Overview
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Movies
1890s
- The Dreyfus Affair (1899)
1900s
- A Trip to the Moon (1902)
1910s
- The Immigrant (1917)
1920s
- The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920)
- Dr. Mabuse: The Gambler (1922)
- Battleship Potemkin (1925)
- Strike (1925)
- Mother (1926)
- Metropolis (1927)
- The End of St. Petersburg (1927)
- October (Ten Days that Shook the World) (1928)
- Zvenigora (1928)
- Arsenal (1929)
- An Andalusian Dog (1929)
1930s
- The Golden Age (1930)
- M (1931)
- The Testament of Dr. Mabuse (1933)
- Zero for Conduct (1933)
- 1860 (1934)
- L'Atalante (1934)
- An Inn in Tokyo (1935)
- Toni (1935)
- A Night at the Opera (1935)
- Modern Times (1936)
- Alexander Nevsky (1938)
1940s
- The Great Dictator (1940)
- The Mortal Storm (1940)
- Casablanca (1942)
- People of the Mountains (1942)
- Ossessione (1943)
- Ivan the Terrible, Part I (1944)
- Rome, Open City (1945)
- Paisan (1946)
- Shoeshine (1946)
- Lowly City (1946)
- Gran Casino (1947)
- Body and Soul (1947)
- Germany, Year Zero (1948)
- Bicycle Thieves (1948)
- The Earth Trembles (1948)
- They Live By Night (1948)
- Bitter Rice (1949)
- We Were Strangers (1949)
1950s
- Stromboli (1950)
- The Young and the Damned (1950)
- The Asphalt Jungle (1950)
- The Breaking Point (1950)
- The Dividing Line (1950)
- Night and the City (1950)
- The Sound of Fury (1950)
- Surcos (1951)
- Bellissima (1951)
- Miracle in Milan (1951)
- The Prowler (1951)
- He Ran All the Way (1951)
- Ikiru (1952)
- Rome 11:00 (1952)
- Europe '51 (1952)
- Umberto D. (1952)
- Nagarik (1952)
- Tokyo Story (1953)
- Do Bigha Zamin (1953)
- Animal Farm (1954)
- Salt of the Earth (1954)
- Newspaper Boy (1955)
- Pather Panchali (1955)
- Death of a Cyclist (1955)
- Aparajito (1956)
- Paths of Glory (1957)
- The Cranes Are Flying (1957)
- Nights of Cabiria (1957)
- Sun in the Last Days of the Shogunate (1957)
- Quiet Flows the Don (1957)
- Ivan the Terrible, Part II (1958)
- The Runaway (1958)
- Giants and Toys (1958)
- The Human Condition 1/2/3 (1959)
- Ballad of a Soldier (1959)
- The World of Apu (1959)
- Knock On Any Door (1959)
- Fate of a Man (1959)
- The 500 Blows (1959)
1960s
- Naked Youth (1960)
- Night and Fog in Japan (1960)
- The Naked Island (1960)
- The Warped Ones (1960)
- Rocco and His Brothers (1960)
- Il Posto (1961)
- Pigs and Battleships (1961)
- Pitfall (1962)
- Ivan's Childhood (1962)
- Nine Days in One Year (1962)
- Barravento (1962)
- The Twelve Chairs (1962)
- The Insect Woman (1963)
- She and He (1963)
- Behold a Pale Horse (1964)
- Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
- Gate of Flesh (1964)
- I Am Cuba (1964)
- The Guns (1964)
- Nothing But a Man (1964)
- Intentions of Murder (1964)
- Assassination (1964)
- Gate of Flesh (1964)
- Pale Flower (1964)
- Woman of the Dunes (1964)
- Tattooed Life (1965)
- It Happened Here (1965)
- With Beauty and Sorrow (1965)
- The Battle of Algiers (1966)
- The First Teacher (1966)
- Death of a Bureaucrat (1966)
- Andrei Rublev (1966)
- War and Peace (1966)
- The Pornographers (1966)
- Fighting Elegy (1966)
- Tokyo Drifter (1966)
- The Face of Another (1966)
- La Chinoise (1967)
- Weekend (1967)
- The Plea (1967)
- Entranced Earth (1967)
- Branded to Kill (1967)
- I Even Met Happy Gypsies (1967)
- If... (1968)
- 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
- The Red Light Bandit (1968)
- Memories of Underdevelopment (1968)
- The Inferno of First Love (1968)
- Death by Hanging (1968)
- Profound Desires of the Gods (1968)
- Eros + Massacre (1969)
- The Colour of Pomegranates (1969)
- Army of Shadows (1969)
