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

1. The Departed (2006)

R | 151 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

An undercover cop and a mole in the police attempt to identify each other while infiltrating an Irish gang in South Boston.

Director: Martin Scorsese | Stars: Leonardo DiCaprio, Matt Damon, Jack Nicholson, Mark Wahlberg

Votes: 1,422,911 | Gross: $132.38M

2. Irish Wish (2024)

TV-PG | 93 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Romance

When the love of Maddie's life gets engaged to her best friend, she puts her feelings aside to be a bridesmaid at their wedding in Ireland.

Director: Janeen Damian | Stars: Lindsay Lohan, Ed Speleers, Alexander Vlahos, Ayesha Curry

Votes: 14,210

3. Bones and All (2022)

R | 131 min | Drama, Horror, Romance

A young woman embarks on a 1000 mile odyssey through America where she meets a disenfranchised drifter. But all roads lead back to their terrifying pasts and to a final stand that will determine whether love can survive their otherness.

Director: Luca Guadagnino | Stars: Timothée Chalamet, Taylor Russell, Mark Rylance, Kendle Coffey

Votes: 58,109

4. Molly's Game (2017)

R | 140 min | Biography, Crime, Drama

The true story of Molly Bloom, an Olympic-class skier who ran the world's most exclusive high-stakes poker game and became an FBI target.

Director: Aaron Sorkin | Stars: Jessica Chastain, Idris Elba, Kevin Costner, Michael Cera

Votes: 187,864 | Gross: $28.78M

5. Lady Chatterley's Lover (I) (2022)

R | 126 min | Drama, Romance

An unhappily married aristocrat begins a torrid affair with the gamekeeper on her husband's country estate.

Director: Laure de Clermont-Tonnerre | Stars: Emma Corrin, Jack O'Connell, Matthew Duckett, Joely Richardson

Votes: 23,045

6. Midnight in Paris (2011)

PG-13 | 94 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Romance

While on a trip to Paris with his fiancée's family, a nostalgic screenwriter finds himself mysteriously going back to the 1920s every day at midnight.

Director: Woody Allen | Stars: Owen Wilson, Rachel McAdams, Kathy Bates, Kurt Fuller

Votes: 449,984 | Gross: $56.82M

7. Lolita (1962)

Not Rated | 153 min | Crime, Drama, Romance

A middle-aged college professor becomes infatuated with a 14-year-old girl.

Director: Stanley Kubrick | Stars: James Mason, Shelley Winters, Sue Lyon, Gary Cockrell

Votes: 108,840 | Gross: $9.25M

8. Marlowe (2022)

R | 109 min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller

In late 1930s Bay City, a brooding, down on his luck detective is hired to find the ex-lover of a glamorous heiress.

Director: Neil Jordan | Stars: Liam Neeson, Diane Kruger, Jessica Lange, Brenda Rawn

Votes: 11,810

9. Back to School (1986)

PG-13 | 96 min | Comedy, Romance, Sport

To help his discouraged son get through college, a funloving and obnoxious rich businessman decides to enter the school as a student himself.

Director: Alan Metter | Stars: Rodney Dangerfield, Sally Kellerman, Burt Young, Keith Gordon

Votes: 36,218 | Gross: $91.26M

10. Sunset Blvd. (1950)

Passed | 110 min | Drama, Film-Noir

A screenwriter develops a dangerous relationship with a faded film star determined to make a triumphant return.

Director: Billy Wilder | Stars: William Holden, Gloria Swanson, Erich von Stroheim, Nancy Olson

Votes: 236,535

11. The Third Man (1949)

Approved | 93 min | Film-Noir, Mystery, Thriller

Pulp novelist Holly Martins travels to shadowy, postwar Vienna, only to find himself investigating the mysterious death of an old friend, Harry Lime.

Director: Carol Reed | Stars: Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten, Alida Valli, Trevor Howard

Votes: 181,886 | Gross: $0.45M

12. My Friend Dahmer (2017)

R | 107 min | Biography, Drama, Horror

A young Jeffrey Dahmer struggles to belong in high school.

Director: Marc Meyers | Stars: Ross Lynch, Alex Wolff, Anne Heche, Vincent Kartheiser

Votes: 23,648 | Gross: $1.36M

13. A Private War (2018)

R | 110 min | Biography, Drama, War

One of the most celebrated war correspondents of our time, Marie Colvin is an utterly fearless and rebellious spirit, driven to the frontline of conflicts across the globe to give voice to the voiceless.

