| class="wikitable sortable"
! Year
! Title
! Director
! Genre
! Themes |
| 1912
|Bandits en automobile
|Victorin-Hippolyte Jasset
|Thriller
|Bonnot Gang, Illegalism |
| 1913
|Germinal
|Albert Capellani
|Drama
|Strike action |
| 1914
|La Commune
|Armand Guerra
|Drama
|Paris Commune |
| 1914
|Martin Eden
|Hobart Bosworth
|Drama
|Individualism |
| 1915
|Gus and the Anarchists
|John A. Murphy
|Comedy
| |
| 1917
|In Again, Out Again
|John Emerson
|Comedy
|Anarcho-pacifism |
| 1919
|The New Moon
|Chester Withey
|Adventure Drama
|Russian Revolution |
| 1921
|The Earth
|André Antoine
|Drama
|Property |
| 1922
|Cops
|Edward F. Cline and Buster Keaton
|Comedy
|Anti-police sentiment |
| 1922
|The Strangers' Banquet
|Marshall Neilan
|Drama
|Anarcho-syndicalism, Strike action |
| 1923
|Legally Dead
|William Parke
|Drama
|Prison, Capital punishment |
| 1929
|The New Babylon
|Grigori Kozintsev and Leonid Trauberg
|Historical drama
|Paris Commune |
| 1930
|All Quiet on the Western Front
|Lewis Milestone
|War Epic
|Anti-war, PTSD, World War I |
| 1930
|L'Age d'Or
|Luis Buñuel
|Surrealism
|Modernity, Bourgeois Mores, Catholic Value system |
| 1931
|The Front Page
|Lewis Milestone
|Comedy
|Capital Punishment, Yellow Journalism |
| 1932
|¡Que viva Mexico!
|Sergei Eisenstein
|Historical
|History of Mexico (Mexican Revolution) |
| 1933
|Hallelujah, I'm a Bum
|Lewis Milestone
|Musical
|Hobo lifestyle |
| 1933
|Prisoner 13
|Fernando de Fuentes
|War Drama
|Mexican Revolution |
| 1933
|Godfather Mendoza
|Fernando de Fuentes
|War Drama
|Mexican Revolution, Zapatistas |
| 1933
|Zero for Conduct
|Jean Vigo
|Comedy drama
|Anarchism and education |
| 1934
|L'Atalante
|Jean Vigo
|Romantic Comedy drama
|Marriage, Jealousy |
| 1935
|A Night at the Opera
|Sam Wood
|Comedy
|High society |
| 1935
|Toni
|Jean Renoir
|Drama
|Migrant workers |
| 1936
|The Crime of Monsieur Lange
|Jean Renoir
|Satirical Crime drama
|Cooperative |
| 1936
|Sabotage
|Alfred Hitchcock
|Thriller
|Sabotage, Propaganda of the deed, Espionage |
| 1936
|Let's Go with Pancho Villa
|Fernando de Fuentes
|War Drama
|Mexican Revolution, Pancho Villa |
| 1937
|Aurora de esperanza
|Antonio Sau
|Drama
|Spanish Revolution of 1936 |
| 1937
|Barrios bajos
|Pedro Puche
|Drama
|Prostitution, Second Spanish Republic |
| 1938
|Nuestro culpable
|Fernando Mignoni
|Comedy
|Expropriation |
| 1938
|No quiero! No quiero!
|Francisco Elías Riquelme
|Comedy
| |
| 1938
|Port of Shadows
|Marcel Carné
|Film noir
|Desertion |
| 1938
|You Can't Take It with You
|Frank Capra
|Romantic comedy
|Class divide |
| 1940
|His Girl Friday
|Howard Hawks
|Romantic comedy
|Feminism, Gender, Love |
| 1940
|The Great Dictator
|Charlie Chaplin
|Political satire
|Antisemitism, Fascism |
| 1941
|Love on the Dole
|John Baxter
|Drama
|Great Depression, Unemployment benefits |
| 1941
|"Pimpernel" Smith
|Leslie Howard
|Thriller
|Anti-Nazism, World War II |
| 1945
|Espoir: Sierra de Teruel
|André Malraux and Boris Peskine
|War
|Spanish Civil War (Battle of Teruel) |
| 1948
|The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
|John Huston
|Western Adventure
| |
| 1951
|Venom and Eternity
|Isidore Isou
|Experimental drama
|Lettrism |
| 1952
|The Fighter
|Herbert Kline
|Film noir
|Mexican Revolution |
| 1952
|Viva Zapata!
