When Father Was Away on Business

100%

91%

anti-communism

Tito's break-up with Stalin in 1948 marked the beginning of not only confusing, but also very dangerous, years for many hard-core Yugoslav communists. A careless remark about the newspaper cartoon is enough for Mesha to join many arrested unfortunates. His family is now forced to cope with the situation and wait for his release from prison.

The Majestic

2001

English

6.9

♡ 49

42%

Frank Darabont Director

Brian Howe as Carl Leffert / Head of the Studio

Allen Garfield as Leo Kubelsky

Matt Damon as Luke Trimble

Jim Carrey as Peter Appleton

Set in 1951, a blacklisted Hollywood writer gets into a car accident, loses his memory and settles down in a small town where he is mistaken for a long-lost son.

The Red Menace

1949

English

4.9

♡ 2

R.G. Springsteen Director

Robert Rockwell as Bill Jones

Jim Hayward as Ferris Wheel Operator

William Hudson as Passerby at Protest

Betty Lou Gerson as Yvonne Kraus

A couple try to leave the Communist party after a murder by the group they were once loyal to.

Black Is Beltza

2018

English

5.9

♡ 4

franco regime (francoism)

male friendship

Fermín Muguruza Director

Emma Suárez as Laia

Unax Ugalde as Manex

Rossy de Palma as Ruth Abransom

Isaach De Bankolé as Wilson Clever

New York City, October 10, 1965. A group of wooden giant figures from Pamplona, representing Basque culture and traditions, parade down the street; but the local authorities have not allowed the appearance of all of them: due to the racial prejudices that persist in many sectors of society, the participation of two black giants has been banned.

The Shanghai Story

1954

English

5.8

♡ 1

Frank Lloyd Director

Edmond O'Brien as Dr. Dan Maynard

Paul Picerni as Mr. Emilio De Verno

John Alvin as Mr. Warren

Victor Sen Yung as Sun Lee

Shanghai, China. The last expatriate Westerners still living in the city are imprisoned in a hotel by the communist authorities in order to find the spy hiding among them.

Das Versprechen

1994

German

6.7

♡ 2

67%

Margarethe von Trotta Director

Christina Große as

Karl Kranzkowski as 1st Border Official

Anian Zollner as Konrad I

Meret Becker as Sophie I

East-Berlin, 1961, shortly after the erection of the Wall. Konrad, Sophie and three of their friends plan a daring escape to Western Germany. The attempt is successful, except for Konrad, who remains behind. From then on, and for the next 28 years, Konrad and Sophie will attempt to meet again, in spite of the Iron Curtain. Konrad, who has become a reputed Astrophysicist, tries to take advantage of scientific congresses outside Eastern Germany to arrange encounters with Sophie. But in a country where the political police, the Stasi, monitors the moves of all suspicious people (such as Konrad's sister Barbara and her husband Harald), preserving one's privacy, ideals and self-respect becomes an exhausting fight, even as the Eastern block begins its long process of disintegration.

Man on a Tightrope

1953

English

7.2

♡ 4

76%

Elia Kazan Director

Cameron Mitchell as Joe Vosdek

Fredric March as Karel Cernik

Terry Moore as Tereza Cernik

Gloria Grahame as Zama Cernik

The owner of an impoverished circus in Communist-ruled Czechoslovokia plots to flee across the border to freedom, taking his entire troupe of performers and wild animals with him.

The Way We Were

1973

English

7.0

♡ 19

65%

81%

Action

anti-communism

based on novel or book

Sydney Pollack Director

Roy Jenson as Army Captain

James Woods as Frankie McVeigh

Susan Blakely as Judianne

Sally Kirkland as Pony Dunbar

Opposites attract when, during their college days, Katie Morosky, a politically active Jew, meets Hubbell Gardiner, a feckless WASP. Years later, in the wake of World War II, they meet once again and, despite their obvious differences, attempt to make their love for each other work.

Billion Dollar Brain

1967

English

5.9

♡ 18

57%

Ken Russell Director

Gregg Palmer as 1st Dutch Businessman

Harry Fielder as Cowboy at Barndance

Michael Caine as Harry Palmer

Karl Malden as Leo Newbigen

A former British spy stumbles into in a plot to overthrow Communism with the help of a supercomputer. But who is working for whom?

Names Engraved in Marble

2002

Estonian

7.0

♡ 3

anti-communism

based on novel or book

Drama

Romance

War

Elmo Nüganen Director

Märt Avandi as

Jaak Prints as (as Jaak Teppart)

Elmo Nüganen as Captain of the Armored Train

Peter Franzén as Sulo Kallio

Despite peaceful speeches, the army of the Soviet Russian is attacking Estonia, and the country's government is declaring a mobilization for all. Henn Ahas, the son of a poor family, hesitates to go to war.

The Soviet Story

2008

English

8.0

♡ 6

58%

Edvins Snore Director

Nikita Khrushchev as Self

Joseph Stalin as Self

Adolf Eichmann as Self

Vladimir Putin as Self - former KGB officer

“The Soviet Story” is a story of an Allied power, which helped the Nazis to fight Jews and which slaughtered its own people on an industrial scale. Assisted by the West, this power triumphed on May 9th, 1945. Its crimes were made taboo, and the complete story of Europe’s most murderous regime has never been told. Until now...

Red Dawn

1984

English

6.3

♡ 61

48%

John Milius Director

Charlie Sheen as Matt

Roy Jenson as Mr. Morris

C. Thomas Howell as Robert

Jennifer Grey as Toni

It is the dawn of World War III. In mid-western America, a group of teenagers band together to defend their town—and their country—from invading Soviet forces.

The Crucible

1957

French

7.2

♡ 6

Raymond Rouleau Director

Simone Signoret as Elisabeth Proctor

Hans Klering as Field

Michel Piccoli as James Putnam

Yves Montand as John Proctor

Salem 1692. The young Abigail, seduced and abandoned by John Proctor, accuses John's wife of being a witch in revenge. A series of tragic trials soon befall Salem as fear and suspicion blur the lines of reality.

The Way Back

2010

English

7.3

♡ 112

73%

Peter Weir Director

Mark Strong as Khabarov

Ed Harris as Mr. Smith

Colin Farrell as Valka

Gustaf Skarsgård as Voss

A small band of multicultural convicts stages a daring escape from a WWII-era Siberian gulag, and embarks on a treacherous journey across five countries in a desperate race for freedom and survival.

China Gate

1957

English

6.2

♡ 5

50%

Samuel Fuller Director

James Hong as Charlie

George Givot as Cpl. Pigalle

Angie Dickinson as Lucky Legs

Lee Van Cleef as Maj. Cham

Near the end of the French phase of the Vietnam War, a group of mercenaries are recruited to travel through enemy territory to the Chinese border.

Chuck Norris vs. Communism

2015

Romanian

7.4

♡ 4

Ilinca Calugareanu Director

Andrei Gajzago as Ionescu

Istvan Papp as Passerby

Doru Ana as Self

Marius Chivu as Self

In late eighties, in Ceausescu's Romania, a black market VHS bootlegger and a courageous female translator brought the magic of Western films to the Romanian people and sowed the seeds of a revolution.

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