| Year | Title | Director | Genre | Themes |
|---|
| 1912 | Bandits en automobile | Victorin-Hippolyte Jasset | Thriller | Bonnot Gang,Illegalism |
| 1913 | Germinal | Albert Capellani | Drama | Strike action |
| 1914 | La Commune | Armand Guerra | Drama | Paris Commune |
| 1914 | Martin Eden | Hobart Bosworth | Drama | Individualism |
| 1915 | Gus and the Anarchists | John A. Murphy | Comedy | |
| 1917 | In Again, Out Again | John Emerson | Comedy | Anarcho-pacifism |
| 1919 | The New Moon | Chester Withey | AdventureDrama | Russian Revolution |
| 1921 | The Earth | André Antoine | Drama | Property |
| 1922 | Cops | Edward F. Cline andBuster Keaton | Comedy | Anti-police sentiment |
| 1922 | The Strangers' Banquet | Marshall Neilan | Drama | Anarcho-syndicalism,Strike action |
| 1923 | Legally Dead | William Parke | Drama | Prison,Capital punishment |
| 1929 | The New Babylon | Grigori Kozintsev andLeonid Trauberg | Historical drama | Paris Commune |
| 1930 | All Quiet on the Western Front | Lewis Milestone | WarEpic | Anti-war,PTSD,World War I |
| 1930 | L'Age d'Or | Luis Buñuel | Surrealism | Modernity,BourgeoisMores,CatholicValue system |
| 1931 | The Front Page | Lewis Milestone | Comedy | Capital Punishment,Yellow Journalism |
| 1932 | ¡Que viva Mexico! | Sergei Eisenstein | Historical | History of Mexico (Mexican Revolution) |
| 1933 | Hallelujah, I'm a Bum | Lewis Milestone | Musical | Hobo lifestyle |
| 1933 | Prisoner 13 | Fernando de Fuentes | WarDrama | Mexican Revolution |
| 1933 | Godfather Mendoza | Fernando de Fuentes | WarDrama | Mexican Revolution,Zapatistas |
| 1933 | Zero for Conduct | Jean Vigo | Comedy drama | Anarchism and education |
| 1934 | L'Atalante | Jean Vigo | RomanticComedy drama | Marriage,Jealousy |
| 1935 | A Night at the Opera | Sam Wood | Comedy | High society |
| 1935 | Toni | Jean Renoir | Drama | Migrant workers |
| 1936 | The Crime of Monsieur Lange | Jean Renoir | SatiricalCrime drama | Cooperative |
| 1936 | Sabotage | Alfred Hitchcock | Thriller | Sabotage,Propaganda of the deed,Espionage |
| 1936 | Let's Go with Pancho Villa | Fernando de Fuentes | WarDrama | Mexican Revolution,Pancho Villa |
| 1937 | Aurora de esperanza | Antonio Sau | Drama | Spanish Revolution of 1936 |
| 1937 | Barrios bajos | Pedro Puche | Drama | Prostitution,Second Spanish Republic |
| 1938 | Nuestro culpable | Fernando Mignoni | Comedy | Expropriation |
| 1938 | No quiero! No quiero! | Francisco Elías Riquelme | Comedy | |
| 1938 | Port of Shadows | Marcel Carné | Film noir | Desertion |
| 1938 | You Can't Take It with You | Frank Capra | Romantic comedy | Class divide |
| 1940 | His Girl Friday | Howard Hawks | Romantic comedy | Feminism,Gender,Love |
| 1940 | The Great Dictator | Charlie Chaplin | Political satire | Antisemitism,Fascism |
| 1941 | Love on the Dole | John Baxter | Drama | Great Depression,Unemployment benefits |
| 1941 | "Pimpernel" Smith | Leslie Howard | Thriller | Anti-Nazism,World War II |
| 1945 | Espoir: Sierra de Teruel | André Malraux andBoris Peskine | War | Spanish Civil War (Battle of Teruel) |
| 1948 | The Treasure of the Sierra Madre | John Huston | WesternAdventure | |
| 1951 | Venom and Eternity | Isidore Isou | Experimentaldrama | Lettrism |
| 1952 | The Fighter | Herbert Kline | Film noir | Mexican Revolution |
| 1952 | Viva Zapata! | Elia Kazan | Historical drama | Emiliano Zapata,Mexican Revolution |
| 1953 | Les Vacances de Monsieur Hulot | Jacques Tati | Comedy | |
| 1954 | Animal Farm | John Halas &Joy Batchelor | Drama | Anti-Stalinism,Russian Revolution |
