Looking for Communist movies to watch? I'm gonna start a thread here of the best Communist films and I hope you guys enjoy it.
Starting with the obvious:
The Young Karl Marx
Explores the early days of Karl Marx and Engels.
A Generation (1955)
Follows a Polish Communist Resistance in Nazi occupied Poland during WW2.
Come And See (1985)
A film actually made by a Russian director before the fall of the USSR, who was also a child during WW2.
Come And See is about a Belarusian child joining the Soviet Partisans during the Nazi invasion of the USSR during WW2.
Weekend (1967)
French film by self-proclaimed Communist Jean-Luc Godard is a satire of the rich. A rich Paris couple goes to southern France to kill the woman's mother for even more money through inheritance, but the real story is the stuff that happens along the way.
La Chinoise (1967)
Another Godard film.
Several Socialist students discover Mao's Little Red Book and debate over versions of Socialism and how to bring a Communist revolution to France.
Judas And The Black Messiah (2021)
I was surprised to see a modern, big pro Socialist movie.
The story follows Bill O'Neil and Fred Hampton's attempt to create a Socialist Revolution in late 1960s America. You witness it's rise and fall.
Sorry To Bother You (2018)
Created by Boots Riley of the rap group The Coup.
The film follows Cassius Green, a super poor guy getting into scammy telemarketing and betraying the union strike to become rich.
Parasite (2019)
Directed by anti-Capitalist Bong Joon Ho, the less said about this film the better, so I suggest just watching it.
Snowpiercer (2013)
Another Bong Joon Ho film about class warfare.
Snowpiercer in the future where a climate experiment went wrong and the Earth is frozen. What's left of humanity is on a train which is a metaphor for class.
The Lighthouse (2019)
An old man whose worked on the lighthouse for years has to work with a young man who goes from job to job. They get at each other's throats.
To me (and many others) this film is obviously about the working class fighting each other for scraps, for nothing.
October Ten Days that Shook the World (1927)
By renowned Soviet director Sergei Eisenstein, based on a book of the same name by an American Socialist follows a silent film of the early days of the Russian Revolution.
I'll be sure to add more later to this list. I also thank everyone for their suggestions!
Metropolis (1927)
Yes believe it or not this movie is a Marxist critique of unrestrained Capitalism. I'm surprised it's not more often spoke of.
Futuristic city sharply divided between the working class and the city planners.
Battleship Potemkin (1925)
About the mutiny of battleship Potemkin during the Russian Revolution.
The Battle of Algiers (1966)
A film I been planning to add that several have suggested already.
By Marxist writer and director Gillo Pontecorvo tells the tale of the Battle of Algiers. Banned films like this are the best kind. Several characters, I'd say focuses on Ali La Pointe.
Charlie Chaplin's Modern Times (1936)
This movie is as working class as it gets. This is the movie that got Chaplin in hot water for possibly being a Communist.
The Wind That Shakes the Barley (2006)
Anti-imperialism against Britain is always fun.
Two brothers fight a guerrilla war against Britain in Ireland during the Irish War of Independence.
Hunger (2008)
About when Irish Republican Bobby Sands led a hunger strike against the UK in a Northern Irish prison around 1981.
Damnation (2017)
Changing it up with a short lived series.
The one season, cancelled show was about a Socialist posing as a Catholic Priest to help convince the masses of Socialism and create strikes in Iowa while avoiding Pinkertons.
Not a perfect show but underrated. I wanted to see more for sure. It's also inspired by the real life Farmers' Holiday Association campaign for a farm strike.
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