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1. 1900 (1976)
Unrated | 317 min | Drama, History
The epic tale of a class struggle in twentieth-century Italy as seen through the eyes of two childhood friends on opposing sides.
Director: Bernardo Bertolucci | Stars: Robert De Niro, Gérard Depardieu, Dominique Sanda, Francesca Bertini
Votes: 27,302
2. Modern Times (1936)
G | 87 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
The Tramp struggles to live in modern industrial society with the help of a young homeless woman.
Director: Charles Chaplin | Stars: Charles Chaplin, Paulette Goddard, Henry Bergman, Tiny Sandford
Votes: 259,785 | Gross: $0.16M
3. J. Edgar (2011)
R | 137 min | Biography, Drama, Romance
J. Edgar Hoover, powerful head of the F.B.I. for nearly fifty years, looks back on his professional and personal life.
Director: Clint Eastwood | Stars: Leonardo DiCaprio, Armie Hammer, Naomi Watts, Josh Hamilton
Votes: 133,690 | Gross: $37.31M
4. Atlas Shrugged: Part I (2011)
PG-13 | 97 min | Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Railroad executive Dagny Taggart and steel mogul Henry Rearden form an alliance to fight the increasingly authoritarian government of the United States.
Director: Paul Johansson | Stars: Taylor Schilling, Grant Bowler, Matthew Marsden, Edi Gathegi
Votes: 14,324 | Gross: $4.75M
5. I Am Curious (Yellow) (1967)
X | 121 min | Drama, Romance
Told in a quasi-documentary style, this companion piece to I Am Curious (Blue) (1968) deals with topics such as class society, non-violent resistance, sex, relationships, and tourism to Francoist Spain.
Director: Vilgot Sjöman | Stars: Lena Nyman, Vilgot Sjöman, Börje Ahlstedt, Peter Lindgren
Votes: 4,304 | Gross: $20.24M
6. Come See the Paradise (1990)
R | 138 min | Drama, Romance, War
The passionate romance between an Irish-American man and a Japanese-American woman is threatened when the Pearl Harbor attacks happen and the woman is forced into a prison camp because of her ethnicity.
Director: Alan Parker | Stars: Dennis Quaid, Tamlyn Tomita, Sab Shimono, Shizuko Hoshi
Votes: 3,061 | Gross: $0.85M
7. Dear Comrades! (2020)
121 min | Drama, History
When the communist government raises food prices in 1962, the rebellious workers from the small industrial town of Novocherkassk go on strike. The massacre which then ensues is seen through the eyes of a devout party activist.
Director: Andrey Konchalovskiy | Stars: Yuliya Vysotskaya, Vladislav Komarov, Andrey Gusev, Yuliya Burova
Votes: 5,905
8. Blind Chance (1987)
Not Rated | 114 min | Drama, Romance
Witek runs after a train. Three variations follow on how such a seemingly banal incident could influence the rest of Witek's life.
Director: Krzysztof Kieslowski | Stars: Boguslaw Linda, Tadeusz Lomnicki, Zbigniew Zapasiewicz, Boguslawa Pawelec
Votes: 11,217
9. Strike (1925)
Not Rated | 82 min | Drama
A group of oppressed factory workers go on strike in pre-revolutionary Russia.
Director: Sergei Eisenstein | Stars: Grigoriy Aleksandrov, Maksim Shtraukh, Mikhail Gomorov, I. Ivanov
Votes: 8,636
10. The Little World of Don Camillo (1952)
107 min | Comedy
A determined priest and a Communist mayor develop a grudging friendship in spite of their official rivalry.
Director: Julien Duvivier | Stars: Fernandel, Gino Cervi, Vera Talchi, Franco Interlenghi
Votes: 4,856
11. Don Camillo monsignore... ma non troppo (1961)
109 min | Comedy
Don Camillo (now bishop) and Peppone (now senator) return to the town of Brescello and rekindle their friendly rivalry.
Director: Carmine Gallone | Stars: Fernandel, Gino Cervi, Leda Gloria, Gina Rovere
Votes: 1,922
12. The War Is Over (1966)
121 min | Drama, War
A middle-aged political activist tries to dissuade his young followers from taking radical action.
