Updated Left-Themed Movie List

[CynicalIdealist]

If anyone would like to type their own description for a movie on the list, go ahead and I'll edit it in. Feel free to suggest new movies as well, as I'll be editing those in too.

1 Giant Leap
17 Moments of Spring
30 Frames a Second
1900
1984
4 Little Girls
9 to 5
A Clockwork Orange
A Cruel Story of Youth
A Further Gesture
A Huey P. Newton Story
A King in New York
Angelic Orgasm
A Scanner Darkly
A State of Mind
Admiral
Afro-Punk
After Stonewall
Alexander Nevsky
Amandla! A Revolution in Four Part Harmony
American Psycho
Anarchism In America
Apocalypse Now
Army of Shadows
Baader Meinhof Komplex
Bad Boy Bubby
Battle in Seattle
Ballad of a Soldier
Band of Outsiders
Battle of Blair Mountain
Battle Royale
Battleship Potemkin
Before Stonewall
Behold, A Pale Horse
Berkeley in the 60s
Bezhin Meadows
Black Fury
Blade Runner
Blame it on Fidel
Bloody Sunday
Blue Collar
Blue Notebook
Born into Brothels
Bowling for Columbine
Boy
Brazil
Bread and Roses
Breathless
Breathless
Britannia Hospital
Can Dialectics Break Bricks?
Casa de los Babys
Cecil B. Demented
Century of the Self
Chapaev
Chavez: Inside the Coup
Che
Choices of the Heart
City of God
Classe operaia va in paradiso, La
COINTELPRO: The FBI's War on Black America
Control Room (documentary on Al-Jazeera channel)
Coup D'Etat
Coverup - Behind the Iran-Contra Affair
Crab Canning Ship
Cradle Will Rock
Cranes Are Flying
Cria Cuervos
Crude
Cry Freedom
Danton
Darkness at Noon
Dawn of the Dead
Day of the Dead
Dead Presidents
Death By Hanging
Death in Gaza
Der Baader Meinhof Komplex
Devil in the Land of the Sun
Diabolik
Diary of a Shinjuku Thief
Discovering Dominga
Divine Intervention
Dockers (TV show)
Dr. Strangelove
Duze Zwierze
Earth
Eat the Rich
Eejainka
EEUU vs Allende
Eight Men Out
El Angel Exterminador
El Desencanto
El Juego de Arcibel
El Memoria del Saqueo
Elegy to Violence
Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room
Eros Plus Massacre
Espana 1936
Facing Arthur
Fahrenheit 451
Fahrenheit 9/11
Fail Safe
Father Roy: Inside the School of the Assassins
Fight Club
Fires on the Plain
Flock of Dodos: The Evolution-Intelligent Design Circus
For Whom the Bell Tolls
Frozen River
Full Metal Jacket
Germany Year Zero
Giants and Toys
Go, Go Second Time Virgin
Good Men, Good Women
Goodbye, Lenin
Goodbye, South, Goodbye
Great Citizen
Guerrillera
Harlan County USA
Hawaii’s Last Queen
Hearts and Minds
Held Hostage in Colombia
Heroes for Sale
Hidden Agenda
Hidden Wars of Desert Storm
High Noon
Hiroshima mon Amour
Hostile Whirlwinds
I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang
If...
Ikiru
Il Posto
Ilha das Flores
In the Name of the Father
In the Time of the Butterflies
Incident at Oglala
Innocent Voices
Ivan The Terrible
I Will Buy You
Joyeux Noel
La Chinoise
La Commune
La Grande Illusion
La Regle Du Jeu
La Haine
La Hija de la Puma
La Jetee
La Ley de Herodes.
La Voie Lactee
L'Armee du Crime aka Army of Crime
Land and Freedom
Land of the Dead
Land without Bread
L'Armee des Ombres
Last Year at Marienbad
Latcho Drom
Le chagrin et la Pitie (The Sorrow and the Pity)
Le Fantôme de la Liberté
Le Salaire de la Peur
Lenin in Poland
Libertarias
Life and Debt
Like a Tombola
Look back in Anger
Los Olvidados
Los Olvidados
Lucky Man!
Machuca
Malcolm X
Man With a Gun
Manufacturing Consent
Maria’s Story
Masculin, Feminin
Matewan
Meeting Place Should Not Be Changed
Memories of Underdevelopment
Men With Guns,
Metropolis
Michael Collins
Mickey Mouse Goes To Haiti
Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters
Missing
Mississippi Burning
Modern Times
Molly Maguires
Monsieur Verdoux
Moolade
Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears
My Apprenticeship
My Brother is an Only Child
My Universities
Night and Fog in Japan
Night of the Living Dead
No Man's Land
Noch Nad Chili
Norma Rae
Nuit et Brouillard
October
Oh Lucky Man! and Brittani Hospital
Once Upon a Time in the West
One Day in September
Orwell Rolls In His Grave
Osama
Our Daily Bread
Paisa
Panther
Peking Opera Trilogy
Persepolis
Pierrot Le Fou
Pigs and Battleships
Pitfall
Platoon
Próxima Salida
Punishment Park
Que É Isso, Companheiro? "Four Days in September"
Quilombo
Quiz Show
Rabbit Proof Fence
Red Angel
Red Cherry
Reds
Reefer Madness (Restored Edition)
Return of Maksim
Roger and Me
Rosa Luxemburg
Rojo Amanecer
Rome, Open City
Romero
S.O.A. - School of Assassins
Salt of the Earth
Salvador
Sarafina
Shadows
Shchors
Silmido
Society
Society of the Spectacle
Some Mother’s Son
Sometimes In April
Soy Cuba
Spy Sorge
Stachka
Steal This Movie
Stonewall
Stories About Lenin
Storm Over Asia
Strawberry Statement
Strike
Stroszek
Sub Terra
Surplus
Sweet Movie
Terra em Transe
The American Ruling Class
The Battle for Chile
The Battle of Algiers
The Bicycle Thief
The Big One
The Ceremony
The Childhood of Maxim Gorky
The Coca-Cola Case
The Corporation
The Cradle Will Rock
The Crowd
The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
The Earth Trembles
The Edukators
The Fever
The Forgotten Faces
The General Line
The Grapes of Wrath
The Great Dictator
The Harder They Come
The History of Post War Japan As Told By a Bar Hostess
The Hurricane
The Iron Giant
The Irony of Fate, or Enjoy your Bath!
The Killing Fields
The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner
The Matrix
The Milagro Beanfield War
The Motorcycle Diaries
The Murder of Fred Hampton
The Panama Deception
The Power of Nightmares
The Proud Valley
The Revolution Will Not Be Televised
The Shining
The Spanish Earth
The Spook Who Sat by the Door
The Story of Qui Ju
The Sun's Burial
The Take
The Thin Blue Line
The Trap
The Treasure of Sierra Madre
The Trial of Henry Kissinger
The Trotsky
The Vyborg Side
The Weather Underground
The Wobblies
The Young One
Themroc
There Will Be Blood
They Live
This Is What Democracy Looks Like
Thunderheart
To Live aka Lifetimes
Touki Bouki
Trainspotting
Tree of the Wooden Clogs,
Two or Three Things I Know about Her
Umberto D.
Underground
United Red Army
V for Vendetta
Venezuela Bolivariana: Pueblo Y Lucha de la IV Guerra Mundial
Vincent Cassell
Viridiana
Viva Zapata
Waking Life
Waltz With Bashir
War and Youth
Warui Yatsu Hodo Yoku Nemuru
We Are From Kronstadt
Weapons of Mass Deception
Week End
What To Do In Case Of Fire
When We Were Kings
White Dog
Why We Fight
Wild Boys of the Road
Winter Soldier
Wizards
Xala
Yakov Sverdlov
You Can’t Be Neutral on a Moving Train
Youth of Maksim
Z

