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38 films tagged journalism
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2000 · Drama
A fifteen-year-old talks a music magazine into sending him on tour with a rising rock band in 1973, without mentioning how old he is. Warm and funny, and most of it happens on the bus.
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2004 · Comedy
The most confident newsreader in 1970s San Diego finds a woman hired onto his all-male team and going for his chair. Built from jokes rather than plot, and it stops for any gag it likes.
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2025 · Crime
In Indianapolis in 1977, a man wires a shotgun to a mortgage broker's son's neck, walks him home at gunpoint and calls a radio station to explain why. Taken from a real standoff, and mostly one apartment with the police outside.
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2025 · Comedy
A 94-year-old moves to New York after her closest friend dies, wanders into a support group for Holocaust survivors, and starts telling her friend's story as her own. A young student takes an interest.
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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 journalist joins a billionaire's charity cruise, meets a woman in the cabin next door, and that night sees someone go over the side. Everyone on board is accounted for, and nobody believes her.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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2025 · Horror
A young journalist is one of six people invited to a reclusive pop star's Utah compound to hear his first album in thirty years, where the staff all belong to his following. The unease starts early and builds.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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Little-known
2025 · Comedy
A 22-year-old music critic moves to Montreal in 2011 to write a book about an Alanis Morissette album, and instead falls in with two members of an indie band. Loose and talky, mostly parties and gigs.
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2025 · Mystery
A blind master engraver is being filmed for a television profile when his son learns the mother he thought had walked out has been dead for forty years, buried by a building site. He and the journalist start asking.
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2025 · Documentary
An Iranian filmmaker who cannot get into Gaza documents the war instead through video calls with a young Palestinian photojournalist living there with her family. It is almost entirely those calls, dropped connection and all.
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2026 · Comedy
Twenty years on, Andy's newsroom is laid off by text message and she is hired into Runway as features editor over Miranda's objections. The magazine is losing to clickbait, and the two of them have to deal with it.
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Little-known
2021 · Drama
A radio reporter travelling the country interviewing children ends up looking after his nine-year-old nephew for a while. Black and white, quiet, and mostly the two of them talking.
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Little-known
2018 · Comedy
A broke and prickly New York biographer works out that she can pay the rent by writing letters in dead authors' voices and selling them. Dry, funny, and largely two people drinking in bars.
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2026 · Comedy
A forest officer's wife files a news story that sets off a scandal, and to protect the girl at the centre of it he starts pretending to be her boyfriend. A farce, and the lies stack up fast.
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2024 · War
Four journalists drive from New York to Washington through a United States at war with itself, trying to reach the president before the fighting does. A road trip, with quiet stretches between loud ones.
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2026 · Drama
The only camerawoman at a Kabul television station cannot divorce her unfaithful husband without losing her son, and is sure there are no good men left in Afghanistan. Then she is paired with an older reporter.
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2025 · Documentary
Louis Theroux spends time with Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank and with Palestinians living around them, asking questions and letting people answer. An hour long, mostly interviews.
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2014 · Thriller
A young man with no job and no limits finds he can sell footage of crashes and shootings to a Los Angeles morning news show, and gets very good at arriving first. Night driving, police scanners, and one man talking his way into places he shouldn't be.
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Little-known
2007 · Horror
A late-night TV reporter and her cameraman follow a fire crew into a Barcelona apartment block, and the building is sealed off with them inside. Shot entirely as camera footage, in one place, and it is short.
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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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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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2021 · Comedy
The staff of an American magazine based in a French town put together one last issue, and three of its articles play out as separate stories. Dozens of actors, packed frames, and it never sits still.
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2011 · Mystery
A disgraced journalist is hired by a rich old man to find out what happened to his niece forty years ago, and a young hacker ends up working the case with him. Long, cold, and some scenes are hard going.
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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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2007 · Mystery
A cartoonist at a San Francisco paper gets pulled into the Zodiac killings and keeps working the case for years after everyone else has stopped. Long, talky, and full of names, dates and paperwork.
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1976 · Drama
Two Washington Post reporters follow a hotel break-in through phone calls and doorsteps until it reaches the White House. Almost entirely legwork, notes and newsroom argument.
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2019 · Drama
A corporate defence lawyer takes a favour case for a West Virginia farmer and ends up spending twenty years suing a chemical company. Paperwork, depositions and a lot of waiting.
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2016 · Drama
The week after the assassination, told through the widow's account of it to a reporter she fully intends to edit. Stays uncomfortably close to her face.
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1998 · Horror
A reporter looking into a rumour about a videotape that kills whoever watches it a week later finds the tape. Grey, damp and very quiet.
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2024 · Thriller
The American sports crew covering the 1972 Munich Olympics finds itself broadcasting a hostage crisis live. Ninety minutes, almost entirely in the control room.
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2012 · Horror
A true-crime writer moves his family into the house where the murders happened, and finds a box of home movies in the attic. Dark rooms and a projector.
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2025 · Action
Superman intervenes in a foreign invasion and the world argues about whether he should have, while a billionaire works on getting rid of him. Bright, busy and openly hopeful.
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1999 · Drama
A tobacco company scientist agrees to talk to a television producer about what the industry knows, and the network gets nervous. Long, tense and almost entirely conversation.
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2006 · Drama
The week after Diana's death, between a monarch who will not make a statement and a new prime minister who wants one. Talky, and mostly indoors.
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2002 · Horror
A journalist watches the videotape her niece saw a week before she died, and then the phone rings. Green, wet and very cold-looking.
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Little-known
2024 · Drama
A war reporter with terminal cancer asks an old friend to be in the next room when she takes the pill. Two women, a rented house, and a great deal of talk.
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2017 · Drama
A Seoul cabbie takes a big fare to drive a German reporter down to Gwangju in May 1980, with no idea what is happening in the city. It starts as a comedy about a man chasing money and does not stay one.
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2005 · Science fiction
In a Britain run by a single party, a masked man blows up the Old Bailey and promises to return in a year. Talky, theatrical and openly political.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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