Movies and TvShows featuring "expropriation" theme.

Leviathan is a movie set in a small fishing village in Russia. The plot revolves around a car mechanic who stands up against political corruption and an evil politician. The story explores themes of government corruption, legal battles, and the influence of the Orthodox Church. The mechanic's life takes a downward spiral as he battles against a corrupt system and faces personal tragedies like alcoholism and an unhappy marriage.

Ree Dolly, a 17-year-old girl in the Ozark Mountains, must find her drug-dealing father to save her family from losing their home. Despite warnings and threats, Ree persists in her search, facing brutal beatings and danger. With the help of her uncle, Teardrop, Ree uncovers the truth about her father's disappearance and sacrifices her own safety to prove his death. In the end, Ree and her family are able to keep their home and receive a mysterious cash boon. However, Ree now knows the identity of her father's killer.

The Cat (1971) tells the story of a couple who are thrown out of their home due to the demolition of their city. As they face the loss of their beloved pet, they also confront their own personal struggles and the sadness that comes with it. Set in France, this movie explores themes of solitude, silence, and the destruction caused by progress.

Gloomy Sunday tells the story of a love triangle and its ramifications during the tumultuous times of World War II in Budapest, Hungary. The film explores themes of jealousy, infidelity, and the impact of war on personal relationships. As the characters navigate their complex emotions, the city around them becomes a backdrop of uncertainty and turmoil.

In a fictional South American country, a group of people including a priest, a mute woman, and a prostitute, flee into the Amazon rainforest when a political uprising occurs. They must navigate through the dangerous jungle and face corruption, greed, and violence along the way.

The final part of a groundbreaking documentary trilogy about the political struggles in Chile during the early 1970s, focusing on the power dynamics, worker strikes, and popular movements that shaped the country's history.

The film captures the activities of the inhabitants in the countryside, in southern Chile, and the CORA (Corporation for Agrarian Reform). Although the action was filmed in four days and four nights in 1971, the movie was only finished in France in 1973, after the military coup.

When a group of elderly hoarders are threatened with eviction, they resort to murder to protect their beloved apartment building. Chaos ensues as the bodies pile up and the secrets unravel.

Using first-hand accounts, award-winning filmmaker Michael Verhoeven goes on a search to unearth evidence documenting one of the greatest robberies in human history.

Approximately 20,000 Russian houses, businesses and private land have been victims of hostile seizures annually by an organized corporation of criminal bosses, politicians, oligarchs and men of law - the 'Raiders'

A violent change in the environment is reflected on a family's collision. A young girl has to leave her dog behind, before her family abandons their home in the village, because of the construction of a dam.

One of the most popular Lebanese films of the late 1990s, Around the Pink House is a story that explores the changing urban landscape of Beirut after the Civil War. La maison rose (the pink house) is an old mansion in Beirut where the Nawfal family found shelter during the Civil War. Unfortunately for them, their immediate environment is rapidly changing, as many of the old shell-ridden buildings are being torn down and replaced by new construction projects. When Mattar, the owner of the pink house, decides to sell it to make room for a large commercial centre, the residents of the neighbourhood become divided between the shopkeepers and businessmen in favour of a different kind of modernity.

A provincial café owner, Mimis, abandons his village in Chalkidiki and comes to Athens in search of a better life. He pretends to be a tough guy, a know-it-all, and behaves like an “antisocial”. With the help of a friend of his from the army, Aristeidis, he tries to set up his own business. At the same time, he falls in love with a seamstress, Toula, who is the sister of Aristeidis’ wife. Then comes the wedding, the everyday obligations, and Mimis is forced, with great resentment, to work as a waiter to make ends meet. When he get fired, however, his relationship with Nitsa is put to the test.

Anarchists is a documentary film that delves into the history, principles, and actions of the anarchist movement. It focuses on various aspects such as expropriation, the Spanish Civil War, direct action, and the labor movement. The film explores the ideology and beliefs of anarchism, with a specific focus on its influence in Argentina and Uruguay.

In 'The Joel Files', we delve into the extraordinary life of Joel, a Jewish tycoon who not only managed to survive Nazi Germany but also thrived in its aftermath. Through archive footage and interviews, we explore Joel's childhood friendship, his expropriation during the war, and his struggles as a refugee. This documentary sheds light on the challenges faced by Jews in post-war Germany and the prevailing anti-Semitism of the time.