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Plot Summary:
Explore the wide-ranging fallout succeeding the tragic events that took place in Waco, TX: the trials of the surviving members of the Branch Davidian sect and the rise of homegrown terrorist, Timothy McVeigh.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration:
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The Price of Freedom (2011)
Plot Summary:
A mini series on the life of the Basque activist Mario Onaindia, his political thought, his family life, and his journey of redemption.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 39
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration:
Plot tags:
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The World of Yesterday (2022)
Plot Summary:
A moral tale and a political thriller: a few days before the term of her mandate, the President must make a major decision concerning the destiny of France.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 339
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags:
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The Diplomat (2023)
Plot Summary:
The six-part series follows Laura Simmonds and her Barcelona Consul colleague and friend Alba Ortiz as they fight to protect British nationals who find themselves in trouble in the Catalan city.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 50 min
Plot tags: political thriller
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Bright Future (2022)
Plot Summary:
Bright Future tells the story of county party secretary Mei Xiaoge (played by Hu Ge) and the reforms he and his colleagues introduce to bring about much needed change and development to the lives of the people of Guangming county. Given the subject, it does appear to be a more serious themed show. The series is a key project by China’s National Radio and Television Administration.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 27
Genere: Drama
Country: China
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags:
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Public Enemy (2017)
Plot Summary:
Sato Tomoko leads an ordinary life with her husband and young child. One day, she defies the rules at the company where she works part-time to supplement the household income, and is fired. Tomoko is in her 40s, a high school dropout and has no qualifications. How is she to get a job? She happens to find out about the huge pay and high winning rate of members of the city, townand village councils through a TV programme. Equating huge pay with family happiness, the foolhardy Tomoko quickly decides to run for the city council. Her rival in the election race is Todo Makoto, who comes from a long line of politicians. Hirata Kazumi, a former star political journalist at a newspaper and a friend whose child attends the same nursery school, is inspired by Tomoko’s energy and ability to unify people, and becomes her supporter.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 81
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 54 min
Plot tags:
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Wave Makers (2023)
Plot Summary:
Weng Wen-fang (Hsieh Ying-hsuan) came from a political family. She joined the Justice Party as the deputy director and spokesperson of the Publicity Department, after failing to be re-elected as a member of the Council. She led the publicity team in realizing their goals, but not without facing many challenges to their faith and values.
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: Taiwan
Duration: 50 min
Plot tags: banned, political drama
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Legal Affairs (2021)
Plot Summary:
An up-to-every-trick media lawyer handles her clients' affairs while discovering a mysterious connection between old family baggage and current political controversy in modern Berlin.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 221
Genere: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration:
Plot tags: political
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The Truth Commissioner (2016)
Plot Summary:
Set in a post-Troubles Northern Ireland, The Truth Commissioner follows the fictional story of Henry Stanfield, played by Roger Allam, a career diplomat who has just been appointed as Truth Commissioner to Northern Ireland. Eager to make good as a peacemaker, the Prime Minister urges a commission following the South African model of Truth and Reconciliation. But, though Stanfield starts bravely, he quickly uncovers some bloody and inconvenient truths about those now running the country; truths which none of those in power are prepared to have revealed.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 188
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags:
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Island Nation (2020)
Plot Summary:
Island Nation is a Taiwanese political drama based on Taiwan's transition from an authoritarian state to a democracy in the 1990s.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 118
Genere: Drama, History
Country: Taiwan
Duration: 48 min
Plot tags:
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The Recruit (2022)
Plot Summary:
A fledgling lawyer at the CIA that becomes enmeshed in dangerous international power politics when a former asset threatens to expose the nature of her long-term relationship with the agency unless they exonerate her of a serious crime.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 44000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 55 min
Plot tags:
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Roadkill (2020)
Plot Summary:
Politician Peter Laurence's private life is falling apart. Shamelessly untroubled by guilt or remorse, he seeks to further his own agenda whilst others plot to bring him down. Can he out-run his own secrets to win the ultimate prize?.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 227 min
Plot tags: captivating, suspense, political, detective, thrilling
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Puerta 7 (2020)
Plot Summary:
A determined woman works to rid an Argentine soccer club of the violent crime and corruption surrounding its intense fanbase.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 609
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Argentina
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: political, tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful, exciting
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Here on Earth (2018)
Plot Summary:
Follows the life of Carlos, a member of one of the most powerful families in Mexico and whose life takes an "U" turn when his father is found dead.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 126
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Mexico
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, crime drama
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Informer (2018)
Plot Summary:
Raza, a young second-generation British-Pakistani man from London is coerced by Gabe, a counterterrorism officer, into informing.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: realistic, tense, serious, suspenseful, detective
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Crime Diaries: The Candidate (2019)
Plot Summary:
In 1994, Mexican presidential candidate Luis Donaldo Colosio's assassination sends his dying widow racing to uncover who did it.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 886
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Mexico
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, realistic, disturbing, stylized, political, detective
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Designated Survivor: 60 Days (2019)
Plot Summary:
An explosion at the National Assembly kills everyone in the cabinet, leaving Park Mu-jin, the Minister of Environment, to become the next president. Park Mu-jin is a scientist-turned-politician who has no ambitions in politics, but as the acting president for 60 days, he is compelled to investigate the truth behind the attack. Based on the popular American series, Designated Survivor.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 70 min
Plot tags: political thriller, tense, captivating, suspenseful, political, political drama
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Waco (2018)
Plot Summary:
The FBI and ATF seize religious leader, David Koresh's Branch Davidian compound in Waco, Texas in the spring of 1993. A six-part television series covering a deadly standoff between the federal government and the Branch Davidians spiritual sect more than two decades ago will be filmed in New Mexico.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 25000
Genere: Crime, Drama, History, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 292 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, political, entertaining, detective, anime, neo western, crime drama
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State of Affairs (2014)
Plot Summary:
Each day the President is faced with dozens of life and death decisions, and to prioritize the biggest international crises facing the country, one top CIA analyst - Charleston Tucker - assembles the President's Daily Briefing. This list of the most vital security issues facing the nation brings with it moral and political judgment calls for Charleston and her trusted group of brilliant analysts at the agency. Aside from the political minefields she has to walk, Charlie has a close personal relationship with the President because she was once engaged to her son before a tragic terrorist attack took his life. Charlie survived that attack and is now determined to bring the perpetrators to justice. Navigating a complex personal life and a pressure-cooker profession is, of course, a challenge, and Charlie sometimes engages in boundary-pushing behavior to avoid facing her grief. But when the clock strikes 2 a.m., she is all about her job - protecting her nation, serving her president and still trying to get to the bottom of her fiancé's murder that will reveal itself as a shocking mystery.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: serious, tense, realistic, suspenseful, suspense, political, compassionate, tv series pilot
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Madam Secretary (2014)
Plot Summary:
Former CIA agent Elizabeth Faulkner McCord is suddenly thrust into the position of US Secretary of State where she must quickly learn to drive international diplomacy, wrangle office politics and balance a complex family life.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 26000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, political, intelligent, political drama
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Chiefs (1983)
Plot Summary:
Three generations of police chiefs for a southern town go about their jobs while a serial murderer operates.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 200 min
Plot tags: detective, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Stella Blómkvist (2017)
Plot Summary:
Stella is a young, cute, libertine, tough, confident, intelligent, cunning Icelandic lawyer with a flexible moral compass who takes on mysterious and often dangerous cases and only loves rules when she's breaking them.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Iceland
Duration: 46 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Boss (2011)
Plot Summary:
Boss is an American political drama television serial created by Farhad Safinia. The series stars Kelsey Grammer as Tom Kane, the mayor of Chicago, who has recently been diagnosed with dementia with Lewy bodies, a degenerative neurological disorder.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 18000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 56 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, clever, captivating, political, cynical, realistic, erotic, psychological thriller, dramatic
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Hidden (2011)
Plot Summary:
When a mysterious lawyer Gina Hawkes turns up asking Harry to find a missing alibi witness for her client he agrees to take on the job but is unwittingly drawn into investigating the death of his brother 20 years ago. Harry quickly finds himself caught up in a much bigger and more complex conspiracy that reaches deep into the heart of the British political system.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 57 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, realistic, suspenseful, suspense, clever, serious, stylized
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Bodyguard (2018)
Plot Summary:
A troubled war veteran is assigned to protect a controversial politician who may be the target of a terror plot.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 142000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: political, detective, exciting, suspense, disturbing, romantic, philosophical, atmospheric, feel good, serious
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Sneaky Pete (2015)
Plot Summary:
A con man on the run from a vicious gangster takes cover from his past by assuming the identity of his prison cellmate, Pete, “reuniting” with Pete’s estranged family, a colorful, dysfunctional group that threatens to drag him into a world just as dangerous as the one he’s trying to escape - and, just maybe, give him a taste of the loving family he’s never had.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 40000
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: captivating, ironic, melancholic, suspenseful, entertaining, dark, independent film, psychological thriller, interesting, psycho film
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Boiler Room (2000)
Plot Summary:
A college dropout gets a job as a broker for a suburban investment firm, which puts him on the fast track to success, but the job might not be as legitimate as it sounds.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 56000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychological, clever, tense, talky, intense, rough, serious, suspenseful, cynical
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The Deliberate Stranger (1986)
Plot Summary:
Based on a true story, this film depicts the life of Theodore Robert Bundy, the serial killer. In 1974, after having murdered several young women, he leaves Seattle for Utah, where he is a law student and where other girls disappear. It takes the cooperation of a number of police forces to work efficiently on this case. Soon, but not soon enough, the police eliminate endless possibilities and close in on him. Bundy is tried in the media and his good-boy attitude brings him sympathy but also the hatred of many.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 185 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, psychological, tense, rough, bleak, serious, realistic, suspenseful, disturbing, cult film
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The Shield (2002)
Plot Summary:
The story of an inner-city Los Angeles police precinct where some of the cops aren't above breaking the rules or working against their associates to both keep the streets safe and their self-interests intact.
IMDB Rating: 8.7
IMDB Votes: 86000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 47 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, rough, suspenseful, realistic, cynical, dramatic, detective, crime drama, serious
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Boardwalk Empire (2010)
Plot Summary:
Boardwalk Empire is a period drama focusing on Enoch "Nucky" Thompson (based on the historical Enoch L. Johnson), a political figure who rose to prominence and controlled Atlantic City, New Jersey, during the Prohibition period of the 1920s and 1930s. Nucky interacts with several historical figures in both his personal and political life, including mobsters, politicians, government agents, and the common folk who look up to him. The federal government also takes an interest in the bootlegging and other illegal activities in the area, sending agents to investigate possible mob connections but also looking at Nucky's lifestyle—expensive and lavish for a county political figure. Primetime Emmy Award-winning screenwriter and producer Terence Winter adapted the show from Boardwalk Empire: The Birth, High Times, and Corruption of Atlantic City, a book by Nelson Johnson about historical criminal kingpin Enoch L. Johnson.
IMDB Rating: 8.6
IMDB Votes: 200000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 55 min
Plot tags: serious, costume drama, atmospheric, captivating, suspenseful, tense, rough, clever, realistic, stylized
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The Wire (2002)
Plot Summary:
Told from the points of view of both the Baltimore homicide and narcotics detectives and their targets, the series captures a universe in which the national war on drugs has become a permanent, self-sustaining bureaucracy, and distinctions between good and evil are routinely obliterated.
IMDB Rating: 9.3
IMDB Votes: 367000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 59 min
Plot tags: clever, tense, cynical, detective, serious, rough, captivating, dramatic, suspenseful, exciting