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Politics & other Bedfellows Movie List

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  • Wag the Dog (1997)

    1. Wag the Dog

    19971h 37mR74Metascore
    7.1 (91K)
    Shortly before an election, a spin-doctor and a Hollywood producer join efforts to fabricate a war in order to cover up a Presidential sex scandal.
    DirectorBarry LevinsonStarsDustin HoffmanRobert De NiroAnne Heche
  • John Travolta, Emma Thompson, and Adrian Lester in Primary Colors (1998)

    2. Primary Colors

    19982h 23mR70Metascore
    6.7 (31K)
    A man joins the political campaign of a smooth-operator candidate for President of the United States of America.
    DirectorMike NicholsStarsJohn TravoltaEmma ThompsonKathy Bates
  • Advise & Consent (1962)

    3. Advise & Consent

    19622h 19mApproved
    7.7 (7.9K)
    The polarizing search for a new Secretary of State has far-reaching consequences.
    DirectorOtto PremingerStarsFranchot ToneLew AyresHenry Fonda
  • Seven Days in May (1964)

    4. Seven Days in May

    19641h 58mApproved73Metascore
    7.8 (18K)
    United States military leaders plot to overthrow the President because he supports a nuclear disarmament treaty and they fear a Soviet sneak attack.
    DirectorJohn FrankenheimerStarsBurt LancasterKirk DouglasFredric March
  • Medium Cool (1969)

    5. Medium Cool

    19691h 51mR87Metascore
    7.2 (5K)
    A TV news reporter finds himself becoming personally involved in the violence that erupts around the 1968 Democratic National Convention.
    DirectorHaskell WexlerStarsRobert ForsterVerna BloomPeter Bonerz
  • Music Box (1989)

    6. Music Box

    19892h 4mPG-13
    7.4 (9.4K)
    A lawyer defends her father accused of war crimes, but there is more to the case than she suspects.
    DirectorCosta-GavrasStarsJessica LangeArmin Mueller-StahlFrederic Forrest
  • The War Room (1993)

    7. The War Room

    19931h 36mPG78Metascore
    7.4 (4.6K)
    Follows the Bill Clinton 1992 presidential campaign and the organization who ran it.
    DirectorsChris HegedusD.A. PennebakerStarsJames CarvilleGeorge StephanopoulosHeather Beckel
  • John Derek, Broderick Crawford, Joanne Dru, John Ireland, Mercedes McCambridge, and Shepperd Strudwick in All the King's Men (1949)

    8. All the King's Men

    19491h 50mApproved
    7.4 (18K)
    The rise and fall of a grass-roots rural politician who eventually becomes mired in the sort of political corruption he vehemently railed against on his way to the governor's mansion.
    DirectorRobert RossenStarsBroderick CrawfordJohn IrelandJoanne Dru
  • A Face in the Crowd (1957)

    9. A Face in the Crowd

    19572h 6mApproved72Metascore
    8.2 (18K)
    Female radio reporter Marcia Jeffries turns folk-singing drifter Larry "Lonesome" Rhodes into a powerful media star who becomes utterly detestable during his meteoric rise.
    DirectorElia KazanStarsAndy GriffithPatricia NealAnthony Franciosa
  • The Manchurian Candidate (1962)

    10. The Manchurian Candidate

    19622h 6mPG-1394Metascore
    7.9 (83K)
    An American POW in the Korean War is brainwashed as an unwitting assassin for an international Communist conspiracy.
    DirectorJohn FrankenheimerStarsFrank SinatraLaurence HarveyJanet Leigh
  • David Strathairn in Good Night, and Good Luck. (2005)

    11. Good Night, and Good Luck.

    20051h 33mPG80Metascore
    7.4 (104K)
    Broadcast journalist Edward R. Murrow looks to bring down Senator Joseph McCarthy.
    DirectorGeorge ClooneyStarsDavid StrathairnGeorge ClooneyPatricia Clarkson
  • Henry Fonda and Cliff Robertson in The Best Man (1964)

    12. The Best Man

    19641h 42mApproved
    7.6 (4K)
    The two front runners for their party's presidential nomination, one principled and the other ruthless, vie for the former president's endorsement.
    DirectorFranklin J. SchaffnerStarsHenry FondaCliff RobertsonEdie Adams
  • Anthony Hopkins in Nixon (1995)

    13. Nixon

    19953h 12mR66Metascore
    7.0 (34K)
    A biographical story of former U.S. President Richard Nixon, from his days as a young boy, to his eventual Presidency, which ended in shame.
    DirectorOliver StoneStarsAnthony HopkinsJoan AllenPowers Boothe
  • The Candidate (1972)

