Subgenre Sampler
Politics: 627 Films to Buy & Rent
Vice (2018)
- Dir. Adam McKay
Feat. Christian Bale, Amy Adams, Steve Carell…
- Christian Bale provides another stunningly transformative performance, playing the insidious and power hungry Dick Cheney, Vice President to George…
Watergate (TV Mini-series) (2018)
- Dir. Charles Ferguson
- Definitive and thoroughly detailed documentary TV miniseries about one of the biggest criminal conspiracies in modern politics, The Watergate Scandal.
An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power (An Inconvenient Truth 2) (2017)
- Dir. Jon Shenk, Bonni Cohen
- The heroic and haggard Al Gore continues his crusade to make the world stop destroying itself in this timely update of his seminal 2006 climate…
Beatriz at Dinner (2017)
- Dir. Miguel Arteta
Feat. John Early, Salma Hayek, John Lithgow…
- A holistic healer (Salma Hayeck) is an unplanned guest at a dinner party for members of California's privileged elite, in this Trump–era satire…
Chappaquiddick (2017)
- Dir. John Curran
Feat. Jason Clarke, Kate Mara, Ed Helms…
- Sombre drama exploring the incident known as the Chappaquiddick incident, in which Senator Ted Kennedy drove his car into a lake in 1969, killing his…
Darkest Hour (2017)
- Dir. Joe Wright
Feat. Gary Oldman, Kristin Scott Thomas, Ben Mendelsohn…
- Gary Oldman embodies Winston Churchill to Oscar–winning effect in this rousing and roundly effective historical drama set during the early days…
Death of Stalin, The (2017)
- Dir. Armando Iannucci
Feat. Steve Buscemi, Simon Russell Beale, Paddy Considine…
- Outrageous "comedy of terrors" from the creator of IN THE LOOP and VEEP, set in Moscow in 1953, where Stalin has just dropped dead and his cronies…
Final Year, The (2017)
- Dir. Greg Barker
- A detailed insiders' account of President Barack Obama's foreign policy team throughout 2016, their last year in office. Director Greg Barker has…
Guerrilla (TV Mini-series) (2017)
- Feat. Idris Elba, Freida Pinto, Babou Ceesay…
- 6–part Miniseries set in 1970's London, where a politically active couple have their relationship and values tested after forming a radical…
House of Cards - Season 5 (TV Series, US) (2017)
- Feat. Kevin Spacey, Robin Wright, Patricia Clarkson…
- The Emmy and Golden Globe winning political drama returns for its anticipated fifth season. Frank and Claire Underwood continue to juggle their…