Movies by Lists - Anti-Communist Films (41 [50])| Title | Year | Director | Genre | Rating | Runtime | Added |
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| 1984In a totalitarian future society, Winston Smith, whose daily work is re-writing history, tries to rebel by falling in love. | 1956 | Michael Anderson | Drama, Sci-Fi | 6.9 (4.9k votes) | 90 | 20211228 |
| 1984In a totalitarian future society, a man, whose daily work is re-writing history, tries to rebel by falling in love. | 1984 | Michael Radford | Drama, Sci-Fi | 7.0 (88.5k votes) | 113 | 20211228 |
| 1984A totalitarian regime governs society, restricting freedoms. Propaganda and surveillance are omnipresent. A mathematician engages in a forbidden relationship and joins a resistance movement against the oppressive ruling party. | 2023 | Diana Ringo | Drama, Sci-Fi | 4.0 (164 votes) | 133 | 20240323 |
| Animal FarmA successful farmyard revolution by the resident animals vs. the farmer goes horribly wrong as the victors create a new tyranny among themselves. | 1954 | Joy Batchelor, John Halas | Animation, Drama | 7.2 (21.9k votes) | 72 | 20211228 |
| Back To SchoolTo help his discouraged son get through college, a funloving and obnoxious rich businessman decides to enter the school as a student himself. | 1986 | Alan Metter | Comedy, Romance, Sport | 6.7 (39.7k votes) | 96 | 20220806 |
| Big Jim McLainIn the post-war Hawaii, House Un-American Activities Committee investigators Jim McLain and Mal Baxter hunt down Communists. | 1952 | Edward Ludwig | Crime, Drama, History, Romance, Thriller | 5.2 (2.5k votes) | 90 | 20211228 |
| Blue Kite, The [Lan feng zheng]The lives of a Beijing family throughout the 1950s and 1960s, as they experience the impact of the Hundred Flowers Campaign, the Great Leap Forward, and the Cultural Revolution. | 1993 | Zhuangzhuang Tian | Drama | 7.5 (3.5k votes) | 140 | 20211228 |
| Burnt by the SunIn the Soviet Union in 1936, shadow of Stalin's repressions lie on a famous revolution hero. The accusations of being him a foreign spy are nonsense, and all known that, but a slow process of his life's downfall is already running. | 1994 | Nikita Mikhalkov | Drama, History, War | 7.8 (17.3k votes) | 135 | 20211228 |
| Dear Comrades! [Dorogie tovarishchi]When the communist government raises food prices in 1962, the rebellious workers from the small industrial town of Novocherkassk go on strike. The massacre which then ensues is seen through the eyes of a devout party activist. | 2020 | Andrey Konchalovskiy | Drama, History | 7.4 (6.5k votes) | 121 | 20231001 |
| Death of a Bureaucrat [La muerte de un burócrata]A young man attempts to fight the system in an entertaining account of bureaucracy amok and the tyranny of red tape. | 1966 | Tomás Gutiérrez Alea (*) | Comedy | 7.6 (1.7k votes) | 85 | 20211228 |
| Death of Stalin, TheMoscow, 1953. After being in power for nearly thirty years, Soviet dictator Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin takes ill and quickly dies. Now the members of the Council of Ministers scramble for power. | 2017 | Armando Iannucci | Comedy, Drama, History | 7.3 (127.2k votes) | 107 | 20211228 |
| Empire of the SunA young English boy struggles to survive under Japanese occupation of China during World War II. | 1987 | Steven Spielberg (*) | Drama, History, War | 7.7 (143.8k votes) | 153 | 20211228 |
| Good Bye Lenin!In 1990, to protect his fragile mother from a fatal shock after a long coma, a young man must keep her from learning that her beloved nation of East Germany as she knew it has disappeared. | 2003 | Wolfgang Becker | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 7.7 (160.2k votes) | 121 | 20211228 |
| Guilty of TreasonThe 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 that replaced it after the war. Mindzhenty was | 1950 | Felix E. Feist | Biography, Drama, History | 6.1 (263 votes) | 86 | 20211228 |
