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161 films tagged politics, showing 50
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2025 · Science fiction
Sam Wilson, the new Captain America, is pulled into a fight over a rare metal found in the ocean after the president who once hunted the Avengers asks for his help. Big fights, and a lot of political manoeuvring.
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2025 · Thriller
An unidentified missile is tracked heading for Chicago, twenty minutes out, and the film stays with the American officials who have to decide what to do. Rooms, screens and phone calls, close to real time.
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2025 · Thriller
In May 2020, the sheriff of a small New Mexico town refuses the mayor's mask mandate and decides to run against him. It is a long film about a town arguing with itself, online and in the street.
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2025 · Thriller
After the Kandahar hijacking, an intelligence chief sends a young agent into Karachi to work his way up through the gangs shielding a terror network. Three and a half hours, with a lot of names and factions to keep straight.
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2025 · Comedy
A lieutenant governor is handed the governor's office when her mentor quits, with fourteen months of his term left and a reporter already digging. Her estranged father picks the same week to reappear.
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2025 · Animation
The bank takes the farm and plans to sell the animals off, so a pig named Snowball talks the rest into throwing the humans out and running the place themselves. Bright, fast animation over Orwell's story.
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2025 · Comedy
The British prime minister and a US president who used to be an action star cannot stand each other, then end up parachuting out of Air Force One into Belarus together. Chases and bickering the whole way.
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2025 · Thriller
A well-off family gathers for a 25th wedding anniversary, and the son's fiancee turns out to be a former student with a political book of her own. It jumps forward in years, and it is mostly relatives arguing.
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2025 · Drama
A woman in 1970s India is set aside when her lawyer husband takes a second wife, and she goes to court for the maintenance he promised her. The case climbs to the Supreme Court and becomes a national argument.
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2025 · Action
A young officer takes charge of a district and starts raiding the illegal businesses the state's ministers protect. Nearly three hours of Telugu political action, with songs and a long flashback.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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2025 · Thriller
Mercenaries take over the hotel hosting a G20 summit in Cape Town, and the US president, an army veteran, slips loose with a handful of other leaders. Corridors, guards and fights, all in one building.
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2025 · Drama
A Palestinian family is followed across three generations, from losing their home in Jaffa in 1948 to life under occupation in the 2020s. It runs long and moves in chapters, staying with the one family.
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2025 · Mystery
A congressman's daughter is found murdered in San Francisco's Chinatown in 1900, and the killing suits everyone who wants the district shut down. A young detective and a local man work the case, in a comedy with a real whodunnit inside it.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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2025 · Drama
A biopic of Yogi Adityanath, tracing a quiet boy from the hills through monkhood to running India's largest state. It covers decades and stays on one man throughout.
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2025 · Drama
Indira Gandhi climbs the Congress party and wins a war, then, after a court voids her election, suspends civil liberties across India. It covers decades and moves quickly through a lot of history.
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2025 · Thriller
Egypt's most popular actor is pressured by the government into starring in a propaganda film about the president, and saying no costs him work straight away. It moves through meetings and quiet threats.
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2025 · Documentary
The first woman elected to a village council in rural Iran teaches teenage girls to ride motorbikes and works to stop child marriages, and the village starts to question her. A documentary that stays close to her.
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2025 · Documentary
The reporter Seymour Hersh walks through fifty years of his own work: the My Lai massacre, the secret bombing of Cambodia, Watergate, the CIA spying at home, Abu Ghraib. Interviews and archive throughout.
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2025 · Thriller
As the Taliban take Kabul in 2021, hundreds of Afghans gather at the gates of the French embassy, and the officer inside argues for letting them all in. Mostly tense negotiation, from a true account.
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2025 · Drama
In 1950s Taiwan, under martial law, a young woman travels north to collect the remains of a brother executed by the government. Along the way she falls in with a soldier and a rickshaw driver.
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2025 · Documentary
A collage of archive, staged scenes and internet chatter, adapted from a video art installation, with actors playing W. E. B. Du Bois and Marcus Garvey. Shaped like a record album rather than a story.
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2025 · Drama
A lawyer takes on the case of a young woman from Tucuman, jailed after being accused of an illegal abortion, and runs into a legal system that wants her to lose. Court, paperwork, and a protest movement growing outside.
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2025 · Action
Two lifelong friends run the temple committee in an Andhra village, until a minister who wants the temple's land sets about turning them against each other. Long, loud village politics with fights.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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2025 · Documentary
Three virus scientists who traced SARS to a bat cave in 2003, and warned that a worse one was coming, find themselves blamed for COVID when it arrives. Interviews, fieldwork and a lot of news footage.
