Here we've displayed a list of the best Cover-up films : Spotlight(2015), Icarus(2017), The Big Clock(1948), The Long Goodbye(1973), Fist of Legend(1994), The Town(2010), Three Monkeys(2008), The China Syndrome(1979), The Strange Love of Martha Ivers(1946), Get Carter(1971), Blow Out(1981), Murder Most Foul(1964) ... ...
Drama
USA
2015
128 Minutes
Mark Ruffalo Michael Keaton Rachel McAdams Liev Schreiber John Slattery Brian d'Arcy James Stanley Tucci Billy Crudup Paul Guilfoyle Jamey Sheridan Len Cariou
editor journalist priest reporter family member victim brooding emotional intense gripping boston newsroom church office car street sexual abuse reporting investigation cover-up
The true story of how the Boston Globe uncovered the massive scandal of child molestation and cover-up within the local Catholic Archdiocese, shaking the entire Catholic Church to its core.
Documentary
USA
2017
110 Minutes
Bryan Fogel Richard Pound Dave Zabriskie Don Catlin David Howman
filmmaker documentarian mastermind athlete reporter government agent brooding disturbing shocking profound russia united states newsroom office street crime scene sports cheating olympic games cover-up
When Bryan sets out to uncover the truth about doping in sports, a chance meeting with a Russian scientist transforms his story from a personal experiment into a geopolitical thriller.
Crime, Drama
USA
1948
95 Minutes
Ray Milland Charles Laughton Maureen O'Sullivan George Macready Rita Johnson Elsa Lanchester Harold Vermilyea Dan Tobin Harry Morgan Richard Webb Tad Van Brunt
editor boss wife mistress henchman reporter spirited gripping cheeky new york city apartment bar office elevator antique shop disillusionment corporate culture journalism honeymoon cover-up
A magazine tycoon commits a murder and pins it on an innocent man, who then tries to solve the murder himself.
Crime, Drama
USA
1973
112 Minutes
Elliott Gould Nina van Pallandt Sterling Hayden Mark Rydell Henry Gibson David Arkin Jim Bouton Warren Berlinger Jack Knight Pepe Callahan Rutanya Alda
private investigator gangster police chief author wife thief cool intricate crafty los angeles apartment beach house mexico rehabilitation clinic faking death investigation infidelity cover-up retribution underdog
Private investigator Philip Marlowe helps a friend out of a jam, but in doing so gets implicated in his wife's murder.
Sports & Fitness, Action
Hong Kong
1994
103 Minutes
Jet Li Chin Siu Ho Billy Chow Yasuaki Kurata Paul Chiang Ada Choi Shinobu Nakayama Toshimichi Takahashi Jackson Liu
martial artist girlfriend japanese man general son prostitute spectacular rousing kyoto, japan shanghai school brothel japanese occupation martial arts jealousy murder cover-up racism rise love
In 1937, a Chinese martial artist returns to Shanghai to find his teacher dead and his school harassed by the Japanese.
Mystery & Thriller, Crime, Drama
USA
2010
124 Minutes
Ben Affleck Rebecca Hall Jon Hamm Jeremy Renner Blake Lively Titus Welliver Pete Postlethwaite Chris Cooper Slaine Owen Burke Brian Scannell
bank robber best friend hostage love interest crime boss fbi agent gripping disturbing tense charlestown boston bank crime relationships heist cover-up murder disguise transformation pursuit
A longtime thief, planning his next job, tries to balance his feelings for a bank manager connected to an earlier heist, and a hell-bent F.B.I Agent looking to bring him and his crew down.
Drama
Turkey|France|Italy
2008
109 Minutes
Yavuz Bingol Hatice Aslan Rifat Sungar Ercan Kesal Cafer Köse Gürkan Aydin
businessman driver wife son emotional disheartening intense istanbul prison father/son relationship family secrets accidental death rags to riches infidelity cover-up sacrifice temptation 2000s
A family suffers from a major communication breakdown during their struggle to get through their hardships.
