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Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Star reporter Lars Bogenius is a respected journalist and knows how to wow his readers and critics with emotional reportage. Emotional, realistic and moving, his style regularly promises to win him the industry's most coveted awards. His ...
Style:
melancholic, suspenseful, tense
Plot:
investigative journalism, realism, whistleblower, ethical dilemma, professional rivalry, social commentary, teddy bear, husband wife relationship, award ceremony, investigative reporter, newsroom, german abroad
Place:
berlin germany, northern germany, hamburg germany
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Genre: Action, Drama, Romance
Country: Bangladesh
Duration: 147 min.
Story:
An underworld mafia steals valuable mineral resources and sell them over to international crime organization . Simi (Nusrat Imrose Tisha); a news reporter finds out and exposes the whole criminal chain to the media, despite all threats from them. An ...
Style:
entertaining, romantic, captivating, tense, suspense ...
Plot:
smuggling, mafia, underworld, female reporter, organized crime, investigative journalism, criminal syndicate, uncover truth, couple relations, reporter, relationships, male female relationship ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
bangladesh
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Genre: Action, Drama
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Film from Serge Rodnunsky
Style:
tense, captivating, thrilling, suspenseful, crime thriller ...
Plot:
corruption, political corruption, conspiracy, newspaper, investigation, cover up, investigative journalism, reporter, secret, corrupt, political scandal, murder mystery ...
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 55 min.
TV show
Story:
A series of gripping thrillers that expose the dark side of the people we trust to care for us - doctors.
Style:
emotional, psychological thriller, medical drama, serious, realistic ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
hospital, deception, single mother, medical, pretense, doctors and patients, secret, coworker relationship, female protagonist, identity theft, impostor, salvation ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
edinburgh scotland
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Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
A high-achieving high school graduate, battles for justice at South Korea’s most reputable accounting firm.
Style:
tense, captivating, thrilling, dark, dramatic ...
Plot:
accounting, accountant, bank, justice, underdog, problem, finance, workplace, intrigue, money, workplace situations, financier ...
Place:
seoul, korea
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Genre: Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
A journalist digs deep into the world of aviation and discovers some uncomfortable truths. And a conspiracy trail dating back to 1954. But why is no one saying anything?
Style:
suspenseful, captivating, tense, serious, tension ...
Plot:
investigation, uncover truth, journalism, society, moral dilemma, dishonesty, cover up, corporate conspiracy, investigative journalism, corruption, whistleblower, ethical dilemma ...
Time:
1950s, 21st century
Place:
england, europe
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3K
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 150 min.
Story:
A budding journalist passionate about ethical, noble, hard-hitting journalism understands the more flourishing ghetto of sensationalism & news fabrication that the Entertainment TV Channel he belongs to, thrives on. When caught in a dilemma ...
Style:
tense, psychological, suspenseful, thrilling, captivating ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
journalism, investigative reporter, investigative journalism, reporter, fight, media manipulation, problem, corrupt official, government corruption, journalist, activism, ethical dilemma ...
Place:
india
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663K
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 138 min.
Story:
Two low-level astronomers, upon discovering that a meteor will strike the Earth in six months, go on a media tour to try to warn the world but find an unreceptive and unbelieving populace.
Style:
cerebral, apocalyptic, feel good, political, dark comedy ...
Audience:
kids, date night, adult
Plot:
disaster, asteroid, end of the world, social satire, danger, satire, politics, meteorite, chaos, comet, mass hysteria, social commentary ...
Time:
future, 2020s, year 1994, distant future, 21st century
Place:
washington d.c., usa, london, illinois, north america ...
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy
Country: USA, China, Germany
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
Reboot of the 1970s TV series / early 2000s film franchise.
Style:
funny, exciting, rom com, humorous, action adventure ...
Audience:
chick flick, teens, boys' night, adult
Plot:
female protagonist, girlfriend girlfriend relationship, female agent, working undercover, fighting crime, female secret agent, female assassin, female spy, betrayal, tough girl, agent, chase ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
usa, hamburg germany, paris france, europe, turkey ...
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany, UK, France, Turkey
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
An interpol agent and an attorney are determined to bring one of the world's most powerful banks to justice. Uncovering money laundering, arms trading, and conspiracy to destabilize world governments, their investigation takes them from Berlin, ...
Style:
sexy, suspenseful, tricky, suspense, intense ...
Plot:
conspiracy, interpol, assassin, investigation, gunfight, conspiracy theory, chase, politics, twists and turns, hitman, lawyer, revenge ...
