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15 results for “communism”

Satantango

1994 ★ 8.0

Inhabitants of a small village in Hungary deal with the effects of the fall of Communism. The town's source of revenue, a factory, has closed, and the locals, w

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Siberiade

1979 ★ 7.1

The story about a very small god-forgotten village in Siberia reflects the history of Russia from the beginning of the century till the early 1980s. Three gener

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Billion Dollar Brain

1967 ★ 5.6

A former British spy stumbles into in a plot to overthrow Communism with the help of a supercomputer. But who is working for whom? Thriller

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Superman: Red Son

2020 ★ 7.1

Set in the thick of the Cold War, Red Son introduces us to a Superman who landed in the USSR during the 1950s and grows up to become a Soviet symbol that fights

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The Ugly American

1963 ★ 6.6

An intelligent, articulate scholar, Harrison MacWhite, survives a hostile Senate confirmation hearing at the hands of conservatives to become ambassador to Sark

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Trial

1955 ★ 6.9

A Mexican boy accused of rape and murder becomes a pawn for Communists and red-baiters. A courtroom drama set in 1947 and underlying post-WW2 acute problems fac

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Frankie Drake Mysteries

2017 ★ 6.3

Toronto’s only female private detective in the 1920s takes on the cases the police don’t want or can’t handle. From airplanes and booze running to American G-me

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The Lorry

1977 ★ 6.4

In this most talky and personal of films, director Marguerite Duras and actor Gerard Depardieu do an on-camera read-through of a movie script. Occasionally, the

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Traitor

1971 ★ 8.3

Western journalists visit Moscow to interview Adrian Harris, a former controller in British intelligence who was also a double agent for the USSR. Harris believ

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The Hoaxters

1952 ★ 5.3

A 1952 American documentary film written by Herman Hoffman, about the threat posed by communism to the American way of life. Documentary

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Where Were You, My Son?

2008 ★ 4.1

Set in a large apartment in Hungary during the death throes of communism, obedient Andor lives with his eccentric mother, Rebeka, a once-celebrated stage actres

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November Days

1991 ★ 6.8

Marcel Ophüls interviews various important Eastern European figures for their thoughts on the reunification of Germany and the fall of Communism. History Docum

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Taxi Blues

1990 ★ 6.2

Ivan is old Russia: thick, dour, hard-working, often brutish; he misses Communism. He drives a taxi and one night meets Alexi, a new Russian, a musician, an alc

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Miloš Forman

Jan Tomáš "Miloš" Forman (/ˈmiːloʊʃ/; Czech: [ˈmɪloʃ ˈforman]; February 18, 1932 – April 13, 2018) was a Czech and American film director, screenwriter, actor,

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Léon Zitrone

Léon Zitrone (25 November 1914 – 25 November 1995) was a Russian-born French journalist and television presenter. Zitrone was born in Petrograd, Russia. He arr

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