Favorite Political Conspiracy Films/Shows

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1. All the President's Men (1976)

PG | 138 min | Drama, History, Thriller

84 Metascore

"The Washington Post" reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein uncover the details of the Watergate scandal that leads to President Richard Nixon's resignation.

Director: Alan J. Pakula | Stars: Dustin Hoffman, Robert Redford, Jack Warden, Martin Balsam

Votes: 126,112 | Gross: $70.60M

2. Shooter (I) (2007)

R | 124 min | Action, Drama, Thriller

53 Metascore

A marksman living in exile is coaxed back into action after hearing of a plot to kill the President. After being-double crossed for the attempt and on the run, he sets out for the real killer and the truth.

Director: Antoine Fuqua | Stars: Mark Wahlberg, Michael Peña, Rhona Mitra, Danny Glover

Votes: 355,825 | Gross: $47.00M

3. Enemy of the State (1998)

R | 132 min | Action, Thriller

67 Metascore

A lawyer becomes targeted by a corrupt politician and his N.S.A. goons when he accidentally receives key evidence to a politically motivated crime.

Director: Tony Scott | Stars: Will Smith, Gene Hackman, Jon Voight, Lisa Bonet

Votes: 259,019 | Gross: $111.55M

4. State of Play (2009)

PG-13 | 127 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

64 Metascore

When a congressional aide is killed, a Washington, D.C. journalist starts investigating the case involving the Representative, his old college friend.

Director: Kevin Macdonald | Stars: Russell Crowe, Rachel McAdams, Ben Affleck, Helen Mirren

Votes: 160,479 | Gross: $37.02M

5. Murder at 1600 (1997)

R | 107 min | Action, Crime, Drama

48 Metascore

A young woman is murdered in the White House. Homicide detective Regis investigates while Secret Service works against him. He's assigned agent Chance. She eventually cooperates after a man's framed.

Director: Dwight H. Little | Stars: Wesley Snipes, Diane Lane, Daniel Benzali, Dennis Miller

Votes: 32,917 | Gross: $25.83M

6. Air Force One (1997)

R | 124 min | Action, Drama, Thriller

62 Metascore

Communist radicals hijack Air Force One with the U.S. President and his family on board. The Vice President negotiates from Washington D.C., while the President, a veteran, fights to rescue the hostages on board.

Director: Wolfgang Petersen | Stars: Harrison Ford, Gary Oldman, Glenn Close, Wendy Crewson

Votes: 210,210 | Gross: $172.96M

7. London Has Fallen (2016)

R | 99 min | Action, Thriller

28 Metascore

In London for the Prime Minister's funeral, Mike Banning is caught up in a plot to assassinate all the attending world leaders.

Director: Babak Najafi | Stars: Gerard Butler, Aaron Eckhart, Morgan Freeman, Angela Bassett

Votes: 169,707 | Gross: $62.68M

8. A Dark Truth (2012)

R | 106 min | Action, Drama, Thriller

31 Metascore

A former CIA operative turned political talk show host is hired by a disaffected corporate shareholder to expose her company's cover-up of an incident and deaths in an Ecuadorian village.

Director: Damian Lee | Stars: Andy Garcia, Kim Coates, Deborah Kara Unger, Forest Whitaker

Votes: 6,274 | Gross: $0.01M

9. Chain of Command (2000)

R | 96 min | Action, Adventure, Thriller

Secret Service agents must retrieve the briefcase allowing the President control of America's nuclear arsenal before massive destruction ensues.

Director: John Terlesky | Stars: Roy Scheider, Patrick Muldoon, Maria Conchita Alonso, Michael Biehn

Votes: 927

10. 24 (2001–2010)

TV-14 | 44 min | Action, Crime, Drama

Counter Terrorism Agent Jack Bauer races against the clock to subvert terrorist plots and save his nation from ultimate disaster.

Stars: Kiefer Sutherland, Mary Lynn Rajskub, Carlos Bernard, Dennis Haysbert

Votes: 197,100

11. 24: Legacy (2016–2017)

TV-14 | 41 min | Action, Crime, Drama

A military hero who returns to the U.S. with a whole lot of trouble following him back. With nowhere else to turn, the man asks CTU to help him save his life while also stopping one of the largest-scale terror attacks on American soil.

Stars: Corey Hawkins, Miranda Otto, Anna Diop, Teddy Sears

Votes: 11,690

12. 24: Live Another Day (2014)

TV-14 | 46 min | Action, Crime, Drama

Four years after Jack Bauer went on the run, the CIA agents in London manage to capture Bauer; one of their agents called Kate Morgan suspects he is up to something, and President Heller's condition is sparking worries with his staff.

