Highest-Rated Movies about 'White House', Sort by Popularity

No End in Sight (2007), All Governments Lie: Truth, Deception, and the Spirit of I.F. Stone (2016), Wilson (1944), Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964), Hijacking Catastrophe: 9/11, Fear & the Selling of the American Empire (2004), Inside Job (2010), Hacksaw Ridge (2016), John F. Kennedy: Years of Lightning, Day of Drums (1965) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best White House movies.

#16. 13 Hours (2016)

• Rating: 7.3/10
• Length: 2h 24min
• Genre: Action, Drama, History, Thriller, War
• Director: Michael Bay

Storyline: Libya, 2012. At an unofficial CIA base in Benghazi a group of ex-military contractors are providing security. In the aftermath of Gaddafi's downfall a power vacuum exists and the climate is volatile. Military weapons are freely available. The US Ambassador to Libya, Chris Stevens, makes a visit to the area, staying in a compound near the CIA base. On the night of 11 September, 2012, the Ambassador's compound is attacked by hordes of heavily armed locals. The only forces willing and able to defend it are six CIA contractors.

Plot Keywords: militant, ambassador, government official, soldier, politician, islamic fundamentalist, brooding ...

#17. The Accountant (2016)

• Rating: 7.3/10
• Length: 2h 8min
• Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
• Director: Gavin O'Connor

Storyline: Christian Wolff is a math savant with more affinity for numbers than people. Behind the cover of a small-town CPA office, he works as a freelance accountant for some of the world's most dangerous criminal organizations. With the Treasury Department's Crime Enforcement Division, run by Ray King, starting to close in, Christian takes on a legitimate client: a state-of-the-art robotics company where an accounting clerk has discovered a discrepancy involving millions of dollars. But as Christian uncooks the books and gets closer to the truth, it is the body count that starts to rise.

Plot Keywords: accountant, agent, undercover agent, client, boss, brooding, emotional ...

#18. Lincoln (2012)

• Rating: 7.3/10
• Length: 2h 30min
• Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
• Director: Steven Spielberg

Storyline: In 1865, as the American Civil War winds inexorably toward conclusion, U.S. president Abraham Lincoln endeavors to achieve passage of the landmark constitutional amendment which will forever ban slavery from the United States. However, his task is a race against time, for peace may come at any time, and if it comes before the amendment is passed, the returning southern states will stop it before it can become law. Lincoln must, by almost any means possible, obtain enough votes from a recalcitrant Congress before peace arrives and it is too late. Yet the president is torn, as an early peace would save thousands of lives. As the nation confronts its conscience over the freedom of its entire population, Lincoln faces his own crisis of conscience -- end slavery or end the war.

Plot Keywords: president, first lady, son, vice president, military officer, activist, somber ...

#19. Vice (2018)

• Rating: 7.2/10
• Length: 2h 12min
• Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama
• Director: Adam McKay

Storyline: Governor George W. Bush of Texas picks Dick Cheney, the CEO of Halliburton Co, to be his Republican running mate in the 2000 presidential election. No stranger to politics, Cheney's impressive resume includes stints as White House chief of staff, House Minority Whip and defense secretary. When Bush wins by a narrow margin, Cheney begins to use his newfound power to help reshape the country and the world.

Plot Keywords: president, george w. bush, politician, wife, brooding, bleak, intricate ...

#20. The Post (2017)

• Rating: 7.2/10
• Length: 1h 56min
• Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Thriller
• Director: Steven Spielberg

Storyline: When American military analyst, Daniel Ellsberg, realizes to his disgust the depths of the US government's deceptions about the futility of the Vietnam War, he takes action by copying top-secret documents that would become the Pentagon Papers. Later, Washington Post owner, Kay Graham, is still adjusting to taking over her late husband's business when editor Ben Bradlee discovers the New York Times has scooped them with an explosive expose on those papers. Determined to compete, Post reporters find Ellsberg himself and a complete copy of those papers. However, the Post's plans to publish their findings are put in jeopardy with a Federal restraining order that could get them all indicted for Contempt. Now, Kay Graham must decide whether to back down for the safety of her paper or publish and fight for the Freedom of the Press. In doing so, Graham and her staff join a fight that would have America's democratic ideals in the balance.

Plot Keywords: publisher, editor, richard nixon, writer, soldier, board member, confident ...

#21. Lee Daniels' The Butler (2013)

• Rating: 7.2/10
• Length: 132 mins
• Genre: Drama, History
• Director: Lee Daniels

Storyline: A White House butler (Forest Whitaker) has a front-row seat to history through three decades and seven presidential administrations, including those of Eisenhower (Robin Williams), Kennedy (James Marsden) and Nixon (John Cusack).

Plot Keywords: butler, wife, cook, richard nixon, nancy reagan, calm, solemn ...

#22. American Made (2017)

• Rating: 7.1/10
• Length: 1h 55min
• Genre: Action, Biography, Comedy, Crime
• Director: Doug Liman

Storyline: Barry Seal was just an ordinary pilot who worked for TWA before he was recruited by the CIA in 1978. His work in South America eventually caught the eye of the Medellín Cartel, associated with Pablo Escobar, who needed a man with his skill set. Barry became a drug trafficker, gun smuggler and money launderer. Soon acquiring the title, 'The gringo that always delivers'.

Plot Keywords: pilot, cia agent, communist, undercover agent, bleak, frenetic, gripping ...