Time:
year 2009, 21st century
Place:
new york, usa, berlin germany, italy, manhattan new york city ...
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France, Germany, UK, Belgium, USA
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
A writer stumbles upon a long-hidden secret when he agrees to help former British Prime Minister Adam Lang complete his memoirs on a remote island after the politician's assistant drowns in a mysterious accident. In director Roman ...
Style:
political thriller, atmospheric, suspense thriller, political, tricky ...
Plot:
writers, twists and turns, political conspiracy, politics, investigation, writer's life, betrayal, espionage, desert island, conspiracy, suspicion, uncover truth ...
Time:
year 2010, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
new england, new york, oxford university, massachusetts, britain ...
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Charles Dobbs is a British secret agent investigating the apparent suicide of Foreign Office official Samuel Fennan. Dobbs suspects that Fennan's wife, Elsa, a survivor of a Nazi Germany extermination camp, might have some clues, but other ...
Style:
serious, tense, suspenseful, exciting, psychological ...
Plot:
cold war, espionage, spy, private detective, working undercover, office, insomnia, secret agent, uncover truth, danger, infidelity, political corruption ...
Time:
year 1966, 60s
Place:
britain, england, london
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Genre: Drama, History, Thriller
Country: Ukraine
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
The protagonist Andrii Dovzhenko finds out a horrible truth, that has been hidden in USSR for years - most of those accused of «anti-Soviet propaganda» were never sent to prison, but to special psychiatric hospitals with a diagnosis of "slow ...
Style:
historical drama, bleak, intense, tense, suspenseful ...
Plot:
oppression, totalitarianism, dissident, kgb, brutality, psychological torture, human rights, fear, conscience, resistance, trauma, interrogation ...
Time:
70s
Place:
soviet union, ukraine
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Germany, Denmark, Austria
TV show
Story:
The cum-ex scandal has caused 146 billion euros in losses in several countries. Inspired by true events, two women from Germany and Denmark are trying to put an end to it.
Style:
tense, suspenseful
Plot:
scandal, corruption, conspiracy, whistleblower, money laundering, lawyer, courtroom drama, journalism, ethical dilemma, moral ambiguity, audit, sleaze ...
Time:
2010s, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
germany, denmark, london, copenhagen, frankfurt germany
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
An L.A. cop discovers a local task force is hiding a secret that puts the residents of his childhood neighborhood in danger.
Style:
crime thriller, suspense, tense, intense, neo noir ...
Plot:
gang, investigation, police corruption, ethical dilemma, moral ambiguity, conspiracy, task force, whistleblower, urban decay, undercover, betrayal, patrol ...
Place:
los angeles
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Genre: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 65 min.
Story:
The Airzone Solution takes place in a future Britain where pollution has reached a point where the populace must often wear filtration masks when they venture outside. AirZone, a powerful corporation, signs a lucrative deal with the government to ...
Style:
suspenseful, sinister, bleak, tense, independent film ...
Plot:
contamination, corporate conspiracy, ecological disaster, environmentalism, political corruption, dystopia, environmental, whistleblower, investigative reporter, urban decay, ethical dilemma, investigation ...
Time:
near future, future
Place:
london
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Who can you turn to when protectors become predators? Dana Delany, Keith Carradine, and Brian Dennehy star in this moving, suspenseful drama about one woman's courageous battle to bring a rogue cop to justice. Sally Rawlings (Delany), a ...
Style:
crime drama, suspense, dark, tense, emotional ...
Plot:
police brutality, racism, police corruption, corruption, interracial relations, racial injustice, racial tension, female protagonist, social commentary, investigation, vigilante justice, revenge ...
Time:
90s
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
The loyalty of a tight group of friends is put to the test when there's a date rape within the circle.
Style:
dark, suspense, crime thriller, intense, independent film
Plot:
american football, cover up, murder, rape, friendship, lie, trauma, sexual assault, secrets, victimization, guilt, fear ...
Time:
90s
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 134 min.
Story:
Television account of an honest New York narcotics cop who becomes unwillingly involved in a plan to uncover corruption in his department.
Style:
crime thriller, tension, suspenseful, suspense, tragic
Plot:
corruption, law enforcement, drug trade, cover up, betrayal, conspiracy, nypd, urban, ethical dilemma, mistrust, whistleblower, covert operation ...
Time:
80s
Place:
new york
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Genre: Action, Biography
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Malarek is a film directed by Roger Cardinal in 1989. Ex-juvenile offender Victor Malarek catches a break when he's hired as a cub reporter for the Montreal Star. After witnessing a cop murder a street kid, Malarek dedicates himself to exposing ...
