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List of media manipulation movies

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Dog Day Afternoon (1975)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 125 min.
Story: A man robs a bank to pay for his lover's operation; it turns into a hostage situation and a media circus.
Style: cerebral, tense, suspenseful, suspense, neo noir ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: bank robbery, heist, robbery, hostage, character study, bank, bank robber, hostage situation, criminal heroes, cop, mishap, gangster ...
Time: 20th century, year 1972, year 1975, 70s
Place: new york, persia, brooklyn new york city, usa
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 6.1
 45K
Edtv (1999)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story: Video store clerk Ed agrees to have his life filmed by a camera crew for a tv network.
Style: humorous, entertaining, satirical, light, funny ...
Audience: date night
Plot: fictional reality show, television, surveillance, satire, fish out of water, audition, life philosophy, happy ending, misfit, human nature, love and romance, showbiz ...
Time: 20th century, year 1999, 90s
Place: san francisco, usa, california
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The Hunger Games (2012)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 142 min.
Story: Every year in the ruins of what was once North America, the nation of Panem forces each of its twelve districts to send a teenage boy and girl to compete in the Hunger Games. Part twisted entertainment, part government intimidation tactic, the ...
Style: exciting, futuristic, suspenseful, disturbing, serious ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, chick flick, kids, family outing
Plot: survival, female protagonist, distopia, death, game of death, contests and competitions, competition, youth, danger, heroine, society, rivalry ...
Time: future, year 2012, 2010s, near future
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 6.5
 353K
The Interview (2014)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Dave Skylark and his producer Aaron Rapoport run the celebrity tabloid show "Skylark Tonight". When they land an interview with a surprise fan, North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un, they are recruited by the CIA to turn their trip to ...
Style: funny, absurd, political, humorous, action comedy ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, teens, boys' night, adult
Plot: dictator, male nudity, assassination attempt, cia, farce, journalism, propaganda, alternate history, undercover, assassination plot, profanity, satire ...
Time: year 2014, 2010s, 21st century
Place: north korea, america, korea, usa, asia ...
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 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 ...
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Mother Kusters Goes to Heaven (1975)
Genre: Drama
Country: West Germany
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Frau Kusters is preparing dinner late one seemingly ordinary afternoon in her seemingly ordinary kitchen in Frankfurt, Germany. Mrs. Kusters wants to add canned sausages to the stew, her annoying daughter-in-law thinks otherwise. The point, we soon ...
Style: black comedy, art house, controversial, realistic, serious ...
Plot: communist, anarchist, family relations, old woman, death of father, widow, suicide, media manipulation, working class, politics, parent child relationship, injustice ...
Time: year 1975, 70s
Place: germany, europe, frankfurt germany, west germany
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Heaven Will Wait (2016)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Mélanie, 16 years old, lives with her mother. She likes going to school, her friends, playing the cello, and she wants to change the world. But when she meets a boy on the Internet and falls in love with him, her world changes as she is gradually ...
Style: disturbing, psychological, thought provoking
Plot: islam, propaganda, jihad, teenage girl, religion, conspiracy theory, nudity, indoctrination, terrorist, parents daughter relationship, teenager, little sister ...
Time: 2010s
Place: france
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 6.3
 21K
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, talky, realistic, suspenseful, tense ...
Plot: journalism, hostage, media, journalist, politics, investigation, kidnapper kidnapped relationship, society, injustice, fighting the system, workplace intrigue, manipulation ...
Time: 90s
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 6.7
 5K
Free Rainer (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Austria, Germany
Duration: 130 min.
Story: Frustrated, because he is forced to produce bad TV-shows, a manager of a TV-station, enters the station and manipulates the ratings, to initiate a TV-revolution.
Style: feel good, serious, realistic, controversial, melancholic ...
Plot: power of media, starting over, media satire, misfit, society, media, unemployment, assassination, hacker, irresponsible, redemption, social misfits ...
Place: germany, berlin germany, europe
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Live Free or Die Hard (2007)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 128 min.
Story: John McClane is back and badder than ever, and this time he's working for Homeland Security. He calls on the services of a young hacker in his bid to stop a ring of Internet terrorists intent on taking control of America's computer ...
Style: exciting, entertaining, realistic, suspenseful, humorous ...
Audience: manly, chick flick, boys' night, teens
Plot: gunfight, hacking, one man army, terrorism, hacker, computer hacker, tough cop, conspiracy, car chase, fbi, lone hero, surveillance ...
Time: year 2007, 2000s, 20th century, 21st century
Place: washington d.c., usa, maryland, baltimore, los angeles ...
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Everybody He Is Nice, Everybody He Is Beautiful (1972)
Genre: Comedy, Music
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Selon "Radio plus près de Dieu", rien n'est conçu sans Dieu, surtout pas les shampoings, produits de beauté, la vente des disques... Un animateur dénonce cette escroquerie à l'antenne, ce qui lui vaut d'être licencié. ...