[Pirate Utopian]

How can you have Night of the Living Dead and then miss Day, Dawn or Land of the Dead?

[CynicalIdealist]

How can you have Night of the Living Dead and then miss Day, Dawn or Land of the Dead?

Noted. I've added them to the list.

[x359594]

Some Japanese titles:

Pigs and Battleships
The History of Post War Japan As Told By a Bar Hostess
Eejainka
Night and Fog in Japan
The Sun's Burial
Diary of a Shinjuku Thief
The Ceremony
Boy
Death By Hanging
Spy Sorge
A Cruel Story of Youth
Fires on the Plain
I Will Buy You
Giants and Toys
Red Angel
Go, Go Second Time Virgin
Angelic Orgasm
United Red Army
Crab Canning Ship
Darkness at Noon
War and Youth

[Red Commissar]

It would be good (I think) to organize these movies by genre as well.

[Iraultzaile Ezkerreko]

30 Frames a Second is a good documentary of the Seattle WTO protests from the perspective of an independent photojournalist in the midst of it all.

[CynicalIdealist]

Ideas for genres or other sorts of categories? I'm not quite sure how to set that up...

[Iraultzaile Ezkerreko]

Another good one on the Seattle protests is called "This Is What Democracy Looks Like".

[Manic Impressive]

Another good one on the Seattle protests is called "This Is What Democracy Looks Like".
Also Battle in Seattle about the same thing i'm guessing

[The Idler]

Again, proper database > list.

[Red Commissar]

Ideas for genres or other sorts of categories? I'm not quite sure how to set that up...

Well for one you can easily sort out the "documentaries" into a separate genre. From there it's a matter of deciding if the other films are action, comedy, drama, historical, etc. What ever criteria you think is appropriate. Might be helpful for those who may want a comedy or documentary and not have to wiki each one to see what it is.

At the moment, to me at least, it just seems like a big list that is hard to shift through. I'd suggest the same routine for the rest of your lists.

[Political_Chucky]

Again, proper database > list.

