| To Live (1994) | 8.3 | |
| Mr. Jones (2019) | 6.9 | |
| The Postman (1994) | 7.8 | |
| Strawberry and Chocolate (1993) | 7.4 | |
| Citizen X (1995) | 7.4 |
Communism movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant communism movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out realistic, political, thought provoking, serious, captivating and dramatic films and TV shows about / with communism, politics, communist, revolution, storytelling, cold war, idealism, runaway, husband wife relationship and corruption plots mostly in Drama, History and Biography genres shot in France, USA, UK and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as communism: Dear Comrades! (2020), Che: Part One (2008), First They Killed My Father (2017), Reds (1981), 12:08 East of Bucharest (2006), Good Bye Lenin! (2003), Mao's Last Dancer (2009), Mr. Jones (2019), 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (2007), The Lives of Others (2006).
Best films
List of communism movies
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Russia
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
Novocherkassk, USSR, 1962. Liudmila is a Party executive and devout communist who fought at the front of WWII for Stalin’s ideology. Certain that her contribution will create a communist society, she detests any anti-Soviet sentiment. During a ...
Style:
realistic, psychological, suspense, exciting, black and white ...
Plot:
anti communism, brutality, communist party, communist, demonstration, army vs civilians, civil unrest, rebellion, lovers, riot, mother daughter relationship, strike ...
Time:
year 1962, 60s
Place:
ussr, russia, soviet union
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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, thought provoking, visually stunning, talky, intense ...
Plot:
revolution, violence, cuban revolution, dictatorship, communism, military, biopic, politics, idealism, rebel, civil war, cold war ...
Time:
50s, 1950s, 20th century, year 2008, 60s ...
Place:
cuba, caribbean, latin america, mexico city, new york
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: Cambodia, USA
Duration: 136 min.
Story:
A 5-year-old girl embarks on a harrowing quest for survival amid the sudden rise and terrifying reign of the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia.
Style:
thought provoking, factual, captivating, psychological, suspenseful ...
Plot:
genocide, forced labor, khmer rouge, communism, mass murder, little girl, wartime, cambodian civil war, imperialism, murder, anti war, revolution ...
Time:
70s, 2010s, year 2017, 90s, year 1970
Place:
cambodia, east asia
Is relevant?
27K
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 195 min.
Story:
A radical American journalist becomes involved with the Communist revolution in Russia and hopes to bring its spirit and idealism to the United States.
Style:
epic, political, breathtaking, philosophical, sentimental ...
Plot:
politics, communism, journalism, russian revolution, revolutionary, biopic, writers, love story, reporter, infidelity, cold war, train ...
Time:
1920s, 1910s, year 1917, year 1981, 20th century ...
Place:
russia, soviet union, st. petersburg russia, new york, usa ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Romania
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
It's the 22nd of December. Sixteen years have passed since the revolution, and in a small town Christmas is about to come. Piscoci, an old retired man is preparing for another Christmas alone. Manescu, the history teacher, tries to keep up with ...
Style:
captivating, semi serious, humorous, witty, dark comedy ...
Plot:
communism, politics, holiday, friendship, state affairs, elderly, small town, dictatorship, international relations, husband wife relationship, revolution, communist ...
Time:
year 2006, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
balkan, eastern europe, romania, europe, bucharest
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
An affectionate and refreshing East/West-Germany comedy about a boy who’s mother was in a coma while the Berlin wall fell and when she wakes up he must try to keep her from learning what happen (since she was an avid communist supporter) to avoid ...
Style:
sentimental, humorous, breathtaking, witty, feel good ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
berlin wall, coma, politics, capitalism, childhood, idealism, german reunification, society, amnesia, cold war, culture clash, communism ...
Time:
year 2003, year 1989, year 1990, year 2004, 2000s ...
Place:
east germany, german democratic republic, germany, berlin germany, soviet union ...
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
At the age of 11, Li was plucked from a poor Chinese village by Madame Mao's cultural delegates and taken to Beijing to study ballet. In 1979, during a cultural exchange to Texas, he fell in love with an American woman. Two years later, he ...
Style:
serious, touching, emotional, independent film, powerful ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night
Plot:
communism, interracial romance, dancer, ballet, against the odds, hopes, dancing, ambition, ballerina, promise, immigrant, follow your dream ...
