Scapegoat movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant scapegoat movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out realistic, suspense, serious, suspenseful, tense and exciting films and TV shows about / with scapegoat, betrayal, gun, corruption, conspiracy, dishonesty, murder, investigation, rivalry and society plots mostly in Drama, Thriller and Crime genres shot in USA, UK, France and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as scapegoat: The Scapegoat (2012), The Scapegoat (2013), Richard Jewell (2019), Out in Fifty (1999), Clear and Present Danger (1994), The Paper (1994), Scandal (1989), Most Wanted (1997), Lumumba (2000), Manorama Six Feet Under (2007).
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Set in 1952, as England prepares for the coronation, The Scapegoat tells the story of two very different men who have one thing in common - a face.
Style:
atmospheric, period piece, serious, suspenseful, realistic ...
Plot:
lookalikes, scapegoat, dark humor, hidden identity, switching roles, family problems, dishonesty, family relations, disorder, coincidence, cons and scams, estate ...
Time:
20th century, 50s, 1950s, year 1952
Place:
england, europe
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
There is something strange - some would even say abnormal - about the Malaussène family. But if you take a closer look, no one could be happier than this cheerfully chaotic family, even though their mother is usually off on one romantic adventure ...
Style:
exciting, semi serious, humorous, realistic, family comedy ...
Plot:
scapegoat, life turned upside down, disorder, family relations, chases and races, chase, on the run, eccentric family, mistaken identity, family drama, whodunit, satire ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france
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Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 131 min.
Story:
Richard Jewell thinks quick, works fast, and saves hundreds, perhaps thousands, of lives after a domestic terrorist plants several pipe bombs and they explode during a concert, only to be falsely suspected of the crime by sloppy FBI work and ...
Style:
tense, sad, realistic, factual, suspense ...
Plot:
lawyer, false accusation, wrongful arrest, scapegoat, media frenzy, terrorist, fbi, federal bureau of investigation, biopic, security guard, friendship between men, media circus ...
Time:
year 1996, 90s, 2010s, year 2019, year 1986 ...
Place:
atlanta georgia, georgia, usa
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
A reformed ex-convict enters a love triangle and gets manipulated into being a scapegoat in a murder scheme for revenge.
Style:
realistic, suspenseful, serious, rough, crime drama ...
Audience:
boys' night, adult
Plot:
love triangle, scapegoat, revenge, ex convict, manipulation, murder, going straight, crime gone awry, law enforcement, protagonist as suspect, frame up, betrayal ...
Time:
90s
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Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 161 min.
Story:
Ignoring threats to his life, Harry returns to Hogwarts to investigate – aided by Ron and Hermione – a mysterious series of attacks.
Style:
fairy tale, saga, entertaining, sexy, exciting ...
Audience:
teens, family outing, teen fantasy, kids, chick flick ...
Plot:
magic, harry potter, witch, magical, boarding school, fantasy world, teacher, friendship, creature, youth, boarding school life, chosen one ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, year 2002, year 1992, year 1993 ...
Place:
london, england, europe
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 141 min.
Story:
CIA Analyst Jack Ryan is drawn into an illegal war fought by the US government against a Colombian drug cartel.
Style:
suspense, political, exciting, suspenseful, political thriller ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
spy, conspiracy, cia, mercenary, politics, assassination, espionage, sniper, covert operation, ambush, violence, drug cartel ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
colombia, washington d.c., langley virginia, usa, iraq ...
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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: Drama, History
Country: UK
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
An English bon-vivant osteopath is enchanted with a young exotic dancer and invites her to live with him. He serves as friend and mentor, and through his contacts and parties she and her friend meet and date members of the Conservative Party. ...
Style:
sexy, erotic, political, sexual, intense ...
Plot:
sex scandal, politics, lust, member of parliament, trial, defamation, swimming pool, miscarriage of justice, seduction, infatuation, marijuana, scapegoat ...
Time:
60s, year 1989, year 1963, year 1961, year 1962 ...
Place:
england, scotland yard, europe, london, california
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Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Sgt. James Dunn, who is wrongly accused of assassination of the officer he had a row with, is saved from death row and recruited for top-secret special operations squad led by Lt. Col Grant Casey. Their mission is to neutralize criminals who had ...
Style:
realistic, rough, suspenseful, exciting, serious ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
political conspiracy, frame up, investigation, assassination, death row, conspiracy, parachuting, manhunt, false accusation, reluctant partners, shootout, framed for murder ...
Time:
year 1997, 90s
Place:
iraq, los angeles
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: France, Belgium, Germany, Haiti
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
The true story of the rise to power and brutal assassination of the formerly vilified and later redeemed leader of the independent Congo, Patrice Lumumba. Using newly discovered historical evidence, Haitian-born and later Congo-raised writer and ...
Style:
political, realistic, serious, suspenseful, contemplative ...
