Trying to make myself a list of serious movies about life under a totalitarian dictatorship.
That is, not fictional settings (no Brazil or Handmaid's Tale), not movies about sociopolitical violence in democracies (no The Hill, no Flight over a Cuckoo's Nest), and no movies about local bubbles of fanaticism (no Mississippi Burning, no Night of the Hunter). These are other (interesting) categories.
I'm looking for movies about openly totalitarian political regimes. Movies about society in Hitler's Germany or Stalin's USSR, in Pinochet's Chili or Ceausescu's Romania, The Colonels' Greece, the Taliban's Afghanistan, etc. Theocracies, communist and anti-communist dictatorships, etc.
The best core examples for me would be Costa Gavras films like Z (1969) or The Confession (1970). Or Bertolucci's The Conformist (1970). Or Timbuktu (2014), The Lives of Others (2006)...
Other movies that are (seen) or seem to be (not seen yet) relevant include :
[Updated list]
Rome, Open City - 1945
Army of Shadows - 1969
Z - 1969
The Confession - 1970
Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion - 1970
The Conformist - 1970
A Special Day - 1977
The Tin Drum - 1979
Missing - 1982
The Killing Fields - 1984
Cry Freedom - 1987
Spider's Web - 1989
Schindler's List - 1993
Land and Freedom - 1995
Kandahar - 2001
The Devil's Backbone - 2001
The Pianist - 2002
Osama - 2003
Hotel Rwanda - 2004
The Lives of Others - 2006
The Last King of Scotland - 2006
The Kite Runner - 2007
Timbuktu - 2014
Clash - 2016
A Taxi Driver - 2017
The Swallows of Kabul - 2019
So, any movie in mind, that efficiently depicts ordinary courage and cowardice, social and physical violences, imposed compromises and opportunist complicities in historical, full-fledged totalitarian societies ?
That is, not fictional settings (no Brazil or Handmaid's Tale), not movies about sociopolitical violence in democracies (no The Hill, no Flight over a Cuckoo's Nest), and no movies about local bubbles of fanaticism (no Mississippi Burning, no Night of the Hunter). These are other (interesting) categories.
I'm looking for movies about openly totalitarian political regimes. Movies about society in Hitler's Germany or Stalin's USSR, in Pinochet's Chili or Ceausescu's Romania, The Colonels' Greece, the Taliban's Afghanistan, etc. Theocracies, communist and anti-communist dictatorships, etc.
The best core examples for me would be Costa Gavras films like Z (1969) or The Confession (1970). Or Bertolucci's The Conformist (1970). Or Timbuktu (2014), The Lives of Others (2006)...
Other movies that are (seen) or seem to be (not seen yet) relevant include :
[Updated list]
Rome, Open City - 1945
Army of Shadows - 1969
Z - 1969
The Confession - 1970
Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion - 1970
The Conformist - 1970
A Special Day - 1977
The Tin Drum - 1979
Missing - 1982
The Killing Fields - 1984
Cry Freedom - 1987
Spider's Web - 1989
Schindler's List - 1993
Land and Freedom - 1995
Kandahar - 2001
The Devil's Backbone - 2001
The Pianist - 2002
Osama - 2003
Hotel Rwanda - 2004
The Lives of Others - 2006
The Last King of Scotland - 2006
The Kite Runner - 2007
Timbuktu - 2014
Clash - 2016
A Taxi Driver - 2017
The Swallows of Kabul - 2019
So, any movie in mind, that efficiently depicts ordinary courage and cowardice, social and physical violences, imposed compromises and opportunist complicities in historical, full-fledged totalitarian societies ?
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Last edited by Flicker; 08-31-21 at 05:39 PM.