Time:
year 2009, year 1989, 70s, 60s, 20th century ...
Place:
china, austin texas, texas, asia, usa ...
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18K
Genre: Biography, Drama, Thriller
Country: Poland, UK, Ukraine
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
In 1933, Welsh journalist Gareth Jones travels to Ukraine, where he experiences the horrors of a famine. Everywhere he goes he meets henchmen of the Soviet secret service who are determined to prevent news about the catastrophe from getting out. ...
Style:
period piece, cult classic, informative, sinister, period drama
Audience:
date night
Plot:
journalist, cannibalism, hunger, communism, genocide, journalism, anti communist, stalinism, reporter, writers, spy, kidnapping ...
Time:
1930s, year 2019, year 1957, 20th century, year 1933 ...
Place:
ukraine, soviet union, berlin germany, london, germany ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Romania, Netherlands
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
Gabita is pregnant, abortion is strictly forbidden in Romania during the communist regime. Despite this it is common practice and Gabita wants an abortion. The movie follows her and her friend Otilia during the day she has made the appointment with ...
Style:
disturbing, bleak, sexy, tense, melancholic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
abortion, friendship, sexual abuse, unwanted pregnancy, rape, communism, communist, realism, doctor, brutality, female pubic hair, female nudity ...
Time:
80s, year 2007, 2000s, year 1987, 20th century
Place:
romania, eastern europe, transylvania, europe, california
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Germany, France
Duration: 137 min.
Story:
A tragic love story set in East Berlin with the backdrop of an undercover Stasi controlled culture. Stasi captain Wieler is ordered to follow author Dreyman and plunges deeper and deeper into his life until he reaches the threshold of doubting the ...
Style:
gloomy, political thriller, sincere, political, emotional ...
Audience:
date night, adult
Plot:
surveillance, cold war, spy, communism, berlin wall, stasi, politics, redemption, espionage, iron curtain, life philosophy, voyeurism ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, year 1989, 2000s, 90s ...
Place:
east germany, germany, berlin germany, europe, soviet union ...
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story:
Weissensee is a German television series. The series is set in East Berlin in 1980 and 1987 and follows two families.
Style:
realistic, poignant, serious, compassionate, touching ...
Plot:
stasi, communism, forbidden love, spy, family feud, parents and children, dysfunctional family, prejudice, social differences, first love, adolescence, star crossed lovers ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
berlin germany, east germany, east berlin, germany, german democratic republic
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Brazil
Duration: 120 min.
TV show
Story:
After stirring society by leaving her groom at the alter and going directly to a prostitution house, a young model becomes the city's most famous harlot, known as "Hilda the Hurricane", in the 50's Brazil. She could do fine if it ...
Style:
period piece, historical drama, controversial, atmospheric, intense ...
Plot:
communism, female protagonist, prostitution, topless woman, brazilian military dictatorship, religion, sex work, priest, forbidden love, class conflict, political unrest, hypocrisy ...
Time:
1950s
Place:
brazil
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 136 min.
Story:
Old Prof. Preobrazhensky and his young colleague Dr. Bormental inserted the human's hypophysis into a dog's brain. Couple of weeks later the dog became "human looking". The main question is "Is anybody who is looking like a ...
Style:
satirical, philosophical, intellectual, thought provoking, humorous ...
Plot:
medical experiment, communism, life philosophy, dog, experiment gone awry, society, obsession, adaptation, humanity, idealism, mentor, doctors and patients ...
Time:
1930s, 80s, 1920s
Place:
russia, ussr, soviet union, moscow russia, eastern europe
Is relevant?
29K
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Italy, France, West Germany
Duration: 317 min.
Story:
Set in Bertolucci's ancestral region of Emilia, the film chronicles the lives of two men during the political turmoils that took place in Italy in the first half on the 20th century.
Style:
epic, controversial, compassionate, serious, realistic ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
fascism, politics, world war two, italian history, friendship, revolution, class struggle, communism, peasant, socialist, sex, brutality ...
Time:
1900s, 1940s, 1920s, 1930s, 1910s ...
