20 best movies like Madam Secretary (2014)

List of the best movies like Madam Secretary (2014): State of Affairs, The House of Cards, LBJ, Elvis & Nixon, Killing Kennedy, Atlas Shrugged Part III: Who is John Galt?, Mark Felt: The Man Who Brought Down the White House, Jackie, The Butler, Murder at 1600.

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Markimdb: 6.4
Genrethriller, drama
CountryUSA

Each day the President is faced with dozens of life and death decisions, and to prioritize the biggest international crises facing the country, one top CIA analyst - Charleston Tucker - assembles the President's Daily Briefing.This list of the most vital security issues facing the nation brings with it moral and political judgment calls for Charleston and her trusted group of brilliant analysts at the agency. Aside from the political minefields she has to walk, Charlie has a close personal relationship with the President because she was once engaged to her son before a tragic terrorist attack took his life. Charlie survived that attack and is now determined to bring the perpetrators to justice.Navigating a complex personal life and a pressure-cooker profession is, of course, a challenge, and Charlie sometimes engages in boundary-pushing behavior to avoid facing her grief. But when the clock strikes 2 a.m., she is all about her job - protecting her nation, serving her president and still trying to get to the bottom of her fiancé's murder that will reveal itself as a shocking mystery.

Markimdb: 2.2
Genreaction, drama
CountryAustralia, USA
Duration01:47

An elite firm of assassins must face their own mortality as they are hunted down one by one by a mysterious assailant. Caught up in the drama is a disgraced journalist who is more connected to the assassins' world than he could ever know.

Markimdb: 6.5
Genredrama, biography, history
CountryUSA

The story of U.S. President Lyndon Baines Johnson from his young days in West Texas to the White House.

Markimdb: 6.4
Genrecomedy, drama, history
CountryUSA
Duration01:47

In 1970, a few days before Christmas, Elvis Presley showed up on the White House lawn seeking to be deputized into the Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs by the President himself.

Markimdb: 6
Genredrama, biography, history
CountryUSA
Duration01:27

Drama documentary based on Bill O'Reilly's and Martin Dugard's 2012 non-fiction book "Killing Kennedy: The End of Camelot". It follows the parallel lives of John F. Kennedy and Lee Harvey Oswald from the winter 1959-1960 to those fatal days in Dallas in November 1963, when they both died within two days after each other and were buried on the same day - John F. Kennedy in a state funeral in Washington D.C., broadcast live both to Europe and the Pacific, while Oswald was buried in Forth Worth at a small funeral where the attending reporters were asked to act as pallbearers.

Markimdb: 4.3
Genrefantastic, drama, detective
CountryUSA
Duration01:39

Approaching collapse, the nation's economy is quickly eroding. As crime and fear take over the countryside, the government continues to exert its brutal force against the nation's most productive who are mysteriously vanishing - leaving behind a wake of despair. One man has the answer. One woman stands in his way. Some will stop at nothing to control him. Others will stop at nothing to save him. He swore by his life. They swore to find him.

Markimdb: 6.4
Genrethriller, drama, biography, history
CountryUSA
Duration02:14

The story of Mark Felt, who under the name "Deep Throat" helped journalists Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein uncover the Watergate scandal in 1974.

Markimdb: 6.7
Genredrama, biography, history
CountryUSA, France, Chile, China, Germany, United Kingdom
Duration01:55

An account of the days of First Lady, Jacqueline Kennedy, in the immediate aftermath of John F. Kennedy's assassination in 1963.

Markimdb: 7.2
Genredrama, biography
CountryUSA
Duration02:12

A look at the life of Cecil Gaines who served eight presidents as the White House's head butler from 1952 to 1986, and had a unique front-row seat as political and racial history was made.

Markimdb: 6.1
Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime, detective
CountryUSA
Duration01:47

A secretary is found dead in a White House bathroom during an international crisis, and Detective Harlan Regis is in charge of the investigation. Despite resistance from the Secret Service, Regis partners with agent Nina Chance. As political tensions rise, they learn that the crime could be part of an elaborate cover-up. Framed as traitors, the pair, plus Regis' partner, break into the White House in order to expose the true culprit.

