Whistleblower movies and TV shows – page 3
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List of whistleblower movies
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A worker at a nuclear power plant finds life in danger after she points out unsafe conditions.
Style:
tense, tension, suspense, grim
Plot:
plutonium, cover up, whistleblower, female protagonist, corruption, intimidation, corporate conspiracy, danger, paranoia, investigation, moral dilemma, survival ...
Place:
oregon
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Genre: Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
A city PR girl goes on the run accused of leaking information from the military supply company where she works. Chased by ex-soldiers she hides with her brother, a member of a shadowy hacker group, and has to choose between her luxury life - and the ...
Style:
tense, suspense, thrilling, captivating, psychological thriller ...
Plot:
escape, female protagonist, brother sister relationship, hacker, accusation, past coming back to haunt, conspiracy, whistleblower, hacking, threat, pursuit, framed for a crime ...
Place:
london
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Genre: Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Legal ThreaT is a climactic lo-fi psychological thriller. It is a story of an innocent man Jon Luke Barker. Trapped in a world of duplicity, desperately trying escape his life, upon discovering nocuous evidence that threatens to overthrow the ...
Style:
psychological thriller, tense, suspenseful, dark, existential ...
Plot:
whistleblower, corporate conspiracy, evidence, cover up, corruption, duplicity, mistrust, industrial espionage, ethical dilemma, paranoid, innocent man, claustrophobia ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
Jo Deul-Ho, who came from a poor family background, is a promising prosecutor, but he can't ignore the corruption at his workplace. He becomes a whistle-blower and loses everything. Jo Deul-Ho then works to become a lawyer.
Style:
disturbing, captivating, suspenseful, tense, inspirational ...
Plot:
lawyer, prosecutor, investigation, justice, corruption, whistleblower, workplace, legal, workplace situations, fight for justice, attorney, courtroom ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
korea, seoul
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
On the eve of the Challenger explosion in 1986 one engineer goes to the extreme to stop the launch. This hot-headed engineer makes a desperate race against the clock to call off the billion dollar multi-delayed Challenger launch, convinced the ...
Style:
historical drama, captivating, psychological, tense, disturbing ...
Plot:
nasa, space shuttle, whistleblower, rocket launching, race against time, risk, corporate greed, engineer, moral dilemma, realism, bureaucracy, investigation ...
Time:
80s, year 1986
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531K
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 129 min.
Story:
In 2001, editor Marty Baron of The Boston Globe assigns a team of journalists to investigate allegations against John Geoghan, an unfrocked priest accused of molesting more than 80 boys. Led by editor Walter "Robby" Robinson, reporters ...
Style:
factual, tense, suspense, clever, cerebral ...
Audience:
chick flick, adult
Plot:
journalism, investigative journalism, conspiracy, newspaper, lawyer, investigation, sexual abuse, catholic church, cover up, child abuse, journalist, expose ...
Time:
year 2001, year 2015, year 2016, 70s, 2000s ...
Place:
boston, massachusetts, new england, nova scotia, florida
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 126 min.
Story:
A fictionalized account of the first major successful sexual harassment case in the United States -- Jenson vs. Eveleth Mines, where a woman who endured a range of abuse while working as a miner filed and won the landmark 1984 lawsuit.
Style:
inspirational, sincere, emotional, factual, disturbing ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
courtroom drama, feminism, sexual harassment, small town, lawsuit, rape, feminist, court, lawyer, labor union, courtroom, sexism ...
Time:
20th century, 90s, 70s, 80s
Place:
minnesota, usa
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14K
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 149 min.
Story:
Benjamin Garcia, Benny is deported from the United States. Back home and against a bleak picture, Benny gets involved in the drug business, in which he has for the first time in his life, a spectacular rise surrounded by money, women, violence and ...
Style:
dark comedy, realistic, humorous, semi serious, cynical ...
Plot:
drug cartel, drug dealing, politics, u.s. mexico border, organized crime, gangster, gang war, temptation, social relations, mexican drug cartel, mafia, criminal heroes ...
Time:
year 2010, 21st century
Place:
mexico, south america, latin america
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Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
In the late 70s, young Petra Grust begins teaching at the progressive Odenwald School. She is flattered by the trust placed in her by its widely respected headmaster Simon Pistorius. But gradually certain incidents at the boarding school begin to ...
Style:
dark, bleak, tense, realistic, historical drama ...
Plot:
child abuse, boarding school, suicide attempt, childhood trauma, trauma, child sexual abuse, whistleblower, betrayal, haunting, moral dilemma, gay, guilt ...
