News, TV and Journalism.
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1. 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: 48,772 | Gross: $2.45M
2. Walk of Shame (2014)
R | 95 min | Comedy
A reporter's dream of becoming a news anchor is compromised after a one-night stand leaves her stranded in downtown L.A. without a phone, car, ID or money - and only 8 hours to make it to the most important job interview of her life.
Director: Steven Brill | Stars: Elizabeth Banks, James Marsden, Gillian Jacobs, Sarah Wright
Votes: 57,121 | Gross: $0.04M
3. Nightcrawler (2014)
R | 117 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
When Louis Bloom, a con man desperate for work, muscles into the world of L.A. crime journalism, he blurs the line between observer and participant to become the star of his own story.
Director: Dan Gilroy | Stars: Jake Gyllenhaal, Rene Russo, Bill Paxton, Riz Ahmed
Votes: 605,056 | Gross: $32.38M
4. The Interview (II) (2014)
R | 112 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
Dave Skylark and his producer Aaron Rapaport run the celebrity tabloid show "Skylark Tonight". When they land an interview with a surprise fan, North Korean dictator Jong-Un Kim, they are recruited by the CIA to assassinate him.
Directors: Evan Goldberg, Seth Rogen | Stars: James Franco, Seth Rogen, Randall Park, Lizzy Caplan
Votes: 354,937 | Gross: $6.11M
5. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2014)
PG-13 | 101 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
When a kingpin threatens New York City, a group of mutated turtle warriors must emerge from the shadows to protect their home.
Director: Jonathan Liebesman | Stars: Megan Fox, Will Arnett, William Fichtner, Noel Fisher
Votes: 220,074 | Gross: $191.20M
6. Nancy Drew... Reporter (1939)
Approved | 68 min | Comedy, Crime, Family
Nancy Drew, contest-reporter for the local newspaper, clears a young woman of murder charges.
Director: William Clemens | Stars: Bonita Granville, John Litel, Frankie Thomas, Dickie Jones
Votes: 1,462
7. Natural Born Killers (1994)
R | 119 min | Action, Crime, Romance
Two victims of traumatized childhoods become lovers and psychopathic serial murderers irresponsibly glorified by the mass media.
Director: Oliver Stone | Stars: Woody Harrelson, Juliette Lewis, Tom Sizemore, Rodney Dangerfield
Votes: 251,941 | Gross: $50.28M
8. Strange Wilderness (2008)
R | 87 min | Adventure, Comedy
With the ratings dropping for a wilderness-themed television show, two animal fans go to the Andes Mountains in search of Bigfoot.
Director: Fred Wolf | Stars: Steve Zahn, Allen Covert, Justin Long, Jonah Hill
Votes: 22,763 | Gross: $6.56M
9. The Eichmann Show (2015 TV Movie)
96 min | Drama, History
Dramatisation of the team hoping to televise the trial of Adolf Eichmann, an infamous Nazi responsible for the deaths of millions of Jews. It focuses on Leo Hurwitz, a documentary film-maker and Milton Fruchtman, a producer.
Director: Paul Andrew Williams | Stars: Martin Freeman, Anthony LaPaglia, Rebecca Front, Andy Nyman
Votes: 5,063
10. Kit Kittredge: An American Girl (2008)
G | 101 min | Comedy, Drama, Family
Set in Cincinnati at the height of the Great Depression, Kit Kittredge, a resourceful young girl, helps her mother run a boardinghouse after her father loses his job.
Director: Patricia Rozema | Stars: Abigail Breslin, Stanley Tucci, Joan Cusack, Julia Ormond
Votes: 6,344 | Gross: $17.66M
11. Life (I) (2015)
R | 111 min | Biography, Drama
A photographer for LIFE Magazine is assigned to shoot pictures of James Dean.
Director: Anton Corbijn | Stars: Robert Pattinson, Dane DeHaan, Peter Lucas, Lauren Gallagher
Votes: 8,885
12. The Program (II) (2015)
R | 99 min | Biography, Drama, Sport
An Irish sports journalist becomes convinced that Lance Armstrong's performances during the Tour de France victories are fueled by banned substances. With this conviction, he starts hunting for evidence that will expose Armstrong.
Director: Stephen Frears | Stars: Ben Foster, Chris O'Dowd, Guillaume Canet, Jesse Plemons
Votes: 19,420
13. Perfect Stranger (2007)
R | 109 min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller
A journalist goes undercover to ferret out businessman Harrison Hill as her childhood friend's killer. Posing as one of his temps, she enters into a game of online cat-and-mouse.
Director: James Foley | Stars: Halle Berry, Bruce Willis, Giovanni Ribisi, Richard Portnow
Votes: 51,180 | Gross: $23.98M
14. Whiskey Tango Foxtrot (2016)
R | 112 min | Biography, Comedy, Drama
A journalist recounts her wartime coverage in Afghanistan.
Directors: Glenn Ficarra, John Requa | Stars: Tina Fey, Margot Robbie, Martin Freeman, Alfred Molina
Votes: 56,676 | Gross: $23.05M
15. Uncanny (2015)
Not Rated | 85 min | Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
The world's first "perfect" Artificial Intelligence begins to exhibit startling and unnerving emergent behavior when a reporter begins a relationship with the scientist who created it.
