Suggest me leftist films to watch

I watched the (kinda original) magnificent seven last night for the first time.

I was rather surprised at how leftist it came across for a movie that appeals to so many conservative baby boomers.

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The matrix

Adam Curtis
The Trap
Bitter Lake

is shit

More surreal and symbolic than other films mentioned but it's pretty leftist.

passion of the mao is kinda good though it does have a bit of a maoist bias

youtube.com/watch?v=070ulfmvtLA

Burn (Queimada) 1969
Pelle the Conquerer (Danish/Swedish, 1987)
Breaking with Old Ideas (revolutionary China 1975)
Yol (Turkey/kurdistan, Yilmaz Guney, 1982)
Spartacus (U.S. 1960)
Battleship Potemkin (1925 USSR, and other films by Sergei Eisenstein, but not Ivan the Terrible).

The Matrix (1999)
Reds (Warren Beatty 1981)
Land and Freedom (and others by Ken Loach)
Lone Star (1996, and others by John Sayles)
Les Chinoise (1967, and others by Jean-Luc Goddard)
The Shining (1980, and others by Stanley Kubrick)

La Commune (2000, 5 hour film about Paris Commune, Peter Watkins)
Matewan (1987, also by John Sayles)
Wind That Shakes the Barley (2006 also by Ken Loach)
The Wall (click for video of Yilmaz Guney making this 1983 film, aka Duvar in Turkish)
Bethune: The Making of a Hero (1989, Phillip Borsos, and starring the communist actor Donald Sutherland)

Affliction (1998, and other films by Paul Schrader)
1900 (and other films by Bernardo Bertolucci)
Dawn of the Dead (1978 version and other films by George A. Romero)The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (ditto Luis Buñuel)
The Cook, the Thief, the Wife and Her Lover (1989, Peter Greenaway)
Audition (1999) and Visitor Q (2001, Takashi Miikei)
Hostel 1 (2005) and 2 (2007, Horror films by Eli Roth)

Marat/Sade (1963 play by Peter Weiss, 1967 film adaptation directed by Peter Brook)
Berlin Alexanderplatz (14-part German 1980 television series by Rainer Fassbinder)
Gospel according to St. Matthew (1964, directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini)

Rome, Open City (1945, Roberto Rosselini)
Salt of the Earth (1954, Herbert Biberman)
Modern Times (1936 Charlie Chaplin)
The Great Dictator (Chaplin)
Metropolis (F. Lang)
Dr. Strangelove (Kubrick)
Our Daily Bread (K. Vidor)
Point of Order! (1964 de Antonio & Robert Duncan–documentary of McCarthy hearings)
The Front (1976 M. Ritt)
Guilty by Suspicion (1991 I. Winkler, based on play “The Crucible” by Arthur Miller, see also his 1996 film “The Crucible“)
Shadows (1959, J. Cassavettes)
Woman Under the Influence (1974, John Cassavettes)
The Informer (1935, John Ford)
La Soldadera (J. Bolaños)
Land Without Bread (Bunuel)

The Bloody History of U.S. Imperialism
* "Guatemala: A Coup Made In America" - Film on U.S. Coup in Guatemala.
* "The New Rulers of the World" (2001) - Film on U.S. Intervention.
* "The War on Democracy" (2007) - A film on U.S. Intervention in Latin America.
* 638 Ways to Kill Castro (2006) - A film on U.S. attacks on the Cuban Revolution.
* Against the Silence: The Cuban Five (2009) - A film 5 Cuban Political Prisoners.
* Occupation 101 - A film on Palestine and Zionist Terrorism.
* The Revolution Will Not Be Televised (2002)- A film on the U.S. coup in Venezuela.
* The Road to Guantanamo (2006) - A film on U.S. Prison Camp "GITMO."
* The Secret Government (1987) - A film on the war crime of the CIA.
* The War of 33 (2008) - A film on Isreali Terror in Lebanon.
* ¡Que viva México! (1932) - A film on the colonial subjugation of Mexico.

The Ruthless Capitalist System
* Battle of Algiers (1966) - Film on Algerian Resistance to French Colonialism.
* Capitalism and Other Kid Stuff (2005) - A film showing the logic of capitalism.
* Killing Us Softly: How The Media Portrays Women - A film on Sexism in the media.
* OutFoxed: Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism (2004) - A film bias of FOX news.
* Sicko (2008) - A film on the brutality of U.S. Capitalist Healthcare.
* Strike (1925) - A film showing workers in Czarist Russia on Strike.
* The Corporation (2003) - A film showing the history of Corporate Capitalism.
* Who Killed the Electric Car? (2006) - A film on the destruction of clean energy.

