Top Corrupt Movies & TV Shows

Cast

Ray Winstone

Mick Ford

Julian Firth

John Blundell

Scum (1979)

7.1 214 votes

Genre: Crime, Drama

Country: United Kingdom

Duration: 96 min.

Audience: 18

Story: Carlin is a new reform school inmate with a reputation as a hard case. The authorities encourage gang leader Pongo to humble Carlin, but Carlin overtakes Pongo as Daddy of the ward. The guards institute a reign of terror and neglect, with Carlin emerging as an unlikely leader.

Plot: prison, suicide, rape, corruption, controversy, riot, revenge, racism, ...

Place: england

Cast

Stefano Accorsi

Guido Caprino

Miriam Leone

Antonio Gerardi

1994 (2019) TV Show

7.1 43 votes

Genre: Drama

Country: Italy

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 8

Story: After the breakdown of the old government, and with it the First Republic, Italy changed for good in 1994. Spinster Leo is all too aware of this. He pushed hard to see Berlusconi get elected Prime Minister. He knows it's not easy to win power, but holding on to it verges on the impossible. By the same token, it seems equally impossible for populist politician Pietro to change. Even now that he has an office at the Prime Minister's premises in Rome, he still can't cast off his old bad habits. Nor can he forget the only woman he has ever loved. A former TV starlet now turned politician and Congresswoman, Veronica has to decide who the man of her life is going to be. She has realized she no longer wants to be just a woman on the arm of powerful men. It is the start of her own push for power.

Plot: corruption, politics, berlusconi, italian history

Place: italy

Cast

Sivakarthikeyan

Aditi Shankar

Saritha

Mysskin

Maaveeran (2023)

7.1 47 votes

Genre: Action, Comedy, Drama

Country: India

Duration: 166 min.

Audience: 15

Story: After a head injury, cowardly newspaper cartoonist Sathya hears a voice in his mind, foretells events and puts him in precarious situations and forces him to take on a corrupt politician.

Plot: corruption, slum, politician, poverty, political corruption, cartoonist, hearing voices, guided by voices, ...

Cast

Antonio de la Torre

Josep Maria Pou

Mu00f3nica Lu00f3pez

Bu00e1rbara Lennie

The Realm (2018)

7.1 477 votes

Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller

Country: France, Spain

Duration: 132 min.

Story: Manuel, a Spanish politician whose high-class lifestyle is based on nefarious and illegal business threatens to break his entire party after a newspaper exposes him to the public eye. Rather than admit to any wrongdoing, he decides to sell out his whole party in an effort to avoid jail time. It's a decision that will put many lives at risk.

Plot: corruption, fraud, politician, treason, treachery, critical

Place: spain

Cast

Shia LaBeouf

Tom Hardy

Gary Oldman

Guy Pearce

Lawless (2012)

7.1 3.4K votes

Genre: Crime, Drama, Western

Country: United States of America

Duration: 115 min.

Audience: R

Story: In 1931, the Bondurant brothers of Franklin County, Virginia, run a multipurpose backwoods establishment that hides their true business — bootlegging. Middle brother Forrest is the brain of the operation; older Howard is the brawn, and younger Jack, the lookout. Though the local police have taken bribes and left the brothers alone, a violent war erupts when a sadistic lawman from Chicago arrives and tries to shut down the Bondurants operation.

Plot: corruption, based on novel or book, brother, gangster, bootlegging, shootout, brutality, church, ...

Time: prohibition era, great depression, 1930s

Place: appalachia

Cast

Gordon Heath

Maurice Denham

Animal Farm (1954)

7.1 552 votes

Genre: Animation, Drama

Country: United Kingdom

Duration: 73 min.

Audience: G

Story: Animals on a farm lead a revolution against the farmers to put their destiny in their own hands. However this revolution eats their own children and they cannot avoid corruption.

Plot: farm, corruption, based on novel or book, revolution, governance, uprising, oppression, fable, ...

