Journalist movies and TV shows

The list contains the best, new and most relevant journalist movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out realistic, cult classic, serious, suspenseful, suspense and inspirational films and TV shows about / with journalist, journalism, reporter, media, writers, newspaper, writing, death, profanity and murder plots mostly in Drama, Thriller and Comedy genres shot in USA, UK, Sweden and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as journalist: True Story (2015), The Newsroom (2012), Chasing Life (2014), Never Been Kissed (1999), All the President's Men (1976), Bordertown (2007), The Post (2017), Sharp Objects (2018), The French Dispatch (2021), Long Shot (2019).

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The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2009)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Sweden, Denmark, Germany, Norway
Duration: 152 min.
Story: Swedish thriller based on Stieg Larsson's novel about a male journalist and a young female hacker. In the opening of the movie, Mikael Blomkvist, a middle-aged publisher for the magazine Millennium, loses a libel case brought by corrupt Swedish ...
Style: tense, suspense, atmospheric, suspenseful, psychological thriller ...
Audience: adult
Plot: hacker, investigation, twists and turns, rape, journalist, sexual abuse, strong female lead, amateur detective, age difference, violence against women, missing person, lesbian ...
Time: 2000s, year 2009, year 2010, year 1966, year 1964 ...
Place: scandinavia, stockholm sweden, europe, eastern europe, australia
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 6.3
 73K
True Story (2015)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, History, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A drama centered around the relationship between journalist Michael Finkel and Christian Longo, an FBI Most Wanted List murderer who for years lived outside the U.S. under Finkel's name.
Style: suspense, surprise ending, psychological, captivating, serious ...
Audience: teens
Plot: journalist, journalism, courtroom, prison, murder mystery, plot twist, courtroom drama, prisoner, justice, twists and turns, prison visit, uncover truth ...
Time: year 2015, 21st century
Place: new york, usa, oregon, montana, mexico
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 8.6
 124K
The Newsroom (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 55 min.
TV show
Story: A behind-the-scenes look at the people who make a nightly cable-news program. Focusing on a network anchor, his new executive producer, the newsroom staff and their boss, the series tracks their quixotic mission to do the news well in the face of ...
Style: clever, political, realistic, sincere, dramatic ...
Plot: journalism, journalist, politics, news, workaholic, ambitious, rebellion, workplace, power of media, ethics, media coverage, idealism ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: new york, syria, usa
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 7.8
 6K
Chasing Life (2014)
Genre: Drama, Family, Romance
Country: Mexico, USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: April is a smart aspiring journalist in her 20s who tries to balance her ambitious career with her family, which includes her widowed mom, rebellious little sister, and her grandmother. We meet April at a pivotal moment in her life: she's ...
Style: touching, serious, realistic, sincere, romantic ...
Audience: teens, girls' night
Plot: journalist, cancer, dying, lesbian, workplace romance, coping, fighting illness, life turned upside down, life is a bitch, love and romance, female protagonist, workplace ...
Time: 21st century
Place: massachusetts, boston, usa
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Never Been Kissed (1999)
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: feel good, light, romantic, touching, sexy ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, kids, girls' night, date night ...
Plot: high school, prom, journalist, journalism, teenage girl, popularity, high school life, humiliation, teenager, teen romance, friendship, reporter ...
Time: 90s, y2k, 80s
Place: chicago, usa
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All the President's Men (1976)
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, investigation, politics, political conspiracy, conspiracy, political corruption, journalist, president, american politics, white house, political intrigue ...
Time: 70s, 20th century, year 1976, year 1972, year 1973
Place: washington d.c., usa, miami, florida
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 6.0
 11K
Bordertown (2007)
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Mexico, USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: The opening titles explain that American corporations are using the North American Free Trade Agreement by opening large maquiladoras right across the United States–Mexico border. The maquiladoras hire mostly Mexican women to work long hours for ...
Style: rough, suspenseful, realistic, disturbing, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: journalist, protagonist as suspect, murder, sexual abuse, rape, corruption, investigation, serial killer, uncover truth, society, police corruption, journalism ...
