2010s Political Drama Movies

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Lincoln(2012)

PG-13

3.4/5 (with 1,695 votes)

The revealing story of the 16th US President's tumultuous final months in office. In a nation divided by war and the strong winds of change, Lincoln pursues a course of action designed to end the war, unite the country and abolish slavery. With the moral courage and fierce determination to succeed, his choices during this critical moment will change the fate of generations to come.

Directed by Steven Spielberg - With Daniel Day-Lewis, Sally Field, David Strathairn, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, James Spader, Hal Holbrook, ...

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Vice(2018)

| 2h 12min | Comedy, Drama

3.5/5 (with 1,482 votes)

George W. Bush picks Dick Cheney, the CEO of Halliburton Co., to be his Republican running mate in the 2000 presidential election. No stranger to politics, Cheney's impressive résumé includes stints as White House chief of staff, House Minority Whip and Defense Secretary. When Bush wins by a narrow margin, Cheney begins to use his newfound power to help reshape the country and the world.

Directed by Adam McKay - With Christian Bale, Amy Adams, Alison Pill, Steve Carell, Sam Rockwell, Bill Pullman, ...

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Bridge of Spies(2015)

PG-13

| 2h 21min | Thriller, Drama

3.6/5 (with 3,118 votes)

During the Cold War, the Soviet Union captures U.S. pilot Francis Gary Powers after shooting down his U-2 spy plane. Sentenced to 10 years in prison, Powers' only hope is New York lawyer James Donovan, recruited by a CIA operative to negotiate his release. Donovan boards a plane to Berlin, hoping to win the young man's freedom through a prisoner exchange. If all goes well, the Russians would get Rudolf Abel, the convicted spy who Donovan defended in court.

Directed by Steven Spielberg - With Tom Hanks, Mark Rylance, Amy Ryan, Alan Alda, Billy Magnussen, Eve Hewson, ...

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The Butler(2013)

PG-13

| 2h 12min | Drama

3.7/5 (with 1,331 votes)

A look at the life of Cecil Gaines who served eight presidents as the White House's head butler from 1952 to 1986, and had a unique front-row seat as political and racial history was made.

Directed by Lee Daniels - With Forest Whitaker, Alex Pettyfer, John Cusack, Robin Williams, Terrence Howard, James Marsden, ...

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Mr. Jones(2019)

1h 59min | Thriller, Drama, History

3.4/5 (with 140 votes)

In 1933, Welsh journalist Gareth Jones travels to Ukraine, where he experiences the horrors of a famine. Everywhere he goes he meets henchmen of the Soviet secret service who are determined to prevent news about the catastrophe from getting out. Stalin’s forced collectivisation of agriculture has resulted in misery and ruin—the policy is tantamount to mass murder.

Directed by Agnieszka Holland - With James Norton, Vanessa Kirby, Peter Sarsgaard, Joseph Mawle, Kenneth Cranham, Michalina Olszańska, ...

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The Report(2019)

| 1h 58min | Thriller, Drama

3.5/5 (with 428 votes)

The story of Daniel Jones, lead investigator for the US Senate’s sweeping study into the CIA's Detention and Interrogation Program, which was found to be brutal, immoral and ineffective. With the truth at stake, Jones battled tirelessly to make public what many in power sought to keep hidden.

Directed by Scott Z. Burns - With Adam Driver, Annette Bening, Jon Hamm, Corey Stoll, Matthew Rhys, Jennifer Morrison, ...

Free State of Jones(2016)

| 2h 20min | Action, Drama, History, War

3.4/5 (with 654 votes)

In 1863, Mississippi farmer Newt Knight serves as a medic for the Confederate Army. Opposed to slavery, Knight would rather help the wounded than fight the Union. After his nephew dies in battle, Newt returns home to Jones County to safeguard his family but is soon branded an outlaw deserter. Forced to flee, he finds refuge with a group of runaway slaves hiding out in the swamps. Forging an alliance with the slaves and other farmers, Knight leads a rebellion that would forever change history.

