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1) The hour
Publisher
British Broadcasting Corporation
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
A behind-the-scenes drama and espionage thriller in Cold War-era England that centers on a journalist, a producer, and an anchorman for an investigative news program.
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Two reporters for VICE Media journey to a remote Central American compound hoping to reunite with the photographer's sister, who feels out of touch after struggling with a drug addiction. They find an isolated community of true believers devoted to a shadowy but charismatic figure called "Father." Skeptical at first, the journalists begin to come around to the group's utopian claims, until things rapidly take a very dark turn.
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
Nederlands
Description
Successful columnist Femke is flooded every day by anonymous harassments and death threats on social media. She becomes addicted to the vicious messages, and finds herself continuously clicking back to the hateful comments before she goes to sleep. Not only is this affecting her motivation to write new articles, but she also needs to finish writing the novel she promised to deliver her publisher. One day, she snaps and decides to take revenge. The...
4) Caught
Publisher
NewBurn Media
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
While on an afternoon walk with their children, two small town reporters noticethe military camped on a hilltop. Debating the possible significance of thisactivity, they answer their door when two unusual strangers come knocking.Soon what began as a formal interview descends into a nightmarish fight for survival.
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
A famous food writer lies about living on a farm, raising her children and being a good cook. In reality she is an unmarried New Yorker who can't boil an egg. When her editor says she will spend Christmas with a heroic sailor, her job is on the line.
6) The hero
Series
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
Bengali
Description
A matinee idol Arindam Mukherjee is going by train to collect an acting award. On the train, he is confronted by a journalist Aditi who somewhat unwillingly starts to take his interview. Arindam, won over by Aditi's naivete, starts to disclose his past, his fears and his secrets.
Author
Series
Publisher
Oberon Books Ltd
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"The scenes are located in Poland, Russia and Germany. Over the years (1920-2010), the lives of Isaac, a Russian Jew, Nikolai, a KGB agent and his wife, Yevgenia, Vova also a KGB agent, Mariya, a Russian journalist and Mrs. Petrovna who is also Russians, Urzula and Feliks who are Polish have gone up and down following the trauma and spiritual scars that they endured through the years."--Back cover.
8) Elles
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
A provocative and raw exploration of female sexuality, director Malgoska Szumowska's Elles paints an unromantic picture of upper-crust domesticity refracted through the vibrant eroticism of prostitution. Vacillating between opposing worlds defined alternatively by sexual freedom and constraint, Elles stars the fearless Juliette Binoche (Chocolat) as Anne, a well-off Parisian journalist investigating the lives of two student prostitutes (Joanna Kulig...
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Hoping to distance himself from the fallout of a libel conviction, journalist Mikael Blomkvist retreats to a remote island in Sweden's far north where the unsolved murder of a young girl still haunts her industrialist uncle forty years later. Ensconced in a cottage on the island where the killer may still roam, Blomkvist's investigation draws him into the secrets and lies of the rich and powerful, and throws him together with one unlikely ally: tattooed,...
10) His girl Friday
Publisher
NYX Channel
Pub. Date
1940.
Language
English
Description
In this undeniable gem of Hollywood's golden age, Walter, a hard-boiled newspaper editor, discovers that his ex-wife and former employee, Hildy, is set to marry a wet-blanket insurance salesman. Walter, certain that this is the wrong move for a strong-willed and ambitious woman such as Hildy, decides to sabotage her marital plans by enticing her with one last story--the execution of a convicted murderer. A classic of the Screwball Rom-Com genre, HIS...
11) Lucky them
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
More interested in partying and flirting with young musicians than work, veteran rock journalist Ellie Klug has one last chance to prove her value to her magazine s editor: a no-stone-unturned search to discover what really happened to long lost rock god Matthew Smith, who also happens to be her ex-boyfriend. Teaming up with an eccentric amateur documentary filmmaker, Ellie hits the road in search of answers, but what she finds along the way may instead...
12) Libeled lady
Publisher
Turner Entertainment Co
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
A newspaper man, his jilted fiancée, and his lawyer hatch an elaborate scheme to turn a false news-story into the truth, before a high-society woman can sue for libel.
13) Nightcrawler
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
A pulse-pounding thriller set in the nocturnal underbelly of contemporary Los Angeles. Jake Gyllenhaal stars as Lou Bloom, a driven young man desperate for work who discovers the high-speed world of L.A. crime journalism. Finding a group of freelance camera crews who film crashes, fires, murder and other mayhem, Lou muscles into the cut-throat, dangerous realm of nightcrawling, where each police siren wail equals a possible windfall and victims are...
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Three years after witnessing the murder of a leading senator atop Seattle2s Space Needle, reporter Joseph Frady begins digging into the mysterious circumstances surrounding the killing and stumbles into a labyrinthine conspiracy far more sinister than he could have imagined.
15) A private war
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
In a world where journalism is under attack, Marie Colvin is one of the most admired war correspondents of today. She is fearless and rebellious, driven to the frontlines of conflicts across the globe. After being hit by a grenade, she wears a distinctive eye patch and is still as comfortable with London's elite as she is confronting dictators. Her mission to show the true cost of war leads her, along with war photographer Paul Conroy, to embark on...
16) Sharp objects
Publisher
HBO Home Video
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
A reporter confronts the psychological demons from her past when she returns to her hometown to cover a violent murder.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
Español
Description
"Leo writes romance novels - but with a loveless marriage, she finds herself fresh out of inspiration. Angel is a tough and gruff journalist with an iron will and a heart of gold. When their paths cross, they discover something neither had expected - a real-life love affair"--Container.
18) Red Riding
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
These three separate but interrelated films move unflinchingly through a turbulent and tragic decade in the West Riding region of Yorkshire, England. Serial murders, child abductions and rampant police corruption abound -- no one escapes undamaged.
19) Christine
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
The story of a woman who finds herself caught in the crosshairs of a spiraling personal life and career crisis. Christine, always the smartest person in the room at her local Sarasota, Florida news station, feels like she is destined for bigger things and is relentless in her pursuit of an on-air position in a larger market.
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