Movies About Power and Corruption
Kinora's catalogue lists 178 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 - 1992
A Few Good Men
Urbandir. Rob Reiner - 1964
A Fistful of Dollars
Urban · Wildernessdir. Sergio Leone - 2009
A Prophet
Urban · Undergrounddir. Jacques Audiard - 2012
A Royal Affair
Urbandir. Nikolaj Arcel - 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 - 2007
American Gangster
Urbandir. Ridley Scott - 1997
Amistad
Coastal Sea · Urbandir. Steven Spielberg - 2010
Animal Kingdom
Urbandir. David Michôd - 1979
Apocalypse Now
Wilderness · Ruraldir. Francis Ford Coppola - 2016
Aquarius
Urban · Coastal Seadir. Kleber Mendonça Filho - 2022
Argentina 1985
Urbandir. Santiago Mitre - 2018
BlacKkKlansman
Urbandir. Spike Lee - 1981
Blow Out
Urbandir. Brian De Palma - 1995
Casino
Desert · Urbandir. Martin Scorsese - 1986
Castle in the Sky
Underground · Island · Ruraldir. Hayao Miyazaki - 2008
Changeling
Urbandir. Clint Eastwood - 1974
Chinatown
Urbandir. Roman Polanski - 1941
Citizen Kane
Urbandir. Orson Welles - 2002
City of God
Urbandir. Fernando Meirelles - 2024
Conclave
Urbandir. Edward Berger - 2013
Dallas Buyers Club
Urbandir. Jean-Marc Vallée - 2019
Dark Waters
Urban · Ruraldir. Todd Haynes - 1971
Dirty Harry
Urbandir. Don Siegel - 2009
District 9
Urbandir. Neill Blomkamp - 1989
Do the Right Thing
Urbandir. Spike Lee - 2021
Don't Look Up
Urbandir. Adam McKay - 2004
Downfall
Urban · Undergrounddir. Oliver Hirschbiegel - 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
Elizabeth
Urbandir. Shekhar Kapur - 2013
Elysium
Urban · Off Worlddir. Neill Blomkamp - 1998
Enemy of the State
Urbandir. Tony Scott - 1973
Enter the Dragon
Island · Undergrounddir. Robert Clouse - 2000
Erin Brockovich
Urban · Suburbandir. Steven Soderbergh - 1981
Escape from New York
Urbandir. John Carpenter - 1982
Fanny and Alexander
Urbandir. Ingmar Bergman - 2019
Ford v Ferrari
Urbandir. James Mangold - 2002
Gangs of New York
Urbandir. Martin Scorsese - 2012
Gangs of Wasseypur - Part 1
Urbandir. Anurag Kashyap - 2017
Get Out
Suburban · Ruraldir. Jordan Peele - 2000
Gladiator
Urbandir. Ridley Scott - 2008
Gomorrah
Urbandir. Matteo Garrone - 2007
Gone Baby Gone
Urbandir. Ben Affleck - 2005
Good Night, and Good Luck.
Urbandir. George Clooney - 1990
GoodFellas
Urbandir. Martin Scorsese - 1963
High and Low
Urbandir. Akira Kurosawa - 1981
History of the World: Part I
Urban · Wildernessdir. Mel Brooks - 2007
Hot Fuzz
Ruraldir. Edgar Wright - 1967
In the Heat of the Night
Ruraldir. Norman Jewison - 2006
Inside Man
Urbandir. Spike Lee - 1970
Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion
Urbandir. Elio Petri - 2018
Isle of Dogs
Island · Urbandir. Wes Anderson - 1991
JFK
Urbandir. Oliver Stone - 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 - 2014
Leviathan
Coastal Sea · Ruraldir. Andrey Zvyagintsev - 1990
Lord of the Flies
Island · Wilderness · Coastal Seadir. Harry Hook - 1931
M
Urbandir. Fritz Lang - 1981
Mad Max 2
Desert · Wildernessdir. George Miller - 2004
Man on Fire
Urbandir. Tony Scott - 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 - 2007
Michael Clayton
Urbandir. Tony Gilroy - 1990
Miller's Crossing
Urbandir. Joel Coen - 2002
Minority Report
Urbandir. Steven Spielberg - 1988
Mississippi Burning
Ruraldir. Alan Parker - 2001
Monsters, Inc.