VICE (2013) TV Show

7.0 79 votes

Genre: Documentary, War

Seasons: 6

Episodes: 113

Audience: TV-MA

Story: A documentary news series with a taboo-breaking team who deliver incredible news stories from around the world.

Plot: corruption

Cast

Evin Ahmad

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Ali Alarik

Dada Fungula Bozela

Jozef Wojciechowicz

Snabba Cash (2021) TV Show

7.0 117 votes

Genre: Crime, Drama

Country: Sweden

Seasons: 2

Episodes: 12

Audience: TV-MA

Story: The lives of an ambitious businesswoman, a charming gang enforcer and a troubled teen collide amidst a desperate — and sinister — pursuit of wealth.

Plot: corruption, capitalism, money laundering, friendship, threat, nordic noir

Cast

Harvey Keitel

Peggy Gormley

Stella Keitel

Victor Argo

Bad Lieutenant (1992)

7.0 968 votes

Genre: Crime, Drama

Country: United States of America

Duration: 96 min.

Audience: NC-17

Story: While investigating a young nun's rape, a corrupt New York City police detective, with a serious drug and gambling addiction, tries to change his ways and find forgiveness.

Plot: drug dealer, new york city, rape, corruption, police, nun, gambling debt, homicide, ...

Cast

Ryan Gosling

Bradley Cooper

Eva Mendes

Rose Byrne

The Place Beyond the Pines (2013)

7.0 5.2K votes

Genre: Crime, Drama

Country: United States of America

Duration: 140 min.

Audience: R

Story: A motorcycle stunt rider considers committing a crime in order to provide for his wife and child, an act that puts him on a collision course with a cop-turned-politician.

Plot: corruption, parent child relationship, hostage, motel, carnival, stuntman, house party, mechanic, ...

Cast

Chu00f6gyam Trungpa

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Jordan Maxwell

George Carlin

Bill Hicks

Zeitgeist: The Movie (2007)

7.0 541 votes

Genre: Documentary, History

Country: United States of America

Duration: 118 min.

Story: A documentary examining possible historical and modern conspiracies surrounding Christianity, the 9/11 terrorist attacks, and the Federal Reserve bank.

Plot: corruption, nazi, war on terror, economic theory, banking, conspiracy theory, elite, economy, ...

Time: world war ii

Cast

Jaroslava Schallerovu00e1

Helena Anu00fdu017eovu00e1

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Petr Kopu0159iva

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Valerie and Her Week of Wonders (1970)

7.0 307 votes

Genre: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy

Country: Czechoslovakia

Duration: 73 min.

Story: Valerie, a Czechoslovakian teenager living with her grandmother, is blossoming into womanhood, but that transformation proves secondary to the effects she experiences when she puts on a pair of magic earrings. Now seeing the world around her in a different light, Valerie must endure her sexual awakening while attempting to discern reality from fantasy as she encounters lecherous priest Gracian, a vampire-like stranger and otherworldly carnival folk.

Plot: puberty, corruption, based on novel or book, magic, vampire, sexuality, allegory, innocence, ...

Cast

Aaron Pierre

Don Johnson

AnnaSophia Robb

Emory Cohen

Rebel Ridge (2024)

7.0 1.6K votes

Genre: Action, Crime, Drama

Country: United States of America

Duration: 131 min.

Audience: R

Story: A former Marine confronts corruption in a small town when local law enforcement unjustly seizes the bag of cash he needs to post his cousin's bail.

Plot: small town, corruption, police chief, louisiana, rogue cop, police corruption, ex-marine, social issues, ...

Cast

Benicio del Toro

Josh Brolin

Isabela Merced

Jeffrey Donovan

Sicario: Day of the Soldado (2018)

6.9 4.1K votes

Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller

Country: Mexico, United States of America

Duration: 122 min.

Audience: R

Story: Agent Matt Graver teams up with operative Alejandro Gillick to prevent Mexican drug cartels from smuggling terrorists across the United States border.

