Movies by Lists - Movies About Corruption (87 [87]) 
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| 36th Precinct [36 Quai des Orfevres]2 cops are promised by the retiring chief of the Paris police that the one, getting the violent gang robbing armored trucks, will get his job. The 2 will do whatever it takes to get the promotion, even if it means breaking the law. | 2004 | Olivier Marchal | Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller | 7.1 (17.1K votes) | 111 | 20211228 |
| Advise and ConsentThe polarizing search for a new Secretary of State has far-reaching consequences. | 1962 | Otto Preminger (*) | Drama, Thriller | 7.7 (7K votes) | 139 | 20211228 |
| All the King's MenBased on the Robert Penn Warren novel. The life of populist Southerner Willie Stark, a political creature loosely based on Governor Huey Long of Louisiana. | 2006 | Steven Zaillian | Drama, Thriller | 6.2 (24.5K votes) | 128 | 20211228 |
| 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 |
| Bad Lieutenant, The - Port of Call - New OrleansTerence McDonagh is a drug- and gambling-addled detective in post-Katrina New Orleans investigating the killing of five Senegalese immigrants. | 2009 | Werner Herzog (*) | Crime, Drama | 6.6 (76.3K votes) | 122 | 20211228 |
| Bad Sleep Well, TheA vengeful young man marries the daughter of a corrupt industrialist in order to seek justice for his father's suicide. | 1960 | Akira Kurosawa (*) | Crime, Drama, Thriller | 8.0 (12.3K votes) | 151 | 20211228 |
| Being ThereAfter the death of his employer forces him out of the only home he's ever known, a simpleminded, sheltered gardener becomes an unlikely trusted advisor to a powerful tycoon and an insider in Washington politics. | 1979 | Hal Ashby (*) | Comedy, Drama | 8.0 (70.9K votes) | 130 | 20211228 |
| Best Man, TheJust before his best friend's wedding, the life of a Chicago writer becomes crazy when his best friend guesses that his new book's story is based on his bride's fervent past. | 1999 | Malcolm D. Lee | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 6.8 (10.3K votes) | 120 | 20211228 |
| Black RainTwo NYC cops arrest a Yakuza member and must escort him when he's extradited to Japan. | 1989 | Ridley Scott (*) | Action, Crime, Thriller | 6.7 (53.1K votes) | 125 | 20211228 |
| Breaking PointA troubled lawyer takes on a high profile murder case that forces him to come to terms with his own past. | 2009 | Jeff Celentano | Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller | 4.8 (742 votes) | 93 | 20240313 |
| Broken CityIn a city rife with injustice, ex-cop Billy Taggart seeks redemption and revenge after being double-crossed by its most powerful figure: Mayor Nicholas Hostetler. | 2013 | Allen Hughes | Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller | 6.2 (79.2K votes) | 109 | 20211228 |
| Brooklyn's FinestThree unconnected Brooklyn cops wind up at the same deadly location after enduring vastly different career paths. | 2009 | Antoine Fuqua | Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller | 6.7 (64K votes) | 2 | 20220912 |
| Call Northside 777Chicago reporter P.J. McNeal re-opens a decade-old murder case. | 1948 | Henry Hathaway | Drama, Film-Noir | 7.4 (8.7K votes) | 112 | 20211228 |
| Candidate, TheBill McKay is a candidate for the U.S. Senate from California. He has no hope of winning, so he is willing to tweak the establishment. | 1972 | Michael Ritchie | Comedy, Drama | 7.0 (10.8K votes) | 110 | 20211228 |
| Carbon [Carbone]Danger of losing his business, Anthony Roca, an ordinary man, develops a scam that will become the heist of the century. Overtaken by the crime, he will have to deal with betrayal, murder and settling. | 2017 | Olivier Marchal | Crime, Thriller | 6.5 (2.6K votes) | 104 | 20220531 |
| 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 |
| City HallThe accidental shooting of a boy in New York leads to an investigation by the Deputy Mayor, and unexpectedly far-reaching consequences. | 1996 | Harold Becker | Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller | 6.2 (20.4K votes) | 111 | 20211228 |
| Commissioner, TheAn out-of-favor British politician is sent to Brussels as the new European Commissioner for Industry. He is made aware of a web of political and industrial corruption through a series of anonymous letters. Despite his own history of | 1998 | George Sluizer | Drama, Thriller | 6.1 (369 votes) | 108 | 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 |
| Contender, TheSenator Laine Hanson is a contender for U.S. Vice President, but information and disinformation about her past surfaces that threatens to derail her confirmation. | 2000 | Rod Lurie | Drama, Thriller | 6.9 (23.8K votes) | 126 | 20211228 |
