Films about Arab socialist struggles

[Arlekino]

Hello all
Would anybody can recommend me to watch films with English subtitles about Arab socialist or communist struggles. I watched "Battle of Algeria" it was good.
Thanks a lot of

[Spets]

I second this.

[GiantMonkeyMan]

I can't off the top of my head think of many arabic films specifically about socialism but there are a couple good ones that place themselves against western imperialsm and local authoritarianism. Sag-haye velgard (2004) is a neorealist film about two children in Afghanistan struggling to survive after their mother has been imprisoned for 'adultery' and their father in guantanamo bay. Quite depressing but it's very worth the watch. You should also check out the works of Tahmineh Milani who is an Iranian feminist director who makes films mainly about the treatment of women in Iran and the middle east.

[Aspiring Humanist]

There is a 3 part TV series on Netflix instant about Carlos the Jackal and a good part of the movie deals with his involvement with the PFLP. It's obviously a dramaticized version, I don't really know how historically accurate it is aside from the general outline of his life.

[Arlekino]

Thanks a lot of seems not many available to watch. There is on Asian film which I would like to recommend.
Mother of 1084 part of a rebel group often referred to as "Naxalbari", a militant leftist group.

[Arm Cathartha na hÉireann]

Thanks a lot of seems not many available to watch. There is on Asian film which I would like to recommend.
Mother of 1084 part of a rebel group often referred to as "Naxalbari", a militant leftist group.
There’s another Indian Film maker called Mrinal Sen that deals with the ‘Naxalbari’ aswell. Channel for showed a film called Padatik aka The Guerilla Fighter (part of a triliogy) a couple of months ago and is available on youtube, I think. I personally didn’t like film (was on very late though, so wasnt really focused much) but others might.

[bcbm]

There is a 3 part TV series on Netflix instant about Carlos the Jackal and a good part of the movie deals with his involvement with the PFLP. It's obviously a dramaticized version, I don't really know how historically accurate it is aside from the general outline of his life.

obviously they try to spice things up a bit; the man himself was unimpressed when he saw a screening of it, saying that they made the terrorists look like amateurs particularly in the opec raid when it was more or less a surgical operation. still it is a flick worth checking out as long as you keep that in mind. carlos comes off as a dick, which he probably was and there is some decent 70's terror porn


There’s another Indian Film maker called Mrinal Sen that deals with the ‘Naxalbari’ aswell. Channel for showed a film called Padatik aka The Guerilla Fighter (part of a triliogy) a couple of months ago and is available on youtube, I think. I personally didn’t like film (was on very late though, so wasnt really focused much) but others might.

thanks for mentioning this one, here is a link (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n8_d6hczWHM&feature=results_main&playnext=1&list=PL2901F2F00D5A0D85). was trying to find it at the video store the other day with no luck glad its on youtube too bad my internet connection sucks

[MarxSchmarx]

Although it's no "Battle of Algiers", the comedy "Laila's Birthday" deserves some mention for capturing perfectly the absurdity of ordinary life in occupied Palestine. It doesn't talk about movements per se, although the theme of ordinary people being disillusioned with an unnamed Palestinian authority (which could be both Hamas or the PLO) particularly is a central theme.

The film follows a jurist who is forced to work as a taxi driver because he can't get a job in the bureaucracy. Its black-comedy overtones have been compared to the social commentary in Michael Douglas's "Falling Down".