Director: Matthew Heineman | Stars: Rosamund Pike, Alexandra Moen, Tom Hollander, Faye Marsay

Votes: 21,013 | Gross: $1.63M

14. Orange County (2002)

PG-13 | 82 min | Comedy, Drama

A guidance counselor mistakenly sends out the wrong transcripts to Stanford University under the name of an over-achieving high schooler.

Director: Jake Kasdan | Stars: Colin Hanks, Jack Black, Schuyler Fisk, Bret Harrison

Votes: 51,944 | Gross: $41.03M

15. Godspell (1973)

G | 103 min | Comedy, Drama, Musical

An adaption of the musical, in a modern-day song-and-dance recreation of the Gospel of St. Matthew.

Director: David Greene | Stars: Victor Garber, Lynne Thigpen, Katie Hanley, David Haskell

Votes: 3,732 | Gross: $1.20M

16. Tigerland (2000)

R | 101 min | Drama, War

A group of recruits go through Advanced Infantry Training at Fort Polk, Louisiana's infamous Tigerland, last stop before Vietnam for tens of thousands of young men in 1971.

Director: Joel Schumacher | Stars: Colin Farrell, Matthew Davis, Clifton Collins Jr., Tom Guiry

Votes: 43,363 | Gross: $0.14M

17. Genius (2016)

PG-13 | 104 min | Biography, Drama

A chronicle of Max Perkins's time as the book editor at Scribner, where he oversaw works by Thomas Wolfe, Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald and others.

Director: Michael Grandage | Stars: Colin Firth, Jude Law, Nicole Kidman, Laura Linney

Votes: 21,371 | Gross: $1.36M

18. Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989)

PG-13 | 104 min | Comedy, Drama

An ophthalmologist's mistress threatens to reveal their affair to his wife while a married documentary filmmaker is infatuated with another woman.

Director: Woody Allen | Stars: Martin Landau, Woody Allen, Bill Bernstein, Claire Bloom

Votes: 60,806 | Gross: $18.25M

19. The Wife (I) (2017)

R | 99 min | Drama

A wife questions her life choices as she travels to Stockholm to see her husband receive the Nobel Prize for Literature.

Director: Björn Runge | Stars: Glenn Close, Jonathan Pryce, Max Irons, Christian Slater

Votes: 42,906 | Gross: $9.60M

20. Youth Without Youth (2007)

R | 124 min | Drama, Fantasy, Mystery

A love story wrapped in a mystery. Set in World War II Europe, a professor is changed by a cataclysmic event and explores the mysteries of life.

Director: Francis Ford Coppola | Stars: Tim Roth, Alexandra Maria Lara, Bruno Ganz, André Hennicke

Votes: 14,204 | Gross: $0.24M

21. Beyond the Clouds (1995)

Not Rated | 110 min | Drama, Romance

Four stories about short or long relationships between men and women in Italy and France.

Directors: Michelangelo Antonioni, Wim Wenders | Stars: Fanny Ardant, Chiara Caselli, Irène Jacob, John Malkovich

Votes: 6,225 | Gross: $0.03M

22. Husbands and Wives (1992)

R | 108 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

When their best friends announce that they're separating, a professor and his wife discover the faults in their own marriage.

Director: Woody Allen | Stars: Woody Allen, Mia Farrow, Sydney Pollack, Judy Davis

Votes: 31,215 | Gross: $10.56M

23. The Leisure Seeker (2017)

R | 112 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama

A runaway couple go on an unforgettable journey in the faithful old RV they call "The Leisure Seeker".

Director: Paolo Virzì | Stars: Helen Mirren, Donald Sutherland, Christian McKay, Janel Moloney

Votes: 9,713 | Gross: $3.23M

24. Princess Cyd (2017)

Not Rated | 96 min | Drama, Romance

A 16-year-old girl visits her aunt in Chicago for the summer. While there, she falls for another girl, and she and her aunt challenge each other's sex and spirit.

Director: Stephen Cone | Stars: Marika Mashburn, Jessie Pinnick, Paul Brian Fagen, Keith Kupferer

Votes: 4,404

25. Carrie Pilby (2016)

Not Rated | 98 min | Comedy, Drama

A person of high intelligence struggles to make sense of the world as it relates to morality, relationships, sex, and leaving her apartment.

Director: Susan Johnson | Stars: Bel Powley, Nathan Lane, William Moseley, Vanessa Bayer

Votes: 13,759 | Gross: $0.02M

26. The Trip to Greece (2020)

Not Rated | 103 min | Comedy, Drama

Actors Rob Brydon and Steve Coogan travel from Troy to Ithaca following in the footsteps of the Odysseus.

