List of conspiracy thriller films
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This is an incomplete list of conspiracy thriller films.
| Name | Date | Description |
|---|---|---|
| 1984 | 1984 | Thought crimes meet Big Brother |
| All the President's Men | 1976 | Watergate uncovered by two young reporters |
| The Arrival | 1996 | Extraterrestrial invasion cover-up |
| Arlington Road | 1999 | Terrorists set up innocent man as fall guy |
| Blow Out | 1981 | Chappaquiddick-esque assassination plot |
| Cadaveri eccellenti | 1976 | Political assassination of judges in Italy |
| Capricorn One | 1978 | Faking first mission to Mars |
| The China Syndrome | 1979 | Safety cover-ups at a nuclear power plant; foreshadowed Three Mile Island |
| Chinatown | 1974 | Film noir; big real estate interests pull the levers of power |
| Coma | 1978 | Big hospital harvests organs from coma-induced patients |
| Conspiracy | 2001 | Big Nazis: the Final Solution to the Jewish QuestionHBO |
| Conspiracy Theory | 1997 | Government-funded mind control |
| The Constant Gardener | 2005 | Big pharmaceutical companies pull the levers of power[1][2] |
| The Conversation | 1974 | A surveillance spy detects a murder and is spied upon |
| The Da Vinci Code | 2006 | Cover up of religious events |
| Edge of Darkness | 1985 | (TV Series) The British build underground nuclear reprocessing plant to offset miners' strike |
| Enemy of the State | 1998 | Wiretapping bill, agency renegades Cover-up assassination |
| Eraser | 1996 | Under Secretary of Defense behind covert weapons deal |
| Flightplan | 2005 | Terrorism aboard a plane |
| Hoffa | 1992 | Big labor power struggle “disappears” one of its leaders |
| The Insider | 1999 | Big tobacco pulls the levers of power and big media rolls over |
| Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978 film) | 1978 | Alien invasion conspiracy. |
| JFK | 1991 | Assassination Cover-up |
| Marathon Man | 1976 | Graduate Student stumbles into international NAZI diamond conspiracy. |
| The Manchurian Candidate | 1962 | Foreign government uses Mind control |
| The Manchurian Candidate | 2004 | Multinational corporation uses Mind control |
| Minority Report | 2002 | Science fiction, crime, precognition and cover-up |
| Missing | 1982 | Foreign government coverup aided by U.S. |
| The Net | 1992 | Cyberterrorism, identity theft |
| No Way Out | 1987 | Secretary of Defense tries to cover-up involvement in the murder of his lover. |
| The Package | 1989 | Assassination to maintain the cold war |
| The Parallax View | 1974 | Brainwashing assassins, patsies |
| The Pelican Brief | 1993 | Killing Supreme Court judges to block environmental bill |
| The Prisoner | 1967 | (TV series) Spy imprisoned in strange prison, asked the same question repeatedly |
| Serpico | 1973 | Corruption in NYPD |
| Seven Days in May | 1964 | Pentagon military faction plots to replace the president |
| Shadow Conspiracy | 1997 | Presidential assassination |
| The Sigma Protocol | 2008 | Multinational conspiracy manipulating the global economy[3] |
| Silkwood | 1983 | Whistleblower in nuclear plant is silenced |
| Snake Eyes | 1998 | Assassination of the Secretary of Defense |
| Sneakers | 1992 | Codebreaking, illegal surveillance by NSA |
| The Stepford Wives | 1975 | Replacing the women of Stepford with robots |
| The Stepford Wives | 2004 | Replacing the women of Stepford with robots again |
| Syriana | 2005 | Big oil pulls the levers of power |
| Three Days of the Condor | 1975 | CIA-within-the-CIA plots possible invasion of Middle East |
| Wag the Dog | 1997 | Comedy - government uses diversion and big media to manipulate the public |
| Winter Kills | 1979 | Black comedy - assassination cover-up |
| The X Files | 1998 | Agents Scully and Mulder uncover secret lab and alien ship |
| Z | 1969 | Right-wing assassination and cover-up |
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