Plot:
imperialism, politics, assassination, intrigue, colonialism, capitalism, politician, greed, revolution, scapegoat, betrayal, political corruption ...
Time:
20th century, 60s, 1950s, 50s
Place:
africa, congo, belgium, south africa, tokyo ...
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 137 min.
Story:
Rajasthan-based Satyaveer Singh Randhawa works as a Junior Engineer with Lahkot Municipality's Public Works Department and lives a middle-class lifestyle with his wife, Nimmi, and son, Raju. Satyeveer also authored a fictional novel ...
Style:
suspense, serious, suspenseful, neo noir, suspense thriller ...
Plot:
amateur detective, murder, estrangement, mistress, conspiracy, small town, blackmail, corrupt cop, scapegoat, bribery, dishonesty, life is a bitch ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
india, asia
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
At an elite, old-fashioned boarding school in New England, a passionate English teacher inspires his students to rebel against convention and seize the potential of every day, courting the disdain of the stern headmaster.
Style:
philosophical, inspirational, sentimental, uplifting, touching ...
Audience:
teens, family friendly, kids, family outing, girls' night ...
Plot:
teacher, suicide, poetry, coming of age, poet, mentor, teenager, literature, teachers and students, friendship, philosophy, dedicated educator ...
Time:
50s, 1950s, 20th century, year 1989, year 1959
Place:
vermont, new england, usa, harvard university
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
North Square is an award-winning British television drama series written by Peter Moffat and broadcast by Channel 4 at the end of 2000. Starring an ensemble cast, including Phil Davis, Rupert Penry-Jones, Helen McCrory and Kevin McKidd, the ...
Style:
tense, clever, realistic, suspenseful, semi serious ...
Plot:
legal, dedicated lawyer, lawyer, law firm, legal investigation, scapegoat, uninhibited rivalry, lawyers and clients, jury, rivalry, courtroom drama, ambition ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, 21st century
Place:
england, yorkshire, northern england
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Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
When international diplomacy comes up short, extreme measures must be taken. In the newest installment of The Art of War, Agent Neil Shaw (Treach) is on a covert mission to stop North Korean terrorists from obtaining a nuclear bomb. But when the ...
Style:
serious, suspenseful, realistic, fast
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
profanity, terrorist, terrorism, un, martial arts, heroes, master warrior, betrayal, race against time, save the day, protagonist as suspect, undercover ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, new york, korea, asia, seoul
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
An armored car guard's elaborate plan for revenge is threatened by his relationship with an old friend -- a brilliant and unpredictable television preacher.
Style:
psychological, disturbing, suspenseful, rough, realistic ...
Plot:
prison, vengeance, criminal heroes, haunted by the past, betrayal, life is a bitch, intrigue, dishonesty, rivalry, heist, infidelity, scapegoat ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
los angeles, california
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Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
After Dick Harper loses his job at Globodyne in an Enron-esque collapse, he and his wife, Jane, turn to crime in order to handle the massive debt they now face. Two intelligent people, Dick and Jane actually get pretty good at robbing people and ...
Style:
funny, humorous, light, satirical, entertaining ...
Audience:
family outing, teens, teen drama
Plot:
unemployment, loss of job, robbery, heist, caper, bankruptcy, couples, business, husband wife relationship, gangster, suburbs, greed ...
Time:
year 2005, 21st century
Place:
usa
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Genre: Action, Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France, Canada
Duration: 87 min.
TV show
Story:
The first female US President Sally Sheridan is shot dead by a sniper during her Veterans Day speech. Her assassin narrowly escapes the scene with his life, national security hot on his heels - or so it seems. Three months later, an elderly couple ...
Style:
suspenseful, exciting, serious, mysterious, fast ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
manhunt, assassination of president, conspiracy, memory loss, uncover truth, riddles and clues, on the run, election, life is a bitch, assassination, dishonesty, danger ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Because he wanted to protect his little brother, Teddy, a young man without a history, is accused of the murder of his father and sent to a closed educational center, waiting for his trial for parricide. He then plunges into a brutal universe of ...
Style:
captivating, suspense, crime drama, intense, tense ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
brothers, brother brother relationship, juvenile delinquency, father son relationship, scapegoat, abandoned baby, reform school, abusive father, brotherhood, domestic abuse, dysfunctional family, family problems ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Mystery
Country: Greece
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story:
Sto Para Pente, is a popular Greek comedy-drama television series, which was broadcast on Mega Channel for two seasons, from September 27, 2005 until June 18, 2007.
The script was written by Giorgos Kapoutzidis, who had also written the successful ...
Style:
humorous, suspenseful, exciting, semi serious, detective ...
Plot:
amateur detective, investigation, crime and punishment, murder, stranger, trapped, escapades, government official, scapegoat, conspiracy, cover up, greek ...
Time:
70s, 90s, year 1991, 20th century, 2000s ...
Place:
greece, athens greece
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Genre: Action, Drama
Country: France, USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
The story of two ex-legionnaires in a mission of political assasination in Romania. A candid portrayal of the human side of assassins.
