Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "television-personality"

1. Scream (I) (2022)

R | 114 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller

25 years after a streak of brutal murders shocked the quiet town of Woodsboro, Calif., a new killer dons the Ghostface mask and begins targeting a group of teenagers to resurrect secrets from the town's deadly past.

Directors: Matt Bettinelli-Olpin, Tyler Gillett | Stars: Neve Campbell, Courteney Cox, David Arquette, Melissa Barrera

Votes: 158,962 | Gross: $81.64M

2. To Die For (1995)

R | 106 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

A beautiful but naïve aspiring television personality films a documentary on teenagers with a darker ulterior motive.

Director: Gus Van Sant | Stars: Nicole Kidman, Matt Dillon, Joaquin Phoenix, Casey Affleck

Votes: 53,001 | Gross: $21.28M

3. The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1 (2014)

PG-13 | 123 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

Katniss Everdeen is in District 13 after she shatters the games forever. Under the leadership of President Coin and the advice of her trusted friends, Katniss spreads her wings as she fights to save Peeta and a nation moved by her courage.

Director: Francis Lawrence | Stars: Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson, Liam Hemsworth, Woody Harrelson

Votes: 503,051 | Gross: $337.14M

4. Wonder Woman 1984 (2020)

PG-13 | 151 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy

Diana must contend with a work colleague, and with a businessman whose desire for extreme wealth sends the world down a path of destruction, after an ancient artifact that grants wishes goes missing.

Director: Patty Jenkins | Stars: Gal Gadot, Chris Pine, Kristen Wiig, Pedro Pascal

Votes: 291,839 | Gross: $46.37M

5. Fright Night (1985)

R | 106 min | Horror

"Fright Night" sees a teenager believing that the newcomer in his neighborhood is a vampire. He turns to an actor in a television hosted horror movie show for help to deal with the undead.

Director: Tom Holland | Stars: Chris Sarandon, William Ragsdale, Amanda Bearse, Roddy McDowall

Votes: 78,672 | Gross: $24.92M

6. RoboCop (2014)

PG-13 | 117 min | Action, Crime, Sci-Fi

In 2028 Detroit, when Alex Murphy, a loving husband, father and good cop, is critically injured in the line of duty, the multinational conglomerate OmniCorp sees their chance for a part-man, part-robot police officer.

Director: José Padilha | Stars: Joel Kinnaman, Gary Oldman, Michael Keaton, Abbie Cornish

Votes: 239,682 | Gross: $58.61M

7. Goodnight Mommy (2014)

R | 99 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller

Twin boys move to a new house with their mother after she has face-changing cosmetic surgery, but under the bandages is someone the boys don't recognize.

Directors: Severin Fiala, Veronika Franz | Stars: Lukas Schwarz, Elias Schwarz, Susanne Wuest, Hans Escher

Votes: 59,781 | Gross: $1.17M

8. Julie & Julia (2009)

PG-13 | 123 min | Biography, Drama, Romance

Julia Child's story of her start in the cooking profession is intertwined with blogger Julie Powell's 2002 challenge to cook all the recipes in Child's first book.

Director: Nora Ephron | Stars: Amy Adams, Meryl Streep, Chris Messina, Stanley Tucci

Votes: 128,889 | Gross: $94.13M

9. The Reckoning (2023)

59 min | Biography, Crime, Drama

The story of Jimmy Savile's life from his working-class roots, to his rise to TV stardom as a BBC presenter, and his later years when he managed to keep his reign of sexual abuse concealed until after his death in 2011.

Stars: Steve Coogan, Mark Stanley, Mark Lewis Jones, Darien

Votes: 3,713

10. Mindhorn (2016)

TV-MA | 89 min | Comedy, Thriller

A has-been actor best known for playing the title character in the 1980s detective series "Mindhorn" must work with the police when a serial killer says that he will only speak with Detective Mindhorn, whom he believes to be a real person.

Director: Sean Foley | Stars: Julian Barratt, Simon Farnaby, Essie Davis, Steve Coogan

Votes: 13,716

11. 24 Hour Party People (2002)

R | 117 min | Biography, Comedy, Drama

In 1976, Tony Wilson sets up Factory Records and brings Manchester's music to the world.

Director: Michael Winterbottom | Stars: Steve Coogan, Lennie James, John Thomson, Paul Popplewell

Votes: 39,703 | Gross: $1.13M

12. Death Race 2 (2010 Video)

R | 96 min | Action, Crime, Sci-Fi

Explores the origins of the first "Frankenstein" car driver, Carl "Luke" Lucas, who died in a race at the beginning of the first film.

