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100 - Rotten Tomatoes Audience
221 votes

Massoud, l'Afghan (1998)

Summary: The friendship between Christophe de Ponfilly and Commander Massoud, a legendary figure of the Afghan resistance against the Soviet invader, goes back to the filmmaker's first film, "A Valley Against an Empire", made in 1981. Fift...

Release Date: December 09, 1998

Genres: Documentary, History, War

Director: Christophe de Ponfilly

Writer: Christophe de Ponfilly

Runtime: 1 h 29 min

Production: Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée (CNC), Interscoop, La Sept-Arte, TVO, Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée (CNC)

Country: France

Language: French

Domestic: $ 26,747

International: $ 15,725

97 - Rotten Tomatoes Audience
252526 votes

City of God (2002)

Summary: In the slums of Rio, two kids' paths diverge as one struggles to become a photographer and the other a kingpin.

Release Date: February 13, 2004

Genres: Drama, Crime

Directors: Fernando Meirelles

, Kátia Lund

Writers: Paulo Lins

, Bráulio Mantovani

Runtime: 2 h 10 min

MPAA: R

Production: O2 Filmes, VideoFilmes, Globo Filmes, Lumière, Wild Bunch, StudioCanal, Hank Levine Film, Lereby Productions, VideoFilmes

Distributor: Miramax

Countries: Brazil, France

Language: Portuguese

Movie budget: $ 3,300,000

Domestic: $ 7,564,459

International: $ 23,116,334

93 - Rotten Tomatoes Audience
70754 votes

Spotlight (2015)

Summary: The true story of how the Boston Globe uncovered the massive scandal of child molestation and cover-up within the local Catholic Archdiocese, shaking the entire Catholic Church to its core.

Release Date: November 20, 2015

Genres: Drama, Crime, Biography

Director: Tom McCarthy

Writers: Josh Singer

, Tom McCarthy

Runtime: 2 h 09 min

MPAA: G

Production: Participant, First Look Media, Anonymous Content, Entertainment One, Topic Studios

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 20,000,000

Domestic: $ 45,055,776

International: $ 53,634,478

93 - Rotten Tomatoes Audience
36461 votes

Network (1976)

Summary: A television network cynically exploits a deranged former anchor's ravings and revelations about mass media for its own profit, but finds that his message may be difficult to control.

Release Date: November 27, 1976

Genre: Drama

Director: Sidney Lumet

Writer: Paddy Chayefsky

Runtime: 2 h 01 min

MPAA: R

Production: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)

Distributor: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), United Artists, Home Box Office (HBO), CBS, MGM/CBS Home Video, MGM Home Entertainment, Turner Entertainment, MGM/UA Home Entertainment, Warner Home Video

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 3,800,000

Domestic: $ 23,689,877

International: $ 11,440

93 - Rotten Tomatoes Audience
33835 votes

It Happened One Night (1934)

Summary: A rogue reporter trailing a runaway heiress for a big story joins her on a bus heading from Florida to New York and they end up stuck with each other when the bus leaves them behind at one of the stops along the way.

Release Date: February 22, 1934

Genres: Comedy, Romance

Director: Frank Capra

Writers: Robert Riskin

, Samuel Hopkins Adams

Runtime: 1 h 45 min

MPAA: Approved

Production: Columbia Pictures, Polyphony Digital

Distributor: Columbia Pictures, Screen Gems, Columbia Pictures Television Distribution, Columbia TriStar Home Video, RCA/Columbia Pictures Home Video, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, The Criterion Channel, The Criterion Collection, HBO Max

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 325,000

92 - Rotten Tomatoes Audience
325318 votes

Almost Famous (2000)

Summary: A high-school boy in the early 1970s is given the chance to write a story for Rolling Stone magazine about an up-and-coming rock band as he accompanies them on their concert tour.

Release Date: September 22, 2000

Genres: Adventure, Comedy, Drama

Director: Cameron Crowe

Writer: Cameron Crowe

Runtime: 2 h 02 min

MPAA: R

Production: Dreamworks Pictures, Columbia Pictures, Vinyl Films

Distributor: DreamWorks Distribution, DreamWorks Home Entertainment, Paramount Home Entertainment, Paramount Pictures

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 60,000,000

Domestic: $ 32,534,850

International: $ 14,852,716

92 - Rotten Tomatoes Audience
50405 votes

All the President's Men (1976)

Summary: "The Washington Post" reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein uncover the details of the Watergate scandal that leads to President Richard Nixon's resignation.

Release Date: April 09, 1976

Genres: Drama, Biography, History

Director: Alan J. Pakula

Writers: Carl Bernstein

, Bob Woodward

, William Goldman

Runtime: 2 h 18 min

MPAA: PG

Production: Wildwood Enterprises

Distributor: National Broadcasting Company (NBC), Warner Home Video, HBO Max, RCA VideoDiscs

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 8,500,000

Domestic: $ 70,600,000

International: $ 1,199

92 - Rotten Tomatoes Audience
6998 votes

Sweet Smell of Success (1957)

Summary: Powerful but unethical Broadway columnist J.J. Hunsecker coerces unscrupulous press agent Sidney Falco into breaking up his sister's romance with a jazz musician.

Release Date: June 29, 1957

Genres: Drama, Film-Noir

Director: Alexander Mackendrick

Writers: Clifford Odets

, Ernest Lehman

, Alexander Mackendrick

Runtime: 1 h 36 min

MPAA: PG

Production: Norma Productions, Curtleigh Productions, Hecht-Hill-Lancaster Productions, Norma Productions

Distributor: United Artists, MGM Home Entertainment, MGM/UA Home Entertainment, The Criterion Collection

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 3,400,000

92 - Rotten Tomatoes Audience
6253 votes

Ace in the Hole (1951)

Summary: Frustrated former journalist Chuck Tatum now working for an Albuquerque newspaper exploits a story about trading post owner Leo Minosa trapped in a cave to rekindle Chuck's career, but the story soon escalates into a media circus.

