Netflix Movies and Categories Finder: Political Thrillers
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The Lives of Others
As a secret police agent eavesdrops on a successful writer in East Germany in 1984, he becomes increasingly fascinated by the man's life and politics.
Released: 2015-04-14
Runtime: 02:17:35
Netflix ID: 70056425
Argo
In 1979, six Americans take shelter from Iranian militants in the Canadian embassy, prompting the CIA to concoct an elaborate plot to rescue them.
Released: 2015-04-14
Runtime: 02:00:18
Netflix ID: 70231922
Madras Café
An Indian intelligence agent journeys to a war-torn coastal island to break a resolute rebel group and meets a passionate journalist.
Released: 2017-05-09
Runtime: 02:08:29
Netflix ID: 70293703
Carlos
Carlos the Jackal is a Venezuelan terrorist who executed scores of assassinations, abductions and bombings across Europe and the Middle East.
Released: 2015-04-14
Runtime: 02:45:26
Netflix ID: 70170424
Traffic
A U.S. drug czar learns his teenage daughter is an addict in this Oscar-winning saga that interlaces three disturbing snapshots of America's drug war.
Released: 2015-04-14
Runtime: 02:27:17
Netflix ID: 60003243
Masterpiece: Worricker: Turks and Caicos
While on a covert Caribbean holiday, MI5's Johnny Worricker becomes embroiled with shifty American businessmen linked to an international conspiracy.
Released: 2016-06-01
Runtime: 01:39:23
Netflix ID: 80019909
De ce eu?
A young prosecutor is assigned a career-making case involving a colleague but soon starts to question the motivations behind the charges.
Released: 2019-08-21
Runtime: 02:06:23
Netflix ID: 81149202
Miss Sloane
A tenacious Capitol Hill lobbyist with a well-earned reputation for winning no matter what takes on the most challenging battle of her career.
Released: 2017-07-18
Runtime: 02:12:16
Netflix ID: 80125395
The Baader Meinhof Complex
A radical terrorist group known as the Red Army Faction uses extreme violence to combat what they perceive as a new fascist threat in 1970s Germany.
Released: 2015-04-14
Runtime: 02:29:40
Netflix ID: 70112501
Suburra
A grueling battle over turning a seaside town near Rome into a gambling paradise exposes criminal rivalries and endemic corruption on a grand scale.
Released: 2015-10-14
Runtime: 02:14:49
Netflix ID: 80075009
Snowden
This quiet thriller traces Edward Snowden's journey from Army recruit to disillusioned cyber analyst bent on exposing vast U.S. surveillance programs.
Released: 2017-05-15
Runtime: 02:14:14
Netflix ID: 80064514
The Dead Zone
A man awakens from a five-year coma blessed with second sight: the ability to see a person's past, present and future simply through physical contact.
Released: 2015-04-14
Runtime: 01:43:45
Netflix ID: 60002169
The Spy Gone North
In the 1990s, a South Korean spy poses as a brassy entrepreneur with a luring scheme for a cash-strapped North Korea, but politics tests his loyalty.
Released: 2019-01-23
Runtime: 02:17:14
Netflix ID: 81019389
Valkyrie
After being wounded in World War II, a disillusioned Nazi colonel hatches a daring plan to create a shadow government and assassinate Adolf Hitler.
Released: 2015-04-14
Runtime: 02:00:17
Netflix ID: 70101344
The Ides of March
Dirty tricks stand to soil an ambitious young press spokesman's idealism in a cutthroat presidential campaign where 'victory' is relative.
Released: 2015-04-14
Runtime: 01:36:49
Netflix ID: 70202140
Raajneeti
When the American-educated scion of a powerful Indian family returns to the subcontinent, his first taste of power starts him down a corrupt path.
Released: 2015-04-14
Runtime: 02:50:03
Netflix ID: 70123124
State of Play
When his mistress is found dead, a congressman tries desperately to protect his career, while two journalists uncover an intricate web of lies.
Released: 2016-08-01
Runtime: 02:07:17
Netflix ID: 70102779
In the Shadow
A Czech police captain becomes caught in a political whitewash when East German agents assume control of his investigation into a jewelry robbery.
Released: 2019-11-15
Runtime: 01:41:26
Netflix ID: 70264609
The Hater
A duplicitous young man finds success in the dark world of social media smear tactics — but his virtual vitriol soon has violent real-life consequences.
Released: 2020-07-11
Runtime: 02:16:14
Netflix ID: 81270667
The Adjustment Bureau
A successful new congressman finds himself entranced by a beautiful ballerina, but mysterious forces are conspiring to prevent their love affair.
Released: 2015-06-02
Runtime: 01:45:41
Netflix ID: 70130140
Syriana
A story of greed and corruption in the global quest for oil unfolds through the fates of a CIA operative, an energy analyst and other power players.
Released: 2016-10-01
Runtime: 02:07:40
Netflix ID: 70018715
Gangster Ka: African
On the run, mobster Káčko flees to Seychelles then South Africa, where his considerable talents vault him once again to the top of a criminal empire.
Released: 2019-11-21
Runtime: 01:37:26
Netflix ID: 81191933
Thambi
As a tip leads a local politician to his long-estranged son, his daughter has doubts about whether the young man is truly family or just an impostor.
