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Top Political Films (#1-100)

The Internet Movie Database has either "Political" or "Politics" as one of the keywords describing the films below.

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Citizen Kane 1941 Orson Welles 2
2 Casablanca 1942 Michael Curtiz 3
3 Lawrence of Arabia 1962 David Lean 9
4 Gone with the Wind 1939 Victor Fleming 17
5 Taxi Driver 1976 Martin Scorsese 19
6 Chinatown 1974 Roman Polanski 20
7 A Clockwork Orange 1971 Stanley Kubrick 36
8 Duck Soup 1933 Leo McCarey 56
9 The Battleship Potemkin 1925 Sergei M. Eisenstein 74
10 Nashville 1975 Robert Altman 86
11 Gladiator 2000 Ridley Scott 113
12 Braveheart 1995 Mel Gibson 116
13 The Manchurian Candidate 1962 John Frankenheimer 124
14 The Best Years of Our Lives 1946 William Wyler 126
15 Ben-Hur 1959 William Wyler 140
16 Amadeus 1984 Milos Forman 141
17 Cabaret 1972 Bob Fosse 144
18 Mr. Smith Goes to Washington 1939 Frank Capra 156
19 The Conformist 1970 Bernardo Bertolucci 169
20 Withnail & I 1987 Bruce Robinson 183
21 Donnie Darko 2001 Richard Kelly 212
22 The Battle of Algiers 1966 Gillo Pontecorvo 215
23 Andrei Rublev 1966 Andrei Tarkovsky 236
24 Scarface 1983 Brian De Palma 239
25 Gandhi 1982 Richard Attenborough 251
26 Napoléon 1927 Abel Gance 264
27 All the President's Men 1976 Alan J. Pakula 277
28 The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance 1962 John Ford 288
29 The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie 1972 Luis Buñuel 312
30 Ikiru 1952 Akira Kurosawa 331
31 The Leopard 1963 Luchino Visconti 332
32 The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp 1943 Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger 390
33 Umberto D. 1952 Vittorio De Sica 391
34 JFK 1991 Oliver Stone 423
35 Ashes and Diamonds 1958 Andrzej Wajda 444
36 Ivan the Terrible 1944 Sergei M. Eisenstein 453
37 Y tu mamá también 2001 Alfonso Cuarón 457
38 Being There 1979 Hal Ashby 459
39 Triumph of the Will 1935 Leni Riefenstahl 465
40 A Man for All Seasons 1966 Fred Zinnemann 482
41 Z 1969 Costa-Gavras 489
42 The Lives of Others 2006 Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck 505
43 Before Sunset 2004 Richard Linklater 508
44 Election 1999 Alexander Payne 545
45 Malcolm X 1992 Spike Lee 582
46 Reds 1981 Warren Beatty 588
47 The Remains of the Day 1993 James Ivory 594
48 Downfall 2004 Oliver Hirschbiegel 600
49 Farewell My Concubine 1993 Kaige Chen 601
50 Giant 1956 George Stevens 605
51 My Beautiful Laundrette 1985 Stephen Frears 610
52 The Scarlet Empress 1934 Josef von Sternberg 631
53 Naked 1993 Mike Leigh 632
54 The Tin Drum 1979 Volker Schlöndorff 644
55 The Insider 1999 Michael Mann 647
56 Three Kings 1999 David O. Russell 663
57 Closely Watched Trains 1966 Jirí Menzel 664
58 Born Yesterday 1950 George Cukor 690
59 Traffic 2000 Steven Soderbergh 713
60 The Big Carnival 1951 Billy Wilder 728
61 Born on the Fourth of July 1989 Oliver Stone 781
62 Elizabeth 1998 Shekhar Kapur 798
63 Hidden 2005 Michael Haneke 836
64 Bowling for Columbine 2002 Michael Moore 840
65 The Dead 1987 John Huston 841
66 Black Hawk Down 2001 Ridley Scott 866
67 All the King's Men 1949 Robert Rossen 873
68 Beau travail 1999 Claire Denis 896
69 Philadelphia 1993 Jonathan Demme 898
70 À Nous la Liberté 1931 René Clair 937
71 The Parallax View 1974 Alan J. Pakula 953
72 The Unbearable Lightness of Being 1988 Philip Kaufman 958
73 Muriel's Wedding 1994 P.J. Hogan 960
74 The Eclipse 1962 Michelangelo Antonioni 967
75 1900 1976 Bernardo Bertolucci 970
76 A Face in the Crowd 1957 Elia Kazan 972
77 My Own Private Idaho 1991 Gus Van Sant 991
78 Underground 1995 Emir Kusturica 996
79 Quiz Show 1994 Robert Redford 1012
80 Love Actually 2003 Richard Curtis 1024
81 Silkwood 1983 Mike Nichols 1051
82 The Passenger 1975 Michelangelo Antonioni 1063
83 The Man in the White Suit 1951 Alexander Mackendrick 1071
84 The Ice Storm 1997 Ang Lee 1072
85 The Garden of the Finzi-Continis 1970 Vittorio De Sica 1082
86 A Brighter Summer Day 1991 Edward Yang 1108
87 Chocolat 2000 Lasse Hallström 1114
88 Fury 1936 Fritz Lang 1115
89 Slacker 1991 Richard Linklater 1142
90 I Am Cuba 1968 Mikheil Kalatozishvili 1159
91 The Cook the Thief His Wife & Her Lover 1989 Peter Greenaway 1171
92 The Year of Living Dangerously 1982 Peter Weir 1189
93 To Live 1994 Yimou Zhang 1221
94 Meet John Doe 1941 Frank Capra 1231
95 Team America: World Police 2004 Trey Parker 1236
96 Burnt by the Sun 1994 Nikita Mikhalkov 1244
97 Wag the Dog 1997 Barry Levinson 1261
98 The Barbarian Invasions 2003 Denys Arcand 1274
99 Kolya 1996 Jan Sverák 1302
100 Three Days of the Condor 1975 Sydney Pollack 1308
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