| 1954 | Salt of the Earth | Herbert Biberman | Drama | Feminism,Strike action,Syndicalism |
| 1955 | Rififi | Jules Dassin | Film noir | Illegalism |
| 1959 | The Great War | Mario Monicelli | Comedy dramaWar film | Italian front (World War I) |
| 1959 | The Death Ship | Georg Tressler | Adventuredrama | Anti-nationalism,Bureaucracy |
| 1960 | Macario | Roberto Gavaldón | Fantasy drama | Day of the Dead,Colonial Mexico |
| 1960 | The Siege of Sidney Street | Robert S. Baker &Monty Berman | Historical drama | Tottenham Outrage (Siege of Sidney Street) |
| 1961 | Rosa Blanca | Roberto Gavaldón | Thriller | Petroleum politics,Political corruption |
| 1962 | A Girl... and a Million | Luciano Salce | Comedy drama | Italian economic miracle,Anti-work |
| 1962 | Lonely Are the Brave | David Miller | Contemporary Western | Illegal Immigration,Jailbreak |
| 1962 | Warriors Five | Leopoldo Savona | War | Italian resistance movement |
| 1963 | Germinal | Yves Allégret | Drama | Strike action |
| 1963 | The Organizer | Mario Monicelli | Drama | Industrial unionism |
| 1964 | Behold a Pale Horse | Fred Zinnemann | War | Spanish Civil War,Spanish Maquis |
| 1964 | Diary of a Chambermaid | Luis Buñuel | Drama | Bourgeoisie,Nationalism |
| 1964 | La vita agra | Carlo Lizzani | Comedy | Italian economic miracle,Strike action |
| 1965 | Lady L | Peter Ustinov | Comedy | Love |
| 1966 | Here Is Your Life | Jan Troell | Coming-of-ageDrama | Revolutionary Socialism,World War I |
| 1967 | Entranced Earth | Glauber Rocha | Drama | Anti-electoralism,Political corruption |
| 1967 | The Elusive Avengers | Edmond Keosayan | Adventure | Russian Civil War,Ukrainian War of Independence |
| 1967 | The Wall | Serge Roullet | Drama | Capital punishment, Existentialist anarchism,Spanish Civil War, "The Wall" |
| 1967 | Week-end | Jean-Luc Godard | Black comedy | Bourgeoisie,Nihilism |
| 1968 | The Bofors Gun | Jack Gold | Drama | Allied-occupied Germany |
| 1968 | if.... | Lindsay Anderson | Drama | Insurrectionary anarchism,Anti-establishment |
| 1968 | Head | Bob Rafelson | SatiricalMusicalAdventure film | Freedom of Expression |
| 1968 | La Bande à Bonnot | Philippe Fourastié | Crime drama | Illegalism,Bonnot Gang |
| 1969 | Eros Plus Massacre | Yoshishige Yoshida | Biography | Anarchism,Free love,Ōsugi Sakae |
| 1969 | Gaily, Gaily | Norman Jewison | Comedy | Political corruption |
| 1969 | Sirokkó | Miklós Jancsó | Drama film | Assassination of Alexander I of Yugoslavia,Propaganda of the deed |
| 1969 | The Secret of Santa Vittoria | Stanley Kramer | WarDramedy | Anti-fascism |
| 1969 | The Milky Way | Luis Buñuel | SurrealistComedy drama | Heresy |
| 1970 | Charles, Dead or Alive | Alain Tanner | Drama | Protests of 1968 |
| 1970 | Emiliano Zapata | Felipe Cazals | Historical drama | Emiliano Zapata,Mexican Revolution |
| 1970 | Malatesta | Peter Lilienthal | Biographical drama | Errico Malatesta |
| 1970 | Metello | Mauro Bolognini | Drama | Class struggle |
| 1970 | The Molly Maguires | Martin Ritt | Historical drama | Molly Maguires,Pinkertons,Strike action,Social justice |
| 1970 | Wind from the East | Dziga Vertov Group | Drama | Class struggle |
| 1971 | A Fistful of Dynamite | Sergio Leone | EpicWestern | Mexican Revolution |
| 1971 | Joe Hill | Bo Widerberg | Biopic | Joe Hill,Industrial Workers of the World |
| 1971 | W.R.: Mysteries of the Organism | Dušan Makavejev | FantasyComedy | Communism,Sexuality,Wilhelm Reich |
| 1971 | Sacco & Vanzetti | Giuliano Montaldo | Docudrama | Sacco and Vanzetti |