| Hail CaesarA Hollywood fixer in the 1950s works to keep the studio's stars in line. | 2016 | Ethan Coen, Joel Coen | Comedy, Drama, Mystery | 6.3 (150.4k votes) | 106 | 20211228 |
| I Was a Communist for the F.B.I.In Pittsburgh, PA, an F.B.I. agent works to undermine the Communist party, but his brothers and his teenage son think he's a real Red. | 1951 | Gordon Douglas | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Mystery, Thriller | 6.1 (1.1k votes) | 83 | 20220414 |
| Invasion U.S.AA one-man army comes to the rescue of the United States when a spy attempts an invasion. | 1985 | Joseph Zito | Action, Thriller | 5.5 (13.2k votes) | 107 | 20211228 |
| Invasion U.S.AA group of people at a bar witness the unfolding events of a Soviet invasion of the USA. | 1952 | Alfred E. Green | Drama, Sci-Fi, War | 3.6 (1.9k votes) | 73 | 20211228 |
| Joke, The [Zert]In the 1950's, Ludvik Jahn was expelled from the Communist Party and the University by his fellow students, because of a politically incorrect note he sent to his girlfriend. Fifteen years later, he tries to get his revenge by seduci | 1969 | Jaromil Jires | Drama | 7.1 (1.9k votes) | 80 | 20211228 |
| Killing Fields, TheA journalist is trapped in Cambodia during tyrant Pol Pot's bloody 'Year Zero' cleansing campaign, which claimed the lives of two million 'undesirable' civilians. | 1984 | Roland Joffé (*) | Biography, Drama, History, War | 7.8 (63.9k votes) | 141 | 20211228 |
| Kiss Me DeadlyA doomed female hitchhiker pulls Mike Hammer into a deadly whirlpool of intrigue, revolving around a mysterious "great whatsit". | 1955 | Robert Aldrich (*) | Crime, Film-Noir, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller | 7.5 (23.8k votes) | 106 | 20211228 |
| Lives of Others, TheIn 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. | 2006 | Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck | Drama, Mystery, Thriller | 8.4 (444.5k votes) | 137 | 20211228 |
| Man on a TightropeA Czech circus owner/clown and his entire troupe employ a daring stratagem in order to escape en masse from behind the iron curtain. | 1953 | Elia Kazan (*) | Drama, Thriller | 7.2 (2.1k votes) | 105 | 20211228 |
| Manchurian Candidate, TheAn American POW in the Korean War is brainwashed as an unwitting assassin for an international Communist conspiracy. | 1962 | John Frankenheimer (*) | Drama, Thriller | 7.9 (84.9k votes) | 126 | 20211228 |
| Mr. JonesA Welsh journalist breaks the news in the western media of the famine in Ukraine in the early 1930s. | 2019 | Agnieszka Holland | Biography, Drama, Thriller | 6.9 (18.6k votes) | 119 | 20211228 |
| My Son JohnThe Jeffersons are the ideal picture-perfect all-American family in a small town, but their eldest son John returns home after a long absence spouting views that cause them to worry he may be a Communist. | 1952 | Leo McCarey (*) | Drama | 5.6 (752 votes) | 122 | 20211228 |
| Night PeopleDuring the Cold War, an American soldier is abducted in West Berlin, sparking a recovery effort led by Colonel Steve Van Dyke. | 1954 | Nunnally Johnson | Adventure, Crime, Mystery, Thriller | 6.5 (1.8k votes) | 93 | 20211228 |
| One, Two, ThreeIn West Berlin during the Cold War, a Coca-Cola executive is given the task of taking care of his boss' socialite daughter. | 1961 | Billy Wilder (*) | Comedy | 7.8 (24.8k votes) | 104 | 20211228 |
| Prisoner, TheA Cardinal is arrested for treason against the state. As a Prince of his church, and a popular hero of this people, for his resistance against the Nazis during the war, and afterward his resistance when his country again fell to anot | 1955 | Peter Glenville | Drama | 6.8 (1.3k votes) | 91 | 20211228 |
| Question 7Suspenseful story of a boy and his father, each forced to decide his future on his willingness to stand up for what he believes. | 1961 | Stuart Rosenberg (*) | Biography, Drama, History | 6.2 (147 votes) | 106 | 20211228 |
