Blame It on Fidel (2006), The Red and the White (1967), Children of Glory (2006), The Firemen's Ball (1967), The Organizer (1963), Underground (1995), My Brother Is an Only Child (2007), The Big Scary "S" Word (2020) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Socialism movies.
Storyline: East Germany, the year 1989: A young man protests against the regime. His mother watches the police arresting him and suffers a heart attack and falls into a coma. Some months later, the GDR does not exist anymore and the mother awakes. Since she has to avoid every excitement, the son tries to set up the GDR again for her in their flat. But the world has changed a lot.
Plot Keywords: drama, comedy, history, germany, family, capitalism, nostalgia ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Summer 1936, a young unemployed communist, David, leaves his hometown Liverpool to join the fight against fascism in Spain. He joins an international group of Militia-men and women, the POUM (Partido Obrero de Unificación Marxista). After being wounded he goes to Barcelona, where he decides to join another group of fighters. They remain in Barcelona and end up fighting other anti-fascist groups. David is disappointed and decides to go back to his old band.—Walter de Rijk <W.C.A.de.Rijk@let.uva.nl>
Plot Keywords: war, revolution, politics, idealism, class struggle, history, documentary style ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: To show what the USA can learn from rest of the world, director Michael Moore playfully visits various nations in Europe and Africa as a one-man "invader" to take their ideas and practices for America. Whether it is Italy with its generous vacation time allotments, France with its gourmet school lunches, Germany with its industrial policy, Norway and its prison system, Tunisia and its strongly progressive women's policy, or Iceland and its strong female presence in government and business among others, Michael Moore discovers there is much that American should emulate.—Kenneth Chisholm (kchishol@rogers.com)
Plot Keywords: documentary, political, social issues, usa, satire, government, policy ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: In documentary style, events in Petrograd are re-enacted from the end of the monarchy in February of 1917 to the end of the provisional government and the decrees of peace and of land in November of that year. Lenin returns in April. In July, counter-revolutionaries put down a spontaneous revolt, and Lenin's arrest is ordered. By late October, the Bolsheviks are ready to strike: ten days will shake the world. While the Mensheviks vacillate, an advance guard infiltrates the palace. Anatov-Oveyenko leads the attack and signs the proclamation dissolving the provisional government.—<jhailey@hotmail.com>
Plot Keywords: silent film, black and white, experimental film, avant-garde, classic film, art film, symbolism ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: The story of "The Tolpuddle Martyrs". A group of nineteenth century English farm laborers who formed one of the first trade unions and started a campaign to receive fair wages.—Steve Crook <steve@brainstorm.co.uk>
Plot Keywords: history, british film, 19th century, true story, collectivism, class struggle, politics ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A worker becomes a "man of iron" forged by experience, a son comes to terms with his father, a couple fall in love, a reporter searches for courage, and a nation undergoes historic change. In Warsaw in 1980, the Party sends Winkel, a weak, alcoholic TV hack, to Gdansk to dig up dirt on the shipyard strikers, particularly on Maciek Tomczyk, an articulate worker whose father was killed in the December 1970 protests. Posing as sympathetic, Winkel interviews people who know Tomczyk, including his detained wife, Agnieszka. Their narrations become flashbacks using actual news footage of 1968 and 1970 protests and of the later birth of free unions and Solidarity.—<jhailey@hotmail.com>
Plot Keywords: history, politics, working class, solidarity, poland, biography, social movement ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: The film was commissioned by the BBC and shot one year after the fall of the Berlin Wall. By way of a series of interviews, it explores the "hangover" in the wake of German reunification. In taking stock of this situation, Ophuls quickly departs from the conventional reportage model, approaching his material in a playful manner and infusing his commentary on it with ironic humor. His interviewees - who range from GDR head of state Egon Krenz, dramatist Heiner Müller and neo-Nazi Michael Kühnen to members of the general public - are not degraded into contemporary witnesses of a fact-driven narrative. Rather, it is through their experiences and perspectives that the story emerges.—X
Plot Keywords: documentary, germany, history, cold war, politics, social change, 1990s ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: American journalist John Reed journeys to Russia to document the Bolshevik Revolution and returns a revolutionary. His fervor for left-wing politics leads him to Louise Bryant, then married, who will become a feminist icon and activist. Politics at home become more complicated as the rift grows between reality and Reed's ideals. Bryant takes up with a cynical playwright, and Reed returns to Russia, where his health declines.