|Elia Kazan
|Historical drama
|Emiliano Zapata, Mexican Revolution |
| 1953
|Les Vacances de Monsieur Hulot
|Jacques Tati
|Comedy
| |
| 1954
|Animal Farm
|John Halas & Joy Batchelor
|Drama
|Anti-Stalinism, Russian Revolution |
| 1954
|Salt of the Earth
|Herbert Biberman
|Drama
|Feminism, Strike action, Syndicalism |
| 1955
|Rififi
|Jules Dassin
|Film noir
|Illegalism |
| 1959
|The Great War
|Mario Monicelli
|Comedy drama War film
|Italian front (World War I) |
| 1959
|The Death Ship
|Georg Tressler
|Adventure drama
|Anti-nationalism, Bureaucracy |
| 1960
|Macario
|Roberto Gavaldón
|Fantasy drama
|Day of the Dead, Colonial Mexico |
| 1960
|The Siege of Sidney Street
|Robert S. Baker & Monty Berman
|Historical drama
|Tottenham Outrage (Siege of Sidney Street) |
| 1961
|Rosa Blanca
|Roberto Gavaldón
|Thriller
|Petroleum politics, Political corruption |
| 1962
|A Girl... and a Million
|Luciano Salce
|Comedy drama
|Italian economic miracle, Anti-work |
| 1962
|Lonely Are the Brave
|David Miller
|Contemporary Western
|Illegal Immigration, Jailbreak |
| 1962
|Warriors Five
|Leopoldo Savona
|War
|Italian resistance movement |
| 1963
|Germinal
|Yves Allégret
|Drama
|Strike action |
| 1963
|The Organizer
|Mario Monicelli
|Drama
|Industrial unionism |
| 1964
|Behold a Pale Horse
|Fred Zinnemann
|War
|Spanish Civil War, Spanish Maquis |
| 1964
|Diary of a Chambermaid
|Luis Buñuel
|Drama
|Bourgeoisie, Nationalism |
| 1964
|La vita agra
|Carlo Lizzani
|Comedy
|Italian economic miracle, Strike action |
| 1965
|Lady L
|Peter Ustinov
|Comedy
|Love |
| 1966
|Here Is Your Life
|Jan Troell
|Coming-of-age Drama
|Revolutionary Socialism, World War I |
| 1967
|Entranced Earth
|Glauber Rocha
|Drama
|Anti-electoralism, Political corruption |
| 1967
|The Elusive Avengers
|Edmond Keosayan
|Adventure
|Russian Civil War, Ukrainian War of Independence |
| 1967
|The Wall
|Serge Roullet
|Drama
|Capital punishment, Existentialist anarchism, Spanish Civil War, "The Wall" |
| 1967
|Week-end
|Jean-Luc Godard
|Black comedy
|Bourgeoisie, Nihilism |
| 1968
|The Bofors Gun
|Jack Gold
|Drama
|Allied-occupied Germany |
| 1968
|if....
