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  *Winner* - Wag the Dog


Wag the Dog
1997   |   96 Minutes   |   R
Directed by:Barry Levinson
Starring:Dustin Hoffman, Robert De Niro, Anne Heche, Denis Leary, and Woody Harrelson
Genre: Comedy
In a 29-day shoot, Barry Levinson filmed this $15 million political and media satire, adapted by ...
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  Absolute Power


Absolute Power
1997   |   121 Minutes   |   R
Directed by:Clint Eastwood
Starring:Clint Eastwood, Gene Hackman, Ed Harris, Laura Linney, and Scott Glenn
Genre: Drama
In this thriller, an aging cat burglar becomes a crusader embroiled in a deadly cat-and-mouse gam...
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  Advise and Consent


Advise and Consent
1962   |   139 Minutes   |   NR
Directed by:Otto Preminger
Starring:Henry Fonda, Charles Laughton, Don Murray, Walter Pidgeon, and Peter Lawford
Genre: Drama
The first of Allen Drury "all names changed to protect the guilty" political novels, Advise and C...
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  Air Force One


Air Force One
1997   |   124 Minutes   |   R
Directed by:Wolfgang Petersen
Starring:Harrison Ford, Gary Oldman, Glenn Close, Wendy Crewson, and Paul Guilfoyle
Genre: Action/Adventure
In this action drama, Harrison Ford plays James Marshall, a onetime combat hero in the Vietnam Wa...
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  All the King's Men


All the King's Men
1949   |   109 Minutes   |   NR
Directed by:Robert Rossen
Starring:Broderick Crawford, Mercedes McCambridge, John Derek, Joanne Dru, and John Ireland
Genre: Drama
Based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Robert Penn Warren, All the King's Men is a <i>roman...
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  All the President's Men


All the President's Men
1976   |   138 Minutes   |   PG
Directed by:Alan J. Pakula
Starring:Robert Redford, Dustin Hoffman, Jason Robards, Jack Warden, and Martin Balsam
Genre: Drama
Conspiracy film specialist Alan J. Pakula turned journalists Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein's be...
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  The American President


The American President
1995   |   114 Minutes   |   PG-13
Directed by:Rob Reiner
Starring:Michael Douglas, Annette Bening, Martin Sheen, Michael J. Fox, and David Paymer
Genre: Drama
This earnest, intelligent, and well-written romantic comedy is enjoyable and optimistic in classi...
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  Bob Roberts




Bob Roberts

1992   |   102 Minutes   |   R

Directed by:Tim Robbins

Starring:Tim Robbins, Giancarlo Esposito, Ray Wise, Rebecca Jenkins, and Harry J. Lennix

Genre: Comedy

In the tradition of This Is Spinal Tap, producer/ director/ star Tim Robbins' Bob Roberts is a sa...

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  Bulworth


Bulworth
1998   |   109 Minutes   |   R
Directed by:Warren Beatty
Starring:Warren Beatty, Halle Berry, Don Cheadle, Oliver Platt, and Paul Sorvino
Genre: Comedy Drama
Warren Beatty directed, co-produced (with Pieter Jan Brugge), co-scripted (with Jeremy Pikser), a...
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  The Campaign


The Campaign
2012   |   85 Minutes   |   R
Directed by:Jay Roach
Starring:Will Ferrell, Zach Galifianakis, Jason Sudeikis, Katherine La Nasa, and Sarah Baker
Genre: Comedy
Two powerful CEOs pit a blundering congressman against an unlikely political newcomer in order to...
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  The Candidate


The Candidate
1972   |   109 Minutes   |   PG
Directed by:Michael Ritchie
Starring:Robert Redford, Peter Boyle, Melvyn Douglas, Allen Garfield, and Don Porter
Genre: Drama
"What do we do now?" Director Michael Ritchie and executive producer/star Robert Redford satirica...
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  Charlie Wilson's War


Charlie Wilson's War
2007   |   101 Minutes   |   R
Directed by:Mike Nichols
Starring:Tom Hanks, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Amy Adams, Ned Beatty, and Julia Roberts
Genre: Drama
Produced by Tom Hanks, written by Aaron Sorkin, and directed by Mike Nichols, this adaptation of ...
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  Citizen Kane


Citizen Kane
1941   |   119 Minutes   |   PG
Directed by:Orson Welles
Starring:Orson Welles, Dorothy Comingore, Joseph Cotten, Everett Sloane, and George Coulouris
Genre: Drama
Orson Welles first feature film -- which he directed, produced, and co-wrote, as well as playing ...
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  Dave


Dave
1993   |   105 Minutes   |   PG-13
Directed by:Ivan Reitman
Starring:Kevin Kline, Sigourney Weaver, Frank Langella, Kevin Dunn, and Ving Rhames
Genre: Comedy
The ghost of Frank Capra must have smiled when he saw Dave, an amusing and effective update of on...
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  Dick


Dick
1999   |   95 Minutes   |   PG-13
Directed by:Andrew Fleming
Starring:Kirsten Dunst, Michelle Williams, Dan Hedaya, Jim Breuer, and Teri Garr
Genre: Comedy
The mystery of the 18-minute-gap in Richard Nixon's White House tapes -- and how it connects to t...
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  Dr. Strangelove


Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
1963   |   93 Minutes   |   PG
Directed by:Stanley Kubrick
Starring:Peter Sellers, George C. Scott, Sterling Hayden, Keenan Wynn, and Slim Pickens
Genre: Comedy
In 1964, with the Cuban Missile Crisis fresh in viewers' minds, the Cold War at its frostiest, an...
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  Election


Election
1999   |   104 Minutes   |   R
Directed by:Alexander Payne
Starring:Matthew Broderick, Reese Witherspoon, Chris Klein, Jessica Campbell, and Colleen Camp
Genre: Comedy
In this satirical comedy, a hotly contested high school election becomes a metaphor for the curre...
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  Fail-Safe


Fail Safe
1964   |   111 Minutes   |   NR
Directed by:Sidney Lumet
Starring:Walter Matthau, Henry Fonda, Dan O'Herlihy, Frank Overton, and Edward Binns
Genre: Drama
Based on the novel by Eugene Burdick and Harvey Wheeler, Fail-Safe is set for the most part at St...
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  Frost/Nixon


Frost/Nixon
2008   |   122 Minutes   |   R
Directed by:Ron Howard
Starring:Frank Langella, Michael Sheen, Kevin Bacon, Rebecca Hall, and Toby Jones
Genre: Drama
Hollywood heavyweight Ron Howard adapts playwright Peter Morgan's West End hit for the silver scr...
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  Good Night, and Good Luck


Good Night, and Good Luck
2005   |   93 Minutes   |   PG
Directed by:George Clooney
Starring:David Strathairn, Patricia Clarkson, George Clooney, Jeff Daniels, and Robert Downey Jr.
Genre: Drama
George Clooney pays homage to one of the icons of American broadcast journalism, Edward R. Murrow...
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  The Ides of March


The Ides of March
2011   |   101 Minutes   |   NR
Directed by:George Clooney
Starring:Ryan Gosling, George Clooney, Marisa Tomei, Evan Rachel Wood, and Philip Seymour Hoffman
Genre: Drama
An ambitious press secretary works overtime to land his candidate in office, but quickly becomes ...
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  The Manchurian Candidate


The Manchurian Candidate
1962   |   126 Minutes   |   PG-13
Directed by:John Frankenheimer
Starring:Laurence Harvey, Frank Sinatra, Angela Lansbury, James Gregory, and Janet Leigh
Genre: Mystery & Suspense
An unusually tense and intelligent political thriller, The Manchurian Candidate was a film far ah...
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  Milk


Milk
2008   |   128 Minutes   |   R
Directed by:Gus Van Sant
Starring:Sean Penn, Emile Hirsch, Josh Brolin, James Franco, and Diego Luna
Genre: Drama
Academy Award winner Sean Penn takes the title role in Gus Van Sant's biopic tracing the last eig...
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  Mr. Smith Goes to Washington


Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
1939   |   129 Minutes   |   NR
Directed by:Frank Capra
Starring:James Stewart, Jean Arthur, Claude Rains, Edward Arnold, and Guy Kibbee
Genre: Drama
Frank Capra's classic comedy-drama established James Stewart as a lead actor in one of his finest...
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  Nixon


Nixon
1995   |   190 Minutes   |   R
Directed by:Oliver Stone
Starring:Anthony Hopkins, Joan Allen, Powers Boothe, Ed Harris, and Bob Hoskins
Genre: Drama
Oliver Stone, the most outspokenly political American filmmaker of the 1980s and '90s, directs th...
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  Primary Colors


Primary Colors
1998   |   143 Minutes   |   R
Directed by:Mike Nichols
Starring:John Travolta, Emma Thompson, Billy Bob Thornton, Kathy Bates, and Adrian Lester
Genre: Comedy Drama
Mike Nichols directed this Elaine May screenplay adapted from the 1996 bestseller by "Anonymous" ...
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  Seven Days in May


Seven Days in May
1964   |   118 Minutes   |   NR
Directed by:John Frankenheimer
Starring:Burt Lancaster, Kirk Douglas, Fredric March, Ava Gardner, and Edmond O'Brien
Genre: Drama
Adapted by Rod Serling from the best-selling novel by Fletcher Knebel and Charles Waldo Bailey II...
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  Syriana


Syriana
2005   |   126 Minutes   |   R
Directed by:Stephen Gaghan
Starring:George Clooney, Matt Damon, Jeffrey Wright, Christopher Plummer, and Chris Cooper
Genre: Drama
Oil drives greed in Oscar-winning Traffic screenwriter Stephen Gaghan's labyrinthine sophomore di...
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  Thirteen Days


Thirteen Days
2000   |   145 Minutes   |   PG-13
Directed by:Roger Donaldson
Starring:Kevin Costner, Bruce Greenwood, Steven Culp, Dylan Baker, and Henry Strozier
Genre: Drama
Director Roger Donaldson teams up with star Kevin Costner for another political thriller (after t...
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  W.


W.
2008   |   133 Minutes   |   PG-13
Directed by:Oliver Stone
Starring:Josh Brolin, Elizabeth Banks, Ellen Burstyn, James Cromwell, and Richard Dreyfuss
Genre: Biography
Josh Brolin stars as George W. Bush in this Oliver Stone biopic that traces the head of state's r...
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