| Cop LandThe Sheriff of a suburban New Jersey community, populated by New York City police officers, slowly discovers the town is a front for mob connections and corruption. | 1997 | James Mangold | Crime, Drama, Thriller | 6.9 (91.3K votes) | 105 | 20211228 |
| Custodian, TheA police detective decides to expose the pervasive corruption that permeates his department. | 1993 | John Dingwall | Drama, Romance | 5.4 (377 votes) | 109 | 20240622 |
| Dark BlueA robbery homicide investigation triggers a series of events that will cause a corrupt LAPD officer to question his tactics. | 2002 | Ron Shelton (*) | Crime, Drama, Thriller | 6.6 (21.9K votes) | 118 | 20211228 |
| Departed, TheAn undercover cop and a mole in the police attempt to identify each other while infiltrating an Irish gang in South Boston. | 2006 | Martin Scorsese (*) | Crime, Drama, Thriller | 8.5 (1.3M votes) | 151 | 20211228 |
| Each Dawn I DieA corrupt D.A. with political ambitions is angered by news stories implicating him in criminal activity and decides to frame the reporter who wrote them for manslaughter in order to silence him. | 1939 | William Keighley | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller | 7.3 (3.3K votes) | 92 | 20211228 |
| Edge of DarknessAs homicide detective Thomas Craven investigates the murder of his activist daughter, he uncovers a corporate cover-up and government conspiracy that attracts an agent tasked with cleaning up the evidence. | 2010 | Martin Campbell | Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller | 6.6 (93.3K votes) | 117 | 20211228 |
| Erin BrockovichAn unemployed single mother becomes a legal assistant and almost single-handedly brings down a California power company accused of polluting a city's water supply. | 2000 | Steven Soderbergh (*) | Biography, Drama | 7.4 (190.4K votes) | 131 | 20211228 |
| Fair GameCIA operative Valerie Plame discovers her identity is allegedly leaked by the government as payback for an op-ed article her husband wrote criticizing the Bush administration. | 2010 | Doug Liman | Biography, Drama, Thriller | 6.8 (48.5K votes) | 108 | 20211228 |
| Few Good Men, AMilitary lawyer Lieutenant Daniel Kaffee defends Marines accused of murder. They contend they were acting under orders. | 1992 | Rob Reiner (*) | Drama, Thriller | 7.7 (252.1K votes) | 138 | 20211228 |
| FilthA corrupt, junkie cop with bipolar disorder attempts to manipulate his way through a promotion in order to win back his wife and daughter while also fighting his own inner demons. | 2013 | Jon S. Baird | Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama | 7.1 (106.7K votes) | 97 | 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 |
| Frost NixonA dramatic retelling of the post-Watergate television interviews between British talk-show host David Frost and former president Richard Nixon. | 2008 | Ron Howard | Biography, Drama, History | 7.7 (106.7K votes) | 122 | 20211228 |
| Gang RelatedAfter murdering an undercover DEA agent, two corrupt cops scramble to cover up what they've done. | 1997 | Jim Kouf | Action, Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller | 6.5 (8.8K votes) | 111 | 20211228 |
| Glass Key, TheA crooked politician finds himself being accused of murder by a gangster from whom he refused help during a re-election campaign. | 1942 | Stuart Heisler | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller | 7.1 (6.3K votes) | 85 | 20211228 |
| Good Night,and Good LuckBroadcast journalist Edward R. Murrow looks to bring down Senator Joseph McCarthy. | 2005 | George Clooney | Biography, Drama, History | 7.4 (96.9K votes) | 93 | 20211228 |
| Ides of March, TheAn idealistic staffer for a new presidential candidate gets a crash course on dirty politics during his stint on the campaign trail. | 2011 | George Clooney | Drama, Thriller | 7.1 (220.4K votes) | 101 | 20211228 |
| IdiocracyPrivate Joe Bauers, a decisively average American, is selected as a guinea pig for a top-secret hibernation program but is forgotten, awakening to a future so incredibly moronic he's easily the most intelligent person alive. | 2006 | Mike Judge | Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi, Thriller | 6.6 (156.7K votes) | 84 | 20211228 |
| Informant!, TheThe U.S. government decides to go after an agro-business giant with a price-fixing accusation, based on the evidence submitted by their star witness, vice president-turned-informant Mark Whitacre. | 2009 | Steven Soderbergh (*) | Biography, Comedy, Crime, Drama | 6.5 (67.3K votes) | 108 | 20240313 |
| 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 |
