Dictatorship Movies

Based upon the true story of Olga Benário, the German-born wife of Brazilian communist leader Luís Carlos Prestes. During the...

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...

In the city of Soli, ruled by Anfa 8, where night is eternal, Horus hunts a renegade cult of solar worshippers who are desperately searching for the...

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

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...

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

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

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

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...

Resonating Surfaces is triple portrait, of a city, a woman and an attitude to life. For the personal story of Suely Rolnik, who is a Brazilian...

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

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

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...

In a dystopian society where every detail of life is strictly controlled by mandatory pre-written scripts, an obedient clerk and his state-assigned...

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

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...

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