Highest-Rated Movies about 'Investigative Journalism'

Spotlight (2015), Elite Squad: The Enemy Within (2010), All the President's Men (1976), The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2009), Disconnect (2012), Dirty Wars (2013), Bad Education (2019), State of Play (2009) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Investigative Journalism movies.

#16. The Fifth Estate (2013)

Storyline: The story begins as WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange (Benedict Cumberbatch) and his colleague Daniel Domscheit-Berg (Daniel Brühl) team up to become underground watchdogs of the privileged and powerful. On a shoestring, they create a platform that allows whistle-blowers to anonymously leak covert data, shining a light on the dark recesses of government secrets and corporate crimes. Soon, they are breaking more hard news than the world's most legendary media organizations combined. But when Assange and Berg gain access to the biggest trove of confidential intelligence documents in U.S. history, they battle each other and a defining question of our time: what are the costs of keeping secrets in a free society-and what are the costs of exposing them?

Plot Keywords: internet, justice, computer hacker, pantyhose, female stockinged legs, female stockinged feet, tea ...

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#17. Assassination of a High School President (2008)

Storyline: High School. Four of the most important years of your life. But it isn't always dances and keg parties and sucking face in your parents' mini-van. Sometimes it's ugly and hard and complicated. As complicated as a conspiracy to overthrow the president. There's something rotten at St. Donovan's High and sophomore newspaper reporter Bobby Funke is on it like pink rubber bands on your little sister's braces. When senior hottie Francesca Facchini solicits Funke's help tracking down a set of stolen SATs, Funke uncovers a story dirtier than the lunch lady's mustache. After he fingers the school president (figuratively) for the crime, Funke becomes one of the most popular kids at St. Donovan's High. No longer known simply as the freshman who was once tied to a giant snowman penis, Funke wins the respect of everyone from the Desert-Storm-hero-turned-educator Principal Kirkpatrick to the kid that farts on him in Spanish class. When Francesca takes Funke to homecoming, even the in-school ...

Plot Keywords: school, popularity, party, school principal, lesbian, pot smoking, pinata ...

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#18. Extreme Justice (1993)

Storyline: Jeff Powers is the newest member of a very elite and very secret LAPD division. Their mission is to target important criminals and to get them to stop. Police brutality is not a known term for the division and they will stop at nothing to get the job done, even if it means murder.—Steve Richer <sricher@sympatico.ca>

Plot Keywords: city hall, latin american, bank, undercover, stakeout, partner, photograph ...

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#19. The Shrine (2010)

Storyline: After a young American backpacker goes missing in Europe, a group of journalists link his disappearance to a remote village in Poland. They travel there hoping to get the story, but as they unravel the secrets behind this mysterious village, they are suddenly pursued by hostile locals. Unable to escape, they soon become the next victims of ritualistic human sacrifice. Forced into the gruesome reality of true survival horror, the journalists soon discover that this village hides a much darker secret than they could ever imagine.

Plot Keywords: village, poland, gore, bare chested male, blond man, demonic possession, intern ...

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