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1. Spotlight (I) (2015)
R | 129 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
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.
Director: Tom McCarthy | Stars: Mark Ruffalo, Michael Keaton, Rachel McAdams, Liev Schreiber
Votes: 502,709 | Gross: $45.06M
2. She Said (2022)
R | 129 min | Drama, History
Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey's quest to break the Harvey Weinstein scandal.
Director: Maria Schrader | Stars: Zoe Kazan, Carey Mulligan, Patricia Clarkson, Lola Petticrew
Votes: 39,925
3. All the President's Men (1976)
PG | 138 min | Drama, History, Thriller
"The Washington Post" reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein uncover the details of the Watergate scandal that leads to President Richard Nixon's resignation.
Director: Alan J. Pakula | Stars: Dustin Hoffman, Robert Redford, Jack Warden, Martin Balsam
Votes: 126,226 | Gross: $70.60M
4. Shattered Glass (2003)
PG-13 | 94 min | Drama, History
The story of a young journalist who fell from grace when it was discovered he fabricated over half of his articles from the publication The New Republic magazine.
Director: Billy Ray | Stars: Hayden Christensen, Chloë Sevigny, Steve Zahn, Peter Sarsgaard
Votes: 37,713 | Gross: $2.22M
5. True Story (I) (2015)
R | 99 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
When disgraced New York Times reporter Michael Finkel meets accused killer Christian Longo - who has taken on Finkel's identity - his investigation morphs into a game of cat-and-mouse.
Director: Rupert Goold | Stars: James Franco, Jonah Hill, Felicity Jones, Maria Dizzia
Votes: 73,003 | Gross: $4.72M
6. Mr. Jones (2019)
119 min | Biography, Drama, Thriller
A Welsh journalist breaks the news in the western media of the famine in Ukraine in the early 1930s.
Director: Agnieszka Holland | Stars: James Norton, Vanessa Kirby, Peter Sarsgaard, Joseph Mawle
Votes: 16,297
7. Kill the Messenger (2014)
R | 112 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
Journalist Gary Webb, California 1996, started investigating CIA's role in the 1980s in getting crack cocaine to the black part of LA to get money and weapons to the Contra insurgents in Nicaragua.
Director: Michael Cuesta | Stars: Jeremy Renner, Robert Patrick, Jena Sims, Robert Pralgo
Votes: 48,786 | Gross: $2.45M
8. Shock and Awe (2017)
R | 90 min | Biography, Drama, History
A group of journalists of the Knight-Ridder news service covering President George W. Bush's planned invasion of Iraq in 2003 are skeptical of the President's claim that Saddam Hussein has "weapons of mass destruction."
Director: Rob Reiner | Stars: Woody Harrelson, James Marsden, Rob Reiner, Tommy Lee Jones
Votes: 8,692 | Gross: $0.08M
9. Flag Day (2021)
R | 109 min | Crime, Drama
A father lives a double life as a counterfeiter, bank robber and con man in order to provide for his daughter.
Director: Sean Penn | Stars: Mitchell McCormick, Tom Anniko, Dylan Penn, Regina King
Votes: 3,589
10. The Fifth Estate (2013)
R | 128 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
A dramatic thriller based on real events that reveals the quest to expose the deceptions and corruptions of power that turned an Internet upstart into the 21st century's most fiercely debated organization.
Director: Bill Condon | Stars: Benedict Cumberbatch, Daniel Brühl, Carice van Houten, Alicia Vikander
Votes: 42,733 | Gross: $3.25M
11. Call Northside 777 (1948)
Approved | 112 min | Drama, Film-Noir
Chicago reporter P.J. McNeal re-opens a decade-old murder case.
Director: Henry Hathaway | Stars: James Stewart, Richard Conte, Lee J. Cobb, Helen Walker
Votes: 10,261
12. Bordertown (2007)
R | 112 min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller
A journalist investigates a series of murders near American-owned factories on the border of Juarez and El Paso.
