Capitalism is, in the eyes of many, a system that’s not perfect.

And of course, movies exist within capitalism.

It may focus on the 1980s, but its ideas still ring true.

Anti-Capitalism Movies

Charles Foster Kane is a man who seems to have it all, even at a young age.

The train serves as a microcosm for a capitalist society that’s gone out of control.

However, it’s also asurprisingly funny and satirical film.

Patrick Bateman on a couch smoking and wearing sunglasses in ‘American Psycho’

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Song Kang-ho as Kim Ki-taek, looking annoyed while driving Cho Yeo-jeong as Choi Yeon-gyo, who sits in the back of the car, in Parasite

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Charles Foster Kane, played by Orson Welles, stands in front of a massive poster of himself in Citizen Kane.

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Charlie Chaplin as the Tramp pulling a lever in Modern Times

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Chris Evans in Snowpiercer

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Peter Weller as RoboCop standing in a store in ‘RoboCop’

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Cash sitting on the ground with a binder open on his lap in Sorry To Bother You.

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