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Revolt on the Silver Screen: Uncovering the Best Movies and TV Shows

Revolt has been a timeless theme in cinema, captivating audiences with its raw emotion, intense action, and thought-provoking commentary on societal norms. From rebellious outcasts to revolutionary leaders, these stories have inspired us to challenge the status quo and fight for what's right. In this article, we'll delve into the world of revolt movies and TV shows, highlighting the most iconic and influential titles that have left an indelible mark on popular culture.

Cast

Diego Luna

Andor (2022) TV Show

8.3 2.1K votes

Genre: Action, Drama, Science Fiction

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 2

Episodes: 24

Audience: TV-14

Story: In an era filled with danger, deception and intrigue, Cassian Andor will discover the difference he can make in the struggle against the tyrannical Galactic Empire. He embarks on a path that is destined to turn him into a rebel hero.

Plot: space war, prequel, space, rebellion, revolutionary, imperialism, political thriller, spy thriller, ...

Cast

Soma Saito

Sora Amamiya

Yukari Tamura

Yuu Asakawa

Akame ga Kill! (2014) TV Show

8.3 1.2K votes

Genre: Action, Animation, Drama

Country: Japan

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 24

Audience: TV-MA

Story: Young Tatsumi travels to the capital of the Empire in order to earn money for his starving people and encounters a world of unimaginable depravity, dominated by the ruthless Prime Minister who controls the child Emperor. Tatsumi is recruited by Night Raid, a group of assassins dedicated to eliminating corruption by mercilessly killing officials and privileged nobles.

Plot: corruption, assassin, swordplay, revolution, dystopia, politics, murder, gore, ...

Cast

Toshiru014d Mifune

Tatsuya Nakadai

Yu014dko Tsukasa

Isuzu Yamada

Yojimbo (1961)

8.1 1.7K votes

Genre: Drama, Thriller

Country: Japan

Duration: 110 min.

Audience: NR

Story: A nameless ronin, or samurai with no master, enters a small village in feudal Japan where two rival businessmen are struggling for control of the local gambling trade. Taking the name Sanjuro Kuwabatake, the ronin convinces both silk merchant Tazaemon and sake merchant Tokuemon to hire him as a personal bodyguard, then artfully sets in motion a full-scale gang war between the two ambitious and unscrupulous men.

Plot: samurai, swordplay, gambling, sword, bodyguard, black and white, fighting, period drama, ...

Time: 19th century

Place: japan

The Deer Hunter (1978)

8.0 4.3K votes

Genre: Drama, War

Country: United Kingdom, United States of America

Duration: 183 min.

Audience: R

Story: Three steelworkers enlist in the army and are sent to Vietnam, one leaving behind a rushed marriage, the others a shared love. What they encounter during the war changes their lives forever.

Plot: vietnam veteran, small town, suicide, post-traumatic stress disorder (ptsd), escape, pennsylvania, usa, saigon, ...

Time: vietnam war

Place: vietnam

Cast

Natalie Portman

Hugo Weaving

Stephen Rea

Stephen Fry

V for Vendetta (2006)

7.9 15.7K votes

Genre: Action, Science Fiction, Thriller

Country: Germany, United Kingdom

Duration: 132 min.

Audience: R

Story: In a world in which Great Britain has become a fascist state, a masked vigilante known only as “V” conducts guerrilla warfare against the oppressive British government. When V rescues a young woman from the secret police, he finds in her an ally with whom he can continue his fight to free the people of Britain.

Plot: government, detective, revolution, dystopia, fascism, fascist, chancellor, based on comic, ...

Cast

Brahim Hadjadj

Mohamed Ben Kassen

Yacef Sau00e2di

Fouzia El Kader

The Battle of Algiers (1966)

7.9 901 votes

Genre: Drama, History, War

Country: Italy, Algeria

Duration: 122 min.

Audience: NR

Story: Paratrooper commander Colonel Mathieu, a former French Resistance fighter during World War II, is sent to Algeria to reinforce efforts to squelch the uprisings of the Algerian War. There he faces Ali la Pointe, a former petty criminal who, as the leader of the Algerian Front de Liberation Nationale, directs terror strategies against the colonial French government occupation. As each side resorts to ever-increasing brutality, no violent act is too unthinkable.