| Internal AffairsAn Internal Affairs agent becomes obsessed with bringing down a cop who has managed to maintain a spotless reputation despite being involved in a web of corruption. | 1990 | Mike Figgis | Crime, Drama, Thriller | 6.5 (19.4K votes) | 115 | 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 |
| Leon [The Professional]12-year-old Mathilda is reluctantly taken in by Léon, a professional assassin, after her family is murdered. An unusual relationship forms as she becomes his protégée and learns the assassin's trade. | 1994 | Luc Besson (*) | Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller | 8.5 (1.1M votes) | 110 | 20211228 |
| Lions for LambsInjuries sustained by two Army rangers behind enemy lines in Afghanistan set off a sequence of events involving a congressman, a journalist and a professor. | 2007 | Robert Redford (*) | Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller, War | 6.2 (52.5K votes) | 92 | 20240313 |
| Lord of WarAn arms dealer confronts the morality of his work as he is being chased by an INTERPOL Agent. | 2005 | Andrew Niccol | Crime, Drama | 7.6 (307.1K votes) | 122 | 20211228 |
| Man Who Cheated Himself, TheA veteran homicide detective who has witnessed his socialite girlfriend kill her husband sees his newly-minted detective brother assigned to the case alongside him. | 1950 | Felix E. Feist | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Mystery | 6.8 (2.2K votes) | 81 | 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 |
| 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 |
| Mob, TheJohnny Damico botches a murder case and is suspended from the force. In reality, he is put undercover to identify the mysterious boss of the NY waterfront who has murdered everyone in his way. Will Johnny be next in line? | 1951 | Robert Parrish | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller | 7.1 (2K votes) | 87 | 20211228 |
| Most Violent Year, AIn New York City 1981, an ambitious immigrant fights to protect his business and family during the most dangerous year in the city's history. | 2014 | J.C. Chandor | Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller | 7.0 (70.5K votes) | 125 | 20211228 |
| Mr. Smith Goes to WashingtonA naive youth leader is appointed to fill a vacancy in the U.S. Senate. His idealistic plans promptly collide with corruption at home and subterfuge from his hero in Washington, but he tries to forge ahead despite attacks on his char | 1939 | Frank Capra (*) | Comedy, Drama | 8.1 (113.2K votes) | 129 | 20211228 |
| NarcWhen the trail goes cold on a murder investigation of a policeman an undercover narcotics officer is lured back to the force to help solve the case. | 2002 | Joe Carnahan | Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller | 7.1 (40.1K votes) | 105 | 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 |
| On The WaterfrontAn ex-prize fighter turned New Jersey longshoreman struggles to stand up to his corrupt union bosses, including his older brother, as he starts to connect with the grieving sister of one of the syndicate's victims. | 1954 | Elia Kazan (*) | Crime, Drama, Thriller | 8.1 (150.9K votes) | 108 | 20211228 |
| Once Upon a Time in AmericaA former Prohibition-era Jewish gangster returns to the Lower East Side of Manhattan 35 years later, where he must once again confront the ghosts and regrets of his old life. | 1984 | Sergio Leone (*) | Crime, Drama | 8.3 (337.4K votes) | 229 | 20211228 |
| Out of TimeA Florida police chief must solve a vicious double homicide before he himself falls under suspicion. | 2003 | Carl Franklin | Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller | 6.5 (59.7K votes) | 105 | 20211228 |
| 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 |
| Phenix City Story, TheA crime-busting lawyer and his initially reluctant attorney father take on the forces that run gambling and prostitution in their small Southern town. | 1955 | Phil Karlson (*) | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir | 7.2 (2.6K votes) | 100 | 20211228 |
| PowerAfter a close friend drops out of politics, a political consultant helping to find a replacement finds a web of corruption and deceit as well. | 1986 | Sidney Lumet (*) | Drama | 5.7 (3K votes) | 111 | 20211228 |
| Pride and GloryA family's moral codes are tested when Ray Tierney investigates a case that reveals an incendiary police corruption scandal involving his own brother-in-law. For Ray, the truth is revelatory, a Pandora's Box that threatens to upend n | 2008 | Gavin O'Connor | Crime, Drama, Thriller | 6.6 (60.6K votes) | 130 | 20211228 |
| Prince of the CityA New York City narcotics detective reluctantly agrees to cooperate with a special commission investigating police corruption, and soon realises he's in over his head, and nobody can be trusted. | 1981 | Sidney Lumet (*) | Crime, Drama | 7.5 (8.1K votes) | 167 | 20211228 |
