Political Assassination Movies

A political drama about the assassination of a leading politician. When Hugo comes out of jail, the Communist party has embarrassingly swung in a new...

A teenage boy befriends a starlet who is having an affair with an ambitious mayor. As the elections are coming up, the mayor's wife wants him to get...

An American gets a ticket for an audience participation game in London, then gets involved in a case of mistaken identity. As an international plot...

China Valdes joins the Cuban underground after her brother is killed by the chief of the secret police, Ariete. She meets and falls in love with...

An elite group of police must stop international terrorists from killing Pope John Paul II during his visit to Mexico.

Ashwin is a photographer, covering the upcoming elections for a newspaper. His life gets entangled with politics when one of his published...

A CIA agent gets caught up in political intrigue after he gets brought in to solve the murder of a Cuban ambassador.

In March 1792 the Swedish King Gustav III is murdered at a masked ball. Five young people are involved in the murder story, including Tintomara, a 17...

Roy Tucker, a Vietnam war veteran with excellent shooting skills, is serving a long prison sentence when a mysterious visitor promises him that he...

Harvey Milk was an outspoken human rights activist and one of the first openly gay U.S. politicians elected to public office; even after his...

Spain, 1937. Ramón Mercader, a young communist combatant, is recruited and trained by the Soviet intelligence service to participate in a top...

The divorced university professor, Victoria, signs a letter of protest for the political disappeared that her students request, although she is not...

A man of humble beginnings and honest intentions rises to power by nefarious means. Along for the wild ride are an earnest reporter, a heretofore...

A government agent who is investigating a colleague's murder discovers a conspiracy to cover up a political assassination.

Militant bodyguards carry out the assassination of the Indian Prime Minister in 1984.

In 2019, the multi-awarded filmmaker Nahid Persson Sarvestani (My Stolen Revolution, Prostitution Behind the Veil) filmed the Iranian journalist...

Thirty years after the release of his film JFK (1991), filmmaker Oliver Stone reviews recently declassified evidence related to the assassination of...

The lives of twin brothers Annadurai and Thambidurai change radically following a murder that the former commits. How does he ensure that his sibling...