The Year My Parents Went on Vacation (2006), Regular Lovers (2005), The Mortal Storm (1940), Cabaret (1972), Machuca (2004), We Are Young. We Are Strong. (2014), Lamerica (1994), Firaaq (2008) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Political Turmoil movies.
Storyline: Fielding Mellish (a consumer products tester) becomes infatuated with Nancy (a political activist). He attends demonstrations and tries in other ways to convince her that he is worthy of her love, but Nancy wants someone with greater leadership potential. Fielding runs off to San Marcos where he joins the rebels and eventually becomes President of the country. While on a trip to the states, he meets Nancy again and she falls for him now that he is a political leader.
Plot Keywords: comedy, satire, political, absurd, humor, revolution, latin america ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Laura is trying to pick up the pieces of her life after the murder of her husband and son, and goes on vacation with her sister to Burma. After losing her passport at a political rally, she is left on her own for a few days, during which time she falls in with students fighting for democracy. She and their leader, U Aung Ko, travel through Burma, whilst witnessing many bloody acts of repression by the dictatorship, in an attempt to escape to Thailand. Based on a true story.—James Hastie <jdh1000@cus.cam.ac.uk>
Plot Keywords: war, escape, human rights, violence, survival, tragedy, adventure ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: 1932. The tyrannical and despotic government of President Machado has headed Cuba for seven years. The latest measure of that tyranny is the outlawing of public gatherings of more than four people, such acts the government deeming treasonous. China Valdés, a young woman who works in an American bank in Havana, is generally non-political. However, she decides to join the revolutionary forces to avenge the murder of her activist brother Manolo - a murder she witnessed - at the hands of the government, the trigger pulled by a police officer she will eventually learn is named Armando Ariete. Her goal is to kill Ariete. Another of the revolutionaries, an American entertainment promoter named Tony Fenner, convinces her to hold off on her assassination, as he believes he has come up with a plan that can wipe out all the major government leaders in one fell swoop. Along with China and Tony, the Chief of the revolutionaries amasses a team of four non-related men - Guillermo, Ramón, Miguel and Toto - to work on the plot, they who didn't know each other previously so that they cannot be tied together within the plot on a superficial level. Tony's general plan is to choose one key sacrificial high ranking government target, and then set off a bomb at that person's funeral, killing everyone attending the funeral, which should include the President. They do realize that a good number of innocent people will be killed, but accept that collateral damage as part of the greater good, as each of them are generally willing to die for the cause themselves. There are a good number of physical challenges facing the team, the biggest perhaps the digging of a tunnel from China's cellar, across the street to the cemetery so that the bomb can be transported undetected. But it may be the emotional challenges which provide the biggest hurdles in carrying out the plan successfully. Some of those emotional challenges stem from Ariete's interest in China, which could be purely the interest of a man in a woman, or could perhaps be because he recognizes her as the woman who saw him kill Manolo.—Huggo
Plot Keywords: revolution, political conspiracy, assassination, historical drama, rebellion, underground organization, romance ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Although Peter and Kimani grew up together, Kimani soon finds that different races are treated differently. After Kimani's father is jailed for following tribal customs, Kimani joins a band of rebels that wants all non-Kenyans out of their country. While Kimani believes in the cause, he does not agree with the indiscriminate killing of women, children, and those who will not join or agree with them. Even after the Mau Mau murder his little sister and brother, Peter still believes that there is a chance for peaceful co-existence and that he can stop most of the killing if he can reason with Kimani.—Tony Fontana <tony.fontana@spacebbs.com>
Plot Keywords: colonialism, friendship, loyalty, betrayal, violence, revenge, identity ...
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: musical, french cinema, historical, drama, song and dance, working class, 1930s ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: During India's first years of independence from Britain, Steve Gibbs lands his armaments loaded plane in Ghandahar province hoping to get rich. Pacifist Prime Minister Singh hopes to reach an agreement with guerilla leader Khan, the maharajah is a fool, and the British residents are living in the past. Steve's love interest is Joan Willoughby, the blind daughter of a parson.—Ed Stephan <stephan@cc.wwu.edu>
Plot Keywords: war, india, independence movement, historical drama, military operation, nationalism, resistance ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: The son of a priest slain by the Mau Mau moves in with a police officer and his wife in 1950 Kenya.
Plot Keywords: colonialism, independence movement, child's perspective, coming of age, family separation, loyalty, betrayal ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A group of military officers, angered and frustrated by the corruption and repression of the current government, finally decide that for the good of the country they must overthrow the regime. However, the planned coup's leader, an infantry colonel, finds that in order to get the support he needs he must work with people he neither respects nor trusts, and soon comes to believe that their main opponent, the country's fearsome chief of the secret police, has planted a spy in their midst.—frankfob2@yahoo.com
Plot Keywords: political thriller, conspiracy, military, government corruption, power struggle, cold war, espionage ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: In November 1958, the American teenager Katey Miller moves with her parents and her younger sister to Havana. Her father is an executive of Ford expatriated to Cuba, and Katey is an excellent high school senior student that misses her friends. The family is lodged in a fancy hotel, where Katey accidentally meets the local teenage waiter Javier Suarez. Later she sees Javier dancing in a public square and they become friends, but he is fired from the hotel because her acquaintances have seen them together. Katey invites Javier to participate of a Latin Ballroom Contest in the local Palace club to help him to raise some money, and she secretly meets him in the La Rosa Negra nightclub for rehearsals. Later they fall in love for each other in times of revolution.
Plot Keywords: romance, dance, musical, youth, 1950s, cultural clash, coming of age ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: In 1914 twenty year-old Lucia enjoys a bucolic island existence looking after the family's herds of goats. The family's past, with all the positive aspects represented by the often silent mother figure, is concentrated in the house where the sick father is replaced by the brothers who are the bearers of the defense of a tradition that becomes an increasingly heavy dress for Lucia to wear. But when her father dies, her grumpy older brother decides to marry her off to a rich widower, thinking first and foremost about the financial benefits for the family. She joins a nudist colony, despite warnings from the locals that they are "devils". They are a commune of young North Europeans has found on Capri the ideal place to live their alternative life style and practice their art. There she falls under the spell of painter and commune leader Seybu. He teaches her to read and soon she is multi-lingual. But the local doctor Carlo hopes to win her affections and the two men fiercely stating their points in the duel between science and art. This becomes very boring and Lucia soon has enough and wants "to go back to dancing in the woods".—Venice Film Festival
Plot Keywords: history, war, italy, utopia, artists, rural life, social change ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Photojournalists (Ryan Phillippe, Taylor Kitsch, Frank Rautenbach) put themselves in harm's way as they shoot evidence of atrocities committed in the final days of South African apartheid.
Plot Keywords: war, photography, south africa, apartheid, violence, true story, conflict ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Adventurer gets caught up in a plot to kill Fidel Castro.
Plot Keywords: action, adventure, thriller, crime, political, spy, conspiracy ...
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