Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "fictitious-country"

1. The Pink Panther (1963)

Approved | 115 min | Comedy, Crime, Romance

The bumbling Inspector Clouseau travels to Rome to catch a notorious jewel thief known as "The Phantom" before he conducts his most daring heist yet: a princess' priceless diamond with one slight imperfection, known as "The Pink Panther".

Director: Blake Edwards | Stars: David Niven, Peter Sellers, Robert Wagner, Capucine

Votes: 56,651 | Gross: $10.88M

2. The Ugly American (1963)

Approved | 120 min | Adventure, Drama, Thriller

An ambitious American scholar becomes the ambassador to Sarkan, a southeast Asian country where civil war is brewing.

Director: George Englund | Stars: Marlon Brando, Eiji Okada, Sandra Church, Pat Hingle

Votes: 2,452

3. The Great Dictator (1940)

G | 125 min | Comedy, Drama, War

Dictator Adenoid Hynkel tries to expand his empire while a poor Jewish barber tries to avoid persecution from Hynkel's regime.

Director: Charles Chaplin | Stars: Charles Chaplin, Paulette Goddard, Jack Oakie, Reginald Gardiner

Votes: 237,318 | Gross: $0.29M

4. Lupin III: The Castle of Cagliostro (1979)

102 min | Animation, Action, Adventure

A dashing thief, his gang of desperadoes and an intrepid cop struggle to free a princess from an evil count, and learn the secret of a treasure that she holds part of the key to.

Director: Hayao Miyazaki | Stars: Yasuo Yamada, Eiko Masuyama, Kiyoshi Kobayashi, Makio Inoue

Votes: 33,561

5. The Lady Vanishes (1938)

Not Rated | 96 min | Mystery, Thriller

While travelling in continental Europe, a rich young playgirl realizes that an elderly lady seems to have disappeared from the train.

Director: Alfred Hitchcock | Stars: Margaret Lockwood, Michael Redgrave, Paul Lukas, May Whitty

Votes: 57,143

6. DuckTales (1987–1990)

TV-G | 23 min | Animation, Action, Adventure

Huey, Dewey, and Louie are in for an epic surprise when they meet their wealthy but reclusive uncle, Scrooge McDuck. The family embark on globe-trotting adventures and treasure hunts, uncover family secrets, and face dangerous enemies.

Stars: Alan Young, Russi Taylor, Terence McGovern, Chuck McCann

Votes: 35,004

7. The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972)

PG | 102 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy

A surreal, virtually plotless series of dreams centered around six middle-class people and their consistently interrupted attempts to have a meal together.

Director: Luis Buñuel | Stars: Fernando Rey, Delphine Seyrig, Paul Frankeur, Bulle Ogier

Votes: 46,822 | Gross: $0.20M

8. Bananas (1971)

PG-13 | 82 min | Comedy

When a bumbling New Yorker is dumped by his activist girlfriend, he travels to a tiny Latin American nation and becomes involved in its latest rebellion.

Director: Woody Allen | Stars: Woody Allen, Louise Lasser, Carlos Montalbán, Nati Abascal

Votes: 37,792 | Gross: $11.80M

9. 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: 8,474 | Gross: $7.20M

10. The Wizard of Oz (1925)

TV-G | 95 min | Comedy, Family, Fantasy

Dorothy, heir to the Oz throne, must take it back from the wicked Prime Minister Kruel with the help of three farmhands.

Director: Larry Semon | Stars: Dorothy Dwan, Charles Murray, Oliver Hardy, Mary Carr

Votes: 1,749

11. The Mouse That Roared (1959)

Approved | 83 min | Comedy

An impoverished backward nation declares a war on the United States of America, hoping to lose, but things don't go according to plan.

Director: Jack Arnold | Stars: Peter Sellers, Jean Seberg, William Hartnell, David Kossoff

Votes: 9,456

12. Moon Over Parador (1988)

PG-13 | 103 min | Comedy, Romance

A U.S. actor gets a gig in South American Parador. When the dictator dies, he's forced to play him for real and gets his mistress. Can they change Parador?

Director: Paul Mazursky | Stars: Richard Dreyfuss, Raul Julia, Sonia Braga, Jonathan Winters

Votes: 6,743 | Gross: $11.44M

13. What's Up, Tiger Lily? (1966)

PG | 80 min | Adventure, Comedy, Crime

A Japanese James Bond -esque spy flick reused and redubbed into the plot of a secret agent searching to uncover a recipe for the world's greatest egg salad in Woody Allen's directorial debut.

