Movies like Network
If Network's mix of adultery, corruption and profit stayed with you, start here. Each film below was picked from what Network's fans love most, with the reason it belongs on this list.
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American Beauty
1999 · Directed by Sam Mendes · 122 min8.0
Why you'll like itShares: adultery, satire
Lester Burnham, a depressed suburban father in a mid-life crisis, decides to turn his hectic life around after developing an infatuation with his daughter's attractive friend.
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Once Upon a Time in America
1984 · Directed by Sergio Leone · 139 min8.4
Why you'll like itShares: corruption
A former Prohibition-era Jewish gangster returns to the Lower East Side of Manhattan over thirty years later, where he once again must confront the ghosts and regrets of his old life.
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American Psycho
2000 · Directed by Mary Harron · 102 min7.4
Why you'll like itShares: satire
A wealthy New York investment banking executive hides his alternate psychopathic ego from his co-workers and friends as he escalates deeper into his illogical, gratuitous fantasies.
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The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover
1989 · Directed by Peter Greenaway · 124 min7.3
Why you'll like itShares: satire
When churlish mobster Albert Spica acquires an upscale French restaurant in London, he dines there nightly, effectively scaring off the clientele with his bad manners.
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Natural Born Killers
1994 · Directed by Oliver Stone · 119 min7.1
Why you'll like itShares: satire
Two victims of traumatized childhoods become lovers and serial murderers irresponsibly glorified by the mass media.
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Shame
2011 · Directed by Steve McQueen · 102 min6.9
Why you'll like itShares: co-workers relationship
Brandon, a thirty-something man living in New York, eludes intimacy with women but feeds his deepest desires with a compulsive addiction to sex.
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Cop Land
1997 · Directed by James Mangold · 104 min6.8
Why you'll like itShares: corruption
Freddy Heflin is the sheriff of a place everyone calls “Cop Land” — a small and seemingly peaceful town populated by the big city police officers he’s long admired.
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Bombshell
2019 · Directed by Jay Roach · 109 min6.8
Why you'll like itShares: tv news anchor
Bombshell is a revealing look inside the most powerful and controversial media empire of all time; and the explosive story of the women who brought down the infamous man who created it.
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Money Monster
2016 · Directed by Jodie Foster · 99 min6.4
Why you'll like itShares: tv show in film
Financial TV host Lee Gates and his producer Patty are put in an extreme situation when an irate investor takes over their studio.