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1984 (1956)

Summary: In a totalitarian future society, Winston Smith, whose daily work is re-writing history, tries to rebel by falling in love.

Genres: Drama, Sci-Fi

Director: Michael Anderson

Writers: George Orwell

, William Templeton

, Ralph Gilbert Bettison

Runtime: 1 h 30 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Holiday Film Productions Ltd.

Distributor: Columbia Pictures, Screen Gems Television

Country: United Kingdom

Language: English

A Taxi Driver (2017)

Summary: A widowed father and taxi driver who drives a German reporter from Seoul to Gwangju to cover the 1980 uprising, soon finds himself regretting his decision after being caught in the violence around him.

Release Date: August 11, 2017

Genres: Action, Drama, History

Director: Hun Jang

Writer: Yu-na Eom

Runtime: 2 h 17 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: The Lamp

Distributor: Well Go USA Entertainment, Showbox Entertainment

Country: South Korea

Language: Korean

Domestic: $ 1,527,829

International: $ 84,725,111

Abschied - Brechts letzter Sommer (2000)

Summary: It is one of the last days of an exceptionally hot summer in 1956. Bertolt Brecht (Bierbichler) is about to leave his lakeside house among the tall birches in Brandenburg to return to Berlin for the upcoming theater season. Most o...

Release Date: September 14, 2000

Genres: Comedy, Drama, Biography

Director: Jan Schütte

Writer: Klaus Pohl

Runtime: 1 h 37 min

Production: ARTE, European Script Fund, Filmboard Berlin-Brandenburg (FBB), Filmcontract Ltd., Filmförderung Hamburg, Kulturstiftung der Deutschen Bank, Novoskop Film, Ostdeutscher Rundfunk Brandenburg (ORB), Studio Babelsberg Independents, Südwestrundfunk (SWR), Westdeutscher Rundfunk (WDR)

Distributor: New Yorker Films

Countries: Germany, Poland

Language: German

Domestic: $ 10,952

Afterimage (2016)

Summary: The story of charismatic painter Wladyslaw Strzeminski, who opposed social realism and maintained his own artistic freedom in spite of political obstacles.

Release Date: January 13, 2017

Genres: Drama, Biography, History

Director: Andrzej Wajda

Writers: Andrzej Wajda

, Andrzej Mularczyk

Runtime: 1 h 38 min

Production: Akson Studio, EC1 Lódz - Miasto Kultury, NINA, Narodowy Instytut Audiowizualny, PISF, Polski Instytut Sztuki Filmowej, Telewizja Polska (TVP), Tumult Foundation

Distributor: Film Movement

Country: Poland

Language: Polish

Domestic: $ 33,443

International: $ 999,325

Aimee & Jaguar (1999)

Summary: In 1943 Berlin, a Nazi officer's wife meets and starts a passionate affair with a Jewish woman.

Release Date: February 11, 1999

Genres: Drama, Romance, Biography

Director: Max Färberböck

Writers: Max Färberböck

, Rona Munro

, Erica Fischer

Runtime: 2 h 05 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Senator Film Produktion, Max Farberbock Film, Bundesministerium des Inneren (BMI), Filmförderung Hamburg, Filmförderungsanstalt (FFA), Filmstiftung Nordrhein-Westfalen

Distributor: Zeitgeist Films, Zeitgeist Video

Country: Germany

Language: German

Movie budget: $ 15,000,000

Domestic: $ 927,107

An American Rhapsody (2001)

Summary: A young Hungarian girl struggles to find her place in the world when she's reunited with her parents in the USA years after she was left behind during their flight from the communist country in the 1950s.

Release Date: February 28, 2002

Genre: Drama

Director: Éva Gárdos

Writer: Éva Gárdos

Runtime: 1 h 46 min

MPAA: PG-13

Production: Fireworks Pictures, Seven Arts Productions

Distributor: Paramount Classics, Fireworks Pictures

Countries: United States, Hungary

Language: English

Domestic: $ 850,255

International: $ 120,421

As I Open My Eyes (2015)

Summary: A few months before the revolution in Tunisia, 18 year-old Farah has a passion for life and sings in a political rock band. Her mother, knowing the dangers of Tunisia, wants her to pursue a career as a doctor.

