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) ... ...
8.0/10
Drama, History
USA|France
1991
189 Minutes
Kevin Costner Sissy Spacek Joe Pesci Tommy Lee Jones Gary Oldman Jay O. Sanders Michael Rooker Laurie Metcalf Gary Grubbs John Candy Jack Lemmon
district attorney assassin businessman informant wife passionate spirited new orleans washington, d.c. dallas courtroom conspiracy assassination deception political intrigue historical events trial mystery discovery 1960s
New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison discovers there's more to the Kennedy assassination than the official story.
7.9/10
Drama
USA
1976
138 Minutes
Robert Redford Dustin Hoffman Jack Warden Martin Balsam Hal Holbrook Jason Robards Jane Alexander Meredith Baxter Ned Beatty Stephen Collins Penny Fuller
reporter editor politician teamwork engaging intricate tense emotional washington, d.c. watergate hotel apartment newsroom parking deck big city journalism political intrigue richard nixon carl bernstein bob woodward scandal
"The Washington Post" reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein uncover the details of the Watergate scandal that leads to President Richard Nixon's resignation.
7.8/10
Mystery & Thriller, Crime, Drama
UK|France
1973
141 Minutes
Edward Fox Michael Lonsdale Tony Britton Terence Alexander Cyril Cusack Alan Badel Michel Auclair Denis Carey Maurice Denham Adrien Cayla-Legrand Vernon Dobtcheff
hit man charles de gaulle police detective police officer suspenseful engaging paris apartment building assassination plot political intrigue investigation secret identity torture quest pursuit 1960s
A professional assassin codenamed "Jackal" plots to kill Charles de Gaulle, the President of France.
7.7/10
Mystery & Thriller, Drama, History
USA|UK
2012
120 Minutes
Ben Affleck Bryan Cranston Alan Arkin John Goodman Victor Garber Tate Donovan Clea DuVall Scoot McNairy Rory Cochrane Christopher Denham Kerry Bishé
cia agent specialist hostage revolutionary ambassador wife brutal tense suspenseful thrilling tehran, iran cia office canada united states airplane protest iran hostage crisis on the run political intrigue schemes
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.
7.7/10
Gay & Lesbian, Drama
USA
1962
140 Minutes
Henry Fonda Charles Laughton Don Murray Walter Pidgeon Peter Lawford Gene Tierney Franchot Tone Lew Ayres Burgess Meredith Paul Ford George Grizzard
politician senator president fiery tense washington, d.c. politics political intrigue ambition competition discovery rivalry 1960s
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.
7.7/10
Drama, History
UK|France|USA
2008
122 Minutes
Frank Langella Michael Sheen Kevin Bacon Rebecca Hall Toby Jones Matthew Macfadyen Oliver Platt Sam Rockwell Patty McCormack Andy Miller Kate Jennings Grant
president journalist writer love interest celebrity engaging witty household hotel library los angeles richard nixon television scandal vietnam war investigative journalism political intrigue pursuit discovery 1970s
A dramatic retelling of the post-Watergate television interviews between British talk-show host David Frost and former president Richard Nixon.
7.5/10
Drama, History
UK
1989
137 Minutes
Kenneth Branagh Derek Jacobi Brian Blessed Ian Holm Paul Scofield Michael Maloney Alec McCowen Emma Thompson Geraldine McEwan Simon Shepherd James Larkin
king princess soldier henry v patriotic rousing emotional thrilling battlefield royal court royal palace inn england france war political intrigue royalty treason heroism leadership
In the midst of the Hundred Years War, the young King Henry V of England embarks on the conquest of France in 1415.
7.5/10
War
USA
1943
131 Minutes
Brian Donlevy Walter Brennan Anna Lee Gene Lockhart Dennis O'Keefe Alexander Granach Margaret Wycherly Nana Bryant William Roy Hans Heinrich von Twardowski Tonio Selwart
rebel nazi professor traitor suspenseful gripping patriotic rousing czechoslovakia city prague nazism rebellion assassination political intrigue world war ii escape rescue 1940s
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.
7.4/10
Mystery & Thriller
USA
1981
108 Minutes
John Travolta Nancy Allen John Lithgow Dennis Franz Peter Boyden Curt May Dave Roberts Maurice Copeland Claire Carter John Aquino John Hoffmeister
sound operator woman assassin detective intricate suspenseful dark philadelphia river roof movie studio political intrigue conspiracy assassination accident cover-up recordings sacrifice discovery pursuit
A movie sound recordist accidentally records the evidence that proves that a car accident was actually murder and consequently finds himself in danger.
