Movies About Power and Corruption
Kinora's catalogue lists 105 films about power and corruption, spanning 1927–2024. Each is tagged by where and when it takes place — filter by real-world setting, era, and environment, or open any film for its full tagged world.
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- 1957
12 Angry Men
Urbandir. Sidney Lumet - 1971
A Clockwork Orange
Urbandir. Stanley Kubrick - 1964
A Fistful of Dollars
Urban · Wildernessdir. Sergio Leone - 2009
A Prophet
Urban · Undergrounddir. Jacques Audiard - 1972
Aguirre, the Wrath of God
Wilderness · Coastal Seadir. Werner Herzog - 1988
Akira
Urbandir. Katsuhiro Otomo - 1979
Alien
Off Worlddir. Ridley Scott - 1976
All the President's Men
Urbandir. Alan J. Pakula - 2010
Animal Kingdom
Urbandir. David Michôd - 1979
Apocalypse Now
Wilderness · Ruraldir. Francis Ford Coppola - 2016
Aquarius
Urban · Coastal Seadir. Kleber Mendonça Filho - 2018
BlacKkKlansman
Urbandir. Spike Lee - 1995
Casino
Desert · Urbandir. Martin Scorsese - 1974
Chinatown
Urbandir. Roman Polanski - 1941
Citizen Kane
Urbandir. Orson Welles - 2002
City of God
Urbandir. Fernando Meirelles - 1989
Do the Right Thing
Urbandir. Spike Lee - 1964
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
Urbandir. Stanley Kubrick - 2021
Dune
Desert · Off Worlddir. Denis Villeneuve - 2024
Dune: Part Two
Desert · Off Worlddir. Denis Villeneuve - 1999
Election
Urban · Suburbandir. Alexander Payne - 1998
Enemy of the State
Urbandir. Tony Scott - 2000
Erin Brockovich
Urban · Suburbandir. Steven Soderbergh - 1982
Fanny and Alexander
Urbandir. Ingmar Bergman - 2012
Gangs of Wasseypur - Part 1
Urbandir. Anurag Kashyap - 2017
Get Out
Suburban · Ruraldir. Jordan Peele - 2000
Gladiator
Urbandir. Ridley Scott - 1990
GoodFellas
Urbandir. Martin Scorsese - 1963
High and Low
Urbandir. Akira Kurosawa - 1967
In the Heat of the Night
Ruraldir. Norman Jewison - 2021
Judas and the Black Messiah
Urbandir. Shaka King - 1961
Judgment at Nuremberg
Urbandir. Stanley Kramer - 2012
Killing Them Softly
Urbandir. Andrew Dominik - 1997
L.A. Confidential
Urbandir. Curtis Hanson - 1995
La Haine
Urban · Suburbandir. Mathieu Kassovitz - 2012
Lawless
Ruraldir. John Hillcoat - 1962
Lawrence of Arabia
Desertdir. David Lean - 1931
M
Urbandir. Fritz Lang - 1981
Mad Max 2
Desert · Wildernessdir. George Miller - 1971
McCabe & Mrs. Miller
Rural · Mountaindir. Robert Altman - 2011
Meek's Cutoff
Desert · Wildernessdir. Kelly Reichardt - 2003
Memories of Murder
Ruraldir. Bong Joon Ho - 1927
Metropolis
Urban · Undergrounddir. Fritz Lang - 1990
Miller's Crossing
Urbandir. Joel Coen - 1988
Mississippi Burning
Ruraldir. Alan Parker - 1960
Mughal-e-Azam
Urbandir. K. Asif - 1976
Network
Urbandir. Sidney Lumet - 2007
No Country for Old Men
Desert · Ruraldir. Joel Coen - 1954
On the Waterfront
Urban · Coastal Seadir. Elia Kazan - 1975
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Undergrounddir. Miloš Forman - 2023
Oppenheimer
Desert · Urbandir. Christopher Nolan - 1957
Paths of Glory
Undergrounddir. Stanley Kubrick - 2017
Phantom Thread
Urbandir. Paul Thomas Anderson - 1980
Pixote
Urbandir. Héctor Babenco - 1991
Raise the Red Lantern
