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14 films tagged journalism
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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