Film in Revolt: 9 Movies to Stoke the Flames of Revolution

5. Avatar (2009)

Of course I wouldn't finish this list without including the feel-good 3-D uprising movie of our times! Viva La Na'vi!

4. Regular Lovers (2005) / The Dreamers (2003)

This double feature about the Paris riots in the '60s goes out to the people that are happy someone is revolting, but would personally much rather be inside doing drugs, dancing to The Kinks and having sex. Both films were made by older directors (Philippe Garrel and Bernardo Bertolucci respectively) who were coming of age during the upheaval. The Dreamers is the sillier of the two, but also the more entertaining.

3. The Third Generation (1979)

For all the members of the bourgeoisie who feel guilty that they have nothing to revolt against, Rainer Werner Fassbinder has made a hilarious, bizarre and scathing film for you. Well, maybe not for you, Maybe it's hurled directly at you... like an accidental bomb from a a member of an upper-class terrorist cell wearing a clown mask. This trailer is in German but the images speak for themselves.

2. Che (2008)

Steven Soderbergh's long, confounding and gritty exploration of the ideology and guerrilla tactics that fuel a revolution was far more compelling than the sugar-coated The Motorcycle Diaries.

1. The Battle of Algiers (1966)

Gillo Pontecorvo's masterpiece remains one of cinema's most thoughtful, thrilling and compulsively watchable examinations of social revolt and the methods used to repress it. The trailer below completely does it justice. Required viewing.

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