political thriller movies

The Post (2017)
7.005 / 10

Drama, History

A cover-up that spanned four U.S. Presidents pushed the country's first female newspaper publisher and a hard-driving editor to join an unprecedented...

Shadow Land (2024)
4.333 / 10

Thriller

Haunted by relentless nightmares foretelling his untimely demise, former President Robert Wainwright summons his past psychiatrist to his upstate...

Argo (2012)
7.277 / 10

Drama, Thriller

As the Iranian revolution reaches a boiling point, a CIA 'exfiltration' specialist concocts a risky plan to free six Americans who have found shelter...

Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014)
7.664 / 10

Action, Adventure, Science Fiction

After the cataclysmic events in New York with The Avengers, Steve Rogers, aka Captain America is living quietly in Washington, D.C. and trying to...

The Confession (1970)
7.3 / 10

Drama, Thriller

The vice-minister of Foreign Affairs of Czechoslovakia, knowing he's being watched and followed, is one day arrested and put into solitary...

Shoshana (2024)
5.6 / 10

Drama, Thriller

A political thriller that unfolds during the British Mandate in 1930s Tel Aviv, following two British police officers, Thomas Wilkin and Geoffrey...

Breach (2007)
6.625 / 10

Drama, Thriller, Crime, History

Eric O'Neill, a computer specialist who wants to be made an agent is assigned to clerk for Robert Hanssen, a senior agent with 25 years in the FBI,...

The Hunt for Red October (1990)
7.389 / 10

Action, Adventure, Thriller

A new technologically-superior Soviet nuclear sub, the Red October, is heading for the U.S. coast under the command of Captain Marko Ramius. The...

The Report (2019)
7.043 / 10

Drama

The story of Daniel Jones, lead investigator for the US Senate’s sweeping study into the CIA's Detention and Interrogation Program, which was found...

The Laundromat (2019)
6 / 10

Drama, Crime, Comedy

When her idyllic vacation takes an unthinkable turn, Ellen Martin begins investigating a fake insurance policy, only to find herself down a rabbit...

Zero Dark Thirty (2012)
6.988 / 10

Thriller, Drama

A chronicle of the decade-long hunt for al-Qaeda terrorist leader Osama bin Laden after the September 2001 attacks, and his death at the hands of the...

Viper Club (2018)
5.971 / 10

Thriller, Drama

ER nurse Helen Sterling struggles to free her grown son, a journalist captured by terrorists in the Middle East. After hitting walls with the FBI and...

Snowden (2016)
7.103 / 10

Drama, History, Crime, Thriller

CIA employee Edward Snowden leaks thousands of classified documents to the press.

Telefon (1977)
6.599 / 10

Thriller, Action, Crime

Nicolai Dalchimski, a mad KGB agent steals a notebook full of names of "sleeping" undercover KGB agents sent to the U.S. in the 1950's. These agents...

Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit (2014)
6.113 / 10

Action, Drama, Thriller

Jack Ryan, as a young covert CIA analyst, uncovers a Russian plot to crash the U.S. economy with a terrorist attack.

The Lives of Others (2006)
8.028 / 10

Drama, Thriller

In 1984 East Berlin, an agent of the secret police, conducting surveillance on a writer and his lover, finds himself becoming increasingly absorbed...

Clear and Present Danger (1994)
6.647 / 10

Action, Drama, Thriller

Agent Jack Ryan becomes acting Deputy Director of Intelligence for the CIA when Admiral Greer is diagnosed with cancer. When an American businessman,...

The Siege (1998)
6.298 / 10

Drama, Action, Thriller, Crime

The secret US abduction of a suspected terrorist from his Middle East homeland leads to a wave of terrorist attacks in New York. An FBI senior agent...

Three Days of the Condor (1975)
7.298 / 10

Thriller, Mystery

A bookish CIA researcher finds all his co-workers dead, and must outwit those responsible until he figures out who he can really trust.

La seducción (1981)
6 / 10

Drama, War, Romance