|Lindsay Anderson
|Drama
|Insurrectionary anarchism, Anti-establishment |
| 1968
|Head
|Bob Rafelson
|Satirical Musical Adventure film
|Freedom of Expression |
| 1968
|La Bande à Bonnot
|Philippe Fourastié
|Crime drama
|Illegalism, Bonnot Gang |
| 1969
|Eros Plus Massacre
|Yoshishige Yoshida
|Biography
|Anarchism, Free love, Ōsugi Sakae |
| 1969
|Gaily, Gaily
|Norman Jewison
|Comedy
|Political corruption |
| 1969
|Sirokkó
|Miklós Jancsó
|Drama film
|Assassination of Alexander I of Yugoslavia, Propaganda of the deed |
| 1969
|The Secret of Santa Vittoria
|Stanley Kramer
|War Dramedy
|Anti-fascism |
| 1969
|The Milky Way
|Luis Buñuel
|Surrealist Comedy drama
|Heresy |
| 1970
|Charles, Dead or Alive
|Alain Tanner
|Drama
|Protests of 1968 |
| 1970
|Emiliano Zapata
|Felipe Cazals
|Historical drama
|Emiliano Zapata, Mexican Revolution |
| 1970
|Malatesta
|Peter Lilienthal
|Biographical drama
|Errico Malatesta |
| 1970
|Metello
|Mauro Bolognini
|Drama
|Class struggle |
| 1970
|The Molly Maguires
|Martin Ritt
|Historical drama
|Molly Maguires, Pinkertons, Strike action, Social justice |
| 1970
|Wind from the East
|Dziga Vertov Group
|Drama
|Class struggle |
| 1971
|A Fistful of Dynamite
|Sergio Leone
|Epic Western
|Mexican Revolution |
| 1971
|Joe Hill
|Bo Widerberg
|Biopic
|Joe Hill, Industrial Workers of the World |
| 1971
|W.R.: Mysteries of the Organism
|Dušan Makavejev
|Fantasy Comedy
|Communism, Sexuality, Wilhelm Reich |
| 1971
|Sacco & Vanzetti
|Giuliano Montaldo
|Docudrama
|Sacco and Vanzetti |
| 1972
|Lenin, You Rascal, You
|Kirsten Stenbæk
|Musical comedy
|Vladimir Lenin, Ten Days That Shook the World |
| 1972
|Pink Flamingos
|John Waters
|Exploitation comedy
|Sexual revolution |
| 1972
|St. Michael Had a Rooster
|Paolo and Vittorio Taviani
|Drama
|Anarchism and Marxism |
| 1972
|Tout Va Bien
|Jean-Luc Godard and Jean-Pierre Gorin
|Political drama
|Class struggle, May 68 |
| 1973
|Can Dialectics Break Bricks?
|René Viénet
|Comedy
|Situationism, Dialectics |
| 1973
|El principio
|Gonzalo Martínez Ortega
|Historical drama
|Mexican Revolution |
| 1973
|The Iceman Cometh
|John Frankenheimer
|Drama
|Anarcho-syndicalism, Existentialism |
| 1973
|Love and Anarchy
|Lina Wertmüller
|Romantic drama
|Anarchism, Anti-fascism, Relationship anarchy |
| 1973
|O Lucky Man!
