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

51. Evilenko (2003)

Not Rated | 111 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

A disgraced communist schoolteacher in Kyiv becomes a brutal, unfeeling serial killer. Based on the crimes of Andrei Chikatilo.

Director: David Grieco | Stars: Malcolm McDowell, Marton Csokas, Ronald Pickup, Ruby Kammer

Votes: 3,549

52. Alleged (2010)

Not Rated | 94 min | Drama, History, Romance

When a teacher is arrested in Tennessee for trying to teach evolution in 1925, a young ambitious reporter must choose whether to take advice from his sweetheart or the notorious columnist when it comes to his approach to the story.

Director: Tom Hines | Stars: Nathan West, Colm Meaney, Ashley Johnson, Brian Dennehy

Votes: 306

53. To Be and to Have (2002)

Not Rated | 104 min | Documentary, Family

A documentary portrait of a one-room school in rural France, where the students (ranging in age from 4 to 11) are educated by a single dedicated teacher.

Director: Nicolas Philibert | Stars: Georges Lopez, Alizé, Axel Thouvenin, Guillaume

Votes: 8,429 | Gross: $0.78M

54. Theodora Goes Wild (1936)

Passed | 94 min | Comedy, Mystery, Romance

The author of a controversially racy best-selling book tries to hide her celebrity status from her provincial small-town neighbors, who would be scandalized if they knew.

Director: Richard Boleslawski | Stars: Irene Dunne, Melvyn Douglas, Thomas Mitchell, Thurston Hall

Votes: 2,962

55. The Year I Became a Liar (2009)

Not Rated | 102 min | Comedy, Drama, Family

Filmmaker Ricardo Trogi recalls the events surrounding his family moving to a new neighborhood when he was 11 years old.

Director: Ricardo Trogi | Stars: Jean-Carl Boucher, Claudio Colangelo, Sandrine Bisson, Gabriel Maillé

Votes: 2,048

56. The Act of Seeing with One's Own Eyes (1971)

Not Rated | 32 min | Documentary, Short, Horror

At a morgue, forensic pathologists conduct autopsies of the corpses assigned.

Director: Stan Brakhage

Votes: 1,669

57. Let Joy Reign Supreme (1975)

Not Rated | 119 min | Drama, History, War

A look at 18th-century France, when the authorities depravity contributed to social oppression, and the uprisings flared up one after another.

Director: Bertrand Tavernier | Stars: Philippe Noiret, Jean Rochefort, Jean-Pierre Marielle, Christine Pascal

Votes: 1,762

58. How I Ended This Summer (2010)

Not Rated | 130 min | Drama

One place. One day. Two men. The place is a polar research station on an island in the Arctic Ocean, inhabited now only by Sergei and Pavel. One day when Sergei is out angling, Pavel picks up a radio message that he daren't communicate.

Director: Alexei Popogrebsky | Stars: Grigoriy Dobrygin, Sergey Puskepalis, Igor Chernevich, Artyom Tsukanov

Votes: 7,005 | Gross: $0.01M

59. Johnny Dark (1954)

85 min | Action, Drama, Romance

Automobile engineer Johnny Dark designs a radical new car. After the owner refuses to sponsor the car in a Canada to Mexico sports-car race, Johnny, with the aid of the owner's ... See full summary »

Director: George Sherman | Stars: Tony Curtis, Piper Laurie, Don Taylor, Paul Kelly

Votes: 449

60. Arise, My Love (1940)

Passed | 110 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

A dashing pilot and a vivacious reporter have romantic and dramatic adventures in Europe as World War II begins.

Director: Mitchell Leisen | Stars: Claudette Colbert, Ray Milland, Dennis O'Keefe, Walter Abel

Votes: 1,044

61. Promise Her Anything (1966)

Not Rated | 98 min | Comedy, Romance

A young lady has been widowed and left with a baby son to bring up alone. She decides that the baby needs a father figure and decides to marry a psychologist. She hides her son with an ... See full summary »

Director: Arthur Hiller | Stars: Warren Beatty, Leslie Caron, Robert Cummings, Keenan Wynn

Votes: 622

62. The Fearmakers (1958)

Approved | 85 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

A Korean War veteran returns to Washington D.C. only to discover his business partner had died and their public-research business sold, so he works there undercover to find out the truth.

