Movies About Freedom and Oppression

Kinora's catalogue lists 68 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

  New York City · New Orleans · Louisiana — 1800s
  Ruraldir. Steve McQueen
• 2002

  25th Hour

  New York City — 2000s
  Urbandir. Spike Lee
• 2007

  4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days

  1980s
  Urbandir. Cristian Mungiu
• 1971

  A Clockwork Orange

  London — Near Future
  Urbandir. Stanley Kubrick
• 1986

  A Room with a View

  Florence · Surrey — 1900s
  Urban · Ruraldir. James Ivory
• 2016

  American Honey

  Kansas City — 2010s
  Rural · Suburbandir. Andrea Arnold
• 1969

  Army of Shadows

  Paris · Marseille · London — 1940s
  Urbandir. Jean-Pierre Melville
• 1987

  Au Revoir les Enfants

  France — 1940s
  Ruraldir. Louis Malle
• 1966

  Black Girl

  Dakar · French Riviera — 1960s
  Urban · Coastal Seadir. Ousmane Sembène
• 2017

  Blade Runner 2049

  Los Angeles · Las Vegas — Near Future
  Urbandir. Denis Villeneuve
• 1967

  Bonnie and Clyde

  Texas — 1930s
  Ruraldir. Arthur Penn
• 1972

  Cabaret

  Berlin — 1930s
  Urbandir. Bob Fosse
• 2005

  Caché

  Paris — 2000s
  Urbandir. Michael Haneke
• 2018

  Capernaum

  Beirut — 2010s
  Urbandir. Nadine Labaki
• 1943

  Casablanca

  Casablanca — 1940s
  Urbandir. Michael Curtiz
• 2006

  Children of Men

  London — Near Future
  Urbandir. Alfonso Cuarón
• 2018

  Cold War

  Poland · Berlin · Paris · Yugoslavia — 1940s · 1950s · 1960s
  Urban · Ruraldir. Paweł Pawlikowski
• 1967

  Cool Hand Luke

  Florida — 1950s
  Ruraldir. Stuart Rosenberg
• 2000

  Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon

  Beijing — 1700s
  Mountain · Desertdir. Ang Lee
• 1990

  Dances with Wolves

  Kansas — 1800s
  Wilderness · Ruraldir. Kevin Costner
• 1993

  Dazed and Confused

  1970s
  Suburbandir. Richard Linklater
• 1995

  Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge

  London · Punjab — 1990s
  Urban · Ruraldir. Aditya Chopra
• 2012

  Django Unchained

  Mississippi · Texas — 1800s
  Ruraldir. Quentin Tarantino
• 2015

  Embrace of the Serpent

  1900s · 1910s · 1940s
  Wilderness · Coastal Seadir. Ciro Guerra
• 1998

  Enemy of the State

  Washington, D.C. · Baltimore — 1990s
  Urbandir. Tony Scott
• 2016

  Free State of Jones

  Mississippi — 1800s · 1940s
  Ruraldir. Gary Ross
• 1987

  Good Morning, Vietnam

  Ho Chi Minh City — 1960s
  Urbandir. Barry Levinson
• 1937

  Grand Illusion

  France · Germany — 1910s
  Rural · Mountaindir. Jean Renoir
• 2007

  Into the Wild

  Alaska — 1990s
  Wilderness · Ruraldir. Sean Penn
• 2021

  Judas and the Black Messiah

  Chicago — 1960s
  Urbandir. Shaka King
• 1961

  Judgment at Nuremberg

  Nuremberg — 1940s
  Urbandir. Stanley Kramer
• 2001

  Lagaan: Once Upon a Time in India

  India — 1800s
  Ruraldir. Ashutosh Gowariker
• 2018

  Leave No Trace

  Portland · Washington — 2010s
  Wilderness · Ruraldir. Debra Granik
• 2015

  Mad Max: Fury Road

  Near Future
  Desert · Wildernessdir. George Miller
• 1992

  Malcolm X

  New York City · Boston · Mecca — 1940s · 1950s · 1960s
  Urbandir. Spike Lee
• 2021

  Nomadland

  Nevada · Arizona · South Dakota · California — 2010s
  Rural · Wildernessdir. Chloé Zhao
• 2000

  O Brother, Where Art Thou?

