Mirren won the Oscar for her portrayal of Queen Elizabeth II and Michael Sheen costars as Prime Minister Tony Blair in this drama written by Peter Morgan, creator of ‘The Crown.”
Matt Damon, Laurence Fishburne, Kate Winslet, and Marion Cotillard star in Soderbergh’s prescient thriller about the social and political response to a global pandemic, made a decade before Covid.
Julia Roberts and Philip Seymour Hoffman costar in this breezy take on “the outrageous true story” of a minor congressman who secretly funded a rebellion against the Soviet Union.
Ralph Fiennes and Tony Revolori star in this bittersweet comic drama, mix of adventure, murder mystery, old-world tale, storybook fable, and sinister conspiracy.
Forest Whitake won an Oscar playing the brutal dictator Idi Amin in this fictional drama starring James McAvoy as a brash Scottish doctor invited into the tyrant’s inner circle.
Gael Garcia Bernal stars in director Pablo Larraín’s dramatization of the strange but true story of how modern advertising defeated General Augusto Pinochet in Chile.
The director of ‘Oldboy’ delivers a sexy, savage, utterly compelling confidence game thriller tangled up in national and sexual politics in 1930s Korea.
Alexander Payne’s wicked satire of power and (social) politics set in the overheated incubator of a high school student body election is as sharp and perceptive now as it was in 1999.
Alan Moore’s acclaimed graphic novel of political oppression and the fight for freeedom is brought to the screen with Natalie Portman and Hugo Weaving.
