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- Spotlight (2015) The Scandal: The Boston archdioceses scandal. There have been very few movies since ‘Schindler’s List’ which have moved me the way ‘Spotlight’ did.
- All the President’s Men (1976) The Scandal: The Watergate scandal relating to Richard Nixon. During the 1972 elections, reporter Bob Woodward covers what seems to be a minor break-in at the Democratic Party National headquarters.
- The Wolf of the Wall Street (2013) The Scandal: Jordan Belfort’s rampant corruption and fraud at Wall Street. Introduced to life in the fast lane through stockbroking, Jordan Belfort takes a hit after a Wall Street crash.
- The Big Short (2015) The Scandal: The housing bubble of 2009. In 2008, Wall Street guru Michael Burry realizes that a number of subprime home loans are in danger of defaulting.
- 10 Quiz Show
- 9 She Said
- 8 Truth
- 7 Eight Men Out
- 6 Shattered Glass
- 5 Erin Brockovich
- 4 The Big Short
- 3 The Wolf of Wall Street
- 2 Spotlight
- 1 All The President's Men
Quiz Show, directed by Robert Redford, recounts the true story of the game show "Twenty One" and how it was completely rigged. Contestants were given the answers in order to win, and a beloved winner, Charles Von Doren, received an intense amount of backlash because of it. The film is based in 1958, so you can imagine the hype this show had as fami...
The #MeToo movement took over the world when stories about Harvey Weinstein and other powerful, corrupt men came to light. Sexual harassment has always been a terrible thing in the workplace, and when looked at through Hollywood lenses, a lot of terrible stories come to light. In She Said,Two New York Times journalists, Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey...
Truth follows the 2004 scandal in which a group of reporters and television crews questioned whether George W. Bush received preferential treatment while he served in the military. Truthwas praised for being "so right" and showcasing the hardships of television and the need to tell the truth on such a large scale. Cate Blanchett andRobert Redford a...
If you’re a fan of the Chicago White Sox baseball team, you most likely know about the scandal that took place in 1919. The World Series was happening, and the team was set to play the Cincinnati Reds. The White Sox were upset with their team's wonder because they weren’t being properly paid, so they ended up taking a deal from some hotshot gambler...
If you’re a writer in any type of medium, you know the number one rule when it comes to publishing: don’t plagiarize and don’t fabricate. Stephen Glass was a young writer and associate editor at The New Republic in 1998 and became popular in the company because he was known for telling interesting stories. Glass is in the clear for a bit, until his...
Steven Soderbergh directs this dramatized version of what Erin Brockovich discovered by chance at her new job. If you’re not familiar, in 1993 there was a large scandal involving the company Pacific Gas and Electric (PG&E) and the Hinkley groundwater contamination incident. Erin Brockovich, a single mother of three children with little to no journa...
In 2008, America faced a major economic collapse due to the housing market being completely corrupt. The Big Short takes you on an absolute ride as it displays exactly what happened in the lead-up to this massive, life-changing scandal. A knockout cast and a handful of cameos will make this film more enjoyable if you find yourself struggling to kee...
Jordan Belfort is one of the most well-known names when it comes to scandals involving Wall Street. It’s 1987, and Belfort enters the scene on Wall Street and takes a job at a brokerage firm. Leonardo DiCaprio played Belfort so well that many people thought he should have gotten an Oscar for his portrayal of Belfort. The Wolf of Wall Streetshowcase...
In 2001, Marty Baron became the new managing editor of the Boston Globe. Pretty soon into his new position, Baron requests the Spotlight team start investigating what the Catholic Church’s involvement is with cases regarding sexual abuse of children. It’s confirmed that about 75% of the film’s plot is accurateto what really happened in Boston and w...
All the President’s Men is regarded as oneof the most honest moviesbased on true events, simply because it was released very quickly after the story it was based on. Robert Redford and Dustin Hoffman star in this movie based on the Watergate scandal in the mid-1970s. A full-blown investigation was chartered to find out exactly what happened and how...
Luckily, the resulting “based on a true story” films are often excellent, here are some great examples of the genre. 10. Eight Men Out. There are few things considered to be more “American” than baseball, which is why a major cheating scandal that rocked the sport in 1919 could be the subject of a hit movie nearly 70 years later.
- All the President's Men (1976) Film. Drama. Wait, you’re telling us Watergate is an actual thing that happened, and in 1974 two reporters really did take down a sitting US president?
- In Cold Blood (1967) Film. Before true crime podcasts and Dateline NBC marathons, there was Truman Capote, whose account of the 1959 massacre of a family in rural Kansas shocked a nation not yet desensitised to random acts of unspeakable violence.
- Hustlers (2019) Film. Drama. A rare depiction of a r ecession that’s neither a teary drama about farmers losing their homes nor a political screed against greedy one-percenters, Hustlers is instead a hyperkinetic story of economic survival, set in a world hit particularly hard by the 2008 financial crisis: New York strip clubs.
- Argo (2012) Film. Drama. It’s one of those stories too far-fetched for even the most inventive screenwriter to make up. At the onset of the 1979 Iranian Revolution, a movie-loving CIA agent hatched a plot to smuggle six diplomats out of the country by pretending to be a Canadian film crew shooting a fake Star Wars-alike sci-fi flick there.
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- Ed Wood (1994) What would you expect when putting Tim Burton and Johnny Depp together other than pure perfection? Ed Wood tells the story of the eponymous cult filmmaker during the time period when he made his most popular movies, as well as his relationship with actor Bela Lugosi.
- Bugsy (1991) Bugsy tells the controversial, yet very intriguing story of the love affair between Hollywood actress Virginia Hill and mob boss Bugsy Siegel.
- The Cat’s Meow (2001) Who would have thought that Hollywood has had so many murder mysteries, right? The Cat’s Meow is yet another drama focusing on the mysterious death of film mogul Thomas H.Icne, which happened on a yacht with many other stars on board, such as the actress Marion Davies (played by Kirsten Dunst) and William Randolph Hearst (played by Edward Herrmann).
- Hollywoodland (2006) Although a fictionalized narrative of what happened in real life, Hollywoodland is a drama movie centering on the death of 50s actor George Reeves, played by Ben Affleck.
6. Erin Brockovich (2000) Rotten Tomatoes® 85%. 7. The Queen (2006) Rotten Tomatoes® 90%. 8. Shattered Glass (2003) Rotten Tomatoes® 92%.
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