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The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo(2009)

R
| 2h 32min | Drama, Thriller, Crime, Mystery
3.8/5 (with 1,323 votes)

Swedish thriller based on Stieg Larsson's novel about a male journalist and a young female hacker. In the opening of the movie, Mikael Blomkvist, a middle-aged publisher for the magazine Millennium, loses a libel case brought by corrupt Swedish industrialist Hans-Erik Wennerström. Nevertheless, he is hired by Henrik Vanger in order to solve a cold case, the disappearance of Vanger's niece.

Directed by Niels Arden Oplev - With Michael Nyqvist, Noomi Rapace, Lena Endre, Sven-Bertil Taube, Tehilla Blad, Gunnel Lindblom, ...
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The Paperboy(2012)

R
| 1h 47min | Thriller, Drama, Mystery
2.8/5 (with 323 votes)

As investigative reporter Ward Jansen and his partner Yardley Acheman chase a sensational, career-making story with the help of Ward's younger brother Jack and sultry death-row groupie Charlotte Bless, the pair tries to prove violent swamp-dweller Hillary Van Wetter was framed for the murder of a corrupt local sheriff.

Directed by Lee Daniels - With Matthew McConaughey, Zac Efron, Nicole Kidman, John Cusack, Scott Glenn, David Oyelowo, ...
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All the President's Men(1976)

PG
| 2h 18min | Drama, History, Mystery, Thriller
3.9/5 (with 775 votes)

During the 1972 elections, two reporters' investigation sheds light on the controversial Watergate scandal that compels President Nixon to resign from his post.

Directed by Alan J. Pakula - With Robert Redford, Dustin Hoffman, Jason Robards, Jack Warden, Hal Holbrook, Jane Alexander, ...
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The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest(2009)

R
| 2h 27min | Action, Thriller, Crime, Mystery
3.5/5 (with 604 votes)

After taking a bullet to the head, Salander is under close supervision in a hospital and is set to face trial for attempted murder on her eventual release. With the help of journalist Mikael Blomkvist and his researchers at Millennium magazine, Salander must prove her innocence. In doing this she plays against powerful enemies and her own past.

Directed by Daniel Alfredson - With Noomi Rapace, Michael Nyqvist, Hans Alfredson, Lena Endre, Mikael Spreitz, Per Oscarsson, ...
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Manhattan Night(2016)

R
| 1h 53min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
3.0/5 (with 169 votes)

Porter Wren is a Manhattan tabloid writer with an appetite for scandal. On the beat he sells murder, tragedy, and anything that passes for the truth. At home, he is a dedicated husband and father. But when Caroline, a seductive stranger asks him to dig into the unsolved murder of her filmmaker husband Simon, he is drawn into a very nasty case of sexual obsession and blackmail--one that threatens his job, his marriage, and his life.

Directed by Brian DeCubellis - With Adrien Brody, Yvonne Strahovski, Campbell Scott, Linda Lavin, Steven Berkoff, Jennifer Beals, ...

Ace in the Hole(1951)

NR
| 1h 51min | Drama
3.9/5 (with 286 votes)

An arrogant reporter exploits a story about a man trapped in a cave to revitalize his career.

Directed by Billy Wilder - With Kirk Douglas, Jan Sterling, Robert Arthur, Porter Hall, Gene Evans, Frank Cady, ...

Boeing, Boeing(1965)

NR
| 1h 42min | Comedy
3.2/5 (with 32 votes)

Living in Paris, journalist Bernard has devised a scheme to keep three fiancées: Lufthansa, Air France and British United. Everything works fine as long as they only come home every third day. But when there's a change in their working schedule, they will be able to be home every second day instead. Bernard's carefully structured life is breaking apart.

Directed by John Rich - With Jerry Lewis, Tony Curtis, Thelma Ritter, Christiane Schmidtmer, Dany Saval, Suzanna Leigh, ...
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The Front Page(1974)

1h 45min | Comedy
3.7/5 (with 156 votes)

A journalist suffering from burn-out wants to finally say goodbye to his office – but his boss doesn’t like the idea one bit.

Directed by Billy Wilder - With Jack Lemmon, Walter Matthau, Charles Durning, David Wayne, Susan Sarandon, Carol Burnett, ...

While the City Sleeps(1956)

1h 40min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
3.6/5 (with 53 votes)

Newspaper men compete against each other to find a serial killer dubbed "The Lipstick Killer".

