Directed by Oliver Stone • 1987 • United States
Starring Michael Douglas, Charlie Sheen, Martin Sheen

The ultimate portrait of ’80s corporate excess, Oliver Stone’s hard-hitting, brilliantly entertaining look at the moral emptiness behind the era’s “greed is good” mentality features an iconicall...

Directed by Sydney Pollack • 1993 • United States
Starring Tom Cruise, Jeanne Tripplehorn, Hal Holbrook

The first of what would become a virtual microgenre unto itself—the John Grisham adaptation—remains one of the best legal thrillers of the 1990s thanks to the intelligent direction of veteran ...

Directed by Barry Levinson • 1994 • United States
Starring Michael Douglas, Demi Moore, Donald Sutherland

A best-selling novel by Michael Crichton provides the basis for this heated thriller about sexual politics in a high-tech corporation. After Tom Sanders (Michael Douglas), a married executiv...

Directed by Tony Gilroy • 2007 • United States
Starring George Clooney, Tom Wilkinson, Tilda Swinton

Attorney Michael Clayton (George Clooney) is a fixer, the go-to guy when his powerful New York law firm wants a mess swept under the rug. But now he’s handed a crisis even he may not be able to f...

Directed by Gregory Hoblit • 1996 • United States
Starring Richard Gere, Laura Linney, Edward Norton

A high-profile slaying becomes the case of an ambitious attorney’s career in this smash-hit legal thriller boasting shocking twists and compelling performances from Richard Gere and an Academy Aw...

Directed by Taylor Hackford • 1997 • United States
Starring Keanu Reeves, Al Pacino, Charlize Theron

A diabolical performance from Al Pacino lights up this operatically over-the-top legal thriller with a supernatural twist. He’s John Milton, the most powerful and feared attorney in New York City...

Directed by Peter Howitt • 2001 • United States
Starring Ryan Phillippe, Rachael Leigh Cook, Tim Robbins

In this slick Y2K-era technothriller, Milo Hoffman (Ryan Phillippe) thinks he’s found his dream job when he’s hired by Gary Winston (Tim Robbins), the CEO of the world’s largest computer comp...

Directed by Harvey Kahn • 2005 • Canada, United States
Starring Christian Slater, Selma Blair, Robert Loggia

An unusually dense and detailed insider’s view of corporate corruption distinguishes this twisty boardroom thriller. In a near future where an energy crisis has pushed oil prices to astro...

Directed by Tom Tykwer • 2009 • United States, Germany
Starring Clive Owen, Naomi Watts, Armin Mueller-Stahl

A high-stakes game of suspense, intrigue, and explosive action plays out against a succession of striking international locales from Milan to New York to Istanbul in this globe-trotting c...

Directed by Nicholas Jarecki • 2012 • United States
Starring Richard Gere, Susan Sarandon, Tim Roth

New York hedge-fund magnate Robert Miller (Richard Gere) appears as the very portrait of success. But behind the gilded walls of his mansion, Miller is in over his head, desperately trying to comp...