Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "director"

51. BH90210 (2019)

TV-14 | 43 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

Fictional drama about actors rebooting a global-hit TV show that they had starred in 29 years ago for 10 years. That show was real, the actors from it are now playing versions of themselves. The original show was called Beverly Hills, 90210 (1990)

Stars: Gabrielle Carteris, Shannen Doherty, Jennie Garth, Brian Austin Green

Votes: 4,458

52. Tales from the Hood (1995)

R | 98 min | Crime, Drama, Horror

A funeral director tells four strange tales of horror with an African American focus to three drug dealers he traps in his place of business.

Director: Rusty Cundieff | Stars: Clarence Williams III, Corbin Bernsen, Joe Torry, De'aundre Bonds

Votes: 9,613 | Gross: $11.80M

53. Barbed Wire Dolls (1976)

Not Rated | 90 min | Crime, Drama, Horror

Women's prison tale, with Lina Romay as Maria who is jailed after killing her father, played by director Jess Franco, who tries to rape her. Lesbian wardens, torture, nudity, sex, insanity and conspiracy round out the formula.

Director: Jesús Franco | Stars: Lina Romay, Paul Muller, Monica Swinn, Roger Darton

Votes: 1,506

54. Drumline (2002)

PG-13 | 118 min | Comedy, Drama, Music

A band director recruits a Harlem street drummer to play at a Southern university.

Director: Charles Stone III | Stars: Nick Cannon, Zoe Saldana, Orlando Jones, Leonard Roberts

Votes: 36,056 | Gross: $56.40M

55. America's Sweethearts (2001)

PG-13 | 102 min | Comedy, Romance

A movie publicist deals with the messy public split of his movie's co-stars while keeping reporters at bay while a reclusive director holds the film's print hostage.

Director: Joe Roth | Stars: Julia Roberts, John Cusack, Billy Crystal, Catherine Zeta-Jones

Votes: 60,367 | Gross: $93.61M

56. The Book of Solutions (2023)

102 min | Comedy, Drama

Follows a man, a director who tries to vanquish his demons, which are oppressing his creativity.

Director: Michel Gondry | Stars: Pierre Niney, Blanche Gardin, Françoise Lebrun, Frankie Wallach

Votes: 2,098

57. Hitchcock (2012)

PG-13 | 98 min | Biography, Drama, Romance

The relationship between Alfred Hitchcock and his wife Alma Reville during the filming of Psycho (1960) in 1959 is explored.

Director: Sacha Gervasi | Stars: Anthony Hopkins, Helen Mirren, Scarlett Johansson, Danny Huston

Votes: 79,234 | Gross: $6.01M

58. Sex Sells: The Making of 'Touché' (2005)

R | 96 min | Comedy, Romance

Retiring director Chuck Steak wants to make his last film the biggest and most absurdly convoluted adult movie ever made. As a young documentary maker films this outrageously funny, quirky quest, everything that can possibly go wrong does.

Director: Jonathan Liebert | Stars: Mark DeCarlo, Darby Daniels, Jack Kyle, Priscilla Barnes

Votes: 471

59. Analyze That (2002)

R | 96 min | Comedy, Crime

Mobster Paul Vitti is released into Dr. Ben Sobol's care, where only more chaos ensues.

Director: Harold Ramis | Stars: Robert De Niro, Billy Crystal, Lisa Kudrow, Joe Viterelli

Votes: 89,509 | Gross: $32.12M

60. Celebrity (1998)

R | 113 min | Comedy, Drama

The fortunes of a husband and wife differ drastically after they divorce.

Director: Woody Allen | Stars: Kenneth Branagh, Judy Davis, Leonardo DiCaprio, Greg Mottola

Votes: 28,428 | Gross: $5.03M

61. Cobweb (2023)

135 min | Comedy, Drama, History

Described as an experimental and genre-defying drama shot entirely on sound stages in support of a film-within-a-film narrative.

Director: Jee-woon Kim | Stars: Song Kang-ho, Lim Soo-jung, Oh Jung-se, Jeon Yeo-been

Votes: 1,330

62. The Comeback (2005–2014)

TV-MA | 30 min | Comedy

An ex A-list celebrity attempts to rekindle the flame of her once prominent acting career with nothing but a camera crew and some determination.

Stars: Lisa Kudrow, Lance Barber, Robert Michael Morris, Laura Silverman

Votes: 7,827

63. Gods and Monsters (1998)

R | 105 min | Biography, Drama

The last days of Frankenstein (1931) director James Whale are explored.