Director: Alain Resnais | Stars: Yves Montand, Ingrid Thulin, Geneviève Bujold, Jean Dasté
Votes: 2,442
13. Man of Iron (1981)
PG | 156 min | Drama, History
A few years after the events of Man of Marble (1977), a journalist investigates Mateusz Birkut's son Maciek Tomczyk, now an activist leading a shipyard strike.
Director: Andrzej Wajda | Stars: Jerzy Radziwilowicz, Krystyna Janda, Marian Opania, Wieslawa Kosmalska
Votes: 3,799
14. Good Morning, Night (2003)
106 min | Drama
The 1978 kidnapping of politician Aldo Moro as seen from the perspective of one of his assailants: a conflicted young woman in the ranks of the Red Brigade.
Director: Marco Bellocchio | Stars: Maya Sansa, Luigi Lo Cascio, Roberto Herlitzka, Paolo Briguglia
Votes: 4,047 | Gross: $0.01M
15. Faubourg 36 (2008)
PG-13 | 120 min | Drama, Music, Musical
When Chansonia, a nightclub, is shut down by the landlord, the stage manager Pigoil is forced to look for a new job. He finds hope when he discovers a young woman with a lovely singing voice.
Director: Christophe Barratier | Stars: Gérard Jugnot, Clovis Cornillac, Kad Merad, Nora Arnezeder
Votes: 2,938 | Gross: $0.85M
16. Children of the Revolution (1996)
R | 101 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Few knew that Stalin spent his last night in the arms of a young Australian woman. Few still knew that their "love-child" brought Australia to the brink of civil war. Until now.
Director: Peter Duncan | Stars: Judy Davis, Sam Neill, F. Murray Abraham, Richard Roxburgh
Votes: 2,427 | Gross: $0.83M
17. Konets Sankt-Peterburga (1927)
Not Rated | 85 min | Drama
A peasant comes to St. Petersburg to find work. He unwittingly helps in the arrest of an old friend who is now a labor leader. The unemployed man is arrested and sent to fight in World War I. After three years, he returns to rebel.
Directors: Vsevolod Pudovkin, Mikhail Doller | Stars: Aleksandr Chistyakov, Vera Baranovskaya, Ivan Chuvelyov, Vladimir Obolensky
Votes: 1,863
18. Tiananmen (2019)
Documentary, History
It's been thirty years since the massacre at Tianamen Square in Beijing, where upwards of a few thousand students were killed in the military crackdown on their protests, the massacre which... See full summary »
Star: Shen Tong
Votes: 138
19. Vladimir and Rosa (1971)
Not Rated | 103 min | Drama
In Godard and Gorin's free interpretation of the Chicago Eight trial, Judge Hoffman becomes Judge Himmler (who doodles notes on Playboy centerfolds), the Chicago Eight become microcosms of ... See full summary »
Directors: Jean-Luc Godard, Jean-Pierre Gorin | Stars: Yves Afonso, Juliet Berto, Frankie Dymon, Jean-Luc Godard
Votes: 568
20. Katips (2021)
142 min | Crime, Drama, History
A tale of the young, in their fight for their ideals, how big can one get against a force too much bigger than yourself?
