Here we've displayed a list of the best Communist films : Khachaturian(2003), The Manchurian Candidate(1962), One, Two, Three(1961), Blind Chance(1987), Pickup on South Street(1953), Mother Kusters Goes to Heaven(1976), The Spy Who Came in From the Cold(1966), Leon Morin, Priest(1961), November Days(1992), Wild Reeds(1994), Reds(1981), Heroes for Sale(1933) ... ...
Documentary
USA
2003
76 Minutes
composer joseph stalin russian musician communist calm fascinating touching georgia soviet union concert hall aram khachaturian classical music propaganda artistic struggle music history communism rise sacrifice temptation
A documentary about the life of Soviet Armenian composer Aram Khachaturyan. Among other events, the film covers Khachaturyan's difficulties working as a creative artist during the Stalin era.
Mystery & Thriller, Drama
USA
1962
126 Minutes
Frank Sinatra Laurence Harvey Janet Leigh Angela Lansbury Henry Silva James Gregory Leslie Parrish John McGiver Khigh Dhiegh James Edwards Douglas Henderson
war hero politician soldier spy communist tense intricate china washington, d.c. rally costume party brainwashing communism cold war political campaign assassination conspiracy transformation rise revenge
A former prisoner of war is brainwashed as an unwitting assassin for an international Communist conspiracy.
Comedy
USA
1961
108 Minutes
James Cagney Pamela Tiffin Horst Buchholz Arlene Francis Liselotte Pulver Howard St. John Hanns Lothar Lois Bolton Leon Askin Red Buttons
executive daughter boss communist wife amusing spirited lighthearted witty berlin airport office young love business father/daughter relationship pregnancy communism forbidden love rise 1960s
In West Berlin during the Cold War, a Coca-Cola executive is given the task of taking care of his boss' socialite daughter.
Drama
Poland
1987
122 Minutes
Boguslaw Linda Tadeusz Lomnicki Zbigniew Zapasiewicz Boguslawa Pawelec Marzena Trybala Jacek Borowski Monika Gozdzik
medical student communist homeless person security guard lover brash creative profound train station poland train hospital airplane fate political activism love medical profession trial communism adventure
Witek runs after a train. Three variations follow on how such a seemingly banal incident could influence the rest of Witek's life.
Mystery & Thriller
USA
1953
80 Minutes
Richard Widmark Jean Peters Thelma Ritter Murvyn Vye Richard Kiley Willis Bouchey Milburn Stone Henry Slate George Eldredge Stuart Randall Maurice Samuels
prostitute pickpocket communist informant fbi agent dark suspenseful gripping new york city subway library waterfront espionage communism theft fbi murder pursuit mystery transformation
A pickpocket unwittingly lifts a message destined for enemy agents and becomes a target for a Communist spy ring.
Drama
West Germany
1976
105 Minutes
Margit Carstensen Brigitte Mira Ingrid Caven Armin Meier Irm Hermann Gottfried John
husband wife daughter son photographer communist disturbing melodramatic profound factory family home dining room street frankfurt, germany workplace violence media circus family grief hostage situation mother/daughter relationship
Frau Kusters is preparing dinner late one seemingly ordinary afternoon in her seemingly ordinary kitchen in Frankfurt, Germany. Mrs. Kusters wants to add canned sausages to the stew, her ... See full summary »
Mystery & Thriller, Drama
UK
1966
112 Minutes
Richard Burton Claire Bloom Oskar Werner Peter Van Eyck George Voskovec Sam Wanamaker Cyril Cusack Michael Hordern Bernard Lee
spy drunk intelligence officer interrogator jew communist bleak brooding gritty suspenseful tense london east berlin courtroom betrayal espionage cold war drinking sacrifice underdog
Instead of coming in from the Cold War, British agent Alec Leamas chooses to face another mission.
Drama
France|Italy
1961
130 Minutes
Jean-Paul Belmondo Emmanuelle Riva Irene Tunc Nicole Mirel Marco Behar Patricia Gozzi Gisele Grimm Monique Bertho Marc Heyraud Nina Gregoire Monique Hennessy
communist widow mother priest daughter tense uneasy provincial town france church rectory religion world war ii unlikely friendship spirituality holocaust temptation forbidden love 1940s
Set during occupied France, a faithless woman finds herself falling in love with a young priest.
Documentary
Germany|UK
1992
129 Minutes
politician bureaucrat communist documentarian fascinating intense powerful east germany communism government iron curtain corruption bureaucracy politics wretched excess quest fall 1990s
Marcel Ophuls interviews various important Eastern German figures for their thoughts on the reunification of Germany and the fall of Communism.
Drama
France
1994
110 Minutes
Élodie Bouchez Gaël Morel Stéphane Rideau Frédéric Gorny Michela Moretti Jacques Nolot Eric Kreikenmayer Nathalie Vignes Michel Ruhl Fatia Maite Elodie Soulinhac
student farmer communist teacher friend brooding emotional france boarding school homosexuality awakening love triangle discovery growing up 1960s
The fates of two homosexual partners are divided.
