Movies like Mad City

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Mad City (1997)
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Mad City (1997)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story: A misguided museum guard who loses his job and then tries to get it back at gunpoint is thrown into the fierce world of ratings-driven TV gone mad.
Style: intense, realistic, suspenseful, talky, tense, bleak, serious, political, suspense, clever ...
Plot: journalism, hostage, media, journalist, investigation, politics, kidnapper kidnapped relationship, society, injustice, fighting the system, workplace intrigue, manipulation, reporter, scoop, martial arts, swat team, kidnapping, news, nypd, communication, photojournalism, museum, fired from the job, media manipulation, news reporter ...
Time: 90s, 1990s
Keyword: gangsters, change

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Most similar movies to Mad City

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspenseful, realistic, serious and suspense films with plots about investigation, murder, media, dishonesty, reporter, journalism and politics mostly in Thriller, Drama and Crime genres. Some movies like Mad City: All the President's Men (1976), The China Syndrome (1979), Absence of Malice (1981), Kill the Messenger (2014), Red Corner (1997). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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All the President's Men (1976)
Genre: Drama, History, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 138 min.
Story: In the run-up to the 1972 elections, Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward covers what seems to be a minor break-in at the Democratic Party National headquarters. He is surprised to find top lawyers already on the defense case, and the discovery of ...
Style: political thriller, political, cerebral, realistic, serious ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: journalism, newspaper, investigation, politics, political conspiracy, conspiracy, political corruption, journalist, president, american politics, white house, political intrigue ...
Time: 70s, 20th century, year 1976, year 1972, year 1973
Place: washington d.c., usa, miami, florida
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The China Syndrome (1979)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story: A modern nightmare nearly becomes reality in this tension-filled story about an "incident" at a nuclear power plant. Jane Fonda stars as Kimberly Wells, an ambitious TV reporter covering a story on energy sources, who is present at the ...
Style: suspenseful, suspense, tense, political, psychological ...
Plot: reporter, radiation, journalism, power plant, politics, investigation, disaster, nuclear, media, nuclear power, environmental, corruption ...
Time: 70s, 20th century, year 1979
Place: california, usa, los angeles, pennsylvania
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Absence of Malice (1981)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story: A prosecutor leaks a false story that liquor warehouse owner Michael Gallagher is involved in the murder of a union head, and as newspaper reporter Megan Carter picks up the story and attempts to find the real truth, Gallagher's life begins to ...
Style: suspense, talky, realistic, serious, tense ...
Plot: journalism, murder, legal, investigation, politics, courtroom, court, lawyer, manipulation, writers, media, newspaper reporter ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: usa, florida, miami
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Kill the Messenger (2014)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: 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 ...
Style: political, suspenseful, clever, captivating, disturbing ...
Audience: family friendly
Plot: journalism, reporter, journalist, u.s. government, secrets, investigative journalism, conspiracy, drug smuggling, media manipulation, cia, politics, investigation ...
Time: 80s, year 2014, 70s, 90s, 20th century ...
Place: california, los angeles, nicaragua, latin america, usa ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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 6.3
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Red Corner (1997)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story: An American attorney on business in China, ends up wrongfully on trial for murder and his only key to innocence is a female defense lawyer from the country.
Style: suspenseful, suspense, intense, political, psychological ...
Plot: courtroom drama, murder, death penalty, courtroom, justice, political corruption, frame up, lawyer, court, conspiracy theory, false accusation, legal ...
Time: year 1997, 90s
Place: china, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.1
 143K
John Q (2002)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story: John Quincy Archibald is a father and husband whose son is diagnosed with an enlarged heart and then finds out he cannot receive a transplant because HMO insurance will not cover it. Therefore, he decides to take a hospital full of patients hostage ...
Style: suspense, sincere, tear jerker, emotional, tense ...
Audience: teens
Plot: hostage, injustice, hospital, kidnapping, twists and turns, organ donation, fighting the system, father son relationship, medical, society, parent child relationship, insurance ...
