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The Report (2019)
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The Report (2019)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, History, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story: The story of Daniel Jones, lead investigator for the US Senate’s sweeping study into the CIA's Detention and Interrogation Program, which was found to be brutal, immoral and ineffective. With the truth at stake, Jones battled tirelessly to make public what many in power sought to keep hidden.
Style: political, uplifting, psychological, ambiguous ending, enigmatic, non-linear, philosophical, interesting, political thriller, based on true events
Plot: investigation, cia, politics, torture, corruption, interrogation, spy, u.s. government, war crime, government corruption, justice, truth, humiliation, military, warrior, terrorism, white house, president, espionage, chaos, criminal justice, senate, political corruption, muslim, brutality ...
Place: washington d.c., san francisco

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out political, tense, thought provoking and serious films with plots about politics, corruption, conspiracy, justice, dialogue, storytelling and betrayal mostly in Drama, Thriller and Biography genres. Some movies like The Report: Official Secrets (2019), All the President's Men (1976), The Post (2017), The Fifth Estate (2013), Nothing But the Truth (2008). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Official Secrets (2019)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Thriller, War
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: The true story of British intelligence whistleblower Katharine Gun, who prior to the 2003 Iraq invasion leaked a top-secret NSA memo exposing a joint US-UK illegal spying operation against members of the UN Security Council. The memo proposed ...
Style: political, suspenseful, psychological, serious, surprise ending ...
Audience: date night
Plot: whistleblower, spy, british politics, espionage, politics, lawyer, legal, iraq war, secret, cafe, investigation, blackmail ...
Time: year 2003, 2000s, year 2004
Place: kurdistan, london, washington d.c.
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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, realistic, serious, thought provoking, cerebral ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: journalism, politics, investigation, newspaper, political conspiracy, conspiracy, political corruption, white house, american politics, journalist, president, media ...
Time: 70s, year 1972, year 1973, 20th century
Place: washington d.c., usa, miami, florida
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.2
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The Post (2017)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Thriller, War
Country: USA, UK, India
Duration: 116 min.
Story: 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.
Style: political, tense, inspirational, thought provoking, factual ...
Plot: journalism, expose, newspaper office, newspaper, cover up, truth, lie, wartime, journalist, freedom of the press, u.s. government, new york times ...
Time: 70s, year 1965, year 1971, year 1966, year 1949 ...
Place: washington d.c., usa, vietnam
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Fifth Estate (2013)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, India, Belgium
Duration: 128 min.
Story: A look at the relationship between WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and his early supporter and eventual colleague Daniel Domscheit-Berg, and how the website's growth and influence led to an irreparable rift between the two friends.
Style: thought provoking, political, tense, stylized, realistic ...
Audience: teens
Plot: journalism, internet, computers and web, politics, spy, hacker, international relations, computer, hacking, technology, whistleblower, conspiracy ...
Time: year 2010, year 2011, 2000s, year 2007, 21st century
Place: europe, cairo egypt, paris france, switzerland, berlin germany ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Nothing But the Truth (2008)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: When reporter Rachel Armstrong writes a story that reveals the identity of a covert CIA operative, the government demands that Rachel reveal her source. She defies the special prosecutor and is thrown in jail. Meanwhile, her attorney, Albert ...
Style: psychological, serious, tense, thought provoking, suspenseful ...
Plot: journalism, cia, reporter, lawyer, suspense, courtroom drama, media, investigation, corruption, journalist, courtroom, murder ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, washington d.c.
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 8.0
 160K
JFK (1991)
Genre: Drama, History, Thriller
Country: USA, France
Duration: 189 min.
Story: New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison discovers there's more to the Kennedy assassination than the official story.
Style: controversial, political, thought provoking, captivating, enigmatic ...
Plot: investigation, kennedy assassination, political conspiracy, president, legal, politics, gay slur, assassination of president, assassination, suspense, cia, lawyer ...
Time: 60s, year 1963, 20th century
Place: new orleans, washington d.c., austin texas, canada, dallas texas ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.6
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A Mighty Heart (2007)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Thriller, War
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Based on Mariane Pearl's account of the terrifying and unforgettable story of her husband, Wall Street Journal reporter Danny Pearl's life and death.
