The Vault
Nest of Vipers
1978 ★ 5.0A background of rising fascism in Venice in 1930s. A music-student, Matthias, mixes with the town's bourgeoisie and falls in love with a mature teacher, Carla,
Hotel Portofino
2022 ★ 6.61920s, the Italian Riviera: British matriarch Bella Ainsworth runs a hotel for wealthy travellers while navigating personal challenges, family drama, and the ri
The Garden of the Finzi-Continis
1970 ★ 7.0In 1930s Italy, a wealthy Jewish family tries to maintain their privileged lifestyle, hosting friends for tennis and parties at their villa. As anti-Semitism in
The Tulse Luper Suitcases, Part 1: The Moab Story
2003 ★ 5.2A comic study of 20th-century history, reconstructing the life of writer, creator and professional prisoner Tulse Luper. Born in 1911 Newport and last heard of
The Conformist
1971 ★ 7.6A weak-willed Italian man becomes a fascist flunky who goes abroad to arrange the assassination of his old teacher, now a political dissident. Drama dramatic po
More Than a Game
1974 ★ 7.8The story follows a ten-year period before WW2 in a fictional town of Gradina, Serbia and its residents, which went through the turbulent events like the Great
The Boxer and Death
1963 ★ 6.8Concentration camp commander Kraft finds out that prisoner Kominek is a former professional boxer. Overnight, the prisoner is made Kraft's exercise partner and
The Red Carnation
1976 ★ 3.7Our hero is the 18-year-old Alessio Mainardi, who receives a token red carnation from a girl named Giovanna and becomes a symbol of love, desire, and even has p
Catch-22
1970 ★ 6.7A WWII military pilot makes a valiant effort to be certified insane in order to be excused from flying missions. But there's a catch. War Comedy war satire dark
The Plot Against America
2020 ★ 6.7An alternate American history told through the eyes of a working-class Jewish family in New Jersey, as they watch the political rise of Charles Lindbergh, an av
Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio
2022 ★ 8.0During the rise of fascism in Mussolini's Italy, a wooden boy brought magically to life struggles to live up to his father's expectations. Guillermo del Toro's
Oi For England's Green and Pleasant Land
2018 ★ 0.0Playwright Trevor Griffiths' Oi For England, originally set in Moss Side, was first screened by Central TV in April 1982. It was then staged at The Royal Court
One Battle After Another
2025 ★ 7.3Washed-up revolutionary Bob exists in a state of stoned paranoia, surviving off-grid with his spirited, self-reliant daughter, Willa. When his evil nemesis resu
Inglourious Basterds
2009 ★ 8.2In Nazi-occupied France during World War II, a group of Jewish-American soldiers known as "The Basterds" are chosen specifically to spread fear throughout the T
Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom
1976 ★ 6.3Four corrupted fascist libertines round up 9 teenage boys and girls and subject them to 120 days of sadistic physical, mental and sexual torture. "Salò, or the
Ernst Thälmann – Leader of the Working Class
1955 ★ 7.1This film is the second of a two-part historical and biographical portrait of the communist politician and anti-fascist Ernst Thälmann. Autumn, 1918: Somewhere
Fortunes of War
1987 ★ 6.3English literature lecturer Guy Pringle and his wife Harriet navigate the early years of WWII in Bucharest. They become involved in anti-fascist politics and ar
The Wheelchair
1960 ★ 6.8Don Anselmo, a retired old man, decides to buy a motorized disabled stroller since all his pensioner friends own one. His family strongly refuses him to purchas
Ernst Thälmann – Son of the Working Class
1954 ★ 5.7This film is the first of a two-part historical and biographical portrait of the communist politician and anti-fascist Ernst Thälmann. In early November 1918, E
Frontier(s)
2007 ★ 6.2A gang of young thieves flee Paris during the violent aftermath of a political election, only to hole up at an Inn run by neo-Nazis. Drama Horror Action Thrille
My Beautiful Laundrette
1985 ★ 6.7A young Pakistani Briton manages a rundown laundrette with his lover while dealing with tension in his family, the local Pakistani community, and a persistent m
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1969 ★ 7.8A prominent politician is murdered during a demonstration. The government and army are trying to suppress the truth, but a tenacious magistrate is determined to
The Human Condition I: No Greater Love
1959 ★ 8.1After handing in a report on the treatment of Chinese colonial labor, Kaji is offered the post of labour chief at a large mining operation in Manchuria, which a
Disobedience
1981 ★ 4.0Luca Manzi is a fourteen year old boy when the Northern Italy Republic of Salò is governed by the Fascists. He becomes a partisan but when the war ends he is di