🏷 Discover The Best Protest Movies & TV Shows To Watch Today

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Uncover the Power of Protest: Exploring Iconic Movies and TV Shows

Protest has long been a driving force for change, with countless individuals and groups using their voices to demand justice and equality. From the Civil Rights Movement to contemporary social justice movements, the power of protest has been immortalized in various forms of media. In this article, we'll delve into some of the most influential movies and TV shows that highlight the significance of protest, inspiring viewers to take action and make a difference.

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Atthaphan Phunsawat

Jumpol Adulkittiporn

Kanaphan Puitrakul

Tanutchai Wijitvongtong

Not Me (2021) TV Show

8.4 65 votes

Genre: Action, Crime, Mystery

Country: Thailand

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 14

Story: White returns to Thailand after years abroad to find his twin Black in a coma. Disguising himself as Black, he seeks to uncover the truth behind the betrayal.

Plot: corruption, capitalism, coma, based on novel or book, protest, investigation, friendship, revenge, ...

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Anthony Perkins

Janet Leigh

Vera Miles

John Gavin

Psycho (1960)

8.4 11.1K votes

Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller

Country: United States of America

Duration: 109 min.

Audience: R

Story: When larcenous real estate clerk Marion Crane goes on the lam with a wad of cash and hopes of starting a new life, she ends up at the notorious Bates Motel, where manager Norman Bates cares for his housebound mother.

Plot: hotel, clerk, detective, shower, arizona, motel, halloween, stolen money, ...

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Chawarin Perdpiriyawong

Pruk Panich

Thanakrit Chiamchunya

Karn Kritsanaphan

The Next Prince (2025) TV Show

8.3 25 votes

Genre: Action, Drama

Country: Thailand

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 14

Story: When a reluctant heir is called to compete in a tournament to decide the next king, the royal guard sent to escort him soon becomes his forbidden desire.

Style: slow burn, romantic

Plot: based on novel or book, abusive father, monarchy, prince, bodyguard, forbidden love, royal family, fencing, ...

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Amandla Stenberg

Regina Hall

Russell Hornsby

KJ Apa

The Hate U Give (2018)

8.1 2.2K votes

Genre: Crime, Drama

Country: United States of America

Duration: 133 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: Raised in a poverty-stricken slum, a 16-year-old girl named Starr now attends a suburban prep school. After she witnesses a police officer shoot her unarmed best friend, she's torn between her two very different worlds as she tries to speak her truth.

Plot: high school, based on novel or book, trauma, protest, riot, teenage girl, racism, police officer, ...

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Song Kang-ho

Thomas Kretschmann

Yoo Hai-jin

Ryu Jun-yeol

A Taxi Driver (2017)

8.0 1.2K votes

Genre: Drama, History

Country: South Korea

Duration: 138 min.

Story: May, 1980. Man-seob is a taxi driver in Seoul who lives from hand to mouth, raising his young daughter alone. One day, he hears that there is a foreigner who will pay big money for a drive down to Gwangju city. Not knowing that he’s a German journalist with a hidden agenda, Man-seob takes the job.

Plot: taxi, taxi driver, protest, based on true story, democracy, historical event, gwangju uprising, gwangju, ...

Time: 1980s

Place: south korea

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O'Shea Jackson Jr.

Corey Hawkins

Jason Mitchell

Neil Brown Jr.

Straight Outta Compton (2015)

7.8 4.2K votes

Genre: Drama, History, Music

Country: United Kingdom, United States of America

Duration: 147 min.

Audience: R

Story: In 1987, five young men, using brutally honest rhymes and hardcore beats, put their frustration and anger about life in the most dangerous place in America into the most powerful weapon they had: their music. Taking us back to where it all began, Straight Outta Compton tells the true story of how these cultural rebels—armed only with their lyrics, swagger, bravado and raw talent—stood up to the authorities that meant to keep them down and formed the world’s most dangerous group, N.W.A. And as they spoke the truth that no one had before and exposed life in the hood, their voice ignited a social revolution that is still reverberating today.

Plot: drug dealer, police brutality, husband wife relationship, rap music, hip-hop, sibling relationship, aids, parent child relationship, ...

Time: 1980s

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Keiji Sada

Yoshiko Kuga

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Kuniko Miyake

Good Morning (1959)

7.7 318 votes

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family

Country: Japan

Duration: 94 min.

Audience: U

Story: A lighthearted take on director Yasujiro Ozu’s perennial theme of the challenges of intergenerational relationships, Good Morning tells the story of two young boys who stop speaking in protest after their parents refuse to buy a television set. Ozu weaves a wealth of subtle gags through a family portrait as rich as those of his dramatic films, mocking the foibles of the adult world through the eyes of his child protagonists. Shot in stunning color and set in a suburb of Tokyo where housewives gossip about the neighbors’ new washing machine and unemployed husbands look for work as door-to-door salesmen, this charming comedy refashions Ozu’s own silent classic I Was Born, But . . . to gently satirize consumerism in postwar Japan.

Plot: parent child relationship, brotherhood, protest, inflation, consumerism, gossip, noisy neighbor, post war japan, ...

Place: japan

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David Hemmings

Daria Nicolodi

Gabriele Lavia

Macha Mu00e9ril

Deep Red (1975)

7.7 1.6K votes

Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller

Country: Italy

Duration: 127 min.

Audience: R

Story: An English pianist living in Rome witnesses the brutal murder of his psychic neighbor. With the help of a tenacious young reporter, he tries to discover the killer using very unconventional methods. The two are soon drawn into a shocking web of dementia and violence.

