Movies by Lists - Conspiracy Films (166 [174]) 
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| 1984In a totalitarian future society, a man, whose daily work is re-writing history, tries to rebel by falling in love. | 1984 | Michael Radford | Drama, Sci-Fi | 7.1 (70.5K votes) | 113 | 20211228 |
| Above The LawA former Special Operations Vietnam vet works as a Chicago cop, and uncovers C.I.A. wrongdoing. | 1988 | Andrew Davis | Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller | 6.0 (31.1K votes) | 99 | 20211228 |
| Absolute PowerCareer thief Luther Whitney (Clint Eastwood) witnesses a horrific crime involving U.S. President Alan Richmond (Gene Hackman). | 1997 | Clint Eastwood (*) | Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller | 6.7 (53.6K votes) | 121 | 20211228 |
| Air AmericaA young pilot finds himself recruited unwittingly into a covert and corrupt CIA airlift operation in Laos during the Vietnam conflict. | 1990 | Roger Spottiswoode | Action, Comedy, War | 5.8 (29.9K votes) | 113 | 20231001 |
| All the President's Men"The Washington Post" reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein uncover the details of the Watergate scandal that leads to President Richard Nixon's resignation. | 1976 | Alan J. Pakula (*) | Drama, History, Thriller | 8.0 (111.6K votes) | 138 | 20211228 |
| Angels and DemonsHarvard symbologist Robert Langdon works with a nuclear physicist to solve a murder and prevent a terrorist act against the Vatican during one of the significant events within the church. | 2009 | Ron Howard | Action, Mystery, Thriller | 6.7 (286.4K votes) | 138 | 20211228 |
| Arlington RoadA man begins to suspect his neighbors are not what they appear to be and their secrets could be deadly. | 1999 | Mark Pellington | Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller | 7.2 (85.3K votes) | 117 | 20211228 |
| Arrival, TheZane, an astronomer, discovers intelligent alien life. But the aliens are keeping a deadly secret, and will do anything to stop Zane from learning it. | 1996 | David Twohy | Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller | 6.2 (34.7K votes) | 115 | 20211228 |
| Assassination Bureau, TheA woman causes a group of assassins to face their greatest challenge. | 1969 | Basil Dearden | Action, Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Thriller | 6.5 (2.7K votes) | 110 | 20211228 |
| Blow OutA movie sound recordist accidentally records the evidence that proves that a car accident was actually murder and consequently finds himself in danger. | 1981 | Brian De Palma (*) | Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller | 7.4 (50.3K votes) | 108 | 20211228 |
| Blue ThunderThe cop test pilot for an experimental police helicopter learns the sinister implications of the new vehicle. | 1983 | John Badham (*) | Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller | 6.4 (20.5K votes) | 109 | 20211228 |
| Bob RobertsA conservative folk singer turns his hand to politics, running for the US Senate. He is not above dirty tricks and smear campaigns to gain an advantage over his opponent. | 1992 | Tim Robbins | Comedy, Drama | 7.0 (15.5K votes) | 102 | 20231001 |
| Bourne Identity, TheA man is picked up by a fishing boat, bullet-riddled and suffering from amnesia, before racing to elude assassins and attempting to regain his memory. | 2002 | Doug Liman | Action, Mystery, Thriller | 7.9 (532.6K votes) | 119 | 20211228 |
| Boys From Brazil, TheA Nazi hunter in Paraguay discovers a sinister and bizarre plot to rekindle the Third Reich. | 1978 | Franklin J. Schaffner (*) | Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller | 7.0 (27.4K votes) | 125 | 20211228 |
| BrandedIn future Moscow, where corporate brands have created a disillusioned population, one man's effort to unlock the truth behind the conspiracy will lead to an epic battle with hidden forces that control the world. | 2012 | Jamie Bradshaw, Aleksandr Dulerayn | Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Thriller | 4.7 (9.1K votes) | 106 | 20211228 |
| Brass TargetIn 1945, General Patton sends Germany's confiscated gold reserves to Frankfurt, but the Army train is robbed by plotters who also hire a Swiss hitman to kill the General. | 1978 | John Hough | Action, Drama, Mystery, Thriller, War | 5.9 (1.2K votes) | 111 | 20211228 |
| Canadian BaconThe U.S. President, low in the opinion polls, gets talked into raising his popularity by trying to start a cold war against Canada. | 1995 | Michael Moore | Comedy | 5.9 (16.8K votes) | 91 | 20211228 |
| Capricorn OneWhen the first manned flight to Mars is deemed unsafe and scrubbed on the launch pad, anxious authorities must scramble to save face and retain their funding - and so an unthinkable plot to fake the mission is hatched. | 1977 | Peter Hyams | Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller | 6.9 (22.1K votes) | 123 | 20211228 |
| Captain America - The Winter SoldierAs Steve Rogers struggles to embrace his role in the modern world, he teams up with a fellow Avenger and S.H.I.E.L.D agent, Black Widow, to battle a new threat from history: an assassin known as the Winter Soldier. | 2014 | Anthony Russo, Joe Russo | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller | 7.7 (795.4K votes) | 136 | 20211228 |
| Chain ReactionTwo researchers in a green alternative energy project are put on the run when they are framed for murder and treason. | 1996 | Andrew Davis | Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller | 5.6 (55K votes) | 107 | 20231001 |
| Charlie Wilson's WarA drama based on a Texas congressman Charlie Wilson's covert dealings in Afghanistan, where his efforts to assist rebels in their war with the Soviets have some unforeseen and long-reaching effects. | 2007 | Mike Nichols (*) | Biography, Comedy, Drama, History | 7.0 (116.1K votes) | 102 | 20211228 |
