Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "reference-to-helen-keller"

1. New York, I Love You (2008)

R | 103 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

Eleven love stories set in one of the most loved and hated cities of the world, New York City.

Directors: Fatih Akin, Yvan Attal, Randall Balsmeyer, Allen Hughes, Shunji Iwai, Wen Jiang, Shekhar Kapur, Joshua Marston, Mira Nair, Natalie Portman, Brett Ratner | Stars: Shia LaBeouf, Natalie Portman, Bradley Cooper, Hayden Christensen

Votes: 47,924 | Gross: $1.59M

2. Rocky (1976)

PG | 120 min | Drama, Sport

A small-time Philadelphia boxer gets a supremely rare chance to fight the world heavyweight champion in a bout in which he strives to go the distance for his self-respect.

Director: John G. Avildsen | Stars: Sylvester Stallone, Talia Shire, Burt Young, Carl Weathers

Votes: 630,089 | Gross: $117.24M

3. Law Abiding Citizen (2009)

R | 109 min | Action, Crime, Drama

A frustrated man decides to take justice into his own hands after a plea bargain sets one of his family's killers free.

Director: F. Gary Gray | Stars: Gerard Butler, Jamie Foxx, Leslie Bibb, Colm Meaney

Votes: 320,722 | Gross: $73.34M

4. Sisters (III) (2015)

R | 118 min | Comedy

Two sisters decide to throw one last house party before their parents sell their family home.

Director: Jason Moore | Stars: Amy Poehler, Tina Fey, Maya Rudolph, Ike Barinholtz

Votes: 69,518 | Gross: $87.04M

5. Sleeping with Other People (2015)

R | 101 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

A good-natured womanizer and a serial cheater form a platonic relationship that helps reform them in ways, while a mutual attraction sets in.

Director: Leslye Headland | Stars: Jason Sudeikis, Alison Brie, Jordan Carlos, Margarita Levieva

Votes: 48,078 | Gross: $0.81M

6. The King of Comedy (1982)

PG | 109 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

A passionate yet unsuccessful comedian stalks and kidnaps his idol to take the spotlight for himself.

Director: Martin Scorsese | Stars: Robert De Niro, Jerry Lewis, Diahnne Abbott, Sandra Bernhard

Votes: 119,603 | Gross: $2.50M

7. Clerks II (2006)

R | 97 min | Comedy

A calamity at Dante and Randal's shops sends them looking for new horizons - but they ultimately settle at the fast food empire Mooby's.

Director: Kevin Smith | Stars: Brian O'Halloran, Jeff Anderson, Rosario Dawson, Jason Mewes

Votes: 140,812 | Gross: $24.15M

8. The Miracle Worker (1962)

Approved | 106 min | Biography, Drama

The story of Anne Sullivan's struggle to teach the blind and deaf Helen Keller how to communicate.

Director: Arthur Penn | Stars: Anne Bancroft, Patty Duke, Victor Jory, Inga Swenson

Votes: 20,566 | Gross: $5.45M

9. Nothing to Lose (1997)

R | 98 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy

Nick's wife's in bed with his boss. He later gets a gun to his head by a carjacker but steps on the gas pedal. They end up friends after adventures together - holdups, burglary, reckless driving, revenge etc. Twists follow.

Director: Steve Oedekerk | Stars: Martin Lawrence, Tim Robbins, John C. McGinley, Giancarlo Esposito

Votes: 49,362 | Gross: $44.46M

10. Happy Death Day 2U (2019)

PG-13 | 100 min | Comedy, Horror, Mystery

Tree Gelbman discovers that dying over and over was surprisingly easier than the dangers that lie ahead.

Director: Christopher Landon | Stars: Jessica Rothe, Israel Broussard, Phi Vu, Suraj Sharma

Votes: 85,670 | Gross: $28.15M

11. Two Night Stand (2014)

R | 86 min | Comedy, Romance

A snowstorm forces two people who made an online connection to unwillingly extend their one-night stand as the blizzard goes through the night.

Director: Max Nichols | Stars: Miles Teller, Lio Tipton, Jessica Szohr, Kid Cudi

Votes: 73,966 | Gross: $0.02M

12. The Dilemma (2011)

PG-13 | 111 min | Comedy, Drama

A man discovers that his best friend's wife is having an affair.

Director: Ron Howard | Stars: Vince Vaughn, Kevin James, Winona Ryder, Jennifer Connelly

Votes: 56,913 | Gross: $48.48M

13. The Singing Detective (2003)

R | 109 min | Comedy, Crime, Musical

From his hospital bed, a writer suffering from a skin disease hallucinates musical numbers and paranoid plots.