Place:
italy, paris france, france, europe
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, History, Romance
Country: Russia, Ukraine, Bulgaria, France, Spain
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
June 1946: Stalin invites Russian emigres to return to the motherland. It's a trap: when a ship-load from France arrives in Odessa, only a physician and his family are spared execution or prison. He and his French wife (her passport ripped up) ...
Style:
touching, heartbreaking, harsh, realistic, sentimental ...
Plot:
iron curtain, propaganda, kgb, communism, stalinism, destiny, survival, brutality, tragedy, runaway, brainwashing, love story ...
Time:
1940s, year 1999, 20th century, post world war two, year 1946
Place:
france, russia, soviet union, europe, ussr ...
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 126 min.
Story:
The Manchurian Candidate is a political thriller from American director John Frankenheimer. An American soldier is brainwashed into being a killer for the communist Russians during the Korean War.
Style:
political thriller, psychological, political, suspenseful, suspense ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
conspiracy, cold war, political conspiracy, brainwashing, assassin, manipulation, nightmare, senator, cold war era, communism, korean war, election ...
Time:
1950s, 20th century, year 1962, 50s, year 1952
Place:
new york, north korea, china, washington d.c., korea ...
Is relevant?
127K
Genre: Adventure, Drama, History
Country: USA, Poland, United Arab Emirates, India
Duration: 133 min.
Story:
Peter Weir's follow-up to Master & Commander (2003) is the stark & brilliant The Way Back, which takes on the theme of man's struggle for freedom. At the dawn of WWII, several men escape from a Russian gulag. The film ...
Style:
epic, inspirational, realistic, road movie, rough ...
Plot:
survival, wilderness, prison escape, escape, journey, war, pow, freedom, gulag, world war two, explorer, human spirit ...
Time:
20th century, 1940s, 2010s
Place:
himalaya, russia, tibet, mongolia, soviet union ...
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: UK, France, Japan, USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
The story of journalist, Edward R Murrow's stand against Senator McCarthy's anti-communist witch-hunts in the early 1950s.
Style:
political, tense, period piece, factual, melancholic ...
Plot:
politics, media, television, mccarthyism, journalist, reporter, fighting the system, cold war, propaganda, terrorist, patriotism, communism ...
Time:
1950s, 20th century, 50s, year 2005, 90s ...
Place:
new york, washington d.c., california, usa, soviet union ...
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22K
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Hong Kong, China
Duration: 133 min.
Story:
Fugui and Jiazhen endure tumultuous events in China as their personal fortunes move from wealthy landownership to peasantry.
Style:
family saga, sad, touching, emotional, depressing ...
Plot:
cultural revolution, chinese history, communism, politics, gambling, asian history, poverty, storytelling, family relations, destiny, revolution, death ...
Time:
1940s, 1950s, 60s, year 1994, 20th century ...
Place:
china, asia, taiwan
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Russia, France
Duration: 135 min.
Story:
Russia, 1936: revolutionary hero Colonel Kotov is spending an idyllic summer in his dacha with his young wife and six-year-old daughter Nadia and other assorted family and friends. Things change dramatically with the unheralded arrival of Cousin ...
Style:
touching, stylized, captivating, sad, political ...
Plot:
politics, communist, stalinism, communism, father daughter relationship, nkvd, countryside, repression, symbolism, love, tragedy, redemption ...
Time:
1930s, 20th century, year 1994, year 1936
Place:
soviet union, russia, ussr, poland
Is relevant?
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Italy, Belgium
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
In her public persona, Eleanor “Tussy” Marx was a translator, actress, a children’s rights activist, a feminist and a persuasive labour organizer, a tireless powerhouse determined to carry on her father’s work. She held her own with ...
Style:
disturbing, thought provoking, psychological, captivating
Plot:
feminist, feminism, communism, unrequited love, women's rights, male female relationship, relationships, romantic relationship, love affair, historical character, love story, historical figure ...
Time:
1890s, 1880s
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: China, Italy, UK, France
Duration: 163 min.
Story:
A dramatic history of Pu Yi, the last of the Emperors of China, from his lofty birth and brief reign in the Forbidden City, the object of worship by half a billion people; through his abdication, his decline and dissolute lifestyle; his exploitation ...
Style:
epic, breathtaking, political, visually appealing, visually stunning ...
Plot:
childhood, chinese history, world war two, biopic, revolution, emperor, politics, prison, eunuch, drug addiction, communism, symbolism ...