Director: Roel Reiné | Stars: Luke Goss, Lauren Cohan, Sean Bean, Ving Rhames

Votes: 34,656

13. The Last Summer (2019)

TV-14 | 109 min | Comedy, Romance

Standing on the precipice of adulthood, a group of friends navigate new relationships, while reexamining others, during their final summer before college.

Director: William Bindley | Stars: K.J. Apa, Maia Mitchell, Norman Johnson Jr., Jacob Latimore

Votes: 14,306

14. Henry's Crime (2010)

R | 108 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

Released from prison for a crime he didn't commit, an ex-con targets the same bank he was sent away for robbing.

Director: Malcolm Venville | Stars: Keanu Reeves, Vera Farmiga, James Caan, Judy Greer

Votes: 21,370 | Gross: $0.10M

15. TerrorVision (1986)

R | 85 min | Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi

"TerrorVision" is a 1986 horror / science fiction movie; telling the tale of when a family's new satellite television system starts receiving signals from another planet, and soon it becomes the passageway to an alien world.

Director: Ted Nicolaou | Stars: Diane Franklin, Mary Woronov, Gerrit Graham, Chad Allen

Votes: 7,771 | Gross: $0.32M

16. Quiz (2020)

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

'Quiz' tells the story of Charles Ingram, a former British army major who caused a major scandal after being caught cheating his way to winning £1 million on the game show 'Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?'

Stars: Matthew Macfadyen, Sian Clifford, Mark Bonnar, Aisling Bea

Votes: 8,004

17. The Michael J. Fox Show (2013–2014)

TV-PG | 30 min | Comedy

A comedy inspired by the life of Michael J. Fox.

Stars: Michael J. Fox, Betsy Brandt, Wendell Pierce, Katie Finneran

Votes: 5,437

18. Then She Found Me (2007)

R | 100 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

April, 39, wants a baby but her husband leaves her. When her adoptive mother dies, she's contacted by her biological mother, a TV talk show host. April starts seeing the divorced dad of one of her students at school.

Director: Helen Hunt | Stars: Helen Hunt, Colin Firth, Bette Midler, Matthew Broderick

Votes: 10,233 | Gross: $3.74M

19. Little Black Book (2004)

PG-13 | 107 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

A woman snoops through her boyfriend's palm pilot and reveals his former girlfriends, which causes her to question why they're still listed in his little black book.

Director: Nick Hurran | Stars: Brittany Murphy, Ron Livingston, Holly Hunter, Kathy Bates

Votes: 18,959 | Gross: $20.42M

20. Madhouse (1974)

PG | 89 min | Crime, Horror, Mystery

A horror movie star returns to his famous role after years in a mental institution. But the character seems to be committing murders independent of his will.

Director: Jim Clark | Stars: Vincent Price, Peter Cushing, Robert Quarry, Adrienne Corri

Votes: 4,518

21. Hunk (1987)

PG | 102 min | Comedy, Fantasy

A computer nerd makes a deal with the Devil and gets a new beefcake body.

Director: Lawrence Bassoff | Stars: John Allen Nelson, Steve Levitt, Deborah Shelton, Rebeccah Bush

Votes: 1,562 | Gross: $1.75M

22. Ideal Home (2018)

Not Rated | 91 min | Comedy, Drama

A bickering gay couple must suddenly deal with the unexpected task of raising a 10-year-old boy.

Director: Andrew Fleming | Stars: Steve Coogan, Paul Rudd, Jesse Luken, Evan Bittencourt

Votes: 11,615

23. There's a Girl in My Soup (1970)

R | 96 min | Comedy, Romance

In their sexual game, an egotistical and womanizing television host meets his match, Marion, who seeks to remain one step ahead of him.

Director: Roy Boulting | Stars: Peter Sellers, Goldie Hawn, Tony Britton, Ruth Trouncer

Votes: 2,795 | Gross: $2.20M

24. Prisoners of the Lost Universe (1983)

94 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy

Three people are transported into a parallel reality, where they find they must use modern technology, but medieval weapons, in order to save the citizenry from a murderous warlord.

Director: Terry Marcel | Stars: Richard Hatch, Kay Lenz, John Saxon, Peter O'Farrell

Votes: 2,022

25. The Beast Must Die (1974)

PG | 93 min | Horror, Mystery

Eight people are invited to an island estate for the weekend. One of them is a werewolf. Can you guess which one?

Director: Paul Annett | Stars: Calvin Lockhart, Peter Cushing, Marlene Clark, Charles Gray

Votes: 4,173

26. Jimmy Savile: A British Horror Story (2022)

TV-MA | 85 min | Documentary, Biography, Crime

Jimmy Savile once ruled the airwaves with a quirky persona and good works. So how did this icon manage to hide his many alleged bad deeds for so long?

