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There was a great scene in The Lost City where a female Fidelista forbid a band from using a saxaphone because it was invented by a Belgian and she claimed the Belgians were "imperialists" because of the Belgian Congo.
1 posted on 02/09/2008 4:42:38 AM PST by PJ-Comix
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The Lives of Others...if you haven’t seen it...


2 posted on 02/09/2008 4:47:22 AM PST by mozarky2 (Ya never stand so tall as when ya stoop to stomp a statist!)
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Hard to find because communists control the film industry.


4 posted on 02/09/2008 4:48:47 AM PST by TADSLOS (Estoy Juan McCain y apruebo este mensaje!)
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I almost want to say THE MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE because the genius of the film is that it can be seen as both an anti-communist AND and anti-McCarthy film.

The remake, of course, is anything but anti-communist--it's anti-capitalist.

6 posted on 02/09/2008 4:50:05 AM PST by Darkwolf377 (Six SCOTUS justices will be 70 or older in January of next year.)
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Animal Farm?


9 posted on 02/09/2008 4:52:05 AM PST by BTHOtu
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It's got to be well over 30 years since I've seen Dr. Zhivago, but I don't remember it as particularly anti-commie in nature.

Neither side is appealing, and the poor Dr. is just trying to go along to get along. I understand the book is a good deal more anti-communist. At least the commies thought it was.

10 posted on 02/09/2008 5:06:54 AM PST by Sherman Logan
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The Motorcycle Diaries.

(Just kidding.)

It's a genre Hollywood doesn't really explore, but I'll offer up The Pursuit of Happiness. While communism isn't really a theme at all, the movie offers a very inspiring story of the success that comes through hard work and determination in America.

11 posted on 02/09/2008 5:10:52 AM PST by Paul Heinzman (This Koolaid is tastes kinda funny to me.)
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Sicko?


14 posted on 02/09/2008 5:19:07 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (Second To None!)
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I thought “The Lost City” was terrific, too. I rented it on a FReeper recommendation. I could watch Andy Garcia forever. Loved the bit about the saxophone!


16 posted on 02/09/2008 5:22:52 AM PST by Tax-chick ("Political zombies need brains, but they hunger only for taxes." ~ NicknamedBob)
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I know you asked about movies, but lately I have been watching "I Spy" DVDs and some of the Communist agents in the third world are shown as vicious, nasty, evil. They remind me of Hillary.

:-)


18 posted on 02/09/2008 5:31:42 AM PST by cgbg (I am very calm, Senator McCain. Revenge is a dish best served cold.)
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THE BEST anti-communist film ever made will be a 2009 film (ie ‘the next one’) about 2008-The Year that EXXON took on Jugo Chavez, the world’s #1 economic terrorist....Jugo just found out why economic terrorism doesn’t work!

PEDEVESA just got ‘chavezed’

http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/080209/venezuela_exxon.html?.v=2

I love Exxon!.......finally a productive use for lawyers and oil money!
Now if Oil Barron Bush can just convince all the other US Oil Companies that Jugo is raping and pillaging we’ve got a horse race! I believe Boosh can beat Jugo at his own game.....ie,
WE WIN, THEY LOSE! I love President Bush....aka little reagan.

“In a Jan. 24 “freezing injunction” by a British High Court, the court said that “until the return date or further order from the court,” PDVSA “must not remove from England or Wales any of its assets which are in England or Wales up to the value of $12 billion.”
The court also said that if PDVSA disobeys the order, it could be held in contempt of court and be fined or have assets seized.”

“...most of PDVSA’s assets are located in Venezuela and the United States, where the company has refineries.”.....looks like EXXON may be ‘acquiring’ new refineries after all!

Americans need to DEMAND that EXXON and ConocoPhillips WIN, and WIN substantially...feel free to write your Congressman!

This should be the 2008 Good v. Evil poster child for capitalism v. communism....all the way to Election day. And Congress, The White House and the Judiciary needs to be fully engaged!


22 posted on 02/09/2008 5:35:36 AM PST by CRBDeuce (an armed society is a polite society)
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Maybe 1984? Talk about a dark movie, but really well done. Maybe also the brilliantly witty Brazil. I guess both are more anti-totalitarian than specifically anti-communist.

Another vote for Other People's Lives which I've heard great things about but haven't seen yet.

23 posted on 02/09/2008 5:46:07 AM PST by Yardstick
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The Lives of Others. Clearly, in my opinion.


25 posted on 02/09/2008 5:50:26 AM PST by rlmorel (Liberals: If the Truth would help them, they would use it.)
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I think Fountainhead ranks pretty high up there. Also, From Russia with Love wasn’t too bad. On the other side of the ledger, I’d nominate just about any movie ever made by that lying commie pig Henry Fonda as among the most communist.


26 posted on 02/09/2008 6:03:55 AM PST by lapster
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Saw Lost City when it was first released. I still want to know what the Bill Murray character is doing in the movie.

ML/NJ

27 posted on 02/09/2008 6:07:32 AM PST by ml/nj
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I alsways loved, Red Dawn. Still do.
28 posted on 02/09/2008 7:16:52 AM PST by Jeff Head (Freedom is not free...never has been, never will be. (www.dragonsfuryseries.com))
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Red Dawn


30 posted on 02/09/2008 9:14:44 AM PST by Kevmo (SURFRINAGWIASS : Shut Up RINOs. Free Republic is not a GOP Website. It’s a SOCON Site.)
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34 posted on 02/09/2008 9:29:16 AM PST by BenLurkin
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Most of the anti-commie movies of the ‘50s — My Son John, Big Jim McClain, I Married A Communist, I Was A Communist For The FBI — were pretty awful. The best of these were probably the films of Samuel Fuller, notably Pickup On South Street.

Also notable is Man On A Tightrope, directed by Elia Kazan right after he testified before HUAC (and just before he made On The Waterfront). Although forgotten today, it was one of the better films in this group, perhaps because it was more of an escape thriller than political tract.


35 posted on 02/09/2008 11:41:32 AM PST by Keltik ("The goal should not be diversity -- the goal must be Quality.")
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This is a hard category. Communists control the American film industry. The best recent anti-communist film is "I Am David" .
38 posted on 02/09/2008 12:02:07 PM PST by Varda
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“Goodbye, Lenin” and “The Manchurian Candidate.”


41 posted on 02/09/2008 1:31:12 PM PST by Dr. Eckleburg ("I don't think they want my respect; I think they want my submission." - Flemming Rose)
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