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1. The Insider (1999)
R | 157 min | Biography, Drama, Thriller
A research chemist comes under personal and professional attack when he decides to appear in a 60 Minutes exposé on Big Tobacco.
Director: Michael Mann | Stars: Russell Crowe, Al Pacino, Christopher Plummer, Diane Venora
Votes: 180,363 | Gross: $28.97M
2. Touch of Evil (1958)
PG-13 | 95 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
A stark, perverse story of murder, kidnapping and police corruption in a Mexican border town.
Director: Orson Welles | Stars: Charlton Heston, Orson Welles, Janet Leigh, Joseph Calleia
Votes: 109,861 | Gross: $2.24M
3. The Bonfire of the Vanities (1990)
R | 125 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
After his mistress runs over a young teen, a Wall Street hotshot sees his life unravel in the spotlight and attracts the interest of a down-and-out reporter.
Director: Brian De Palma | Stars: Tom Hanks, Bruce Willis, Melanie Griffith, Kim Cattrall
Votes: 26,769 | Gross: $15.69M
4. Flamingo Road (1949)
Approved | 94 min | Drama, Film-Noir, Romance
A corrupt small town sheriff manipulates local candidates to the state legislature but he eventually comes into conflict with a visiting carnival dancer.
Director: Michael Curtiz | Stars: Joan Crawford, Zachary Scott, Sydney Greenstreet, David Brian
Votes: 3,641 | Gross: $2.26M
5. Seberg (2019)
R | 102 min | Biography, Drama, Thriller
Inspired by real events in the life of French New Wave icon Jean Seberg. In the late 1960s, Hoover's FBI targeted her because of her political and romantic involvement with civil rights activist Hakim Jamal.
Director: Benedict Andrews | Stars: Kristen Stewart, Yvan Attal, Gabriel Sky, Jack O'Connell
Votes: 10,351
6. The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum (1975)
R | 106 min | Crime, Drama
A young woman's life is scrutinized by police and tabloid press after she spends the night with a suspected terrorist.
Directors: Volker Schlöndorff, Margarethe von Trotta | Stars: Angela Winkler, Mario Adorf, Dieter Laser, Jürgen Prochnow
Votes: 4,900
7. Fair Game (I) (2010)
PG-13 | 108 min | Biography, Drama, Thriller
CIA operative Valerie Plame discovers her identity is allegedly leaked by the government as payback for an op-ed article her husband wrote criticizing the Bush administration.
Director: Doug Liman | Stars: Naomi Watts, Sean Penn, Sonya Davison, Vanessa Chong
Votes: 51,068 | Gross: $9.53M
8. Kill the Messenger (2014)
R | 112 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
Journalist Gary Webb, California 1996, started investigating CIA's role in the 1980s in getting crack cocaine to the black part of LA to get money and weapons to the Contra insurgents in Nicaragua.
Director: Michael Cuesta | Stars: Jeremy Renner, Robert Patrick, Jena Sims, Robert Pralgo
Votes: 48,774 | Gross: $2.45M
9. Game Change (2012 TV Movie)
TV-MA | 118 min | Biography, Drama, History
Governor Sarah Palin of Alaska becomes Senator John McCain's running mate in the 2008 Presidential election.
Director: Jay Roach | Stars: Ed Harris, Julianne Moore, Woody Harrelson, Peter MacNicol
Votes: 23,223
10. Man of the Year (2006)
PG-13 | 115 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A comedian who hosts a news satire program decides to run for president, and a computerized voting machine malfunction gets him elected.
Director: Barry Levinson | Stars: Robin Williams, Laura Linney, Lewis Black, Christopher Walken
Votes: 35,196 | Gross: $37.44M
11. Bob Roberts (1992)
R | 102 min | Comedy, Drama
A conservative folk singer turns his hand to politics, running for the US Senate. He is not above dirty tricks and smear campaigns to gain an advantage over his opponent.
Director: Tim Robbins | Stars: Tim Robbins, Giancarlo Esposito, Alan Rickman, Ray Wise
Votes: 15,640 | Gross: $4.48M
12. Kongekabale (2004)
Not Rated | 107 min | Drama, Thriller
Election for the Danish parliament is up and the main opposition party has a chance at winning and its leader at becoming the next prime minister. The leader is hospitalized and the scheming begins.
Director: Nikolaj Arcel | Stars: Anders W. Berthelsen, Søren Pilmark, Nastja Arcel, Nicolas Bro
Votes: 4,621
13. The Trick (2021 TV Movie)
89 min | Biography, Thriller
True story of Philip Jones, the world-renowned Professor and Director of Climate Research at the University of East Anglia who was the eye of an international media storm and the victim of cyberterrorism.
