Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "reference-to-galileo"

1. Django Unchained (2012)

R | 165 min | Comedy, Drama, Western

With the help of a German bounty-hunter, a freed slave sets out to rescue his wife from a brutal plantation owner in Mississippi.

Director: Quentin Tarantino | Stars: Jamie Foxx, Christoph Waltz, Leonardo DiCaprio, Kerry Washington

Votes: 1,700,283 | Gross: $162.81M

2. Angels & Demons (2009)

PG-13 | 138 min | Action, Mystery, Thriller

Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon works with a nuclear physicist to solve a murder and prevent a terrorist act against the Vatican during one of the significant events within the church.

Director: Ron Howard | Stars: Tom Hanks, Ewan McGregor, Ayelet Zurer, Stellan Skarsgård

Votes: 310,124 | Gross: $133.38M

3. The Best Offer (2013)

R | 131 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Virgil Oldman, a wealthy art auctioneer, takes the help of a young artificer, Robert, to understand and woo Claire Ibbetson, a young heiress, who hires him to auction off an antique collection.

Director: Giuseppe Tornatore | Stars: Geoffrey Rush, Jim Sturgess, Sylvia Hoeks, Donald Sutherland

Votes: 128,866 | Gross: $0.09M

4. A Dangerous Method (2011)

R | 99 min | Biography, Drama, Romance

A look at how the intense relationship between Carl Jung and Sigmund Freud gives birth to psychoanalysis.

Director: David Cronenberg | Stars: Michael Fassbender, Keira Knightley, Viggo Mortensen, Vincent Cassel

Votes: 108,491 | Gross: $5.70M

5. Only Lovers Left Alive (2013)

R | 123 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy

A depressed musician reunites with his lover. However, their romance, which has already endured several centuries, is disrupted by the arrival of her uncontrollable younger sister.

Director: Jim Jarmusch | Stars: Tilda Swinton, Tom Hiddleston, Mia Wasikowska, John Hurt

Votes: 108,348 | Gross: $1.88M

6. Europa Report (2013)

PG-13 | 90 min | Adventure, Drama, Mystery

An international crew of astronauts undertakes a privately funded mission to search for life on Jupiter's fourth largest moon.

Director: Sebastián Cordero | Stars: Sharlto Copley, Michael Nyqvist, Christian Camargo, Embeth Davidtz

Votes: 75,667 | Gross: $0.13M

7. Red Lights (2012)

R | 114 min | Drama, Fantasy, Mystery

Psychologist Margaret Matheson and her assistant debunk paranormal activity, which leads them to investigate a world-renowned psychic who has resurfaced after many years out of the limelight following the suspicious death of his toughest critic.

Director: Rodrigo Cortés | Stars: Sigourney Weaver, Robert De Niro, Cillian Murphy, Elizabeth Olsen

Votes: 66,264 | Gross: $0.05M

8. The Man Who Knew Infinity (2015)

PG-13 | 108 min | Biography, Drama

The story of the life and academic career of the pioneer Indian mathematician, Srinivasa Ramanujan, and his friendship with his mentor, Professor G.H. Hardy.

Director: Matt Brown | Stars: Dev Patel, Jeremy Irons, Malcolm Sinclair, Raghuvir Joshi

Votes: 62,312 | Gross: $3.87M

9. Another Earth (2011)

PG-13 | 92 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance

On the night of the discovery of a duplicate Earth in the Solar system, an ambitious young student and an accomplished composer cross paths in a tragic accident.

Director: Mike Cahill | Stars: Brit Marling, William Mapother, Matthew-Lee Erlbach, DJ Flava

Votes: 100,145 | Gross: $1.32M

10. Escape Plan 2: Hades (2018)

R | 96 min | Action, Crime, Mystery

Years after he fought his way out of an inescapable prison, Ray Breslin has organized a new top-notch security force. But when one of his team members goes missing, Breslin must return to the hell he once escaped from.

Director: Steven C. Miller | Stars: Sylvester Stallone, Dave Bautista, Xiaoming Huang, Jesse Metcalfe

Votes: 35,378

11. The Manhattan Project (1986)

PG-13 | 117 min | Sci-Fi, Thriller

A high school prodigy builds an atomic bomb with stolen plutonium to win the 45th National Science Fair and expose a nuclear weapons lab posing as a nuclear medical research facility in Ithaca, NY.

Director: Marshall Brickman | Stars: John Lithgow, Christopher Collet, Richard Council, Robert Schenkkan

Votes: 6,876 | Gross: $3.90M

12. Oh, God! (1977)

PG | 98 min | Comedy, Fantasy

When God appears to an assistant grocery manager as a good natured old man, the Almighty selects him as his messenger for the modern world.