Directors: Woody Allen, Senkichi Taniguchi | Stars: Woody Allen, The Lovin' Spoonful, Frank Buxton, Louise Lasser

Votes: 9,994

14. A Good Man in Africa (1994)

R | 94 min | Comedy

In a West African nation, the womanizing British 1st Secretary of the High Commissioner deals with different issues.

Director: Bruce Beresford | Stars: Colin Friels, Sean Connery, Joanne Whalley, John Lithgow

Votes: 2,718 | Gross: $2.31M

15. I Like Your Nerve (1931)

Passed | 70 min | Comedy, Romance

Young man (Douglas Fairbanks Jr.) attempts to break up an engagement between a woman (Loretta Young) and an older man (Edmund Breon).

Director: William C. McGann | Stars: Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Loretta Young, Henry Kolker, Claud Allister

Votes: 318

16. The Devil Came from Akasava (1971)

84 min | Adventure, Thriller

A mineral is discovered which can turn metal to gold or humans into zombies. When the mineral is stolen, secret agents are sent in to get the mineral back!

Director: Jesús Franco | Stars: Fred Williams, Soledad Miranda, Horst Tappert, Ewa Strömberg

Votes: 722

17. Hinter Gittern - Der Frauenknast (1997–2010)

48 min | Crime, Drama

Drama set in a women's prison in Germany.

Stars: Katy Karrenbauer, Barbara Freier, Uta Prelle, Christine Schuberth

Votes: 345

18. Don't Drink the Water (1969)

G | 100 min | Comedy

The Hollander family's European vacation is interrupted when their plane is forced to land in Vulgaria. The Hollanders leave the plane to take pictures which results in accusations of ... See full summary »

Director: Howard Morris | Stars: Jackie Gleason, Estelle Parsons, Ted Bessell, Joan Delaney

Votes: 975

19. Entranced Earth (1967)

111 min | Drama

In the fictional Latin American country Eldorado, a poet tries to effect political change by influencing powerful men.

Director: Glauber Rocha | Stars: Jardel Filho, Paulo Autran, José Lewgoy, Glauce Rocha

Votes: 3,579

20. Princess cursed in Time (2020)

115 min | Adventure, Comedy, Family

Princess Ellena whom awakes to the same day over and over has to overcome an old spell which threatens to destroy the kingdom and defeat the evil witch.

Director: Petr Kubik | Stars: Natalia Germani, Marek Lambora, Eliska Krenková, Jan Révai

Votes: 438

21. Queen Kelly (1932)

Passed | 101 min | Drama

A convent girl is abducted and seduced by a prince before being sent off to a brothel in East Africa.

Directors: Erich von Stroheim, Richard Boleslawski | Stars: Gloria Swanson, Walter Byron, Seena Owen, Sylvia Ashton

Votes: 3,363

22. Supercondriaque (2014)

G | 107 min | Comedy

Fanatical need for cleanliness of a raging hypochondriac is severe tested when he is mistaken for a war hero preparing for revolution.

Director: Dany Boon | Stars: Dany Boon, Kad Merad, Alice Pol, Jean-Yves Berteloot

Votes: 9,260

23. Care Bears: Adventures in Care-A-Lot (2007–2009)

TV-Y | 30 min | Animation, Family

CARE BEARS: ADVENTURES IN CARE-A-LOT focuses on the colorful bears' escapades and highlights how each one shares his or her unique way of caring with friends. Each Care Bear relies on his ... See full summary »

Stars: Tracey Moore, Tabitha St. Germain, Ian James Corlett, Scott McNeil

Votes: 176

24. The Mouse on the Moon (1963)

Approved | 82 min | Comedy, Romance, Sci-Fi

A tiny country persuades the Americans and Soviets that they're starting a space program, when they really just want some money for new plumbing.

Director: Richard Lester | Stars: Margaret Rutherford, Ron Moody, Bernard Cribbins, David Kossoff

Votes: 1,920

25. Where the Spies Are (1965)

Approved | 110 min | Adventure, Comedy

A local doctor is recruited as a cold war spy to fulfill a very important secret mission in the Middle East, only to experience that his mission is complicated by a sexy female double agent.

