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The Communist Canon

Films with a Marxist, pro-labor, proletariat, pro-union, feminist, anti-capitalist, anti-fascist, anti-colonial or social justice creed. Everything from social-realist cinema to documentaries is worth discussing here.

Edit: I decided to change the name from Socialist to Communist because I realized that there was already a plethora of 'socialist' lists

(Color coordinated, 'cause why not )

Film Archive:
Solidarity Cinema

Here are some other lists worth checking out:
-Marxist Movie Night
-ACAB Canon
-Post-colonialism on Film
-Socialism
-A to 'Z': The Left on Film
-See You at Mao's: the Theory and Praxis of Class Struggle...
-Revolutionary Socialist, Anti-Imperialist, and Third Worldist Canon / Anti-capitalist, Anti-imperialist, Anti-fascist 'Canon'
-Soviet Cinema (1912-1992)
-Unions in Film
-Toil and Trouble: Labor Documentaries

  • The Battle of Algiers
  • A Corner in Wheat
  • Man with a Movie Camera
  • The Cloud-Capped Star
  • Eight Hours Don’t Make a Day
  • On the Waterfront
  • Modern Times
  • Zero for Conduct
  • The Twelve Chairs
  • Bicycle Thieves
  • The Organizer
  • Land Without Bread
  • Kino-Pravda No. 21: Lenin Kino-Pravda. A Film Poem About Lenin
  • Harlan County U.S.A.
  • Umberto D.
  • The Human Condition I: No Greater Love
  • Black Girl
  • The Power of Nightmares
  • Z
  • Simon of the Desert
  • Report on Brazil: Carlos Marighella
  • Northern Lights
  • Araya
  • The Insect Woman
  • Tie Xi Qu: West of the Tracks
  • Satantango
  • The Little Girl of Hanoi
  • Salesman
  • The 17th Parallel
  • Cairo Station
  • Malcolm X
  • Eros + Massacre
  • La Haine
  • Report to Mother
  • Soleil O
  • Missing
  • What Shall I Do With This Sword?
  • The Society of the Spectacle
  • Statues Also Die
  • I Am Not Your Negro
  • Street of Shame
  • La Terra Trema
  • Pather Panchali
  • Aparajito
  • Apur Sansar
  • The House I Live In
  • Germany, Year Zero
  • Rome, Open City
  • Throw Away Your Books, Rally in the Streets
  • The Sixth Side of the Pentagon
  • Matewan
  • Night and Fog
  • Salt of the Earth
  • La Commune (Paris, 1871)
  • Salvador Allende
  • Lenin in 1918
  • Wild Field
  • Killer of Sheep
  • 13th
  • From What Is Before
  • Tout Va Bien
  • Welfare
  • The Last Bolshevik
  • Bush Mama
  • The Death of Guillem
  • Marighella
  • The Scent of Burning Grass
  • Union
  • Vivre Sa Vie
  • The Conformist
  • The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
  • Her Socialist Smile
  • Tongues Untied
  • The Shop on Main Street
  • Memories of Underdevelopment
  • The Red and the White
  • I Am Cuba
  • Night and Fog in Japan
  • Carlos
  • One Battle After Another
  • Black Is… Black Ain’t
  • Chronicle of the Years of Fire
  • Cecilia
  • Mondays in the Sun
  • Manila in the Claws of Light
  • The Red Detachment of Women
  • Carandiru
  • Birds of Passage
  • There Will Be Blood
  • Bamako
  • Young Mr. Cunhal
  • Pride
  • Storm Over Asia
  • Godard's Passion
  • Hearts and Minds
  • Confessions of a Congressman
  • Two Acres of Land
  • Mamma Roma
  • Hiroshima Mon Amour
  • Platform