Director: Bill Condon | Stars: Ian McKellen, Brendan Fraser, Lynn Redgrave, Lolita Davidovich

Votes: 32,773 | Gross: $6.39M

64. Venus in Fur (2013)

Not Rated | 96 min | Drama

An actress attempts to convince a director how she's perfect for a role in his upcoming production.

Director: Roman Polanski | Stars: Emmanuelle Seigner, Mathieu Amalric

Votes: 20,976 | Gross: $0.34M

65. Hooper (1978)

PG | 99 min | Action, Comedy

Aging Hollywood stuntman Sonny Hooper wants to prove that he's still got what it takes to be a great professional in this risky, under-recognized line of work.

Director: Hal Needham | Stars: Burt Reynolds, Jan-Michael Vincent, Sally Field, Brian Keith

Votes: 7,899 | Gross: $78.00M

66. La belle époque (2019)

R | 115 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy

Victor, a disillusioned 60-something whose marriage is on the rocks, opts to relive the week of his life when, 40 years earlier, he met his true love through a company that allows customers to return to the time period of their choosing.

Director: Nicolas Bedos | Stars: Daniel Auteuil, Guillaume Canet, Doria Tillier, Fanny Ardant

Votes: 19,588

67. American Movie (1999)

R | 107 min | Documentary, Comedy

Documentary about an aspiring filmmaker's attempts to finance his dream project by finally completing the low-budget horror film he abandoned years before.

Director: Chris Smith | Stars: Mark Borchardt, Mike Schank, Tom Schimmels, Monica Borchardt

Votes: 19,349 | Gross: $1.16M

68. Home Movies (1999–2004)

TV-14 | 30 min | Animation, Comedy, Drama

Brendon Small, an ambitious eight-year-old filmmaker, shoots movies in his basement with his two best friends, while coming to terms with adolescence, life, and relationships.

Stars: Brendon Small, H. Jon Benjamin, Melissa Bardin Galsky, Ron Lynch

Votes: 11,042

69. Untitled Tom Cruise/SpaceX Project

Pre-production

Tom Cruise and director Doug Liman travel far beyond Earth to film the first ever Hollywood motion picture in outer space

Director: Doug Liman | Star: Tom Cruise

70. Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse (1991)

R | 96 min | Documentary

Documentary that chronicles how Francis Ford Coppola's Apocalypse Now (1979) was plagued by extraordinary script, shooting, budget, and casting problems--nearly destroying the life and career of the celebrated director.

Directors: Fax Bahr, George Hickenlooper, Eleanor Coppola | Stars: Dennis Hopper, Martin Sheen, Marlon Brando, George Lucas

Votes: 23,239 | Gross: $1.32M

71. The Stunt Man (1980)

R | 131 min | Action, Comedy, Drama

A fugitive stumbles onto a movie set just when they need a new stunt man, takes the job as a way to hide out and falls for the leading lady while facing off with his manipulative director.

Director: Richard Rush | Stars: Peter O'Toole, Steve Railsback, Barbara Hershey, Allen Garfield

Votes: 10,472 | Gross: $7.06M

72. Day for Night (1973)

PG | 116 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

A committed film director struggles to complete his movie while coping with a myriad of crises, personal and professional, among the cast and crew.

Director: François Truffaut | Stars: Jacqueline Bisset, Jean-Pierre Léaud, François Truffaut, Valentina Cortese

Votes: 24,793 | Gross: $0.02M

73. A Brighter Tomorrow (2023)

95 min | Comedy, Drama

A movie director struggles with his relationship with his family, and with his latest movie, about the impact on the Italian Communist Party of the USSR invasion of Hungary in 1956.

Director: Nanni Moretti | Stars: Nanni Moretti, Margherita Buy, Silvio Orlando, Barbora Bobulova

Votes: 3,063

74. S.O.B. (1981)

R | 122 min | Comedy, Drama

A successful movie director makes the most expensive film in his career and it becomes a huge flop. He tries to salvage his career by reshooting the film as an erotic production, where its family-friendly star takes her top off.

Director: Blake Edwards | Stars: Julie Andrews, William Holden, Marisa Berenson, Larry Hagman

Votes: 6,482 | Gross: $14.87M

75. Jung_E (2023)

TV-14 | 98 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

On an uninhabitable 22nd-century Earth, the outcome of a civil war hinges on cloning the brain of an elite soldier to create a robot mercenary.

Director: Yeon Sang-ho | Stars: Kang Soo-youn, Kim Hyun-joo, Ryu Kyung-Soo, Park So-yi

Votes: 10,731

76. The Other Side of the Wind (2018)

R | 122 min | Drama

At a media-swamped party to celebrate his 70th birthday and screen his avant-garde film-in-progress, a legendary but jaded Hollywood director is faced both with voracious fans and unsettling questions about what became of his lead actor.

