Dictatorship Movies

After the World War I, Mussolini's perspective on life is severely altered; once a willful socialist reformer, now obsessed with the idea of power,...

Set in the Philippines during martial law, the film follows the Bartolome family’s struggles over several years.

In 2019, Nicolás was archiving photographs for J.M. Blanch when he discovered a secluded, uncataloged image depicting an artifact that...

Estado de Excepção is a documentary about CITAC (Coimbra Theater Initiation Circle), a university theater group, revealing history...

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

A semi-fictional correspondence between two women: one goes to Iran in 1979 to topple the Shah; the other experiences the onerous years of...

The Salerno family is celebrating. It's Grandma Adela's birthday. However, in a conversation between women, Adela reveals a familiar truth that had...

Portugal, 1944. In a country oppressed by a brutal dictatorship, there are those who resist and mobilize the people to fight for bread and freedom,...

Four lucid grandmothers tell their story forgotten by history: the militancy and resistance of the young women of the leftist youth against the...

21 sequence shots depict moments in a defining night of the Battle of Rua Maria Antônia, in October 1968, from the point of view of the...

In Maija Blåfield’s documentary, eight former North Koreans talk about what it was like to watch illegal films in a closed society. In...

A priest secretly leads rebels in their struggle against the corrupt military dictatorship of the Central American country of Puerto Santo.

2035, United States of Europe. Some humans are not sustainable anymore.

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 Germany sits as one of the major democratic models, an ex-prisoner of the Stasi delivers from his former cell a frightening testimony that...

A short film produced between September and October of 1969, during the course of the Brazilian military dictatorship. It's authorship remained...

The marks of the violence of the Chilean state, against its own compatriots. Flicker Film. 35mm B & W Still Photography. Silent.