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The Batman(2022)

PG-13
| 2h 55min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller
3.9/5 (with 4,396 votes)

In his second year of fighting crime, Batman uncovers corruption in Gotham City that connects to his own family while facing a serial killer known as the Riddler.

Mile 22(2018)

R
| 1h 35min | Action, Thriller
3.1/5 (with 998 votes)

An elite group of American operatives, aided by a top-secret tactical command team, must transport an asset who holds life-threatening information to an extraction point 22 miles away through the hostile streets of an Asian city.

The Bank Job(2008)

R
| 1h 52min | Thriller, Crime, Drama
3.4/5 (with 980 votes)

Terry is a small-time car dealer trying to leave his shady past behind and start a family. Martine is a beautiful model from Terry's old neighbourhood who knows that Terry is no angel. When Martine proposes a foolproof plan to rob a bank, Terry recognises the danger but realises this may be the opportunity of a lifetime. As the resourceful band of thieves burrows its way into a safe-deposit vault at a Lloyds Bank, they quickly realise that, besides millions in riches, the boxes also contain secrets that implicate everyone from London's most notorious underworld gangsters to powerful government figures, and even the Royal Family. Although the heist makes headlines throughout Britain for several days, a government gag order eventually brings all reporting of the case to an immediate halt.

Motherless Brooklyn(2019)

R
| 2h 25min | Drama, Thriller
3.4/5 (with 643 votes)

New York City, 1957. Lionel Essrog, a private detective living with Tourette syndrome, tries to solve the murder of his mentor and best friend, armed only with vague clues and the strength of his obsessive mind.

The Campaign(2012)

R
| 1h 25min | Comedy
2.9/5 (with 761 votes)

Two rival politicians compete to win an election to represent their small North Carolina congressional district in the United States House of Representatives.

Leviathan(2014)

R
| 2h 21min | Drama
3.7/5 (with 392 votes)

In a Russian coastal town, Kolya is forced to fight the corrupt mayor when he is told that his house will be demolished. He recruits a lawyer friend to help, but the man's arrival brings further misfortune for Kolya and his family.

The Generation of Evil(2022)

1h 54min | Drama, Thriller
2.6/5 (with 4 votes)

On the verge of retirement, Commissioner Gintas must undertake the investigation of a series of heinous murders, a dangerous task that could expose the many dirty secrets of several prominent members of the social elite of a small Lithuanian town.

Directed by Emilis Vėlyvis - With Ingeborga Dapkūnaitė, Ainis Storpirštis, Donatas Simukauskas, Vaidotas Martinaitis, Toma Vaškevičiūtė, Dalia Michelevičiūtė, ...

Code Name: Emperor(2022)

1h 46min | Drama, Thriller
3.0/5 (with 69 votes)

Juan, a secret service agent, approaches Wendy, a young Filipina who works as a maid for a suspicious couple.

Directed by Jorge Coira - With Luis Tosar, Alexandra Masangkay, Georgina Amorós, Denis Gómez, Miguel Rellán, Arón Piper, ...

The Drug King(2018)

2h 19min | Crime, Action, Drama
3.1/5 (with 56 votes)

Busan, South Korea, 1970s. Lee Doo-sam is a small-time smuggler. After helping a drug gang to smuggle meth, he falls into the dark crime world. Quick-witted and full of ambition, he eventually takes over the drug underworld and starts to lead a double life: a good community leader during the day but an infamous drug lord during the night.

The Spy Gone North(2018)

PG-13
| 2h 18min | Drama, History, Thriller
3.7/5 (with 77 votes)

South Korea, 1993. An agent of the National Intelligence Service is sent to Beijing to infiltrate a group of North Korean officials with the ultimate goal of obtaining information about their nuclear program.

Directed by Yoon Jong-bin - With Hwang Jeong-min

To Steal from a Thief(2016)

1h 36min | Crime, Thriller
3.1/5 (with 167 votes)

Valencia, Spain. On a rainy morning, six armed men in disguise assault a bank. But what seemed like an easy heist, quickly goes wrong with nothing unfolding as planned, and mistrust quickly builds between the two leaders of the gang.