Time: year 2002, 2000s, 21st century
Place: usa, chicago, illinois
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
 5.6
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The Shooter (2013)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Denmark
Duration: 90 min.
Story: The five days when Copenhagen was held in a panic grip by an intelligent activist and former elite shooter, who takes to arms when a woman journalist writes about the government’s broken promises in an environmental question.
Style: serious, captivating, realistic, disturbing, rough ...
Plot: sniper, politics, journalism, state affairs, environmentalism, society, media, reporter, die hard, ecology, marksman
Time: 21st century
Place: denmark, greenland
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
Annika Bengtzon: Crime Reporter - Studio Sex (2012)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A stripper at the club Studio Six is murdered. A political scandal takes off when the Minister of Commerce appears to have been at the club. He resigns - but only to hide an even bigger secret.
Style: realistic, serious, suspenseful, suspense, controversial ...
Plot: journalism, murder, life is a bitch, law enforcement, media, minister, female nudity, politics, violence, society, dishonesty, journalist ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, eastern europe, stockholm sweden
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
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Annika Bengtzon: Crime Reporter - Lifetime (2012)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 89 min.
Story: When David Lindholm, Sweden's most famous police officer, found shot in bed identifies herself quickly with his young wife Julia. Julia is threatened with life imprisonment for murder, both her ​​husband and her missing four year old son ...
Style: suspenseful, realistic, serious, disturbing, tense ...
Plot: journalism, investigation, murder, race against time, dishonesty, murder investigation, homicide detective, crime investigation, murder mystery, missing child, criminal, private investigation ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, eastern europe, stockholm sweden
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
Reversible Errors (2004)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 173 min.
Story: A corporate lawyer's interest in a decade-old murder case is piqued by a new confession that could clear the convicted killer, who sits on death row.
Style: serious, psychological, bleak, tense, realistic ...
Plot: legal, false accusation, investigation, frame up, testimony, uncover truth, police investigation, lovers reunited, dedicated lawyer, police detective, law enforcement, fighting the system ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
 7.8
 600K
Nightcrawler (2014)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story: When Lou Bloom, 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. Aiding him in his effort is Nina, a TV-news veteran.
Style: neo noir, psychological, disturbing, suspense, suspenseful ...
Audience: adult
Plot: character study, journalism, sociopath, obsession, journalist, cynicism, psychopath, morality, violence, manipulation, capitalism, employer employee relationship ...
Time: year 2014, 2010s, near future, 21st century
Place: los angeles, california, usa, persia, america ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
Annika Bengtzon: Crime Reporter - Prime Time (2012)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Sweden, Germany, Denmark
Duration: 90 min.
Story: It is Midsummer's Eve and ten people are on a deserted castle for a TV recording. The next morning the program leader is shot dead. Kvällspressens Annika Bengtzon a mandate to monitor the murder, but she soon learns that her best friend Anne ...
Style: suspenseful, realistic, serious, suspense
Plot: journalism, murder, investigation, dishonesty, multiple suspects, who done it, law enforcement, false accusation, estate, nordic, mysticism, writers ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
The Pelican Brief (1993)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 141 min.
Story: Two Supreme Court Justices have been assassinated. One lone law student has stumbled upon the truth. An investigative journalist wants her story. Everybody else wants her dead.
Style: tense, political thriller, political, suspense, clever ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: political conspiracy, state affairs, investigation, politics, conspiracy, reporter, lawyer, courtroom, corruption, conspiracy theory, political corruption, murder ...
Time: 90s, future, 20th century
Place: new orleans, washington d.c., new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
Resurrection Man (1998)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Belfast, in 1970s. Victor Kelly is a young protestant man who hates the Catholics so much that one night he begins to brutally murder them. A reporter soon tries to uncover the murder and obtained prestige for himself, while Victor sinks deeper into ...
Style: disturbing, serious, bleak, suspenseful, independent film ...
Plot: murder, serial killer, brutality, psychopath, journalism, investigation, master criminal, uncover truth, ira, trouble, violence, anglo irish relations ...
