I’ll be honest I don’t know any leftist films. The only thing I can think of are Soviet films and I know next to nothing about them.

Some soviet films I’ve wanted for a while in good quality (can find in lousy quality but I want something decent).

-Earth (Zemlya) (1930)

-The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1921)

-October: Ten Days That Shook the World (1928) (Note on this one. It is in the public domain, it can be found on internet archive but only a really shitty 720p rip that does not look good and has been floating around forever. Looking for something better quality)

Minimum quality desired:

• 1080p resolution (note: 480p is fine as they may only exist on dvd but 1080p preferred),
• minimum desired bitrate: 4500kbps (much higher would be better),
• Ideally bluray rips but webrips of 1080p are better than nothing.

Also highly appreciate english subtitles being included if available with the release as I’m unsure if they can be sourced elsewhere and as these are Russian pictures I need them.

I’ve turned every stone looking for these in public trackers and even some private ones and nothing.

To be honest anything in the soviet sci-fi space that’s a quality rip (high bitrate 480p dvd rip that hasn’t been re-encoded 5 times, bluray, or even 1080p webrip off some Russian streaming service from a good film print) would be deeply loved and valuable.

Lower priority bonuses I also wouldn’t mind:

-Walter Defends Sarajevo (1972) (Not even objectively a great film but an important one. First film screened from outside China after cultural revolution, somewhat famous there. I have a shitty copy with hard-subs but I’m looking for a quality transfer, 1080p webrip or bluray)

-Anything by Chantal Akerman, especially any kind of collected works bluray but right now the only stuff you can easily find by her is Jeanne Dielman.

I’m by no means a skilled pirate, so these may be available elsewhere. They aren’t really art films either. Them! (1954) and They Live (1988) are two I’ve been interested in seeing for a while but haven’t come across. Another thing that would be interesting would be recordings of Blitzstein’s The Cradle Will Rock or any Kurt Weill stuff, though those aren’t films. I do enjoy art films, though I don’t have a list in mind of ones I would like to see but haven’t been able to find, so I’d enjoy seeing what others suggest in that area.

Since this is still up and I didn’t get many mentions in I’ll add that any Soviet war films such as:

Battle for Moscow (1985) or

The Fall of Berlin (1949/50) as bluray rips or 1080p webrips would be great.

Caveat: Only if available as bluray rips or webrips with 4500kbps or greater bitrate. They’re both available on Youtube in the mosfilm channel (along with a ton of others) but 1) Youtube quality is garbage, bitrate is maybe 2-3000 at best 2) Youtube is not friendly and with Ukraine stuff on-going I wouldn’t be shocked if they banned the account and purged Russian culture stuff from it belatedly, to say nothing of them probably having no direct desire to host pro-communist films and those being at risk at any moment of removal.

Caveat2: No dvdrips for the above films as the youtube uploads are in 1080p quality which even at 2000kbps is at least equal if not better than 4500kbps 480/570p video. Also dvdrips do exist in public trackers last I checked.

So if they’re not free-leach no big pressure as it is accessible at least for now and maybe it can be ripped with YT-DL if nothing better crops up.

I’ll also mention as an idea, any cinema from DPRK (North Korea) could be interesting as most films there exemplify the Juche idea and thus are Marxist-Leninist in politics. I don’t have specific titles but you could look that up yourself or maybe your friend could look to see if any exist there. I’m not even sure this is possible as I’m not aware of if these have ever gotten any kind of home-media release like bluray dvd and it strikes me as likely they wouldn’t have English subtitles available as they’d be for Chinese/Russian market which would cut down massively on the ability to comprehend and really enjoy them. THOUGH if they come with pre-existing Chinese or Russian or Korean subtitles we could machine translate the subtitles easily enough.