Movies like The Last Thing He Wanted

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The Last Thing He Wanted (2020)
 4.3
 17K
The Last Thing He Wanted (2020)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: At the turning point of the Iran-Contra affair, Elena McMahon, a fearless investigative journalist covering the 1984 US presidential campaign, puts herself in danger when she abandons her assigned task in order to fulfill the last wish of her ailing father, a mysterious man whose past activities she barely knows…
Style: captivating, exciting, tense, suspense, political thriller
Plot: journalism, reporter, investigative journalism, father daughter relationship, female protagonist, last wish, true crime, secret agenda, money, government conspiracy, organized crime, co worker co worker relationship, investigative reporter, female journalist, suspicion, spy, espionage, expose, journalist, newspaper, death of father, arms dealer, female nudity, bare breasts, fired from the job ...
Time: 80s, year 1984
Place: costa rica

Most similar movies to The Last Thing He Wanted

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out tense, suspenseful, captivating and suspense films with plots about journalism, journalist, investigative journalism, reporter, investigation, murder and female protagonist mostly in Drama, Thriller and Crime genres. Some movies like The Last Thing He Wanted: Luckiest Girl Alive (2022), Kill the Messenger (2014), Deadline (2001), State of Play (2009), Òlòtūré (2019). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Luckiest Girl Alive (2022)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story: A successful woman in New York City finds her life upended when she is forced to confront a dark truth that threatens to unravel her meticulously crafted life.
Style: psychological, emotional, suspenseful, tense, thrilling ...
Audience: adult
Plot: school shooting, journalism, traumatic past, female protagonist, female journalist, painful memories, life is a bitch, undercover, confronting the past, journalist, changing lives, problem ...
Place: new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
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 ⇓
84%
 4.9
 2K
Deadline (2001)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 128 min.
Story: The Victoriastadium is totally destroyed in a bomb attack and Christina Furhage, head-responsible for the Olympic Games in Stockholm, dies with it. Why did someone destroy the stadium and why is Christina murdered? The police desperately seek for ...
Style: tense, rough, serious, psychological, suspenseful ...
Plot: journalism, terrorism, female reporter, media, bomb, danger, female protagonist, murder, journalist, mysticism, investigative journalism, reporter ...
Time: 21st century
Place: stockholm sweden, eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
78%
 7.1
 160K
State of Play (2009)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, France
Duration: 127 min.
Story: Handsome, unflappable U.S. Congressman Stephen Collins is the future of his political party: an honorable appointee who serves as the chairman of a committee overseeing defense spending. All eyes are upon the rising star to be his party's ...
Style: clever, political thriller, political, suspense, suspenseful ...
Plot: conspiracy, political conspiracy, journalism, politics, corruption, journalist, investigation, reporter, murder, congress, politician, spy ...
Time: year 2009, 2000s, 21st century
Place: usa, washington d.c.
⇓ similarity ⇓
70%
Movie in collections
 5.6
 886
Òlòtūré (2019)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Nigeria
Duration: 106 min.
Story: In Lagos, Nigeria, young, naive Nigerian journalist Òlòtūré goes undercover to expose the shady underworld of human trafficking. Unused to this brutal environment, crawling with ruthless traders and pimps, Òlòtūré finds warmth and friendship ...
Style: disturbing, suspense, tense, captivating
Plot: journalism, female journalist, sex trafficking, human trafficking, investigative reporter, fighting crime, organized crime, prostitute, investigation, forced prostitution, prostitution, street prostitution ...
Place: africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
68%
Pray for Rain (2017)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: When Emma Gardner, a whip smart NYC reporter learns of her father's untimely death, she returns to her home town to find that the idyllic farming community of her childhood has been ravaged by drought and has become a place tormented by gangs ...
Style: suspense, disturbing, suspenseful, captivating, tense
Plot: reporter, gang, death threat, female protagonist, death of father, farmer, investigation, gang war, investigative reporter, getting home, criminal gang, female journalist ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
63%
Nothing But the Truth (2008)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, 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: suspense, psychological, serious, tense, suspenseful ...
Plot: journalism, cia, courtroom drama, reporter, lawyer, investigation, media, courtroom, corruption, murder, espionage, spy ...
Time: year 2008, 20th century, 21st century
Place: usa, washington d.c., persia
⇓ similarity ⇓
63%
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 ⇓
60%
Movie in collections
 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 ⇓
56%
The Snow Girl (2023)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 273 min.
TV show
Story: When a little girl goes missing during a parade in Málaga, a young newspaper journalist becomes fiercely determined to help Amaya's parents find her.
Style: thrilling, captivating, tense
Plot: journalist, missing child, investigative journalism, investigation, investigative reporter, mysterious disappearance, problem, sleuth, female journalist, crime solving, amateur sleuth, vanished man ...
Time: year 2010, 2010s
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
 6.8
 19K
Page Eight (2011)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Page Eight is lovingly turned, with elegant writing, a flawless cast and a heartfelt message from writer/director David Hare about the danger zone where spies and politicians meet. The tension builds gently as we follow the fortunes of Johnny ...