Style:
suspense, tense, captivating
Plot:
friendship, professional killer, scapegoat, bank robber, assassination, camaraderie, released from prison, murder, chase, dying, terminal illness, killer ...
Place:
bucharest, eastern europe
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
When a priest commits suicide and two trainees are expelled from a seminary, a journalist starts to investigate the Vatican’s silence on broken vows of celibacy. A thriller examining the internal conflicts in the modern Catholic church.
Style:
disturbing, realistic, serious, suspenseful, controversial ...
Plot:
gay, priest, celibacy, suicide, church, uncover truth, fighting the system, clergy, society, dishonesty, crisis of conscience, expose ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
ireland
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Genre: War, Drama
Country: Romania
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
A young boy is adopted by a priest and his wife during the Nazi occupation of Romania during the Second World War. He befriends the village idiot, who's despised by everyone else. When a German is killed in the last days of the war, the ...
Style:
bleak, tension, existential, art house, period drama
Plot:
world war two, village, scapegoat, injustice, moral dilemma, tragedy, nazi occupation, village idiot, outcast, war crime, sacrifice, fear ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
romania, eastern europe
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Genre: Drama, History
Country: Russia
TV show
Story:
In the spring of 1982, as Brezhnev’s power is waning, Yuri Andropov decides to tackle corruption and apathy in the Soviet Union.
Style:
tense, exciting, suspense, historical drama, psychological ...
Plot:
friendship, dishonesty, destiny, danger, power struggle, scapegoat, fight for supremacy, historical figure, political intrigue, political conspiracy, tragic hero, political unrest ...
Place:
soviet union, ussr
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Donna is sent to a reform school to take the fall for bad boy Vince. Inside, she makes friends and learns about herself.
Style:
sexual, rough, serious, realistic, psychotronic ...
Plot:
lesbian, women's prison, female nudity, lesbian sex, fondling, female pubic hair, prison, courtroom, scapegoat, erotica, lust, lgbt ...
Time:
50s, 1950s
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Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
When an ex-CIA agent discovers his family have been kidnapped he sets out to rescue them, only to discover they are being held hostage and won't be released unless he carries out a mission to assassinate the President. He must use his advanced ...
Style:
suspense, tense, action thriller, captivating, suspenseful ...
Plot:
assassination of president, conspiracy, spy, espionage, family in danger, hostage, kidnapping, assassination, frame up, special agent, scapegoat, assassination plot ...
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Genre: Crime
Country: Germany
Duration: 90 min.
TV show
Story:
A commissar seeks the help of a psychiatrist when he suffers from amnesia amidst a case.
Style:
realistic, thought provoking, psychological, tense, suspense
Plot:
police, kidnapping, amnesia, danger, false accusation, crime scene, serial killer, investigation, law enforcement, scapegoat, mastermind, murder mystery ...
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Genre: Animation, Comedy
Country: USA, Ireland
Duration: 27 min.
TV show
Story:
A goofy, gullible sea captain is hired to helm a high-end cruise ship and becomes the perfect fall guy for an illicit smuggling operation.
Style:
dark comedy, satirical, semi serious, captivating, suspense ...
Plot:
cruise ship, captain, smuggling, satire, ship, sea voyage, contract, cartel, scapegoat, fish out of water, conflict, danger ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Russia, France, UK
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
This is the second installment of a three-part series of autobiographical films about the director's life. The first, which won various awards for its maker, was entitled Zamri Oumi Voskresni and was later retitled Zari, Umri, Vokresni ...
Style:
art house, bleak, reflective, melancholic, depressing
Plot:
nude young male, nudity, teenager, mother son relationship, autobiography, coming of age, adolescence, realism, survival, false accusation, trauma, injustice ...
Place:
eastern europe, russia
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Genre: Drama
Country: Portugal, Brazil
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
The story of Brazilian Antônio José da Silva, a jewish poet, playwright and lawyer living in the 18th Century Lisbon, who managed to avoid Inquisition by converting himself to Catholicism, after being tortured. But his fierce criticism of ...
Style:
historical drama, poignant, tense, melancholic, emotional ...
Plot:
catholic church, torture, religious persecution, martyrdom, anti semitism, political repression, biopic, heresy, power struggle, royal court, class conflict, palace intrigue ...
Time:
18th century
Place:
portugal, lisbon portugal, brazil, israel
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Genre: Drama
Country: China
Duration: 46 min.
TV show
Story:
Su Xiao, a female construction cost engineer, adheres to the professional belief of "clean cost table". However, she was dismissed as a scapegoat. After a series of career downturns, She will rush to the peak of career all the way.
Style:
captivating, thrilling, psychological, inspirational, emotional ...
Plot:
construction, workplace, engineer, architecture, female protagonist, intrigue, workplace situations, career, corporation, civil engineer, relationship vs career, job ...
Time:
2020s
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