Mystery & Thriller, Drama
USA
1979
122 Minutes
Jane Fonda Jack Lemmon Michael Douglas Scott Brady James Hampton Peter Donat Wilford Brimley James Karen
news reporter camera operator nuclear physicist supervisor cameraman gripping gutsy intense thrilling suspenseful tense california nuclear power plant newsroom car television studio home nuclear meltdown nuclear safety cover-up
A reporter finds what appears to be a cover-up of safety hazards at a nuclear power plant.
Drama
USA
1946
116 Minutes
Barbara Stanwyck Van Heflin Kirk Douglas Lizabeth Scott Judith Anderson Darryl Hickman Roman Bohnen Ann Doran
wealthy woman district attorney childhood friend aunt convict bleak tense iverstown, pa. mansion office dark secrets love triangle marriage of convenience cover-up accidental death forbidden love fall wretched excess rivalry 1920s
A man is reunited with his childhood friend and her husband, who believe he knows the truth about the death of her rich aunt years earlier.
Crime, Drama
UK
1971
111 Minutes
Michael Caine Ian Hendry Britt Ekland John Osborne Tony Beckley George Sewell Geraldine Moffat Dorothy White Rosemarie Dunham Petra Markham Alun Armstrong
gangster brother killer thug brutal dark london funeral street murder retribution cover-up violence revenge pursuit wretched excess 20th century
When his brother dies under mysterious circumstances in a car accident, London gangster Jack Carter travels to Newcastle to investigate.
Mystery & Thriller
USA
1981
108 Minutes
John Travolta Nancy Allen John Lithgow Dennis Franz Peter Boyden Curt May Dave Roberts Maurice Copeland Claire Carter John Aquino John Hoffmeister
sound operator woman assassin detective intricate suspenseful dark philadelphia river roof movie studio political intrigue conspiracy assassination accident cover-up recordings sacrifice discovery pursuit
A movie sound recordist accidentally records the evidence that proves that a car accident was actually murder and consequently finds himself in danger.
Mystery & Thriller, Crime, Drama
UK
1964
91 Minutes
Margaret Rutherford Ron Moody Charles "Bud" Tingwell Andrew Cruickshank Megs Jenkins Dennis Price
miss marple actor theatrical producer murderer juror engaging endearing intricate england courtroom theater murder jealousy cover-up investigation mystery pursuit 1960s
When a wealthy old man appears to have been "frightened to death" by a cat, Miss Jane Marple suspects one of his four relatives, all heirs to his estate, of his murder.
Sci-Fi, Horror
USA
1988
93 Minutes
Roddy Piper Keith David Meg Foster George "Buck" Flower Peter Jason Raymond St. Jacques Jason Robards III Larry Franco
drifter politician police officer alien media personality dark amusing wild los angeles shantytown tv station church conspiracy alien invasion cover-up media political corruption discovery underdog 1980s
They influence our decisions without us knowing it. They numb our senses without us feeling it. They control our lives without us realizing it. They live.
Crime, Drama
USA
1952
91 Minutes
Robert Mitchum Jean Simmons Mona Freeman Herbert Marshall Leon Ames Barbara O'Neil Kenneth Tobey Raymond Greenleaf Griff Barnett Robert Gist Morgan Farley
beautiful woman love interest father stepmother sister young man disturbing intense beverly hills, calif. mansion murder manipulation cover-up double life obsessive love jealousy revenge quest transformation 1950s
Ambulance driver Frank Jessup is ensnared in the schemes of the sensuous but dangerous Diane Tremayne.
Drama
USA
1957
96 Minutes
Richard Widmark Richard Basehart Dolores Michaels June Lockhart Carl Benton Reid Martin Balsam Rip Torn Alan Dexter Yale Wexler Joe Di Reda
colonel major soldier prisoner of war lieutenant captain suspenseful tense gripping court north korea new york city treason court-martial korean war cover-up justice mystery sacrifice discovery
During the Korean War former prisoner of war, Major Harry Cargill admits to having collaborated with the enemy but military investigator Colonel William Edwards wants the details.
