The President believes everything he does is beyond reproach, including an affair or two. This leads to murder and everyone around him is involved. There's only one witness: a thief named Luther Whitney.
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Air America was the CIA's private airline operating in Laos during the Vietnam War, running anything and everything from soldiers to foodstuffs for local villagers. After losing his pilot's license, Billy Covington (Robert Downey Jr.) is recruited into it, and ends up in the middle of a bunch of lunatic pilots, gun-running by his friend Gene Ryack (Mel Gibson), and opium smuggling by his own superiors.
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All the President's Men (1976)
With the help of a mysterious informant named Deep Throat, two reporters uncover the truth behind the Watergate burglary, and bring down a President in the process.
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Blow Out (1981)
Jack Terri, while recording sound effects, stumbles upon an accident and saves a damsel in distress. Will being a good samaritan lead him into a tangled web of conspiracy that might leave someone dead?
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The Bourne Ultimatum (2007)
Jason Bourne continues his quest to uncover his real identity.
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A young Nazi hunter tracks down a group of former SS officers in Paraguay in the late 1970s. The Nazis, led by Dr. Joseph Mengele, are planning something. Old Nazi hunter Ezra Lieberman is at first uninterested in the Nazi hunter's findings. But when he's told more about their plans, his curiosity grows. Digging deeper, Lieberman visits several homes in Europe and the US. At one of these houses he notices something strange, which turns out to be horrific.
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Breach (2007)
Eric O'Neill, a surveillance expert with the FBI, gets an unexpected promotion and assignment to work with renowned agent Robert Hanssen. He learns the reason for his promotion is to gain Hanssen's trust and find proof that he is a traitor to the country.
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Capricorn One (1977)
Literally moments before launch, the first NASA astronauts bound for Mars are pulled from the capsule and told that their mission would have ended in disaster due to fatal technical problems. They're asked, therefore, to fake the Mars landing. The astronauts (Sam Waterston, James Brolin and O.J. Simpson) agree under duress, but as an inquisitive reporter (Elliott Gould) starts sniffing out the truth behind the charade of the mission, events start to spin out of control, and the powers that be at NASA decide it's time to turn the astronauts into martyrs.
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Charlie Wilson's War (2007)
A Texas socialite, a CIA agent, and a US representative form an unlikely alliance to boost funding for Afghan freedom fighters, thus bringing about the end of the Cold War and the fall of the Soviet Union.
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While working on a series of reports on alternative energy sources, an opportunistic reporter witnesses an accident at a nuclear power plant. She's determined to publicize the incident but soon finds herself entangled in a conspiracy to keep the full extent and danger of the incident a secret.
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Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
Roy Neary, while going out to check a power outage, is left with a sun-burned face, and an obsession with visions given him from a low-flying UFO, which slowly destroys his family life. Meanwhile, in response to the finding of WW 2 missing planes suddenly appearing in the middle of the desert, and other bizarre happenings being reported by people, a government research team led by research scientist Claude Lacombe, put the pieces together and realize that aliens wish to make contact with them at the top of a mountain in Wyoming. The peculiar thing is that folks like Roy are also drawn to the same mountain, despite the elaborate anthrax scare story announced by the government to keep people away.
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Conspiracy Theory (1997)
Jerry Fletcher, a conspiracy theorist, is infatuated with Alice Sutton, a government lawyer. After he is tortured by CIA psychiatrist Dr. Jonas, he realizes that at least one of his theories isn't just a theory. Jerry enlists the help of Alice Sutton to get to the bottom of it all. She must decide if she thinks he is crazy or if there really is a conspiracy before they wind up dead.
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The Conspiracy (2012)
When two young filmmakers decide to make a documentary film based on a conspiracy theorist, they find out that not all is as it seems and there just might be some truth to the conspiracy.
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James Gilbert, Aaron Poole, Angela Besharah
Christopher MacBride
Christopher MacBride
In Kenya, activist Tessa Quayle is found brutally murdered. Her companion, a doctor, seems to have fled, and evidence points to a crime of passion. Investigators assume that Tessa's widower will leave the matter to them. They could not be more wrong. Quayle surprises everyone by embarking on a personal odyssey that takes him across three continents and uncovers a conspiracy more far-reaching and deadly than anyone can imagine.
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The Conversation (1974)
Gene Hackman plays Harry Caul, a surveillance expert obsessed with preserving his own privacy and dogged by a sense that with his latest assignment he is on the verge of repeating a past mistake. A fascinating look into the obscure subculture of professional eavesdroppers, The Conversation is also a penetrating psychological portrait, with a powerful performance by Hackman and a stunning-yet-logical plot twist at the end.
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The Da Vinci Code (2006)
When there is a murder in the Louvre, and clues are found in Da Vinci paintings, a religious mystery that has been guarded by a secret society for 2000 years begins to unravel.