Style: emotional, realistic, serious, factual, touching ...
Plot: loss of spouse, murder, execution, friendship, faith, justice, journalism, jihad, new love, terrorism, death, husband wife relationship ...
Time: 90s, september 11 2001, 2000s, 70s, 21st century
Place: pakistan, middle east, new york, los angeles, manhattan new york city ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.0
 60K
Breach (2007)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, History, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Eric O'Neill, a computer specialist who wants to be made an agent is assigned to clerk for Robert Hanssen, a senior agent with 25 years in the FBI, and to write down everything Hanssen does. O'Neill's told it's an investigation ...
Style: tense, realistic, suspenseful, intense, dramatic ...
Plot: espionage, investigation, spy, fbi, intrigue, double agent, cia, betrayal, manipulation, suspense, conspiracy, suspicion ...
Time: year 2001, 2000s, 21st century
Place: usa, ussr, moscow russia, washington d.c.
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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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, tense, suspenseful, thought provoking, clever ...
Plot: journalism, reporter, u.s. government, conspiracy, journalist, drug smuggling, media manipulation, politics, investigation, media, secrets, brainwashing ...
Time: 80s, 70s, 90s, 20th century, year 1996
Place: california, los angeles, iran, usa, latin america ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Executive Action (1973)
Genre: Crime, Drama, History, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Rogue intelligence agents, right-wing politicians, greedy capitalists, and free-lance assassins plot and carry out the JFK assassination in this speculative agitprop.
Style: political, suspenseful, disturbing, realistic, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: conspiracy, assassination, cia, murder, corruption, police officer, criminal, assassin, sniper, politics, political conspiracy, anti capitalism ...
Time: year 1963
Place: dallas texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.1
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Murder at 1600 (1997)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: A secretary is found dead in a White House bathroom during an international crisis, and Detective Harlan Regis is in charge of the investigation. Despite resistance from the Secret Service, Regis partners with agent Nina Chance. As political ...
Style: suspenseful, political, tense, rough, sexy ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: conspiracy, politics, investigation, murder, secret service, corruption, white house, suspense, president, state affairs, love affair, dishonesty ...
Time: 90s
Place: washington d.c., usa, korea, asia, north korea
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.8
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Fair Game (2010)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, United Arab Emirates
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Wife and mother Valerie Plame (Naomi Watts) has a double life as a CIA operative, hiding her vocation from family and friends. Her husband, Joseph Wilson (Sean Penn), writes a controversial article in The New York Times, refuting stories about the ...
Style: political, factual, intense, thought provoking, realistic ...
Plot: cia, corruption, politics, spy, espionage, secret service, political conspiracy, journalism, newspaper, conspiracy theory, cia agent, political corruption ...
Time: year 2001, year 2002, year 1995, year 2003, year 1993 ...
Place: africa, middle east, washington d.c., iraq, east africa ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.8
 57K
Rendition (2007)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story: When an Egyptian terrorism suspect "disappears" on a flight from Africa to Washington DC, his American wife and a CIA analyst find themselves caught up in a struggle to secure his release from a secret detention facility somewhere outside ...
Style: rough, serious, tense, disturbing, suspenseful ...
Plot: terrorism, politics, conspiracy, kidnapping, terrorist, surveillance, islamic terrorism, torture, spy, cia, war on terror, police brutality ...
Time: 21st century
Place: middle east, washington d.c., iraq, israel, egypt ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.5
 271K
BlacKkKlansman (2018)
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA, China
Duration: 135 min.
Story: Ron Stallworth, an African-American police officer from Colorado, successfully manages to infiltrate the local Ku Klux Klan and become the head of the local chapter.
Style: inspirational, semi serious, captivating, factual, thought provoking ...
Plot: racism, african american, ku klux klan, undercover cop, white supremacy, racial slur, racist cop, black cop, racist, activist, black american, arrest ...
Time: 70s, year 2017, year 1972, 20th century
Place: usa, colorado, africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.8
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The Insider (1999)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 157 min.
Story: Tells the true story of a 60 Minutes television series exposé of the tobacco industry, as seen through the eyes of a real tobacco executive, Jeffrey Wigand
Style: political, intense, clever, cerebral, realistic ...
