| Spotlight (2015) | 8.1 | |
| The Post (2017) | 7.2 | |
| Informa (2023) | 6.8 | |
| Only for Love (2022) | 7.5 | |
| After Life (2019) | 8.4 |
Newspaper reporter movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant newspaper reporter movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out captivating, tense, suspenseful, suspense, psychological and realistic films and TV shows about / with newspaper reporter, investigation, journalism, reporter, journalist, newspaper, writers, death, newspaper editor and media plots mostly in Drama, Comedy and Thriller genres shot in USA, Japan, UK and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as newspaper reporter: Spotlight (2015), The Paper (1994), Defense of the Realm (1985), Ape (1976), The Post (2017), Wild West Chronicles (2020), The Alien Dead (1980), Richard Jewell (2019), Absence of Malice (1981), Only for Love (2022).
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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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17K
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: Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A reporter Mullen 'stumbles' on a story linking a prominent Member of Parliament to a KGB agent. In fact it is also linked to a near Nuclear disaster involving a teenage runaway and an Americal USAF base. Has there been a Government ...
Style:
political thriller, neo noir, political, cult classic, serious ...
Plot:
spy, journalism, political corruption, member of parliament, cover up, cold war, secret service agent, government conspiracy, newspaper reporter, reporter, death of protagonist, conspiracy ...
Time:
80s
Place:
london, england, europe
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2K
Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Country: South Korea, USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
A newly discovered 36-foot gorilla escapes from a freighter off the coast of Korea. At the same time an American actress is filming a movie in the country. Chaos ensues as the ape kidnaps her and rampages through Seoul.
Style:
psychotronic, natural horror, cult classic, grindhouse, independent film ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
gorilla, shark, giant monster, abduction, newspaper reporter, military, actress, giant ape, monster terrorizes city, american abroad, woman in jeopardy, blonde ...
Time:
70s
Place:
south korea, korea, seoul, asia
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171K
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Thriller, War
Country: USA, India
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
A cover-up that spanned four U.S. Presidents pushed the country's first female newspaper publisher and a hard-driving editor to join an unprecedented battle between journalist and government. Inspired by true events.
Style:
political thriller, inspirational, period piece, political, factual ...
Audience:
family friendly, adult
Plot:
journalism, truth, expose, whistleblower, newspaper office, newspaper, journalist, cover up, lie, wartime, freedom of the press, u.s. government ...
Time:
year 2017, year 1965, 90s, 70s, year 1972 ...
Place:
washington d.c., usa, vietnam
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, History, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 22 min.
TV show
Story:
Once a feared lawman, the legendary Bat Masterson trades his sheriff's badge for a pen and becomes a newspaper reporter. He now travels the frontier to chronicle the amazing true stories of the Wild West and bring them to life once more.
Style:
captivating, period piece, educational, suspenseful, factual
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
cowboy, storytelling, investigation, newspaper reporter, outlaw, wild west, reporter, biopic, narration, travelogue, victorian england, gunfight ...
Time:
victorian era, 19th century, 1900s, 1880s
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Genre: Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min.
Story:
A meteor strikes a houseboat in the swamps near a southern town populated by Yankees with fake accents. The people on the houseboat become zombies who feed on the alligators in the swamp. Once they run out of alligators, they start going for the ...
Style:
independent film, psychotronic
Plot:
alien, redneck, skinny dipping, swamp, blood, eaten alive, zombie, hillbilly, female nudity, teenager, small town, zombie attack ...
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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: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
A prosecutor leaks a false story that liquor warehouse owner Michael Gallagher is involved in the murder of a union head, and as newspaper reporter Megan Carter picks up the story and attempts to find the real truth, Gallagher's life begins to ...
Style:
thought provoking, suspense, talky, realistic, serious ...
Plot:
journalism, legal, writers, murder, politics, investigation, courtroom, court, lawyer, manipulation, media, newspaper reporter ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, year 1981, 70s
Place:
usa, miami, florida
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: China
TV show
Story:
Zheng Shu Yi, a reporter who excels at her job and is determined to land a front-page story, has tried very hard to earn an exclusive interview with top financial executive Shi Yan. Their love story then blossoms due to a mistake. Zheng Shu Yi has ...
Style:
captivating, romantic, psychological, semi serious, romantic drama ...
Plot:
love story, reporter, love, relationships, male female relationship, romantic relationship, love and romance, couple relations, love interest, love affair, newspaper reporter, workplace romance ...