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John Murdoch awakens alone in a strange hotel to find that he has lost his memory and is wanted for a series of brutal and bizarre murders. While trying to piece together his past, he stumbles on an underworld controlled by a group of beings known as The Strangers, who have the ability to put people to sleep and alter the city and its inhabitants. Now Murdoch must stop them before they take control of his mind and destroy him.
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Déjà Vu (2006)
After a bombing in New Orleans, an A.T.F. agent is sent to find the bomber. While investigating, the agent soon finds himself becoming obsessed with one of the victims.
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Eight Men Out (1988)
The story of how America's favorite pastime was tainted by one of America's biggest scandals.
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John Cusack,
Don Harvey, John Mahoney, James Read, Michael Rooker,
Charlie Sheen,
David Strathairn,
D.B. Sweeney, John Sayles, Studs Terkel,
Christopher Lloyd,
Clifton James
John Sayles
John Sayles
Enemy of the State (1998)
When the proof of a Congressman's murder ends up in Robert Clayton Dean's hands, how will he clear his name when he is framed for the murder?
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Executive Action (1973)
When mounting dislike for JFK's liberal policies reaches a critical point, a group of people try to decide whether or not to take action into their hands and assassinate the president.
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Fire in the Sky (1994)
A man is allegedly abducted by aliens. Why was this Arizona logger missing for five days in 1975?
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Nicholas Van Orton is a wealthy banker, and also an absolute loner. In the year of his 48th birthday (the age his father committed suicide) his brother Conrad gives Nicholas a card entitling him to an unusual entertainment provided by something called Consumer Recreation Services (CRS). Giving in to curiosity, Nicholas visits CRS and all kinds of weird and bad things start to happen to him.
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The Good Shepherd (2006)
A fictional story, loosely based on real events, reveals the history behind the CIA's early years through one man's eyes.
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Green Zone (2010)
When Roy Miller and his team of inspectors are sent on a mission to discover weapons of mass destruction, they come up empty handed, but instead discover a massive coverup.
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Hoffa (1992)
Follow the life of Jimmy Hoffa as he rises to head of the Teamsters Union and then see the scandal that lead to his downfall and subsequent disappearance in 1975.
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Independence Day (1996)
This classic film predicts a day, July 2nd to be exact, when all international communication systems are bogged down by a strange (extraterrestrial) interference. The military soon learns that several large-scale objects are on a crash-course collision with Earth; further investigation reveals they are not the meteors scientists expected them to be. When attempts to communicate with this "extraterrestrial" life form fail, the White House calls in David Levinson, an ex-scientist turned cable-technician, to investigate. But on July 3rd, nearly the entirety of New York, Washington, and Los Angeles are destroyed by close hovering alien space craft. Remaining survivors set out to Area 51, a place rumored to host alien spacecraft of their own. Using a surviving space craft model from a former "Earth contact," Levinson sets to work devising a plan to fight back against the aliens alleged threats of human genocide, employing the help of military pilots and wise-cracking sidekick Capt. Steven Hiller along the way to mankind's fight for their independence.
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The Invasion (2007)
While uncovering the origin of an alien epidemic, a Washington psychiatrist discovers that her son might be the only way that it can be stopped.
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JFK (1991)
A crusading DA in New Orleans stumbles upon evidence that reveals there may be more to the Kennedy assassination than the government wants people to know about.
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Kevin Costner,
Tommy Lee Jones,
Kevin Bacon,
Gary Oldman,
Michael Rooker,
Jack Lemmon,
Sissy Spacek,
Joe Pesci,
John Candy,
Walter Matthau,
Donald Sutherland,
Ed Asner
Oliver Stone
Oliver Stone, Zachary Sklar (screenplay), Jim Garrison and Jim Marrs (book)
The Manchurian Candidate (1962)
After being taken prisoner by the Korean military, a platoon of US soldiers is brainwashed and then sent home at the end of the war. Their platoon commander begins to have strange nightmares and together with a fellow soldier he must race to uncover a terrible plot.
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A graduate history student is unwittingly caught in the middle of an international conspiracy involving stolen diamonds, an exiled Nazi war criminal, and a rogue government agent.
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Men in Black (1997)
Who are the Men In Black? Follow newly recruited agent J on his journey to find out the ins and outs of his new job dealing with all manner of Aliens as he saves the world.
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National Treasure (2004)
Descending from a family of prolific treasure hunters, Benjamin Franklin Gates continues the family search for the secret treasure hidden by the Founding Fathers post the Revolutionary War. But when Gates get close to the treasure, his partners turn on him and it becomes a race to the invaluable riches. With daredevil heists and action-packed ploys, Gates uses the Declaration of Independence and the assistance of his techie friend and historian/love interest to beat the bad guys, and the CIA to the National Treasure.
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No Way Out (1987)
Tom Farrell is a navy officer having an affair with Susan Atwell the mistress of the secretary of defense David Brice. When Susan winds up dead Tom is assigned to her case. Things take an interesting turn for Tom when his photo negative is found at Susan's place leaving him only a few hours to find her killer before the computer regenerates his photo!
