| Alaska Daily (2022) | 7.5 | |
| Downton Abbey (2010) | 8.7 | |
| City of God (2002) | 8.6 | |
| Joker (2019) | 8.3 | |
| Superman (1978) | 7.4 |
Newspaper movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant newspaper movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out suspense, realistic, entertaining, tense, clever and captivating films and TV shows about / with newspaper, storytelling, journalist, dialogue, journalism, mentor, catastrophe, reporter, runaway and investigation plots mostly in Drama, Thriller and Comedy genres shot in USA, UK, France and other countries.
1922
TOP 10 movies tagged as newspaper: All the President's Men (1976), The Company You Keep (2012), The Paper (1994), Spotlight (2015), The Front Page (1974), State of Play (2009), Zodiac (2007), The Rum Diary (2011), The Post (2017), In the Mood for Love (2000).
Best films
New films
| Highest 2 Lowest (2025) | 5.5 | |
| The Paper (2025) | 7.0 | |
| Madame Web (2024) | 4.1 | |
| Superman (2025) | 7.1 | |
| Neighborhood Watch (2025) | 6.2 |
List of newspaper movies
Genre: Drama, History, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 138 min.
Story:
In the run-up to the 1972 elections, Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward covers what seems to be a minor break-in at the Democratic Party National headquarters. He is surprised to find top lawyers already on the defense case, and the discovery of ...
Style:
political thriller, political, cerebral, realistic, serious ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
journalism, newspaper, political conspiracy, politics, conspiracy, political corruption, investigation, american politics, white house, investigative journalism, whistleblower, president ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, year 1973, year 1972, year 1976
Place:
washington d.c., usa, north america, miami, florida
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
A former Weather Underground activist goes on the run from a journalist who discovers his identity.
Style:
sexy, suspense, captivating, light, serious ...
Audience:
family friendly, teens
Plot:
newspaper, special agent, journalism, fbi, journalist, twists and turns, runaway, reporter, politics, terrorism, robbery, fbi agent ...
Time:
70s, year 2012, year 1971, year 1979, year 1972 ...
Place:
usa, michigan, new york, canada, vermont ...
Is relevant?
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
Is relevant?
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: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
A journalist suffering from burn-out wants to finally say goodbye to his office – but his boss doesn’t like the idea one bit.
Style:
talky, light, humorous, hilarious, period piece ...
Plot:
newspaper, journalist, journalism, reporter, workplace, satire, media, friends, media satire, workplace situations, writers, scoop ...
Time:
1920s, 20th century, year 1974, 1930s, 70s
Place:
chicago, usa, philadelphia
Is relevant?
166K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, France, USA
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
Handsome, unflappable U.S. Congressman Stephen Collins is the future of his political party: an honorable appointee who serves as the chairman of a committee overseeing defense spending. All eyes are upon the rising star to be his party's ...
Style:
political thriller, clever, political, suspenseful, suspense ...
Plot:
political conspiracy, conspiracy, journalism, corruption, journalist, investigation, reporter, murder, congress, espionage, world politics, assassination ...
Time:
year 2009, 2000s, 70s, 21st century
Place:
usa, washington d.c.
Is relevant?
665K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 157 min.
Story:
The true story of the investigation of the "Zodiac Killer", a serial killer who terrified the San Francisco Bay Area, taunting police with his ciphers and letters. The case becomes an obsession for four men as their lives and careers are ...
Style:
atmospheric, tense, suspense, neo noir, stylized ...
Audience:
chick flick, adult
Plot:
serial killer, investigation, murder, journalism, maniac, murder mystery, mind game, journalist, true crime, paranoia, killer, uncover truth ...
Time:
70s, year 2007, year 1971, year 1969, year 1979 ...
Place:
san francisco, california, bay area, usa, oakland california ...
Is relevant?
110K
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
Tired of the noise and madness of New York and the crushing conventions of late Eisenhower-era America, itinerant journalist Paul Kemp travels to the pristine island of Puerto Rico to write for a local San Juan newspaper run by the downtrodden ...
Style:
sexy, stylized, surreal, humorous, ironic ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
journalism, journalist, newspaper, cockfight, writers, alcoholism, profanity, satire, adaptation, eccentricity, gangster, addiction ...
Time:
60s, year 1960, year 2011, 20th century, 50s ...
Place:
puerto rico, caribbean, latin america, new jersey
Is relevant?
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
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Hong Kong, France
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A melancholy story about the love between a woman and a man who live in the same building and one day find out that their husband and wife had an affair with each other. More and more the two meet during their daily lives as they determine that they ...
Style:
atmospheric, melancholic, sexy, art house, visually stunning ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
loneliness, adultery, infidelity, forbidden love, lovers, love affair, marriage, unrequited love, newspaper, true love, love story, relationships ...
Time:
2000s, year 2000, y2k, 60s, 20th century ...
Place:
hong kong, japan, china, east asia, shanghai ...
Is relevant?
