10 Conspiracy Movies That Will Make You Paranoid

6. The Parallax View

The second entry in Alan Pakula's Paranoid Trilogy is perhaps its weakest, but it's no less unsettling in its approach.

Released in the wake of the Warren Commission and in the run-up to the House Select Committee on Assassinations, Parallax roots itself squarely in anxieties surrounding the high profile deaths of JFK, his brother Robert and Martin Luther King. Conspiracies abounded, and Parallax - starring Warren Beatty in the leading role - is a conspiracy film through and through, featuring reporter Joseph Frady as he uncovers an international cabal dedicated to assassinating leading political figures.

The atmosphere created by Pakula is uniquely unsettling, with Parallax playing out like some weird distortion of an action film and less as a traditional thriller. There's still dread, and Pakula's story is just as unnerving as his others, but it's a different kind altogether, exemplified in full by the horror of the film's infamous montage sequence, which is always worth a watch regardless of whether you're yet to see it or not.

Oh, and that ending is fantastic. Terrifying, but fantastic all the same.