Loro 1(2018)

1h 44min | Drama
3.4/5 (with 253 votes)

"Loro", in two parts, is a period movie that chronicles, as a fiction story, events likely happened in Italy (or even made up) between 2006 and 2010. "Loro" wants to suggest in portraits and glimps, through a composite constellation of characters, a moment in history, now definitively ended, which can be described in a very summary picture of the events as amoral, decadent but extraordinarily alive. Additionally, "Loro" wishes to tell the story of some Italians, fresh and ancient people at the same time: souls from a modern imaginary Purgatory who, moved by heterogeneous intents like ambition, admiration, affection, curiosity, personal interests, establish to try and orbit around the walking Paradise that is the man named Silvio Berlusconi.

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The Awakener(2018)

1h 48min | Thriller, Action, Crime, Drama
3.1/5 (with 61 votes)

Miguel is a federal agent, highly trained and skilled in weapons. After experiencing trauma in his personal life, he sets out on a journey of revenge, assuming the identity of a masked vigilante. The Awakener decides to do justice with his own hands by exterminating corrupt politicians.

Power(1986)

R
| 1h 51min | Drama
3.1/5 (with 23 votes)

Pete St. John is a powerful and successful political consultant, with clients spread around the country. When his long-time friend and client Ohio senator Sam Hastings decides to quit politics, he is rapidly drafted to help with the campaign of the man destined to succeed him, unknown and mysterious businessman Jerome Cade...

The Trial of Joan of Arc(1963)

1h 2min | Drama, History
3.6/5 (with 53 votes)

Rouen, Normandy, 1431, during the Hundred Years' War. After being captured by French soldiers from an opposing faction, Joan of Arc, the Maid of Orléans, is unjustly tried by an ecclesiastical court overseen by her English enemies.

Directed by Robert Bresson - With Florence Delay, Jean-Claude Fourneau, Gérard Zingg, Jean Gilbert

Sarkar(2005)

2h 3min | Crime, Action, Drama
3.5/5 (with 30 votes)

Subhash Nagre runs a parallel government in the city where he has a cult following. When his enemies plot to murder him, his son takes charge and stands up against them.

Polícia Federal: A Lei é Para Todos - Os Bastidores da Operação Lava Jato(2017)

1h 47min | Action, Thriller, Crime
3.6/5 (with 50 votes)

2013. During Operation Bidone, the Federal Police seized a truck loaded with palm heart, which contained 697 kg of cocaine. The investigation falls on the team assembled by Ivan Romano, based in Curitiba and composed by Beatriz, Júlio and Ítalo. The traffic connections lead them to the dower Alberto Youssef and later to the former Petrobras director Paulo Roberto Costa, who reveals an immense structure involving builders and the government, in order to divert public money. As the investigation progresses, the group led by Ivan is increasingly approaching some of the country's most influential politicians.

Two Rabbits(2012)

1h 48min | Action, Crime, Drama
3.4/5 (with 58 votes)

Edgar is a young upper-middle class man, close to completing 30 years old, he lives a full life crisis and is in a position common to the vast majority of Brazilians. On the one hand the power, represented by a corrupt state, abusive and absent in their taxes before their obligations. On the other, crime increasingly organized violence became a constant in the lives of citizens in large cities. Edgar responds to all this as a modern vigilante. With the help of ingredients such as technology, counter-information and manipulation, Edgar concocts a brilliant plan, using the greed of their opponents as the reason for its destruction. As the plot unfolds, we know more about the dark past of each character as Edgar fit the pieces together in an intriguing puzzle that makes up the film's plot.

Double Speech(2023)

3.8/5 (with 8 votes)

An image consultant helps a corrupt politician form a romantic attachment with a journalist who despises him.

