Absence of Malice (1981)

The Front Page (1974)

Summary: A ruthless editor tries to get his top reporter to cover one more crime story before retirement.

Release Date: December 20, 1974

Genres: Comedy, Drama, Romance

Director: Billy Wilder

Writers: Ben Hecht

, Charles MacArthur

, Billy Wilder

Runtime: 1 h 45 min

MPAA: PG

Production: Universal Pictures

Distributor: Universal Pictures, National Broadcasting Company (NBC), MCA TV, MCA/Universal Home Video, NBC Universal Television Distribution, Universal Domestic Television, Universal Studios Home Video, Universal Television

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 4,000,000

Hearts and Minds (1974)

Summary: A startling and courageous landmark documentary that unflinchingly confronted the United States' involvement in Vietnam at the height of the controversy that surrounded it.

Release Date: November 17, 1975

Genres: Documentary, History, War

Director: Peter Davis

Runtime: 1 h 52 min

MPAA: R

Production: Audjeff, BBS Productions, Rainbow Releasing

Distributor: The Criterion Collection

Country: United States

Language: English

Domestic: $ 28,754

Call Northside 777 (1948)

Summary: Chicago reporter P.J. McNeal re-opens a decade-old murder case.

Genres: Drama, Film-Noir

Director: Henry Hathaway

Writers: Jerome Cady

, Jay Dratler

, Leonard Hoffman

Runtime: 1 h 52 min

MPAA: Approved

Production: Twentieth Century Fox

Distributor: Twentieth Century Fox, 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, The Criterion Channel

Country: United States

Language: English

Continental Divide (1981)

Summary: A hard-nosed Chicago journalist has an unlikely love affair with an eagle researcher.

Release Date: September 18, 1981

Genres: Comedy, Romance

Director: Michael Apted

Writer: Lawrence Kasdan

Runtime: 1 h 43 min

MPAA: PG

Production: Universal Pictures, Amblin Entertainment

Distributor: Universal Pictures, CBS, Disney Channel, MCA/Universal Home Video, Kino Lorber Studio Classics

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 9,000,000

Domestic: $ 15,578,237

Forbidden Lie$ (2007)

Summary: A dramatized documentary investigating accusations that "Forbidden Love" author Norma Khouri made up her biographical tale of a Muslim friend who was killed for dating a Christian.

Release Date: September 13, 2007

Genres: Drama, Documentary

Director: Anna Broinowski

Writer: Anna Broinowski

Runtime: 1 h 44 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Adelaide Film Festival, Australian Film Finance Corporation (AFFC), Best FX (Boom Sound), New South Wales Film & Television Office, Palace Films, New South Wales Film & Television Office, The South Australian Film Corporation

Distributor: Roxie Releasing, Odin's Eye Entertainment

Country: Australia

Language: English

Page One (2011)

Summary: Unprecedented access to the New York Times newsroom yields a complex view of the transformation of a media landscape fraught with both peril and opportunity.

Release Date: September 29, 2011

Genre: Documentary

Director: Andrew Rossi

Writers: Kate Novack

, Andrew Rossi

Runtime: 1 h 32 min

MPAA: R

Production: Participant, History Films

Distributor: Participant, Magnolia Home Entertainment

Country: United States

Language: English

Domestic: $ 1,067,028

International: $ 10,954

Medium Cool (1969)

Summary: A TV news reporter finds himself becoming personally involved in the violence that erupts around the 1968 Democratic National Convention.

Release Date: February 06, 1970

Genre: Drama

Director: Haskell Wexler

Writer: Haskell Wexler

Runtime: 1 h 51 min

MPAA: R

Production: H & J

Distributor: Paramount Pictures, Paramount Gateway Video, The Criterion Collection, Paramount Home Entertainment

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 800,000

Alice in the Cities (1974)

Summary: A German journalist is saddled with a nine-year-old girl after encountering her mother at a New York airport.

Release Date: May 17, 1974

Genre: Drama

Director: Wim Wenders

Writers: Wim Wenders

, Veith von Fürstenberg

Runtime: 1 h 53 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Westdeutscher Rundfunk (WDR), Filmverlag der Autoren, Produktion 1 im Filmverlag der Autoren

Distributor: Bauer International, Pacific Arts

Country: West Germany

Language: German

Movie budget: $ 500,000

Made in USA (1966)

Summary: In the near future, leftist writer Paula goes from Paris to the French town of Atlantic-Cité when she learns of the death of a former colleague and lover, Richard P. Is she there to investigate? On the surface, faces are beautiful...

