Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "conspiracy-thriller"

51. Enemy of the State (1998)

R | 132 min | Action, Thriller

A lawyer becomes targeted by a corrupt politician and his N.S.A. goons when he accidentally receives key evidence to a politically motivated crime.

Director: Tony Scott | Stars: Will Smith, Gene Hackman, Jon Voight, Lisa Bonet

Votes: 259,655 | Gross: $111.55M

52. Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit (2014)

PG-13 | 105 min | Action, Drama, Thriller

Jack Ryan, as a young covert C.I.A. analyst, uncovers a Russian plot to crash the U.S. economy with a terrorist attack.

Director: Kenneth Branagh | Stars: Chris Pine, Kevin Costner, Keira Knightley, Kenneth Branagh

Votes: 138,488 | Gross: $50.58M

53. 21 Bridges (2019)

R | 99 min | Action, Adventure, Crime

An embattled NYPD detective is thrust into a citywide manhunt for a pair of cop killers after uncovering a massive and unexpected conspiracy.

Director: Brian Kirk | Stars: Chadwick Boseman, Sienna Miller, J.K. Simmons, Stephan James

Votes: 74,861 | Gross: $28.54M

54. State of Play (2009)

PG-13 | 127 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

When a congressional aide is killed, a Washington, D.C. journalist starts investigating the case involving the Representative, his old college friend.

Director: Kevin Macdonald | Stars: Russell Crowe, Rachel McAdams, Ben Affleck, Helen Mirren

Votes: 160,799 | Gross: $37.02M

55. Gemini Man (2019)

PG-13 | 117 min | Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller

An over-the-hill hitman faces off against a younger clone of himself.

Director: Ang Lee | Stars: Will Smith, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Clive Owen, Benedict Wong

Votes: 122,585 | Gross: $48.55M

56. The Lost Symbol (2021)

TV-PG | 45 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

Based on the 2009 Dan Brown novel of the same name, The Lost Symbol is the story of a young Robert Langdon (Ashley Zukerman) being tasked by the CIA to solve a number of puzzles when his mentor (Eddie Izzard) is taken.

Stars: Ashley Zukerman, Eddie Izzard, Valorie Curry, Beau Knapp

Votes: 13,903

57. Muzzle (2023)

TV-14 | 100 min | Action, Crime, Thriller

After his dog is killed in Skid Row, Jake Rosser plummets deep into a sinister underworld to uncover the truth about who may be responsible.

Director: John Stalberg Jr. | Stars: Aaron Eckhart, Penelope Mitchell, Diego Tinoco, Stephen Lang

Votes: 3,045

58. The Contractor (2022)

R | 103 min | Action, Drama, Thriller

A discharged U.S. Special Forces sergeant, James Harper, risks everything for his family when he joins a private contracting organization.

Director: Tarik Saleh | Stars: Chris Pine, Gillian Jacobs, Sander Thomas, Toby Dixon

Votes: 29,064

59. Side Effects (I) (2013)

R | 106 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

A young woman's world unravels when a drug prescribed by her psychiatrist has unexpected side effects.

Director: Steven Soderbergh | Stars: Rooney Mara, Channing Tatum, Jude Law, Catherine Zeta-Jones

Votes: 197,475 | Gross: $32.17M

60. All the President's Men (1976)

PG | 138 min | Drama, History, Thriller

"The Washington Post" reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein uncover the details of the Watergate scandal that leads to President Richard Nixon's resignation.

Director: Alan J. Pakula | Stars: Dustin Hoffman, Robert Redford, Jack Warden, Martin Balsam

Votes: 126,469 | Gross: $70.60M

61. Homecoming (2018–2020)

TV-MA | 30 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller

An anthology series centered around the mysterious Geist Group, an unconventional wellness company and their equally unorthodox program, the Homecoming Initiative.

Stars: Stephan James, Bobby Cannavale, Hong Chau, Alex Karpovsky

Votes: 27,539

62. I Came By (2022)

TV-MA | 110 min | Thriller

Follows a young graffiti artist who discovers a shocking secret that would put him and the ones closest to him in danger.

Director: Babak Anvari | Stars: Antonio Aakeel, Alicia Ambrose-Bayly, Percelle Ascott, Franc Ashman

Votes: 33,689

63. Without Remorse (II) (2021)

R | 109 min | Action, Drama, Thriller

An elite Navy SEAL goes on a path to avenge his wife's murder only to find himself inside of a larger conspiracy.