Mystery & Thriller, Crime, Drama
Norway
1997
99 Minutes
Stellan Skarsgård Sverre Anker Ousdal Bjørn Floberg Gisken Armand Maria Bonnevie Maria Mathiesen Thor Michael Aamodt Frode Rasmussen
detective police officer writer murderer suspect partner dark dreamy somber norway arctic beach small town insomnia murder investigation cover-up guilt accidental death fall mystery
In a Norwegian city with a 24-hour daylight cycle a Swedish murder investigator has been brought in on a special case. Sleep deprived, he makes a horrible mistake which is discovered by the killer he has been hunting.
Mystery & Thriller, Crime, Drama, Action
UK|USA|Australia
2008
111 Minutes
Jason Statham Saffron Burrows Richard Lintern Stephen Campbell Moore Daniel Mays Peter Bowles Keeley Hawes Colin Salmon Peter De Jersey James Faulkner Sharon Maughan
bank robber criminal crime boss intelligence officer photographer model confident intricate thrilling gripping intense london lloyds bank repair shop trinidad paddington station yacht bank heist deception negotiation
Martine offers Terry a lead on a foolproof bank hit on London's Baker Street. She targets a roomful of safe deposit boxes worth millions in cash and jewelry along with a treasure trove of dirty secrets.
Comedy
USA
1974
100 Minutes
Michel Piccoli Romy Schneider Mascha Gomska
sister younger sister insurance investigator husband wife attorney chilling suspenseful melodramatic france house office bathroom insurance fraud crime murder cover-up schemes sadism discovery
A salesman with a sudden passion for reform has an idea to sell to his barfly buddies: throw away your pipe dreams. The drunkards, living in a flophouse above a saloon, resent the idea.
Mystery & Thriller, Crime, Drama
India
2011
137 Minutes
Rani Mukherji Vidya Balan Rajesh Sharma Shireesh Sharma Mohammed Zeeshan Ayub Neil Bhoopalam Satyadeep Misra Myra Karn
bartender sister reporter killer politician police chief chilling disturbing gripping delhi, india party police station courtroom airplane press conference murder case cover-up political corruption high society sister relationship
A journalist, who is more of an activist teams up with the sister of a murdered model, as she gets interested in the case and wants to bring justice to her case.
Documentary
USA
2020
95 Minutes
Amy Ziering Sil Lai Abrams Tarana Burke Kimberlé Crenshaw Jenny Lumet
music executive music producer musician friend journalist dark disheartening emotional engaging fascinating intense melancholy moving powerful uneasy united states sexual abuse sexual harassment sexism music industry
A former hip hop executive decides whether to make public her rape by one of the most powerful men in the music industry.
Mystery & Thriller
Austria|Switzerland
1992
105 Minutes
Arno Frisch Angela Winkler Ulrich Mühe Ingrid Stassner
teen boy mother father teen girl daughter police officer disturbing brooding somber austria egypt party concert hall hotel post office murder video camera animal slaughter cover-up technology
A 14-year-old video enthusiast is so caught up in film fantasy that he can no longer relate to the real world, to such an extent that he commits murder and records an on-camera confession for his parents.
Biography, Drama
UK|Australia|USA
2015
121 Minutes
Will Smith Alec Baldwin Gugu Mbatha-Raw Arliss Howard Paul Reiser Luke Wilson Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje David Morse Matthew Willig Albert Brooks Richard T. Jones
football player pathologist doctor commissioner lawyer family member brooding emotional intense football field laboratory pittsburgh office house street brain disorder football cover-up lawsuit determination
In Pittsburgh, accomplished pathologist Dr. Bennet Omalu uncovers the truth about brain damage in football players who suffer repeated concussions in the course of normal play.