Director: Michael Winterbottom | Stars: Steve Coogan, Rob Brydon, Claire Keelan, Rebecca Johnson

Votes: 4,750

27. Eisenstein in Guanajuato (2015)

Unrated | 105 min | Biography, Comedy, Drama

The venerated filmmaker Eisenstein is comparable in talent, insight and wisdom, with the likes of Shakespeare or Beethoven; there are few - if any - directors who can be elevated to such ... See full summary »

Director: Peter Greenaway | Stars: Elmer Bäck, Luis Alberti, Maya Zapata, Lisa Owen

Votes: 3,106 | Gross: $0.03M

28. The Forbidden Room (1977)

Not Rated | 102 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery

Bizarre events keep occurring in an old mansion in Venezia, and it's soon obvious that something mysterious is up in the attic.

Director: Dino Risi | Stars: Vittorio Gassman, Catherine Deneuve, Danilo Mattei, Anicée Alvina

Votes: 1,312

29. The Last of the High Kings (1996)

R | 103 min | Comedy, Drama

After finishing exams June 1977 near Dublin, Frankie spends the summer with his two friends, siblings and mom while dreaming of two cute girls and waiting for exam results. College?

Director: David Keating | Stars: Catherine O'Hara, Jared Leto, Christina Ricci, Gabriel Byrne

Votes: 1,967

30. Deadline (1980)

R | 90 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller

A popular horror writer whose family life is falling apart struggles to write his next horror movie.

Director: Mario Azzopardi | Stars: Stephen Young, Sharon Masters, Marvin Goldhar, Jeannie Elias

Votes: 791

31. Leo (2002)

R | 104 min | Drama

A recently-released prisoner and a troubled young boy share a pen-pal relationship, both connected by their past.

Director: Mehdi Norowzian | Stars: Joseph Fiennes, Elisabeth Shue, Sam Shepard, Justin Chambers

Votes: 1,060

32. I'm Going Home (2001)

Not Rated | 90 min | Comedy, Drama

The comfortable daily routines of aging Parisian actor Gilbert Valence, 76, are suddenly shaken when he learns that his wife, daughter, and son-in-law have been killed in a car crash.

Director: Manoel de Oliveira | Stars: Michel Piccoli, Catherine Deneuve, John Malkovich, Antoine Chappey

Votes: 1,848

33. The Gospel According to Philip K. Dick (2001)

Not Rated | 80 min | Documentary

Philip K. Dick stories continue to inspire filmmakers, writers, technophiles and philosophers. And for the last ten years of his life, he inhabited a stranger reality than the fiction he created.

Director: Mark Steensland | Stars: Paul Williams, Robert Anton Wilson, Scott Apel, Jay Kinney

Votes: 293 | Gross: $0.00M

34. Eeny Meeny (2000)

104 min | Comedy, Drama

Alice Nellis's small-scale debut tragicomedy spotlights small-town elections. The protagonist, a university student name Jana (Theodora Remundová) who is trying to solve a troubled ... See full summary »

Director: Alice Nellis | Stars: Iva Janzurová, Leos Sucharípa, Theodora Remundová, Eva Holubová

Votes: 191

35. Nancy Drew: The Haunting of Castle Malloy (2008 Video Game)

E | Adventure, Mystery, Romance

Teen detective Nancy Drew searches for her friend's missing fiancé at a remote castle in the Irish countryside.

Director: Tim Burke | Stars: Lani Minella, Evan Mosher, Alycia Delmore, Matt Shimkus

Votes: 71

36. American Playhouse (1980–1994)
Episode: The Cafeteria (1984)

52 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

Esther, a traumatized Holocaust survivor, frequents a Manhattan cafeteria where she meets Aaron, a Jewish writer, who tries to uncover the ghosts of her past.

Director: Amram Nowak | Stars: Bob Dishy, Zohra Lampert, Morris Carnovsky, Howard Da Silva

Votes: 21

37. CSI: NY (2004–2013)
Episode: Three Generations Are Enough (2004)

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

A suspicious brief case is found at a mercantile marker and a bomb squad is immediately summoned to the scene where Dectective Taylor is using a robot to lift a fingerprint off of it. Meanwhile, an apparent suicide takes place at a church.

Director: Alex Zakrzewski | Stars: Gary Sinise, Melina Kanakaredes, Carmine Giovinazzo, Vanessa Ferlito

Votes: 347

38. Maniac Mansion (1990–1993)
Episode: The 10th Anniversary Special (1990)

Comedy

Fred falls asleep in the lab and dreams that his family is starring in a sitcom celebrating its 10th anniversary. The Edison's watch home movies and flash back to Turner and Harry's accident.