- The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1969)
- Kes (1969)
- Macunaima (1969)
- Antonio das Mortes (1969)
- Funeral Parade of Roses (1969)
- Boy (1969)
- Double Suicide (1969)
- The Battle of the River Neretva (1969)
1970s
- Buraikan (1970)
- The Conformist (1970)
- Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion (1970)
- Solaris (1971)
- Punishment Park (1971)
- Sacco & Vanzetti (1971)
- A Clockwork Orange (1971)
- The Year 01 (1971)
- Johnny Got His Gun (1971)
- The Ceremony (1971)
- Throw Away Your Books, Rally in the Streets (1971)
- Tout Va Bien (1972)
- Aguirre, Wrath of God (1972)
- Walter Defends Sarajevo (1972)
- Love and Anarchy (1973)
- The Man from Maisinicu (1973)
- O Lucky Man (1973)
- The Battle of Sutjeska (1973)
- Nada (1974)
- Rebellion in Patagonia (1974)
- Pastoral Hide and Seek (1974)
- The Mirror (1975)
- Fox and his Friends (1975)
- Mother Küsters Goes to Heaven (1975)
- Jeanne Dielman, 23 Commerce Quay, 1080 Brussels (1975)
- Winstanley (1975)
- The Little Girl of Hanoi (1975)
- Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom (1975) (CW: Sadism)
- The Man Who Would Be King (1975)
- Jonah Who Will Be 25 in the Year 2000 (1976)
- 1900 (1976)
- The Last Supper (1976)
- A Special Day (1977)
- Germany in Autumn (1978)
- Killer of Sheep (1978)
- The Teacher (1978)
- Portrait of Teresa (1979)
- The Survivors (1979)
- Apocalypse Now (1979)
- Norma Rae (1979)
- Stalker (1979)
1980s
- Breaker Morant (1980)
- The Shining (1980)
- Who's Singin' Over There? (1980)
- Reds (1981)
- Rasputin (1981)
- Pixote (1981)
- Do You Remember Dolly Bell? (1981)
- Marianne & Juliane (1981)
- Britannia Hospital (1982)
- The Marathon Family (1982)
- The Year of Living Dangerously (1982)
- Yol (1982)
- The Stolen Children (1982)
- Nostalgia (1983)
- Born in Flames (1983)
- Suburbia (1983)
- Sweet Bunch (1983)
- A Passage to India (1984)
- 1984 (1984)
- Repentance (1984)
- The Official Story (1985)
- Come and See (1985)
- When Father Was Taken Away On Business (1985)
- Brazil (1985)
- Rosa Luxemburg (1986)
- The Name of the Rose (1986)
- Kin-dza-dza! (1986)
- Salvador (1986)
- Platoon (1986)
- Robocop (1987)
- Full Metal Jacket (1987)
- Wall Street (1987)
- Clandestines (1987)
- Matewan (1987)
- They Live (1988)
- Time of the Gypsies (1988)
- The Cold Summer of 1953 (1988)
- Little Vera (1988)
- Talk Radio (1988)
- Salaam Bombay! (1988)
- Born on the Fourth of July (1989)
- The Beauty of the Alhambra (1989)
1990s
- Slacker (1990)
- Mister Johnson (1990)
- Porco Rosso (1992)
- Veronico Cruz (1992)
- The Strategy of the Snail (1993)
- Ivan & Abraham (1993)
- Strawberry and Chocolate (1993)
- Cyclo (1995)
- The White Balloon (1995)
- Guantanamera (1995)
- Land and Freedom (1995)
- La Belle Verte (1996)
- Libertarias (1996)
- From Hell to Hell (1996)
- Starship Troopers (1997)
- Princess Mononoke (1997)
- Children of Heaven (1997)
- The Mirror (1997)
- Antz (1998)
- Satya (1998)
- The City (1998)
- Butterfly's Tongue (1999)
- The Matrix (1999)
- Fight Club (1999)
- Human Resources (1999)
- Not One Less (1999)
- Rosetta (1999)
- Bolivia (1999)
2000s
- Amores Perros (2000)
- The Circle (2000)
- The State I Am In (2000)
- The Legend of Rita (2000)
- U-571 (2000)
- Anarchists (2000)
- The Waiting List (2000)
- The Devil's Backbone (2001)
- What to Do In Case of Fire (2001)
- Y Tu Mamá Tambien (2001)
- Kandahar (2001)
- Lilya 4-Ever (2002)
- City of God (2002)
- Carandiru (2003)
- Remake (2003)
- Crimson Gold (2003)
- Babij Jar (2003)
- Osama (2003)
- Tokyo Godfathers (2003)
- The Buffalo Boy (2004)
- Machuca (2004)
- The Edukators (2004)
- Earth and Ashes (2004)
