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Directed by Alan J. PakulaOrigin USAGenres Drama,
Thriller,
CrimeThemes Assassinat,
Films about writers,
Films about journalists,
Political films,
Dystopian filmsActors Warren Beatty,
Hume Cronyn,
William Daniels,
Paula Prentiss,
Jim Davis,
Earl HindmanRating70%
TV newswoman Lee Carter (Paula Prentiss) is one of many witnesses to the public assassination of presidential candidate Senator Charles Carroll (Bill Joyce) atop the Seattle Space Needle. A waiter armed with a revolver is chased but falls to his death. Meanwhile, a second waiter, also armed, leaves the crime scene unnoticed. A Congressional special committee determines that the assassination was the work of a lone gunman., 1h56
Directed by Alan J. PakulaOrigin USAGenres Drama,
Thriller,
RomanceThemes Political filmsActors Jane Fonda,
Kris Kristofferson,
Hume Cronyn,
Josef Sommer,
Bob Gunton,
Martha PlimptonRating54%
Lee Winters is the widow of the Chairman and primary stockholder of Winterchem Enterprises, a chemical company, who is attempting to obtain financing of the purchase of a processing plant in Spain, while trying to determine why her husband was murdered., 2h18
Directed by Alan J. PakulaOrigin USAGenres Drama,
Thriller,
HistoricalThemes Films about writers,
Films about journalists,
Politique,
Political filmsActors Robert Redford,
Dustin Hoffman,
Jason Robards,
Jack Warden,
Hal Holbrook,
Jane AlexanderRating78%
In June 1972, a security guard (Frank Wills, playing himself) at the Watergate complex finds a door kept unlocked with tape. He calls the police, who find and arrest five burglars in the Democratic National Committee headquarters within the complex. The next morning, The Washington Post assigns new reporter Bob Woodward (Robert Redford) to the local courthouse to cover the story, which is thought to be of minor importance., 1h51
Directed by Alan J. PakulaOrigin USAGenres Drama,
Thriller,
Action,
Adventure,
CrimeThemes Films about religion,
Films about terrorism,
Transport films,
Political films,
Conflit nord-irlandais,
Road movies,
Chase filmsActors Harrison Ford,
Brad Pitt,
Margaret Colin,
Treat Williams,
Rubén Blades,
George HearnRating61%
In 1972, eight-year-old Francis "Frankie" McGuire sees his father gunned down due to his Irish republican sympathies. In September 1992, the grown-up Frankie (Brad Pitt) and three other I.R.A. gunmen are involved in a shootout in Belfast when Special Air Service commandos attempt to capture him. 18 British military personnel are killed or wounded. One gunman is killed and another, Desmond, is wounded as Frankie and the last gunman, Sean Phelan (Paul Ronan), escape. An SAS agent asks the wounded man where Frankie is. Desmond is fatally shot by the agent after he says "up your arse". Hiding in the countryside, Frankie and his friend Martin MacDuf (David O'Hara) see a British Army helicopter circling overhead and decide they need Stinger missiles., 2h30
Directed by Alan J. PakulaOrigin USAGenres Drama,
War,
RomanceThemes Films about religion,
Films about suicide,
Political films,
Films about Jews and JudaismActors Meryl Streep,
Kevin Kline,
Peter MacNicol,
Rita Karin,
Josh Mostel,
Robin BartlettRating74%
In 1947, Stingo relocates to Brooklyn in order to write a novel and is befriended by Sophie Zawistowski, a Polish immigrant, and her emotionally unstable lover, Nathan Landau., 2h7
Directed by Costa-GavrasOrigin USAGenres Drama,
Thriller,
Action,
Crime,
RomanceThemes Films about writers,
Films about journalists,
Films about racism,
Political filmsActors Debra Winger,
Tom Berenger,
John Heard,
John Mahoney,
Betsy Blair,
Ted LevineRating62%
Set in the American Midwest, the film begins with the murder of a Jewish radio host in Chicago. FBI undercover agent Catherine Weaver (Winger), alias Katie Phillips, sets out to infiltrate a farming community, suspected of harbouring those responsible., 1h39
Directed by Howard FranklinOrigin USAGenres Drama,
Thriller,
Action,
Adventure,
CrimeThemes Films about writers,
Films about journalists,
Mafia films,
Gangster filmsActors Joe Pesci,
Barbara Hershey,
Stanley Tucci,
Jerry Adler,
Jared Harris,
Richard RiehleRating64%
In the 1940s Leon "Bernzy" Bernstein is a freelance crime and street photographer for the New York City tabloids, dedicated to his vivid and realistic work and his unique ability to capture shots that nobody else can. He is very confident of his skills, declaring at one point, "Nobody does what I do. Nobody"., 1h56
Directed by Edward ZwickOrigin USAGenres Drama,
War,
Thriller,
Action,
CrimeThemes Films about terrorism,
Political films,
Children's filmsActors Denzel Washington,
Annette Bening,
Bruce Willis,
Tony Shalhoub,
David Proval,
Aasif MandviRating63%
Following the bombing of an American military installation in the Middle East (the film shows footage from the 1996 Khobar Towers bombing), the U.S. government orchestrates the capture of the mastermind believed to be behind the attack, Sheikh Ahmed bin Talal. In New York City FBI Special Agent Anthony Hubbard (Washington) and his Lebanese-American partner Frank Haddad (Shalhoub) are told of a hijacked bus, fully loaded with passengers and containing an explosive device. The bomb turns out to be a paint bomb and the terrorists manage to escape. The FBI receives demands to release the sheikh., 1h53
Directed by George ClooneyOrigin USAGenres Drama,
Thriller,
Biography,
Comedy,
Comedy-drama,
Action,
Spy,
Crime,
RomanceThemes Spy films,
Films about television,
Political filmsActors Sam Rockwell,
Drew Barrymore,
George Clooney,
Julia Roberts,
Rutger Hauer,
Maggie GyllenhaalRating69%
Tired of being rejected by the beautiful women he lusts after, Chuck Barris (Rockwell) moves to Manhattan to become an NBC page with dreams of becoming famous in television but is eventually fired. He moves back to Philadelphia and becomes Dick Clark's personal assistant on American Bandstand in 1961. He writes the successful song "Palisades Park" and becomes romantically involved with a woman named Penny Pacino (Barrymore). Chuck is given permission to pitch the concept for The Dating Game at the American Broadcasting Company (ABC); he receives $7,500 to create a television pilot for the studio. However, ABC abandons The Dating Game in favor of Hootenanny., 1h47
Origin CanadaGenres Drama,
Thriller,
Action,
CrimeThemes Political filmsActors Christian Slater,
Selma Blair,
John Heard,
Robert Loggia,
Colm Feore,
Angie HarmonRating50%
A political thriller steeped in illegal oil trading, the Russian Mafia, and governmental cover-ups.