# Help identify an obscure movie from 1990s or older, criminal/political drama(?)

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**Tags:** drama\
**Created:** [June 16, 2024, 7:14pm UTC](https://filmfind.me/t/help-identify-an-obscure-movie-from-1990s-or-older-criminal-political-drama/7252 "2024-06-16T19:14:57Z")\
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**Author:** ![YaMax](https://filmfind.me/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/y/ebca7d/32.png) [@YaMax](https://filmfind.me/u/YaMax)\
**Post date:** [June 16, 2024, 7:14pm UTC](https://filmfind.me/t/help-identify-an-obscure-movie-from-1990s-or-older-criminal-political-drama/7252/1 "2024-06-16T19:14:57Z")

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I saw this film somewhere between 1990 and 2000. Overall - there was some (American?) guy (white man with dark hairs) who worked in some rural area (Latin America? Philippines?), a journalist, or oil-industry worker/geologist, or something like that.

The two pieces of (more or less) concrete information I remember:

1. There was some local conflict (drug-dealers? rebel rural residents?). I remember a scene where someone was hanged on a tree or a pole.
2. The protagonist guy had an affair with a (local?) girl whose name was ‘Sybil’ or ‘Sibila’, or close to that in sounding. I remember a scene where the guy was a bit drunk, and was calling that name as he could not find the girl.

I don’t remember any Hollywood celebrities appearing in the film (not sure, though). I believe it was an obscure low-budget movie. Probably not _that_ obscure as it was shown with translation on TV in post-Soviet region where I saw it in 1990s.

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**Author:** ![casspir](https://filmfind.me/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/8491ac/32.png) [@casspir](https://filmfind.me/u/casspir)\
**Post date:** [June 16, 2024, 7:44pm UTC](https://filmfind.me/t/help-identify-an-obscure-movie-from-1990s-or-older-criminal-political-drama/7252/2 "2024-06-16T19:44:37Z")

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Just a guess, maybe?:  
“A Dangerous Life” (1988) (2-part TV Mini Series)

American journalist, Philippines, political drama. I saw this only once in the 90s (and also in a post-Soviet region) and I do not remember whether the two scenes you are describing are in the movie, but the basic premise is somewhat similar to your description. Even if it is not the movie you are looking for, it is worth watching, it is a pretty good movie.

> **[A Dangerous Life (TV Mini Series 1988) ⭐ 6.9 | Crime, Drama, History](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0094445/)**
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> 2h 42m | TV-14

> **[A Dangerous Life](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Dangerous_Life)**
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> The Four Day Revolution (broadcast in the Philippines as A Dangerous Life) is a 1988 Australian television film directed by Robert Markowitz and written by David Williamson. The story is about the journey and the love affair of an American foreign correspondent set during the final years of Ferdinand Marcos' dictatorship in the Philippines, from the assassination of Benigno Aquino Jr. in 1983 to the People Power Revolution in 1986, as well as other key events that led to the ouster of Marcos.
> ...