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  1. The Good Shepherd
    2006Drama

    Edward Wilson, the only witness to his father's suicide and member of the Skull and Bones Society while a student at Yale, is a morally upright young...

    #2,495Attention Score1.2
  2. The Ides of March
    2011Drama

    Dirty tricks stand to soil an ambitious young press spokesman's idealism in a cutthroat presidential campaign where 'victory' is relative.

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  3. JFK
    1991Drama

    Follows the investigation into the assassination of President John F. Kennedy led by New Orleans district attorney Jim Garrison.

    #1,289Attention Score2.2
  4. Wag the Dog
    1997Drama

    During the final weeks of a presidential race, the President is accused of sexual misconduct. To distract the public until the election, the...

    #1,338Attention Score2.1
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  1. Primary Colors
    1998Drama

    In this adaptation of the best-selling roman à clef about Bill Clinton's 1992 run for the White House, the young and gifted Henry Burton is tapped to...

    #1,606Attention Score1.8
  2. All the President's Men
    1976Drama

    During the 1972 elections, two reporters' investigation sheds light on the controversial Watergate scandal that compels President Nixon to resign...

    #1,967Attention Score1.5
  3. The Manchurian Candidate
    2004

    Years after his squad was ambushed during the Gulf War, Major Ben Marco finds himself having terrible nightmares. He begins to doubt that his fellow...

    #2,406Attention Score1.2
  4. The American President
    1995Drama

    Widowed U.S. president Andrew Shepherd, one of the world's most powerful men, can have anything he wants -- and what he covets most is Sydney Ellen...

    #3,000Attention Score0.9
  5. The Parallax View
    1974Drama

    An ambitious reporter gets in trouble while investigating a senator's assassination which leads to a vast conspiracy involving a multinational...

    #3,793Attention Score0.7
  6. Frost/Nixon
    2008Drama

    For three years after being forced from office, Nixon remained silent. But in summer 1977, the steely, cunning former commander-in-chief agreed to...

    #3,818Attention Score0.7
  7. Shampoo
    1975Drama

    On Election Day, 1968, irresponsible hairdresser and ladies' man George Roundy is too busy cutting hair and dealing with his girlfriends and mistress...

    #3,871Attention Score0.6
  8. J. Edgar
    2011Drama

    As the face of law enforcement in the United States for almost 50 years, J. Edgar Hoover was feared and admired, reviled and revered. But behind...

    #4,264Attention Score0.6
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  1. Thirteen Days
    2000

    The story of the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962—the nuclear standoff with the USSR sparked by the discovery by the Americans of missile bases...

    #4,326Attention Score0.6
  2. Nixon
    1995Drama

    A look at President Richard M. Nixon—a man carrying the fate of the world on his shoulders while battling the self-destructive demands from...

    #4,478Attention Score0.5
  3. State of Play
    2009

    When a congressional aide is killed, a Washington, D.C. journalist starts investigating the case involving the Representative, his old college friend.

    #4,549Attention Score0.5
  4. The Ice Storm
    1997Drama

    In the weekend after thanksgiving 1973 the Hood family is skidding out of control. Then an ice storm hits, the worst in a century.

    #4,783Attention Score0.5
  5. Dick
    1999

    Two high school girls wander off during a class trip to the White House and meet President Richard Nixon. They become the official dog walkers for...

    #4,879Attention Score0.4
  6. Quiz Show
    1994Drama

    Herbert Stempel's transformation into an unexpected television personality unfolds as he secures victory on the cherished American game show,...

    #5,501Attention Score0.4
  7. The Contender
    2000Drama

    The vice president is dead, and as the president makes his choice for a replacement, a secret contest of wills is being waged by a formidable rival....

    #6,225Attention Score0.3
  8. A Walk on the Moon
    1999Drama

    The world of a young housewife is turned upside down when she has an affair with a free-spirited blouse salesman.

    #6,558Attention Score0.2
  9. The Quiet American
    2002Drama

    Cynical British journalist Fowler falls in love with a young Vietnamese woman but is dismayed when a naïve U.S. official also begins vying for her...

    #6,805Attention Score0.2
  10. Broken City
    2013Drama

    In a broken city rife with injustice, ex-cop Billy Taggart seeks redemption and revenge after being double-crossed and then framed by its most...

    #7,137Attention Score0.2

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