Release Date: December 23, 2015

Genres: Drama, Music

Director: Leyla Bouzid

Writers: Leyla Bouzid

, Marie-Sophie Chambon

Runtime: 1 h 42 min

MPAA: Unrated

Production: Blue Monday Productions, Propaganda Production, Hélicotronc, Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée (CNC), Ministère des Affaires Étrangères, Centre du Cinéma et de l'Audiovisuel de la Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles, VOO, Visions Sud Est, Sanad Abu Dhabi Film Festival Fund, Ciclic - Région Centre, Arab Fund for Arts and Culture, Dubai International Film Festival, Emergence, Moulin d'Andé-CECI

Distributor: Doc & Film International

Countries: Tunisia, France, Belgium, United Arab Emirates, Switzerland

Language: French

Domestic: $ 30,989

International: $ 19,732

Barbara (2012)

Summary: A doctor working in 1980s East Germany finds herself banished to a small country hospital.

Release Date: March 08, 2012

Genre: Drama

Director: Christian Petzold

Writers: Christian Petzold

, Harun Farocki

Runtime: 1 h 45 min

MPAA: PG-13

Production: Schramm Film Koerner & Weber, Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen (ZDF), ARTE

Distributor: Adopt Films, Kino Lorber, The Criterion Channel

Country: Germany

Language: German

Domestic: $ 1,013,902

International: $ 5,894,375

Bonhoeffer: Agent of Grace (2000)

Summary: The story of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a German clergyman of great distinction, who actively opposed Hitler and the Nazis. His convictions cost him his life.

Release Date: August 24, 2000

Genres: Drama, Crime, History

Director: Eric Till

Writers: Gareth Jones

, Eric Till

Runtime: 1 h 28 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: NFP Teleart Berlin (I), NFP, Norflicks Productions Ltd., Ostdeutscher Rundfunk Brandenburg (ORB)

Distributor: Public Broadcasting Service (PBS)

Countries: Canada, Germany, United States

Language: English

Domestic: $ 296,181

Burma VJ: Reporting from a Closed Country (2008)

Summary: Using smuggled footage, this documentary tells the story of the 2007 protests in Burma by thousands of monks.

Release Date: January 09, 2009

Genres: Documentary, History, News

Director: Anders Østergaard

Runtime: 1 h 24 min

MPAA: Unrated

Production: Kamoli Films, Magic Hour Films ApS, Mediamente, WG Film

Distributor: Home Box Office (HBO), Oscilloscope, Topic

Countries: Denmark, Sweden, Norway, United Kingdom, United States, Germany, Netherlands, Israel, Spain, Belgium, Canada

Language: English

Domestic: $ 51,672

International: $ 75,391

Child 44 (2015)

Summary: A disgraced member of the Russian military police investigates a series of child murders during the Stalin-era Soviet Union.

Release Date: April 17, 2015

Genres: Drama, Crime, History

Director: Daniel Espinosa

Writers: Richard Price

, Tom Rob Smith

Runtime: 2 h 17 min

MPAA: R

Production: Summit Entertainment, Worldview Entertainment, Scott Free Productions

Distributor: Lionsgate, Lionsgate Home Entertainment

Countries: Czechia, United Kingdom, United States, Russia, Romania, Czech Republic

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 50,000,000

Domestic: $ 1,224,330

International: $ 11,726,763

Chronicle of an Escape (2006)

Summary: The goalkeeper of a little-known soccer team is kidnapped by a Argentinean government squad and sent to a detention center. After months of torture, he plots his escape with three other young men.

Release Date: April 27, 2006

Genres: Crime, Thriller

Director: Israel Adrián Caetano

Writers: Israel Adrián Caetano

, Esteban Student

, Julian Loyola

Runtime: 1 h 43 min

MPAA: R

Production: 20th Century Fox Argentina, Instituto Nacional de Cine y Artes Audiovisuales (INCAA), K&S Films

Distributor: IFC First Take, The Weinstein Company

Country: Argentina

Language: Spanish

Domestic: $ 2,370

International: $ 761,372

Das Versprechen (1994)

Summary: East-Berlin, 1961, shortly after the erection of the Wall. Konrad, Sophie and three of their friends plan a daring escape to Western Germany. The attempt is successful, except for Konrad, who remains behind. From then on, and for ...