7.4/10
Drama, History
France|Italy|Germany
1994
143 Minutes
Isabelle Adjani Daniel Auteuil Jean-Hugues Anglade Vincent Perez Virna Lisi Dominique Blanc Pascal Greggory Claudio Amendola Miguel Bosé Asia Argento Julien Rassam
heiress king catherine de medici husband lover brother striking gripping france household palace political unrest arranged marriage family bloodline royalty political intrigue religious wars forbidden love pursuit 16th century
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.
7.4/10
Drama
UK|USA
1971
140 Minutes
Jon Finch Francesca Annis Martin Shaw Nicholas Selby Stephan Chase Paul Shelley Terence Bayler Andrew Laurence Frank Wylie Bernard Archard John Stride
king macbeth lady ghost rival brutal unrestrained castle scotland countryside royal court madness political intrigue assassination royalty violence fall wretched excess 16th century
A ruthlessly ambitious Scottish lord seizes the throne with the help of his scheming wife and a trio of witches.
7.4/10
Drama, History
Poland
1981
153 Minutes
Jerzy Radziwilowicz Krystyna Janda Marian Opania Irene Byrska Boguslaw Linda Wieslawa Kosmalska Andrzej Seweryn Krzysztof Janczar Boguslaw Sobczuk Frantiszek Trzeciak
reporter filmmaker laborer political boss striker union boss confident striking gdansk, poland shipyard prison office television studio labor strike communism corruption polish solidarity movement political intrigue pursuit rivalry
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.
7.3/10
Drama, History
USA
2000
145 Minutes
Kevin Costner Bruce Greenwood Steven Culp Dylan Baker Michael Fairman Henry Strozier Frank Wood Kevin Conway Tim Kelleher Len Cariou Bill Smitrovich
president secretary of defense diplomat u.s. president first lady engaging suspenseful emotional new york city washington, d.c. airplane big city mission nuclear weapons political intrigue diplomacy politics john f. kennedy rivalry fall
In October 1962, the Kennedy administration struggles to contain the Cuban Missile Crisis.
7.2/10
Drama, History
UK|USA
1994
110 Minutes
Nigel Hawthorne Helen Mirren Ian Holm Rupert Everett Rupert Graves John Wood Amanda Donohoe Julian Rhind-Tutt Julian Wadham
queen prime minister king doctor prince of wales lady fascinating melodramatic royal court palace england king george iii mental illness political intrigue royalty marriage assassination plot transformation rivalry love
When King George III goes mad, his Lieutenants try to adjust the rules to run the country without his participation.
7.2/10
Drama, History
UK|USA
1971
128 Minutes
Vanessa Redgrave Glenda Jackson Patrick McGoohan Timothy Dalton Nigel Davenport Trevor Howard Daniel Massey Ian Holm Andrew Keir Tom Fleming Katherine Kath
mary stuart elizabeth tudor husband courtier lord somber fascinating passionate scotland england royal court royalty catholicism political intrigue romantic dilemma exile betrayal love revenge fall
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.
7.1/10
Mystery & Thriller
USA
1974
102 Minutes
Warren Beatty Paula Prentiss William Daniels Hume Cronyn Kelly Thordsen Earl Hindman Chuck Waters William Joyce Bettie Johnson Bill McKinney Joanne Harris
reporter editor politician assassin shocking dark disheartening intense seattle portland, ore. los angeles conspiracy political campaign political intrigue corporate espionage murder mystery pursuit discovery 1970s
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.
7.1/10
Drama, Action
South Korea
2003
134 Minutes
Sol Kyung-gu Ahn Sung-ki Heo Jun-ho Jeong Jae-yeong Kang Shin-il
gang leader trainer military officer convict government official brutal rousing dark south korea island prison assassination plot military intelligence political intrigue training dictatorship revenge rivalry 1970s
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 »
7.1/10
Drama
Italy
2003
106 Minutes
Maya Sansa Luigi Lo Cascio Roberto Herlitzka Paolo Briguglia Pier Giorgio Bellocchio Giovanni Calcagno Letizia Bellocchio Maria Luisa Bellocchio Giulio Bosetti Tina Anselmi
kidnapper politician hostage young woman aldo moro prime minister dark tense fascinating rome hideout government building kidnapping political intrigue terrorism fanaticism murder hostage situation quest revenge
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.
7.0/10
Comedy
USA
1946
93 Minutes
barber louis xv chambermaid duke king daughter madcap amusing france kingdom castle political intrigue assumed identity banishment war romance forbidden love adventure 18th century
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.
6.9/10
Drama, History
UK|Germany|USA
2011
130 Minutes
Rhys Ifans Vanessa Redgrave Joely Richardson David Thewlis Xavier Samuel Sebastian Armesto Rafe Spall Edward Hogg Sam Reid Jamie Campbell Bower Derek Jacobi
queen elizabeth i edward de vere playwright earl suspenseful intricate globe theatre london royal court theater authorship political intrigue william shakespeare rivalry love 16th century
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.