Time:
1950s, 1930s, 1920s, 1940s, 1900s ...
Place:
china, beijing china, asia, japan, east asia
Is relevant?
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: France, Germany, Belgium
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
26 year-old Karl Marx embarks with his wife, Jenny, on the road to exile. In 1844 in Paris, he meets Friedrich Engels, an industrialist’s son, who has been investigating the sordid birth of the British working class. Engels, the dandy, provides ...
Style:
political, captivating, psychological, thought provoking, social ...
Plot:
capitalism, socialism, communism, communist, philosopher, poverty, biopic, factory, writers, industry, money, working class ...
Time:
ancient times, 19th century, year 2017
Place:
soviet union, paris france, manchester, london, prussia ...
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Genre: Drama, History, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 167 min.
Story:
Inspired by true events, Olympic swimmer Harry Melchior defects from East Germany in the 1960s and hatches a daring plot to help his sister and others flee East Berlin through a 145-yard underground tunnel.
Style:
suspense, suspenseful, political, compassionate, captivating ...
Plot:
berlin wall, tunnel, politics, communism, breast feeding, political unrest, cold war, wartime, heroes, danger, daring rescue, prison escape ...
Time:
ancient times, 60s, year 2001
Place:
east germany, germany, berlin germany, west berlin west germany, german democratic republic ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: France, Switzerland
Duration: 70 min.
Story:
Jean-Marie Straub pushes this musicality of blocks to a paroxysmal extreme, mixing blocks of time (40 years separate the various extracts that are going to be used, and what is to be filmed), blocks of text (Malraux, Fortini, Vittorini, Hölderlin) ...
Style:
experimental, political, realistic, serious, atmospheric ...
Plot:
communism, working class, state affairs, politics, social differences, society, class struggle, utopia, communist, resistance, revolution, adaptation ...
Time:
20th century
Place:
egypt, italy, switzerland, tuscany
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 163 min.
Story:
Giuseppe Tornatore traces three generations of a Sicilian family in in the Sicilian town of Bagheria (known as Baarìa in the local Sicilian dialect), from the 1930s to the 1980s, to tell the story of the loves, dreams and delusions of an unusual ...
Style:
atmospheric, sincere, realistic, semi serious, touching ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
fascism, politics, communism, world war two, social differences, family life, small town, election, mafia, injustice, small town life, state affairs ...
Time:
1940s, 1920s, 60s, 70s, 1930s ...
Place:
sicily, italy, europe
Is relevant?
65K
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: Poland, UK, France, Belgium, India
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
A Cold War-era love story follows the passionate love affair between a mismatched couple.
Style:
black and white, thought provoking, romantic, sad, art film ...
Audience:
date night, adult
Plot:
cold war, musician, love story, communism, audition, female singer, loveless marriage, poet, border crossing, concert, marriage, older man younger woman relationship ...
Time:
1950s, 50s, year 1952, year 1957, year 1949 ...
Place:
poland, paris france, former yugoslavia, east berlin, warsaw poland ...
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13K
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Chile, Spain, UK, France
Duration: 121 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, boy, communism, trauma, demonstration ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, year 1973
Place:
chile, latin america, south america, santiago chile, spain ...
Is relevant?
141K
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, France, Italy, USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
A young American studying in Paris in 1968 strikes up a friendship with a French brother and sister. Set against the background of the '68 Paris student riots.
Style:
sexy, erotic, psychological, erotic drama, sexual ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
incest, sexuality, protest, sexual relations, sex, nudity, youth, couples, love triangle, brother sister relationship, brother sister incest, sex scene ...
Time:
60s, year 1968, year 2003, near future, 20th century
Place:
paris france, france, europe
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 139 min.
Story:
Two not quite similar men, our contemporaries, Sergey Pshenichny and Andrew Nemchinov, are walking in the street in their native mining town and found themselves in 1949. It's a common knowledge that real miracles happen without technical ...
Style:
surreal, social, philosophical
Plot:
time travel, communism, time loop, trapped, mining town, father son relationship, war hero, repeated event, alternate reality, perestroika, social realism, fantasy world ...
Time:
1940s, year 1949, 80s
Place:
ussr, soviet union
Is relevant?
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