Movies: Political prisoner

  • 2025
    It Was Just an Accident

    It Was Just an Accident (2025)

    It Was Just an Accident

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    Vahid, an Azerbaijani auto mechanic, was once imprisoned by Iranian authorities. During his sentence, he was interrogated blindfolded. One day, a man named Eqbal enters his workshop. His prosthetic leg creaks, and Vahid thinks he recognizes one of hi...

    It Was Just an Accident
  • 2024
    Entre el grito y la celda: Una historia sobre Lolita Lebrón

    Entre el grito y la celda: Una historia sobre Lolita Lebrón (2024)

    Entre el grito y la celda: Una historia sobre Lolita Lebrón

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    “Entre el grito y la celda” is a film adaptation of the theatrical monologue “Lolita", which has been performed locally and internationally for the past 11 years, with over 60 performances in 5 countries, 5 states in North America, and more than 40 m...

    Entre el grito y la celda: Una historia sobre Lolita Lebrón
  • 1997
    Air Force One

    Air Force One (1997)

    Air Force One

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    When Russian neo-nationalists hijack Air Force One, the world's most secure and extraordinary aircraft, the President is faced with a nearly impossible decision to give in to terrorist demands or sacrifice not only the country's dignity, but the live...

    Air Force One
  • 2017
    Todxs somos López. Donde empieza la vida y termina la muerte

    Todxs somos López. Donde empieza la vida y termina la muerte (2017)

    Todxs somos López. Donde empieza la vida y termina la muerte

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    A chronicle on the days without Jorge Julio López, key witness and complainant on the first trial on genocide in Argentina, dated in 2006. López, who had survived through concentration camps on the late seventies argentinian dictatorship, disappeared...

    Todxs somos López. Donde empieza la vida y termina la muerte
  • 2016
    Orange Sunshine

    Orange Sunshine (2016)

    Orange Sunshine

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    The never-before-told story of the Brotherhood of Eternal Love – a spiritual group of surfers and hippies in Southern California that became the largest suppliers of psychedelic drugs in the world during the 1960s and early 1970s. Bonded by their dre...

    Orange Sunshine
  • 2025
    Kiss of the Spider Woman

    Kiss of the Spider Woman (2025)

    Kiss of the Spider Woman

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    Valentín, a political prisoner, shares a cell with Molina, a window dresser convicted of public indecency. The two form an unlikely bond as Molina recounts the plot of a Hollywood musical starring his favorite silver screen diva, Ingrid Luna....

    Kiss of the Spider Woman
  • 1991
    Fires Within

    Fires Within (1991)

    Fires Within

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    A Cuban emigre, living in Miami and involved in an affair with the American seaman who rescued her and her daughter years earlier, must face her husband after he is unexpectedly released from a Cuban prison....

    Fires Within
  • 1996
    Inside

    Inside (1996)

    Inside

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    A South African political prisoner is tortured to obtain information on apartheid conspirators. Ten years later, the head officer in charge of the questioning is similarly held as prisoner and questioned about his past offenses....

    Inside
  • 1974
    Hearts and Minds

    Hearts and Minds (1974)

    Hearts and Minds

    7.61974HD

    Many times during his presidency, Lyndon B. Johnson said that ultimate victory in the Vietnam War depended upon the U.S. military winning the "hearts and minds" of the Vietnamese people. Filmmaker Peter Davis uses Johnson's phrase in an ironic contex...

    Hearts and Minds
  • 1993
    Everyone Off to Jail

    Everyone Off to Jail (1993)

    Everyone Off to Jail

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    A prison in Valencia hosts an event recognizing political prisoners jailed during Franco’s reign. The reunion proves more raucous than the organizers intended....

    Everyone Off to Jail
  • 1991
    Warrior: The Life of Leonard Peltier

    Warrior: The Life of Leonard Peltier (1991)

    Warrior: The Life of Leonard Peltier

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    An intimate exploration of the circumstances surrounding the incarceration of Native American activist Leonard Peltier, convicted of murder in 1977, with commentary from those involved, including Peltier himself....

    Warrior: The Life of Leonard Peltier
  • 2010
    Burma Soldier

    Burma Soldier (2010)

    Burma Soldier

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    The story of Myo Myint, a political prisoner, who made the transformation from being a soldier in Burma's junta to a pro-democracy activist....

    Burma Soldier
  • 2007
    More Than Just a Game

    More Than Just a Game (2007)

    More Than Just a Game

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    Told through the stories of five former prisoners, this is the story of political activists sent to the notorious Robben Island prison in the 1960s by the apartheid regime, who rise above their incarceration by creating a football league and finding ...

    More Than Just a Game
  • 2018
    Belarus: An Ordinary Dictatorship

    Belarus: An Ordinary Dictatorship (2018)

    Belarus: An Ordinary Dictatorship

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    It’s the last dictatorship of Europe, caught in a Soviet time-warp, where the secret police is still called the KGB and the president rules by fear. Disappearances, political assassinations, waves of repression and mass arrests are all regular occura...

    Belarus: An Ordinary Dictatorship
  • 1982
    Presencia lejana

    Presencia lejana (1982)

    Presencia lejana

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    A documentary about Finnish twin sisters, one of whom disappeared in Argentina in 1977....

    Presencia lejana
  • 1989
    To's Story

    To's Story (1989)

    To's Story

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    The film's events revolve around a retired policeman who finds a young man chasing him everywhere he goes. He later learns that this young man is the son of a political prisoner who died in prison at his hands due to torture. Will the young man aveng...

    To's Story
  • 1989
    Golden Horseshoes

    Golden Horseshoes (1989)

    Golden Horseshoes

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    Youssef Soltane, a 45-year-old Tunisian intellectual, is the product of a generation that lived the era of euphoria and great ideologies in the sixties, and their subsequent failure. He was incarcerated and tortured for his political opinions. Furthe...

    Golden Horseshoes
  • 1995
    The Perez Family

    The Perez Family (1995)

    The Perez Family

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    In the midst of the Mariel boat lift -- a hurried exodus of refugees from Cuba going to America -- an immigration clerk accidentally presumes that dissident Juan Raul Perez and Dorita Evita Perez are married. United by their last name and a mutual re...

    The Perez Family
  • 1999
    The Right to Live in Peace

    The Right to Live in Peace (1999)

    The Right to Live in Peace

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    A moving portrait of Chilean singer-songwriter and political activist Victor Jara (1932-73) that chronicles the life of the talented artist who was imprisoned, tortured and machine-gunned by the country's dictatorship....

    The Right to Live in Peace
  • 2025
    Oxygen Station

    Oxygen Station (2025)

    Oxygen Station

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    Human rights activist and political prisoner Mustafa, who became known after his 303-days hunger strike in prison, is exiled to Siberia to work at an oxygen station. Three people across the country were headed towards him, each with very different go...

    Oxygen Station