Stars: Joe Flaherty, Deborah Theaker, Kathleen Robertson, Avi Phillips

39. Mystery Science Theater 3000 (1988–1999)
Episode: The Beast of Yucca Flats (1995)

TV-PG | 93 min | Comedy, Sci-Fi

Mike and the bots endure (and barely survive) their third Coleman Francis abomination.

Director: Jim Mallon | Stars: Trace Beaulieu, Michael J. Nelson, Jim Mallon, Kevin Murphy

Votes: 609

40. Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987–1994)
Episode: Captain's Holiday (1990)

TV-PG | 46 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

After mediating a difficult trade agreement, Captain Picard is encouraged to take a much needed rest on a vacationing planet, where he's visited by a strange race from the future, in search of a dangerous weapon.

Director: Chip Chalmers | Stars: Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, LeVar Burton, Michael Dorn

Votes: 3,596

41. The Bill Engvall Show (2007–2009)
Episode: Feel Free to Say No (2007)

TV-PG | 23 min | Comedy, Family

Among the many things Bill has to deal with include helping his oldest son do a five-page paper overnight after attending a parent-teacher conference and getting off on the wrong foot with ... See full summary »

Director: James Widdoes | Stars: Bill Engvall, Nancy Travis, Steve Hytner, Jennifer Lawrence

Votes: 37

42. The Trip (2010–2020)
Episode: The Trip to Greece: Troy to Kavala (2020)

TV-14 | Comedy

Rob and Steve are on a road trip inspired by the Odyssey through Greece. First, they visit Troy, almost get involved in the refuge crisis near Lesbos, and sing their favorite Rod Stewart song as nostalgia and melancholy start to kick in.

Director: Michael Winterbottom | Stars: Steve Coogan, Rob Brydon, Claire Keelan, Kareem Alkabbani

Votes: 64

43. Clouds of Witness (1972)
Episode: Episode #1.3 (1972)

42 min | Drama, Mystery

Lord Wimsey investigates his sister's flirtation with Bolshevism and a romantic involvement with a Communist activist.

Director: Hugh David | Stars: Ian Carmichael, Glyn Houston, Mark Eden, Rachel Herbert

Votes: 32

44. Being Erica (2009–2011)
Episode: What Goes Up Must Come Down (2009)

TV-PG | 45 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama

The Cold War at River Rock Publishing between Brent and Julianne continues. Erica, editor of "The None" - Katie's new book - is falling on Julianne's side of the war, despite not wanting to... See full summary »

Director: Gary Harvey | Stars: Erin Karpluk, Tyron Leitso, Vinessa Antoine, Reagan Pasternak

Votes: 85

45. Camera Three (1955–1980)
Episode: Direct Cinema: Part 1 (1969)

32 min | Drama

The Newsweek critic, Jack Kroll, interviews Albert and David Maysles about their new film, Salesman (1969).

Director: Merrill Brockway | Stars: Jack Kroll, Albert Maysles, David Maysles

46. Borgen (2010–2022)
Episode: Agurketid (2010)

TV-14 | 56 min | Drama

While the prime minister tries to take a family vacation, the publication of a tell-all by a former politician puts spin doctor Kasper Juul on the edge.

Director: Mikkel Nørgaard | Stars: Sidse Babett Knudsen, Birgitte Hjort Sørensen, Pilou Asbæk, Mikael Birkkjær

Votes: 519

47. How I Met Your Mother (2005–2014)
Episode: Tailgate (2012)

TV-PG | 22 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

After celebrating New Year's Eve, Marshall visits his father's graveside to carry on their tradition of tailgating. Meanwhile, Barney and Ted open a bar called "Puzzles," and Robin is forced to fill in for an inebriated news anchor.

Director: Pamela Fryman | Stars: Josh Radnor, Jason Segel, Cobie Smulders, Neil Patrick Harris

Votes: 3,441

48. Pozadí událostí (2022)
Episode: Stret zájmu (2022)

75 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

Add a Plot

Director: Jan Hrebejk | Stars: Jirí Havelka, Katarzia, Martha Issová, Jitka Cvancarová

Votes: 9

49. Ted (2024)
Episode: Subways, Bicycles and Automobiles (2024)

TV-MA | 37 min | Comedy

Ted's Halloween plans with John are thwarted when Blaire forces him to be her designated driver.

Director: Seth MacFarlane | Stars: Seth MacFarlane, Max Burkholder, Alanna Ubach, Scott Grimes

Votes: 1,526

50. The Andrew Klavan Show (2015– )
They're Coming for Our Children (2023 Podcast Episode)

Talk-Show

Add a Plot

Star: Andrew Klavan