Release Date: November 03, 1995

Genres: Drama, Romance

Director: Margarethe von Trotta

Writers: Peter Schneider

, Felice Laudadio

, Margarethe von Trotta

Runtime: 1 h 55 min

MPAA: R

Production: Bioskop Film, Canal+, Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée (CNC), Les Productions JMH, Odessa Films, Studio Babelsberg, Westdeutscher Rundfunk (WDR), Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée (CNC)

Distributor: Fine Line Features

Countries: Germany, France, Switzerland

Language: German

Domestic: $ 91,145

Death and the Maiden (1994)

Summary: A political activist is convinced that her guest is a man who once tortured her for the government.

Release Date: January 27, 1995

Genres: Drama, Thriller, Mystery

Director: Roman Polanski

Writers: Ariel Dorfman

, Rafael Yglesias

Runtime: 1 h 43 min

MPAA: R

Production: Fine Line Features, Capitol Films, Channel Four Films, Les Films de l'Astre, TF1 Films Production

Distributor: Image Entertainment, New Line Home Video, Turner Home Entertainment

Countries: United Kingdom, France

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 12,000,000

Domestic: $ 3,103,716

Delta of Venus (1995)

Summary: A struggling American writer (England) and a fellow American expatriate (Mandylor) begin a sordid affair among the chaos and discord of 1940 Paris, France on the brink of World War II.

Release Date: October 13, 1995

Genre: Drama

Director: Zalman King

Writers: Anaïs Nin

, Elisa M. Rothstein

, Patricia Louisianna Knop

Runtime: 1 h 42 min

MPAA: R

Production: Alliance Communications Corporation, Evzen Kolar Productions, New Line Cinema

Distributor: Warner Bros. Home Entertainment

Country: United States

Language: English

Domestic: $ 63,174

Detective Byomkesh Bakshy! (2015)

Summary: Detective Byomkesh Bakshy is set in the 2nd World War torn Calcutta during the 1940s. Enter a magical world of nostalgia and 'Expect the Unexpected'.

Release Date: April 03, 2015

Genres: Action, Drama, Crime

Director: Dibakar Banerjee

Writers: Urmi Juvekar

, Dibakar Banerjee

, Saradindu Bandopadhyay

Runtime: 2 h 19 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Dibakar Banerjee Productions, Skywalk Films, Skyway Films

Country: India

Language: Hindi

Domestic: $ 579,055

International: $ 3,973,610

Deutschland 83 (2015)

Summary: Martin Rauch is recruited by the HVA to infiltrate the West Germany army. As a rookie spy, his decisions constantly put his cover at risk and force his agency to take extreme measures.

Release Date: June 17, 2015

Genres: Drama, Romance, Thriller

Runtime: 0 h 42 min

MPAA: TV-MA

Production: RTL, UFA Fiction

Country: Germany

Language: German

East/West (1999)

Summary: In June 1946, Stalin invites the Russian exiled from the 1917 Revolution to return home. When the ships comes ashore in Odessa, the passengers are divided in two groups and one of them is executed. Among the survivors are Dr. Alek...

Release Date: May 05, 2000

Genres: Adventure, Drama, History

Director: Régis Wargnier

Writers: Rustam Ibragimbekov

, Sergei Bodrov

, Louis Gardel

Runtime: 2 h 01 min

MPAA: PG-13

Production: UGC YM, France 3 Cinéma, NTV, Canal+, Sofica Sofinergie 5, Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée (CNC), Studio 1+1

Distributor: Columbia TriStar Home Video

Countries: Russia, Ukraine, Bulgaria, France, Spain

Language: French

Movie budget: $ 11,500,000

Domestic: $ 2,321,029

International: $ 3,710,492

Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore (2022)

Summary: Albus Dumbledore knows that Gellert Grindelwald is moving to take control of the wizarding world. Unable to stop him alone, he asks Newt Scamander to lead an intrepid team on a dangerous mission.

Release Date: April 15, 2022

Genres: Adventure, Family, Fantasy

Director: David Yates