Totalitarian States
  • The Island picture
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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 army...

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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) defy...

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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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    Southland Tales (2007)

    Chaos reigns in the years following a nuclear attack on Texas.

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    Zift

    Shortly before the Bulgarian Communist coup of 1944, the Moth was thrown into jail under a false...

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    Amarcord (1974)

    Federico Fellini's episodic homage to life in a 1930s Italian seaside village as seen through the...

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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 (1941)

    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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    Invincible (2002)

    A club owner (Tim Roth) who supports the Nazi Party hires a Jewish strongman (Jouko Ahola) as an...

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    Kamchatka

    The plight of a single family--a lawyer, his teacher wife and their two kids, forced to leave their...