Style: political thriller, serious, tense, realistic, political ...
Plot: spy, espionage, blackmail, secret service, undercover, government agency, loss of friend, state affairs, dishonesty, father daughter relationship, prime minister, journalism ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england, united kingdom, london, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
 7.7
 593K
Zodiac (2007)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 157 min.
Story: The true story of the investigation of the "Zodiac Killer", a serial killer who terrified the San Francisco Bay Area, taunting police with his ciphers and letters. The case becomes an obsession for four men as their lives and careers are ...
Style: atmospheric, suspense, tense, neo noir, stylized ...
Audience: chick flick, adult
Plot: serial killer, investigation, murder, murder mystery, maniac, journalism, mind game, journalist, paranoia, killings, killer, true crime ...
Time: 70s, year 2007, 60s, 20th century, year 1970 ...
Place: san francisco, california, bay area, usa, oakland california ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
 4.9
 528
Wildcat (2021)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: An ambitious reporter stationed in the Middle East who is taken captive after her convoy is ambushed. She is confronted by the trauma of her past and must find a way to bring down the militants who incarcerated her.
Style: suspense, disturbing, tense
Plot: held captive, captive, investigative reporter, kidnapped, journalism, female journalist, investigative journalism, trap, female protagonist, abduction, kidnapping, trapped ...
Place: middle east
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
The Voice of Sin (2020)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 142 min.
Story: Eiji Akutsu is a newspaper reporter. He is working on unsolved case that took place 30 years ago.The case involved a group of people extorting several companies for money. The group sent cassette tapes to the companies. Eiji Akutsu comes across a ...
Style: psychological, suspenseful, thrilling, captivating, enigmatic ...
Plot: cold case, investigative journalism, investigation, crime solving, crime investigation, investigative reporter, uncover truth, gangster, secret, murder investigation, reporter, news reporter ...
Place: japan, kyoto japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
The Mean Season (1985)
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: A routine investigation of a shocking murder takes a bizarre twist when the killer contacts the reporter and appoints him his personal spokesman. As the killer's calls and clues increase, the reporter is lured into a deadly trap.
Style: neo noir, retro, spectacular, psychological, realistic ...
Plot: serial killer, journalism, murder, journalist, newspaper, reporter, killer, corrupt cop, killing, crime investigation, investigative journalism, corrupt ...
Time: year 1985, 80s
Place: usa, miami, florida
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
Nobel's Last Will (2012)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 90 min.
Story: While covering the annual Nobel Banquet for tabloid Kvällspressen, crime reporter Annika Bengtzon witnesses a spectacular murder right in front of her. Two people are shot, one of them the controversial Laureate in Medicine, Aaron Wiesel. Annika is ...
Style: realistic, serious, suspenseful, tense, suspense ...
Plot: journalism, murder, journalist, investigation, nobel prize, uncover truth, danger, media, dishonesty, nordic, writers, investigative journalism ...
Time: 21st century
Place: stockholm sweden, europe, eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
 8.1
 1.1M
Gone Girl (2014)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 149 min.
Story: With his wife's disappearance having become the focus of an intense media circus, a man sees the spotlight turned on him when it's suspected that he may not be innocent.
Style: psychological, suspense, surprise ending, clever, twist ending ...
Audience: chick flick, date night, teens, girls' night, boys' night ...
Plot: twists and turns, murder mystery, missing person, psychology, infidelity, manipulation, investigation, femme fatale, adultery, marriage, missing wife, psychopath ...
Time: year 2014, 2010s, 2000s, year 2012, 21st century
Place: peru, america, usa, new york, manhattan new york city ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
 6.7
 16K
Gorky Park (1983)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 128 min.
Story: Police Inspector Renko tries to solve the case of three bodies found in Moscow's Gorky Park but finds his attempts to solve the crime impeded by his superiors. Working on his own, Renko seeks out more information and stumbles across a ...
Style: detective, political, suspense, tense, bleak ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: cold war, spy, murder, conspiracy, police investigation, espionage, secret agent, murder investigation, kgb agent, murder mystery, politics, police corruption ...
Time: year 1983, 80s
Place: moscow russia, russia, ussr, stockholm sweden, eastern europe ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Sweden, Norway
Duration: 158 min.
Story: This English-language adaptation of the Swedish novel by Stieg Larsson follows a disgraced journalist, Mikael Blomkvist, as he investigates the disappearance of a weary patriarch's niece from 40 years ago. He is aided by the pierced, tattooed, ...
Style: suspenseful, neo noir, captivating, rough, clever ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: serial killer, hacker, investigation, rape, murder mystery, sexual abuse, missing person, journalist, strong female character, twists and turns, murder investigation, uncover truth ...
Time: year 2011, 2010s, 60s, year 1966, 21st century
Place: stockholm sweden, scandinavia, europe, eastern europe, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
 5.4
 145
Anna (2015)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada, Thailand
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Anna, a photojournalist, travels to Bangkok to pursue her investigations for a news story on the traffic in human beings being carried on by the triads. There she herself is kidnapped and subjected to the same abuse endured by the women she has ...