Director: Vince Tañada | Stars: Afi Africa, OJ Arci, Joshua Bulot, Mon Confiado
Votes: 3,686
21. Cinétracts (1968)
90 min | Documentary
A series of 41 documentary shorts, directed (without credit) by several famous French filmmakers and each running between two and four minutes. Each "tract" espouses a leftist political ... See full summary »
Directors: Jean-Denis Bonan, Gérard Fromanger, Philippe Garrel, Jean-Luc Godard, Jean-Pierre Gorin, Jacques Loiseleux, Chris Marker, Jackie Raynal, Alain Resnais
Votes: 118
22. Concentration Camp (1938)
Approved | 69 min | Drama, War
This story of the Nazi prison camps in the 1930s deals with the attempts of the Nazi guards to break the spirit of the Communists in concentration camps. The film ends with a large worker's... See full summary »
Director: Aleksandr Macheret | Stars: Oleg Zhakov, Serafima Shirokova, Ivan Kudryavtsev, Semyon Mezhinsky
Votes: 31
23. Be Seeing You (1968)
Not Rated | 55 min | Documentary
1967, one year before may '68. The strike at the Rhodiaceta textile plant in Besançon sounds like the rehearsal of the rising to come. Indeed for the first time ever, the workers' claims ... See full summary »
Directors: Chris Marker, Mario Marret
Votes: 121
24. Signorina Effe (2007)
95 min | Drama
Emma was born and raised in a working-class family, but she's long had bourgeois ambitions and has risen through the ranks to become a white-collar employee with the Fiat automobile company.
Director: Wilma Labate | Stars: Filippo Timi, Valeria Solarino, Sabrina Impacciatore, Fausto Paravidino
Votes: 170
25. Umano non umano (1969)
95 min | Documentary
Artists and poets meet in a dreamlike space between walks and performances.
Director: Mario Schifano | Stars: Franco Angeli, Otello Angeli, Adriano Aprà, Franco Brocani
Votes: 50
26. Pilvilinna (1970)
89 min | Comedy, Drama
Teenager Erik returns from Paris to Finland in a rowboat and is accosted by a gang of youths in the countryside. He walks to Helsinki, returns to his parents' home and his old high school ... See full summary »
Director: Sakari Rimminen | Stars: Meri Oravisto, Erik Uddström, Pekka Lehto, Matti Penttilä
Votes: 116
27. Streik! (1975)
97 min | Drama
Losely based upon the strike bin Sauda June 2nd 1970, where here after many years of discontent broke out open conflict for weeks.
Director: Oddvar Bull Tuhus | Stars: Kjell Stormoen, Kolbjørn Brenda, Olav Ekholt, Bjarne Andersen
Votes: 35
28. The Passaic Textile Strike (1926)
70 min | Documentary
In October 1925, due to a depression in the textile industry a 10 percent wage cut was imposed by mill owners. The strike that followed went for thirteen months and was vigorously and ... See full summary »
Director: Samuel Russak | Stars: George Ashkenudse, John J. Ballam, Lena Chernenko, Gustav Deak
Votes: 47
29. Il fare politica (2005)
86 min | Documentary
Director: Hugues Le Paige | Stars: Hugues Le Paige, Fabiana Falciani, Vincenzo Bartoli, Claudio Bagnolesi
30. The Cold War: Act 1 - France (1948)
Approved | 19 min | Short, History
The subject deals with Europe's problem of economic recovery, following WWII, and the struggle against the expanding pressure by Russia. The film shows that the Communists lost their first ... See full summary »
Director: Richard De Rochemont | Stars: Jackson Beck, Robert Schuman, Charles de Gaulle, George C. Marshall
31. Un'altra Italia nelle bandiere dei lavoratori (1980)
18 min | Documentary, Short
Director: Paolo Gobetti
32. Radical Wollongong (2014)
60 min | Documentary
Radical Wollongong is an action-packed account of a unique city, told by activist participants who battled 'Pig Iron Bob', defended the Communist Party against banning, were jailed for ... See full summary »
Directors: Paul Benedek, John Reynolds | Stars: Rowan Cahill, Monica Chalmers, Jess Moore, Robynne Murphy
33. Voittajat ja voitetut (2011)
75 min | Documentary
A story about the struggle against the totalitarian regime in Poland, about the victory as well as the expectations and disappointments related to it, as an example the history of the ... See full summary »
Director: Jarmo Jääskeläinen
Votes: 10
34.
Apocalypse: The Rise of Hitler (2011)
Episode:
La menace
(2011)
TV-14 | 45 min | Documentary, History, War
Hitler's charismatic speeches may have won the impoverished but would the National Socialist Party risen to power without the Great Depression?
Director: Isabelle Clarke | Stars: Mathieu Kassovitz, Richard Lintern, Doug Rand, Hans Baur
Votes: 145