Oppression Movies

On August 15, 2021, Afghanistan descends into chaos. In one day, the completion of the withdrawal of Western forces precipitated the debacle of the...

Set in a dystopian America where all people who aren't straight, white, Christian and cis gender are kept track of by the government with bar codes.

France: 2020s. Piotr, a young Polish immigrant stuck in a string of odd jobs, crosses paths with Stefano, a burly mover. Little did Piotr know, this...

The film is set in 90 AD and concerns Jesus Christ's last surviving disciple, John of Patmos, and his writings and visions from the Apocalypse of...

James, down on his luck and desperate for some quick cash, agrees to drive a small truck across country. He soon realizes that he's made a huge...

Seti loves music and singing, and she yearns for her voice to be heard. But in Iran, women are forbidden by law from performing in public, so the...

A look inside one of the most brutal campaigns of state repression in modern history - told by those who endured it and those who enforced it.

Every year hundreds of people - mostly women - are attacked with acid in Pakistan. Follow several of these survivors, their fight for justice, and a...

When a mysterious TV transports her to a school for on-screen villains, a restaurant worker finds new purpose — and a way to get back at her...

China, 1930s, during the ravaging civil war. General Pen entrusts O'Hara, an intrepid American adventurer, with the mission of providing a large sum...

The movie describes the last remaining years of the great Azerbaijani poet, Huseyn Javid who was the victim of 1937-1938 USSR repression.

On stage since she was a toddler, Googoosh has been an icon of Iranian pop culture since the 1970s. Her progressive style and raw singing talent...

40-year Maria is living in a monotonous and deadlocked marriage with her husband. In addition, she has to take care of her ill despotic father. One...

Arrancar los ojos is a project that proposes a constellation of works around the gaze and its political dimension. A reflection on the concepts of...

The Tóth family resides in Northern Hungary. The couple has a daughter and a son, the latter a member of the armed forces. When his weary...

Hakim, an operations officer at a public market who is desperate to find money to celebrate the birth of his first child. Amidst the challenging...

Years ago, the young Five Fingers fought for the rural town of Marseilles against brutal police oppression. Now, after fleeing in disgrace, Tau, one...

England 1905, a letter from Tzar Nicholas to Lord Bartlett recounts the Bloody Sunday Massacre in Saint Petersburg and becomes the catalyst for a...

A man that is a stranger, is an incredibly easy man to hate. However, walking in a stranger’s shoes, even for a short while, can transform a...

During the British rule, Thangalaan, a fierce tribal leader, and his tribe assist Lord Clement, a British General, to trace gold in their village....