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

1. Take Me Home Tonight (2011)

R | 97 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

Four years after graduation, an awkward high school genius uses his sister's boyfriend's Labor Day party as the perfect opportunity to make his move on his high school crush.

Director: Michael Dowse | Stars: Topher Grace, Anna Faris, Dan Fogler, Teresa Palmer

Votes: 55,235 | Gross: $6.92M

2. 5 to 7 (2014)

R | 95 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

An aspiring novelist enters into a relationship with a woman, though there's just one catch: She's married and the couple can only meet between the hours of 5 and 7 each evening.

Director: Victor Levin | Stars: Anton Yelchin, Bérénice Marlohe, Olivia Thirlby, Lambert Wilson

Votes: 21,361 | Gross: $0.12M

3. 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: 42,896 | Gross: $9.60M

4. The Duke (2020)

R | 95 min | Biography, Comedy, Crime

In 1961, Kempton Bunton, a 60 year old taxi driver, steals Goya's portrait of the Duke of Wellington from the National Gallery in London.

Director: Roger Michell | Stars: Jim Broadbent, Heather Craney, Stephen Rashbrook, James Wilby

Votes: 13,178

5. You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger (2010)

R | 98 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

Sally's parents' marriage breaks up when her father undergoes a mid-life crisis and impulsively weds a prostitute. Meanwhile, Sally's own marriage also begins to disintegrate.

Director: Woody Allen | Stars: Anthony Hopkins, Naomi Watts, Josh Brolin, Gemma Jones

Votes: 47,534 | Gross: $3.25M

6. Extraction (II) (2015)

R | 82 min | Action, Thriller

A former CIA operative is kidnapped by a group of terrorists. When his son learns there is no plan for his father to be saved, he launches his own rescue operation.

Director: Steven C. Miller | Stars: Bruce Willis, Kellan Lutz, Gina Carano, D.B. Sweeney

Votes: 12,025

7. Rebel in the Rye (2017)

PG-13 | 106 min | Biography, Drama, Romance

The life of celebrated but reclusive author, J.D. Salinger, who gained worldwide fame with the publication of his novel, "The Catcher in the Rye".

Director: Danny Strong | Stars: Nicholas Hoult, Kevin Spacey, Victor Garber, Hope Davis

Votes: 10,789 | Gross: $0.38M

8. The Last Time I Saw Paris (1954)

Approved | 116 min | Drama, Romance

An American journalist returns to Paris - a city that gave him true love and deep grief.

Director: Richard Brooks | Stars: Elizabeth Taylor, Van Johnson, Walter Pidgeon, Donna Reed

Votes: 4,265

9. Cross Creek (1983)

PG | 127 min | Biography, Drama, Romance

In the 1930s, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings moves to Florida's backwaters to write in peace. She feels bothered by affectionate men, editor and confused neighbors, but soon she connects and writes The Yearling, a classic of American literature.

Director: Martin Ritt | Stars: Mary Steenburgen, Rip Torn, Peter Coyote, Dana Hill

Votes: 2,033 | Gross: $0.20M

10. Boy Meets Girl (I) (2014)

R | 95 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

Boy Meets Girl is a funny, tender, sex positive romantic comedy that explores what it means to be a real man or woman, and how important it is to live a courageous life not letting fear stand in the way of going after your dreams.

Director: Eric Schaeffer | Stars: Michael Welch, Michelle Hendley, Alexandra Turshen, Michael Galante

Votes: 4,944 | Gross: $0.02M

11. Mambo Italiano (2003)

R | 99 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

The son of Italian immigrants to Canada struggles to find the best way to reveal to his parents that he's gay.

Director: Émile Gaudreault | Stars: Luke Kirby, Peter Miller, Ginette Reno, Paul Sorvino

Votes: 6,955 | Gross: $6.24M

12. Hurricane Bianca (2016)

TV-MA | 84 min | Comedy, Drama

A New York teacher, who moves to small town Texas where he's fired for being gay, returns disguised as a mean lady to get revenge on the nasty town.