Director: Gregory Nava | Stars: Jennifer Lopez, Antonio Banderas, Maya Zapata, Irineo Alvarez
Votes: 11,405
13. 10 Days in a Madhouse (2015)
R | 111 min | Drama, History
In 1887, 23-year-old reporter Nellie Bly, working for Joseph Pulitzer, feigns mental illness to go undercover in notorious Blackwell's Island, a mental institution for women, to expose corruption, abuse, and murder.
Director: Timothy Hines | Stars: Caroline Barry, Christopher Lambert, Kelly LeBrock, Julia Chantrey
Votes: 2,846 | Gross: $0.01M
14. Balibo (2009)
Not Rated | 111 min | Biography, Drama, History
War correspondent Roger East and the young Jose Ramos-Horta travel to East Timor to investigate the murders of the Balibo Five in 1975.
Director: Robert Connolly | Stars: Jane Hampson, Bea Viegas, Christine Martins, Ana Rosa Mendoça
Votes: 2,928
15. The Best Is Yet to Come (2020)
114 min | Drama
China, 2003. Bright-eyed and bushy-tailed journalism intern Han Dong decides to change the fate of 100 million people with a single article.
Director: Jing Wang | Stars: White-K, Miao Miao, Songwen Zhang, Yang Song
Votes: 325
16. Booger Red (2015)
96 min | Drama
Booger Red is a hybrid documentary/narrative about a veteran reporter who searches for the truth behind the largest purported child sex ring in Texas history. On his journey through the ... See full summary »
Director: Berndt Mader | Stars: Onur Tukel, Marija Karan, Deborah Abbott, Tim Ajro
Votes: 31
17. The Clearstream Affair (2014)
Not Rated | 106 min | Thriller
In this French thriller, journalist Denis Robert sets the world of finance ablaze when he exposes a major European bank's opaque operations. In his search for the truth, he uncovers a dark political financial machine of bribes and threats.
Director: Vincent Garenq | Stars: Gilles Lellouche, Charles Berling, Laurent Capelluto, Florence Loiret Caille
Votes: 1,008
18. The Adventures of Nellie Bly (1981 TV Movie)
96 min | Drama
Follows pioneer nineteenth-century female journalist Nellie Bly and her exposes of corruption in New York City.
Director: Henning Schellerup | Stars: Linda Purl, Gene Barry, Ray Buktenica, John Randolph
Votes: 34
19. White Lies, Black Lies (2015)
94 min | Crime, Mystery, Romance
The body of a shop owner's wife is found beheaded in the basement and the shop owner is the suspect.
Director: Yi-an Lou | Stars: Wei-Ning Hsu, Bo-Chieh Wang, Annie Chen, Teng-Hui Huang
Votes: 317
20. Keisari Aarnio (2018)
60 min | Crime, Drama
Stars: Kirsi Ylijoki, Pilvi Hämäläinen, Kari Hietalahti, Leena Pöysti
Votes: 267
21. Mr Paul (2016 TV Movie)
92 min | Crime, Drama, History
It's 1972 and reporter Franck Jourdan is getting obsessed in an investigation to bring Paul Touvier to trial for crimes against humanity. During his quest, Jourdan discovers how Touvier remained hidden from the authorities all those years.
Director: Olivier Schatzky | Stars: Laurent Gerra, François Morel, Hélène Alexandridis, Madalina Constantin
Votes: 45
22. Historias y testigos: ¡Ni una muerta mas! (2004 TV Movie)
120 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
As a young reporter, Valentina (Fabiola Campomanes) finds out that one of her childhood friends has been killed, her investigation leads to the unsolved murders of more than 300 women in the city of Juarez, Mexico.
Director: René Cardona III | Stars: Fabiola Campomanes, José Luis Franco, Patricio Castillo, Roberto Mateos
Votes: 8