Directed by Fritz Lang - With Dana Andrews, Rhonda Fleming, George Sanders, John Drew Barrymore, Ida Lupino, Howard Duff, ...
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The Lawless(1950)

1h 23min | Drama
2.9/5 (with 6 votes)

A newspaper editor takes on the cause of oppressed migrant Mexican fruit pickers..

Directed by Joseph Losey - With Macdonald Carey, Gail Russell, Johnny Sands, Argentina Brunetti, Ian MacDonald, John Hoyt, ...
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Defence of the Realm(1986)

PG
| 1h 36min | Action, Thriller
3.2/5 (with 15 votes)

A reporter named Mullen 'stumbles' onto a story linking a prominent Member of Parliament to a KGB agent and a near-nuclear disaster involving a teenage runaway and a U.S. Air Force base. Has there been a Government cover-up? Mullen teams up with Vernon Bayliss, an old hack, and Nina Beckam, the MP's assistant, to find out the truth.

Directed by David Drury - With Gabriel Byrne, Greta Scacchi, Denholm Elliott, Lyndon Brook
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Tell No Tales(1939)

1h 9min | Crime, Mystery, Drama
2.7/5 (with 3 votes)

A newspaper editor turns a kidnapping into the banner headlines and exclusive story that could save his publication.

Directed by Leslie Fenton - With Melvyn Douglas, Ward Wing
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Highly Dangerous(1950)

1h 30min | Action, Thriller
3.1/5 (with 5 votes)

A US newsman and a British entomologist spy on germ-warfare research in a mythical country.

Directed by Roy Ward Baker - With Margaret Lockwood, Dane Clark, Marius Goring, Naunton Wayne, Anton Diffring, Anthony Newley, ...

On Our Merry Way(1948)

NR
| 1h 47min | Romance / Love, Comedy, Music
2.9/5 (with 5 votes)

Oliver Pease gets a dose of courage from his wife Martha and tricks the editor of the paper (where he writes lost pet notices) into assigning him the day's roving question. Martha suggests, "Has a little child ever changed your life?" Oliver gets answers from two slow-talking musicians, an actress whose roles usually feature a sarong, and an itinerant cardsharp. In each case the "little child" is hardly innocent: in the first, a local auto mechanic's "baby" turns out to be fully developed as a woman and a musician; in the second, a spoiled child star learns kindness; in the third, the family of a lost brat doesn't want him returned. And Oliver, what becomes of him?

Directed by King Vidor, Leslie Fenton - With Paulette Goddard, Burgess Meredith, Fred MacMurray, Henry Fonda, James Stewart, Dorothy Lamour, ...

The Underworld Story(1950)

NR
| 1h 31min | Drama, Crime
3.0/5 (with 8 votes)

A blacklisted reporter brings his shady ways to a small-town newspaper after being fired from a big city daily.

Directed by Cy Endfield - With Dan Duryea, Herbert Marshall, Gale Storm, Howard da Silva, Mary Anderson, Michael O'Shea, ...

Shakedown(1950)

NR
| 1h 20min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
3.1/5 (with 8 votes)

Jack Early is a photographer who will stop at nothing to climb his way to the very top of the success ladder. On the strength of his sheer tenacity, he gets a job with a major newspaper, and it's not long before he's made a name for himself by charming a notorious crime boss, Nick Palmer, into allowing himself to be photographed. Palmer takes him under his wing, but Early decides to bite the hand that feeds him and sets Palmer and another crime boss, Colton, against one another.

Directed by Joseph Pevney - With Howard Duff, Brian Donlevy, Lawrence Tierney, Anne Vernon, Rock Hudson, Peggie Castle, ...

The Angry Hills(1959)

1h 45min | Drama, War, Thriller
2.5/5 (with 5 votes)

Nazis chase a U.S. newsman (Robert Mitchum) paid to smuggle names of Greek resistance leaders to London.

Directed by Robert Aldrich - With Robert Mitchum, Stanley Baker, Gia Scala, Theodore Bikel, Sebastian Cabot, Leslie Phillips, ...

Shoot to Kill(1947)

NR
| 1h 4min | Crime
2.3/5 (with 8 votes)

A gritty crime story involving a newspaper man and crooked politicians.