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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: Biography, Drama
Country: USA, Canada, Ireland
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Susannah Cahalan, an up-and-coming journalist at the New York Post becomes plagued by voices in her head and seizures, causing a rapid descent into insanity.
Style:
medical drama, thought provoking, neurotic, realistic, suspenseful ...
Plot:
strong female lead, hospital, diagnosis, psychiatry, fighting illness, human brain, journalist, visual hallucination, doctor, female protagonist, newspaper reporter, catatonia ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
america, new york
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Norway
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story:
Please do not ask Sergeant Salmander about Gunnar. He loved that horse dearly and nobody feels worse about what happened to Salmander’s noble steed than Salmander himself. Yes, he understands that there were children present at the Independence ...
Style:
humorous, surreal, light, captivating, feel good ...
Plot:
police investigation, small town, misfit, society, smuggling, law enforcement, dark humor, fish out of water, social relations, newspaper reporter, police protagonist, police officer ...
Time:
21st century
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: Japan
Duration: 140 min.
Story:
Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto (1884-1943) was the Japanese Naval commander who was given the order to attack Pearl Harbour, an order he was duty bound to obey which went against his own personal beliefs. While this infamous attack is a low point in ...
Style:
touching
Plot:
world war two, navy, fighter pilot, aviation, japanese navy, aerial combats, pacific war, air attack, newspaper reporter, war, japanese history, tragic event ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century, 1930s
Place:
pearl harbor, japan, pacific ocean
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Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A female former FBI agent, now a cop in Los Angeles is assigned to catch a ballerina's murderer, but runs into resistance by fellow cops who don't think a woman detective can handle the case.
Plot:
newspaper reporter, female fbi agent, woman in jeopardy, police station, police partner, subway, ballerina, murder suspect, electrocution, abandoned building, murder investigation, german shepherd ...
Place:
los angeles
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Ireland
Duration: 250 min.
TV show
Story:
After investigative journalist Lisa Wallace publishes an article about her mother's murder, other girls start to disappear; she and Detective David Burkely investigate across Ireland, searching for the missing girls while the killer taunts ...
Style:
suspenseful, psychological, captivating, thrilling, tense ...
Plot:
investigation, missing woman, newspaper reporter, serial killer, true crime, investigative journalism, disappearance, crime solving, uncover truth, journalism, mysterious disappearance, investigative reporter ...
Time:
90s, 80s
Place:
ireland
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Genre: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
This movie delivers all of the great characters you would expect in a film about Tombstone. The Earp Brothers, The Clanton Brothers, Doc Holliday, Johnny Ringo etc. and great gunfights. What the film delivers, is a multitude of pieces of the puzzle ...
Style:
tense, serious, captivating, exciting, suspenseful ...
Plot:
newspaper reporter, sheriff, suicide, old west, life & death, cowboy, death, gunfight, cowboys and outlaws, handgun, shooting, showdown ...
Time:
1880s, 1870s
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 44 min.
TV show
Story:
Rebecca and Sam's lives are turned upside down when two teenagers break into their coast home.
Style:
disturbing, suspense, suspenseful, tense, psychological
Plot:
police investigation, corpse, female journalist, seaside town, husband wife relationship, police officer, newspaper reporter, journalist, grieving father, radio announcer, drug dealer, police detective ...
Place:
england
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Genre: Mystery, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Maddie, a reporter for a Norfolk newspaper, embarks on a Tiger Cruise during Christmastime where she meets a handsome naval officer and stumbles upon a mystery in the ship’s archive room.
Style:
romantic, psychological, touching, emotional, light
Plot:
christmas, young lovers, lovers, love story, male female relationship, husband wife relationship, love, father son relationship, sister sister relationship, newspaper reporter, captain, couple relations ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, usa
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Japan, USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
A Western journalist working for a publication in Tokyo takes on one of the city's most powerful crime bosses.
Style:
thrilling, detective, crime thriller, captivating, suspenseful ...
Plot:
yakuza, reporter, organized crime, criminal underworld, journalist, mafia, journalism, newspaper reporter, news reporter, forensics, gangster, corruption ...
Time:
90s, year 1993
Place:
japan, tokyo, asia
Is relevant?
3K
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
The lives of the editors and journalists working at a left-leaning broadsheet and a populist tabloid.
