swap_horiz Sarkar Alternatives

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Dr. Strangelove (1964 film)

Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb is a 1964 political thriller directed by Stanley Ku...

Cold War Film Political Satire Nuclear

9.7 Brilliant

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The Manchurian Candidate (1962 film)

The 1962 film *The Manchurian Candidate* explores themes of Cold War paranoia and political manipulation. It centers on...

Cold War Film 1960S Brainwashing

9.3 Excellent

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The Battle of Algiers (1966 film)

The Battle of Algiers (1966) portrays the 1954-1962 Algerian struggle for independence from French colonial control. Sho...

Film Political 1960S Colonial

9.3 Excellent

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The Manchurian Candidate (1962)

The Manchurian Candidate (1962) explores a chilling Cold War conspiracy centered around a former soldier’s manipulated m...

Cold War Classic Film Conspiracy

9.2 Excellent

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Z (1969 film)

Costa-Gavras’s 1969 film Z investigates the 1963 assassination of Greek politician Grigoris Lambrakis and the ensuing po...

Film Greek 1960S Assassination

9.2 Excellent

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All the President's Men (1976 film)

All the President's Men (1976), directed by Alan J. Pakula, stars Robert Redford and Dustin Hoffman as the Washington Po...

Journalism Film Political 1970S

9.0 Excellent

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The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (1965 film)

1965 British spy film directed by Martin Ritt, starring Richard Burton as a weary British intelligence officer drawn int...

Cold War Film Spy Thriller 1960S

8.9 Great

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Now You See Me

Now You See Me presents a thrilling narrative centered around an international team of illusionists who execute elaborat...

Ensemble Cast Mystery Crime Action Adventure

8.8 Great

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The Day of the Jackal (1973 film)

The Day of the Jackal is Fred Zinnemann's 1973 political thriller, notable for its procedural hunt for an assassin targe...

Classic European Film Assassination

8.8 Great

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Carlos (2010 film)

Carlos is Olivier Assayas's 2010 biographical thriller, notable for tracing Ilich Ramirez Sanchez from 1970s militant at...

International Film Biographical Revolutionary

8.8 Great

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Three Days of the Condor (1975 film)

Three Days of the Condor (1975), directed by Sydney Pollack, stars Robert Redford as a CIA analyst who returns from lunc...

Film 1970S Cia Conspiracy

8.8 Great

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The 39 Steps (1935 film)

The 39 Steps is Alfred Hitchcock's 1935 British spy thriller, notable for defining the innocent-man-on-the-run template...

Classic Espionage Film British

8.7 Great

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House of Cards (UK series)

House of Cards is a 1990 BBC political thriller adapted from Michael Dobbs's novel, noted for Ian Richardson's scheming...

TV Power British Nineties

8.7 Great

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Munich (2005 film)

Munich (2005), directed by Steven Spielberg and starring Eric Bana, dramatizes the Israeli Mossad's covert operation to...

Film Terrorism Mossad Spielberg

8.7 Great

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Fail Safe (1964)

Fail Safe is Sidney Lumet's 1964 U.S. nuclear crisis thriller, notable for its stark account of accidental escalation be...

Cold War Classic Film Nuclear

8.6 Great

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Article 15

Article 15 is Anubhav Sinha's 2019 Indian crime thriller, notable for using a rural murder inquiry to confront caste dis...

Police Indian Film Corruption

8.1 Great

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Shanghai (2012 film)

Shanghai is Dibakar Banerjee's 2012 Indian political thriller, notable as a Hindi adaptation of Vassilis Vassilikos's no...

Indian Film Adaptation Conspiracy

7.4 Good

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Raajneeti

Raajneeti is Prakash Jha's 2010 Indian political thriller, notable for blending dynastic party warfare with echoes of th...

Indian Crime Film Dynasty

7.0 Good

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Sarkar Raj

Sarkar Raj is Ram Gopal Varma's 2008 Indian sequel to Sarkar, notable for centering a Maharashtra power project and the...

Corporate Indian Film Power

6.4 Fair

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The Tashkent Files

The Tashkent Files is Vivek Agnihotri's 2019 Indian political thriller, notable for revisiting the 1966 death of Prime M...

History Indian Film Investigation

5.2 Mediocre