Plot: radio station, satire, cuban revolution, media manipulation, capitalist society, theater, rehearsal, advertising, skull, publicity, media, media hype ...
Time: 70s
Place: france, paris france
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 7.0
 16K
Bob Roberts (1992)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Mock documentary about an upstart candidate for the U.S. Senate written and directed by actor Tim Robbins. Bob Roberts is a folksinger with a difference: He offers tunes that protest welfare chiselers, liberal whining, and the like. As the ...
Style: mockumentary, political, cynical, witty, talky ...
Plot: political satire, election campaign, politics, journalism, satire, manipulation, political campaign, conspiracy, republican, senator, society, ambition ...
Time: year 1992, 90s
Place: pennsylvania, usa, nicaragua, new york
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 6.3
 16K
Death to 2021 (2021)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 60 min.
Story: This comedic retrospective mixes archival footage and scripted sketches as it revisits all the dread — and occasional delight — that 2021 had to offer.
Style: funny, mockumentary, spoof, dark comedy, parody
Plot: global warming, usa president, hospital, neo nazi, hypocritical man, mouse, accident, extremism, extremist, photograph, fanaticism, shooting ...
Time: 2020s
Place: new york, tokyo
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Bloody Oranges (2021)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Simultaneously, a retired couple overwhelmed by debt tries to win a dance contest, as the minister of economy is suspected of tax evasion, and a teenage girl encounters a sexual maniac, while a young lawyer attempts to climb the social ladder. When ...
Style: social
Plot: public nudity, debt, pig, taxi, humiliation, taxi driver, french politics, castration, car trouble, rape, anal rape, virgin ...
Time: 2020s
Place: france
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 8.5
 15K
House of Cards (1990)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 226 min.
TV show
Story: Francis Urquhart is the chief whip of the Conservative party. When Margaret Thatcher resigns as leader, he remains neutral and after a general election where the conservatives are returned with a reduced majority, he fully expects the new Prime ...
Style: tense, witty, political, realistic, serious ...
Plot: political intrigue, politics, state affairs, manipulation, journalist, reporter, deception, power struggle, dishonesty, intrigue, corruption, merciless ...
Time: 20th century, year 1990, 80s
Place: england, britain, london, europe
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To Play the King (1993)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 218 min.
TV show
Story: Francis Urquhart, unscrupulous but cunning Conservative politician, managed to become the British prime minister and crush all significant opposition. But his survival on the top is threatened by a liberal monarch and some skeletons in the closet.
Style: political, political thriller, cynical, tense, captivating ...
Plot: politics, royal family, british prime minister, political corruption, british politics, british monarchy, card playing, satire, dishonesty, head of state, ambition, heroes ...
Time: 90s
Place: britain
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 7.8
 15K
UnREAL (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 42 min.
TV show
Story: Set against the backdrop of a hit dating competition show, "UnREAL" is led by Rachel, a young staffer whose sole job is to manipulate her relationships with and among the contestants to get the vital dramatic and outrageous footage the ...
Style: biting, semi serious, realistic, captivating, grindhouse ...
Audience: girls' night, family friendly
Plot: showbiz, media, media satire, manipulation, dishonesty, artists and showbiz, workplace intrigue, satire, workplace situations, eligible bachelor, blind ambition, desire for fame ...
Time: 21st century
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Taking Chances (2009)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: When he discovers that an Indian casino is about to be built over the town's historic battlefield, Chase Revere, the self-appointed protector of a small town's rather meager place in American history, joins forces with sexy but dangerous ...
Style: humorous, semi serious, sentimental, realistic, feel good ...
Audience: date night
Plot: small town, partner, love and romance, fall in love, lifestyle, couple relations, unlikely couple, unlikely partners, hopes, small town life, couples, interviewer ...
Time: year 2006, 21st century
Place: usa
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 5.6
 10K
Saint (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A horror film that depicts St. Nicholas as a murderous bishop who kidnaps and murders children when there is a full moon on December 5.
Style: christmas horror, scary, suspenseful, exciting, semi serious ...
Audience: teens
Plot: ghost, murder, holiday, danger, vengeance, christmas, legend, xmas, winter, snow, supernatural, bishop ...
Time: middle ages, 60s, 15th century, year 1968, medieval times ...
Place: amsterdam, netherlands
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 6.4
 1K
Bluebeard (1963)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, History
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 115 min.
Story: France, WWI. Landru, the father of four Children, contacts Parisian women through newspapers, seduces and eventually kills them in order to feed his little family.
Style: neo noir, serious, realistic, suspenseful, factual ...
