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V for Vendetta (2005)
OK, if you ignore the fact that the oppression presented is leftist oppression in real life..
First time seeing this in 2018. The secret is out, now, that even those 20th century oppressors imitated here were in fact leftists (despite post-WW II revisionism), as were the other mass killers known to be from the left. People living in fantasyland can still make gripping movies, even if they don't know squat about history.
-- Collectivists are not about individual political freedom, and demonstrably against free speech. If you just ignore the vulgar conventional-wisdom that assumes leftists care about anything more than controlling other people, the rest of the movie is pretty good. The main characters are incompatible with the political premise presented (they're classical liberals), but these days, one has to go into a movie expecting to have to set aside the delusions of the entertainment class. Forgive them, for they're neurotic and ignorant, but many of them are good at portraying people who they are not.
Les femmes de l'ombre (2008)
liked it
A bit like a female-cast, French-with-subtitles version of The Dirty Dozen, with just a smidgen of a James Bond flick. Saving Private Ryan or Band of Brothers it ain't, but it's a good WW II story. A story about brave women, and only one feminist line in it ("You would never have done this to men," in a situation in which, the guy would certainly have done the same to men.