|Lindsay Anderson
|Fantasy Comedy drama
|Capitalism |
| 1973
|The Year 01
|Jacques Doillon, Alain Resnais, Jean Rouch
|Comedy
|Anarcho-syndicalism, Labor strike, Social ecology |
| 1974
|Allonsanfàn
|Paolo and Vittorio Taviani
|Drama
|Comradeship |
| 1974
|Between Wars
|Michael Thornhill
|War drama
|Anti-fascism, Psychiatry |
| 1974
|The Front Page
|Billy Wilder
|Black comedy
|Capital Punishment, Yellow journalism |
| 1974
|La prima Angélica
|Carlos Saura
|Drama
|Anti-fascism, Spanish Civil War |
| 1974
|Nada
|Claude Chabrol
|Social thriller
|Propaganda of the deed |
| 1974
|The Phantom of Liberty
|Luis Buñuel
|Surrealist comedy
|Mores |
| 1974
|Quebracho
|Ricardo Wullicher
|Drama
|Anarcho-syndicalism |
| 1974
|Rebellion in Patagonia
|Héctor Olivera
|Period drama
|Anarcho-syndicalism, Patagonia Rebelde |
| 1974
|We All Loved Each Other So Much
|Ettore Scola
|Comedy drama
|Italian resistance movement |
| 1975
|Libera, My Love
|Mauro Bolognini
|Drama
|Anarchism in Italy, Italian resistance movement |
| 1975
|Monty Python and the Holy Grail
|Terry Gilliam & Terry Jones
|Comedy
|Anarcho-syndicalism, King Arthur, Monarchy |
| 1975
|Mother Küsters' Trip to Heaven
|Rainer Werner Fassbinder
|Drama
|Anarchism and Marxism, Weimar Republic |
| 1975
|The Travelling Players
|Theodoros Angelopoulos
|Historical drama
|History of Greece (Greek Civil War, Greek Resistance) |
| 1975
|Winstanley
|Kevin Brownlow
|Period drama
|Diggers, English Revolution, Gerrard Winstanley, Ranters |
| 1976
|Letters from Marusia
|Miguel Littín
|Historical drama
|Marusia massacre, Strike action |
| 1976
|Long Vacations of 36
|Jaime Camino
|Drama
|Bourgeoisie, Neutrality, Spanish Civil War |
| 1976
|Jonah Who Will Be 25 in the Year 2000
|Alain Tanner
|Drama
|Protests of 1968, Intentional community, Trade unionism |
| 1977
|Spoiled Children
|Bertrand Tavernier
|Drama
|Tenants' union |
| 1978
|La Barricade du point du jour
|René Richon
|Historical drama
|Paris Commune |
| 1978
|Ora sí ¡tenemos que ganar!
|Raúl Kamffer
|Drama
|Magonism, Mexican Revolution |
| 1978
|A Man Called Autumn Flower
|Pedro Olea
|Drama
|Gender variance, Queer anarchism, Dictatorship of Primo de Rivera |
| 1979
|Heart of the Forest
|Manuel Gutiérrez Aragón
|Drama
|Spanish Maquis |
| 1980
|Alexander the Great
|Theodoros Angelopoulos
|Historical drama
|Anarcho-communism, Class conflict, Dilessi murders |
| 1980
|The Crime of Cuenca
|Pilar Miró
|Drama
|Crime of Cuenca, Miscarriage of justice |
| 1980
|Journeys from Berlin/1971
|Yvonne Rainer
|Drama
|Anarcha-feminism, Psychoanalysis, Red Army Faction, Russian Revolution |
| 1980
|La verdad sobre el caso Savolta
|Antonio Drove
|Drama
|Anarcho-syndicalism, Pistolerismo |
| 1980
|The Mystery of Oberwald
|Michelangelo Antonioni
|Drama
|Propaganda of the deed, Class conflict |
| 1981
|Deprisa, Deprisa
|Carlos Saura
|Crime drama
|Juvenile delinquency |
| 1981
|Lenin in Paris
|Sergei Yutkevich
|Biopic
|Vladimir Lenin |
| 1981
|L'ombre rouge
|Jean-Louis Comolli
|Thriller
|Spanish Civil War |
| 1981
|Ragtime
|Miloš Forman
|Drama
|Racism |
| 1981
|Reds
|Warren Beatty
|Period drama
|Emma Goldman, John Reed, Russian Revolution |
| 1982
|Britannia Hospital
|Lindsay Anderson
|Black comedy
|National Health Service |
| 1982
|Une chambre en ville
|Jacques Demy
|Musical drama
|Strike action |
| 1983
|And the Ship Sails On
|Federico Fellini
|Historical drama
|High society, Refugees, World War I |
| 1983
|Born in Flames
|Lizzie Borden
|Science fiction
|Classism, Feminism, Heterosexism, Racism |
| 1983
|Sweet Bunch
|Nikos Nikolaidis
|Experimental Crime drama
|Anti-statism, Surveillance |
| 1983
|Vive la sociale!
