Corruption Movies, Movies about Corruption

Here we've displayed a list of the best Corruption films : The Shawshank Redemption(1994), Gladiator(2000), Once Upon a Time in America(1984), Scarface(1983), The Shop on Main Street(1965), Casino(1995), L.A. Confidential(1997), Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion(1970), Mr. Smith Goes to Washington(1939), Hotel Rwanda(2004), Sanjuro(1962), Fargo(1996) ... ...

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The Shawshank Redemption

Two imprisoned men bond over a number of years, finding solace and eventual redemption through acts of common decency.

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Gladiator

A former Roman General sets out to exact vengeance against the corrupt emperor who murdered his family and sent him into slavery.

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Once Upon a Time in America

A former Prohibition-era Jewish gangster returns to the Lower East Side of Manhattan over thirty years later, where he once again must confront the ghosts and regrets of his old life.

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Scarface

In 1980 Miami, a determined Cuban immigrant takes over a drug cartel and succumbs to greed.

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The Shop on Main Street

A carpenter in the Fascist Slovak State is appointed "Aryan controller" of a Jewish widow's store.

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Casino

A tale of greed, deception, money, power, and murder occur between two best friends: a mafia enforcer and a casino executive compete against each other over a gambling empire, and over a fast-living and fast-loving socialite.

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L.A. Confidential

As corruption grows in 1950s Los Angeles, three policemen - one strait-laced, one brutal, and one sleazy - investigate a series of murders with their own brand of justice.

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Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion

A chief of detectives, homicide section, kills his mistress and deliberately leaves clues to prove his own responsibility for the crime.

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Mr. Smith Goes to Washington

A naive man is appointed to fill a vacancy in the United States Senate. His plans promptly collide with political corruption, but he doesn't back down.

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Hotel Rwanda

Paul Rusesabagina, a hotel manager, houses over a thousand Tutsi refugees during their struggle against the Hutu militia in Rwanda, Africa.

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Sanjuro

A crafty samurai helps a young man and his fellow clansmen save his uncle, who has been framed and imprisoned by a corrupt superintendent.

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Fargo

Jerry Lundegaard's inept crime falls apart due to his and his henchmen's bungling and the persistent police work of the quite pregnant Marge Gunderson.

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Chinatown

A private detective hired to expose an adulterer finds himself caught up in a web of deceit, corruption, and murder.

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On the Waterfront

An ex-prize fighter turned longshoreman struggles to stand up to his corrupt union bosses.

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Viridiana

Viridiana, a young nun about to take her final vows, pays a visit to her widowed uncle at the request of her Mother Superior.

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Shoeshine

Two shoeshine boys in postwar Rome, Italy, save up to buy a horse, but their involvement as dupes in a burglary lands them in juvenile prison where the experience take a devastating toll on their friendship.

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The Thin Blue Line

A film that successfully argued that a man was wrongly convicted for murder by a corrupt justice system in Dallas County, Texas.

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Angels With Dirty Faces

A priest tries to stop a gangster from corrupting a group of street kids.

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Brazil

A bureaucrat in a dystopic society becomes an enemy of the state as he pursues the woman of his dreams.

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The Adventures of Robin Hood

When Prince John and the Norman Lords begin oppressing the Saxon masses in King Richard's absence, a Saxon lord fights back as the outlaw leader of a rebel guerrilla army.

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The Untouchables

During the era of Prohibition in the United States, Federal Agent Eliot Ness sets out to stop ruthless Chicago gangster Al Capone and, because of rampant corruption, assembles a small, hand-picked team to help him.

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Cocaine Cowboys

In the 1980s, ruthless Colombian cocaine barons invaded Miami with a brand of violence unseen in this country since Prohibition-era Chicago - and it put the city on the map. "Cocaine ... See full summary »

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Hot Fuzz

A skilled London police officer is transferred to a small town with a dark secret.

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The Hunchback of Notre Dame

In 15th-century France, a gypsy girl is framed for murder by the infatuated Chief Justice, and only the deformed bellringer of Notre Dame Cathedral can save her.

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American Gangster

An outcast New York City cop is charged with bringing down Harlem drug lord Frank Lucas, whose real life inspired this partly biographical film.

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Becket

King Henry II of England comes to terms with his affection for his close friend and confidant Thomas Becket, who finds his true honor by observing God's divine will rather than the King's.

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Who Framed Roger Rabbit

A toon-hating detective is a cartoon rabbit's only hope to prove his innocence when he is accused of murder.

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Blue Velvet

The discovery of a severed human ear found in a field leads a young man on an investigation related to a beautiful, mysterious nightclub singer and a group of psychopathic criminals who have kidnapped her child.

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Kai Po Che!

Three friends growing up in India at the turn of the millennium set out to open a training academy to produce the country's next cricket stars.

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Serpico

An honest New York cop named Frank Serpico blows the whistle on rampant corruption in the force only to have his comrades turn against him.

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