The Firemen's Ball (1967), The Life of David Gale (2003), Camp 14: Total Control Zone (2012), And Justice for All (1979), The Quare Fellow (1962), Clemency (2019), Comedy of Power (2006), So Young, So Bad (1950) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best System Critique movies.
Storyline: In Milos Forman's satire on Communism set in a small Czechoslovakian town in the 1960s, the local firemen decide to organize a ball, however the proceedings are dogged by difficulty at every step. They plan to organize a beauty pageant at the ball, yet struggle tremendously to find enough pretty contestants. A lottery is planned for later in the evening, but the guests begin stealing the prizes. Then, inevitably, there is a fire in the town... It seems that whatever can go wrong, does go wrong.
Plot Keywords: comedy, satire, bureaucracy, collectivism, absurdity, political allegory, 1960s ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: When anti-death-penalty activist David Gale is convicted and condemned to death for the murder of a colleague, reporter Bitsey Bloom sets out to learn the story behind Gale's crime. What she finds challenges her belief in Gale's guilt and, finally, in the justice system.
Plot Keywords: death penalty, wrongful conviction, moral dilemma, political conspiracy, suspense, ethics, social criticism ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Shin Dong-Huyk was born on November 19, 1983 as a political prisoner in a North Korean re-education camp. He was a child of two prisoners who had been married by order of the wardens. He spent his entire childhood and youth in Camp 14, in fact a death camp. He was forced to labor since he was six years old and suffered from hunger, beatings and torture, always at the mercy of the wardens. He knew nothing about the world outside the barbed-wire fences. At the age of 23, with the help of an older prisoner, he managed to escape. For months he traveled through North Korea and China and finally to South Korea, where he encountered a world completely strange to him.—Anonymous
Plot Keywords: documentary, concentration camp, human rights, survivor, interview, true story, dictatorship ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: When a judge is charged with rape, Arthur Kirkland is forced to defend him. Kirkland has had problems with the judge in the past, including one incident when the judge wrongly sentenced his client Jeff McCullaugh because of a technicality. Kirkland faces a moral and legal dilemma.
Plot Keywords: legal, courtroom, lawyer, corruption, moral dilemma, justice, judicial system ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Thomas Crimmins is a new warder, or guard, in an Irish prison. He is young, naive, and idealistic, determined to serve his country by his part in meting out justice to criminals. His superior, Regan, however, realizes that even prisoners are human beings, and Regan is sick of the eye-for-an-eye attitude that leads the state to execute condemned men, or "quare fellows." Crimmins begins to see that not all is black and white in his new world, and when he becomes involved with Kathleen, the wife of one of the condemned men, his attitude begins to change. When new evidence arises to suggest that Kathleen's husband may not deserve his fate, Crimmins is torn between his duty and his humanity.—Jim Beaver <jumblejim@prodigy.net>
Plot Keywords: prison, death penalty, ireland, play adaptation, 1960s, black and white, social criticism ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Years of carrying out death row executions have taken a toll on prison warden Bernadine Williams. As she prepares to execute another inmate, Bernadine must confront the psychological and emotional demons her job creates, ultimately connecting her to the man she is sanctioned to kill.
Plot Keywords: death penalty, prison, execution, moral dilemma, psychological stress, justice system, humanity ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A character study. Jeanne Charmant-Killman is an investigative magistrate, tough minded, swift moving, taking on a group of political fixers who pay bribes and skim large sums for personal use. She breaks them one at a time. Meanwhile, her work takes its toll: relations with her husband are strained, and the group under investigation strikes back by tampering with the brakes of her car and placing a mole in her office. Can she stand up to the pressure, and what's her reward?—<jhailey@hotmail.com>
Plot Keywords: political satire, comedy, french film, judicial system, social critique, office politics, female protagonist ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Idealistic and naive Dr. Jason arrives at a school for delinquent girls and immediately begins to try to make a difference in the lives of some of the inmates. Oblivious to the sadistic treatment of the girls by the matrons, it takes a rebellious girl named Loretta to open his eyes. Assisted by a female staff member, Jason finally gets proof of the abuse and threatens the head of the school with exposure unless he is given free rein to run things.—Ron Kerrigan <mvg@whidbey.com>
Plot Keywords: social issues, psychological trauma, system critique, black and white, drama, independent film, social realism ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: The internal minister's very sophisticated ultra-technological and plated car stops for a mechanical accident in front of a villa. The owner of the villa is De Andreis that immediately offers his help to save the minister entrapped inside the car. Everything has to be done in secret to avoid a scandal within the Roman politic world. Many attempt are done but the result is unexpectedly terrific.—1felco
Plot Keywords: political satire, comedy, italian cinema, social critique, bureaucracy, black comedy, 1980s ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: When jobless Tommy Collins discovers that sequestered jurors earn free room and board as well as $5-a-day, he gets himself assigned to a jury in a murder trial. Once there, he does everything he can to prolong the trial and deliberations and make the sequestration more comfortable for himself.—Steve Derby <sderby@sdeco.com>
Plot Keywords: courtroom, comedy, legal, trial, usa, 1990s, satire ...
Movie Details Click Here !