Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "fake-illness"

51. Sherlock Holmes (1916)

Not Rated | 116 min | Crime, Mystery

When a couple of swindlers hold young Alice Faulkner against her will in order to discover the whereabouts of letters which could spell scandal for the royal family, Sherlock Holmes is on the case.

Director: Arthur Berthelet | Stars: William Gillette, Marjorie Kay, Ernest Maupain, Edward Fielding

Votes: 474

52. One Night of Love (1934)

Passed | 84 min | Comedy, Music, Romance

Mary Barrett is an aspiring Opera singer who is taken under the wings of a famous operatic maestro, Guilio Monterverdi. After spending endless working hours together and arguing, their ... See full summary »

Director: Victor Schertzinger | Stars: Grace Moore, Tullio Carminati, Lyle Talbot, Mona Barrie

Votes: 748

53. Deadly Revenge (2013 TV Movie)

92 min | Drama, Thriller

A woman starts suspecting that her seemingly perfect fiancee might be a killer when she learns about his last girlfriend's mysterious disappearance.

Director: Michael Feifer | Stars: Alicia Ziegler, Mark Hapka, Donna Mills, Constance Wu

Votes: 364

54. Oh Doctor! (1917)

23 min | Comedy, Short

Roscoe is a doctor who falls in love with a pretty woman whose boyfriend, in turn, falls in love with Roscoe's wife's jewelry.

Director: Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle | Stars: Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle, Buster Keaton, Al St. John, Alice Mann

Votes: 1,147

55. Ceiling Zero (1936)

Approved | 95 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance

War veteran pilots Dizzy Davis, Texas Clark and Jake Lee are working in an airline in Newark. Dizzy is flirting with the girlfriend of a younger pilot and, due to this, he feigns illness to... See full summary »

Director: Howard Hawks | Stars: James Cagney, Pat O'Brien, June Travis, Stuart Erwin

Votes: 787

56. Santa santita (2004)

Not Rated | 113 min | Drama

This film explores the theme of the biblical Magdalene - the prostitute who becomes a saint. This modern-day Magdalene story is about a very young and sinful girl who is suddenly confronted... See full summary »

Director: Laurice Guillen | Stars: Angelica Panganiban, Jericho Rosales, Hilda Koronel, Johnny Delgado

Votes: 61

57. Dr. Jack (1922)

Passed | 60 min | Comedy, Romance

Country doctor Jack Jackson is called in to treat the Sick-Little-Well-Girl, who has been making Dr. Saulsbourg and his sanitarium very rich, after years of unsuccessful treatment. Dr. ... See full summary »

Directors: Fred C. Newmeyer, Sam Taylor | Stars: Harold Lloyd, Mildred Davis, John T. Prince, Eric Mayne

Votes: 1,676 | Gross: $0.69M

58. Salaud, on t'aime. (2014)

124 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

A war photographer and absent father, who spends more time taking care of his camera than his four daughters, enjoys a happy life in the Alps with his new girlfriend. But his life is turned... See full summary »

Director: Claude Lelouch | Stars: Johnny Hallyday, Sandrine Bonnaire, Eddy Mitchell, Irène Jacob

Votes: 366

59. The Love Patient (2011)

Not Rated | 95 min | Comedy, Romance

Paul is a success who has gone stale with his work and his life. He has lost the love of his life but they are still co-workers. So he decides to "get" cancer so he can be popular again ... See full summary »

Director: Michael Simon | Stars: Benjamin Lutz, John Werskey, Jackson Palmer, Annette Remter

Votes: 487

60. Too Weak to Work (1943)

7 min | Animation, Short, Comedy

Bluto decides he's exhausted and needs a complete rest; fortunately, there's a hospital nearby where he can fake exhaustion. Popeye discovers the deception and poses as his nurse.

Directors: Izzy Sparber, James Tyer | Stars: Dave Barry, Jack Mercer

Votes: 173

61. I Will Buy You (1956)

Not Rated | 111 min | Drama, Sport

A talent scout moves sharply, dead-set on signing a promising athlete to his team.

