Photojournalist movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant photojournalist movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out realistic, serious, tense, suspense, suspenseful and independent film films and TV shows about / with photojournalist, journalism, photographer, journalist, photograph, murder, danger, violence, media and photography plots mostly in Drama, Thriller and War genres shot in USA, UK, Canada and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as photojournalist: The Bang Bang Club (2010), Salvador (1986), A Thousand Times Good Night (2013), Under Fire (1983), Civil War (2024), Kabul Express (2006), Triage (2009), Harrison's Flowers (2000), Apocalypse Now (1979), War Story (2014).
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Canada, South Africa
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
In the early to mid '90s, when the South African system of apartheid was in its death throes, four photographers - Greg Marinovich, Kevin Carter, Ken Oosterbroek and João Silva - bonded by their friendship and a sense of purpose, worked ...
Style:
thought provoking, realistic, serious, rough, independent film
Plot:
photojournalist, photographer, journalism, media, photograph, civil war, photography, newspaper, society, political unrest, discrimination, social activist ...
Time:
20th century, 90s, year 1994
Place:
africa, south africa
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Genre: Drama, History, Thriller, War
Country: USA, Mexico, UK
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
A second rated journalist from the US tries his luck in El Salvador during the military dictatorship in the 1980s.
Style:
suspense, political, thought provoking, factual, harsh ...
Plot:
civil war, photojournalist, revolution, dictator, war correspondent, politics, journalism, war, dictatorship, reporter, assassination, cold war ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, year 1986, 70s
Place:
latin america, central america, san francisco, south america
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: Norway, Ireland, Sweden
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
On assignment while photographing a female suicide bomber in Kabul, Rebecca – one of the world’s top war photojournalists - gets badly hurt. Back home, another bomb drops as her husband and daughters give her an ultimatum: her work or her family.
Style:
realistic, captivating, emotional, serious, visually stunning ...
Plot:
photograph, journalism, photojournalist, photography, battle zone, relationship vs career, media, parents and children, war correspondent, war photographer, photographer, strong female character ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
afghanistan, africa, kenya, morocco, ireland ...
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
Three U.S. journalists (Nick Nolte, Joanna Cassidy, Gene Hackman) get too close to one another and their work in 1979 Nicaragua.
Style:
political, atmospheric, serious, emotional, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
photojournalist, journalism, politics, photographer, photograph, reporter, idealism, revolution, photography, military, media, political unrest ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, year 1979, year 1983
Place:
nicaragua, latin america, central america, ireland
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Genre: Action, Thriller, War
Country: USA, UK, Finland
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
In the near future, a group of war journalists attempt to survive while reporting the truth as the United States stands on the brink of civil war.
Style:
epic, thrilling, independent film, road movie, suspense ...
Plot:
civil war, war photographer, fictional war, president, photojournalist, dystopia, violence, soldier, photographer, journalist, white house, photograph ...
Time:
future, near future
Place:
washington d.c., west virginia, brooklyn new york city, texas, new york ...
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Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Thriller, War
Country: India
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Five people - two Indian journalists, an American journalist, an Afghan guide and a Pakistani soldier who takes them all hostage - are taken on a 48-hour journey into Afghanistan in a jeep called the Kabul Express, a special and unlikely bond ...
Style:
suspenseful, semi serious, realistic, captivating, humorous ...
Plot:
hostage, terrorism, behind enemy lines, heroes, battles, photojournalist, political unrest, on the road, confined, politics, soldier, fugitives ...
Place:
afghanistan, india, asia
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, War
Country: Ireland, Spain, France
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
The wife of a photojournalist sets out to discover why he came home from a recent assignment without his colleague.
Style:
sexy, realistic, tense, bleak, psychological ...
Plot:
photojournalist, photograph, war correspondent, twists and turns, photography, war crime, life is a bitch, homecoming, haunted by the past, war zone, photographer, journalism ...
Time:
80s, year 2009, 20th century
Place:
ireland, kurdistan, iraq, bosnia, europe ...
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Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: France, USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
Harrison Lloyd is a Pulitzer-winning photojournalist. His wife and family are making it hard for him to keep his mind on his work when he's in a war zone, and he wants to change jobs to something less stressful. But he's got one last ...
Style:
brutal, disturbing, suspense, bleak, realistic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
genocide, journalism, missing person, violence, murder, photograph, photojournalist, photographer, civil war, blood, battles, vengeance ...
Time:
year 1991, 90s, 80s, 70s
Place:
new jersey, balkan, eastern europe, europe, serbia ...
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, War
Country: USA
Duration: 147 min.
Story:
At the height of the Vietnam war, Captain Benjamin Willard is sent on a dangerous mission that, officially, "does not exist, nor will it ever exist." His goal is to locate - and eliminate - a mysterious Green Beret Colonel named Walter ...
Style:
bleak, psychological, cult classic, surreal, sexy ...
Audience:
date night, adult
Plot:
vietnam war, jungle, insanity, anti war, military, army, secret mission, violence, mission, soldier, violent, river ...