Director: Jacques Tourneur | Stars: Dana Andrews, Dick Foran, Marilee Earle, Veda Ann Borg

Votes: 852

63. Midnight's Child (1992 TV Movie)

Unrated | 89 min | Horror, Thriller

Kate and her artist husband are busy working parents. Everything seems to be going fine, going about their daily lives. Then, Anna, the Swedish nanny that Kate hired to care for their ... See full summary »

Director: Colin Bucksey | Stars: Marcy Walker, Cotter Smith, Olivia d'Abo, Elisabeth Moss

Votes: 349

64. How Not to Rescue a Princess (2010)

Not Rated | 75 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy

The 3 heroes are united to rescue the Prince of Kiev from the evil queen, who tries to regain her youth and beauty by means of magic.

Director: Sergei Glezin | Stars: Dmitriy Bykovskiy-Romashov, Valeriy Solovyov, Oleg Kulikovich, Sergey Makovetskiy

Votes: 2,065

65. Day-Time Wife (1939)

Passed | 72 min | Comedy, Romance

After a young wife discovers her husband of two years is involved with his beautiful secretary, she applies for a job as secretary to a business rival.

Director: Gregory Ratoff | Stars: Tyrone Power, Linda Darnell, Warren William, Binnie Barnes

Votes: 795

66. Mister Twister: Class of Fun (2012)

80 min | Comedy, Family

Class of Fun is the hilariously funny family film chronicling the misadventures of a young intern teacher at an elementary school.

Director: Barbara Bredero | Stars: Felix Osinga, Brent Thomassen, Sanne Wallis de Vries, Willem Voogd

Votes: 912

67. The Spectator (2004)

98 min | Drama

Valeria is a 26-yr-old inhibited and solitary girl. She lives in Turin, Italy, where she works as a simultaneous translator. There are no romantic relationships in her life, but she allows ... See full summary »

Director: Paolo Franchi | Stars: Barbora Bobulova, Andrea Renzi, Brigitte Catillon, Chiara Picchi

Votes: 500

68. Bewitched (1945)

Passed | 65 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

A young woman has two distinct personalities, one of whom is evil and constantly gets her in trouble.

Director: Arch Oboler | Stars: Edmund Gwenn, Phyllis Thaxter, Henry H. Daniels Jr., Addison Richards

Votes: 676

69. Le président (1961)

110 min | Drama, Thriller

At 73, France's ex-president, Emile Beaufort, faces declining health, but he still plays a vigorous role behind the scenes as a philosopher and, potentially, as a power broker. In ... See full summary »

Director: Henri Verneuil | Stars: Jean Gabin, Bernard Blier, Renée Faure, Henri Crémieux

Votes: 1,075

70. Little Tony (1998)

95 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

The wife of an illiterate farmer hires a beautiful woman to teach him how to read and write.

Director: Alex van Warmerdam | Stars: Alex van Warmerdam, Annet Malherbe, Ariane Schluter, Sebastiaan te Wierik

Votes: 1,118

71. The Empty Mirror (1996)

PG-13 | 118 min | Drama, History, War

Adolf Hitler faces himself and must come to terms with his infamous career in an imaginary post-war subterranean bunker where he reviews historical films, dictates his memoirs and ... See full summary »

Director: Barry J. Hershey | Stars: Norman Rodway, Camilla Søeberg, Peter Michael Goetz, Doug McKeon

Votes: 354 | Gross: $0.01M

72. Im toten Winkel - Hitlers Sekretärin (2002)

PG | 90 min | Documentary, Biography, War

Documentary featuring interview footage with Traudl Junge, one of Hitler's personal secretaries during WWII.

Directors: André Heller, Othmar Schmiderer | Star: Traudl Junge

Votes: 1,814 | Gross: $0.38M

73. Paper Gallows (1950)

Approved | 68 min | Crime, Thriller

A story of two brothers, both writers of crime novels, one a fine, upstanding gentleman and the other a moody, neurotic, psychopath. The other is determined to create a 'faked' version of a... See full summary »

Director: John Guillermin | Stars: Dermot Walsh, Rona Anderson, John Bentley, Michael Martin Harvey

Votes: 35

74. Second Hand Wife (1933)

Passed | 70 min | Drama, Romance

A daughter and devious ex-wife (Helen Vinson) complicate an executive's (Ralph Bellamy) marriage to his secretary (Sally Eilers).