Time:
70s, 80s
Place:
germany
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Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: Ghana
Story:
A Ghanaian chemist, who in a bid to vindicate his company in a lawsuit stumbles on something even more dangerous in the process - a hidden chemical formula altered for testing and profit gains by a pharmaceutical giant.
Style:
suspenseful, dark, tense, political thriller
Plot:
corporate conspiracy, corporate corruption, pharmaceutical company, whistleblower, cover up, laboratory, biohazard, moral dilemma, investigation, acquittal, social commentary, suspicion ...
Place:
ghana, west africa
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
TV show
Story:
Mesh Kilbourne is a tenacious, ambitious student journalist whose quest for the truth outweighs social niceties, friendships, and protocol. When he stumbles on a possible cheating scandal involving his editor in chief, he begins sniffing out the ...
Style:
realistic, semi serious, humorous, captivating, suspense ...
Plot:
intrigue, college, journalism, social relations, college life, youth, dishonesty, media, scandal, newspaper, christian, religious ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
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Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
TV show
Story:
Itsuki Shinonome is sent to the internet media department from a major newspaper. Chief Editor Kanji Usami assigns her a story involving green caterpillars being found in instant food. A man who posted about the caterpillars in his instant food on ...
Style:
psychological, captivating, thrilling, realistic, satirical ...
Plot:
corporate conspiracy, reporter, newspaper reporter, newspaper editor, business, investigative journalism, male female relationship, relationships, investigation, corporate greed, private investigation, secret ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
June 27, 1980, an Italian DC 9 flying from Bologna to Palermo falls in the sea close to the Ustica island. 81 people die. The official version is "structure failure" of the airplane, but a number of clues lead the journalist Rocco Ferrante ...
Style:
political thriller, bleak, suspenseful, tension, tragic
Plot:
investigative journalism, air disaster, conspiracy, cover up, investigation, air force, whistleblower, political corruption, realism, ethical dilemma, bureaucracy, courtroom ...
Time:
80s
Place:
mediterranean sea, sicily, palermo italy, italy
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Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
Hidden Truth Waiting to be Unveiled...
Style:
tense, crime thriller, suspenseful, dark
Plot:
child abuse, corruption, investigative journalism, investigation, hidden truth, justice, expose, cover up, whistleblower, police procedural, social issues, fraud ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 135 min.
Story:
Sequel of 2014's Political Drama "Prathinidhi".
Style:
political thriller, suspense, intense, tense, dark ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
political scandal, corruption, whistleblower, power struggle, suspicion, investigation, conspiracy, justice, investigative journalism, moral ambiguity, betrayal, urban ...
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Genre: Crime
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A highly controversial sequel from the creators of the original film which was eventually banned by the Judicial system. Featuring interviews from experts who have researched the multi-billion "child trafficking" industry, parents who have ...
Style:
controversial, dark, grim, independent film, banned
Plot:
child trafficking, investigation, trauma, human rights, social issues, whistleblower, social commentary, interview, surveillance, ethics, undercover, activist ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
britain
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Genre: Drama
Country: Norway
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
In a modern version of Ibsen's stage play, we meet TV-celebrity Tomas Stockman returning to his native village to produce the world's purest bottled water. The plant will bring new life and hope to the village, but unexpected trouble ...
Style:
captivating, psychological, thrilling, tense, realistic ...
Plot:
family conflict, problem, rural area, water, business, businessman, countryside, whistleblower, integrity, ethical dilemma, public health, controversy ...
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Genre: Comedy, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 64 min.
Story:
A struggling Brooklyn freelance filmmaker must expose a corporate eugenics conspiracy before they get him by the balls.
Style:
captivating, psychological, tense, suspense, independent film ...
Plot:
conspiracy, full moon, eugenics, escapades, corporate conspiracy, fighting the system, criminal conspiracy, problem, fight, secret, intrigue, whistleblower ...
Time:
2020s
Place:
brooklyn new york city
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Genre: Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
A young man struggles for justice for the victims who are affected by the chemical plant leakage which lead to many deaths in the village.
Style:
political thriller, thrilling, captivating, psychological, serious ...
Plot:
fight for justice, factory, job, justice, social injustice, social commentary, ecological disaster, corporate corruption, evil corporation, corporation, environmentalist, environmental activist ...
Place:
india
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Genre: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Never-before-aired NASA footage presents evidence that the Moon is being used as a base.
Style:
thought provoking, captivating, exciting, serious, controversial ...
Plot:
nasa, space exploration, unusual phenomena, astronaut, moon, alien, conspiracy, extraterrestrial, conspiracy theory, moon base, space, space and aliens ...
