Movies About Freedom and Oppression
Kinora's catalogue lists 158 films about freedom and oppression, spanning 1937–2024. Each is tagged by where and when it takes place — filter by real-world setting, era, and environment, or open any film for its full tagged world.
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- 2013
12 Years a Slave
Ruraldir. Steve McQueen - 2002
25th Hour
Urbandir. Spike Lee - 2007
300
Mountaindir. Zack Snyder - 2007
4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days
Urbandir. Cristian Mungiu - 1971
A Clockwork Orange
Urbandir. Stanley Kubrick - 1956
A Man Escaped
Urbandir. Robert Bresson - 1986
A Room with a View
Urban · Ruraldir. James Ivory - 2012
A Royal Affair
Urbandir. Nikolaj Arcel - 1977
A Special Day
Urbandir. Ettore Scola - 2017
A Taxi Driver
Urbandir. Jang Hoon - 2009
Agora
Urbandir. Alejandro Amenábar - 2016
American Honey
Rural · Suburbandir. Andrea Arnold - 1997
Amistad
Coastal Sea · Urbandir. Steven Spielberg - 1986
An American Tail
Urban · Ruraldir. Don Bluth - 2022
Argentina 1985
Urbandir. Santiago Mitre - 1969
Army of Shadows
Urbandir. Jean-Pierre Melville - 1987
Au Revoir les Enfants
Ruraldir. Louis Malle - 2009
Avatar
Off World · Wildernessdir. James Cameron - 2023
Barbie
Urbandir. Greta Gerwig - 2000
Before Night Falls
Urbandir. Julian Schnabel - 1966
Black Girl
Urban · Coastal Seadir. Ousmane Sembène - 2018
Black Panther
Urbandir. Ryan Coogler - 2017
Blade Runner 2049
Urbandir. Denis Villeneuve - 1987
Blind Chance
Urbandir. Krzysztof Kieślowski - 1967
Bonnie and Clyde
Ruraldir. Arthur Penn - 1995
Braveheart
Ruraldir. Mel Gibson - 1985
Brazil
Urbandir. Terry Gilliam - 1972
Cabaret
Urbandir. Bob Fosse - 2005
Caché
Urbandir. Michael Haneke - 2018
Capernaum
Urbandir. Nadine Labaki - 1943
Casablanca
Urbandir. Michael Curtiz - 2000
Chicken Run
Ruraldir. Peter Lord - 2006
Children of Men
Urbandir. Alfonso Cuarón - 2012
Cloud Atlas
Urban · Island · Coastal Sea · Off Worlddir. Lilly Wachowski - 2018
Cold War
Urban · Ruraldir. Paweł Pawlikowski - 1967
Cool Hand Luke
Ruraldir. Stuart Rosenberg - 2000
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
Mountain · Desertdir. Ang Lee - 1990
Dances with Wolves
Wilderness · Ruraldir. Kevin Costner - 1993
Dazed and Confused
Suburbandir. Richard Linklater - 1995
Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge
Urban · Ruraldir. Aditya Chopra - 2012
Django Unchained
Ruraldir. Quentin Tarantino - 1965
Doctor Zhivago
Urban · Ruraldir. David Lean - 2009
Dogtooth
Ruraldir. Yorgos Lanthimos - 1971
Duck, You Sucker
Rural · Desertdir. Sergio Leone - 2015
Embrace of the Serpent
Wilderness · Coastal Seadir. Ciro Guerra - 1998
Enemy of the State
Urbandir. Tony Scott - 1979
Escape from Alcatraz
Island · Coastal Seadir. Don Siegel - 1990
Europa Europa
Urbandir. Agnieszka Holland - 1973
Fantastic Planet
Off World · Wildernessdir. René Laloux - 1971
Fiddler on the Roof
Ruraldir. Norman Jewison - 1972
Fist of Fury
Urbandir. Lo Wei - 2016
Free State of Jones
Ruraldir. Gary Ross - 1982
Gandhi
Urban · Ruraldir. Richard Attenborough - 1987
Good Morning, Vietnam
Urbandir. Barry Levinson - 2005
Good Night, and Good Luck.
