King Leopold's Ghost (2006), Burma VJ: Reporting From a Closed Country (2008), The Kingmaker (2019), Island of Lost Souls (1933), The Hunger Games (2012), Silmido (2003), Tears of the Sun (2003), The Interview (2014) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Dictatorship movies.
Storyline: Filmmakers Pippa Scott and Oreet Rees document the exploitation of the Congo by Belgium's King Leopold II.
Plot Keywords: tyrant, slave, explorer, historian, soldier, brutal, frenetic ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Thousands of citizens of Myanmar take to the streets in several cities to protest the Asian nation's repressive regime. The protests take on a new degree of seriousness when dozens of monks launch their own marches down city streets. This documentary from Anders Ostergaard focuses on the work of videographers and citizen journalists who defy the government's crackdown on the media -- a brave bunch who manage to transmit footage of the uprising to the outside world.
Plot Keywords: political activist, young man, monk, cameraman, police officer, fascinating, inspiring ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: An extraordinary look into the controversial political career of Imelda Marcos. As the former first lady of the Philippines, Imelda Marcos is best known for her opulent lifestyle, but it was her behind-the-scenes influence of her husband's presidency that rocketed her to the global political forefront. A journey through the Marcos family's long history of corruption, extravagance and brutality, this documentary tells a cautionary tale of a powerful female leader whose questionable sense of reality divided a nation.—SHOWTIME
Plot Keywords: dictator, wife, president, confident, disheartening, engaging, fascinating ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: After his ship goes down, Edward Parker is rescued at sea. Parker gets into a fight with Captain Davies of the Apia and the Captain tosses him overboard while making a delivery to the tiny tropical island of Dr. Moreau. Parker discovers that Moreau has good reason to be so secretive on his lonely island. The doctor is a whip-cracking task master to a growing population of his own gruesome human/animal experiments. He does have one prize result, Lota the beautiful panther woman. Parker's fortunes for escape look up after his fiancée Ruth finds him with the help of fearless Captain Donohue. However, when Moreau's tribe of near-humans rises up to rebel, no one is safe...—Gary Jackson <garyjack5@cogeco.ca>
Plot Keywords: shipwreck survivor, creature, mutant, fiancé, eerie, creepy, campy ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: In a dystopian future, the totalitarian nation of Panem is divided into 12 districts and the Capitol. Each year two young representatives from each district are selected by lottery to participate in The Hunger Games. Part entertainment, brutal retribution for a past rebellion, the televised games are broadcast throughout Panem. The 24 participants are forced to eliminate their competitors while the citizens of Panem are required to watch. When 16-year-old Katniss' young sister, Prim, is selected as District 12's female representative, Katniss volunteers to take her place. She and her male counterpart, Peeta, are pitted against bigger, stronger representatives, some of whom have trained for this their whole lives.
Plot Keywords: teen girl, teen boy, sister, government official, television executive, competitor, bleak ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Based on a true story of 1968 Korean Republic Army plan to assassinate North Korean president Kim Il-Sung. 31 criminals and death row inmates are recruited into secret training on the island of Silmi; for two years they are subjected to maximum mental and physical abuse before the mission is cancelled and the unit terminated.—kwedgwood@hotmail.com
Plot Keywords: gang leader, trainer, military officer, convict, government official, brutal, rousing ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Navy SEAL Lieutenant A.K. Waters and his elite squadron of tactical specialists are forced to choose between their duty and their humanity, between following orders by ignoring the conflict that surrounds them, or finding the courage to follow their conscience and protect a group of innocent refugees. When the democratic government of Nigeria collapses and the country is taken over by a ruthless military dictator, Waters, a fiercely loyal and hardened veteran is dispatched on a routine mission to retrieve a Doctors Without Borders physician, Dr. Lena Kendricks. Dr. Kendricks, an American citizen by marriage, is tending to the victims of the ongoing civil war at a Catholic mission in a remote village. When Waters arrives, however, Dr. Kendricks refuses to leave unless he promises to help deliver the villagers to political asylum at the nearby border. If they are left behind, they will be at the mercy of the enormous rebel army. Waters is under strict orders from his commanding officer ...
Plot Keywords: naval officer, doctor, refugee, commanding officer, dictator, soldier, gripping ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: In the action-comedy The Interview, Dave Skylark (James Franco) and his producer Aaron Rapoport (Seth Rogen) run the popular celebrity tabloid TV show "Skylark Tonight." When they discover that North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un is a fan of the show, they land an interview with him in an attempt to legitimize themselves as journalists. As Dave and Aaron prepare to travel to Pyongyang, their plans change when the CIA recruits them, perhaps the two least-qualified men imaginable, to assassinate Kim Jong-un.
Plot Keywords: producer, host, dictator, journalist, cia agent, assassin, amusing ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: The Republic of Wadiya is ruled by an eccentric and oppressive leader named Hafez Aladeen. Aladeen is summoned to New York to a UN assembly to address concerns about his country's nuclear weapons program, but the trip goes awry.
Plot Keywords: general, dictator, uncle, body double, american, love interest, hilarious ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Newly inaugurated President Judson Hammond is content to live out the next four years exercising a hands-off approach and leaving the problems of Depression America to local authorities. But after a miraculous recovery from an auto accident, Hammond is ready to take on every social ill and neither Congress, gangsters nor the nations of the world will stop him.—Erik Gregersen <erik@astro.as.utexas.edu>
Plot Keywords: president, chief of staff, secret police, secretary of state, lover, gangster, creative ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Little known actor, Jack Noah, is working on location in the country of Parador at the time the dictator dies. The dictator's right hand man, Roberto, makes Jack an offer he cannot refuse.. to play the dictator. Jack's acting skills fool the masses but not close friends and employees of the dictator.—Rob Hartill
Plot Keywords: look-alike, political consultant, mistress, stuntman, dictator, revolutionary, cheeky ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Djata is a care-free 12-year-old growing up in a brutal dictatorship shut off from the outside world. When the government imprisons his father, Peter, and Djata and his mother Hannah are labeled traitors, the boy will not rest until he sees his father again.—Oiffy
Plot Keywords: young boy, father, guard, mother, colonel, general, tense ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Robin, a young Norman nobleman, is falsely accused by his cousin of murdering another cousin. His accuser is actually in league with the corrupt Sheriff of Nottingham to seize control of the family lands, which Robin would inherit. Forced to flee into nearby Sherwood Forest, Robin begins to gather a band of rebels to fight against his scheming cousin and the evil sheriff.—frankfob2@yahoo.com
Plot Keywords: mercenary, dictator, follower, friend, amusing, cheeky, suspenseful ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: We are immersed in the 1950s, as the film diva Macarena Granada returns from Hollywood to Spain to shoot a US blockbuster entitled The Queen of Spain, where she will breathe life into Isabella I of Castile. In Madrid, not only will she meet up again with her old friends and colleagues from the troupe but she will also have to contend with another dictatorial regime: that of Francisco Franco.—AnonymousB
Plot Keywords: actress, dictator, amusing, gripping, spain, movie set, acting ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: When political turmoil forces a British-Caribbean dictator to flee his island nation, he seeks refuge and hides with a rebellious teenage girl in suburban America, and ends up teaching the young teen how to start a revolution and overthrow the "mean girls" at her high school.
Plot Keywords: dictator, teen girl, mother, teacher, pen pal, friend, amusing ...
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