| China Syndrome,TheA reporter finds what appears to be a cover-up of safety hazards at a nuclear power plant. | 1979 | James Bridges | Drama, Thriller | 7.4 (29.5K votes) | 122 | 20211228 |
| ChinatownA private detective hired to expose an adulterer in 1930s Los Angeles finds himself caught up in a web of deceit, corruption, and murder. | 1974 | Roman Polanski (*) | Drama, Mystery, Thriller | 8.2 (315K votes) | 130 | 20211228 |
| Clear and Present DangerCIA Analyst Jack Ryan is drawn into an illegal war fought by the US government against a Colombian drug cartel. | 1994 | Phillip Noyce | Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller | 6.9 (105.5K votes) | 141 | 20231001 |
| ComaWhen a young female doctor notices an unnatural amount of comas occurring in her hospital she uncovers a horrible conspiracy. | 1978 | Michael Crichton | Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller | 6.9 (18.8K votes) | 113 | 20211228 |
| Company BusinessA retired CIA agent is recruited to participate in a prisoner exchange with the Russians. | 1991 | Nicholas Meyer | Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller | 5.7 (2.8K votes) | 98 | 20211228 |
| ConspiracyAt the Wannsee Conference on January 20, 1942, senior Nazi officials meet to determine the manner in which the so-called "Final Solution to the Jewish Question" can be best implemented. | 2001 | Frank Pierson | Biography, Drama, History, War | 7.7 (20.7K votes) | 96 | 20211228 |
| Conspiracy TheoryA taxi driver with a penchant for conspiracy theories becomes a target after one of these theories turns out to be true. Unfortunately, to save himself, he has to figure out which theory it is. | 1997 | Richard Donner | Action, Mystery, Thriller | 6.7 (98.7K votes) | 135 | 20211228 |
| Conspiracy, TheA documentary about conspiracy theories takes a horrific turn after the filmmakers uncover an ancient and dangerous secret society. | 2012 | Christopher MacBride | Horror, Thriller | 6.3 (11.6K votes) | 84 | 20211228 |
| Constant Gardener, TheA widower is determined to get to the bottom of a potentially explosive secret involving his wife's murder, big business, and corporate corruption. | 2005 | Fernando Meirelles | Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller | 7.4 (141.5K votes) | 31 | 20220912 |
| Conversation, TheA paranoid, secretive surveillance expert has a crisis of conscience when he suspects that the couple he is spying on will be murdered. | 1974 | Francis Ford Coppola (*) | Drama, Mystery, Thriller | 7.8 (108K votes) | 113 | 20211228 |
| Cutter's WayRichard spots a man dumping a body, and decides to expose the man he thinks is the culprit with his friend Alex Cutter. | 1981 | Ivan Passer | Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller | 6.9 (6.3K votes) | 109 | 20211228 |
| Da Vinci Code,, TheA murder inside the Louvre, and clues in Da Vinci paintings, lead to the discovery of a religious mystery protected by a secret society for two thousand years, which could shake the foundations of Christianity. | 2006 | Ron Howard | Mystery, Thriller | 6.6 (421.2K votes) | 149 | 20211228 |
| Dancer Upstairs, TheA police detective in a South American country is dedicated to hunting down a revolutionary guerilla leader. | 2002 | John Malkovich | Crime, Drama, Thriller | 6.9 (6.8K votes) | 132 | 20231001 |
| Dark CityA man struggles with memories of his past, which include a wife he cannot remember and a nightmarish world no one else ever seems to wake up from. | 1998 | Alex Proyas | Fantasy, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller | 7.6 (196.1K votes) | 100 | 20211228 |
| Day of the Dolphin, TheA marine biologist teaches his dolphins to communicate in English but shady characters plan to kidnap the trained mammals for a more sinister purpose. | 1973 | Mike Nichols (*) | Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller | 6.0 (3K votes) | 104 | 20211228 |
| Day of The Jackal, TheIn the aftermath of France allowing Algeria's independence, a group of resentful military veterans hire a professional assassin codenamed "Jackal" to kill President Charles de Gaulle. | 1973 | Fred Zinnemann (*) | Crime, Drama, Thriller | 7.8 (40K votes) | 143 | 20211228 |
| Death of a PresidentYears after the assassination of President George W. Bush in Chicago, an investigative documentary examines that as-yet-unsolved crime. | 2006 | Gabriel Range | Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller | 6.3 (7K votes) | 97 | 20231001 |
| Defence Of The RealmAfter 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. | 1985 | David Drury | Thriller | 6.5 (2.2K votes) | 96 | 20211228 |
| Domino Killings, The [The Domino Principle]A Vietnam War veteran, imprisoned for murder, is offered his freedom if he accepts to undertake a contract killing for a shady organization. | 1977 | Stanley Kramer (*) | Drama, Thriller | 5.7 (2.4K votes) | 100 | 20211228 |
| Domino Principle, TheA Vietnam War veteran, imprisoned for murder, is offered his freedom if he accepts to undertake a contract killing for a shady organization. | 1977 | Stanley Kramer (*) | Drama, Thriller | 5.7 (2.4K votes) | 100 | 20211228 |
| Double TakeA man on the run takes another man's passport, only to find himself stuck with the identity of a street hustler. | 2001 | George Gallo | Action, Comedy, Crime, Thriller | 5.4 (8.7K votes) | 88 | 20231001 |
| Eagle EyeJerry and Rachel are two strangers thrown together by a mysterious phone call from a woman they have never met. Threatening their lives and family, she pushes Jerry and Rachel into a series of increasingly dangerous situations, using | 2008 | D.J. Caruso | Action, Mystery, Thriller | 6.6 (184.1K votes) | 118 | 20211228 |