Time:
20th century, year 1979, 60s, year 1969
Place:
vietnam, cambodia, southeast asia, asia, the philippines ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Lee is a world-weary American woman who arrives in an Italian city. Her tangles with hotel staff, incessant smoking and her disregard of the persistently ringing telephone hint at her volatility brewing beneath the surface. Between fitful naps, she ...
Style:
realistic, tense, serious, psychological, contemplative ...
Plot:
haunted by the past, society, photojournalist, life is a bitch, immigrant, female protagonist, post traumatic stress, post traumatic stress disorder, captive, captivity, hostage, war correspondent ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
sicily, italy
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Richard Widmark plays a hardened cold-war warrior and captain of the American destroyer USS Bedford. Sidney Poitier is a reporter given permission to interview the captain during a routine patrol. Poitier gets more than he bargained for when the ...
Style:
suspenseful, exciting, atmospheric, political, realistic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
cold war, submarine, war, navy, nuclear explosion, reporter, u.s. navy, confrontation, propaganda, battlefield, military, torpedo ...
Time:
60s
Place:
greenland, atlantic ocean, russia
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
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.
Style:
scenic, visually stunning, romantic, romantic drama, suspenseful ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
survival, wilderness, mountain, snow, interracial romance, black man white woman relationship, love, sole survivor, stranger, plane crash, wilderness survival, peril ...
Time:
year 2017, future, 2010s
Place:
new york, manhattan new york city, utah, idaho, london
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Australia
TV show
Story:
Lowdown shines a torch on the life of a man whose job it is to feed the public's insatiable appetite for celebrity gossip. Alex Burchill, the author of the Lowdown column which appears in the once great but now ailing tabloid newspaper – the ...
Style:
humorous, not serious, light, captivating, feel good ...
Plot:
journalist, media, journalism, workplace, photojournalist, artists and showbiz, showbiz, scoop, disorder, fraud, society, celebrity ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
australia
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Genre: Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
A journalist gets caught up in a terrorist plot in Moscow while investigating the Russian secret service.
Style:
tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful, suspense
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
investigation, journalism, photojournalist, dishonesty, uncover truth, fish out of water, false arrest, on the run, political conspiracy, protagonist as suspect, state affairs, heroes ...
Place:
europe, russia
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Fearing she may be responsible, a mental patient (Jennifer Jason Leigh) tries to unravel the mystery behind her ex-lover's (Martin Henderson) disappearance.
Style:
psychological, suspenseful, mind bending, serious, captivating ...
Plot:
missing person, lovers, uncover truth, riddles and clues, dangerous attraction, mental institution, danger, life is a bitch, photojournalist, mentally unstable, sanity, mind game ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA, South Africa
TV show
Story:
Scout's Safari is a children's television series that aired on the Discovery Kids Channel and Saturday mornings on NBC. The series was created by Thomas W. Lynch.
Style:
humorous, feel good, semi serious, realistic, thought provoking
Audience:
family outing, teens, kids
Plot:
family relations, wilderness, culture clash, animal life, friendship, teenage life, society, youth, photojournalist, resort, high school student, high school ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
south africa, africa
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Antigua and Barbuda, Canada
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
In a world of ambition and powerful politicians, Andy Hernandez (Shashi Balooja), an ambitious NYC Assistant District Attorney with political aspirations is recently engaged to Ann Kim, the latest partner in a profitable risk management firm. As a ...
Style:
serious, realistic, suspenseful, suspense, sexy ...
Plot:
sex scene, political intrigue, power relations, ambition, state affairs, photojournalist, downfall, rise and fall, blind ambition, unfulfillment, dishonesty, hotshot lawyer ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, usa
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Canada, South Africa, Germany
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
American journalists in Sudan are confronted with the dilemma of whether to return home to report on the atrocities they have seen, or to stay behind and help some of the victims they have encountered.
Style:
disturbing, rough, realistic, captivating, serious ...
Plot:
genocide, journalism, rape, desert, journalist, murder, civil war, tragedy, survival, uncover truth, against humanity, injustice ...
Place:
sudan, africa
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Henry Hackett is the editor of a New York City tabloid. He is a workaholic who loves his job, but the long hours and low pay are leading to discontent. Also, publisher Bernie White faces financial straits, and has hatchetman Alicia Clark, ...
Style:
black comedy, talky, sentimental, humorous, realistic ...
Plot:
journalism, newspaper, newspaper editor, workaholic, satire, media, workplace, newspaper reporter, husband wife relationship, quarrel, scapegoat, father daughter estrangement ...
Time:
20th century, year 1994, 90s
Place:
new york, usa, manhattan new york city
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Genre: Action
Country: USA, Philippines
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
A photojournalist deported from a war zone in Asia meets up with a woman who is looking for her father. He offers to help her...
Style:
independent film, suspense, tense, intense, emotional ...
Plot:
war photographer, photojournalist, legacy, war zone, investigative journalism, search for father, quest, identity, asian, male protagonist, investigation, female protagonist ...