Drama
USA|UK|Canada
1981
195 Minutes
Warren Beatty Diane Keaton Jack Nicholson Maureen Stapleton Edward Herrmann Jerzy Kosinski Paul Sorvino Nicolas Coster Ian Wolfe Bessie Love MacIntyre Dixon
communist journalist activist playwright politician fascinating intricate moving russia chicago greenwich village portland, ore. communism world war i love revolution discovery fall 1910s
A radical American journalist becomes involved with the Communist revolution in Russia, and hopes to bring its spirit and idealism to the United States.
Drama
USA
1933
73 Minutes
Richard Barthelmess Loretta Young Aline MacMahon Gordon Westcott Robert Barrat Berton Churchill Grant Mitchell Robert McWade Charley Grapewin James Murray Edwin Maxwell
veteran soldier businessman communist wife doctor bleak gritty chicago laundromat hospital prison pennsylvania capitalism communism labor union drug addiction great depression social activism discovery
A veteran fights drug addiction to make his way in the business world.
Drama, War
Italy|France
1960
138 Minutes
Giovanna Ralli Sergei Bondarchuk Leo Genn Peter Baldwin Renato Salvatori Hannes Messemer
prisoner of war communist nun partisan soldier american patriotic suspenseful emotional gritty rome attic farm house countryside prison camp loyalty resistance cultural differences unlikely allies
Three allied prisoners, a Russian, an American and an Englishman, attempt to escape with the help of a young couple from Rome.
Comedy, Adventure, Drama
USA|Japan|Colombia
2017
115 Minutes
Tom Cruise Domhnall Gleeson Sarah Mason Jesse Plemons Caleb Landry Jones Jayma Mays Lola Kirke E. Roger Mitchell Alejandro Edda Benito Martinez Jed Rees
pilot cia agent communist undercover agent bleak frenetic gripping intricate united states central america white house communist takeover international conflict espionage rivalry pursuit sacrifice transformation 1980s
The story of Barry Seal, an American pilot who became a drug-runner for the CIA in the 1980s in a clandestine operation that would be exposed as the Iran-Contra Affair.
Comedy
UK
1960
104 Minutes
Ian Carmichael Peter Sellers Terry-Thomas Richard Attenborough Margaret Rutherford Dennis Price Irene Handl Miles Malleson Liz Fraser
assembly line worker communist industrialist businessperson cheeky lighthearted witty factory england family home wealth labor strike deception quest 1960s
A naive aristocrat in search of a career becomes caught up in the struggles between his profit-minded uncle and an aggressive labor union.
Comedy, Drama
UK
1957
105 Minutes
Charles Chaplin Dawn Addams Oliver Johnston Maxine Audley Jerry Desmonde Sidney James Joan Ingram Michael Chaplin John McLaren Phil Brown
king young boy communist queen revolutionary amusing witty new york city paris television studio television communism social commentary royalty mccarthyism rivalry rescue 1950s
A recently-deposed European monarch seeks shelter in New York City, where he becomes an accidental television celebrity and is later wrongly accused of being a Communist.
Drama
China
1984
89 Minutes
Xue Bai Wang Xueqi Tan Tuo Quiang Liu
peasant soldier communist girl solemn powerful striking gripping china countryside village poverty cultural revolution arranged marriage freedom folk music discovery escape 1930s
'Yellow Earth' focuses on the story of a communist soldier who is sent to the countryside to collect folk songs for the Communist Revolution. There he stays with a peasant family and learns... See full summary »
Comedy
USA
2009
155 Minutes
Hanno Höfer Constantin Popescu Diana Cavallioti Radu Iacoban Vlad Ivanov Tania Popa Liliana Mocanu Alexandru Potocean Teo Corban Emanuel Parvu
truck driver restaurant owner communist inspector activist amusing cheeky dark romania restaurant house small town van communism conformity uncertainty dilemma urban legends discovery transformation
War stories and life lessons from the industry's top writers.
Drama
USA|West Germany
1953
105 Minutes
Fredric March Terry Moore Gloria Grahame Cameron Mitchell Adolphe Menjou Robert Beatty Alex D'Arcy Richard Boone
circus performer businessperson wife communist emotional engaging melodramatic czechoslovakia circus circus communism marriage social change escape love transformation underdog 1950s
Czech circus owner-Clown and his entire troupe employ a daring stratagem in order to escape en masse from behind the iron curtain.
Drama, History
Australia|China|Germany|USA
2008
125 Minutes
Jonathan Rhys-Meyers Radha Mitchell Chow Yun-Fat Michelle Yeoh David Wenham Guang Li Matthew Walker Shane Briant
child journalist nurse orphan communist survivor gripping inspiring china mongolia desert journey orphans war communism quest love transformation 1930s
About young British journalist, George Hogg, who with the assistance of a courageous Australian nurse, saves a group of orphaned children during the Japanese occupation of China in 1937.
