Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "government-surveillance"

1. The Lives of Others (2006)

R | 137 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller

8.4

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89 Metascore

In 1984 East Berlin, an agent of the secret police conducting surveillance on a writer and his lover finds himself becoming increasingly absorbed by their lives.

Director: Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck | Stars: Ulrich Mühe, Martina Gedeck, Sebastian Koch, Ulrich Tukur

Votes: 410,436 | Gross: $11.29M

2. Bad Times at the El Royale (2018)

R | 141 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

7.1

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60 Metascore

1969. Four strangers check in at the El Royale Hotel. The hotel is deserted, staffed by a single desk clerk. Some of the new guests' reasons for being there are less than innocent and some are not who they appear to be.

Director: Drew Goddard | Stars: Jeff Bridges, Cynthia Erivo, Dakota Johnson, Jon Hamm

Votes: 164,617 | Gross: $17.84M

3. The Damned (1969)

R | 157 min | Drama, War

7.4

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The dramatic collapse of a wealthy, industrialist/Junker family during the reign of the Third Reich.

Director: Luchino Visconti | Stars: Dirk Bogarde, Ingrid Thulin, Helmut Griem, Helmut Berger

Votes: 9,926 | Gross: $0.63M

4. Defense of the Realm (1985)

PG | 96 min | Thriller

6.5

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After a newspaper reporter helps expose a Member of Parliament as a possible spy, he finds that there's much more to the story than that.

Director: David Drury | Stars: Gabriel Byrne, Greta Scacchi, Denholm Elliott, Ian Bannen

Votes: 2,522 | Gross: $0.75M

5. Torn Curtain (1966)

PG | 128 min | Drama, Romance, Thriller

6.6

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55 Metascore

An American scientist publicly defects to East Germany as part of a cloak and dagger mission to find the solution for a formula resin before planning an escape back to the West.

Director: Alfred Hitchcock | Stars: Paul Newman, Julie Andrews, Lila Kedrova, Hansjörg Felmy

Votes: 29,250

6. Citizenfour (2014)

R | 114 min | Documentary, Biography

8.0

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88 Metascore

A documentarian and a reporter travel to Hong Kong for the first of many meetings with Edward Snowden.

Director: Laura Poitras | Stars: Edward Snowden, Glenn Greenwald, William Binney, Jacob Appelbaum

Votes: 57,975 | Gross: $2.80M

7. The Russia House (1990)

R | 123 min | Drama, Romance, Thriller

6.1

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67 Metascore

A British publisher is sent a manuscript detailing Soviet Union nuclear missile capabilities. British Intelligence intercept it and recruit him to investigate the author's editor, a beautiful Russian woman he claims never to have met.

Director: Fred Schepisi | Stars: Sean Connery, Michelle Pfeiffer, Roy Scheider, James Fox

Votes: 17,543 | Gross: $23.00M

8. Get Gotti (2023)

50 min | Documentary, Crime

7.0

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Told from both sides of the law this documentary series from the makers of "Fear City" follows the FBI's battle to bring down infamous mob boss John Gotti.

Stars: Anthony Ruggiano Jr., George Gabriel, Eric Shawn, Barbara Nevins Taylor

Votes: 2,848

9. Scorpio (1973)

PG | 114 min | Action, Drama, Thriller

6.4

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57 Metascore

During the Cold War, the CIA orders free-lance operative Scorpio to assassinate his former CIA mentor Cross and a deadly cat-and-mouse game ensues.

Director: Michael Winner | Stars: Burt Lancaster, Alain Delon, Paul Scofield, John Colicos

Votes: 5,206

10. Born in Flames (1983)

Not Rated | 79 min | Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi

6.5

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Set ten years after the most peaceful revolution in United States history, it presents a dystopia in which the issues of many groups - minorities, liberals, gay rights organizations, feminists - are dealt with by the government.

