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Top Political Films (#1-100)

The Internet Movie Database includes a phrase containing the word, "Political," as one of the keywords describing the films below.

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Citizen Kane 1941 Orson Welles 1
2 Casablanca 1942 Michael Curtiz 2
3 Lawrence of Arabia 1962 David Lean 8
4 Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb 1964 Stanley Kubrick 14
5 Taxi Driver 1976 Martin Scorsese 16
6 Chinatown 1974 Roman Polanski 19
7 A Clockwork Orange 1971 Stanley Kubrick 43
8 Duck Soup 1933 Leo McCarey 56
9 The Battleship Potemkin 1925 Sergei M. Eisenstein 65
10 Nashville 1975 Robert Altman 70
11 His Girl Friday 1940 Howard Hawks 86
12 The Manchurian Candidate 1962 John Frankenheimer 93
13 Braveheart 1995 Mel Gibson 94
14 Ben-Hur 1959 William Wyler 101
15 Mr. Smith Goes to Washington 1939 Frank Capra 109
16 The Birth of a Nation 1915 D.W. Griffith 112
17 Intolerance 1916 D.W. Griffith 133
18 Back to the Future 1985 Robert Zemeckis 137
19 Gladiator 2000 Ridley Scott 138
20 Cabaret 1972 Bob Fosse 148
21 Monty Python and the Holy Grail 1975 Terry Gilliam and Terry Jones 149
22 The Conformist 1970 Bernardo Bertolucci 184
23 Napoléon 1927 Abel Gance 194
24 Andrei Rublev 1969 Andrei Tarkovsky 200
25 Gandhi 1982 Richard Attenborough 221
26 Once Upon a Time in America 1984 Sergio Leone 233
27 The Day the Earth Stood Still 1951 Robert Wise 240
28 Scarface 1983 Brian De Palma 260
29 The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie 1972 Luis Buñuel 266
30 The Battle of Algiers 1966 Gillo Pontecorvo 292
31 All the President's Men 1976 Alan J. Pakula 309
32 Ivan the Terrible 1944 Sergei M. Eisenstein 363
33 Akira 1988 Katsuhiro Ôtomo 386
34 The Great Dictator 1940 Charles Chaplin 392
35 There's Something about Mary 1998 Bobby and Peter Farrelly 411
36 The Leopard 1963 Luchino Visconti 420
37 JFK 1991 Oliver Stone 424
38 A Man for All Seasons 1966 Fred Zinnemann 428
39 Triumph of the Will 1935 Leni Riefenstahl 432
40 Reds 1981 Warren Beatty 452
41 Being There 1979 Hal Ashby 454
42 Miller's Crossing 1990 Joel Coen 478
43 Z 1969 Costa-Gavras 483
44 Batman 1989 Tim Burton 493
45 The Sorrow and the Pity 1969 Marcel Ophüls 502
46 The Last Emperor 1987 Bernardo Bertolucci 504
47 Y tu mamá también 2001 Alfonso Cuarón 523
48 Born Yesterday 1950 George Cukor 541
49 The Killing Fields 1984 Roland Joffé 544
50 Farewell My Concubine 1993 Kaige Chen 548
51 Malcolm X 1992 Spike Lee 551
52 The Big Heat 1953 Fritz Lang 558
53 Casino 1995 Martin Scorsese 560
54 The Remains of the Day 1993 James Ivory 591
55 Traffic 2000 Steven Soderbergh 599
56 À Nous la Liberté 1931 René Clair 634
57 Sleeper 1973 Woody Allen 641
58 The Way We Were 1973 Sydney Pollack 647
59 Naked 1993 Mike Leigh 658
60 Born on the Fourth of July 1989 Oliver Stone 678
61 The Lion in Winter 1968 Anthony Harvey 720
62 All the King's Men 1949 Robert Rossen 721
63 Three Kings 1999 David O. Russell 722
64 October 1928 Grigori Aleksandrov and Sergei M. Eisenstein 766
65 The Travelling Players 1975 Theodoros Angelopoulos 768
66 Philadelphia 1993 Jonathan Demme 777
67 Fiddler on the Roof 1971 Norman Jewison 783
68 1900 1976 Bernardo Bertolucci 814
69 A Face in the Crowd 1957 Elia Kazan 843
70 The Unbearable Lightness of Being 1988 Philip Kaufman 845
71 Seven Beauties 1975 Lina Wertmüller 887
72 El Topo 1970 Alejandro Jodorowsky 889
73 Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones 2002 George Lucas 907
74 Judgment at Nuremberg 1961 Stanley Kramer 920
75 Roger & Me 1989 Michael Moore 926
76 Bowling for Columbine 2002 Michael Moore 933
77 Hail the Conquering Hero 1944 Preston Sturges 938
78 Underground 1995 Emir Kusturica 950
79 Quiz Show 1994 Robert Redford 961
80 The Official Story 1985 Luis Puenzo 974
81 Around the World in Eighty Days 1956 Michael Anderson 985
82 The China Syndrome 1979 James Bridges 1000
83 Batman Begins 2005 Christopher Nolan 1005
84 Medium Cool 1969 Haskell Wexler 1012
85 A Brighter Summer Day 1991 Edward Yang 1015
86 Elizabeth 1998 Shekhar Kapur 1039
87 The Barbarian Invasions 2003 Denys Arcand 1045
88 Woodstock 1970 Michael Wadleigh 1049
89 Dr. Mabuse: The Gambler 1922 Fritz Lang 1113
90 Cleopatra 1963 Joseph L. Mankiewicz 1169
91 Shame 1968 Ingmar Bergman 1194
92 Gangs of New York 2002 Martin Scorsese 1209
93 Blow Out 1981 Brian De Palma 1210
94 Wag the Dog 1997 Barry Levinson 1217
95 The American President 1995 Rob Reiner 1218
96 Ray 2004 Taylor Hackford 1230
97 Kolya 1996 Jan Sverák 1263
98 The Lives of Others 2006 Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck 1273
99 Silkwood 1983 Mike Nichols 1274
100 In the Line of Fire 1993 Wolfgang Petersen 1283
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