Election Drama Movies

List of the best dramatic movies about elections selected by visitors to our site: Step Up 3D, Dark Waters, Mia and the White Lion, We Bought a Zoo, The Big Short, The Peanut Butter Falcon, Birdman, The Best of Me, The Wolf of Wall Street, Begin Again.

In the top there are new films of 2021, a plot description and trailers for films that have already been released.

Markimdb: 6.2
Genremelodrama, drama, crime, music
CountryUSA
Duration01:41

    A tight-knit group of New York City street dancers, including Luke and Natalie, team up with NYU freshman Moose, and find themselves pitted against the world's best hip hop dancers in a high-stakes showdown that will change their lives forever.

    Markimdb: 7.6
    Genrethriller, drama, biography, history
    CountryUSA

    A tenacious attorney uncovers a dark secret that connects a growing number of unexplained deaths due to one of the world's largest corporations. In the process, he risks everything — his future, his family, and his own life — to expose the truth.

    Markimdb: 6.5
    Genredrama, adventure, family
    CountryFrance, Germany, South Africa, Luxembourg, Monaco, USA
    Duration01:38

    A young girl from London moves to Africa with her parents where she befriends a lion cub.

    Markimdb: 7.1
    Genrecomedy, drama, family
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:04

    Benjamin has lost his wife and, in a bid to start his life over, purchases a large house that has a zoo – welcome news for his daughter, but his son is not happy about it. The zoo is in need of renovation and Benjamin sets about the work with the head keeper and the rest of the staff, but, the zoo soon runs into financial trouble.

    Markimdb: 7.8
    Genrecomedy, drama, biography, history
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:24

      The men who made millions from a global economic meltdown.

      Markimdb: 7.6
      Genrecomedy, drama, adventure
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:32

      A down-on-his-luck crab fisherman embarks on a journey to get a young man with Down syndrome to a professional wrestling school in rural North Carolina and away from the retirement home where he’s lived for the past two and a half years.

      Markimdb: 7.7
      Genrecomedy, drama
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:59

      A fading actor best known for his portrayal of a popular superhero attempts to mount a comeback by appearing in a Broadway play. As opening night approaches, his attempts to become more altruistic, rebuild his career, and reconnect with friends and family prove more difficult than expected.

      Markimdb: 6.7
      Genremelodrama, drama
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:58

      A pair of former high school sweethearts reunite after many years when they return to visit their small hometown.

      Markimdb: 8.2
      Genrecomedy, drama, crime, biography
      CountryUSA
      Duration03:00

        A New York stockbroker refuses to cooperate in a large securities fraud case involving corruption on Wall Street, corporate banking world and mob infiltration. Based on Jordan Belfort's autobiography.

        Markimdb: 7.4
        Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, music
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:41

          A long lost music producer finds a singer-songwriter right about the moment he has given up all hope on life.

          Markimdb: 7.7
          Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
          CountryUSA
          Duration02:00

            After spending eight months in a mental institution, a former teacher moves back in with his parents and tries to reconcile with his ex-wife.

            Markimdb: 7.6
            Genrecomedy, drama
            CountryUSA, United Kingdom, China
            Duration02:26

            A faded television actor and his stunt double strive to achieve fame and success in the film industry during the final years of Hollywood's Golden Age in 1969 Los Angeles.

            Markimdb: 7.1
            Genremelodrama, drama
            CountryUSA
            Duration01:52

            Still reeling from a heartbreaking family event and his parents' subsequent divorce, Tyler Hawkins discovers a fresh lease on life when he meets Ally Craig, a gregarious beauty who witnessed her mother's death. But as the couple draws closer, the fallout from their separate tragedies jeopardizes their love.

            Markimdb: 7
            Genrecomedy, drama
            CountryUSA
            Duration02:10

            An emotionally desperate investment banker finds hope through a woman he meets in Chicago.

            Markimdb: 6.5
            Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
            CountryUSA
            Duration01:42

            A young and devoted morning television producer is hired as an executive producer on a long-running morning show at a once-prominent but currently failing station in New York City. Eager to keep the show on air, she recruits a former news journalist and anchor who disapproves of co-hosting a show that does not deal with real news stories.