Time: 70s
Place: ireland, northern ireland, england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
A Place in the Sun (2012)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A Swedish family found murdered in her home on the Costa del Sol in southern Spain - all except the 16-year-old daughter, who has disappeared. At first the police believe that there is a burglary gone wrong, but the more crime examined, the more ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, realistic, psychological
Plot: journalism, murder, media, danger, journalist, swedish, reporter, mysticism, european, investigative journalism, writers, hockey ...
Time: 21st century
Place: spain, morocco, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
The General's Daughter (1999)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 116 min.
Story: When the body of Army Capt. Elizabeth Campbell is found on a Georgia military base, two investigators, Warrant Officers Paul Brenner and Sara Sunhill, are ordered to solve her murder. What they uncover is anything but clear-cut. Unseemly details ...
Style: detective, tense, suspenseful, suspense, intense ...
Plot: army investigation, murder, rape, military, reluctant partners, gang rape, betrayal, investigation, military training, conspiracy, strangulation, army ...
Time: year 1999, 90s, 20th century
Place: georgia
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
Domestic Disturbance (2001)
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A divorced father discovers that his 12-year-old son's new stepfather is not what he made himself out to be.
Style: psychological, suspense, tense, suspenseful, suspense thriller ...
Plot: child in peril, murder, divorce, investigation, amateur detective, disbelieving adult, witness, family relations, parents and children, couples, family problems, boy ...
Time: year 2001
Place: maryland
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
 5.3
 16K
Edison (2005)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Upon discovering a den of corrupt policemen, a fresh-faced journalist makes a shaky allies in a jaded reporter and investigator for a powerful district attorney.
Style: intense, suspense, realistic, suspenseful, rough ...
Plot: police corruption, conspiracy, fighting the system, justice, police investigation, investigation, investigative reporter, police brutality, police, uncover truth, dishonesty, legal ...
Time: year 2005
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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Crónicas (2004)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Mexico
Duration: 108 min.
Story: A suspense thriller about a reporter from Miami who travels to Ecuador in pursuit of a serial killer known as the "Monster of Babahoyo."
Style: psychological, tense, suspenseful, atmospheric, stylized ...
Plot: serial killer, investigation, journalism, psychopath, media, obsession, insanity, greed, uncover truth, ambition, journalist, reporter ...
Time: year 2004, 21st century
Place: ecuador, latin america, florida, miami
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Annika Bengtzon: Crime Reporter (2012)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 88 min.
Story: The Swedish tabloid Kvällspressen has set their crime reporter, Annika Bengtzon, to monitor a complex murder case. The victim is a colleague and the only witness is a 15-year-old boy. Bengtzons inquiries may be an unexpected turn when the tracks ...
Style: suspenseful, realistic, serious, disturbing
Plot: journalism, murder, danger, dishonesty, investigation, nordic, family relations, husband wife relationship, writers, investigative journalism, swedish, mysticism ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
The Ides of March (2011)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Dirty tricks stand to soil an ambitious young press spokesman's idealism in a cutthroat presidential campaign where 'victory' is relative.
Style: political thriller, talky, political, suspense, clever ...
Audience: adult
Plot: politics, election, political intrigue, campaign, lobbyist, media, presidential campaign, dialogue, political corruption, conspiracy, corruption, twists and turns ...
Time: year 2011, 2010s, future, 21st century
Place: ohio, usa, iran, cincinnati ohio
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
The Innocent Sleep (1995)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Inspired by the 1982 Roberto Calvi Affair in which an Italian banker was found hanging from a bridge across the River Thames, the story follows Alan, a man from Northern England who is homeless after the loss of his wife and job. One night while ...
Style: independent film, realistic, serious, mind bending, tense ...
Plot: police, reporter, witness, freemason, chase, murder, homeless, life is a bitch, witnessing a crime, journalism, uncover truth, law enforcement ...
Time: year 1996, 90s
Place: london, england, europe, tower bridge london
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
 7.4
 70K
Marathon Man (1976)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 125 min.