Directed by Gary Ross - With Matthew McConaughey, Keri Russell, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Mahershala Ali, Jacob Lofland, Sean Bridgers, ...

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Miss Sloane(2016)

| 2h 12min | Drama, Crime

3.7/5 (with 908 votes)

An ambitious lobbyist faces off against the powerful gun lobby in an attempt to pass gun control legislation.

Directed by John Madden - With Jessica Chastain, Mark Strong, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Christine Baranski, Jake Lacy, Alison Pill, ...

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A Taxi Driver(2017)

2h 18min | Action, Drama, History

4.0/5 (with 380 votes)

May, 1980. Man-seob is a taxi driver in Seoul who lives from hand to mouth, raising his young daughter alone. One day, he hears that there is a foreigner who will pay big money for a drive down to Gwangju city. Not knowing that he’s a German journalist with a hidden agenda, Man-seob takes the job.

Directed by Jang Hoon - With Song Kang-ho, Thomas Kretschmann, Yoo Hai-Jin, Ryu Jun-yeol

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Camp X-Ray(2014)

| 1h 57min | Drama

3.4/5 (with 458 votes)

A young woman joins the military to be part of something bigger than herself and her small-town roots. Instead, she ends up as a new guard at Guantanamo Bay, where her mission is far from black and white. Surrounded by hostile jihadists and aggressive squadmates, she strikes up an unusual friendship with one of the detainees.

Directed by Peter Sattler - With Kristen Stewart, Lane Garrison, Payman Maadi, John Carroll Lynch, Julia Duffy

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Chappaquiddick(2018)

PG-13

| 1h 47min | History, Drama, Thriller

3.0/5 (with 119 votes)

Ted Kennedy's life and political career become derailed in the aftermath of a fatal car accident in 1969 that claims the life of a young campaign strategist, Mary Jo Kopechne.

Directed by John Curran - With Jason Clarke, Kate Mara, Ed Helms, Jim Gaffigan, Clancy Brown, Olivia Thirlby, ...

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Suffragette(2015)

PG-13

| 1h 46min | Drama, History

3.6/5 (with 741 votes)

Based on true events about the foot soldiers of the early feminist movement who were forced underground to evade the State.

Directed by Sarah Gavron - With Carey Mulligan, Helena Bonham Carter, Meryl Streep, Natalie Press, Anne-Marie Duff, Romola Garai, ...

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The Ides of March(2011)

| 1h 41min | Drama

3.3/5 (with 1,140 votes)

Dirty tricks stand to soil an ambitious young press spokesman's idealism in a cutthroat presidential campaign where 'victory' is relative.

Directed by George Clooney - With Ryan Gosling, George Clooney, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Paul Giamatti, Evan Rachel Wood, Marisa Tomei, ...

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Parkland(2013)

PG-13

| 1h 34min | History, Drama

3.1/5 (with 157 votes)

November 22nd, 1963 was a day that changed the world forever — when young American President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, Texas. This film follows, almost in real time, a handful of individuals forced to make split-second decisions after an event that would change their lives and forever alter the world’s landscape.

Directed by Peter Landesman - With Zac Efron, Tom Welling, James Badge Dale, Jacki Weaver, Paul Giamatti, Jackie Earle Haley, ...

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Carlos(2010)

| 5h 39min | Crime, Drama, Thriller, History

3.5/5 (with 81 votes)

The story of Venezuelan revolutionary, Ilich Ramirez Sanchez, who founded a worldwide terrorist organization and raided the OPEC headquarters in 1975 before being caught by the French police.

Directed by Olivier Assayas - With Abbes Zahmani, Alexander Beyer, Anna Thalbach, Édgar Ramírez, Jean-Baptiste Malartre, Julia Hummer, ...

