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Journalist Movies

Name: Journalist Movies
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Films about journalists investigating stories — uncovering truth, exposing corruption, and speaking truth to power.

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Title↕	Year↕	Director↕	IMDB Rating↕	Genre↕	Country↕	Runtime (min)↕	Overview↕
Citizen Kane	1941	Orson Welles	8	Mystery, Drama	United States of America	119	Newspaper magnate Charles Foster Kane is taken from his mother as a boy and made the ward of a rich industrialist. As a result, every well-meaning, tyrannical or self-destructive move he makes for the rest of his life appears in some way to be a reaction to that deeply wounding event.
La Dolce Vita	1960	Federico Fellini	8	Comedy, Drama	France	176	Episodic journey of journalist Marcello who struggles to find his place in the world, torn between the allure of Rome's elite social scene and the stifling domesticity offered by his girlfriend, all the while searching for a way to become a serious writer.
Spotlight	2015	Tom McCarthy	7.8	Drama, History	United States of America	129	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.
All the President's Men	1976	Alan J. Pakula	7.7	Drama, Mystery, Thriller	United States of America	138	During the 1972 elections, two reporters' investigation sheds light on the controversial Watergate scandal that compels President Nixon to resign from his post.
Deep Red	1975	Dario Argento	7.7	Horror, Mystery, Thriller	Italy	127	An English pianist living in Rome witnesses the brutal murder of his psychic neighbor. With the help of a tenacious young reporter, he tries to discover the killer using very unconventional methods. The two are soon drawn into a shocking web of dementia and violence.
Zodiac	2007	David Fincher	7.5	Crime, Mystery, Thriller	United States of America	157	Over the course of a decade, editors of the San Francisco Chronicle entice themselves in the murders of the Zodiac Killer. However, as time runs its course, interest in the case dwindles in the eyes of the professionals. The Killer stops interacting with the public. However, believing he has the ...
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo	2009	Niels Arden Oplev	7.5	Drama, Thriller, Crime, Mystery	Denmark	152	Swedish thriller based on Stieg Larsson's novel about a male journalist and a young female hacker. In the opening of the movie, Mikael Blomkvist, a middle-aged publisher for the magazine Millennium, loses a libel case brought by corrupt Swedish industrialist Hans-Erik Wennerström. Nevertheless, h...
Almost Famous	2000	Cameron Crowe	7.5	Drama, Music	United States of America	124	In 1973, 15-year-old William Miller's unabashed love of music and aspiration to become a rock journalist lands him an assignment from Rolling Stone magazine to interview and tour with the up-and-coming band, Stillwater.
The Devil Wears Prada	2006	David Frankel	7.4	Drama, Comedy	United States of America	109	A young woman from the Midwest gets more than she bargained for when she moves to New York to become a writer and ends up as the assistant to the tyrannical, larger-than-life editor-in-chief of a major fashion magazine.
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo	2011	David Fincher	7.4	Thriller, Crime, Mystery	Sweden	158	Disgraced journalist Mikael Blomkvist investigates the disappearance of a weary patriarch's niece from 40 years ago. He is aided by the pierced, tattooed, punk computer hacker named Lisbeth Salander. As they work together in the investigation, Blomkvist and Salander uncover immense corruption bey...
The Experiment	2001	Oliver Hirschbiegel	7.4	Drama, Thriller	Germany	120	20 volunteers agree to take part in a seemingly well-paid experiment advertised by the university. It is supposed to be about aggressive behavior in an artificial prison situation. A journalist senses a story behind the ad and smuggles himself in among the test subjects. They are randomly divided...
The Mafia Kills Only in Summer	2013	Pif	7.3	Romance, Comedy, Crime, Drama	Italy	90	While Arturo tries to gain the love of Flora, he witnesses the history of Sicily from 1969 to 1992, miraculously dodging the crimes of the Mafia and supporting as a journalist the heroic struggle of the judges and policemen who fought this infamous organization.
Ring	1998	Hideo Nakata	7.1	Horror, Thriller	Japan	96	A mysterious video has been linked to a number of deaths, and when an inquisitive journalist finds the tape and views it herself, she sets in motion a chain of events that puts her own life in danger.
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest	2009	Daniel Alfredson	7.1	Action, Thriller, Crime, Mystery	Denmark	147	After taking a bullet to the head, Salander is under close supervision in a hospital and is set to face trial for attempted murder on her eventual release. With the help of journalist Mikael Blomkvist and his researchers at Millennium magazine, Salander must prove her innocence. In doing this she...