Plot: journalism, whistleblower, corruption, reporter, politics, conspiracy, business, suspense, lawyer, legal, media, courtroom ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: washington d.c., new york, mississippi, iran, south carolina
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 8.2
 30K
Z (1969)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France, Algeria
Duration: 127 min.
Story: Repression is the rule of the day in this film that skewers Greek governance of the 1960s. Z, a leftist rabble rouser, is killed in what appears to be a traffic accident. But given the political climate, the death of such a prominent activist raises ...
Style: political, realistic, thought provoking, tense, bleak ...
Plot: conspiracy, politics, military, assassination, police, government, investigation, corruption, murder investigation, political corruption, justice, violence ...
Time: 70s, 60s, 20th century
Place: greece, france, africa, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Veronica Guerin (2003)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Ireland, UK, USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: In this true story, Veronica Guerin is an investigative reporter for an Irish newspaper. As the drug trade begins to bleed into the mainstream, Guerin decides to take on and expose those responsible. Beginning at the bottom with addicts, Guerin then ...
Style: intense, realistic, tense, thought provoking, emotional ...
Plot: journalism, gangsters, investigation, strong female character, murder, justice, corruption, suspense, drug lord, police, drug dealing, heroin ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: ireland, dublin ireland, europe, amsterdam, new jersey ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.3
 54K
Detroit (2017)
Genre: Crime, Drama, History, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 143 min.
Story: A police raid in Detroit in 1967 results in one of the largest citizens' uprisings in the history of the United States.
Style: surprise ending, rough, tense, disturbing, factual ...
Plot: racism, police violence, murder, african american, police, police brutality, motel, riot, suspense, racial tension, corruption, justice ...
Time: 60s, year 1967, year 1943, year 1969
Place: detroit, michigan
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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 6.3
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The Laundromat (2019)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: When her idyllic vacation takes an unthinkable turn, Ellen Martin begins investigating a fake insurance policy, only to find herself down a rabbit hole of questionable dealings that can be linked to a Panama City law firm and its vested interest in ...
Style: realistic, tense, captivating, disturbing, semi serious ...
Audience: date night
Plot: human nature, corruption, politics, insurance fraud, law enforcement, finance, money, cons and scams, investigation, police investigation, dishonesty, justice ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.5
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Munich (2005)
Genre: Action, Drama, History, Thriller
Country: France, Canada, USA
Duration: 164 min.
Story: During the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich, eleven Israeli athletes are taken hostage and murdered by a Palestinian terrorist group known as Black September. In retaliation, the Israeli government recruits a group of Mossad agents to track down and ...
Style: political, suspenseful, intense, tense, rough ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: terrorism, espionage, vengeance, assassination, jewish, spy, mossad, politics, murder, judaism, terrorist, secret agents ...
Time: 70s, year 1972, 20th century
Place: middle east, israel, germany, beirut lebanon, europe ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Zero Dark Thirty (2012)
Genre: Drama, History, Thriller, War
Country: USA
Duration: 157 min.
Story: A chronicle of the decade-long hunt for al-Qaeda terrorist leader Osama bin Laden after the September 2001 attacks, and his death at the hands of the Navy S.E.A.L. Team 6 in May, 2011.
Style: suspenseful, tense, political, realistic, rough ...
Audience: chick flick, boys' night
Plot: terrorism, espionage, cia, military, swat team, spy, manhunt, terrorist, al qaeda, investigation, terrorist group, 9/11 ...
Time: september 11 2001, year 2005, year 2003, year 2011, 2000s ...
Place: middle east, pakistan, iraq, baghdad iraq, langley virginia ...
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The Mauritanian (2021)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 129 min.
Story: A detainee at the U.S military's Guantanamo Bay detention center is held without charges for over a decade and seeks help from a defense attorney for his release.
Style: thought provoking, tense, captivating, inspirational, thrilling ...
Plot: lawyer, islamic terrorism, al qaeda, american politics, brutality, courtroom, interrogation, prison, torture, american imperialism, war on terror, prisoner ...
Time: year 2005, year 2002, year 2001, year 2003, 2000s ...