Mystery & Thriller, Drama
USA
1949
82 Minutes
James Mason Joan Bennett Geraldine Brooks Henry O'Neill Shepperd Strudwick David Bair Roy Roberts Frances E. Williams Paul E. Burns Danny Jackson Claire Carleton
wife daughter boyfriend gangster murder suspect police officer dark intricate intense family home boat crime scene police station southern california accidental death murder blackmail cover-up unlikely allies crime
After discovering the dead body of her teenage daughter's lover, a housewife takes desperate measures to protect her family from scandal.
Drama
USA
1951
85 Minutes
Richard Rober Harry Morgan Christine Larson Gwendolyn Laster Maidie Norman Ernest Anderson Dick Simmons Lane Chandler Pat Mitchell
sheriff white man young girl nephew stranger engineer dark suspenseful melodramatic small town well police station school house segregation missing persons search race relations cover-up racial tension
A small, racially-mixed American town succumbs to violence and utter mayhem after a white man suspected of kidnapping a missing black girl is released by the white authority.
Documentary
2019
93 Minutes
Anita Alvarez Dean Angelo Alma Benitez Pat Camden Charlene Carruthers Kina Collins
teenager murder victim murderer police captain police officer investigator lawyer judge journalist bleak dark emotional gripping gritty melancholy powerful sad solemn chicago murder
A documentary examining the 2014 shooting of 17-year-old Laquan McDonald by Chicago police officer Jason Van Dyke and the cover-up that ensued.
Comedy, Drama
USA
2019
103 Minutes
Allison Janney Hugh Jackman Kathrine Narducci Geraldine Viswanathan Alex Wolff Stephanie Kurtzuba Annaleigh Ashford Ray Romano
superintendent assistant community member student parent reporter intense intricate confident engaging quirky striking long island, n.y. school prestige cover-up embezzlement reporting secrets discovery
The beloved superintendent of New York's Roslyn school district and his staff, friends and relatives become the prime suspects in the unfolding of the single largest public school embezzlement scandal in American history.
Comedy
South Korea
1998
99 Minutes
Song Kang-ho Park In-hwan Mun-hee Na Choe Min-sik Lee Yeon-sung Go Ho-kyung Gi-yeong Lee Ji Su-won
mother father son daughter guest uncle cheeky dark creepy country lodge wilderness south korea road suicide bad publicity cover-up dysfunctional family mysterious deaths murder transformation
A family opens a mountain inn where their first guest commits suicide. Suddenly all their guests befall horrible fates.
Crime, Drama
USA
1934
72 Minutes
Claude Rains Charles MacArthur Margo Helen Whitney Bourne Stanley Ridges Leslie Adams
dancer lawyer girlfriend alter ego police officer ghost dreamy suspenseful engaging police station nightclub infidelity murder alibi cover-up supernatural pursuit mystery 1930s
Prominent lawyer shoots unfaithful girlfriend during quarrel, has to establish alibi.
Comedy, Drama
Spain
1986
102 Minutes
Assumpta Serna Antonio Banderas Nacho Martínez Eva Cobo Julieta Serrano Chus Lampreave Carmen Maura Eusebio Poncela Bibi Andersen Luis Ciges Eva Siva
matador student mother model girlfriend lawyer shocking wild madrid bullring police station yard bullfighting father figure psychic phenomena murder cover-up sexual taboo forbidden love 1980s
A matador is wounded by a bull and can no longer kill in the arena. It just a one flaw besides many others from several characters whom unsuspected collide.
Mystery & Thriller, Action
USA
2012
130 Minutes
Tom Cruise Rosamund Pike Robert Duvall Richard Jenkins Werner Herzog David Oyelowo Jai Courtney Joseph Sikora Michael Raymond-James Alexia Fast James Martin Kelly
investigator defense attorney sniper hit man police officer fiery suspenseful gripping pittsburgh police station street murder investigation cover-up russian mob military adventure pursuit rescue 2010s
A homicide investigator digs deeper into a case involving a trained military sniper who shot five random victims.