Plot: rescue, central intelligence agency (cia), corruption, usa–mexico border, sequel, shootout, explosion, brutality, ...

Cast

Miles Teller

Jonah Hill

Ana de Armas

Bradley Cooper

War Dogs (2016)

6.9 5.5K votes

Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama

Country: United States of America

Duration: 114 min.

Audience: R

Story: Based on the true story of two young men, David Packouz and Efraim Diveroli, who won a $300 million contract from the Pentagon to arm America's allies in Afghanistan.

Plot: corruption, smuggling (contraband), rise and fall, drugs, american exceptionalism

Place: iraq

Cast

Barbara Sukowa

Armin Mueller-Stahl

Mario Adorf

Matthias Fuchs

Lola (1981)

6.9 136 votes

Genre: Drama

Country: Germany

Duration: 113 min.

Story: Germany in the autumn of 1957: Lola, a seductive cabaret singer-prostitute exults in her power as a temptress of men, but she wants out—she wants money, property, and love. Pitting a corrupt building contractor against the new straight-arrow building commissioner, Lola launches an outrageous plan to elevate herself in a world where everything, and everyone, is for sale. Shot in childlike candy colors, Fassbinder’s homage to Josef von Sternberg’s classic The Blue Angel stands as a satiric tribute to capitalism.

Plot: corruption, based on novel or book, sexual obsession, capitalism, bavaria, germany, coburg, femme fatale, ...

Cast

Hrithik Roshan

Yami Gautam Dhar

Ronit Roy

Rohit Roy

Kaabil (2017)

6.9 149 votes

Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller

Country: India

Duration: 139 min.

Audience: R

Story: Rohan is a kind, happy young man who has been blind since birth and works as a voice-over artist for a living. Through friends, he meets Supriya, a working woman who is also blind, but proudly independent. The two start liking each other and get married. Rohan toughest journey starts in his quest of vengeance for Supriya's indirect murderers.

Plot: rape, corruption, revenge, murder, blindness, blind man

Cast

Michael Keaton

Danny DeVito

Michelle Pfeiffer

Christopher Walken

Batman Returns (1992)

6.9 7.1K votes

Genre: Action, Fantasy

Country: United States of America

Duration: 126 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: The monstrous Penguin, who dwells in the sewers beneath Gotham, joins up with corrupt mayoral candidate Max Shreck to topple the Batman once and for all. But when Shreck's timid assistant Selina Kyle finds out, and Shreck tries to kill her, she's transformed into the sexy Catwoman. She teams up with the Penguin and Shreck to destroy Batman, but sparks fly unexpectedly when she confronts the caped crusader.

Plot: double life, corruption, darkness, crime fighter, superhero, hallucination, villain, christmas tree, ...

Cast

Hugh Laurie

Ethan Suplee

Greta Lee

Stefania LaVie Owen

Chance (2016) TV Show

6.9 170 votes

Genre: Drama

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 2

Episodes: 20

Audience: TV-MA

Story: San Francisco-based forensic neuropsychiatrist Eldon Chance reluctantly gets sucked into a violent and dangerous world of mistaken identity, police corruption and mental illness.

Plot: corruption, mistaken identity, mental illness, unassuming

Cast

Karl Urban

Olivia Thirlby

Lena Headey

Wood Harris

Dredd (2012)

6.9 5.6K votes

Genre: Action, Science Fiction

Country: South Africa, United Kingdom

Duration: 96 min.

Audience: R

Story: In the future, America is a dystopian wasteland. The latest scourge is Ma-Ma, a prostitute-turned-drug pusher with a dangerous new drug and aims to take over the city. The only possibility of stopping her is an elite group of urban police called Judges, who combine the duties of judge, jury and executioner to deliver a brutal brand of swift justice. But even the top-ranking Judge, Dredd, discovers that taking down Ma-Ma isn’t as easy as it seems in this explosive adaptation of the hugely popular comic series.

Plot: metropolis, corruption, police, judge, gangster, crime fighter, dystopia, post-apocalyptic future, ...

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