Z (1969), The Interrogation (1982), Hidden Agenda (1990), Z (1969), Sacco and Vanzetti (1971), State of Fear (2005), Trumbo (2007), Trumbo (2015) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Political Persecution movies.
Storyline: A small-town librarian is branded as a Communist by local politicians when she refuses to withdraw a controversial book from the library's shelves.—Daniel Bubbeo <dbubbeo@cmp.com>
Plot Keywords: political persecution, cold war, american history, 1950s, education, small town life, social pressure ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Portraying one of the shadier details of American history, this is the story of Jack McGurn, who comes to Los Angeles in 1936. He gets a job at a movie theatre in Little Tokyo and falls in love with the boss's daughter, Lily Kawamura. When her father finds out, he is fired and forbidden ever to see her again. But together they escape to Seattle. When the war breaks out, the authorities decide that the Japanese immigrants must live in camps like war prisoners.—Mattias Thuresson
Plot Keywords: romance, history, war, drama, world war ii, racial discrimination, family ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A man's life is retold just after his funeral. Beginning as a track walker, Tom Garner rose through all sorts of railroad jobs to head the company. In the meantime he lost touch with his family. When he saw what was happening it was already too late.—Ed Stephan <stephan@cc.wwu.edu>
Plot Keywords: drama, moral dilemma, redemption, religion, catholicism, mexico, fugitive ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A political drama about terrorism, revolution, and the power of memory. In an unnamed place and time, an idealistic soldier named Joe strikes up an illicit friendship with a political prisoner named Thorne, who eventually recruits him into a bloody coup d'etat. But in the post-revolutionary world, what Thorne asks of Joe leads the two men into bitter conflict, spiraling downward into madness until Joe's co-conspirators conclude that they must erase him from history.—Anonymous
Plot Keywords: political satire, dystopian, black comedy, totalitarianism, revolution, social allegory, dictatorship ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Jack Moore is an American attorney having talks in Bejing about founding the first satellite TV joint venture. Suddenly he is arrested, accused of murder and has to prove it was a frame-up together with his court-appointed attorney Shen Yuelin.
Plot Keywords: political thriller, legal drama, justice system, cultural clash, international relations, courtroom drama, corruption ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Set between the two World Wars and based on true historical events, Bitter Harvest conveys the untold story of the Holodomor, the genocidal famine engineered by the tyrant Joseph Stalin. The film displays a powerful tale of love, honour, rebellion and survival at a time when Ukraine was forced to adjust to the horrifying territorial ambitions of the burgeoning Soviet Union. With an exceptional cast of established and rising stars, the film epically recreates one of the most dramatic and dangerous episodes in the history of 20th Century Europe.
Plot Keywords: history, war, stalin, soviet union, political persecution, survival, love ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Inspired by real events in the life of À bout de souffle (1960) star and French New Wave icon Jean Seberg, who in the late 1960s was targeted by Hoover's FBI, because of her political and romantic involvement with civil rights activist Hakim Jamal.
Plot Keywords: political thriller, biography, historical, drama, usa, 1960s, hollywood ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A clerk in the Soviet embassy in Canada after World War II, Igor Gouzenko (Dana Andrews) is increasingly troubled by his work for duplicitous government officials. Hoping to forge a better life for his wife, Anna (Gene Tierney), and their young son, Igor decides to defect. Though he's pursued by loyal Soviets who are charged with bringing him back to the Soviet Union, he provides Canadian officials with key documents detailing his government's underhanded efforts to obtain atomic bomb plans.
Plot Keywords: cold war, espionage, soviet union, propaganda, based on true events, 1940s, film noir ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A government lawyer (Dirk Bogarde) tries to help a poor Jewish handyman (Alan Bates) railroaded for murder in czarist Russia.
Plot Keywords: drama, history, biography, anti-semitism, judicial injustice, social injustice, political persecution ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: The story of Cardinal Josef Mindzhenty, a Roman Catholic cardinal from Hungary who spoke out against both the Nazi occupation of his country during World War II and the Communist regime that replaced it after the war. Mindzhenty was arrested, tortured and eventually released, but was persecuted to the extent that he wound up taking refuge in the US Embassy in Budapest for many years, still acting as a spokesman for the Hungarians who wanted the Russian occupation forces and their Hungarian collaborators out of the country.—frankfob2@yahoo.com
Plot Keywords: cold war, political thriller, espionage, loyalty, betrayal, trial, 1940s ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: After a reporter (Shia LaBeouf) uncovers his real identity, a former Weather Underground activist (Robert Redford) goes on the run to track down his former lover (Julie Christie), a fellow member of his cell who never gave up the fight.
Plot Keywords: political thriller, crime, drama, mystery, investigative journalism, hidden identity, moral dilemma ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: In Rochester, a pre-teen girl is abducted, raped, and murdered. Detective Megan Paige investigates: she works long hours obsessively, and soon she's seeing visions of the dead girl. The FBI profiles the killer as a spontaneous drifter, lucky not to get caught; Megan thinks he's local and a methodical planner. She notes that the victim's first and last names and the place the body was left start with "C." When a second murder follows the same pattern, Megan is vindicated, but her obsessions get the best of her, and her mental state impedes her work. With the help of medication, therapy, and a friend, can she regain her equilibrium and catch the alphabet killer?—<jhailey@hotmail.com>
Plot Keywords: world war ii, jews, paris, historical drama, political persecution, heroism, sacrifice ...
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