Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "murder-of-a-journalist"

1. Network (1976)

R | 121 min | Drama

A television network cynically exploits a deranged former anchor's ravings and revelations about the news media for its own profit, but finds that his message may be difficult to control.

Director: Sidney Lumet | Stars: Faye Dunaway, William Holden, Peter Finch, Robert Duvall

Votes: 170,571

2. Mr. Jones (2019)

119 min | Biography, Drama, Thriller

A Welsh journalist breaks the news in the western media of the famine in Ukraine in the early 1930s.

Director: Agnieszka Holland | Stars: James Norton, Vanessa Kirby, Peter Sarsgaard, Joseph Mawle

Votes: 16,235

3. Tenebrae (1982)

R | 101 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller

An American novelist visiting Rome to promote his latest book is stalked and harassed by an obsessed fan who is committing a string of murders that appear to be tributes to his work.

Director: Dario Argento | Stars: Anthony Franciosa, Giuliano Gemma, John Saxon, Daria Nicolodi

Votes: 27,409

4. The Girl Who Played with Fire (2009)

R | 129 min | Action, Crime, Drama

As computer hacker Lisbeth and journalist Mikael investigate a sex-trafficking ring, Lisbeth is accused of three murders, causing her to go on the run while Mikael works to clear her name.

Director: Daniel Alfredson | Stars: Noomi Rapace, Michael Nyqvist, Lena Endre, Peter Andersson

Votes: 98,494 | Gross: $9.08M

5. Veronica Guerin (2003)

R | 98 min | Biography, Crime, Drama

An Irish journalist writes a series of stories about drug dealers.

Director: Joel Schumacher | Stars: Cate Blanchett, Colin Farrell, Brenda Fricker, Ciarán Hinds

Votes: 21,888 | Gross: $1.57M

6. XX: Utsukushiki karyuudo (1994 Video)

85 min | Action

Shion is the most merciless assassin of the Magnificat crime group. However, when her hand and heart hesitate to murder the man she loves, her superior marks her for death. Torn from the ... See full summary »

Director: Masaru Konuma | Stars: Makiko Kuno, Johnny Ohkura, Katsuo Tokashi, Maiko Kazama

Votes: 230

7. Closed Circuit (2013)

R | 96 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

A high-profile terrorism case unexpectedly binds together two ex-lovers on the defense team - testing the limits of their loyalties and placing their lives in jeopardy.

Director: John Crowley | Stars: Eric Bana, Rebecca Hall, Jim Broadbent, Ciarán Hinds

Votes: 23,280 | Gross: $5.73M

8. Into the Deep (2020)

TV-MA | 90 min | Documentary, Biography, Crime

When journalist Kim Wall disappears after boarding inventor Peter Madsen's submarine, his changing story about her fate masks a terrifying truth.

Director: Emma Sullivan | Star: Peter Madsen

Votes: 4,135

9. Who Killed Jill Dando? (2023)

TV-MA | 46 min | Documentary, Crime, History

Revisit the shocking 1999 murder of beloved TV presenter Jill Dando, which continues to mystify experts and the public, in this in-depth documentary.

Stars: Jane Moore, Hamish Campbell, Gareth Snow, Jon Roseman

Votes: 2,395

10. The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum (1975)

R | 106 min | Crime, Drama

A young woman's life is scrutinized by police and tabloid press after she spends the night with a suspected terrorist.

Directors: Volker Schlöndorff, Margarethe von Trotta | Stars: Angela Winkler, Mario Adorf, Dieter Laser, Jürgen Prochnow

Votes: 4,883

11. Sympathy for the Devil (2019)

100 min | War

In an urban war zone where everything that moves is a target, Paul tries to live, love and inform.

Director: Guillaume de Fontenay | Stars: Niels Schneider, Vincent Rottiers, Ella Rumpf, Arieh Worthalter

Votes: 691

12. Fort Apache Napoli (2009)

108 min | Biography, Crime, Drama

The story of Giancarlo Siani, a journalist killed by the Neapolitan Mafia in 1985.

Director: Marco Risi | Stars: Libero De Rienzo, Valentina Lodovini, Michele Riondino, Massimiliano Gallo

Votes: 1,159

13. Lyra (2022)

92 min | Documentary, Biography

Follows the life of Northern Irish investigative journalist Lyra McKee by telling her story through her own work and words.

Director: Alison Millar | Star: Lyra McKee

Votes: 148

14. Pablo Escobar: Countdown to Death (2017 TV Movie)

68 min | Documentary, Biography, Crime

Through rare interviews, images and wiretap audio, this documentary reconstructs the last nine years of Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar's life.

Director: Santiago Diaz Oso | Stars: María Isabel Santos, Sebastian Marroquín, Alba Marina Escobar, Germán Castro Caycedo

Votes: 264

15. Shôrin shôjo (2008)

107 min | Action, Comedy, Fantasy

A Shaolin-trainer young woman returns to Japan to resuscitate her grandfather's defunct martial arts school.