Director: Hamilton MacFadden | Stars: Sally Eilers, Helen Vinson, Ralph Bellamy, Victor Jory

Votes: 15

75. Coming Home (2012)

91 min | Drama

The girl Gaëlle Faroult is kidnapped at school when she is about eight by Vincent Maillard that imprisons her at the basement of his isolated house but provides everything she needs. Along ... See full summary »

Director: Frédéric Videau | Stars: Agathe Bonitzer, Reda Kateb, Hélène Fillières, Noémie Lvovsky

Votes: 380

76. Paradise Express (1937)

Approved | 60 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy

A small railroad is being squeezed out of business by the tactics of a trucking company owned by gangsters.

Director: Joseph Kane | Stars: Grant Withers, Dorothy Appleby, Arthur Hoyt, Maude Eburne

Votes: 161

77. Over the Counter (1932)

Passed | 18 min | Musical, Short

The staff at Drake's Department Store is exasperated because Mr. Drake, the store owner and president, has let his adult son Freddy run rampant at the store despite knowing that he is a ... See full summary »

Director: Jack Cummings | Stars: Sidney Toler, Franklin Pangborn, Emerson Treacy, Eleanor Thatcher

Votes: 171

78. Three Little Pirates (1946)

18 min | Comedy, Short

Three bumbling sailors from a garbage scow are marooned on an island where the anachronistic inhabitants seem trapped in the 17th Century.

Director: Edward Bernds | Stars: Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Curly Howard, Christine McIntyre

Votes: 587

79. G-Men Never Forget (1948)

Passed | 167 min | Action, Adventure, Crime

G-Man and a female detective sergeant pursue racketeers, unaware that her police commissioner is actually a gang boss altered by plastic surgery.

Directors: Fred C. Brannon, Yakima Canutt | Stars: Clayton Moore, Roy Barcroft, Ramsay Ames, Gil Frye

Votes: 110

80. That Other Woman (1942)

Approved | 75 min | Comedy, Romance

Secretary Emily Borden is in love with her boss, Henry Summers, but he is too involved with Constance Powell to notice. Ralph is interested in Emily, but she has no interest in him. Emily's... See full summary »

Director: Ray McCarey | Stars: Virginia Gilmore, James Ellison, Dan Duryea, Janis Carter

Votes: 57

81. The Love Department (1935)

Approved | 20 min | Short, Comedy, Musical

Columnist Beatrice Blair dispenses love advice to her readers, but can't seem to find her own Mr. Right. Reporter Jimmy Jackson has pursued her but with no results. Blair takes her ... See full summary »

Director: Roy Mack | Stars: Bernice Claire, Milt Douglas, Billie Leonard, Lou Duthers

Votes: 87

82. Ask Dad (1929)

20 min | Comedy, Short

A young boy falls for his widowed father's efficient secretary, who has more sense than them both.

Director: Hugh Faulcon | Stars: Edward Everett Horton, Winston Miller, Ruth Renick

Votes: 110

83. The Lost Steps (2001)

93 min | Drama

A Spanish family is accused that their adopted daughter Mónica is actually Diana, abducted by the Argentine military dictatorship at age one.

Director: Manane Rodríguez | Stars: Irene Visedo, Luis Brandoni, Concha Velasco, Federico Luppi

Votes: 117

84. Magdát kicsapják (1938)

89 min | Comedy, Romance

The girls at a school for stenography have been taking dictation to a supposedly fictional Englishman, Alfred Harvey, in London. However, the teacher writes a romantic note which is ... See full summary »

Director: Ladislao Vajda | Stars: Ida Turay, Klári Tolnay, Antal Páger, György Nagy

Votes: 13

85. Office Etiquette (1950)

14 min | Documentary, Short

Film shows the proper conduct and behavior that is expected in a modern office setting, and also gives examples of behavior that is not acceptable.

Votes: 46

86. Dreyfus Court Martial - Arrest of Dreyfus (1899)

1 min | Short, Drama, History

Dictation of the statement of Captain Dreyfus in reference to the Dreyfus Affair, a political scandal that rocked France from 1894 to 1906.

Director: Georges Méliès

Votes: 249

87. Les trésors de Marcel Pagnol (2019 TV Movie)

110 min | Documentary, Biography, History

The works of Marcel Pagnol are a veritable monument of French cultural heritage. Based on previously unseen archive material, film extracts, novels, plays, interviews and letters, the film ... See full summary »

Director: Fabien Beziat | Stars: Marcel Pagnol, Fabrice Luchini, Nicolas Pagnol, Marcel Achard

Votes: 13

88. Mon maître d'école (2015)

82 min | Documentary, Family

When Marcel Pagnol meets The Class

Director: Émilie Thérond

Votes: 79

89. Clara et les méchants (1958)

90 min | Comedy, Drama, Family

A rich kid ,the daughter of an oil tycoon ,lives a life of luxury.Bad guys kidnap the heiress .

