List of conspiracy thriller films

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This is a list of conspiracy thriller films. For a discussion of conspiracy thrillers in general, see Conspiracy thriller.

Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.

[edit] Film list in alphabetic order

All the President's Men (Watergate uncovered by two young reporters)
Blow Out (Chappaquiddick-esque assassination plot)
Capricorn One (faking first mission to Mars)
Chinatown (film) (1974 Film noir - big real estate interests pull the levers of power)
Coma (film) (big hospital harvests organs from coma induced patients)
Conspiracy (film) HBO (Big Nazis: "The Final Solution of the Jewish Question")
Conspiracy Theory (government-funded mind control)
Doctor Strangelove (U.S. general starts nuclear war to thwart a conspiracy to fluoridate the water)
Edge of Darkness (British build underground nuclear reprocessing plant to offset miners' strike)
Enemy of the State (wiretapping bill, agency renegades Cover-up assassination)
Eraser (film) (Under Secretary of Defense behind covert weapons deal)
Flightplan (terrorism aboard a plane)
Hoffa (big labor power struggle “disappears” one of its leaders)
Invaders from Mars (1953 film)
JFK (assassination Cover-up)
Minority Report (science fiction - crime Precognition and Cover-up)
Missing (foreign government coverup aided by U.S.)
Nineteen Eighty-Four (thought crimes meet Big Brother)
Serpico (corruption in NYPD)
Seven Days in May (Pentagon military faction plots to replace the president)
Silkwood (Whistleblower in nuclear plant is silenced)
Snakes Eyes (assassination of the Secretary of Defense)
Sneakers (film) (codebreaking, illegal surveillance by NSA)
Syriana (big oil pulls the levers of power)
The Arrival (film) [1][2] (extraterrestrial invasion coverup)
The China Syndrome (safety coverups at a nuclear power plant - foreshadowed Three Mile Island)
The Constant Gardener (film) [3][4] (big pharmaceutical companies pull the levers of power)
The Conversation (a surveillance spy detects a murder and is spied upon)
The Da Vinci Code (film) (Cover up of religious events)
The Insider (film) (big tobacco pulls the levers of power and (big?) media rolls over)
The Manchurian Candidate (1962) (foreign government uses Mind control)
The Manchurian Candidate (2004) (multinational corporation uses Mind control)
The Net (cyberterrorism, identity theft)
The Parallax View (brainwashing assassins, patsies)
The Pelican Brief (killing Supreme Court judges to block environmental bill)
The Prisoner (spy imprisoned in strange prison, asked the same question repeatedly)
The Sigma Protocol [5] (2008 - multinational conspiracy manipulating the global economy)
The Stepford Wives (replacing the women of Stepford with robots)
The X Files (film) (agents Scully and Mulder uncover secret lab and alien ship)
Three Days of the Condor (CIA-within-the-CIA plots possible invasion of Middle East)
Wag the Dog (comedy - government uses diversion and big media to manipulate the public)
Winter Kills (Black comedy - assassination cover-up)
Z (film) (right-wing assassination and cover-up)