| Echelon ConspiracyAt first, the strange phone messages promised great wealth. Soon, though, government agents pursue the young engineer receiving them around the world. | 2009 | Greg Marcks | Action, Crime, Thriller | 5.8 (19.3K votes) | 105 | 20211228 |
| End GameA secret Service agent and a news reporter investigate the conspiracy behind the assassination of the President. | 2006 | Andy Cheng | Action, Thriller | 5.1 (5.6K votes) | 93 | 20231001 |
| Enemy of the StateA lawyer becomes targeted by a corrupt politician and his N.S.A. goons when he accidentally receives key evidence to a politically motivated crime. | 1998 | Tony Scott (*) | Action, Thriller | 7.3 (238.1K votes) | 132 | 20211228 |
| EraserA Witness Protection specialist becomes suspicious of his co-workers when dealing with a case involving high-tech weapons. | 1996 | Chuck Russell | Action, Crime, Thriller | 6.1 (108.6K votes) | 115 | 20211228 |
| Executive ActionRogue intelligence agents, right-wing politicians, greedy capitalists, and free-lance assassins plot and carry out the JFK assassination. | 1973 | David Miller | Crime, Drama, History, Thriller | 6.7 (2.7K votes) | 91 | 20211228 |
| Extreme MeasuresA young doctor confronts a famous colleague when he learns about the true methods of his work. | 1996 | Michael Apted | Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller | 6.2 (19.2K votes) | 118 | 20211228 |
| Fire Down BelowA federal agent uncovers lucrative toxic waste dumps in Appalachia and must deal with the locals who want to keep their 'gold mine' secret. | 1997 | Félix Enríquez Alcalá | Action, Drama, Thriller | 5.1 (17.7K votes) | 105 | 20211228 |
| Firm. TheA young lawyer joins a prestigious law firm only to discover that it has a sinister dark side. | 1993 | Sydney Pollack (*) | Drama, Mystery, Thriller | 6.8 (141.7K votes) | 154 | 20230806 |
| FlashpointTwo U.S. border patrolmen find a buried 20+ year old jeep in the desert with a skeleton, rifle and $800,000. They keep the money. Suddenly, the FBI shows a lot of interest in the car. | 1984 | William Tannen | Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller | 6.4 (2.7K votes) | 31 | 20220912 |
| FlightplanA bereaved woman and her daughter are flying home from Berlin to America. At 30,000 feet, the child vanishes, and nobody will admit she was ever on the plane. | 2005 | Robert Schwentke | Drama, Mystery, Thriller | 6.3 (159.1K votes) | 98 | 20211228 |
| Foreign CorrespondentOn the eve of World War II, a young American reporter tries to expose enemy agents in London. | 1940 | Alfred Hitchcock (*) | Action, Romance, Thriller, War | 7.5 (20.2K votes) | 120 | 20211228 |
| Foul PlayA shy San Francisco librarian and a bumbling cop fall in love as they solve a crime involving albinos, dwarves, and the Catholic Church. | 1978 | Colin Higgins | Comedy, Mystery, Thriller | 6.8 (14.9K votes) | 116 | 20211228 |
| Fourth Protocol, TheJohn Preston is a British Agent with the task of preventing the Russians detonating a nuclear explosion next to an American base in the UK. The Russians are hoping this will shatter the "special relationship" between the two countrie | 1987 | John Mackenzie | Thriller | 6.5 (9.9K votes) | 119 | 20220414 |
| From HellIn Victorian-era London, a troubled clairvoyant police detective investigates the murders of Jack the Ripper. | 2001 | Albert Hughes, Allen Hughes | Horror, Mystery, Thriller | 6.8 (152.3K votes) | 122 | 20211228 |
| Fugitive, TheDr. Richard Kimble, unjustly accused of murdering his wife, must find the real killer while being the target of a nationwide manhunt led by a seasoned U.S. Marshal. | 1993 | Andrew Davis | Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller | 7.8 (284.5K votes) | 130 | 20211228 |
| FutureworldUpon uncovering the dirty secret of futuristic theme-park Futureworld, an ex-employee is killed after he tips off two other reporters who decide to do an undercover investigation. | 1976 | Richard T. Heffron | Sci-Fi, Thriller | 5.8 (10.5K votes) | 108 | 20211228 |
| Game, TheAfter a wealthy San Francisco banker is given an opportunity to participate in a mysterious game, his life is turned upside down as he begins to question if it might really be a concealed conspiracy to destroy him. | 1997 | David Fincher (*) | Drama, Mystery, Thriller | 7.7 (377.6K votes) | 129 | 20211228 |
| Ghost Writer, TheA ghost writer, hired to complete the memoirs of a former British Prime Minister, uncovers secrets that put his own life in jeopardy. | 2010 | Roman Polanski (*) | Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller | 7.2 (161.3K votes) | 128 | 20211228 |
| Godfather Part III, TheFollows Michael Corleone, now in his 60s, as he seeks to free his family from crime and find a suitable successor to his empire. | 1990 | Francis Ford Coppola (*) | Crime, Drama | 7.6 (382K votes) | 162 | 20211228 |
| Good Shepherd, TheThe tumultuous early history of the Central Intelligence Agency is viewed through the prism of one man's life. | 2006 | Robert De Niro | Drama, History, Thriller | 6.7 (101.9K votes) | 167 | 20211228 |
| Green ZoneDiscovering covert and faulty intelligence causes a U.S. Army officer to go rogue as he hunts for Weapons of Mass Destruction in an unstable region. | 2010 | Paul Greengrass | Action, Drama, Thriller, War | 6.8 (135.5K votes) | 115 | 20211228 |
| Ground ZeroA second generation cameraman in Australia finds evidence that his father had filmed a nuclear test that allowed aboriginies to be exposed to and killed by radiation. He begins a search for a secret that if true, his government has a | 1987 | Bruce Myles, Michael Pattinson | Action, Drama, Mystery, Thriller | 6.6 (498 votes) | 109 | 20211228 |