Director: Matt Kugelman | Stars: Roy Haylock, Lola Botha, Grayson Thorne Kilpatrick, Willam Belli

Votes: 6,686

13. Merrily We Go to Hell (1932)

Not Rated | 83 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

A drunken newspaperman is rescued from his alcoholic haze by an heiress whose love sobers him up and encourages him to write a play, but he lapses back into dipsomania.

Director: Dorothy Arzner | Stars: Sylvia Sidney, Fredric March, Adrianne Allen, Richard 'Skeets' Gallagher

Votes: 1,936

14. Always: Sunset on Third Street (2005)

133 min | Comedy, Drama, Family

Leaving her provincial home, teenage Mutsuko arrives in Tokyo by train to take a job in a major automotive company but finds that she is employed by a small auto repair shop owned by ... See full summary »

Director: Takashi Yamazaki | Stars: Maki Horikita, Hidetaka Yoshioka, Shin'ichi Tsutsumi, Koyuki

Votes: 2,462

15. The Immaculate Conception of Little Dizzle (2009)

TV-MA | 104 min | Comedy, Drama

After he loses his high-paying job, Dory takes a gig as a night janitor in order to pay rent. Alone late at night inside a market research firm, he soon discovers the company is experimenting on their other janitors ...

Director: David Russo | Stars: Marshall Allman, Jeanette Maus, Sean Nelson, Allen Johnson

Votes: 1,011

16. The Show-Off (1926)

Passed | 82 min | Comedy, Drama

A blowhard who poses as a railroad executive but is really just a $30-a-week clerk catches a young bride, then drives her family's finances to the brink of ruin.

Director: Malcolm St. Clair | Stars: Ford Sterling, Lois Wilson, Louise Brooks, Gregory Kelly

Votes: 327

17. Blue Blue Sky (2010)

128 min | Drama, Family

High school girls decided to participate the Calligraphy Demonstration Event. The importance of calligraphy is 'to learn how to express oneself',which is also the most difficult skill that ... See full summary »

Director: Takafumi Ohta | Stars: Karin Aiba, Michelle Fujisaki, Tomoko Fujita, Yuria Haga

Votes: 26

18. Never Met Picasso (1996)

Not Rated | 101 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

A gay thirty year old lives at home and is in the midst of a serious creative funk. Rejected by numerous art schools and lacking romantic prospects, he looks to his charismatic Uncle Alfred for inspiration.

Director: Stephen Kijak | Stars: Alexis Arquette, Georgia Ragsdale, Margot Kidder, Don McKellar

Votes: 156

19. Lovecraft's Pillow (2006)

10 min | Short, Horror

An aspiring horror writer is ordered by his domineering wife to sell his laptop to pay the bills. When he sees H.P. Lovecraft's pillow in the window of the pawnshop he has a better idea. The story was suggested by Stephen King.

Director: Mark Steensland | Stars: Shannon Solo, Christine Mangone, Scott Frisina, Greg Ropp

Votes: 163

20. It's Nothing (2022)

Not Rated | 16 min | Short, Drama, Horror

Recent graduate Robin returns to her parents' house and obsessively starts to dig a hole, encouraged by an impossibly perfect girl; but as she digs, she heads further down a path of self-destruction.

Director: Anna Maguire | Stars: Kwaku Adu-Poku, Keana Lyn Bastidas, Cara Gee, Kyra Harper

21. Magoo Breaks Par (1957)

Approved | 6 min | Family, Animation, Short

The nearsighted Mr. Magoo sets out for a round of golf but catches the prison paddy wagon instead of the city bus and winds up in prison breaking rocks. He complains to the warden, who he ... See full summary »

Director: Pete Burness | Stars: Jim Backus, Jerry Hausner

Votes: 37

22. The Brady Bunch (1969–1974)
Episode: Tell It Like It Is (1971)

Not Rated | 25 min | Comedy, Family

Carol decides to write a story about the family to submit to a magazine, but her initial story is rejected by the editor because it is not positive and uplifting enough.

