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 6.3
 19K
Special Forces (2011)
Genre: Action, Drama, War
Country: France
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Afghanistan. War correspondent Elsa Casanova is taken hostage by the Taliban. Faced with her imminent execution, a Special Forces unit is dispatched to free her. In some of the world’s most breathtaking yet hostile landscapes, a relentless pursuit ...
Style: exciting, tense, serious, realistic, rough ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: taliban, military, journalist, war, war zone, sniper, swat team, soldier, kidnapping, danger, daring rescue, chase ...
Time: 21st century
Place: afghanistan, pakistan
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The Bonfire of the Vanities (1990)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 125 min.
Story: After his mistress runs over a young teen, a Wall Street hotshot sees his life unravel in the spotlight, and attracting the interest of a down and out reporter.
Style: stylized, humorous, semi serious, witty, cult classic ...
Plot: journalist, wall street, redemption, politics, interracial relations, society, courtroom, justice, media, finance, legal action, dark humor ...
Time: 80s, 90s
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city, bronx new york city
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The Morning Show (2019)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: A behind-the-scenes look at the lives of the people who help America wake up in the morning, exploring the unique challenges faced by the men and women who carry out this daily televised ritual.
Style: social, disturbing, suspense, emotional, captivating ...
Plot: women, television, career woman, journalist, scandal, job, protest, journalism, workplace situations, co worker co worker relationship, feminism, employer employee relationship ...
Time: 2020s, 2010s, 21st century
Place: usa, new york
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The Girl Who Played with Fire (2009)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Sweden, Germany
Duration: 129 min.
Story: Mikael Blomkvist, publisher of Millennium magazine, has made his living exposing the crooked and corrupt practices of establishment Swedish figures. So when a young journalist approaches him with a meticulously researched thesis about sex ...
Style: suspense, sexy, psychological, exciting, captivating ...
Plot: investigation, murder, journalism, hacker, secret service, conspiracy, dishonesty, strong female lead, lesbian, journalist, murder mystery, friendship ...
Time: 2000s, year 2010, year 2009, 21st century
Place: scandinavia, stockholm sweden, europe, eastern europe
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 6.9
 79K
Inventing Anna (2022)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 65 min.
TV show
Story: A journalist with a lot to prove investigates the case of Anna Delvey, the Instagram-legendary German heiress who stole the hearts of New York’s social scene – and stole their money as well.
Style: suspense, psychological, disturbing, captivating, historical drama ...
Audience: teens
Plot: manipulative woman, journalist, investigation, art collector, social media, crime investigation, female thief, journalism, instagram, true crime, investigative journalism, female villain ...
Place: new york
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 5.6
 14K
5 Days of War (2011)
Genre: Action, Drama, War
Country: Georgia, USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story: An American journalist and his cameraman are caught in the combat zone during the first Russian airstrikes against Georgia. Rescuing Tatia, a young Georgian schoolteacher separated from her family during the attack, the two reporters agree to help ...
Style: realistic, tense, serious, rough, informative ...
Plot: journalist, news report, political unrest, state affairs, media, politics, culture clash, war, life is a bitch, society, media coverage, journalism ...
Time: year 2011, year 2008, year 2007, 2000s, 21st century
Place: tbilisi, georgia, los angeles
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City of Ghosts (2017)
Genre: Documentary, War
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: With unprecedented access, this documentary follows the extraordinary journey of “Raqqa is Being Slaughtered Silently”—a group of anonymous citizen journalists who banded together after their homeland was overtaken by ISIS—as they risk their ...
Style: exciting, rough, disturbing, semi documentary, tense ...
Audience: boys' night, chick flick
Plot: journalist, isis, refugee, terrorism, islam, life risking, investigation, danger, youth, rivalry, society, escape ...
Time: year 2017, 2010s, 21st century
Place: syria, middle east, turkey, germany
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 8.6
 528K
House of Cards (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 3804 min.
