totalitarianism
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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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    Aeon Flux (2005)

    In the last city on Earth, underground rebels dispatch their top assassin (Charlize Theron) to kill...

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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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    1984 (1984)

    Orwell's Big Brother is watching as Winston Smith (John Hurt) and his lover (Suzanna Hamilton) defy...

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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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    Death and the Maiden (1994)

    An armed ex-political prisoner (Sigourney Weaver) puts her presumed torturer (Ben Kingsley) on trial...

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    The Designated Mourner (1997)

    A man (Mike Nichols), his wife (Miranda Richardson) and her father (David DeKeyser), all citizens of...

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    1984 (1956)

    George Orwell's novel of a totalitarian future society in which a man whose daily work is rewriting...

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    The Girl From Monday (2005)

    A comic drama about a time in the near future when citizens are happy to be property traded on the...

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    The Inner Circle (1991)

    The story of Josef Stalin's inner circle, focusing on his personal projectionist, a relatively...

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    King of the Children (1988)

    An educated young man from the city is asked to be a teacher in a small village. When the contents...

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    The Oak (1993)

    An iconoclastic couple fights ruthlessly to survive in violence-torn Romania.

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    Journey of Hope (1991)

    The story of a turkish poor family who tries to emigrate illegaly to Switzerland.

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    Sigade Revolutsioon

    In the summer of 1986, hundreds of teenagers gather in the woods for Estonian student summer camp,...

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    Dead or Alive: Final (2002)

    The ace cop of a totalitarian police force and a drifting android play their parts in a...

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    Crime Zone (1989)

    Futuristic, post-apocalyptic tale of corruption and crime.

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    Imagining Argentina (2004)

    A theater director (Antonio Banderas) uses second sight to try and save his kidnapped wife (Emma...

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    La Historia Oficial (1985)

    An Argentine couple (Norma Aleandro, Héctor Alterio) learn that the government tortured their...

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    Section Speciale (1975)

    Based on a true story, Costa-Gavras' Special Section (Section Speciale) is set in wartime France,...

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    Closet Land (1991)

    A woman in a nameless country is abducted by a man who brainwashes and tortures her, ostensibly...

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    The Roundup

    The story of political prisoners suspected to be freedom fighters in the newly formed...

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    What Remains of Us (2004)

    A young woman travels to Tibet to play a filmed message from the Dalai Lama preaching nonviolence.

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    All Tomorrow's Parties

    In the post-apocalyptic mid-21st Century, the Gui Dao sect rules continental Asia. Zhuai and his...

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    China Cry (1990)

    Based on Nora Lam's (Julia Nickson-Soul) book about her persecution as a Christian in 1950s China,...

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    Fortress II

    While his wife and child escape, a man (Christopher Lambert) is captured and sent to a new prison in...

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    The Black Beach

    About a man who is exiled in his own country.

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    Permission to Kill

    Yet another in the stable of spy movies which depict espionage as a dirty business. Here, we have...

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    Diesel

    Set in the near future when a subterranean world is ruled over by a totalitarian psycho, this tame...

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    A Cor do seu Destino (1988)

    A Chilean child, living in Rio de Janeiro, is haunted by the death of his brother, which occured...