"Drum roll pur-leeeease!"

In the top spot is Gideon’s Daughter (2005), written and directed by Stephen Poliakoff and features Bill Nighy, Miranda Richardson and Emily Blunt. 

Nighy plays a PR guru, Gideon Warner, in a BBC drama following the British public’s spirit following Labour’s election win in 1997 and the death of Princess Diana.  Gideon meets Stella (Richardson) on a journey of self discovered fuelled by his daughter Natasha’s (Blunt) threat to leave. 

Poliakoff is a master of visual imagery and expressing human relationships and this film does not disappoint.  If you fall in love with this, which you will, his Perfect Strangers (2001) should be next on your ‘to watch’ list.

Election (1999), directed by Alexander Payne, comes in at a close second.  This drama includes Matthew Broderick, Reese Witherspoon and Chris Klein in its cast. 

Baby-faced Klein (American Pie) stars as a high school jock cajoled into standing against Tracy Flick (Witherspoon), star pupil at Carver High, by Social Studies teacher Jim McAllister (Broderick) in an election for student president. 

Jim and Tracy’s character flaws are played out in an uncomfortable and, at times, certificate 18 comedy.

Third on the list is director Alan J. Pakula's All The President’s Men (1976) starring Dustin Hoffman and Robert Redford. 

Carl Bernstein (Hoffman) and Bob Woodward (Redford) are two journalists digging for Watergate scandal scoops that set this narrative about conspiracy and hypocrisy in motion. 

Night time meetings with unnamed informants keep the suspense alive in a film that otherwise studies the story-writing process.

Dustin Hoffman swaggers his way again into this top five bringing with him Mr Robert De Niro to feature in Barry Levinson's Wag The Dog (1997). 

Conrad Bean (De Niro), a spin doctor, and Stanley Motts (Hoffman), a Hollywood producer, work to cover up a sex scandal involving the President of the United States of America just weeks before an election. 

A fictional war is the men’s tool of choice and the film highlights the public’s belief in television as reality.

Finally, we reach All The King’s Men (2006) directed by Steven Zaillian.  The all-star cast for the most recent film on the rundown includes Sean Penn, Jude Law, Anthony Hopkins and Kate Winslet. 

When Jack Burden (Law) is asked to interview Willie Stark (Penn) he does not expect to become Stark’s right hand man.  Stark’s rise to Governor of Louisiana throws him into the lives of aristocrats Judge Irwin (Hopkins) and Anne Stanton (Winslet) as he gains support from the lower classes he tries to represent. 

Betrayal and conspiracy are the main themes in a film that improves once you get over Law’s American accent in the opening sequence.

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