Top rated stretched to breaking point movies that are also political
Check out today’s highest ranked stretched to breaking point and political movies! Looking for the greatest movies of all times? Here is the list of the best movies that are stretched to breaking point and political, based on the crowd's interest and popular searches from the country.
1 Kansas City (1996)
Robert Altman's story is a riff on race, class, and power cross-cuts between the two kidnappings and the background of corrupt politics and virtuoso jazz music. It all takes place in Kansas City in 1934.
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- 1996-08-16 | Thriller / Drama
Cast
- Jennifer Jason Leigh, Miranda Richardson
Rating
6.5
2 High Hopes (1988)
Slice-of-life look at a sweet working-class couple in London, Shirley and Cyril, his mother, who's aging quickly and becoming forgetful, mum's ghastly upper-middle-class neighbors, and Cyril's pretentious sister and philandering husband. Shirley wants a baby, but Cyril, who reads Marx and wants the world to be perfect, is reluctant. Cyril's mum locks herself out and must ask her snooty neighbors for help. Then Cyril's sister Valerie stages a surprise party for mum's 70th birthday, a disaster from start to finish. Shirley holds things together, and she and Cyril may put aside her Dutch cap after all.
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- 1988-09-24 | Comedy / Drama
Cast
- Phil Davis, Ruth Sheen
Rating
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7.3
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3 Jupiter's Moon (2017)
A young immigrant is shot down while illegally crossing the border. Terrified and in shock, wounded Aryan can now mysteriously levitate at will. Thrown into a refugee camp, he is smuggled out by Dr Stern, intent on exploiting his extraordinary secret. Pursued by enraged camp director Laszlo, the fugitives remain on the move in search of safety and money. Inspired by Aryan's amazing powers, Stern takes a leap of faith in a world where miracles are trafficked for small change...
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- 2017-11-01 | Science Fiction
Cast
- Merab Ninidze, György Cserhalmi
Rating
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5.6
4 The Walker (2007)
An escort who caters to Washington D.C.'s society ladies becomes involved in a murder case.
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- 2007-02-13 | Crime / Drama
Cast
- Woody Harrelson, Kristin Scott Thomas
Rating
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5.2
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5 The Measure of a Man (2015)
At the age of 51 and after 20 months on unemployment, Thierry starts a new job that soon brings him face to face with a moral dilemma. How much is he willing to accept to keep his job?
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- 2015-03-16 | Drama
Cast
- Vincent Lindon, Karine de Mirbeck
Rating
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6.5
6 Aquarius (2016)
Clara, a vibrant former music critic and widow with flowing tresses is the only remaining apartment owner in a beautiful older building targeted for demolition by ruthless luxury high-rise developers. Clara proves to be a force to be reckoned with as she thwarts the builders plans to kick her out of the apartment.
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- 2016-09-01 | Drama
Cast
- Sônia Braga, Maeve Jinkings
Rating
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7.5
7 A Fortunate Man (2018)
On his quest for happiness, Per decides to leave Jutland and an upbringing in a strict religious home. He runs from his family and his patriarch father, and sets sail towards Copenhagen to become an engineer. Parallel to his studies, he works on a visionary energy project based on wind and wave energy, a project so much ahead of its time, that professors consider him insane and far too self-confident. However, Per’s project becomes a success and he marries the beautiful Jakobe who is a part of a wealthy Jewish family. One would imagine that Per’s happiness now is made. But Per’s childhood keeps haunting him and his dogmatic family cannot accept his new life. Despite his luck and success, Per is unable to fully cut the strings to his strict religious background, and he now fears that he will repeat his father’s patriarchist behavior.
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- 2018-08-30 | Drama
Cast
- Esben Smed, Katrine Greis-Rosenthal
Rating
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6.9
8 Force of Evil (1948)
Lawyer Joe Morse wants to consolidate all the small-time numbers racket operators into one big powerful operation. But his elder brother Leo is one of these small-time operators who wants to stay that way, preferring not to deal with the gangsters who dominate the big-time.
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- 1948-12-25 | Crime / Drama
Cast
- John Garfield, Thomas Gomez
Rating
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6.8
9 The Cowboy and the Lady (1938)
Mary Smith decides after a lifetime of being a shut-in to do something wild while her father is out campaigning for the presidency, so she takes off for the family's home in West Palm Beach and inadvertently becomes romantically entangled with earnest cowboy Stretch Willoughby. Neither the dalliance nor the cowboy fit with the upper class image projected by her esteemed father, forcing her to choose.
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- 1938-11-17 | Comedy / Romance
Cast
- Gary Cooper, Merle Oberon
Rating
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6.4
10 The Berlin File (2013)
When an illicit arms deal goes bad, North Korean spy Pyo Jong-seong finds himself targeted not just by the South Koreans but also his own bosses.
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- 2013-01-30 | Action / Thriller
Cast
- Ha Jung-woo, Han Suk-kyu
Rating
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6.8