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North by Northwest (1959)
What if everyone you knew suddenly thought you were a spy? Master storyteller Alfred Hitchcock starts with this provocative notion and weaves a tale of intrigue and mistaken identity with Cary Grant as the unlucky innocent ad executive, Eva Marie Saint as a passenger on a train he meets by chance, and lead bad-guy James Mason, convinced Grant is in possession of military secrets. Hitchcock's superbly-crafted tale has Grant harassed by the most famous crop duster plane in cinema and fighting memorably for his life on Mount Rushmore.
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Following the suicide of an elderly Jewish man, a journalist in possession of the man's diary investigates the alleged sighting of a former S.S. Captain, who commanded a concentration camp during World War II.
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Army doctors struggle to find a cure for a deadly virus spreading throughout a California town that was brought to America by an African monkey.
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The Package (2013)
While being dogged by assassins, a mob enforcer is charged with delivering a special package to a crime lord known only as The German.
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Dolph Lundgren,
Steve Austin, Lochlyn Munro, Darren Shahlavi, Monique Ganderton
Jesse V. Johnson
Derek Kolstad
The Parallax View (1974)
A reporter gets in over his head in trouble when investigating a senator's assassination, leading to a wide-reaching conspiracy.
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Two Supreme Court Justices have been killed. Now a college professor, who clerked for one of the two men, and who is also having an affair with one of his students, comes into possession of a brief that states who probably wanted to see these two men dead.
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Julia Roberts,
Denzel Washington,
Sam Shepard,
John Heard,
Tony Goldwyn,
James B. Sikking,
William Atherton,
Robert Culp,
Stanley Tucci,
Hume Cronyn and
John Lithgow
Alan J. Pakula
John Grisham (book), Alan J. Pakula
The Philadelphia Experiment (1984)
In 1943, in the middle of WW2, the US Army conducts an experiment that would give them an advantage in the naval war, using electro magnetic fields to hopefully make a naval battleship invisible to foes. Unfortunately, the experiment causes an electrical storm which causes havoc for the ship, and disrupts the time space continuum, propelling two sailors into 1984, 40 years into their own future.
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Salt (2010)
When Evelyn Salt, a CIA operative, is accused of being a Russian spy, she is forced to be on the run. Will she be caught before she can prove her innocence?
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Seven Days in May (1964)
When the U.S. President manages to sneak a nuclear disarmament treaty past the Senate he suddenly finds his popularity waning. Meanwhile, Marine Colonel Jiggs Casey discovers that the debonair General Scott, uber popular head of the Joint Chiefs, is not planning on waiting the 2 years for his potential Presidential candidacy to afford the opportunity to move in- he intends to act NOW. But when Jiggs Casey approaches the President with the news of a possible inside political conspiracy mayhem ensues with each side skeptical of the other and a desperate President struggling to gain back the confidence of his nation.
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Kirk Douglas,
Ava Gardner,
Burt Lancaster,
Fredric March,
Edmond O'Brien,
Hugh Marlowe,
Martin Balsam,
Andrew Duggan, Whit Bissell
John Frankenheimer
Fletcher Knebel, Rod Serling, Charles W. Bailey II
A security pro finds his past coming back to haunt him, when he and his highly specialized team are tasked with retrieving a particularly important item.
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In a world ravaged by the greenhouse effect and overpopulation, an NYPD detective investigates the murder of a big company CEO.
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Starman (1984)
This film could be compared to "ET." Jeff Bridges, in an Oscar nominated performance, delivers a fascinating portrayal of an alien learning about life on earth. Karen Allen is totally convincing as a woman trying to cope with an alien who looks just like her dead husband. The FX involving the arrival of an alien mothership are a bit disappointing.
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Three Days of the Condor (1975)
Joe Turner, returns to work as a CIA codebreaker to find his fellow employees murdered. When he tries to tell his bosses of the situation, he finds out that his own department was involved. Who can he trust, and will he live long enough to find out why his own agency wants him dead?
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In a future British tyranny, a shadowy freedom fighter, known only by the alias of "V", plots to overthrow it with the help of a young woman.
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Natalie Portman,
Hugo Weaving,
Stephen Rea, Stephen Fry
James McTeigue
Lilly & Lana Wachowski (screenplay) (as The Wachowski Brothers) and David Lloyd (graphic novel art)
Valkyrie (2008)
A loyal officer has a change of heart and joins the German resistance in a plot to assassinate Hitler.
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Wag the Dog (1997)
When a scandal threatens the chance of the president's re-election, a spin doctor is hired to help distract the public. With the help of a Hollywood producer, they trick the public into believing there is a war in Albania, redirecting the media's attention from the scandal to the war.
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X-Files: Fight the Future (1998)
Mulder and Scully are on a mission to discover the truth about the alien colonization of America, despite government interference.
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X-Files: I Want to Believe (2008)
When a former priest claims to be receiving psychic visions about a kidnapped agent, Mulder and Scully are reenlisted to help the FBI get to the bottom of it.
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