The Vault
Crumbled Citadel
1957 ★ 6.3This movie is a screen adaptation of the eponymous play by Horia Lovinescu. It follows a "bourgeois" family as it copes with the emerging communist regime. Diff
Whoops
1993 ★ 7.0Ede (Dezso Garas) is in his sixties, and he is full of uncertainty about how he and his wife Kati (Mari Torocsik) will fare in the new post-communist regime in
Subs
1987 ★ 7.8"Zmiennicy" is a grotesque comedy of absurdity and reality that masterfully blends slapstick, satire, and surrealism to expose the absurdities of life under com
Leave No Traces
2021 ★ 6.8In 1983, communist Poland is shaken by the case of high school student Grzegorz Przemyk, who is beaten to death by police. The only witness of the beating becom
The Village of Widows
1989 ★ 7.0In 1949, a small Chinese fishing village populated almost entirely by women awaits the establishment of a government by the newly victorious communist regime. I
The Survivor
2008 ★ 6.2After WWII Comisarul Moldovan spent years as a political prisoner of the communist regime. The favorite entertainment of the Russian Colonel in charge of the pr
The Delegation
2018 ★ 6.1In 1990, a European delegation comes to Tirana to monitor the reforms of the communist regime. A government official is sent on a mission to a faraway prison in
July 13th
1982 ★ 5.5This is a movie about the start of people's uprising in Montenegro in World War II. After the capitulation of the Yugoslav Royal Army in April 1941, the Italian
Helene Weigel - Revolutionärin im Rampenlicht
2026 ★ 0.0Who was Helene Weigel? Using impressive archive material, the film follows the convinced communist, acting icon, and free spirit from her early days in theater
Blades in the Darkness
2022 ★ 4.8Tirana, 1997. In the chaos that followed the fall of the dictatorship, a boy hounded by the other children hides inside one of the concrete bunkers the regime l
Sanda
1990 ★ 6.8Sanda spends all her time working in a plastic factory, raising her two small children and catering to an indifferent husband, leaving little room for herself.
Land and Freedom
1995 ★ 7.3David Carr is a British Communist who is unemployed. In 1936, when the Spanish Civil War begins, he decides to fight for the Republican side, a coalition of lib
Tetris
2023 ★ 7.7In 1988, American video game salesman Henk Rogers discovers the video game Tetris. When he sets out to bring the game to the world, he enters a dangerous web of
Slovo House
2017 ★ 7.0Chain-smoking artists, poets and playwrights were among the colourful array of intellectuals living in the ‘Slovo House’ in 1920s Ukraine. The communist paradis
Kundun
1997 ★ 6.8The Tibetans refer to the Dalai Lama as 'Kundun', which means 'The Presence'. He was forced to escape from his native home, Tibet, when communist China invaded
One, Two, Three
1961 ★ 7.5In Cold War-era West Berlin, American Coca-Cola executive C.R. 'Mac' MacNamara is tasked with playing babysitter to his boss' spoiled 17-year-old daughter Scarl
Garden Store: Suitor
2017 ★ 4.6In late-1950s Czechoslovakia, a young couple's new love is tested by their parents' expectations and the toll of the Communist regime. Drama Comedy Romance summ
The Confession
1970 ★ 7.4In 1950s communist Czechoslovakia, a government minister, a war veteran long a loyal party man, leads a relatively comfortable life with his wife. However, he s
Weekend Stories: A Woman's Business
1996 ★ 5.8A woman whose passport was denied under the previous Communist regime by a vindictive party secretary is given a chance to confront the woman and take revenge.