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

1. Red Dragon (2002)

R | 124 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

A retired FBI agent with psychological gifts is assigned to help track down "The Tooth Fairy", a mysterious serial killer. Aiding him is imprisoned forensic psychiatrist Dr. Hannibal "The Cannibal" Lecter.

Director: Brett Ratner | Stars: Anthony Hopkins, Edward Norton, Ralph Fiennes, Harvey Keitel

Votes: 290,817 | Gross: $93.15M

2. Manhunter (1986)

R | 120 min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller

Former FBI profiler Will Graham returns to service to pursue a deranged serial killer dubbed "the Tooth Fairy" by the media.

Director: Michael Mann | Stars: William Petersen, Kim Greist, Joan Allen, Brian Cox

Votes: 80,899 | Gross: $8.62M

3. The Philadelphia Story (1940)

Not Rated | 112 min | Comedy, Romance

When a rich woman's ex-husband and a tabloid-type reporter turn up just before her planned remarriage, she begins to learn the truth about herself.

Director: George Cukor | Stars: Cary Grant, Katharine Hepburn, James Stewart, Ruth Hussey

Votes: 73,826

4. Michael (1996)

PG | 105 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy

Two tabloid reporters checking out a report of the Archangel Michael living with an old woman find that it's true. But that's not the only surprise.

Director: Nora Ephron | Stars: John Travolta, Andie MacDowell, William Hurt, Bob Hoskins

Votes: 45,070 | Gross: $95.32M

5. Above the Shadows (2019)

TV-14 | 111 min | Drama, Fantasy, Romance

A young woman who has faded to the point of becoming invisible must find her way back with the help of the one man who can see her.

Director: Claudia Myers | Stars: Olivia Thirlby, Alan Ritchson, Jim Gaffigan, Patricia Pinto

Votes: 4,657

6. High Society (1956)

Not Rated | 111 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance

With socialite Tracy Lord about to remarry, her ex-husband - with the help of a sympathetic reporter - has 48 hours to convince her that she really still loves him.

Director: Charles Walters | Stars: Bing Crosby, Grace Kelly, Frank Sinatra, Celeste Holm

Votes: 17,523 | Gross: $13.00M

7. Return to Paradise (1998)

R | 111 min | Drama, Romance, Thriller

Two friends must choose whether to help a third friend who was arrested in Malaysia for drug possession.

Director: Joseph Ruben | Stars: Vince Vaughn, Anne Heche, Joaquin Phoenix, David Conrad

Votes: 15,424 | Gross: $8.29M

8. Transylvania 6-5000 (1985)

PG | 93 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Horror

Two tabloid reporters are sent to Transylvania to find the Frankenstein monster - or get fired. They are laughed at there, but something suspicious is going on.

Director: Rudy De Luca | Stars: Jeff Goldblum, Joseph Bologna, Ed Begley Jr., Carol Kane

Votes: 8,472 | Gross: $7.20M

9. Sex and the Single Girl (1964)

Not Rated | 110 min | Comedy, Romance

A womanizing reporter for a sleazy tabloid magazine impersonates his hen-pecked neighbor in order to get an expose on renowned psychologist Helen Gurley Brown.

Director: Richard Quine | Stars: Lauren Bacall, Tony Curtis, Natalie Wood, Henry Fonda

Votes: 4,695 | Gross: $9.27M

10. Priest (1994)

R | 98 min | Drama, Romance

A homosexual Catholic priest finds out during confessional that a young girl is being sexually abused by her father, and has to decide how to deal with both that secret and his own.

Director: Antonia Bird | Stars: Linus Roache, Tom Wilkinson, Robert Carlyle, Cathy Tyson

Votes: 11,030 | Gross: $4.18M

11. Basket Case 2 (1990)

R | 90 min | Comedy, Horror

Duane and his basket-bound mutant brother are taken in by a secret home for wayward freaks with journalists hot on their tail.

Director: Frank Henenlotter | Stars: Kevin VanHentenryck, Judy Grafe, Annie Ross, Heather Rattray

Votes: 5,696

12. Mad City (1997)

PG-13 | 115 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

A distraught man inadvertently takes a group of children hostage in a museum while a hungry, seasoned reporter tries to resurrect his career covering the story.

Director: Costa-Gavras | Stars: John Travolta, Dustin Hoffman, Alan Alda, Mia Kirshner

Votes: 21,100 | Gross: $10.56M

13. Scandal Sheet (1952)

Passed | 82 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

The editor of an exploitation newspaper commits a murder and assigns his protégé to investigate hoping to divert attention away from himself.

