Films, fictional and non-fictional, which focus on anarchism, anarchist movements, and/or anarchist characters as a theme, include:
Films with actors and fictional films Year Title Director Genre Themes1912Bandits en automobileVictorin-Hippolyte JassetThrillerBonnot Gang, Illegalism1913GerminalAlbert CapellaniDramaStrike action1914La CommuneArmand GuerraDramaParis Commune1914Martin EdenHobart BosworthDramaIndividualism1915Gus and the AnarchistsJohn A. MurphyComedy1917In Again, Out AgainJohn EmersonComedyAnarcho-pacifism1919The New MoonChester WitheyAdventure DramaRussian Revolution1921The EarthAndré AntoineDramaProperty1922CopsEdward F. Cline and Buster KeatonComedyAnti-police sentiment1922The Strangers' BanquetMarshall NeilanDramaAnarcho-syndicalism, Strike action1923Legally DeadWilliam ParkeDramaPrison, Capital punishment1929The New BabylonGrigori Kozintsev and Leonid TraubergHistorical dramaParis Commune1930All Quiet on the Western FrontLewis MilestoneWar EpicAnti-war, PTSD, World War I1930L'Age d'OrLuis BuñuelSurrealismModernity, Bourgeois Mores, Catholic Value system 1931The Front PageLewis MilestoneComedyCapital Punishment, Yellow Journalism1932¡Que viva Mexico!Sergei EisensteinHistoricalHistory of Mexico (Mexican Revolution)1933Hallelujah, I'm a BumLewis MilestoneMusicalHobo lifestyle1933Prisoner 13Fernando de FuentesWar DramaMexican Revolution1933Godfather MendozaFernando de FuentesWar DramaMexican Revolution, Zapatistas1933Zero for ConductJean VigoComedy dramaAnarchism and education1934L'AtalanteJean VigoRomantic Comedy dramaMarriage, Jealousy1935A Night at the OperaSam WoodComedyHigh society1935ToniJean RenoirDramaMigrant workers1936The Crime of Monsieur LangeJean RenoirSatirical Crime dramaCooperative1936SabotageAlfred HitchcockThrillerSabotage, Propaganda of the deed, Espionage1936Let's Go with Pancho VillaFernando de FuentesWar DramaMexican Revolution, Pancho Villa1937Aurora de esperanzaAntonio SauDramaSpanish Revolution of 19361937Barrios bajosPedro PucheDramaProstitution, Second Spanish Republic1938Nuestro culpableFernando MignoniComedyExpropriation1938No quiero! No quiero!Francisco Elías RiquelmeComedy1938Port of ShadowsMarcel CarnéFilm noirDesertion1938You Can't Take It with YouFrank CapraRomantic comedyClass divide1940His Girl FridayHoward HawksRomantic comedyFeminism, Gender, Love1940The Great DictatorCharlie ChaplinPolitical satireAntisemitism, Fascism1941Love on the DoleJohn BaxterDramaGreat Depression, Unemployment benefits1941"Pimpernel" SmithLeslie HowardThrillerAnti-Nazism, World War II1945Espoir: Sierra de TeruelAndré Malraux and Boris PeskineWarSpanish Civil War (Battle of Teruel)1948The Treasure of the Sierra MadreJohn HustonWestern Adventure1951Venom and EternityIsidore IsouExperimental dramaLettrism1952The FighterHerbert KlineFilm noirMexican Revolution1952Viva Zapata!Elia KazanHistorical dramaEmiliano Zapata, Mexican Revolution1953Les Vacances de Monsieur HulotJacques TatiComedy1954Animal FarmJohn Halas & Joy BatchelorDramaAnti-Stalinism, Russian Revolution1954Salt of the EarthHerbert BibermanDramaFeminism, Strike action, Syndicalism1955RififiJules DassinFilm noirIllegalism1959The Great WarMario MonicelliComedy drama War filmItalian front (World War I)1959The Death ShipGeorg TresslerAdventure dramaAnti-nationalism, Bureaucracy1960MacarioRoberto GavaldónFantasy dramaDay of the Dead, Colonial Mexico1960The Siege of Sidney StreetRobert S. Baker & Monty BermanHistorical dramaTottenham Outrage (Siege of Sidney Street)1961Rosa BlancaRoberto GavaldónThrillerPetroleum politics, Political corruption1962A Girl... and a MillionLuciano SalceComedy dramaItalian economic miracle, Anti-work1962Lonely Are the BraveDavid MillerContemporary WesternIllegal Immigration, Jailbreak1962Warriors FiveLeopoldo SavonaWarItalian resistance movement1963GerminalYves AllégretDramaStrike action1963The OrganizerMario MonicelliDramaIndustrial unionism1964Behold a Pale HorseFred ZinnemannWarSpanish Civil War, Spanish Maquis1964Diary