Director: Carl Reiner | Stars: John Denver, George Burns, Teri Garr, Donald Pleasence

Votes: 10,626 | Gross: $41.69M

13. The Lost Weekend (1945)

Passed | 101 min | Drama, Film-Noir

The desperate life of a chronic alcoholic is followed through a four-day drinking bout.

Director: Billy Wilder | Stars: Ray Milland, Jane Wyman, Phillip Terry, Howard Da Silva

Votes: 40,282 | Gross: $9.46M

14. Bedazzled (1967)

Approved | 103 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Romance

A hapless loser sells his soul to the Devil in exchange for seven wishes, but has trouble winning over the girl of his dreams.

Director: Stanley Donen | Stars: Peter Cook, Dudley Moore, Eleanor Bron, Raquel Welch

Votes: 9,839

15. Religulous (2008)

R | 101 min | Documentary, Comedy, War

Bill Maher's take on the current state of world religion.

Director: Larry Charles | Stars: Bill Maher, Tal Bachman, Jonathan Boulden, Steven Burg

Votes: 60,270 | Gross: $13.00M

16. Down a Dark Hall (2018)

PG-13 | 96 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror

A troubled teen named Kit Gordy is forced to join the exclusive Blackwood Boarding School, just to find herself trapped by dark forces around its mysterious headmistress, Madame Duret.

Director: Rodrigo Cortés | Stars: AnnaSophia Robb, Uma Thurman, Isabelle Fuhrman, Victoria Moroles

Votes: 14,935

17. Operation Avalanche (2016)

R | 94 min | Comedy, Drama, Mystery

In 1967, four undercover CIA agents were sent to NASA posing as a documentary film crew. What they discovered led to one of the biggest conspiracies in American history.

Director: Matt Johnson | Stars: Matt Johnson, Owen Williams, Andrew Appelle, Jared Raab

Votes: 7,984 | Gross: $0.06M

18. The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms (1953)

Approved | 80 min | Horror, Sci-Fi

A ferocious dinosaur awakened by an Arctic atomic test terrorizes the North Atlantic and, ultimately, New York City.

Director: Eugène Lourié | Stars: Paul Hubschmid, Paula Raymond, Cecil Kellaway, Kenneth Tobey

Votes: 8,753 | Gross: $5.00M

19. An Enemy of the People (1978)

G | 103 min | Drama

A scientist stands against an entire town when he discovers their medicinal spa is polluted.

Director: George Schaefer | Stars: Steve McQueen, Bibi Andersson, Charles Durning, Richard Dysart

Votes: 1,531

20. The Land Unknown (1957)

Passed | 78 min | Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi

Three men and a woman crash-land in a deep crater in Antarctica, where they find a prehistoric world.

Director: Virgil W. Vogel | Stars: Jock Mahoney, Shirley Patterson, William Reynolds, Henry Brandon

Votes: 2,056

21. Giacomo Casanova: Childhood and Adolescence (1969)

123 min | Biography, Comedy, History

Through the childhood and adolescence of Signor Giacomo Casanova (from his memoirs), this is a description of how people lived in 18th-century Venice: their customs, habits, medicine, ... See full summary »

Director: Luigi Comencini | Stars: Leonard Whiting, Maria Grazia Buccella, Lionel Stander, Raoul Grassilli

Votes: 463

22. Queen: Bohemian Rhapsody (1975 Music Video)

6 min | Short, Music

"Bohemian Rhapsody" is widely considered to be one of the best songs of all time and defined Queen's career. In this groundbreaking music video, the band perform their hit with a bunch of lights and colors.

Director: Bruce Gowers | Stars: Queen, John Deacon, Brian May, Freddie Mercury

Votes: 2,197

23. Madame Curie (1943)

Passed | 124 min | Biography, Drama, Romance

Despite himself, accomplished physicist and avowed bachelor Pierre Curie falls for brilliant student Marie, and together they embark on the discovery of radium.

Directors: Mervyn LeRoy, Albert Lewin | Stars: Greer Garson, Walter Pidgeon, Henry Travers, Albert Bassermann

Votes: 3,197

24. Ticket to Heaven (1981)

PG | 108 min | Drama

David is a young man seduced by a religious cult that uses starvation, exhaustion, and brainwashing to mold recruits into money hustling disciples of a messiah-like leader. Chronicles ... See full summary »

Director: Ralph L. Thomas | Stars: Nick Mancuso, Saul Rubinek, Meg Foster, Kim Cattrall

Votes: 872

25. Man Made Monster (1941)

Passed | 59 min | Drama, Horror, Romance

A mad scientist turns a man into an electrically-controlled monster to do his bidding.

