S21: The Khmer Rouge Killing Machine (2003), United Red Army (2007), The Great Dictator (1940), The Lives of Others (2006), V for Vendetta (2005), The Wave (2008), Camp 14: Total Control Zone (2012), Equilibrium (2002) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Totalitarianism movies.
Storyline: Not far from the ancient Malian city of Timbuktu, proud cattle herder Kidane (Ibrahim Ahmed aka Pino) lives peacefully in the dunes with his wife Satima (Toulou Kiki), his daughter Toya (Layla Walet Mohamed), and Issan (Mehdi Ag Mohamed), their twelve-year-old shepherd. In town, the people suffer, powerless, from the regime of terror imposed by the Jihadists determined to control their faith. Music, laughter, cigarettes, even soccer have been banned. The women have become shadows but resist with dignity. Every day, the new improvised courts issue tragic and absurd sentences. Kidane and his family are being spared the chaos that prevails in Timbuktu. But their destiny changes abruptly.
Plot Keywords: war, religion, terrorism, islam, africa, occupation, oppression ...
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: In the year 1984, rocket bombs and rats prey on the inhabitants of the crumbling metropolis of London. Far away on the Malabar Front, a seemingly interminable war rages against Eastasia. The Ministry of Truth broadcasts ceaselessly to the population via its inescapable network of telescreens. These devices, which pervade all aspects of peoples' lives, are also capable of monitoring their every word and action. They form part of an elaborate surveillance system used by the Ministry of Love, and its dreaded Agents, the "Thought Police", to serve their singular goal: the elimination of "thoughtcrime". Winston Smith is a Party worker, part of the vast social caste known as the "Outer Party", the rank and file of the sprawling apparatus of government. Winston works in the Records Department of the Ministry of Truth, the section charged with modifying historical news archives for consistency. When by chance, Winston uncovers incontrovertible proof that the Party is lying, he embarks on a ...
Plot Keywords: dystopian, totalitarianism, surveillance, propaganda, oppression, freedom, rebellion ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A young writer is interrogated by a sadistic secret policeman. She is accused of embedding political messages in her children's stories. The entire movie takes place in one room, with only the two actors. The movie is set in an unidentified, modern police state.—Mark Logan <marklo@west.sun.com>
Plot Keywords: thriller, psychological, suspense, drama, political, interrogation, power ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Based on real events, the dramatic thriller "Gareth Jones" chronicles a British investigative journalist as he travels deep into the Soviet Union to uncover an international conspiracy. His life-or-death journey inspires George Orwell's "Animal Farm". The director of the film is Agnieszka Holland.
Plot Keywords: history, biography, political, soviet union, journalist, true story, 1930s ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Steven Shorter is the ultimate British music star. His music is listened to by everyone from pre-teens to grandparents. He has no trace of public bad habits or drug involvement. Everyone in Britain loves him. His handlers begin to use his popularity for projects like increasing the consumption of apples after a bumper crop as an aid to farmers. The handlers decide that Steven should support God and Country next. This leads to, among other things, a rock version of "Onward Christian Soldiers," and the inclusion of a Nazi salute to make it clear (to the viewer) how far the British population will be taken for love of God and Country under Steven's guidance. Steven is very plastic in his direction, shifting as his handlers point him toward new projects until he meets Vanessa Ritchie, an artist who makes him look at what's happening.—John Vogel {jlvogel@comcast.net}
Plot Keywords: dystopian, social critique, musical, british film, 1960s, political allegory, pop culture ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: George Orwell's Napoleon the pig leads a barnyard rebellion making all animals equal, sort of. Gordon Heath narrates.
Plot Keywords: allegory, animation, political, revolution, totalitarianism, adaptation, british ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: It's sometime in the future in a state controlled society, where conformity and homogeneity are the rule. What is also the rule is that the populace follows the wants of the faceless state without question. How this is achieved is through a mandatory drug regimen, which also suppresses human desire, with sexual intercourse and human relationships banned. The law of the state is policed by a force of robocops. The physical environment is totally within a manufactured enclosure, what being outside of this unknown. THX 1138 is a loyal subject, he who goes about his business as a skilled factory working building robocops. And even when he begins to have strange feelings, he does what is obliged by going to the state run confessional, which further brainwashes through its reinforced mantra of happiness, loyalty and understanding. THX 1138 is given a glimpse into the other side through his computer matched and thus appointed female roommate, LUH 3417, and her surveillance colleague SEN 5241...
Plot Keywords: science fiction, dystopian, futuristic, totalitarianism, artificial intelligence, robots, underground society ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: In 1941, a 16-year-old aspiring artist and her family are deported to Siberia amidst Stalin's brutal dismantling of the Baltic region. One girl's passion for art and her never-ending hope will break the silence of history.
Plot Keywords: war, world war ii, historical, drama, soviet union, nazis, concentration camp ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: In a futuristic society where corporations have replaced countries, the violent game of Rollerball is used to control the populace by demonstrating the futility of individuality. However, one player, Jonathan E., rises to the top, fights for his personal freedom, and threatens the corporate control.
Plot Keywords: dystopian, action film, science fiction, social critique, totalitarianism, human struggle, class conflict ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A political drama about terrorism, revolution, and the power of memory. In an unnamed place and time, an idealistic soldier named Joe strikes up an illicit friendship with a political prisoner named Thorne, who eventually recruits him into a bloody coup d'etat. But in the post-revolutionary world, what Thorne asks of Joe leads the two men into bitter conflict, spiraling downward into madness until Joe's co-conspirators conclude that they must erase him from history.—Anonymous
Plot Keywords: political satire, dystopian, black comedy, totalitarianism, revolution, social allegory, dictatorship ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: This propaganda piece starts in 1933. Prof. Nichols' American school in Berlin is next door to a school for the Hitler Youth. Karl, from the latter, is attracted to German-American Anna, but events lead to their separation. Six years later, near the outbreak of war in Europe, Anna is removed from Nichols' school on presumption of German citizenship. Nichols becomes obsessed with finding her, as Anna undergoes a rather lurid odyssey through the Nazi nightmare.—Rod Crawford <puffinus@u.washington.edu>
Plot Keywords: war, nazi, propaganda, germany, children, education, ideology ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Jack and Judy are husband and wife, and Howard is Judys father. They live in some fictional undemocratic and repressive country, and tell us a story about their lives, mostly from Jack's point of view.—Anonymous
Plot Keywords: drama, literary adaptation, psychological drama, intellectual, political, totalitarianism, social critique ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: In 1938 Hans Zeisig, an apolitical comedian, impersonator and cabaret actor, flees with a Russian passport (instead of American, which he would have preferred) from Nazi-Berlin, and finds himself in the legendary Hotel Lux, the 'lost paradise' of the Comintern, in Moscow. Everyone believes that Zeisig is a man named Hansen, Hitler's personal astrologer. But Zeisig quickly realizes that he's gone from the frying pan into the fire. In the Hotel Lux he meets his friends Frida and later Meyer again, still passionate communists. For the three idealists an adventure between love and death begins to run its course.—Anonymous
Plot Keywords: history, comedy, political, satire, stalin, soviet union, nazi ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: The story about the relationship between a manic depressive man, Mr Jones, and the female doctor who takes more than a professional interest in his treatment.—Rob Hartill
Plot Keywords: biography, history, drama, political, journalist, soviet union, true story ...
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