Disillusionment Movies

Leftist radical-turned-terrorist Giorgio—hiding out in Latin America since the 1970s—turns himself in as soon as the Berlin Wall falls....

Set in Milan in the summer of 1989 against the backdrop of the fall of the Berlin Wall, the film follows four frustrated individuals whose lives...

One month before the Fall of Saigon, a city in Central Highland plunges into chaos, as its disillusioned citizens prepare to witness what was once a...

A hero of revolution returns to civilian life to find the new society very different from the ideals he fought for.

Emily the chicken lives in Hickville but dreams of Hollywood. Her chance comes when director J. Megga-Phone happens to drive past and gives her his...

Nancy Savoca’s second student film follows two twelve-year olds, Bobby (Joey D’Arelli) and Denise (Kelly Cinnante) who run away to...

Living in apparent self-sufficiency a lone man must confront his past and realise the difference between living and existing.

A SHOT IN THE FOOT depects hectic nocturnal routines of a young woman who works as an assassin. She is a quick and innovative killer, efficient at...

1828. After witnessing the brutal repression of revolutions in monarchist South, three young friends join Giuseppe Mazzini's patriotic cause, seeking...

Country girl Margit sits for the artist Sándor, from Budapest. She is fascinated and charmed by him, and agrees to accompany him to the...

Disillusioned with his wealthy friends, a man pretends to be poor and goes to live in the slums where he falls in love with a burglar's sister.

A general who devoted his life to the communist cause, retires, only to find that his household is in disarray, his grown children money-grubbing,...

A man struggling to support his family on the meager wages of his menial job has always dreamed of running his own business. He transforms an old...

Professor Lipari teaches in a public school and is in a full-on existential crisis. He has no faith in himself and in the possibility of changing the...

Two runaways trek from their city to the outer wilderness to dispose of a militant’s rifle, as their home reaches the verge of an armed...