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Josie Geller, a baby-faced junior copywriter at the Chicago Sun-Times, must pose as a student at her former high school to research contemporary teenage culture. With the help of her brother, Rob, Josie infiltrates the inner circle of the most ...
Style:
sexy, romantic, rom com, light, sweet ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, girls' night, kids, date night ...
Plot:
high school, prom, friendship, journalism, love and romance, teenage girl, popularity, bullying, journalist, high school life, teen romance, humiliation ...
Time:
90s, y2k, 80s
Place:
chicago, usa, new jersey
Is relevant?
165K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story:
Set in the present, the series offers a bold, subversive take on Archie, Betty, Veronica and their friends, exploring the surreality of small-town life, the darkness and weirdness bubbling beneath Riverdale’s wholesome facade.
Style:
captivating, suspenseful, tense, biting, surprise ending ...
Audience:
teens, pre-teens, teen drama
Plot:
high school, teenager, investigation, friendship, youth, small town, amateur detective, murder investigation, friends, danger, mysterious death, teenage life ...
Time:
2010s, 2020s, 21st century
Place:
chicago
Is relevant?
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Genre: Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
A major newspaper has informally decided to employ a female university student. However, shock ripples within the newspaper because of a weekly magazine’s scoop that she is the daughter of the criminal in a serious case. This was the kidnapping of ...
Style:
tense, captivating, thrilling, suspenseful, melancholic ...
Plot:
kidnapping, investigation, newspaper, investigative reporter, child abduction, journalist, missing child, journalism, murder investigation, crime investigation, undercover, secret ...
Is relevant?
159K
Genre: Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Furious that her late father only willed her his gloomy-looking mansion rather than his millions, Carrigan Crittenden is ready to burn the place to the ground when she discovers a map to a treasure hidden in the house. But when she enters the ...
Style:
sweet, fairy tale, light, humorous, touching ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, family friendly, teens, teen fantasy ...
Plot:
friendship, halloween, ghost, haunted house, single father, supernatural, afterlife, father daughter relationship, childhood, teenage girl, mischievous children, daughter ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, year 1995, 80s
Place:
maine, new england, usa, new mexico, santa fe new mexico
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
British reporters suspect an international cover-up of a global disaster in progress... and they're right. Hysterical panic has engulfed the world after the United States and the Soviet Union simultaneously detonate nuclear devices and have ...
Style:
sexy, bleak, suspense, atmospheric, disturbing ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
end of the world, disaster, cold war, nuclear bomb, newspaper, chaos, natural disaster, apocalypse, science, race against time, danger, nuclear ...
Time:
60s, year 1961, distant future, 20th century, future ...
Place:
london, england, russia, europe, moscow russia ...
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
A senator, who became famous for killing a notorious outlaw, returns for the funeral of an old friend and tells the truth about his deed.
Style:
melancholic, suspense, atmospheric, serious, meditative ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
politics, lawyer, funeral, wild west, old west, small town, senator, cowboy, friendship, bully, romantic rivalry, election ...
Time:
19th century, year 1962, 1910s, 1880s, 1800s ...
Place:
america
Is relevant?
347K
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
Dating coach Alex 'Hitch' Hitchens mentors a bumbling client, Albert, who hopes to win the heart of the glamorous Allegra Cole. While Albert makes progress, Hitch faces his own romantic setbacks when proven techniques fail to work on Sara ...
Style:
romantic, feel good, romantic comedy, rom com, funny ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night, teens, girls' night, family friendly
Plot:
flirting, dating, love and romance, love story, looking for love, power of love, interracial romance, eligible bachelor, slick, wooing, love, destiny ...
Time:
year 2005, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
new york, usa, brooklyn new york city, manhattan new york city, empire state building manhattan new york city ...
Is relevant?
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 47 min.
TV show
Story:
A star journalist moves to Alaska for a fresh start after a career-killing misstep, and finds redemption personally and professionally joining a daily metro newspaper in Anchorage.
Style:
psychological, exciting, serious, captivating, suspense ...
Plot:
newspaper, journalism, journalist, job, female reporter, reporter, female journalist, personal growth, investigation, redemption, realism, cold ...
Time:
2020s
Place:
alaska
Is relevant?
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244K
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
A chronicle of the lives of the aristocratic Crawley family and their servants in the post-Edwardian era—with great events in history having an effect on their lives and on the British social hierarchy.
Style:
costume drama, captivating, historical drama, realistic, serious ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, teen drama
Plot:
aristocracy, estate, traditional versus modern, relatives, manners, countryside, high society, servant, country estate, butler, family life, aristocrat ...
Time:
20th century, 1910s, edwardian era, 1920s, 50s ...
Place:
england, britain, hawaii, europe, yorkshire ...
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 52 min.
TV show
Story:
The editorial teams of a newspaper and a television channel.
Style:
suspense, disturbing, suspenseful, captivating, tense ...
Plot:
reporter, journalism, media, newspaper, corruption, investigative journalism, murder, journalist, current affairs, investigative reporter, television, politics ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
south korea
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama
Country: China
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
In 2003, Han Dong, a teenager who dropped out of high school, arrives at Beijing with a dream of becoming a journalist.