Style:
suspense, suspenseful, psychological, captivating, realistic ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
media, investigative journalism, newspaper, newspaper editor, newspaper reporter, relationship vs career, ambition, uncover truth, boss, workplace, workplace situations, integrity ...
Place:
london
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
The film is based on real events that took place in Samara in 1956 and known as the "Standing Zoe." During the holiday girl, without waiting her betrothed, removes the icon from the wall and Nicholas begins to dance with her, but suddenly ...
Style:
bleak, depressing, sad, rough, orthodox
Plot:
miraculous event, religion and supernatural, blasphemy, ideology, materialism, newspaper reporter, priest, mother daughter relationship, birthday, turned to stone, female nudity, female pubic hair ...
Place:
ussr
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Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
After graduation, Bram gets his dream job at a local newspaper. In his mind he’s the next Woodward (but he’s probably more of a Bernstein). A year in, he realizes that maybe the paper business is no longer what he’d seen in the movies. Instead ...
Style:
disturbing, suspense, captivating, political, aesthetic
Plot:
investigative journalism, investigative reporter, media, town mayor, newspaper reporter, political unrest, political corruption, scandal, mayor, newspaper office, political intrigue, journalist ...
Time:
2010s
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167K
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story:
Tony had a perfect life. But after his wife Lisa suddenly dies, Tony changes. After contemplating taking his own life, he decides instead to live long enough to punish the world by saying and doing whatever he likes from now on.
Style:
dark comedy, funny, ironic, compassionate, powerful ...
Plot:
bereavement, death of wife, sex worker, dog, starting over, death wish, death, journalism, grief, sadness, depression, suicide ...
Time:
2020s, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
syria
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Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: Japan
TV show
Story:
Ririko Seko (Kuroki Haru), who works in the accounting department of a major publishing company, Kusunoki Publishing, is not very good at understanding other people's feelings or reading the atmosphere, but she has a strong desire to learn ...
Style:
thrilling, captivating, comedy drama
Plot:
workplace, social media, female writer, business, gossip, newspaper reporter, workplace situations, newspaper publisher, newspaper editor, newspaper office, newspaper, relationship vs career ...
Place:
japan
Is relevant?
315
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
TV show
Story:
Mishima Kanji is a reporter for the Weekly Times, which mainly deals with gossip. He feels a sense of emptiness and discomfort as he spends his days chasing celebrity scandals, without a shred of the journalistic spirit he aspired to. One day, ...
Style:
suspense, suspenseful, crime drama, exciting, captivating ...
Plot:
investigation, informant, reporter, yakuza, male protagonist, journalism, news reporter, gangster, mafia, news report, mobster, newspaper reporter ...
Place:
tokyo, japan
Is relevant?
300
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story:
The paper edits the stories to include titillation and a seductive flavor that mirrors the lives of the reporters to push boundaries. The reporters take on increasingly bigger risque stories which leads to rivals, danger and intrigue.
Style:
erotic, humorous, sex comedy, sexual, captivating ...
Plot:
sex, lesbian, sex scene, lesbianism, sexual content, newspaper reporter, reporter, sexuality, odor, scandal, media manipulation, tabloid journalism ...
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
An unconventional relationship in a world on the cusp of change; a star newsreader and an ambitious reporter join forces in a ruthless 1986 newsroom, as events unfold that will change their lives.
Style:
psychological, captivating, thrilling, period drama, queer cinema
Plot:
bisexual, bisexual man, female protagonist, journalism, gay couple, television crew, workplace, reporter, coworker, newspaper reporter, female journalist, journalist ...
Time:
year 1986, 80s
Place:
oceania
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Ra-hee is ready for the real world. She has graduated from a respectable college and begins to apply for full-time jobs but is rejected by every company that she applies to. When all hope is lost, she gets a phone call from a newspaper company and ...
Style:
satirical, captivating, entertaining, disturbing, semi serious ...
Plot:
journalism, workplace, satire, newspaper, internship, media industry, newspaper reporter, workplace situations, female reporter, relationship vs career, news report, relationships ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
korea, seoul, east asia
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
The arrival of an attractive young teacher in a small town in the Po valley disturbs the drowsy life of the place, leading eventually to a murder.
Style:
captivating, psychological, disturbing, romantic drama, tense ...
Plot:
small town life, relationship problems, teenage life, relationships, newspaper reporter, privacy invasion, investigative journalism, teenage protagonist, woman, small village, male female relationship, murder mystery ...
Time:
2000s
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