Director: George Waggner | Stars: Lionel Atwill, Lon Chaney Jr., Anne Nagel, Frank Albertson

Votes: 1,885

26. The Dust Factory (2004)

PG | 99 min | Drama, Family, Fantasy

The Dust Factory is an adventure about the love and friendship between two teenagers who help each other through a difficult time in their lives.

Director: Eric Small | Stars: Hayden Panettiere, Ryan Kelley, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Kim Myers

Votes: 1,723 | Gross: $0.01M

27. The Invisible Man's Revenge (1944)

Unrated | 78 min | Crime, Horror, Mystery

An eccentric scientist helps a fugitive from the law become invisible, unwittingly giving him the power to exact revenge on his former friends.

Director: Ford Beebe | Stars: Jon Hall, Evelyn Ankers, Alan Curtis, Leon Errol

Votes: 2,750 | Gross: $1.67M

28. Hawking (2013)

TV-PG | 86 min | Documentary, Biography, Comedy

Hawking is the extraordinary story of the planet's most famous living scientist, told for the first time in his own words and by those closest to him. Made with unique access to Hawking's ... See full summary »

Director: Stephen Finnigan | Stars: Stephen Hawking, Arthur Pelling, Finlay Macrae, Nathan Chapple

Votes: 1,716

29. Is the Man Who Is Tall Happy? (2013)

Not Rated | 88 min | Documentary, Animation, Biography

A series of interviews featuring linguist, philosopher and activist Noam Chomsky done in hand-drawn animation.

Director: Michel Gondry | Stars: Noam Chomsky, Michel Gondry, Richard Feynman, Michèle Oshima

Votes: 3,685 | Gross: $0.13M

30. Till Human Voices Wake Us (2002)

R | 101 min | Drama, Romance

A man returns to Victoria, Australia, where he grew up, and encounters a mysterious woman who reminds him of someone he once knew.

Director: Michael Petroni | Stars: Guy Pearce, Helena Bonham Carter, Peter Curtin, Frank Gallacher

Votes: 2,484 | Gross: $0.12M

31. Hackers Wanted (2009)

Not Rated | 86 min | Documentary, Crime

This film both follows the hacking adventures of famous hacker Adrian Lamo, and uses them as a microcosm for the macrocosm of struggles faced by emerging trends of thought - from the criminal to the philosophical.

Director: Samuel Vartek | Stars: John Arquilla, Craig Calef, John Draper, Frank Harrel

Votes: 196

32. Gravity and Me: The Force That Shapes Our Lives (2017– )

PG-13 | 90 min | Documentary

Professor Jim Al-Khalili investigates the science of gravity, recreating ground-breaking scientific experiments including the moment when Galileo first discovered how to measure gravity.

Stars: Jim Al-Khalili, Vicki Smith, Graham Appleby, Chris Hadfield

Votes: 275

33. Salut l'artiste (1973)

96 min | Comedy, Drama

Nicolas is an actor who only manages to get small roles in films, theatre and commericals. His domestic life does not fare much better as his mistress leaves him and he tries to return to his wife who is pregnant by another man.

Director: Yves Robert | Stars: Marcello Mastroianni, Françoise Fabian, Jean Rochefort, Evelyne Buyle

Votes: 318

34. The Farewell (2000)

97 min | Biography, Comedy, Drama

It is one of the last days of an exceptionally hot summer in 1956. Bertolt Brecht (Bierbichler) is about to leave his lakeside house among the tall birches in Brandenburg to return to ... See full summary »

Director: Jan Schütte | Stars: Josef Bierbichler, Monica Bleibtreu, Jeanette Hain, Elfriede Irrall

Votes: 197 | Gross: $0.01M

35. Joe and Caspar Hit the Road (2015)

Not Rated | 89 min | Documentary, Adventure, Comedy

YouTube personalities Joe Sugg and Caspar Lee go on a road trip driving all around Europe.

Director: Brian Klein | Stars: Joe Sugg, Caspar Lee, Greta Menchi, Oli White

Votes: 640

36. Monkey's Playtime (1978)

87 min | Comedy, Fantasy

The fisherman Fuksa fishes in the creek an old bottle and he sells it to innkeeper Merta. When Merta opens it, a genie appears, who can fulfill all his wishes.

Director: Milan Muchna | Stars: Josef Kemr, Josef Vinklár, Vladimír Dlouhý, Otakar Brousek

Votes: 88

37. War on Whistleblowers: Free Press and the National Security State (2013)

Not Rated | 67 min | Documentary

War on Whistleblowers: Free Press and the National Security State highlights four cases where whistleblowers noticed government wrong-doing and took to the media to expose the fraud and abuse.