Stars: Kiefer Sutherland, Yvonne Strahovski, Tate Donovan, Mary Lynn Rajskub

Votes: 46,723

13. The Last Ship (2014–2018)

TV-14 | 60 min | Action, Drama, Sci-Fi

The crew of a naval destroyer is forced to confront the reality of a new existence when a pandemic kills off most of the earth's population.

Stars: Eric Dane, Adam Baldwin, Charles Parnell, Travis Van Winkle

Votes: 63,822

14. MI-5 (2002–2011)

TV-14 | 60 min | Action, Crime, Drama

The missions of MI-5, the UK's domestic intelligence organization.

Stars: Peter Firth, Hugh Simon, Nicola Walker, Rupert Penry-Jones

Votes: 18,407

15. MI-5 (2015)

R | 104 min | Action, Drama, Thriller

47 Metascore

When a terrorist escapes custody during a routine handover, Will Holloway must team with disgraced MI5 Intelligence Chief Harry Pearce to track him down before an imminent terrorist attack on London.

Director: Bharat Nalluri | Stars: Kit Harington, Peter Firth, Jennifer Ehle, Michael Wildman

Votes: 23,912

16. Absolute Power (1997)

R | 121 min | Action, Crime, Drama

52 Metascore

Career thief Luther Whitney (Clint Eastwood) witnesses a horrific crime involving U.S. President Alan Richmond (Gene Hackman).

Director: Clint Eastwood | Stars: Clint Eastwood, Gene Hackman, Ed Harris, Laura Linney

Votes: 60,193 | Gross: $50.01M

17. The Art of War (2000)

R | 117 min | Action, Adventure, Crime

30 Metascore

UN's secretary general uses covert operations to help diplomacy along. Shaw's called back 6 months after one such operation. He witnesses the murder of Chinese UN ambassador at UN, NYC, chases the assassin and ends up a suspect.

Director: Christian Duguay | Stars: Wesley Snipes, Donald Sutherland, Maury Chaykin, Anne Archer

Votes: 30,914 | Gross: $30.21M

18. The Manchurian Candidate (1962)

PG-13 | 126 min | Drama, Thriller

94 Metascore

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

Director: John Frankenheimer | Stars: Frank Sinatra, Laurence Harvey, Janet Leigh, Angela Lansbury

Votes: 79,857

19. Suddenly (1954)

Unrated | 77 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

In the city of Suddenly, three gangsters trap the Benson family in their own house, on the top of a hill nearby the railroad station, with the intention of killing the president of the USA.

Director: Lewis Allen | Stars: Frank Sinatra, Sterling Hayden, James Gleason, Nancy Gates

Votes: 7,380 | Gross: $1.40M

20. The Manchurian Candidate (2004)

R | 129 min | Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi

76 Metascore

In the midst of the Gulf War, soldiers are kidnapped and brainwashed for sinister purposes.

Director: Jonathan Demme | Stars: Denzel Washington, Liev Schreiber, Meryl Streep, Kimberly Elise

Votes: 116,660 | Gross: $65.96M

21. The Bourne Legacy (2012)

PG-13 | 135 min | Action, Adventure, Thriller

61 Metascore

An expansion of the universe from Robert Ludlum's novels, centered on a new hero whose stakes have been triggered by the events of the previous three films.

Director: Tony Gilroy | Stars: Jeremy Renner, Rachel Weisz, Edward Norton, Scott Glenn

Votes: 315,665 | Gross: $113.20M

22. The Bourne Ultimatum (2007)

PG-13 | 115 min | Action, Mystery, Thriller

85 Metascore

Jason Bourne dodges a ruthless C.I.A. official and his Agents from a new assassination program while searching for the origins of his life as a trained killer.

Director: Paul Greengrass | Stars: Matt Damon, Edgar Ramírez, Joan Allen, Julia Stiles

Votes: 658,419 | Gross: $227.47M

23. Vantage Point (2008)

PG-13 | 90 min | Action, Crime, Drama

40 Metascore

The attempted assassination of the American President is told and re-told from several different perspectives.

Director: Pete Travis | Stars: Dennis Quaid, Forest Whitaker, Matthew Fox, Bruce McGill

Votes: 154,085 | Gross: $72.27M

24. The Sentinel (2006)

PG-13 | 108 min | Action, Crime, Thriller

49 Metascore

A Secret Service agent is framed as the mole in an assassination attempt on the President. He must clear his name and foil another assassination attempt while on the run from a Secret Service Protective Intelligence Division agent.

