Movies about Power
Explore films and series about power — What it does to the person who holds it. Watchin ranks titles by how strongly they explore this theme, so you can find something that fits how you feel tonight.
Watchin ranks 77 films and series about power by how strongly each one explores the theme, using a taste model built on viewer ratings rather than genre labels.
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- The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
- The Wire (2002)
- Peaky Blinders (2013)
- Vincenzo (2021)
- Once Upon a Time in America (1984)
- Succession (2018)
- Silo (2023)
- Casablanca (1943)
- The Lives of Others (2006)
- Boardwalk Empire (2010)
- The Wolf of Wall Street (2013)
- House of Cards (2013)
- You (2018)
- Locked Up (2015)
- Mayor of Kingstown (2021)
- Taboo (2017)
- L.A. Confidential (1997)
- Sacred Games (2018)
- Seaspiracy (2021)
- Making a Murderer (2015)
- Z (1969)
- Network (1976)
- Power (2014)
- The Batman (2022)
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Common questions
What are the best movies about power?
Watchin's highest-ranked films and series about power include The Shawshank Redemption, The Wire and Peaky Blinders. Ranking reflects how strongly each title explores the theme, not how recent or popular it is.
How does Watchin decide which titles are about power?
Each title is scored against power as a life topic from its story, themes and emotional tone, then ranked by audience rating among titles with enough ratings to be reliable. Titles below 250 ratings are excluded so the list is not dominated by obscure entries with a handful of perfect scores.
How many films and series about power are there?
Watchin's catalogue contains 77 titles about power that meet the ratings threshold. The full ranked list is free to browse.