Director: Stefano Sollima | Stars: Michael B. Jordan, Jodie Turner-Smith, Jamie Bell, Guy Pearce

Votes: 64,826

64. The Manchurian Candidate (2004)

R | 129 min | Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi

In the midst of the Gulf War, soldiers are kidnapped and brainwashed for sinister purposes.

Director: Jonathan Demme | Stars: Denzel Washington, Liev Schreiber, Meryl Streep, Kimberly Elise

Votes: 116,925 | Gross: $65.96M

65. Condor (2018–2020)

TV-MA | 60 min | Action, Drama, Thriller

A brilliant, young, idealistic CIA analyst finds himself in the middle of a conspiracy that kills everyone else at his office. Can he, with no field experience, stay alive long enough to get to the bottom of it?

Stars: Max Irons, Kristen Hager, Bob Balaban, Sam McCarthy

Votes: 17,868

66. Behind Enemy Lines (2001)

PG-13 | 106 min | Action, Drama, Thriller

A disillusioned pilot shot down over war-torn Bosnia goes on the run from the local military and an assassin, as his commanding officer risks all to save him.

Director: John Moore | Stars: Gene Hackman, Owen Wilson, Gabriel Macht, Charles Malik Whitfield

Votes: 113,206 | Gross: $59.07M

67. Disclosure (1994)

R | 128 min | Drama, Thriller

A computer specialist is sued for sexual harassment by a former lover turned boss who initiated the act forcefully, which threatens both his career and his personal life.

Director: Barry Levinson | Stars: Michael Douglas, Demi Moore, Donald Sutherland, Caroline Goodall

Votes: 54,562 | Gross: $83.02M

68. The Manchurian Candidate (1962)

PG-13 | 126 min | Drama, Thriller

An American POW in the Korean War is brainwashed as an unwitting assassin for an international Communist conspiracy.

Director: John Frankenheimer | Stars: Frank Sinatra, Laurence Harvey, Janet Leigh, Angela Lansbury

Votes: 80,064

69. The Pelican Brief (1993)

PG-13 | 141 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

A law student uncovers a conspiracy, putting herself and others in danger.

Director: Alan J. Pakula | Stars: Julia Roberts, Denzel Washington, Sam Shepard, John Heard

Votes: 96,353 | Gross: $100.77M

70. Those Who Wish Me Dead (2021)

R | 100 min | Action, Drama, Thriller

A teenage murder witness finds himself pursued by twin assassins in the Montana wilderness with a survival expert tasked with protecting him -- and a forest fire threatening to consume them all.

Director: Taylor Sheridan | Stars: Angelina Jolie, Nicholas Hoult, Finn Little, Jon Bernthal

Votes: 73,000

71. Secret City (2016–2019)

TV-MA | 49 min | Mystery, Thriller

Beneath the placid facade of Canberra, amidst rising tension between China and America, senior political journalist Harriet Dunkley uncovers a secret city of interlocked conspiracies, putting innocent lives in danger including her own.

Stars: Anna Torv, Marcus Graham, Justin Smith, Aleks Mikic

Votes: 9,773

72. The Constant Gardener (2005)

R | 129 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance

A widower's transcontinental quest to find answers about his wife's death leads him to explosive secrets.

Director: Fernando Meirelles | Stars: Ralph Fiennes, Rachel Weisz, Danny Huston, Hubert Koundé

Votes: 148,866 | Gross: $33.58M

73. Capricorn One (1977)

PG | 123 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

When the first manned flight to Mars is deemed unsafe and scrubbed on the launch pad, anxious authorities must scramble to save face and retain their funding - and so an unthinkable plot to fake the mission is hatched.

Director: Peter Hyams | Stars: Elliott Gould, James Brolin, Brenda Vaccaro, Sam Waterston

Votes: 24,838

74. Snake Eyes (1998)

R | 98 min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller

A corrupt detective and a Navy Commander investigate an assassination and the disappearance of a beautiful stranger.

Director: Brian De Palma | Stars: Nicolas Cage, Gary Sinise, John Heard, Carla Gugino

Votes: 87,042 | Gross: $55.59M

75. Traitor (2008)

PG-13 | 114 min | Action, Crime, Drama

When straight arrow FBI agent Roy Clayton heads up the investigation into a dangerous international conspiracy, all clues seem to lead back to former U.S. Special Operations officer, Samir Horn.