Plot: revolution, algerian, algiers, algeria, resistance fighter, french colonialism, algerian war (1954-62), battle of algiers, ...

Cast

N.T. Rama Rao Jr.

Ram Charan

Olivia Morris

Ray Stevenson

RRR (2022)

7.7 1.6K votes

Genre: Action, Drama, History

Country: India

Duration: 187 min.

Audience: R

Story: A fictional history of two legendary revolutionaries' journey away from home before they began fighting for their country in the 1920s.

Plot: rescue, revolution, liberation, slavery, male friendship, freedom fighter, british empire, interracial romance, ...

Time: 1920s

Cast

Rod Steiger

James Coburn

Romolo Valli

Maria Monti

Duck, You Sucker (1971)

7.7 1.2K votes

Genre: Western

Country: Italy

Duration: 157 min.

Audience: PG

Story: At the beginning of the 1913 Mexican Revolution, greedy bandit Juan Miranda and idealist John H. Mallory, an Irish Republican Army explosives expert on the lam from the British, fall in with a band of revolutionaries plotting to strike a national bank. When it turns out that the government has been using the bank as a hiding place for illegally detained political prisoners -- who are freed by the blast -- Miranda becomes a revolutionary hero against his will.

Plot: robbery, rape, prisoner, liberation of prisoners, revolution, class, spaghetti western, techniscope

Place: mexico

Cast

Jamie Bell

Gary Lewis

Julie Walters

Jean Heywood

Billy Elliot (2000)

7.6 4.1K votes

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music

Country: France, United Kingdom

Duration: 111 min.

Audience: R

Story: County Durham, England, 1984. The miners' strike has started and the police have started coming up from Bethnal Green, starting a class war with the lower classes suffering. Caught in the middle of the conflict is 11-year old Billy Elliot, who, after leaving his boxing club for the day, stumbles upon a ballet class and finds out that he's naturally talented. He practices with his teacher Mrs. Wilkinson for an upcoming audition in Newcastle-upon Tyne for the royal Ballet school in London.

Plot: dancing, friendship, dreams, dancing class, northern england, workers' quarter, strike, homophobia, ...

Time: 1980s

Cast

John Lone

Joan Chen

Peter O'Toole

Ruocheng Ying

The Last Emperor (1987)

7.6 1.9K votes

Genre: Drama, History

Country: China, France

Duration: 163 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: A dramatic history of Pu Yi, the last of the Emperors of China, from his lofty birth and brief reign in the Forbidden City, the object of worship by half a billion people; through his abdication, his decline and dissolute lifestyle; his exploitation by the invading Japanese, and finally to his obscure existence as just another peasant worker in the People's Republic.

Plot: suicide, experiment, isolation, buddhism, becoming an adult, war crimes, suicide attempt, war on drugs, ...

Time: world war ii, 1920s, 1940s, ...

Place: china

Cast

Elijah Wood

Bruce Boxleitner

Emmanuelle Chriqui

Mandy Moore

TRON: Uprising (2012) TV Show

7.6 170 votes

Genre: Action, Animation, Drama

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 18

Audience: TV-Y7

Story: Some time between 'Tron' and 'Tron: Legacy', a young program named Beck becomes the skillful leader of a revolution inside the computer world of The Grid.

Plot: technology, revolution, virtual reality, uprising, based on movie, 3d animation

Cast

Elena Irureta

Ane Gabarain

Iu00f1igo Aranbarri

Susana Abaitua

Patria (2020) TV Show

7.3 185 votes

Genre: Crime, Drama, War

Country: Spain, Hungary

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 8

Audience: NR

Story: A look at the impact of Spain’s Basque conflict on ordinary people on both sides, such as the widow of a man killed by the ETA who returns to her home village after the 2011 ceasefire between the separatist group and the Spanish government, and her former intimate friend, the mother of a jailed terrorist.