Director: Pip Broughton | Stars: Jason Watkins, Victoria Hamilton, Anwyn Sheers, Kevin McCurdy
Votes: 777
14. Dirty Linen (2023)
TV-MA | Action, Crime, Drama
Four houseworkers of a well-known aristocratic family mysteriously vanished one by one without a trace, meanwhile four people are out to get their hellish revenge against the prominent family itself.
Stars: Zanjoe Marudo, Francine Diaz, Janine Gutierrez, John Arcilla
Votes: 181
15. The Best Man (1964)
Approved | 102 min | Drama
The two front runners for their party's presidential nomination, one principled and the other ruthless, vie for the former president's endorsement.
Director: Franklin J. Schaffner | Stars: Henry Fonda, Cliff Robertson, Edie Adams, Margaret Leighton
Votes: 3,732
16. Finger of Guilt (1956)
Approved | 95 min | Drama, Film-Noir
A married movie studio executive's life starts to unravel when he is stalked by a seductively beautiful woman he claims he does not know.
Directors: Joseph Losey, Alec C. Snowden | Stars: Richard Basehart, Mary Murphy, Constance Cummings, Roger Livesey
Votes: 662
17. Plandemic (2020– )
99 min | Documentary, Biography, Crime
Documentary series that shows the connections and conflicts of interest between the media, the medical industry, politics and the financial industry during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Stars: David Martin, Judy Mikovits
Votes: 1,881
18. Possessed (1931)
Passed | 76 min | Drama, Romance
An ambitious factory girl meets a handsome, wealthy lawyer, but he's interested in her as a mistress, not a wife.
Director: Clarence Brown | Stars: Joan Crawford, Clark Gable, Wallace Ford, Richard 'Skeets' Gallagher
Votes: 2,306
19. Body of My Enemy (1976)
116 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Francois always despised the textile barons who ruled his local town. But he fell in love with the family heiress Gilberte. Ten years ago, he would have married her. Now only hatred holds them together. Francois is accused of murder. A hooker and a football star lie slaughtered. He thinks he has been framed by the mob. Going underground, he finds that the trail leads all the way to the top - to ... See full summary »
Director: Henri Verneuil | Stars: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Bernard Blier, Marie-France Pisier, Charles Gérard
Votes: 2,403
20. The Underworld Story (1950)
Passed | 91 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
The story of the fight of a small-town newspaper to free an innocent girl of a murder charge, with the publisher of a metropolitan city newspaper heading, by forced circumstances, the opposing forces.
Director: Cy Endfield | Stars: Dan Duryea, Herbert Marshall, Gale Storm, Howard Da Silva
Votes: 1,330
21. A Perry Mason Mystery: The Case of the Grimacing Governor (1994 TV Movie)
96 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
When gubernatorial candidate Harlan Richards is murdered, the suspicions fall on the incumbent Governor Ryan Allison but when he, too, is murdered the plot thickens.
Director: Max Tash | Stars: Hal Holbrook, Barbara Hale, William R. Moses, John Spencer
Votes: 310
22. The French Revolution (2005 TV Movie)
100 min | Documentary, History
Documentary about the bloody beginning, bloodier middle and unceremonious end of the French Revolution, an event that ended in blood the reign of kings in France and laid the foundation for a new - republican - system of government.
Director: Doug Shultz | Stars: Edward Herrmann, George Ivascu, Rodica Lazar, Tomi Cristin
Votes: 336
23. La banquière (1980)
131 min | Comedy, Drama
Emma Eckhert, from a modest background, became a big sensation between 1914 and 1938 as a banker and the head of a financial paper specialized in public savings.
Director: Francis Girod | Stars: Romy Schneider, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Marie-France Pisier, Claude Brasseur
Votes: 842
24. A Family Affair (1937)
Passed | 69 min | Comedy, Drama, Family
Judge Hardy faces problems at work and at home. Powerful men in town are upset with his decisions and want to see him impeached; his daughters, Joan and Marion, have romantic problems; and ... See full summary »
Director: George B. Seitz | Stars: Lionel Barrymore, Cecilia Parker, Eric Linden, Mickey Rooney
Votes: 780
25. The Body in the Bag (2022 TV Movie)
67 min | Documentary
Documentary examining one of the most baffling unexplained deaths of recent years. In August 2010, Gareth Williams, a GCHQ employee on a 3-year secondment to MI6, was found dead inside a padlocked bag in the bath of his London flat.
