Dictatorship Movies

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

In Germán Araujo, director Aldo Novick revives the memory of a journalist who defied censorship during one of Uruguay's darkest periods....

From its old age, a SIG-510 rifle tells the story of its military service as a weapon used by the Chilean army. It tells of his military training,...

After an argument with his father, Tomás (26) leaves with his best friend Lucas (25) and other members of the ballet company to the...

Images of Argentinian companies and factories in the first light of day, seen from the inside of a car, while the director reads out documents in...

A couple is arrested and tortured after taking part in a political demonstration, being sentenced to death.

In an empty warehouse, four women remember the rooms of the house where they were tortured during the last dictatorship. After testifying about their...

In the city of Soli, ruled by Anfa 8, where night is eternal, Horus hunts a renegade cult of solar worshippers who are desperately searching for the...

Based on the life of Edgar Jopson, a young man from an affluent family, who became an underground activist and confronted President Ferdinand Marcos...

Everything you've ever wanted to know about Saddam Hussein (but were afraid to ask).

The Night of the Pencils was a series of kidnappings and forced disappearances, followed by the torture, rape, and murder of a number of young...

A documentary about the sea and memory. Its movement is its form. Its strength.

In 1985, in the obscure town of Dolores, the Orapronobis, a cult under the leadership of Kumander Kontra, murders a foreign priest who gave the last...

Fernando Lemos, a Portuguese surrealist artist, fled from dictatorship to Brazil in 1952 searching for something better. The movie follows the last...

A group of Greek soldiers are assigned to run the Cinematographic Unit of the army in the midst of political unrest.

Hong Kong, 1978. South Korean actress Choi Eun-hee is kidnapped by North Korean operatives following orders from dictator Kim Jong-il.

Eldorado, a fictitious country in America, is sparkling with the internal struggle for political power. In the eye of this social convulsion, the...

It follows Chilean writer Antonio Skármeta as he celebrates the end of the autocrats. Cheerful farewell rituals accompany others facing...