Directed by William Berke - With Robert Kent, Luana Walters
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Hi, Nellie!(1934)

NR
| 1h 15min | Comedy, Drama, Crime
3.5/5 (with 3 votes)

Managing Editor Brad Bradshaw refuses to run a story linking the disappearance of Frank Canfield with embezzlement of the bank. He considers Frank a straight shooter and he goes easy on the story. Every other paper goes with the story that Frank took the money and Brad is demoted, by the publisher, to the Heartthrob column - writing advice to the lovelorn. After feeling sorry for himself for two months, he takes the column seriously and makes it the talk of the town. But Brad still wants his old job back so he will have to find Canfield and the missing money.

Directed by Mervyn LeRoy - With Paul Muni, Glenda Farrell, Donald Meek, Ned Sparks

Unholy Partners(1941)

NR
| 1h 34min | Crime, Drama, Romance / Love
3.5/5 (with 2 votes)

A crusading newsman starts up a tabloid with a gangster as his 50-50 partner.

Directed by Mervyn LeRoy - With Edward G. Robinson, Laraine Day, Edward Arnold, Marsha Hunt

Front Page Story(1954)

1h 39min | Drama

A workaholic newspaper editor lets his wife leave on the holiday without him just at that time some important news stories break, including a plane crash, the one which his wife took....

Directed by Gordon Parry - With Jack Hawkins, Elizabeth Allan, Eva Bartok, Derek Farr, Helen Haye, John Stuart, ...

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, ...

Power of the Press(1943)

NR
| 1h 4min | Drama
3.1/5 (with 5 votes)

During WWII, the publisher of the isolationist New York Gazette is murdered just as he was about to change the paper's policy and support the US war effort. His friend, a small town patriotic editor, is brought in to find the culprits.

Directed by Lew Landers

Come Fill The Cup(1951)

NR
| 1h 53min | Drama
3.5/5 (with 3 votes)

Alcoholic newspaperman Lew Marsh hits bottom, loses his job and is rehabilitated by Charley Dolan. After six years on the wagon he gets his job back and devotes himself to other recovering alcoholics.

Directed by Gordon Douglas - With James Cagney, Phyllis Thaxter, Raymond Massey, James Gleason, Gig Young, Kathleen Freeman, ...

The Humming Bird(1924)

1h 20min | Drama

A pickpocket falls in love with a newspaperman. When he is sent off to war and she disguises herself as a boy, joins a gang and sets out to save him.

Directed by Sidney Olcott - With Gloria Swanson, Adrienne D'Ambricourt, Cesare Gravina, Edmund Burns, Mario Majeroni, Regina Quinn, ...

The Big Tip Off(1955)

NR
| 1h 18min | Crime
2.5/5 (with 1 vote)

A newspaper man uses a mobster's tips to get the scoop on gangster activities.

Directed by Frank McDonald

The Mystery Man(1935)

NR
| 1h 5min | Action, Adventure, Crime, Thriller, Mystery, Romance / Love
2.9/5 (with 2 votes)

Hard-boiled newspaper reporter Larry Doyle (Robert Armstrong) goes a bit too far in celebrating a work bonus and wakes up on a train bound for St. Louis with only a buck on his person. To remedy the problem, Doyle pawns the revolver he's carrying. When the gun is subsequently used in a murder, Doyle's problems only multiply. In the meantime, he's also fallen in love with a comely stranger (Maxine Doyle) he convinced to impersonate his wife.

Directed by Ray McCarey

The Delavine Affair(1955)

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

Peter Reynolds stars as Rex Banner, a newspaperman who makes it his life's mission to track down a vicious gang of thieves. When his informant winds up dead, Rex finds himself framed for murder.

Directed by Douglas Peirce - With Peter Reynolds

Her Kind of Man(1946)

NR
| 1h 18min | Drama
2.9/5 (with 3 votes)

A singer can't choose between a charismatic gangster and an honest newspaperman.

Directed by Fred de Cordova - With Dane Clark

Journey for Margaret(1942)

1h 21min | Drama, War
3.5/5 (with 7 votes)

An American newspaperman and his wife, end up in London after several retreats in the opening days of WWII. After a shrapnel wound and loss of her baby she returns to America. War weary, he is forced to do a story about war orphans, where he meets Margaret.

Directed by W. S. Van Dyke - With Robert Young, Laraine Day, Fay Bainter, Nigel Bruce, Margaret O'Brien, Elisabeth Risdon, ...
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