Urbandir. George Clooney - 1937
Grand Illusion
Rural · Mountaindir. Jean Renoir - 2004
Hotel Rwanda
Urbandir. Terry George - 1964
I Am Cuba
Urban · Rural · Mountaindir. Mikhail Kalatozov - 2009
Inglourious Basterds
Urban · Ruraldir. Quentin Tarantino - 2008
Ip Man
Urbandir. Wilson Yip - 2018
Isle of Dogs
Island · Urbandir. Wes Anderson - 2019
Jojo Rabbit
Urbandir. Taika Waititi - 2021
Judas and the Black Messiah
Urbandir. Shaka King - 1961
Judgment at Nuremberg
Urbandir. Stanley Kramer - 1996
Kolya
Urbandir. Jan Svěrák - 1997
Kundun
Mountain · Urbandir. Martin Scorsese - 2001
Lagaan: Once Upon a Time in India
Ruraldir. Ashutosh Gowariker - 1995
Land and Freedom
Rural · Urbandir. Ken Loach - 2018
Leave No Trace
Wilderness · Ruraldir. Debra Granik - 1997
Life Is Beautiful
Urbandir. Roberto Benigni - 1979
Life of Brian
Urban · Desertdir. Terry Jones - 1970
Little Big Man
Wilderness · Ruraldir. Arthur Penn - 1976
Logan's Run
Urban · Wildernessdir. Michael Anderson - 2015
Mad Max: Fury Road
Desert · Wildernessdir. George Miller - 1992
Malcolm X
Urbandir. Spike Lee - 2008
Milk
Urbandir. Gus Van Sant - 1976
Mr. Klein
Urbandir. Joseph Losey - 2012
No
Urbandir. Pablo Larraín - 2021
Nomadland
Rural · Wildernessdir. Chloé Zhao - 2000
O Brother, Where Art Thou?
Ruraldir. Joel Coen - 1994
Once Were Warriors
Urbandir. Lee Tamahori - 1975
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Undergrounddir. Miloš Forman - 2006
Pan's Labyrinth
Rural · Undergrounddir. Guillermo del Toro - 1973
Papillon
Island · Wildernessdir. Franklin J. Schaffner - 2007
Persepolis
Urbandir. Vincent Paronnaud - 1968
Planet of the Apes
Desertdir. Franklin J. Schaffner - 1998
Pleasantville
Suburbandir. Gary Ross - 2023
Poor Things
Urban · Coastal Seadir. Yorgos Lanthimos - 2019
Portrait of a Lady on Fire
Island · Coastal Seadir. Céline Sciamma - 2014
Pride
Rural · Urbandir. Matthew Warchus - 1951
Quo Vadis
Urbandir. Mervyn LeRoy - 1981
Reds
Urbandir. Warren Beatty - 2011
Rise of the Planet of the Apes
Urban · Suburban · Wildernessdir. Rupert Wyatt - 1945
Rome, Open City
Urbandir. Roberto Rossellini - 2022
RRR
Urban · Wildernessdir. S. S. Rajamouli - 1985
Runaway Train
Wildernessdir. Andrei Konchalovsky - 1986
Salvador
Urban · Ruraldir. Oliver Stone - 1954
Sansho the Bailiff
Rural · Coastal Seadir. Kenji Mizoguchi - 1993
Schindler's List
Urbandir. Steven Spielberg - 2014
Selma
Urban · Ruraldir. Ava DuVernay - 1984
Sexmission
Undergrounddir. Juliusz Machulski - 2016
Silence
Rural · Coastal Sea · Islanddir. Martin Scorsese - 1973
Sleeper
Urbandir. Woody Allen - 1982
Sophie's Choice
Urbandir. Alan J. Pakula - 1960
Spartacus
Ruraldir. Stanley Kubrick - 1977
Star Wars
Off World · Desertdir. George Lucas - 1997
Starship Troopers
Off Worlddir. Paul Verhoeven - 1978
The 36th Chamber of Shaolin
Ruraldir. Lau Kar-leung - 1960
The Alamo
dir. John Wayne - 1966
The Battle of Algiers
Urbandir. Gillo Pontecorvo - 2024
The Brutalist
Urbandir. Brady Corbet - 2023
The Creator
Urban · Rural · Off Worlddir. Gareth Edwards - 1969
The Cremator
Urbandir. Juraj Herz - 1959
The Diary of Anne Frank
Urbandir. George Stevens - 1980
The Empire Strikes Back
