Conspiracy Movies to Turn YOU Paranoid
The conspiracy movies that appeal most to the paranoiac sensibilities of theNeoplatonist. In alphabetical order...
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- DirectorAlan J. PakulaStarsDustin HoffmanRobert RedfordJack Warden"The Washington Post" reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein uncover the details of the Watergate scandal that leads to President Richard Nixon's resignation.Deservedly famous. It's the atmosphere that makes it: gritty, downbeat, unheroic, frightening. Becomes even more paranoid if you think the REAL conspiracy was to destroy Nixon...
- DirectorChristopher MilesStarsTim BrintonGregory MunroeCarol HazellTV Sci-fi drama/documentary, which caused world-wide headlines when first broadcast as it purported to show a link between Britain's 'brain-drain', climate change and a human colony on Mars.The ultimate sci-fi conspiracy movie. So good that the current theory is that the movie is actually true.
- DirectorMark PellingtonStarsJeff BridgesTim RobbinsJoan CusackA man begins to suspect his neighbors are not what they appear to be and their secrets could be deadly.Dark study in conspiracy paranoia with a mind-blowing conclusion.
- StarsRay McAnallyMarjorie YatesGeoffrey BeeversDisaster befalls the UK under a seemingly corrupt Conservative government. The Labour Party is elected - but committed to radical change, under a firmly left-wing leader. That's not supposed to happen. Who will save the traditional rulers?A tv mini-series but can be watched as a single 140 minute movie. The British security service and the CIA conspire to topple a left-wing British Prime Minister, crushing lives (one of them quite literally) in the process. Utterly convincing: one of the finest.
- DirectorPeter HyamsStarsElliott GouldJames BrolinBrenda VaccaroWhen the first manned flight to Mars is deemed unsafe and scrubbed on the launch pad, anxious authorities must scramble to save face and retain their funding - and so an unthinkable plot to fake the mission is hatched.Thinly disguised presentation of moon landing conspiracy theories. Well executed, with nice guest appearance by Kojak.
- DirectorChristopher MacBrideStarsAaron PooleJames GilbertIan AndersonA documentary about conspiracy theories takes a horrific turn after the filmmakers uncover an ancient and dangerous secret society.Another thinly disguised one - this time it's Bohemian Grove.
- DirectorRichard DonnerStarsMel GibsonJulia RobertsPatrick StewartA taxi driver with a penchant for conspiracy theories becomes a target after one of these theories turns out to be true. Unfortunately, to save himself, he has to figure out which theory it is.
- DirectorRobert RedfordStarsRobin WrightJames McAvoyTom WilkinsonMary Surratt is the lone female charged as a co-conspirator in the assassination trial of Abraham Lincoln. As the whole nation turns against her, she is forced to rely on her reluctant lawyer to uncover the truth and save her life.Demythologizing of the Lincoln assassination. Injustices everywhere, heroes few.
- DirectorDavid MillerStarsBurt LancasterRobert RyanWill GeerRogue intelligence agents, right-wing politicians, greedy capitalists, and free-lance assassins plot and carry out the JFK assassination.Brilliant precursor to JFK. So disturbing that it was pretty much denied an effective theatrical release.
- DirectorKen LoachStarsFrances McDormandMaurice RoëvesRobert PattersonWhen an American human rights lawyer is assassinated in Belfast, it remains for the man's girlfriend, as well as a tough, no nonsense, police detective to find the truth.
- DirectorTom TykwerStarsClive OwenNaomi WattsArmin Mueller-StahlAn Interpol agent attempts to expose a high-profile financial institution's role in an international arms dealing ring.Has one of the most exciting shoot-out scenes in any movie.
- DirectorNeil BurgerStarsDylan HaggertyRaymond J. BarryRenee FaiaAlmost forty years after the John F. Kennedy assassination, an ex-Marine named Walter Ohlinger has come forward with a startling claim.Intensely creepy. Think twice before investigating conspiracy theories...
- DirectorOliver StoneStarsKevin CostnerGary OldmanJack LemmonNew Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison discovers there's more to the Kennedy assassination than the official story.Classic. Most of it's pretty accurate too.
- DirectorJohn FrankenheimerStarsFrank SinatraLaurence HarveyJanet LeighAn American POW in the Korean War is brainwashed as an unwitting assassin for an international Communist conspiracy.This, you see, is the method whereby Robert F. Kennedy was eliminated...
- DirectorAlan J. PakulaStarsWarren BeattyPaula PrentissWilliam DanielsAn ambitious reporter gets in way-over-his-head trouble while investigating a senator's assassination which leads to a vast conspiracy involving a multinational corporation behind every event in the world's headlines.One of the earliest and best exercises in the genre of secret forces controlling national destinies.
- DirectorVal GuestStarsBrian DonlevyJohn LongdenSidney JamesProfessor Quatermass, trying to gather support for his Lunar colonisation project, is intrigued by mysterious traces that have been showing up.One of the best, if not even THE best, of alien/government conspiracy movies. And look how early it was - 1957.
- DirectorJohn FrankenheimerStarsBurt LancasterKirk DouglasFredric MarchUnited States military leaders plot to overthrow the President because he supports a nuclear disarmament treaty and they fear a Soviet sneak attack.JFK (the man. not the movie) was involved in promoting this, before facts caught up with him.
- DirectorAntoine FuquaStarsMark WahlbergMichael PeñaRhona MitraA marksman living in exile is coaxed back into action after hearing of a plot to kill the President. After being-double crossed for the attempt and on the run, he sets out for the real killer and the truth.All-cylinders-blazing assault on the establishment as terminally corrupt, with echoes of JFK, "spoiled" by a happy ending. If only...!
- DirectorSydney PollackStarsRobert RedfordFaye DunawayCliff RobertsonA bookish CIA researcher in Manhattan finds all his co-workers dead, and must outwit those responsible until he figures out who he can really trust.
- DirectorGordon DavidsonDavid GreeneStarsBen GazzaraLorne GreeneFrances Lee McCainThe bizarre story behind Lee Harvey Oswald, the man accused of assassinating U.S. President John F. Kennedy in Dallas, Texas on November 22, 1963, and what might have happened had he been brought to trial, if he had not been murdered by Jack Ruby.Marvelous "what if" movie. Would make a good introduction to the entire world of JFK conspiracy theory.
- DirectorCosta-GavrasStarsYves MontandIrene PapasJean-Louis TrintignantThe public murder of a prominent politician and doctor amid a violent demonstration is covered up by military and government officials. A tenacious magistrate is determined not to let them get away with it.