Director: Lizzie Borden | Stars: Honey, Adele Bertei, Jean Satterfield, Florynce Kennedy

Votes: 2,060

11. Crime Zone (1988)

R | 96 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy

4.5

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Helen and Bone live in a repressive futuristic dystopian society they badly want to escape from. Mysterious Jason hires them to steal a disc for him. It's practically a suicide mission, but he claims he can smuggle them out, in return.

Director: Luis Llosa | Stars: David Carradine, Peter Nelson, Sherilyn Fenn, Michael Shaner

Votes: 707

12. Coded Bias (2020)

TV-MA | 86 min | Documentary

6.7

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73 Metascore

When MIT Media Lab researcher Joy Buolamwini discovers that facial recognition does not see dark-skinned faces accurately, she embarks on a journey to push for the first-ever U.S. legislation against bias in algorithms that impact us all.

Director: Shalini Kantayya | Stars: Joy Buolamwini, Meredith Broussard, Cathy O'Neil, Silkie Carlo

Votes: 2,758

13. The End of Violence (1997)

R | 122 min | Drama, Thriller

5.6

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Mike is a successful Hollywood producer of violent movies. Then he himself experiences extreme violence, goes missing, joins some Latino gardeners and reviews his life.

Director: Wim Wenders | Stars: Traci Lind, Rosalind Chao, Bill Pullman, Andie MacDowell

Votes: 5,177 | Gross: $0.28M

14. Soccer Mom Madam (2021 TV Movie)

TV-14 | 88 min | Drama

5.5

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After a bitter breakup leaves her and her young children without any support, Anna goes to work for her cousin at a massage parlour known for "happy endings." As soon as she learns the ropes, Anna branches out on her own.

Director: Kevin Fair | Stars: Jana Kramer, Leah Gibson, Matty Finochio, Taylor Dianne Robinson

Votes: 439

15. Operation Corned Beef (1991)

105 min | Action, Comedy, Romance

6.1

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Squale, an ace spy, is called back from South America to carry out a tough operation. Goal: dismantle an international arms traffic masterminded by an important French government official. ... See full summary »

Director: Jean-Marie Poiré | Stars: Christian Clavier, Jean Reno, Isabelle Renauld, Valérie Lemercier

Votes: 3,037

16. John and Yoko: A Love Story (1985 TV Movie)

Not Rated | 147 min | Biography, Drama, Music

5.7

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Details the lives of John Lennon and Yoko Ono, from before their first meeting to their rise to stardom.

Director: Sandor Stern | Stars: Mark McGann, Kim Miyori, Kenneth Price, Peter Capaldi

Votes: 238

17. The Day After Trinity (1981)

Not Rated | 88 min | Documentary, Biography

7.8

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Scientists and witnesses involved in the creation and testing of the first ever atomic bomb reflect on the Manhattan project and its fascinating leader, J. Robert Oppenheimer, who upon ... See full summary »

Director: Jon Else | Stars: Hans Bethe, Holm Bursom, Haakon Chevalier, Stirling Colgate

Votes: 1,234

18. Leave No Traces (2021)

R | 160 min | Drama

7.1

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In 1983, communist Poland is shaken by the case of high school student Grzegorz Przemyk, who is beaten to death by police. The only witness of the beating becomes the number one enemy of the state.

Director: Jan P. Matuszynski | Stars: Tomasz Zietek, Sandra Korzeniak, Jacek Braciak, Agnieszka Grochowska

Votes: 1,901

19. MLK/FBI (2020)

TV-PG | 104 min | Documentary, Biography, History

7.0

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81 Metascore

Based on newly declassified files, Sam Pollard's resonant film explores the US government's surveillance and harassment of Martin Luther King, Jr.

Director: Sam Pollard | Stars: Martin Luther King, J. Edgar Hoover, David Garrow, Clarence B. Jones

Votes: 1,750

20. A Good American (2015)

TV-14 | 100 min | Documentary, Biography, History

7.3

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63 Metascore

How a group of NSA code-breakers had a chance of preventing 9/11.

