Best British Political Dramas & Comedies
British films & TV series set in or around the world of Westminster - from drama (House of Cards) to comedy (Yes, Minister).
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- StarsPaul EddingtonNigel HawthorneDerek FowldsThe Right Honorable James Hacker has landed the plum job of Cabinet Minister to the Department of Administration. At last he is in a position of power and can carry out some long-needed reforms, or so he thinks.
- StarsPaul EddingtonNigel HawthorneDerek FowldsJames Hacker was propelled along the corridors of power to the very pinnacle of politics - Number 10.
- StarsIan RichardsonSusannah HarkerMiles AndersonThe schemes of a ruthlessly ambitious British politician who will stop at nothing to get to the top.
- CreatorArmando IannucciStarsChris AddisonJames SmithPeter CapaldiThe Minister for Social Affairs is continually harassed by Number 10's policy enforcer and dependent on his not-so-reliable team of civil servants.
- StarsJohn SimmDavid MorrisseyKelly MacdonaldJournalists uncover a government conspiracy when a young politician's assistant and mistress is killed.
- StarsRay McAnallyMarjorie YatesGeoffrey BeeversDisaster befalls the UK under a seemingly corrupt Conservative government. The Labour Party is elected - but committed to radical change, under a firmly left-wing leader. That's not supposed to happen. Who will save the traditional rulers?
- StarsChristopher EcclestonMark StrongGina McKeeDrama examining the politics and change across Britain from the Sixties to the Nineties seen through the varying fortunes of four friends.
- StarsBill PatersonLindsay DuncanFritz Müller-ScherzThe Hamburg police arrest an international businessman, charging him with smuggling heroin from Pakistan. While he's on trial, his trophy wife, a former Olympic swimmer, discovers steely ruthlessness within herself.
- StarsRobert LindsayMichael PalinDearbhla MolloyPolitician Michael Murray's life entwines with headmaster Jim Nelson's, changing their trajectories when their paths cross unexpectedly.
- DirectorKevin BillingtonStarsAnn BeachDesmond Walter-EllisPeter CookFresh-faced young Michael Rimmer worms his way into an opinion poll company and is soon running the place. He uses this as a springboard to get into politics, and in the mini-skirted, flared-trousered world of 1970 Britain, he starts to rise through the Tory ranks.
- CreatorMaurice GranLaurence MarksStarsRik MayallMichael TroughtonMarsha FitzalanThe ultra right-wing Alan B'Stard, the most selfish, greedy, dishonest, sadistic and sociopathic Conservative MP of them all, plots to achieve his meglomaniacal ambitions.
- DirectorStephen PoliakoffStarsBill NighyMiranda RichardsonEmily BluntA mature man rethinks his life when his daughter begin to ignore him.
- DirectorStephen FrearsStarsDavid MorrisseyMatt BlairMichael SheenFollows the rise to power of Tony Blair, and his friendship and rivalry with his contemporary, Gordon Brown.
- DirectorRoman PolanskiStarsEwan McGregorPierce BrosnanOlivia WilliamsA ghost writer, hired to complete the memoirs of a former British Prime Minister, uncovers secrets that put his own life in jeopardy.
- StarsDavid TennantEmily WatsonJack ShepherdPolitical drama series about a marriage between two politicians, and what happens when the wife's career starts to overshadow her husband's.
- DirectorPhyllida LloydStarsMeryl StreepJim BroadbentRichard E. GrantAn elderly Margaret Thatcher talks to the imagined presence of her recently deceased husband as she struggles to come to terms with his death while scenes from her past life, from girlhood to British prime minister, intervene.
- StarsJuliet StevensonAnton LesserTrevor EveA woman's life is turned upside down when it is revealed that her husband, a member of the British Parliament, has been having an affair with a former prostitute.
- DirectorMichael SamuelsStarsPatricia HodgeJames FoxJohn StandingOn April 2, 1982, Britain went to war to regain the Falkland Islands. This movie is a gripping account of how Prime Minister Rt Hon Margaret Thatcher MP's government handled the biggest crisis in British foreign affairs since the Suez Canal. It tells the story of how Argentina, an ally of the British, fought the Conservative government and invaded the Falklands. This play charts the backroom maneuverings between Thatcher's government and the military, between the British and the Americans, and the Americans and the Argentinians that led to a breakdown in diplomacy, to war, and to Britain's eventual victory.
- CreatorBen RichardsRobert JonesStarsAndrew BuchanShelley ConnAndrea RiseboroughFollows the lives of several young adults whose lives intertwine with their jobs in the Parliment of the United Kingdom.2007 political drama (from the makers of 'This Life') about the lives and loves of four 20-somethings, who work in and around Westminster during the later years of the New Labour government.
- StarsHattie MorahanBen MillerDaisy HaggardSatirical political comedy that focuses on the four main British political parties in the run up to the 2015 General Election.