The Post	2017	Steven Spielberg	7	Drama, History	United States of America	116	A cover-up that spanned four U.S. Presidents pushed the country's first female newspaper publisher and a hard-driving editor to join an unprecedented battle between journalist and government. Inspired by true events.
The Girl Who Played with Fire	2009	Daniel Alfredson	7	Drama, Action, Thriller, Crime, Mystery	Denmark	129	Mikael Blomkvist, publisher of Millennium magazine, has made his living exposing the crooked and corrupt practices of establishment Swedish figures. So when a young journalist approaches him with a meticulously researched thesis about sex trafficking in Sweden and those in high office who abuse u...
A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood	2019	Marielle Heller	7	History, Family, Drama	China	109	An award-winning cynical journalist, Lloyd Vogel, begrudgingly accepts an assignment to write an Esquire profile piece on the beloved television icon Fred Rogers. After his encounter with Rogers, Vogel's perspective on life is transformed.
Brain on Fire	2017	Gerard Barrett	7	Drama	Ireland	88	Susannah Cahalan, an up-and-coming journalist at the New York Post becomes plagued by voices in her head and seizures, causing a rapid descent into insanity.
Crazy Heart	2009	Scott Cooper	6.9	Drama, Music, Romance	United States of America	112	When reporter Jean Craddock interviews Bad Blake—an alcoholic, seen-better-days country music legend—they connect, and the hard-living crooner sees a possible saving grace in a life with Jean and her young son.
State of Play	2009	Kevin Macdonald	6.8	Thriller, Crime, Mystery	France	127	When a congressional aide is killed, a Washington, D.C. journalist starts investigating the case involving the Representative, his old college friend.
Morning Glory	2010	Roger Michell	6.4	Drama, Comedy, Romance	United States of America	107	A young and devoted morning television producer is hired as an executive producer on a long-running morning show at a once-prominent but currently failing station in New York City. Eager to keep the show on air, she recruits a former news journalist and anchor who disapproves of co-hosting a sho...
True Story	2015	Rupert Goold	6.3	Crime, Drama, History	United States of America	99	A drama centered on the relationship between journalist Michael Finkel and Christian Longo, an FBI Most Wanted List murderer who for years lived outside the U.S. under Finkel's name.
Loving Pablo	2017	Fernando León de Aranoa	6.3	Crime, Drama	Bulgaria	123	The film chronicles the rise and fall of the world's most feared drug lord Pablo Escobar and his volatile love affair with Colombia's most famous journalist Virginia Vallejo throughout a reign of terror that tore a country apart.
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot	2016	Glenn Ficarra	6.3	Comedy, Drama, War	United States of America	112	In 2002, cable news producer Kim Barker decides to shake up her routine by taking a daring new assignment in Kabul, Afghanistan. Dislodged from her comfortable American lifestyle, Barker finds herself in the middle of an out-of-control war zone. Luckily, she meets Tanya Vanderpoel, a fellow journ...
Never Been Kissed	1999	Raja Gosnell	6.2	Romance, Comedy, Drama	United States of America	107	Josie Geller, a baby-faced junior copywriter at the Chicago Sun-Times, must pose as a student at her former high school to research contemporary teenage culture. With the help of her brother, Rob, Josie infiltrates the inner circle of the most popular clique on campus. But she hits a major snag i...
The Mothman Prophecies	2002	Mark Pellington	6.2	Drama, Horror, Mystery	United States of America	119	Reporter John Klein is plunged into a world of impossible terror and unthinkable chaos when fate draws him to a sleepy West Virginia town whose residents are being visited by a great winged shape that sows hideous nightmares and fevered visions.
Hereafter	2010	Clint Eastwood	6.1	Drama, Fantasy	United States of America	129	Three people — a blue-collar American, a French journalist and a London school boy — are touched by death in different ways.
Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow	2004	Kerry Conran	5.9	Mystery, Action, Thriller, Science Fiction, Adventure	Italy	107	When gigantic robots attack New York City, "Sky Captain" uses his private air force to fight them off. His ex-girlfriend, reporter Polly Perkins, has been investigating the recent disappearance of prominent scientists. Suspecting a link between the global robot attacks and missing men, Sky Captai...
The Rum Diary	2011	Bruce Robinson	5.9	Comedy, Drama	United Kingdom	120	Tired of the noise and madness of New York and the crushing conventions of late Eisenhower-era America, itinerant journalist Paul Kemp travels to the pristine island of Puerto Rico to write for a local San Juan newspaper run by the downtrodden editor Lotterman. Adopting the rum-soaked lifestyle o...
Quarantine	2008	John Erick Dowdle	5.8	Horror, Science Fiction, Thriller	Spain	89	A television reporter and her cameraman are trapped inside a building quarantined by the CDC after the outbreak of a mysterious virus which turns humans into bloodthirsty killers.

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