Plot: murder, reporter, whodunit, psychic, pianist, proto-slasher, giallo

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Harjeet Walia

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Aditya Raj Sharma

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Haripriya Matta

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Sanket Jaiswal

Mahavatar Narsimha (2025)

7.5 49 votes

Genre: Action, Animation, Drama

Country: India

Duration: 131 min.

Audience: 15

Story: Tyrannical demon Hiranyakashyap challenges Vishnu, proclaiming himself a god. However, his son Prahlad remains devoted to Vishnu, who appears as Narsimha to defeat the demon.

Plot: hinduism, vishnu, demon, demigod, test of faithfulness, based on myths, legends or folklore, hindu mythology, ...

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Karlheinz Bu00f6hm

Moira Shearer

Anna Massey

Maxine Audley

Peeping Tom (1960)

7.5 910 votes

Genre: Crime, Horror, Thriller

Country: United Kingdom

Duration: 101 min.

Audience: NR

Story: Loner Mark Lewis works at a film studio during the day and, at night, takes racy photographs of women. Also he's making a documentary on fear, which involves recording the reactions of victims as he murders them. He befriends Helen, the daughter of the family living in the apartment below his, and he tells her vaguely about the movie he is making.

Plot: london, england, primal fear, photography, obsession, childhood trauma, serial killer, landlord, ...

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Vincent Price

Frank Lovejoy

Phyllis Kirk

Carolyn Jones

House of Wax (1953)

6.9 388 votes

Genre: Crime, Horror

Country: United States of America

Duration: 88 min.

Audience: 12

Story: A sculptor opens a wax museum to showcase the likenesses of famous historical figures, but quickly runs into trouble when his business partner demands the exhibits become more extreme in order to increase profits.

Style: psychotronic

Plot: mask, new york city, wheelchair, morgue, guillotine, remake, laboratory, wax museum, ...

Time: 1900s

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Danielle Macdonald

Jennifer Aniston

Odeya Rush

Bex Taylor-Klaus

Dumplin' (2018)

6.8 1.4K votes

Genre: Comedy, Drama

Country: United States of America

Duration: 110 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: To prove a point about measuring up and fitting in, Texas teen Willowdean “Dumplin’” Dickson enters a local pageant run by her ex-beauty queen mom.

Plot: small town, drag queen, beauty contest, protest, musical, based on young adult novel, plus size, fat shaming, ...

Place: texas

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Mahesh Babu

Pooja Hegde

Allari Naresh

Jagapati Babu

Maharshi (2019)

6.7 37 votes

Genre: Action, Drama

Country: India

Duration: 176 min.

Story: Rishi Kumar is a billionaire and the CEO of Origins, someone who has always strived for the success he now owns. His friend Ravi needs help, how will he come through?

Plot: businessman, protest, agriculture, millionaire, social justice, social issues, environmental issues, downtrodden farmers, ...

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Joaquin Phoenix

Deirdre O'Connell

Emma Stone

Micheal Ward

Eddington (2025)

6.4 852 votes

Genre: Comedy, Crime, Western

Country: United States of America, Finland

Duration: 148 min.

Audience: R

Story: In May of 2020, a standoff between a small-town sheriff and mayor sparks a powder keg as neighbor is pitted against neighbor in Eddington, New Mexico.

Style: absurd

Plot: small town, sheriff, husband wife relationship, new mexico, mayor, dark comedy, protest, satire, ...

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James McAvoy

Alice Eve

Rebecca Hall

Catherine Tate

Starter for 10 (2006)

6.4 453 votes

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance

Country: United Kingdom, United States of America

Duration: 96 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: In 1985, against the backdrop of Thatcherism, Brian Jackson enrolls in the University of Bristol, a scholarship boy from seaside Essex with a love of knowledge for its own sake and a childhood spent watching University Challenge, a college quiz show. At Bristol he tries out for the Challenge team and falls under the spell of Alice, a lovely blond with an extensive sexual past.

Plot: scholarship, fight, politics, protest, quiz, love, marijuana, university, ...

Two Weeks Notice (2002)

6.4 2.2K votes

Genre: Comedy, Romance

Country: United States of America

Duration: 101 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: Dedicated environmental lawyer Lucy Kelson goes to work for billionaire George Wade as part of a deal to preserve a community center. Indecisive and weak-willed George grows dependent on Lucy's guidance on everything from legal matters to clothing. Exasperated, Lucy gives notice and picks Harvard graduate June Carter as her replacement. As Lucy's time at the firm nears an end, she grows jealous of June and has second thoughts about leaving George.

Plot: new york city, deal, sarcasm, protest, romcom, lawyer, billionaire, employer employee relationship, ...

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Adele Bertei

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Jean Satterfield

Florynce Kennedy

Born in Flames (1983)

6.1 82 votes

Genre: Drama, Science Fiction

Country: United States of America

Duration: 80 min.

Audience: NR

Story: In near-future New York, ten years after the “social-democratic war of liberation,” diverse groups of women organize a feminist uprising as equality remains unfulfilled.

Plot: strike, revolution, socialism, feminism, protest, sexism, patriarchy, pirate radio, ...

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Mahesh Babu

Keerthy Suresh

Samuthirakani

Vennela Kishore

Sarkaru Vaari Paata (2022)

5.1 28 votes

Genre: Action, Comedy, Drama

Country: India

Duration: 162 min.

Audience: NR

Story: After being conned by the woman he loves, a finance agent arrives in India from the USA to retrieve his money from her father, a powerful MP and industrialist.

Plot: gambling debt, protest, debt collector, debt, loan, social justice, activism, social change, ...