Director: Clark Johnson | Stars: Michael Douglas, Kiefer Sutherland, Kim Basinger, Eva Longoria

Votes: 52,369 | Gross: $36.28M

25. Madam Secretary (2014–2019)

TV-PG | 45 min | Drama, Thriller

A political drama which looks into the life of the Secretary of State as she tries to balance work with family.

Stars: Téa Leoni, Tim Daly, Erich Bergen, Zeljko Ivanek

Votes: 26,559

26. The West Wing (1999–2006)

TV-14 | 42 min | Drama

Inside the lives of staffers in the West Wing of the White House.

Stars: Martin Sheen, Rob Lowe, Allison Janney, John Spencer

Votes: 85,629

27. Designated Survivor (2016–2019)

TV-14 | 60 min | Action, Drama, Mystery

A low-level Cabinet member becomes President of the United States after a catastrophic attack kills everyone above him in the line of succession.

Stars: Kiefer Sutherland, Adan Canto, Italia Ricci, Kal Penn

Votes: 104,531

28. The Last Witness (1999 TV Movie)

R | 95 min | Action, Drama, Thriller

A woman becomes entangled in the conspiracy of two world governments to assassinate an international leader in New York.

Director: Graeme Clifford | Stars: Natasha Henstridge, Johnathon Schaech, Michael Filipowich, David McIlwraith

Votes: 696

29. Age of Kill (2015)

Not Rated | 86 min | Action

A black ops sniper is blackmailed by a psychotic international terrorist into killing 6 unrelated people in 6 hours... but there is more to the victims than meets the eye.

Director: Neil Jones | Stars: Martin Kemp, Dani Dyer, Donna Air, Phil Davis

Votes: 885

30. Executive Power (1997 Video)

R | 115 min | Thriller

While protecting the U.S. President, Secret Service agent Nick Sager helps him to dispose of the body of a young girl, who accidentally died during an adulterous encounter. Some time later,... See full summary »

Director: David L. Corley | Stars: Craig Sheffer, John Heard, Joanna Cassidy, William Atherton

Votes: 401

31. Last Resort (I) (2012–2013)

TV-14 | 60 min | Action, Drama, Mystery

A U.S. sub picks up Navy SEALs and receives an order for a nuke launch. Due to the circumstances of the order, the Captain refuses to fire. After escaping an attack from another U.S. sub, the crew and SEALs take refuge on a small island.

Stars: Andre Braugher, Scott Speedman, Daisy Betts, Camille De Pazzis

Votes: 22,179

32. The Last Enemy (2008)

60 min | Adventure, Drama, Mystery

Britain has been transformed into a security state. A mathematical genius's search for the truth about his brother's death catapults him into a conspiracy and a love affair.

Stars: Benedict Cumberbatch, Anamaria Marinca, Max Beesley, Robert Carlyle

Votes: 2,701

33. The State Within (2006)

TV-14 | 50 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

After a plane explodes over Washington D.C. panic begins to envelop the British embassy, and its ambassador to the U.S. Mark Brydon finds himself caught up in a potentially damaging diplomatic incident.

Stars: Jason Isaacs, Ben Daniels, Eva Birthistle, Neil Pearson

Votes: 2,445

34. Broken City (2013)

R | 109 min | Action, Crime, Drama

49 Metascore

In a city rife with injustice, ex-cop Billy Taggart seeks redemption and revenge after being double-crossed by its most powerful figure: Mayor Nicholas Hostetler.

Director: Allen Hughes | Stars: Mark Wahlberg, Russell Crowe, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Jeffrey Wright

Votes: 83,399 | Gross: $19.70M

35. Prison Break: The Final Break (2009 Video)

Not Rated | 89 min | Action, Drama, Thriller

Michael and Sara wed, but the happiness is short-lived when the Feds apprehend her for the murder of Michael's mother, Christina. Once a hit is ordered on Sara, the team reunite to break out the increasingly vulnerable target.

Directors: Kevin Hooks, Brad Turner | Stars: Wentworth Miller, Dominic Purcell, William Fichtner, Amaury Nolasco

Votes: 27,129

36. Prison Break (2005–2017)

TV-14 | 44 min | Action, Crime, Drama

A structural engineer installs himself in a prison he helped design, in order to save his falsely accused brother from a death sentence by breaking themselves out from the inside.

Stars: Dominic Purcell, Wentworth Miller, Amaury Nolasco, Robert Knepper

Votes: 579,755

37. Topaz (1969)

M/PG | 143 min | Drama, Thriller

A French Intelligence Agent becomes embroiled in the Cold War politics first with uncovering the events leading up to the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis, and then back to France to break up an international Russian spy ring.

