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Superman IV: The Quest for Peace(1987)

FSK: 6+ years
| 1h 30min | Action, Adventure, Science Fiction
2.3/5 (with 565 votes)

With global superpowers engaged in an increasingly hostile arms race, Superman leads a crusade to rid the world of nuclear weapons. But Lex Luthor, recently sprung from jail, is declaring war on the Man of Steel and his quest to save the planet. Using a strand of Superman's hair, Luthor synthesizes a powerful ally known as Nuclear Man and ignites an epic battle spanning Earth and space.

Directed by Sidney J. Furie - With Christopher Reeve, Gene Hackman, Jackie Cooper, Marc McClure, Jon Cryer, Sam Wanamaker, ...
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The Front Page(1931)

1h 41min | Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance / Love
3.3/5 (with 20 votes)

Hildy Johnson is an investigative reporter is looking for a bigger paycheck. When an accused murderer escapes from custody, Hildy sees an opportunity for the story of a lifetime. But when he finds the criminal, he learns that the man may not be guilty. With the help of his editor, Hildy attempts to hide the convict, uncover the conspiracy and write the scoop of his career.

Directed by Lewis Milestone, Nate Watt - With Adolphe Menjou, Pat O'Brien, Mary Brian, George E. Stone, Edward Everett Horton, Walter Catlett, ...

Cry Freedom(1987)

FSK: 12+ years
| 2h 37min | Drama, History
3.5/5 (with 83 votes)

A dramatic story, based on actual events, about the friendship between two men struggling against apartheid in South Africa in the 1970s. Donald Woods is a white liberal journalist in South Africa who begins to follow the activities of Stephen Biko, a courageous and outspoken black anti-apartheid activist.

Directed by Richard Attenborough - With Denzel Washington, Kevin Kline, Penelope Wilton, Kevin McNally, John Thaw, Ian Richardson, ...
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Cimarron(1931)

2h 3min | Drama, Western, History
2.8/5 (with 46 votes)

When the government opens up the Oklahoma territory for settlement, restless Yancey Cravat claims a plot of the free land for himself and moves his family there from Wichita. A newspaperman, lawyer, and just about everything else, Cravat soon becomes a leading citizen of the boom town of Osage. Once the town is established, however, he begins to feel confined once again, and heads for the Cherokee Strip, leaving his family behind. During this and other absences, his wife Sabra must learn to take care of herself and soon becomes prominent in her own right.

Directed by Wesley Ruggles - With Richard Dix, Irene Dunne, Estelle Taylor, George E. Stone, William Collier Jr., Edna May Oliver, ...

The Paper(1994)

FSK: 12+ years
| 1h 52min | Comedy, Drama
3.3/5 (with 80 votes)

Henry Hackett is the workaholic editor of a New York City tabloid. He loves his job, but the long hours and low pay are leading to discontent. Also, publisher Bernie White faces financial straits, and has hatchet-man Alicia Clark—Henry's nemesis—impose unpopular cutbacks.

Directed by Ron Howard - With Michael Keaton, Glenn Close, Marisa Tomei, Randy Quaid, Robert Duvall, Jason Robards, ...
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Deadline - U.S.A.(1952)

1h 27min | Crime, Drama
3.5/5 (with 29 votes)

With three days before his paper folds, a crusading editor tries to expose a vicious gangster.

Directed by Richard Brooks - With Humphrey Bogart, Ethel Barrymore, Kim Hunter, Ed Begley, Paul Stewart, James Dean, ...

Charulata(1964)

1h 57min | Drama, Romance / Love
3.8/5 (with 57 votes)

In 1870s India, Charulata is an isolated, artistically inclined woman who sees little of her busy journalist husband, Bhupati. Realizing that his wife is alienated and unhappy, he convinces his cousin, Amal, to spend time with Charulata and nourish her creative impulses. Amal is a fledgling poet himself, and he and Charulata bond over their shared love of art. But over time a sexual attraction develops, with heartbreaking results.

Directed by Satyajit Ray - With Soumitra Chatterjee, Madhabi Mukherjee, Bankim Ghosh

The Monolith Monsters(1957)

1h 17min | Horror, Science Fiction
3.4/5 (with 31 votes)

Rocks from a meteor which grow when in contact with water threaten a sleepy Southwestern desert community.

