Movies About Power and Corruption
Kinora's catalogue lists 271 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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- 1979
...And Justice for All
Urbandir. Norman Jewison - 1957
12 Angry Men
Urbandir. Sidney Lumet - 1971
A Clockwork Orange
Urbandir. Stanley Kubrick - 1957
A Face in the Crowd
Urban · Ruraldir. Elia Kazan - 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 - 1970
A Touch of Zen
Rural · Mountaindir. King Hu - 1951
Ace in the Hole
Desert · Ruraldir. Billy Wilder - 1972
Aguirre, the Wrath of God
Wilderness · Coastal Seadir. Werner Herzog - 1988
Akira
Urbandir. Katsuhiro Otomo - 1979
Alien
Off Worlddir. Ridley Scott - 1949
All the King's Men
Rural · Urbandir. Robert Rossen - 1976
All the President's Men
Urbandir. Alan J. Pakula - 2007
American Gangster
Urbandir. Ridley Scott - 1992
American Me
Urbandir. Edward James Olmos - 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 - 1991
Backdraft
Urbandir. Ron Howard - 1971
Bananas
Urban · Wildernessdir. Woody Allen - 2018
BlacKkKlansman
Urbandir. Spike Lee - 1981
Blow Out
Urbandir. Brian De Palma - 1950
Born Yesterday
Urbandir. George Cukor - 1980
Brubaker
Ruraldir. Stuart Rosenberg - 1947
Brute Force
dir. Jules Dassin - 1968
Bullitt
Urbandir. Peter Yates - 1948
Call Northside 777
Urbandir. Henry Hathaway - 1979
Camera Buff
dir. Krzysztof Kieślowski - 1977
Capricorn One
Desertdir. Peter Hyams - 1995
Casino
Desert · Urbandir. Martin Scorsese - 1986
Castle in the Sky
Underground · Island · Ruraldir. Hayao Miyazaki - 1970
Catch-22
Island · Coastal Seadir. Mike Nichols - 2008
Changeling
Urbandir. Clint Eastwood - 1974
Chinatown
Urbandir. Roman Polanski - 1941
Citizen Kane
Urbandir. Orson Welles - 2002
City of God
Urbandir. Fernando Meirelles - 1963
Cleopatra
Urbandir. Joseph L. Mankiewicz - 1973
Coffy
Urbandir. Jack Hill - 1978
Coma
Urbandir. Michael Crichton - 2024
Conclave
Urbandir. Edward Berger - 1997
Cop Land
Suburbandir. James Mangold - 1995
Crimson Tide
Coastal Seadir. Tony Scott - 1992
Daens
Urbandir. Stijn Coninx - 2013
Dallas Buyers Club
Urbandir. Jean-Marc Vallée - 2019
Dark Waters
Urban · Ruraldir. Todd Haynes - 1993
Dave
Urbandir. Ivan Reitman - 1995
Devil in a Blue Dress
Urbandir. Carl Franklin - 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 - 1984
Dune
Desert · Off Worlddir. David Lynch - 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 - 1999
Eyes Wide Shut
Urbandir. Stanley Kubrick - 1982
Fanny and Alexander
Urbandir. Ingmar Bergman - 1950
Force of Evil
Urbandir. Abraham Polonsky - 2019
Ford v Ferrari
Urbandir. James Mangold - 1953
From Here to Eternity
Islanddir. Fred Zinnemann - 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 - 1962
Harakiri
Urbandir. Masaki Kobayashi - 1980
Heaven's Gate
Ruraldir. Michael Cimino - 1999
Herod's Law
Ruraldir. Luis Estrada - 1963
High and Low
Urbandir. Akira Kurosawa - 1940
His Girl Friday
Urbandir. Howard Hawks - 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 - 1993
In the Name of the Father
Urbandir. Jim Sheridan - 2006
Inside Man
Urbandir. Spike Lee - 1970
Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion
Urbandir. Elio Petri - 1993
Iron Monkey
Urbandir. Yuen Woo-ping - 2018
Isle of Dogs
Island · Urbandir. Wes Anderson - 1944
Ivan the Terrible, Part I
Urbandir. Sergei Eisenstein - 1991
JFK
Urbandir. Oliver Stone - 2021
Judas and the Black Messiah
Urbandir. Shaka King - 1961
Judgment at Nuremberg
Urbandir. Stanley Kramer - 1953
Julius Caesar
Urbandir. Joseph L. Mankiewicz - 1967
Kidnapping, Caucasian Style
Mountain · Ruraldir. Leonid Gaidai - 2012
Killing Them Softly
Urbandir. Andrew Dominik - 1986
Kin-dza-dza!
