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Movies: Best "political scandal" Movies


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Truth(2015)

R
| 2h 5min | Drama
3.3/5 (with 215 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.

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.

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.

The Martha Mitchell Effect(2022)

40min | Documentary
3.4/5 (with 15 votes)

She was once as famous as Jackie O—and then she tried to take down a President. Martha Mitchell was the unlikeliest of whistleblowers: a Republican wife who was discredited by Nixon to keep her quiet. Until now.

Directed by Anne Alvergue

Kings Bay(2017)

1h 30min | Thriller
2.7/5 (with 3 votes)

21 died in the explosion in the kings bay-accident in Ny-Ålesund in Spitsbergen i 1962. The accident led to the fall of the Norwegian labor party government ruling since WW2. Was this really an accident, and was it under Norwegian control?

Paa(2009)

2h 13min | Drama, Kids & Family
3.2/5 (with 33 votes)

Auro suffers from a progeria like syndrome. Mentally he is 13 but physically he looks 5 times older. In spite of his condition, Auro is a very happy boy. He lives with his mother Vidya, who is a gynaecologist. Amol is young, progressive politician. He is a man with a mission. Auro is Amol's son. Paa is a 'rare' story about a father-son, son-father relationship.

Babi!(2019)

48min | Drama

A political drama about a scandal-ridden politician who is thrown out of office in a landmark election and finds himself facing corruption charges and unable to flee to exile. He decides to quit politics and seek redemption with his family and the public.

Rogue Reporters(2021)

1h 22min | Documentary
3.5/5 (with 1 vote)

The documentary tells the story of the political scandal caused by the book 'The Spoils of Tamminiemi' from the perspective of the journalists who wrote it. The time of the book's publication was the worst time of the Finlandization, Soviet spies worked behind the scenes and the power struggle was heating up, who would be successor of the President Kekkonen? The authors of the book appeared under pseudonyms, but the subjects of the writings were named, and it revealed everything that had been going on behind the scenes.

Directed by Arthur Franck

The Secret of Gretha Villa(1984)

1h 41min | Action, Mystery
3.5/5 (with 2 votes)

Members of the Shield and Helmet Masonic Lodge, sent by the CIA, are preparing a coup in one of the western countries. The criminal chronicle reporter manages to infiltrate the headquarters of the conspirators. The information he produces will play a decisive role in preventing the putsch. However, the successful journalist soon became convinced that he had discovered only the tip of the iceberg...

The Secret Bride(1934)

NR
| 1h 4min | Drama
3.3/5 (with 4 votes)

Before Ruth Vincent, daughter of a state governor, and state attorney general Robert Sheldon can announce their marriage, the governor is accused of bribe-taking. To avoid the appearance of a conflict of interest, they decide to keep their marriage secret. The political intrigue becomes more involved, and no one is quite what they seem. Soon Sheldon and Ruth must decide between saving the governor's career and an innocent person's life.

Duel for the White House(2016)

1h 30min | Documentary

A retrospective on the great election battles of the past in the United States: the Kennedy-Nixon debate in 1960, the first ever to be televised; the Republican campaign of 1972, which proved to be the starting point for the Watergate scandal; and the electoral strategy of Barack Obama in 2008, the first election to fully exploit the potential of the Internet.

Sweet Lorraine(2015)

1h 28min | Comedy, Drama

The double life of Methodist minister's wife catches up to her, as her husband campaigns for Mayor in a small New Jersey town.

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The Baudis affair, the murderous rumor(2021)

4.3/5 (with 1 vote)

In 2002, serial killer Patrice Alègre was sentenced to life imprisonment for five murders. Gendarme Roussel, the main investigator of this case, believes that he will make him confess to other unsolved crimes in Toulouse. Two ex-prostitutes give a series of names of presumed accomplices of the killer, among them Dominique Baudis, then president of the CSA. He decides to face the case alone. Around him, it is silence: not an official support of his political family. Almost twenty years later, we return to the Baudis affair to try to understand it, with the testimonies of Pierre and Benjamin Baudis, his sons, François Hollande, Camille Pascal and the main protagonists.

Bimbes: Die schwarzen Kassen des Helmut Kohl(2017)

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Ebbe - The Movie: Mannen, Myten, Affären(2009)

1h 23min | Documentary
3.9/5 (with 4 votes)

A documentary dealing with the publisher Ebbe Carlsson's decision to start his own investigation on the murder of Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme.

Directed by Karin af Klintberg

The Assassination of Western Civilization(2022)

A tabloid writer has evidence of the assassination of a US Senator. A visit from a scrupulous FBI agent suggests he may know more than he's admitting about the assassination and the key may reside in the recesses of the writer's dark past.

Nem Tudo Se Desfaz(2021)

1h 22min | Documentary

How twenty cents began a conservative revolution.

Wallis Simpson, Loved and Lost(2013)

52min | Documentary
5.0/5 (with 1 vote)

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