Films
| Name | Date | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Above the Law | 1988 | A Chicago vice unit cop stumbles on a CIA plot to finance black ops with crack cocaine |
| Absolute Power | 1997 | A master burglar goes on the run after witnessing the President murdering his mistress |
| Air America | 1990 | Pilots in Laos discover that they are patsies for a CIA heroin-smuggling plot |
| All the President's Men | 1976 | Two young reporters uncover the Watergate scandal |
| Angels and Demons | 2009 | A Harvard symbologist discovers an Illuminati plot to destroy the Roman Catholic Church |
| The Arrival | 1996 | Mysterious forces cover up an alien invasion |
| Arlington Road | 1999 | A former FBI agent, grieving for his deceased wife, suspects his next-door neighbors are terrorists |
| The Assassination Bureau | 1969 | An international anarchist organization performs political assassinations of the "socially undesirable" for pay |
| Blow Out | 1981 | A movie sound effects man goes on the run after recording the Chappaquiddick incident-style assassination of a prominent politician |
| Bob Roberts | 1991 | Mockumentary; a right-wing politician, embroiled in the Iran-Contra affair, is the apparent target of an assassination |
| The Bourne Identity | 2002 | An amnesiac CIA assassin goes on the run from his superiors, who want to cover up their illegal activities |
| The Boys from Brazil | 1978 | Nazi fugitive Josef Mengele plots to use cloning to create the Fourth Reich |
| Brass Target | 1978 | Rogue U.S. Army officers plot to assassinate General George S. Patton to cover up a massive theft of Nazi gold |
| Canadian Bacon | 1995 | Comedy; the President and his advisors seek to boost his approval rating by fabricating a cold war with Canada |
| Capricorn One | 1978 | The government fabricates the first manned mission to Mars |
| Charlie Wilson's War | 2007 | A Texas congressman illegally funnels money to the Afghan Mujahideen via a rogue CIA agent |
| The China Syndrome | 1979 | Management covers up safety flaws at a nuclear power plant; foreshadowed the Three Mile Island accident |
| Chinatown | 1974 | Film noir; a private eye stumbles onto murder and political corruption involving real estate interests in Southern California |
| Coma | 1978 | A big hospital illegally harvests organs from comatose patients |
| Company Business | 1991 | Two former spies, one CIA and one KGB, go on the run in Berlin after stumbling onto a plot to trade drug money for hostages |
| Conspiracy Theory | 1997 | A conspiracy theorist cabbie goes on the run after stumbling onto a real conspiracy involving brainwashing |
| The Constant Gardener | 2005 | Big pharmaceutical companies pull the levers of power |
| The Conversation | 1974 | A paranoid surveillance expert thinks he has overheard a murder plot and that he is being spied on |
| The Da Vinci Code | 2006 | A Harvard symbologist discovers a cover-up of the secret history of Christianity |
| The Dancer Upstairs | 2002 | Hunting terrorists in South America, a policeman encounters roadblocks in a corrupted state |
| Dark City | 1998 | An amnesiac awakes to discover that he is accused of murder, and that a mysterious group of men who possess the power to stop time and change reality are involved |
| The Day of the Jackal | 1973 | OAS leaders plot to assassinate President Charles de Gaulle |
| Death of a President | 2006 | Faux documentary; government officials cover up the truth of President Bush's assassination to push an anti-terrorism agenda |
| Defence of the Realm | 1985 | A reporter investigating an MP's sex scandal stumbles onto a web of MI5 cover-ups involving murder and nuclear weapons |
| The Domino Principle | 1977 | A mysterious organization busts a Vietnam War vet out of prison for an assassination |
| Double Take | 2001 | Comedy; an innocent investment banker goes on the run from the CIA and a Mexican drug cartel after stumbling onto a money laundering scheme |
| Eagle Eye | 2008 | Two people are guided by a mysterious and seemingly omnipotent female voice on their phones towards the end result of wiping out most of the U.S. Presidential line of succession. |
| Enemy of the State | 1998 | An attorney goes on the run from rogue NSA operatives after he is passed a videotape of them assassinating a congressman |
| Eraser | 1996 | Rogue Pentagon officials sell high-tech arms under the table and eliminate the witnesses with the help of rogue U.S. Marshals |