Director: Phil Karlson | Stars: John Derek, Donna Reed, Broderick Crawford, Rosemary DeCamp

Votes: 3,476

14. Scandal (1950)

Approved | 105 min | Drama

A celebrity photograph sparks a court case as a tabloid magazine spins a scandalous yarn over a painter and a famous singer.

Director: Akira Kurosawa | Stars: Toshirô Mifune, Shirley Yamaguchi, Yôko Katsuragi, Noriko Sengoku

Votes: 4,664

15. The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum (1975)

R | 106 min | Crime, Drama

A young woman's life is scrutinized by police and tabloid press after she spends the night with a suspected terrorist.

Directors: Volker Schlöndorff, Margarethe von Trotta | Stars: Angela Winkler, Mario Adorf, Dieter Laser, Jürgen Prochnow

Votes: 4,882

16. All American Massacre (2000)

60 min | Horror

Incarcerated for years in solitary confinement at a Texas Psychiatric Hospital. One of the most notorious killers of the past century is interviewed by a tabloid News crew. Recalling fond memories of happier times in his younger years.

Director: William Tony Hooper | Stars: Bill Moseley, Todd Bates, Buckethead, Greg Herger

Votes: 28

17. Thrill Seekers (1999 TV Movie)

PG-13 | 88 min | Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller

A reporter, learning of time travelers visiting 20th century disasters, tries to change the history they know by averting upcoming disasters.

Director: Mario Azzopardi | Stars: Casper Van Dien, Catherine Bell, Theresa Saldana, Peter Outerbridge

Votes: 2,744

18. Death of a Dynasty (2003)

R | 92 min | Musical, Comedy

Dash is the CEO of Roc-a-Fella records, home to hip-hop's biggest seller: Jay Z. The film tells the story of a beef between Dash and Z over a disconcertingly teenage looking party chick called Picasso.

Director: Damon Dash | Stars: Ebon Moss-Bachrach, Robert Stapleton, Capone Lee, Loon

Votes: 417 | Gross: $0.04M

19. Out There (1995 TV Movie)

PG-13 | 98 min | Comedy, Sci-Fi

A Pulitzer Prize winning photographer named Mosley gets kicked off his job by his boss (Bobcat Goldthwait) for not taking sensational pictures consistently. He finds an old camera in a ... See full summary »

Director: Sam Irvin | Stars: Billy Campbell, Wendy Schaal, Rod Steiger, Jill St. John

Votes: 524

20. The Chronicle (2001–2002)

48 min | Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi

A young, highly qualified reporter can't find work with a major paper and signs on with a tabloid. There he learns that all the tabloid stories including aliens, big foot, and reincarnation are true.

Stars: Chad Willett, Rena Sofer, Reno Wilson, Jon Polito

Votes: 375

21. Invader (1991)

R | 95 min | Sci-Fi

A crashed UFO and its reverse-engineered computer system take over the minds of soldiers at an air force base. The alien entity (in the guise of A.S.M.O.D.S., (Asmodeus), a strategic flight... See full summary »

Director: Philip J. Cook | Stars: Hans Bachmann, A. Thomas Smith, Kenneth W. Baker, Robert Biedermann

Votes: 306

22. Love Exclusively (2017)

Unrated | 92 min | Comedy, Romance

Tabloid reporter Allie is looking for a story. Pop musician Caleb's manager suggests one on Caleb's love life, and to create a story if none exist. Caleb was Allie's kid friend/crush.

Director: Jake Helgren | Stars: James Maslow, Haley Webb, Brittany Underwood, Tommy Savas

Votes: 737

23. Nola (2003)

R | 97 min | Comedy, Romance

An urban fairy tale and romantic comedy in which aspiring songwriter Nola leaves her abusive Kansas home and heads to New York City to find her biological father--and finds much more.

Director: Alan Hruska | Stars: Emmy Rossum, Steven Bauer, James Badge Dale, Thom Christopher

Votes: 502 | Gross: $0.01M

24. Winchell (1998 TV Movie)

R | 105 min | Biography, Drama, Romance

The true story of the influential and controversial columnist, Walter Winchell.