Director: Matthew Leutwyler | Stars: Mark Webber, David Clayton Rogers, Lucy Griffiths, Rainn Wilson
Votes: 5,944
16. Top Five (2014)
R | 102 min | Comedy, Romance
A comedian tries to make it as a serious actor when his reality television star fiancée talks him into broadcasting their wedding on her television show.
Director: Chris Rock | Stars: Chris Rock, Rosario Dawson, Gabrielle Union, Kevin Hart
Votes: 27,661 | Gross: $25.28M
17. Truth (I) (2015)
R | 125 min | Biography, Drama, History
Newsroom drama detailing the 2004 CBS "60 Minutes" report investigating then-President George W. Bush's military service, and the subsequent firestorm of criticism that cost anchor Dan Rather and producer Mary Mapes their careers.
Director: James Vanderbilt | Stars: Cate Blanchett, Robert Redford, Dennis Quaid, Elisabeth Moss
Votes: 21,248 | Gross: $2.54M
18. Money Monster (2016)
R | 98 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Financial TV host Lee Gates and his producer Patty are put in an extreme situation when an irate investor takes them and their crew as hostage.
Director: Jodie Foster | Stars: George Clooney, Julia Roberts, Jack O'Connell, Dominic West
Votes: 105,326 | Gross: $41.01M
19. Manhattan Night (2016)
R | 113 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A reporter becomes involved with a mysterious woman while investigating her late husband's death.
Director: Brian DeCubellis | Stars: Adrien Brody, Yvonne Strahovski, Campbell Scott, Jennifer Beals
Votes: 13,767
20. The End of the Tour (2015)
R | 106 min | Biography, Drama
The story of the five-day interview between Rolling Stone reporter David Lipsky and acclaimed novelist David Foster Wallace, which took place right after the 1996 publication of Wallace's groundbreaking epic novel, 'Infinite Jest.'
Director: James Ponsoldt | Stars: Jason Segel, Jesse Eisenberg, Anna Chlumsky, Mamie Gummer
Votes: 32,595 | Gross: $2.99M
21. Rosewater (2014)
R | 103 min | Biography, Drama
Iranian-Canadian journalist Maziar Bahari is detained by Iranian forces who brutally interrogate him under suspicion that he is a spy.
Director: Jon Stewart | Stars: Gael García Bernal, Kim Bodnia, Dimitri Leonidas, Haluk Bilginer
Votes: 10,971 | Gross: $3.13M
22. The Escort (2015)
Not Rated | 88 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Desperate for a good story, a sex-addicted journalist throws himself into the world of high-class escorts when he starts following a Stanford-educated prostitute.
Director: Will Slocombe | Stars: Lyndsy Fonseca, Michael Doneger, Tommy Dewey, Bruce Campbell
Votes: 14,224
23. Are You Here (2013)
R | 114 min | Comedy, Drama
Two childhood best friends, one a superficial womanizer and the other a barely functioning bipolar, embark on a road trip back to their hometown after one of them learns his estranged father has died.
Director: Matthew Weiner | Stars: Owen Wilson, Zach Galifianakis, Amy Poehler, Laura Ramsey
Votes: 16,693
24. About the Pink Sky (2011)
PG-13 | 113 min | Drama
Izumi finds a wallet full of money and loans the cash to an older fishing buddy.
Director: Keiichi Kobayashi | Stars: Ai Ikeda, Ena Koshino, Reiko Fujiwara, Tsubasa Takayama
Votes: 200
25. The Mountain Between Us (2017)
PG-13 | 112 min | Drama, Thriller
Stranded after a tragic plane crash, two strangers must forge a connection to survive the extreme elements of a remote snow-covered mountain. When they realize help is not coming, they embark on a perilous journey across the wilderness.
Director: Hany Abu-Assad | Stars: Kate Winslet, Idris Elba, Beau Bridges, Dermot Mulroney
Votes: 80,891 | Gross: $30.35M
26. A Private War (2018)
R | 110 min | Biography, Drama, War
One of the most celebrated war correspondents of our time, Marie Colvin is an utterly fearless and rebellious spirit, driven to the frontline of conflicts across the globe to give voice to the voiceless.
Director: Matthew Heineman | Stars: Rosamund Pike, Alexandra Moen, Tom Hollander, Faye Marsay
Votes: 21,019 | Gross: $1.63M
27. Brain on Fire (2016)
PG-13 | 88 min | Biography, Drama
A young, capable professional cannot explain her newly erratic behavior.
Director: Gerard Barrett | Stars: Chloë Grace Moretz, Thomas Mann, Richard Armitage, Carrie-Anne Moss
Votes: 24,206
28. Long Shot (2019)
R | 125 min | Comedy, Romance
Journalist, Fred Flarsky, reunites with his childhood crush, Charlotte Field; now one of the most influential women in the world. As she prepares to run for president, Charlotte hires Fred as her speechwriter, and sparks fly.
