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Star Wars(1977)

4.1/5 (with 9,443 votes)

Princess Leia is captured and held hostage by the evil Imperial forces in their effort to take over the galactic Empire. Venturesome Luke Skywalker and dashing captain Han Solo team together with the loveable robot duo R2-D2 and C-3PO to rescue the beautiful princess and restore peace and justice in the Empire.

Demolition Man(1993)

R
| 1h 55min | Crime, Action, Science Fiction
3.3/5 (with 1,622 votes)

Simon Phoenix, a violent criminal cryogenically frozen in 1996, escapes during a parole hearing in 2032 in the utopia of San Angeles. Police are incapable of dealing with his violent ways and turn to his captor, who had also been cryogenically frozen after being wrongfully accused of killing 30 innocent people while apprehending Phoenix.

Logan's Run(1976)

PG
| 1h 59min | Action, Science Fiction
3.3/5 (with 419 votes)

In the 23rd century, inhabitants of a domed city freely experience all of life's pleasures — but no one is allowed to live past 30. Citizens can try for a chance at being "renewed" in a civic ceremony on their 30th birthday. Escape is the only other option.

The Handmaid's Tale(1990)

R
| 1h 48min | Drama, Science Fiction
3.1/5 (with 87 votes)

In a dystopicly polluted rightwing religious tyranny, a young woman is put in sexual slavery on account of her now rare fertility.

1984(1956)

NR
| 1h 30min | Science Fiction, Drama
3.3/5 (with 44 votes)

In a totalitarian future society, a man whose daily work is rewriting history tries to rebel by falling in love.

Kin-dza-dza!(1986)

4.0/5 (with 99 votes)

Two Soviet humans previously unknown to each other are transported to the planet Pluke in the Kin-dza-da galaxy due to a chance encounter with an alien teleportation device. They must come to grips with a language barrier and Plukian social norms (not to mention the laws of space and time) if they ever hope to return to Earth.

Pereira Declares(1995)

NR
| 1h 44min | Drama
3.3/5 (with 35 votes)

Lisbon, 1938. Mr. Pereira is the editor of the culture section of an evening paper. Although fascism is on the rise in Europe, like in nearby civil war Spain or even inside Portugal itself in the form of Salazar's regime, Pereira only concerns himself with writing bios and translating French novels. Things change after he hires a young writer as his assistant, getting to know also his girlfriend – both opponents to the regime – and reluctantly helps them when they begin to get in trouble for subversive activities. Eventually, he's forced to take a stand...

Nineteen Eighty-Four(1954)

3.8/5 (with 17 votes)

A man who works for 'The Party' (an all powerful empire led by a man known only as 'Big Brother') begins to have thoughts of rebellion and love for a fellow member. Together they look to help bring down the party.

China: The Uighur Tragedy(2022)

1h 45min | Documentary
4.0/5 (with 2 votes)

A relentless chronicle of the tragedy of the Uighurs, an ethnic minority of some eleven million people who live in the Xinjiang region of northwest China, speak a Turkic language and practice the Muslim religion. The Uighurs suffer brutal cultural and political oppression by Xin Jinping's tyrannical government: torture, disappearances, forced labor, re-education of children and adults, mass sterilizations, extensive surveillance and destruction of historical heritage.

1984(2023)

In a bleak and oppressive totalitarian society ruled by Big Brother, personal freedoms are nonexistent and surveillance is constant. Art is mocked and destroyed, and imagination is considered a serious illness. In this grim world, a brilliant mathematician engages in a forbidden romance with a colleague and learns about a secret resistance. He is faced with a choice - to join or betray it.

Directed by Diana Ringo - With Diana Ringo

Plastic Jesus(1971)

1h 13min | Drama
3.1/5 (with 4 votes)

Tom is a young guy from Zagreb, completely without money, trying to make films in Belgrade. He somehow manages to survive with a help of women. He doesn't believe in anybody, respects no one and is in constant conflict with the ruling system and order. After being left by a silly American girl, Tom binds with a woman whose husband is abroad. When she kicks him out, he moves in with her husband's sister, who later kills him in the attack of jealousy. All this is shown in the context of major historical events prior to 1968. with lots of archive footage of world leaders.

Directed by Lazar Stojanović

Lessons at the End of Spring(1990)

1h 15min | Drama
2.7/5 (with 4 votes)

A young boy loses his innocence in a pre-perestroika Russian prison during the chaotic last months of the Khrushchev regime.

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Big Brother: A World Under Surveillance(2020)

1h 30min | Documentary
3.9/5 (with 6 votes)

Under the pretext of fighting terrorism or crime, the major powers have embarked on a dangerous race for surveillance technologies. Facial recognition cameras, emotion detectors, citizen rating systems, autonomous drones… A security obsession that in some countries is giving rise to a new form of political regime: numerical totalitarianism. Orwell's nightmare.

2030(2022)

Whoever says that this world can no longer be saved has forgotten that children mean hope. - Honoré de Balzac

Canary Season(1993)

2h 8min | Drama
4.8/5 (with 1 vote)

It's 1980. Malin is fatherless, angry, and in trouble. At 20, he's spent a year in jail for assaulting a lover of Lily, his mother. In her desk he finds a soldier's photograph and assumes he's found his father. He confronts the man, now a teacher, and gets nowhere. At home again, he mocks his mother. Finally, she tells him her grim story, from the year before his birth. We see a people's court, where Lily's parents seek justice for their grandchild to be. We follow Lily to a prison camp, to the city where she's told to inform on the only person who's been kind, to an asylum, and finally to her current poverty and loneliness. How will Malin respond to these revelations?

Directed by Evgeni Mihailov - With Paraskeva Dzhukelova, Nevena Kokanova

The Time of the Beginning(1974)

A "symbolic" character traces the path of man in search of salvation in this world within his own ghosts and deformations.

Keepers of the Fog(1988)

1h 44min | Drama

Images and reality intermingle in this account of the writer's own experiences under totalitarian regime.

Directed by Isa Qosja

Nas Entranhas de Nicolópolis(2022)

5.0/5 (with 1 vote)

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Something to Do with the Wall(1991)

NR
| 1h 28min | Documentary
3.5/5 (with 1 vote)

In 1986, Ross McElwee (Sherman's March) and Marilyn Levine were making a film about the 25th anniversary of the Berlin Wall, when the imposing structure was still very much intact as the world’s most visible symbol of hardline Communism and Cold War lore. They thought they were making a documentary on the community of tourists, soldiers, and West Berliners who lived in the seemingly eternal presence of the graffiti emblazoned eyesore. But in 1989, as the original film neared completion, the Wall came down, and McElwee and Levine returned to Berlin, this time to capture the radically different atmosphere of the reunified city.

329(2014)

17min | Drama, Comedy

The students of an isolated school are together bound by 10 strange rules. They are made to follow the rules without any question. One day, student '329' decides to rebel and break away.