tries to understand and motivate his handful of students, reading them colloquial ...
Style: serious, disturbing, realistic, touching, neorealism ...
Plot: reformatory, youth, transvestism, juvenile delinquency, prison, juvenile delinquent, life is a bitch, reform, school, teachers and students, prison life, transsexual ...
Time: 80s
Place: italy, sicily, europe, milan italy, palermo italy
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A Harlot's Progress (2006)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: UK
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Drama looking at artist William Hogarth and his relationship with the prostitute that inspired his most famous piece.
Style: realistic, serious, captivating, emotional, historical drama ...
Plot: painter, prostitute, starvation, dominatrix, adultery, jail, brothel, couples, reform, kept woman, brothel madam, husband wife relationship ...
Time: 18th century, georgian era
Place: england, london
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 7.6
 13K
Scum (1979)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 98 min.
Story: This is the hard and shocking story of life in a British Borstal for young offenders. The brutal regime made no attempt to reform or improve the inmates and actively encouraged a power struggle between the 'tough' new inmate and the ...
Style: disturbing, rough, tense, serious, controversial ...
Plot: prison, racism, boy, youth, rebellion, corruption, revenge, riot, rape, juvenile delinquency, kids in trouble, sadism ...
Time: year 1979, near future, 70s, 20th century
Place: england, britain, united kingdom
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The Way I Spent the End of the World (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: Romania, France
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Bucharest 1989 - the last year of Ceausecu's dictatorship. Eva lives with her parents and her 7 year old brother, Lalalilu. One day at school, Eva and her boyfriend accidentally break a bust of Ceausescu. They are forced to confess their crime ...
Style: captivating, sentimental, sincere, realistic, serious ...
Plot: youth, friendship, hopes, coming of age, siblings relations, exile, rebelliousness, human spirit, reform, family relations, warning, boyfriend girlfriend relationship ...
Time: 20th century, 80s
Place: romania, eastern europe, europe
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 6.3
 8
Shin Don (2005)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: South Korea
Duration: 55 min.
TV show
Story: In order to make sure that Koryo was free, Gong Min Wang married a woman he did not love. The Mongolians ruled Koryo so Gong Min Wang married the Mongolian princess in hopes that one day Koryo could be freed. Shin Don was a Buddhist priest who both ...
Style: thrilling, tense, captivating
Plot: reform, royal palace, historical figure, king, intrigue, palace intrigue, secret, political intrigue, agent, mongol empire, buddhist monk, prime minister ...
Time: 14th century
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 6.7
 5K
Novitiate (2017)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story: In the early 1960s, during the Vatican II era, a young woman training to become a nun struggles with issues of faith, sexuality and the changing church.
Style: thought provoking, suspenseful, captivating, disturbing, controversial ...
Plot: nun, catholic church, monastery, lesbian, catholicism, vatican, priest, mother superior, confession, catholic, flagellation, lgbt ...
Time: year 1964, year 1954, 60s, year 2017, 90s
Place: tennessee
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Pathonpatham Noottandu (2022)
Genre: Action, Drama, History
Country: India
Duration: 158 min.
Story: Arattupuzha Velayudha Panicker, a 19th century fiery social reformer and his unswerving fight against the dominant caste oppressions by the upper classes.
Style: suspenseful, captivating, thrilling, tense
Plot: warrior, class struggle, struggle for survival, fight for supremacy, class conflict, reform, class differences, battles, fight, intrigue
Place: india
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 8.0
 1K
Ace Troops (2021)
Genre: Action, Drama, War
Country: China
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: Gao Liang and Gu Yi Ye are good friends and rivals since they joined the army. They fall in love with the same girl, Jiang Nan Zheng. However, Gu Yi Ye eventually gives up his love in the name of friendship and marries A Xiu, the daughter of their ...
Style: dramatic, harsh, tense, captivating, serious
Plot: soldier, rivalry, army, officer, love triangle, friendship, military training, fight, war, reform, friends, chinese history
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The Colour Room (2021)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Follows a pioneering ceramic artist who roared to prominence in the 1920s while working in Britain’s Stoke-on-Trent pottery industry.
Style: thought provoking, disturbing, captivating, historical drama, bizarre
Plot: talent, working class, factory worker, innovation, factory owner, worker, workplace, female protagonist, reform, workplace situations, interwar period, women ...
Time: 1920s
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 7.9
 9K
Maid Sama! (2010)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
Story: Misaki Ayuzawa is the first female student council president at a once all-boys school turned co-ed. She rules the school with strict discipline demeanor. But she has a secret—she works at a maid cafe due to her families circumstances. One day the ...
Style: anime, humorous, touching, shoujo, romantic ...
Audience: teens, kids, girls' night
Plot: school, teenage life, teenage love, fall in love, love and romance, high school, maid, youth, rich and poor, cafe, student, power relations ...
Time: 21st century
Place: japan, asia
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Where Am I Going? (2016)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Checco is 39 and lived his entire life with his parents. He loves his job where he does nothing the whole day, until something happens that will change his behavior and his life forever...