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Shanghai(2010)

| 1h 45min | Drama, Thriller, Mystery, Crime

3.0/5 (with 74 votes)

An American man returns to a corrupt, Japanese-occupied Shanghai four months before Pearl Harbor and discovers his friend has been killed. While he unravels the mysteries of the death, he falls in love and discovers a much larger secret that his own government is hiding.

Directed by Mikael Håfström - With John Cusack, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Chow Yun-fat, Gong Li, Ken Watanabe, Rinko Kikuchi, ...

Truth(2015)

| 2h 5min | Drama

3.3/5 (with 244 votes)

As a renowned producer and close associate of Dan Rather, Mary Mapes believes she’s broken the biggest story of the 2004 election: revelations of a sitting U.S. President’s military service. But when allegations come pouring in, sources change their stories, document authenticity is questioned, and the casualties begin to mount.

Directed by James Vanderbilt - With Cate Blanchett, Robert Redford, Topher Grace, Elisabeth Moss, Bruce Greenwood, Dennis Quaid, ...

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The Front Runner(2018)

| 1h 53min | Drama, History

3.0/5 (with 153 votes)

Gary Hart, former Senator of Colorado, becomes the front-runner for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1987. Hart's intelligence, charisma and idealism makes him popular with young voters, leaving him with a seemingly clear path to the White House. All that comes crashing down when allegations of an extramarital affair surface in the media, forcing the candidate to address a scandal that threatens to derail his campaign and personal life.

Directed by Jason Reitman - With Hugh Jackman, Vera Farmiga, J. K. Simmons, Alfred Molina, Sara Paxton, Mamoudou Athie, ...

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Sarkar(2018)

2h 44min | Action, Drama

3.0/5 (with 26 votes)

NRI corporate Sundar Ramasamy comes to India to vote, only to learn that his vote has already been cast. While he reclaims his right legally, it also sets in motion a chain of events that eventually lead to him entering the political fray, trying to change the system.

Directed by A. R. Murugadoss - With Vijay, Varalaxmi Sarathkumar, Radha Ravi, Yogi Babu, Keerthy Suresh

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Game Change(2012)

| 1h 58min | TV Movie, Drama, Comedy

3.5/5 (with 131 votes)

During the Republican run of the 2008 Presidential election, candidate John McCain picks a relative unknown, Alaskan governor Sarah Palin, to be his running mate. As the campaign kicks into high gear, her lack of experience, in both political and media savvy, becomes a drain upon McCain and his strategists.

Directed by Jay Roach - With Julianne Moore, Woody Harrelson, Ed Harris, Peter MacNicol, Jamey Sheridan, Sarah Paulson, ...

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Thank You for Your Service(2017)

| 1h 49min | Drama, War

3.3/5 (with 148 votes)

A group of U.S. soldiers returning from Iraq struggle to integrate back into family and civilian life, while living with the memory of a war that threatens to destroy them long after they've left the battlefield.

Directed by Jason Hall - With Miles Teller, Haley Bennett, Joe Cole, Amy Schumer

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Masquerade(2012)

2h 11min | Drama, History

3.9/5 (with 63 votes)

Though it places his own life in danger, a look-alike commoner secretly takes the place of a poisoned king to save his country from falling into chaos.

Directed by Choo Chang-min - With Lee Byung-hun, Ryu Seung-ryong, Han Hyo-joo, Jang Gwang, Kim In-gwon, Shim Eun Kyung, ...

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Too Big to Fail(2011)

| 1h 37min | Drama, TV Movie

3.5/5 (with 112 votes)

An intimate look at the epochal financial crisis of 2008 and the powerful men and women who decided the fate of the world's economy in a matter of a few weeks.

Directed by Curtis Hanson - With William Hurt, Ed Asner, Billy Crudup, Paul Giamatti, Topher Grace, Matthew Modine, ...