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
Armed with a self-effacing manner and a lively sense of humour, Nicky quickly discovers that being a good cop doesn't always win you friends. Stuck away from the land of the living as a night detective, he learns that new friends are in short ...
Style:
detective, tense, crime drama, disturbing, suspense ...
Plot:
corruption, investigation, police procedural, police corruption, law enforcement, fighting crime, police investigation, crime investigation, crime solving, uncover truth, crime boss, sleuth ...
Place:
northern england
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Genre: Drama
Country: Sri Lanka
TV show
Story:
Rajiv, a fearless journalist, takes a stand against corruption and injustice in modern society. As he uncovers dark truths and challenges powerful forces, his journey becomes a gripping tale of resistance, integrity, and personal sacrifice. ...
Style:
emotional, heroic, tense, suspenseful, political drama
Plot:
social justice, political corruption, investigative journalism, journalism, justice, friendship, social commentary, loyalty, societal hypocrisy, whistleblower, male friendship, integrity ...
Place:
sri lanka
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: South Korea
TV show
Story:
Jo Jin-Gab was once a promising judo athlete. He protested against corruption at a game and he was kicked out of the sport. After that, Jo Jin-Gab became a gym teacher. Again, he could not control his anger against the son of the school's ...
Style:
semi serious, entertaining, captivating, disturbing, suspense ...
Plot:
servant, justice, corruption, state affairs, employer employee relationship, coworker, workplace situations, relationships, workplace, satire, relationship vs career, corporate crime ...
Place:
korea, seoul
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
Feisty ER nurse takes on the medical establishment when she uncovers an epidemic of misdiagnosis.
Style:
medical drama, dramatic, realistic, suspenseful, inspirational ...
Plot:
hospital, investigation, whistleblower, medical malpractice, ethical dilemma, activism, investigative journalism, doctor, nurse, kiss, stethoscope, wheelchair ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
On October 9th, 1963, at 10:39 pm, 260 million cubic meters of rock fell down from Mount Toc to the artificial lake formed by the Vajont dam, the higher dam in the world. The landslide formed a 250-meters wave and 50 million cubic meters of water ...
Style:
historical drama, suspense, captivating, thought provoking, disturbing ...
Plot:
political corruption, dam, disaster, landslide, corruption, corrupt official, tragic event, social relations, society, catastrophe, mourning, cover up ...
Time:
60s
Place:
alps
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Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
An investigative journalist gets into trouble when he publishes an article that exposes bitter truths about a corrupt politician.
Style:
suspense, tense, captivating, disturbing, political thriller ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
investigative journalism, corrupt politician, corruption, journalist, investigative reporter, fight, political corruption, fighting the system, corrupt official, organized crime, cover up, whistleblower ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
india
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Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
It is the job of the press to cover corporate crime, government plots and society. It is in this context that young female reporter on the beat Erika rolls up her sleeves and goes to work regarding what seems to be a government cover up. She is ...
Style:
political thriller, thrilling, captivating, serious, suspenseful ...
Plot:
investigative journalism, conspiracy, reporter, journalist, female reporter, investigative reporter, investigation, political scandal, cover up, government corruption, political conspiracy, press agent ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
japan, tokyo
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17K
Genre: Action, Drama, Musical, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 165 min.
Story:
As corruption becomes rampant in the country, a group of idealistic youngsters attract attention of freedom fighter-turned-vigilante Senapathy through social media, who returns to his homeland to finish what he started.
Style:
captivating, thrilling, psychological, action thriller, political thriller ...
Plot:
corruption, vigilante, political corruption, justice, corrupt, fighting crime, intrigue, fight, government corruption, patriotism, whistleblower, conspiracy ...
Place:
india
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 141 min.
Story:
A corporate behemoth hires a ruthless hit man to find out the identity of a whistleblower in the organization. Who wins in the end - the hunter or the hunted?
Style:
crime thriller, suspense, tension, tense, thrilling ...
Plot:
killer, analyst, hitman, corporate corruption, changing lives, battles, fight, career, problem, murderer, killing, cat and mouse ...
Time:
2020s
Place:
india
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Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
TV show
Story:
Former high school lab partners Marshall and Frances begin to unravel a conspiracy involving big pharma and the federal government to suppress knowledge of a rare mushroom that may hold the key to curing all the world’s diseases.
Style:
suspense, adult animation, dark comedy, twisted, dark ...
Plot:
pharmaceutical company, conspiracy, ethical dilemma, whistleblower, scientific research, industrial espionage, investigation, paranoia, alternative medicine, toxic waste, mushroom, biohazard ...
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