Director: Friedrich Moser | Stars: William Binney, Jesselyn Radack, Kirk Wiebe, Diane Roark

Votes: 1,334

21. The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution (2015)

Not Rated | 115 min | Documentary, History

7.3

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79 Metascore

This documentary tells the rise and fall of the Black Panther Party, one of the 20th century's most alluring and controversial organizations that captivated the world's attention for nearly 50 years.

Director: Stanley Nelson | Stars: Blair Anderson, Omar Barbour, Julian Bond, Elaine Brown

Votes: 2,144 | Gross: $0.48M

22. 1971 (2014)

Unrated | 79 min | Documentary, History, Thriller

7.3

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73 Metascore

The story of a notorious 1971 activist burglary of an FBI office that led to the Bureau's numerous abuses against dissidents being exposed.

Director: Johanna Hamilton | Stars: Bonnie Raines, John Raines, Bob Williamson, Keith Forsyth

Votes: 913

23. Kennedy, Sinatra and the Mafia (2023 TV Movie)

Documentary, Crime, History

6.8

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With his mafia wiseguy links and access to entertainment industry star power, Frank Sinatra helped John F. Kennedy into the White House in 1960. But it all came to a bitter end.

Director: David Harvey | Stars: Chuck Granata, Lenny Luizzi, Robert Foster, Robbyn Swan

Votes: 57

24. The Conspiracy of Fear (1995 Video)

R | 110 min | Action, Drama, Thriller

4.6

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A young man is targeted by the CIA, rogue agents and thieves who all seem to be after something that his late father supposedly had in his possession.

Director: John Eyres | Stars: Geraint Wyn Davies, Leslie Hope, Andrew Lowery, Kenneth Welsh

Votes: 177

25. In ascolto (2006)

R | 105 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

6.2

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Estranged by the degree of corporate influence within the largest U.S. listening station in the world, an aging NSA officer defects and mounts a clandestine counter-listening station high in the Italian alps.

Director: Giacomo Martelli | Stars: Michael Parks, Maya Sansa, Andrea Tidona, James Parks

Votes: 1,107

26. The Feeling of Being Watched (2018)

86 min | Documentary

7.0

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79 Metascore

When journalist Assia Boundaoui investigates rumors of surveillance in her Arab-American neighborhood in Chicago, she uncovers one of the largest FBI terrorism probes conducted before 9/11 and reveals its enduring impact on the community.

Director: Assia Boundaoui | Stars: Gamal Abdel-Hafiz, Christina Abraham, Assia Boundaoui, Iman Boundaoui

Votes: 159

27. The Lobby - USA (2018)

Documentary

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Stars: Max Blumenthal, John Mearsheimer, Jacob Baime, Jim Moran

Votes: 21

28. The Perceivers (2015)

15 min | Short, Sci-Fi, Thriller

5.0

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How would you perceive the world if you knew the government was always watching? THE PERCEIVERS is a dystopian thriller about a young woman who is forced to leave everything she knows ... See full summary »

Director: Kyle Smithers | Stars: Molly C. Quinn, Michael Welch, Michael Nardelli, Genevieve Aitken

Votes: 14

29. Gendai kôshoku-den: Teroru no kisetsu (1969)

78 min | Drama

6.3

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From an apartment belonging to a single woman, two detectives spy on sex-obsessed radical.

Director: Kôji Wakamatsu | Stars: Yûko Ejima, Tomomi Sahara, Hitomi Suma, Hiromasa Haruta

Votes: 147

30. War on Whistleblowers: Free Press and the National Security State (2013)

Not Rated | 67 min | Documentary

7.3

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War on Whistleblowers: Free Press and the National Security State highlights four cases where whistleblowers noticed government wrong-doing and took to the media to expose the fraud and abuse.

