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Kanopy
86
8.1
/528320/
79
/18062/
78
/8561/
4.1
/556857/
97
/379/
93
/2952/
93
/45/
cc age 15+

Spotlight (2015)
The true story of how the Boston Globe uncovered the massive scandal of child molestation and cover-up within the local Catholic Archdiocese, shaking the entire Catholic Church to its core.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
81
7.5
/21024/
76
/1131/
71
/285/
3.7
/16115/
97
/117/
87
/982/
82
/37/

Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room (2005)
A documentary about the Enron corporation, its faulty and corrupt business practices, and how they led to its fall.
poster
80
7.4
/35287/
73
/861/
72
/496/
3.8
/20218/
88
/42/
81
/448/
81
/16/
cc age 13+

The China Syndrome (1979)
While doing a series of reports on alternative energy sources, opportunistic reporter Kimberly Wells witnesses an accident at a nuclear power plant. Wells is determined to publicize the incident, but soon finds herself entangled in a sinister conspiracy to keep the full impact of the incident a secret.
poster
77
7.5
/28117/
73
/599/
70
/309/
3.8
/19822/
100
/31/
79
/782/
70
/16/
cc age 14+

Roger & Me (1989)
A documentary about the closure of General Motors' plant at Flint, Michigan, which resulted in the loss of 30,000 jobs. Details the attempts of filmmaker Michael Moore to get an interview with GM CEO Roger Smith.
poster
Kanopy
76
7.1
/39648/
69
/618/
69
/456/
3.4
/49673/
92
/163/
79
/1300/
73
/38/
cc age 13+

Shattered Glass (2003)
The true story of fraudulent Washington, D.C. journalist Stephen Glass, who rose to meteoric heights as a young writer in his 20s, becoming a staff writer at The New Republic for three years. Looking for a short cut to fame, Glass concocted sources, quotes and even entire stories, but his deception did not go unnoticed forever, and eventually, his world came crumbling down.
poster
Kanopy
74
7.4
/9507/
75
/501/
70
/148/
3.5
/3420/
84
/70/
74
/186/
76
/18/

Dirty Wars (2013)
Investigative journalist, Jeremy Scahill is pulled into an unexpected journey as he chases down the hidden truth behind America's expanding covert wars, and examines how the US government has responded to international terrorist threats in ways that seem to go against the established laws of the land.
poster
73
7.0
/16163/
69
/277/
64
/169/
3.6
/7671/
93
/44/
78
/282/
70
/26/
cc age 17+

Bob Roberts (1992)
Millionaire conservative Bob Roberts launches an insurgent campaign against incumbent senator Brickley Paiste, firing up crowds at his rallies by singing '60s-style acoustic folk songs with lyrics espousing far-right conservative social and economic views.
poster
MGM Plus
73
7.1
/24109/
70
/629/
68
/341/
3.8
/51916/
87
/46/
77
/400/
65
/12/

The Parallax View (1974)
An ambitious reporter gets in trouble while investigating a senator's assassination which leads to a vast conspiracy involving a multinational corporation behind every event in the world's headlines.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
73
7.0
/15960/
71
/1273/
69
/435/
3.5
/16662/
83
/6/
75
/274/
cc age 14+

Superman vs. The Elite (2012)
The Man of Steel finds himself outshone by a new team of ruthless superheroes who hold his idealism in contempt.
poster
Kanopy
75
72
7.2
/6777/
71
/256/
68
/162/
3.7
/5104/
86
/14/
84
/113/

The Day the Earth Caught Fire (1961)
British reporters suspect an international cover-up of a global disaster in progress... and they're right. Hysterical panic has engulfed the world after the United States and the Soviet Union simultaneously detonate nuclear devices and have caused the orbit of the Earth to alter, sending it hurtling towards the sun.
poster
71
7.2
/2285/
70
/74/
61
/22/
3.5
/1882/
87
/38/
72
/86/
69
/29/

The Eyes of Tammy Faye (2000)
A documentary look, mostly through the eyes of Tammy Faye Bakker Messner, at her rise and fall as a popular televangelist with husband Jim Bakker.
poster
71
7.1
/165327/
71
/4049/
67
/2060/
3.3
/48840/
84
/213/
73
/6318/
64
/36/
cc age 15+

State of Play (2009)
When a congressional aide is killed, a Washington, D.C. journalist starts investigating the case involving the Representative, his old college friend.
poster
75
70
7.4
/8238/
72
/225/
69
/127/
3.5
/7914/
88
/8/
78
/55/