Time:
90s
Place:
southeast asia, the philippines, asia
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A reclusive photojournalist lives quietly in a New York penthouse, until a smooth but sadistic criminal looking for a hidden fortune enters her life.
Style:
neo noir, realistic, serious, psychological, tense ...
Plot:
blind woman, blindness, home invasion, loss of eyesight, penthouse, woman in danger, villain, female protagonist, heroine, confrontation, showdown, woman in jeopardy ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
afghanistan, usa, new york
Is relevant?
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, Mexico, Costa Rica
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Six years ago NASA discovered the possibility of alien life within our solar system. A probe was launched to collect samples, but crashed upon re-entry over Central America. Soon after, new life forms began to appear and half of Mexico was ...
Style:
road movie, stylized, meditative, apocalyptic, atmospheric ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
monster, alien invasion, alien, alien encounter, jungle, invasion, demolished city, ufo, quarantine, military, post apocalyptic, end of the world ...
Time:
future, year 2010, 20th century, 2010s
Place:
mexico, latin america, central america, austin texas, mexico city ...
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Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Thriller, War
Country: USA, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Mexico
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
An emerging journalist (Jesse Eisenberg), an experienced cameraman (Terrence Howard), and a discredited reporter (Richard Gere) find their bold plan to capture Bosnia's top war criminal quickly spiraling out of control when a UN representative ...
Style:
intense, emotional, serious, suspenseful, rough ...
Plot:
journalism, journalist, cia, war crime, civil war, bosnian war, revenge, danger, reward, vacation, friendship, genocide ...
Time:
20th century, year 2007, 90s, 2000s
Place:
bosnia, former yugoslavia, serbia, europe, new york ...
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Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: UK, France
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
The circularity of violence seen in a story that circles on itself. In Macedonia, during war in Bosnia, Christians hunt an ethnic Albanian girl who may have murdered one of their own. A young monk who's taken a vow of silence offers her ...
Style:
political, erotic, realistic, atmospheric, anthology ...
Plot:
love affair, monk, civil war, terrorist, photograph, social commentary, violence, wartime, islam, politics, muslim, murder ...
Time:
90s, year 1994, 20th century
Place:
macedonia, former yugoslavia, london, bosnia, england ...
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Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 47 min.
TV show
Story:
When Carlton Flynn vanishes 17 years to the night after Stewart Green did, it sets off a chain reaction in the lives of people connected to both men.
Style:
suspense, tense, disturbing, captivating, suspenseful ...
Plot:
reporter, husband, serial killer, media, secret, investigation, photojournalist, detective inspector, crime investigation, uncover truth, confronting the past, haunted by the past ...
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: Turkey
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
A feature film about an unusual trio: DANIEL, a German photo-journalist in Istanbul without much knowledge about Middle Eastern values. CAN, a flamboyant, out and proud male belly dancer with lots of love and support from his family, and AHMET born ...
Style:
semi serious, bleak, contemplative, realistic, emotional ...
Plot:
gay relationship, gay love, media, journalism, lgbt, photograph, murder, society, love affair, haunted by the past, religions or cults, life is a bitch ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
indiana, afghanistan, istanbul turkey, turkey
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
A photojournalist gets more than she bargained for when she snaps a photo of a shadowy religious figure in the jungles of Colombia, triggering a flight – and fight – for her life.
Style:
suspense, tense, cliffhanger
Plot:
jungle, photograph, photojournalist, religious cult, danger, female protagonist, murder, survival, escape, confrontation, investigative journalism, paranoia ...
Place:
colombia
Is relevant?
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
Peter Parker is going through a major identity crisis. Burned out from being Spider-Man, he decides to shelve his superhero alter ego, which leaves the city suffering in the wake of carnage left by the evil Doc Ock. In the meantime, Parker still ...
Style:
sincere, exciting, saga, visually stunning, action packed ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, family outing, boys' night, kids ...
Plot:
superhero, mad scientist, superhuman powers, double life, disguise, vigilante, spider man, super villain, good versus evil, friendship, experiment gone awry, fantasy world ...
Time:
2000s, year 2004, y2k, future, 21st century
Place:
new york, usa, north america, manhattan new york city
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Guam, Philippines
Duration: 77 min.
Story:
Guam, U.S.A. Thursday, November 24, Thanksgiving Day. Alex, a local newspaper photographer, gets into a “green card marriage” with her good friend James, a Guam-born Filipino. Miriam, a former member of the Philippine press and now an ...
Style:
melancholic
Plot:
sacrifice, diaspora, photojournalist, friendship, empathy, female friendship, longing, identity crisis, resilience, cultural conflict, loss of job, journalism ...
Place:
the philippines
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Genre: Action, War
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
American journalist Charlie Palmer gets permission to meet Russian soldiers in a camp controlled by Tali-ban. While the Russian soldiers take over the camp Charlie films it all.
Style:
suspenseful, exciting, rough, tense, political drama
Plot:
war in afghanistan, journalist, pow, escape, taliban, conflict, brutality, confined, captivity, danger, behind enemy lines, fear ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
afghanistan, pakistan
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