Movies and TvShows featuring "re-education" theme.

Through the Fire is a drama about a fireman who survives a deadly accident and falls into a coma. When he wakes up, he finds himself homeless on the streets of Paris. With the help of a homeless woman, he navigates through his new life, and finds hope and meaning in unexpected places.

The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser is a period drama set in the 19th century in Nuremberg, Germany. It tells the story of a mysterious man named Kaspar Hauser who appears in the town with no knowledge of his past. He is taken in by a professor who tries to re-educate him and help him integrate into society. As Kaspar learns about the world around him, he faces challenges and tries to uncover the truth about his identity.

The Missing Picture is a claymation animated documentary that explores the horrifying events of the Khmer Rouge regime in Cambodia during the 1970s. The film delves into the personal experiences of the director, a massacre survivor, and depicts the city evacuation, collective farms, forced labor, and propaganda used by the totalitarian government. Through the use of clay modeling and archive footage, the film provides a unique perspective on this dark period in Cambodian history.

Zip and Zap, two troublemaking twins, are sent to a strict re-education school. They soon find a hidden treasure map and embark on a thrilling treasure hunt, facing arachnophobia, conflicting beliefs, and a father-son conflict along the way. With the help of a strong female character, they overcome their fears and learn the true meaning of courage.

Two young men, sent to a remote mountain village for re-education during the Cultural Revolution, discover a forbidden stash of Western literature and a beautiful seamstress who captivates them both. As they embark on a journey of self-discovery, they face the challenges of love, loss, and the suffocating ignorance of their time.

In the near future: Europe is in chaos. Right-wing extremists have taken power in many countries. The democratic state that once was Germany has become a totalitarian system that persecutes dissenters, Muslims and homosexuals. Jan Schneider has stood as a lawyer on the side of dispossessed victims. When he learns that the regime wants to jail him again, he decides to flee with his family. His goal is the South African Union, which enjoys political and economic stability after an economic boom. A freighter is to bring him, his wife Sarah and the two children Nora and Nick together with other refugees to Cape Town, but the tugs abandon their passengers in much too small boats off the coast of Namibia. On rough seas, it comes to disaster, the little Nick is lost, and no one knows if he could reach the shore...

In a small village suffering from drought, a young boy named Lem embarks on a journey of repentance and redemption. As he navigates a war-torn landscape, Lem encounters various trials and tribulations that test his character. Through his encounters with death, sacrifice, and the cruelty of humanity, Lem searches for meaning and hope in a world plagued by destruction and hardship.

Seventeen Years follows the story of a thirty-something man who is released from prison after serving seventeen years. As he tries to rebuild his life, he faces challenges, reunites with family, and learns the power of forgiveness.

We Cellar Children is a comedic and dramatic movie set in post-World War Two Germany. The story revolves around a father and son who hide in a cellar, trying to avoid being re-educated and denazified. They form a jazz combo with a drummer and are eventually discovered, leading to a series of events involving media manipulation, psychiatric patients, family relationships, and the divide between East and West Germany.

In a complex tale of interweaving relationships, a gay occupational therapist in London explores the meaning of what it is to love and heal.

Chinese opera, whether of the Peking variety or not, is a very demanding art-form, requiring decades of study to be even partly mastered. In this film, Yan Yuejun was a Soochow Opera performer who fell afoul of the Cultural Revolution in the 1960s, and who has served his time undergoing compulsory "re-education." Now he is living in Inner Mongolia, driving a truck for a living, which is surely proletarian enough to suit his earlier tormentors.

A just-established totalitarian government places a new teacher in a classroom of young children while the old teacher is sent away. The new teacher challenges the students' view of their world. Young Johnny asks questions, but the teacher manages to twist the truth into reasonable answers. It doesn't take long for the children to see things the new teacher's way.

Depicts the stories of 8 torture victims from Pitesti prison, who tell the stages and tortures they were forced to go through, he moods they experienced, and give us their considerations about the purpose and effects of the action.