Drama
USA|Monaco|Morocco
1997
134 Minutes
Tenzin Thuthob Tsarong Gyurme Tethong Tulku Jamyang Kunga Tenzin Tenzin Yeshi Paichang Tencho Gyalpo Tsewang Migyur Khangsar Sonam Phuntsok Gyatso Lukhang Robert Lin
dalai lama lama child communist oracle powerful solemn tibet china india himalayas destiny religious persecution chosen one chase growing up escape rise 1950s
From childhood to adulthood, Tibet's fourteenth Dalai Lama deals with Chinese oppression and other problems.
Comedy, Drama
Australia|Canada
1987
96 Minutes
communist widower retiree second wife daughter doctor cheeky emotional touching sad australia melbourne, australia small town aging retirement illness fishing marriage family love
After their late-life marriage, a middle-aged Australian couple move to the countryside. Their life and tempestuous marriage is detailed.
Mystery & Thriller
USA
1966
128 Minutes
Paul Newman Julie Andrews Lila Kedrova Hansjoerg Felmy Tamara Toumanova Ludwig Donath Wolfgang Kieling Günter Strack Gisela Fischer Mort Mills Carolyn Conwell
spy physicist friend communist fiancé fiancée suspenseful tense thrilling east germany copenhagen cold war nuclear weapons espionage defection romance escape love 1960s
An American scientist publicly defects to East Germany as part of a cloak and dagger mission to find the solution for a formula resin before planning an escape back to the West.
Adventure, Drama
USA
1963
120 Minutes
Marlon Brando Eiji Okada Sandra Church Pat Hingle Arthur Hill Jocelyn Brando
ambassador government official rebel leader communist powerful bleak intricate fascinating southeast asia senate city office communism american foreign policy imperialism civil wars political unrest diplomacy discovery
An ambitious scholar becomes the ambassador of Sarkan, a southeast Asian country where civil war is brewing.
Action, Adventure
USA|Mexico
1985
95 Minutes
Sylvester Stallone Richard Crenna Julia Nickson Charles Napier Steven Berkoff Martin Kove Andy Wood William Ghent
rambo freedom fighter beautiful woman army colonel prisoner of war communist frenetic gory unrestrained thrilling vietnam jungle prison helicopter prison camp boat postwar vietnam reconnaissance second chance murderous rampage
Rambo returns to the jungles of Vietnam on a mission to infiltrate an enemy base-camp and rescue the American POWs still held captive there.
Comedy
Germany|USA
2010
110 Minutes
Alicja Bachleda-Curus Kimberly J. Brown Cameron Goodman Todd Stashwick Chris Browning Matthias Schweighöfer Kevin Rankin Dwayne Adway Natalie Gal
man friend father communist woman cheery amusing witty positive germany berlin san francisco new york airport berlin wall friendship journey father/son relationship hitchhiking freedom
A young man from East Germany travels to San Francisco to search for his father, who fled 12 years ago.
Documentary
Soviet Union
1934
62 Minutes
communist muslim young woman engineer farmer confident patriotic farm soviet union laboratory countryside communism vladimir ilyich lenin farming technology mourning transformation 1930s
Three anonymous songs about Lenin provide the basis for this documentary that celebrates the achievements of the Soviet Union and Lenin's role in creating them.
Comedy
Italy
2009
85 Minutes
Claudia Pandolfi Sergio Rubini Pietro Del Giudice Susanna Nicchiarelli Angelo Orlando Marianna Raschillà
teenager communist classmate younger brother idealist girl offbeat heartwarming family home school italy hometown postwar italy social issues passion coming-of-age following your heart idealism growing up 1950s
Late '50s to early '60s, when the space war between the Soviet and US was fiercely going on, a fifteen-year-old member of the communist party, Luciana, develops her ideals while living with... See full summary »
Drama, Romance, War
UK|Australia|Germany
2001
121 Minutes
Cate Blanchett Billy Crudup Michael Gambon Rupert Penry-Jones Anton Lesser James Fleet Ron Cook Jack Shepherd Nicholas Farrell Helen McCrory Abigail Cruttenden
scottish person resistance fighter lover pilot communist nazi intense passionate patriotic thrilling england london france village countryside train station world war ii occupation politics french resistance
A young Scottish woman joins the French Resistance during World War II to rescue her Royal Air Force boyfriend who is lost in France.
Adventure
USA
1956
110 Minutes
Ava Gardner Stewart Granger Bill Travers Abraham Sofaer Francis Matthews Marne Maitland Peter Illing Edward Chapman Freda Jackson Lionel Jeffries Alan Tilvern
colonel communist general railroad worker woman melodramatic emotional india train train station love triangle revolution race relations indian independence movement love sacrifice rivalry 1940s
Anglo-Indian Victoria Jones seeks her true identity amid the chaos of the British withdrawal from India.