Oppression Movies, Movies about Oppression

Here we've displayed a list of the best Oppression films : Waste Land(2010), Fantastic Planet(1973), Tibet: Cry of the Snow Lion(2003), The Silences of the Palace(1994), Equilibrium(2002), Osama(2003), Good Morning, Vietnam(1987), A Bug's Life(1998), Strings(2004), The Notebook(2013), The Duchess(2008), Love Crimes of Kabul(2011) ... ...

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Waste Land

On the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro is Jardim Gramacho, the world's largest landfill, where men and women sift through garbage for a living. Artist Vik Muniz produces portraits of the workers and learns about their lives.

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Fantastic Planet

On a faraway planet where blue giants rule, oppressed humanoids rebel against their machine-like leaders.

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Tibet: Cry of the Snow Lion

A film about the state of Chinese occupied Tibet and its history of oppression and resistance.

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The Silences of the Palace

A pregnant peasant woman seeks redress from the Chinese bureaucracy after the village chief kicks her husband in the groin in this comedy of justice. As she is frustrated by each level of ... See full summary »

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Equilibrium

In an oppressive future where all forms of feeling are illegal, a man in charge of enforcing the law rises to overthrow the system and state.

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Osama

After the rise of the Taliban in Afghanistan and the restriction of women in public life, a pre-teen girl is forced to masquerade as a boy in order to find work to support her mother and grandmother.

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Good Morning, Vietnam

In 1965, an unorthodox and irreverent DJ named Adrian Cronauer begins to shake up things when he is assigned to the U.S. Armed Services radio station in Vietnam.

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A Bug's Life

A misfit ant, looking for "warriors" to save his colony from greedy grasshoppers, recruits a group of bugs that turn out to be an inept circus troupe.

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Strings

A Prince leaves his city and sets off to avenge his father, not aware his father wasn't murdered, and in reality, committed suicide, and soon learns the truth about his people from a warrior woman.

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The Notebook

Twin siblings enduring the harshness of WWII in a village on the Hungarian border hedge their survival on studying and learning from the evil surrounding them.

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The Duchess

A chronicle of the life of 18th-century aristocrat Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, who was reviled for her extravagant political and personal life.

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Love Crimes of Kabul

LOVE CRIMES OF KABUL is an intimate portrait of three young Afghani women accused of committing "moral crimes" such as premarital sex and running away from home. As we follow them from ... See full summary »

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Chappie

In the near future, crime is patrolled by a mechanized police force. When one police droid, Chappie, is stolen and given new programming, he becomes the first robot with the ability to think and feel for himself.

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Demolition Man

A police officer is brought out of suspended animation in prison to pursue an old ultra-violent nemesis who is loose in a non-violent future society.

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The Story of Robin Hood and His Merrie Men

When King Richard the Lionheart leaves England to lead a crusade to the Holy Land, his treacherous brother conspires to bring himself to power.

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The Other Story

Two rebellious young women - one fleeing the chaos of secular hedonism for the disciplined comforts of faith; the other desperate to transcend her oppressive religious cross paths unexpectedly in Jerusalem, to startling consequences.

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The Garment Jungle

The struggle of a lady's garment workers' organization to unionize a New York clothing sweat shop; the owner of which is determined to keep the union out of his business at any cost.

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Bab El-Oued City

Follows the conflict between a young Algerian man and the local Islamic fundamentalists.

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Apache

Refusing to let himself be re-settled on a Florida reservation, Massai, an Apache warrior, escapes his captors and returns to his homeland to become a peaceful farmer.

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The Dogs of War

Mercenary James Shannon, on a reconnaissance job to the African nation of Zangaro, is tortured and deported. He returns to lead a coup.

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Desert Dancer

Afshin Ghaffarian risks everything to start a dance company amidst his home country of Iran's politically volatile climate and the nation's ban on dancing.

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Hidden in Plain Sight

A feature length documentary by John H. Smihula

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Burning Sands

Deep into Hell Week, a favored pledgee is torn between honoring his code of silence or standing up against the intensifying violence of underground hazing.

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Instrument of War

When U.S. B-24 bomber pilot Clair Cline is shot down and captured in northern Germany, one war ends and another begins -- to keep hope alive. Now behind German barbed wire and oppression, ... See full summary »

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Zardoz

In the distant future, a savage trained only to kill finds a way into the community of bored immortals that alone preserves humanity's achievements.

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Guns of the Magnificent Seven

A Mexican revolutionary hires an American gunslinger to organize the rescue of their leader from a brutal Army prison.

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Beautifully Broken

As three fathers fight to save their families, their lives become intertwined in an unlikely journey across the globe, where they learn the healing power of forgiveness and reconciliation.

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Son of God

The life story of Jesus is told from his humble birth through his teachings, crucifixion and ultimate resurrection.

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Guilty of Treason

The story of Cardinal Josef Mindzhenty, a Roman Catholic cardinal from Hungary who spoke out against both the Nazi occupation of his country during World War II and the Communist regime ... See full summary »

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The Oath

In a politically divided America, a man struggles to make it through the Thanksgiving holiday without destroying his family.

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