In “Parasite” director Bong Joon Ho’s new movie, “Mickey 17” Mark Ruffalo plays a villainous politician. He talked to CNN on ...

The dictator craze,” they called it. In the worst of the Great Depression, a time of 25% unemployment, some called for an ...

Various movies and TV series have attempted to grapple with the vexing questions posed by dictators, particularly since so many of them can rise to power with the approval of their people.

For many chroniclers of American politics and American movies, “Gabriel Over the White House” stood apart, and does still, as the sole “dictator craze” film suggesting in earnest that ...

Jorge Mota stars as the dictator, while Catarina Avelar portrays his loyal maid in the film that he co-wrote with Letícia Simões and Daniel Tavares. Check out a trailer for the movie here.

Speaking at the movie’s world premiere last Thursday, Ruffalo called his character “an amalgamation of every petty dictator that we’ve seen over the last, you know, century, all rolled into ...