Director: Alfred Hitchcock | Stars: Frederick Stafford, Dany Robin, John Vernon, Karin Dor

Votes: 19,562 | Gross: $8.37M

38. The Peacekeeper (1997)

R | 98 min | Action

When a terrorist group steals the US President's personal communications computer for launching the US arsenal in case of war, only a heroic Major has the key to prevent a Presidential assassination or a nuclear holocaust.

Director: Frédéric Forestier | Stars: Dolph Lundgren, Michael Sarrazin, Montel Williams, Roy Scheider

Votes: 2,894

39. Syriana (2005)

R | 128 min | Drama, Thriller

76 Metascore

A politically charged epic about the state of the oil industry in the hands of those personally involved in and affected by it.

Director: Stephen Gaghan | Stars: George Clooney, Matt Damon, Amanda Peet, Kayvan Novak

Votes: 134,292 | Gross: $50.82M

40. The Sum of All Fears (2002)

PG-13 | 124 min | Action, Drama, Thriller

45 Metascore

CIA analyst Jack Ryan must stop the plans of a Neo-Nazi faction that threatens to induce a catastrophic conflict between the United States and Russia's President by detonating a nuclear weapon at a football game in Baltimore, Maryland.

Director: Phil Alden Robinson | Stars: Ben Affleck, Morgan Freeman, Ian Mongrain, Russell Bobbitt

Votes: 124,450 | Gross: $118.91M

41. Olympus Has Fallen (2013)

R | 119 min | Action, Thriller

41 Metascore

Secret Service agent Mike Banning finds himself trapped inside the White House in the wake of a terrorist attack and works with national security to rescue the President from his kidnappers.

Director: Antoine Fuqua | Stars: Gerard Butler, Aaron Eckhart, Morgan Freeman, Angela Bassett

Votes: 292,472 | Gross: $98.93M

42. Angel Has Fallen (2019)

R | 121 min | Action, Thriller

45 Metascore

Mike Banning is framed for the attempted assassination of the President and must evade his own agency and the FBI as he tries to uncover the real threat.

Director: Ric Roman Waugh | Stars: Gerard Butler, Frederick Schmidt, Danny Huston, Rocci Boy Williams

Votes: 110,720 | Gross: $69.03M

43. The State Within (2006)

TV-14 | 50 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

After a plane explodes over Washington D.C. panic begins to envelop the British embassy, and its ambassador to the U.S. Mark Brydon finds himself caught up in a potentially damaging diplomatic incident.

Stars: Jason Isaacs, Ben Daniels, Eva Birthistle, Neil Pearson

Votes: 2,445

44. Homeland (2011–2020)

TV-MA | 60 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

A bipolar CIA operative becomes convinced a prisoner of war has been turned by al-Qaeda and is planning to carry out a terrorist attack on American soil.

Stars: Claire Danes, Mandy Patinkin, Damian Lewis, Rupert Friend

Votes: 361,052

45. Tyrant (2014–2016)

TV-14 | 60 min | Action, Drama, Thriller

An unassuming American family is drawn into the workings of a turbulent Middle Eastern nation.

Stars: Adam Rayner, Jennifer Finnigan, Ashraf Barhom, Moran Atias

Votes: 23,567

46. The Pelican Brief (1993)

PG-13 | 141 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

51 Metascore

A law student uncovers a conspiracy, putting herself and others in danger.

Director: Alan J. Pakula | Stars: Julia Roberts, Denzel Washington, Sam Shepard, John Heard

Votes: 96,030 | Gross: $100.77M

47. Bodyguard (2018)

TV-MA | 60 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

Troubled war veteran turned Police Officer David Budd is assigned to the Metropolitan Police's Specialist Protection Branch.

Stars: Richard Madden, Sophie Rundle, Vincent Franklin, Ash Tandon

Votes: 148,023

48. Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (1991)

PG | 110 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

65 Metascore

On the eve of retirement, Kirk and McCoy are charged with assassinating the Klingon High Chancellor and imprisoned. The Enterprise crew must help them escape to thwart a conspiracy aimed at sabotaging the last best hope for peace.

Director: Nicholas Meyer | Stars: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, James Doohan

Votes: 80,917 | Gross: $74.89M

49. Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987–1994)

TV-PG | 45 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

Set almost 100 years after Captain Kirk's 5-year mission, a new generation of Starfleet officers sets off in the U.S.S. Enterprise-D on its own mission to go where no one has gone before.