  1930s
  Ruraldir. Joel Coen
• 1994

  Once Were Warriors

  Auckland — 1990s
  Urbandir. Lee Tamahori
• 1975

  One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

  Oregon — 1960s
  Undergrounddir. Miloš Forman
• 2006

  Pan's Labyrinth

  Spain — 1940s
  Rural · Undergrounddir. Guillermo del Toro
• 2007

  Persepolis

  Tehran · Paris · Vienna — 1970s · 1980s
  Urbandir. Vincent Paronnaud
• 2023

  Poor Things

  London · Lisbon · Alexandria · Paris — 1800s
  Urban · Coastal Seadir. Yorgos Lanthimos
• 2019

  Portrait of a Lady on Fire

  Brittany — 1700s
  Island · Coastal Seadir. Céline Sciamma
• 1945

  Rome, Open City

  Rome — 1940s
  Urbandir. Roberto Rossellini
• 1985

  Runaway Train

  1980s
  Wildernessdir. Andrei Konchalovsky
• 1954

  Sansho the Bailiff

  Japan — Medieval
  Rural · Coastal Seadir. Kenji Mizoguchi
• 1993

  Schindler's List

  Kraków · Auschwitz — 1940s
  Urbandir. Steven Spielberg
• 2014

  Selma

  Selma · Alabama — 1960s
  Urban · Ruraldir. Ava DuVernay
• 1960

  Spartacus

  Rome — Ancient
  Ruraldir. Stanley Kubrick
• 1966

  The Battle of Algiers

  Algiers — 1950s
  Urbandir. Gillo Pontecorvo
• 2024

  The Brutalist

  Philadelphia · New York City · Venice — 1940s · 1950s · 1980s
  Urbandir. Brady Corbet
• 1940

  The Great Dictator

  1930s
  Urbandir. Charlie Chaplin
• 2016

  The Handmaiden

  South Korea — 1930s
  Ruraldir. Park Chan-wook
• 2006

  The Lives of Others

  Berlin — 1980s
  Urbandir. Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck
• 1999

  The Matrix

  Far Future
  Urban · Off Worlddir. Lana Wachowski
• 1985

  The Official Story

  Buenos Aires — 1980s
  Urbandir. Luis Puenzo
• 2019

  The Peanut Butter Falcon

  2010s
  Rural · Coastal Seadir. Tyler Nilson
• 2002

  The Pianist

  Warsaw — 1940s
  Urbandir. Roman Polanski
• 1993

  The Piano

  New Zealand — 1800s
  Coastal Sea · Wilderness · Ruraldir. Jane Campion
• 1994

  The Shawshank Redemption

  Maine — 1940s · 1950s · 1960s
  Urbandir. Frank Darabont
• 1975

  The Stepford Wives

  Connecticut — 1970s
  Suburbandir. Bryan Forbes
• 1998

  The Truman Show

  1990s
  Island · Coastal Seadir. Peter Weir
• 2005

  The World's Fastest Indian

  Invercargill · Los Angeles · Utah — 1960s
  Rural · Desert · Urbandir. Roger Donaldson
• 2023

  The Zone of Interest

  Auschwitz — 1940s
  Urbandir. Jonathan Glazer
• 1991

  Thelma & Louise

  Arkansas — 1990s
  Rural · Desertdir. Ridley Scott
• 2014

  Timbuktu

  Timbuktu — 2010s
  Desertdir. Abderrahmane Sissako
• 1996

  Trainspotting

  Edinburgh · London — 1990s
  Urbandir. Danny Boyle
• 2012

  Wadjda

  Riyadh — 2000s
  Urbandir. Haifaa al-Mansour