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2.9

♡ 39

16%

Titus Paar Director

Philip Fornah as Cronus

Sasha Jackson as Nina

Lance E. Nichols as Politician

Steven Seagal as The Director

In a not too distant future, a totalitarian state run by ‘The Director” controls all aspects of life. All enemies of the state are dealt in the harshest way. Most of them are executed by the secret government’s assassins. The best operative is code-named “Condor” – an elite agent and hit man for the government. However, in his latest assignment, “Condor” fails to kill an opposition leader, and finds himself on the run from the very same government agency that he works for. This sets in motion a chain of events with unforseen consequences for all involved.

Cuba and the Cameraman

2017

8.2

♡ 37

100%

This revealing portrait of Cuba follows the lives of Fidel Castro and three Cuban families affected by his policies over the last four decades.

Of Love and Shadows

1994

4.9

♡ 28

20%

Betty Kaplan Director

Stefania Sandrelli as Beatriz

Antonio Banderas as Francisco

Jennifer Connelly as Irene

Diego Wallraff as Jose

Irene is a magazine editor living under the shadow of the Pinochet dictatorship in Chile. Francisco is a handsome photographer and he comes to Irene for a job. As a sympathizer with the underground resistance movement, Francisco opens her eyes and her heart to the atrocities being committed by the state.

The Beautician and the Beast

1997

parent child relationship

5.5

♡ 14

23%

Romance

Ken Kwapis Director

Timothy Dalton as Boris Pochenko

Ed Cambridge as Elderly Man

Billy Brown as Fireman

Ian McNeice as Ira Grushinsky

A New York City beautician is mistakenly hired as the school teacher for the children of the president of a small Eastern European country.

Countdown to Esmeralda Bay

1989

3.8

♡ 4

central and south america

Jesús Franco Director

Ramon Estevez as Andres

Brett Halsey as Luis

Fernando Rey as Ramos

George Kennedy as Wilson

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

The Silence of Others

2018

franco regime (francoism)

8.0

♡ 9

100%

spain

spanish civil war

spanish civil war (1936-39)

Robert Bahar Director

Adolf Hitler as Self

Dwight D. Eisenhower as Self

Richard Nixon as Self

Adolfo Suárez as Self

The story of the tortuous struggle against the silence of the victims of the dictatorship imposed by General Franco after the victory of the rebel side in the Spanish Civil War (1936-1975). In a democratic country, but still ideologically divided, the survivors seek justice as they organize the so-called “Argentinian lawsuit” and denounce the legally sanctioned pact of oblivion that intends to hide the crimes they were subjects of.

The South

1988

7.3

♡ 4

argentina

buenos aires, argentina

dictatorship

Drama

prison

Fernando E. Solanas Director

Roberto Goyeneche as Amado

Susana Mayo as Cora

Mario Lozano as Echegoyen

Antonio Ameijeiras as Peregrino

After the end of the military dictatorship in Argentina in 1983, Floreal is released from prison. Instead of returning to his wife, he wanders through the night of Buenos Aires. He meets some people from his past–most of which are only imaginary–and remembers the events of his imprisonment.

Missing

1982

7.7

♡ 27

94%

85%

based on novel or book

Costa-Gavras Director

John Shea as Charles Horman

Gary Richardson as Operator U.S. Embassy

Melanie Mayron as Terry Simon

Richard Venture as U.S. Ambassador

Based on the real-life experiences of Ed Horman. A conservative American businessman travels to Chile to investigate the sudden disappearance of his son after a military takeover. Accompanied by his son's wife he uncovers a trail of cover-ups that implicate the US State department which supports the dictatorship.

Chile '76

2022

6.7

♡ 2

91%

Manuela Martelli Director

Nicolás Sepúlveda as Elías

Carmen Gloria Martínez as Estela

Ernesto Meléndez as Maestro Joven

Luis Cerda as Pedro

Chile, 1976. Carmen heads off to her beach house. When the family priest asks her to take care of a young man he is sheltering in secret, Carmen steps onto unexplored territories, away from the quiet life she is used to.

The Lovers & the Despot

2016

6.6

♡ 2

Ross Adam Director

Sang-ok Shin as Self

Eun-hie Choi as Self

Paul Courtenay Hyu as Shin Sang-ok

Hong Kong, 1978. South Korean actress Choi Eun-hee is kidnapped by North Korean operatives following orders from dictator Kim Jong-il.