Socialist Countries
* China: Breaking With Old Ideas (1975) - A film on the Chinese Student Uprisings.
* China: The East is Red (1964) - A film of the hit Chinese Ballet.
* China: The Red Detachment of Women (1961) - A film of another Chinese Ballet.
* Do Communists Have Better Sex? (2006) - Sexual Relations in Germany after WWII.
* "Oktober: Ten Days That Shook the World" (1927) - The Russian Revolution on film.
* "The Battle of Russia" (1943) - U.S. documentary on Russian Resistance to Nazis.
* "The Battleship Potempkin" (1925) - Film on Russian Sailor uprisings.

Revolutions Currently in Progress
* "Who is Mugabe? Who are ZANU-PF?" - Film on the Zimbabwe Revolution.
* "Guerilla Girl" (2005) - Film showing a woman who enlists in a FARC militia.
* NO VOLVERAN:The Venezuelan Revolution Now - Film on the Progress of Bolivarianism.
* Eight Glorious Years of Nepali People's War (2006) - Film on Nepali Civil War.
* "Blazing Trial" - Film on the Maoist Insurrection in India.
* "People of the Shining Path" (2004) - Film on the Peruvian Maoist Rebels.

Films on Revolutionary History in the U.S.
* "The Salt of the Earth" (1954) - Film on Miner's Strike in the Southwest U.S.
* Berkeley in the Sixites (1990) - Film of student insurrections at UC Berkeley.
* COINTELPRO: The FBI War on Black America - Film on FBI terrorism.
* Framing an Execution: The Media and Mumia Abu Jamal (2001) - Film on Media Lies.
* Incident at Oglala (1992) - Film on the Native American Rebellion in South Dakota.
* Legacy of Torture: The War Against Black Liberation (2007) - Film on FBI Terror.
* Malcolm X: Make It Plain (2005) - Film on the life of Malcolm X.
* The Murder of Fred Hampton (1971) - Film on the FBI murder of a Black Panther.
* The Times of Harvey Milk (1984) - Film on Harvey Milk and his assassination.
* The United States v. John Lennon (2006) - FBI attacks on John Lennon.
* You Can Fight City Hall (1985) - On LGBT struggle in Columbus, OH.

(saved from an old Kasama list)

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Animal farm 1954
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Is this a joke? Most films are leftist.

I've seen several people who didn't like Elysium, but personally I liked it a lot.

Are you just delusional or what?

Do you disagree that neoliberalism is the hegemonic ideology in the west?

"liberalism" isn't leftist, it's center right at best
politicalcompass.org/uselection2008

Like clockwork.

There is nothing wrong with Good Bye Lenin!

Donald Sutherland is a gommie bandit?

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some films on the list are bs, others golden

Thanks that was very useful

How is The Matrix lefty?

he died with a falafel in his hand

It's based on Simulacra and Simulation by Jean Baudrillard.

Why don't you cut the bs ones out then

And Baudrillard himself said it was rubbish based on a misunderstanding of his ideas

There are only misunderstandings of ideas.

It is literally about despooking and rebelling against a ruling class for liberation of the people.

The perverts guide to ideology.

"all films are cuckold gommie propaganda" isn't an argument, either

The important thing to take away here is that the Matrix is not leftist and being based on a book by some pomo philosopher is not a good criteria of a film being leftist.

I wonder how many films on that list you copy-pasted you have watched considered you haven't even bothered to separate the shit from the gold. what the fuck are you even doing here?

TBH They Live did it better, as well as the 'they think we commies, trying to bring down the government line' is pretty eyebrow raisey now.

True but the matrix was subversive enough to catch normies as well

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Very spooky. Pomo is here to destroy western civilization.

Around 1/3. It's a large list. The largest ITT.

No, u.

Made by two trannies. White guys are all evil establishment villains. Good guys are diverse computer hackers living in an underground communist society. Gets even more blatant when you realize Will Smith was the original lead.

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It's not. It's just Plato's Cave Myth.

It caught normies with action scenes that, while technically impressive for their time, weren't as impressive in choreography as something like Hard Boiled, or martial arts movies.

There's a stark difference between idpolers, and the class conscious. They also debate on this board. Also, most of the heroes were white too. Least in the first one. In the third one, they beat up gay people. Doesn't matter anyway, since it doesn't talk about the organization of labor.

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Watch some films, faggot.

GUYS

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It's not a movie, but Rebellion is a good mini series about the Easter Uprising. There were a few historical inaccuracies here and there, but I enjoyed it a lot.

Metropia (2009)

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surprised no one's mentioned capra yet. he doesn't even bother to be subtle
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also would someone like to recommend me a ken loach film which doesn't have me slitting my wrists by halfway. i'll never stop regretting having watched sweet sixteen.

Great movie. Kobo Abe was a communist btw.

Downfall.
It's a German film about the final days of the Third Reich.