| Halloween 3 Season of the WitchKids all over America want Silver Shamrock masks for Halloween. Doctor Daniel Challis seeks to uncover a plot by Silver Shamrock owner Conal Cochran. | 1982 | Tommy Lee Wallace | Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller | 5.0 (50.7K votes) | 98 | 20211228 |
| Hidden AgendaWhen an American human rights lawyer is assassinated in Belfast, it remains for the man's girlfriend, as well as a tough, no nonsense, police detective to find the truth. | 1990 | Ken Loach (*) | Drama, Thriller | 6.9 (4K votes) | 108 | 20211228 |
| HoffaThe story of the notorious American labor union figure Jimmy Hoffa, who organizes a bitter strike, makes deals with members of the organized crime syndicate and mysteriously disappears in 1975. | 1992 | Danny DeVito | Biography, Crime, Drama | 6.6 (22.8K votes) | 140 | 20211228 |
| HopscotchGrounded with a desk job by incompetent superiors, a clever CIA agent retires and writes a tell all memoir that will embarrass his bosses, prompting him to go on the run and elude them. | 1980 | Ronald Neame | Adventure, Comedy | 7.2 (7.9K votes) | 106 | 20211228 |
| Hudson HawkA cat burglar is forced to steal Da Vinci works of art for a world domination plot. | 1991 | Michael Lehmann | Action, Adventure, Comedy | 5.8 (55.5K votes) | 100 | 20211228 |
| I WitnessAfter 27 bodies are discovered in a collapsed tunnel in Tijuana, a man tries to unravel the mystery before becoming the next victim. | 2003 | Rowdy Herrington | Action, Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller | 5.8 (1.6K votes) | 95 | 20231001 |
| Illustrious Corpses [Cadaveri Eccellenti]An investigation of the judges' assassinations reveals a political background. | 1976 | Francesco Rosi (*) | Crime, Mystery, Thriller | 7.3 (2.4K votes) | 120 | 20211228 |
| ImpulseAfter a small earthquake in a tiny, quiet town, local citizens start to exhibit bizarre, violent and self-destructive behaviour. | 1984 | Graham Baker | Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller | 5.9 (1.4K votes) | 91 | 20211228 |
| In The Line of FireSecret Service agent Frank Horrigan (Clint Eastwood) couldn't save Kennedy, but he's determined not to let a clever assassin take out this president. | 1993 | Wolfgang Petersen (*) | Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller | 7.2 (100.6K votes) | 128 | 20211228 |
| InceptionA thief who steals corporate secrets through the use of dream-sharing technology is given the inverse task of planting an idea into the mind of a C.E.O., but his tragic past may doom the project and his team to disaster. | 2010 | Christopher Nolan (*) | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller | 8.8 (2.2M votes) | 148 | 20211228 |
| Insider, TheA research chemist comes under personal and professional attack when he decides to appear in a 60 Minutes exposé on Big Tobacco. | 1999 | Michael Mann (*) | Biography, Drama, Thriller | 7.8 (167.8K votes) | 157 | 20211228 |
| International, TheAn Interpol agent attempts to expose a high-profile financial institution's role in an international arms dealing ring. | 2009 | Tom Tykwer | Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller | 6.5 (94.6K votes) | 118 | 20211228 |
| Interpreter, ThePolitical intrigue and deception unfold inside the United Nations, where a U.S. Secret Service agent is assigned to investigate an interpreter who overhears an assassination plot. | 2005 | Sydney Pollack (*) | Crime, Mystery, Thriller | 6.4 (104.8K votes) | 128 | 20211228 |
| Interview with the AssassinAlmost forty years after the John F. Kennedy assassination, an ex-Marine named Walter Ohlinger has come forward with a startling claim. | 2002 | Neil Burger | Drama | 6.5 (1.9K votes) | 88 | 20231001 |
| Invasion of the Body SnatchersA small-town doctor learns that the population of his community is being replaced by emotionless alien duplicates. | 1956 | Don Siegel (*) | Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi | 7.7 (48.2K votes) | 80 | 20211228 |
| Invasion of the Body SnatchersWhen strange seeds drift to earth from space, mysterious pods begin to grow and invade San Francisco, California, where they replicate the residents into emotionless automatons one body at a time. | 1978 | Philip Kaufman (*) | Horror, Sci-Fi | 7.4 (58.1K votes) | 115 | 20211228 |
| Ipcress File, TheIn London, a counter espionage Agent deals with his own bureaucracy while investigating the kidnapping and brainwashing of British scientists. | 1965 | Sidney J. Furie | Thriller | 7.2 (15.4K votes) | 109 | 20211228 |
| Iron Man 3When Tony Stark's world is torn apart by a formidable terrorist called the Mandarin, he starts an odyssey of rebuilding and retribution. | 2013 | Shane Black | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi | 7.1 (811.6K votes) | 130 | 20211228 |
| Jacob's LadderMourning his dead child, a haunted Vietnam War veteran attempts to uncover his past while suffering from a severe case of dissociation. To do so, he must decipher reality and life from his own dreams, delusions, and perceptions of de | 1990 | Adrian Lyne (*) | Drama, Horror, Mystery | 7.5 (104.6K votes) | 113 | 20211228 |
| JFKNew Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison discovers there's more to the Kennedy assassination than the official story. | 1991 | Oliver Stone (*) | Drama, History, Thriller | 8.0 (151.4K votes) | 189 | 20211228 |
| KluteA small-town detective searching for a missing man has only one lead: a connection with a New York prostitute. | 1971 | Alan J. Pakula (*) | Crime, Mystery, Thriller | 7.2 (25.1K votes) | 114 | 20211228 |
