Wag the Dog

Movie · 6.9 / 10 · 25 Dec 1997 · English

During the final weeks of a presidential race, the President is accused of sexual misconduct. To distract the public until the election, the President's adviser hires a Hollywood producer to help him stage a fake war.

Woman Times Seven

Movie · 6.4 / 10 · 29 Sept 1967 · English

Seven mini-stories of adultery: a widow misbehaves at her husband's funeral, a wife turns to streetwalking for revenge, a prudish girl surprises, a neglected wife vies for her husband's attention, a fight over a dress, a death pact, and a detective revealed as a jealous husband's spy.

Nothing in Common

Movie · 5.9 / 10 · 29 Jul 1986 · English

A successful advertising executive finds his freewheeling life crashing to a halt when his parents end their longtime marriage.

Switching Channels

Movie · 6.1 / 10 · 5 Mar 1988 · English

A television news chief courts his anchorwoman ex-wife with an eleventh-hour story.

The Station Agent

Movie · 7.3 / 10 · 5 Dec 2003 · English

When his only friend dies, a man born with dwarfism moves to rural New Jersey to live a life of solitude, only to meet a chatty hot dog vendor and a woman dealing with her own personal loss.

Truth

Movie · 6.5 / 10 · 16 Oct 2015 · English

As a renowned producer and close associate of Dan Rather, Mary Mapes believes she’s broken the biggest story of the 2004 election: revelations of a sitting U.S. President’s military service. But when allegations come pouring in, sources change their stories, document authenticity is questioned, and the casualties begin to mount.

The Best Man

Movie · 7.3 / 10 · 5 Apr 1964 · English

The other party is in disarray. Five men vie for the party nomination for president. No one has a majority as the first ballot closes and the front-runners begin to decide how badly they want the job.

Game Change

Movie · 6.9 / 10 · 28 Feb 2012 · English

During the Republican run of the 2008 Presidential election, 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.

Ping Pong Playa

Movie · 5.9 / 10 · 8 Sept 2008 · English

Streetwise swaggering Christopher "C-Dub" Wang is a suburban guy who waxes political on all things Asian American and clings to pro basketball pipe dreams. But when misfortune strikes his family, C-dub must overcome living at home, working a dead-end job and his worldly older brother, to run his Mom's ping pong classes and defend the family's athletic dynasty.

The Pumpkin Eater

Movie · 6.7 / 10 · 16 Jul 1964 · English

Jo, the mother of seven children, divorces her second husband in order to marry Jake, a successful but promiscuous screenwriter. Though they are physically and emotionally compatible, they are slowly torn apart.

The Parts You Lose

Movie · 6.7 / 10 · 14 Mar 2019 · English

An unlikely friendship unfolds between a young deaf boy, Wesley, and a fugitive criminal who takes refuge in an abandoned barn on the family’s rural North Dakota farm.

Winged Creatures

Movie · 5.9 / 10 · 8 Jul 2009 · English

A psychotic man opens fire in a diner, murdering numerous people before killing himself. The survivors struggle in different ways following this horrendous event: a doctor doubts his own instincts and elects to use an experimental medical procedure on his wife, while a gambler believes he's on a lucky streak. A waitress begins engaging in promiscuous sex, and a young girl whose father is among the dead gains unexpected fame.