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

1. Mona Lisa Smile (2003)

PG-13 | 117 min | Drama

A free-thinking art professor teaches conservative 1950s Wellesley girls to question their traditional social roles.

Director: Mike Newell | Stars: Julia Roberts, Kirsten Dunst, Julia Stiles, Maggie Gyllenhaal

Votes: 90,930 | Gross: $63.86M

2. Trumbo (2015)

R | 124 min | Biography, Drama

In 1947, Dalton Trumbo was Hollywood's top screenwriter, until he and other artists were jailed and blacklisted for their political beliefs.

Director: Jay Roach | Stars: Bryan Cranston, Diane Lane, Helen Mirren, Louis C.K.

Votes: 84,777 | Gross: $7.86M

3. Bel Ami (2012)

R | 102 min | Crime, Drama, History

A chronicle of a young man's rise to power in Paris via his manipulation of the city's wealthiest and most influential women.

Directors: Declan Donnellan, Nick Ormerod | Stars: Robert Pattinson, Uma Thurman, Kristin Scott Thomas, Christina Ricci

Votes: 19,272 | Gross: $0.12M

4. Sweet Smell of Success (1957)

Approved | 96 min | Drama, Film-Noir

Powerful but unethical Broadway columnist J.J. Hunsecker coerces unscrupulous press agent Sidney Falco into breaking up his sister's romance with a jazz musician.

Director: Alexander Mackendrick | Stars: Burt Lancaster, Tony Curtis, Susan Harrison, Martin Milner

Votes: 35,691

5. Bright Young Things (2003)

R | 102 min | Comedy, Drama, War

An adaptation of Evelyn Waugh's novel "Vile Bodies", is a look into the lives of a young novelist, his would-be lover, and a host of young people who beautified London in the 1930s.

Director: Stephen Fry | Stars: Stephen Campbell Moore, Emily Mortimer, Dan Aykroyd, Simon McBurney

Votes: 6,319 | Gross: $0.93M

6. Shall We Dance (1937)

Approved | 109 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance

A ballet dancer and a showgirl fake a marriage for publicity purposes, then fall in love.

Director: Mark Sandrich | Stars: Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Edward Everett Horton, Eric Blore

Votes: 7,854

7. East Side, West Side (1949)

Passed | 108 min | Drama, Romance

A vain businessman puts a strain on happy marriage to a rich, beautiful socialite by allowing himself to be seduced by a former girlfriend.

Director: Mervyn LeRoy | Stars: Barbara Stanwyck, James Mason, Van Heflin, Ava Gardner

Votes: 2,510

8. Fifth Avenue Girl (1939)

Approved | 83 min | Comedy, Romance

Feeling unwanted by his wife and children, a wealthy industrialist hires an unemployed young woman to pose as his mistress.

Director: Gregory La Cava | Stars: Ginger Rogers, Walter Connolly, Verree Teasdale, James Ellison

Votes: 1,787

9. Broadway Melody of 1936 (1935)

Passed | 101 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance

A Broadway producer is reluctant to hire his high school sweetheart for the leading role in a new show, so she decides to take advantage of a rumor started by a gossip columnist.

Directors: Roy Del Ruth, W.S. Van Dyke | Stars: Jack Benny, Eleanor Powell, Robert Taylor, Una Merkel

Votes: 1,995

10. Beware the Gonzo (2010)

TV-14 | 94 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

A young muckraker decides to start his own underground newspaper at his high school.

Director: Bryan Goluboff | Stars: Ezra Miller, Zoë Kravitz, Griffin Newman, Stefanie Y. Hong

Votes: 1,828

11. Bedtime Story (1941)

Passed | 85 min | Comedy, Romance

A playwright attempts to stop his wife from retiring so she can star in his next play.

Director: Alexander Hall | Stars: Fredric March, Loretta Young, Robert Benchley, Allyn Joslyn

Votes: 708

12. Affair with a Stranger (1953)

Approved | 87 min | Comedy, Drama, Family

When a TV gossip columnist wrongly announces that the marriage between now successful playwright William Blakeley and his wife Carolyn is breaking up, New York friends variously reminisce about how the two met and married.