| 1972 | Lenin, You Rascal, You | Kirsten Stenbæk | Musical comedy | Vladimir Lenin,Ten Days That Shook the World |
| 1972 | Pink Flamingos | John Waters | Exploitationcomedy | Sexual revolution |
| 1972 | St. Michael Had a Rooster | Paolo and Vittorio Taviani | Drama | Anarchism and Marxism |
| 1972 | Tout Va Bien | Jean-Luc Godard andJean-Pierre Gorin | Political drama | Class struggle,May 68 |
| 1973 | Can Dialectics Break Bricks? | René Viénet | Comedy | Situationism,Dialectics |
| 1973 | El principio | Gonzalo Martínez Ortega | Historical drama | Mexican Revolution |
| 1973 | The Iceman Cometh | John Frankenheimer | Drama | Anarcho-syndicalism,Existentialism |
| 1973 | Love and Anarchy | Lina Wertmüller | Romantic drama | Anarchism,Anti-fascism,Relationship anarchy |
| 1973 | O Lucky Man! | Lindsay Anderson | FantasyComedy drama | Capitalism |
| 1973 | The Year 01 | Jacques Doillon,Alain Resnais,Jean Rouch | Comedy | Anarcho-syndicalism,Labor strike,Social ecology |
| 1974 | Allonsanfàn | Paolo and Vittorio Taviani | Drama | Comradeship |
| 1974 | Between Wars | Michael Thornhill | War drama | Anti-fascism,Psychiatry |
| 1974 | The Front Page | Billy Wilder | Black comedy | Capital Punishment,Yellow journalism |
| 1974 | La prima Angélica | Carlos Saura | Drama | Anti-fascism,Spanish Civil War |
| 1974 | Nada | Claude Chabrol | Social thriller | Propaganda of the deed |
| 1974 | The Phantom of Liberty | Luis Buñuel | Surrealistcomedy | Mores |
| 1974 | Quebracho | Ricardo Wullicher | Drama | Anarcho-syndicalism |
| 1974 | Rebellion in Patagonia | Héctor Olivera | Period drama | Anarcho-syndicalism,Patagonia Rebelde |
| 1974 | We All Loved Each Other So Much | Ettore Scola | Comedy drama | Italian resistance movement |
| 1975 | Libera, My Love | Mauro Bolognini | Drama | Anarchism in Italy,Italian resistance movement |
| 1975 | Monty Python and the Holy Grail | Terry Gilliam &Terry Jones | Comedy | Anarcho-syndicalism,King Arthur,Monarchy |
| 1975 | Mother Küsters' Trip to Heaven | Rainer Werner Fassbinder | Drama | Anarchism and Marxism,Weimar Republic |
| 1975 | The Travelling Players | Theodoros Angelopoulos | Historical drama | History of Greece (Greek Civil War,Greek Resistance) |
| 1975 | Winstanley | Kevin Brownlow | Period drama | Diggers,English Revolution,Gerrard Winstanley,Ranters |
| 1976 | Letters from Marusia | Miguel Littín | Historical drama | Marusia massacre,Strike action |
| 1976 | Long Vacations of 36 | Jaime Camino | Drama | Bourgeoisie,Neutrality,Spanish Civil War |
| 1976 | Jonah Who Will Be 25 in the Year 2000 | Alain Tanner | Drama | Protests of 1968,Intentional community,Trade unionism |
| 1977 | Spoiled Children | Bertrand Tavernier | Drama | Tenants' union |
| 1978 | La Barricade du point du jour | René Richon | Historical drama | Paris Commune |
| 1978 | Ora sí ¡tenemos que ganar! | Raúl Kamffer | Drama | Magonism,Mexican Revolution |
| 1978 | A Man Called Autumn Flower | Pedro Olea | Drama | Gender variance,Queer anarchism,Dictatorship of Primo de Rivera |
| 1979 | Heart of the Forest | Manuel Gutiérrez Aragón | Drama | Spanish Maquis |
| 1980 | Alexander the Great | Theodoros Angelopoulos | Historical drama | Anarcho-communism,Class conflict,Dilessi murders |
| 1980 | The Crime of Cuenca | Pilar Miró | Drama | Crime of Cuenca,Miscarriage of justice |
| 1980 | Journeys from Berlin/1971 | Yvonne Rainer | Drama | Anarcha-feminism,Psychoanalysis,Red Army Faction,Russian Revolution |
| 1980 | La verdad sobre el caso Savolta | Antonio Drove | Drama | Anarcho-syndicalism,Pistolerismo |