| Last Boy Scout, TheA private detective's protected female witness is murdered, prompting him and the victim's boyfriend to investigate the crime that leads to a corrupt politician and a crooked football team owner. | 1991 | Tony Scott (*) | Action, Comedy, Crime, Thriller | 7.0 (99.7K votes) | 105 | 20211228 |
| Logan's RunA police officer in the future uncovers the deadly secret behind a society that worships youth. | 1976 | Michael Anderson | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi | 6.8 (55K votes) | 119 | 20211228 |
| Long Kiss Goodnight, TheSamantha Caine lives in a small town with her daughter. Eight years ago she emerged, two months pregnant, from a nearby river with no memory of her past or who she is. However, she's getting closer to finding out about her past. | 1996 | Renny Harlin | Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller | 6.8 (78.2K votes) | 121 | 20211228 |
| Man Who Knew Too Little, TheWallace Ritchie is mistaken for a spy and must stop a plot to assassinate international leaders at a banquet. | 1997 | Jon Amiel | Comedy, Crime, Drama | 6.6 (32.1K votes) | 94 | 20211228 |
| Man Who Knew Too Much, TheAn American doctor and his wife, a former singing star, witness a murder while vacationing in Morocco, and are drawn into a twisting plot of international intrigue when their young son is kidnapped. | 1956 | Alfred Hitchcock (*) | Drama, Thriller | 7.4 (62.7K votes) | 120 | 20211228 |
| Manchurian Candidate, TheIn the midst of the Gulf War, soldiers are kidnapped and brainwashed for sinister purposes. | 2004 | Jonathan Demme (*) | Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller | 6.6 (109.1K votes) | 129 | 20211228 |
| Manchurian Candidate, TheAn American POW in the Korean War is brainwashed as an unwitting assassin for an international Communist conspiracy. | 1962 | John Frankenheimer (*) | Drama, Thriller | 7.9 (74.3K votes) | 126 | 20211228 |
| Marathon ManAfter the shocking murder of his older brother, a New York history student finds himself inexplicably hounded by shadowy government agents on the trail of a Nazi war criminal who is trying to retrieve smuggled diamonds. | 1976 | John Schlesinger (*) | Crime, Thriller | 7.4 (61.9K votes) | 125 | 20211228 |
| Matrix, TheWhen a beautiful stranger leads computer hacker Neo to a forbidding underworld, he discovers the shocking truth--the life he knows is the elaborate deception of an evil cyber-intelligence. | 1999 | Lana Wachowski, Lilly Wachowski | Action, Sci-Fi | 8.7 (1.8M votes) | 136 | 20211228 |
| Men Who Stare at Goats, TheA reporter in Iraq might just have the story of a lifetime when he meets Lyn Cassady, a guy who claims to be a former member of the U.S. Army's New Earth Army, a unit that employs paranormal powers in their missions. | 2009 | Grant Heslov | Comedy, War | 6.2 (130.8K votes) | 94 | 20211228 |
| Mercury RisingShadowy elements in the NSA target a nine-year old autistic savant for death when he is able to decipher a top secret code. | 1998 | Harold Becker | Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller | 6.1 (76.6K votes) | 111 | 20231001 |
| Michael ClaytonA law firm brings in its "fixer" to remedy the situation after a lawyer has a breakdown while representing a chemical company that he knows is guilty in a multibillion-dollar class action suit. | 2007 | Tony Gilroy | Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller | 7.2 (162.3K votes) | 119 | 20211228 |
| Ministry of FearStephen Neale has just been released from an asylum during World War II in England when he accidentally stumbles onto a deadly Nazi spy plot, and tries to stop it. | 1944 | Fritz Lang (*) | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Mystery, Thriller | 7.2 (7.7K votes) | 86 | 20211228 |
| MissingWhen an idealistic American writer disappears during the Chilean coup d'état in September 1973, his wife and father try to find him. | 1982 | Costa-Gavras (*) | Biography, Drama, History, Mystery, Thriller | 7.7 (21K votes) | 122 | 20211228 |
| Mission ImpossibleAn American agent, under false suspicion of disloyalty, must discover and expose the real spy without the help of his organization. | 1996 | Brian De Palma (*) | Action, Adventure, Thriller | 7.1 (409.4K votes) | 110 | 20211228 |
| Mission Impossible Rogue NationEthan and his team take on their most impossible mission yet when they have to eradicate an international rogue organization as highly skilled as they are and committed to destroying the IMF. | 2015 | Christopher McQuarrie | Action, Adventure, Thriller | 7.4 (360K votes) | 131 | 20211228 |
| Most WantedA Marine on death row is recruited by a shadowy U.S. military officer as part of a top-secret ops team, then gets framed for murder when the team and its officer set him up as the fall guy for the assassination of the First Lady. | 1997 | David Hogan | Action, Thriller | 5.6 (6.3K votes) | 99 | 20231001 |
| Mulholland FallsIn 1950's Los Angeles, a special crime squad of the LAPD investigates the murder of a young woman. | 1996 | Lee Tamahori | Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller | 6.3 (16.9K votes) | 107 | 20211228 |
| Murder at 1600A young woman is murdered in the White House. Homicide detective Regis investigates while Secret Service works against him. He's assigned agent Chance. She eventually cooperates after a man's framed. | 1997 | Dwight H. Little | Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller | 6.1 (32.3K votes) | 107 | 20231001 |
| Murder by DecreeSherlock Holmes investigates the murders commited by Jack the Ripper and discovers a conspiracy to protect the killer. | 1979 | Bob Clark | Crime, Mystery, Thriller | 6.9 (5.6K votes) | 124 | 20211228 |
| Negotiator, TheIn a desperate attempt to prove his innocence, a skilled police negotiator accused of corruption and murder takes hostages in a government office to gain the time he needs to find the truth. | 1998 | F. Gary Gray | Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller | 7.3 (138.1K votes) | 140 | 20211228 |
