Dictatorship Movies

In a drab, anonymous gray school governed by a strict authoritarian regime, an apparently unremarkable day is turned on its head following a...

Military leader is appointed to local government, becomes overly despotic in his leadership.

A young woman in Stalin's Russia faces a life-or-death choice after carrying out a daring act of protest.

Two Danish comedians join the director on a trip to North Korea, where they have been allowed access under the pretext of wanting to perform a...

While traveling undercover throughout Burma, Henry Rollins exposes the country's repressive military dictatorship.

A documentary about the controversial businessman Henning Boilesen Jr. and his involvement with the military regime as one of its most enthusiastic...

The city of Madrid as it appears in the Spanish films of the 1950s. A small tribute to all those who filmed and portrayed Madrid despite the...

In Russia, criticizing the war in Ukraine or Vladimir Putin’s regime has become a crime. Thousands of ordinary citizens are being arrested,...

In Western Germany, two brothers and their organization help people escape to non-communist Germany. A policeman chasing them falls in love with the...

For almost a decade, Mohammed bin Salman, known as MBS, the crown prince and de facto leader of Saudi Arabia, has been shaking up all the pillars of...

It follows Chilean writer Antonio Skármeta as he celebrates the end of the autocrats. Cheerful farewell rituals accompany others facing...

Several decades after the collapse of the communist system, nostalgia for the former regime has reached unimaginable proportions in almost all former...

Under a dictatorship that has banned music, a man hides a record until he is caught. Whilst paying for his crimes he stumbles across a repository of...

In 1944 Crimean Tatars has suffered a long road in exile. It was accompanied by famine, illness and loss. In the first years of exile, almost half of...

Never before in Russian history has the Russian domestic intelligence services been more powerful than today. The FSB is a murky organisation that...

Life under an oppressive dictatorship. Where citizens surrender themselves to the regime, become the part of the system and let go their freedom and...

Telmo is a retired theater director that realizes he doesn't remember the time he spent kept in jail during the military dictatorship in Brazil. He...

Margherita Sarfatti, Mussolini's lover and advisor, was a woman who exerted a great influence on the Duce and on Italian cultural life. Through...

Montenegro is the newest European country with a proud history, one that is being falsified for current political purposes, thus creating an...