Genre: Political Dramas
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Elite Squad: The Enemy Within (2010)
Cast: Wagner Moura, Irandhir Santos, André Ramiro …
Directed by: José Padilha
Tenente-Coronel Nascimento, a hardened vet of Rio de Janeiro's drug wars, is now head of a special police unit. With his new title comes new responsibilities and dangers, which the…
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Lord of War (2005)
Cast: Nicolas Cage, Ethan Hawke, Jared Leto …
Directed by: Andrew Niccol
Looking to break away from his dead-end life, a Ukrainian immigrant goes from two-bit thug to international arms dealer -- closing his eyes to the repercussions of who purchases the weapons.…
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Invictus (2009)
Cast: Morgan Freeman, Matt Damon, Tony Kgoroge …
Directed by: Clint Eastwood
This drama based on real-life events tells the story of what happened after the end of apartheid when newly elected President Nelson Mandela used the 1995 World Cup rugby matches to unite his…
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Blood Diamond (2006)
Cast: Leonardo DiCaprio, Djimon Hounsou, Jennifer Connelly …
Directed by: Edward Zwick
In war-ravaged Sierra Leone, diamond smuggler Danny Archer learns that a local fisherman has stumbled upon a gigantic gem, and he offers to reunite the man with his family in exchange for the diamond.
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American History X (1998)
Cast: Edward Norton, Edward Furlong, Beverly D'Angelo …
Directed by: Tony Kaye
A California neo-Nazi gets sent to prison for murder and comes out a changed man. But can he atone for his sins and prevent his younger brother from following in his hate-filled footsteps?
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Schindler's List (1993)
Cast: Liam Neeson, Ben Kingsley, Ralph Fiennes …
Directed by: Steven Spielberg
Liam Neeson stars as Oskar Schindler, a greedy German factory owner made rich by exploiting cheap Jewish labor. But as World War II unfolds, he becomes an unlikely humanitarian, spending his…
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Troy (2004)
Cast: Brad Pitt, Eric Bana, Orlando Bloom …
Directed by: Wolfgang Petersen
In 1193 B.C., love-struck Prince Paris of Troy kidnaps legendary beauty Helen from her husband, setting their two nations on a collision course for war and bloodshed. The Greeks marshal their…
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Milk (2008)
Cast: Sean Penn, Emile Hirsch, Josh Brolin …
Directed by: Gus Van Sant
Sean Penn (in an Oscar-winning role) stars in this fact-based drama about Harvey Milk, the openly gay activist and San Francisco politician who was murdered along with Mayor George Moscone…
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The Edukators (2005)
Cast: Daniel Brühl, Julia Jentsch, Stipe Erceg …
Directed by: Hans Weingartner
Peter (Stipe Erceg), Jan (Daniel Brühl) and Jule (Julia Jentsch) -- a trio of anticapitalist radicals who call themselves the Edukators -- rankle Germany's elite by breaking into…
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The Ghost Writer (2010)
Cast: Ewan McGregor, Pierce Brosnan, Kim Cattrall …
Directed by: Roman Polanski
After his predecessor perishes under mysterious circumstances, a ghostwriter agrees to help a former British prime minister finish his memoirs, but the author but finds himself in danger when…
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Babel (2006)
Cast: Brad Pitt, Cate Blanchett, Gael García Bernal …
Directed by: Alejandro González Iñárritu
When an American couple vacationing in Morocco falls victim to a random act of violence, a series of events unfolds across four countries that demonstrates both the necessity and…
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Gangs of New York (2002)
Cast: Leonardo DiCaprio, Daniel Day-Lewis, Cameron Diaz …
Directed by: Martin Scorsese
Amid the savage Irish and Italian rivalry that dominated New York City in the mid-1800s, young Amsterdam Vallon hunts down his father's hateful murderer, Bill "the Butcher" Cutting.…
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Citizen Kane (1941)
Cast: Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten, Dorothy Comingore …
Directed by: Orson Welles