Director: Orson Welles | Stars: John Huston, Oja Kodar, Peter Bogdanovich, Susan Strasberg

Votes: 8,048

77. Teen Titans GO! To the Movies (2018)

PG | 84 min | Animation, Action, Adventure

A villain's maniacal plan for world domination sidetracks five teenage superheroes who dream of Hollywood stardom.

Directors: Aaron Horvath, Peter Rida Michail | Stars: Greg Cipes, Scott Menville, Khary Payton, Tara Strong

Votes: 21,707 | Gross: $29.79M

78. Henry's Crime (2010)

R | 108 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

Released from prison for a crime he didn't commit, an ex-con targets the same bank he was sent away for robbing.

Director: Malcolm Venville | Stars: Keanu Reeves, Vera Farmiga, James Caan, Judy Greer

Votes: 21,371 | Gross: $0.10M

79. Castle in the Time (2023–2024)

60 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

Paleontology student Xu Zhen joins Jiang Ye Entertainment to mend family ties, encounters actor Gu Chi Jun, becomes his assistant, and unravels a company conspiracy, risking her safety.

Stars: Park Min-Young, Zhehan Zhang, Ke Xu, Iris Yuxi Zhao

Votes: 445

80. Cecil B. Demented (2000)

R | 87 min | Comedy, Crime, Thriller

An insane independent film director and his renegade group of teenage filmmakers kidnap an A-list Hollywood actress and force her to star in their underground film.

Director: John Waters | Stars: Melanie Griffith, Stephen Dorff, Alicia Witt, Adrian Grenier

Votes: 16,653 | Gross: $1.28M

81. P.O.Box Tinto Brass (1995)

81 min | Comedy

Tinto Brass receives letters containing real stories of women's erotic adventures which are subsequently transformed into short sex vignettes.

Director: Tinto Brass | Stars: Tinto Brass, Cinzia Roccaforte, Cristina Rinaldi, Erika Savastani

Votes: 1,815

82. First Time Female Director (2023)

97 min | Comedy

Follows a newly minted female director in a local theater in Glendale, California, struggling to fill the shoes of her male predecessor, putting her Southern rural drama in jeopardy.

Director: Chelsea Peretti | Stars: Chelsea Peretti, Amy Poehler, Andy Richter, Mike Rose

Votes: 353

83. Curtains (1983)

R | 89 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller

Six young actresses auditioning for a movie role at a remote mansion are targeted by a mysterious masked murderer.

Director: Richard Ciupka | Stars: John Vernon, Samantha Eggar, Linda Thorson, Anne Ditchburn

Votes: 5,739

84. Street Fighter II: The Animated Movie (1994)

PG-13 | 102 min | Animation, Action, Adventure

A crime boss searching for the world's best fighters pursues a talented Japanese drifter and his American ex-classmate, while an Interpol agent and a US Army captain seek to bring him down.

Director: Gisaburô Sugii | Stars: Kôjiro Shimizu, Kenji Haga, Miki Fujitani, Masane Tsukayama

Votes: 9,905

85. Waltz with Bashir (2008)

R | 90 min | Documentary, Animation, Biography

An Israeli film director interviews fellow veterans of the 1982 invasion of Lebanon to reconstruct his own memories of his term of service in that conflict.

Director: Ari Folman | Stars: Ari Folman, Ron Ben-Yishai, Ronny Dayag, Ori Sivan

Votes: 60,419 | Gross: $2.28M

86. Happy Campers (2001)

R | 94 min | Comedy

When a summer camp director gets injured, the diverse group of college freshmen counselors take charge and spice up the everyday routine of the camp.

Director: Daniel Waters | Stars: Brad Renfro, Dominique Swain, Keram Malicki-Sánchez, Emily Bergl

Votes: 2,846

87. Sullivan's Travels (1941)

Passed | 90 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama

Hollywood director John L. Sullivan sets out to experience life as a homeless person in order to gain relevant life experience for his next movie.

Director: Preston Sturges | Stars: Joel McCrea, Veronica Lake, Robert Warwick, William Demarest

Votes: 28,531

88. Daisy Diamond (2007)

94 min | Drama

Anna dreams of being an actress when she becomes pregnant. Though she struggles to give her daughter a good life, she fails to unite her dream of acting with creating a safe environment for her child.

Director: Simon Staho | Stars: Noomi Rapace, Thure Lindhardt, Benedikte Hansen, Morten Kirkskov

Votes: 1,508

89. The Haunted World of El Superbeasto (2009 Video)

R | 77 min | Animation, Action, Comedy

A washed-up luchador and a super-spy investigate Nazi zombies, a nefarious scientist, and a stripper with a Satanic birthmark.