| Net, TheA computer programmer stumbles upon a conspiracy, putting her life and the lives of those around her in great danger. | 1995 | Irwin Winkler | Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller | 6.0 (65.2K votes) | 114 | 20211228 |
| NetworkA 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. | 1976 | Sidney Lumet (*) | Drama | 8.1 (154.7K votes) | 121 | 20211228 |
| Nice Guys, TheIn 1970s Los Angeles, a mismatched pair of private eyes investigate a missing girl and the mysterious death of a porn star. | 2016 | Shane Black | Action, Comedy, Crime, Thriller | 7.4 (307.5K votes) | 116 | 20211228 |
| Nick Of TimeAn unimpressive, everyday man is forced into a situation where he is told to kill a politician to save his kidnapped daughter. | 1995 | John Badham (*) | Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller | 6.3 (41.3K votes) | 90 | 20211228 |
| NixonA biographical story of former U.S. President Richard Nixon, from his days as a young boy, to his eventual Presidency, which ended in shame. | 1995 | Oliver Stone (*) | Biography, Drama, History | 7.1 (31K votes) | 192 | 20220806 |
| No Way OutA coverup and witchhunt occur after a politician accidentally kills his mistress. | 1987 | Roger Donaldson | Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller | 7.1 (39.1K votes) | 114 | 20211228 |
| North by NorthwestA New York City advertising executive goes on the run after being mistaken for a government agent by a group of foreign spies, and falls for a woman whose loyalties he begins to doubt. | 1959 | Alfred Hitchcock (*) | Adventure, Mystery, Thriller | 8.3 (317.8K votes) | 136 | 20211228 |
| November Man, TheAn ex-C.I.A. operative is brought back in on a very personal mission and finds himself pitted against his former pupil in a deadly game involving high level C.I.A. officials and the Russian President-elect. | 2014 | Roger Donaldson | Action, Thriller | 6.3 (66.9K votes) | 108 | 20211228 |
| Odessa File, TheFollowing 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. | 1974 | Ronald Neame | Drama, Thriller | 7.0 (11.3K votes) | 130 | 20220822 |
| On Deadly GroundA mystical martial artist/environmental Agent takes on a ruthless oil corporation. | 1994 | Steven Seagal | Action, Adventure, Thriller | 4.6 (23.5K votes) | 101 | 20211228 |
| Package, TheExperienced Green Beret sergeant Johnny Gallagher is escorting a prisoner, Airborne Ranger Thomas Boyette, back to the US, but Boyette escapes and Gallagher must risk life and limb to catch him. | 1989 | Andrew Davis | Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller | 6.4 (9.6K votes) | 108 | 20211228 |
| PantherA dramatized account of the story of The Black Panther Party of Self-Defense. | 1995 | Mario Van Peebles | Drama | 6.4 (2.6K votes) | 124 | 20231001 |
| Parallax View, TheAn ambitious reporter gets in way-over-his-head trouble while investigating a senator's assassination which leads to a vast conspiracy involving a multinational corporation behind every event in the world's headlines. | 1974 | Alan J. Pakula (*) | Drama, Thriller | 7.1 (17.9K votes) | 102 | 20211228 |
| Pelican Brief, TheA law student uncovers a conspiracy, putting herself and others in danger. | 1993 | Alan J. Pakula (*) | Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller | 6.6 (89.1K votes) | 141 | 20221228 |
| President's Analyst, TheWhen the overworked and stressed-out White House presidential shrink runs away, the CEA and the FBR scramble to retrieve him before he could be abducted by various competing foreign intelligence services. | 1967 | Theodore J. Flicker | Comedy, Sci-Fi, Thriller | 6.9 (3.3K votes) | 103 | 20211228 |
| RedWhen his peaceful life is threatened by a high-tech assassin, former black-ops agent Frank Moses reassembles his old team in a last-ditch effort to survive and uncover his assailants. | 2010 | Robert Schwentke | Action, Comedy, Crime, Thriller | 7.0 (302.4K votes) | 111 | 20211228 |
| Red EyeA woman is kidnapped by a stranger on a routine flight. Threatened by the potential murder of her father, she is pulled into a plot to assist her captor in a political assassination. | 2005 | Wes Craven (*) | Thriller | 6.5 (117.6K votes) | 85 | 20211228 |
| Replay [La répétition]A computer programmer's dream job at a hot Portland-based firm turns nightmarish when he discovers his boss has a secret and ruthless means of dispatching anti-trust problems. | 2001 | Peter Howitt | Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller | 6.1 (29.1K votes) | 108 | 20211228 |
| SaltA CIA agent goes on the run after a defector accuses her of being a Russian spy. | 2010 | Phillip Noyce | Action, Thriller | 6.4 (308K votes) | 100 | 20211228 |
| Secret, The [Le secret]A stranger enters into and forever alters the life of a couple. He claims to be pursued by certain authorities who intend to prevent him from disclosing a secret that only he holds, whence the title. Is he lying, or insane - or is he | 1974 | Robert Enrico | Drama, Mystery, Thriller | 6.8 (690 votes) | 102 | 20211228 |
| Sentinel, TheA Secret Service agent is framed as the mole in an assassination attempt on the President. He must clear his name and foil another assassination attempt while on the run from a Secret Service Protective Intelligence Division agent. | 2006 | Clark Johnson | Action, Crime, Thriller | 6.1 (49.3K votes) | 108 | 20211228 |
| SerpicoAn honest New York cop named Frank Serpico blows the whistle on rampant corruption in the force only to have his comrades turn against him. | 1973 | Sidney Lumet (*) | Biography, Crime, Drama, Thriller | 7.7 (119K votes) | 130 | 20211228 |