Style: feel good, entertaining, light, humorous, sincere ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: civil servant, working conditions, public service, couple relations, workplace, job, cultural difference, workplace situations, social relations, stereotypes, bureaucracy, society ...
Time: 2010s
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The Little Soldier (1963)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: France
Duration: 88 min.
Story: During the Algerian war for independence from France, a young Frenchman living in Geneva who belongs to a right-wing terrorist group and a young woman who belongs to a left-wing terrorist group meet and fall in love. Complications ensue when the man ...
Style: political, black and white, political thriller, serious, realistic ...
Plot: spy, algerian war, assassination, politics, assassin, fighting the system, revolution, death, hotel, torture, lovers, exodus ...
Time: year 1958, 1950s
Place: algeria, switzerland, france, europe, geneva switzerland ...
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 8.2
 11K
I Am Cuba (1964)
Genre: Drama
Country: Cuba, Soviet Union
Duration: 141 min.
Story: An unabashed exercise in cinema stylistics, I Am Cuba is pro-Castro/anti-Batista rhetoric dressed up in the finest clothes. The film's four dramatic stories take place in the final days of the Batista regime; the first two illustrate the ills ...
Style: political, surreal, captivating, experimental, visual ...
Plot: rebellion, dictatorship, propaganda, dictator, politics, cuban revolution, revolution, political unrest, prostitution, state affairs, society, poetry ...
Time: 20th century, 50s, 1950s
Place: cuba, soviet union, ussr, latin america, havana cuba
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 7.6
 3K
The Round-Up (1966)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Hungary
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Set in a detention camp in Hungary in 1869 at a time of guerilla campaigns against the ruling Austrians.
Style: political, contemplative, experimental, visual, anamorphic ...
Plot: female nudity, prison life, protest, european, anti fascism, capitalism, minimal dialogue, american civil war, reform, snitch, rebellion, life is a bitch ...
Time: 19th century, year 1966, 1860s
Place: hungary, eastern europe, europe, budapest, central europe
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A Bullet for the General (1967)
Genre: Action, Western
Country: Italy
Duration: 118 min.
Story: El Chuncho's bandits rob arms from a train, intending to sell the weapons to Elias' revolutionaries. They are helped by one of the passengers, Bill Tate, and allow him to join them, unware he is an assassin working for the Mexican ...
Style: spaghetti western, grindhouse, euro western, epic, action adventure ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: mexican revolution, cowboy, wild west, medieval, civil war, myth, reform, spy, protest, exploitation, underground, man on a mission ...
Time: year 1967, 1910s, 20th century
Place: mexico, latin america, usa, sonora
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 6.9
 8K
La chinoise (1967)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A small group of French students are studying Mao, trying to find out their position in the world and how to change the world to a Maoistic community using terrorism.
Style: political, philosophical, art house, artsy, cult classic ...
Plot: revolution, communism, politics, anarchist, protest, marxist, legal, anarchy, communist, hippie, modernism, isolation ...
Time: year 1967, 60s
Place: france, paris france, europe, britain, usa ...
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Samurai Rebellion (1967)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 128 min.
Story: The mother of a feudal lord's only heir is kidnapped away from her husband by the lord. The husband and his samurai father must decide whether to accept the unjust decision, or risk death to get her back.
Style: tense, emotional, stylized, black and white, sincere ...
Plot: samurai, father son relationship, rebellion, revenge, medieval, martial arts, violence, vengeance, kidnapping, family relations, injustice, master warrior ...
Time: 18th century, year 1967
Place: japan, asia
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 7.3
 923
Joe Hill (1971)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Sweden, USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story: In the early 1900's, the legendary Joe Hill emigrates with his brother to the United States. But after a short time, he loses touch with his brother. Joe gets a few jobs but is struck by all the injustice and tragedy going on. He becomes active ...
Style: thought provoking, serious, realistic, bleak, sentimental ...
Plot: anarchist, strike, poverty, anarchism, reform, revolution, business, serial killer, protest, journey, union, musician ...
Time: year 1971, 1900s, 1910s, 20th century
Place: utah, usa, new york, california, san diego california
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 6.8
 2K
Red Psalm (1972)
Genre: Drama, Musical, War
Country: Hungary
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Set in the 1890s on the Hungarian plains, a group of farm workers go on strike in which they face harsh reprisals and the reality of revolt, oppression, morality and violence.
Style: political, contemplative
Plot: revolution, surrealism, anarchist, protest, reform, revolutionary, communism, revolt, peasant, female nudity, group, shootout ...
Time: 19th century, 1890s
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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, black comedy, uplifting, social, laugh out loud ...
Plot: prostitute, anarchism, anarchist, brothel, fascism, anarchy, assassination, woman peeing, chaos, reform, sex, interwar period ...
Time: 1930s
Place: rome italy, italy, europe
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State of Siege (1972)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France, Italy, West Germany, Chile
Duration: 130 min.
Story: Like most of Costa-Gavras' political thrillers, the French State of Siege is based on a true story. The incident dramatized herein is the kidnapping of a U.S. official somewhere in Latin America. The director's sympathies clearly lie with ...
