The Last Thing He Wanted

The Last Thing He Wanted

2020•1h 56m•4.9/10

DramaThriller

Ratings

🎬TMDb

4.9/10(530)

At the turning point of the Iran-Contra affair, Elena McMahon, a fearless investigative journalist covering the 1984 US presidential campaign, puts herself in danger when she abandons her assigned task in order to fulfill the last wish of her ailing father, a mysterious man whose past activities she barely knows.

Open in PickFlick

Production

Elevated Films, Little Red Hen, The Fyzz

Language

EN

Status

Released

Release Date

Trailers & Videos

Cast

Anne Hathaway

Anne Hathaway

Elena McMahon

Ben Affleck

Ben Affleck

Treat Morrison

Rosie Perez

Rosie Perez

Alma Guerrero

Willem Dafoe

Willem Dafoe

Richard McMahon

Edi Gathegi

Edi Gathegi

Jones

Mel Rodriguez

Mel Rodriguez

Barry Sedlow

Onata Aprile

Onata Aprile

Cat McMahon

Toby Jones

Toby Jones

Paul Schuster

Carlos Leal

Carlos Leal

Max Epperson aka Bob Weir

Ben Chase

Ben Chase

Max Berquist

Julian Gamble

Julian Gamble

Secretary George Shultz

Robert Sedgwick

Robert Sedgwick

Stewart James

Bill Kelly

Bill Kelly

General Gus Sharp

David Vadim

David Vadim

Buck Pearson

César Galindez

Red Truck Driver

Diomedes Rodriguez

Glistening Boy

Casiano Ancalle

Elderly Campesino Leader

Lee Markham

Tarmac Secret Service Agent

Betty Jeune

Female Reporter #1

Laura Niemi

Laura Niemi

Female Reporter #2

Recommended

He Loved Them All

He Loved Them All

Only three months after their wedding, Sara's marriage to Leo takes a treacherous turn as she discovers disturbing truths about his mysterious past.

He Loved Them All

2018

5.3

My Rembrandt

My Rembrandt

This is set in the world of the Old Masters and offers a mosaic of gripping stories in which unrestrained passion for Rembrandt's paintings leads to dramatic developments and unexpected plot turns.

My Rembrandt

2019

6.6

Crash Cardiaque

Crash Cardiaque

A man loses the key to his life. When he tries to find it, everything goes wrong.

Crash Cardiaque

2020

7.3

James vs. His Future Self

James vs. His Future Self

When an uptight time-travelling obsessed young scientist is visited by his nihilistic future self, he's told that he needs to give up his dream of becoming the world's first time traveler, or else. But when he won't go along with the plan, it becomes a wicked battle of man versus himself – literally.

James vs. His Future Self

2019

5.7

Opus Zero

Opus Zero

Paul, an American composer, arrives in the desert town of Real de Catorce where his father recently died. For the past ten years, Paul has been consumed with the task of composing an ending for the masterpiece of an early twentieth century musician. Being isolated from the world, he sees an opportunity to finish the symphony. However, Paul is caught up in a new mystery, the disappearance thirty years ago of a woman named Marianne.

Opus Zero

2018

5.5

Cook Off

Cook Off

A Zimbabwean single mother's life is turned upside down when her son enters her into a reality TV cooking competition.

Cook Off

2017

5.6

Five Square Meters

Five Square Meters

Álex and Virginia, a couple planning to get married, buy an apartment located in a building under construction. When there are only a few months left before the apartments are to be delivered, the works are stopped indefinitely. Álex wants a solution and will do anything to get his apartment and have the life he had dreamed of.

Five Square Meters

2011

5.8

He Never Died

He Never Died

Jack is a solitary man with a mysterious past. His strange habits will soon become stranger when his past catches up with him.

He Never Died

2015

6.2

Gloria Mundi

Gloria Mundi

Daniel leaves prison. He returns to Marseilles where Mathilda, his daughter, has just given birth. Nicolas, her spouse, a self-employed driver, is exhausted while Mathilda is a sales assistant on a trial basis. But, one night, Nicolas is assaulted by taxi drivers determined to reduce unfair competition.

Gloria Mundi

2019

6.3

Spider in the Web

Spider in the Web

A young operative is sent on a mission to follow an older agent who's behavior has come into question.

Spider in the Web

2019

5.0

Manou the Swift

Manou the Swift

The little swift Manou grows up believing he's a seagull. Learning to fly he finds out he never will be. Shocked, he runs away from home. He meets birds of his own species and finds out who he really is. When both seagulls and swifts face a dangerous threat, Manou becomes the hero of the day.

