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Movies: Best "ethics" Movies


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Oppenheimer(2023)

FSK: 12+ years
| 3h | Drama, History
4.1/5 (with 2,359 votes)

The story of J. Robert Oppenheimer's role in the development of the atomic bomb during World War II.

The Devil's Advocate(1997)

FSK: 16+ years
| 2h 24min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller, Horror
3.7/5 (with 2,579 votes)

Aspiring Florida defense lawyer Kevin Lomax accepts a job at a New York law firm. With the stakes getting higher every case, Kevin quickly learns that his boss has something far more evil planned.

Nightcrawler(2014)

FSK: 16+ years
| 1h 58min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
3.9/5 (with 5,062 votes)

When Lou Bloom, desperate for work, muscles into the world of L.A. crime journalism, he blurs the line between observer and participant to become the star of his own story. Aiding him in his effort is Nina, a TV-news veteran.

Directed by Dan Gilroy - With Ann Cusack, Bill Paxton, Éric Lange, Jake Gyllenhaal, Kathleen York, Kevin Rahm, ...

Miss Sloane(2016)

FSK: 12+ years
| 2h 12min | Thriller, Drama
3.7/5 (with 777 votes)

An ambitious lobbyist faces off against the powerful gun lobby in an attempt to pass gun control legislation.

A Serious Man(2009)

FSK: 12+ years
| 1h 46min | Comedy, Drama
3.4/5 (with 962 votes)

It is 1967, and Larry Gopnik, a physics professor at a quiet Midwestern university, has just been informed by his wife Judith that she is leaving him. She has fallen in love with one of his more pompous acquaintances Sy Ableman.

The Emperor's Club(2002)

1h 48min | Drama
3.5/5 (with 161 votes)

William Hundert is a passionate and principled Classics professor who finds his tightly-controlled world shaken and inexorably altered when a new student, Sedgewick Bell, walks into his classroom. What begins as a fierce battle of wills gives way to a close student-teacher relationship, but results in a life lesson for Hundert that will still haunt him a quarter of a century later.

One Good Cop(1991)

1h 54min | Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
2.9/5 (with 35 votes)

When his partner is killed in the line of duty, Artie Lewis becomes the legal guardian of his three orphaned girls. But during his investigation of the case, Lewis finds his life – and that of his newfound family – on the line. That's when the guilty crime-lord comes face to face with one man's rage, one man's fury, one man's justice.

Tycoon(1947)

FSK: 12+ years
| 2h 8min | Action, Drama, Romance / Love
2.6/5 (with 6 votes)

Engineer Johnny Munroe is enlisted to build a railroad tunnel through a mountain to reach mines. His task is complicated, and his ethics are compromised, when he falls in love with his boss's daughter.

The Emperor's Naked Army Marches On(1987)

2h 2min | Documentary
3.7/5 (with 17 votes)

Kenzo Okuzaki, a 62-year-old veteran of the New Guinea campaign in World War II, sets out to conduct interviews with survivors and relatives to find the truth behind atrocities committed while the Japanese garrison was surrounded, in particular the unexplained killing of two Japanese privates in his unit.

Directed by Kazuo Hara

Che vuoi che sia(2016)

1h 45min | Comedy
3.2/5 (with 131 votes)

A young man challenges the web to offer money for a sex tape of him and his girlfriend to finance his work and finally be able to afford having a child. Is it really wrong to sell our own intimacy in order to be able to afford making our dreams come true?

Time Changer(2003)

2.8/5 (with 17 votes)

The year is 1890 and Bible professor Russell Carlisle has written a new manuscript entitled "The Changing Times". His colleague, Dr. Norris Anderson, believes that what Carlisle has written could greatly affect the future of coming generations and, using his secret time machine, Anderson sends Carlisle over 100 years into the future, offering him a glimpse of where his beliefs will lead.

Directed by Rich Christiano - With Gavin MacLeod

The Pervert's Guide to Ideology(2012)

2h 16min | Documentary
3.6/5 (with 55 votes)

A journey into the labyrinthine heart of ideology, which shapes and justifies both collective and personal beliefs and practices: with an infectious zeal and voracious appetite for popular culture, Slovenian philosopher and psychoanalyst Slavoj Žižek analyzes several of the most important films in the history of cinema to explain how cinematic narrative helps to reinforce prevailing ethics and political ideas.

Directed by Sophie Fiennes - With Slavoj Žižek
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The Light Bulb Conspiracy(2010)

1h 15min | Documentary
3.8/5 (with 34 votes)

Once upon a time... consumer goods were built to last. Then, in the 1920’s, a group of businessmen realized that the longer their product lasted, the less money they made, thus Planned Obsolescence was born, and manufacturers have been engineering products to fail ever since. Combining investigative research and rare archive footage with analysis by those working on ways to save both the economy and the environment, this documentary charts the creation of ‘engineering to fail’, its rise to prominence and its recent fall from grace.