Time: 90s, year 2006
Place: mexico, latin america, chicago, usa
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The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Sweden, Norway
Duration: 158 min.
Story: This English-language adaptation of the Swedish novel by Stieg Larsson follows a disgraced journalist, Mikael Blomkvist, as he investigates the disappearance of a weary patriarch's niece from 40 years ago. He is aided by the pierced, tattooed, ...
Style: suspenseful, neo noir, captivating, rough, clever ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: serial killer, hacker, investigation, rape, murder mystery, sexual abuse, missing person, journalist, strong female character, twists and turns, murder investigation, uncover truth ...
Time: year 2011, 2010s, 60s, year 1966, 21st century
Place: stockholm sweden, scandinavia, europe, eastern europe, london
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 7.2
 161K
The Post (2017)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Thriller, War
Country: USA, UK, 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, political, factual, tense, inspirational ...
Audience: family friendly, adult
Plot: journalism, journalist, truth, expose, newspaper office, whistleblower, newspaper, lie, cover up, wartime, freedom of the press, u.s. government ...
Time: 2010s, year 2017, 90s, 70s, year 1965 ...
Place: washington d.c., usa, vietnam
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 8.0
 117K
Sharp Objects (2018)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 421 min.
TV show
Story: Reporter Camille Preaker confronts the psychological demons from her past when she returns to her hometown to investigate the murders of two young girls.
Style: psychological, suspense, bleak, southern gothic, suspenseful ...
Plot: murder investigation, murder, small town, self mutilation, mother daughter relationship, haunted by the past, hometown, journalist, reporter, serial killer, alcoholic, self harm ...
Time: 2010s
Place: syria, missouri
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The French Dispatch (2021)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Germany, Canada, France, UK
Duration: 107 min.
Story: The staff of a European publication decides to publish a memorial edition highlighting the three best stories from the last decade: an artist sentenced to life imprisonment, student riots, and a kidnapping resolved by a chef.
Style: anthology, funny, visual, light, realistic ...
Audience: date night
Plot: journalist, magazine, artist, chef, bicycle, voice over narration, police, journalism, unrequited love, chase, hostage, absurdism ...
Time: 2020s, 70s, post world war two, year 1975, 60s ...
Place: kansas, france
Is relevant ?
 6.8
 121K
Long Shot (2019)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA, Canada, Colombia
Duration: 125 min.
Story: Fred Flarsky is a gifted and free-spirited journalist who has a knack for getting into trouble. Charlotte Field is one of the most influential women in the world -- a smart, sophisticated and accomplished politician. When Fred unexpectedly runs into ...
Style: light, feel good, romantic comedy, humorous, political ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: journalist, couples, love and romance, babysitter, friendship, couple relations, politics, love, fall in love, ejaculation, diplomat, rivalry ...
Time: year 2019, 2010s
Place: new york
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 6.1
 108K
The Rum Diary (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA, UK
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: stylized, sexy, light, surreal, humorous ...
Audience: adult
Plot: journalism, journalist, newspaper, cockfight, writers, alcoholism, eccentricity, gangster, addiction, lifestyle, alcoholic, profanity ...
Time: 60s, 2010s, year 2011, 20th century, year 1960 ...
Place: puerto rico, caribbean, latin america
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 6.9
 16K
Mr. Jones (2019)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Thriller
Country: Poland, UK, Ukraine
Duration: 141 min.
Story: In 1933, Welsh journalist Gareth Jones travels to Ukraine, where he experiences the horrors of a famine. Everywhere he goes he meets henchmen of the Soviet secret service who are determined to prevent news about the catastrophe from getting out. ...
Style: period piece, cult classic
Audience: date night
Plot: journalism, journalist, cannibalism, communism, genocide, hunger, stalinism, female journalist, anti communist, reporter, spy, writers ...
Time: 1930s, year 2019, year 1933, year 1957, year 1934 ...
Place: ukraine, soviet union, berlin germany, london, russia ...