Director: Katsuyuki Motohiro | Stars: Kô Shibasaki, Tôru Nakamura, Yuqi Zhang, Kai-Man Tin

Votes: 710

16. Ivory Hunters (1990 TV Movie)

Unrated | 94 min | Adventure

An author discovers that his missing research assistant's disappearance may be related to illegal trade in ivory tusks. He's then asked by the local inspector to help him find the poachers.

Director: Joseph Sargent | Stars: John Lithgow, Isabella Rossellini, James Earl Jones, Tony Todd

Votes: 156

17. South Terminal (2019)

Not Rated | 96 min | Drama, Thriller

In a country plunging into armed conflict, a doctor tries to do his duty against all odds, until the day his destiny is turned upside down.

Director: Rabah Ameur-Zaïmeche | Stars: Ramzy Bedia, Amel Brahim-Djelloul, Slimane Dazi, Salim Ameur-Zaïmeche

Votes: 387

18. The Battle of Chile: Part II (1976)

Not Rated | 88 min | Documentary, History

Filmmaker Patricio Guzmán tracks the deterioration of Salvador Allende's position following the attempted coup d'état of 29 June 1973, and analyzes the 10 weeks before Augusto Pinochet's CIA-backed seizure of power.

Director: Patricio Guzmán | Stars: Salvador Allende, Carlos Altamirano, Fernando Castillo, Luis Corvalán

Votes: 1,282

19. Provoked (1989)

90 min | Action, Comedy, Crime

In this low-budget actioner, a strong-willed bride grabs a semi-automatic machine gun and heads out to rescue her groom from the crooks who are holding him hostage.

Director: Rick Pamplin | Stars: Cindy Ferda, McKeiver Jones III, Harold Wayne Jones, Sharon Blair

Votes: 69

20. Walang dayaan akin ang malaki (1997)

Action, Comedy

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Director: Augusto Salvador | Stars: Leandro Baldemor, Ramon Christopher, Deborah Carpio, Klaudia Koronel

21. #chicagoGirl: The Social Network Takes on a Dictator (2013)

Not Rated | 74 min | Documentary, Action, Biography

From the Chicago suburbs, an American teenager helps run the Syrian revolution. With social media, she helps her network expose regime atrocities. But as the violence rages everyone must choose their weapon: Facebook or AK-47s.

Director: Joe Piscatella | Stars: Ala'a Basatneh, Aous Al-Mubarak, Bassel Shehadeh, Mazhar 'Omar' Tayara

Votes: 249

22. Shadow of the Holy Book (2007)

Not Rated | 90 min | Documentary

A look at how multinational corporations curried favor with Saparmurat Niyazov (1940-2006), the despot of oil- and gas-rich Turkmenistan, primarily through translating "Ruhnama," his ... See full summary »

Director: Arto Halonen | Star: Nastaran Nasirzadeh

Votes: 231

23. Inferno Thunderbolt (1985)

86 min | Thriller

A young beautiful woman goes undercover into a wealthy powerful crime family to investigate and avenge her younger sister's tragic death.

Director: Godfrey Ho | Stars: Richard Harrison, Hsiao-Fen Lu, Don Wong, Claire Angela

24. Nejma el Djazair (2016)

102 min | Crime, Drama, Music

A young musician, Moussa, dreams of becoming the Michael Jackson of Algiers. All he has to offer is his talent and energy, taking his crazy dream on the road with his small band, initially ... See full summary »

Director: Mohamed Rachid Benhadj | Stars: Cherif Azrou, Abdelbacet Benkhalifa, Zahir Bouzerar, Hassan Kechache

Votes: 9

25. The Dove

Drama | Announced

The true story of Hrant Dink, a journalist assassinated in Turkey for his attempts to unite the Armenians and Turks.

Star: Garen Boyajian

26. Walang bakas (2004 TV Movie)

Crime, Documentary, Drama

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Stars: Cherry Pie Picache, Danica Sotto, Julio Diaz, Adbullah Ala

27. CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (2000–2015)
Episode: Snakes (2005)

TV-14 | 44 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

When a delivery boy finds a severed head with the hair ripped off inside a newspaper stand, Catherine, Nick and Det. Sam Vega assume the case. In the autopsy, Dr. Robbins pull out a snake ... See full summary »

Director: Richard J. Lewis | Stars: William Petersen, Marg Helgenberger, Gary Dourdan, George Eads

Votes: 754

28. PSI Factor: Chronicles of the Paranormal (1996–2000)
Episode: Once Upon a Time in the West (1999)

TV-14 | 45 min | Drama, Fantasy, Mystery

The Houdini Gang, a cowboy trio straight out of 1899, is stealing bullion from a bank's vault when their time machine breaks down. They take Peter hostage. Outside, familiar stranger approaches Lindsay and her psychotic SWAT leader beau.

