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Summary: Frau Kusters is preparing dinner late one seemingly-ordinary afternoon in her seemingly-ordinary kitchen in Frankfurt, Germany. She wants to add canned sausages to the stew; her annoying daughter-in-law thinks otherwise. But the p...
Runtime: 2 h 00 min

Country: West Germany
Language: German
Movie budget: $ 750,000
Domestic: $ 8,144
International: $ 4
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Summary: A journalist is trapped in Cambodia during tyrant Pol Pot's bloody 'Year Zero' cleansing campaign, which claimed the lives of two million 'undesirable' civilians.
Runtime: 2 h 21 min
MPAA: R

Language: English
Movie budget: $ 14,400,000
Domestic: $ 34,700,291
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Summary: Set in 1930s Shanghai, where a blind American diplomat develops a curious relationship with a young Russian refugee who works odd -- and sometimes illicit -- jobs to support members of her dead husband's aristocratic family.
Runtime: 2 h 15 min
MPAA: PG-13

Movie budget: $ 16,000,000
Domestic: $ 1,669,971
International: $ 2,422,711
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Summary: A biography of artist Frida Kahlo, who channeled the pain of a crippling injury and her tempestuous marriage into her work.
Runtime: 2 h 03 min
MPAA: R

Country: United States
Language: English
Movie budget: $ 12,000,000
Domestic: $ 25,885,000
International: $ 30,413,474
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Summary: The remarkable story of The Weather Underground, radical activists of the 1970s, and of radical politics at its best and most disastrous.
Runtime: 1 h 32 min
MPAA: Unrated

Country: United States
Language: English
Domestic: $ 564,632
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Summary: From his childhood in Valparaiso to his death during the Pinochet military coup on September 11, 1973, the life and works of Chilean president Salvador Allende.
Runtime: 1 h 40 min
MPAA: Not Rated

Language: Spanish
Domestic: $ 8,454
International: $ 53,590
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Summary: The public murder of a prominent politician and doctor amid a violent demonstration is covered up by military and government officials. A tenacious magistrate is determined not to let them get away with it.
Runtime: 2 h 07 min
MPAA: M/PG

Countries: France, Algeria
Language: French
Domestic: $ 83,305
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Summary: A startling and courageous landmark documentary that unflinchingly confronted the United States' involvement in Vietnam at the height of the controversy that surrounded it.
Release Date: November 17, 1975
Runtime: 1 h 52 min
MPAA: R

Country: United States
Language: English
Domestic: $ 28,754
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Summary: The life and work of Archbishop Oscar Romero who opposed, at great personal risk, the tyrannical repression in El Salvador.
Runtime: 1 h 42 min
MPAA: PG-13

Countries: United States, Mexico
Language: English
Domestic: $ 1,316,495
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Summary: A group of idealistic, but frustrated, liberals succumb to the temptation of murdering rightwing pundits for their political beliefs.
Release Date: April 05, 1996
Genres: Comedy, Drama, Crime
Runtime: 1 h 32 min
MPAA: R

Country: United States
Language: English
Domestic: $ 459,749
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Summary: After years of hiding, the notorious American leftist radical, Abbie Hoffman, discusses his life, his cause and the opposition he endured.
Runtime: 1 h 47 min
MPAA: R

Country: United States
Language: English
Domestic: $ 76,424
International: $ 2,664
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Summary: Michael Moore's view on what happened to the United States after September 11 and how the Bush Administration allegedly used the tragic event to push forward its agenda for unjust wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.
Runtime: 2 h 02 min
MPAA: R

Country: United States
Language: English
Movie budget: $ 6,000,000
Domestic: $ 119,194,771
International: $ 103,252,111
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Summary: The film outlines Japanese students movements in the 60s, then shows the formation of the Japanese United Red Army, a communist armed resistance group.
Runtime: 3 h 10 min
MPAA: Not Rated

Country: Japan
Language: Japanese
Domestic: $ 2,659
International: $ 6,659
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Summary: Examines the public scandal and private tragedy which led to legendary filmmaker Roman Polanski's sudden flight from the United States.
Runtime: 1 h 39 min
MPAA: Unrated

Language: English
Domestic: $ 59,192
International: $ 41,266
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Summary: In 1947, Dalton Trumbo was Hollywood's top screenwriter, until he and other artists were jailed and blacklisted for their political beliefs.
Runtime: 2 h 04 min
MPAA: R

Country: United States
Language: English
Movie budget: $ 15,000,000
Domestic: $ 7,857,741
International: $ 3,572,284
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Summary: A chief of detectives, homicide section, kills his mistress and deliberately leaves clues to prove his own responsibility for the crime.
Runtime: 1 h 55 min
MPAA: R

Country: Italy
Language: Italian
Domestic: $ 265,470
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Summary: Andreas Baader starts out as a small-time criminal. In Berlin, he is recruited by a revolutionary cell. They plan to overthrow the state.
Runtime: 1 h 55 min

Language: German
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Summary: A wildly anarchic satire of urban guerrilla warfare in which a band of leftist radicals inadvertently become puppets of the West German government, which uses them to justify its authoritarian policies.
Runtime: 1 h 51 min

Country: West Germany
Language: German
Movie budget: $ 800,000
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Summary: Germany in Autumn has no typical plot; it mixes documentary footage with standard movie scenes to present the mood of Germany during the late 1970s. The film covers 2 months in 1977 when a businessman was kidnapped and murdered by...
Runtime: 2 h 03 min

Country: West Germany
Language: German
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Summary: Long takes and a highly theatrical visual approach combine to form a tense and confrontational look at the decline of a socialist student activists' movement in Japan.
Runtime: 1 h 47 min

Production: Shochiku
Country: Japan
Language: Japanese