Plot: serial killer, true crime, world war one, biopic, killer, legal action, world war two, murder, anti war, court case, unlikely criminals, couple relations ...
Time: year 1963, 1910s
Place: paris france, france
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 6.1
 6K
Looker (1981)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Plastic surgeon Larry Roberts performs a series of minor alterations on a group of models who are seeking perfection. The operations are a resounding success. But when someone starts killing his beautiful patients, Dr. Roberts becomes suspicious and ...
Style: suspenseful, suspense, sexy, futuristic, psychological ...
Plot: murder, model, plastic surgeon, serial killer, murder mystery, obsession, greed, doctor, technology gone awry, amateur detective, dishonesty, mind game ...
Time: 80s, year 1981
Place: california, los angeles, beverly hills
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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
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 6.2
 439
The Big Wash (1968)
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Sickened to see his students always sleeping in class, a teacher with a colleague and an anarchist start a war against the television. They climbed on Paris roofs to coat the T.V. antennas with a special product cutting the signal reception.
Style: slapstick comedy, detective
Plot: anarchist, vandal, english class, criminal on the run, kidnapped man, school janitor, wanted, squad, political persecution, male to female cross dressing, chambermaid, backfire ...
Time: 60s
Place: france, paris france
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Hero at Large (1980)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: An idealistic but struggling actor finds his life unexpectedly complicated when he stops a robbery while wearing the costume of Captain Avenger, a superhero character of a film he is hired to to promote. He decides to dabble at being a superhero ...
Style: offbeat, semi serious, realistic, humorous, witty ...
Audience: kids
Plot: superhero, exodus, unemployment, mistaken identity, comedy of errors, heroes, rescue, politics, crime fighter, anti hero, disorder, righting the wronged ...
Time: year 1980, 70s
Place: new york
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 5.8
 423
Star Time (1992)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A confused misfit becomes suicidal when his favorite TV show is cancelled. An agent promises to make him a TV star if he kills certain people, so he becomes "The Baby Mask Killer."
Style: independent film, minimal cast, slasher, crying
Plot: serial killer, darkness, axe murder, pact with the devil, satire, tv host, manipulative woman, media manipulation, manipulative behavior, seductive woman, identity, suicide attempt ...
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Eleanor and Franklin: The White House Years (1977)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 155 min.
Story: The story of Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt during their 12-year stay at the White House.
Style: historical drama, postmodern
Plot: president, usa president, u.s. president, american politics, usa history, incest, biopic, winston churchill, marriage of convenience, polio, homelessness, media manipulation ...
Time: 1940s, 1890s, 1900s
Place: pearl harbor, usa, washington d.c., california
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Terminal City Ricochet (1990)
Genre: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Welcome to Terminal City, a decaying world where the citizens wallow amidst a mind-boggling profusion of discarded consumer goods; a ruthless world where television is exploited to its fullest to sell yet more needless junk to eager consumers; a ...
Style: political, independent film, black comedy, dark comedy, underground film
Plot: punk, dystopia, post apocalypse, post apocalyptic, distopia, prison break, capitalist society, social commentary, fugitive, hockey player, apathy, punk rocker ...
Time: future
Place: seattle
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Death Race 2050 (2017)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Sci-Fi, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: The year 2050 the planet has become overpopulated, to help control population the government develops a race. The Death Race. Annually competitors race across the country scoring points for killing people with their vehicles.
Style: suspense, humorous, exciting, captivating, psychotronic ...
Plot: car chase, car race, murder, dark humor, absurdism, corporate world, dystopia, carsploitation, brutality, overpopulation, cynicism, totalitarianism ...
Place: usa, texas, atlanta georgia, utah, south dakota ...
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 7.6
 2K
Glory (2016)
Genre: Drama
Country: Bulgaria, Greece
Duration: 101 min.
Story: When Tsanko Petrov, a railroad worker, finds millions of lev on the train tracks, he decides to turn the entire amount over to the police. Grateful, the state rewards him with a new wristwatch… which soon stops working. Meanwhile, Julia Staikova, ...
Style: art house, social
Plot: stuttering, railroad, planting evidence, police corruption, ministry, accusation, heroes, theft, speech impediment, tragic hero, telephone call, husband wife relationship ...
Time: year 2016, 2010s
Place: bulgaria
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The War of the Worlds: Next Century (1981)
Genre: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Poland
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Film opens on December 18, 1999, just a few days before the dawn of the new century. A local reporter, Iron Idem, announces that the Martians have landed. Shortly after that his program loses its independence: he is given the script telling the ...
Style: surreal, allegory, corny
Plot: martian, post apocalypse, surrealism, dystopia, rock concert, police, renaissance, visitor, cold war, underground, distopia, critic ...
Time: 90s, year 1999, future
Place: eastern europe
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