Stars: Patrick Stewart, Brent Spiner, Jonathan Frakes, LeVar Burton

Votes: 136,185

50. Star Trek: Enterprise (2001–2005)

TV-PG | 60 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

A century before Captain Kirk's five-year mission, Jonathan Archer captains the United Earth ship Enterprise during the early years of Starfleet, leading up to the Earth-Romulan War and the formation of the Federation.

Stars: Scott Bakula, John Billingsley, Jolene Blalock, Dominic Keating

Votes: 59,142

51. NCIS: New Orleans (2014–2021)

TV-14 | 42 min | Action, Crime, Drama

Follows an NCIS team that investigates criminal cases involving military personnel in The Big Easy, a city known for its music, entertainment, and decadence.

Stars: Scott Bakula, Rob Kerkovich, CCH Pounder, Daryl Mitchell

Votes: 20,515

52. Executive Target (1997)

R | 100 min | Action, Adventure, Crime

A stunt driver heading for prison on a minor charge is freed against his will by a terrorist gang. Then by kidnapping his wife, he is forced to drive a getaway car in a plot to kidnap the President from a motorcade.

Director: Joseph Merhi | Stars: Michael Madsen, Roy Scheider, Keith David, Angie Everhart

Votes: 1,171

53. The International (I) (2009)

R | 118 min | Action, Crime, Drama

52 Metascore

An Interpol agent attempts to expose a high-profile financial institution's role in an international arms dealing ring.

Director: Tom Tykwer | Stars: Clive Owen, Naomi Watts, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Ulrich Thomsen

Votes: 100,050 | Gross: $25.45M

54. Shiri (1999)

R | 125 min | Action, Thriller

50 Metascore

South Korean agents Ryu and Lee are tracking a female assassin from North Korea who has mysteriously disappeared. With new killings and the theft of a deadly bomb, time is running out to catch her.

Director: Kang Je-kyu | Stars: Han Suk-kyu, Choi Min-sik, Yunjin Kim, Song Kang-ho

Votes: 8,579 | Gross: $0.10M

55. Edison (2005)

R | 99 min | Action, Crime, Drama

Upon discovering a den of corrupt policemen, a fresh-faced journalist makes shaky allies in a jaded reporter and investigator for a powerful district attorney.

Director: David J. Burke | Stars: Morgan Freeman, Kevin Spacey, Justin Timberlake, LL Cool J

Votes: 16,270

56. The Company You Keep (2012)

R | 125 min | Drama, Thriller

57 Metascore

After a journalist discovers his identity, a former Weather Underground activist goes on the run.

Director: Robert Redford | Stars: Robert Redford, Brit Marling, Stanley Tucci, Nick Nolte

Votes: 34,987 | Gross: $5.13M

57. JFK (1991)

R | 189 min | Drama, History, Thriller

72 Metascore

New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison discovers there's more to the Kennedy assassination than the official story.

Director: Oliver Stone | Stars: Kevin Costner, Gary Oldman, Jack Lemmon, Walter Matthau

Votes: 169,988 | Gross: $70.41M

58. Big Game (2014)

PG-13 | 110 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy

53 Metascore

A young teenager camping in the woods helps rescue the President of the United States when Air Force One is shot down near his campsite.

Director: Jalmari Helander | Stars: Samuel L. Jackson, Onni Tommila, Ray Stevenson, Victor Garber

Votes: 35,519 | Gross: $0.02M

59. Safe House (1998)

TV-14 | 112 min | Drama, Thriller

A retired US black ops agent gets Alzheimer's, while other ex agents are being killed. He has incriminating data on a presidential candidate.

Director: Eric Steven Stahl | Stars: Patrick Stewart, Kimberly Williams-Paisley, Hector Elizondo, Joy Kilpatrick

Votes: 2,660

60. Armed (I) (2018)

R | 118 min | Action, Thriller

Chief, a former US Marshall, has fallen on hard times after he led his team on a raid that went horribly wrong. As he struggles to pick up the pieces, he soon learns that there may be a larger conspiracy at hand.

Director: Mario Van Peebles | Stars: Ryan Guzman, Folake Olowofoyeku, William Fichtner, Eugene Cordero

Votes: 498

61. Kill Ratio (2016)

86 min | Action

An attack on the new President of a fledgling Eastern European democracy pits an American covert operative against the country's ruthless military leader determined to seize control of the government.

Director: Paul Tanter | Stars: Amy Huberman, Tom Hopper, Nick Dunning, Luke Hanlon

Votes: 983

62. An Acceptable Loss (2018)

R | 102 min | Drama, Thriller

40 Metascore

Libby teaches at a university but 4 years ago she was top aide to VP Rachel and was part of a total victory action. Rachel is now US president and worried about Libby keeping quiet. Libby also has a student spying on her.