Stars: Roger Ordish, Mark Lawson, Meirion Jones, Alison Bellamy

Votes: 9,092

27. Bon Cop Bad Cop (2006)

R | 117 min | Action, Comedy, Crime

Two Canadian detectives, one from Ontario and the other from Quebec, must work together when a murdered victim is found on the Ontario-Quebec border.

Director: Erik Canuel | Stars: Michel Beaudry, Patrice Bélanger, Pierre Boudreau, Sarain Boylan

Votes: 13,159

28. Night Train to Terror (1985)

R | 98 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror

"Night Train to Terror" is a 1985 horror anthology movie where God and Satan are on a train discussing the fate of three individuals.

Directors: John Carr, Phillip Marshak, Tom McGowan, Jay Schlossberg-Cohen, Gregg G. Tallas | Stars: Barbara Wyler, Jamie Scoggin, Stacey Lyons, Linda Maderas

Votes: 2,826

29. In Family I Trust (2019)

TV-MA | 97 min | Comedy, Romance

After discovering that her boyfriend is cheating on her with a famous TV reporter, a woman returns to her family home to find herself.

Director: Patricia Font | Stars: Clara Lago, Álex García, Alexandra Jiménez, Paula Malia

Votes: 3,652

30. The in Crowd (1988)

PG | 95 min | Comedy, Drama, History

In the mid-60s, a teenage 4.0 high-school student is drawn out of his element on a dare by his peers, to become a dancer on popular TV music show.

Director: Mark Rosenthal | Stars: Jennifer Runyon, Donovan Leitch Jr., Joe Pantoliano, Bruce Kirby

Votes: 989 | Gross: $0.12M

31. It Should Happen to You (1954)

Approved | 86 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

When a young woman with dreams of fame rents a billboard to advertise herself, her life changes overnight.

Director: George Cukor | Stars: Judy Holliday, Jack Lemmon, Peter Lawford, Michael O'Shea

Votes: 4,529 | Gross: $1.40M

32. The Journey (1959)

Approved | 126 min | Drama, Romance, War

A British woman trying to escape Hungary with her freedom fighter lover and a group of Westerners, as the Soviet Union moves to crush the Hungarian Revolution of 1956, finds herself the obsession of an enigmatic Communist officer.

Director: Anatole Litvak | Stars: Deborah Kerr, Yul Brynner, Jason Robards, Robert Morley

Votes: 1,849

33. Freddy (2023)

109 min | Biography, Drama

The life of Dominican comedian, writer, TV producer and philanthropist Freddy Beras-Goico.

Director: Giancarlo Beras-Goico | Stars: Héctor Aníbal, Juan Luis Guerra, Ruairi Rhodes, Jandy Ventura

Votes: 41

34. Christmas in Connecticut (1992 TV Movie)

Not Rated | 93 min | Comedy, Romance

Elizabeth, the star of a successful cooking show, is set to do a live show on Christmas, where she'll cook a Christmas dinner. But what no one knows is that she can't cook.

Director: Arnold Schwarzenegger | Stars: Dyan Cannon, Kris Kristofferson, Tony Curtis, Richard Roundtree

Votes: 1,600

35. Man in the Dark (1964)

Not Rated | 80 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

When the wife of a blind composer discovers that her husband will cut her out of his estate, if he discovers that she is having an affair with a young artist, she and her lover plan to commit the perfect murder.

Director: Lance Comfort | Stars: William Sylvester, Barbara Shelley, Elizabeth Shepherd, Alexander Davion

Votes: 243

36. Arabela (1980–1981)

30 min | Comedy, Fantasy

Princess Arabela, the daughter of the King of the fairy tale world escapes before the revenge of a cunning and deceitful magician Rumburak and leaves the world of fairy tales. She meets ... See full summary »

Stars: Vladimír Mensík, Stella Zázvorková, Jana Nagyová, Veronika Tyblová

Votes: 1,487

37. Silvio (2024)

114 min | Biography, Crime, Thriller | Completed

During a kidnapping, television personality Silvio Santos must fight to protect his family and his legacy while facing one of the most challenging moments of his life.

Director: Marcelo Antunez | Stars: Rodrigo Faro, Johnnas Oliva, Vinícius Ricci, Fellipe Castro

38. Kamikaze (1986)

90 min | Crime, Sci-Fi, Thriller

A crazy old and bored scientist invents a system which allows him to reach through the airwaves and transform live TV cameras into weapons to kill whoever is being filmed.

