Movies and TvShows featuring "political-dissident" theme.

In the early 1970s, the military dictatorship in Brazil reaches its height. The Paiva family - Rubens, Eunice, and their five children - live in a beachside house in Rio, open to all their friends. One day, Rubens is taken for questioning and does not return.

In Rome, a high-ranking police officer commits a murder and tries to cover it up, believing that his position in society will protect him. As the investigation unfolds, he becomes more and more entangled in a web of guilt and paranoia.

No End is a drama film set in communist Poland in the 1980s. After the death of her husband, a woman must navigate the political and personal challenges of life under martial law. She becomes involved with a hypnotist who claims to be able to communicate with the dead, including her deceased husband.

Citizen K is a documentary film that tells the story of a Russian oligarch who becomes a political dissident and goes into exile. The film explores his rise to power, his trials and tribulations, and the political climate of Russia in the 1990s.

During World War Two, a group of misfit soldiers are brought together to carry out a crucial mission behind enemy lines. With their unconventional skills and unique personalities, they must overcome their differences and work together to succeed.

"Kruso" tells of the last summer before the Wall came down on the small island of Hiddensee in the Baltic Sea. Beyond state-organized tourism, the isolated island became a kind of artist colony every year and a place of longing for dropouts and alternatives. Due to its proximity to Denmark, Hiddensee was also the starting point for the flight across the Baltic Sea.

In March 2002, members of the spiritual group Falun Gong hijack a state TV station in China to counter the government narrative. This leads to police raids in Changchun City and forces comic book illustrator Daxiong, a Falun Gong practitioner, to flee to North America. In Canada, he meets the lone surviving participant who escaped to Seoul. 'Eternal Spring' combines present-day footage with 3D animation to depict the harrowing eyewitness accounts of persecution and the determination to speak up for political and religious freedoms.

"The Art of Dissent" celebrates the resilience and power of artistic engagement in Czechoslovakia before and after the 1968 Soviet-led invasion. The documentary's main protagonists - Václav Havel, banned singer Marta Kubisová, and the underground rock group the Plastic People of the Universe (PPU) - became the most recognizable dissidents during the 1970-80s. Havel bridged the disparate clusters of individuals and fused the literary, musical, political, and philosophical nonviolent elements into a hybrid network that eventually toppled the totalitarian regime in 1989.

In 1976 a famous American writer Nathan Zuckerman is challenged by Czech immigrant Sisovsky who implores him to retrieve valuable manuscripts from communist Czechoslovakia. The writer accepts this dangerous mission, where his every step is observed by secret police. Once in Prague, he meets Sisovsky‘s flamboyant and wild ex-wife Olga who is in possession of the manuscripts. The evolving relationship between the hot-headed Olga and Nathan is a confrontation between two worlds - the repressed East and free West. But, Olga won‘t give up the manuscripts to Nathan so easily…

1971 is a riveting documentary that dives deep into the revolutionary actions and political activism that took place during the year. It unveils the story of a resistance movement that aimed to expose the government surveillance and political persecution carried out by the FBI. The documentary features interviews, archival footage, and reenactments of key events, showcasing the bravery and determination of those involved.

The Legend of the Ugly King is a gripping biography documentary that delves into the life of a renowned Turkish film director. The story revolves around his struggles and challenges as an artist living under a military dictatorship. It explores themes of censorship, exile, and the filmmaker's revolutionary spirit. The documentary also sheds light on the director's experiences in prison and his fight against propaganda. With a focus on the Cannes Film Festival, it unravels the filmmaker's journey as an enemy of the state and his contributions to the portrayal of Kurdish culture. The Legend of the Ugly King ultimately highlights the director's commitment to filmmaking and his enduring legacy.

Johanna has fled Nazi Germany to visit a friend in Finland, and from there she continues on to her friend's family's estate. Once at the estate, Johanna passionately argues with her friend's pro-Nazi brother and at the same time, falls for the second, good-looking brother who shares her own anti-fascist feelings. The two are soon engaged in an active sexual relationship that continues as they travel north to an Arctic port.

Santa, a peasant woman loyal to the Revolution, is sent to guard Andrés, a gay writer who is under house arrest, considered “ untrustworthy” for his ideas and sexuality by the Cuban authorities. Set in a small village in eastern Cuba during the early 1980s, this poignant political drama depicts an encounter between two deeply thoughtful souls on opposite sides of a profound cultural divide. Both have experienced deep loss, and both know the damaging effects of isolation and oppression. Even so, the cavernous ideological divide separating them — the same one that has separated Cuban friends and kin for over 50 years — has until now seemed insurmountable.

Released in Germany as Schwarze Rosen, Black Roses represented the return to UFA studios of British musical comedy favorite Lillian Harvey, after several years in Hollywood. The delectable Harvey plays a Russian ballerina, stranded in turn-of-the-century Finland. She falls in love with sculptor Esmond Knight, a political dissident with a price on his head. To save Knight, Harvey spends the night with Tsarist governor Robert Rendel. The story is based on the real-life ballerina Marina Feodorovna, who ended up sacrificing her life on behalf of her lover. Black Roses was filmed in three languages: German, French and English; the English version was originally titled Did I Betray?

A mockumentary about Turkey-based Kurdish film director, scenarist, novelist, and actor Yilmaz Güney, shot three years after the filmmaker's death. It's also a political portrait of 20th century Turkey.