| Q&ADirty cop, Mike Brennan thinks he got away with murder. But during a routine Q&A, the righteous assistant DA finds a clue that sets them both on a collision course. | 1990 | Sidney Lumet (*) | Unknown | 6.5 (6.2K votes) | 132 | 20220711 |
| Recruit, TheA brilliant young CIA trainee is asked by his mentor to help find a mole in the Agency. | 2003 | Roger Donaldson | Action, Thriller | 6.6 (133.9K votes) | 115 | 20211228 |
| Righteous KillTwo veteran New York City detectives work on a case of serial executions of criminals who escaped justice. | 2008 | Jon Avnet | Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller | 6.0 (87.3K votes) | 101 | 20211228 |
| Runaway JuryA juror on the inside and a woman on the outside manipulate a court trial involving a major gun manufacturer. | 2003 | Gary Fleder | Crime, Drama, Thriller | 7.1 (95.5K votes) | 127 | 20211228 |
| SalvadorA burnt-out photojournalist becomes involved in a Central American revolution. | 1986 | Oliver Stone (*) | Drama, History, Thriller, War | 7.4 (20.9K votes) | 122 | 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Spy GameRetiring CIA agent Nathan Muir recalls his training of Tom Bishop while working against agency politics to free him from his Chinese captors. | 2001 | Tony Scott (*) | Action, Crime, Thriller | 7.1 (154K votes) | 126 | 20211228 |
| State Of GraceA New York cop is recruited to return to his hometown and infiltrate the mob ran by his best friend's brother. | 1990 | Phil Joanou | Action, Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller | 7.2 (22K votes) | 134 | 20211228 |
| State of PlayWhen a congressional aide is killed, a Washington, D.C. journalist starts investigating the case involving the Representative, his old college friend. | 2009 | Kevin Macdonald | Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller | 7.1 (149.7K votes) | 127 | 20211228 |
| Sting, TheTwo grifters team up to pull off the ultimate con. | 1973 | George Roy Hill (*) | Comedy, Crime, Drama | 8.3 (254.4K votes) | 129 | 20211228 |
| Street KingsAn undercover cop, disillusioned by the death of his wife, is implicated in the murder of an officer and must struggle to clear himself. | 2008 | David Ayer | Action, Crime, Thriller | 6.8 (111.5K votes) | 109 | 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 |
| Thirteen DaysIn October 1962, the Kennedy administration struggles to contain the Cuban Missile Crisis. | 2000 | Roger Donaldson | Drama, History, Thriller | 7.3 (57.7K votes) | 145 | 20211228 |
| Touch of EvilA stark, perverse story of murder, kidnapping, and police corruption in a Mexican border town. | 1958 | Orson Welles (*) | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller | 8.0 (102.7K votes) | 95 | 20211228 |
| TrafficA conservative judge is appointed by the President to spearhead America's escalating war against drugs, only to discover that his teenage daughter is a crack addict. Two DEA agents protect an informant. A jailed drug baron's wife att | 2000 | Steven Soderbergh (*) | Crime, Drama, Thriller | 7.6 (204K votes) | 147 | 20211228 |
| Training DayA rookie cop spends his first day as a Los Angeles narcotics officer with a rogue detective who isn't what he appears to be. | 2001 | Antoine Fuqua | Crime, Drama, Thriller | 7.7 (417.5K votes) | 122 | 20211228 |
| True ColorsBest friends from law school to election night, their friendship is sorely tested when one learns of another's betrayal. | 1991 | Herbert Ross | Drama | 6.3 (5.6K votes) | 111 | 20240224 |
| Unlawful EntryA burglar holds a knife to Karen's throat while her husband does nothing. The couple ends up befriending the cop that comes. The friendship ends when the cop beats up the culprit. Karen isn't ready to end it. Things get ugly with the | 1992 | Jonathan Kaplan | Crime, Drama, Thriller | 6.3 (16.3K votes) | 111 | 20211228 |
| Untouchables, TheDuring the era of Prohibition in the United States, Federal Agent Eliot Ness sets out to stop ruthless Chicago gangster Al Capone and, because of rampant corruption, assembles a small, hand-picked team to help him. | 1987 | Brian De Palma (*) | Crime, Drama, Thriller | 7.9 (299.4K votes) | 119 | 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 |
| 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 |
| Whistleblower, TheA drama based on the experiences of Kathryn Bolkovac, a Nebraska cop who served as a peacekeeper in post-war Bosnia and outed the U.N. for covering up a sex trafficking scandal. | 2010 | Larysa Kondracki | Biography, Crime, Drama | 7.1 (34K votes) | 112 | 20220806 |