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The best conspiracy film

posted 18 years ago by starinthesky
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The Parallax View is, in my view, the best of all the consipracy film. All the President's Men isn't far behind, though, and it's by the same director - Alan J. Pakula.

[–] youngadam-6 17 years ago

Best genre by far. Other good ones are Capricorn One, Three Days of the Condor, Marathon Man, The Edge of Darkness...

[–] IanSchultz 15 years ago

Best film which includes a conspiracy is "Seconds".

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[–] superstitions 15 years ago

Other good paranoid "conspiracy" thrillers....

The Conversation (1974)

Klute (1971)

The Manchurian Candidate (1962)

All the President's Men (1976)

The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956)

Three Days of the Condor (1975)

Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)

Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978)

Murder by Decree (1979)

Blowup (1966)

Blow Out (1981)

Capricorn One (1978)

Coma (1978)

Endangered Species (1982)

Slam Dance (1987)

Looker (1981)

The Formula (1980)

[–] Druff 15 years ago

Great list. I might add:

The China Syndrome (1978)

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[–] MiloMindbender 14 years ago

A number of good films....however Brazil, Z, Army of Shadows, Welles' The Trial, The Conformist, Scandal, & Edge of darkness (original) are better.

[–] DrMorbius 14 years ago

what about The President's Analyst? it is all true .. I used to work for TPC .. I know!!!!!

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[–] DrMorbius 14 years ago

lol

[–] Ceephax 11 years ago

For me, the mother of all conspiracy movies would be Coppola's The Conversation.

I'd also add Zodiac.

[–] franzkabuki 11 years ago

There`s a conspiracy in Zodiac?

"facts are stupid things" - Ronald Reagan

[–] Bree_33 11 years ago

Conspiracies and Paranoia:

Rosemary’s Baby is a prime example.
Klute,
Network,
The Lives of Others,
Day of the Jackal
Orson Welles’ The Trial…
Shutter Island
Pi
Seven Days in May
Frankenheimer’s films from the 1960s

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[–] ivitt 11 years ago

What makes "Parallax View" so good, is because it basically makes the "conspiracy" by the conspirators.

I put the modern day world into that "context". If you believe in the "NWO" you thus are part of the conspiracy itself. "NWO" has become so marketed and overblown, it loses importance and thus the assassin does the work of the cabal while they believing they are rebelling.

Classic orwellian construct of dialectics. Get rid of dialectics, solve the problem.

[–] tom-1674 10 years ago

If you define the NWO as a global banking cartel, then it is definitely very much a problem for most of the people on the planet. They use their central banks to control what we all chase after - pretty paper called money.