St. Lawrence Activists for Global Equity (SAGE)/PLs:
Recommended Movies
Over 250 Movies and Growing
These movie recommendations cover movies that are political and those that are not. Separating what exactly is a political movie has proved too daunting a task, though. The categorization of these films is somewhat arbitrary, because many movies cover more than genre. Also note, "foreign" movies are not separately categorized. For more information on any of these movies, please check The Internet Movie Database.
Comedy
Animal Crackers
Bananas
Bedtime for Bonzo
Being There
Best in Show
Bulworth
But I'm a Cheerleader
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
Duck Soup
Fritz the Cat
The Frisco Kid
The Great Dictator
Grosse Point Blank
Harold & Maude
The Hospital
The Incredibly True Adventures of Two Girls in Love
Jonah-Who Will Be 25 in the Year 2000
King of Hearts
Last Detail
Modern Times
Monkey Business
The Mouse that Roared
A Night at the Opera
Rushmore
Sleeper
Small Time Crooks
Smile
State and Main
This is Spinal Tap
Wag the Dog
Waiting for Guffman
A Wedding
Zelig
Drama/Action/War
1900
Agnes of God
Ali
All That Jazz
All the President's Men
Almost Famous
American History X
...And Justice for All
Annie Hall
Apocalypse Now
Arlington Road
Atlantic City
Badlands
Billy Jack
Black Sunday
Breaking the Waves
Buffalo Bill and the Indians
Burning Season
The Candidate
Casablanca
Chinatown
Citizen Kane
Civil Action
A Clockwork Orange
The Conversation
The Cradle Will Rock
Crimes and Misdemeanors
Dancer in the Dark
Daniel
Das Boot
Death Wish
Deconstructing Harry
Do the Right Thing
Dog Day Afternoon
Dogs of War
Dreams
Easy Rider
Enemy of the State
Erin Brokovitch
Fail-Safe
The Falcon and the Snowman
Falling Down
First Blood
A Flash of Green
The Formula
Freeway
The Front
The Garden of the Finzi-Continis
Ghandi
Glory
The Godfather Trilogy
The Grapes of Wrath
The Great Gatsby
Great White Hope
Harry and Tonto
Heaven's Gate
Hester Street
How Green Was My Valley
Hurricane
The Ice Storm
If...
The Informer
The Insider
Interiors
JFK
Joe
John Q.
The Killing Fields
King of Comedy
L.A. Confidential
Last Metro
The Last Temptation of Christ
Lawrence of Arabia
Lenny
Lies My Father Told Me
Lifeboat
Limelight
Lion in Winter
Little Big Man
Look Back in Anger
Looking for Mr. Goodbar
Love and Death
A Man for All Seasons
A Man Called Horse
The Man Who Would Be King
Manchurian Candidate
Manhattan
Marathon Man
Marty
M*A*S*H
Mask
Mean Streets
Midnight Cowboy
Missing
The Molly Maguires
Mother Night
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
My Dinner with Andre
Nashville
Natural Born Killers
Network
Never Cry Wolf
Norma Rae
El Norte
North by Northwest
Oklahoma Crude
On the Beach
On the Waterfront
Once Upon A Time in America
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Panic in Needle Park
Papillon
Paris, Texas
Parallax View
Patton
The Pawnbroker
Playing by Heart
The Postman Always Rings Twice
Prince of the City
Psycho
Raging Bull
Rear Window
Reds
Richard III
Romero
Salvador
Schindler's List
Scorpio
Secret Honor
Seduction of Joe Tynan
Serpico
Seven Days in May
The Seven Samurai
The Shawshank Redemption
She's Gotta Have It
Short Eyes
The Siege
Silkwood
Snow Falling on Cedars
Sorcerer
Spartacus
Stardust Memories
A Streetcar Named Desire
Sunshine
The Swimmer
Taking of Pelham One Two Three
Taxi Driver
They Shoot Horses Don't They?
Three Kings
The Tin Drum
Traffic
Treasure of the Sierra Madre
Twighlight's Last Gleaming
Under Fire
The Usual Suspects
Vanishing Point
Vertigo
Videodrome
Viva Zapata!
Voyage of the Damned
Wall Street
Watermelon Man
White Man's Burden
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Wilby Conspiracy
The Wind and the Lion
Wolfen
The World According to Garp
X
Year of Living Dangerously
Z
Science Fiction
12 Monkeys
2001
A Boy and His Dog
Alphaville
Altered States
Andromeda Strain
Blade Runner
Brazil
Capricorn One
Logan's Run
Metropolis
Omega Man
Outland
Pi
Planet of the Apes w/sequels
Quintet
Rollerball
Silent Running
Solaria
Soylent Green
War Games
Westworld
Documentaries
Acts of Defiance (Canada)
The Africans (series)
Atomic Cafe
The Big One
Black Is, Black Ain't
Borderline Cases (United States-Mexico)
Bread and Roses
Breaking the Bank (United States)
Breaking the Spell (United States)
Buena Vista Social Club
Commodities: Grow or Die (UK etc.)
Defending the Forest (Chiapas)
Earth and the American Dream
Energy Conspiracy (United States)
Eyes on the Prize (series) (United States)
Field of Genes (Canada)
Freedom Can't be Fenced
From Sea to Shining Sea (United States)
Fury for the Sound (British Columbia)
Global Dumping Ground
The Greening of Cuba
Harlan County, U.S.A.
Hearts of Darknerss: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse
Isle of Flowers (Porte Allegre, Brazil)
Jungleburger (Costa Rica)
Koyaanisqatsi
Life and Debt (Jamaica)
Living with the Spill (United States)
Love, Women and Flowers (Colombia)
Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media
Narmada Diary (India)
The New Resource Wars (United States)
Our Friends at the Bank (Ghana)
Profit (and Nothing else)
Roger and Me (Flint, Michigan)
Seeing Red (United States)
Showdown in Seattle (United States)
Sixth Sun (Chiapas)
Taken for a Ride (United States)
A Tale of Two Mexicos
Trinkets and Beads (Ecuador)
Varmints (United States)
Watch (United States)
Zapatista (Chiapas, Mexico)
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