of a ChambermaidLuis BuñuelDramaBourgeoisie, Nationalism1964La vita agraCarlo LizzaniComedyItalian economic miracle, Strike action1965Lady LPeter UstinovComedyLove1966Here Is Your LifeJan TroellComing-of-age DramaRevolutionary Socialism, World War I1967Entranced EarthGlauber RochaDramaAnti-electoralism, Political corruption1967The Elusive AvengersEdmond KeosayanAdventureRussian Civil War, Ukrainian War of Independence1967The WallSerge RoulletDramaCapital punishment, Existentialist anarchism, Spanish Civil War, "The Wall"1967Week-endJean-Luc GodardBlack comedyBourgeoisie, Nihilism1968The Bofors GunJack GoldDramaAllied-occupied Germany1968if....Lindsay AndersonDramaInsurrectionary anarchism, Anti-establishment1968HeadBob RafelsonSatirical Musical Adventure filmFreedom of Expression1968La Bande à BonnotPhilippe FourastiéCrime dramaIllegalism, Bonnot Gang1969Eros Plus MassacreYoshishige YoshidaBiographyAnarchism, Free love, Ōsugi Sakae1969Gaily, GailyNorman JewisonComedyPolitical corruption1969SirokkóMiklós JancsóDrama filmAssassination of Alexander I of Yugoslavia, Propaganda of the deed1969The Secret of Santa VittoriaStanley KramerWar DramedyAnti-fascism1969The Milky WayLuis BuñuelSurrealist Comedy dramaHeresy1970Charles, Dead or AliveAlain TannerDramaProtests of 19681970Emiliano ZapataFelipe CazalsHistorical dramaEmiliano Zapata, Mexican Revolution1970MalatestaPeter LilienthalBiographical dramaErrico Malatesta1970MetelloMauro BologniniDramaClass struggle1970The Molly MaguiresMartin RittHistorical dramaMolly Maguires, Pinkertons, Strike action, Social justice1970Wind from the EastDziga Vertov GroupDramaClass struggle1971A Fistful of DynamiteSergio LeoneEpic WesternMexican Revolution1971Joe HillBo WiderbergBiopicJoe Hill, Industrial Workers of the World1971W.R.: Mysteries of the OrganismDušan MakavejevFantasy ComedyCommunism, Sexuality, Wilhelm Reich1971Sacco & VanzettiGiuliano MontaldoDocudramaSacco and Vanzetti1972Lenin, You Rascal, YouKirsten StenbækMusical comedyVladimir Lenin, Ten Days That Shook the World1972Pink FlamingosJohn WatersExploitation comedySexual revolution1972St. Michael Had a RoosterPaolo and Vittorio TavianiDramaAnarchism and Marxism1972Tout Va BienJean-Luc Godard and Jean-Pierre GorinPolitical dramaClass struggle, May 681973Can Dialectics Break Bricks?René ViénetComedySituationism, Dialectics1973El principioGonzalo Martínez OrtegaHistorical dramaMexican Revolution1973The Iceman ComethJohn FrankenheimerDramaAnarcho-syndicalism, Existentialism1973Love and AnarchyLina WertmüllerRomantic dramaAnarchism, Anti-fascism, Relationship anarchy1973O Lucky Man!Lindsay AndersonFantasy Comedy dramaCapitalism1973The Year 01Jacques Doillon, Alain Resnais, Jean RouchComedyAnarcho-syndicalism, Labor strike, Social ecology1974AllonsanfànPaolo and Vittorio TavianiDramaComradeship1974Between WarsMichael ThornhillWar dramaAnti-fascism, Psychiatry1974The Front PageBilly WilderBlack comedyCapital Punishment, Yellow journalism1974La prima AngélicaCarlos SauraDramaAnti-fascism, Spanish Civil War1974NadaClaude ChabrolSocial thrillerPropaganda of the deed1974The Phantom of LibertyLuis BuñuelSurrealist comedyMores1974QuebrachoRicardo WullicherDramaAnarcho-syndicalism1974Rebellion in PatagoniaHéctor OliveraPeriod dramaAnarcho-syndicalism, Patagonia Rebelde1974We All Loved Each Other So MuchEttore ScolaComedy dramaItalian resistance movement1975Libera, My LoveMauro BologniniDramaAnarchism in Italy, Italian resistance movement1975Monty Python and the Holy GrailTerry Gilliam & Terry JonesComedyAnarcho-syndicalism, King Arthur, Monarchy1975Mother Küsters' Trip to HeavenRainer Werner FassbinderDramaAnarchism and Marxism, Weimar Republic1975The Travelling PlayersTheodoros AngelopoulosHistorical dramaHistory of Greece (Greek Civil War, Greek Resistance)1975WinstanleyKevin BrownlowPeriod dramaDiggers, English Revolution, Gerrard Winstanley, Ranters1976Letters from MarusiaMiguel LittínHistorical dramaMarusia massacre, Strike action1976Long