Journeys with George (2002)

No (2012)

Summary: An advertising executive comes up with a campaign to defeat Augusto Pinochet in Chile's 1988 referendum.

Release Date: August 09, 2012

Genre: Drama

Director: Pablo Larraín

Writers: Pedro Peirano

, Antonio Skármeta

Runtime: 1 h 58 min

MPAA: R

Production: Participant, Funny Balloons, Fabula, Consejo Nacional de la Cultura y las Artes, Corfo

Distributor: Sony Pictures Classics, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment

Countries: Chile, France, Mexico, United States

Language: Spanish

Domestic: $ 2,343,664

International: $ 5,355,431

Black Sheep (1996)

Summary: A gubernatorial candidate hires a wormy special assistant whose only job is to make sure the candidate's well-meaning but incompetent brother doesn't ruin the election.

Release Date: February 02, 1996

Genre: Comedy

Director: Penelope Spheeris

Writer: Fred Wolf

Runtime: 1 h 27 min

MPAA: PG-13

Production: Broadway Pictures, Paramount Pictures

Distributor: Paramount Pictures, American Broadcasting Company (ABC), Paramount Home Entertainment, Trifecta Entertainment and Media

Country: United States

Language: English

Domestic: $ 32,417,995

Striptease (1996)

Summary: A stripper and single mother gets dragged into a dangerous situation after a congressman takes a fancy to her.

Release Date: June 28, 1996

Genres: Comedy, Drama, Crime

Director: Andrew Bergman

Writers: Carl Hiaasen

, Andrew Bergman

Runtime: 1 h 55 min

MPAA: R

Production: Castle Rock Entertainment, Lobell/Bergman Productions

Distributor: Columbia Pictures, United Paramount Network (UPN), Warner Home Video, The Movie Channel (TMC), Turner Classic Movies (TCM)

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 40,000,000

Domestic: $ 33,109,743

International: $ 80,200,000

Dear Jesse (1997)

Summary: Can you go home again? What if you're a gay man and home is a state where voters keep electing a homophobe to the US Senate? In 1996, native son Tim Kirkman returns to North Carolina to explore the parallels and differences betwee...

Release Date: September 09, 1997

Genre: Documentary

Director: Tim Kirkman

Writer: Tim Kirkman

Runtime: 1 h 22 min

Production: North Carolina Film Foundation

Country: United States

Language: English

Domestic: $ 17,744

What a Girl Wants (2003)

Summary: An American teenager learns that her father is a wealthy British politician running for office. Although she is eager to find him, she realizes it could cause a scandal and cost him the election.

Release Date: April 04, 2003

Genres: Comedy, Drama, Family

Director: Dennie Gordon

Writers: William Douglas-Home

, Jenny Bicks

, Elizabeth Chandler

Runtime: 1 h 45 min

MPAA: G

Production: Warner Bros., Gaylord Films, DiNovi Pictures, Gerber Pictures, HSI Tomorrow Film, Sloane Square Films

Distributor: Warner Bros., American Broadcasting Company (ABC), HBO Max, Nickelodeon Network

Countries: United States, United Kingdom

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 25,000,000

Domestic: $ 36,105,433

International: $ 14,626,706

Weiner (2016)

Summary: An examination of disgraced New York Congressman Anthony Weiner's mayoral campaign and today's political landscape.

Release Date: May 26, 2016

Genre: Documentary

Directors: Josh Kriegman

, Elyse Steinberg

Writers: Josh Kriegman

, Elyse Steinberg

, Eli B. Despres

Runtime: 1 h 36 min

MPAA: R

Production: Edgeline Films, Motto Pictures

Distributor: Sundance Selects, Showtime Networks

Country: United States

Language: English

Domestic: $ 1,676,108

International: $ 39,847

The Manchurian Candidate (1962)

Summary: An American POW in the Korean War is brainwashed as an unwitting assassin for an international Communist conspiracy.

Release Date: October 24, 1962

Genres: Drama, Thriller

Director: John Frankenheimer

Writers: Richard Condon

, George Axelrod

, John Frankenheimer

Runtime: 2 h 06 min

MPAA: PG-13

Production: M.C. Productions

Distributor: United Artists, CBS, NBC, Warner Home Video, MGM Home Entertainment, The Criterion Collection, The Criterion Channel

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 2,200,000

Domestic: $ 2,757,256

Irresistible (2020)

Summary: A Democratic strategist helps a retired veteran run for mayor in a small, conservative Midwest town.

Release Date: June 26, 2020

Genres: Comedy, Drama

Director: Jon Stewart

Writer: Jon Stewart

Runtime: 1 h 41 min

MPAA: R

Production: Busboy Productions, Plan B Entertainment

Distributor: Focus Features

Country: United States

Language: English

The Ides of March (2011)

Summary: An idealistic staffer for a new presidential candidate gets a crash course on dirty politics during his stint on the campaign trail.

