A list of movies about corruption, alienation, fear, unrest, and doing the right thing
The Grapes of Wrath (dir. John Ford, 1940; USA)
Sullivan's Travels (dir. Preston Sturges, 1941; USA)
Hail the Conquering Hero (dir. Preston Sturges, 1944; USA)
Brute Force (dir. Jules Dassin, 1947; USA)
Ace in the Hole (dir. Bill Wilder, 1951; USA)
A Face in the Crowd (dir. Elia Kazan, 1957; USA)
Touch of Evil (dir. Orson Welles, 1958; USA)
To Kill a Mockingbird (dir. Robert Mulligan, 1962; USA)
The House is Black / Khaneh siah ast (dir. Forugh Farrokhzad, 1963; Iran)
The Birds (dir. Alfred Hitchcock, 1963; USA)
Seven Days in May (dir. John Frankenheimer, 1964; USA)
Nothing But a Man (dir. Michael Roemer, 1964; USA)
Witchfinder General / The Conqueror Worm (dir. Michael Reeves, 1968; UK)
Law And Order (dir. Frederick Wiseman, 1969; USA)
Salesman (dir. Albert Maysles & David Maysles & Charlotte Zwerin, 1969; USA)
Putney Swope (dir. Robert Downey, Sr., A Prince, 1969; USA)
Medium Cool (dir. Haskell Wexler, 1969; USA)
They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (dir. Sydney Pollack, 1969; USA)
Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion / Indagine su un cittadino al di sopra di ogni sospetto (dir. Elio Petri, 1970; Italy)
Punishment Park (dir. Peter Watkins, 1971; USA)
The Candidate (dir. Michael Ritchie, 1972; USA)
Wattstax (dir. Mel Stuart, 1973; USA)
Serpico (dir. Sidney Lumet, 1973; Italy/USA)
Taxi Driver (dir. Martin Scorsese, 1976; USA)
Harlan County, U.S.A. (dir. Barbara Kopple, 1976; USA)
Network (dir. Sidney Lumet, 1976; USA)
Stroszek (dir. Werner Herzog, 1977; West Germany)
Blue Collar (dir. Paul Schrader, 1978; USA)
Wise Blood (dir. John Huston, 1979; USA)
Heaven’s Gate (dir. Michael Cimino, 1980; USA)
The King of Comedy (dir. Martin Scorsese, 1982; USA)
Born in Flames (dir. Lizzie Borden, 1983; USA)
Robocop (dir. Paul Verhoeven, 1987; USA)
Do The Right Thing (dir. Spike Lee, 1989; USA)
Paris is Burning (dir Jennie Livingston, 1990; USA)
Boyz n the Hood (dir. John Singleton, 1991; USA)
Unforgiven (dir. Clint Eastwood, 1992; USA)
Candyman (dir. Bernard Rose, 1992; USA/UK)
Safe (dir. Todd Haynes, 1995; UK/USA)
Starship Troopers (dir. Paul Verhoeven, 1997; USA)
Fight Club (dir. David Fincher, 1999; USA/Germany)
Songs From the Second Floor / Sånger från andra våningen (dir. Roy Andersson, 2000; Sweden/Norway/Denmark)
Dogville (dir. Lars von Trier, 2003; Netherlands/Denmark/UK/France/Finland/Sweden/Germany/Italy/Norway)
The Death of Mr. Lazarescu / Moartea domnului Lãzãrescu (dir. Cristi Puiu, 2005; Romania)
Idiocracy (dir. Mike Judge, 2006; USA)
4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days / 4 luni, 3 saptamâni si 2 zile (dir. Cristian Mungiu, 2007; Romania/Belgium)
There Will Be Blood (dir. Paul Thomas Anderson, 2007; USA)
Happy-Go-Lucky (dir. Mike Leigh, 2008; UK)
Contagion (dir. Steven Soderbergh, 2011; USA/United Arab Emirates)
The Master (dir. Paul Thomas Anderson, 2012; USA)
Prisoners (dir. Denis Villeneuve, 2013; USA)
Nightcrawler (dir. Dan Gilroy, 2014; USA)
Detroit (dir. Kathryn Bigelow, 2017; USA)
First Reformed (dir. Paul Schrader, 2017; USA)
Transit (dir. Christian Petzold, 2018; Germany/France)
BlacKkKlansman (Spike Lee, 2018; USA)
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