| Seven Days In MayUnited States military leaders plot to overthrow the President because he supports a nuclear disarmament treaty and they fear a Soviet sneak attack. | 1964 | John Frankenheimer (*) | Drama, Thriller | 7.9 (15.3K votes) | 118 | 20211228 |
| Shadow ConspiracyBishop, trusted advisor to the president, has shots fired at him when Pachenko comes to him about a traitor in highest level of government. He gets away from the cold blooded assassin twice. Will he find the traitor before getting... | 1997 | George P. Cosmatos | Action, Thriller | 4.9 (5.1K votes) | 103 | 20231001 |
| Sherlock Holmes - A Game of ShadowsDetective Sherlock Holmes is on the trail of criminal mastermind Professor Moriarty, who is carrying out a string of random crimes across Europe. | 2011 | Guy Ritchie (*) | Action, Adventure, Mystery | 7.5 (441K votes) | 129 | 20211228 |
| ShooterA marksman living in exile is coaxed back into action after learning of a plot to kill the President. After being double crossed for the attempt and on the run, he sets out for the real killer and the truth. | 2007 | Antoine Fuqua | Action, Drama, Thriller | 7.2 (325.2K votes) | 124 | 20211228 |
| SilkwoodA worker at a plutonium processing plant is purposefully contaminated, psychologically tortured and possibly murdered to prevent her from exposing worker safety violations at the plant. | 1983 | Mike Nichols (*) | Biography, Drama, History, Thriller | 7.2 (19.7K votes) | 131 | 20211228 |
| Silver CityThe discovery of a corpse threatens to unravel a bumbling local politician's campaign for governor of Colorado. | 2004 | John Sayles (*) | Comedy, Drama, Mystery, Thriller | 6.0 (4K votes) | 128 | 20211228 |
| Skulls, TheA senior at an ivy league college, who depends on scholarships and working on the side, gets accepted into the secret society The Skulls. He hopes it betters chances at Harvard but The Skulls is not what he thought and comes at a ... | 2000 | Rob Cohen | Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller | 5.6 (33.3K votes) | 106 | 20231001 |
| Snake EyesA shady police detective finds himself in the middle of a murder conspiracy at an important boxing match in an Atlantic City casino. | 1998 | Brian De Palma (*) | Crime, Mystery, Thriller | 6.0 (79.9K votes) | 98 | 20211228 |
| SneakersA security pro finds his past coming back to haunt him, when he and his unique team are tasked with retrieving a particularly important item. | 1992 | Phil Alden Robinson | Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller | 7.1 (57.8K votes) | 126 | 20211228 |
| Soylent GreenA nightmarish futuristic fantasy about the controlling power of big corporations and an innocent cop who stumbles on the truth. | 1973 | Richard Fleischer | Crime, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller | 7.1 (62.7K votes) | 97 | 20211228 |
| Spanish Prisoner, TheAn employee of a corporation with a lucrative secret process is tempted to betray it. But there's more to it than that. | 1997 | David Mamet | Drama, Mystery, Thriller | 7.2 (24.2K votes) | 110 | 20211228 |
| Star Chamber, TheFrustrated with a legal system gone haywire, a secret society of judges hires hitmen to snuff out criminals who escape courtroom justice - but one young judge questions the ethics of their vigilante system. | 1983 | Peter Hyams | Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller | 6.3 (6.9K votes) | 109 | 20211228 |
| Stepford Wives, TheJoanna Eberhart has come to the quaint little town of Stepford, Connecticut with her family, but soon discovers there lies a sinister truth in the all too perfect behavior of the female residents. | 1975 | Bryan Forbes | Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller | 6.9 (17.3K votes) | 115 | 20211228 |
| Stepford Wives, TheThe secret to a Stepford wife lies behind the doors of the Men's Association. | 2004 | Frank Oz | Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller | 5.3 (64.7K votes) | 93 | 20211228 |
| SyrianaA politically charged epic about the state of the oil industry in the hands of those personally involved in and affected by it. | 2005 | Stephen Gaghan | Drama, Thriller | 6.9 (130.5K votes) | 2 | 20220912 |
| Tailor of Panama, TheA tailor living in Panama reluctantly becomes a spy for a British Agent. | 2001 | John Boorman (*) | Comedy, Drama, Thriller | 6.2 (29.1K votes) | 109 | 20211228 |
| Tall Blond Man With One Black Shoe, The [Le grand blond avec une chaussure noire]A hapless orchestra player becomes an unwitting pawn of rival factions within the French secret service after he is chosen as a decoy by being identified as a super secret agent. | 1972 | Yves Robert | Comedy, Mystery | 7.3 (8K votes) | 90 | 20211228 |
| Tango and CashFramed by their ruthless arch-nemesis, a mismatched LAPD crime-fighting duo has to put its differences aside to even the score with the evil kingpin who put them behind bars once and for all. | 1989 | Andrey Konchalovskiy, Albert Magnoli | Action, Comedy, Crime, Thriller | 6.4 (102.9K votes) | 104 | 20211228 |
| They LiveThey influence our decisions without us knowing it. They numb our senses without us feeling it. They control our lives without us realizing it. They live. | 1988 | John Carpenter (*) | Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller | 7.3 (124K votes) | 94 | 20211228 |
| Thirteenth Floor, TheA computer scientist running a virtual reality simulation of 1937 becomes the primary suspect when his colleague and mentor is murdered. | 1999 | Josef Rusnak | Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller | 7.1 (70.3K votes) | 100 | 20211228 |