Director: David O'Neill | Stars: Sule Rimi, Albert Coverdale, William Sebag-Montefiore, Norman Baker
Votes: 26
26. All-American Sex Offender
Short, Comedy | Completed
Mackenzie, an all-American single lady, gets caught publicly urinating and is added to the sex-offenders registry. Things move from complicated to perilous when she meets Mr.Right, who ... See full summary »
Stars: Chloe Lenihan, Patrese McClain, Sam Guinan-Nyhart, Mickey O'Sullivan
27. The Lobby - USA (2018)
Documentary
Stars: Max Blumenthal, John Mearsheimer, Jacob Baime, Jim Moran
Votes: 21
28. Transformation: The Life and Legacy of Werner Erhard (2006)
Not Rated | 62 min | Documentary, Biography
In his first public interview in more than a decade, pop culture icon of the 1970s and 80s, Werner Erhard breaks his long silence about his ideas, his life and his controversial program "... See full summary »
Director: Robyn Symon | Stars: Warren Bennis, Jeff Bridges, John Denver, Joe DiMaggio
Votes: 106 | Gross: $0.03M
29. Andrew Jackson: Good, Evil and the Presidency (2008 TV Movie)
114 min | Documentary, Biography
The complicated personality of America's seventh president is explored in detail in this two hour PBS documentary, leaving the viewer to decide whether the man should be celebrated for his ... See full summary »
Directors: Carl Byker, Mitch Wilson | Stars: Richard Blackett, Jamie Blaine, Kathryn Braund, Lawrence Bull Jr.
Votes: 37
30. L'assaut (1936)
73 min | Drama
Alexandre Mérital, the leader of a political party, finds himself under attack from Frépeau, one of his opponents. The latter has indeed discovered that Mérital committed a theft in his ... See full summary »
Director: Pierre-Jean Ducis | Stars: Charles Vanel, Alice Field, André Alerme, Madeleine Robinson
Votes: 39
31. A Public Affair (1962)
75 min | Drama
Expository internal affairs drama which brings to light the often unprincipled tactics used in negative "smear" campaigning, and its effects within the political arena.
Director: Bernard Girard | Stars: Myron McCormick, Edward Binns, Judson Pratt, Jackie Loughery
Votes: 23
32. 4chan Smear Campaign Against Antifa (2017 Video)
Short, News, Talk-Show
It turns out the smear campaign against Antifa is not such a smear, says Carl. Meanwhile, Joshua Witt, who claimed he was stabbed for his haircut, proves to be a liar.
Stars: Carl Benjamin, Dan Harmon
Votes: 16
33. Gary Webb: In His Own Words (2002)
8 min | Documentary, Short
Directors: Anthony Lappé, Stephen Marshall | Star: Gary Webb
34. Calomnies (2014)
80 min | Comedy
The young deputy Xavier Durmont investigate a case of waste disposal involving a minister. He then becomes the target of slander orchestrated by the mysterious Armand.
Director: Jean-Pierre Mocky | Stars: Marius Colucci, Guy Marchand, Philippe Duquesne, Agnès Soral
Votes: 27
35. Atentat na Djindjica - medijska pozadina (2008 TV Movie)
Documentary, Crime, History
Documentary produced by the independent Belgrade weekly Vreme about the smear campaign against the assassinated Serbian Prime Minister Zoran Djindjic which was meant to assassinate his character before the actual murder.
Directors: Radoslav Cebic, Filip Svarm
36. Committee on UnAmerican Activities (1962)
46 min | Documentary, History
First film by a private citizen which criticizes a Government Committee: 1930s footage of Committee Chairman Martin Dies attacking "subversives" in labor unions; the Hollywood Witch Hunts; Cold War Blacklist; & 1960 San Francisco hearings.
Stars: Earl Browder, Phillip Burton, Matthew C. Carberry, Sebastián Cardero
Votes: 9
37. The Figurehead (1920)
50 min | Drama
In the city of Bolton, party politics are in the control of two men, Jim Durfee and Gordon Freeman, who intend to keep it that way by running a "figurehead" for mayor. They decide upon ... See full summary »
Director: Robert Ellis | Stars: Eugene O'Brien, Anna Q. Nilsson, Ora Carew, Edwin Stevens
38. Zólw (1974 TV Movie)
31 min | Drama
Director: Andrzej Kotkowski | Stars: Piotr Fronczewski, Wladyslaw Kowalski, Jerzy Januszewicz, Marian Godlewski
Votes: 12
39. Alternative Influence: YouTube Censorship Manifesto - Rebutted! (2018 Video)
83 min | News
Star: Stefan Molyneux
40.