Place: north africa, jordan, usa, america, new orleans ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
Mark Felt: The Man Who Brought Down the White House (2017)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: The story of Mark Felt, who under the name "Deep Throat" helped journalists Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein uncover the Watergate scandal in 1974.
Style: political, captivating, disturbing, tense
Plot: usa president, fbi, whistleblower, scandal, cover-up, politics, husband wife relationship, secret, white house, lie, congressional hearing, baby ...
Time: year 1974, 70s
Place: washington d.c.
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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Snowden (2016)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, France, Germany, USA
Duration: 134 min.
Story: CIA employee Edward Snowden leaks thousands of classified documents to the press.
Style: realistic, thought provoking, factual, serious, political ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: espionage, fighting the system, journalism, hacking, internet, whistleblower, moral dilemma, surveillance, hacker, spy, idealism, media ...
Time: year 2015, year 2009, year 2011, year 2004, year 2012 ...
Place: geneva switzerland, hong kong, japan, russia, hawaii ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
 7.1
 32K
Nixon (1995)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 192 min.
Story: An all-star cast powers this epic look at American President Richard M. Nixon, a man carrying the fate of the world on his shoulders while battling the self-destructive demands within. Spanning his troubled boyhood in California to the shocking ...
Style: political, factual, compassionate, talky, intense ...
Plot: politics, vietnam war, political corruption, government, conspiracy, american politics, manipulation, greed, historical figure, campaign, rise and fall, presidential election ...
Time: 70s, 60s, 1930s, 20th century, 1920s ...
Place: washington d.c., california, texas, china, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
 6.8
 21K
Truth (2015)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Thriller
Country: Australia, USA
Duration: 125 min.
Story: As a renowned producer and close associate of Dan Rather, Mary Mapes believes she’s broken the biggest story of the 2004 election: revelations of a sitting U.S. President’s military service. But when allegations come pouring in, sources change ...
Style: political, factual, suspenseful, intense, tricky ...
Plot: journalism, politics, twists and turns, justice, suspense, tv reporter, conspiracy theory, betrayal, fired from the job, american politics, political scandal, presidential election ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: texas, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
 7.7
 110K
Frost/Nixon (2008)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: UK, France, USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story: For three years after being forced from office, Nixon remained silent. But in summer 1977, the steely, cunning former commander-in-chief agreed to sit for one all-inclusive interview to confront the questions of his time in office and the Watergate ...
Style: clever, political, tense, sincere, tricky ...
Plot: journalism, politics, president, reporter, loneliness, american politics, scandal, corruption, conspiracy, power struggle, uncover truth, mind game ...
Time: 70s, year 1977, year 1974, 20th century
Place: california, washington d.c., new york, usa, manhattan new york city ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
 6.9
 132K
Syriana (2005)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, United Arab Emirates
Duration: 128 min.
Story: The Middle Eastern oil industry is the backdrop of this tense drama, which weaves together numerous story lines. Bennett Holiday is an American lawyer in charge of facilitating a dubious merger of oil companies, while Bryan Woodman, a ...
Style: political, thought provoking, tense, realistic, intense ...
Plot: terrorism, spy, cia, espionage, politics, corruption, capitalism, globalization, conspiracy, oil, suspense, political conspiracy ...
Time: 21st century
Place: middle east, usa, iran, lebanon, israel ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
A Most Wanted Man (2014)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, USA, Germany
Duration: 122 min.
Story: A Chechen Muslim illegally immigrates to Hamburg and becomes a person of interest for a covert government team which tracks the movements of potential terrorists.
Style: clever, bleak, thought provoking, tense, political ...
Audience: teens
Plot: espionage, terrorism, spy, intelligence, surveillance, secret service, investigation, islam, betrayal, manipulation, suspense, conspiracy ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: germany, hamburg germany, middle east, berlin germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
The Falcon and the Snowman (1985)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, USA, Mexico
Duration: 131 min.
Story: The true story of a disillusioned military contractor employee and his drug pusher childhood friend who became walk-in spies for the Soviet Union.
Style: tense, realistic, psychological, captivating, serious ...
Plot: espionage, spy, cold war, undercover, treason, double agent, political conspiracy, buddies, society, dishonesty, rebellion, drugs ...
Time: 20th century, 70s, 80s
Place: usa, california, mexico city, ussr, australia ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%