| Executive Action | 1973 | A group of right-wing business magnates and mercenary covert ops specialists plot and carry out the John F. Kennedy assassination |
| Extreme Measures | 1996 | A secretive hospital attempts to covers up medical experiments done on the homeless. |
| Flightplan | 2005 | A woman's daughter disappears without a trace aboard an airplane |
| Foreign Correspondent | 1940 | Spies masquerading as peace movement leaders arrange a peace conference and a phony assassination in order to kidnap a diplomat |
| Foul Play | 1978 | Comedy; an innocent librarian stumbles onto a bizarre plot to assassinate the Pope |
| The Fourth Protocol | 1987 | A rogue KGB chief bent on prolonging the Cold War sends his top spy to detonate an atomic bomb at an American nuclear airbase in Great Britain |
| From Hell | 2001 | A psychic detective in Victorian era London investigates the Jack the Ripper killings and uncovers a Masonic plot |
| The Fugitive | 1993 | An innocent surgeon is framed for his wife's murder and goes on the run to uncover the conspiracy |
| Futureworld | 1976 | A reporter uncovers a conspiracy to replace the leaders of the world with androids. |
| The Game | 1997 | An unsuspecting investment banker is enrolled in a mysterious "game" as a birthday present and becomes the target of sinister forces who may or may not want to ruin his life |
| The Ghost Writer | 2010 | A ghostwriter for the British Prime Minister investigates the mysterious death of his predecessor which leads him to uncover the Prime Minister's secret history with the CIA. |
| The Godfather Part III | 1990 | Rival Mafia factions compete to use the Vatican Bank for money laundering, leading to the assassination of a reformist Pope |
| Green Zone | 2010 | An Army Warrant Officer assigned to search for WMDs in war-torn Iraq stumbles into a civil war between the CIA and the DoD's Special Intelligence Unit over suspect intelligence |
| Hidden Agenda | 1990 | A CID detective investigates the suspicious shooting of a human rights lawyer in Belfast and discovers both evidence of an RUC murder and a cover-up of a CIA/MI5 plot to destroy the governments of Harold Wilson and Edward Heath |
| Hoffa | 1992 | A union boss gets embroiled with the Mafia and politics and is eventually murdered |
| Hudson Hawk | 1991 | Comedy; a cat burglar is ensnared in an international conspiracy involving a maniacal billionaire, corrupt CIA agents, a Vatican secret society, and alchemy |
| I Witness | 2003 | A human rights investigator and an honest cop investigating the massacre of 23 campesinos in Mexico find links to drug cartels, dirty cops, and a multinational corporation embroiled in a union election |
| Illustrious Corpses | 1976 | An Italian cop investigating the assassinations of several judges finds that they are part of a neo-fascist "strategy of tension" |
| The Insider | 1999 | Big tobacco seeks to cover up the health effects of tobacco and silence a whistleblower |
| The International | 2009 | An Interpol agent investigating a shadowy banking cartel discovers money laundering, political corruption, war profiteering, and assassination plots |
| The Interpreter | 2005 | A United Nations interpreter stumbles onto a plot to assassinate a controversial African head of state on the floor of the General Assembly |
| Interview with the Assassin | 2002 | Faux documentary; a critically ill ex-Marine sniper admits to his next-door neighbor that he assassinated President Kennedy |
| Invasion of the Body Snatchers | 1956 | Pod people subtly take over a small California town |
| Invasion of the Body Snatchers | 1978 | Pod people subtly take over San Francisco |
| Jacob's Ladder | 1990 | The government performs chemical experiments on unwitting Vietnam soldiers. |
| JFK | 1991 | The District Attorney of New Orleans investigates the Kennedy assassination and prosecutes a co-conspirator |
| The Last Boy Scout | 1991 | A private eye and a football player discover that a team owner is planning to assassinate the U.S. Senator who is blocking legalized sports betting |
| Logan's Run | 1976 | Set in a dystopian future in which humans live in a domed city. Their hedonistic lives, as well as their reproduction, are controlled by computer. However, in order to regulate population, all humans are executed at age 30. The story depicts the efforts of Logan 5, an enforcer of early termination, to escape his own fate. |
