Subgenre Sampler
Politics: 631 Films to Buy & Rent
Z (1968)
- Dir. Costa-Gavras
Feat. Yves Montand, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Irene Papas
- Pioneering conspiracy thriller based on the true story of the murder of a doctor and the raw sore of Greek political corruption it exposes. Oscars…
La Chinoise (1967)
- Dir. Jean-Luc Godard
Feat. Jean-Pierre Leaud, Anne Wiazemsky, Juliet Berto…
- Five Parisian students dabble in the possibilities of enacting a Mao–ist revolution in the West, in one of dir. Godard's more overt flirtations…
President's Analyst, The (1967)
- Dir. Theodore J. Flicker
Feat. James Coburn
- Madcap comedy suspense tracking a hapless guy awarded the task of being the president's assistant, who then must deal with bribes and death threats…
Privilege (1967)
- Dir. Peter Watkins
Feat. Paul Jones, Jean Shrimpton
- Paul Jones (one–time vocalist for the Manfred Mann group) fronts a government–sanctioned brainwash as a rock idol whose music is being…
Battle of Algiers, The (1965)
- Dir. Gillo Pontecorvo
Feat. Brahim Haggiag
- Gripping account of the Muslim uprising which led to the withdrawal of France from Algeria was shot merely four years after the revolution, and as…
Stand Up, Nigel Barton/Vote, Vote, Vote for Nigel Barton (1965)
- Dir. Gareth Davies
Feat. Keith Barron, Jack Woolgar, Janet Henfrey
- Formative Dennis Potter chronicles the bumpy political rise of one aspiring Nigel Barton, from Oxford to Cabinet. Sharply autobiographical,…
Best Man, The (1964)
- Dir. Franklin J. Schaffner
Feat. Henry Fonda, Cliff Robertson, Edie Adams…
- Bitter political satire finds Fonda and Robertson competing against each other in a bid to win the presidency. The two foes soon find themselves…
Four Days in November (1964)
- Dir. Mel Stuart
- An unbiased view of events surrounding the death of JFK taken from more than eight million feet of newsreel footage encompassing joyous Kennedy…
Seven Days in May (1964)
- Dir. John Frankenheimer
Feat. Kirk Douglas, Burt Lancaster
- Kirk Douglas stumbles upon a conspiracy led by General Burt Lancaster, to bring down the US President (who goes and signs treaties with the…
Crisis (1963)
- Dir. Robert Drew
- Tense account of a key battle in the American Civil Rights movement with President Kennedy locked in a tense negotiation with Alabaman Governor…