> 1. The Lives of Others (2007) -
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> What rightly makes this a conservative movie is its attitude toward class
> which ultimately dominates the film.
It's not conservative at all. I'm sure it got lumped in there because it (rightly) pilloried the Stasi and the East German nomenklatura -- those Cold War reflexes die hard.
But it's actually quite a subtle and progressive drama, about an apparatchik who really and truly believes in the ideals of a socialist society, and discovers he has to make a choice about whether to follow those ideals, or serve a deeply corrupted one-party state.
-- DRR