Directed by John Sherwood - With Grant Williams, Lola Albright, Les Tremayne, Trevor Bardette, Troy Donahue, Paul Peterson, ...

Assignment: Paris(1952)

1h 25min | Thriller, Drama
2.8/5 (with 7 votes)

Paris-based New York Herald Tribune reporter Jimmy Race (Andrews) is sent by his boss (Sanders) behind the Iron Curtain in Budapest to investigate a meeting involving the Hungarian ambassador.

Directed by Robert Parrish - With Dana Andrews, Märta Torén, George Sanders, Audrey Totter, Sandro Giglio, Donald Randolph, ...

Francis Covers the Big Town(1953)

1h 26min | Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Kids & Family, Fantasy, Romance / Love
2.8/5 (with 3 votes)

A man who has a talking mule gets a job on a newspaper, and both get mixed up in a murder trial.

Directed by Arthur Lubin - With Donald O'Connor, Gene Lockhart, Nancy Guild, William Harrigan, Gale Gordon, Larry Gates, ...

Unmasked(1950)

1h | Crime
2.5/5 (with 4 votes)

The editor of a sleazy tabloid newspaper has been borrowing money from his lover, the wife of a rich theatrical producer, and promises to marry her when she gets a divorce. However, the husband refuses to grant her a divorce, and takes back all the money and jewelry he has given her. The editor sees her husband leaving her apartment and, seeing his opportunity, kills her, takes all his IOUs (and the jewelry) and frames the husband for the murder.

Directed by George Blair - With Robert Rockwell

Park Row(1952)

1h 23min | Drama, Thriller
3.3/5 (with 13 votes)

In New York's 1880's newspaper district a dedicated journalist manages to set up his own paper. It is an immediate success but attracts increasing opposition from one of the bigger papers and its newspaper heiress owner.

Directed by Samuel Fuller - With Gene Evans, Béla Kovács, Herbert Heyes, J. M. Kerrigan, Jean Del Val, Forrest Taylor, ...
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The Power of the Press(1928)

1h 2min | Drama
2.9/5 (with 4 votes)

The naive newspaper cub Clem lands a scoop when he's sent out to cover a murder. In his enthusiasm he writes that the main suspect is Jane. When she confronts Clem, she convinces him to help her prove her innocence.

Directed by Frank Capra - With Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Mildred Harris, Wheeler Vivian Oakman, Spottiswoode Aitken, Dell Henderson, Charles Clary, ...

Letters from Frank(1979)

1h 40min | Drama, TV Movie

When aging newspaper Editor Frank Miller is fired after decades of service and replaced by a computer, he cannot take this fate quietly. Frank becomes enraged and starts writing letters to his son, Richard, expressing his fury.

Directed by Edward Parone

Five Star Final(1931)

1h 29min | Crime, Drama
3.4/5 (with 12 votes)

Searching for headlines at any cost, an unscrupulous newspaper owner forces his editor to print a serial based on a past murder, tormenting a woman involved.

Directed by Mervyn LeRoy - With Edward G. Robinson, Marian Marsh, H. B. Warner, Boris Karloff, Aline MacMahon, Ona Munson, ...

Pathram(1999)

2h 58min | Action, Crime, Thriller
3.4/5 (with 4 votes)

Nandagopal, an associate editor with Keralareshmi, one of the leading dailies, is aggressive and daring and enjoys a good reputation among the media circle. Born and brought up in Mumbai, Nandan is the son of Venugopal, a daring journalist who was killed by textile mafia long back. Nandan, in Kochi meets Sekharan, an old naxalite who is running Jagratha, a newspaper which is feared by political class. Sekharan's outspoken and belligerent nature had earned him more enemies than friends. He is constantly fighting Vishwathan, who rules Kochi with his muscle and money. Vishwanathan holds a large share in Keralareshmi and enjoys a huge political clout at state and central levels. Shekharan brings out the role of Vishwanathan in the murder of Vincent Paul, which creates a panic in the political level.

Directed by Joshiy - With Suresh Gopi, Murali, Manju Warrier, N. F. Varghese, Biju Menon, Spadikam George, ...