| 1980 | The Mystery of Oberwald | Michelangelo Antonioni | Drama | Propaganda of the deed,Class conflict |
| 1981 | Deprisa, Deprisa | Carlos Saura | Crime drama | Juvenile delinquency |
| 1981 | Lenin in Paris | Sergei Yutkevich | Biopic | Vladimir Lenin |
| 1981 | L'ombre rouge | Jean-Louis Comolli | Thriller | Spanish Civil War |
| 1981 | Ragtime | Miloš Forman | Drama | Racism |
| 1981 | Reds | Warren Beatty | Period drama | Emma Goldman,John Reed,Russian Revolution |
| 1982 | Britannia Hospital | Lindsay Anderson | Black comedy | National Health Service |
| 1982 | Une chambre en ville | Jacques Demy | Musical drama | Strike action |
| 1983 | And the Ship Sails On | Federico Fellini | Historical drama | High society,Refugees,World War I |
| 1983 | Born in Flames | Lizzie Borden | Science fiction | Classism,Feminism,Heterosexism,Racism |
| 1983 | Sweet Bunch | Nikos Nikolaidis | ExperimentalCrime drama | Anti-statism,Surveillance |
| 1983 | Vive la sociale! | Gérard Mordillat | Comedy | Anarcho-communism |
| 1984 | Bicycles Are for the Summer | Jaime Chávarri | Drama | Spanish Civil War |
| 1984 | Nineteen Eighty-Four | Michael Radford | DystopianSci-fi | Anti-authoritarianism,Mass surveillance,Totalitarianism |
| 1984 | Suburbia | Penelope Spheeris | Drama/Thriller | Punk subculture,Squatting |
| 1985 | Bairoletto, la aventura de un rebelde | Atilio Polverini and Sebastián Larreta | Historical drama | Juan Bautista Bairoletto |
| 1985 | Die Küken kommen | Eckhart Schmidt | Comedy | |
| 1985 | Mambru Went to War | Fernando Fernán-Gómez | Drama | Death of Francisco Franco |
| 1986 | Shadows in Paradise | Aki Kaurismäki | Comedy drama | Proletariat |
| 1986 | Year of Enlightment | Fernando Trueba | Coming-of-age | Francoist Spain,Love |
| 1987 | Dedé Mamata | Rodolfo Brandão | Drama | Military dictatorship in Brazil |
| 1987 | Matewan | John Sayles | Drama | Battle of Matewan,Strike action |
| 1988 | Ariel | Aki Kaurismäki | Drama | Proletariat |
| 1988 | They Live | John Carpenter | Sci-fiAction-thriller | Commercialization,Subliminal messaging |
| 1989 | My 20th Century | Ildikó Enyedi | Comedy drama | Anarcha-feminism |
| 1990 | ¡Ay Carmela! | Carlos Saura | Comedy drama | Spanish Civil War |
| 1990 | The Match Factory Girl | Aki Kaurismäki | Comedy drama | Proletariat |
| 1990 | Slacker | Richard Linklater | Comedy drama | Social class,Unemployment |
| 1991 | Manuel, le fils emprunté | François Labonté | | Refugees,Spanish Civil War |
| 1991 | Sandino | Miguel Littín | Biographical | Augusto César Sandino,United States occupation of Nicaragua |
| 1993 | Germinal | Claude Berri | Epic | Strike action |
| 1993 | The Strategy of the Snail | Sergio Cabrera | Comedy | Right to housing,Squatting |
| 1994 | La Vie sexuelle des Belges 1950–1978 | Jan Bucquoy | BiographicalComedy | Jan Bucquoy |
| 1995 | Land and Freedom | Ken Loach | War | Barcelona May Days,POUM,Spanish Civil War |
| 1995 | Empoli 1921: film in rosso e in nero | Ennio Marzocchini | Drama | Biennio Rosso,Anti-fascism |
| 1995 | Long Live the Hobos! | Ana Poliak | Biography | Hobos,Immigration |
| 1996 | La Belle Verte | Coline Serreau | Sci-fiComedy | Utopia |
| 1996 | Libertarias | Vicente Aranda | War | Anarcha-feminism,Mujeres Libres,Spanish Civil War |
| 1997 | The Son of Bakunin | Gianfranco Cabiddu | Drama | Anarchism in Italy |
| 1997 | Men with Guns | John Sayles | Drama | |
| 1998 | Le Poulpe | Guillaume Nicloux | Crime comedy | Political corruption |
| 1998 | The Girl of Your Dreams | Fernando Trueba | Drama | Anti-fascism,Spanish Civil War |
