The Manchurian Candidate

The Manchurian Candidate 1962

7.50

Near the end of the Korean War, a platoon of U.S. soldiers is captured by communists and brainwashed. Following the war, the platoon is returned home, and Sergeant Raymond Shaw is lauded as a hero by the rest of his platoon. However, the platoon commander, Captain Bennett Marco, finds himself plagued by strange nightmares and soon races to uncover a terrible plot.

1962

The Motorcycle Diaries

The Motorcycle Diaries 2004

7.40

Based on the journals of Che Guevara, leader of the Cuban Revolution. In his memoirs, Guevara recounts adventures he and best friend Alberto Granado had while crossing South America by motorcycle in the early 1950s.

2004

Indochine

Indochine 1992

7.00

Set in colonial French Indochina during the 1930s to 1950s, this is the story of Éliane Devries, a French plantation owner, and of her adopted Vietnamese daughter, Camille, set against the backdrop of the rising Vietnamese nationalist movement.

1992

The Way We Were

The Way We Were 1973

6.90

Two desperate people have a wonderful romance, but their political views and convictions drive them apart.

1973

Good Night, and Good Luck.

Good Night, and Good Luck. 2005

7.08

The story of journalist Edward R. Murrow's stand against Senator Joseph McCarthy's anti-communist witch-hunts in the early 1950s.

2005

Don Camillo's Last Round

Don Camillo's Last Round 1955

7.20

Bewildered, Don Camillo learns that Peppone intends to stand for parliament. Determined to thwart his ambitions, the good priest, ignoring the recommendations of the Lord, decides to campaign against him.

1955

Trumbo

Trumbo 2015

7.20

The career of screenwriter Dalton Trumbo is halted by a witch hunt in the late 1940s when he defies the anti-communist HUAC committee and is blacklisted.

2015

To Live

To Live 1994

8.03

Fugui and Jiazhen endure tumultuous events in China as their personal fortunes move from wealthy landownership to peasantry. Addicted to gambling, Fugui loses everything. In the years that follow he is pressed into both the nationalist and communist armies, while Jiazhen is forced into menial work.

1994

The Photographer of Mauthausen

The Photographer of Mauthausen 2018

7.00

Spanish photographer Francesc Boix, imprisoned in the Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp, works in the SS Photographic Service. Between 1943 and 1945, he hides, with the help of other prisoners, thousands of negatives, with the purpose of showing the freed world the atrocities committed by the Nazis, exhaustively documented. He will be a key witness during the Nuremberg Trials.

2018

The Spy Who Came In from the Cold

The Spy Who Came In from the Cold 1965

7.10

British agent Alec Leamas refuses to come in from the Cold War during the 1960s, choosing to face another mission, which may prove to be his final one.

1965

Butterfly

Butterfly 1999

7.40

The film centres on Moncho and his coming-of-age experience in Galicia in 1936. Moncho develops a close relationship with his teacher Don Gregorio who introduces the boy to different things in the world. While the story centres on Moncho's ordinary coming-of-age experiences, tensions related to the looming Spanish Civil War periodically interrupt Moncho's personal growth and daily life.

1999

A King in New York

A King in New York 1957

6.80

A recently-deposed "Estrovian" monarch seeks shelter in New York City, where he becomes an accidental television celebrity. Later, he's wrongly accused of being a Communist and gets caught up in subsequent HUAC hearings.

1957

Don Camillo: Monsignor

Don Camillo: Monsignor 1961

6.90

Don Camillo (now bishop) and Peppone (now senator) return to the town of Brescello and rekindle their friendly rivalry.

1961

Ninotchka

Ninotchka 1939

7.50

A stern Russian woman sent to Paris on official business finds herself attracted to a man who represents everything she is supposed to detest.

1939

The Return of Don Camillo

The Return of Don Camillo 1953

7.26

Energetic priest Don Camillo returns to the town of Brescello for more political and personal duels with Communist mayor Peppone.

1953

Don Camillo in Moscow

Don Camillo in Moscow 1965

7.10

Priest Don Camillo blackmails his friendly rival Peppone into letting him join a Communist delegation visiting the Soviet Union.

1965

Blood for Dracula

Blood for Dracula 1974

5.67

Deathly ill Count Dracula and his slimy underling, Anton, travel to Italy in search of a virgin's blood. They're welcomed at the crumbling estate of indebted Marchese Di Fiore, who's desperate to marry off his daughters to rich suitors. But there, instead of pure women, the count encounters incestuous lesbians with vile blood and Marxist manservant Mario, who's suspicious of the aristocratic Dracula.

1974

One, Two, Three

One, Two, Three 1961

7.50

C.R. MacNamara is a managing director for Coca Cola in West Berlin during the Cold War, just before the Wall is put up. When Scarlett, the rebellious daughter of his boss, comes to West Berlin, MacNamara has to look after her, but this turns out to be a difficult task when she reveals to be married to a communist.

1961

Land and Freedom

Land and Freedom 1995

7.30

David 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 liberals, communists and anarchists, so he joins the POUM militia and witnesses firsthand the betrayal of the Spanish revolution by Stalin's followers and Moscow's orders.

1995

The Funeral

The Funeral 1996

6.80

After the funeral of one of their own, a criminal family decides to embark on an emotionally unnerving journey in an attempt to exact bloody revenge.

1996

The Master and Margarita

The Master and Margarita 2005

7.40

The Master and Margarita is a Russian television production of Telekanal Rossiya, based on the novel The Master and Margarita, written by Soviet writer Mikhail Bulgakov between 1928 and 1940. Vladimir Bortko directed this adaptation and was also its screenwriter.

2005

Love in a Cold Climate

Love in a Cold Climate 2001

7.80

Dramatization of Nancy Mitford's novel about three aristocratic young girls' adventures in love.

2001

The Leader

The Leader 2019

10.00

The life of German thinker Karl Marx, focusing on his political and economic theories, his romance with Jenny von Westphalen, and his friendship with Friedrich Engels.

2019

Devil's Due

Devil's Due 1979

1

During WW2, a young student of medicine comes to the big city to discover the secret of death, and stays at a motel that turns out to be a brothel. He is asked from Ustasha officer to perform experiments of resurrecting the dead, while the Fascist authorities look for a female communist hiding in the city.

1979

Russia's War: Blood Upon the Snow

Russia's War: Blood Upon the Snow 1996

10.00

Russia’s War provides an important and in-depth account of the nation’s history throughout the period of Joseph Stalin's rule (1924-53). Told in ten parts, this astonishing documentary reveals eyewitness accounts, archival photography, documents and footage, and gives a remarkable insight into what let to the death of sixty-five million Soviets during Stalin’s reign of terror.

1996

Marx and Engels - Their Lives

Marx and Engels - Their Lives 1978

1

Ambitious 11-part docudrama of the life, teaching, and work of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. This series was produced by East-German television. The series shows important points in the life and political development of these immense figures, from Marx's birth in 1818 until Engel's death in 1895.

1978