Released: 2020-02-02
Runtime: 02:27:52
Netflix ID: 81176204
Fair Game
Valerie Plame finds her life, career and marriage in jeopardy when her own government leaks her status as a CIA operative in a political vendetta.
Released: 2015-04-14
Runtime: 01:47:40
Netflix ID: 70119704
Saheb Biwi Aur Gangster Returns
Knotty love triangles and nefarious schemes arise when a nobleman’s plans to remarry fall into the cunning hands of his first wife and a vengeful rival.
Released: 2020-09-20
Runtime: 02:19:13
Netflix ID: 70273256
The Manchurian Candidate
Two U.S. soldiers in the first Gulf War are programmed to rebel once they return home. Several years later, one becomes a vice presidential candidate.
Released: 2015-04-14
Runtime: 02:09:49
Netflix ID: 60037627
The Pelican Brief
When law student Darby Shaw theorizes about the assassinations of two Supreme Court justices, she is put in danger and turns to a reporter for help.
Released: 2016-04-21
Runtime: 02:21:03
Netflix ID: 848915
Masterpiece: Worricker: Salting the Battlefield
Spies from around the globe pursue MI5's Johnny Worricker and his old flame, Margot Tyrell, whose intel could bring down the British government.
Released: 2016-06-01
Runtime: 01:36:49
Netflix ID: 80019908
The Angel
As his country prepares for war, top Egyptian official Ashraf Marwan makes contact with Israel and wades into a shadowy game of high-stakes espionage.
Released: 2018-09-14
Runtime: 01:54:12
Netflix ID: 80188120
The Interpreter
Silvia Broome is a translator at the United Nations. But her job turns perilous when she overhears a plot to assassinate a government official.
Released: 2015-10-22
Runtime: 02:08:19
Netflix ID: 70019510
The Man with the Iron Heart
A pair of Czechoslovakian resistance fighters sets out to assassinate Reinhard Heydrich, one of the architects of the Final Solution.
Released: 2017-12-31
Runtime: 02:00:03
Netflix ID: 80198987
26 Years
Twenty-six years after the 1980 massacre at Gwangju, South Korea, three relatives of the victims come together to avenge the infamous orchestrator.
Released: 2017-10-01
Runtime: 02:15:11
Netflix ID: 80198771
Gun City
In 1921 Barcelona, amid unrest between anarchists and the police, a cop plays both sides to learn who stole army weapons that could ignite a civil war.
Released: 2018-10-31
Runtime: 02:06:02
Netflix ID: 80199806
Broken City
After private detective Billy Taggart informs the mayor of New York that his wife is having an affair, the woman's lover turns up dead.
Released: 2015-04-14
Runtime: 01:44:49
Netflix ID: 70243341
The Devil's Own
Set on avenging his father's death, an Irish Republican Army terrorist sails to America on a mission to buy weapons from an underground arms dealer.
Released: 2016-01-06
Runtime: 01:51:13
Netflix ID: 1152837
Proof of Life
An American man living in Central America is kidnapped by radicals seeking ransom. A hostage expert steps in to help, but he falls for the man's wife.
Released: 2017-07-01
Runtime: 02:15:20
Netflix ID: 60003503
Captive State
After nearly a decade of alien rule, a group of Chicago freedom fighters faces off against the human collaborators determined to crush their resistance.
Released: 2021-01-01
Runtime: 01:45:02
Netflix ID: 80238650
7 Days in Entebbe
When terrorists hijack a flight, the passengers become political pawns and are detained for a week in Entebbe, Uganda, inspiring a daring rescue mission.
Released: 2019-02-03
Runtime: 01:46:54
Netflix ID: 80209485
Wasp Network
Based on a true and gripping story: Cuban spies infiltrate exile groups in the 1990s to stop terrorism against the island, but at a high personal cost.
Released: 2020-06-19
Runtime: 02:08:02
Netflix ID: 81000201
Unbridled
Desperate to keep her husband’s secret, a devoted politician’s wife struggles to stave off threats that could ruin their promising new life.
Released: 2019-08-30
Runtime: 01:40:12
Netflix ID: 80209658
The Last Thing He Wanted
A hard-hitting reporter becomes entangled in the story she’s trying to break when she helps her ailing father broker an arms deal in Central America.
Released: 2020-02-21
Runtime: 01:55:42
Netflix ID: 80245076
Assignment
After a near-fatal incident in the Congo, a journalist uncovers a dangerous story that pits her against political forces and sends her on the run.
Released: 2020-01-26
Runtime: 01:31:53
Netflix ID: 81230980
4th Republic
After the election-night murder of her campaign manager at a polling site, a gubernatorial candidate challenges the corrupt incumbent's victory.
Released: 2020-06-13
Runtime: 01:59:52
Netflix ID: 81049899
Czerwony Kapitan
In the aftermath of Czechoslovakia's split, an ambitious detective investigates an old murder case that threatens to dredge up painful secrets.
Released: 2019-10-11
Runtime: 01:46:05
Netflix ID: 81192918
Live: Regina Directului
An ambitious TV host's career — and life — fall onto dangerous ground when her reporting threatens to expose powerful political figures.
Released: 2020-03-26
Runtime: 01:46:30
Netflix ID: 81232432
Fluerne på væggen
This political thriller inspired by real events features a young director paid to follow Mayor Svend Balder, but his shady methods are dangerous.
Released: 2021-02-17
Runtime: 01:32:07
Netflix ID: 70254948