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Tag: corruption

  • Once Upon a Time in Mexico

    A corrupt CIA agent Sands hires hitman El Mariachi to assassinate a Mexican general hired by a drug kingpin attempting a coup d’état of the President of Mexico.

  • JFK to 9/11: Everything is a Rich Man’s Trick

    The real reasons and orchestrators behind Hitler, to an incredible theory of the JFK assassination, all the way to 9/11 and the current age of the terrorist. Taken from an historical perspective starting around World War 1 leading to present day.

  • Making a Murderer

    Filmed over 10 years, this real-life thriller follows a DNA exoneree who, while exposing police corruption, becomes a suspect in a grisly new crime.

  • Gay Mean Girls: Reloaded

    When student journalist Savannah Lin becomes embroiled in the complicated dynamics of a social justice “safe space,” she must choose between protecting her community or the integrity of her voice in the wake of a betrayal.

  • 29 Palms

    When a bag filled with money goes missing from a casino, the Hitman (Chris O’Donnell) must retrieve it. While he tracks the stash down, the bag changes hands numerous times, finding its way to the Drifter (Jeremy Davies) and the Waitress (Rachael Leigh Cook), among others. As the bag’s journey continues, more characters, including the Cop (Michael Rapaport) and the Sheriff (Keith David), get drawn into the winding crime tale, and the search becomes increasingly desperate.

  • Buffalo Soldiers

    A criminal subculture operates among U.S. soldiers stationed in West Germany just before the fall of the Berlin wall.

  • Death to Smoochy

    Tells the story of Rainbow Randolph, the corrupt, costumed star of a popular children’s TV show, who is fired over a bribery scandal and replaced by squeaky-clean Smoochy, a puffy fuchsia rhinoceros. As Smoochy catapults to fame – scoring hit ratings and the affections of a network executive – Randolph makes the unsuspecting rhino the target of his numerous outrageous attempts to exact revenge and reclaim his status as America’s sweetheart.

  • Memories of Murder

    During the late 1980s, two detectives in a South Korean province attempt to solve the nation’s first series of rape-and-murder cases.

  • The Bricklayers

    When a worker is found murdered on the construction side, the investigation swiftly turns from things criminal to the political circumstances surrounding the building itself. Widespread corruption and neglect by the builder himself are seen to have brought the situation about. Much of the movie is filmed using hand-held cameras, and the majority of the dialogue is in the difficult-to-understand and very slangy Spanish dialect of Mexico City’s bricklayers.

  • American Dictators: Staging of the 2004 Presidential Election

    In Alex Jones’ 11th feature documentary, made in 2004, Alex documents the major candidates in the staged 2004 United States presidential election.