Best LEFTIST Movies?
 

I'm not talking about "liberal" or even a "radical" such as myself, I mean socialist/communist/anarchy/etc.

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Was hoping this was about films featuring left handed people, had tonnes of those ready.

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Fight Club is the best anarchy film i've seen.

odd responses.. i hope i didn't offend hitler, just looking for movies with purpose.

I saw this right after it came out, I should revisit this.. Thanks Foster.

Socialist and communist films :
- Elio Petri : Investigation Of A Citizen Above Suspicion (it's a f*cking film) ; https://www.criterion.com/films/2791...bove-suspicion

The Working Class Goes To Heaven (amazing)...


- There is also Francesco Rosi : The Mattei Affair, Many Wars Ago, Hands Over The City, Christ Stopped At Eboli...
- Gilles Pontecorvo
- Documentaries : René Vautier (films about colonialism), Chris Marker (Le Joli Mai, A Grin Without a Cat, a documentary of 3/4 hours about heros of revolutions, and a lot of things), Pierre Carles (films about media criticism, one of my fav directors), Raymond Depardon (films about institutions, a great director), etc., etc.
- Costa Gavras and Yves Boisset : social and political thrillers as Z, The Confession (Costa Gavras), Plot (Yves Boisset)


- Loin du Vietnam
- Jean Renoir
- La Loi du Marché
- Merci Patron (released in February. A funny documentary about the CEO of Louis Vuitton Bernard Arnault which has been censored by the French National Centre for Cinema and the Moving Image (but I should have my DVD :D))
- Ken Loach, Peter Watkins (and his docufiction films as Punishment Park, Culloden, The War Game), free cinema
- Soy Cuba by Mikhail Kalatozov
- Germany : Margarette von Trotta, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, The Edukators...
- Eisenstein's films and soviet films (Vertov, Poudovkine...)
- earlier films of Milos Forman
- Andrzej Wajda
- Belgium : Lucas Belvaux, Dardenne Brothers
- Etc., etc., etc. :D

Anarchist films :
- All the surrealist films : Entr'acte by René Clair, An Andalusian Dog, The Golden Age, The Phantom of Liberty, The Discreet Charm of The Bourgeoisie by Luis Bunuel
- Zéro de Conduite, Jean Vigo
- Saco and Vanzetti, Giuliano Montaldo, about the two anarchists.
- If... by Linsday Anderson
- The Idiots, Lars Von Trier
- Louise Michel
- Etc., etc., etc. :D


I suppose I forgot a lot of things but I wrote things came to my mind.

Watch this short-movie (12 minutes), Island of Flowers, it's really great.

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Wow Senso, you're the best!

Thank you, I will get to them!

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Any of Ken Loach's films

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Basically, this.

Especially this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HDOzOhdazLQ

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There's Michael Moore's collection of documentary films.

I'd recommend Orwell's Animal Farm and 1984, but they are thinly veiled satires that end up criticizing Communism and Socialism, so they're not "Leftist" films, but they are about Leftist ideologies.

http://i.imgur.com/9OeczbNh.jpg

Aleksei German's filmography deals chiefly with his experiences under Joseph Stalin's communist regime. Needless to say, his films are not pro-communism, but fit the description none the less. After watching Hard to be a God (2013) earlier this week, I fully intend to watch his other four pictures. Yoshishige Yoshida's Eros + Massacre (1969) and Richard Linklater's Slacker (1991) might also interest you.

I don't actually get how this is a "leftist"/communist/anarchist movie?

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I love balance - there should be movies that expose every side and every group. Nothing better than critique - even if it's something I support, there's always something we might have not considered, and a great story-teller could best describe it.

La Grande Illusion could be considered a left-winged film. It's anti-war, but it talks a lot about class, and shows how the two "elites" have more in common, and seem to trust each other. One guy is Jewish, and says he didn't enlist for France necessarily but to defend his family's material possessions. He goes further in his honesty to say that he shares to show off. The "common" French man says he joined to be a part of the group, just going along.

The Grapes of Wrath is interesting that it was written by a Leftist (Steinbeck), but directed by John Ford, who was right-wing. Orson Welles said he didn't like the film because he felt it was a movie about a boy and his mother. I'm going to guess it's because a lot of the politics are left out (pun not intended).. The preacher in the movie has his big eyes, as if he was insane. Tom Joad is the one man who seems reasonable, apolitical, and pokes fun at those who keep using the word "Reds" - saying "Who are these Reds? Seems like anyone who wants a nickel raise is a Red"

I haven't seen the movie "The Edukators" in many years, but the heroes are leftists, and got surprising when it shows how opportunism can trump principle. And when the older man says the often-repeated he's confronted by "That's what all the bourgiose say"

I would NOT recommend "Reds" though. My professor who is now a liberal says he liked it a lot, but I think it's only because it's called "Reds" - which is something I don't like. The same way I don't like those who will disagree with someone just because a guy is a Republican, or someone who'll stay away from certain movies/music because it's commercial, which I think is phony, and maybe there's a film to expose all groups (the real enemy)

Best Ken Loach movies? The only early one I see is "Kes" so I'll probably watch that, unless Pasolini gets in the way :)

I see they are on youtube... If you know any other great ones that are on youtube, I'll watch them ASAP.

Thanks!

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I think pretty much anything Loach would qualify, but I'm thinking RIff Raff inparticular.

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The Wind That Shakes the Barley
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rIqMhC2L9Co

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Senso covered pretty much all of it.

I'd also suggest the movies I as in Icarus and The Conformist if you can find them.