The First Purge (2018)

V for Vendetta (2005)

Summary: In a future British dystopian society, a shadowy freedom fighter, known only by the alias of "V", plots to overthrow the tyrannical government - with the help of a young woman.

Release Date: March 17, 2006

Genres: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi

Director: James McTeigue

Writers: Lilly Wachowski

, Lana Wachowski

, David Lloyd

Runtime: 2 h 12 min

MPAA: R

Production: Warner Bros., Virtual Studios, Silver Pictures, Anarchos Productions, Studio Babelsberg

Distributor: Warner Bros., FX Network, HBO Max, Warner Bros. Home Entertainment, Warner Home Video

Countries: United States, United Kingdom, Germany

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 54,000,000

Domestic: $ 70,511,035

International: $ 64,175,422

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

Sophie Scholl: The Final Days (2005)

Summary: A dramatization of the final days of Sophie Scholl, one of the most famous members of the German World War II anti-Nazi resistance movement, The White Rose.

Release Date: February 24, 2005

Genres: Drama, Crime, Biography

Director: Marc Rothemund

Writer: Fred Breinersdorfer

Runtime: 2 h 00 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Broth Film, Goldkind Filmproduktion, ARTE, Bayerischer Rundfunk (BR)

Distributor: Zeitgeist Films

Country: Germany

Language: German

Domestic: $ 680,331

International: $ 10,123,984

Production: 2.4.7. Films, France 3 Cinéma, The Kennedy/Marshall Company, Celluloid Dreams, Sony Pictures Classics, Soficinéma, Sofica Europacorp, Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée (CNC), La Région Île-de-France, Fondation GAN pour le Cinéma, Société des Producteurs de Cinéma et de Télévision (Procirep), Agence Nationale de Gestion des Oeuvres Audiovisuelles (ANGOA)

Persepolis (2007)

Summary: A precocious and outspoken Iranian girl grows up during the Islamic Revolution.

Release Date: February 22, 2008

Genres: Drama, Biography, Animation

Directors: Vincent Paronnaud

, Marjane Satrapi

Writers: Marjane Satrapi

, Vincent Paronnaud

Runtime: 1 h 36 min

MPAA: PG-13

Distributor: Sony Pictures Classics, Sony Pictures Releasing, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, The Criterion Channel

Countries: France, United States

Language: French

Movie budget: $ 7,300,000

Domestic: $ 4,445,756

International: $ 18,338,222

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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

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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

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Romero (1989)

Summary: The life and work of Archbishop Oscar Romero who opposed, at great personal risk, the tyrannical repression in El Salvador.

Release Date: August 25, 1989

Genres: Drama, Crime, Biography

Director: John Duigan

Writer: John Sacret Young

Runtime: 1 h 42 min

MPAA: PG-13

Production: Consejo estatal de cine, teatro y televisión, Paulist Pictures, Paulist Productions

Distributor: Four Square, CBS, Trimark Home Video, Vidmark Entertainment, Vision Video

Countries: United States, Mexico

Language: English

Domestic: $ 1,316,495

No (2012)

Summary: An advertising executive comes up with a campaign to defeat Augusto Pinochet in Chile's 1988 referendum.

Release Date: August 09, 2012

Genre: Drama

Director: Pablo Larraín

Writers: Pedro Peirano

, Antonio Skármeta

Runtime: 1 h 58 min

MPAA: R

Production: Participant, Funny Balloons, Fabula, Consejo Nacional de la Cultura y las Artes, Corfo

Distributor: Sony Pictures Classics, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment

Countries: Chile, France, Mexico, United States

Language: Spanish

Domestic: $ 2,343,664

International: $ 5,355,431

The Death of Stalin (2017)

Summary: Moscow, 1953. After being in power for nearly 30 years, Soviet dictator Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin takes ill and quickly dies. Now the members of the Council of Ministers scramble for power.

Release Date: March 09, 2018

Genres: Comedy, Drama, History

Director: Armando Iannucci

Writers: Fabien Nury

, Thierry Robin

, Armando Iannucci

Runtime: 1 h 47 min

MPAA: R

Production: Quad, Main Journey, Gaumont, France 3 Cinéma, La Compagnie Cinématographique, Panache Productions, Canal+, Ciné+, France Télévisions, Free Range Films, Title Media

Distributor: IFC Films, Paramount Home Entertainment

Countries: France, United Kingdom, Belgium, Canada, United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 13,000,000

Domestic: $ 8,047,856

International: $ 16,598,199

The Conformist (1970)

Summary: A weak-willed Italian man becomes a fascist flunky who goes abroad to arrange the assassination of his old teacher, now a political dissident.

Release Date: March 21, 1971

Genre: Drama

Director: Bernardo Bertolucci

Writers: Alberto Moravia

, Bernardo Bertolucci

Runtime: 1 h 53 min

MPAA: R

Production: Mars Film, Marianne Productions, Maran Film

Distributor: Paramount Pictures, Paramount Home Entertainment, Kino Lorber, Raro Video

Countries: Italy, France, West Germany

Language: Italian

Movie budget: $ 750,000

Domestic: $ 238,792

International: $ 342,090

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

Flash Gordon (1980)

Summary: A football player and his friends travel to the planet Mongo and find themselves fighting the tyranny of Ming the Merciless to save Earth.

Release Date: December 05, 1980

Genres: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

Director: Mike Hodges

Writers: Lorenzo Semple Jr.

, Michael Allin

, Alex Raymond

Runtime: 1 h 51 min

MPAA: PG

Production: Starling Films, Starling Films, Famous Films (II), Famous Films (II), Dino De Laurentiis Company, Dino De Laurentiis Company

Distributor: Arrow Video, Cinema Classics, Image Entertainment, MGM Television, Paramount Television

Countries: United Kingdom, United States, Netherlands

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 20,000,000

Domestic: $ 27,107,960

International: $ 68,861

The Lives of Others (2006)

Summary: In 1984 East Berlin, an agent of the secret police, conducting surveillance on a writer and his lover, finds himself becoming increasingly absorbed by their lives.

Release Date: March 30, 2007

Genres: Drama, Thriller, Mystery

Director: Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck

Writer: Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck

Runtime: 2 h 17 min

MPAA: R

Production: Wiedemann & Berg Filmproduktion, Bayerischer Rundfunk (BR), ARTE, Creado Film

Distributor: Sony Pictures Classics, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, The Criterion Channel

Countries: Germany, France

Language: German

Movie budget: $ 2,000,000

Domestic: $ 11,286,112

International: $ 66,070,830

Night Crossing (1982)

Summary: True tale about two men planning to escape from communist East Germany in a hot air balloon, but only if they can take their families with them.

Release Date: February 05, 1982

Genres: Drama, Family, History

Director: Delbert Mann

Writer: John McGreevey

Runtime: 1 h 47 min

MPAA: PG

Production: Walt Disney Productions, Bavaria Film

Distributor: Disney Channel

Countries: United Kingdom, United States, West Germany

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 10,000,000

Domestic: $ 8,000,000

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