Release Date: July 04, 1951

Genres: Drama, Film-Noir

Director: Billy Wilder

Writers: Billy Wilder

, Lesser Samuels

, Walter Newman

Runtime: 1 h 51 min

MPAA: Approved

Production: Paramount Pictures

Distributor: National Broadcasting Company (NBC), Paramount Home Entertainment, The Criterion Collection, The Criterion Channel, HBO Max

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 1,800,000

92 - Rotten Tomatoes Audience
152 votes

Hating Breitbart (2012)

Summary: One man with a website who forever changed the media paradigm, upending the traditional press and changing the ground rules of political journalism.

Release Date: October 19, 2012

Genre: Documentary

Director: Andrew Marcus

Writer: Andrew Marcus

Runtime: 1 h 25 min

MPAA: R

Production: Pixel & Verse

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 1,000,000

Domestic: $ 81,432

91 - Rotten Tomatoes Audience
23171 votes

The Killing Fields (1984)

Summary: A journalist is trapped in Cambodia during Pol Pot's bloody Year Zero cleansing campaign.

Release Date: November 16, 1984

Genres: Drama, Biography, History

Director: Roland Joffé

Writer: Bruce Robinson

Runtime: 2 h 21 min

MPAA: R

Production: Goldcrest Films International, International Film Investors, Enigma Productions

Distributor: Warner Bros., Warner Home Video, National Broadcasting Company (NBC)

Country: United Kingdom

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 14,400,000

Domestic: $ 34,700,291

91 - Rotten Tomatoes Audience
1849 votes

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

91 - Rotten Tomatoes Audience
1552 votes

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

91 - Rotten Tomatoes Audience
1177 votes

Orwell Rolls in His Grave (2003)

Summary: A documentary analyzing the role of the modern American media and its effects on democracy.

Release Date: November 19, 2004

Genre: Documentary

Director: Robert Kane Pappas

Writers: Tom Blackburn

, Robert Kane Pappas

Runtime: 1 h 24 min

MPAA: Unrated

Production: Sag Harbor-Basement Pictures

Country: United States

Language: English

Domestic: $ 20,389

90 - Rotten Tomatoes Audience
568994 votes

Blood Diamond (2006)

Summary: A fisherman, a smuggler, and a syndicate of businessmen match wits over the possession of a priceless diamond.

Release Date: December 08, 2006

Genres: Adventure, Drama, Thriller

Director: Edward Zwick

Writers: Charles Leavitt

, C. Gaby Mitchell

Runtime: 2 h 23 min

MPAA: R

Production: Warner Bros., Virtual Studios, Spring Creek Productions, LSG Productions, Liberty Pictures (II), Lonely Film Productions GmbH & Co. KG.

Distributor: Warner Bros., Amazon Prime Video, HBO Max, Warner Home Video

Countries: United States, Germany, United Kingdom

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 100,000,000

Domestic: $ 57,377,916

International: $ 114,342,482

90 - Rotten Tomatoes Audience
159768 votes

Citizen Kane (1941)

Summary: Following the death of publishing tycoon Charles Foster Kane, reporters scramble to uncover the meaning of his final utterance: 'Rosebud.'

Release Date: September 05, 1941

Genres: Drama, Mystery

Director: Orson Welles

Writers: Herman J. Mankiewicz

, Orson Welles

, John Houseman

Runtime: 1 h 59 min

MPAA: PG

Production: RKO Radio Pictures, Mercury Productions

Distributor: RKO Radio Pictures, Paramount Pictures, C&C Television Corporation, HBO Max, MGM/UA Entertainment Company

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 839,727

Domestic: $ 1,627,530

International: $ 79,972

90 - Rotten Tomatoes Audience
59310 votes

The Insider (1999)

Summary: A research chemist comes under personal and professional attack when he decides to appear in a 60 Minutes exposé on Big Tobacco.

Release Date: November 05, 1999

Genres: Drama, Thriller, Biography

Director: Michael Mann

Writers: Marie Brenner

, Eric Roth

, Michael Mann

Runtime: 2 h 37 min

MPAA: R

Production: Touchstone Pictures, Forward Pass, Blue Lion Entertainment, Digital Image Associates, Kaitz Productions, Mann/Roth Productions, Spyglass Entertainment

Distributor: Buena Vista Pictures, Touchstone Home Video, Touchstone Home Entertainment

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 90,000,000

Domestic: $ 29,089,912

International: $ 31,200,000

90 - Rotten Tomatoes Audience
34206 votes

La Dolce Vita (1960)

Summary: A series of stories following a week in the life of a philandering tabloid journalist living in Rome.

Release Date: April 19, 1961

Genres: Comedy, Drama

Director: Federico Fellini

Writers: Federico Fellini

, Ennio Flaiano

, Tullio Pinelli

Runtime: 2 h 54 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Riama Film, Cinecittà, Pathé Consortium Cinéma

Distributor: Astor Pictures Corporation, American International Pictures (AIP), American-International Television (AIP-TV), IntraMovies, Republic Pictures Home Video, Koch Lorber Films, Koch Vision, The Criterion Collection, Image Entertainment

Countries: Italy, France

Language: Italian

90 - Rotten Tomatoes Audience
24363 votes

His Girl Friday (1940)

Summary: A newspaper editor uses every trick in the book to keep his ace reporter ex-wife from quitting and remarrying, using an exclusive interview with a death row convict as an enticement to buy himself some time to win her back.

Release Date: January 18, 1940

Genres: Comedy, Drama, Romance

Director: Howard Hawks