Vacations of 36Jaime CaminoDramaBourgeoisie, Neutrality, Spanish Civil War1976Jonah Who Will Be 25 in the Year 2000Alain TannerDramaProtests of 1968, Intentional community, Trade unionism1977Spoiled ChildrenBertrand TavernierDramaTenants' union1978La Barricade du point du jourRené RichonHistorical dramaParis Commune1978Ora sí ¡tenemos que ganar!Raúl KamfferDramaMagonism, Mexican Revolution1978A Man Called Autumn FlowerPedro OleaDramaGender variance, Queer anarchism, Dictatorship of Primo de Rivera1979Heart of the ForestManuel Gutiérrez AragónDramaSpanish Maquis1980Alexander the GreatTheodoros AngelopoulosHistorical dramaAnarcho-communism, Class conflict, Dilessi murders1980The Crime of CuencaPilar MiróDramaCrime of Cuenca, Miscarriage of justice1980Journeys from Berlin/1971Yvonne RainerDramaAnarcha-feminism, Psychoanalysis, Red Army Faction, Russian Revolution1980La verdad sobre el caso SavoltaAntonio DroveDramaAnarcho-syndicalism, Pistolerismo1980The Mystery of OberwaldMichelangelo AntonioniDramaPropaganda of the deed, Class conflict1981Deprisa, DeprisaCarlos SauraCrime dramaJuvenile delinquency1981Lenin in ParisSergei YutkevichBiopicVladimir Lenin1981L'ombre rougeJean-Louis ComolliThrillerSpanish Civil War1981RagtimeMiloš FormanDramaRacism1981RedsWarren BeattyPeriod dramaEmma Goldman, John Reed, Russian Revolution1982Britannia HospitalLindsay AndersonBlack comedyNational Health Service1982Une chambre en villeJacques DemyMusical dramaStrike action1983And the Ship Sails OnFederico FelliniHistorical dramaHigh society, Refugees, World War I1983Born in FlamesLizzie BordenScience fictionClassism, Feminism, Heterosexism, Racism1983Sweet BunchNikos NikolaidisExperimental Crime dramaAnti-statism, Surveillance1983Vive la sociale!Gérard MordillatComedyAnarcho-communism1984Bicycles Are for the SummerJaime ChávarriDramaSpanish Civil War1984Nineteen Eighty-FourMichael RadfordDystopian Sci-fiAnti-authoritarianism, Mass surveillance, Totalitarianism1984SuburbiaPenelope SpheerisDrama/ThrillerPunk subculture, Squatting1985Bairoletto, la aventura de un rebeldeAtilio Polverini and Sebastián LarretaHistorical dramaJuan Bautista Bairoletto1985Die Küken kommenEckhart SchmidtComedy1985Mambru Went to WarFernando Fernán-GómezDramaDeath of Francisco Franco1986Shadows in ParadiseAki KaurismäkiComedy dramaProletariat 1986Year of EnlightmentFernando TruebaComing-of-ageFrancoist Spain, Love1987Dedé MamataRodolfo BrandãoDramaMilitary dictatorship in Brazil1987MatewanJohn SaylesDramaBattle of Matewan, Strike action1988ArielAki KaurismäkiDramaProletariat1988They LiveJohn CarpenterSci-fi Action-thrillerCommercialization, Subliminal messaging1989My 20th CenturyIldikó EnyediComedy dramaAnarcha-feminism1990¡Ay Carmela!Carlos SauraComedy dramaSpanish Civil War1990The Match Factory GirlAki KaurismäkiComedy dramaProletariat1990SlackerRichard LinklaterComedy dramaSocial class, Unemployment1991Manuel, le fils empruntéFrançois LabontéRefugees, Spanish Civil War1991SandinoMiguel LittínBiographicalAugusto César Sandino, United States occupation of Nicaragua1993GerminalClaude BerriEpicStrike action1993The Strategy of the SnailSergio CabreraComedyRight to housing, Squatting1994La Vie sexuelle des Belges 1950–1978Jan BucquoyBiographical ComedyJan Bucquoy1995Land and FreedomKen LoachWarBarcelona May Days, POUM, Spanish Civil War1995Empoli 1921: film in rosso e in neroEnnio MarzocchiniDramaBiennio Rosso, Anti-fascism1995Long Live the Hobos!Ana PoliakBiographyHobos, Immigration1996La Belle VerteColine SerreauSci-fi ComedyUtopia1996LibertariasVicente ArandaWarAnarcha-feminism, Mujeres Libres, Spanish Civil War1997The Son of BakuninGianfranco CabidduDramaAnarchism in Italy1997Men with GunsJohn SaylesDrama1998Le PoulpeGuillaume NiclouxCrime comedyPolitical corruption1998The Girl of Your DreamsFernando TruebaDramaAnti-fascism, Spanish Civil War1998The Story of PuPuKensaku WatanabeComedy1999Butterfly's TongueJosé Luis CuerdaDramaEducation, Spanish Civil War1999Le Petit VoleurEric