Dictatorship Movies

The story of the University of Brasília, since it was only a project in Darcy Ribeiro's head until the fateful events in August 1968 when its...

A chronicle on the days without Jorge Julio López, key witness and complainant on the first trial on genocide in Argentina, dated in 2006....

Margherita Sarfatti, Mussolini's lover and advisor, was a woman who exerted a great influence on the Duce and on Italian cultural life. Through...

While traveling undercover throughout Burma, Henry Rollins exposes the country's repressive military dictatorship.

Manuela dreams of winning the "best folkloric dress" contest in the commemoration of Independence Day at school. Meanwhile, her brother Gabo takes...

Argentina, 1973. The return of democracy marks the beginning of a new countdown to the next coup d'état: on March 24, 1976, the worst...

Under a dictatorship that has banned music, a man hides a record until he is caught. Whilst paying for his crimes he stumbles across a repository of...

An adaptation of the short story of the same name by Roberto Drummond, Pela Porta Verde (“Through the Green Door”) presents a Kafkaesque...

The death of the dictator Francisco Franco on November 20, 1975 changed the course of Spanish history. The Franco dictatorship gave way to the...

In an Argentina where President Milei has died and the vice president has taken office, Pingo and Anisman are two friends who want to take advantage...

This film is a rare glimpse into one of the most secret places of the world, Pyongyang, the capital of North Korea. Slowly, an unexpected natural...

Muammar Kadhafi ruled Libya for 42 years. 4 decades that ended in 2011, during which he tyrannized his entourage, his people and the world. He became...

"Golpe a golpe" (Family coup) was a Chilean television sitcom from the 1970s and 1980s. In this series, the family of the stern anti-communist...

A young dictator awakens in purgatory, where he encounters a mysterious, nearly blind old man who also turns out to be a dictator. Trapped in a...

The recent democratic revolutions throughout Eastern Europe—Serbia in 2000, Georgia in 2003, and the Ukraine in 2004—all seemed to follow...