Director: Didier Grousset | Stars: Richard Bohringer, Michel Galabru, Dominique Lavanant, Romane Bohringer

Votes: 725

39. Greatful Dead (2013)

97 min | Comedy, Horror, Thriller

Nami is a young woman with numerous hangups sprouting from a dysfunctional childhood. She inherits a small fortune that allows her to pursue various interests, many of which are abnormal.

Director: Eiji Uchida | Stars: Aira, Itsuji Itao, Yoichiro Kawakami, Hôka Kinoshita

Votes: 854

40. Tickling Giants (2016)

TV-14 | 111 min | Documentary

While the Egyptian revolution of 2011 is underway, surgeon turned comedian Bassem Youssef airs a television show that makes him popular to his countrymen but disliked by the government.

Director: Sara Taksler | Stars: Bassem Youssef, Jon Stewart, Shadi Alfons, Injy Abou El So'oud

Votes: 1,687 | Gross: $0.04M

41. Signore e signori, buonanotte (1976)

105 min | Comedy

An episodic satire of the social and politic status of Italy in the 1970s through the programming of a television channel.

Directors: Leonardo Benvenuti, Luigi Comencini, Piero De Bernardi, Agenore Incrocci, Nanni Loy, Ruggero Maccari, Luigi Magni, Mario Monicelli, Ugo Pirro, Furio Scarpelli, Ettore Scola | Stars: Senta Berger, Adolfo Celi, Vittorio Gassman, Nino Manfredi

Votes: 921

42. Mistletoe Magic (2019 TV Movie)

85 min | Comedy, Romance

A TV meteorologist who refuses to believe in Christmas magic searches the city for her family's heirloom mistletoe because her sister thinks it's magic. Her quest is aided by a childhood schoolmate.

Director: Andrew Cymek | Stars: Jessica Sipos, Stephen Huszar, Stephen Davis, Troy Blundell

Votes: 608

43. Elle boit pas, elle fume pas, elle drague pas, mais... elle cause! (1970)

80 min | Comedy, Crime

Housemaid Georgette (Girardot) loves to gossip and this causes major trouble to people around her.

Director: Michel Audiard | Stars: Annie Girardot, Bernard Blier, Mireille Darc, Jean Le Poulain

Votes: 580

44. The Model Murder Case (1963)

Not Rated | 90 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

When a beautiful girl is murdered, Inspector Birkett finds that she had some famous friends who don't want publicity.

Director: Michael Truman | Stars: Ian Hendry, Ronald Fraser, Margaret Johnston, Natasha Parry

Votes: 341

45. An American Dream (1966)

Not Rated | 103 min | Drama, Thriller

A TV talk-show host who may have killed his wife finds himself being pursued by both the police and a gang of hoods.

Director: Robert Gist | Stars: Stuart Whitman, Janet Leigh, Eleanor Parker, Barry Sullivan

Votes: 547

46. Almost Perfect (2012)

Not Rated | 100 min | Comedy, Romance

A TV host decides to have a child on her own by artificial insemination from an anonymous donor. She regrets not knowing whom the genes come from. She steals the donor's address. He turns out to be a jerk - at first.

Director: Hella Joof | Stars: Lene Maria Christensen, Nikolaj Lie Kaas, Mia Lyhne, Casper Crump

Votes: 1,518

47. Maidstone (1970)

110 min | Drama

Norman T. Kingsley, famous movie director, runs for President.

Director: Norman Mailer | Stars: Norman Mailer, Rip Torn, Paul Austin, Joy Bang

Votes: 281

48. Entertaining Christmas (2018 TV Movie)

TV-G | 85 min | Comedy, Romance

Candace has never lived up to her mom's standards. She's sent in her place to plan a Christmas party.

Director: Robin Dunne | Stars: Jodie Sweetin, Brendan Fehr, Jane Moffat, Ana Araujo

Votes: 1,153

49. Son of Sofia (2017)

TV-14 | 111 min | Drama

Athens, 2004 summer Olympic Games. 11-year-old Misha arrives from Russia to live with his mother, Sofia. What he doesn't know is that there is a father waiting for him there. While Greece is living the Olympic dream, Misha will get violently catapulted into the adult world, riding on the dark side of his favorite fairy tales.

Director: Elina Psykou | Stars: Victor Khomut, Valery Tscheplanowa, Thanasis Papageorgiou, Artemios Havalits

Votes: 561

50. Pain of Love (1992)

115 min | Drama

A young woman who falls in love with her teacher is hit by heartache and challenges she is not prepared for and struggles to escape her dark frame of mind.

Director: Nils Malmros | Stars: Tanja Skov, Martin Berg, Marianne Pedersen, Majken Jensen

Votes: 523