| The Long Kiss Goodnight | 1996 | An amnesiac housewife learns that she is actually a CIA assassin when her former colleagues come to eliminate her |
| The Man Who Knew Too Little | 1997 | Comedy; an innocent American tourist in England stumbles on a plot by the heads of MI6 and the KGB to bomb a treaty signing ceremony and reignite the Cold War |
| The Man Who Knew Too Much | 1956 | A team of rogue foreign spies kidnap an American couple's son to silence them about their plot to assassinate an important dignitary |
| The Manchurian Candidate | 1962 | Communist spies use mind control for a political assassination |
| The Manchurian Candidate | 2004 | A multinational corporation uses mind control for a political assassination |
| Marathon Man | 1976 | An innocent grad student finds his CIA agent brother murdered and is ensnared in an international Nazi money laundering plot |
| Mercury Rising | 1998 | An NSA official sends assassins to kill an autistic nine-year-old who cracked a state-of-the-art encryption cipher |
| Minority Report | 2002 | Science fiction; a cop who "solves" murders before they happen with the help of several precogs finds himself pursued for a crime-to-be he thinks he will not commit |
| Ministry of Fear | 1944 | Fritz Lang's film noir classic depicts a man who, recently released from a mental asylum, wins a cake at a carnival, only to be targeted by an international web of spies. |
| Missing | 1982 | An American businessman searching for his "disappeared" son in a Central American dictatorship finds evidence that the American government was involved |
| Most Wanted | 1997 | A former special forces officer goes on the run after being recruited into a secret assassination squad and framed for the murder of the First Lady |
| Mulholland Falls | 1996 | An LAPD detective investigates his mistress's murder and follows the evidence to the Nevada Test Site |
| Murder at 1600 | 1997 | A Washington, D.C. detective investigates the murder of a White House intern inside the West Wing and begins to suspect that a member of the First Family is the killer |
| Murder by Decree | 1979 | Sherlock Holmes investigates the Jack the Ripper killings and uncovers a Masonic plot |
| The Net | 1995 | A white hat hacker stumbles onto a software company's machinations and goes on the run from cyberterrorists |
| Network | 1976 | A News Anchor on a failing fictional network (UBS) tries to make the people aware of their steady brainwashing through the medium that made him a household name by announcing his own on-air suicide |
| Nick of Time | 1995 | An innocent accountant's daughter is kidnapped by mysterious operatives who demand that he assassinate the Governor of California |
| Nixon | 1995 | Deals with the Watergate scandal, implies Nixon’s knowledge of a conspiracy to assassinate JFK. |
| No Way Out | 1987 | An aide to the Secretary of Defense sleeps with the Secretary's mistress, who is subsequently murdered |
| North by Northwest | 1959 | An innocent advertising executive goes on the run after being mistaken for a spy by foreign operatives and finds that the CIA wants it that way |
| The ODESSA File | 1974 | A journalist tracking a Nazi war criminal's whereabouts discovers ODESSA's ratlines to Latin America |
| The Package | 1989 | An American soldier stumbles onto an assassination plot by rogue American and Soviet military officials who wish to prevent the signing of a nuclear disarmament treaty |
| Panther | 1995 | The FBI seeks to destroy the Black Panther Party by any means necessary, while teaming up with Mafia to keep the blacks down by flooding the ghetto with cocaine and heroin |
| The Parallax View | 1974 | A journalist re-investigates the assassination of a presidential candidate and discovers a mysterious organization that seemingly recruits assassins |
| The Pelican Brief | 1993 | An innocent law student goes on the run after writing a paper speculating that a billionaire had two Supreme Court justices assassinated to fix a lawsuit appeal |
| The President's Analyst | 1967 | Comedy; an innocent psychotherapist becomes analyst to the President and goes on the run from operatives of every intelligence agency on Earth |
| Red Eye | 2005 | An innocent hotel manager is trapped aboard an airplane with a ruthless mercenary who threatens to kill her and her father unless she helps with a planned assassination |
| Salt | 2010 | A CIA agent is accused of being a mole by a Russian defector, and goes on the run to prove her innocence |
