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40 films tagged politics
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1964 · Comedy
An American general goes off the reservation and orders a nuclear strike on the Soviet Union, and the men in the war room try to call it back. A comedy, played entirely straight.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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2023 · Drama
The physicist who ran the Manhattan Project builds the bomb, then spends years in rooms answering for it. Three hours, mostly of men talking, cut between two timelines.
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Little-known
2006 · Drama
A Stasi officer in 1984 East Berlin is assigned to bug a playwright's flat and listen, day after day. What he hears starts to work on him.
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Little-known
2017 · Drama
A Seoul cabbie takes a big fare to drive a German reporter down to Gwangju in May 1980, with no idea what is happening in the city. It starts as a comedy about a man chasing money and does not stay one.
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2022 · War
A German schoolboy signs up in 1917 with his friends, excited about the war, and is sent to the trenches of the Western Front. It is loud and muddy and there is almost no let-up.
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2018 · Action
After his father's death, T'Challa comes home to take the throne of Wakanda, an African country hiding technology no one else has, and finds his claim challenged. A superhero film with a lot of family argument and court politics in it.
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2018 · Drama
The first Black officer on the Colorado Springs force answers a Klan recruitment ad by phone and sends a white colleague to the meetings in his place. Funny for long stretches, then it stops being funny.
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2015 · Drama
An insurance lawyer is handed the defence of a captured Soviet spy, then sent to a divided Berlin to trade him for a downed American pilot. Mostly negotiation, in cold rooms with careful men.
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2006 · Science fiction
Nobody has been born anywhere on earth for eighteen years, and Britain has become a locked-down state rounding up refugees. A tired civil servant is asked to get one woman to the coast.
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2024 · Thriller
The Pope dies and the cardinals are locked inside the Vatican to choose the next one, while the man running the vote keeps learning things about the candidates. Whispered talk in beautiful rooms.
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2017 · War
Churchill takes over as prime minister in May 1940, with France falling and his own cabinet pushing him to negotiate. Mostly arguments in small rooms and corridors.
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Little-known
2017 · Drama
During the 1967 riots, police pull a group of young Black men and two women out of a motel annexe and question them through the night. The middle hour stays in that corridor and does not let up.
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2004 · War
The last days in Hitler's bunker under Berlin, watched mostly by the young woman hired to type his letters. Almost all of it is underground, in German, with the shelling going on above.
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2021 · Science fiction
A noble family is handed control of a desert planet that supplies the most valuable substance in the universe, which the family it was taken from has no intention of accepting. It is long, slow, and heavy on names and factions.
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2024 · Science fiction
A young duke living among the desert people of a spice planet learns their ways while the family that destroyed his keeps hold of the harvest. Huge and loud and slow all at once, with a lot of sand and prophecy.
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2000 · Action
A Roman general betrayed by the new emperor is sold into slavery and fights his way back up through the arenas towards Rome. Big battles, big crowds, and a story that runs in a straight line.
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2024 · Action
Years after the first film, a captured man from a North African city is brought to Rome to fight in the Colosseum for an owner with plans of his own. Big crowds, big fights, and scheming in between.
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2003 · Comedy
A young man in East Berlin whose mother sleeps through the fall of the Wall is told any shock could kill her, so he rebuilds the vanished country inside her flat. Gentle comedy with real history running behind it.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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Little-known
2008 · Drama
In the Maze prison in 1981, Republican inmates refuse to wear uniforms or wash, and one of them stops eating. Barely any dialogue, one very long conversation in the middle, and a lot of time in cells.
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2024 · Drama
In Rio in 1971, a mother of five keeps the household running after soldiers take her husband away for questioning under Brazil's dictatorship. It stays close to the family and covers many years.
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2018 · Animation
A Japanese city banishes every dog to a rubbish island, and a boy flies out there alone to find his. The dogs talk in flat deadpan, and the whole thing is stop-motion built like a doll's house.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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2021 · Drama
A Chicago car thief is picked up by the FBI and offered a deal: get close to the young chairman of the local Black Panther chapter and report back. It moves between the two men all the way through.
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2001 · Musical
A village in colonial India can skip three years of tax if it beats the British garrison at cricket, a game none of them has played. Nearly four hours, with songs, and the last hour is the match.
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2017 · Adventure
A girl in the Korean mountains has raised a hippo-sized pig for ten years, and the company that made the animal wants it back in New York. It swings between sweet and rough, sometimes in the same scene.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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2025 · Thriller
Sixteen years after his group of revolutionaries fell apart, a paranoid burnout has to move fast when his teenage daughter goes missing and an army colonel comes looking. Long, loud and often very funny.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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Little-known
2020 · Drama
On a night in February 1964, Malcolm X, Cassius Clay, Sam Cooke and Jim Brown sit together in a motel room after a title fight. From a play, and it is four men arguing in one room for most of it.
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2013 · Science fiction
The last people alive circle a frozen Earth on a train that never stops, and the ones at the back decide to fight their way to the front. Each carriage is its own set piece and it only goes one way.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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2015 · Science fiction
A scavenger on a desert planet and a stormtrooper who walks off his post end up carrying something the new empire badly wants. Big and fast, and built to feel like the ones from the seventies.
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2017 · Comedy
Moscow, 1953: the man at the top drops dead and the committee around him start going for his job before the body is cold. Everyone talks fast, nobody says what they mean, and the jokes are about ugly things.
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2018 · Drama
A sick and unpredictable Queen Anne is managed by her closest friend, until a ruined cousin turns up at court as a scullery maid and starts climbing. Filthy jokes, wide lenses, three women circling each other.
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2019 · Crime
A truck driver falls in with the Philadelphia mob and spends decades doing what he is told, including for a union boss the whole country knew. Three and a half hours, told by an old man looking back.
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2004 · Drama
Two Argentine friends set off up the length of South America on an old motorbike in 1952, one of them a medical student named Ernesto Guevara. Sunny and slow, mostly landscape and conversation.
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2017 · Drama
In 1971 the Washington Post gets hold of a secret government history of the Vietnam war, and its owner has to decide whether to print with the courts already involved. Rooms, phones and deadlines, and no action at all.
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Little-known
2021 · Drama
A Scottish general meets three witches who tell him he will be king, and goes home to his wife with the news. Black and white, bare sets, and the original language kept word for word.
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2019 · Drama
A cardinal comes to Rome to hand in his resignation and ends up spending days arguing with Pope Benedict about the church. Two men talking, in gardens and chapels, with jokes.
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2018 · Comedy
A drink-driving power line worker from Wyoming climbs through Washington to become the most powerful vice president the United States has had. Told out of order, with jokes, charts and narration.
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2009 · Action
In a 1985 where costumed heroes have been outlawed and the world is close to nuclear war, one of them is thrown out of a window and an old colleague starts asking why. Long, slow and very violent.
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2024 · Musical
Two students at a school for wizards in Oz become friends despite having nothing in common: one green and unwanted, one blonde and adored. The first half of the stage musical, with big numbers and a lot of singing.
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Little-known
2018 · Crime
Four women in Chicago are left holding their husbands' debts after a robbery goes wrong, and decide to carry out the job the men had planned next. A heist film that spends as much time on city politics and grief.
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Little-known
2022 · Drama
The women of an isolated religious colony meet in a hayloft over two days to decide by vote whether to stay or leave. All talk, nearly all one room, and taken from a novel.
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