Plot: based on novel or book, socialism, miniseries, conflict, eta terrorist group, revolutionary, terrorist group

Cast

Jennifer Lawrence

Josh Hutcherson

Liam Hemsworth

Woody Harrelson

The Hunger Games (2012)

7.2 23.4K votes

Genre: Action, Adventure, Science Fiction

Country: United States of America

Duration: 142 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: In a dystopian society where the Capitol forces each district to send two young tributes to fight to the death in a televised spectacle, a girl volunteers to take her sister’s place, setting the stage for a struggle of survival and defiance.

Style: cynical, provocative, tense

Plot: based on novel or book, revolution, dystopia, monarchy, female protagonist, fashion, bow and arrow, game, ...

Cast

Michael Moore

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Dr. Pasi Sahlberg

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Krista Kiuru

Ju00f3n Gnarr

Where to Invade Next (2015)

7.2 536 votes

Genre: Comedy, Documentary

Country: United States of America

Duration: 121 min.

Audience: R

Story: To understand firsthand what the United States of America can learn from other nations, Michael Moore playfully “invades” some to see what they have to offer.

Plot: politics, africa, revolution, europe, working class, inequality, political satire, welfare, ...

Place: france, germany, italy, ...

Cast

Gordon Heath

Maurice Denham

Animal Farm (1954)

7.1 552 votes

Genre: Animation, Drama

Country: United Kingdom

Duration: 73 min.

Audience: G

Story: Animals on a farm lead a revolution against the farmers to put their destiny in their own hands. However this revolution eats their own children and they cannot avoid corruption.

Plot: farm, corruption, based on novel or book, revolution, governance, uprising, oppression, fable, ...

Cast

Ralph Fiennes

Angela Bassett

Juliette Lewis

Tom Sizemore

Strange Days (1995)

7.0 1.6K votes

Genre: Crime, Drama, Science Fiction

Country: United States of America

Duration: 145 min.

Audience: R

Story: In the last days of 1999, ex-cop turned street hustler Lenny Nero receives a disc which contains the memories of the murder of a prostitute. With the help of bodyguard Mace, he starts to investigate and is pulled deeper and deeper in a whirl of murder, blackmail and intrigue.

Plot: new year's eve, pornography, prostitute, police brutality, dreams, rape, police, virtual reality, ...

Time: future

Cast

Indrajith Sukumaran

Murali Gopy

Hareesh Peradi

Lenaa

Left Right Left (2013)

7.0 28 votes

Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller

Country: India

Duration: 167 min.

Story: Roy and his friends expose the misdeeds of Sahadevan, a corrupt politician, and soon the friends are found murdered. Later, when Roy dies of an illness, Jayan discovers Roy and Sahadevan's past.

Plot: political party, politics, revolution, revenge

Cast

Owen Wilson

Lake Bell

Sterling Jerins

Claire Geare

No Escape (2015)

6.9 2.8K votes

Genre: Action, Thriller

Country: Thailand, United States of America

Duration: 103 min.

Audience: R

Story: In their new overseas home, an American family soon finds themselves caught in the middle of a coup, and they frantically look for a safe escape in an environment where foreigners are being immediately executed.

Plot: hotel, rebellion, race against time, revolution, coup d'etat, engineer, survival, execution, ...

Cast

Song Kang-ho

6.9 10.5K votes

Genre: Action, Drama, Science Fiction

Country: South Korea

Duration: 127 min.

Audience: R

Story: In a future where a failed global-warming experiment kills off most life on the planet, a class system evolves aboard the Snowpiercer; a train that travels around the globe via a perpetual-motion engine.

Plot: new year's eve, rebellion, cold, parent child relationship, winter, brothel, child labour, pregnancy, ...

Time: 2030s

Cast

Jennifer Lawrence

Josh Hutcherson

Liam Hemsworth

Woody Harrelson

The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2 (2015)

6.9 13.4K votes

Genre: Action, Adventure, Science Fiction

Country: Germany, United States of America

Duration: 137 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: As the war between the Capitol and the districts reaches its peak, Katniss Everdeen embarks on a perilous mission to liberate Panem and confront President Snow. Joined by a team of trusted allies, she navigates deadly traps, shifting loyalties, and the heavy cost of rebellion, determined to bring freedom to her people and end the Hunger Games once and for all.

Plot: strong woman, based on novel or book, revolution, dystopia, sequel, death match, based on young adult novel

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