I prefer what The Idler recommend, using HUNCH. I'm sure you took a lot of time to create this and I'm grateful for the movie and books thread, but I just look at it and see a big list.

[CynicalIdealist]

I'm not privy on how to make this "database." Help? :(

[Chimurenga.]

Edit: my post was sort of a joke that no one got.

[The Idler]

Easiest way is to join hunch (http://www.hunch.com) then go to More then Create topic if there isn't already a topic. Then More then Add Result or Add Question.

[Hexen]

There are no left wing films made (nor to be made) under capitalism. The closest ones are made in the Soviet Union and just compare those films with films made in capitalist societies to see how their philosophies differ.

[Bombay]

Imdb link for every movie would be nice. This is a good list BTW:)

[Os Cangaceiros]

Bad Boy Bubby (1993)
Rosa Luxemburg (1986)
Society (1989)
What To Do In Case Of Fire? (2001)

[Os Cangaceiros]

A few others:

The Forgotten Faces (1961) (Peter Watkins short film about the Hungarian Revolution)
Themroc (1973)
Dead Presidents (1995)
Orwell Rolls In His Grave (2003)

[Magón]

L'Armee du Crime aka Army of Crime. Saw it last year, it's about the French Resistance, or at least a piece of it.

[RED DAVE]

Great list, CI. I could quibble and push my objections, etc. I suggest that movies that begin with "the" and "a" should be alphabetized by their second word.

RED DAVE

[CynicalIdealist]

Bump

[brigadista]

If moulaade and xala are on that list you could add Ceddo also an Ousmane Sembele film

also Laagan about indian villagers resistance to the raj through a game of cricket -with songs!

[pranabjyoti]

1984 is left themed movie? What is definition of "left-theme"?

[Oswy]

Here are films that I think have 'left leaning' themes (and which I also like):

Body of Lies (2008).
City of God (2002).
Green Zone (2010).
Michael Clayton (2007).
State of Play (2009).
Syriana (2005).
The Edukators (2004).

[Comrade J]

The Wind That Shakes The Barley

It's a Ken Loach film about Irish freedom fighters. Pretty much anything by Ken Loach can be on this list tbh. I see Land and Freedom already is, one of my favourite films of all time, everyone should see it.

[praxis1966]

This Revolution (Marshall, 2005) - Decent film about black blocs in the '04 RNC protests in New York

[GallowsBird]

What about:

A Bullet For The General/El Chucho, quién sabe?

Sacco and Vanzetti/Sacco e Vanzetti

Django

The Mercenary/A Professional Gun/Il mercenario

The Great Silence/Il grande silenzio

Vamos a matar, compañeros

The Big Gundown/La resa dei conti

Face to face/Faccia a faccia

Run, Man, Run/Corri uomo corri

The Five Man Army/Un esercito di cinque uomini

Tepepa

Il Postino: The Postman/Il postino

Winstanley

[BougieandTheBanshees]

The dogme film, Festen, has some interesting anti-patriarchal themes. (Can't post an IMDB because I don't have enough posts.)

[Philosopher Jay]

The majority of movies made have been left-themed movies. The list could easily be expanded to include thousands of movies. Perhaps socialist-themed movies would be more appropriate.
Sidney Lumet, who died yesterday at the age of 86, made a number of progressive films, including, "12 Angry Men," "Fail Safe," "Network," "Serpico," "The Fugitive Kind," "Dog Day Afternoon," "Daniel," and "the Verdict"

Here are a few more:
All Quiet on the Western Front (Milestone, 1931)
All the President's Men
Alexander the Great (Stone, 2005)
Amazing Grace
And starring Pancho Villa as Himself
"Angels in America"
Benito
Black Legion
Born on the Fourth of July
Bound for Glory
Boxcar Bertha (Scorsese, 1972)
Catch 22
Cinderella Man
Citizen Kane
Days of Heaven
Dorothy Parker and the Vicious Circle
Duck Soup
Everyday People
Four Friends
Frida
Gangs of New York
Goodnight and Good Luck
Grand Illusion
Grapes of Wrath
Guilty by Suspicion
Havana
High Noon
Inherit the Wind
I love Huckabees
Iron-Jawed Angels
Kino-eye
Lady From Shanghai
La Marseillaise
Life is Beautiful
Love and Anarchy
M.A.S.H.
McCabe and Mrs. Miller
Moll Flanders
Mona Lisa Smiles
Ninotchka
On the Beach
Paths of Glory
Priest
Queen Christina
Ragtime
Rosenstrasse
The Affair of the Necklace
The China Syndrome
The Devils
The Emperor's Club
The Great Escape
The Hucksucker Proxy
The Man Who Would Be King
The North Star
The Pentagon Papers
The Price Winner of Defiance Ohio
The Way We Were
Three Days of the Condor
This Property is Condemned
Spartacus
Stage Beauty
Thank you for Not Smoking
To Kill a Mockingbird
Tucker
Wag the Dog
Waitress
War, Inc.
Women in Love