Manou the Swift

2019

6.4

He Named Me Malala

He Named Me Malala

A look at the events leading up to the Taliban's attack on the young Pakistani school girl, Malala Yousafzai, for speaking out on girls' education and the aftermath, including her speech to the United Nations.

He Named Me Malala

2015

6.7

Similar Movies

Battle

Battle

Amalie is the girl who has everything, good looks, money, a boyfriend and a big talent of dancing. One day, her world falls apart and she moves from everything she knows. Then enter Mikael. He is dancing in the streets and Amalie joins him in dancing on the streets, dancing Battles.

Battle

2018

6.3

Grasshopper

Grasshopper

Movie contains the stories of three people: Suzuki (Toma Ikuta), Kujira (Tadanobu Asano) and Semi (Ryosuke Yamada). Suzuki is a former middle school teacher. His girlfriend was killed, which led him to quit his job and attempt to take revenge on her murderer. To do so, Suzuki has to infiltrate the underground world of criminals. Kujira is a contract killer for hire. He makes his targets fall into confusion and eventually commit suicide. Semi is a contract killer who uses the knife to take out his targets.

Grasshopper

2015

5.9

Printemps tunisien

Printemps tunisien

Tunis, winter 2010, a few weeks before the fall of Ben Ali. Loyal friends Fathi, Moha, and Walid stick together to try to survive in a society ruled by corruption, fear, and injustice. Moha, the eldest and a talented musician, destroys himself with alcohol out of rage at not being able to make it big, secretly dreaming of a clandestine passage to Lampedusa. Walid, a smooth talker and handsome guy, is skilled at taking advantage of a system that disgusts him. Fathi, the youngest and most idealistic, naively hopes to get a teaching job through competitive examination and has just fallen in love with the pretty Noura, a liberated young woman who flirts with cyber-dissidence. Then, in a deprived provincial town, the suicide by fire of a young vegetable seller sets Tunisia ablaze. Each of them will see their lives turned upside down in the turmoil of this end of an era...

Printemps tunisien

2014

6.0

Scheidung auf amerikanisch

No overview available.

Scheidung auf amerikanisch

2001

2.3

Home by Christmas

Home by Christmas

A remarkable memoir of resilience, determination and love.Based on filmmaker Gaylene Preston's interviews with her father about his World War II experiences, reconstructed with actor Tony Barry as Ed Preston. Weaving strands of poetic imagined drama, and archival footage into the interview, Preston presents both sides of her parents' wartime marriage: the horror and hardship of battlefield and prison camp juxtaposed with the loneliness and grief of a young wife struggling with a newborn baby and a husband declared missing.Ed Preston, on his way home from rugby practice in 1940, joins the New Zealand Army to go to World War II. His new wife, Tui, is pregnant and distraught, but he tells her not to worry, he'll be home by Christmas. And so he is - four years later - after escaping from a prison camp in Italy. But while Ed is away, Tui has fallen in love with another man.

Home by Christmas

2010

3.7

Animals

Animals

Longtime friends and party lovers Laura and Tyler navigate life and love in Dublin, Ireland but find themselves drifting apart when Laura becomes engaged.

Animals

2019

5.5

Nástup

"The Rally" is based on a communist writer Vaclav Řezáč's well-written novel of the same name

Nástup

1953

4.0

Remote Access

Remote Access

An experimental drama about a boy and his illness, a wife looking for a site for her husband’s construction company and a beautiful girl who works on a phone sex-line.

Remote Access

2004

1.5

Ana and the Others

Ana and the Others

Twenty-something Ana, now living in Buenos Aires, returns to her native city of Paraná. She meets old school mates, old friends, makes new ones, and starts to rethink her life, and perhaps change her future.

Ana and the Others

2004

6.2

Free Radicals

Free Radicals

Following the death of Manu (Resetarits) in a car accident, the film relates the interwoven stories of several people who become indirectly connected by the events and aftermath of the crash.

Free Radicals

2003

4.3

Clement

Clement

Benoit turns 13 and develops an intense crush on his godmother, Marion. As they lie on beaches in the summer, she humors him by talking about the mysteries of women.

Clement

2001

4.7

The Senator

The Senator

Senator Arthur Alencar leads a double life. In the media and to his constituents, he portrays himself as a family man and a defensor of morals and good values. However, behind the spotlight, he is entangled in corruption schemes and maintains his sexual toy, the young Renan. But everything changes when Renan meets Victor, a daring journalist who will stop at nothing to expose the senator.

The Senator

2024

7.0