Director: Jeffrey Nachmanoff | Stars: Don Cheadle, Guy Pearce, Archie Panjabi, Saïd Taghmaoui

Votes: 59,198 | Gross: $23.53M

76. Outland (1981)

R | 109 min | Action, Crime, Sci-Fi

A federal marshal stationed at a mining colony on the Jupiter moon of Io uncovers a drug-smuggling conspiracy. He gets no help from the workers or authorities when he finds himself marked for murder.

Director: Peter Hyams | Stars: Sean Connery, Frances Sternhagen, Peter Boyle, James Sikking

Votes: 32,484 | Gross: $17.37M

77. Eraser (1996)

R | 115 min | Action, Crime, Thriller

A Witness Protection specialist becomes suspicious of his co-workers when dealing with a case involving high-tech weapons.

Director: Chuck Russell | Stars: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Vanessa Williams, James Caan, James Coburn

Votes: 118,649 | Gross: $101.30M

78. The Terminal List: Dark Wolf

Action, Drama, Thriller | Filming

Prequel series to The Terminal List (2022) following Ben Edwards' journey from Navy SEAL to CIA operative.

Stars: Taylor Kitsch, Tom Hopper, Luke Hemsworth, Dar Salim

79. Money Monster (2016)

R | 98 min | Action, Crime, Drama

Financial TV host Lee Gates and his producer Patty are put in an extreme situation when an irate investor takes them and their crew as hostage.

Director: Jodie Foster | Stars: George Clooney, Julia Roberts, Jack O'Connell, Dominic West

Votes: 105,590 | Gross: $41.01M

80. Collateral (2018)

TV-MA | 58 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Investigating the murder of a pizza delivery man, a London detective uncovers a tangled conspiracy involving drug dealers, smugglers and spies.

Stars: Carey Mulligan, Nathaniel Martello-White, Hayley Squires, Vineeta Rishi

Votes: 21,582

81. No Sudden Move (2021)

R | 115 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

A group of criminals are brought together under mysterious circumstances and have to work together to uncover what's really going on when their simple job goes completely sideways.

Director: Steven Soderbergh | Stars: Don Cheadle, Benicio Del Toro, David Harbour, Jon Hamm

Votes: 41,244

82. The Peacemaker (1997)

R | 124 min | Action, Drama, Thriller

A US Army colonel and a civilian woman supervising him must track down stolen Russian nuclear weapons before they're used by terrorists.

Director: Mimi Leder | Stars: George Clooney, Nicole Kidman, Marcel Iures, Aleksandr Baluev

Votes: 62,669 | Gross: $41.26M

83. The 6th Day (2000)

PG-13 | 123 min | Action, Mystery, Sci-Fi

A man meets a clone of himself and stumbles into a grand conspiracy about clones taking over the world.

Director: Roger Spottiswoode | Stars: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Michael Rapaport, Tony Goldwyn, Michael Rooker

Votes: 128,175 | Gross: $34.60M

84. Absolute Power (1997)

R | 121 min | Action, Crime, Drama

Career thief Luther Whitney (Clint Eastwood) witnesses a horrific crime involving U.S. President Alan Richmond (Gene Hackman).

Director: Clint Eastwood | Stars: Clint Eastwood, Gene Hackman, Ed Harris, Laura Linney

Votes: 60,357 | Gross: $50.01M

85. Mighty Joe Young (1998)

PG | 114 min | Action, Adventure, Family

A legendary fifteen-foot tall mountain gorilla named Joe is taken to an animal sanctuary in California by zoologist Gregg O'Hara (Bill Paxton) and Jill Young (Charlize Theron), with whom he grew up. Poacher Strasser (Rade Serbedzija) returns from the past to seek vengeance on Joe.

Director: Ron Underwood | Stars: Bill Paxton, Charlize Theron, Rade Serbedzija, Peter Firth

Votes: 30,895 | Gross: $50.63M

86. Call of Duty: Black Ops (2010 Video Game)

M | Action, Adventure, Horror

Former Marine Captain and CIA operative Alex Mason, upon interrogation by an unknown party, recounts his violent experiences with the Bay of Pigs, a radical Soviet conspiracy, and the Vietnam war.

Director: Dave Anthony | Stars: James C. Burns, Emmanuelle Chriqui, Ice Cube, Ed Harris

Votes: 21,395

87. North Shore (2023– )

Crime, Thriller

When British and Australian detectives team up to solve a murder mystery, they uncover a conspiracy with international political consequences as well as a clash of cultures.

Stars: John Bradley, Joanne Froggatt, Kirsty Sturgess, Dan Spielman

Votes: 953

88. Project Blue Book (2019–2020)

TV-14 | 45 min | Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi

A tough US Air Force officer and a skeptical scientist investigate UFO and alien conspiracies as Cold War paranoia spreads.