Off Worlddir. Georgiy Daneliya - 1997
L.A. Confidential
Urbandir. Curtis Hanson - 1995
La Haine
Urban · Suburbandir. Mathieu Kassovitz - 1985
Ladyhawke
Rural · Wildernessdir. Richard Donner - 2012
Lawless
Ruraldir. John Hillcoat - 1962
Lawrence of Arabia
Desertdir. David Lean - 2014
Leviathan
Coastal Sea · Ruraldir. Andrey Zvyagintsev - 1996
Lone Star
Ruraldir. John Sayles - 1990
Lord of the Flies
Island · Wilderness · Coastal Seadir. Harry Hook - 1931
M
Urbandir. Fritz Lang - 1981
Mad Max 2
Desert · Wildernessdir. George Miller - 1973
Magnum Force
Urbandir. Ted Post - 2004
Man on Fire
Urbandir. Tony Scott - 1996
Matilda
Suburbandir. Danny DeVito - 1971
McCabe & Mrs. Miller
Rural · Mountaindir. Robert Altman - 2011
Meek's Cutoff
Desert · Wildernessdir. Kelly Reichardt - 1941
Meet John Doe
Urbandir. Frank Capra - 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 - 1982
Missing
Urbandir. Costa-Gavras - 1988
Mississippi Burning
Ruraldir. Alan Parker - 2001
Monsters, Inc.
Urbandir. Pete Docter - 1960
Mughal-e-Azam
Urbandir. K. Asif - 1962
Mutiny on the Bounty
Coastal Sea · Islanddir. Lewis Milestone - 1976
Network
Urbandir. Sidney Lumet - 2007
No Country for Old Men
Desert · Ruraldir. Joel Coen - 1954
On the Waterfront
Urban · Coastal Seadir. Elia Kazan - 1991
Once Upon a Time in China
Urbandir. Tsui Hark - 1975
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Undergrounddir. Miloš Forman - 2000
One Hundred Steps
Ruraldir. Marco Tullio Giordana - 2023
Oppenheimer
Desert · Urbandir. Christopher Nolan - 1957
Paths of Glory
Undergrounddir. Stanley Kubrick - 1974
Phantom of the Paradise
Urbandir. Brian De Palma - 2017
Phantom Thread
Urbandir. Paul Thomas Anderson - 1980
Pixote
Urbandir. Héctor Babenco - 1985
Police Story
Urbandir. Jackie Chan - 1996
Primal Fear
Urbandir. Gregory Hoblit - 1983
Project A
Coastal Sea · Urbandir. Jackie Chan - 2009
Public Enemies
Urban · Ruraldir. Michael Mann - 1990
Pump Up the Volume
Suburbandir. Allan Moyle - 1994
Queen Margot
Urbandir. Patrice Chéreau - 1994
Quiz Show
Urbandir. Robert Redford - 1991
Raise the Red Lantern
Urbandir. Zhang Yimou - 1985
Ran
Mountain · Ruraldir. Akira Kurosawa - 1996
Ridicule
Urbandir. Patrice Leconte - 1973
Robin Hood
Wilderness · Urbandir. Wolfgang Reitherman - 1987
RoboCop
Urbandir. Paul Verhoeven - 1948
Rope
Urbandir. Alfred Hitchcock - 1968
Rosemary's Baby
Urbandir. Roman Polanski - 1986
Salvador
Urban · Ruraldir. Oliver Stone - 1967
Samurai Rebellion
Ruraldir. Masaki Kobayashi - 1962
Sanjuro
Ruraldir. Akira Kurosawa - 1998
Satya
Urbandir. Ram Gopal Varma - 1981
Scanners
Urbandir. David Cronenberg - 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 - 1985
Silverado
Desert · Ruraldir. Lawrence Kasdan - 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 - 1995
Strange Days
Urbandir. Kathryn Bigelow - 1977
Suspiria
Urbandir. Dario Argento - 1957
Sweet Smell of Success
Urbandir. Alexander Mackendrick - 2022
TÁR
Urbandir. Todd Field - 2015
The 33
Underground · Ruraldir. Patricia Riggen - 2008
The Baader Meinhof Complex
Urbandir. Uli Edel - 1960
The Bad Sleep Well
Urbandir. Akira Kurosawa - 2000
The Beach
Island · Coastal Sea · Urbandir. Danny Boyle - 1948
The Big Clock
Urbandir. John Farrow - 1955