Style:
inspirational, captivating, dramatic, suspenseful, exciting ...
Plot:
newspaper, journalism, journalist, news report, investigative journalism, ethical dilemma, integrity, job, trainee, newspaper reporter, pandemic, compromise ...
Place:
beijing china, china
Is relevant?
26K
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
Casey Cartwright is poised to become the most powerful girl in the Greek system. Rusty, her little brother, is new on campus and he's the geek. But he sees Cyprus-Rhodes University as an opportunity to create a whole new identity.
Style:
witty, humorous, realistic, sentimental, teen ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
fraternity, youth, college, sorority, college life, teenager, friendship, party, dating, lifestyle, social relations, social climbing ...
Time:
2000s, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
usa, ohio
Is relevant?
206K
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 143 min.
Story:
Mild-mannered Clark Kent works as a reporter at the Daily Planet alongside his crush, Lois Lane. Clark must summon his superhero alter-ego when the nefarious Lex Luthor launches a plan to take over the world.
Style:
exciting, epic, sexy, saga, tense ...
Audience:
teens, kids, boys' night, family outing
Plot:
superhero, superhuman powers, time travel, megalomaniac, double life, space and aliens, father son relationship, cheerleader, save the world, heroes, alien, planet ...
Time:
year 1978, year 1948, 70s, 20th century, 60s ...
Place:
new york, kansas, california, san francisco, manhattan new york city ...
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
When a photojournalist (David Cubitt) photographs a mysterious stranger performing an act of bravery, the act quickly becomes headline news and the town dubs the stranger "John Christmas". After seeing the photo, Kathleen McAllister ...
Style:
captivating, thrilling, christmas special, psychological, uplifting ...
Plot:
christmas, newspaper, holiday, emergency room, photographer, christmas spirit, christmas season, save the day, secret, relationships, problem, male female relationship ...
Time:
future, 2000s
Is relevant?
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy, Germany, France
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
Based on the bestselling novel by Donato Carrisi, THE GIRL IN THE FOG is a gripping and chilling thriller that brings us to a hazy mountain village where enigmatic Detective Vogel is investigating on the sudden disappearance of fifteen-year-old Anna ...
Style:
realistic, psychological, suspense, enigmatic, disturbing ...
Plot:
investigation, murder, disappearance, clue, unsolved crime, schoolgirl, community, girl, vanity, reporter, teacher, psychiatrist ...
Place:
alps, italy
Is relevant?
8K
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A BMX racer who lives in a small town with his mother and sister is faced with a tough decision, qualify for Helltrack or take his SAT's in order to attend college.
Style:
semi serious, captivating, disturbing, touching, colorful ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
bicycle, underdog, teenage protagonist, teenage girl, sabotage, single mother, love interest, bicycle race, mother son conflict, small town, businessman, brother sister relationship ...
Time:
80s
Is relevant?
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min.
Story:
When a litter of dalmatian puppies are abducted by the minions of Cruella De Vil, the parents must find them before she uses them for a diabolical fashion statement.
Style:
entertaining, fairy tale, sweet, light, feel good ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, family friendly, toddlers, pre-teens ...
Plot:
dog, dalmatian, pets, puppy, female villain, talking animal, chase, christmas, animal, cat, burglary, rescue ...
Time:
year 1961, 20th century, 60s
Place:
london, england, united kingdom, europe, big ben london ...
Is relevant?
642K
Genre: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
A paranoia-fueled action thriller about an unsuccessful writer whose life is transformed by a top-secret "smart drug" that allows him to use 100% of his brain and become a perfect version of himself. His enhanced abilities soon attract ...
Style:
clever, thought provoking, intellectual, philosophical, captivating ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, family friendly
Plot:
intelligence, success, drug, creativity, drug abuse, superhuman powers, ambition, rise to the top, rags to riches, brain capacity, experimental drug, prodigy ...
Time:
year 2011, future, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
usa, manhattan new york city, new york
Is relevant?
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
When Terry Griffith loses her high school's writing competition, she's convinced that it's because she's a girl. So Terry decides to change high schools and pose as a boy to prove her point. Her brother, Buddy, helps her pass as ...
Style:
entertaining, feel good, not serious, humorous, teen sex comedy ...
Audience:
teens, family outing, girls' night, date night, chick flick
Plot:
high school, cross dressing, gender disguise, gender bending, gender bender, adolescence, tomboy, sexism, prom, college, hidden identity, newspaper ...
Time:
80s, year 1985
Place:
california, phoenix arizona, tucson arizona, arizona, new jersey
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 144 min.
Story:
A hotshot lawyer gets more than he bargained for when he learns his new boss is Lucifer himself.
Style:
psychological, twist ending, suspenseful, surprise ending, atmospheric ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
devil, lawyer, supernatural, pact with the devil, deal with the devil, satan, law firm, plot twist, trial, courtroom, demon, courtroom drama ...
Time:
year 1997, 20th century, 90s
Place:
new york, manhattan new york city, florida, southern usa, madison square garden manhattan new york city ...
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