|Gérard Mordillat
|Comedy
|Anarcho-communism |
| 1984
|Bicycles Are for the Summer
|Jaime Chávarri
|Drama
|Spanish Civil War |
| 1984
|Nineteen Eighty-Four
|Michael Radford
|Dystopian Sci-fi
|Anti-authoritarianism, Mass surveillance, Totalitarianism |
| 1984
|Suburbia
|Penelope Spheeris
|Drama/Thriller
|Punk subculture, Squatting |
| 1985
|Bairoletto, la aventura de un rebelde
|Atilio Polverini and Sebastián Larreta
|Historical drama
|Juan Bautista Bairoletto |
| 1985
|Die Küken kommen
|Eckhart Schmidt
|Comedy
| |
| 1985
|Mambru Went to War
|Fernando Fernán-Gómez
|Drama
|Death of Francisco Franco |
| 1986
|Shadows in Paradise
|Aki Kaurismäki
|Comedy drama
|Proletariat |
| 1986
|Year of Enlightment
|Fernando Trueba
|Coming-of-age
|Francoist Spain, Love |
| 1987
|Dedé Mamata
|Rodolfo Brandão
|Drama
|Military dictatorship in Brazil |
| 1987
|Matewan
|John Sayles
|Drama
|Battle of Matewan, Strike action |
| 1988
|Ariel
|Aki Kaurismäki
|Drama
|Proletariat |
| 1988
|They Live
|John Carpenter
|Sci-fi Action-thriller
|Commercialization, Subliminal messaging |
| 1989
|My 20th Century
|Ildikó Enyedi
|Comedy drama
|Anarcha-feminism |
| 1990
|¡Ay Carmela!
|Carlos Saura
|Comedy drama
|Spanish Civil War |
| 1990
|The Match Factory Girl
|Aki Kaurismäki
|Comedy drama
|Proletariat |
| 1990
|Slacker
|Richard Linklater
|Comedy drama
|Social class, Unemployment |
| 1991
|Manuel, le fils emprunté
|François Labonté
|
|Refugees, Spanish Civil War |
| 1991
|Sandino
|Miguel Littín
|Biographical
|Augusto César Sandino, United States occupation of Nicaragua |
| 1993
|Germinal
|Claude Berri
|Epic
|Strike action |
| 1993
|The Strategy of the Snail
|Sergio Cabrera
|Comedy
|Right to housing, Squatting |
| 1994
|La Vie sexuelle des Belges 1950–1978
|Jan Bucquoy
|Biographical Comedy
|Jan Bucquoy |
| 1995
|Land and Freedom
|Ken Loach
|War
|Barcelona May Days, POUM, Spanish Civil War |
| 1995
|Empoli 1921: film in rosso e in nero
|Ennio Marzocchini
|Drama
|Biennio Rosso, Anti-fascism |
| 1995
|Long Live the Hobos!
|Ana Poliak
|Biography
|Hobos, Immigration |
| 1996
|La Belle Verte
|Coline Serreau
|Sci-fi Comedy
|Utopia |
| 1996
|Libertarias
|Vicente Aranda
|War
|Anarcha-feminism, Mujeres Libres, Spanish Civil War |
| 1997
|The Son of Bakunin
|Gianfranco Cabiddu
|Drama
|Anarchism in Italy |
| 1997
|Men with Guns
|John Sayles
|Drama
| |
| 1998
|Le Poulpe
|Guillaume Nicloux
|Crime comedy
|Political corruption |
| 1998
|The Girl of Your Dreams
|Fernando Trueba
|Drama
|Anti-fascism, Spanish Civil War |
| 1998
|The Story of PuPu
|Kensaku Watanabe
|Comedy
| |
| 1999
|Butterfly's Tongue
|José Luis Cuerda
|Drama
|Education, Spanish Civil War |
| 1999
|Le Petit Voleur
|Erick Zonka
|Crime drama
|Expropriation |
| 1999
|Human Resources
|Laurent Cantet
|Comedy drama
|Employment, Social class |
| 1999
|Outlaw
|Enzo Monteleone
|Crime Comedy drama
|Horst Fantazzini, Illegalism |
| 2000
|Anarchists
| Yoo Young-sik
| Action
|Insurrectionary anarchism, Japanese occupation of Korea, Propaganda of the deed |
| 2000
|La Commune (Paris, 1871)
|Peter Watkins
|Historical drama
|Paris Commune |
| 2000
|Murderous Maids
|Jean-Pierre Denis
|Biographical Crime drama
|Christine and Léa Papin, Class conflict |
| 2000
|Together
|Lukas Moodysson
|Comedy drama
| |
| 2001
|South West 9
|Richard Parry
|Drama
|Brixton Rave scene |
| 2001
|What to Do in Case of Fire?
