Movies: Fascism

  • 1973
    Amarcord

    Amarcord (1973)

    Amarcord

    7.91973HD

    In an Italian seaside town, young Titta gets into trouble with his friends and watches various local eccentrics as they engage in often absurd behavior. Frequently clashing with his stern father and defended by his doting mother, Titta witnesses the ...

    Amarcord
  • 1977
    A Special Day

    A Special Day (1977)

    A Special Day

    8.01977HD

    Two neighbours — a persecuted journalist and a resigned housewife — forge a strong bond on the day of Adolf Hitler's historic 1938 visit to Rome....

    A Special Day
  • 1985
    My Beautiful Laundrette

    My Beautiful Laundrette (1985)

    My Beautiful Laundrette

    6.71985HD

    A Pakistani Briton renovates a rundown laundrette with his male lover while dealing with drama within his family, the local Pakistani community, and a persistent mob of skinheads....

    My Beautiful Laundrette
  • 1999
    Butterfly

    Butterfly (1999)

    Butterfly

    7.31999HD

    The film centres on Moncho and his coming-of-age experience in Galicia in 1936. Moncho develops a close relationship with his teacher Don Gregorio who introduces the boy to different things in the world. While the story centres on Moncho's ordinary c...

    Butterfly
  • 1968
    They Saved Hitler's Brain

    They Saved Hitler's Brain (1968)

    They Saved Hitler's Brain

    2.21968HD

    At the end of WWII, Nazi officials spirited the living head of Adolf Hitler out of Germany to a hiding place in the South American country of Mandoras, in order to revive the Third Reich at a later date. By the 1960s, the time has come, so a top scie...

    They Saved Hitler's Brain
  • 1969
    Z

    Z (1969)

    Z

    7.71969HD

    Amid a tense political climate, the opposition leader is killed in an apparent accident. When a prosecutor smells a cover-up, witnesses get targeted. A thinly veiled dramatization of the assassination of Greek politician Grigoris Lambrakis and its af...

    Z
  • 2018
    Transit

    Transit (2018)

    Transit

    6.72018HD

    In an attempt to flee Nazi-occupied France, Georg assumes the identity of a dead author but soon finds himself stuck in Marseilles, where he falls in love with Maria, a young woman searching for her missing husband....

    Transit
  • 1976
    The Innocent

    The Innocent (1976)

    The Innocent

    6.81976HD

    Tullio Hermil is a chauvinist aristocrat who flaunts his mistress to his wife, but when he believes she has been unfaithful he becomes enamored of her again....

    The Innocent
  • 1984
    Under the Volcano

    Under the Volcano (1984)

    Under the Volcano

    6.51984HD

    Against a background of war breaking out in Europe and the Mexican fiesta Day of Death, we are taken through one day in the life of Geoffrey Firmin, a British consul living in alcoholic disrepair and obscurity in a small southern Mexican town in 1939...

    Under the Volcano
  • 2009
    Baaria

    Baaria (2009)

    Baaria

    7.22009HD

    Giuseppe Tornatore traces three generations of a Sicilian family in in the Sicilian town of Bagheria (known as Baarìa in the local Sicilian dialect), from the 1930s to the 1980s, to tell the story of the loves, dreams and delusions of an unusual comm...

    Baaria
  • 2007
    Frontier(s)

    Frontier(s) (2007)

    Frontier(s)

    6.12007HD

    A gang of young thieves flee Paris during the violent aftermath of a political election, only to hole up at an Inn run by neo-Nazis....

    Frontier(s)
  • 1970
    The Garden of the Finzi-Continis

    The Garden of the Finzi-Continis (1970)

    The Garden of the Finzi-Continis

    6.91970HD

    In 1930s Italy, a wealthy Jewish family tries to maintain their privileged lifestyle, hosting friends for tennis and parties at their villa. As anti-Semitism intensifies under Fascism, they must ultimately face the horrors of the Holocaust....

    The Garden of the Finzi-Continis
  • 2007
    My Brother Is an Only Child

    My Brother Is an Only Child (2007)

    My Brother Is an Only Child

    6.72007HD

    Accio and Manrico are siblings from a working-class family in 1960s Italy: older Manrico is handsome, charismatic, and loved by all, while younger Accio is sulky, hot-headed, and treats life as a battleground — much to his parents' chagrin. After the...

    My Brother Is an Only Child
  • 2021
    The Bad Poet

    The Bad Poet (2021)

    The Bad Poet

    6.12021HD

    1936. Giovanni Comini, the youngest Federal in Fascist Italy, is summoned to Rome for a delicate mission: to surveil aging national poet Gabriele D'Annunzio, whose increasingly restless behavior Mussolini fears could damage his alliance with Nazi Ger...

    The Bad Poet
  • 1978
    Nest of Vipers

    Nest of Vipers (1978)

    Nest of Vipers

    4.41978HD

    A background of rising fascism in Venice in 1930s. A music-student, Matthias, mixes with the town's bourgeoisie and falls in love with a mature teacher, Carla, the mother of his friend Renato, and then with his young colleague, Elena....

    Nest of Vipers
  • 1969
    The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

    The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1969)

    The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

    6.81969HD

    A headstrong young teacher in a private school in 1930s Edinburgh ignores the curriculum and influences her impressionable 12-year-old charges with her over-romanticized worldview....

    The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
  • 1977
    Desperate Living

    Desperate Living (1977)

    Desperate Living

    6.41977HD

    After killing her husband, Peggy Gravel and her murderous maid Grizelda wind up in the crazy town of Mortville, where Queen Carlotta presides over a sleazy collection of misfits....

    Desperate Living
  • 1969
    The Toth Family

    The Toth Family (1969)

    The Toth Family

    6.91969HD

    The Toth family resides in Northern Hungary. The couple has a daughter and a son, the latter a member of the armed forces. When his weary major is ordered to take a vacation, the son talks him into a visit to his family home. Comedy ensues when the T...

    The Toth Family
  • 2007
    The Aerial

    The Aerial (2007)

    The Aerial

    7.12007HD

    An entire city has lost its voice. Mr. TV, the owner of the city's only television channel, is carrying out a sinister plan to control all of the city's inhabitants....

    The Aerial
  • 2016
    The Childhood of a Leader

    The Childhood of a Leader (2016)

    The Childhood of a Leader

    6.22016HD

    The chilling story of a young American boy living in France in 1918 whose father is working for the US government on the creation of the Treaty of Versailles. What he witnesses helps to mold his beliefs – and we witness the birth of a terrifying ego....

    The Childhood of a Leader