The Internet Movie Database includes either "Political" or "Politics" as one of the keywords describing the films below.
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 101 | King of New York | 1990 | Abel Ferrara | 1333 |
| 102 | Salvador | 1986 | Oliver Stone | 1349 |
| 103 | Fail-Safe | 1964 | Sidney Lumet | 1368 |
| 104 | The Official Story | 1985 | Luis Puenzo | 1371 |
| 105 | The Day of the Jackal | 1973 | Fred Zinnemann | 1373 |
| 106 | Land and Freedom | 1995 | Ken Loach | 1377 |
| 107 | Clear and Present Danger | 1994 | Phillip Noyce | 1383 |
| 108 | Hamlet | 1996 | Kenneth Branagh | 1386 |
| 109 | 300 | 2006 | Zack Snyder | 1393 |
| 110 | Cleopatra | 1963 | Joseph L. Mankiewicz | 1397 |
| 111 | In the Line of Fire | 1993 | Wolfgang Petersen | 1402 |
| 112 | Werckmeister Harmonies | 2000 | Béla Tarr | 1414 |
| 113 | Evita | 1996 | Alan Parker | 1428 |
| 114 | The Quiet American | 2002 | Phillip Noyce | 1429 |
| 115 | Nixon | 1995 | Oliver Stone | 1460 |
| 116 | The Hunt for Red October | 1990 | John McTiernan | 1468 |
| 117 | Air Force One | 1997 | Wolfgang Petersen | 1488 |
| 118 | Citizen Ruth | 1996 | Alexander Payne | 1492 |
| 119 | The Aviator | 2004 | Martin Scorsese | 1495 |
| 120 | The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara | 2003 | Errol Morris | 1537 |
| 121 | Gettysburg | 1993 | Ronald F. Maxwell | 1548 |
| 122 | Salt of the Earth | 1954 | Herbert J. Biberman | 1550 |
| 123 | Bananas | 1971 | Woody Allen | 1600 |
| 124 | Before the Rain | 1994 | Milcho Manchevski | 1615 |
| 125 | No Man's Land | 2001 | Danis Tanovic | 1630 |
| 126 | V for Vendetta | 2005 | James McTeigue | 1634 |
| 127 | The Queen | 2006 | Stephen Frears | 1639 |
| 128 | Persepolis | 2007 | Vincent Paronnaud and Marjane Satrapi | 1651 |
| 129 | Ali | 2001 | Michael Mann | 1657 |
| 130 | Fahrenheit 9/11 | 2004 | Michael Moore | 1673 |
| 131 | The American President | 1995 | Rob Reiner | 1674 |
| 132 | Missing | 1982 | Costa-Gavras | 1676 |
| 133 | Primary Colors | 1998 | Mike Nichols | 1711 |
| 134 | Seven Days in May | 1964 | John Frankenheimer | 1717 |
| 135 | The Madness of King George | 1994 | Nicholas Hytner | 1721 |
| 136 | Bulworth | 1998 | Warren Beatty | 1727 |
| 137 | Salvatore Giuliano | 1962 | Francesco Rosi | 1737 |
| 138 | The Best of Youth | 2003 | Marco Tullio Giordana | 1747 |
| 139 | Orlando | 1992 | Sally Potter | 1748 |
| 140 | A City of Sadness | 1989 | Hsiao-hsien Hou | 1761 |
| 141 | Lamerica | 1994 | Gianni Amelio | 1771 |
| 142 | Hearts and Minds | 1974 | Peter Davis | 1774 |
| 143 | Medium Cool | 1969 | Haskell Wexler | 1793 |
| 144 | The Times of Harvey Milk | 1984 | Rob Epstein | 1798 |
| 145 | Teorema | 1968 | Pier Paolo Pasolini | 1801 |
| 146 | Irma Vep | 1996 | Olivier Assayas | 1806 |
| 147 | Le Corbeau | 1943 | Henri-Georges Clouzot | 1815 |
| 148 | A Boy and His Dog | 1975 | L.Q. Jones | 1827 |
| 149 | 42: Forty Two Up | 1999 | Michael Apted | 1830 |
| 150 | Devil in a Blue Dress | 1995 | Carl Franklin | 1832 |
| 151 | City of Hope | 1991 | John Sayles | 1836 |
| 152 | The Great McGinty | 1940 | Preston Sturges | 1841 |
| 153 | Wild Reeds | 1994 | André Téchiné | 1847 |
| 154 | Milk | 2008 | Gus Van Sant | 1856 |
| 155 | Good Night, and Good Luck. | 2005 | George Clooney | 1901 |
| 156 | Bob Roberts | 1992 | Tim Robbins | 1922 |
| 157 | Munich | 2005 | Steven Spielberg | 1923 |
| 158 | The Crucible | 1996 | Nicholas Hytner | 1932 |
| 159 | The Mouse That Roared | 1959 | Jack Arnold | 1980 |
| 160 | Storm over Asia | 1928 | Vsevolod Pudovkin | 1992 |
| 161 | Bloody Sunday | 2002 | Paul Greengrass | 2022 |
| 162 | Enemy of the State | 1998 | Tony Scott | 2038 |
| 163 | Enemy at the Gates | 2001 | Jean-Jacques Annaud | 2077 |
| 164 | Belle Epoque | 1992 | Fernando Trueba | 2079 |
| 165 | State of the Union | 1948 | Frank Capra | 2081 |
| 166 | Legends of the Fall | 1994 | Edward Zwick | 2092 |
| 167 | Queen Margot | 1994 | Patrice Chéreau | 2095 |
| 168 | Random Harvest | 1942 | Mervyn LeRoy | 2097 |
| 169 | The Last Samurai | 2003 | Edward Zwick | 2101 |
| 170 | Good Bye Lenin! | 2003 | Wolfgang Becker | 2106 |
| 171 | Annie | 1982 | John Huston | 2110 |
| 172 | The Damned | 1969 | Luchino Visconti | 2123 |
| 173 | Days of Glory | 2006 | Rachid Bouchareb | 2143 |
| 174 | An Inconvenient Truth | 2006 | Davis Guggenheim | 2188 |
| 175 | Murmur of the Heart | 1971 | Louis Malle | 2215 |
| 176 | Osama | 2003 | Siddiq Barmak | 2218 |
| 177 | Frida | 2002 | Julie Taymor | 2222 |
| 178 | Becket | 1964 | Peter Glenville | 2224 |
| 179 | The Constant Gardner | 2005 | Fernando Meirelles | 2235 |
| 180 | The Devil and Daniel Webster | 1941 | William Dieterle | 2296 |
| 181 | Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters | 1985 | Paul Schrader | 2297 |
| 182 | The Birdcage | 1996 | Mike Nichols | 2308 |
| 183 | Zabriskie Point | 1970 | Michelangelo Antonioni | 2321 |
| 184 | Danton | 1983 | Andrzej Wajda | 2326 |
| 185 | The Hour of the Furnaces | 1970 | Octavio Getino, Fernando E. Solanas, and Santiago Álvarez | 2370 |
