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Publisher
LionsGate
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
Persian
Description
When a journalist is stranded in her remote village, Zahra takes a bold chance to reveal what the villagers will stop at nothing to keep hidden. Thus begins the remarkable story of what happened to Soraya, a kind-spirited woman whose bad marriage leads her cruel, divorce-seeking husband to trump up false charges of infidelity, which carry an unimaginable penalty.
22) The passenger
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
A reporter assumes the identity of a dead man. The more he does this, the further he is from his true identity. When he finds himself in danger, will he be able to become himself once again, or will it be too late?
23) Long shot
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
When Fred Flarsky reunites with his first crush, one of the most influential women in the world, Charlotte Field, he charms her. As she prepares to make a run for the Presidency, Charlotte hires Fred as her speechwriter and sparks fly.
24) Trainwreck
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Since she was little, it's been drilled into Amy's head by her dad that monogamy isn't realistic. Now a magazine writer, Amy lives by that credo; enjoying what she feels is an uninhibited life free from stifling, boring romantic commitment, but in actuality, she's kind of in a rut. When she finds herself starting to fall for the subject of the new article she's writing, a charming and successful sports doctor named Aaron Conners; Amy starts to wonder...
25) The Post
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
This historical drama is based on the events surrounding the release of the Pentagon Papers, documents which detailed the history of the United States' political and military involvement in Vietnam. The story centers on Kay Graham, the first female newspaper publisher in the country (specifically of the Washington Post), as well as her tough editor, Ben Bradlee. The two become involved in an unprecedented power struggle between journalists and the...
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Set in the 1930s, covers three days in the lives of a trio of flying-circus performers, headlined by former WWI figher pilot hero Roger Shumann and his beautiful blonde wife, Laverne; romantic complications arise when newspaper reporter Burke Devlin falls in love with Laverne while covering their daredevil aerial show.
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Webb stumbles onto a story which leads to the shady origins of the men who started the crack epidemic on the nation's streets, and further alleges that the CIA was aware of major dealers who were smuggling cocaine into the U.S., and using the profits to arm rebels fighting in Nicaragua. Despite warnings from drug kingpins and CIA operatives to stop his investigation, Webb keeps digging to uncover a conspiracy with explosive implications.
29) Vengeance
Publisher
Focus Features
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
A journalist and podcaster from New York City attempts to solve the murder of a girl he hooked up with and travels down to Texas to investigate the circumstances of her death and discover what happened to her.
30) She said
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
New York Times reporters Megan Twohey and Jodi Kantor break one of the most important stories in a generation, a story that helped launch the #MeToo movement and shattered decades of silence around the subject of sexual assault in Hollywood.
31) Les vampires
Publisher
Kino Classics
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
None
Description
An intrepid reporter and his loyal friend battle a bizarre secret society of criminals known as The Vampires.
32) Shock corridor
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
"Seeking a Pulitzer Prize, reporter Johnny Barrett (Peter Breck) has himself committed to a mental hospital to investigate a murder. As he closes in on the killer, insanity closes in on him. Constance Towers costars as Johnny's coolheaded stripper girlfriend. With its startling commentary on racism and other hot-button issues in sixties America and its daring photography by Stanley Cortez, Shock Corridor has had far-reaching influence."--Container....
33) Medium cool
Language
English
Description
The story of the working world and romantic life of a television cameraman is a visceral, lasting cinematic snapshot of the era, climaxing with an extended sequence shot right in the middle of the riots surrounding the Democratic National Convention in Chicago. An inventive commentary on the pleasures and dangers of wielding a camera, Medium Cool is as prescient a political film as Hollywood has ever produced.
34) Missing
Series
Criterion collection volume 449
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
As the title screens proclaim, "This film is based on a true story. The incidents and facts are documented. Some of the names have been changed to protect the innocent and also to protect the film." In a Latin American country in the throes of a military coup, Charles Horman, an American journalist and filmmaker living there with his wife Joyce, disappears--never to be seen again. His father Ed always found his son flaky and naïve, and didn't approve...
36) La dolce vita
Series
Criterion collection volume 733
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
Italiano
Description
The biggest hit from the most popular Italian filmmaker of all time, the film rocketed Federico Fellini to international mainstream success, ironically, by offering a damning critique of the culture of stardom. A look at the darkness beneath the seductive lifestyles of Rome's rich and glamorous; the film follows a notorious celebrity journalist during a hectic week spent on the peripheries of the spotlight.
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