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71 films tagged corruption, showing 50
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2025 · Crime
A bent detective is sent to find the son of a mayoral candidate, who has stolen a shipment of cocaine and now has the Triads and half the force hunting him. Long, brutal fights, mostly at night.
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2025 · Drama
Two Delhi lawyers who share a nickname and cannot stand each other end up on opposite sides of a case about farmers losing their land to a huge development. A long courtroom comedy, and the sparring is the point.
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2025 · Action
A young officer takes charge of a district and starts raiding the illegal businesses the state's ministers protect. Nearly three hours of Telugu political action, with songs and a long flashback.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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2025 · Action
An ice-road trucker flies to Nepal to scatter his brother's ashes and ends up on a tour bus that armed men take over halfway along a mountain road. Straightforward action, most of it on the road.
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2008 · Action
Batman, a new district attorney and a straight-arrow cop try to break organised crime in Gotham, and a criminal with no name and no plan starts pulling the city apart. Much of it is about what each of them will agree to do.
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2025 · Thriller
Egypt's most popular actor is pressured by the government into starring in a propaganda film about the president, and saying no costs him work straight away. It moves through meetings and quiet threats.
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2025 · Documentary
The reporter Seymour Hersh walks through fifty years of his own work: the My Lai massacre, the secret bombing of Cambodia, Watergate, the CIA spying at home, Abu Ghraib. Interviews and archive throughout.
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2025 · Thriller
A finance prodigy joins a big investment bank as assistant to its star dealmaker, then an executive asks him to trick his mentor into signing off on falsified accounts. Most of it is deals and manoeuvring.
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2025 · Action
Two lifelong friends run the temple committee in an Andhra village, until a minister who wants the temple's land sets about turning them against each other. Long, loud village politics with fights.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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2005 · Action
A billionaire's son leaves Gotham after his parents are killed and spends years abroad learning to fight, then comes back to a city run by mobsters. A good half of it is the training and the building of the kit.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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2025 · Drama
A woman returns from her mother's funeral to find her Caracas flat seized by an armed militia, in a city of protests, shortages and officials on the take. Tense, and it stays close to her.
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2025 · Thriller
A CIA cryptographer loses his wife to a hostage killing in London, and blackmails his own agency into training him to go after the men who did it. He is not a field agent and it shows.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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2025 · Action
A mute handyman in a Southeast Asian city loses his daughter to child traffickers, and the police captain is working for them. He goes after her himself, and it is fight after fight.
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2025 · Fantasy
A woman arrives in Bangalore from Sweden, works night shifts and keeps to herself, until she steps in to stop a man from a local organ trafficking ring and the neighbours start wondering what she is. It is the first part of a superhero series.
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2015 · Crime
A Boston gangster becomes an FBI informant and uses the arrangement to take over the city, while the agent who signed him up keeps covering for him. Cold and talky, with long scenes of men at tables.
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2025 · Crime
A new interim sheriff in a quiet, well-off Minnesota town is stuck on nuisance calls until a botched bank robbery drags him into something the whole town is in on. Dry, sudden and very violent.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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2025 · Thriller
In 1977 Detroit, a factory worker is framed and sent to prison by the mobster who wants his girlfriend, and comes back for him. Almost no dialogue: a rock soundtrack and the fights carry it.
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2025 · Thriller
A former stuntman drives a taxi in a Kerala hill town and dotes on his old Ambassador car, until two policemen commandeer him for a job he cannot refuse. It runs long, and it turns hard.
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2025 · Drama
An income tax officer with a record of enormous seizures is transferred yet again, this time to a town run by a corrupt politician whose hidden money he cannot find. Mostly raids, courtrooms and the two men circling each other.
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2025 · Drama
In 1937, at the height of Stalin's purge, a newly qualified Soviet prosecutor reads a letter smuggled out by a prisoner, goes to see the man, and sets off for Moscow to report what he was shown. Slow and formal: prison offices, a train, a lot of waiting.
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2025 · Thriller
A woman's ex-husband abducts their young daughter and takes her to the Middle East, and years of searching lead nowhere. She teams up with an ex-Marine who recovers stolen children.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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2025 · Thriller
A veteran just out of prison goes home to a small Ohio town run by a racist sheriff, where Black men have a way of disappearing. It starts slow and turns violent.
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2025 · Crime
A drug informant and the ambitious prosecutor he feeds cases to have built their careers on each other, until a bust involving a presidential candidate's son puts them on opposite sides. Fast, and full of people turning on each other.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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2025 · Crime
Two years on, a wanted driver is living quietly in a German timber town under a false name until the corrupt narcotics commander he runs shipments for decides to have him killed. It is the last of three films, and it runs on cars and payback.