Director: Jonathan Levine | Stars: Charlize Theron, Seth Rogen, June Diane Raphael, O'Shea Jackson Jr.
Votes: 121,823 | Gross: $30.32M
29. A Taxi Driver (2017)
Not Rated | 137 min | Action, Drama, History
A widowed father and taxi driver who drives a German reporter from Seoul to Gwangju to cover the 1980 uprising, soon finds himself regretting his decision after being caught in the violence around him.
Director: Hun Jang | Stars: Song Kang-ho, Thomas Kretschmann, Yoo Hae-jin, Ryu Jun-Yeol
Votes: 31,314 | Gross: $1.53M
30. A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood (2019)
PG | 109 min | Biography, Drama
Based on the true story of a real-life friendship between Fred Rogers and journalist Lloyd Vogel.
Director: Marielle Heller | Stars: Matthew Rhys, Tom Hanks, Chris Cooper, Susan Kelechi Watson
Votes: 88,837 | Gross: $61.70M
31. Bombshell (I) (2019)
R | 109 min | Biography, Drama
A group of women take on Fox News head Roger Ailes and the toxic atmosphere he presided over at the network.
Director: Jay Roach | Stars: Charlize Theron, Nicole Kidman, Margot Robbie, John Lithgow
Votes: 126,990
32. Late Night (2019)
R | 102 min | Comedy, Drama
A late night talk show host suspects that she may soon lose her long-running show.
Director: Nisha Ganatra | Stars: Emma Thompson, Mindy Kaling, John Lithgow, Hugh Dancy
Votes: 40,853 | Gross: $15.50M
33. Bad Education (2019)
TV-MA | 108 min | Biography, Comedy, Crime
The beloved superintendent of New York's Roslyn school district and his staff, friends and relatives become the prime suspects in the unfolding of the single largest public school embezzlement scandal in American history.
Director: Cory Finley | Stars: Hugh Jackman, Ray Romano, Welker White, Allison Janney
Votes: 43,528
34. Assassination of a High School President (2008)
R | 93 min | Comedy, Crime, Mystery
At a Catholic high school, a sophomore newspaper reporter investigates a case of stolen SAT exams. He thinks he's nailed the suspect and managed to get the popular girl when he realises a larger conspiracy is afoot.
Director: Brett Simon | Stars: Reece Thompson, Mischa Barton, Bruce Willis, Michael Rapaport
Votes: 16,356
35. Money Talks (1997)
R | 97 min | Action, Comedy, Crime
Sought by police and criminals, a small-time huckster makes a deal with a TV newsman for protection.
Director: Brett Ratner | Stars: Charlie Sheen, Chris Tucker, Heather Locklear, Elise Neal
Votes: 31,325 | Gross: $41.07M
36. A Rainy Day in New York (2019)
PG-13 | 92 min | Comedy, Romance
A young couple arrives in New York for a weekend where they are met with bad weather and a series of adventures.
Director: Woody Allen | Stars: Timothée Chalamet, Elle Fanning, Liev Schreiber, Suzanne Smith
Votes: 51,930
37. The Unholy (2021)
PG-13 | 99 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
A hearing-impaired girl is visited by the Virgin Mary and can suddenly hear, speak, and heal the sick. As people flock to witness her miracles, terrifying events unfold. Are they the work of the Virgin Mary or something much more sinister?
Director: Evan Spiliotopoulos | Stars: Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Cricket Brown, William Sadler, Katie Aselton
Votes: 27,699
38. The Last Letter from Your Lover (2021)
TV-MA | 110 min | Drama, Romance
A pair of interwoven stories set in the past and present follow an ambitious journalist determined to solve the mystery of a forbidden love affair at the center of a trove of secret love letters from 1965.
Director: Augustine Frizzell | Stars: Shailene Woodley, Joe Alwyn, Wendy Nottingham, Felicity Jones
Votes: 22,394
39. 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: 39,842
40. Boston Strangler (2023)
R | 112 min | Crime, Drama, History
Loretta McLaughlin was the reporter who first connected the murders and broke the story of the Boston Strangler. She and Jean Cole challenged the sexism of the early 1960s to report on the city's most notorious serial killer.
Director: Matt Ruskin | Stars: Keira Knightley, Carrie Coon, Chris Cooper, Alessandro Nivola
Votes: 33,175
41. Freelance (2023)
R | 108 min | Action, Comedy
An ex-special forces operative takes a job to provide security for a journalist as she interviews a dictator, but when a military coup breaks out in the middle of the interview, they are forced to escape into the jungle.
Director: Pierre Morel | Stars: John Cena, Alison Brie, Juan Pablo Raba, Christian Slater
Votes: 17,744
42. Are You Ok Baby? (2023)
113 min | Crime, Drama, Family
A heart-wrenching tale of adoption unfolds, pitting adoptive parents against the biological mother. Media intervention escalates the issue to legal consequences and emotional turmoil, finally leading to a gripping courtroom climax.
Director: Lakshmy Ramakrishnan | Stars: Samuthirakani, Abhirami, Mullai Arasi, Ashok Kumar Balakrishnan
Votes: 1,266
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