Director: Keith Gordon | Stars: Robert Downey Jr., Robin Wright, Mel Gibson, Jeremy Northam

Votes: 8,959 | Gross: $0.34M

14. A Patch of Blue (1965)

Unrated | 105 min | Drama, Romance

A blind, uneducated white girl is befriended by a black man who becomes determined to help her escape her impoverished and abusive home life by introducing her to the outside world.

Director: Guy Green | Stars: Sidney Poitier, Shelley Winters, Elizabeth Hartman, Wallace Ford

Votes: 9,551

15. Beginner's Guide to Sex (2015)

Not Rated | 92 min | Comedy

After experiencing a series of sexually related mishaps, a high school adds sexual education to its curriculum to rehabilitate the student body, and hires Laci Cox to teach it - the only catch is Laci is a virgin.

Director: Andrew Drazek | Stars: Whitney Moore, Tom Arnold, Laura Cayouette, Colby Arps

Votes: 698

16. Iron Jawed Angels (2004 TV Movie)

TV-14 | 123 min | Biography, Drama, History

A little known, yet integral piece of American history: based on the lives of Alice Paul and Lucy Burns, two young radical women who were instrumental in getting women the right to vote in America.

Director: Katja von Garnier | Stars: Hilary Swank, Margo Martindale, Anjelica Huston, Frances O'Connor

Votes: 6,446

17. The Miracle Worker (1979 TV Movie)

Unrated | 98 min | Biography, Drama

Devoted teacher Anne Sullivan leads deaf and blind Helen Keller into the light of learnedness.

Director: Paul Aaron | Stars: Patty Duke, Diana Muldaur, Charles Siebert, Anne Seymour

Votes: 763

18. Mockingbird Don't Sing (2001)

Not Rated | 98 min | Biography, Drama

Based on the actual events of one of the most horrific cases of child abuse ever to be documented, this haunting drama tells the tale of a young girl that was locked in a room for over 12 years.

Director: Harry Bromley Davenport | Stars: Melissa Errico, Michael Lerner, Joe Regalbuto, Sean Young

Votes: 2,256

19. Route 666 (2001)

R | 86 min | Action, Horror, Thriller

A federal witness runs away and a team of government agents track him down, but when they take a shortcut on the return trip, they're attacked by zombies.

Director: William Wesley | Stars: Lou Diamond Phillips, Lori Petty, Steven Williams, L.Q. Jones

Votes: 3,772

20. Straight Up (I) (2019)

Not Rated | 95 min | Comedy, Romance

Todd and Rory are intellectual soul mates. He might be gay. She might not care. A romantic-comedy drama with a twist; a love story without the thrill of copulation.

Director: James Sweeney | Stars: James Sweeney, Katie Findlay, Dana Drori, James Scully

Votes: 3,329

21. Naomi and Ely's No Kiss List (2015)

Not Rated | 89 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

Naomi and Ely have loved each other their whole lives, even though Ely isn't exactly into girls. The institution of a "No Kiss List" has prevented the two from rifts in the past, but bonds are tested when they both fall for the same guy.

Director: Kristin Hanggi | Stars: Victoria Justice, Pierson Fode, Matthew Daddario, Ryan Ward

Votes: 10,561

22. Shanghai Kiss (2007)

Not Rated | 106 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

An Asian-American actor, living in Los Angeles, is forced to reconsider his roots as well as the possibilities afforded him by his present situation after suddenly inheriting his grandmother's home in Shanghai.

Directors: Kern Konwiser, David Ren | Stars: Ken Leung, Hayden Panettiere, Kelly Hu, Joel David Moore

Votes: 5,438

23. As Long As I'm Famous (2022)

104 min | Biography, Drama, History

Inspired by true events, pays homage to the Golden Age, 1948. "What happened in Hollywood, stayed on Broadway". The private lives of legends from Monty Clift to Richard Rodgers, told through the eyes of 24 year old Sid Lumet.

Director: Bruce Reisman | Stars: Tracy Nelson, Michael Paré, David Chokachi, Eric Lutes

Votes: 78

24. Fugitive Rage (1996 Video)

R | 88 min | Action, Crime, Drama

Tara McCormick is sent to prison for the attempted murder of a local drug lord named Tommy Stompanato. Inside, she befriends Josie and is approached by a government agent to finish the job ... See full summary »

Director: Fred Olen Ray | Stars: Alexander Keith, Shauna O'Brien, John Henry Richardson, Tim Abell

Votes: 379

25. Helen Keller: The Miracle Continues (1984 TV Movie)

100 min | Biography, Drama

Annie Sullivan Macy accompanies her student Helen Keller to Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1898 and supports her as she attends Radcliffe College.

