Kill Chain: The Cyber War on America's Elections (2020), Ford Transit (2003), The Dark Horse (1932), Rosewater (2014), Lillian Russell (1940), Siempre, Luis (2020), The World's Greatest Sinner (1962), The Flower of Evil (2003) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Political Candidate movies.
Storyline: Finnish hacker and election expert Harri Hursti investigates election-related hacks, uncovering just how unprotected voting systems really are.
Plot Keywords: hacker, national security advisor, politician, political consultant, political candidate, computer, computer expert ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: The movie follows Rajai, a Ford Transit driver which is the most popular transportation in the Palestinian occupied territories (occupied by Israel). While taking a ride with Rajai, we experience the frustrating situation the Palestinian need to deal with. On our trips from the roadblock in Ramallah to the roadblock in Jerusalem, we get to hear analysis of the situation by all kinds of random transporters, people from different religions, origins, and levels of class.—Michal Oppenheim <michalopp@yahoo.com>
Plot Keywords: taxi driver, palestinian, military officer, political candidate, passenger, chilling, somber ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Zachary Hicks is nominated at the Progressive party's convention even though he has little chance of winning the governorship. Kay suggests the party bosses hire Hal Blake (whom she loves) as campaign manager. Hal is in jail for falling behind in his alimony payments to Maybelle, but Kay convinces the politicians to seem him in prison, Impressed with the speech they hear him deliver to a cellmate, the committee pays Hal's fine and back alimony payments. Hal takes on the campaign and several marital arrangements.—Ed Stephan <stephan@cc.wwu.edu>
Plot Keywords: political candidate, political consultant, inmate, opponent, ex-wife, secretary, amusing ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Based of a true story about a journalist who gets detained and brutally interrogated in prison for 118 days. The journalist Maziar Bahari was blindfolded and interrogated for 4 months in Evin prison in Iran, while the only distinguishable feature about his captor is the distinct smell of rosewater. An interview and sketch that Maziar did with a journalist on The Daily Show (1996) was used as evidence that Maziar was a spy and in communication with the American government and the CIA.—abivians
Plot Keywords: journalist, interrogator, president, political candidate, brutal, disheartening, gripping ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Life story of the musical star from her discovery in 1890 by band leader Tony Pastor till her retirement in 1912 when she married newspaperman Alexander Moore.
Plot Keywords: opera singer, political candidate, mother, husband, composer, spirited, uplifting ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: An immigrant from Puerto Rico is determined to bring the musical 'Hamilton' to his island home.
Plot Keywords: father, son, political consultant, political candidate, charming, confident, creative ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A bored insurance salesman quits his job to go into politics. He first starts preaching about how man is greater than he thinks and that man can live forever. He ends up forming his own political party, "The Eternal Man" party. He begins to be referred to as "God". Then he starts having doubts about the eternalness of man.—J. Picagli <mirjen@ibm.net>
Plot Keywords: insurance salesman, devil, preacher, rock star, political candidate, follower, dark ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A man (Benoît Magimel) falls for the daughter of his stepmother (Nathalie Baye), while the latter must deal with a political scandal.
Plot Keywords: political candidate, mother, father, brother, stepsister, aunt, gripping ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: At a Mayor's convention in San Francisco, California, ex-longshoreman Steve Fisk meets Clarissa Standish from New England. Fisk is Mayor of Puget City, and is proud of his rough and tumble background. Standish is Mayor of Winona, Maine, and is equally proud of her education and dedication to the people who elected her. Thrown together, the two opposites attract, and their escapades during the convention get each of them in hot water back home.—Ron Kerrigan <mvg@whidbey.com>
Plot Keywords: mayor, political candidate, sergeant, judge, rival, charming, emotional ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Comedy about the prospective Washington State Governor Al Donnelly whose only stumbling block on the road to power is his embarrassing younger brother Mike. To keep him out of mischief, Al forces one of his aides, Steve Dodds to keep an eye on him during the election. However, this is easier said than done...
Plot Keywords: governor, gym teacher, political candidate, aide, brother, mountain man, madcap ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: In the 1950s, in Louisiana, the smart populist, manipulative and wolf hick Willie Stark (Sean Penn) is elected Governor with the support of the lower social classes. He joins a team composed of his bodyguard and friend Sugar Boy (Jackie Earle Haley); the journalist from an aristocratic family Jack Burden (Jude Law); the lobbyist Tiny Duffy (James Gandolfini); and his mistress Sadie Burke (Patricia Clarkson), to face the opposition of the upper classes. When the influent Judge Irwin (Sir Anthony Hopkins) supports a group of politicians in their request of impeachment, Stark assigns Jack to find some dirtiness along the life of Irwin, leading to a tragedy in the end.
Plot Keywords: political candidate, commissioner, governor, consultant, friend, judge, dark ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A Democratic strategist helps a retired veteran run for mayor in a small, conservative Midwest town.
Plot Keywords: political candidate, politician, farmer, hilarious, lighthearted, offbeat, rural community ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Colorful bayou peddler Hank Martin marries pretty teacher Verity, who finds that the rural poor all love Hank. Gradually, she realizes that Hank's popularity is the fruit of his expert manipulation of everyone he knows. She's further taken aback when she meets sexy swamp girl Flamingo, who considered Hank hers and is murderously jealous. Now Hank starts crusading against a crooked cotton buyer, and swiftly rises toward political power. Is there no stopping him?—Rod Crawford <puffinus@u.washington.edu>
Plot Keywords: political candidate, southerner, schoolteacher, lawyer, farmer, gangster, melodramatic ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: One candidate for the presidency dies in an accident a couple of weeks before the election. Meanwhile the alderman Mays Gilliam becomes a hero when he rescues a woman and her cat from an old house that would blow up. However his fiancee Kim does not pay his bills and dumps him, and Gilliam loses everything including his fancy car. When Senator Bill Arnot sees the news on television, he plots a scheme with the party advisors Martin Geller and Debra Lassiter to invite Mays to be the party nominee and lose the election for the other candidate, Vice-President Brian Lewis. Four years later, he would be the candidate and would have the chance of winning the election. Mays has a terrible beginning of campaign but when his older brother Mitch Gilliam meets him in Chicago, he advises Mays to be himself. Will he have the chance to be the first African American President of the USA?
Plot Keywords: political candidate, president, presidential candidate, senator, republican, hilarious, charming ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: The 1977 Broadway musical returns to the big screen with this Overbrook Entertainment/Sony Pictures production surrounding a 10-year-old Harlem foster child (played by Beasts of the Southern Wild's Quvenzhané Wallis) taken in by a calculating billionaire (Jamie Foxx) who's campaigning to be mayor. Abandoned by her biological parents as a baby, Annie (Wallis) spends every moment of every day attempting to avoid the wrath of her cruel foster mother Miss Hannigan (Cameron Diaz). Thing start to look up for Annie, however, when she has a very public encounter with Will Stacks (Foxx), a local cell-phone mogul with mayoral ambitions. Stacks campaign isn't going too well until he meets Annie and invites her into his home at the suggestion of his trusted top assistant Grace (Rose Byrne) and his ambitious PR advisor Guy (Bobby Cannavale). Meanwhile, what was originally conceived as a PR stunt to win over skeptical voters becomes something much more personal when the jaded tycoon realizes his ...
Plot Keywords: orphan, foster mother, billionaire, political candidate, adviser, dog, amusing ...
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