Director: Masaki Kobayashi | Stars: Keiji Sada, Keiko Kishi, Minoru Ôki, Yûnosuke Itô

Votes: 561

62. Woman Against Woman (1938)

Passed | 61 min | Drama, Romance

Cynthia is married to Steve and is a selfish hard woman. She decides where they will live, who they will see and even gets rid of Dora, the nanny who raised Steve and is now raising their ... See full summary »

Director: Robert B. Sinclair | Stars: Herbert Marshall, Virginia Bruce, Mary Astor, Janet Beecher

Votes: 265

63. Tiger Theory (2016)

107 min | Comedy, Drama

The last drop for Jan's resolution is the voluntary death of his father-in-law, whose strength and patience ran dry. Grandma made decisions about Grandpa's life, old age as well as the ... See full summary »

Director: Radek Bajgar | Stars: Jirí Bartoska, Eliska Balzerová, Tatiana Dyková, Jirí Havelka

Votes: 808

64. Beauty and the Breast (2002)

97 min | Comedy

A man works for a drug company that produces a pill designed to increase the size of a woman's breasts. He is romantically interested in a co-worker, but she refuses his advances.

Director: Wai-Man Yip | Stars: Francis Ng, Michelle Reis, Daniel Wu, Halina Tam

Votes: 128

65. The Hypo-Chondri-Cat (1950)

Approved | 7 min | Animation, Comedy, Short

Those crazy mice Hubie & Bertie are at it again with Claude. This time the mice see that Claude is seriously ill, so they give him an operation.

Director: Chuck Jones | Stars: Mel Blanc, Stan Freberg

Votes: 1,151

66. Père et fils (2003)

95 min | Comedy

An old man comes up with a subterfuge to reconcile his estranged sons.

Director: Michel Boujenah | Stars: Philippe Noiret, Charles Berling, Bruno Putzulu, Pascal Elbé

Votes: 756

67. Hlidac c.47 (2008)

108 min | Drama, Thriller

A WW I veteran still haunted by his time in the trenches settles in a small town to work for the railroad company. His pretty wife attracts the attention of the lonely young gravedigger.

Director: Filip Renc | Stars: Karel Roden, Lucia Siposová, Václav Jirácek, Vladimír Dlouhý

Votes: 295

68. Bored of Education (1936)

Approved | 10 min | Comedy, Family, Short

Spanky and Alfalfa fake a tooth-ache to get out of school.

Director: Gordon Douglas | Stars: Darla Hood, Eugene 'Porky' Lee, George 'Spanky' McFarland, Carl 'Alfalfa' Switzer

Votes: 368

69. Fox and the Rabbit (1935)

8 min | Animation, Short

A child rabbit is sent to school by his mother. On the way, he passes a carrot patch, which is actually a trap set by a hungry fox. He remembers what his mother told him before he left; "... See full summary »

Director: Manuel Moreno

Votes: 44

70. Throbs at the Desk (1963)

114 min | Comedy, Romance

A married gymnasium student who is longing for her classmates decides to go back to school, to finally get her diploma behind her husband's back. Will she manage to finish school, and keep her beloved spouse?

Director: Alekos Sakellarios | Stars: Aliki Vougiouklaki, Dimitris Papamichael, Dionysis Papagiannopoulos, Labros Konstadaras

Votes: 1,480

71. Leap Year (1924)

Passed | 56 min | Comedy

A young man, heir to his misogynistic and millionaire uncle and in love with a nurse, gets in trouble when he gives marriage advice to his girlfriends.

Directors: James Cruze, Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle | Stars: Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle, Lucien Littlefield, Mary Thurman, John McKinnon

Votes: 362

72. Those High Grey Walls (1939)

Approved | 80 min | Action, Crime, Drama

Dr. MacAuley, a kindly, beloved country doctor, is sent to Fillmore Prison. His crime was for removing a bullet from a young man who was escaping from the police. This is man whom he had ... See full summary »

Director: Charles Vidor | Stars: Walter Connolly, Onslow Stevens, Paul Fix, Bernard Nedell

Votes: 37

73. Three Smart Boys (1937)

11 min | Comedy, Family, Short

When they overhear Miss Witherspoon, the school superintendent, say that nothing short of an epidemic will allow the school to be closed for a week, the Our Gang conspire to fake illness. ... See full summary »

Director: Gordon Douglas | Stars: Eugene 'Porky' Lee, George 'Spanky' McFarland, Carl 'Alfalfa' Switzer, Billie 'Buckwheat' Thomas

Votes: 103

74. Chasing Fifty (2015)

91 min | Comedy, Romance

What happens in the mountains, stay in the mountains. Giant Mountains are truly the spice of local highlanders who live here, whether any season. Skier with one leg, the legendary womanizer... See full summary »

Director: Vojtech Kotek | Stars: Ondrej Pavelka, Marek Taclík, Jakub Prachar, Vilma Cibulková

Votes: 277

75. Stop! Look! and Laugh! (1960)

Approved | 78 min | Comedy

Paul Winchell is trying to tell stories to Knucklehead and Jerry Mahoney who of course are his ventriloquist props. But the Three Stooges keep inserting themselves into his tales giving them a different interpretation.