Markimdb: 5.7
Genrethriller, drama
CountryUSA, India, France
Duration01:46

    An entry-level employee at a powerful corporation finds himself occupying a corner office, but at a dangerous price: he must spy on his boss's old mentor to secure for him a multi-billion dollar advantage.

    Markimdb: 7.4
    Genredrama, biography, history
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:58

    Based on the book by John Heilemann and Mark Halperin, Game Change focuses on the Republican run of the 2008 Presidential election, when candidate John McCain picks a relative unknown, Alaskan governor Sarah Palin, to be his running mate. As the campaign kicks into high gear, her lack of experience, in both political and media savvy, becomes a drain upon McCain and his strategists. Directed by Jay Roach, who previously directed the HBO film Recount and the Austin Powers movies, Game Change premiered on HBO on March 10th, 2012.

    Markimdb: 6.3
    Genremelodrama, drama, biography, history
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:28

    Chronicles a single day in the summer of 1989 when the future president of the United States, Barack Obama, wooed his future First Lady on an epic first date across Chicago's South Side.

    Markimdb: 7.4
    Genredrama, film noir
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:45

    All The King's Men is the story of the rise of politician Willie Stark from a rural county seat to the governor's mansion.

    Markimdb: 6.1
    Genredrama
    CountryUSA

    Nellie Bly, a 23 year-old reporter for Joseph Pulitzer, goes undercover in the notorious Blackwell's Island women's insane asylum in order to expose corruption, abuse and murder.

    Markimdb: 7.1
    Genredrama, biography
    CountryUSA

    Biographical account of America's President for the latter part of WWII. Shows Truman's rise from small-town nobody to leader of the USA, his decision to use the Atomic Bomb against Japan, and subsequent election as the US' post-war President.

    Markimdb: 7.3
    Genredrama
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:43

    A drama centered on a classical pianist who has been diagnosed with ALS and the brash college student who becomes her caregiver.

    Markimdb: 7.1
    Genremelodrama, drama, western
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:23

    The lives of a young couple intertwine with a much older man as he reflects back on a lost love while he's trapped in an automobile crash.

    Markimdb: 4.7
    Genrethriller, drama, military
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:03

    A former war journalist now writing for a paper in Northern California is drawn into conflict at home.

    Markimdb: 6.2
    Genredrama
    CountryUSA

    After Davey's father is killed in a hold-up, she and her mother and younger brother visit relatives in New Mexico. Here Davey is befriended by a young man who helps her find the strength to carry on and conquer her fears.

    Markimdb: 7.3
    Genredrama, military, biography, history
    CountryUSA, India
    Duration02:30

    A revealing drama that focuses on the 16th President's tumultuous final months in office. In a nation divided by war and the strong winds of change, Lincoln pursues a course of action designed to end the war, unite the country and abolish slavery. With the moral courage and fierce determination to succeed, his choices during this critical moment will change the fate of generations to come.

    Markimdb: 7.4
    Genremelodrama, drama
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:27

    A young and cynical female journalist learns love may transcend trials and time as she discovers a story that will change her life forever. When war separates lovers on their wedding anniversary Feb. 14, 1944 at LA Union Train Station, Navy pilot Neil Thomas makes a promise he isn't sure he can keep - to return to the train station safe by their next anniversary. For sixty years Caroline Thomas keeps her promise by waiting at the train station until her missing in action husband can finally keep his with the "lost valentine." The message and meaning shows romance and love can be real; worth fighting, and maybe even dying for.

    Markimdb: 7.6
    Genrethriller, drama, history
    CountryUSA, Germany, India
    Duration02:39

      During the Cold War, the Soviet Union captures U.S. pilot Francis Gary Powers after shooting down his U-2 spy plane. Sentenced to 10 years in prison, Powers' only hope is New York lawyer James Donovan, recruited by a CIA operative to negotiate his release. Donovan boards a plane to Berlin, hoping to win the young man's freedom through a prisoner exchange. If all goes well, the Russians would get Rudolf Abel, the convicted spy who Donovan defended in court.

