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Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace
1999 film directed by George Lucas
The Batman
2022 superhero film by Matt Reeves
Angels & Demons
2009 film directed by Ron Howard
Milk
2008 film directed by Gus Van Sant
Batman Returns
1992 film directed by Tim Burton
All the President's Men
1976 film by Alan J. Pakula
Wag the Dog
1997 film by Barry Levinson
The Iron Lady
2011 film directed by Phyllida Lloyd
All the King's Men
1949 film by Robert Rossen
Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore
2022 film directed by David Yates
Conclave
2024 film by Edward Berger
In the Line of Fire
1993 film directed by Wolfgang Petersen
The Adjustment Bureau
2011 film directed by George Nolfi
The Ides of March
2011 film directed by George Clooney
The Manchurian Candidate
1962 film directed by John Frankenheimer
Mank
Mank is a 2020 American biographical drama film about screenwriter Herman J. Mankiewicz and his development of the screenplay for Orson Welles's 1941 film Citizen Kane. It was directed by David Fincher based on a screenplay written by his late father Jack Fincher and was produced by Ceán Chaffin, Douglas Urbanski, and Eric Roth. It stars Gary Oldman in the title role, alongside Amanda Seyfried, Lily Collins, Arliss Howard, Tom Pelphrey, Sam Troughton, Ferdinand Kingsley, Tuppence Middleton, Tom Burke, Joseph Cross, Jamie McShane, Toby Leonard Moore, Monika Gossman, and Charles Dance.
Annie
2014 film directed by Will Gluck
Nashville
1975 film directed by Robert Altman
Nixon
1995 film directed by Oliver Stone
Red, White & Royal Blue
2023 film directed by Matthew López
The Purge: Election Year
2016 film by James DeMonaco
Napoleon Dynamite
2004 film by Jared Hess
Widows
2018 film directed by Steve McQueen
Meet John Doe
1941 film directed by Frank Capra
Election
1999 film by Alexander Payne
All the King's Men
2006 film by Steven Zaillian
Long Shot
2019 film directed by Jonathan Levine
Our Brand Is Crisis
2015 film by David Gordon Green
Primary Colors
1998 film directed by Mike Nichols
No (2012 film)
2012 film directed by Pablo Larraín
Shampoo
1975 film by Hal Ashby
Broken City
2013 film directed by Allen Hughes
The Candidate
1972 film directed by Michael Ritchie
The Campaign
2012 film by Jay Roach
Bulworth
Bulworth is a 1998 American political satire black comedy film co-written, co-produced, directed by, and starring Warren Beatty. It co-stars Halle Berry, Oliver Platt, Don Cheadle, Paul Sorvino, Jack Warden, and Isaiah Washington. The film follows the title character, California Senator Jay Billington Bulworth (Beatty), as he runs for re-election while trying to avoid a hired assassin. The film received generally positive reviews and a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay yet narrowly failed to break even on a $30 million budget. However, Beatty was praised for tacklin
Happiest Season
2020 film directed by Clea DuVall
Eddington (film)
Eddington is a 2025 American satirical neo-Western thriller film written and directed by Ari Aster, and starring Joaquin Phoenix, Pedro Pascal, Luke Grimes, Deirdre O'Connell, Micheal Ward, Austin Butler, and Emma Stone. Set in 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic and George Floyd protests, the film examines the political and social turmoil in the fictional town of Eddington, New Mexico caused by the contested mayoral election fought between Sheriff Joe Cross (Phoenix) and Mayor Ted Garcia (Pascal).
The Distinguished Gentleman
1992 film by Jonathan Lynn
Welcome to Mooseport
2004 film by Donald Petrie
Jawan
2023 film directed by Atlee
The Front Runner
2018 film directed by Jason Reitman
The Great McGinty
1940 film by Preston Sturges
Who's Nailin' Paylin?
2008 film by Jerome Tanner
Power
1986 film directed by Sidney Lumet
Game Change
2012 television film directed by Jay Roach
I Married a Witch
1942 film by René Clair
Head of State
2003 American comedy film by Chris Rock
The Last Hurrah
1958 film by John Ford
Medium Cool
1969 film by Haskell Wexler
State of the Union
1948 film by Frank Capra
Bob Roberts
1992 film by Tim Robbins
Newton
2017 film by Amit Masurkar
My Fellow Americans
1996 film by Peter Segal
The Monk and the Gun
2023 film directed by Pawo Choyning Dorji
True Colors
1991 film by Herbert Ross
The Phenix City Story
1955 film by Phil Karlson
Speechless
1994 film by Ron Underwood
Nayak
2001 film by Shankar
The Best Man
1964 film by Franklin J. Schaffner
King's Game
2004 film by Nikolaj Arcel