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Atlas Shrugged: Part I(2011)

PG-13

| 1h 37min | Drama, Thriller, Science Fiction, Mystery

2.7/5 (with 99 votes)

A powerful railroad executive, Dagny Taggart, struggles to keep her business alive while society is crumbling around her. Based on the 1957 novel by Ayn Rand.

Directed by Paul Johansson - With Taylor Schilling, Grant Bowler, Jsu Garcia, Michael Lerner, Paul Johansson, Edi Gathegi, ...

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Rosewater(2014)

| 1h 43min | Drama

3.3/5 (with 81 votes)

In 2009, Iranian Canadian journalist Maziar Bahari was covering Iran's volatile elections for Newsweek. One of the few reporters living in the country with access to US media, he made an appearance on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, in a taped interview with comedian Jason Jones. The interview was intended as satire, but if the Tehran authorities got the joke they didn't like it - and it would quickly came back to haunt Bahari when he was rousted from his family home and thrown into prison.

Directed by Jon Stewart - With Andrew Gower, Dimitri Leonidas, Gael García Bernal, Golshifteh Farahani, Haluk Bilginer, Kim Bodnia, ...

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All the Way(2016)

2h 12min | Drama, History, TV Movie

3.3/5 (with 119 votes)

Lyndon B. Johnson's amazing 11-month journey from taking office after JFK's assassination, through the fight to pass the 1964 Civil Rights Act and his own presidential campaign, culminating on the night LBJ is actually elected to the office – no longer the 'accidental President.'.

Directed by Jay Roach - With Bryan Cranston, Anthony Mackie, Melissa Leo, Frank Langella, Bradley Whitford, Stephen Root, ...

The Anarchists(2015)

1h 41min | Thriller, Drama, History

2.9/5 (with 35 votes)

Set in 1899 Paris, a young police sergeant is chosen to infiltrate a group of anarchists, an opportunity he sees to rise through the ranks. However, he soon finds himself becoming attached to the group.

Directed by Elie Wajeman - With Tahar Rahim

Kodi(2016)

2h 25min | Action, Drama, Thriller

3.2/5 (with 18 votes)

A young politician finds himself in a position where he has to contest against his girlfriend, who is ambitious. Circumstances force his look-alike twin to also get involved in this political battle.

Directed by R. S. Durai Senthilkumar - With Dhanush

LBJ(2017)

| 1h 38min | Drama, History

3.2/5 (with 65 votes)

The story of U.S. President Lyndon Baines Johnson from his young days in West Texas to the White House.

Directed by Rob Reiner - With Woody Harrelson, Richard Jenkins, Bill Pullman, Kim Allen, Michael Stahl-David, Jennifer Jason Leigh, ...

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The Minister(2011)

1h 55min | Drama

3.2/5 (with 69 votes)

Transport Minister Bertrand Saint-Jean is awoken in the middle of the night by his head of staff. A bus has gone off the road into a gully. He has no choice but to go to the scene of the accident. Thus begins the odyssey of a politician in a world that is increasingly more complex and hostile.

Directed by Pierre Schoeller - With Olivier Gourmet, Michel Blanc, Zabou Breitman, Laurent Stocker, Didier Bezace, Jacques Boudet, ...

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2010s Political Drama Movies

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Lincoln(2012)

Vice(2018)

Bridge of Spies(2015)

The Butler(2013)

Mr. Jones(2019)

The Report(2019)

Free State of Jones(2016)

Miss Sloane(2016)

A Taxi Driver(2017)

Camp X-Ray(2014)

Chappaquiddick(2018)

Suffragette(2015)

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The Ides of March(2011)

Parkland(2013)

Carlos(2010)

Shanghai(2010)

Truth(2015)

The Front Runner(2018)

Sarkar(2018)

Game Change(2012)

Thank You for Your Service(2017)

Masquerade(2012)

Too Big to Fail(2011)

Atlas Shrugged: Part I(2011)

Rosewater(2014)

All the Way(2016)

The Anarchists(2015)

Kodi(2016)

LBJ(2017)

The Minister(2011)

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