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Marxist films and films against capitalism

Films that critique capitalism and/or its cultural, political, social and economic aspects: alienation, class conflict, war, wage slavery/work, money, consumerism, commodity fetishization, governmental or corporate surveillance, artifical intelligence, bourgeois morality/moralism, social exclusion, human atomization, the commodification of everything, poverty, mental disorders typical of capitalism, urbanization, universal antihumanism, fetishization of technology, social media, the general dismissal of history and ”capitalist realism”, environmental destruction, gentrification, state bureaucracy (including so-called ”socialist” states), cultural degeneration/”stupification” of the population through media/education, bourgeois laws and rights, celebrity/leader worship culture, promotion of greed/narcissism, forced globalization, destruction of traditional communities/languages/cultures, advertising, sexual repression, the prison system, etc. from a Marxist/revolutionary perspective.
Or films that have an obvious Marxist message.

Feel free to recommend titles!

(No recommendations for Stalinist or Maoist films please.)

  • The Working Class Goes to Heaven
  • The Society of the Spectacle
  • Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion
  • PlayTime
  • Office Space
  • The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
  • Can Dialectics Break Bricks?
  • Sorry to Bother You
  • Land and Freedom
  • They Live
  • I, Daniel Blake
  • Network
  • Brazil
  • Weekend
  • Dawn of the Dead
  • Out 1
  • Two Days, One Night
  • The Young Karl Marx
  • The Square
  • Shoplifters
  • The Pervert's Guide to Ideology
  • The Pervert's Guide to Cinema
  • Over the Edge
  • Lilya 4-ever
  • Slacker
  • The Third Generation
  • Eight Hours Don’t Make a Day
  • The Society of the Spectacle
  • They Call Us Misfits
  • Requiem for a Dream
  • Escape from New York
  • Escape from L.A.
  • Fight Club
  • The Machinist
  • Struggle in Italy
  • A Film Like Any Other
  • British Sounds
  • Vladimir and Rosa
  • Wind from the East
  • Modern Times
  • Pigsty
  • Film Socialisme
  • Theorem
  • The Wind That Shakes the Barley
  • American Beauty
  • Antz
  • Alice in Wonderland or Who Is Guy Debord?
  • Bicycle Thieves
  • The Matrix
  • Accattone
  • Mamma Roma
  • Society
  • The Hour of the Furnaces
  • La Commune (Paris, 1871)
  • La Grande Bouffe
  • Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles
  • Strange Days
  • Born in Flames
  • Nat Turner: A Troublesome Property
  • A Grin Without a Cat
  • L'Argent
  • The World
  • The Match Factory Girl
  • Wanda
  • Sorry We Missed You
  • They Don't Wear Black Tie
  • Araby
  • Parasite
  • Nightcrawler
  • Snowpiercer
  • Jupiter Ascending
  • Rosetta
  • Hard Labor
  • Blue Collar
  • Absolution
  • Bo Burnham: Inside
  • Cold Water
  • Greed
  • The Rules of the Game
  • Ikiru
  • The Human Condition I: No Greater Love
  • The Organizer
  • 2 or 3 Things I Know About Her
  • Death by Hanging
  • Profound Desires of the Gods
  • Burn!
  • Z
  • Medium Cool
  • We Still Kill the Old Way
  • Punishment Park
  • The Emigrants
  • The New Land
  • Red Psalm
  • The Merchant of Four Seasons
  • World on a Wire
  • One Way or Another
  • Ali: Fear Eats the Soul
  • The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant
  • Fox and His Friends
  • Martha