Director: Paul Mazursky | Stars: Stanley Tucci, Glenne Headly, Paul Giamatti, Christopher Plummer

Votes: 631

25. Angel Guts: Nami (1979)

98 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller

This is the third film in the Angel Guts series. It tells the story of Nami, a young female journalist. As she investigates the brutal stories of rape victims, she finds herself becoming ... See full synopsis »

Director: Noboru Tanaka | Stars: Eri Kanuma, Takeo Chii, Mimi Sawaki, Miyako Yamaguchi

Votes: 259

26. Saint Martyrs of the Damned (2005)

115 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery

A reporter goes to a mysterious village to investigate mysterious disappearances until one night, his friend gets abducted and every citizen wants him dead.

Director: Robin Aubert | Stars: François Chénier, Guy Vaillancourt, France Labonté, Alain Martel

Votes: 756

27. Hot Metal (1986–1989)

Comedy

The 'Crucible' is a new muck-raking tabloid newspaper in London. Managing editor Russell Spam is always on the lookout for the latest dirt and gossip, while senior editor Harold Stringer ... See full summary »

Stars: Robert Hardy, Richard Kane, Geoffrey Palmer, Richard Wilson

Votes: 123

28. Washington Story (1952)

Approved | 81 min | Drama, Romance

Joe Gresham is a hard-working but reticent congressman from Massachusetts. Reporter Alice Kingsley arrives in Washington, DC hired by Gilbert Nunnally, a tabloid columnist and cynic who ... See full summary »

Director: Robert Pirosh | Stars: Van Johnson, Patricia Neal, Louis Calhern, Sidney Blackmer

Votes: 282

29. Buried Alive (1939)

Approved | 62 min | Drama, Thriller

A prison trustee rescues a despondent executioner from a bar-room brawl, and is blamed for the fight by a tabloid reporter who actually started it, and loses parole, becomes embittered, and gets blamed for murder of guard.

Director: Victor Halperin | Stars: Beverly Roberts, Robert Wilcox, Paul McVey, Ted Osborne

Votes: 220

30. Nexxt (2001)

116 min | Comedy, Drama, Horror

The powerful and famous TV-personality, Frau Plastic Chicken is providing a live coverage of a brutal serial killer's arrest by the police in her show, namely Nexxt. In the meantime as for ... See full summary »

Director: Árpád Schilling | Stars: Dorottya Udvaros, Zoltán Mucsi, Viktor Bodó, Gergely Bánki

Votes: 273

31. 183 Days (2009)

60 min | Drama

Emma, Mandy, Sebastian, Tarek and Laura are the finalists of a reality show called HUS-1. After it ends, they try to move on with their lives and careers but tabloid reporter, Anne, keeps writing fake scandalous stories about them.

Stars: Tuva Novotny, Sasha Becker, Malin Mases Arvidsson, Ulric von der Esch

Votes: 62

32. Lottery Road (2018)

94 min | Drama

Winning changed nothing. Losing changed everything.

Director: Charlie Dees | Stars: Tess Dees, Ernie Joseph, Charli Savannah Dees, Jenna Carley

Votes: 25

33. Bed & Bardsleys (2005– )

48 min | Reality-TV

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Stars: Ken Lorimer, Lizzy Bardsley, Mark Bardsley, Juel Stokes

Votes: 16

34. Cause for Alarm and Other Tales (2002 Video)

75 min | Adventure

Several story lines in this Harmony Concepts bondage film. An alarm systems salesman has to go to unusual lengths to make a sale; a burglar gets involved in a spat between a maid and the ... See full summary »

Director: Jon Woods | Stars: Abby Cameron, Rubee Tuesday, Ginger Sands, Anna Mills

35. Ceremony of Innocence (1997 Video Game)

Drama, Mystery, Romance

Interactive audio visual novel that adapts the first book of "Griffin and Sabine" trilogy. Through interactive letters and postcards the reader follows the unusual relationship between lonely U.K. artist Griffin and his exotic muse Sabine.

Stars: Ben Kingsley, Paul McGann, Isabella Rossellini

36. The Wonderful World of Disney (1997–2023)
Episode: Tower of Terror (1997)

Unrated | 89 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama

A disgraced reporter investigates an abandoned luxury hotel where five people mysteriously disappeared sixty years earlier.