Director: Joe Chappelle | Stars: Tika Sumpter, Jamie Lee Curtis, Ben Tavassoli, Deanna Dunagan

Votes: 1,605 | Gross: $0.03M

63. Geostorm (2017)

PG-13 | 109 min | Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller

21 Metascore

When the network of satellites designed to control the global climate starts to attack Earth, it's a race against the clock for its creator to uncover the real threat before a worldwide Geostorm wipes out everything and everyone.

Director: Dean Devlin | Stars: Gerard Butler, Jim Sturgess, Abbie Cornish, Alexandra Maria Lara

Votes: 118,550 | Gross: $33.70M

64. The Purge: Election Year (2016)

R | 108 min | Action, Horror, Sci-Fi

55 Metascore

Former Police Sergeant Barnes becomes head of security for Senator Charlie Roan, a Presidential candidate targeted for death on Purge night due to her vow to eliminate the Purge.

Director: James DeMonaco | Stars: Frank Grillo, Elizabeth Mitchell, Mykelti Williamson, J.J. Soria

Votes: 110,114 | Gross: $79.21M

65. Take Point (2018)

Not Rated | 119 min | Action, Thriller

A captain and his team of 12 soldiers infiltrate a secret underground bunker to take out a target in the Korean demilitarized zone.

Director: Byung-woo Kim | Stars: Ha Jung-woo, Lee Sun-kyun, Jennifer Ehle, Kevin Durand

Votes: 1,508 | Gross: $0.11M

66. 1983 (2018)

TV-MA | 448 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

Decades after a 1983 terrorist attack, a law student and a cop uncover a conspiracy that's kept Poland as a police state and the Iron Curtain standing.

Stars: Robert Wieckiewicz, Maciej Musial, Michalina Olszanska, Andrzej Chyra

Votes: 4,204

67. Fauda (2015–2022)

TV-MA | 60 min | Action, Drama, Thriller

The human stories on both sides of the Israel-Palestine conflict.

Stars: Lior Raz, Itzik Cohen, Neta Garty, Rona-Lee Shimon

Votes: 37,970

68. Prisoners of War (2009–2012)

50 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller

After 17 years in captivity, Israeli soldiers Nimrode Klein, Uri Zach and Amiel Ben Horin return to the country that made them national icons. They work to overcome the trauma of torture and captivity.

Stars: Ishai Golan, Yoram Toledano, Yaël Abecassis, Mili Avital

Votes: 2,686

69. Mancuso, FBI (1989–1990)

60 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Nick Mancuso, the FBI agent from the mini-series, Favorite Son is back. This time in a series wherein he fights for justice, while having to deal with elements in his own government who sometimes oppose him.

Stars: Robert Loggia, Fredric Lehne, Lindsay Frost, Randi Brooks

Votes: 170

70. Favorite Son (1988)

R | 255 min | Action, Thriller

A Vice-Presidential candidate's been shot. Now an investigation ensues, and the investigator discovers that there's a conspiracy going on. And not only that, people in the President's staff... See full summary »

Stars: Harry Hamlin, Tony Goldwyn, Lynnette Mettey, Philip McKeon

Votes: 225

71. American Odyssey (2015)

TV-14 | 60 min | Action, Drama, Thriller

Three families are torn apart when a stranded female soldier, a disillusioned corporate attorney and a disrespected political activist are pulled into the same shocking international military conspiracy.

Stars: Anna Friel, Peter Facinelli, Jake Robinson, Omar Ghazaoui

Votes: 6,299

72. Secret City (2016–2019)

TV-MA | 49 min | Mystery, Thriller

Beneath the placid facade of Canberra, amidst rising tension between China and America, senior political journalist Harriet Dunkley uncovers a secret city of interlocked conspiracies, putting innocent lives in danger including her own.

Stars: Anna Torv, Marcus Graham, Justin Smith, Aleks Mikic

Votes: 9,702

73. Allegiance (2015)

TV-14 | 42 min | Drama, Thriller

A rookie CIA analyst doesn't know that members of his family are part of a Russian sleeper cell.

Stars: Hope Davis, Scott Cohen, Margarita Levieva, Morgan Spector

Votes: 4,317

74. Deutschland 83 (2015)

TV-MA | 42 min | Drama, Romance, Thriller

Martin Rauch is recruited by the HVA to infiltrate the West Germany army. As a rookie spy, his decisions constantly put his cover at risk and force his agency to take extreme measures.

