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The public murder of a prominent politician and doctor amid a violent demonstration is covered up by military and government officials. A tenacious magistrate is determined not to let them get away with it.
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- 20 'Fair Game'
- 19 'The Mauritanian'
- 18 'State of Play'
- 17 'Beirut'
- 16 'Syriana'
- 15 'The Ghost Writer'
- 14 'The Courier'
- 13 'The Report'
- 12 'Tetris'
- 11 'Eye in The Sky'
Director: Doug Liman
Two-time Oscar nominee Naomi Watts stars opposite Oscar winner Sean Penn in the 2010 political thriller Fair Game. Based on Valerie Plame's memoir, the film follows Plame's double life as a CIA operative and a wife and mother. After her husband writes a controversial article and her identity is leaked to the press, Plame's life unravels. Anchored by an outstanding central performance from Watts, Fair Game is a gripping yet underrated thriller that lives up to the genre's best entries. It migh...
Director: Kevin Macdonald
Two-time Oscar winner Jodie Foster stars opposite Tahar Rahim, Shailene Woodley, and Benedict Cumberbatch in the biographical political thriller The Mauritanian. The plot tells the story of Mohamedou Ould Slahi, a Mauritanian man held in Guantanamo Bay for fourteen years without charges. Part political thriller, part legal drama, The Mauritanian is a gripping, genre-bending film about one man's grueling story. The film is uneven and, at times, frustratingly conventional with its approach to a...
Director: Kevin Macdonald
Kevin McDonald directs Oscar winners Ben Affleck and Russell Crowe in the 2009 political thriller State of Play. The plot revolves around journalist Cal McAffrey's investigation into the mysterious death of Sonia Baker, an aide to the popular and rising Congressman Stephen Collins. State of Play benefits from two stellar performances from Affleck and Crowe, helped by an equally great supporting cast including Rachel McAdams, Jeff Daniels, andHelen Mirren. The film understands the importance o...
Director: Brad Anderson
Emmy winner Jon Hamm and Oscar nominee Rosamund Piketeamed up for the 2018 political thriller Beirut. Set during the Lebanese Civil War, the plot centers on Mason Skiles, a former US diplomat who returns to Beirut to rescue a colleague from the terrorist group responsible for killing his family. Beirut is the kind of old-school political and espionage thriller that fans of the genre will love. The film offers a nuanced and fair portrayal of the Middle East, showcasing the tense political and...
Director: Stephen Gaghan
Stephen Gaghan's 2005 political thriller Syriana loosely adapts Robert Baer's 2003 memoir See No Evil. The film features a large ensemble led by George Clooney, Matt Damon, and Jeffrey Wrightand follows several storylines against the backdrop of the Middle Eastern oil industry. Syriana is an overly ambitious but compelling and fascinating kaleidoscope of stories, themes, and messages. Featuring an Oscar-winning performance from Clooneyand a sprawling story that touches every corner of the oil...
Director: Roman Polanski
Lauded by critics, The Ghost Writer is a masterful work of the thriller genre. The film stars Ewan McGregor as a writer hired to ghostwrite the memoirs of a former Prime Minister, played by Pierce Brosnan. Kim Cattrall and Tom Wilkinsonalso star. Like Jack Nicholson and Harrison Ford before him, McGregor is effortless as the leading man in a thriller trying to uncover the truth. Brosnan more than holds up his end of the bargain as the suave, Tony Blair-ish former leader. Written by Robert Har...
Director: Dominic Cooke
While it also falls into the spy film genre, The Courieris set right in the heart of a major political conflict. Based on a true story, the film is about a British businessman recruited by the Secret Service to covertly communicate with a Soviet officer on the brink of the Cuban Missile Crisis. Headlined by Benedict Cumberbatch as the Englishman Greville Wynne and Georgian actor Merab Ninidze as Russian source Oleg Penkovsky, The Courier is continually gripping and well-made, painting vivid p...
Director: Scott Z. Burns
Reminiscent of the 1970s films it draws inspiration from,The Report is a striking look at one of the darkest times in recent American history. Directed and written by frequent Steven Soderbergh collaborator Scott Z Burns, The Report covers political staffer Daniel Jonesand his team as they probe the CIA's use of torture following September 11. Covering over a decade's worth of research, the film effectively flips back and forth between Jones's attempt to extract the truth after the fact and t...
Director: Jon S. Baird
Taron Egerton stars in one of his best movies to date, Jon S. Baird's 2023 political thriller Tetris. The film dramatizes Henk Rogers' efforts to secure the rights for the groundbreaking Tetris game from behind the Iron Curtain in the last days of the Cold War. Although the premise might not sound worthy enough to make for a compelling political thriller, Tetris excels at shining a light on a little-known bit of history. Anxious and excellently paced, the film makes the most of its bizarre se...
Director: Gavin Hood
With 2019's Official Secrets and 2015's Eye in the Sky, Gavin Hood has quietly become one of the most quality directors of political thrillers that Hollywood has to offer. Covering multiple characters and locations in almost real-time in the film, Eye in the Skystars Helen Mirren as a British colonel who is caught in a dilemma when a young girl enters the kill zone of a planned government assassination. Morally conflicting and dramatically stirring, Eye in the Sky is impressively shot and sta...
Political thrillers can be based on true facts, often acting as a reflection of the fears and anxieties of its historical times. There is a strong overlap with the conspiracy thriller. Characteristics: the political cover-up and getting to the truth, shadowily organisations act, terrorism and warfare, paranoia, a mess of corruption.
Dec 16, 2020 · The murder in “The Art of the Political Murder,” a documentary based on the book of the same title by Francisco Goldman, is the killing of Bishop Juan Gerardi Conedera in Guatemala in...
- Paul W. Taylor
- Ben Kenigsberg
- 89 min
Politics Are Murder: Directed by Melissa Jenkins. With Macaulay Bruton, Susan Ziegler, Elizabeth Burr, Marc St. Pierre. "Politics Are Murder" is a "film noir" comedy mixing dry martinis with politics and murder.
- Melissa Jenkins
- Melissa Jenkins
- Comedy
Jul 1, 2024 · The Manchurian Candidate is a political thriller exploring mind control and its potential use in politics. The film uses themes of conspiracy, power, and the blurred lines between reality and manipulation in the political landscape.
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Feb 10, 2022 · The film follows the surveillance expert Harry Caul (Gene Hackman), who accidentally discovers evidence of a murder while surveilling passersby in a public park.