Urbandir. Pete Docter - 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 - 1985
Police Story
Urbandir. Jackie Chan - 1996
Primal Fear
Urbandir. Gregory Hoblit - 2009
Public Enemies
Urban · Ruraldir. Michael Mann - 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 - 1983
Scarface
Urbandir. Brian De Palma - 1995
Se7en
Urbandir. David Fincher - 2014
Selma
Urban · Ruraldir. Ava DuVernay - 1973
Serpico
Urbandir. Sidney Lumet - 2015
Sicario
Urban · Desertdir. Denis Villeneuve - 1983
Silkwood
Ruraldir. Mike Nichols - 2005
Sin City
Urbandir. Robert Rodriguez - 2013
Snowpiercer
Mountain · Wildernessdir. Bong Joon Ho - 1973
Soylent Green
Urbandir. Richard Fleischer - 1960
Spartacus
Ruraldir. Stanley Kubrick - 2015
Spotlight
Urbandir. Tom McCarthy - 1977
Suspiria
Urbandir. Dario Argento - 2022
TÁR
Urbandir. Todd Field - 2015
The 33
Underground · Ruraldir. Patricia Riggen - 2008
The Baader Meinhof Complex
Urbandir. Uli Edel - 2000
The Beach
Island · Coastal Sea · Urbandir. Danny Boyle - 2015
The Big Short
Urbandir. Adam McKay - 2024
The Bikeriders
Urbandir. Jeff Nichols - 1957
The Bridge on the River Kwai
Wilderness · Ruraldir. David Lean - 2024
The Brutalist
Urbandir. Brady Corbet - 2008
The Chaser
Urbandir. Na Hong-jin - 1971
The Conformist
Urbandir. Bernardo Bertolucci - 2005
The Constant Gardener
Urban · Wildernessdir. Fernando Meirelles - 1996
The Crucible
Ruraldir. Nicholas Hytner - 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 - 1993
The Fugitive
Urbandir. Andrew Davis - 1977
The Gauntlet
Urban · Desertdir. Clint Eastwood - 2009
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Island · Ruraldir. Niels Arden Oplev - 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 - 1999
The Insider
Urbandir. Michael Mann - 2019
The Irishman
Urbandir. Martin Scorsese - 2021
The Last Duel
Rural · Urbandir. Ridley Scott - 2006
The Last King of Scotland
Urbandir. Kevin Macdonald - 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 - 2017
The Post
Urbandir. Steven Spielberg - 2021
The Power of the Dog
Ruraldir. Jane Campion - 2012
The Raid
Urbandir. Gareth Evans - 2020
The Trial of the Chicago 7
Urbandir. Aaron Sorkin - 1987
The Untouchables
Urbandir. Brian De Palma - 1982
The Verdict
Urbandir. Sidney Lumet - 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 - 1988
They Live
Urbandir. John Carpenter - 1975
Three Days of the Condor
Urbandir. Sydney Pollack - 1957
Throne of Blood
Mountaindir. Akira Kurosawa - 1958
Touch of Evil
Urbandir. Orson Welles - 2000
Traffic
Urban · Suburbandir. Steven Soderbergh - 2001
Training Day
Urbandir. Antoine Fuqua - 2022
Triangle of Sadness
Coastal Sea · Islanddir. Ruben Östlund - 2010
Troll Hunter
Wilderness · Mountain · Undergrounddir. André Øvredal - 1982
Tron
Urbandir. Steven Lisberger - 1983
Videodrome
Urbandir. David Cronenberg - 1962
Viridiana
Ruraldir. Luis Buñuel - 1987
Wall Street
Urbandir. Oliver Stone - 2009
Watchmen
Urban · Off Worlddir. Zack Snyder - 2014
Whiplash
Urbandir. Damien Chazelle - 1988
Who Framed Roger Rabbit
Urbandir. Robert Zemeckis - 2018
Widows
Urbandir. Steve McQueen - 1985
Witness
Rural · Urbandir. Peter Weir - 1975
Xala
Urbandir. Ousmane Sembène - 1961
Yojimbo
Ruraldir. Akira Kurosawa - 2016
Zootopia
Urban · Ruraldir. Byron Howard
Frequently asked
How many movies are about power and corruption?
Kinora's catalogue lists 178 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 Few Good Men (1992), A Fistful of Dollars (1964), and A Prophet (2009).
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).