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A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood (2019)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA, China
Duration: 109 min.
Story: An award-winning cynical journalist, Lloyd Vogel, begrudgingly accepts an assignment to write an Esquire profile piece on the beloved television icon Fred Rogers. After his encounter with Rogers, Vogel's perspective on life is transformed.
Style: inspirational, sad, motivational, thought provoking, disturbing ...
Audience: chick flick, kids
Plot: journalist, biopic, friendship, friendship between men, writers, journalism, celebrity, magazine editor, puppet, life philosophy, tv star, cynicism ...
Time: 90s, year 2019, 2010s, year 1998
Place: new york, pittsburgh
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 7.8
 1K
22 July (2020)
Genre: Drama
Country: Norway, Sweden, Iceland, Denmark, Finland
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story: The story about the people working on July 22 2011, when a terror attack happened in Norway.
Style: suspenseful, bad ending, thought provoking, suspense
Plot: journalist, teacher, police, counter terrorism, terrorism, terrorist attack, politics, terrorist group, police corruption, islam, terrorist, nordic ...
Time: year 2011
Place: oslo norway
Is relevant ?
 7.1
 160K
State of Play (2009)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, France
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: clever, political thriller, political, suspense, suspenseful ...
Plot: conspiracy, political conspiracy, journalism, politics, corruption, journalist, investigation, reporter, murder, congress, politician, spy ...
Time: year 2009, 2000s, 21st century
Place: usa, washington d.c.
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Kill the Messenger (2014)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: A reporter becomes the target of a vicious smear campaign that drives him to the point of suicide after he exposes the CIA's role in arming Contra rebels in Nicaragua and importing cocaine into California. Based on the true story of journalist ...
Style: political, suspenseful, clever, captivating, disturbing ...
Audience: family friendly
Plot: journalism, reporter, journalist, u.s. government, secrets, investigative journalism, conspiracy, drug smuggling, media manipulation, cia, politics, investigation ...
Time: 80s, year 2014, 70s, 90s, 20th century ...
Place: california, los angeles, nicaragua, latin america, usa ...
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Good Night, and Good Luck. (2005)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: UK, France, Japan, USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: The story of journalist, Edward R Murrow's stand against Senator McCarthy's anti-communist witch-hunts in the early 1950s.
Style: black and white, political, melancholic, factual, tense ...
Plot: media, politics, television, journalist, mccarthyism, reporter, fighting the system, cold war, journalism, communism, propaganda, politician ...
Time: 1950s, 20th century, 50s, 90s, year 2005 ...
Place: new york, california, washington d.c., usa, soviet union ...
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 8.1
 499K
Spotlight (2015)
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, suspense, psychological, tense, talky ...
Audience: chick flick, adult
Plot: journalism, investigation, lawyer, investigative journalism, conspiracy, sexual abuse, newspaper, journalist, catholic church, pedophilia, catholicism, child abuse ...
Time: year 2001, year 2015, 2010s, year 2016, 70s ...
Place: boston, massachusetts, new england, nova scotia, florida
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 6.0
 57K
Walk of Shame (2014)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A reporter's dream of becoming a news anchor is compromised after a one-night stand leaves her stranded in downtown L.A. without a phone, car, ID or money - and only 8 hours to make it to the most important job interview of her life.
Style: funny, humorous, teen, light, romantic ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: journalist, comedy of errors, blonde, ex boyfriend ex girlfriend relationship, one night stand, urban, stereotypes, creativity, mentor, stupidity, life philosophy, twists and turns ...
Time: 21st century
Place: los angeles, usa
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The Hunting Party (2007)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Thriller, War
Country: USA, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Mexico
Duration: 101 min.
Story: An emerging journalist (Jesse Eisenberg), an experienced cameraman (Terrence Howard), and a discredited reporter (Richard Gere) find their bold plan to capture Bosnia's top war criminal quickly spiraling out of control when a UN representative ...
Style: intense, emotional, serious, talky, tense ...
Plot: journalism, journalist, cia, spy, war crime, civil war, revenge, bosnian war, danger, war, friendship, vacation ...