#23. Nixon (1995)

• Rating: 7.1/10
• Length: 3h 12min
• Genre: Biography, Drama, History
• Director: Oliver Stone

Storyline: Writer, Producer, and Director Oliver Stone's exploration of former President Richard Nixon's strict Quaker upbringing, his nascent political strivings in law school, and his strangely self-effacing courtship of his wife, Pat (Joan Allen). The contradictions in his character are revealed early, in the vicious campaign against Helen Gahagan Douglas and the oddly masochistic Checkers speech. His defeat at the hands of the hated and envied John F. Kennedy in the 1960 presidential election, followed by the loss of the 1962 California gubernatorial race, seem to signal the end of his career. Yet, although wholly lacking in charisma, Nixon remains a brilliant political operator, seizing the opportunity provided by the backlash against the antiwar movement to take the Presidency in 1968. It is only when safely in office, running far ahead in the polls for the 1972 Presidential election, that his growing paranoia comes to full flower, triggering the Watergate scandal.

Plot Keywords: president, mother, cia agent, j. edgar hoover, solemn, engaging, white house ...

#24. Atomic: Living in Dread and Promise (2015)

• Rating: 7.0/10
• Length: 71 mins
• Genre: Documentary
• Director: Mark Cousins

Storyline: Experimental documentary that looks at the Hiroshima nuclear bomb and its legacy.

Plot Keywords: politician, japanese man, japanese woman, american, russian, soldier, somber ...

#25. X-Men: Apocalypse (2016)

• Rating: 6.9/10
• Length: 2h 24min
• Genre: Action, Adventure, Science Fiction
• Director: Bryan Singer

Storyline: Since the dawn of civilization, he was worshiped as a god. Apocalypse, the first and most powerful mutant from Marvel's X-Men universe, amassed the powers of many other mutants, becoming immortal and invincible. Upon awakening after thousands of years, he is disillusioned with the world as he finds it and recruits a team of powerful mutants, including a disheartened Magneto, to cleanse mankind and create a new world order, over which he will reign. As the fate of the Earth hangs in the balance, Raven with the help of Professor X must lead a team of young X-Men to stop their greatest nemesis and save mankind from complete destruction.

Plot Keywords: mutant, professor x, magneto, villain, raven, president, brooding ...

#26. The Naked Gun 2½: The Smell of Fear (1991)

• Rating: 6.9/10
• Length: 1h 25min
• Genre: Comedy, Crime
• Director: David Zucker

Storyline: Lieutenant Frank Drebbin returns to save the day once again. This time he's out to foil the "big boys" in the energy business. A top scientist (Dr. Mainheimer) is about to publish his report on energy supply for the future. Things don't look good for the traditional suppliers; oil, coal, and nuclear. To save their industries, the suppliers kidnap Mainheimer and replace him with a decoy with a more favorable report. Jane, the doctor's secretary, is Drebin's old flame. Their passionate love affair is thus rekindled.

Plot Keywords: police detective, boyfriend, executive, doctor, ex-girlfriend, amusing, outlandish ...

#27. Dave (1993)

• Rating: 6.8/10
• Length: 1h 50min
• Genre: Comedy, Romance
• Director: Ivan Reitman

Storyline: Bill Mitchell is the philandering and distant President of the United States. Dave Kovic is a sweet-natured and caring Temp Agency operator, who by a staggering coincidence looks exactly like the President. As such, when Mitchell wants to escape an official luncheon, the Secret Service hires Dave to stand in for him. Unfortunately, Mitchell suffers a severe stroke whilst having sex with one of his aides, and Dave finds himself stuck in the role indefinitely. The corrupt and manipulative Chief of Staff, Bob Alexander, plans to use Dave to elevate himself to the White House - but unfortunately, he doesn't count on Dave enjoying himself in office, using his luck to make the country a better place, and falling in love with the beautiful First Lady...

Plot Keywords: president, first lady, impostor, political consultant, secret service agent, amusing, confident ...

#28. The American President (1995)

• Rating: 6.8/10
• Length: 1h 54min
• Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
• Director: Rob Reiner

Storyline: Andrew Shepherd is approaching the end of his first term as President of the United States. He's a widower with a young daughter and has proved to be popular with the public. His election seems assured. That is until he meets Sydney Ellen Wade, a paid political activist working for an environmental lobby group. He's immediately smitten with her and after several amusing attempts, they finally manage to go on a date (which happens to be a State dinner for the visiting President of France). His relationship with Wade opens the door for his prime political opponent, Senator Bob Rumson, to launch an attack on the President's character, something he could not do in the previous election as Shepherd's wife had only recently died.

Plot Keywords: u.s. president, lobbyist, presidential candidate, chief of staff, amusing, witty, endearing ...

#29. Zombieland: Double Tap (2019)

• Rating: 6.7/10
• Length: 99 mins
• Genre: Horror, Comedy, Action
• Director: Ruben Fleischer

Storyline: One long decade after the post-apocalyptic events in Zombieland (2009), the resilient quartet of survivors--the tough-as-nails zombie exterminator, Tallahassee; his rule-making comrade, Columbus; the free-spirited huntress, Wichita, and her younger sister, Little Rock--find themselves in the bosom of a now-derelict White House. However, in a rabid world still overrun by multitudes of walking dead and mutated strains of evolved animated corpses, a premeditated separation will send the team back to square one, searching, once more, for the promised land. Now, all hope rests on Babylon: an entirely organic commune of blissful vegetarian pacifists who love to party. Is this the end of the road?—Nick Riganas

Plot Keywords: zombie, hunter, warrior, survivor, refugee, idiot, amusing ...

#30. This Is My Affair (1937)

• Rating: 6.7/10
• Length: 99 mins
• Genre: Mystery, Thriller
• Director: William A. Seiter

Storyline: Navy Lt. Richard Perry becomes an undercover man out to discover the leaders of a group of well connected men who pull off bank robberies during the McKinley administration (early 20th century).—Ed Stephan <stephan@cc.wwu.edu>

Plot Keywords: naval officer, gangster, singer, theodore roosevelt, suspenseful, melodramatic, white house ...