American Experience (1987– )
Episode:
The Battle Over Citizen Kane
(1996)
TV-PG | 108 min | Documentary, Biography, History
Documentary about the battle between Orson Welles and William Randolph Hearst over Welles' Citizen Kane (1941). Features interviews with Welles' and Hearst's co-workers also as a relative complete bio of Hearst.
Directors: Michael Epstein, Thomas Lennon | Stars: Richard Ben Cramer, William Alland, Thomas Anderson, Peter Bogdanovich
Votes: 1,458
41.
Doc (2001–2004)
Episode:
The Candidate
(2003)
Drama, Family, Romance
When Clint learns Tom Bailey stopped taking oxycodone, he decides to put him back on the drug to ease him off the drug. Clint finds out politics can be a problem when Tom's patient file is ... See full summary »
Director: Stephan Fanfara | Stars: Billy Ray Cyrus, Derek McGrath, Richard Leacock, Andrea C. Robinson
Votes: 20
42.
The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air (1990–1996)
Episode:
Here Comes the Judge
(1992)
TV-PG | 24 min | Comedy
Will gets arrested for numerous outstanding parking tickets.
Director: Shelley Jensen | Stars: Will Smith, James Avery, Janet Hubert, Alfonso Ribeiro
Votes: 660
43.
Miami Vice (1984–1989)
Episode:
Amen... Send Money
(1987)
TV-14 | 46 min | Action, Crime, Drama
The wife of a televangelist is arrested on drug charges by Tubbs who finds himself the target of preacher's vengeance. However, a rival televangelist makes his play.
Director: James Quinn | Stars: Don Johnson, Philip Michael Thomas, Saundra Santiago, Michael Talbott
Votes: 359
44.
Murder, She Wrote (1984–1996)
Episode:
The Body Politic
(1988)
TV-PG | 47 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Jessica comes to the aid of yet another dear old friend running as a senatorial candidate. When the candidate's campaign manager is murdered, Jessica must help prove her innocence.
Director: Anthony Pullen Shaw | Stars: Angela Lansbury, Eddie Albert, Peter Fox, Robert Fuller
Votes: 368
45.
Popular (1999–2001)
Episode:
Queen B.
(1999)
TV-14 | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Brooke, Poppy, Mary Cherry, and Carmen are nominated for the Junior Court Homecoming Queen. Each runs a different style of campaign. Cherry's mom Cherry Cherry is introduced. Brooke and Sam can't stand living together.
Director: Matthew Harrison | Stars: Leslie Bibb, Carly Pope, Tamara Mello, Christopher Gorham
Votes: 84
46.
American Experience (1987– )
Episode:
Alexander Hamilton
(2007)
TV-PG | 120 min | Documentary, Biography, History
From his humble beginnings as an immigrant, to his infamous death, the life and legacy of Alexander Hamilton is explored.
Director: Muffie Meyer | Stars: Colm Feore, Mary Bacon, Samuel Barnett, Gerry Bamman
Votes: 109
47.
The Savage Dragon (1995–1996)
Episode:
R.S.V.P.
(1995)
TV-Y7 | Animation, Action, Adventure
Overlord sends his monstrous spider-like assassin, Arachnid, to abduct Dragon's police partner Alex and mentor Frank in an attempt to blackmail Dragon to join his force of evil mutants. Dragon also deals with a media smear campaign.
Stars: Rene Auberjonois, Michael Bell, Jeff Bennett, Ruth Buzzi
Votes: 15
48.
Pod Save America (2017– )
Honeymoon in Vegas
(2020 Podcast Episode)
TV-MA | News, Talk-Show
Jon, Jon and Tommy dissect the fiery Democratic debate in Las Vegas. Tommy interviews Jessica Cisneros about her primary challenge to Henry Cuellar in Texas's 28th district.
Stars: Jon Favreau, Jon Lovett, Tommy Vietor, Jessica Cisneros
49.
Key West (1993)
Episode:
Pilot
(1993)
TV-PG | 46 min | Comedy, Drama
While working as a machinist, Seamus O'Neill wins the New Jersey State Lottery and moves to Key West, Florida.
Director: David Beaird | Stars: Fisher Stevens, Denise Crosby, Lara Piper, Brian Thompson
Votes: 13
50.
Plandemic (2020– )
Episode:
Part 1 - Dr. Judy Mikovits
(2020)
26 min | Documentary, Biography, Crime
Dr. Judy Mikovits, talks with documentary-maker Mikki Willis about her work and her allegations that she was discredited by the pharmaceutical industry.
Votes: 271