TV show
Story: Set in present day Washington, D.C., House of Cards is the story of Frank Underwood, a ruthless and cunning politician, and his wife Claire who will stop at nothing to conquer everything. This wicked political drama penetrates the shadowy world of ...
Style: political, serious, clever, captivating, tense ...
Audience: boys' night, teens, adult
Plot: politics, political intrigue, political corruption, manipulation, state affairs, intrigue, blind ambition, u.s. president, lobbyist, journalism, journalist, media ...
Time: 2010s, 2000s, 21st century
Place: usa, washington d.c., syria
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The Last Witness (2018)
Genre: Crime, Drama, History, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, Poland
Duration: 97 min.
Story: An ambitious young journalist uncovers the horrific slaughter of 22,000 Polish officers during World War II, a secret kept hidden for far too many years.
Style: stylized, captivating, suspenseful, atmospheric, realistic
Audience: boys' night, chick flick
Plot: journalist, refugee, hidden truth, murder, investigation, secrets, danger, terrorism, world war two, mysticism, ambitious, world war ...
Time: year 1947, post world war two
Place: britain, poland
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 6.3
 22K
Loving Pablo (2017)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: Spain, Bulgaria
Duration: 123 min.
Story: The film chronicles the rise and fall of the world's most feared drug lord Pablo Escobar and his volatile love affair with Colombia's most famous journalist Virginia Vallejo throughout a reign of terror that tore a country apart.
Style: factual, serious, exciting, rough, brutal ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: drug lord, drug cartel, cocaine, journalist, pablo escobar, colombian drug cartel, assassination, congress, drug traffic, latinx lead, drug dealing, fighting crime ...
Time: 80s, year 1984, year 2017, year 1982, year 1993 ...
Place: colombia, south america, panama, latin america, florida
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 8.5
 11K
Healer (2014)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Kim Moon Ho is a successful reporter at a mainstream news station, but when he stumbles upon a 10-year-old mystery, he's forced to dive into a subversive underground news agency. On his journey to break open the case, Moon Ho teams up with Chae ...
Style: exciting, dorama, romantic, touching, humorous ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: reporter, hidden identity, investigation, hacker, false accusation, masked hero, rescue, dating, lost child, tragic event, journalist, self sacrifice ...
Place: thailand, seoul
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The Investigation (2020)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Denmark, Sweden
Duration: 42 min.
TV show
Story: Copenhagen Police's Homicide unit, headed by Jens Møller, tries to solve the murder of Swedish journalist Kim Wall.
Style: suspense, tense, disturbing, suspenseful, intellectual ...
Plot: police, journalist, true crime, law enforcement, murder mystery, female journalist, police investigation, murder investigation, brutal murder, uncover truth, investigation, murder of a woman ...
Time: 2020s, year 2017, 21st century
Place: copenhagen
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The Men Who Stare at Goats (2009)
Genre: Comedy, War
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A reporter in Iraq might just have the story of a lifetime when he meets Lyn Cassady, a guy who claims to be a former member of the U.S. Army's New Earth Army, a unit that employs paranormal powers in their missions.
Style: absurd, offbeat, humorous, black comedy, dark comedy ...
Plot: journalism, war, media, psychic power, journalist, farce, satire, reporter, desert, drug, military base, military life ...
Time: year 2009, 2000s, year 2003, year 1983, year 1973
Place: iraq
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 5.6
 8K
Elles (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Poland, Germany
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A journalist tries to balance the duties of marriage and motherhood while researching a piece on college women who work as prostitutes to pay their tuition.
Style: captivating, thought provoking, serious, realistic, erotic ...
Audience: adult
Plot: sex, prostitution, female nudity, female masturbation, husband wife relationship, bare breasts, journalist, society, ambition, introspection, hopes, coitus ...
Time: 21st century
Place: paris france, france, europe
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The Girl in the Spider's Web (2018)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Germany, UK, Canada, Sweden, USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: Lisbeth Salander and Mikael Blomkvist find themselves caught in a web of spies, cyber-criminals and corrupt government officials - both in Sweden and in the United States - whom are only known as The Spider Society.