Director: Val Guest | Stars: David Niven, Françoise Dorléac, John Le Mesurier, Cyril Cusack

Votes: 906

26. The French Minister (2013)

Not Rated | 113 min | Comedy

A young speechwriter working in the French Foreign Ministry learns the impure nature of the political world.

Director: Bertrand Tavernier | Stars: Thierry Lhermitte, Raphaël Personnaz, Niels Arestrup, Bruno Raffaelli

Votes: 3,939 | Gross: $0.00M

27. There Was Once a King... (1955)

107 min | Comedy, Family, Fantasy

A story about a king who out of three daughters preferred two: the most beautiful and the most cheerful, and the most intelligent, and even able to cook well, he kicked out, which he later bitterly regretted.

Director: Borivoj Zeman | Stars: Jan Werich, Vlasta Burian, Irena Kacírková, Stella Májová

Votes: 1,308

28. Why Worry? (1923)

TV-G | 63 min | Adventure, Comedy, Family

A hypochondriac vacations in the tropics for the fresh air - and finds himself in the middle of a revolution instead.

Directors: Fred C. Newmeyer, Sam Taylor | Stars: Harold Lloyd, Jobyna Ralston, John Aasen, Wally Howe

Votes: 2,057 | Gross: $0.45M

29. Club Las Piranjas (1995 TV Movie)

89 min | Comedy

Karl-Heinz, a filling-station attendant, and his family, Herta, a retiree, Kurt, a drugstore branch manager, and Margot, a divorced man-hunter, have only one thing in common: they have ... See full summary »

Director: Ulli Baumann | Stars: Hape Kerkeling, Angelika Milster, Judy Winter, Michael Brandner

Votes: 694

30. The Quest (1982)

60 min | Adventure, Comedy, Family

The sovereign state of Glendorra has a problem. It seems that through an old agreement with France, unless there's a monarch, the country would revert to France. And the king has no heirs. ... See full summary »

Stars: Perry King, Noah Beery Jr., Ray Vitte, Karen Austin

Votes: 39

31. Esupai (1974)

87 min | Action, Adventure, Mystery

A bad ESP syndicate is planning to kill world leaders through mental telepathy. The good guys are a top secret group called ESPY and they're in charge of stopping the killer psychics.

Director: Jun Fukuda | Stars: Hiroshi Fujioka, Kaoru Yumi, Masao Kusakari, Yûzô Kayama

Votes: 153

32. Morgan Pålsson - Världsreporter (2008)

84 min | Comedy

Bumbling TV journalist find himself reporting from a coup d'etat in Africa.

Director: Fredrik Boklund | Stars: Anders Jansson, Johan Wester, Karim Rasheed, Suzanne Reuter

Votes: 2,270

33. A Sailor-Made Man (1921)

Passed | 47 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy

An idle, wealthy playboy foolishly joins the Navy when the father of the girl he wants to marry tells him to get a job to prove himself worthy.

Director: Fred C. Newmeyer | Stars: Harold Lloyd, Mildred Davis, Noah Young, Dick Sutherland

Votes: 1,250

34. Ambassador Bill (1931)

Passed | 70 min | Comedy

An American ambassador arrives in a small country that is being convulsed by political intrigue and civil unrest. He befriends the young boy who is to be the country's king, to ensure that ... See full summary »

Director: Sam Taylor | Stars: Will Rogers, Marguerite Churchill, Greta Nissen, Tad Alexander

Votes: 180

35. Que Rei Sou Eu? (1989– )

Adventure, Comedy

In a fictitious land, the king, dies leaving the throne to a bastard heir whose identity nobody knows. The widow queen's allies take the chance to seize power.

Stars: Soraya Ravenle, Monique Lafond, Hilda Rebello, Stênio Garcia

Votes: 169

36. TV Pirata (1988–1992)

Comedy

Brazilian sketch comedy show, parodying contemporary culture, TV shows and politics in a no-nonsense and oftentimes politically incorrect humor, performed by a cast of 10 repertory members.

Stars: Regina Casé, Cláudia Raia, Marco Nanini, Débora Bloch

Votes: 250

37. Blind Target (2000)

90 min | Adventure, Thriller, Action

Blind Target is the story of a young woman who emigrated from the poor tiny Latin American country of San Hermoso only to strike it rich and famous as an author in the United States. When ... See full summary »

Director: Jesús Franco | Stars: Rachel Sheppard, Tatiana Cohen, Lina Romay, Roger Pavlovich

Votes: 263

38. Casseta & Planeta Urgente (1992–2012)

30 min | Comedy

A weekly magazine where recent news and events were reported in a parodic way. In later years skits were more common, always comically criticizing the current times.

