Live Poll: Best Political Thriller With a Coup

It feels a little strange to compare the serious stuff of politics to 'The Lion King' or 'Robin Hood'. But on the other hand the animated animal movie is just an allegory to human behavior. So why not? What about 'Hamlet' from Kenneth Brannagh? 'Titus' with Anthony Hopkins? Shakespeare is one of the most intriguing author of good political thrillers. 'Macbeth' with Michael Fassbender?

Done but I had to keep “Which” in order to keep it in a question form.. any good suggestion to make because I don’t really want to end this with family fare; even though, technically, what I described in those films is definitely a coup.

dgranger, The current title looks a bit weird. I suggest:Best Political Thriller With a Coup?or Political Thrillers With a Coup And by the way, Stephen doesn't spell his name with a v.

Changes done.

Thank you.

You’re welcome.

Added. Thanks. I forgot about “No Escape”.

Thanks. I usually do that right away. But this time I forgot.

The Death of Stalin also includes a borderline case of coup against Beria, although he never was a de-facto leader/general secretary/whatever.

All are added. Btw. I was a political science major in college. Besides studying the constitution, history, the different types of government, political philosophy, and law,-we had to take one course studying the political history of another country. Guess which one I took! Hint, it had a very thick textbook on Josef Stalin.

Good pick. I forgot about that Shakespeare play. I even studied it in high school.

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The movie surprised me. It's a very suspense movie which is still actuall. I gave it a ten, because I was tied to the screen from beginn to the end.

Just for fun:https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1645170/ 'The Dictator' with Sacha Baron Cohen. ;D Not really seriously ment.

More serious:https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1270262/ 'The Devil's Double' with Dominic Cooper. Great charade.

Invariably...

dgranger, they do!

FYI, some these movies, like Seven Days in May (1964), had failed efforts to overthrow the government. Wouldn't using the phrase" a coup or an attempted coup" over "a coup or coup d’etat" be more accurate and cover the answer pool better?

Because I truly do believe one was attempted and it was done along the lines of political manipulation and lies. Look, i’ll Remove the reference to President Trump and a coup against him. But don’t expect me to rephrase it in such a way as to allow ether side off the hook because there was too much legally questionable activity to simply dismiss it as “Partisan politics”.

The claim would have credibility if specific individuals or organizations were expeditiously identified, accused and taken to court for behaviors consistent with an unlawful coup, otherwise it just looks like the President of the United States is either not telling the truth (blowing smoke up somebody's behind for demagoguery's sake) or intending to turn a blind eye to treason. He cannot have it both ways. The same goes for the opposite side. When the House of Representatives of the United States desires to impeach a civil officer of the United States, it had better be for treason, felony or misdemeanor, lest the Senate of the United States dismiss the charges. The situation at hand, given the way it plays out in the media, kind of makes it seem like a whole lot of elected officials on both sides have way too much to hide from the public. Does that make them all guilty? I wish I knew. Sadly, simply expressing ourselves via the ballot every two years may not be enough. Maybe it is time for a constitutional convention. Of the several States, some have already applied.

Jeorj Euler, let me start off by saying that I do have a copy of the Mueller Report and know what is in it. When the government publishes a report, they have it printed up in book form and it is available at your local bookstore or library. My copy includes mueller’s Special counsel orders and the laws governing a special counsel prosecutorial investigation to which Mueller’s investigation was. His just was to investigate for a PROSECUTOR to see if there was sufficient grounds to prosecute a person in an open court of law and it was the prosecutor who decides if there is grounds to proceed to court, not the special counsel. When Mueller passed a judgement in his report, he broke the law. But that is what the Democrats wanted Mueller to do, act as judge and jury without taking this to an open court of law where Trump could answer the charges. Look, I could go on and on about this but I can say that there is sufficient evidence out there that Trump wasn’t “blowing smoke up somebody’s behind”. A long list of names is forming.

We will see.

“ The Enemy Within” is added. I am still looking at the other two.

The other two are added

All are added.

Done.