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2025 · Crime
Someone is badly hurt by a police projectile during the yellow vest protests, and an internal affairs investigator is put on the case. Most of the film is the investigation itself.
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2025 · Drama
The Italian stage actress Eleonora Duse goes back to work after the First World War, at an age when her body will not do what she asks of it. Slow and quiet, as much about the power around her as about the theatre.
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2025 · Documentary
A director asks people in Rijeka what they know about the Italian poet who occupied their city in 1919, then gets them to act the occupation out. Part documentary, part reenactment, rehearsals left in.
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2025 · Documentary
Two Kenyan women quit their jobs to restore a grand old library in the middle of Nairobi, and run into city politics and the country's colonial past. A documentary that stays with the two of them throughout.
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2025 · Drama
A woman returns from her mother's funeral to find her Caracas flat seized by an armed militia, in a city of protests, shortages and officials on the take. Tense, and it stays close to her.
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2025 · Drama
An American army psychiatrist is sent to assess Hermann Goering and the other Nazi leaders held for trial at Nuremberg. Long and talky, built around the conversations between the two men.
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2025 · Thriller
In an America run by the military, fifty teenage boys set off on an annual walk they have to keep at three miles an hour, with three warnings before the soldiers shoot. The last one going wins.
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2025 · Musical
Argentina, 1983: a window dresser jailed for indecency shares a cell with a political prisoner and passes the days retelling him, scene by scene, the Hollywood musical she loves. It cuts between the cell and the musical she is describing.
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2025 · Drama
A young artist in 1990s Russia turns into the spin doctor at the centre of the Kremlin while Vladimir Putin rises to power. It runs from the last days of the Soviet Union onward, seen from inside the room.
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2025 · Action
The heir to a Gujarat dynasty humiliates a minister's son for harassing a woman on a flight, and the minister sets out to ruin him for it. A star vehicle: fights, speeches, and a marriage in trouble underneath.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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2025 · Drama
An investigator sent to find a missing journalist discovers her research into Bengal in 1946 has been sealed or erased, and follows it back to the riots themselves. It runs long, cutting between then and now.
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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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2025 · Documentary
Former military, intelligence and government officials say on camera that the United States has known about alien craft since 1947 and hidden it. It is interviews, one after another.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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2025 · Drama
In sanctions-era Iraq a nine-year-old is picked at school to bake the cake for Saddam Hussein's birthday, and flour and eggs are nowhere to be found. She sets off for the city with her grandmother to trade for them.
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2025 · Drama
A woman walks into the Indian mission in Islamabad saying she was taken across the border and forced to marry, and the diplomat handling her is not sure she is telling the truth. It is a true story, mostly talk.
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2025 · Drama
An income tax officer with a record of enormous seizures is transferred yet again, this time to a town run by a corrupt politician whose hidden money he cannot find. Mostly raids, courtrooms and the two men circling each other.
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2025 · Drama
In 1937, at the height of Stalin's purge, a newly qualified Soviet prosecutor reads a letter smuggled out by a prisoner, goes to see the man, and sets off for Moscow to report what he was shown. Slow and formal: prison offices, a train, a lot of waiting.
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2025 · Documentary
An Iranian filmmaker who cannot get into Gaza documents the war instead through video calls with a young Palestinian photojournalist living there with her family. It is almost entirely those calls, dropped connection and all.
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2025 · Drama
Two young brothers talk their often-absent father into taking them along to Lagos for the day, on the day of Nigeria's 1993 election. Mostly walking, talking and small stops around the city.
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2025 · Thriller
A Guardia Civil officer goes undercover inside ETA and stays there for years, trying to find where the group has hidden its weapons in southern France. It covers those years rather than one operation.
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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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2025 · Documentary
Raoul Peck follows George Orwell's career and the warnings in Nineteen Eighty-Four, and sets them against today's wars and authoritarian politics. Built from archive film and photographs, with Orwell's words read over them.
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2025 · Drama
In 1942 a mid-level official in Sweden's foreign ministry starts using visas, paperwork and legal loopholes to pull Jewish refugees out of Nazi-occupied Europe. A true story told in offices and quiet arguments.
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2025 · Documentary
Five residents of Khartoum describe the coup and the fighting that drove them out of Sudan and into neighbouring countries. It is their own account, told in their own words.
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2025 · Documentary
A documentary about the killing of Javier Chocobar, a Chuschagasta leader in the fight for indigenous land rights in Argentina, and about who owns the land he died on. It is as much about the history of colonialism as about the crime.
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