            Markimdb: 6.5
            Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
            CountryUSA
            Duration01:55

            After a distastrous first date for caterer Holly and network sports director Messer, all they have is common is a dislike for each other and their love for their goddaughter Sophie. But when they suddenly become all Sophie has in this world, Holly and Messer must set their differences aside. Juggling careers and social calendars, they'll have to find common ground while living under the same roof.

            Markimdb: 7.8
            Genredrama, biography, sport
            CountryUSA
            Duration01:54

              The Fighter, is a drama about boxer "Irish" Micky Ward's unlikely road to the world light welterweight title. His Rocky-like rise was shepherded by half-brother Dicky, a boxer-turned-trainer who rebounded in life after nearly being KO'd by drugs and crime.

              Markimdb: 7.8
              Genredrama, biography, history
              CountryUSA
              Duration02:32

              The untold story of Katherine G. Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan and Mary Jackson – brilliant African-American women working at NASA and serving as the brains behind one of the greatest operations in history – the launch of astronaut John Glenn into orbit. The visionary trio crossed all gender and race lines to inspire generations to dream big.

              Markimdb: 7.6
              Genredrama
              CountrySpain, Thailand, USA
              Duration01:49

                In December 2004, close-knit family Maria, Henry and their three sons begin their winter vacation in Thailand. But the day after Christmas, the idyllic holiday turns into an incomprehensible nightmare when a terrifying roar rises from the depths of the sea, followed by a wall of black water that devours everything in its path. Though Maria and her family face their darkest hour, unexpected displays of kindness and courage ameliorate their terror.

                Markimdb: 6.9
                Genredrama, western, crime
                CountryFrance, Spain, Romania, Belgium, USA
                Duration01:56

                Oregon, 1851. Hermann Kermit Warm, a chemist and aspiring gold prospector, keeps a profitable secret that the Commodore wants to know, so he sends the Sisters brothers, two notorious assassins, to capture him on his way to California.

                Markimdb: 7.2
                Genremelodrama, drama
                CountryUSA
                Duration01:56

                Seventeen-year-old Stella spends most of her time in the hospital as a cystic fibrosis patient. Her life is full of routines, boundaries and self-control -- all of which get put to the test when she meets Will, an impossibly charming teen who has the same illness.

                Markimdb: 7.6
                Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime
                CountryUSA
                Duration01:49

                  Two young officers are marked for death after confiscating a small cache of money and firearms from the members of a notorious cartel during a routine traffic stop.

                  Markimdb: 8
                  Genredrama, biography
                  CountryUSA
                  Duration01:58

                    Loosely based on the true-life tale of Ron Woodroof, a drug-taking, women-loving, homophobic man who in 1986 was diagnosed with HIV/AIDS and given thirty days to live.

                    Markimdb: 7.4
                    Genrecomedy, drama
                    CountryUSA
                    Duration02:34

                    A California high school student plans to escape from her family and small town by going to college in New York.

                    Markimdb: 6.7
                    Genrethriller, drama, adventure, crime
                    CountryUSA
                    Duration02:31

                    Kenny Wells, a modern-day prospector, hustler, and dreamer, is desperate for a lucky break. Left with few options, Wells teams up with an equally luckless geologist to execute a grandiose, last-ditch effort: to find gold deep in the uncharted jungle of Indonesia.

                    Markimdb: 7.7
                    Genredrama
                    CountryUSA
                    Duration01:38

                    A chronicle of three weeks in the lives of several high school teachers, administrators and students through the eyes of substitute teacher, Henry Barthes. Henry roams from school to school, imparting modes of knowledge, but never staying long enough to form any semblance of sentient attachment.

                    Markimdb: 7.3
                    Genremelodrama, drama
                    CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
                    Duration02:00

                    After a bleak childhood, Jane Eyre goes out into the world to become a governess. As she lives happily in her new position at Thornfield Hall, she meet the dark, cold, and abrupt master of the house, Mr. Rochester. Jane and her employer grow close in friendship and she soon finds herself falling in love with him. Happiness seems to have found Jane at last, but could Mr. Rochester's terrible secret be about to destroy it forever?

