Favourite conspiracy films....

[Pauldec]

I too remember The Parallex view and how unsettling it was because it was so plausible. Another from that genre of 70's paranoia is The Conversation with Gene Hackman as a down-at-heel "surveillance expert".

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071360/

Well worth watching.

[Drella]

Dossier 51 is very good
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0176666/

[rustler]

Some great choices here gents, some of them I really ought to see again, as its been a while since I have seen some of them.


Another film that I like, full of suspence.............. though I am not a Will Smith fan, but Jon Voight is full of menace...

Enemy of The State (1998) Will Smith, Jon Voight, Gene Hackman.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enemy_of_the_State_(film)

[scoundrel]

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0266425/

A very well presented portrayal of the extraordinary committee meeting held in January 1942 at a villa in the Wannsee area of southwest Berlin, chaired by Heydrich and organised by Adolf Eichmann, in which the participants calmly discussed the practicalities of genocide. It's closely based on the captured minutes of the meeting; a meeting which lasted for less than 90 minutes. The only real difference is that the real conspirators never deviated from using coded language, as happens in one key passage of the film where the SS Einsatzgruppe commander, Rudolf Lange, runs out of patience with the rest of the group and pulls up his superior, Heydrich, for hypocrisy.

Lange: Herr Reichsprotektor; I do not understand resettled. When I executed 1,000 Jews in a train sent to me in Riga from Germany without my even being informed that they were coming, were they being resettled?
Heydrich: Yes, colonel, they were being resettled.
Lange: Thank you, Herr Reichsprotektor. It's just that I like to know what words mean.

In his trial in Israel in 1962, Eichmann testified that there were drinks after the formal meeting, in which even the abstemious Heydrich took and enjoyed a glass of cognac because the meeting had been so successful, and it was here, their tongues loosened by alcohol, that the participants were far more explicit about exactly what would happen to the deportees and how. These conversations were not minuted, but were important and influential on tragic future events.

Conspiracy is so chilling due the very prosaic ordinariness of it all; most of the participants are second rate people, quite oblivious to the enormity of the crime they are taking part in. The monster Lange stands out as a man of genuine calibre, annoyed by the necessity of being polite to such mediocrities. Colin Firth as Dr Wilhelm Stuckart gave a complex and disturbing performance as the reluctant conspirator, a virulent racist and anti-semite who yet had doubts about the wisdom of the so called Final Solution, who provides the only coherent opposition to the proposal, but who ultimately falls into line. Stephen Tucci as Eichmann was also very good, showing the man's craven and malicious character, fawning to superiors and treating his help like dirt. Most of all Kenneth Brannagh gives one of his finest performances on screen as the false-God, Reinhard Heydrich, charming and charismatic and a classic Alpha Male, whose personality dominates the room, but whose charm and bonhomie only thinly veils his staggering wickedness.

This has to be one of the most significant moment of conspiracy in the recorded history of humanity, and Conspiracy brings home the wider truth of Hannah Arendt's description of Eichmann in the title of her book, Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil. In Conspiracy we see incredilble, unspeakable evil being rendered into something normal, even banal, by focusing prosaically on the mechanics of how to do it without even discussing whether or not it is a thing human beings should ever do.

Chilling, shocking and really gripping stuff; a side-window into the heart of darkness.

[Joszka]

The series. I loved so much the first seasons.. So depressing..

The X-Files tapped into public mistrust of governments and large institutions, and embraced conspiracy theories and spirituality as it centered on efforts to uncover the existence of extraterrestrial life.

[MaxJoker]

Originally Posted by Joszka

The series. I loved so much the first seasons.. So depressing..

What you mean because Scully never wore a proper skirt or showed a decent amount of boobage

Trust me , we all feel your pain pal

[Brecht]

X-Files was great but there were lots of junk episodes to suffer from. The most suspenseful episodes were the ones with the cancer man. Agent Mulder is still with the FBI:

[ddomer]

If you like conspiracy movies, and someone rightly put down the original Manchurian Candidate, then another movie from the author Richard Condon is worth checking out: Winter Kills. It plays like a JFK conspiracy movie, with a great cast, including Jeff Bridges as the hero; John Huston as his manipulative father, Richard Boone, and even a cameo by Elizabeth Taylor.
ddomer.

[Brecht]

The Falcon and the Snowman is another hint.

[Davemetalhead]

The Dark Knight.


I thought it would be a great film after reading all the internet hype and praise. Turned out to be a load of cack. So I'm convinced there's a conspiracy going on somewhere to pull the wool over everyone's eyes - and I appear to be the only one who can see the truth!