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2026 · Thriller
A Miami narcotics team searching a house for hidden cash finds twenty million dollars in the attic, and their lieutenant tells each of them a different number. Most of it is the team in that house, working out who to trust.
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2026 · Thriller
A former American army officer living in Europe kills the criminals he believes the courts let go, most of them migrants, while the police try to work out who he is. Blunt and violent throughout.
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2026 · Family
Wile E. Coyote hires a small-time lawyer to sue the Acme Corporation over every device that ever blew up in his face. Half cartoon and half courtroom, aimed at the whole family.
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2014 · Action
Steve Rogers is working for a spy agency he trusts less every week when an attack from inside it puts him on the run with Black Widow. It plays like a 1970s conspiracy film with fights in it.
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2026 · Action
Jack Ryan, out of the CIA and working on Wall Street, agrees to collect a package in Dubai as a favour, and lands in a black-ops programme that was meant to have been shut down. Chases through Dubai and London.
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2026 · Documentary
A documentary about the death of Boeing whistleblower John Barnett and the employees who came forward after him, saying they reported safety problems and were told to overlook them. It follows the investigations as they run.
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2026 · Comedy
Three sex workers in a conservative Peruvian town, replaced by women from abroad, set up their own business and take on the corrupt mayor. Broad political satire, played for laughs throughout.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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2026 · Thriller
A background check on a Hong Kong police chief in 2017 opens the file on an operation that went wrong in 1994, when the city's old money, the triads and the British were all pulling at each other. Two timelines and a lot of names.
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2026 · Action
An outlaw who deals out the justice the courts will not falls for a bar singer, and when the police kill her he goes after them with a woman they brutalised. It is violent from early on.
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2026 · Crime
A drug squad detective exposes colleagues tampering with evidence and joins the unit that investigates the police themselves. Case by case, with an old death he blames himself for running underneath.
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2025 · Comedy
A startup boss who only knows how to do research has to win a huge government contract off a rival who is much better at buying favours, so he takes up golf. Most of it is deals angled for over drinks.
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2007 · Mystery
Two private investigators from a working-class Boston neighbourhood are hired to look for a missing four-year-old in the places the police cannot reach. A detective story that keeps turning into an argument about what is right.
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2002 · Crime
A policeman has spent ten years undercover in a Hong Kong triad while one of the triad's men has spent the same ten years rising inside the police. Both sides find out there is a mole, and it moves fast.
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2018 · Animation
A Japanese city banishes every dog to a rubbish island, and a boy flies out there alone to find his. The dogs talk in flat deadpan, and the whole thing is stop-motion built like a doll's house.
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2007 · Thriller
A law firm's fixer is sent to clean up after their star litigator falls apart in the middle of defending a chemical company. Grown-ups in offices talking, and it tightens slowly.
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2001 · Animation
In a city powered by children's screams, the top scare team's day goes wrong when a little girl follows one of them home through a closet door. Bright and fast, made for kids with plenty of jokes over their heads.
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2015 · Thriller
An FBI agent is recruited onto a cross-border task force going after a cartel, and is told very little about who she is working for or what the job actually is. She spends the film trying to find out.
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2024 · Action
A former Marine cycling into a small Southern town to post his cousin's bail is knocked off his bike by police who take his cash and dare him to argue. He tries the front counter and the paperwork first.
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2022 · Drama
Two New York Times reporters spend months trying to get women to go on the record about a film producer. Mostly phone calls, doorsteps and newsroom talk.
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2022 · Action
In his second year out at night, Batman follows a killer who leaves riddles addressed to him at every scene, and the trail runs into the city's oldest families. Long, rainy, and closer to a detective film than a superhero one.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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2015 · Comedy
A handful of investors work out that the American housing market is built on bad loans and bet against it, while everyone tells them they are wrong. Fast and jokey, and it stops to explain the finance.
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2002 · Action
A man is fished out of the Mediterranean with two bullets in his back, no memory, and a bank account number under his skin. He finds out what he can do at the same time you do, and it keeps moving.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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2015 · Drama
The Boston Globe's investigations desk works a story about abuse in the Catholic church, and keeps finding it is bigger than the last version of it. Mostly documents, doorsteps and phone calls.
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2006 · Crime
A young cop goes undercover inside a Boston crime boss's crew while one of the boss's own men rises through the state police, and each side works out there is a rat. It is long, loud and full of swearing.
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2016 · Comedy
A hopeless private eye and a man who breaks bones for a living end up working the same missing-girl case in 1977 Los Angeles. It is a detective story played for laughs, with the two of them bickering the whole way.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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2017 · Drama
In 1971 the Washington Post gets hold of a secret government history of the Vietnam war, and its owner has to decide whether to print with the courts already involved. Rooms, phones and deadlines, and no action at all.
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