Director: Roy Rowland | Stars: Jean Simmons, Victor Mature, Linda Douglas, Monica Lewis

Votes: 523

13. No Other Woman (1933)

Passed | 58 min | Drama

A steelworker and his aspiring wife make millions when they become partners in a dyeworks. Unfortunately, success does not bring happiness.

Director: J. Walter Ruben | Stars: Irene Dunne, Charles Bickford, Gwili Andre, Eric Linden

Votes: 476

14. Outrage (I) (2009)

R | 90 min | Documentary

An indictment of closeted politicians who lobby for anti-gay legislation in the U.S.

Director: Kirby Dick | Stars: Barney Frank, James McGreevey, Kevin Naff, Dan Popkey

Votes: 1,752 | Gross: $0.04M

15. The Affairs of Martha (1942)

Approved | 66 min | Comedy, Romance

Members of a well-to-do small community become worried when it is revealed that one of their maids is writing a telling exposé.

Director: Jules Dassin | Stars: Marsha Hunt, Richard Carlson, Marjorie Main, Virginia Weidler

Votes: 508

16. Exclusive (1937)

Approved | 85 min | Action, Crime, Drama

Two newspapers are pitted against each other. One owned by gangster Charles Gillette (Lloyd Nolan), the other by Ralph Houston (Fred MacMurray).

Director: Alexander Hall | Stars: Fred MacMurray, Frances Farmer, Charles Ruggles, Lloyd Nolan

Votes: 95

17. On the Front Page (1926)

22 min | Comedy, Short

After being scooped for a scandal story, a reporter has 24 hours to dig up a more scandalous story. After spending the night in the wrong street, he comes up with a plan: catch the Countess and her butler in a compromising situation.

Director: James Parrott | Stars: Stan Laurel, Lillian Rich, Tyler Brooke, Bull Montana

Votes: 183

18. Talent Scout (1937)

Passed | 62 min | Comedy, Drama, Musical

A Hollywood playboy helps a small-town girl achieve stardom.

Director: William Clemens | Stars: Donald Woods, Jeanne Madden, Fred Lawrence, Rosalind Marquis

Votes: 110

19. Parlor, Bedroom and Bath (1920)

50 min | Comedy

When his wife Angelica decides that she cannot love her husband unless her women friends are chasing after him, Reggie Irving sends scented love letters to himself to make Angelica jealous.... See full summary »

Director: Edward Dillon | Stars: Eugene Pallette, Ruth Stonehouse, Kathleen Kirkham, Charles West

20. School for Romance (1934)

Passed | 20 min | Short, Music, Romance

A professor instructs his pretty young pupils in affairs of the heart.

Director: Archie Gottler | Stars: Lou Holtz, Billie Seward, Betty Grable, Lois January

Votes: 23

21. Punky Brewster (1984–1988)
Episode: Punky's Big Story (1987)

Not Rated | 30 min | Comedy, Family

Punky writes a gossip column for the school newspaper.

Director: Gary Menteer | Stars: George Gaynes, Soleil Moon Frye, Susie Garrett, Cherie Johnson

Votes: 37

22. Who Do You Think You Are? (2010– )
Episode: Rashida Jones (2012)

TV-PG | 44 min | Documentary, Biography, History

Rashida Jones uncovers her maternal family history from Manhattan to Eastern Europe.

Director: Sarah Feltes | Stars: Rita Bogdonova, Kirsten Fermaglich, David Freeland, Kidada Jones

Votes: 36

23. The Alienist (2018–2020)
Episode: Ascension (2018)

TV-MA | 44 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

The team set a trap to catch the killer. Moore visits a friend. Kreizler is filled with self-doubt over the investigation. Roosevelt is part of an event with the city elite. Sara looks into Kreizler's past.

Director: Paco Cabezas | Stars: Daniel Brühl, Luke Evans, Brian Geraghty, Robert Wisdom

Votes: 1,783

24. Riverdale (2017–2023)
Episode: Chapter Twenty-Four: The Wrestler (2018)

TV-14 | 42 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Archie joins the wrestling team to get closer to Hiram; Jughead digs up shocking details about Riverdale's past; Betty unearths some dark secrets about Chic.

Director: Gregg Araki | Stars: K.J. Apa, Lili Reinhart, Camila Mendes, Cole Sprouse

Votes: 1,586