Story: A graduate student and obsessive runner in New York is drawn into a mysterious plot involving his brother, a member of the secretive Division.
Style: psychological, suspense, suspenseful, intense, atmospheric ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: conspiracy, dentist, revenge, nazi, paranoia, espionage, kidnapping, violence, chase, brother brother relationship, murder, torture ...
Time: 20th century, year 1976, 70s
Place: new york, manhattan new york city, persia, uruguay, paris france ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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Music Box (1989)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story: A lawyer defends her father accused of war crimes, but there is more to the case than she suspects.
Style: suspenseful, emotional, political, heartbreaking, talky ...
Plot: courtroom drama, court, courtroom, lawyer, legal, twists and turns, betrayal, communism, world war two, conspiracy, politics, anti semitism ...
Time: 20th century, year 1989, 80s
Place: usa, budapest, chicago, hungary
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
 6.6
 24K
Dark Blue (2002)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, Germany
Duration: 118 min.
Story: Set during the Rodney King riots, a robbery homicide investigation triggers a series of events that will cause a corrupt LAPD officer to question his tactics.
Style: neo noir, tense, detective, harsh, intense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: police corruption, police investigation, police brutality, cop, police, corruption, investigation, police officer, rookie, robbery, partner, fighting the system ...
Time: 20th century, y2k, 90s, year 1992
Place: los angeles, california, usa, southern california
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
 6.5
 105K
Money Monster (2016)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Financial TV host Lee Gates and his producer Patty are put in an extreme situation when an irate investor takes over their studio.
Style: suspense, clever, entertaining, tense, suspenseful ...
Plot: stock market, police, corruption, wall street, hostage, conspiracy, capitalism, finance, bomb, business, social commentary, hostage negotiator ...
Time: year 2016, 2010s, 21st century
Place: new york, russia, south africa, south korea, seoul ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
What the Eye Doesn't See (2003)
Genre: Crime, Thriller, Drama
Country: Peru
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Through out six different and yet parallel stories that take place during the corrupted goverment during the 90s in Peru, Lombardi tells the moral decomposition that ran through all classes and generations of the peruvian society.
Style: serious, realistic, tense, suspenseful, mind bending ...
Plot: politics, state affairs, society, dishonesty, political corruption, murder, political unrest, government, dictatorship, dictator, manipulation, multiple storylines ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: peru, latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
 7.4
 62K
Blow Out (1981)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Jack Terry is a master sound recordist who works on grade-B horror movies. Late one evening, he is recording sounds for use in his movies when he hears something unexpected through his sound equipment and records it. Curiosity gets the better of him ...
Style: neo noir, suspenseful, suspense, disturbing, atmospheric ...
Plot: political conspiracy, conspiracy, serial killer, conspiracy theory, investigation, murder, assassination, politics, witnessing a crime, murder mystery, hitman, whodunit ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, year 1981
Place: philadelphia, pennsylvania
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
 6.6
 38K
True Crime (1999)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 127 min.
Story: Boozer, skirt chaser, careless father. You could create your own list of reporter Steve Everett's faults but there's no time. A San Quentin Death Row prisoner is slated to die at midnight – a man Everett has suddenly realized is innocent.
Style: psychological, suspense, serious, tense, clever ...
Plot: death penalty, death row, journalism, investigation, lawyer, death sentence, false accusation, death, uncover truth, journal, reporter, conspiracy ...
Time: year 1999, 90s, 20th century
Place: california, usa, oakland california
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
 4.8
 128
Able Danger (2008)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Tom Flynn, the idealist owner of a left-leaning radical café/bookstore and the quixotic publisher of a hard hitting 911 conspiracy expose, finds himself entangled with a mysterious Eastern European beauty, Kasia, who is on the run from strong hand ...
Style: neo noir, suspenseful, serious, realistic, black and white ...
Plot: uncover truth, investigation, fighting the system, government agency, danger, politics, race against time, dishonesty, undercover, rebellion, society, life is a bitch ...
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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