- V for Vendetta (2005)
- L'enfant (2005)
- Man Push Cart (2005)
- The Death of Mr. Lazarescu (2005)
- Habana Blues (2005)
- The Wind that Shakes the Barley (2006)
- Salvador (Puig Antich) (2006)
- Sacco & Vanzetti (2006)
- Children of Men (2006)
- Offside (2006)
- Pan's Labyrinth (2006)
- Half Nelson (2006)
- Still Life (2006)
- Crossing Borders (2006)
- Franz + Polina (2006)
- El Benny (2006)
- Sweeny Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007)
- Into the Wild (2007)
- My Brother Is an Only Child (2007)
- 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (2007)
- Persepolis (2007)
- Chop Shop (2007)
- Frozen River (2008)
- Opium War (2008)
- The Baader Meinhof Complex (2008)
- The Anarchist's Wife (2008)
- Che (2008)
- Involuntary (2008)
- The Silence of Lorna (2008)
- Wendy and Lucy (2008)
- The Wave (2008)
- Ballast (2008)
- Goodbye Solo (2008)
- Treeless Mountain (2008)
- Fish Tank (2009)
- The Trotsky (2009)
- Berlin '36 (2009)
- Invictus (2009)
- Sin Nombre (2009)
2010s
- Sound of Noise (2010)
- Winter's Bone (2010)
- Fortress of War (2010)
- The Black Tulip (2010)
- In the Fog (2010)
- Memories of Overdevelopment (2010)
- The Patience Stone (2012)
- 12 Years a Slave (2013)
- Snowpiercer (2013)
- A Spectre Is Haunting Europe (2013)
- Closed Curtain (2013)
- A Proletarian Winter's Tale (2014)
- The Lego Movie (2014)
- Pride (2014)
- 99 Homes (2014)
- Taxi (2015)
- Mina Walking (2015)
- The Big Short (2015)
- 0-41* (2015)
- I, Daniel Blake (2016)
- A Decent Woman (2016)
- Nocturama (2016)
- Captain Fantastic (2016)
- Free State of Jones (2016)
- The Young Karl Marx (2017)
- Microhabitat (2017)
- Self-Criticism of a Bourgeois Dog (2017)
- Anarchist from Colony (2017)
- The Death of Stalin (2017)
- Okja (2017)
- A Taxi Driver/Taeksi woonjunsa (2017)
- Girls of the Sun (2018)
- 3 Faces (2018)
- Sorry to Bother You (2018)
- Vice (2018)
- Burning (2018)
- Leave No Trace (2018)
- Woman at War (2018)
- Parasite (2019) -Mad Mad: Fury Road(2015)
2020s
- Wolfwalkers (2020)
- The Hunt (2020)
- Don't look up (2021)
TV Shows
- Farscape (1999-2003)
- Firefly (2002-2003)
- The Wire (2002-2008)
- The Thick of It (2005-2012)
- The Boondocks (2005-2014)
- Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job! (2007 -)
- Sons of Anarchy (2008-2014)
- Carlos (2010)
- Black Mirror (2011 -)
- The Eric Andre Show (2012 -)
- The Legend of Korra (2012-2014)
- Continuum (2012-2015)
- Steven Universe (2013 -)
- Peaky Blinders (2013 -)
- Rectify (2013-2016)
- Sense8 (2015-2018)
- Mr. Robot (2015-2019)
- Narcos (2015-2017)
- Westworld (2016 -)
- Damnation (2017 - 2018)
- The Handmaid's Tale (2017 -)
- Homecoming (2018 -) -The Expanse(2015-2022)
Documentaries
- Man with a Movie Camera (1929)
- Land Without Bread (1933)
- The Hour of the Furnaces (1968)
- History of Postwar Japan as Told by a Bar Hostess (1970)
- The Battle of Chile Part I (1975), Part II (1976) and Part III (1979)
- Harlan County, USA (1976)
- A Grin Without A Cat (1977)
- Que Viva Mexico (1979)
- Manufacturing Consent (1992)
- Living Utopia (1997)
- A Place Called Chiapas (1998)
- La Commune (Paris, 1871) (2000)
- The Corporation (2003)
- Havana Suite (2003)
- Fahrenheit 9/11 (2004)
- Sicko (2007)
- END:CIV (2011)
- Special Flight (2011)
- This Is Not a Film (2011)
- The Pervert's Guide to Ideology (2012)
- The Act of Killing (2012)
- The Square (2013)
- Viva Belarus! (2013)
- The Look of Silence (2014)
- The Shelter (2014)
- E-Team (2014)
- A German Youth (2015)
- Winter on Fire (2015)
- Our Allies (2017)
- Nae Pasaran (2018)
Anime
- Revolutionary Girl Utena (1997)
- One Piece (1995 - present)
- Cyberpunk: Edgerunners (2022)