Dictatorship Movies

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...

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

Based on the life of Edgar Jopson, a young man from an affluent family, who became an underground activist and confronted President Ferdinand Marcos...

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

Never before in Russian history has the Russian domestic intelligence services been more powerful than today. The FSB is a murky organisation that...

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...

The ocean contains the history of all humanity. The sea holds all the voices of the earth and those that come from outer space. Water receives...

Documentary that shows the events that culminated in the deposition of President João Goulart, on March 31, 1964, and the implementation of...

In 1985, in the obscure town of Dolores, the Orapronobis, a cult under the leadership of Kumander Kontra, murders a foreign priest who gave the last...

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

A reporter becomes involved with a band of terrorists hiding in the mountains between Peru and Bolivia.

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...

This is the story of Pablo, a young uruguayan exiled in México, whose father was disappeared during the military dictatorship.

In the winter of 1988, in the depths of the Iraq/Iran war, the border town of Halabja was attacked by chemical weapons with all its people and their...

A couple is arrested and tortured after taking part in a political demonstration, being sentenced to death.

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

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...

Images of Argentinian companies and factories in the first light of day, seen from the inside of a car, while the director reads out documents in...

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...