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In January 1942, as the United States enters World War II, a conference assembles near Berlin. SS Gen. Heydrich (Kenneth Branagh) and his associate, Lt. Eichmann (Stanley Tucci) call the meeting ...
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- JFK (1991) Wherever there’s a dead American president, there’s a conspiracy theory. And Oliver Stone (who went on to make Nixon and W.) saw to it that former New Orleans DA Jim Garrison’s accusations of a cover-up reached a wider audience by making this pop politik movie with Kevin Costner in the lead role.
- Klute (1971) Donald Sutherland watches a call girl turning tricks for a couple of hours. His excuse? He’s on the trail of a missing businessman. That’s what they all say, Don.
- Capricorn One (1978) Rather than jump on the Apollo landing conspiracy moonwagon, writer/director Peter Hyams moves his fishy story to Mars. Of course, it’s not really the red planet – the government baddies are forcing the astronauts to play along with their interplanetary hoax in a shed in the desert.
- Z (1969) Vive la… conspiracy? This Franco-thriller explores the assassination of Grigoris Lambrakis, a Greek politician who stood against the ruling military dictatorship.
A personal list of favorite movies that explore conspiracy theories, cover-ups, and corruption. From Oldboy to The Matrix, see the ratings, genres, and summaries of these films.
Nov 3, 2020 · A list of films that explore the dark and sinister plots behind political events, from the Kennedy assassination to the 2020 election. Whether they are documentaries, thrillers, or satires, these movies tap into the paranoid style of American politics and culture.
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- All the President's Men. If there's one film that exemplifies the modern-day conspiracy thriller, it's "All the President's Men," a fictional telling of the real-life hell Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward went through while investigating the 1972 break-in at the Watergate hotel.
- The Conversation. A controversial statement: "The Godfather" is not the best film Francis Ford Coppola has made. It's excellent, of course. But "The Conversation" is the watershed conspiracy movie, a piece of art so thoroughly prophetic in nature that it was conceived and completed before the Watergate incident.
- The Manchurian Candidate. You don't need to have seen "The Manchurian Candidate" to understand the bonkers assassination plot inside "Zoolander," much less that one episode of "Star Trek: The Next Generation" where Romulans rewire Geordi La Forge.
- The Bourne Identity. "The Bourne Identity" is the new standard in conspiracy thrillers that tilt heavily towards the thrill-ride side of the spectrum.
A list of 101 movies that explore conspiracy theories, cover-ups, and hidden agendas. See ratings, genres, directors, and stars of films such as JFK, V for Vendetta, The Da Vinci Code, and more.
A user-created list of 10 movies that explore various conspiracy theories, from faking a Mars mission to assassinating a president. See the ratings, genres, summaries, and cast of each movie on IMDb.