Urbandir. Zhang Yimou - 1985
Ran
Mountain · Ruraldir. Akira Kurosawa - 1987
RoboCop
Urbandir. Paul Verhoeven - 1948
Rope
Urbandir. Alfred Hitchcock - 1968
Rosemary's Baby
Urbandir. Roman Polanski - 1998
Satya
Urbandir. Ram Gopal Varma - 1995
Se7en
Urbandir. David Fincher - 2014
Selma
Urban · Ruraldir. Ava DuVernay - 2015
Sicario
Urban · Desertdir. Denis Villeneuve - 1983
Silkwood
Ruraldir. Mike Nichols - 2013
Snowpiercer
Mountain · Wildernessdir. Bong Joon Ho - 1960
Spartacus
Ruraldir. Stanley Kubrick - 1977
Suspiria
Urbandir. Dario Argento - 2022
TÁR
Urbandir. Todd Field - 2024
The Bikeriders
Urbandir. Jeff Nichols - 1957
The Bridge on the River Kwai
Wilderness · Ruraldir. David Lean - 2024
The Brutalist
Urbandir. Brady Corbet - 1971
The Conformist
Urbandir. Bernardo Bertolucci - 2008
The Dark Knight
Urbandir. Christopher Nolan - 2017
The Death of Stalin
Urbandir. Armando Iannucci - 2006
The Departed
Urbandir. Martin Scorsese - 1972
The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
Urbandir. Luis Buñuel - 2018
The Favourite
Urbandir. Yorgos Lanthimos - 1993
The Firm
Urban · Coastal Seadir. Sydney Pollack - 1971
The French Connection
Urbandir. William Friedkin - 1977
The Gauntlet
Urban · Desertdir. Clint Eastwood - 1972
The Godfather
Urbandir. Francis Ford Coppola - 1974
The Godfather Part II
Urban · Ruraldir. Francis Ford Coppola - 1940
The Great Dictator
Urbandir. Charlie Chaplin - 2006
The Host
Urbandir. Bong Joon Ho - 2011
The Ides of March
Urbandir. George Clooney - 2019
The Irishman
Urbandir. Martin Scorsese - 1963
The Leopard
Urban · Ruraldir. Luchino Visconti - 2006
The Lives of Others
Urbandir. Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck - 1980
The Long Good Friday
Urbandir. John Mackenzie - 1979
The Marriage of Maria Braun
Urban · Suburbandir. Rainer Werner Fassbinder - 1986
The Name of the Rose
Ruraldir. Jean-Jacques Annaud - 1928
The Passion of Joan of Arc
Urbandir. Carl Theodor Dreyer - 1992
The Player
Urbandir. Robert Altman - 2021
The Power of the Dog
Ruraldir. Jane Campion - 1987
The Untouchables
Urbandir. Brian De Palma - 2009
The White Ribbon
Ruraldir. Michael Haneke - 2013
The Wolf of Wall Street
Urbandir. Martin Scorsese - 2007
There Will Be Blood
Ruraldir. Paul Thomas Anderson - 1957
Throne of Blood
Mountaindir. Akira Kurosawa - 1958
Touch of Evil
Urbandir. Orson Welles - 2022
Triangle of Sadness
Coastal Sea · Islanddir. Ruben Östlund - 1962
Viridiana
Ruraldir. Luis Buñuel - 2014
Whiplash
Urbandir. Damien Chazelle - 1975
Xala
Urbandir. Ousmane Sembène - 1961
Yojimbo
Ruraldir. Akira Kurosawa
Frequently asked
How many movies are about power and corruption?
Kinora's catalogue lists 105 films about power and corruption, spanning 1927–2024.
What are some movies about power and corruption?
Films about power and corruption in our catalogue include 12 Angry Men (1957), A Clockwork Orange (1971), A Fistful of Dollars (1964), A Prophet (2009), and Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972).
What is the oldest movie about power and corruption?
Metropolis (1927) is the earliest film about power and corruption in our catalogue; the most recent is The Brutalist (2024).