Director: Robert Greenwald | Stars: Daniel Ellsberg, Franz Gayl, Seymour Hersh, David Carr

Votes: 216

31. Stingray (2016 TV Movie)

27 min | Documentary, News

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They're used by police, federal officials and hackers. They can read your text messages, see where you are and more. They go by many names but some know them as Stingrays. But what is a ... See full summary »

Directors: Jerod MacDonald-Evoy, Rashinda Bankhead | Stars: Jason Hernandez, Jerod MacDonald-Evoy, Sam Richards, Scott Schober

32. Decoded

Sci-Fi, Thriller | Announced

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Director: Arkadiy Gazaryan

33. A Patriot Act (2007)

Not Rated | 29 min | Short, Action, Crime

7.4

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Veiled in a back lit silhouette, his voice altered, a young man nervously tells his story: Tony is fond of his girlfriend, getting high, and playing on the internet.

Director: Tom Laskowski | Stars: Tony DeMil, Jessica Badeaux, Wael Georgey, Owen Miller

Votes: 13

34. All-Seeing Eye Surveillance: Satan's Omniscience (2011 Video)

84 min | Documentary

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Stars: Michael Hoggard, Bruce Bellocchi

35. The Legacy of I.F. Stone (2015 Video)

42 min | Documentary, Short

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Stars: Jeff Cohen, Glenn Greenwald, Peter Jennings, Lyndon B. Johnson

36. Electric Eye (2014)

5 min | Short, Drama

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Director: Luna Liu | Stars: Jay Danziger, Vivian Davidson-Castro, Cesar de Alba, Kyle MacDonald

37. Barney Miller (1975–1982)
Episode: Bugs (1977)

TV-PG | 30 min | Comedy, Drama

8.1

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Recording devices discovered in the precinct may have come from Internal Affairs or the White House.

Director: David Swift | Stars: Hal Linden, Max Gail, Ron Glass, Jack Soo

Votes: 136

38. The Lone Gunmen (2001)
Episode: Tango de los Pistoleros (2001)

Comedy, Drama, Mystery

7.1

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Yves becomes a smuggler's partner in a tango competition in Miami while the Lone Gunmen are afoot to uncover what Yves is after.

Director: Bryan Spicer | Stars: Bruce Harwood, Tom Braidwood, Dean Haglund, Stephen Snedden

Votes: 303

39. The New Addams Family (1998–1999)
Episode: The Undercover Man (1999)

TV-Y7 | 24 min | Comedy, Family, Horror

7.0

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The family is organizing a surprise birthday party for Morticia. An under cover man overhears Gomez ordering a large amount of explosives, becomes suspicious and infiltrates the house.

Director: Nicholas Kendall | Stars: Glenn Taranto, Ellie Harvie, Brody Smith, Nicole Fugere

Votes: 14

40. Timewatch (1982– )
Episode: The Mysterious Career of Lee Harvey Oswald (1993)

99 min | Documentary, History

7.1

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A detailed look at the early life of Oswald and his movements on the day of the Kennedy assassination.

Stars: James P. Hosty, Gerald Posner, G. Robert Blakey, Evelyn Segal

Votes: 10

41. Borgen (2010–2022)
Episode: Ikke se, ikke høre, ikke tale (2010)

TV-14 | 55 min | Drama

7.9

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The discovery of illegal surveillance of a left-wing party brings into question the prime minister's friendship with the party's spokeswoman as well as her faith in her own minister of justice.

Director: Mikkel Nørgaard | Stars: Sidse Babett Knudsen, Birgitte Hjort Sørensen, Pilou Asbæk, Mikael Birkkjær

Votes: 514

42. The Newsroom (2012–2014)
Episode: The Blackout, Part 1: Tragedy Porn (2012)

TV-MA | 58 min | Drama

7.9

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To salvage their ratings, the news team decides to lead with lurid criminal trial coverage at the expense of more worthy stories like the debt ceiling debate.

Director: Lesli Linka Glatter | Stars: Jeff Daniels, Emily Mortimer, John Gallagher Jr., Alison Pill

Votes: 1,637

43. The Balkans in Flames (2021–2022)
Episode: Tinderbox Yugoslavia (2021)

Documentary, History, War

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We begin with the search for traces in Yugoslavia's prehistory. Under the influence of changing rulers and empires, the country's structure is formed over centuries as home to five ... See full summary »

Stars: Misha Glenny, Marie-Janine Calic, Herfried Münkler, James Gow