Director: Alan Gibson | Stars: Blythe Danner, Mare Winningham, Perry King, Vera Miles

Votes: 162

26. The Matchbreaker (2016)

PG | 94 min | Comedy, Romance

A young professional breakup artist reaches a crisis when the girl he's hired to target is the girl he's always wanted.

Director: Caleb Vetter | Stars: Wesley Elder, Christina Grimmie, Osric Chau, Olan Rogers

Votes: 2,898

27. Happy (2012)

Not Rated | 76 min | Documentary, Drama, Family

Happy takes us on a journey from the swamps of Louisiana to the slums of Kolkata in search of what really makes people happy.

Director: Roko Belic | Stars: Marci Shimoff, Ed Diener, Richard Davidson, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Votes: 3,383

28. Timelapse of the Future: A Journey to the End of Time (2019)

TV-PG | 29 min | Documentary, Animation, Short

View what the modern science points to what the future looks like from the present year all the way to trillions upon trillions of years into the future.

Director: John D. Boswell | Stars: David Attenborough, Sean Carroll, Craig Childs, Brian Cox

Votes: 456

29. 'Weird Al' Yankovic: It's All About the Pentiums (1999 Music Video)

4 min | Comedy, Music

Music video for Weird Al Yankovic's 1999 single "It's All About The Pentiums". It is a parody of "It's All About the Benjamins (Rock Remix)" by Sean "Puff Daddy" Combs and focuses on the narrator's obsession with his computer's hardware.

Director: 'Weird Al' Yankovic | Stars: Drew Carey, Steve Jay, Emo Philips, Jon Schwartz

Votes: 102

30. The Roly Poly Man (1994)

94 min | Comedy, Crime, Mystery

Dirk Trent is small time PI that stumbles onto a peculiar murder when investigating a cheating husband.

Director: Bill Young | Stars: Paul Chubb, Les Foxcroft, Susan Lyons, Zoe Bertram

Votes: 109

31. 'Weird Al' Yankovic: The Ultimate Video Collection (2003 Video)

90 min | Music, Comedy

A new collection of Weird Al Yankovic's parody and original music videos, including "The Saga Begins" and "All About The Pentiums" from the "Running With Scissors" album and "Bob" from the "Poodle Hat" album.

Directors: Jay Levey, 'Weird Al' Yankovic, Francis Delia, Janet Greek, Scott Nordlund, Mark Osborne, Dror Soref, Robert K. Weiss | Stars: 'Weird Al' Yankovic, Thomas R. Peters Jr., Jon Schwartz, Tom Snyder

Votes: 707

32. Upside (2010)

90 min | Drama

A concussion causes a high school lacrosse player to see everything upside-down.

Director: Kenneth Horstmann | Stars: Randall Bentley, Leah Sims, Taylor St. Clair, Jeremy Harrison

Votes: 193

33. Star Power: The Creation of United Artists (1998 Video)

Not Rated | 55 min | Documentary, Biography

The careers of D.W. Griffith, Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, and Charlie Chaplin are chronicled culminating in the formation of United Artists and 1919.

Director: Hugh Munro Neely | Stars: Roddy McDowall, Marc Wanamaker, Christopher Sanders, Joy Noe

Votes: 28

34. Cesar Millan: Love My Pit Bull (2014 TV Movie)

44 min | Documentary

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Director: Marc McCrudden | Stars: Robert Clotworthy, Julie Conway, Leslie Corea, Tony Cárdenas

Votes: 44

35. Becker (1998–2004)
Episode: Santa on Ice (1999)

TV-PG | Comedy

A department store Santa drops by Dr. Becker's waiting room and drops off more than John expected. Also, Reggie's thinking of a Christmas party but will it be a thought that counts?

Director: Andy Ackerman | Stars: Ted Danson, Terry Farrell, Hattie Winston, Shawnee Smith

Votes: 115

36. Hill Street Blues (1981–1987)
Episode: Trial by Fury (1982)

TV-14 | 49 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Furillo faces pressure from the public when when two young men are run in for raping and murdering a nun during a church robbery. Belker stands up for a gay prostitute. Calletano is worried about a tax audit.

Director: Gregory Hoblit | Stars: Daniel J. Travanti, Michael Conrad, Michael Warren, Bruce Weitz

Votes: 116

37. I'll Fly Away (1991–1993)
Episode: Toy Soldiers (1992)

Drama

Reverend Henry invites Forrest to meet the black people who are demanding equal rights.

Director: Michael Katleman | Stars: Sam Waterston, Regina Taylor, Jeremy London, Ashlee Levitch

38. King of the Hill (1997–2010)
Episode: Peggy Hill: The Decline and Fall (1999)

TV-PG | 23 min | Animation, Comedy, Drama

Peggy survives the fall with several broken bones and paralysis, while Cotton names his newborn son G.H., which stands for "Good Hank."