Director: Raoul André | Stars: Minou Drouet, Pierre Destailles, Jacques Morel, Jean Poiret

Votes: 25

90. Tsuyoki ari (2006 TV Movie)

Crime, Drama

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Director: Naosuke Kurosawa | Stars: Mayumi Wakamura, Masahiko Tsugawa, Mari Hoshino, Tetsuya Bessho

91. Keyhole Katie (1933)

20 min | Short, Comedy

A snooping reporter at a college newspaper angers a rival sorority, so they steal a statue before its unveiling to get revenge, leading to a sorority vs. sorority brawl. Co-eds end up tearing each other's clothes off.

Director: Charles Lamont | Stars: Gay Seabrook, John T. Murray, Eleanor Hunt, Billy Engle

Votes: 10

92. The Important Witness (1933)

Passed | 60 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy

A freelance stenographer is hired for a job, but when she arrives at the address she was given, she finds that a murder has taken place there--and she is arrested for it.

Director: Sam Newfield | Stars: Noel Francis, Don Dillaway, Dorothy Burgess, Noel Madison

Votes: 25

93. Roadhouse Queen (1933)

20 min | Comedy, Short

When his son breaks of his engagement after falling for a trapeze artist, the father decides to see the temptress who has ensnared his son for himself--and he falls for her, too.

Director: Leslie Pearce | Stars: Walter Catlett, Nora Lane, Ben Alexander, Joyce Compton

Votes: 9

94. Het groot dictee der Nederlandse taal (2003– )

Family, Game-Show

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Stars: Philip Freriks, Martine Tanghe, Henk Vonhoff, Th.A.J.M. Janssen

Votes: 28

95. The Snoop Sisters (1972–1974)
Episode: The Female Instinct (1972)

100 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

A spinster and her widowed sister, who are also mystery writers, try to track down the killer of a former movie star.

Director: Leonard Stern | Stars: Helen Hayes, Mildred Natwick, Charlie Callas, Jill Clayburgh

Votes: 216

96. Thriller (1973–1976)
Episode: Spell of Evil (1973)

TV-14 | 74 min | Crime, Drama, Fantasy

Businessman Tony Mansell hires a marriage bureau when his wife dies from a sudden illness, and is delighted to find himself paired up with the beautiful Clara. Despite seeming like the ... See full summary »

Director: John Sichel | Stars: Diane Cilento, Edward de Souza, Jeremy Longhurst, Jennifer Daniel

Votes: 209

97. A Nero Wolfe Mystery (2001–2002)
Episode: The Silent Speaker: Part 1 (2002)

TV-PG | Action, Drama, Mystery

In post-War America, where shortages are common, the Bureau of Price Regulations is a very controversial organization, and when its leader is murdered, Wolfe takes the case.

Director: Michael Jaffe | Stars: Timothy Hutton, Maury Chaykin, Debra Monk, Colin Fox

Votes: 115

98. All in the Family (1971–1979)
Episode: Writing the President (1971)

TV-PG | 26 min | Comedy, Drama

Archie learns that Mike has written to President Nixon to criticize his policies. So Archie takes pen in hand and writes his own letter of praise.

Director: John Rich | Stars: Carroll O'Connor, Jean Stapleton, Rob Reiner, Sally Struthers

Votes: 412

99. Blackadder the Third (1987)
Episode: Amy and Amiability (1987)

TV-PG | 27 min | Comedy

When Blackadder discovers that the Prince Regent is completely broke, he devises a plan to restore his fortunes through marriage.

Director: Mandie Fletcher | Stars: Rowan Atkinson, Tony Robinson, Hugh Laurie, Helen Atkinson Wood

Votes: 962

100. Four Star Playhouse (1952–1956)
Episode: The Gift (1953)

30 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

Businessman Carl Baxter is a good boss for 364 days a year, but his memories of his estrangement with his son causes his mood to change at Christmas.

Director: Robert Aldrich | Stars: Charles Boyer, Maureen O'Sullivan, Dan Tobin, Joan Camden

Votes: 60