Orson Welles reinvented movies at the age of 26 with this audacious biography of newspaper baron Charles Foster Kane, which, in essence, was a thinly veiled portrait of publishing magnate…
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The Last King of Scotland (2006)
Cast: Forest Whitaker, Gillian Anderson, James McAvoy …
Directed by: Kevin MacDonald
During an African medical mission in the 1970s, Scottish doctor Nicholas Garrigan (James McAvoy) impresses brutal Ugandan dictator Idi Amin (Forest Whitaker, in an Oscar- and Golden…
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The Constant Gardener (2005)
Cast: Ralph Fiennes, Rachel Weisz, Hubert Koundé …
Directed by: Fernando Meirelles
Justin Quayle (Ralph Fiennes), a member of the British High Commission based in Africa, launches a quest for the truth and begins his own international investigation when his wife (Rachel…
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Frida (2002)
Cast: Salma Hayek, Alfred Molina, Antonio Banderas …
Directed by: Julie Taymor
Julie Taymor directs this Oscar-winning biopic of painter Frida Kahlo, focusing on her often rocky relationship with husband Diego Rivera and her controversial political and sexual reputation…
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Hotel Rwanda (2004)
Cast: Don Cheadle, Sophie Okonedo, Nick Nolte …
Directed by: Terry George
Amid the holocaust of internecine tribal fighting in Rwanda that sees the savage butchering of hundreds of thousands of men, women and children, one ordinary hotel manager musters the courage…
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Argo (2012)
Cast: Ben Affleck, Taylor Schilling, Bryan Cranston …
Directed by: Ben Affleck
In 1979, when Iranian militants seize the American embassy, six Americans slip into the Canadian embassy for protection, prompting the CIA to concoct an elaborate plot to rescue them by…
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Valkyrie (2008)
Cast: Tom Cruise, Kenneth Branagh, Bill Nighy …
Directed by: Bryan Singer
Wounded in Africa during World War II, a disillusioned Nazi colonel returns to his native Germany and joins the Resistance in a daring plan to create a shadow government and assassinate Adolf Hitler.
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The Queen (2006)
Cast: Helen Mirren, James Cromwell, Michael Sheen …
Directed by: Stephen Frears
After Princess Diana's shocking death, Queen Elizabeth II and the newly elected Tony Blair try to manage Diana's loss on a personal level while reacting to public demand that the…
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Munich (2005)
Cast: Eric Bana, Daniel Craig, Hanns Zischler …
Directed by: Steven Spielberg
In this thriller based on actual events, Palestinian terrorists hold hostage and ultimately kill a group of Israeli athletes during the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, prompting a Mossad…
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I'm Not There (2007)
Cast: Christian Bale, Cate Blanchett, Heath Ledger …
Directed by: Todd Haynes
Six actors (including Heath Ledger and Cate Blanchett, in an Oscar-nominated role) portray six personas of music legend Bob Dylan in scenes depicting various stages of his life, chronicling…
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Rocky IV (1985)
Cast: Sylvester Stallone, Dolph Lundgren, Carl Weathers …
Directed by: Sylvester Stallone
Sylvester Stallone takes on the Cold War in this fourth Rocky installment, as the titular hero must come out of retirement to battle a gargantuan Soviet fighter named Drago (Dolph Lundgren),…
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Traffic (2000)
Cast: Michael Douglas, Don Cheadle, Benicio Del Toro …
Directed by: Steven Soderbergh
Interlacing three disturbing snapshots of America's drug war, this Oscar-winning saga follows a U.S. drug czar who learns his daughter's an addict, a Mexican cop caught in a corrupt…
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Persepolis (2007)
Cast: Catherine Deneuve, Danielle Darrieux, Tilly Mandelbrot …
Directed by: Vincent Paronnaud, Marjane Satrapi
Based on Marjane Satrapi's autobiographical graphic novel, this Oscar nominee for Best Animated Feature Film follows a young woman's childhood in repressive Iran, her adolescence in…