Director: Robert Greenwald | Stars: Daniel Ellsberg, Franz Gayl, Seymour Hersh, David Carr

Votes: 216

38. Jim Carrey: Stop Apologizing! We Must Say YES to Socialism! (2018 Video)

Short, News

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Star: Stefan Molyneux

39. The Postmodernism Debate (2017 Video)

115 min | Talk-Show

Stefan Molyneux and the scholar and podcaster Thaddeus Russell debate on the subject of postmodernism.

Stars: Thaddeus Russell, Stefan Molyneux

40. The Mystery of the Vitruvian Man (2010 Video)

21 min | Documentary, Short, History

A fascinating journey to discover the Vitruvian Man with exclusive footage of the original drawing, guided by the best experts in the world regarding Leonardo da Vinci.

Director: Andrea Pasquettin | Stars: Fritjof Capra, Martin Kemp, Stefano Maso, Romano Nanni

Votes: 21

41. The History of the English Language: Second Edition (2008 Video)

Documentary

Professor Seth Lerer lectures on the history of the English language, from its earliest roots to its modern forms, and includes lively commentary on American English.

Star: Seth Lerer

Votes: 7

42. LSD Feat. Sia, Diplo, Labrinth: Genius (2018 Music Video)

4 min | Animation, Music

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Director: Ben Jones

Votes: 33

43. Pavel Callta: Nedotknutelní (2019 Music Video)

3 min | Music

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Director: Jarek Atry | Stars: Pavel Calta, Beha Nguyen

Votes: 17

44. The Magical World of Disney (1954–1997)
Episode: Mars and Beyond (1957)

Unrated | 53 min | Adventure, Drama, Family

With help of technical advisers Dr. Wernher von Braun, Dr. Ernst Stuhlinger, and Dr. E. C. Slipher. Walt presents a humorous look at what man might find on Mars, with predictions for exploration of the planet with an atomic spaceship.

Director: Ward Kimball | Stars: Paul Frees, Walt Disney, Clarence Nash, E.C. Slipher

Votes: 282

45. The Critic (1994–2001)
Episode: L.A. Jay (1994)

TV-14 | 23 min | Animation, Comedy, Drama

After writing a screenplay, Jay takes leave from his job and moves to Hollywood, where he is hired to write a sequel to a movie he hated.

Directors: Bret Haaland, Gregg Vanzo | Stars: Jon Lovitz, Nancy Cartwright, Christine Cavanaugh, Gerrit Graham

Votes: 128

46. Highlander (1992–1998)
Episode: The Road Not Taken (1992)

TV-14 | 49 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy

A friend of Richie's dies suddenly after being captured during a diamond heist. The police believe it to be a drug overdose, but Richie insists his friend would never have done drugs. ... See full summary »

Director: Thomas J. Wright | Stars: Adrian Paul, Alexandra Vandernoot, Stan Kirsch, Soon-Tek Oh

Votes: 286

47. I Dream of Jeannie (1965–1970)
Episode: Whatever Became of Baby Custer? (1965)

TV-G | 25 min | Comedy, Family, Fantasy

A neighborhood boy sees Jeannie performing her magic and tells Doctor Bellows.

Director: Gene Nelson | Stars: Barbara Eden, Larry Hagman, Hayden Rorke, Herb Voland

Votes: 248

48. Millennium (1996–1999)
Episode: Roosters (1998)

TV-14 | 60 min | Crime, Drama, Horror

As the schism between the two Millennium Group factions deepens, Frank, with the help of Lara Means and the hermit, discovers the existence of a secret third player in this power struggle, who targets them.

Director: Thomas J. Wright | Stars: Lance Henriksen, Megan Gallagher, Terry O'Quinn, Stephen J. Lang

Votes: 313

49. Star Trek (1966–1969)
Episode: Requiem for Methuselah (1969)

TV-PG | 51 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

On a planet, looking for an urgent medicinal cure, Kirk, Spock and McCoy come across a dignified recluse living privately but in splendor with his sheltered ward and a very protective robot servant.

Director: Murray Golden | Stars: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, James Daly

Votes: 3,262

50. Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987–1994)
Episode: The Nth Degree (1991)

TV-PG | 45 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

When assigned to investigate an unknown probe, Lt. Barclay is hit by an energy surge, through a shuttlecraft's computer, and he receives an inexplicable boost of confidence and a vast increase in his knowledge.

Director: Robert Legato | Stars: Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, LeVar Burton, Michael Dorn

Votes: 3,563