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: In 1970 a Jewish neighbor (Germano Haiut) takes in a Brazilian boy (Michel Joelsas) whose parents are fugitives and whose grandfather has unexpectedly died.
Plot Keywords: family, coming of age, 1970s, soccer, childhood, jewish culture, solitude ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: In 1968 a young Parisian (Louis Garrel) embraces revolutionary ideals and begins a romance with an art student (Clotilde Hesme).
Plot Keywords: french cinema, black and white film, art film, paris, youth culture, love story, rebellion ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Interesting to note that the film was made in 1940, one year before America's entry into the European war against Hitler. The movie depicts Germany in 1933. In 1938 the 'night of broken glass' took place. Interesting to note the attitudes portrayed in the film, definitely anti-Nazi.—Matt Goodwin
Plot Keywords: war, nazi, germany, romance, persecution, escape, racial discrimination ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Cambridge University student Brian Roberts arrives in Berlin in 1931 to complete his German studies. Without much money, he plans on making a living teaching English while living in an inexpensive rooming house, where he befriends another of the tenants, American Sally Bowles. She is outwardly a flamboyant, perpetually happy person who works as a singer at the decadent Kit Kat Klub, a cabaret styled venue. Sally's outward façade is matched by that of the Klub, overseen by the omnipresent Master of Ceremonies. Sally draws Brian into her world, and initially wants him to be one of her many lovers, until she learns that he is a homosexual, albeit a celibate one. Among their other friends are his students, the poor Fritz Wendel, who wants to be a gigolo to live a comfortable life, and the straight-laced and beautiful Natalia Landauer, a Jewish heiress. Fritz initially sees Natalia as his money ticket, but eventually falls for her. However Natalia is suspect of his motives and cannot ...
Plot Keywords: musical, song and dance, germany, 1930s, nazis, cabaret, berlin ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: 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) St. Patrick to allow free admission of some proletarian kids. One of them is Pedro Machuca, slum-raised son of the cleaning lady in Gonzalo Infante's liberal-bourgeois home. Yet the new classmates become buddies, paradoxically protesting together as Gonzalo gets adopted by Pedro's slum family and gang. But the adults spoil that too, not in the least when general Pinochet's coup ousts Allende, and supporters such as McEnroe.
Plot Keywords: history, drama, social class, friendship, coming of age, poverty, wealth ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: People from different walks of life in the German city of Rostock intersect when a rampaging mob besieges a residential building occupied by Vietnamese immigrants.
Plot Keywords: youth, violence, immigration, racism, protest, germany, 1990s ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Two Italian racketeers come to Albania just after the fall of the communists to set up a fictive firm and pocket the grants. They need a stooge. They choose an old one in a jail : Spiro. But the youngest italian, Gino, once alone with Spiro, encounter a few problems. Far from his roots, loosing his identity in deep Albania, he begins to change...—Yepok
Plot Keywords: war, immigration, poverty, italy, refugees, 1990s, europe ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Following riots in Gujarat, Arati experiences guilt when she did not open her door to shelter an injured Muslim woman. Her husband, Sanjay, had looted merchandise from shops, and his brother, Devan, had even sexually molested Muslim women. A young lad, Mohsin, leaves the safety of an army-guarded camp to look for his father. Meanwhile Music maestro, Jahangir Khan, faces isolation. Sameer Shaikh and his Hindu wife, Anuradha, decide to re-locate to Delhi. Muneera suspects her Hindu friend, Jyoti, of setting her house on fire, while biased police officers continue oppressing Muslims and five Muslim men find a gun and attempt to seek vengeance.—rAjOo (gunwanti@hotmail.com)
Plot Keywords: violence, religious conflict, indian society, genocide, trauma, humanity, fear ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Jim Wormold is an expatriate Englishman living in pre-revolutionary Havana with his teenage daughter Milly. He owns a vacuum cleaner shop but isn't very successful so he accepts an offer from Hawthorne of the British Secret Service to recruit a network of agents in Cuba. Wormold hasn't got a clue where to start but when his friend Dr. Hasselbacher suggests that the best secrets are known to no one, he decides to manufacture a list of agents and provides fictional tales for the benefit of his masters in London. He is soon seen as the best agent in the Western Hemisphere but it all begins to unravel when the local police decode his cables and start rounding up his "network" and he learns that he is the target of a group out to kill him.—garykmcd
Plot Keywords: spy, cold war, comedy, black comedy, novel adaptation, british film, antihero ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: 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.
Plot Keywords: revolution, history, biography, war, politics, latin america, guerrilla warfare ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Paris, spring 1968. While most students take the lead in the May 'revolution', a French poet's twin son Theo and daughter Isabelle enjoy the good life in his grand Paris home. As film buffs they meet and 'adopt' modest, conservatively educated Californian student Matthew. With their parents away for a month, they drag him into an orgy of indulgence of all senses, losing all of his and the last of their innocence. A sexual threesome shakes their rapport, yet only the outside reality will break it up.
Plot Keywords: erotic, youth, coming of age, france, paris, love triangle, taboo ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: In the slum of Cité Soleil, President Aristide's most loyal supporters were ruling as kings. The five major gang leaders were controlling heavily armed young men; the Chiméres. The Secret army of President Jean-Bertrand Aristide. "Ghosts of Cité Soleil" is a film about Billy and Haitian 2pac. Two brothers. Gang Leaders of the Chiméres.—Asger Leth
Plot Keywords: documentary, gang, violence, social issues, true story, street life, poverty ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Vacationing in a Latin American country, American brain surgeon Eugene Ferguson (Cary Grant) and his wife, Helen (Paula Raymond), get caught in a revolutionary uprising against dictator President Raoul Farrago (Jose Ferrer). Kidnapped by the military and ordered to operate on Farrago, who has a life-threatening brain tumor, Eugene hesitates, believing he might reason with Farrago to stop the imminent civil war. The situation is heightened when Helen becomes a pawn of the revolutionaries.
Plot Keywords: political thriller, cold war, espionage, berlin, film noir, suspense, betrayal ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Surprisingly adventurous saga of an intrepid group of cinematographers and reporters who risk life and limb to capture footage of breaking news for the movie-going public.—David Spalding <dspalding@korova.com>
Plot Keywords: history, journalism, docudrama, media ethics, based on true events, brotherhood, press freedom ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: The American missionary Megan Davis arrives in Shanghai during the Chinese Civil War to marry the missionary Dr. Robert Strife. However, Robert postpones their wedding to rescue some orphans in an orphanage in Chapei section that is burning in the middle of a battlefield. While returning to Shanghai with the children, they are separated in the crowd, Megan is hit in the head and knocked out, but is saved by General Yen and brought by train to his palace. As the days go by, the General's mistress Mah-Li becomes close to Megan and when she is accused of betrayal for giving classified information to the enemies, Megan asks for her life. The cruel General Yen falls in love for the naive and pure Megan and accepts her request to spare the life of Mah-Li against the will of his financial advisor Jones. Meanwhile Megan feels attracted by the powerful and gentle General Yen, but resists to his flirtation. When Mah-Li betrays General Yen and destroys his empire, Megan realizes that to be able to do good works, one has to have wisdom and decides to stay with him while the General drinks his bitter last tea.—Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Plot Keywords: romance, drama, war, historical, cross-cultural, tragedy, forbidden love ...
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