The Parallax View (1974)
Released during the Watergate scandal, this 1973 classic really set the tone for the “Paranoid Seventies,” the decade when Americans lost trust in the people in power. Warren Beatty is a slovenly newspaper reporter whose investigation into the death of a friend leads him to discover a bizarre, MK-Ultra-type conspiracy. The film is directed by Alan J. Pakula, who would go on to direct a number of other decade-defining conspiracy flicks.
