Subgenre Sampler
Politics: 627 Films to Buy & Rent
Frost/Nixon Watergate Interviews (1977)
- Dir. Jorn Winther
Feat. David Frost, Richard Nixon
- The legendary 28 hour interview between the charismatic David Frost and former President Richard Nixon is touted as the greatest political interview…
Washington: Behind Closed Doors (Mini-Series) (1977)
- Feat. Cliff Robertson, Jason Robards Jr., Stefanie Powers…
- Sharply written mini–series inspired by the Nixon administration tells the story of a power–hungry U.S. President, and the men he…
All the President's Men (1976)
- Dir. Alan J. Pakula
Feat. Dustin Hoffman, Robert Redford
- Chilling account of events that led to the publicising of the Watergate scandal, as uncovered by two reporters. A key film of the 1970s.
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Absence of Malice (1975)
- Dir. Sydney Pollack
Feat. Sally Field, Paul Newman
- Reporter Sally Feild smears innocent Paul Newman in this solid examination of ethics, power and corruption in the US media.
Mother Kuesters Goes to Heaven (1975)
- Dir. Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Feat. Brigitte Mira, Ingrid Caven, Karlheinz Bohm…
- A furiously witty political black comedy from New German Cinema iconoclast Rainer Werner Fassbinder, heavily inspired by the melodramas of Douglas…
Wilby Conspiracy, The (1975)
- Dir. Ralph Nelson
Feat. Sidney Poitier, Michael Caine, Nicol Williamson…
- Activists Poitier and Caine are stalked by a sadistic policeman in this Apartheid–era suspenser, in which thrills take precedence over politics.
Conversation, The (1974)
- Dir. Francis Ford Coppola
Feat. Gene Hackman, John Cazale, Allen Garfield…
- Absorbing account of a bugging–device expert who develops a conscience and slowly uncovers a political scandal in a seemingly normal…
General Idi Amin Dada (A Self Portrait) (1974)
- Dir. Barbet Schroeder
- General Idi Amin Dada’s narcissism is serviced willingly by an intrigued Barbet Schroeder, focusing his camera on the lunatic dictator during his…
Parallax View, The (1974)
- Dir. Alan J. Pakula
Feat. Warren Beatty, Hume Cronyn, Paula Prentiss
- Intelligent, stylish paranoia thriller with Warren Beatty as a renegade reporter investigating an unfolding political conspiracy involving a covert…
Day of the Jackal (1973)
- Dir. Fred Zinnemann
Feat. Edward Fox, Terence Alexander, Michel Auclair…
- Taut, clinical adaptation of Frederick Forsyth's best–seller with Edward Fox as the icy hit–man who meticulously prepares for the…