Plot Keywords: history, biography, romance, drama, political, revolution, american ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Tells the story of five people from the last generation of Soviet children who were brought up behind the Iron Curtain. Just coming of age when the USSR collapsed, they witnessed the world of their childhood crumble and change beyond recognition. Through the lives of these former schoolmates, this intimate film reveals how they have adjusted to their post-Soviet reality in today's Moscow.—Anonymous
Plot Keywords: documentary, history, soviet union, cold war, personal stories, social change, politics ...
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: Shane Black ("Lethal Weapon"), John Carpenter ("Halloween"), Frank Darabont ("The Shawshank Redemption"), William Goldman ("The Princess Bride"), Paul Schrader ("Taxi Driver"), and dozens of other Hollywood screenwriters share hilarious anecdotes and penetrating insights in "Tales from the Script," the most comprehensive documentary ever made about screenwriting. By analyzing their triumphs and recalling their failures, the participants explain how successful writers develop the skills necessary for toughing out careers in one of the world's most competitive industries. They also reveal the untold stories behind some of the greatest screenplays ever written, describing their adventures with luminaries including Harrison Ford, Stanley Kubrick, Joel Silver, Martin Scorsese, and Steven Spielberg. The film was produced in tandem with the upcoming HarperCollins book of the same name.—Anonymous
Plot Keywords: comedy, historical, allegory, black comedy, political, social satire, anthology film ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Due to a revolution in his country, King Shahdov comes to New York - almost broke. To get some money he goes to TV, making commercials and meets the child from communist parents. Due to this he is suddenly a suspected as a communist himself and has to face one of McCarthy's hearings.—Stephan Eichenberg <eichenbe@fak-cbg.tu-muenchen.de>
Plot Keywords: comedy, satire, black and white, political, cold war, exile, dictatorship ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: On his deathbed, Lem (Meto Jovanovski) thinks back to his childhood in a post-World War II Stalinist "reeducation" camp, where the children of parents unwilling to embrace the new realities of Yugoslavia are taught the ways of the communist future. The young Lem (Saso Kekenovski) befriends a boy named Isak (Maja Stankovska), and they survive under the stern but compassionate tutelage of headmaster Ariton (Mitko Apostolovski) and the more brutal ways of his assistant, Olivera (Verica Nedeska).
Plot Keywords: history, war, politics, childhood, coming of age, friendship, orphan ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A documentary centered on the union formed by Bolivian farmers in response to their government's effort (urged by the U.S.) to eradicate coca crops, and the man who would come to represent them, Evo Morales.
Plot Keywords: documentary, politics, social movement, latin america, social justice, democracy, poverty ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: The architect Daniel Brenner is in his late thirties when he receives his first challenging and lucrative commission: to design a cultural center for a satellite town in East-Berlin. He accepts the offer under the condition that he gets to choose who he works with. This way, he reunites with former colleagues and friends - most of them architects or students of architecture who have since chosen a different profession due to personal restraint or economic confinement. Together, they develop a concept which they hope will be more appealing to the public than the conventional and dull constructions common to the German Democratic Republic. However, their ambitious plans are once and again foiled by their conservative supervisors. As frustration grows, Daniel has trouble keeping his career in balance with his family-life: his wife Wanda wants to leave for West-Germany.—C. Winter
Plot Keywords: drama, german film, cold war, architecture, politics, history, social critique ...
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