Dictatorship Movies

Hong Kong, 1978. South Korean actress Choi Eun-hee is kidnapped by North Korean operatives following orders from dictator Kim Jong-il.

In 1931, Germany was awarded the Olympic Games in the hope this would draw them into the international community and world peace would be promoted...

A documentary about the sea and memory. Its movement is its form. Its strength.

The Night of the Pencils was a series of kidnappings and forced disappearances, followed by the torture, rape, and murder of a number of young...

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...

Story of the 1974 coup that overthrew the right-wing Portuguese dictatorship--which continued the fascist policies of long-time dictator Antonio...

There was a time in Argentina, not so long ago, when the army wasn't only one, official, but many and made up by civilians. In those times of...

Flash Gordon, Dale Arden and Dr. Hans Zarkov travel to the planet Mongo to fight the evil emperor Ming the Merciless.

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

In an empty warehouse, four women remember the rooms of the house where they were tortured during the last dictatorship. After testifying about their...

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

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

In the near future, the world seems to function in an efficient and controlled way...

Five bricklayers work to construct and subsequently demolish a monument under the direction of a pseudo-architect. As they toil, the workers succumb...

An American doctor gets caught in the middle of a revolution when he's forced to operate on a South American dictator.

The events related to the death of Giulio Regeni, kidnapped, tortured and killed in Egypt, with the reconstruction of his family and lawyer...

It’s the last dictatorship of Europe, caught in a Soviet time-warp, where the secret police is still called the KGB and the president rules by...

Berlin, February 27, 1933. The Reichstag is in flames. A young Dutch unemployed man, Marinus van der Lubbe, was found alone in the building. For...

In an Argentina where President Milei has died and the vice president has taken office, Pingo and Anisman are two friends who want to take advantage...

The key individuals of the Iraqi-Nazi connection.