Movies: Dictatorship

  • 2023
    Freelance

    Freelance (2023)

    Freelance

    6.52023HD

    An ex-special forces operative takes a job to provide security for a journalist as she interviews a dictator, but a military coup breaks out in the middle of the interview, they are forced to escape into the jungle where they must survive....

    Freelance
  • 2006
    The Last King of Scotland

    The Last King of Scotland (2006)

    The Last King of Scotland

    7.42006HD

    Young Scottish doctor, Nicholas Garrigan decides it's time for an adventure after he finishes his formal education, so he decides to try his luck in Uganda, and arrives during the downfall of President Obote. General Idi Amin comes to power and asks ...

    The Last King of Scotland
  • 2020
    The Man Standing Next

    The Man Standing Next (2020)

    The Man Standing Next

    7.02020HD

    When the investigation of 'Koreagate' takes place, Park Yong-gak, a former KCIA director who knows everything about the government's operations, heads to the United States in exile....

    The Man Standing Next
  • 1997
    The Beautician and the Beast

    The Beautician and the Beast (1997)

    The Beautician and the Beast

    6.71997HD

    A New York City beautician is mistakenly hired as the school teacher for the children of the president of a small Eastern European country....

    The Beautician and the Beast
  • 1994
    Of Love and Shadows

    Of Love and Shadows (1994)

    Of Love and Shadows

    5.11994HD

    Irene is a magazine editor living under the shadow of the Pinochet dictatorship in Chile. Francisco is a handsome photographer and he comes to Irene for a job. As a sympathizer with the underground resistance movement, Francisco opens her eyes and he...

    Of Love and Shadows
  • 2012
    No

    No (2012)

    No

    7.12012HD

    In 1988, Chilean military dictator Augusto Pinochet, due to international pressure, is forced to call a plebiscite on his presidency. The country will vote ‘Yes’ or ‘No’ to Pinochet extending his rule for another eight years. Opposition leaders for t...

    No
  • 1986
    Salvador

    Salvador (1986)

    Salvador

    7.01986HD

    In 1980, an American journalist covering the Salvadoran Civil War becomes entangled with both the leftist guerrilla groups and the right-wing military dictatorship while trying to rescue his girlfriend and her children....

    Salvador
  • 2014
    Jacky in the Kingdom of Women

    Jacky in the Kingdom of Women (2014)

    Jacky in the Kingdom of Women

    5.62014HD

    In a country where women are in charge, a man goes to unusual lengths to make his dream of marrying the daughter of a military leader come true....

    Jacky in the Kingdom of Women
  • 1982
    Missing

    Missing (1982)

    Missing

    7.31982HD

    Based on the real-life experiences of Ed Horman. A conservative American businessman travels to Chile to investigate the sudden disappearance of his son after a military takeover. Accompanied by his son's wife he uncovers a trail of cover-ups that im...

    Missing
  • 1983
    Deal of the Century

    Deal of the Century (1983)

    Deal of the Century

    4.61983HD

    Arms dealers from several companies vie to sell the most expensive and highest tech weapons to a South American dictator. There are complications; understanding the exact nature of how 'gifts' are used to grease the wheels of a sale, a religious conv...

    Deal of the Century
  • 1975
    The Battle of Chile: Part I

    The Battle of Chile: Part I (1975)

    The Battle of Chile: Part I

    7.21975HD

    The chronicle of the political tension in Chile in 1973 and of the violent counter revolution against the democratically elected government of Salvador Allende....

    The Battle of Chile: Part I
  • 2016
    The Perfect Weapon

    The Perfect Weapon (2016)

    The Perfect Weapon

    3.92016HD

    In a not too distant future, a totalitarian state run by ‘The Director” controls all aspects of life. All enemies of the state are dealt in the harshest way. Most of them are executed by the secret government’s assassins. The best operative is code-n...

    The Perfect Weapon
  • 2017
    Cuba and the Cameraman

    Cuba and the Cameraman (2017)

    Cuba and the Cameraman

    7.42017HD

    This revealing portrait of Cuba follows the lives of Fidel Castro and three Cuban families affected by his policies over the last four decades....

    Cuba and the Cameraman
  • 2001
    In the Time of the Butterflies

    In the Time of the Butterflies (2001)

    In the Time of the Butterflies

    6.42001HD

    Based on the book by Julia Alvarez. Three sisters become activists during the Dominican Republic's Trujillo regime when members of their family are killed by the government's troops....

    In the Time of the Butterflies
  • 1987
    Repentance

    Repentance (1987)

    Repentance

    71987HD

    The day after his funeral, the corpse of Varlam Aravidze, the mayor of a small Georgian town, turns up in his son's garden. Although it is secretly reburied, the corpse keeps returning until the police capture the local woman who is responsible. T...

    Repentance
  • 1967
    Entranced Earth

    Entranced Earth (1967)

    Entranced Earth

    7.31967HD

    Eldorado, a fictitious country in America, is sparkling with the internal struggle for political power. In the eye of this social convulsion, the jaded journalist Paulo Martins opposes two equally corrupt political candidates: a pseudopopulist and a ...

    Entranced Earth
  • 2019
    The Silence of Others

    The Silence of Others (2019)

    The Silence of Others

    8.12019HD

    The story of the tortuous struggle against the silence of the victims of the dictatorship imposed by General Franco after the victory of the rebel side in the Spanish Civil War (1936-1975). In a democratic country, but still ideologically divided, th...

    The Silence of Others
  • 2022
    Chile '76

    Chile '76 (2022)

    Chile '76

    7.12022HD

    Chile, 1976. Carmen heads off to her beach house. When the family priest asks her to take care of a young man he is sheltering in secret, Carmen steps onto unexplored territories, away from the quiet life she is used to....

    Chile '76
  • 2000
    April Captains

    April Captains (2000)

    April Captains

    6.42000HD

    Story of the 1974 coup that overthrew the right-wing Portuguese dictatorship--which continued the fascist policies of long-time dictator Antonio Salazar--and of two young army captains who were involved in it....

    April Captains
  • 1950
    Crisis

    Crisis (1950)

    Crisis

    6.61950HD

    An American doctor gets caught in the middle of a revolution when he's forced to operate on a South American dictator....

    Crisis