Style: political, social, political thriller, captivating, talky ...
Plot: politics, torture, dictatorship, coup d'etat, dictator, journalism, radical, martial law, kidnapping, international relations, spy, protest ...
Time: year 1972, 70s, 20th century
Place: latin america, france, chile, uruguay, santiago chile ...
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The Phantom of Liberty (1974)
Genre: Comedy
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Bourgeois convention is demolished in Luis Buñuel’s surrealist gem. Featuring an elegant soiree with guests seated at toilet bowls, poker-playing monks using religious medals as chips, and police officers looking for a missing girl who is right ...
Style: surreal, humorous, art house, atmospheric, disturbing ...
Plot: surrealism, satire, monk, sadomasochism, religion, society, greed, mistaken identity, visceral, estrangement, social decay, courtroom ...
Time: 20th century, year 1974, 70s
Place: france, paris france, europe
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 7.4
 8K
Danton (1983)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: France, Poland
Duration: 136 min.
Story: Danton and Robespierre were close friends and fought together in the French Revolution, but by 1793 Robespierre was France's ruler, determined to wipe out opposition with a series of mass executions that became known as the Reign of Terror. ...
Style: political, epic, talky, historically accurate, historical drama ...
Plot: french revolution, revolution, french history, biopic, politics, revolutionary, colonialism, idealism, execution, terrorism, political unrest, world history ...
Time: 18th century, georgian era, year 1983, ancient times, 1780s ...
Place: paris france, france, poland, eastern europe, europe
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 7.9
 210K
Brazil (1985)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 132 min.
Story: Low-level bureaucrat Sam Lowry escapes the monotony of his day-to-day life through a recurring daydream of himself as a virtuous hero saving a beautiful damsel. Investigating a case that led to the wrongful arrest and eventual death of an innocent ...
Style: surreal, futuristic, psychological, dark comedy, cerebral ...
Audience: adult
Plot: dystopia, dream, fighting the system, distopia, surrealism, cyberpunk, christmas, bureaucracy, imagination, mistaken identity, alternate reality, dystopian future ...
Time: future, year 1985, year 1984
Place: england, london, britain, europe
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 7.4
 219K
Erin Brockovich (2000)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 131 min.
Story: A twice-divorced mother of three who sees an injustice, takes on the bad guy and wins -- with a little help from her push-up bra. Erin goes to work for an attorney and comes across medical records describing illnesses clustered in one nearby town. ...
Style: inspirational, factual, uplifting, touching, feel good ...
Audience: girls' night, chick flick, adult
Plot: environmental, lawyer, court, single mother, justice, small town, contamination, investigation, corporate crime, against the odds, lawsuit, corruption ...
Time: year 1993, 90s, 2000s, year 2000, y2k ...
Place: california, los angeles, usa
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 7.6
 26K
Bloody Sunday (2002)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: UK, Ireland, USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: The dramatised story of the Irish civil rights protest march on January 30 1972 which ended in a massacre by British troops.
Style: political, bleak, rough, captivating, disturbing ...
Plot: ira, rebellion, civil rights, protest, conflict, politics, terrorism, injustice, civil war, ethnic conflict, political unrest, fighting the system ...
Time: year 2002, 70s, 90s, 20th century, year 1972 ...
Place: ireland, europe, northern ireland, united kingdom
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Regular Lovers (2005)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 183 min.
Story: 1968 and 1969 in Paris: during and after the student and trade union revolt. François is 20, a poet, dodging military service. He takes to the barricades, but won't throw a Molotov cocktail at the police. He smokes opium and talks about ...
Style: realistic, serious, black and white, touching, suspenseful ...
Plot: coming of age, idealism, politics, love triangle, political corruption, chaos and mayhem, love affair, injustice, twins, couple relations, hopes, sexual relations ...
Time: year 1968, 20th century, year 2005, 60s, year 1969
Place: france, paris france, europe, morocco
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 7.1
 48K
Che: Part One (2008)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: France, Spain, USA
Duration: 134 min.
Story: The Argentine, begins as Che and a band of Cuban exiles (led by Fidel Castro) reach the Cuban shore from Mexico in 1956. Within two years, they mobilized popular support and an army and toppled the U.S.-friendly regime of dictator Fulgencio Batista.
Style: political, intense, talky, sincere, captivating ...
Plot: revolution, cuban revolution, dictatorship, communism, violence, military, biopic, freedom, idealism, rebel, civil war, cold war ...
Time: 50s, 1950s, 20th century, year 2008, 60s ...
Place: cuba, latin america, caribbean, mexico city, new york
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United Red Army (2007)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 190 min.
Story: The film is told in three acts, beginning with a historical background of Japan's student movement of the 1960s and early 1970s, mostly using archive footage and a narrator. The second act follows the formation of the group to their mountain ...
Style: serious, atmospheric, rough, bleak, anime ...
Plot: revolution, radical, rebellion, idealism, society, life is a bitch, military, isolation, danger, communism, hostage, terrorism ...
Time: 2000s, 20th century, 70s, year 1960, year 1972 ...
Place: japan, asia
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