|Gregor Schnitzler
|Action Comedy drama
|Gentrification, Squatting |
| 2002
|The Anarchist Cookbook
|Jordan Susman
|Romantic comedy
|Nihilism, The Anarchist Cookbook |
| 2003
|Acerchiata
|Flavio Sciolè
|art
|Antifilm, Anarchist |
| 2004
|The Edukators
|Hans Weingartner
|Crime drama
|Anti-capitalism |
| 2004
|Working Slowly (Radio Alice)
|Guido Chiesa
|Crime drama
|Autonomism, Radio Alice, Pirate radio |
| 2005
|I Saw Ben Barka Get Killed
|Serge Le Péron and Saïd Smihi
|Drama
|Mehdi Ben Barka |
| 2005
|This Revolution
|Stephen Marshall
|Thriller
|2003 invasion of Iraq, Black Bloc, Media bias |
| 2006
|Les Brigades du Tigre
|Jérôme Cornuau
|Crime drama
|Bonnot Gang, Illegalism |
| 2006
|Salvador (Puig Antich)
|Manuel Huerga
|Biography
|Capital punishment, Iberian Liberation Movement, Salvador Puig Antich |
| 2006
|V for Vendetta
|James McTeigue
|Political thriller
|Anti-fascism, Propaganda of the deed |
| 2007
|Battle in Seattle
|Stuart Townsend
|Action-thriller
|1999 Seattle WTO protests, Economic inequality |
| 2007
|Homotopia
|Eric Stanley & Chris Vargas
|Drama
|Cultural assimilation, Gay Shame, Queer anarchism |
| 2008
|The Anarchist's Wife
|Maria Noelle and Peter Sehr
|Period drama
|Anti-fascism |
| 2008
|The Wave
|Dennis Gansel
|Thriller
|Anti-fascism, The Third Wave (experiment) |
| 2012
|No God, No Master
|Terry Green
|Crime thriller
|1919 United States anarchist bombings, Ludlow Massacre, Sacco and Vanzetti |
| 2013
|The East
|Zal Batmanglij
|Thriller
|Eco-terrorism, Green anarchism |
| 2013
|Night Moves
|Kelly Reichardt
|Thriller
|Eco-terrorism |
| 2016
|Free State of Jones
|Gary Ross
|Period drama
|Abolitionism, Civil rights, Free State of Jones |
| 2016
|Captain Fantastic
|Matt Ross
|Comedy-drama
|Intentional community, Self-reliance, Anarcho-primitivism |
| 2017
|Anarchist from Colony
|Lee Joon-ik
| Biographical period drama
|Fumiko Kaneko, Japanese dissidence during the early Shōwa period, Pak Yol |
| 2017
|Okja
|Bong Joon-ho
|Action-adventure
|Animal Liberation Front, animal rights, veganarchism |
| 2018
|Gun City
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| 2020
|The Trial of the Chicago 7
|Aaron Sorkin
|Historical legal drama
|Chicago Seven, 1968 Democratic National Convention protest activity, Black Panther Party, National Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam, Students for a Democratic Society, Youth International Party |
| 2022
|How to Blow Up a Pipeline
|Daniel Goldhaber
|Action-Thriller
|Eco-terrorism, Social justice, Property destruction, Environmental justice |