The Big Combo
Urbandir. Joseph H. Lewis - 1953
The Big Heat
Urbandir. Fritz Lang - 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 - 1979
The Castle of Cagliostro
Ruraldir. Hayao Miyazaki - 2008
The Chaser
Urbandir. Na Hong-jin - 1979
The China Syndrome
Urbandir. James Bridges - 1971
The Conformist
Urbandir. Bernardo Bertolucci - 2005
The Constant Gardener
Urban · Wildernessdir. Fernando Meirelles - 1996
The Craft
Urban · Suburbandir. Andrew Fleming - 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 - 1951
The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel
Desertdir. Henry Hathaway - 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 - 1972
The Harder They Come
Urbandir. Perry Henzell - 1956
The Harder They Fall
Urbandir. Mark Robson - 2006
The Host
Urbandir. Bong Joon Ho - 1994
The Hudsucker Proxy
Urbandir. Joel Coen - 1959
The Human Condition I: No Greater Love
Ruraldir. Masaki Kobayashi - 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 - 1968
The Lion in Winter
Urbandir. Anthony Harvey - 2006
The Lives of Others
Urbandir. Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck - 1980
The Long Good Friday
Urbandir. John Mackenzie - 1962
The Manchurian Candidate
Urbandir. John Frankenheimer - 1981
The Marquis of Grillo
Urbandir. Mario Monicelli - 1979
The Marriage of Maria Braun
Urban · Suburbandir. Rainer Werner Fassbinder - 1986
The Name of the Rose
Ruraldir. Jean-Jacques Annaud - 1998
The Negotiator
Urbandir. F. Gary Gray - 1974
The Parallax View
Urbandir. Alan J. Pakula - 1928
The Passion of Joan of Arc
Urbandir. Carl Theodor Dreyer - 1993
The Pelican Brief
Urbandir. Alan J. Pakula - 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 - 1997
The Rainmaker
Urbandir. Francis Ford Coppola - 2011
The Rum Diary
Urban · Islanddir. Bruce Robinson - 1992
The Story of Qiu Ju
Rural · Urbandir. Zhang Yimou - 1946
The Strange Love of Martha Ivers
Urbandir. Lewis Milestone - 1940
The Thief of Bagdad
Urbandir. Ludwig Berger - 2020
The Trial of the Chicago 7
Urbandir. Aaron Sorkin - 1987
The Untouchables
Urbandir. Brian De Palma - 1982
The Verdict
Urbandir. Sidney Lumet - 1940
The Westerner
Ruraldir. William Wyler - 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 - 1992
Thunderheart
Ruraldir. Michael Apted - 1985
To Live and Die in L.A.
Urban · Desertdir. William Friedkin - 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 - 1988
Tucker: The Man and His Dream
Urban · Suburbandir. Francis Ford Coppola - 1999
Varsity Blues
Ruraldir. Brian Robbins - 1983
Videodrome
Urbandir. David Cronenberg - 1989
Violent Cop
Urbandir. Takeshi Kitano - 1962
Viridiana
Ruraldir. Luis Buñuel - 1952
Viva Zapata!
Ruraldir. Elia Kazan - 1997
Wag the Dog
Urbandir. Barry Levinson - 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 - 1969
Z
Urbandir. Costa-Gavras - 2016
Zootopia
Urban · Ruraldir. Byron Howard
Frequently asked
How many movies are about power and corruption?
Kinora's catalogue lists 271 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 ...And Justice for All (1979), 12 Angry Men (1957), A Clockwork Orange (1971), A Face in the Crowd (1957), and A Few Good Men (1992).
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).