The Night Stalker (1972)
Wisecracking reporter Carl Kolchak investigates a string of murders in Las Vegas and suspects the culprit is a vampire. His editor thinks he's crazy and the police think he's a nuisance, so Kolchak takes matters into his own hands.
poster
69
6.9
/16277/
70
/334/
66
/237/
3.4
/9732/
82
/28/
64
/171/
64
/12/

Absence of Malice (1981)
Megan Carter is a reporter duped into running an untrue story on Michael Gallagher, a suspected racketeer. He has an alibi for the time his crime was allegedly committed—but it involves an innocent party. When he tells Carter the truth and the newspaper runs it, tragedy follows, forcing Carter to face up to the responsibilities of her job when she is confronted by Gallagher.
poster
73
69
7.4
/11274/
74
/231/
67
/168/
3.6
/7280/
81
/21/
74
/147/

Call Northside 777 (1948)
In 1932, a cop is killed and Frank Wiecek sentenced to life. Eleven years later, a newspaper ad by Frank's mother leads Chicago reporter P.J. O'Neal to look into the case. For some time, O'Neal continues to believe Frank guilty. But when he starts to change his mind, he meets increased resistance from authorities unwilling to be proved wrong.
poster
Fandango at Home Free
68
6.8
/3627/
59
/56/
63
/50/
3.5
/1051/
71
/72/
77
/123/
63
/27/

Crónicas (2004)
A suspense thriller about a reporter from Miami who travels to Ecuador in pursuit of a serial killer known as the "Monster of Babahoyo."
poster
68
6.9
/49937/
69
/2235/
66
/888/
3.3
/13811/
76
/129/
69
/437/
60
/36/
cc age 16+

Kill the Messenger (2014)
A reporter becomes the target of a vicious smear campaign that drives him to the point of suicide after he exposes the CIA's role in arming Contra rebels in Nicaragua and importing cocaine into California. Based on the true story of journalist Gary Webb.
poster
78
67
7.3
/4705/
73
/137/
66
/79/
3.5
/4230/
100
/6/
87
/27/

The Night Strangler (1973)
After being run out of Las Vegas, reporter Carl Kolchak heads for Seattle and another reporting job with the local paper. It's not long before he’s on the trail of another string of bizarre murders. It seems that every 21 years, for the past century, a killer murders a certain number of people, drains them of their blood, and then disappears into the night. Kolchak is on his trail, but can he stop him?
poster
Amazon Prime Video
67
6.7
/14899/
67
/282/
66
/297/
3.3
/18367/
63
/82/
74
/475/
60
/29/

The Crime of Padre Amaro (2002)
Sent to Mexico to help take care of aging Father Benito, young Father Amaro faces a moral challenge when he meets a 16-year-old girl who he starts an affair with. Likewise, the girl's mother had been having an affair with Father Benito. Father Amaro must choose between a holy or sinful life.
poster
67
7.3
/65524/
74
/2462/
72
/1431/
3.4
/25614/
58
/153/
79
/867/
51
/31/
cc age 12+

Woman in Gold (2015)
Maria Altmann, an octogenarian Jewish refugee, takes on the Austrian government to recover a world famous painting of her aunt plundered by the Nazis during World War II, she believes rightfully belongs to her family. She did so not just to regain what was rightfully hers, but also to obtain some measure of justice for the death, destruction, and massive art theft perpetrated by the Nazis.
poster
fuboTV
66
6.4
/26634/
66
/1833/
62
/366/
3.2
/62719/
86
/127/
74
/39/
64
/32/
cc age 15+

Confess, Fletch (2022)
The roguishly charming and endlessly troublesome Fletch becomes the prime suspect in a murder case while searching for a stolen art collection. The only way to prove his innocence? Find out which of the long list of suspects is the culprit - from the eccentric art dealer and a missing playboy to a crazy neighbor and Fletch’s Italian girlfriend. Crime, in fact, has never been this disorganized.
poster
Kanopy
66
6.4
/53012/
66
/3216/
62
/1612/
3.3
/86551/
80
/234/
59
/478/
63
/45/
cc age 16+

Unsane (2018)
A woman is involuntarily committed to a mental institution where she is confronted by her greatest fear.
poster
HBO Max Amazon Channel
66
7.1
/857744/
70
/33813/
66
/15803/
3.0
/836228/
57
/341/
75
/27142/
55
/47/
cc age 12+

Man of Steel (2013)
A young boy learns that he has extraordinary powers and is not of this earth. As a young man, he journeys to discover where he came from and what he was sent here to do. But the hero in him must emerge if he is to save the world from annihilation and become the symbol of hope for all mankind.
poster
Hulu
64
6.5
/39993/
67
/2567/
66
/796/
3.1
/66847/
67
/141/
67
/86/
58
/30/
cc age 15+