Director: Terry Becker | Stars: Robert Reed, Florence Henderson, Ann B. Davis, Maureen McCormick

Votes: 172

23. Friends (1994–2004)
Episode: The One with All the Poker (1995)

TV-PG | 22 min | Comedy, Romance

As Rachel interviews for a new job, the girls take on the guys in a game of poker.

Director: James Burrows | Stars: Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox, Lisa Kudrow, Matt LeBlanc

Votes: 6,901

24. George Lopez (2002–2007)
Episode: George vs. George (2003)

TV-PG | 22 min | Comedy, Drama

When Carmen gets into private school, George and Angie decide to take out a loan to pay for the tuition. But a bad credit report finds George in poor financial shape. Thinking that someone ... See full summary »

Director: John Pasquin | Stars: George Lopez, Constance Marie, Masiela Lusha, Luis Armand Garcia

Votes: 100

25. The Ghost & Mrs. Muir (1968–1970)
Episode: Vanessa (1968)

TV-PG | 60 min | Comedy, Fantasy

Vanessa Peekskill, the great-great-granddaughter of Captain Gregg's true love, comes to Gull Cottage to research their romance, and the Captain is quite taken with her.

Director: Lee Philips | Stars: Hope Lange, Edward Mulhare, Reta Shaw, Harlen Carraher

Votes: 53

26. Superman: The Animated Series (1996–2000)
Episode: In Brightest Day... (1999)

Unrated | 22 min | Animation, Action, Adventure

When Green Lantern Abin Sur fatally crash lands on Earth, his power ring selects a young artist as a replacement.

Director: Butch Lukic | Stars: Tim Daly, Dana Delany, Michael P. Greco, Ted Levine

Votes: 428

27. Stargate SG-1 (1997–2007)
Episode: Citizen Joe (2005)

TV-14 | 44 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

A man breaks into Jack's house and holds him at gunpoint claiming that Jack ruined his life. Seven years ago he came upon an Ancient artifact at a garage sale that allows him to see all of SG-1's missions.

Director: Andy Mikita | Stars: Richard Dean Anderson, Amanda Tapping, Christopher Judge, Michael Shanks

Votes: 1,196

28. Taxi (1978–1983)
Episode: Alex's Old Buddy (1983)

TV-PG | 30 min | Comedy

When Alex learns that his old dog is dying, he determines to do everything in his power to make Buddy's last days comfortable.

Director: Richard Sakai | Stars: Judd Hirsch, Danny DeVito, Marilu Henner, Tony Danza

Votes: 147

29. The Waltons (1972–1981)
Episode: The Typewriter (1972)

TV-G | 60 min | Drama, Family, Romance

John-Boy secretly borrows a typewriter from the Baldwin sisters, and Mary Ellen inadvertently gives it to a junk dealer.

Director: Philip Leacock | Stars: Richard Thomas, Ralph Waite, Michael Learned, Ellen Corby

Votes: 203

30. You Can't Do That on Television (1979–2004)
Episode: Literature (1984)

TV-PG | Comedy, Family

A show on literature inspires Christine to become a writer. Meanwhile, Justin sets out to expose history's cover-up of the world's most prolific writer - A. Nonymous - whom he believes to be the true author of Shakespeare's works.

Director: Geoffrey Darby | Stars: Justin Cammy, Alasdair Gillis, Abby Hagyard, Les Lye

31. Gilmore Girls (2000–2007)
Episode: It's Just Like Riding a Bike (2007)

TV-PG | 60 min | Comedy, Drama

Lorelai visits Luke's Diner for the first time in a while. Her car later breaks down. Rory receives an important letter.

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

Votes: 688

32. Murdoch Mysteries (2008– )
Episode: Forever Young (2019)

TV-14 | 44 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Murdoch investigates the bizarre murder of a young woman who disappeared a decade earlier yet somehow hasn't aged a day.

Director: Sherren Lee | Stars: Yannick Bisson, Helene Joy, Thomas Craig, Jonny Harris

Votes: 248

33. DuckTales (2017–2021)
Episode: Timephoon! (2019)

TV-Y | 22 min | Animation, Action, Adventure

When Louie gets possession of Gyro's Time Tub to steal lost treasures from the past, it creates a mysterious storm that is connecting all space and time to McDuck Manor.