Time: 20th century, year 2007, 90s, 2000s
Place: bosnia, serbia, former yugoslavia, europe, new york ...
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 6.2
 129K
Supergirl (2015)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 43 min.
TV show
Story: Twenty-four-year-old Kara Zor-El, who was taken in by the Danvers family when she was 13 after being sent away from Krypton, must learn to embrace her powers after previously hiding them. The Danvers teach her to be careful with her powers, until ...
Style: exciting, suspenseful, humorous, saga, sad ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: superhero, super powers, female protagonist, heroes, danger, journalist, superheroine, supernatural power, secret identity, superhuman powers, strong female character, alien race ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: usa
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 7.3
 15K
The Front Page (1974)
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, witty ...
Plot: newspaper, journalist, journalism, reporter, workplace, media, friends, media satire, workplace situations, writers, satire, scoop ...
Time: 1920s, 20th century, year 1974
Place: chicago, usa
Is relevant ?
 6.6
 87K
Scoop (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: An American journalism student in London scoops a big story, and begins an affair with an aristocrat as the incident unfurls.
Style: humorous, melancholic, suspense, talky, semi serious ...
Audience: chick flick, date night
Plot: journalist, journalism, investigation, serial killer, plot twist, police investigation, murder investigation, student, magic, uncover truth, suspicion of murder, danger ...
Time: year 2006, 2000s, 21st century
Place: london, united kingdom, europe
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 5.6
 104K
Runaway Bride (1999)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story: Ike Graham, New York columnist, writes his text always at the last minute. This time, a drunken man in his favourite bar tells Ike about Maggie Carpenter, a woman who always flees from her grooms in the last possible moment. Ike, who does not have ...
Style: romantic, light, feel good, rom com, humorous ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, teens, family outing, date night ...
Plot: wedding, small town, fiance fiancee relationship, love and romance, journalist, battle of the sexes, unlikely couple, reporter, fear of commitment, stereotypes, breakup, canceled wedding ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: new york, new jersey, usa, maryland
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 6.7
 58K
Kalifornia (1993)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story: A journalist duo go on a tour of serial killer murder sites with two companions, unaware that one of them is a serial killer himself.
Style: neo noir, bleak, road movie, psychological thriller, sexy ...
Audience: adult
Plot: serial killer, psychopath, road trip, lovers on the run, journalist, redneck, on the road, mental illness, insanity, journalism, ex convict, motel ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: california, los angeles, pittsburgh, texas
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 6.0
 14K
The Escort (2015)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Desperate for a good story, a sex-addicted journalist throws himself into the world of high-class escorts when he starts following a Stanford-educated prostitute.
Style: humorous, captivating, intense, realistic, sexual ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: escort, call girl, journalist, prostitution, woman, parent child relationship, love interest, love and romance, sex addict, journalism, couples, society ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, los angeles
Is relevant ?
 7.1
 373K
The Ring (2002)
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 115 min.
Story: It sounded like just another urban legend: A videotape filled with nightmarish images, leading to a phone call foretelling the viewer's death in exactly seven days. As a newspaper reporter, Rachel Keller was naturally skeptical of the story, ...
Style: scary, atmospheric, suspense, suspenseful, gloomy ...
Audience: teens
Plot: supernatural, ghost, race against time, investigation, life is a bitch, death, supernatural horror, twists and turns, curse, macabre, journalist, female protagonist ...
Time: year 2002, 2000s, 21st century
Place: seattle, astoria oregon, fictional island
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Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues (2013)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story: With the 70s behind him, San Diego's top rated newsman, Ron Burgundy, returns to take New York's first 24-hour news channel by storm.
Style: funny, humorous, parody, satirical, absurd ...
Audience: teens, girls' night
Plot: journalism, journalist, father son relationship, reporter, workplace, dog, media satire, jealousy, rivalry, friendship, media, backstage ...
Time: 20th century, year 2013, 70s, 2010s, year 1979 ...
Place: new york, california, usa, manhattan new york city, san diego california
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