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Political and conspiracy thrillers

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13 Days, 13 Nights

13 Days, 13 Nights (13 Jours, 13 Nuits) is a 2025 French thriller by Martin Bourboulon, adapted from Mohamed Bida's memoir of the 2021 French Embassy evacuation in Kabul, starring Roschdy Zem, premiered at Cannes 2025.

2034 (film)

2034 is an upcoming Netflix AI thriller directed by Joseph Gordon-Levitt, also known by the working title Untitled AI Thriller. Starring Rachel McAdams with Joel Edgerton and Toni Collette, produced by Rian Johnson and Ram Bergman's T-Street, filmed from May 2026 in Belgrade, Serbia, and set for a 2027 release.

A House of Dynamite

A House of Dynamite is Kathryn Bigelow's 2025 Netflix nuclear-crisis thriller, written by Noah Oppenheim, replaying 18 minutes after an unattributed missile launch toward Chicago from three perspectives, ending unresolved.

Ally Clark

Ally Clark: upcoming American conspiracy thriller directed by Phillip Noyce, written by Jose Ruisanchez and Irwin Winkler, starring Viola Davis as an investigator; Amazon MGM, JuVee, Winkler Films; filmed in Baton Rouge 2026, due 2027.

Eagles of the Republic

Eagles of the Republic (نسور الجمهورية) is Tarik Saleh's 2025 Arabic-language political thriller, third in his Cairo trilogy, about Egyptian star George Fahmy forced to play President al-Sisi in a propaganda biopic; it premiered in Cannes Competition and became Sweden's 2026 Oscar submission.

Eddington (film)

Eddington (film) is a 2025 American satirical Western drama directed by Ari Aster. It is set in a fictional New Mexico town during the early COVID-19 pandemic.

It Was Just an Accident

It Was Just an Accident (Un Simple Accident) is Jafar Panahi's 2025 Palme d'Or-winning thriller in which an Iranian ex-prisoner kidnaps a man he suspects was his torturer; France's Oscar submission, nominated for Best International Feature and Original Screenplay.

Minotaur (Минотавр) (2026 film)

Minotaur (Минотавр) is Andrey Zvyagintsev's 2026 France-Latvia-Germany drama, a loose remake of Chabrol's The Unfaithful Wife set in 2022 Russia, about a CEO ordered to supply 14 employees for mobilization who suspects his wife's affair; it won the Cannes Grand Prix.

Panic Carefully

Panic Carefully is Sam Esmail's upcoming Warner Bros. thriller starring Julia Roberts, Elizabeth Olsen, and Eddie Redmayne, a paranoid cyber-terrorist hunt set for wide theatrical release April 9, 2027.

She Walks in Darkness

She Walks in Darkness (Un fantasma en la batalla) is a 2025 Spanish thriller by Agustín Díaz Yanes, starring Susana Abaitua as a Civil Guard agent undercover in ETA for over a decade, inspired by Operation Santuario, released on Netflix in October 2025.

Taandob (তাণ্ডব)

Taandob (তাণ্ডব, Tandoob) is a 2025 Bangladeshi political action thriller directed by Raihan Rafi, starring Shakib Khan, Jaya Ahsan, and Sabila Nur, released 7 June 2025 on Eid-ul-Azha about a TV channel attack.

The Assassin(s)

The Assassin(s) (암살자(들), Amsalja(deul)) is a 2026 South Korean political thriller directed by Hur Jin-ho, starring Yoo Hae-jin, Park Hae-il, and Lee Min-ho, dramatizing the 1974 shooting of First Lady Yuk Young-soo through fictional journalists and a detective; it premiered at TIFF 2026 and opened in Korea September 23, 2026.

The Awakening (upcoming film)

The Awakening (El Despertar) is an upcoming 2026 Colombian supernatural action-horror film by the late Jaime Osorio Márquez, completed by Federico Durán and José Luis Rugeles, about soldiers facing the guardian spirit Mobuya; released in Colombia October 29 and digitally in the US November 10, 2026.

The Secret Agent (2025 film)

The Secret Agent (O Agente Secreto) is a 2025 Brazilian political thriller by Kleber Mendonça Filho, starring Wagner Moura as a man on the run in 1977 Recife during the military dictatorship; it won Cannes Best Director and Best Actor and earned four Oscar nominations.

The Social Reckoning

The Social Reckoning is a 2026 Aaron Sorkin drama and companion piece to The Social Network, dramatizing Frances Haugen's Facebook Files leaks to WSJ reporter Jeff Horwitz, starring Mikey Madison, Jeremy Allen White, and Jeremy Strong as Zuckerberg.