Director: Jason Zurek | Stars: David Tennant, Danny Pudi, Ben Schwartz, Bobby Moynihan

Votes: 635

34. The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13¾ (1985)
Episode: Episode #1.1 (1985)

52 min | Comedy, Family

The Mole family's neighbour Mr. Lucas is left by his wife, Mrs. Lucas. He and Adrian's mother Pauline have been having an affair, and they both leave to go to Sheffield, leaving Adrian and ... See full summary »

Director: Peter Sasdy | Stars: Gian Sammarco, Julie Walters, Stephen Moore, Beryl Reid

Votes: 18

35. Law & Order: Criminal Intent (2001–2011)
Episode: Passion (2009)

TV-14 | 43 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

The assistant/girlfriend to a struggling publisher of a poetry magazine is killed, and the investigation focuses on the magazine's wealthy donors. However, the stakes are raised when the publisher is also found stabbed to death.

Director: Jonathan Herron | Stars: Jeff Goldblum, Julianne Nicholson, Eric Bogosian, Sarah Rafferty

Votes: 240

36. Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries (2012–2015)
Episode: Death by Miss Adventure (2012)

TV-PG | 52 min | Crime, Drama, History

Dr Mac brings a woman's gruesome factory death to Phryne's attention, not disclosing her own special relationship to the woman.

Director: Daina Reid | Stars: Essie Davis, Nathan Page, Hugo Johnstone-Burt, Ashleigh Cummings

Votes: 445

37. Never Have I Ever (2020–2023)
Episode: ...set my mom up (2023)

TV-14 | 33 min | Comedy, Drama

Unsure about her own love life, Devi focuses on Nalini's - but it will mean befriending an enemy. Pati's birthday ends on a high note no one sees coming.

Director: Adam Countee | Stars: Maitreyi Ramakrishnan, Richa Moorjani, Jaren Lewison, Darren Barnet

Votes: 497

38. 2 Broke Girls (2011–2017)
Episode: And the Pastry Porn (2013)

Not Rated | 22 min | Comedy

Max decides to apply to the Manhattan School of Pastry and bakes a tart for her entrance exam.

Director: Don Scardino | Stars: Kat Dennings, Beth Behrs, Garrett Morris, Jonathan Kite

Votes: 818

39. Switched at Birth (2011–2017)
Episode: And We Bring the Light (2014)

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

Toby returns from Iceland with a new outlook on life. He decides to make a career change. Bay's letter from doesn't contain the news she was hoping for. Angelo helps Daphne with her stress ... See full summary »

Director: James Hayman | Stars: Sean Berdy, Lucas Grabeel, Katie Leclerc, Vanessa Marano

Votes: 85

40. Austin & Ally (2011–2016)
Episode: Rejection & Rocketships (2015)

TV-G | 30 min | Comedy, Drama, Family

When Ally is rejected from college, she decides to let go of her "perfect student" ways. Meanwhile, Austin and Dez discover their favorite childhood ride will shut down forever.

Director: Raini Rodriguez | Stars: Ross Lynch, Laura Marano, Raini Rodriguez, Calum Worthy

Votes: 68

41. Z: The Beginning of Everything (2015–2017)
Episode: Just Humans (2017)

TV-14 | 31 min | Biography, Drama, History

As Scott pursues Zelda in Montgomery, she must decide what she can sacrifice to be with him.

Director: Mike Barker | Stars: Christina Ricci, David Hoflin, David Strathairn, Kristine Nielsen

Votes: 186

42. Ray Donovan (2013–2020)
Episode: Dogwalker (2017)

TV-MA | 49 min | Crime, Drama

Ray cleans up Natalie's mess. Terry visits Conor at military school. A surprise visit from Frank Barnes threatens to sink Mickey back into a life of violence. Bunchy happens upon the business opportunity of a lifetime.

Director: John Dahl | Stars: Liev Schreiber, Paula Malcomson, Eddie Marsan, Dash Mihok

Votes: 866