Dictatorship Movies

In Germán Araujo, director Aldo Novick revives the memory of a journalist who defied censorship during one of Uruguay's darkest periods....

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

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...

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...

This is the story of two teenage women affected by violence and the painful journey to become full and liberated. One, Maruja is a young rape victim....

After an argument with his father, Tomás (26) leaves with his best friend Lucas (25) and other members of the ballet company to the...

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

Portugal, 1944. In a country oppressed by a brutal dictatorship, there are those who resist and mobilize the people to fight for bread and freedom,...

A hundred letters written by Portuguese women during the Salazar dictatorship were found by chance in a second-hand bookshop. By confronting today...

An ambassador from an outer (and rich) space comes to visit a poor planet, where he ends up being kidnapped.

After the end of the military dictatorship in Argentina in 1983, Floreal is released from prison. Instead of returning to his wife, he wanders...

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...

A priest secretly leads rebels in their struggle against the corrupt military dictatorship of the Central American country of Puerto Santo.

Florian Hartung and Dirk Pohlmann have reconstructed a previously unknown dimension of the collaboration between Nazis and the CIA in the Cold War....

Khian, Pim and Karn, young rebellious students, work together to make a protest to uncover the corruption in their school by folding hundreds of...

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

A look back over nine years of the Syrian Civil War, an inextricable conflict, like a black box, due to the competing interests of the many factions...

The movie is about dictatorships in Greece – first, the Metaxas regime (1936-1940), and then the Colonels’ Junta (1967-74). In Part One,...