Directors: Don Appell, Louis Brandt, Jules White | Stars: Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Curly Howard, Paul Winchell

Votes: 304

76. Qi sha jie (1973)

Not Rated | 94 min | Action

A Chinese doctor's assistant fights the morphine-dealing criminals who run a Japanese nightclub.

Director: Chiang Shen | Stars: Tien-Lung Yu, Ching-Ping Wang, Feng Chang, Shao-Chun Chang

Votes: 102

77. Greedy for Everything (1952)

85 min | Comedy

The avaricious Athenian, Fanouris Karababas, forbids his daughter to marry her beloved and behaves cruelly to his wife. But she persuades him that he suffers from a rare disease.

Director: Iasson Vrondakis | Stars: Mimis Fotopoulos, Anna Raftopoulou, Thanasis Tzeneralis, Efi Poly

Votes: 19

78. The Leopard Woman (1920)

68 min | Adventure

An epic of passion, intrigue, and espionage set in the African Jungle.

Director: Wesley Ruggles | Stars: Louise Glaum, House Peters, Noble Johnson, Benny Ayers

Votes: 56

79. bAd (2007)

30 min | Short, Drama, Family

This film puts you inside the head of a dyslexic child trying to get through the 5th grade in the 1970s.

Director: Vincenzo Giammanco | Stars: Remy Thorne, Jennifer Davis, Nancy Cronig, Kyle Dietz

Votes: 61

80. Seein' Red, White 'n' Blue (1943)

7 min | Animation, Short, Comedy

Bluto tries to dodge the draft by fooling Popeye.

Directors: Dan Gordon, James Tyer | Stars: Dave Barry, Jack Mercer

Votes: 175

81. Ogród Luizy (2007)

105 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

A young girl living in her own fantasy world and a gangster on psychiatric observation meet and fall in love in a mental asylum.

Director: Maciej Wojtyszko | Stars: Patrycja Soliman, Marcin Dorocinski, Kinga Preis, Krzysztof Stroinski

Votes: 541

82. Ferdinando, uomo d'amore (1990)

100 min | Drama, Romance

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Director: Memè Perlini | Stars: Alessandra Acciai, Ida Di Benedetto, Marco Leonardi, Memè Perlini

83. Ups and Downs (1937)

Approved | 21 min | Short, Musical, Romance

June Daily, daughter of stockbroker J. C. Daily, is engaged to father's assistant Richard Burton, but is enamored of tap-dancing elevator operator Hal Smith. J.C. has a hot tip on stock for... See full summary »

Director: Roy Mack | Stars: Hal Le Roy, June Allyson, Toni Lane, The Deauville Boys

Votes: 200

84. What a Man! (1944)

Passed | 67 min | Comedy

Henry Burrows, timid, white-collar worker for the firm of Rankin and Phillips, returns to his bachelor apartment to discover Joan Rankin, whom he does not know, hiding there. She feigns ... See full summary »

Director: William Beaudine | Stars: Johnny Downs, Wanda McKay, Robert Kent, Etta McDaniel

Votes: 55

85. How to Hold Your Husband - BACK (1941)

Approved | 9 min | Comedy, Short

In reenactments using actors to portray her husband, Marie Crawford demonstrates the many emotional states wives display to hold their husbands - unintentionally back - under different ... See full summary »

Director: Johnny Hines | Stars: Pete Smith, William Bailey, Vince Barnett, Ken Christy

Votes: 88

86. Oh, Say Can You Sue (1953)

Passed | 16 min | Comedy, Short

Andy is visiting his newly-married friend, and gets the impression that the friend has married Andy's sweetheart, as she is visiting the new bride. The four start chasing each other around ... See full summary »

Director: Jules White | Stars: Andy Clyde, Vernon Dent, Dorothy Granger, Christine McIntyre

87. Will Power (1936)

Approved | 16 min | Comedy, Short

Edgar decides on a plan to get his freeloading slacker of a brother-in-law, who hasn't worked in four years, to get a job by faking a heart attack.

Director: Arthur Ripley | Stars: Edgar Kennedy, Florence Lake, Kitty McHugh, Dot Farley

Votes: 49

88. Lord Babs (1932)

77 min | Musical

A steward inherits the estate of an earl.To repel the advances of an unwanted fiancee, he pretends that he has regressed to childhood behaviors.

