Drunken Angel (1948), Andrei Rublev (1966), The President's Last Bang (2005), Good Vibrations (2012), Hanussen (1988), Petulia (1968), Circle of Deceit (1981), The Strawberry Statement (1970) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Social Turmoil movies.
Storyline: Akira Kurosawa's postwar allegory focusing on an alcoholic doctor's determination to cure a gangster of tuberculosis.
Plot Keywords: gangster, alcoholism, doctor, black market, moral dilemma, social criticism, humanity ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Andreiv Rublev charts the life of the great icon painter through a turbulent period of 15th Century Russian history, a period marked by endless fighting between rival Princes and by Tatar invasions.
Plot Keywords: historical, biographical, art, religious, medieval, russian, painter ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: In the late 1970s, South Korean president Park Chung-hee (Song Jae-ho) leads a life of leisure and excess. Heavily insulated from his citizens and enjoying lavish surroundings, Chung feasts on the finest foods and constantly finds himself in the company of women. When Kim Jae-kyu (Han Suk-kyu), the disillusioned head of the South Korean secret service, finds out that he is suffering from a terminal disease, he resolves to assassinate Chung-hee for the good of his country.
Plot Keywords: political thriller, assassination, historical event, president, black comedy, satire, based on true events ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: In 1970s Belfast, Terri Hooley is an idealistic rocker who finds himself caught in the middle of Northern Ireland's bitter Troubles. Seeing a parallel in the chaos with Jamaica, Hooley opens a record shop, Good Vibrations, to help bring reggae music to his city to help encourage some harmony. However, Hooley soon discovers a new music genre, punk rock, and is inspired by its youthful vitality to become an important record producer and promoter of the local scene. In doing so, Hooley would struggle both with the industry's realities and his chaotic personal life that threaten to consume him. However, he would also be instrumental in creating an alternative Irish community that would bridge his land's religious and social rivalries with an art no one expected.—Kenneth Chisholm (kchishol@rogers.com)
Plot Keywords: 1970s, independent music, underground music, music history, counterculture, music scene, social change ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A man's story parallels Hitler's rise. Austrian Klaus Schneider, wounded in World War I, recovers in the care of Dr. Emil Bettleheim. Bettleheim discovers that Schneider possesses powers of empathy and of clairvoyance, such that could aid suicidal patients. After the war, with one friend as his manager and another as his lover, Schneider changes his name to Eric Jan Hanussen and goes to Berlin, as a hypnotist and clairvoyant performing in halls and theaters. He always speaks the truth, which brings him to the attention of powerful Nazis. He predicts their rise (good propaganda for them) and their violence (not so good). He's in pain and at risk. What is Hanussen's future?—<jhailey@hotmail.com>
Plot Keywords: biography, history, drama, war, psychological, mystery, supernatural ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: When she sees him at a hospital fund-raiser, newlywed San Francisco socialite Petulia Danner, who has been married to naval engineer David Danner for six months, seems determined to have an affair with soon to be divorced physician Dr. Archie Bollen, who has been married to his wife Polo for close to ten years, their marriage which many saw as being perfect. Archie doesn't even know Petulia's name, but only knows her as the woman who brought in a young Mexican boy into the hospital with serious injuries. Petulia's pursuit of Archie is relentless - she even declaring that they will someday be married - even as Archie dates another woman named May. Archie eventually learns part of the reason why Petulia is so determined to cheat on David as her relationship to David and David's wealthy father are brought to light. Archie also learns that getting involved with Petulia in any regard has its consequences, both for Petulia herself and for him, most specifically in his relationship to Polo.—Huggo
Plot Keywords: drama, romance, marriage, social critique, 1960s, usa, san francisco ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Laschen, a German journalist, travels to the city of Beirut during the fights between Christians and Palestinians to produce an essay about the situation. Together with his photographer, he meets some important people and discovers the everyday face of the war. He also has to figure out about his home life, where his marriage is in a big crisis.—Benjamin Stello
Plot Keywords: war, journalist, civil war, moral dilemma, politics, violence, truth ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Simon is a student at a college in San Francisco. He is content to be on the rowing team and remain as just a casual observer to the on-campus unrest, demonstrations and protests. However, curiosity gets the best of him and he begins exploring the inner sanctum of the students who have invaded the dean's office. He soon meets Linda and becomes a loyal member of the student revolution to meet girls. However, when he truly discovers the corruption and the madness that his comrades are protesting, his mindset also joins the movement. He becomes a revolutionary leader and prepares his comrades for a very violent climactic showdown with "the pigs" at a sit-in.—thustlebird
Plot Keywords: anti-war, idealism, radicalism, generation gap, love story, cultural revolution, utopia ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Perry (Gregory Smith) falls in love with Leslie (Kristen Hager) while serving as a juror at her murder trial.
Plot Keywords: cult, murder, true story, crime, trial, 1960s, psychological thriller ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Two young girls - who have been neighbours and friends since they were children - experience their first amorous emotions. Myriam is engaged to Simon, a doctor who is much older than her. Nour loves her cousin Khaled, whom she wants to marry. One of the girls is Jewish, the other Muslim. The story is set in 1942, during the German occupation of Tunisia, as the Axis forces try to win over the Tunisian Muslim population in exchange for the promise of independence. The two young girls become close while everything conspires to separate them.—Cineuropa
Plot Keywords: war, love, friendship, world war ii, nazi, jewish, coming of age ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Irrestisible charm and talent help Serge Alexandre alias Stavisky, small-time swindler, to make friends with even the most influential members of the French industrial and political elite during the early '30s. But nothing lasts forever and when his great scam involving hundreds millions of francs gets exposed, the result is an unprecedented scandal that almost caused a civil war.—Dragan Antulov <dragan.antulov@altbbs.fido.hr>
Plot Keywords: historical, biographical, crime, drama, french film, political, fraud ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Harvard in the 1960's: a time of social upheaval and student unrest. Three students bond together, challenge the system and begin to lose their ideals.—Anonymous
Plot Keywords: youth, college, friendship, romance, politics, protest, 1960s ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Bonnie Parker is estranged from her husband while still only just barely eighteen. Clyde Barrow, a handsome charmer who is in love with Bonnie, is a small-time thief, 'borrowing' cars to teach Bonnie to drive. He falls in with W.D. Jones, and their crime levels quickly rise. Soon Bonnie is dragged in with them, due to her love for Clyde, and within a short space of time, everyone is baying for the blood of Bonnie and Clyde.—Liz Jordan <c9310494@alinga.newcastle.edu.au>, RavenGlamDVDCollector, ElectricLadyLand
Plot Keywords: crime, biography, drama, history, romance, action, thriller ...
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