Directors: Klay Hall, Wesley Archer | Stars: Mike Judge, Kathy Najimy, Pamela Adlon, Brittany Murphy

Votes: 430

39. Mystery Science Theater 3000 (1988–1999)
Episode: The She-Creature (1997)

TV-14 | Comedy, Sci-Fi

Pearl and Bobo plot their escape from the Observers' planet while the SOL crew is subjected to a dark, dreary tale of hypnotism, murder, and chesty amphibians.

Director: Jim Mallon | Stars: Kevin Murphy, Jim Mallon, Michael J. Nelson, Mary Jo Pehl

Votes: 424

40. Picket Fences (1992–1996)
Episode: Dante's Inferno (1996)

Crime, Drama, Family

Maxine becomes the acting mayor. When she supports a business decision half of the town opposes, she becomes the target of local sexist shock jock Chuck Dante, who constantly humiliates her and even calls for her death. She's soon shot.

Director: Daniel Attias | Stars: Tom Skerritt, Kathy Baker, Costas Mandylor, Lauren Holly

Votes: 54

41. AfterMASH (1983–1985)
Episode: September of '53/Together Again (1983)

30 min | Comedy, Drama

Colonel Potter returns from Korea and becomes the Chief of Staff and Surgery for the General Pershing Veterans Hospital. Klinger returns as his clerk and Father Mulcahy becomes a chaplain with the hospital.

Director: Burt Metcalfe | Stars: Harry Morgan, Jamie Farr, William Christopher, Rosalind Chao

Votes: 51

42. Gilmore Girls (2000–2007)
Episode: Driving Miss Gilmore (2006)

TV-PG | 60 min | Comedy, Drama

Rory recruits Paris and Doyle to help Logan recover after being released from the hospital. Emily suffers from temporary blindness after a botched eye surgery and asks Lorelai for help with some errands. Liz reveals her pregnancy to Luke.

Director: Jamie Babbit | Stars: Lauren Graham, Alexis Bledel, Melissa McCarthy, Scott Patterson

Votes: 711

43. Gilmore Girls (2000–2007)
Episode: Lorelai's First Cotillion (2006)

TV-14 | 43 min | Comedy, Drama

When Richard and Emily have no real reaction to the news of her break up, Lorelai suddenly realizes that most of her emotional life has been based on doing and feeling the opposite of ... See full summary »

Director: Lee Shallat Chemel | Stars: Lauren Graham, Alexis Bledel, Scott Patterson, Melissa McCarthy

Votes: 690

44. Stranger Things (2016–2025)
Episode: Chapter One: The Hellfire Club (2022)

TV-14 | 78 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror

Still reeling from the events last year, the gang tries to move on with their lives. However, a threat is brewing both on Earth and the Upside Down.

Directors: Matt Duffer, Ross Duffer | Stars: Winona Ryder, David Harbour, Millie Bobby Brown, Finn Wolfhard

Votes: 23,779

45. Homecoming (2018–2020)
Episode: Again (2020)

TV-MA | 37 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller

This is your last chance.

Director: Kyle Patrick Alvarez | Stars: Janelle Monáe, Hong Chau, Joan Cusack, Chris Cooper

Votes: 689

46. Bless the Harts (2019–2021)
Episode: The McEntire Truth (2020)

TV-14 | 22 min | Animation, Comedy

Betty and Crystalynn join forces to take down Marjune, who passes off a famous tale as her own life story; Violet and David try to get out of training for the Presidential Physical-Fitness Test.

Directors: Albert Calleros, Michael Baylis | Stars: Kristen Wiig, Maya Rudolph, Jillian Bell, Ike Barinholtz

Votes: 76

47. The Matt Walsh Show (2018– )
Healing Racial Trauma with a 25-Foot Afro Pick (2022 Podcast Episode)

News, Talk-Show

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Star: Matt Walsh

48. Taskmaster NZ (2020– )
Episode: Mexican Lasagna (2022)

44 min | Comedy

Jeremy Wells gets scared, some questionable flags are created, and Chris Parker hangs out the washing.

Stars: Jeremy Wells, Paul Williams, Chris Parker, Josh Thomson

Votes: 25

49. The Infographics Show (2011– )
Episode: 50 Insane Declassified FBI Secrets You Didn't Know (2022)

27 min | Documentary, Animation

Ever wonder who the FBI keeps an eye on. Here's your chance to find out. Yes, Bigfoot and aliens are in their radar.

50. Antiques Roadshow (1997– )
Episode: Shelburne Museum, Hour 3 (2023)

TV-G | Reality-TV

Roadshow returns to Shelburne Museum to discover the treasures of the Green Mountain State.

Stars: Leila Dunbar, Lucy Grogan Edwards, Ian Ehling, Ken Gloss