Style:
crime drama, crime thriller, suspenseful, emotional, tense ...
Plot:
juvenile detention, social injustice, police brutality, investigative journalism, social commentary, police corruption, urban, poverty, investigation, true crime, human rights, ethical dilemma ...
Time:
80s
Place:
montreal, canada
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Anthony Geary (General Hospital) stars as a compassionate doctor who must treat an STD outbreak at an upscale vacation resort. Judith Light (Law & Order: Special Victims Unit) co-stars as an afflicted resident whose heart is broken by this ...
Style:
medical drama, eighties
Plot:
doctor, epidemic, public health, cover up, whistleblower, scandal, ethical dilemma, character study, social realism, virus, investigation, tragic romance ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
The true story of Rosario Livatino, a young judge in Sicily in the early 1980s, who have been nicknamed 'The Boy Judge' from the President of the Republic. He's strictly incorruptible, working hard and refusing even to shake hands ...
Style:
crime drama, realistic, serious, intense, heroic ...
Plot:
mafia, justice, organized crime, courage, assassination, social commentary, biopic, investigation, whistleblower, ethical dilemma, martyr, power struggle ...
Time:
80s, 90s
Place:
sicily, italy
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Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 140 min.
Story:
Chiranjeevi, a small government employee from a lower middle class family fights back with the system when the system takes them for granted and fails them.
Style:
inspirational, realistic, tense
Plot:
justice, bureaucracy, corruption, office politics, family drama, class struggle, confrontation, resilience, family values, small town, whistleblower, moral dilemma ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 163 min.
Story:
Deepak Pradhan, a young police officer, gets transferred to North Bengal where his junior officers are involved in corrupt practices. When disturbing events from the past start to surface and the pressure builds, will Deepak be able to hold on to ...
Style:
suspenseful, dramatic, tense, intense, emotional ...
Plot:
corruption, corrupt system, integrity, justice, ethics, moral dilemma, small town, betrayal, power struggle, investigation, social issues, whistleblower ...
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Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
After announcing a ground-breaking cancer cure, five members of the research team are targeted by an assassin hired by the big pharma. When two researchers escape the attack, they soon find themselves framed for the crime and on the killer's ...
Style:
suspense, crime thriller, intense, twisted, noir
Plot:
corporate corruption, list, medical research, hitman, cat and mouse, assassin, cover up, conspiracy, false accusation, survival, moral dilemma, investigation ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
In the year 1996, the entire nation was politically facing a serious issue. In addition, the country was suffering from another dangerous problem. In this scenario, a Government Employee took up the responsibility.
Style:
serious, realistic, dramatic, tense, suspenseful ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
social commentary, moral dilemma, bureaucracy, political intrigue, power struggle, government corruption, conspiracy, whistleblower, investigation, activism, legal battle, urban
Time:
90s
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Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 152 min.
Story:
Panja Abhiram is a youngster who wants to change the political system from the inside out. But when he’s chipped away at every turn, will he be the one to change the fate of his hometown?
Style:
realistic, tense, political thriller, inspirational, patriotic ...
Plot:
corruption, bureaucracy, justice, idealism, public service, activism, ethical dilemma, power struggle, investigation, conflict of interest, whistleblower, leadership ...
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Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
Nandini is a brilliant and dashing TV Channel reporter with a motif of becoming top name in television news media. She is in love with Sanjay, a software Engineer, lives with her father. A girl named Sudha is working in Hospital as a Nurse is very ...
Style:
crime thriller, tense, suspense, emotional, fast paced ...
Plot:
rape and murder, investigative journalism, investigation, social justice, corruption, female protagonist, whistleblower, family drama, mature, cat and mouse, friendship, law and order ...
Time:
21st century
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Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 150 min.
Story:
A police officer uncovers a conspiracy based around state-sanctioned violence against victimized villagers.
Style:
political thriller, tense, suspense, grim, intense ...
Plot:
abuse of power, oppression, authoritarianism, justice, police procedural, repression, investigation, conspiracy, corruption, cover up, human rights, whistleblower ...
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Genre: Action, Crime
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
ICAC Investigator William Luk and JFIU Chief Inspector Lau Po-keung both hit a dead end in their investigation of a bribery case and a money laundering case. In the meantime, William Luk was suspended when model Eva Ng went to Inspector Kenny Ching ...
Style:
tense, suspense, crime thriller, disturbing, captivating ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
investigation, money laundering, conspiracy, police procedural, political corruption, frame up, crime solving, government conspiracy, corrupt cop, corrupt official, police detective, corruption ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
china, hong kong
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