Directed by Hernán Guerschuny - With Diego Peretti, Julieta Cardinali, Rafael Ferro

Box 507(2002)

1h 44min | Drama, Thriller
3.2/5 (with 32 votes)

Modesto, an honest and responsible professional, is a manager of a small bank branch in Costa del Sol. His daughter died in a forest fire which he had thought to be accidental. One day he wakes up in his bank, after being locked and dragged by unknown men, and finds out in a safety-deposit box that the fire was plotted. From that day on, he sets on a personal crusade for justice.

Tales of a Golden Geisha(1990)

1h 54min | Drama, Comedy
3.2/5 (with 5 votes)

The film stars two of Itami's regular actors, Nobuko Miyamoto as a geisha who brings luck to the men with whom she sleeps, and Masahiko Tsugawa as her unfaithful, sometimes partner. As well as showing her relationships with the man she loves and the men who employ her, it satirizes corruption and the influence of money in Japanese politics.

The Savior for Sale(2021)

1h 35min | Documentary
3.5/5 (with 2 votes)

In November 15, 2017, the painting Salvator Mundi, attributed to Italian artist Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519), was sold for an unprecedented $450 million. An examination of the dirty secrets of the art world and the surprising story of how a work of art is capable of upsetting both personal and geopolitical interests.

Ko(2011)

2h 40min | Action, Thriller
3.6/5 (with 22 votes)

Ashwin is a photographer, covering the upcoming elections for a newspaper. His life gets entangled with politics when one of his published photographs upsets a corrupt political party.

Directed by K. V. Anand - With Jiiva, Karthika Nair

The Yes Man(1991)

NR
| 1h 32min | Drama
3.5/5 (with 21 votes)

Cesare Botero, an ambitious and corrupt young minister, hires a new spokesman, honest and polite high school professor Luciano Sandulli.

They Returned(2015)

1h 34min | Crime, Horror, Thriller, Drama
3.1/5 (with 9 votes)

They Returned is a beautifully touching and unnerving story about the unexplained disappearance of three children, two boys and one girl, and their reappearance three days later in a semi-autistic state. Not even the children themselves are able to help anyone understand what happened.

Directed by Iván Noel - With Lauro Verón

Marie(1985)

PG-13
| 1h 52min | Drama
2.8/5 (with 7 votes)

A single mother takes a job with the government where she is confronted with corruption.

I Am the Law(1977)

1h 53min | Drama, History, Thriller
3.7/5 (with 8 votes)

Palermo, Sicily, November 1925. Cesare Mori, the new prefect of the city, soon to be known as the Iron Prefect, begins a ruthless war against the Mafia, a sinister organization that has subjugated the island for centuries, something that the dictator Benito Mussolini and the fascist authorities can no longer allow.

Shadow World(2016)

1h 34min | Documentary, History
3.6/5 (with 6 votes)

A detailed investigation into the political and economic interests that, since the beginning of the 20th century, have pulled the strings of the arms trade, hidden in the shadows, feeding the shameful corruption of politicians and government officials and promoting a state of permanent war throughout the world, while they cynically asked for a lasting and universal peace.

Directed by Johan Grimonprez

Don't Call Him Dimon(2017)

49min | Documentary
4.3/5 (with 25 votes)

A 2017 Russian documentary film about alleged corruption by Prime Minister of Russia Dmitry Medvedev. The film claims that Dmitry Medvedev has embezzled an estimated $1.2 billion.

Directed by Alexei Navalny - With Alexei Navalny, Dmitry Medvedev, Alisher Usmanov

Democracy for $ale(2020)

1h 25min | Documentary
3.6/5 (with 2 votes)

In the United States of America, lobbyists, corporations and billionaires invest millions of dollars to ensure that a suitable candidate, one inclined to support their personal ambitions and economic projects, wins an election, which inevitably affects everything, from the selection of local officials to presidential elections, creates countless conflicts of interest and undermines what supposedly used to be a model democracy.

Directed by Sylvain Pak
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