Stars: Jonas Nay, Maria Schrader, Ulrich Noethen, Sylvester Groth

Votes: 15,032

75. Blood and Oil (2010 TV Movie)

160 min | Drama

Alice, a British-Nigerian PR exec, travels to the Niger Delta to represent an oil firm during a hostage crisis.

Director: David Attwood | Stars: Jodhi May, Paterson Joseph, Naomie Harris, David Oyelowo

Votes: 341

76. Fair Game (I) (2010)

PG-13 | 108 min | Biography, Drama, Thriller

69 Metascore

CIA operative Valerie Plame discovers her identity is allegedly leaked by the government as payback for an op-ed article her husband wrote criticizing the Bush administration.

Director: Doug Liman | Stars: Naomi Watts, Sean Penn, Sonya Davison, Vanessa Chong

Votes: 51,065 | Gross: $9.53M

77. The Salamander (1981)

Not Rated | 103 min | Thriller

An Italian policeman investigates a series of murders involving people in prominent positions. Left behind at each murder scene is a drawing of a salamander. The policeman begins to suspect... See full summary »

Director: Peter Zinner | Stars: Franco Nero, Anthony Quinn, Martin Balsam, Sybil Danning

Votes: 1,092

78. Silence (I) (2002)

PG-13 | 90 min | Mystery, Thriller

A little girl is quickly surrounded by a group of law-enforcement professionals and a psychologist after she witnesses a murder.

Director: Tom Whitus | Stars: Kristy Swanson, Vincent Spano, Vladimir Kulich, Bruce Boxleitner

Votes: 286

79. Pine Gap (2018)

TV-MA | 56 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller

Set in the intensely secretive world of intelligence and the enigmatic US/Australia joint defence facility in central Australia, the spy-thriller Pine Gap delves into the famously strong alliance between the two countries.

Stars: Parker Sawyers, Jacqueline McKenzie, Steve Toussaint, Tess Haubrich

Votes: 6,886

80. The Shadow Line (2011)

60 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Christopher Eccleston and Chiwetel Ejiofor star in this intricate conspiracy thriller set in a world of blurred morality, inhabited by conflicted characters on both sides of the law.

Stars: Chiwetel Ejiofor, Christopher Eccleston, Kierston Wareing, Richard Lintern

Votes: 5,007

81. The Enemy Within (2019)

TV-14 | 43 min | Drama

FBI agent Will Keaton enlists the most notorious traitor in American history to help catch a spy.

Stars: Jennifer Carpenter, Morris Chestnut, Raza Jaffrey, Kelli Garner

Votes: 7,042

82. Land of the Free (1998)

R | 100 min | Action, Thriller

A political candidate uses his office to shield his criminal activities while his campaign manager fights for the truth.

Director: Jerry Jameson | Stars: Jeff Speakman, William Shatner, Lisa Darr, Larry Cedar

Votes: 441

83. Traitor's Heart (1999)

R | 91 min | Action

Nick Brody, helicopter engineer, husband and father, is about to find out that some things are better left forgotten in this explosive action-thriller. An amnesia victim for the past five ... See full summary »

Director: Danny Lerner | Stars: Bryan Genesse, Kimberley Kates, Ron Smerczak, Gordon Mulholland

Votes: 284

84. Scenes of the Crime (2001)

R | 91 min | Action, Drama, Thriller

A young man about to get married earns extra cash by driving a local mobster, but things go awry when the mobster is killed by a rival crime boss.

Director: Dominique Forma | Stars: Jeff Bridges, Jon Abrahams, R. Lee Ermey, Mädchen Amick

Votes: 2,050

85. The Code (2014–2016)

TV-MA | 54 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

Two Canberra based brothers become entangled in a cover up that involves a remote outback community and key members of the Australian Government.

Stars: Dan Spielman, Ashley Zukerman, Adele Perovic, Michael Denkha

Votes: 4,526

86. Secret State (2012)

42 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller

Secret State explores the relationship between a democratically elected government, big business and the banks.

Stars: Gabriel Byrne, Ralph Ineson, Charles Dance, Jamie Sives

Votes: 2,989

87. No Easy Days (2018)

45 min | Action, Drama, Thriller

The President's daughter is kidnapped and held ransom by a British mercenary, and a rebellious Navy SEAL is the only hope of saving her.

Stars: Sean Brosnan, Simon Phillips, Michael Hogan, Peter Outerbridge

Votes: 481

88. The Numbers Station (2013)

R | 89 min | Action, Thriller

39 Metascore

A disgraced black ops agent is dispatched to a remote CIA broadcast station to protect a code operator. Soon, they find themselves in a life-or-death struggle to stop a deadly plot before it's too late.