                    Markimdb: 7.1
                    Genredrama, biography, history
                    CountryGermany, France, Luxembourg, United Kingdom, USA
                    Duration01:05

                    A young woman's desperate search for her abducted boyfriend that draws her into the infamous Colonia Dignidad, a sect nobody ever escaped from.

                    Markimdb: 7.2
                    Genredrama, western
                    CountryUSA
                    Duration02:32

                    A legendary Native American-hating Army captain nearing retirement in 1892 is given one last assignment: to escort a Cheyenne chief and his family through dangerous territory back to his Montana reservation.

                    Markimdb: 6.9
                    Genremelodrama, drama
                    CountryUSA
                    Duration01:56

                      In this captivating Depression-era melodrama, impetuous veterinary student Jacob Jankowski joins a celebrated circus as an animal caretaker but faces a wrenching dilemma when he's transfixed by angelic married performer Marlena.

                      Markimdb: 8.4
                      Genrethriller, drama, crime
                      CountryUSA, Canada
                      Duration02:25

                      During the 1980s, a failed stand-up comedian is driven insane and turns to a life of crime and chaos in Gotham City while becoming an infamous psychopathic crime figure.

                      Markimdb: 6.7
                      Genredrama, adventure, family
                      CountryUSA, Canada

                      Buck is a big-hearted dog whose blissful domestic life is turned upside down when he is suddenly uprooted from his California home and transplanted to the exotic wilds of the Yukon during the Gold Rush of the 1890s. As the newest rookie on a mail delivery dog sled team—and later its leader—Buck experiences the adventure of a lifetime, ultimately finding his true place in the world and becoming his own master.

                      Markimdb: 6.2
                      Genreaction, drama, family, sport
                      CountryUSA, China
                      Duration02:20

                      12-year-old Dre Parker could have been the most popular kid in Detroit, but his mother's latest career move has landed him in China. Dre immediately falls for his classmate Mei Ying but the cultural differences make such a friendship impossible. Even worse, Dre's feelings make him an enemy of the class bully, Cheng. With no friends in a strange land, Dre has nowhere to turn but maintenance man Mr. Han, who is a kung fu master. As Han teaches Dre that kung fu is not about punches and parries, but maturity and calm, Dre realizes that facing down the bullies will be the fight of his life.

                      Markimdb: 7.8
                      Genremelodrama, drama
                      CountryUSA

                      Four sisters come of age in America in the aftermath of the Civil War.

                      Markimdb: 7.2
                      Genredrama, biography
                      CountryUnited Kingdom, USA, Singapore, Hong Kong, United Arab Emirates, India

                      Growing up poor in Madras, India, Srinivasa Ramanujan Iyengar earns admittance to Cambridge University during WWI, where he becomes a pioneer in mathematical theories with the guidance of his professor, G.H. Hardy.

                      Markimdb: 8
                      Genredrama
                      CountryUSA
                      Duration02:26

                      Aibileen Clark is a middle-aged African-American maid who has spent her life raising white children and has recently lost her only son; Minny Jackson is an African-American maid who has often offended her employers despite her family's struggles with money and her desperate need for jobs; and Eugenia "Skeeter" Phelan is a young white woman who has recently moved back home after graduating college to find out her childhood maid has mysteriously disappeared. These three stories intertwine to explain how life in Jackson, Mississippi revolves around "the help"; yet they are always kept at a certain distance because of racial lines.

                      Markimdb: 8.1
                      Genredrama, biography, history
                      CountryUSA, United Kingdom
                      Duration02:13

                      In the pre-Civil War United States, Solomon Northup, a free black man from upstate New York, is abducted and sold into slavery. Facing cruelty as well as unexpected kindnesses Solomon struggles not only to stay alive, but to retain his dignity. In the twelfth year of his unforgettable odyssey, Solomon’s chance meeting with a Canadian abolitionist will forever alter his life.