Boston Strangler (2023)
Reporters Loretta McLaughlin and Jean Cole bravely pursue the story of the Boston Strangler at great personal risk, putting their own lives on the line in their quest to uncover the truth.
poster
HBO Max Amazon Channel
64
6.5
/8134/
68
/390/
61
/184/
3.1
/6931/
69
/39/
48
/42/

Paterno (2018)
After becoming the winningest coach in college football history, Joe Paterno is embroiled in Penn State's Jerry Sandusky sexual abuse scandal, challenging his legacy and forcing him to face questions of institutional failure regarding the victims.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
63
6.9
/24618/
69
/1952/
67
/683/
3.2
/21092/
57
/7/
57
/1290/
cc age 11+

Superman: Doomsday (2007)
When LexCorp accidentally unleashes a murderous creature, Superman meets his greatest challenge as a champion. Based on the "The Death of Superman" storyline that appeared in DC Comics' publications in the 1990s.
poster
63
6.6
/102374/
70
/3183/
66
/1695/
3.3
/59994/
56
/52/
61
/1266/
51
/15/
cc age 14+

The Pelican Brief (1993)
A law student's theory about the recent deaths of two Supreme Court justices embroils her in a far-reaching web of murder, corruption, and greed.
poster
Kanopy
62
7.1
/397463/
70
/11108/
67
/6467/
3.3
/437761/
72
/214/
48
/1231294/
57
/36/
cc age 16+

The Ring (2002)
Rachel Keller is a journalist investigating a videotape that may have killed four teenagers. There is an urban legend about this tape: the viewer will die seven days after watching it. Rachel tracks down the video... and watches it. Now she has just seven days to unravel the mystery of the Ring so she can save herself and her son.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
61
6.8
/26752/
68
/785/
67
/487/
3.4
/14034/
64
/22/
59
/392/
38
/8/

Capricorn One (1977)
In order to protect the reputation of the American space program, a team of NASA administrators turn the first Mars mission into a phony Mars landing. Under threat of harm to their families the astronauts play their part in the deception on a staged set in a deserted military base. But once the real ship returns to Earth and burns up on re-entry, the astronauts become liabilities. Now, with the help of a crusading reporter, they must battle a sinister conspiracy that will stop at nothing to keep the truth hidden.
poster
59
5.9
/2078/
60
/61/
59
/43/
3.0
/1273/
67
/1350/

Hero at Large (1980)
An idealistic but struggling actor finds his life unexpectedly complicated when he stops a robbery while wearing the costume of Captain Avenger, a superhero character of a film he is hired to promote. He decides to dabble at being a superhero only to find that it is more difficult and dangerous than he ever imagined.
poster
Netflix
60
58
6.0
/11885/
60
/309/
63
/345/
2.8
/2066/
64
/600/

Bordertown (2007)
American corporations are using the North American Free Trade Agreement by opening large maquiladoras right across the United States–Mexico border. The maquiladoras hire mostly Mexican women to work long hours for little money in order to produce mass quantity products. Lauren Adrian, an impassioned American news reporter for the Chicago Sentinel wants to be assigned to the Iraq front-lines to cover the war. Instead, her editor George Morgan assigns her to investigate a series of slayings involving young maquiladora factory women in a Mexican bordertown.
poster
58
6.4
/37151/
66
/1280/
61
/758/
3.0
/10835/
55
/116/
45
/528/
57
/35/
cc age 16+

The Company You Keep (2012)
A former Weather Underground activist goes on the run from a journalist who discovers his identity.
poster
Kanopy
56
6.2
/1180/
64
/59/
56
/17/
3.2
/296/
48
/40/
43
/26/
52
/17/

Chasing Madoff (2010)
A look at how one investigator spent ten years trying to expose Bernie Madoff's massive Ponzi scheme that scammed an estimated $18 billion from investors.
poster
70
56
7.1
/3104/
70
/35/
66
/41/
3.4
/1388/
80
/10/
78
/69/
58
/6/

Man of a Thousand Faces (1957)
The turbulent life and professional career of vaudeville actor and silent screen horror star Lon Chaney (1883-1930), the man of a thousand faces; bearer of many personal misfortunes that even his great success could not mitigate.
poster
HBO Max Amazon Channel
67
56
7.2
/4130/
74
/67/
68
/59/
3.5
/1888/
50
/6/
71
/42/