Director: John Bell | Stars: Nancy Anne Sakovich, Barclay Hope, Joanne Vannicola, Colin Fox

Votes: 16

29. The Saint (1962–1969)
Episode: The Careful Terrorist (1962)

TV-PG | 49 min | Action, Crime, Drama

A reporter friend of Simon's murdered by a corrupt union boss and it's up him to bring him to justice.

Director: John Ainsworth | Stars: Roger Moore, David Kossoff, Peter Dyneley, Percy Herbert

Votes: 275

30. Frontline (1983– )
Episode: The Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia (2019)

TV-MA | 120 min | Documentary, News

On October 2, 2018, Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi walked into the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, Turkey. He never walked out. Within days t was revealed that he had been murdered and dismembered by a 15-person Saudi hit squad.

Stars: Muqrin bin Abdulaziz, Yasin Aktay, Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, Fawziah Al-Bakr

Votes: 151

31. Panorama (1953– )
Episode: The Khashoggi Murder Tapes (2019)

29 min | Documentary, News

Jane Corbin investigates the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi inside the Saudi consulate in Istanbul and asks if the West has turned a blind eye in pursuit of lucrative trade deals?

Director: Alys Cummings | Star: Jane Corbin

32. Can't Get You Out of My Head (2021)
Episode: Are We Pigeon? Or are We Dancer (2021)

Documentary, History

The final episode tells how the strange paralysis that grips us today was created. How all the different forces of our age - that started out as separate have come together to create what ... See full summary »

Star: Adam Curtis

Votes: 97

33. The Bridge (2011–2018)
Episode: Avsnitt 8 (2011)

TV-MA | 57 min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller

Because the detectives suspect that a policeman is involved, a profile of the killer is developed and several police fit the profile and a search among them begins. The hunt continues and a particular suspect is found.

Director: Henrik Georgsson | Stars: Sofia Helin, Kim Bodnia, Dag Malmberg, Puk Scharbau

Votes: 1,123

34. CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (2000–2015)
Episode: Dead Air (2013)

TV-14 | 44 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

The team must figure out who killed a television news anchor on the set during a blackout.

Director: Philip Conserva | Stars: Ted Danson, Elisabeth Shue, George Eads, Jorja Fox

Votes: 467

35. Storyville (1997– )
Episode: The Spy in Your Mobile (2023)

Documentary, Biography

A Storyville documentary that investigates a powerful and terrifying spyware called Pegasus, sold to governments around the world by Israeli company NSO Group and used on journalists, activists and others.

Votes: 15

36. Castle (2009–2016)
Episode: Witness for the Prosecution (2016)

TV-PG | 42 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

When Castle takes the stand as the key witness to a murder new information suddenly arises forcing Beckett to race to prevent a miscarriage of justice.

Director: Bill Roe | Stars: Nathan Fillion, Stana Katic, Susan Sullivan, Jon Huertas

Votes: 855

37. The Empire Files (2015– )
Episode: The Distortion & Death Behind Israel/Palestine Coverage (2015)

Documentary, News, Talk-Show

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Stars: Dan Cohen, Donald Kagan, Frederick Kagan, Rania Khalek

Votes: 14

38. Drug Lords (2018)
Episode: Pablo Escobar (2018)

TV-MA | Documentary, Biography, Crime

Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar leads a horrific war against his own country until a team of politicians and police end his reign of terror.

Stars: Jhon Jairo Velásquez, Javier Pena, Steve Murphy, Hugo Martínez Poveda

Votes: 197

39. Yellowstone (2018– )
Episode: Blood the Boy (2019)

TV-MA | 49 min | Drama, Western

Jamie makes a drastic move in order to protect his family; Jimmy takes a shot at a rodeo competition.

Director: John Dahl | Stars: Kevin Costner, Luke Grimes, Kelly Reilly, Wes Bentley

Votes: 2,619

40. Peston (2018– )
Episode: Episode #1.5 (2018)

47 min | News, Talk-Show

Robert chats to London Mayor Sadiq Khan, IAAF President Sebastian Coe, Conservative MP's Johnny Mercer, James Brokenshire and Nicky Morgan and Labour's Caroline Flint.

Directors: Simon Morris, Erron Gordon | Stars: Robert Peston, Anushka Asthana, Sadiq Khan, Johnny Mercer

41. Politics Live (2018– )
Episode: Episode #1.37 (2018)

44 min | News, Talk-Show

Topics discussed include - how should the UK respond to the Khashoggi killing? Should post Brexit transition be extended? Is the world more dangerous today? Has sexual harrassment become normalised?

Director: Claire Bellis | Stars: Jo Coburn, Amber Rudd, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Shami Chakrabarti

42. Politics Live (2018– )
Episode: Episode #1.38 (2018)

104 min | News, Talk-Show

Andrew Neil asks his guests - How long should the Brexit transition last? What would a no deal Brexit look like? What should be the response to Saudi Arabia? Plus live coverage of Prime Minister's Questions.

Director: Claire Bellis | Stars: Andrew Neil, Anne-Marie Trevelyan, Chuka Umunna, Melanie Phillips