    14. The Candidate

    19721h 50mPG66Metascore
    7.0 (13K)
    Bill McKay is a candidate for the U.S. Senate from California. He has no hope of winning, so he is willing to tweak the establishment.
    DirectorMichael RitchieStarsRobert RedfordPeter BoyleMelvyn Douglas
  • Brian Donlevy, Muriel Angelus, and Akim Tamiroff in The Great McGinty (1940)

    15. The Great McGinty

    19401h 22mApproved
    7.2 (4.7K)
    Dan McGinty has great success in his chosen field of crooked politics, but he endangers it all in one crazy moment of honesty.
    DirectorPreston SturgesStarsBrian DonlevyMuriel AngelusAkim Tamiroff
  • The Contender (2000)

    16. The Contender

    20002h 6mR59Metascore
    6.9 (26K)
    Senator Laine Hanson is a contender for U.S. Vice President, but information and disinformation about her past surfaces that threatens to derail her confirmation.
    DirectorRod LurieStarsJoan AllenGary OldmanJeff Bridges
  • Boogie Man: The Lee Atwater Story (2008)

    17. Boogie Man: The Lee Atwater Story

    20081h 26mNot Rated66Metascore
    7.5 (853)
    The Murrow, Polk, and IDA Award-winning documentary Boogie Man is about Lee Atwater, a blues-playing rogue whose rise from the South to Chairman of the GOP made him a political rock star. He mentored George W. Bush and Karl Rove while leading the Republican party to historic victories, helping make liberal a dirty word, and transforming the way America elects our Presidents. In interviews with Republicans and friends of Atwater, Boogie Man examines his role in America's shift to the right. To Democrats offended by the 1988 Willie Horton controversy, Atwater was a remorseless political assassin dubbed by one Congresswoman "the most evil man in America." The film examines his irreverent sense of humor, his understanding of the American heartland, and his unapologetic vision of politics as war. It ends with a portrait of a cynic's deathbed search for meaning.
    DirectorStefan ForbesStarsLee AtwaterTucker EskewJoe Sligh
  • Nashville (1975)

    18. Nashville

    19752h 40mR96Metascore
    7.6 (30K)
    Over the course of a few hectic days, numerous interrelated people prepare for a political convention.
    DirectorRobert AltmanStarsKeith CarradineKaren BlackRonee Blakley
  • Recount (2008)

    19. Recount

    20081h 56mTV-MATV Movie
    7.3 (14K)
    A chronicle of the weeks after the 2000 U.S. Presidential election, and the subsequent recounts in Florida.
    DirectorJay RoachStarsKevin SpaceyBob BalabanDenis Leary
  • Spencer Tracy, John Carradine, Jeffrey Hunter, Basil Rathbone, Pat O'Brien, Ricardo Cortez, Edward Brophy, Donald Crisp, Wallace Ford, Dianne Foster, James Gleason, and Basil Ruysdael in The Last Hurrah (1958)

    20. The Last Hurrah

    19582h 1mApproved
    7.3 (4.4K)
    Frank Skeffington is an old Irish-American political boss, running for re-election as mayor of a U.S. town for the last time.
    DirectorJohn FordStarsSpencer TracyJeffrey HunterDianne Foster
  • Julianne Moore, Woody Harrelson, and Ed Harris in Game Change (2012)

    21. Game Change

    20121h 58mTV-MATV Movie
    7.4 (24K)
    Governor Sarah Palin of Alaska becomes Senator John McCain's running mate in the 2008 Presidential election.
    DirectorJay RoachStarsEd HarrisJulianne MooreWoody Harrelson
  • Jack Lemmon, Sissy Spacek, and John Shea in Missing (1982)

    22. Missing

    19822h 2mPG78Metascore
    7.7 (25K)
    When an idealistic American writer disappears during the Chilean coup d'état in September 1973, his wife and father try to find him.
    DirectorCosta-GavrasStarsJack LemmonSissy SpacekMelanie Mayron
  • Citizen Koch (2013)

    23. Citizen Koch

    20131h 30m52Metascore
    6.6 (729)
    A documentary that follows the money behind the rise of the Tea Party.
    DirectorsCarl DealTia LessinStarsDavid H. KochCharles G. KochScott Walker
  • James Woods in Citizen Cohn (1992)

    24. Citizen Cohn

    19921h 51mRTV Movie
    7.0 (1.6K)
    As ruthless lawyer and power broker Roy M. Cohn lies dying of AIDS in a private hospital room, ghosts from his past visit him as he reflects on his life and loves.
    DirectorFrank PiersonStarsJames WoodsJoe Don BakerJoseph Bologna

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