                      Markimdb: 7.9
                      Genredrama
                      CountryUSA
                      Duration02:46

                        The film tells a story of a divorced couple trying to raise their young son. The story follows the boy for twelve years, from first grade at age 6 through 12th grade at age 17-18, and examines his relationship with his parents as he grows.

                        Markimdb: 7.2
                        Genredrama, adventure, crime, biography
                        CountryUSA, Czech Republic, Spain
                        Duration01:00

                        Henri “Papillon” Charrière, a safecracker from the Parisian underworld, is wrongfully convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment in the penal colony of French Guiana, where he forges a strong friendship with Louis Dega, a counterfeiter who needs his protection.

                        Markimdb: 7.4
                        Genrecomedy, drama
                        CountryUSA
                        Duration01:25

                        Stevie is a sweet 13-year-old about to explode. His mom is loving and attentive, but a little too forthcoming about her romantic life. His big brother is a taciturn and violent bully. So Stevie searches his working-class Los Angeles suburb for somewhere to belong. He finds it at the Motor Avenue skate shop.

                        Markimdb: 7.3
                        Genredrama, crime, biography
                        CountryUSA
                        Duration01:56

                        Set in the Depression-era Franklin County, Virginia, a bootlegging gang is threatened by authorities who want a cut of their profits.

                        Markimdb: 7.3
                        Genredrama, biography, history
                        CountryUSA, Japan
                        Duration02:30

                        A look at the life of the astronaut, Neil Armstrong, and the legendary space mission that led him to become the first man to walk on the Moon on July 20, 1969.

                        Markimdb: 7
                        Genremelodrama, drama
                        CountryUSA, United Kingdom
                        Duration01:43

                        A romantic comedy centered on Dexter and Emma, who first meet during their graduation in 1988 and proceed to keep in touch regularly. The film follows what they do on July 15 annually, usually doing something together.

                        Markimdb: 7.7
                        Genremelodrama, drama
                        CountryUSA
                        Duration02:13

                        Despite the tumor-shrinking medical miracle that has bought her a few years, Hazel has never been anything but terminal, her final chapter inscribed upon diagnosis. But when a patient named Augustus Waters suddenly appears at Cancer Kid Support Group, Hazel's story is about to be completely rewritten.

                        Markimdb: 7.6
                        Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, family, sport
                        CountryUSA
                        Duration01:44

                        A family dog—with a near-human soul and a philosopher's mind—evaluates his life through the lessons learned by his human owner, a race-car driver.

                        Markimdb: 8.3
                        Genredrama
                        CountryUnited Kingdom, France, USA

                        A man refuses all assistance from his daughter as he ages. As he tries to make sense of his changing circumstances, he begins to doubt his loved ones, his own mind and even the fabric of his reality.

                        Markimdb: 7.9
                        Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
                        CountryUnited Kingdom, USA

                        A stage director and an actress struggle through a grueling, coast-to-coast divorce that pushes them to their personal extremes.

                        Markimdb: 7.2
                        Genrefantasy, melodrama, drama
                        CountryUSA, Canada
                        Duration02:32

                        After 29-year-old Adaline recovers from a nearly lethal accident, she inexplicably stops growing older. As the years stretch on and on, Adaline keeps her secret to herself until she meets a man who changes her life.

                        Markimdb: 7.1
                        Genrecomedy, drama, adventure
                        CountryUSA
                        Duration01:41

                        A young man with Tourette's Syndrome embarks on a road trip with his recently-deceased mother's ashes.

                        Markimdb: 8.2
                        Genredrama, crime
                        CountryUSA
                        Duration02:57

                        The series centers on 17-year-old Joshua "J" Cody, who moves in with his freewheeling relatives in their Southern California beach town after his mother dies of a heroin overdose. Headed by boot-tough matriarch Janine "Smurf" Cody and her right-hand Baz, who runs the business and calls the shots, the clan also consists of Pope, the oldest and most dangerous of the Cody boys; Craig, the tough and fearless middle son; and Deran, the troubled, suspicious "baby" of the family.




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