Stars: Marcelo Madureira, Beto Silva, Hélio de la Peña, Hubert Aranha

Votes: 287

39. The Proud Princess

Animation, Comedy, Family | Filming

The black-and-white fairy tale The Proud Princess was one of the most viewed films in the Czech cinema of all times. Punished pride is one of the most beautiful fairy tales by Bozena ... See full summary »

Director: Radek Beran

40. Kubanacan (2003–2004)

45 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama

In a Caribbean republic plagued by corruption and dictatorship, a man with amnesia is found ashore. Pursued and chased, he fights to uncover his mysterious past.

Stars: Marcos Pasquim, Adriana Esteves, Vladimir Brichta, Danielle Winits

Votes: 279

41. Long Live the King (1923)

104 min | Drama

Crown Prince Otto of Livonia, wishing to be like an ordinary little boy, runs away with Bobby, an American playmate. The king dies, and when the prince does not appear, the people begin to ... See full summary »

Director: Victor Schertzinger | Stars: Jackie Coogan, Rosemary Theby, Ruth Renick, Vera Lewis

Votes: 24

42. Pták Ohnivák (1997)

86 min | Adventure, Family, Fantasy

The sick King Jorgen worries about the marriage of his daughter Elena. The fairytale-like, dramatic confusion triggers a shimmering golden fire bird with its wondrous song every full moon ... See full summary »

Director: Václav Vorlícek | Stars: Tina Ruland, Manou Lubowski, Ondrej Brousek, Horst Buchholz

Votes: 154

43. Jak si nevzít princeznu (2021 TV Movie)

91 min | Comedy, Family, Fantasy

Three Fates come to the castle to predict the fate of little Prince Leopold. On the way they stop at the commander of the guards, who has also just had a son. His prediction is not very ... See full summary »

Director: Karel Janák | Stars: Marek Adamczyk, Anna Fialová, Iva Janzurová, Daniela Kolárová

Votes: 152

44. Das Zauberbuch (1996)

80 min | Comedy, Family, Fantasy

An evil witch is trying to steal a magic purse possessed by the local ruler. Thanks to Princess Blanka's love, Prince Petr wins out over the witch.

Director: Václav Vorlícek | Stars: Mahulena Bocanová, Tina Ruland, Rudolf Hrusínský, Sasa Rasilov

Votes: 193

45. Skeleton on Horseback (1937)

78 min | Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi

"The White Sickness", a leprosy-like disease, ravages the world during a war.

Director: Hugo Haas | Stars: Hugo Haas, Bedrich Karen, Zdenek Stepánek, Václav Vydra

Votes: 382

46. Jak si zaslouzit princeznu (1995)

72 min | Family, Fantasy

A fairy tale of three brothers (Pavel Reznícek, Jirí Langmajer and Karel Dobrý) hatched from eggs who try to save a princess (Lada Jelínková) kidnapped by an evil wizard (Jaromír Dulava).

Director: Jan Schmidt | Stars: Lenka Jelínková, Simona Vrbická, Pavel Reznícek, Jaromír Dulava

Votes: 96

47. A Wizard Called Rye (2018 TV Movie)

104 min | Comedy, Family, Fantasy

The fairy tale tells the story of an orphan, Zito, whose life since birth has brought him many injustices, but only until the widowed devil Filistýna falls in love with him. She enables him... See full summary »

Director: Zdenek Zelenka | Stars: Denis Safarík, Anna Kaderávková, Pavel Kríz, Tatiana Dyková

Votes: 102

48. Rarg (1988)

30 min | Animation, Short, Fantasy

The inhabitants of the strange and wonderful land of Rarg discover their world is no more than just the dream of a man.

Director: Tony Collingwood | Stars: Nigel Hawthorne, Michael Gough, Ronnie Stevens, Anne Jameson

Votes: 178

49. Princ Mamánek (2022)

Comedy, Family, Fantasy

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Director: Jan Budar | Stars: Borek Belfin, Bolek Polívka, Adam Halas, Jan Sevecek

Votes: 106

50. Prisoner of Zenda (1988)

49 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy

The King of Ruritania is kidnapped by his scheming brother: can his British double save him?

Stars: Christine Amor, Robert Coleby, Claire Crowther, John Fitzgerald

Votes: 76