Following world war, London is a police state occupied by a fascist government, and a vigilante known only as V (Hugo Weaving) uses terrorist tactics to fight the oppressors of the world in which he now lives. When V saves a young woman named Evey (Natalie Portman) from the secret police, he discovers an ally in his fight against England's oppressors.
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Alexander the Great (1980)
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A charismatic rebel leader calling himself Alexander the Great takes a handful of visiting English upper class lords and ladies hostage.
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Behold a Pale Horse (1964)
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At the end of the Spanish Civil War, soldier Manuel Artiguez (Gregory Peck) flees to France as part of the defeated forces. After 20 years there, he learns that his mother is dying and plans to return to Spain to see her. However, Viñolas (Anthony Quinn), a police officer with a vendetta, prepares forces to trap Artiguez. A priest, Francisco (Omar Sharif), tries to advise Artiguez not to travel to Spain, but Artiguez ultimately chooses to leave for a fateful confrontation with Viñolas.
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Born in Flames (1983)
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In a future where a socialist government gains power, a group of women decides to organize and rebel.
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Eros + Massacre (1969)
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An account of the final days of radical feminist Noe Ito (Mariko Okada) and her lover Sakae Osugu.
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Japanese Summer: Double Suicide (1967)
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A suicidal man and a rebellious woman share an odd attraction in the midst of chaotic killings in their city.
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Lady L (1965)
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As she turns 80, stately Lady Lendale (Sophia Loren) submits to an interview by Sir Percy (Cecil Parker) who is working on her biography. Although now a wealthy duchess, she confesses that she had once been a poor laundress, and that the love of her live was an anarchist named Armand (Paul Newman). She ended up marrying Lord Lendale (David Niven), however, because he agreed to save Armand from jail after a politically motivated assassination attempt.
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Land and Freedom (1995)
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David Carr (Ian Hart), a committed member of the Communist Party in his native Liverpool, England, travels to Spain in 1936 with the intention of joining the anti-fascist International Brigades in the country's civil war. Instead, he falls in with the POUM, a Marxist splinter group opposed to Stalin's oppressive totalitarianism. Despite falling in love with the politically passionate Blanca (Rosana Pastor), Carr finds the leftist infighting a distraction from the greater struggle.
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Libertarias (1996)
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At the outset of the Spanish Civil War, pious young nun Maria (Ariadna Gil) is forced to hide in a local brothel. There, Maria befriends scrappy prostitute Charo (Loles León) and also Pilar (Ana Belén), an activist who recruits both women to become the newest members of Mujeres Libres, an anarcha-feminist group. As the Mujeres Libres march into battle, Maria -- a quiet woman used to the calm solace of the convent -- emboldens herself for the bloody chaos of the front lines.
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Matewan (1987)
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Filmed in the coal country of West Virginia, "Matewan" celebrates labor organizing in the context of a 1920s work stoppage. Union organizer, Joe Kenehan (Chris Cooper), a scab named "Few Clothes" Johnson (James Earl Jones) and a sympathetic mayor and police chief heroically fight the power represented by a coal company and Matewan's vested interests so that justice and workers' rights need not take a back seat to squalid working conditions, exploitation and the bottom line.
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Naked (1993)
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An unemployed Mancunian vents his rage on unsuspecting strangers as he embarks on a nocturnal London odyssey.
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Punishment Park (1971)
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In this fictional documentary, U.S. prisons are at capacity, and President Nixon declares a state of emergency. All new prisoners, most of whom are connected to the antiwar movement, are now given the choice of jail time or spending three days in Punishment Park, where they will be hunted for sport by federal authorities. The prisoners invariably choose the latter option, but learn that, between the desert heat and the brutal police officers, their chances of survival are slim.
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Rebellion in Patagonia (1974)
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This fact-based film, set in Patagonia, tells the story of anarchists who, in the 1920s, helped impoverished farm laborers protest against their landowner bosses in hopes of securing higher wages and better working conditions. Things turn ugly when the government sides with the landowners, and a military brigade is brought in to quash the strike. The deaths of strike leader Jose Font and German socialist Schultz mark the beginning of what becomes a massacre.
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Sacco & Vanzetti (1971)
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Italian immigrant shoemaker Nicola Sacco (Riccardo Cucciolla) and fish peddler Bartolomeo Vanzetti (Gian Maria Volonte) live and work in 1920s Boston, and are known to have anarchist beliefs. When they are accused of robbing and killing two men at a shoe factory, the men's political leanings are used as evidence in the trial against them. But defense attorney Fred Moore (Milo O'Shea) is convinced of their innocence, so he defends them in one of the most polarizing trials in U.S. history.
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Salt of the Earth (1954)
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At New Mexico's Empire Zinc mine, Mexican-American workers protest the unsafe work conditions and unequal wages compared to their Anglo counterparts. Ramon Quintero (Juan Chacon) helps organize the strike, but he is shown to be a hypocrite by treating his pregnant wife, Esperanza (Rosaura Revueltas), with a similar unfairness. When an injunction stops the men from protesting, however, the gender roles are reversed, and women find themselves on the picket lines while the men stay at home.
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The Anarchist Cookbook (2002)
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A nihilist (Dylan Bruno) disrupts the lives of a group of anarchists in Dallas.
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The Anarchists (2000)
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Set in 1920s Shanghai, five idealistic men set out to subvert and ultimately overthrow Japan's control of China through a series of terrorist missions. They call themselves the Anarchists, and are fully devoted to their cause. But when betrayal causes a key mission to go awry, the group's cover is blown. Now that they are exposed, their financial backers lose faith and pull funding. To continue their revolution, the Anarchists will have to resort to robbing banks to finance their rebellion.
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The Anarchist’s Wife (2008)
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The Anarchist's Wife is a 2008 Spanish-Franco-German film directed by Maria Noelle and Peter Sehr. It stars María Valverde, Juan Diego Botto and Ivana Baquero.
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The Assassination of Trotsky (1972)
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The mystery surrounding the 1940 killing of Leon Trotsky, who along with Lenin led the Russian Revolution, is explored in this riveting drama directed by Joseph Losey. Was Moscow behind the assassination?
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Viva Zapata! (1952)
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Mexican rancher Emiliano Zapata (Marlon Brando) becomes a revolutionary when corrupt President Porfirio Diaz (Fay Roope) ignores the needs of his people. Zapata, his brother Eufemio (Anthony Quinn) and northern rebel Pancho Villa (Alan Reed) band together behind Diaz's political opponent, Francisco Madero (Harold Gordon). But when Madero's administration, particularly General Victoriano Huerta (Frank Silvera), proves just as corrupt as the one it replaced, Zapata is spurred to further action.
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What to Do in Case of Fire? (2001)
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When a 20-year-old bomb explodes in a mansion in modern-day Berlin, all evidence points to a notorious late-80s anarchist group. As the police start their search, the six former rebels reunite for the first time in 12 years to come up with a plan.
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Zero for Conduct (1933)
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Controversial in France for its depiction of an educational system in crisis, this film focuses on a group of boys who are fed up with their overzealous repressive teachers. Colin (Gilbert Pruchon), Caussat (Louis Lefebvre) and fellow classmates are aware that their school is planning a shindig, but they're not of a mind to cooperate. Frustrated by the scolding and punishment doled out by their teachers, the boys come up with a plan to interfere with the event.