| Red DawnA group of teenagers look to save their town from an invasion of North Korean soldiers. | 2012 | Dan Bradley | Action, Drama | 5.3 (84.1k votes) | 93 | 20211228 |
| Red DawnIt is the dawn of World War III. In the west mountains of America, a group of teenagers band together to defend their town, and their country, from invading Soviet forces. | 1984 | John Milius | Action, Drama, Thriller, War | 6.4 (69.1k votes) | 114 | 20211228 |
| Red Menace, TheAn ex-GI becomes involved with the American Communist party, and falls in love with his instructor. The pair quickly realise their mistake, when they see how party leaders handle a member who questioned the party's principles. When t | 1949 | R.G. Springsteen | Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller | 5.0 (302 votes) | 81 | 20211228 |
| State of ControlWhen two undercover filmmakers attempt to document life in Tibet under Chinese tyranny, they become the targets of the very regime they set out to investigate. | 2016 | Christian Johnston, Darren Mann | Documentary | 6.8 (428 votes) | 90 | 20250823 |
| Thief, TheA chance accident causes a nuclear physicist, who's selling top secret material to the Russians, to fall under FBI scrutiny and go on the run. | 1952 | Russell Rouse | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller | 6.7 (1.6k votes) | 86 | 20211228 |
| Torn CurtainAn American scientist publicly defects to East Germany as part of a cloak and dagger mission to find the solution for a formula resin before planning an escape back to the West. | 1966 | Alfred Hitchcock (*) | Drama, Romance, Thriller | 6.6 (31.8k votes) | 128 | 20211228 |
| TrialCourtroom drama set in 1947 and underlying post-WW2 acute problems facing the USA such as stormy race relations and the growing threat of local communism. | 1955 | Mark Robson | Drama | 6.9 (1.4k votes) | 105 | 20211228 |
| Unbearable Lightness of Being, TheCentral Europe, 1968: A Czech doctor with an active sex life meets a woman who wants monogamy, and then the Soviet invasion further disrupts their lives. | 1988 | Philip Kaufman (*) | Drama, Romance | 7.2 (40.8k votes) | 171 | 20211228 |
| Walk East on Beacon!A G-man searches for a communist sleeper-cell in Boston. | 1952 | Alfred L. Werker | Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller | 5.7 (673 votes) | 98 | 20211228 |
| Whip Hand, TheMatt Corbin, a vacationing magazine writer, takes a fishing trip to Minnesota, and stumbles across a lake in which all the fish have mysteriously died. The locals are tight-lipped about it, but Corbin learns that a group of former-Na | 1951 | William Cameron Menzies | Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller, War | 6.0 (783 votes) | 82 | 20211228 |
| Woman on Pier 13, TheSuccessful, newly married Brad Collins once belonged to the Communist Party of the USA, and now the Party will stop at nothing to use him. | 1949 | Robert Stevenson (*) | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir | 6.1 (1.6k votes) | 73 | 20211228 |
| I cavalieri dalle maschere nere | 1948 | | | NA (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| Ninotchka | 1960 | | | NA (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| Descendants of Cain | 1968 | | | NA (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| Freedom's Fury | 2006 | | | NA (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| The Lottery | 2008 | | | NA (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| The Death of Stalin | 2018 | | | NA (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| Det. Dave Russell vs Kim Decker 1982 | 2020 | | | NA (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| Mr. Jones | 2020 | | | NA (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| State of Control | 2022 | | | NA (Unkn) | | Excluded |