Totalitarian States
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The Island (2005)
In 2019 a mercenary (Djimon Hounsou) pursues two clones (Ewan McGregor, Scarlett Johansson) who...
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V for Vendetta (2006)
After world war leads to a fascist government, a vigilante known as V (Hugo Weaving) uses terrorist...
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A Scanner Darkly (2006)
In Orange County, Calif., a drug-addicted cop (Keanu Reeves) who works under cover receives orders...
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The Lives of Others (2007)
In 1980s East Germany a dedicated Stasi officer (Ulrich Muehe) faces conflicting loyalties when he...
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Code 46 (2004)
In a futuristic society, a married insurance investigator (Tim Robbins) falls in love with the...
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Catch a Fire (2006)
An apolitical black South African (Derek Luke) becomes a freedom fighter with the ANC after a brutal...
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Brazil (1985)
A bureaucrat (Jonathan Pryce) in a future megalopolis notes a fatal error over one man, named Tuttle...
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Starship Troopers (1997)
Members of Earth's space fleet (Casper Van Dien, Dina Meyer, Denise Richards) battle a vicious...
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The Last King of Scotland (2006)
The personal physician (James McAvoy) of Ugandan dictator Idi Amin (Forest Whitaker) witnesses his...
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Fahrenheit 451 (1967)
A fireman (Oskar Werner) of the future burns books until he meets a book lover (Julie Christie) and...
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The Red Corner (1997)
A Chinese attorney (Bai Ling) defends a U.S. businessman (Richard Gere) accused of killing a model...
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1984 (1984)
Orwell's Big Brother is watching as Winston Smith (John Hurt) and his lover (Suzanna Hamilton)...
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Gattaca (1997)
An outcast (Ethan Hawke) takes part in a complicated and perilous scheme to assume the identity of a...
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The Postman (1997)
Seeking refuge from a post-apocalypse dictator (Will Patton), a wayfarer (Kevin Costner) gives...
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Amarcord (1974)
Federico Fellini's episodic homage to life in a 1930s Italian seaside village as seen through...
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Rollerball (1975)
A corporate dictator (John Houseman) tries to oust the star player (James Caan) of a brutal...
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Children of Men (2006)
When infertility threatens mankind with extinction, a disillusioned bureaucrat (Clive Owen) becomes...
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CSA: Confederate States of America (2005)
The South wins the Civil War in 1864, changing the course of U.S. history for the next 140 years.
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The Terminator (1984)
A cyborg (Arnold Schwarzenegger) from the future arrives in 20th-century Los Angeles to kill the...
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Osama (2004)
Desperate for money, an Afghan widow (Zubaida Sahar) dresses her daughter (Marina Golbahari) like a...
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Alphaville (1965)
Secret agent Lemmy Caution (Eddie Constantine) wrecks the main computer in a futuristic city on...
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The Great Dictator (1940)
A Jewish barber looks like Adenoid Hynkel (Charles Chaplin), dictator of Tomania, who meets Benzino...
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The Singing Revolution (2007)
First occupied by the Soviets in 1939, then by the Nazis, and then by the Soviets again, Estonia...
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Rollerball (2002)
A businessman (Jean Reno) wants to see more violence in a dangerous sport where athletes (Chris...
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Kiss of the Spider Woman (1985)
In a Latin American prison, an emotional relationship evolves between a homosexual and his cellmate,...
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Torn Curtain (1966)
A top U.S. physicist (Paul Newman) defects to East Germany seeking information about Soviet nuclear...
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Kamchatka
The plight of a single family--a lawyer, his teacher wife and their two kids, forced to leave their...
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Etat de siege (1973)
Like most of Costa-Gavras' political thrillers, the French State of Siege is based on a true...
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