The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceausescu

2010

Romanian

7.5

♡ 1

89%

Andrei Ujica Director

Prince Charles as Self

Jimmy Carter as Self

Leonid Brezhnev as Self

Pat Nixon as Self

The three-hour-long documentary covers 25 years in the life of Nicolae Ceaușescu and was made using 1,000 hours of original footage from the National Archives of Romania.

In the Time of the Butterflies

2001

6.6

♡ 2

76%

Mariano Barroso Director

Marc Anthony as Lio

Demian Bichir as Manolo

Mía Maestro as Mate

Salma Hayek as Minerva

Based on the book by Julia Alvarez. Three sisters become activists during the Dominican Republic's Trujillo regime when members of their family are killed by the government's troops.

Between Revolutions

2023

Romanian

7.3

♡ 1

Vlad Petri Director

Ilinca Harnut as

Victoria Stoiciu as

A semi-fictional correspondence between two women: one goes to Iran in 1979 to topple the Shah; the other experiences the onerous years of Ceaușescu’s Romania. Their biographies run in parallel via images of everyday life and videograms of revolution.

Deal of the Century

1983

4.7

♡ 9

10%

19%

arms dealer

based on novel or book

William Friedkin Director

Sigourney Weaver as Catherine DeVoto

Wallace Shawn as Harold DeVoto

Richard Herd as Lyle

Richard Libertini as Masaggi

Arms dealers from several companies vie to sell the most expensive and highest tech weapons to a South American dictator. There are complications; understanding the exact nature of how 'gifts' are used to grease the wheels of a sale, a religious conversion from one of the salesman and a romance that begins to grow between two competitors.

The White King

2016

5.5

♡ 3

73%

58%

based on novel or book

Alex Helfrecht Director

Jonathan Pryce as Colonel Fitz

Fiona Shaw as Kathrin Fitz

Ross Partridge as Peter

Olivia Williams as Sophia

Djata is a care-free 12-year-old growing up in a brutal dictatorship shut off from the outside world. When the government imprisons his father, Peter, and Djata and his mother Hannah are labeled traitors, the boy will not rest until he sees his father again.

No

2012

7.4

♡ 14

93%

80%

based on a true story

Pablo Larraín Director

Claudio Guzmán as Claudio Guzmán

Jane Fonda as Self

Richard Dreyfuss as Self

Christopher Reeve as Self

In 1988, Chilean military dictator Augusto Pinochet, due to international pressure, is forced to call a plebiscite on his presidency. The country will vote ‘Yes’ or ‘No’ to Pinochet extending his rule for another eight years. Opposition leaders for the ‘No’ vote persuade a brash young advertising executive, René Saavedra, to spearhead their campaign. Against all odds, with scant resources and while under scrutiny by the despot’s minions, Saavedra and his team devise an audacious plan to win the election and set Chile free.

Dienstbereit - Nazis und Faschisten im Auftrag der CIA

2013

German

6.2

♡ 4

central intelligence agency (cia)

Dirk Pohlmann Director

Queen Elizabeth II as Self

Christopher Simpson as Self - American University

Karl Weiß as Self - Augenzeuge

Andreas von Bülow as Self - Minister für Forschung und Technologie a.D.

Florian Hartung and Dirk Pohlmann have reconstructed a previously unknown dimension of the collaboration between Nazis and the CIA in the Cold War. Drawing upon recently released documents, the film exposes for the first time a perfidious, worldwide net that reaches deep into the power structures of the Federal Republic of Germany. Lending their authority to the fact-finders’ mission are high-ranking statesmen, journalists and historians.

Freelance

2023

5.6

♡ 133

10%

investigative journalism

political assassination

Pierre Morel Director

Marton Csokas as Colonel Jan Koehorst

Alice Eve as Jenny Pettits

John Cena as Mason Pettits

Christian Slater as Sebastian Earle

An ex-special forces operative takes a job to provide security for a journalist as she interviews a dictator, but a military coup breaks out in the middle of the interview, they are forced to escape into the jungle where they must survive.

Star Trek: Section 31

2025