Political Intrigue Movies, Movies about Political Intrigue

Here we've displayed a list of the best Political Intrigue films : JFK(1991), All the President's Men(1976), The Day of the Jackal(1973), Argo(2012), Advise and Consent(1962), Frost/Nixon(2008), Henry V(1989), Hangmen Also Die(1943), Blow Out(1981), Queen Margot(1994), Macbeth(1971), Man of Iron(1981) ... ...

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JFK

New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison discovers there's more to the Kennedy assassination than the official story.

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All the President's Men

"The Washington Post" reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein uncover the details of the Watergate scandal that leads to President Richard Nixon's resignation.

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The Day of the Jackal

A professional assassin codenamed "Jackal" plots to kill Charles de Gaulle, the President of France.

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Argo

Acting under the cover of a Hollywood producer scouting a location for a science fiction film, a CIA agent launches a dangerous operation to rescue six Americans in Tehran during the U.S. hostage crisis in Iran in 1979.

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Advise and Consent

Senate investigation into the President's newly nominated Secretary of State, gives light to a secret from the past, which may not only ruin the candidate, but the President's character as well.

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Frost/Nixon

A dramatic retelling of the post-Watergate television interviews between British talk-show host David Frost and former president Richard Nixon.

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Henry V

In the midst of the Hundred Years War, the young King Henry V of England embarks on the conquest of France in 1415.

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Hangmen Also Die

After the Nazi administrator of Czechoslovakia is shot, his assassin tries to elude the Gestapo and struggles with his impulse to give himself up as hostages are executed.

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Blow Out

A movie sound recordist accidentally records the evidence that proves that a car accident was actually murder and consequently finds himself in danger.

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Queen Margot

Young Queen Margot finds herself trapped in an arranged marriage amidst a religious war between Catholics and Protestants. She hopes to escape with a new lover, but finds herself imprisoned by her powerful and ruthless family.

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Macbeth

A ruthlessly ambitious Scottish lord seizes the throne with the help of his scheming wife and a trio of witches.

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Man of Iron

A few years after the events of Czlowiek z marmuru (1977), a journalist investigates Mateusz Birkut's son Maciek Tomczyk, now an activist leading a shipyard strike.

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Thirteen Days

In October 1962, the Kennedy administration struggles to contain the Cuban Missile Crisis.

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The Madness of King George

When King George III goes mad, his Lieutenants try to adjust the rules to run the country without his participation.

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Mary, Queen of Scots

During the sixteenth century, the Catholic Mary, Queen of Scots engages in over two decades of religious and political conflict with her cousin, the Protestant Queen Elizabeth I of England, amidst political intrigue in her native land.

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The Parallax View

An ambitious reporter gets in way-over-his-head trouble while investigating a senator's assassination which leads to a vast conspiracy involving a multinational corporation behind every event in the world's headlines.

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Silmido

Based on a true story of 1968 Korean Republic Army plan to assassinate North Korean president Kim Il-Sung. 31 criminals and death row inmates are recruited into secret training on the ... See full summary »

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Good Morning, Night

The 1978 kidnapping of politician Aldo Moro as seen from the perspective of one of his assailants: a conflicted young woman in the ranks of the Red Brigade.

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Monsieur Beaucaire

A bumbling barber in the court of King Louis XV becomes engaged in political intrigue when he masquerades as a dashing nobleman engaged to the princess of Spain.

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Anonymous

The theory that it was in fact Edward De Vere, Earl of Oxford, who penned Shakespeare's plays. Set against the backdrop of the succession of Queen Elizabeth I and the Essex rebellion against her.

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Camila

In 1840's Buenos Aires, Argentina, a beautiful young socialite named Camila falls in love with Ladislao, a Jesuit priest. After several failed attempts at fighting his own feelings, he ... See full summary »

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New Moon

On a Louisiana-bound ship, a nobleman planning a campaign for liberty encounters an heiress.

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The Baroness and the Butler

A butler gets elected to the Hungarian parliament where he opposes his master's government.

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Vatel

Vatel is the cook of Prince Condé. When the prince invites Louis XIV to hunt, he has to give lavish banquets in order to fall in his favor. But when Vatel falls in love with the king's mistress, love and duty come into conflict.

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Ophelia

A re-imagining of Hamlet, told from Ophelia's perspective.

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Get Smart

Maxwell Smart, a highly intellectual but bumbling spy working for the CONTROL agency, is tasked with preventing a terrorist attack from rival spy agency KAOS.

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Scandal

Based on the Profumo Scandal of 1963, an affair between an exotic dancer and the Minister of War shakes up the British government.

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Land of the Blind

A soldier recounts his relationship with a famous political prisoner attempting to overthrow their country's authoritarian government.

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Two Deaths

A tale of power, passion, and obsession set in a politically torn Eastern European country.

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Trouble for Two

The Crown Prince is to marry the Princess Brenda of Irania, but the Princess declines the arranged marriage. Relieved, Florizel heads for London, with the Colonel, where he seeks adventure ... See full summary »

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