Director: Kasper Barfoed | Stars: John Cusack, Malin Akerman, Liam Cunningham, Richard Brake

Votes: 20,858

89. The Contract (2006)

R | 96 min | Action, Crime, Drama

A father and his son attempt to bring in an assassin to the authorities, but his dangerous associates have other plans.

Director: Bruce Beresford | Stars: John Cusack, Morgan Freeman, Jamie Anderson, Alice Krige

Votes: 26,049

90. The Contractor (2007 Video)

R | 99 min | Action, Drama, Thriller

Ex-C.I.A. Agent James Dial (Wesley Snipes) is asked to take out terrorist Ali Mahmud Jahar (Nikolai Sotirov), only to realize he's been set up by his former employer, Jeremy Collins (Ralph Brown).

Director: Josef Rusnak | Stars: Wesley Snipes, Eliza Bennett, Lena Headey, Ralph Brown

Votes: 9,988

91. Line of Duty (2012–2021)

TV-14 | 60 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Drama series following the investigations of AC-12, a controversial police anti-corruption unit.

Stars: Martin Compston, Vicky McClure, Adrian Dunbar, Craig Parkinson

Votes: 70,267

92. Eye in the Sky (2015)

R | 102 min | Action, Drama, Thriller

73 Metascore

Col. Katherine Powell, a military officer in command of an operation to capture terrorists in Kenya, sees her mission escalate when a girl enters the kill zone triggering an international dispute over the implications of modern warfare.

Director: Gavin Hood | Stars: Helen Mirren, Aaron Paul, Alan Rickman, Barkhad Abdi

Votes: 91,519 | Gross: $18.70M

93. Sons of Liberty (2013)

TV-14 | 94 min | Action, Sci-Fi

A special operations unit races to find and prevent the construction of a devastating micro nuclear device created by a group of radical mercenaries whose political beliefs blur the line between terrorist and revolutionary.

Director: Drew Hall | Stars: Tamer Hassan, Keith David, Elyse Levesque, Mark Sheppard

Votes: 338

94. 31 North 62 East (2009)

R | 105 min | Thriller

A psychological thriller about how an elite S.A.S. unit's position is revealed by the British Prime Minister to ensure an arms deal goes ahead, and to secure his re-election.

Director: Tristan Loraine | Stars: Heather Peace, Lee Godfrey, Aurélie Bargème, John Rhys-Davies

Votes: 381

95. Advise & Consent (1962)

Not Rated | 139 min | Drama, Thriller

The polarizing search for a new Secretary of State has far-reaching consequences.

Director: Otto Preminger | Stars: Franchot Tone, Lew Ayres, Henry Fonda, Walter Pidgeon

Votes: 7,512

96. The Veteran (2011)

R | 98 min | Action, Crime, Thriller

A soldier returning from the war in Afghanistan uncovers a conspiracy involving the intelligence services and a gang of drug dealers.

Director: Matthew Hope | Stars: Toby Kebbell, Adi Bielski, Tony Curran, Ashley Thomas

Votes: 7,401

97. Y2K (1999)

R | 106 min | Action, Thriller

On the eve of the new millenium, the American military are alerted of a long missing nuclear missile hidden deep in the jungle which is set to go off in January 2000, due to the millenium bug. They must race against time to stop it.

Director: Richard Pepin | Stars: Louis Gossett Jr., Jaimz Woolvett, Ed O'Ross, Sarah Chalke

Votes: 611

98. Purple Storm (1999)

112 min | Action, Crime, Thriller

Khmer Rouge terrorist Kieron Chow and his unit arrive in Hong Kong for their latest mission. Todd, Chow's son and fiercely loyal right-hand man, sustains a serious head wound. Now a total ... See full summary »

Director: Teddy Chan | Stars: Daniel Wu, Kwok-Leung Kam, Emil Chau, Josie Ho

Votes: 711

99. Flying Virus (2001)

R | 100 min | Action, Horror, Sci-Fi

A journalist uncovers a government conspiracy to unleash virus-carrying killer bees that could wipe out humanity.

Director: Jeff Hare | Stars: Gabrielle Anwar, Craig Sheffer, Rutger Hauer, Duncan Regehr

Votes: 1,022

100. The Interpreter (2005)

PG-13 | 128 min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller

62 Metascore

Political intrigue and deception unfold inside the United Nations, where a U.S. Secret Service agent is assigned to investigate an interpreter who overhears an assassination plot.

Director: Sydney Pollack | Stars: Nicole Kidman, Sean Penn, Catherine Keener, Jesper Christensen

Votes: 110,955 | Gross: $72.71M



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