      Markimdb: 5.4
      Genredrama, military, history
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:03

      Ambassador Joseph Davies is sent by FDR to Russia to learn about the Soviet system and returns to America as an advocate of Stalinism.

      Markimdb: 7.5
      Genredrama, biography, history
      CountryUnited Kingdom, USA, France
      Duration02:08

      "Selma," as in Alabama, the place where segregation in the South was at its worst, leading to a march that ended in violence, forcing a famous statement by President Lyndon B. Johnson that ultimately led to the signing of the Civil Rights Act.

      Markimdb: 6
      Genreaction, drama, adventure, crime
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:51

      Adapted from the successful novel, Dead in 5 Heartbeats, by Ralph "Sonny" Barger with Keith and Kent Zimmerman. The story follows the Infidelz MC's former President, Patch Kinkade, who has left his personal demons behind for the calm of desert life. When war erupts between his brothers he left behind and the rival Hooligans, Patch rides back into town to either make peace or do battle.

      Markimdb: 6.1
      Genredrama, biography
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:29

      Story of Linda Lovelace, who is used and abused by the porn industry at the behest of her coercive husband, before taking control of her life.

      Markimdb: 6.1
      Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
      CountryUSA

      When Mari Gilbert's daughter disappears, police inaction drives her own investigation into the gated Long Island community where Shannan was last seen. Her search brings attention to over a dozen murdered sex workers.

      Markimdb: 6.5
      Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
      CountryCzech Republic, United Kingdom, USA, Russia
      Duration02:21

      Set in Stalin-era Soviet Union, a disgraced MGB agent is dispatched to investigate a series of child murders -- a case that begins to connect with the very top of party leadership.

      Markimdb: 3.1
      Genrefantastic, thriller, drama
      CountryUSA, Canada
      Duration01:45

      A small group of survivors are left behind after millions of people suddenly vanish during the rapture and the world is plunged into chaos and destruction.

      Markimdb: 7.8
      Genrethriller, drama
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:58

      A U.S. Army colonel alerts the president of a planned military coup against him.

      Markimdb: 4.9
      Genrethriller, drama
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:28

      Malcom's done with his life. Only the noise of Crystal Meth gives him a reason to keep going - everything else it has long regardless. Equipped with a bag full of weapons and self-made bombs, he makes his way to the nearby mall to really stir things up. On his personal war campaign, he not only changes his life radically, but also the fate of other people who are in the wrong place at the same time: a teenager whose favorite pastime is smoking pot in his dreary existence, a housewife, where their best days have been left behind, a greedy businessman whose only desire is to increase his wealth and a depressed pervert.

      Markimdb: 6.6
      Genredrama, crime
      CountryUSA

      The story of the investigation and trial of abortion provider Dr Kermit Gosnell.

      Markimdb: 4.7
      Genredrama, biography, sport
      CountryUSA

      A combination "before the rage" and "after the rage" of world middleweight boxing champion Jake LaMotta's tumultuous life and times.

      Markimdb: 6.3
      Genrecomedy, drama, biography, history
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:47

      When her idyllic vacation takes an unthinkable turn, Ellen Martin begins investigating a fake insurance policy, only to find herself down a rabbit hole of questionable dealings that can be linked to a Panama City law firm and its vested interest in helping the world's wealthiest citizens amass larger fortunes.

      Markimdb: 6
      Genredrama
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:40

      Beautiful, wild, funny, and lost, Katie Kampenfelt takes a year off before college to find herself, all the while chronicling her adventures in an anonymous blog into which she pours her innermost secrets. Eventually, Katie's fearless narrative begins to crack, and dark pieces of her past emerge.

      Markimdb: 5.8
      Genremelodrama, drama
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:40

      Big Sur is a film adaptation of the Jack Kerouac autobiographical novel of the same name.

