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80 titles. Sort by List order. 1. Sweet Smell of Success. 1957 1h 36m Approved. 8.0 (36K) Rate. 100 Metascore. Powerful but unethical Broadway columnist J.J. Hunsecker coerces unscrupulous press agent Sidney Falco into breaking up his sister's romance with a jazz musician.
- Spotlight (2015) Winner of the Oscar for Best Picture, Spotlight is an outstanding dramatization of the tenacious Boston Globe writers who investigated the shocking revelations of child molestation and cover-up in the Catholic Church.
- Almost Famous (2000) William Miller is a teenage boy who gets the chance of a lifetime to go on tour and write a Rolling Stone article about up-and-coming rock band Stillwater, but he soon learns that the real life of a rock star isn't as glamorous as it appears in this funny, heartfelt, 1970s-set coming-of-age story.
- Network (1976) Network follows a fictional television network, UBS, and the producers who exploit a deranged former anchor, Howard Beale, to continue his ravings and rantings about the media for their own profit.
- Safety Not Guaranteed (2012) "WANTED: Someone to go back in time with me. This is not a joke. You'll get paid when we get back. Must bring your own weapons.
- Almost Famous
- The Parallax View
- Frost/Nixon
- Kill The Messenger
- Zodiac
- Under Fire
- Salvador
- His Girl Friday
- Live from Baghdad
- State of Play
Teenager William Miller tricks Rolling Stone into believing he’s a veteran rock writerand, after some advice from legendary music writer Lester Bangs, he hits the road with a band called Stillwater and a groupie (sorry, I mean “band-aid”) named Penny Lane — and his career is born. Loosely based on the experience of writer and director Cameron Crowe...
Two years before he directed “All the President’s Men,” Alan J. Pakula released this thriller about a reporter, played by Warren Beatty, investigating a secret organization that specializes in political assassination. Somehow, this movie has gotten better with time.
A fictional look back at the interviews British journalist David Frost didwith disgraced former President Richard Nixon after Watergate. Frost’s final session with Nixon is a masterclass in interviewing.
Based on a true story, this is the film about the late San Jose Mercury-News reporter Gary Webb and his series about CIA involvement in Contra cocaine trafficking. Often overlooked when talking about great films about journalism.
No one knows the case of San Francisco’s Zodiac serial killerbetter than Robert Graysmith, a former cartoonist and true crime author who spent 13 years and wrote two books (and saw his marriage end in divorce) over the case. Jake Gyllenhaal plays Graysmith in this David Fincher thriller.
Set during the last days of the Nicaraguan Revolution in the late 1970s, this filmis based on the murder of ABC reporter Bill Stewart and his translator in 1979. Its all-star cast features great performances from Nick Nolte and Gene Hackman.
There was a time when actors James Woods and Jim Belushi and director Oliver Stone were all really good. They all came together for this better-than-you-think film,which focuses on a hard-drinking and drug-using photojournalist played by Woods, who was nominated for a Best Actor Oscar.
I briefly considered putting “The Philadelphia Story” in this slot, but went with this screwball comedystarring Cary Grant (as a newspaper editor) and Rosalind Russell (as his ace reporter) because it’s more about “journalism” and it’s just, well, better.
This made-for-TV HBO movieshows the pivotal moment in CNN history when the network was in Iraq for the start of the Persian Gulf War in 1991. It showed the power of a 24-hour news network. Actor Michael Keaton (who, by the way, is in three of the movies on this list) is superb as CNN producer Robert Wiener.
Russell Crowe plays a journalist who looks into the suspicious deathof a congressman’s lover. The cast is ridiculous: Crowe, Ben Affleck, Rachel McAdams, Helen Mirren, Jason Bateman, Robin Wright and Jeff Daniels.
Films involving Camera men, Journalists, News Rooms, and Investigative Journalism
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- Nightcrawler (2014) Directed by Dan Gilroy. Starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Rene Russo, Bill Paxton. Crime, Drama, Thriller (1h 57m) 7.8 on IMDb — 95% on RT. At one point in Nightcrawler, it feels like Jake Gyllenhaal's eyes are going to pop out of his head as he screams at a mirror and shakes it into pieces.
- Spotlight (2015) Directed by Tom McCarthy. Starring Mark Ruffalo, Michael Keaton, Rachel McAdams. Biography, Crime, Drama (2h 9m) 8.1 on IMDb — 97% on RT. Tom McCarthy's poignant biopic Spotlight won the Academy Award for Best Picture in 2016, and for good reason!
- Zodiac (2007) Directed by David Fincher. Starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Robert Downey Jr., Mark Ruffalo. Crime, Drama, Mystery (2h 37m) 7.7 on IMDb — 90% on RT.
- The Killing Fields (1984) Directed by Roland Joffé. Starring Sam Waterston, Haing S. Ngor, John Malkovich. Biography, Drama, History (2h 21m) 7.8 on IMDb — 93% on RT.
27 titles. 1. Zodiac (2007) R | 157 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery. 7.7. Rate. 79 Metascore. Between 1968 and 1983, a San Francisco cartoonist becomes an amateur detective obsessed with tracking down the Zodiac Killer, an unidentified individual who terrorizes Northern California with a killing spree.
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