Director: D.J. MacHale | Stars: Steve Guttenberg, Nia Peeples, Michael McShane, Amzie Strickland

Votes: 4,119

37. Police Call 110 (1971– )
Episode: Silikon Walli (2002)

TV-14 | 88 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

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Director: Manfred Stelzer | Stars: Michaela May, Edgar Selge, Nadeshda Brennicke, Michael Brandner

Votes: 115

38. Charmed (1998–2006)
Episode: Out of Sight (1999)

TV-PG | 42 min | Drama, Fantasy, Mystery

When a young boy gets kidnapped by a Grimlock, it's up to Prue, Piper and Phoebe to attempt a dangerous rescue.

Director: Craig Zisk | Stars: Shannen Doherty, Holly Marie Combs, Alyssa Milano, Ted King

Votes: 892

39. The Jeffersons (1975–1985)
Episode: What Makes Sammy Run? (1984)

TV-PG | 25 min | Comedy

Sammy Davis, Jr. plays himself as a next-door neighbor who is trying to duck recognition from the press and public. A tabloid reporter tells Louise he will pay $2,000 if she can find out which apartment he is in which Florence overhears.

Director: Tony Singletary | Stars: Sherman Hemsley, Isabel Sanford, Roxie Roker, Franklin Cover

Votes: 78

40. Nightmare Cafe (1992)
Episode: Aliens Ate My Lunch (1992)

47 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

When a desperate tabloid writer concocts a story about a small-town alien invasion, his simple lie snowballs out of his control.

Director: Wes Craven | Stars: Bobby Slayton, Jimmy Briscoe, Kevin Thompson, Arturo Gil

Votes: 40

41. PSI Factor: Chronicles of the Paranormal (1996–2000)
Episode: The Kiss (1998)

TV-14 | 45 min | Drama, Fantasy, Mystery

A mysterious killer with both male and female DNA is taking out the cops who covered up a questionable shooting. Their tongues are ripped out and spines crushed. Matt's ex, who was the reporter covering the shooting, contacts Matt.

Director: Douglas Jackson | Stars: Matt Frewer, Nancy Anne Sakovich, Barclay Hope, Colin Fox

Votes: 22

42. The Twilight Zone (2002–2003)
Episode: The Path (2003)

TV-14 | Drama, Fantasy, Horror

A tabloid reporter becomes obsessed with the readings of an uncannily accurate fortunate teller.

Director: Jerry Levine | Stars: Forest Whitaker, Linda Cardellini, Method Man, Colin Cunningham

Votes: 314

43. Mike Hammer (1958–1959)
Episode: Final Curtain (1958)

26 min | Action, Crime, Drama

Mike's girlfriend, Jackie, a dancer in a chorus line, panics when a sleazy reporter points out the similarities between a pair of chorus line murders and the Jack the Ripper killings 70 ... See full summary »

Director: Richard Irving | Stars: Darren McGavin, Bart Burns, Joan Taylor, Lawrence Dobkin

Votes: 28

44. Mike Hammer (1958–1959)
Episode: Peace Bond (1958)

26 min | Action, Crime, Drama

Mike's quest for peace and quiet is interrupted when he intervenes in a lover's quarrel fought in a swanky restaurant. The next day, Mike is hauled into court and forced to post a peace ... See full summary »

Director: John English | Stars: Darren McGavin, Bart Burns, Marion Ross, Edmon Ryan

Votes: 26

45. Mäklarna (2006)
Episode: En journalist från Tidningen Metro följer Vilma under en dag (2006)

Comedy, Drama

A journalist from the Metro tabloid follows Vilma for a day at her job. With the help of Turk she makes makes a mess of it. Kaj is concerned for his health and visits the local health clinic for a checkup, including a prostate exam.

Director: Jesper Larand | Stars: Kjell Bergqvist, Cecilia Frode, Marienette Dahlin, Anders Ahlbom Rosendahl

Votes: 6

46. Matti Nykänen - Elämä on laiffii (2023)
Episode: Etusivu uusiksi (2023)

60 min | Documentary

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Director: Sami Kieksi | Stars: Hjallis Harkimo, Marko Lempinen, Ari Saarinen, Mika Lahtonen

47. The Outsider (2020)
Episode: Que Viene el Coco (2020)

TV-MA | 60 min | Crime, Drama, Horror

While retracing the Maitlands' recent family vacation, Holly pursues a possible connection to an eerily similar case and gains valuable insight from local former detective Andy Katcavage; Glory faces increased scrutiny in her daily life.

Director: Andrew Bernstein | Stars: Ben Mendelsohn, Cynthia Erivo, Bill Camp, Jeremy Bobb

Votes: 3,823