      Markimdb: 6.5
      Genremelodrama, drama, history
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:05

      Living in Kentucky prior to the Civil War, Amantha Starr is a privileged young woman. Her widower father, a wealthy plantation owner, dotes on her and he sends her to the best schools. When he dies suddenly however, Amantha's world is turned upside down. She learns that her father had been living on borrowed money and that her mother was actually a slave and her father's mistress. The plantation is to be sold to pay off her father's debts and as the daughter of slave, Amatha is also to be sold as property. She is bought by a Louisiana plantation owner, Hamish Bond and over time she grows to love him until she learns he was a slave-trader. She tries again to become part of white society but realizes that her future lies elsewhere.

      Markimdb: 7.6
      Genredrama, biography, sport
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:06

        The story of Oakland Athletics general manager Billy Beane's successful attempt to put together a baseball team on a budget, by employing computer-generated analysis to draft his players.

        Markimdb: 5
        Genrethriller, drama
        CountryUSA

        A gallerist risks her family and flourishing career when she enters into an affair with a talented painter and slowly loses control of her life.

        Markimdb: 6.9
        Genredrama, crime, biography
        CountryUSA, United Kingdom
        Duration02:09

          The true story of Whitey Bulger, the brother of a state senator and the most infamous violent criminal in the history of South Boston, who became an FBI informant to take down a Mafia family invading his turf.

          Markimdb: 6.1
          Genredrama, crime
          CountryUSA
          Duration01:28

          A boozy lowlife tries to bury the truth about his crazy stepson's suspicious death, but a nosy newspaper columnist and the young man's mother complicate matters.

          Markimdb: 6.5
          Genredrama, military, history
          CountryJapan, USA
          Duration01:45

          As the Japanese surrender at the end of WWII, Gen. Fellers is tasked with deciding if Emperor Hirohito will be hanged as a war criminal. Influencing his ruling is his quest to find Aya, an exchange student he met years earlier in the U.S.

          Markimdb: 6.6
          Genrethriller, drama
          CountryUSA, Poland
          Duration01:47

            A troubled hedge fund magnate, desperate to complete the sale of his trading empire, makes an error that forces him to turn to an unlikely person for help.

            Markimdb: 7.3
            Genredrama, biography
            CountryUSA
            Duration02:27

            The story of the five-day interview between Rolling Stone reporter David Lipsky and acclaimed novelist David Foster Wallace, which took place right after the 1996 publication of Wallace's groundbreaking epic novel, 'Infinite Jest.'

            Markimdb: 7.2
            Genremelodrama, drama
            CountryAustralia, USA
            Duration02:23

            An adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's Long Island-set novel, where Midwesterner Nick Carraway is lured into the lavish world of his neighbor, Jay Gatsby. Soon enough, however, Carraway will see through the cracks of Gatsby's nouveau riche existence, where obsession, madness, and tragedy await.

            Markimdb: 6.6
            Genredrama, family, biography, sport
            CountryUSA
            Duration01:55

            A young coach turns a losing high school football program around to go undefeated for 12 consecutive seasons.

            Markimdb: 7.7
            Genremelodrama, drama, western, biography
            CountryUSA
            Duration01:37

            Wyatt Earp and his brothers Morgan and Virgil ride into Tombstone and leave brother James in charge of their cattle herd. On their return they find their cattle stolen and James dead. Wyatt takes on the job of town marshal, making his brothers deputies, and vows to stay in Tombstone until James' killers are found. He soon runs into the brooding, coughing, hard-drinking Doc Holliday as well as the sullen and vicious Clanton clan. Wyatt discovers the owner of a trinket stolen from James' dead body and the stage is set for the Earps' long-awaited revenge.

            Markimdb: 6.5
            Genredrama, military, biography, history
            CountryUSA
            Duration02:10

            The film portrays MacArthur's (Gregory Peck) life from 1942, before the Battle of Bataan, to 1952, the time after he had been removed from his Korean War command by President Truman (Ed Flanders) for insubordination, and is recounted in flashback as he visits West Point.

            Markimdb: 7.2
            Genredrama, detective
            CountryUSA
            Duration01:31

            A doctor treats a woman suffering from Multiple Personality Disorder.




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