When The Motherland Is Knocking At Your Door
Dec 07, 2024 | IMDB 0
7 min Watch NowDrama, Thriller
Life under an oppressive dictatorship. Where citizens surrender themselves to the regime, become the part of the system and let go their freedom and any rights.
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Golgotha
The South
Emergency
Fireflies at El Mozote
Entranced Earth
Jew Suss: Rise and Fall
Glimpses of the Outskirts
Politzek, the voices that challenge the Kremlin
Love Affair, or the Case of the Missing Switchboard Operator
I Am Cuba
Missing
49th Parallel
The Messenger
This Gun for Hire
LSD: Trip to Where?
Stolz der Nation
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IMDB 5.5 | Dec , 1985
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IMDB 0 | Jan , 2001
This is the story of Pablo, a young uruguayan exiled in México, whose father was disappeared during the military dictatorship.In the Time of the Butterflies
IMDB 6.3 | Oct , 2001
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.The Rothschilds
IMDB 5.9 | Jul , 1940
Biopic about the Rothschilds, a Jewish family whose members rose to the top of the European banking community during the Napoleonic era.Golgotha
IMDB 7.7 | Dec , 1966
Six widows demand compensation for the death of their husbands, who were killed during a worker's strike. The women are arrested and taken to the police quarters, where the authorities try to make them retract their statements, but it turns out they're not so easily intimidated.The South
IMDB 6.5 | Mar , 1988
After the end of the military dictatorship in Argentina in 1983, Floreal is released from prison. Instead of returning to his wife, he wanders through the night of Buenos Aires. He meets some people from his past–most of which are only imaginary–and remembers the events of his imprisonment.Emergency
IMDB 4.3 | Jan , 2025
Based on true events that unfolded in 1975, the film chronicles incidents that took place under the leadership of Indira Gandhi, one of the most powerful women in Indian history.Fireflies at El Mozote
IMDB 0 | Dec , 2025
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IMDB 7.2 | May , 1967
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 conservative. In this context, Paulo is torn between the madness of the elite and the blind submission of the masses. But, in this complex tropical reality, nothing really is what it seems to be.Jew Suss: Rise and Fall
IMDB 5 | Sep , 2010
This intricate historical drama tells the story of actor Ferdinand Marian (Tobias Moretti), who is ordered by Nazi propagandist Joseph Goebbels to star in the 1940 anti-Semitic film Jew Suss. Despite his cooperation, Ferdinand's actions have unexpected costs. Ferdinand's Jewish wife, Anna (Martina Gedeck), is sent to a concentration camp, and as World War II intensifies, he rebels against the Nazis, leading to the destruction of his career.Glimpses of the Outskirts
IMDB 10 | Jun , 2025
In an alternate reality where the decline of nations has given rise to corporatist regimes, any trace of culture or tradition is suppressed by these new leaders to prevent the masses from reclaiming a national identity. However, rebel cells have emerged to counteract this agenda.Politzek, the voices that challenge the Kremlin
IMDB 0 | Mar , 2026
In Russia, criticizing the war in Ukraine or Vladimir Putin’s regime has become a crime. Thousands of ordinary citizens are being arrested, tried, and imprisoned. They are called “Politzek”: political prisoners. Filmed clandestinely over the course of more than a year, Politzek gives a platform to those who, despite the fear, continue to speak out against Putin’s repressive Russia. Through the intersecting stories of a teenager sentenced to five years in prison for criticizing the government on social media, a young artist jailed for placing anti-war stickers, a human rights activist, and two theater directors facing Kafkaesque trials, the film unveils the machinery of state repression in Russia. With rare footage, broken yet unyielding voices, this is a story of silenced resistance.Love Affair, or the Case of the Missing Switchboard Operator
IMDB 6.7 | Sep , 1967
After many adventures, a young female switchboard operator starts a love relationship with a serious young man. But while he's away on business, she gets lonely and succumbs to her colleague's passes.I Am Cuba
IMDB 7.8 | Oct , 1964
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IMDB 7.2 | Feb , 1982
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IMDB 6.9 | Nov , 1941
In the early days of World War II, a German U-boat is sunk in Canada's Hudson Bay. Hoping to evade capture, a small band of German soldiers led by commanding officer Lieutenant Hirth attempts to cross the border into the United States, which has not yet entered the war and is officially neutral. Along the way, the German soldiers encounter brave men such as a French-Canadian fur trapper, Johnnie, a leader of a Hutterite farming community, Peter, an author, Philip and a soldier, Andy Brock.The Messenger
IMDB 5 | Aug , 2024
Vera, imprisoned at a military fortress during the dictatorship, 1969, get to know a soldier, Armando, who, in the face of torture, decides to take messages from Vera to his family and establishes an affective relationship with D. Maria, Vera’s mother. Despite the horrors of the time, the film works on this possibility of a dialogue between two lonely and lost human beings: a high-middle-class lady and a young southerner of rural origin. Today, Vera, aged 70, is a professor at the university, and debates with her students about politics, forgiveness and Hannah Arendt.This Gun for Hire
IMDB 7 | Apr , 1942
Sadistic killer-for-hire Philip Raven becomes enraged when his latest job is paid off in marked bills. Vowing to track down his double-crossing boss, nightclub executive Gates, Raven sits beside Gates' lovely new employee, Ellen, on a train out of town. Although Ellen is engaged to marry the police lieutenant who's hunting down Raven, she decides to try and set the misguided hit man straight as he hides from the cops and plots his revenge.LSD: Trip to Where?
IMDB 9 | Feb , 1968
LSD: Trip to Where? is a 1968 film depicting the experiences of three sailors who experiment with LSD and marijuana. The film explores the impact of their drug use on themselves and their peers aboard a military vessel, highlighting the perceived dangers associated with these substances during that era.Stolz der Nation
IMDB 6.8 | Aug , 2009
Director Quentin Tarantino tasked Eli Roth to craft a mini-movie called Stolz der Nation (Nation's Pride) that will be included in the theatrical cut of Inglourious Basterds. To help promote Inglourious Basterds via the film-within-a-film, Roth has slapped together a trailer for Nation's Pride blending black and white photography with modern multi-layered camera effects.