Each Dawn I Die (1939)
A corrupt D.A. with governatorial ambitions is annoyed by an investigative reporter's criticism of his criminal activities and decides to frame the reporter for manslaughter in order to silence him.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
56
6.0
/4335/
53
/55/
61
/75/
3.1
/1373/
48
/123/
33
/99/
47
/36/
cc age 16+

Silver City (2004)
The discovery of a corpse and the ensuing probe by an idealistic journalist threatens to unravel a bumbling local politician's campaign for governor of Colorado.
poster
Netflix
70
54
6.5
/2413/
69
/298/
72
/97/
3.5
/5442/
83
/6/
65
/2/
cc age 15+

Cyber Hell: Exposing an Internet Horror (2022)
Anonymous and exploitative, a network of online chat rooms ran rampant with sex crimes. The hunt to take down its operators required guts and tenacity.
poster
HBO Max Amazon Channel
54
6.4
/784475/
65
/45831/
59
/18621/
2.5
/863352/
28
/436/
63
/26628/
44
/51/
cc age 13+

Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016)
Fearing the actions of a god-like Super Hero left unchecked, Gotham City’s own formidable, forceful vigilante takes on Metropolis’s most revered, modern-day savior, while the world wrestles with what sort of hero it really needs. And with Batman and Superman at war with one another, a new threat quickly arises, putting mankind in greater danger than it’s ever known before.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
65
53
6.8
/2878/
68
/181/
67
/60/
3.2
/5014/
58
/31/

The Woman Who Wasn't There (2012)
Tania Head was the ultimate 9/11 survivor. She had the grimmest story. None of it was true.
poster
Netflix
52
5.7
/41490/
55
/1044/
55
/788/
2.8
/23299/
45
/143/
33
/860/
45
/38/
cc age 18+

The Paperboy (2012)
A reporter returns to his Florida hometown to investigate a case involving a death row inmate.
poster
67
51
7.2
/3022/
68
/46/
66
/41/
3.4
/1964/
61
/548/

Storm Warning (1951)
A fashion model witnesses the brutal assassination of an investigative journalist by the Ku Klux Klan while traveling to a small town to visit her sister.
poster
51
6.1
/24254/
65
/682/
60
/318/
2.9
/9632/
38
/32/
55
/411/
40
/19/

Fletch Lives (1989)
Fletch is a fish out of water in small-town Louisiana, where he's checking out a tumbledown mansion he's inherited. When a woman he flirts with turns up dead, he becomes a suspect and must find the killer and clear his name.
poster
68
50
6.5
/1639/
62
/27/
65
/57/
3.4
/2423/
84
/270/

Love in the City (1953)
Six vignettes explore love and desire in Rome, from prostitution and heartache to unwed motherhood and the male gaze.
poster
Kanopy
50
6.1
/8935/
59
/126/
58
/126/
2.9
/2294/
40
/35/
30
/71/
43
/20/

Palmetto (1998)
After being released from prison on a bum charge, Harry Barber is out for payback to regain his lost two years. He's hired by Mrs. Malroux to fake the kidnapping of her stepdaughter (the daughter of a dying millionaire). He discovers that he is being set up on multiple levels and will soon face a longer sentence if he doesn't prove the truth.
poster
Fandor
49
5.8
/10003/
61
/196/
56
/192/
3.0
/5205/
45
/20/
38
/115/

The Osterman Weekend (1983)
The host of an investigative news show is convinced by the CIA that the friends he has invited to a weekend in the country are engaged in a conspiracy that threatens national security.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
47
6.1
/49089/
63
/1626/
59
/1048/
2.6
/8424/
28
/78/
39
/587/
38
/21/
cc age 17+

Seeking Justice (2011)
After his wife is assaulted, a husband enlists the services of a vigilante group to help him settle the score.
poster
Hoopla
46
4.8
/473/
60
/17/
43
/8/
51
/14/
25
/6/

Deadline (2012)
Deadline is the story of the murder of an African American youth in rural Alabama that has gone uninvestigated, unsolved, and unpunished for almost twenty years. That changes when Nashville Times reporter Matt Harper (Steve Talley) meets an idealistic young blueblood bent on discovering the truth. Harper undertakes the investigation despite the opposition of his publisher, violent threats from mysterious forces, a break-up with his fiancée, and his father's cancer diagnosis.
poster
Kanopy
45
5.7
/53687/
61
/1598/
58
/980/
2.6
/17451/
9
/141/
51
/8668/
31
/31/
cc age 18+

Perfect Stranger (2007)
A journalist goes undercover to ferret out businessman Harrison Hill as her best friend's killer. Posing as one of his temps, she enters into a game of online cat-and-mouse.


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