Director: Rob Zombie | Stars: Joe Alaskey, Ken Foree, Sheri Moon Zombie, Tom Papa

Votes: 8,206

90. 42nd Street (1933)

Passed | 89 min | Comedy, Drama, Musical

When the leading lady of a Broadway musical breaks her ankle, she is replaced by a young unknown actress, who becomes the star of the show.

Director: Lloyd Bacon | Stars: Warner Baxter, Bebe Daniels, George Brent, Ruby Keeler

Votes: 13,041 | Gross: $2.30M

91. Law of Desire (1987)

NC-17 | 102 min | Comedy, Drama, Thriller

A gay filmmaker becomes involved with an obsessive fan while still pining for his absent true love. Meanwhile, he shares a close but complex relationship with his trans sister, an actress.

Director: Pedro Almodóvar | Stars: Eusebio Poncela, Carmen Maura, Antonio Banderas, Miguel Molina

Votes: 14,087

92. Life with Mikey (1993)

PG | 91 min | Comedy, Family

A once-popular actor who now runs a talent agency specializing in child acts is trying to discover the next star. He gets more than he bargained for when he recruits a child pickpocket.

Director: James Lapine | Stars: Michael J. Fox, Christina Vidal, Nathan Lane, Cyndi Lauper

Votes: 6,568 | Gross: $12.44M

93. Never Sleep Again: The Elm Street Legacy (2010 Video)

Not Rated | 239 min | Documentary, Horror

Explore the origins of "dream demon" Freddy Krueger in this award-winning documentary that takes you behind the scenes of the most frightening and imaginative horror franchise in motion picture history!

Directors: Daniel Farrands, Andrew Kasch | Stars: Heather Langenkamp, Stacey Alden, Erika Anderson, Marshall Bell

Votes: 5,193

94. Silent Movie (1976)

Passed | 87 min | Comedy

A film director and his strange friends struggle to produce the first major silent feature film in forty years.

Director: Mel Brooks | Stars: Mel Brooks, Marty Feldman, Dom DeLuise, Sid Caesar

Votes: 18,491 | Gross: $36.15M

95. Dangerous Game (1993)

R | 108 min | Drama

A New York City film director working on his latest movie in Los Angeles begins to reflect the actions in his movie and real life, especially when he begins an affair with the lead actress.

Director: Abel Ferrara | Stars: Harvey Keitel, Madonna, James Russo, Nancy Ferrara

Votes: 4,259 | Gross: $0.07M

96. Inserts (1975)

NC-17 | 117 min | Comedy, Drama

A young, once-great Hollywood film director refuses to accept changing times during the early 1930s, and confines himself to his decaying mansion to make silent porn flicks.

Director: John Byrum | Stars: Richard Dreyfuss, Jessica Harper, Bob Hoskins, Veronica Cartwright

Votes: 2,440

97. King Kong vs. Godzilla (1962)

97 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy

The advertising director of a pharmaceutical company seeks to boost the ratings of their sponsored TV program by capturing a legendary monster in a marketing scheme as Godzilla re-emerges. (Japanese Version)

Directors: Ishirô Honda, Norman Tokar | Stars: Tadao Takashima, Yû Fujiki, Kenji Sahara, Ichirô Arishima

Votes: 1,973

98. Sweet and Lowdown (1999)

PG-13 | 95 min | Comedy, Drama, Music

In the 1930s, jazz guitarist Emmet Ray idolizes Django Reinhardt, faces gangsters and falls in love with a mute woman.

Director: Woody Allen | Stars: Sean Penn, Samantha Morton, Woody Allen, Ben Duncan

Votes: 36,691 | Gross: $4.20M

99. Identification of a Woman (1982)

Not Rated | 130 min | Drama, Romance

A director's wife leaves him. He pursues another woman who also departs. This inspires a movie idea about women's relationships. He searches for an actress to star in the film and his life.

Director: Michelangelo Antonioni | Stars: Tomas Milian, Daniela Silverio, Christine Boisson, Lara Wendel

Votes: 3,235

100. Be My Cat: A Film for Anne (2015)

87 min | Crime, Horror, Thriller

An aspiring filmmaker goes to shocking extremes to convince Hollywood actress Anne Hathaway to star in his film. First entry in Adrian Tofei's trilogy which includes We Put the World to Sleep and Pure.

Director: Adrian Tofei | Stars: Adrian Tofei, Sonia Teodoriu, Florentina Hariton, Alexandra Stroe

Votes: 2,386