Style: suspense, captivating, intense, realistic, tense ...
Audience: adult
Plot: programmer, computer hacker, hacker, journalist, computer cracker, father daughter relationship, terrorist, hitman, rogue agent, chess, spy, blackmail ...
Time: 2010s
Place: stockholm sweden, eastern europe, washington d.c.
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 6.7
 7K
Profile (2018)
Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, Russia
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Looking to investigate recruitment techniques of ISIS to lure women into Syria, a journalist creates a Facebook profile of a Muslim convert. When an ISIS recruiter contacts her online character, she experiences the process first hand.
Style: serious, suspense, realistic, disturbing, suspenseful ...
Plot: isis, recruitment, internet, islamic terrorism, woman in danger, jihad, brutality, journalist, woman, female protagonist, religions or cults, life is a bitch ...
Time: 21st century
Place: syria, england, london
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 6.6
 3K
Limetown (2019)
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Follows Lia Haddock, a journalist for American Public Radio (APR), as she unravels the mystery behind the disappearance of over 300 people at a neuroscience research facility in Tennessee.
Style: suspenseful, serious, suspense, exciting
Plot: mysterious disappearance, journalist, uncle niece relationship, experiment gone awry, secret experiment, female reporter, investigation, human guinea pig, experimental technology, mass hysteria, cover up, conspiracy ...
Place: tennessee
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 6.3
 44K
Down with Love (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: In 1962 New York City, love blossoms between a playboy journalist and a feminist advice author.
Style: romantic, sex comedy, light, period piece, humorous ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, date night, chick flick
Plot: womanizer, battle of the sexes, writers, journalist, love, hypocrisy, manipulation, fall in love, couples, wooing, verbal byplay, dishonesty ...
Time: 60s, year 2003, 1900s, 20th century, year 1962
Place: new york, usa, maine, manhattan new york city, bronx new york city ...
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 6.9
 2K
The Idealist (2015)
Genre: Thriller
Country: Denmark, USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story: A whistle blower attempts to reveal the secret behind a nuclear disaster that occurred during the height of the Cold War.
Style: serious, realistic, stylized, suspenseful, suspense ...
Plot: journalist, uncover truth, idealism, state affairs, life is a bitch, dishonesty, cold war, whistleblower, contamination, war, journalism, disaster ...
Time: 60s, 80s, 20th century
Place: denmark, greenland
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Things Behind the Sun (2001)
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: A young music journalist's dark memories are awakened when he goes to interview a female rock singer, and both are forced to confront troubling secrets from their pasts.
Style: sincere, emotional, serious, realistic, erotic ...
Plot: rape, haunted by the past, sexual abuse, forced sexual contact, gang rape, teenage girl, rapist, journalist, musician's life, memory, secret, coping ...
Place: florida, usa, los angeles
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Shattered Glass (2003)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Fact-based 2003 drama about the young journalist Stephen Glass, who got a job at The New Republic in 1995 and for three years fabricated at least half of the stories he wrote.
Style: suspenseful, enigmatic, captivating, disturbing, thought provoking ...
Plot: journalism, writers, workplace, ethics, journalist, media, ambition, suspicion, research, workaholic, career, character study ...
Time: year 2003, 90s, 20th century
Place: washington d.c., haiti, palo alto california
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 7.5
 26K
The Passenger (1975)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy, France, Spain
Duration: 126 min.
Story: David Locke (Jack Nicholson) is a world-weary American journalist who has been sent to cover a conflict in northern Africa, but he makes little progress with the story. When he discovers the body of a stranger who looks similar to him, Locke assumes ...
Style: road movie, stylized, cerebral, philosophical, existential ...
Plot: desert, reporter, journalism, journalist, existentialism, on the road, hotel, loneliness, espionage, identity, road trip, politics ...
Time: year 1975, 70s, 20th century
Place: africa, europe, italy, barcelona, north africa ...
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The Fifth Estate (2013)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, India, Belgium
Duration: 128 min.