Release Date: January 27, 1967

Genres: Comedy, Crime, Mystery

Director: Jean-Luc Godard

Writers: Jean-Luc Godard

, Donald E. Westlake

Runtime: 1 h 30 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Anouchka Films, Rome Paris Films, S.E.P.I.C.

Distributor: Pathé Contemporary Films, HBO Max, Rialto Pictures, The Criterion Collection

Country: France

Language: French

Movie budget: $ 50,000

Domestic: $ 95,209

International: $ 95

Year of the Gun (1991)

Summary: In 1978, a journalist and a photojournalist, both young Americans, had a close encounter with Red Brigades terrorists in Rome.

Release Date: November 01, 1991

Genres: Action, Romance, Thriller

Director: John Frankenheimer

Writers: Michael Mewshaw

, David Ambrose

Runtime: 1 h 51 min

MPAA: R

Production: Initial Films, J&M Entertainment, Shomedia

Distributor: Screen Media Ventures

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 15,000,000

Domestic: $ 1,182,273

The Mean Season (1985)

Summary: When a teenager is shot at the beach, a journalist from The Miami Journal is sent to cover the story. He's called by the murderer and told there'll be four more.

Release Date: February 15, 1985

Genres: Crime, Thriller

Director: Phillip Borsos

Writers: John Katzenbach

, Christopher Crowe

Runtime: 1 h 43 min

MPAA: R

Production: David Foster Productions, Turman-Foster Company

Distributor: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, Image Entertainment, MGM Home Entertainment, Orion Home Video, Tubi TV

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 7,000,000

Domestic: $ 4,349,446

The Hunting Party (2007)

Summary: A young journalist, a seasoned cameraman and a discredited war correspondent embark on an unauthorized mission to find the No.1 war criminal in Bosnia. However, their extremely dangerous target decides to come after them.

Release Date: September 21, 2007

Genres: Adventure, Comedy, Drama

Director: Richard Shepard

Writers: Richard Shepard

, Scott Anderson

Runtime: 1 h 41 min

MPAA: R

Production: Intermedia, The Weinstein Company, Cherry Road Films, Jadran Film, QED International, Scout Film, Sin Sentido Films

Distributor: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)

Countries: United States, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Mexico

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 25,000,000

Domestic: $ 969,869

International: $ 6,704,164

Elevator to the Gallows (1958)

Summary: A self-assured businessman murders his employer, the husband of his mistress, which unintentionally provokes an ill-fated chain of events.

Release Date: February 01, 1958

Genres: Drama, Crime, Thriller

Director: Louis Malle

Writers: Roger Nimier

, Louis Malle

, Noël Calef

Runtime: 1 h 31 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Nouvelles Éditions de Films (NEF)

Distributor: Victoria Films, Times Film Corporation, Janus Films, New Yorker Films, Rialto Pictures, The Criterion Collection, HBO Max, The Criterion Channel

Country: France

Language: French

Domestic: $ 374,671

International: $ 57,113

A Private War (2018)

Summary: One of the most celebrated war correspondents of our time, Marie Colvin is an utterly fearless and rebellious spirit, driven to the frontline of conflicts across the globe to give voice to the voiceless.

Release Date: November 16, 2018

Genres: Drama, Biography, War

Director: Matthew Heineman

Writers: Arash Amel

, Marie Brenner

Runtime: 1 h 50 min

MPAA: R

Production: Acacia Filmed Entertainment, Savvy Media Holdings, Thunder Road Pictures, LB Entertainment, Denver and Delilah Productions, Kamala Films

Distributor: Aviron Pictures

Countries: United Kingdom, United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 18,800,000

Domestic: $ 1,633,208

International: $ 2,281,999

Street Smart (1987)

Summary: A New York journalist lies when his fake story about a pimp describes a real pimp up for murder.

Release Date: March 20, 1987

Genres: Drama, Crime, Thriller

Director: Jerry Schatzberg

Writer: David Freeman

Runtime: 1 h 37 min

MPAA: R

Production: Golan-Globus Productions, Golan-Globus Productions

Distributor: The Cannon Group, MGM Home Entertainment, Olive Films, Viacom, Video Treasures

Countries: United States, Canada

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 5,000,000

Domestic: $ 1,119,112

Lucky Them (2013)

Summary: A rock journalist is assigned to track down her ex-boyfriend.

Release Date: April 24, 2015

Genres: Comedy, Drama

Director: Megan Griffiths

Writers: Huck Botko

, Caroline Sherman

, Emily Wachtel

Runtime: 1 h 37 min

MPAA: R

Production: Mymy Productions, Tangerine Entertainment

Distributor: IFC Films

Country: United States

Language: English

Domestic: $ 48,995