| Three Days of the CondorA bookish CIA researcher in Manhattan finds all his co-workers dead, and must outwit those responsible until he figures out who he can really trust. | 1975 | Sydney Pollack (*) | Crime, Mystery, Thriller | 7.4 (53.2K votes) | 117 | 20211228 |
| TopazA French Intelligence Agent becomes embroiled in the Cold War politics first with uncovering the events leading up to the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis, and then back to France to break up an international Russian spy ring. | 1969 | Alfred Hitchcock (*) | Drama, Thriller | 6.2 (17.9K votes) | 143 | 20211228 |
| Total RecallWhen a man goes in to have virtual vacation memories of the planet Mars implanted in his mind, an unexpected and harrowing series of events forces him to go to the planet for real - or is he? | 1990 | Paul Verhoeven (*) | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi | 7.5 (320K votes) | 113 | 20211228 |
| Tribulation 99 - Alien Anomalies Under AmericaIn the year 1000, aliens from the planet Quetzalcoatl flee their dying planet and take refuge under the Earth's surface. Disturbed by 1950s American atomic testing, the aliens strike back at the USA in such varied schemes as the repl | 1992 | Craig Baldwin | Comedy, Sci-Fi | 6.4 (339 votes) | 48 | 20211228 |
| Undiscovered CountryOn the eve of retirement, Kirk and McCoy are charged with assassinating the Klingon High Chancellor and imprisoned. The Enterprise crew must help them escape to thwart a conspiracy aimed at sabotaging the last best hope for peace. | 1991 | Nicholas Meyer | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller | 7.2 (74.2K votes) | 110 | 20211228 |
| US MarshallsU.S. Marshal Samuel Gerard and his team of Marshals are assigned to track down Sheridan, who has been accused of a double-murder. | 1998 | Stuart Baird | Action, Crime, Thriller | 6.6 (101.9K votes) | 131 | 20211228 |
| V For VendettaIn 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. | 2005 | James McTeigue | Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller | 8.1 (1.1M votes) | 132 | 20211228 |
| ValkyrieA dramatization of the July 20, 1944 assassination and political coup plot by desperate renegade German Army officers against Adolf Hitler during World War II. | 2008 | Bryan Singer (*) | Drama, History, Thriller, War | 7.1 (237.8K votes) | 121 | 20211228 |
| Vantage PointThe attempted assassination of the American President is told and re-told from several different perspectives. | 2008 | Pete Travis | Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller | 6.6 (148.7K votes) | 90 | 20211228 |
| Wag The DogShortly before an election, a spin-doctor and a Hollywood producer join efforts to fabricate a war in order to cover up a Presidential sex scandal. | 1997 | Barry Levinson (*) | Comedy, Drama | 7.1 (82.3K votes) | 97 | 20211228 |
| Who Killed Atlanta's ChildrenIn the early 1980s, there was someone killing the children of Atlanta. Eventually a single man was caught and convicted in one of the largest manhunts in our nation's history. Ever since, the case has been closed until four years ... | 2000 | Charles Robert Carner | Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller | 5.9 (581 votes) | 105 | 20231001 |
| Winter KillsThe younger brother of an assassinated US President is led down a rabbit hole of conspiracies and dead ends after learning of a man claiming to be the real shooter. | 1979 | William Richert | Comedy, Drama, Mystery, Thriller | 6.2 (2.7K votes) | 97 | 20211228 |
| Wrong Is RightA TV reporter finds himself in the middle of an Arab leader buying two portable nukes, terrorists, arms dealer, a reporter/CIA spy killed, a US president ordering a K-I-L-L etc. | 1982 | Richard Brooks | Comedy, Drama, Thriller | 5.7 (2K votes) | 117 | 20211228 |
| X Files, TheMulder and Scully must fight the government in a conspiracy and find the truth about an alien colonization of Earth. | 1998 | Rob Bowman | Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller | 7.0 (104.6K votes) | 121 | 20211228 |
| xXx State of The UnionDarius Stone, a new agent in the xXx program, is sent to Washington, D.C. to stop a coup attempt against the President of the United States. | 2005 | Lee Tamahori | Action, Adventure, Crime, Sci-Fi, Thriller | 4.5 (69.7K votes) | 101 | 20211228 |
| ZThe public murder of a prominent politician and doctor amid a violent demonstration is covered up by military and government officials. A tenacious magistrate is determined not to let them get away with it. | 1969 | Costa-Gavras (*) | Crime, Drama, History, Thriller | 8.2 (27.3K votes) | 127 | 20211228 |
| ZootopiaIn a city of anthropomorphic animals, a rookie bunny cop and a cynical con artist fox must work together to uncover a conspiracy. | 2016 | Byron Howard, Rich Moore, Jared Bush | Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Family, Mystery | 8.0 (470.6K votes) | 108 | 20211228 |
| Dreams from My Real Father | 2012 | Joel Gilbert | Documentary | 4.7 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| Unlawful Killing | 2011 | Keith Allen | Documentary | 7.4 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| Kurt & Courtney | 1998 | Nick Broomfield | Documentary, Biography, Crime, Music | 6.1 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| The End of Poverty? | 2008 | Philippe Diaz | Documentary | 7.4 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| Mirage Men | 2013 | Kypros Kyprianou, John Lundberg, Roland Denning | Documentary | 6.3 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Moon | 2001 | Bart Sibrel | Documentary, History | 5.2 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| The Edge of Power | 1989 | Henri Safran | Thriller | 4.7 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| Urban Wolf | 2010 | Laurent Touil-Tartour | Mystery | 8.7 (Unkn) | | Excluded |