The Affairs of Jimmy Valentine(1942)

1h 12min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
3.0/5 (with 3 votes)

A New York radio personality travels to the small town of Fernville to oversee a contest to identify retired safecracker Jimmy Valentine, believed to be living there under an assumed name. The close-knit town of upstanding citizens is understandably upset by this venture, all the moreso when some of its citizens begin to be murdered. The radio personality and the local newspaper's young daughter collaborate on solving the murders while revealing Valentine, who has become one of the suspects.

Directed by Bernard Vorhaus - With Dennis O'Keefe

Important News(1936)

10min | Drama
3.0/5 (with 1 vote)

In this short film, a small-town newspaper editor struggles with what to publish on his paper's front page.

The Newspaperman: The Life and Times of Ben Bradlee(2017)

1h 30min | TV Movie, Documentary
4.2/5 (with 4 votes)

An intimate portrait of Washington Post executive editor Ben Bradlee, tracing his remarkable ascent from a young Boston boy stricken with polio to the one of the most pioneering and consequential journalistic figures of the 20th century.

Directed by John Maggio

Everybody's Hobby(1939)

54min | Drama, Comedy
2.5/5 (with 1 vote)

A hobby-mad family makes their obsessions pay off.

Directed by William C. McGann - With Irene Rich

The Editor and The Dragon: Horace Carter Fights the Klan(2013)

58min | Documentary
5.0/5 (with 1 vote)

In 1953, Horace Carter earned a Pulitzer Prize for Meritorious Public Service for his reporting on the Ku Klux Klan. Carter persevered in the face of death threats, including those against his family, and used the editorial authority of North Carolina's TABOR CITY TRIBUNE to protest the Klan's racist rhetoric and vigilantism. Carter's bold reporting and the unwavering integrity of his editorials helped lead to the first federal intervention in the south during that era and to the arrest and conviction of nearly 100 klansmen.

Quadrille(1938)

1h 35min | Romance / Love, Comedy
3.0/5 (with 6 votes)

The battle of the sexes as drawing room social satire. Philippe, a middle-aged newspaper editor, has lived for six years with Paulette, a successful stage actress. He tells her friend Claudine, a realistic and enterprising reporter, that he's thinking of proposing. Into the mix steps Carl Erickson, a charming Hollywood matinée idol in Paris briefly. He meets Paulette, sees her act (his box seat compliments of Philippe), and sets out to seduce her. The next two days bring talk, tears, separation, despair, surprises, and, perhaps, reconciliation as characters speak "exactly half the truth." It's a quadrille of changing partners.

Directed by Sacha Guitry - With Sacha Guitry, Gaby Morlay, Georges Grey, Jacqueline Delubac, Louis Vonelly, Marguerite Templey, ...

Torchy Runs for Mayor(1939)

1h | Action, Adventure, Comedy
3.0/5 (with 2 votes)

Torchy conducts a one woman campaign against a corrupt mayor and crime boss, and when the reform candidate is murdered, she takes up the banner.

Directed by Ray McCarey - With Glenda Farrell

The Price of Freedom(1949)

23min | Drama

The son of a newspaper editor visits his uncle in Germany and learns how government control gradually took away the freedom of the people. He returns and influences his father to print news items which will lead the people of their community to see the world situation as it is instead of as they want to believe it is.

Rock River Renegades(1942)

56min | Western

In Old Wyoming, a gang is plundering stagecoaches of shipped currency and a crusading newspaper editor is trying to get the local marshal replaced, because of his apparent failure to catch the gang, which seems to disappear into thin air after every robbery. The situation escalates when one of the stage drivers is mortally wounded; so the marshal sends for his friends, the Range Busters, to help him catch the criminals. Meanwhile, even the marshal's fiancee, the editor's daughter, turns against him in favor of an aggressive agitator for law and order - who secretly is leading the robber gang.

Directed by S. Roy Luby - With Richard Cramer, John Elliott

The Man from the Rio Grande(1943)

55min | Western

He's a straight-shootin, hard-riding man from the Rio Grande, battling his way to bring justice to the lawless West!

Directed by Howard Bretherton - With Don "Red" Barry

Digital Edition(2016)

26min | Documentary

In the midst of a publishing revolution, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, one of America's most storied institutions of journalism, is experimenting with new tools to tell stories in preparation for the end of print in the digital era.

Directed by James Kicklighter