Release Date: October 07, 2011

Genres: Drama, Thriller

Director: George Clooney

Writers: George Clooney

, Grant Heslov

, Beau Willimon

Runtime: 1 h 41 min

MPAA: R

Production: Columbia Pictures, Cross Creek Pictures, Exclusive Media Group, Crystal City Entertainment, Smokehouse Pictures, Appian Way

Distributor: Columbia Pictures, Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE), Sony Pictures Releasing, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 12,500,000

Domestic: $ 40,962,534

International: $ 35,375,577

This is Our Land (2017)

Summary: An engaged but apolitical nurse gets involved in a far-right political party. Based on numerous recent events in France, it becomes about how Front National operates and how it is perceived by the French.

Release Date: April 18, 2018

Genre: Drama

Director: Lucas Belvaux

Writers: Lucas Belvaux

, Jérôme Leroy

Runtime: 1 h 57 min

MPAA: PG

Countries: France, Belgium

Language: French

Domestic: $ 11,567

International: $ 4,615

Election (1999)

Summary: A high school teacher meets his match in an over-achieving student politician.

Release Date: May 07, 1999

Genres: Comedy, Drama, Romance

Director: Alexander Payne

Writers: Tom Perrotta

, Alexander Payne

, Jim Taylor

Runtime: 1 h 43 min

MPAA: R

Production: Bona Fide Productions, MTV Films, Paramount Pictures

Distributor: Paramount Pictures, Paramount Home Entertainment, Fox Network, HBO Max, The Criterion Channel, The Criterion Collection, Warner Home Video

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 25,000,000

Domestic: $ 14,902,041

Primary Colors (1998)

Summary: A man joins the political campaign of a smooth-operator candidate for President of the U.S.

Release Date: March 20, 1998

Genres: Comedy, Drama

Director: Mike Nichols

Writers: Joe Klein

, Elaine May

Runtime: 2 h 23 min

MPAA: R

Production: Award Entertainment, British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), H2L Media Group, Marubeni, Mutual Film Company, Tele München Fernseh Produktionsgesellschaft (TMG), Toho-Towa, UGC PH, Universal Pictures

Distributor: Image Entertainment

Countries: United Kingdom, United States, France, Germany, Japan

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 65,000,000

Domestic: $ 39,001,187

International: $ 13,089,000

Head of State (2003)

Summary: When a presidential candidate dies unexpectedly in the middle of the campaign, Washington, D.C. alderman Mays Gilliam is unexpectedly picked as his replacement.

Release Date: March 28, 2003

Genre: Comedy

Director: Chris Rock

Writers: Chris Rock

, Ali LeRoi

Runtime: 1 h 35 min

MPAA: PG-13

Production: Dreamworks Pictures, 3 Arts Entertainment

Distributor: American Broadcasting Company (ABC), DreamWorks Home Entertainment, YouTube Movies

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 35,200,000

Domestic: $ 38,125,247

International: $ 495,237

Sydney White (2007)

Summary: A modern retelling of Snow White set against students in their freshman year of college in the greek system.

Release Date: September 21, 2007

Genres: Comedy, Drama, Romance

Director: Joe Nussbaum

Writer: Chad Gomez Creasey

Runtime: 1 h 48 min

MPAA: PG-13

Production: Morgan Creek Entertainment, SW7D Productions, Clifford Werber Productions

Distributor: Morgan Creek International, Universal Pictures

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 16,500,000

Domestic: $ 11,892,415

International: $ 1,727,660

And God Created Woman (1988)

Summary: Aspiring and incarcerated rock singer, Robin Shea (Rebecca De Mornay) seduces prison guard Billy Moran (Vincent Spano). Robin marries Billy to get out of jail, but Robin's concerns are on politician James Tiernan (Frank Langella).

Release Date: March 04, 1988

Genres: Comedy, Drama, Romance

Director: Roger Vadim

Writer: R.J. Stewart

Runtime: 1 h 38 min

MPAA: R

Production: Vestron Pictures, Crow Productions

Distributor: Allied Artists Entertainment, Avid Home Entertainment, Geneon Entertainment, Lionsgate Home Entertainment, Lionsgate, Live Entertainment, Pioneer Entertainment, Tubi TV, Vestron Television, Vestron Video

Country: United States

Language: English

Domestic: $ 717,376

Vice (2018)

Summary: The story of Dick Cheney, an unassuming bureaucratic Washington insider, who quietly wielded immense power as Vice President to George W. Bush, reshaping the country and the globe in ways that are still felt today.

Release Date: December 25, 2018

Genres: Comedy, Drama, Biography

Director: Adam McKay

Writer: Adam McKay

Runtime: 2 h 12 min

MPAA: R

Production: Annapurna Pictures, Gary Sanchez Productions, Plan B Entertainment, The Third Floor

Distributor: Annapurna Distribution, 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 60,000,000

Domestic: $ 47,836,282

International: $ 28,237,206