Style: disturbing, captivating, suspense
Plot: photographer, kidnapping, human trafficking, criminal gang, female journalist, gang, bandit, abduction, journalism, investigation, female protagonist, gangster ...
Place: bangkok thailand
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
Target Number One (2020)
Genre: Crime, Drama, History, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 125 min.
Story: Ex heroin junkie, Daniel Léger, gets involved in a drug deal with the wrong people for the wrong reasons. When the deal goes sour, Daniel gets thrown into a Thai prison and slapped with a 100-year sentence. While he tries to survive his Bangkok ...
Style: social, tense, suspense, brutal, entertaining
Plot: fight for justice, investigative reporter, prison, cocaine, drug traffic, false accusation, arrest, pursuit, drug, mafia, journalism, reporter ...
Time: 80s
Place: southeast asia, thailand
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
Boston Strangler (2023)
Genre: Crime, Drama, History, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Reporters Loretta McLaughlin and Jean Cole bravely pursue the story of the Boston Strangler at great personal risk, putting their own lives on the line in their quest to uncover the truth.
Style: detective, captivating, tense, thrilling, suspenseful ...
Plot: serial killer, true crime, journalism, investigative journalism, murder investigation, strangler, female journalist, female reporter, criminal, murderer, investigation, secret ...
Time: 60s, year 1964
Place: boston
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
The Girl Who Played with Fire (2009)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Sweden, Germany
Duration: 129 min.
Story: 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 ...
Style: suspense, sexy, psychological, exciting, captivating ...
Plot: investigation, murder, journalism, hacker, secret service, conspiracy, dishonesty, strong female lead, lesbian, journalist, murder mystery, friendship ...
Time: 2000s, year 2010, year 2009, 21st century
Place: scandinavia, stockholm sweden, europe, eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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Reporters (2007)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 52 min.
TV show
Story: The editorial teams of a newspaper and a television channel.
Style: tense, suspenseful, captivating, suspense, disturbing
Plot: reporter, journalism, corruption, murder, journalist, newspaper, media, current affairs, investigative reporter, investigative journalism, photographer, politics ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
She's Just a Shadow (2019)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story: A crime family becomes entangled in a vicious gang war while a serial killer cuts a swath through Tokyo.
Style: captivating, suspenseful, disturbing, tense, suspense
Plot: female nudity, bare breasts, bare butt, love triangle, gang war, dysfunctional family, serial killer, murderer, organized crime, eccentric family, matriarchy, gang ...
Place: tokyo
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
 7.5
 413K
The Town (2010)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 125 min.
Story: Doug MacRay is a longtime thief, who, smarter than the rest of his crew, is looking for his chance to exit the game. When a bank job leads to the group kidnapping an attractive branch manager, he takes on the role of monitoring her – but their ...
Style: suspense, captivating, serious, crime thriller, clever ...
Audience: boys' night, adult
Plot: bank robbery, heist, robbery, gunfight, thief, romancing a criminal, group of criminals, gang, organized crime, gangster, love affair, perfect crime ...
Time: year 2010, 2010s, 21st century
Place: boston, usa, florida, massachusetts
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
 4.8
 1K
Paradise (2003)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Action, Crime
Country: Sweden
Duration: 115 min.
Story: Tabloid journalist Annika Bengtzon is writing about a murder in the port of Stockholm and she suspects that the Yugoslav mafia is involved. However, she also finds links to a foundation that runs a shelter for battered women, Paradiset. Looking for ...
Style: realistic, serious, suspenseful, captivating
Plot: journalism, murder, investigation, woman in danger, danger, haunted by the past, family problems, scoop, female reporter, journalist, investigative journalism, reporter ...
Time: 21st century
Place: stockholm sweden, eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
 5.5
 57K
Deep Water (2022)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Australia, USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: Vic and Melinda Van Allen are a couple in the small town of Little Wesley. Their loveless marriage is held together only by a precarious arrangement whereby, in order to avoid the messiness of divorce, Melinda is allowed to take any number of lovers ...
Style: suspense, psychological, dark, disturbing, captivating ...
Plot: infidelity, murder, cheating wife, sex scene, unfaithful wife, cuckold, dysfunctional marriage, oral sex, female masturbation, relationships, marriage, erotica ...
Time: 2020s
Place: new orleans, louisiana
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
The Independent (2022)
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: It's the final weeks of the most consequential presidential election in history. America is poised to elect either its first female president or its first viable independent candidate. Reporting history as it's made, an idealistic young ...
Style: exciting, captivating, serious, suspenseful
Plot: usa president, corruption, conspiracy, investigative journalism, journalist, election, candidate, presidential election, political candidate, political election, political conspiracy, presidential candidate ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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, surprise ending, serious ...
Audience: family friendly, date night, adult
Plot: whistleblower, spy, british politics, espionage, politics, british secret service, legal, lawyer, iraq war, expose, female secret agent, secret ...
Time: year 2003, year 2019, 2000s, year 2004
Place: kurdistan, united kingdom, london, washington d.c.
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
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