Highest-Rated Movies about 'Bureaucracy', Sort by Popularity

Citizen X (1995), A Monster With a Thousand Heads (2015), November Days (1992), L.627 (1992), The Terminal (2004), The Captain From Koepenick (1956), Cafe Express (1981), Dellamorte Dellamore (1994) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Bureaucracy movies.

#3. November Days (1992)

Storyline: The film was commissioned by the BBC and shot one year after the fall of the Berlin Wall. By way of a series of interviews, it explores the "hangover" in the wake of German reunification. In taking stock of this situation, Ophuls quickly departs from the conventional reportage model, approaching his material in a playful manner and infusing his commentary on it with ironic humor. His interviewees - who range from GDR head of state Egon Krenz, dramatist Heiner Müller and neo-Nazi Michael Kühnen to members of the general public - are not degraded into contemporary witnesses of a fact-driven narrative. Rather, it is through their experiences and perspectives that the story emerges.—X

Plot Keywords: politician, bureaucrat, communist, documentarian, fascinating, intense, powerful ...

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#4. L.627 (1992)

Storyline: This gritty police drama shows us the underbelly of the Parisian drug trade. Lulu is a tough streetwise narcotics cop who, like a Frank Serpico or a Dirty Harry Callahan, doesn't play by the rules or kowtow to his weak and/or corrupt superiors. Lulu thrives in this violent world, where sheer guts can overcome his squad's deficiencies of money and equipment. Despite the ruthless environment that he lives and works in every day, he still manages somehow to maintain his humanity.—Tad Dibbern <DIBBERN_D@a1.mscf.upenn.edu>

Plot Keywords: police detective, boss, informant, coworker, drug dealer, police officer, tense ...

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#5. The Terminal (2004)

Storyline: Victor Navorski reaches JFK airport from a politically unstable country. Due to collapse of his government, his papers are no longer valid in the airport, and hence he is forced to stay in the airport until the war cools down. He makes the airport his home and develops a friendship with the people who work there until he can leave.

Plot Keywords: tourist, flight attendant, passenger, foreigner, love interest, airy, lighthearted ...

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#6. The Captain From Koepenick (1956)

Storyline: A young shoemaker is arrested for stealing a small amount of money, and is released after being jailed for 15 years. He wants to have a pass to get a job and start anew, but without a job he doesn't get a pass; and without a pass, he doesn't get a job. He gets into the net of Prussian bureaucracy, and can't see a solution. Until he enters a small Second-Hand Shop, and sees a Prussian Uniform that fits him like a second skin...—Patrick Dersjant <pdersjan@telebyte.nl>

Plot Keywords: cobbler, soldier, government official, townsperson, mother, ex-convict, playful ...

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#8. Dellamorte Dellamore (1994)

Storyline: This movie is based on a novel of Tiziano Sclavi, and it always reflects the "sclavian philosophy" diffused by the most succesful comics in Italy: Dylan Dog, the detective of the nightmare. There is the duality between love and dead (in Italian "dellamore" means "of love" and "dellamorte" means "of death"), a duality that Dellamorte feels in a really hard way. He is the guardian of the cemetery of Buffalora, a little town in the north of Italy, in which, we don't know why, corpses rise from tombs and Dellamorte has to destroy them. Dellamorte seems not to ask to himself why this happen, he shoots and loves. But at the end he wants to leave Buffalora...

Plot Keywords: caretaker, widow, mayor, assistant, dead person, doctor, emotional ...

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#9. Patrik, Age 1.5 (2008)

Storyline: Goran and Sven have been cleared for adoption and are given the option to adopt Swedish orphan "Patrik 1,5," but when Patrik arrives, he turns out not to be the little boy they were expecting. A comma was misplaced, and the boy they receive is a 15-year-old homophobe with a criminal past.—Anonymous

Plot Keywords: gay man, adoption agent, delinquent, teen boy, partner, parent, tense ...

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#10. Gridlock'd (1997)

Storyline: After a friend overdoses, Spoon and Stretch decide to kick their drug habits and attempt to enroll in a government detox program. Their efforts are hampered by seemingly endless red tape, as they are shuffled from one office to another while being chased by drug dealers and the police.

Plot Keywords: addict, police officer, criminal, drug dealer, musician, friend, raw ...

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#11. Frantic (1988)

Storyline: A doctor and his wife go to Paris for a medical conference. While showering, his wife disappears. His lack of language, and the odd way she disappeared makes it nearly impossible for him to find any official help in his search as he enters the punk/drug culture to find out what has happened to her.

Plot Keywords: doctor, wife, waif, police detective, creepy, tense, suspenseful ...

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#12. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (2005)

Storyline: Everyone has bad mornings. You wake up late, you stub your toe, you burn the toast, but for a man named Arthur Dent (Martin Freeman), this goes far beyond a bad day. When he learns that a friend of his is actually an alien with advanced knowledge of Earth's impending destruction, he is transported off the Earth seconds before it is blown up to make way for a new hyperspace motorway. And as if that's not enough, throw in being wanted by the Police, Earth II, an insane electronic encyclopedia, no tea whatsoever, a chronically depressed robot and the search for the meaning of life, and you've got the greatest adventure off Earth.

Plot Keywords: alien, friend, president, robot, man, refugee, cheeky ...

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#13. Music of the Heart (1999)

Storyline: The true story of a young teacher who fights against the board of education in her bid to teach underprivileged kids in a Harlem school the beauty of music through the violin. In her struggle she loses everything as the system comes down on her with all their might but her determination for the kids happiness helps her to battle back with wonderfully inspirational results.

Plot Keywords: violinist, music teacher, student, principal, melodramatic, powerful, harlem, n.y. ...

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#14. Follow That Dream (1962)

Storyline: When the Kwimper family car runs out of gas on a new Florida highway and an officous state supervisor tries to run them off, Pop Kwimper digs in his heels and decides to do a little homesteading. He and his son Toby and their "adopted" children - Holly, Ariadne and the twins - start their own little community along a strip of the roadside. The fishing is good and the living is easy until the mob sets up a gambling operation and the state supervisor sics a sexy social worker on the Kwimpers in an effort to take away Ariadne and the twins.—A.L.Beneteau <albl@inforamp.net>

Plot Keywords: son, patriarch, orphan, social worker, bureaucrat, governor, winsome ...

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#15. Night People (1954)

Storyline: Post WWII yarn about a young GI abducted by the Soviets in West Berlin and hauled off to the East. His recovery gets complicated as Colonel Steve Van Dyke (Peck) tries to sort out the usefulness of informants, spies, bureaucrats, and the abductee's influential father (Crawford)!—Corey Hatch

Plot Keywords: colonel, ex-lover, elderly person, father, spy, suspenseful, thrilling ...

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