Off World · Wildernessdir. Irvin Kershner - 1940
The Great Dictator
Urbandir. Charlie Chaplin - 2016
The Handmaiden
Ruraldir. Park Chan-wook - 1959
The Human Condition I: No Greater Love
Ruraldir. Masaki Kobayashi - 1990
The Hunt for Red October
Coastal Seadir. John McTiernan - 1984
The Killing Fields
Urban · Rural · Wildernessdir. Roland Joffé - 1956
The King and I
Urbandir. Walter Lang - 2006
The Last King of Scotland
Urbandir. Kevin Macdonald - 1980
The Last Metro
Urbandir. François Truffaut - 2006
The Lives of Others
Urbandir. Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck - 1999
The Matrix
Urban · Off Worlddir. Lana Wachowski - 1986
The Mission
Wilderness · Ruraldir. Roland Joffé - 1985
The Official Story
Urbandir. Luis Puenzo - 2000
The Patriot
Ruraldir. Roland Emmerich - 2019
The Peanut Butter Falcon
Rural · Coastal Seadir. Tyler Nilson - 2002
The Pianist
Urbandir. Roman Polanski - 1993
The Piano
Coastal Sea · Wilderness · Ruraldir. Jane Campion - 1998
The Prince of Egypt
Desert · Urbandir. Simon Wells - 1994
The Shawshank Redemption
Urbandir. Frank Darabont - 1965
The Sound of Music
Urban · Mountaindir. Robert Wise - 1975
The Stepford Wives
Suburbandir. Bryan Forbes - 1956
The Ten Commandments
Desert · Urbandir. Cecil B. DeMille - 1962
The Trial
Urbandir. Orson Welles - 2020
The Trial of the Chicago 7
Urbandir. Aaron Sorkin - 1998
The Truman Show
Island · Coastal Seadir. Peter Weir - 1988
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Urban · Ruraldir. Philip Kaufman - 1973
The Way We Were
dir. Sydney Pollack - 2006
The Wind That Shakes the Barley
Rural · Mountaindir. Ken Loach - 2005
The World's Fastest Indian
Rural · Desert · Urbandir. Roger Donaldson - 2023
The Zone of Interest
Urbandir. Jonathan Glazer - 1991
Thelma & Louise
Rural · Desertdir. Ridley Scott - 1971
THX 1138
Underground · Urbandir. George Lucas - 2014
Timbuktu
Desertdir. Abderrahmane Sissako - 1942
To Be or Not to Be
Urbandir. Ernst Lubitsch - 1945
To Have and Have Not
Island · Coastal Seadir. Howard Hawks - 1990
Total Recall
Off World · Underground · Urbandir. Paul Verhoeven - 1996
Trainspotting
Urbandir. Danny Boyle - 1952
Viva Zapata!
Ruraldir. Elia Kazan - 2012
Wadjda
Urbandir. Haifaa al-Mansour - 2017
War for the Planet of the Apes
Wilderness · Mountain · Undergrounddir. Matt Reeves - 1978
Watership Down
Rural · Wilderness · Undergrounddir. Martin Rosen - 1964
Woman in the Dunes
Coastal Sea · Rural · Desertdir. Hiroshi Teshigahara - 2000
X-Men
Urbandir. Bryan Singer - 1969
Z
Urbandir. Costa-Gavras
Frequently asked
How many movies are about freedom and oppression?
Kinora's catalogue lists 158 films about freedom and oppression, spanning 1937–2024.
What are some movies about freedom and oppression?
Films about freedom and oppression in our catalogue include 12 Years a Slave (2013), 25th Hour (2002), 300 (2007), 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (2007), and A Clockwork Orange (1971).
What is the oldest movie about freedom and oppression?
Grand Illusion (1937) is the earliest film about freedom and oppression in our catalogue; the most recent is The Brutalist (2024).