Stars: Aidan Gillen, Michael Malarkey, Laura Mennell, Ksenia Solo

Votes: 14,503

89. SAS: Red Notice (2021)

R | 124 min | Action, Thriller

A small army of well trained criminals led by Grace Lewis have hijacked a train deep beneath the English Channel.

Director: Magnus Martens | Stars: Sam Heughan, Ruby Rose, Andy Serkis, Hannah John-Kamen

Votes: 21,413 | Gross: $0.15M

90. The 39 Steps (1935)

Approved | 86 min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller

A man in London tries to help a counter-espionage agent, but when the agent is killed and the man stands accused, he must go on the run to save himself and stop a spy ring that is trying to steal top-secret information.

Director: Alfred Hitchcock | Stars: Robert Donat, Madeleine Carroll, Lucie Mannheim, Godfrey Tearle

Votes: 61,733

91. Black Christmas (2019)

PG-13 | 92 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller

A group of female students is stalked by a stranger during their Christmas break. That is until the young sorority pledges discover that the killer is part of an underground college conspiracy.

Director: Sophia Takal | Stars: Imogen Poots, Aleyse Shannon, Lily Donoghue, Brittany O'Grady

Votes: 19,186

92. The Net (I) (1995)

PG-13 | 114 min | Action, Crime, Drama

When Angela Bennett, a computer programmer, stumbles upon government secrets, she finds herself on the run from an unknown enemy hell-bent on destroying her completely.

Director: Irwin Winkler | Stars: Sandra Bullock, Jeremy Northam, Dennis Miller, Diane Baker

Votes: 74,037 | Gross: $50.73M

93. Sabotage (2014)

R | 109 min | Action, Crime, Drama

Members of an elite DEA task force find themselves being taken down one by one after they rob a drug cartel safe house.

Director: David Ayer | Stars: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sam Worthington, Terrence Howard, Olivia Williams

Votes: 66,390 | Gross: $10.51M

94. The Courier (2019)

R | 99 min | Action, Crime, Drama

A courier in London discovers that one of the packages she's transporting is a bomb.

Director: Zackary Adler | Stars: Olga Kurylenko, Gary Oldman, Amit Shah, Alicia Agneson

Votes: 11,708

95. Lockout (2012)

PG-13 | 95 min | Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller

A man wrongly convicted of conspiracy to commit espionage against the U.S. is offered his freedom if he can rescue the President's daughter from an outer-space prison taken over by violent inmates.

Directors: James Mather, Steve Saint Leger | Stars: Guy Pearce, Maggie Grace, Peter Stormare, Vincent Regan

Votes: 101,051 | Gross: $14.33M

96. Coma (1978)

PG | 113 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller

When a young female doctor notices an unnatural amount of comas occurring in her hospital she uncovers a horrible conspiracy.

Director: Michael Crichton | Stars: Michael Douglas, Rip Torn, Geneviève Bujold, Elizabeth Ashley

Votes: 21,223

97. Kiss of the Dragon (2001)

R | 98 min | Action, Crime, Thriller

A betrayed intelligence officer enlists the aid of a prostitute to prove his innocence from a deadly conspiracy while returning a favor to her.

Director: Chris Nahon | Stars: Jet Li, Bridget Fonda, Tchéky Karyo, Ric Young

Votes: 66,754 | Gross: $36.85M

98. Operation Napoleon (2023)

102 min | Action, Adventure, Thriller

A lawyer is sucked into an international conspiracy after being accused of a murder she didn't commit. Her only chance of survival lies in uncovering the secret of an old German WWII airplane, discovered on Iceland's largest glacier.

Director: Óskar Thór Axelsson | Stars: Vivian Ólafsdóttir, Jack Fox, Iain Glen, Wotan Wilke Möhring

Votes: 2,826

99. How to Blow Up a Pipeline (2022)

R | 104 min | Action, Crime, Drama

A crew of environmental activists plot a daring plan to disrupt an oil pipeline.

Director: Daniel Goldhaber | Stars: Ariela Barer, Kristine Froseth, Lukas Gage, Forrest Goodluck

Votes: 10,298

100. The Cassandra Crossing (1976)

R | 129 min | Drama, Thriller

Passengers on a European train have been exposed to a deadly disease. Nobody will let them off the train. So what happens next?

Director: George P. Cosmatos | Stars: Sophia Loren, Richard Harris, Martin Sheen, O.J. Simpson

Votes: 9,935