The Weather Underground (2003), Knife in the Head (1978), 13 Minutes (2014), Jonah Who Will Be 25 in the Year 2000 (1975), Silent Waters (2003), If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front (2011), Disparus (1999), Paris 36 (2008) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Radical movies.
Storyline: When the Beatles land in America in the early 1960s, young men wearing their hair long strike the nation as an abomination. But within a few years, youthful rebellion grows more severe: Witness the Weathermen, the radical antiwar activists who mobilize (unsuccessfully) to overthrow the U.S. government. With contemporary interviews and archival footage, this documentary elucidates the Weather Underground's controversial history and continuing significance.
Plot Keywords: radical, activist, lyndon baines johnson, richard nixon, martin luther king jr., intense, shocking ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A German scientist (Bruno Ganz) becomes a political tool after a policeman shoots him in the head at a leftist meeting.
Plot Keywords: scientist, ex-wife, lover, radical, police detective, lawyer, suspenseful ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: On Nov. 8, 1939, Georg Elser (Christian Friedel) attempts to assassinate Adolf Hitler as the dictator gives a speech in Munich.
Plot Keywords: adolf hitler, christian, radical, suspenseful, munich, building, life ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: The European equivalent of "The Return of the Secaucus 7," this Swiss film looks at the lives of several men and women in their 30s as they confront the slim gains of the "revolutionary" sixties. Max, a dissatisfied copy editor; Myriam, a redhead into tantric sex; and Marie, a supermarket checker who gives unauthorized discounts to the elderly, search for renewed meaning on a communal farm. The title character, a six-year-old child, is the carrier of their hopes for the future.—Mark Pritchard <mark94110@yahoo.com>
Plot Keywords: editor, cashier, sex expert, railroad worker, child, radical, intricate ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Set in 1979 Pakistan, General Zia-ul-Haq has imposed martial law and, within a few months, the country is decreed a Muslim state. Aicha, a well-adjusted woman in her forties, devotes her life to the education of her eighteen-year-old son Salim, in the little village of Charkhi, in the Pakistani Penjab. Salim is a quiet dreamer, but the fast moving political situation fills Aicha with anxiety, since her son is changing out of all recognition.—Sujit R. Varma
Plot Keywords: widow, mother, son, muslim, fundamentalist, radical, dense ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: IF A TREE FALLS is a rare behind-the-curtain look at the Earth Liberation Front, the radical environmental group that the FBI calls America's 'number one domestic terrorist threat.' With unprecedented access and a nuanced point of view, the documentary tells the story of Daniel McGowan, an ELF member who faced life in prison for two multi-million dollar arsons against Oregon timber companies. The film employs McGowan's story to examine larger questions about environmentalism, activism, and terrorism.—Anonymous
Plot Keywords: environmentalist, protester, radical, activist, politician, blue-collar worker, powerful ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: In Paris, a woman is making enquiries: Why did leftist Alfred Katz simply disappear in 1938? In that year, Alfred, worker and poet, is politically active in a Parisian Trotskyite cell. Hitler's Non-Aggression Pact with the Soviet Union has heightened the tension between local supporters of Trotsky and Stalin. Alfred attends a wild party being held by surrealists, even though his association with artists creates trouble for him within the cell. There he meets Mila, a glamorous and uninhibited prostitute from the brothel called the "Sphinx". Alfred soon meets Mila's other lover too, Félix... An American comrade and her Belgian companion arrive to establish a direct link between the cell and Trotsky in Mexico. As prominent Trotskyites begin to die or disappear, Alfred and Mila marry. Has an agent of Stalin's secret police infiltrated the group?—David Carless
Plot Keywords: woman, poet, jew, radical, prostitute, professor, engaging ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: In 1936 Paris, three out-of-work friends (Gérard Jugnot, Clovis Cornillac, Kad Merad) create a musical, struggling with their lack of experience and with a local thug, and they depend on the production raising enough money to buy the theater.
Plot Keywords: singer, stage manager, landlord, son, wife, radical, amusing ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: In the months after the heady weeks of May '68, a group of young Europeans search for a way to continue the revolution believed to be just beginning.
Plot Keywords: young man, revolutionary, radical, emotional, france, italy, beliefs ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: 19th-century Boston woman dedicated to the suffrage movement, meets a faith healer's daughter, a Mississippi lawyer also has eyes for the young woman.—Joyce Kavitsky <Kavitsky@erols.com>
Plot Keywords: woman, activist, radical, lawyer, man, cousin, bleak ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: The true story of Patricia Hearst, a rich girl who was abducted by American revolutionaries in the 1970s. The time spent with her captors made her question her way of life and she joined forces with the cause that her abductors were fighting for. This created a scandal in the US and since then Patty Hearst has become a pop culture fixture.—Josh Pasnak <chainsaw@intouch.bc.ca>
Plot Keywords: captive, heiress, radical, father, mother, robber, uneasy ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A young college student is sent to prison as much for killing a pedestrian with his car as for not paying his parking tickets. When the opportunity presents itself he escapes and is subsequently on the run with his girlfriend. But how long can this situation last?—Kevin Steinhauer <K.Steinhauer@BoM.GOV.AU>
Plot Keywords: student, judge, radical, father, girlfriend, brooding, creative ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: In 1930, Maria Brentano and her younger sister Nora flee to London after their father is murdered by a European dictator. Seven years later, during a weekend trip to Paris, Maria unexpectedly meets Louis, her former lover who is now plotting the assassination of the dictator. Maria and Nora become involved in the plan, which goes tragically wrong when the time bomb they plant kills an innocent bystander.—alfiehitchie
Plot Keywords: young woman, sister, guardian, old flame, radical, intricate, suspenseful ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Violent anti-hero Bill Williamson has a plan to change the world by exacting vengeance on the rich, and ripping Washington apart. He holds a number of people hostage and uses his captives as his political platform to spread his message and awaken humanity. It's time to destroy the system, and change won't happen peacefully.—Garrett Taylor
Plot Keywords: radical, local, anti-hero, thrilling, television, small town, capital punishment ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Seymour Levov, going by the nickname of 'Swede' in the Jewish community he was born into, was even more of an all-American than Douglas Fairbanks himself. He had just everything an American idol can dream of: not only was the tall muscular young man a high school star athlete but he married a beauty queen named Dawn in the bargain. And as if all this were not enough, Swede later became the successful manager of the glove factory his father had founded, which allowed him to live with his wife in a beautiful house in the New Jersey countryside. Well-mannered, always bright, smiling and positive, conservative but with a liberal edge, what bad could ever happen to him? And yet...this was reckoning without fate and its obnoxious irony, Swede and Dawn's nemesis manifesting itself in the person of Merry, their beloved daughter who in her teens unexpectedly turned into a violent activist.
Plot Keywords: father, businessman, wife, daughter, radical, detective, brooding ...
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