| The Secret | 1974 | A French fugitive takes refuge with a couple, claiming that he is being pursued by the authorities carrying out a cover-up |
| Serpico | 1973 | An honest cop works to expose police corruption in the NYPD |
| Seven Days in May | 1964 | An Army colonel discovers that rogue generals are plotting a coup d'état against the President |
| Shadow Conspiracy | 1997 | The White House Chief of Staff conspires to assassinate the President |
| The Sigma Protocol | 2010 | Multinational corporations conspire to manipulate the global economy |
| Silkwood | 1983 | A whistleblower at a nuclear plant is silenced |
| Silver City | 2004 | A journalist hired to investigate a dead body at a gubernatorial campaign event stumbles onto a web of corruption involving the election and a mysterious copper mine |
| Snake Eyes | 1998 | A corrupt Atlantic City police detective investigates when the Secretary of Defense is assassinated while ringside at a championship boxing event |
| Sneakers | 1992 | A team of industrial espionage experts are recruited by NSA agents to steal a mysterious "black box", only to discover too late that their employers are not really with the NSA |
| Soylent Green | 1973 | A detective (Charlton Heston) investigates a murder in a dystopian future beset by overpopulation, global warming, pollution, dying oceans, and poverty, while the populace sustains itself on a mysterious source of food called "soylent green." |
| The Spanish Prisoner | 1997 | An innocent chemist in possession of a lucrative secret formula is targeted by con men and framed for industrial espionage and murder |
| Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country | 1991 | Science fiction; rogue Federation and Klingon military officials attempt to assassinate the Klingon chancellor and Federation president to prevent the end of their cold war |
| The Stepford Wives | 1975 | A housewife suspects that the women of Stepford are being replaced by androids |
| The Stepford Wives | 2004 | A post-feminist executive suspects that the women of Stepford are being replaced by androids |
| Syriana | 2005 | A CIA agent, an energy analyst, and an antitrust lawyer are embroiled in a web of corruption and assassination involving Big Oil |
| The Tailor of Panama | 2001 | A rogue MI6 operative fabricates a Panamanian revolutionary group and starts a war to line his own pockets |
| Three Days of the Condor | 1975 | An innocent CIA researcher goes on the run from officials at his own agency after coming back from lunch to find all of his coworkers murdered |
| Topaz | 1969 | A CIA agent stumbles on a high-level KGB spy ring with moles in every Western intelligence agency |
| U.S. Marshals | 1998 | A Diplomatic Security Service agent involved in covert ops is framed for murder and treason and goes on the run to uncover the conspiracy |
| V for Vendetta | 2006 | A shadowy freedom fighter known only as "V" uses terrorist tactics to fight against his Totalitarian society. |
| Valkyrie | 2008 | The July 20 Plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler and overthrow the Nazi Government |
| Vantage Point | 2008 | The attempted assassination of the President at an anti-terrorism treaty signing ceremony is more than meets the eye |
| Wag the Dog | 1997 | Black comedy; when the President is embroiled in a sex scandal two weeks before the election, two government operatives and a film producer fabricate a war with Albania to distract the public |
| Who Killed Atlanta's Children? | 2000 | Journalists re-investigating the Atlanta child murders stumble on a government cover-up of Ku Klux Klan involvement |
| Winter Kills | 1979 | Black comedy; a slain President's brother investigates his assassination |
| Wrong Is Right | 1982 | Black comedy; a journalist is embroiled in plot and counterplot involving the CIA, Islamic fundamentalists, a ruthless arms trafficker, and a tight presidential election |
| The X-Files | 1998 | FBI agents Mulder and Scully investigate the bombing of a federal building and stumble on evidence of a conspiracy between aliens and a shadow government |
| xXx: State of the Union | 2005 | The Secretary of Defense plots a coup d'état against the President |
| Z | 1969 | In an unnamed European country, a prominent opposition leader is assassinated by elements within the government |
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