Director: Walter Forde | Stars: Bobby Howes, Jean Colin, Pat Paterson, Alfred Drayton

Votes: 14

89. Cleaning House (1938)

Passed | 8 min | Animation, Comedy, Short

Mama has everyone working on spring cleaning, or so she thinks; in fact, everyone's slacking off in various ways. The Captain is the only one to get caught and face her wrath, though. To ... See full summary »

Director: Robert Allen | Stars: Billy Bletcher, Jeanne Dunne, Shirley Reed, Martha Wentworth

Votes: 129

90. Tässä lepää Aino Koski (2007 TV Movie)

60 min | Comedy, Drama

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Director: Marja Pyykkö | Stars: Miina Turunen, Tiia Louste, Juha Muje, Terhi Panula

Votes: 62

91. Hot Shivers (1931)

Passed | 20 min | Short, Comedy

A husband fakes imaginary illnesses to avoid conflicts and troubles. His giddy wife decides to test his love for her by making him jealous.

Director: Mort Blumenstock | Star: Louis Simon

92. Heart Burn (1942)

Approved | 17 min | Comedy, Short

The next-door neighbor of a henpecked husband, Edgar Kennedy, tells Edgar that he controls his wife and family by falling illness. Edgar decides that's just the ticket for him and, on ... See full summary »

Director: Harry D'Arcy | Stars: Edgar Kennedy, Sally Payne, Jack Rice, Dot Farley

93. 26 Men (1957–1959)
Episode: Trouble at Pinnacle Peak (1957)

26 min | Western

A gang of desperadoes cuts a swath of murder and robbery across the whole Arizona Territory, laughing at the Rangers attempts to bring them to heel. Since the gang uses every trick in the ... See full summary »

Director: Reg Browne | Stars: Tristram Coffin, Kelo Henderson, I. Stanford Jolley, Tom Monroe

Votes: 26

94. 7th Heaven (1996–2007)
Episode: Lip Service (2002)

TV-PG | 44 min | Comedy, Drama, Family

Level-headed Robbie is the only one intentionally left home to babysit the twins when the Camdens accept a first dinner invitation at humorist Rabbi Glass's home. Mary beats Lucy to the ... See full summary »

Director: Joel J. Feigenbaum | Stars: Stephen Collins, Catherine Hicks, Barry Watson, David Gallagher

Votes: 68

95. Alias Smith and Jones (1971–1973)
Episode: The Man Who Murdered Himself (1971)

TV-PG | 51 min | Western

Hannibal and Kid Curry get two jobs; one dangerous the other, who knows. Kid loses the coin toss, and is to deliver a wagon-load of high explosives to a mining operation. Hannibal gets to ... See full summary »

Director: Jeffrey Hayden | Stars: Pete Duel, Ben Murphy, Patrick Macnee, Slim Pickens

Votes: 103

96. The Andy Griffith Show (1960–1968)
Episode: Opie's Rival (1962)

TV-G | 26 min | Comedy, Family

Andy's new girlfriend is the new county nurse. Everyone likes her except Opie, who is jealous of all the time Andy spends with her.

Director: Bob Sweeney | Stars: Andy Griffith, Ron Howard, Don Knotts, Frances Bavier

Votes: 328

97. Banacek (1972–1974)
Episode: If Max Is So Smart, Why Doesn't He Tell Us Where He Is? (1973)

TV-PG | 75 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

A rich hypochondriac boils over when her multi-million dollar, custom-designed, diagnostic hospital computer disappears behind its electric fence overnight.

Director: Bernard L. Kowalski | Stars: George Peppard, Christine Belford, Anne Baxter, Richard Jordan

Votes: 168

98. Dennis the Menace (1959–1963)
Episode: Wilson's Little White Lie (1963)

TV-G | 30 min | Comedy, Family

John Wilson pretends to be sick in order to avoid Dennis. However, Dennis is seriously worried by Mr. Wilson's "illness", and spreads the word around town, leading to several concerned visitors.

Director: Charles Barton | Stars: Jay North, Gale Gordon, Herbert Anderson, Gloria Henry

Votes: 31

99. Desperate Housewives (2004–2012)
Episode: We're Gonna Be All Right (2006)

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

After a bad blind date, Susan meets and flirts with a handsome doctor, named Dr. Ron McGreadie, but she takes a wrong approach by feigning a terminal illness. Meanwhile, some old pictures ... See full summary »

Director: David Grossman | Stars: Teri Hatcher, Felicity Huffman, Marcia Cross, Eva Longoria

Votes: 623

100. Drake & Josh (2004–2007)
Episode: Little Sibling (2006)

TV-Y7 | 24 min | Comedy, Family

Drake gets in trouble at school and is assigned to mentor a young boy.

Director: Steve Hoefer | Stars: Josh Peck, Drake Bell, Nancy Sullivan, Jonathan Goldstein

Votes: 289