Drum (2004), The Night Stalker (1971), Citizen Kane (1941), Blood Diamond (2006), Frost/Nixon (2008), The Ghost Writer (2010), Beyond a Reasonable Doubt (1956), Veronica Guerin (2003) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Investigative Journalism movies.
Storyline: As the social fabric of life in rural India disintegrates in the late 1990s, journalist Manav Banerjee (Sharman Joshi) moves with his pregnant wife to the State of Orissa in hope of a better life and the promise of a lucrative career. When speculation mounts that local Australian missionary Graham Staines (Stephen Baldwin) is illegally proselytizing leprosy patients, Manav agrees to investigate undercover for the newspaper. What he finds is a series of revelations that are difficult to fathom and even harder to explain, and Manav is forced to make a choice between his own ambition and the truth. In the end, his actions spark a tragic event that is felt around the world. Based on a true story and shot on location in India, "THE LEAST OF THESE" beautifully illustrates the power of love, hope and forgiveness to overcome hate.—Vash
Plot Keywords: journalist, pregnant woman, missionary, wife, child, tense, intense ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Irish crime-investigating reporter Sinead Hamilton invades the Irish underworld and attempts to expose the illegitimate activities that she has found. Hampered by the system, a police consort is ineffectual at aiding her despite trying to step outside of the normal bounds. Her husband, who hates her activities and the danger in which she places herself. Nonetheless, he grudgingly admires her persistence and encourages her investigation.—John Sacksteder <jsackste@bellsouth.net>
Plot Keywords: journalist, drug trafficker, son, husband, drug lord, corrupt cop, gripping ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Ex heroin junkie, Daniel Léger, gets involved in a drug deal with the wrong people for the wrong reasons. When the deal goes sour, Daniel gets thrown into a Thai prison and slapped with a 100-year sentence. While he tries to survive his Bangkok incarceration, the news of his conviction captures the attention of Globe and Mail journalist Victor Malarek, who decides to go after the shady undercover cops responsible for wrongly accusing Daniel.—Daniel Roby, Director
Plot Keywords: drug addict, prisoner, canadian, bleak, shocking, tense, thailand ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Chicago Sun Times copy editor Josie Gellar (25), who was desperate to graduate from perfectionist copy editor to reporter, gets her chance when the goody owner orders the editor to cover the high-school scene by undercover. Josie, who was a frustrated, ridiculed nerd, gets a popular make-over from her drop-out, naturally funny brother Rob Geller. Both siblings find love and joys of youth again. But in Josie's case, it's sensitive bachelor teacher Sam Coulson, who enjoys sophisticated conversation. As the publication deadline approaches, the price of blowing their cover seems ever more daunting, yet inevitable unless she sacrifices her career.
Plot Keywords: copywriter, editor, brother, english teacher, popular girl, nerd, hilarious ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Desperate for a good story, a sex-addicted journalist throws himself into the world of high-class escorts when he starts following a Stanford-educated prostitute.
Plot Keywords: journalist, prostitute, lawyer, sex addict, amusing, confident, endearing ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A reporter, Lanie Kerrigan (Jolie), interviews a psychic homeless man (Shalhoub) for a fluff piece about a football game's score. Instead, he tells her that her life has no meaning, and is going to end in just a few days, which sparks her to action, trying to change the pattern of her life...
Plot Keywords: reporter, homeless person, baseball player, cameraman, tv personality, boyfriend, hilarious ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Photojournalists (Ryan Phillippe, Taylor Kitsch, Frank Rautenbach) put themselves in harm's way as they shoot evidence of atrocities committed in the final days of South African apartheid.
Plot Keywords: photographer, photojournalist, south african man, friend, nelson mandela, journalist, charming ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Investigative reporter Chase Carter attempts to stop a secret government conspiracy that threatens the lives of millions of innocent people in a quarantined city during a zombie outbreak. A sequel to the 2015 horror film, Dead Rising (2015).—Anonymous Zed
Plot Keywords: zombie, reporter, thrilling, suspenseful, unrestrained, spirited, rousing ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: In Orbit Park, India; two British nationals are killed by a fierce man-eating tiger, followed by a few other incidents, all related to the death of human-beings. Two months later, National Geographic researcher, Krish Thapar and his photographer wife, Riya, decides to take a trip to the park to investigate on these incidents. On their way; they are introduced to five other hunters, Dev Malhotra, his girlfriend, Ishika, Vishal, Sajid and Bagga. The two groups join each other and are soon guided by Kaali Pratap Singh; little realizing that Kaali is a wrecked soul determined to take them down one after the other.—gavin (racktoo@hotmail.com)
Plot Keywords: journalist, photographer, hunter, aboriginal, frightful, suspenseful, tense ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Set in the year 2010, Dr. Moreau has successfully combined human and animal DNA to make a crossbreed animal. Well, as usual, something goes wrong and David Thewlis must try to stop it before it is too late. Originally rated R, but cut by Frankenheimer to allow "a wider audience".
Plot Keywords: journalist, neo-nazi, teen boy, young man, racist, impostor, dark ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: After graduation, Bram gets his dream job at a local newspaper. In his mind he's the next Woodward (but he's probably more of a Bernstein). A year in, he realizes that maybe the paper business is no longer what he'd seen in the movies. Instead of investigative journalism, he is writing easily consumable Top 10 Lists - Best Hot Dogs in the City. Ten Ways to Tell You Grew Up in the 90s. After the paper is hit with another round of layoffs, Bram stumbles upon a potentially explosive story involving the city's controversial mayor. But he needs to beat the mayor's smooth talking aide, Kamal, to the punch. This could be Bram's big break - if he had any idea how to be a real journalist.—AnonymusB
Plot Keywords: journalist, political consultant, mayor, thrilling, tense, rousing, toronto ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Journalist Christine Pelisek (Dreama Walker) helps law enforcement investigate the alleged serial killer known as the Grim Sleeper.
Plot Keywords: police chief, journalist, serial killer, murderer, murder victim, thrilling, suspenseful ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Reporter Lori Tanner (Ally Sheedy), investigating a story about animal cruelty, gains access to a facility where dogs and cats are the subjects of cruel experiments conducted by Dr. Jarret (Lance Henriksen). After seeing the conditions of the lab, Lori flees the building, but massive escaped dog Max follows her. Lori decides to keep Max as a pet, but the seemingly lovable canine is a genetically altered dog with unusual abilities and psychotic tendencies that set him on a killing spree.
Plot Keywords: television reporter, dog, doctor, boyfriend, suspenseful, brutal, california ...
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