Directed by Cosima Dannoritzer

Do You Trust this Computer?(2018)

1h 18min | Documentary
3.6/5 (with 26 votes)

Science fiction has long anticipated the rise of machine intelligence, and today a new generation of self-learning computers has begun to reshape every aspect of our lives. Will A.I. usher in an age of unprecedented potential, or prove to be our final invention?

Directed by Chris Paine

El ministro y yo(1977)

1h 49min | Comedy
3.4/5 (with 14 votes)

Mateo Melgarejo is a notary public and scribe for the illiterate people of Santo Domingo, a neighborhood north of Mexico City's Zócalo. A squatter friend asks for his help in negotiating with the land census bureau to regularize a land title. After a great deal of frustration with the government bureaucracy, he writes a letter to the cabinet minister, earning an audience with him. The minister hires Melgarejo to reform the bureau, and the appointee proceeds to lecture the officials on their duties in a democratic society. At the end, he gives up the post, returning to Santo Domingo to help its poor residents.

Secrets of the Tribe(2010)

1h 38min | Documentary, TV Movie
3.2/5 (with 4 votes)

What happens when western anthropologists descend on the Amazon and make one of the last unacculturated tribes in existence, the Yanomami, the most exhaustively filmed and studied tribe on the planet? Despite their "do no harm" creed and scientific aims, the small army of anthropologists that has studied the Yanomami since the 1960s has wreaked havoc among the tribe - and sparked a war within the anthropology community itself.

Directed by José Padilha

La cravate(2020)

1h 37min | Documentary
3.6/5 (with 18 votes)

Bastien is twenty years old and has been an activist for five years in the main extreme right party. When the presidential campaign begins, he's invited by his superior to commit even further. Initiated into the art of decking himself out like a politician, he starts to dream of a career, but old demons surge forth...

Directed by Mathias Théry, Etienne Chaillou

The Natural History of Destruction(2022)

1h 52min | Documentary, History
3.7/5 (with 2 votes)

Is it morally acceptable to use the civilian population as yet another tool for waging war? Is it possible to justify death and destruction for the sake of supposedly lofty ideals? The question remains as pertinent today as it was at the beginning of World War II, and it is becoming increasingly urgent to answer, as countless tragedies have been caused by unethical political decisions.

Directed by Sergei Loznitsa

Afterlife(1978)

7min | Animation
3.1/5 (with 3 votes)

This animated short film attempts to answer the eternal questions, What is dying? and How does it feel? Based on recent studies, case histories and some of the ancient myths, the afterlife state is portrayed as an awesome but methodical working-out of all the individual's past experiences. Film without words.

Directed by Ishu Patel

DIYSEX(2019)

24min | Documentary
0.5/5 (with 1 vote)

DIYSEX is a film that reflects on the use of the image and the language of mainstream pornography, and wonders how far this use can transcend when making your porn film.

Hard to Believe(2016)

3.8/5 (with 1 vote)

A documentary that examines the issue of forced live organ harvesting from Chinese prisoners of conscience, and the response - or lack of it - around the world. It's happened before: governments killing their own citizens for their political or spiritual beliefs. But it’s never happened like this. It’s happened so often that the world doesn’t always pay attention.

Directed by Ken Stone, Ken Stone, Irene Silber

The Billion Dollar Bubble(1978)

The Billion Dollar Bubble is a 1976 film made for the BBC series Horizon and directed by Brian Gibson about the story of the two billion dollar insurance embezzlement scheme involving Equity Funding Corporation of America. The movie stars James Woods in the role of the actuary.

Creating a Monster(2016)

20min | Documentary

Creating a Monster is about reality television and sub-textually confronts a bigger ethical question about the psychological impact on the contestants; is the fault placed on reality television producers or the audience who consume it?

Fowl Play(2009)

52min | Documentary

Fowl Play is a documentery about the treatment of egg laying hens and other animals. It goes inside of egg corporations that people buy from everyday, and exposes how those animals are being treated, abused, and killed.

Fixed: The Science/Fiction of Human Enhancement(2013)

"Fixed: The Science/Fiction of Human Enhancement" questions commonly held beliefs about disability and normalcy by exploring technologies that promise to change our bodies and mind forever. Told primarily through the perspectives of five people with disabilities, a scientist, journalist, community organizer, bionics engineer and exoskeleton test pilot, FIXED takes a close look at the implications of emerging human enhancement technologies for the future of humanity.

Modern Times: The Way of All Flesh(1997)

59min | Documentary
3.0/5 (with 3 votes)

In 1951, a woman died in Baltimore, U.S.A. She was called Henrietta Lacks. These are cells from her body. They were taken from her just before she died. They have been growing and multiplying ever since. There are now billions of these cells in laboratories around the world. If massed together, they would weigh 400 times her original weight. These cells have transformed modern medicine, but they also became caught up in the politics of our age.