Story: A look at the relationship between WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and his early supporter and eventual colleague Daniel Domscheit-Berg, and how the website's growth and influence led to an irreparable rift between the two friends.
Style: political, tense, stylized, realistic, serious ...
Audience: family friendly, teens
Plot: journalism, internet, whistleblower, computers and web, politics, international relations, hacking, computer hacker, spy, biopic, hacker, journalist ...
Time: year 2007, 2000s, year 2010, year 2011, 21st century
Place: europe, cairo egypt, paris france, washington d.c., stockholm sweden ...
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Beware the Gonzo (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Eddie "Gonzo" Gilman is starting a revolution. When the wild-eyed rebel journalist is ousted from his prep school's newspaper by its über-popular editor, Eddie fronts an underground movement to give a voice to all the misfits, ...
Style: witty, semi serious, humorous, captivating, light ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: journalist, misfit, high school, cheerleader, coming of age, bullying, rebelliousness, teachers and students, friends, teenage sexuality, lifestyle, teenage life ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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 4.3
 628
Public Sex (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 108 min.
Story: An aspiring Gordie journalist drops his inhibitions to research the UK's North East outdoor sex scene. He meets a certain girl in a car park, and the totally unexpected happens.
Style: sexy, semi serious, realistic, sincere, humorous ...
Audience: date night
Plot: sex, journalist, ejaculation, couples, self discovery, fall in love, journalism, lifestyle, love and romance, society, gay sex, unlikely couple ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, england
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The Life of David Gale (2003)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, Germany, Spain, USA
Duration: 130 min.
Story: A man against capital punishment is accused of murdering a fellow activist and is sent to death row.
Style: surprise ending, thought provoking, suspense, twist ending, serious ...
Plot: death penalty, investigation, suicide, death row, fighting the system, professor, reporter, activist, murder, journalism, death, death sentence ...
Time: year 2003, 21st century
Place: texas, austin texas, houston texas, usa, new york ...
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 6.7
 2K
Trom (2022)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Denmark, Germany, Faroe Islands, Iceland
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: The six-part series follows journalist Hannis Martinsson (Ulrich Thomsen), who unexpectedly receives a message from Sonja, a young Faroese woman who claims she is Hannis' daughter and that her life is in danger. Reluctantly returning home to ...
Style: disturbing, captivating, tense, suspense
Plot: murder, murder investigation, journalist, island, forensics, investigation, investigative reporter, investigative journalism, murder mystery, nordic, reporter, environmental activism ...
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The Perfect Patient (2019)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Sweden, Belgium
Duration: 132 min.
Story: A true and captivating story about the biggest legal scandal in Swedish history, the story about the reporter who questioned an entire legal system. Hannes Råstam was dedicated to proving the innocence of Thomas Quick and unmask the legal chaos ...
Style: suspense, disturbing, psychological, captivating, atmospheric ...
Plot: scandal, serial killer, journalist, psychopath, murder, nordic, injustice, investigation, false accusation, friendship, redemption, acquittal ...
Place: scandinavia, eastern europe
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 6.2
 23K
Tamara Drewe (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 107 min.
Story: A young newspaper writer returns to her hometown in the English countryside, where her childhood home is being prepped for sale.
Style: sexy, witty, romantic, sentimental, humorous ...
Audience: date night, chick flick, girls' night, adult
Plot: adultery, village, journalist, infidelity, homecoming, love and romance, female nudity, pop star, unfulfilled love, love affair, love triangle, couples ...
Time: year 2010, 21st century
Place: england, europe, london
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 5.6
 602
Sex & Mrs. X (2000)
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A woman regains her sense of self through a sexual reawakening after her husband leaves her for another woman.
Style: humorous, sexy, sentimental, semi serious, inspirational ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: self esteem, breakup, self confidence, starting over, seduction, journalist, self discovery, infidelity, battle of the sexes, love and romance, journalism, marital problem ...
Time: 90s
Place: paris france, france, europe
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