| 1998 | The Story of PuPu | Kensaku Watanabe | Comedy | |
| 1999 | Butterfly's Tongue | José Luis Cuerda | Drama | Education,Spanish Civil War |
| 1999 | Le Petit Voleur | Erick Zonka | Crime drama | Expropriation |
| 1999 | Human Resources | Laurent Cantet | Comedy drama | Employment,Social class |
| 1999 | Outlaw | Enzo Monteleone | CrimeComedy drama | Horst Fantazzini,Illegalism |
| 2000 | Anarchists | Yoo Young-sik | Action | Insurrectionary anarchism,Japanese occupation of Korea,Propaganda of the deed |
| 2000 | La Commune (Paris, 1871) | Peter Watkins | Historical drama | Paris Commune |
| 2000 | Murderous Maids | Jean-Pierre Denis | BiographicalCrime drama | Christine and Léa Papin,Class conflict |
| 2000 | Together | Lukas Moodysson | Comedy drama | |
| 2001 | South West 9 | Richard Parry | Drama | Brixton Rave scene |
| 2001 | What to Do in Case of Fire? | Gregor Schnitzler | ActionComedy drama | Gentrification,Squatting |
| 2002 | The Anarchist Cookbook | Jordan Susman | Romantic comedy | Nihilism,The Anarchist Cookbook |
| 2003 | Acerchiata | Flavio Sciolè | art | Antifilm,Anarchist |
| 2004 | The Edukators | Hans Weingartner | Crime drama | Anti-capitalism |
| 2004 | Working Slowly (Radio Alice) | Guido Chiesa | Crime drama | Autonomism,Radio Alice,Pirate radio |
| 2005 | I Saw Ben Barka Get Killed | Serge Le Péron and Saïd Smihi | Drama | Mehdi Ben Barka |
| 2005 | This Revolution | Stephen Marshall | Thriller | 2003 invasion of Iraq,Black Bloc,Media bias |
| 2006 | Les Brigades du Tigre | Jérôme Cornuau | Crime drama | Bonnot Gang,Illegalism |
| 2006 | Salvador (Puig Antich) | Manuel Huerga | Biography | Capital punishment,Iberian Liberation Movement,Salvador Puig Antich |
| 2006 | V for Vendetta | James McTeigue | Political thriller | Anti-fascism,Propaganda of the deed |
| 2007 | Battle in Seattle | Stuart Townsend | Action-thriller | 1999 Seattle WTO protests,Economic inequality |
| 2007 | Homotopia | Eric Stanley & Chris Vargas | Drama | Cultural assimilation,Gay Shame,Queer anarchism |
| 2008 | The Anarchist's Wife | Maria Noelle andPeter Sehr | Period drama | Anti-fascism |
| 2008 | The Wave | Dennis Gansel | Thriller | Anti-fascism,The Third Wave (experiment) |
| 2012 | No God, No Master | Terry Green | Crime thriller | 1919 United States anarchist bombings,Ludlow Massacre,Sacco and Vanzetti |
| 2013 | The East | Zal Batmanglij | Thriller | Eco-terrorism,Green anarchism |
| 2013 | Night Moves | Kelly Reichardt | Thriller | Eco-terrorism |
| 2016 | Free State of Jones | Gary Ross | Period drama | Abolitionism,Civil rights,Free State of Jones |
| 2016 | Captain Fantastic | Matt Ross | Comedy-drama | Intentional community,Self-reliance,Anarcho-primitivism |
| 2017 | Anarchist from Colony | Lee Joon-ik | Biographicalperiod drama | Fumiko Kaneko,Japanese dissidence during the early Shōwa period,Pak Yol |
| 2017 | Okja | Bong Joon-ho | Action-adventure | Animal Liberation Front,animal rights,veganarchism |
| 2018 | Gun City | | | |
| 2020 | The Trial of the Chicago 7 | Aaron Sorkin | Historicallegal drama | Chicago Seven,1968 Democratic National Convention protest activity,Black Panther Party,National Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam,Students for a Democratic Society,Youth International Party |
| 2022 | How to Blow Up a Pipeline | Daniel Goldhaber | Action-Thriller | Eco-terrorism,Social justice,Property destruction,Environmental justice |
| 2022 | A Man of Action | Javier Ruiz Caldera | Crime Drama | Lucio Urtubia,bank robbery,illegalism |