6.9/10
Drama, History
Argentina|Spain
1984
108 Minutes
Susú Pecoraro Imanol Arias Héctor Alterio Elena Tasisto Carlos Muñoz Héctor Pellegrini
socialite father priest military officer politician police officer brooding dark buenos aires, argentina church family home small town love political intrigue family forbidden love sacrifice 1840s
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 »
6.9/10
Musical, Romance
USA
1940
105 Minutes
Jeanette MacDonald Nelson Eddy Mary Boland George Zucco H.B. Warner Dick Purcell Stanley Fields Bunty Cutler Grant Mitchell Ray Walker John Miljan
frenchman duke prisoner servant love interest heiress melodramatic passionate suspenseful ship island louisiana romance journey class distinctions political intrigue love sacrifice adventure 1780s
On a Louisiana-bound ship, a nobleman planning a campaign for liberty encounters an heiress.
6.7/10
Comedy
USA
1938
75 Minutes
prime minister butler daughter husband countess airy charming offbeat tender hungary parliament political intrigue conflict of interest loyalty family honor unusual romance rivalry transformation 1930s
A butler gets elected to the Hungarian parliament where he opposes his master's government.
6.6/10
Drama, Romance, History
France|UK|Belgium
2000
117 Minutes
Gérard Depardieu Uma Thurman Tim Roth Julian Glover Julian Sands Timothy Spall Arielle Dombasle Hywel Bennett Richard Griffiths Murry Lachlan Young Philippine Leroy-Beaulieu
steward prince courtesan king louis xiv brother costume designer emotional sultry amusing spirited france countryside chateau dinner party royalty financial crisis political intrigue sexual advances class distinctions war
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.
6.6/10
Romance, Drama
UK|USA
2018
114 Minutes
Daisy Ridley Naomi Watts Clive Owen George MacKay Tom Felton Devon Terrell Daisy Head Sebastian de Souza Dominic Mafham Martin Angerbauer Noel Czuczor
orphan queen aristocratic lady prince hamlet intense passionate melodramatic rousing spectacular denmark castle pond city whirlwind romance secret love political intrigue war betrayal murder
A re-imagining of Hamlet, told from Ophelia's perspective.
6.5/10
Comedy, Action
USA
2008
111 Minutes
Steve Carell Anne Hathaway Dwayne Johnson Alan Arkin Terence Stamp Terry Crews David Koechner James Caan Bill Murray Patrick Warburton Masi Oka
criminal spy chief agent analyst partner hilarious lighthearted suspenseful office washington, d.c. moscow ballroom headquarters airplane conspiracy espionage saving the world dangerous mission odd couple
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.
6.5/10
Drama
UK
1989
106 Minutes
John Hurt Joanne Whalley-Kilmer Bridget Fonda Ian McKellen Leslie Phillips Britt Ekland Roland Gift Jeroen Krabbé
stripper spy politician doctor detective fiery passionate dark london house party affair political intrigue sex scandal class conflict forbidden love fall 1960s
Based on the Profumo Scandal of 1963, an affair between an exotic dancer and the Minister of War shakes up the British government.
6.5/10
Drama
UK|USA
2006
101 Minutes
Ralph Fiennes Donald Sutherland Tom Hollander Lara Flynn Boyle Marc Warren Robert Daws Ron Cook Laura Fraser Jonathan Hyde Camilla Rutherford Don Warrington
political prisoner prison guard dictator anchorman first lady writer disturbing offbeat shocking profound prison bedroom parliament reeducation camp movie set city revolution political intrigue political repression assassination
A soldier recounts his relationship with a famous political prisoner attempting to overthrow their country's authoritarian government.
6.5/10
Drama
UK
1995
96 Minutes
Michael Gambon Sonia Braga Patrick Malahide Nickolas Grace Ion Caramitru John Shrapnel Sevilla Delofski Matthew Terdre Lisa Orgolino Niall Refoy Karl Tessler
doctor servant childhood friend guest dark shocking thrilling hedonistic emotional europe mansion dinner party street kitchen city revolution class conflict psychology abuse political intrigue
A tale of power, passion, and obsession set in a politically torn Eastern European country.
6.5/10
Mystery & Thriller
USA
1936
75 Minutes
Robert Montgomery Rosalind Russell Frank Morgan Reginald Owen Louis Hayward David Holt Virginia Weidler E.E. Clive Walter Kingsford Ivan F. Simpson Tom Moore
prince princess colonel mysterious woman fiancé wealthy man eerie tense london boat zoo scams suicide political intrigue arranged marriage secret society journey discovery mystery rivalry
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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