Every political thriller movie streaming on MUBI in the US right now — 13 films ranked by rating, checked against MUBI’s live catalog.
Updated July 2026 · Availability refreshed from MUBI US
Directed by Lars von Trier
✦ MovieMuse AI takeVon Stroheim's mise-en-scène traps the protagonist between ideologies, using train compartments as microcosms of postwar geopolitical manipulation.
Just after World War II, an American takes a railway job in Germany, but finds his position politically sensitive with various people trying to use him.
Directed by Michael Mayer
✦ MovieMuse AI takeThe romance becomes a chess piece in occupation politics, collapsing personal intimacy against systemic border violence with devastating precision.
Two young men — a Palestinian grad student and an Israeli lawyer — meet and fall in love amidst personal and political intrigue.
Directed by Armando Iannucci
✦ MovieMuse AI takeSpin-doctor profanity exposes how backroom architects matter infinitely more than elected officials in warmaking decisions.
The US President and the UK Prime Minister are planning on launching a war in the Middle East, but—behind the scenes—government officials and advisers are either promoting the war or are trying to prevent it.
Directed by Paolo Sorrentino
✦ MovieMuse AI takeThe lame-duck presidency device forces a leader to navigate legacy-building against constitutional limits and factional pressure.
As his tenure as President of Italy nears its end, Mariano De Santis faces wrenching decisions-both political and deeply personal. Amid these moral quandaries, he must confront his own conscience and seek guidance from those closest to him, including his confidante and daughter, Dorotea.
Directed by Akinola Davies Jr.
✦ MovieMuse AI takeElection violence becomes backdrop for intimate family reckoning, merging personal and national collapse in 1990s Lagos.
Two young brothers explore Lagos with their estranged father during the 1993 Nigerian election crisis, witnessing both the city's magnitude and their father's daily struggles as political unrest threatens their journey home.
Directed by Nick Hamm
✦ MovieMuse AI takeTwo sworn enemies sharing a car ride becomes a masterclass in dialogue-driven negotiation as metaphor for sectarian reconciliation.
Firebrand Democratic Unionist Party leader Ian Paisley and Sinn Fein politician Martin McGuinness, two implacable enemies in Northern Ireland, are forced to take a short journey together in which they will take the biggest leap of faith and change the course of history.
Directed by Abderrahmane Sissako
✦ MovieMuse AI takeCourtroom structure transforms economic policy into prosecutable crime, holding global institutions accountable through African witness testimony.
Caught in the stranglehold of debt and structural adjustment, Africa is fighting for its survival. In the face of disaster, representatives of African society bring an action against international financial institutions. The trial takes place in Bamako, in the yard of a house, among its inhabitants.
Directed by Dea Kulumbegashvili
In a sleepy provincial town, a Jehovah’s Witness community is under attack from an extremist group. In the midst of this conflict is Yana, the wife of the community leader, whose familiar world is slowly crumbling around her. Meanwhile, a detective intrudes on her home with devastating consequences.
Directed by Andreas Fontana
✦ MovieMuse AI takeEspionage through banking secrecy reveals how financial systems launder dictatorship, making spreadsheets complicit in disappeared persons.
Yvan De Wiel, a private banker from Geneva, is going to Argentina in the midst of a dictatorship to replace his partner, the object of the most worrying rumors, who disappeared overnight. Between hushed lounges, swimming pools, and gardens under surveillance, a remote duel takes place between two bankers who, despite different methods, are the accomplices of a discreet and merciless form of colonization.
Directed by Bertrand Bonello
✦ MovieMuse AI takeYouth radicalism implodes under its own ideology when activism requires actual sacrifice, not aesthetic rebellion.
Some young folks, tired of the society they're living in, plan a bomb attack over Paris before taking shelter for a night in a shopping center.
Directed by Albert Serra
✦ MovieMuse AI takeThe French official's urbane surface masks imperialist machinations, using colonial sophistication as camouflage for political domination.
Island of Tahiti. French government official De Roller is a calculating man with impeccable manners, capable of dealing with both high society and the locals he frequents in shady joints.
Directed by Kelly Reichardt
✦ MovieMuse AI takeEco-terrorism morphs from moral certainty into collateral murder, interrogating activist martyrdom without romanticizing sabotage.
The story about three radical environmentalists coming together to execute the most intense protest of their lives: the explosion of a hydroelectric dam.
Directed by Melina León
✦ MovieMuse AI takeMaternal grief becomes political indictment: the dictatorship's forced adoption scheme weaponizes reproduction itself.
Peru, at the height of the political crisis of the 1980s. Georgina is a young woman from the Andes whose newborn daughter is stolen at a fake health clinic. Her desperate search for the child leads her to the headquarters of a major newspaper, where she meets Pedro Campos, a lonely journalist who takes on the investigation. Based on a true story.
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