Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "character-appears-in-a-newspaper"

1. Prisoners (2013)

R | 153 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

When Keller Dover's daughter and her friend go missing, he takes matters into his own hands as the police pursue multiple leads and the pressure mounts.

Director: Denis Villeneuve | Stars: Hugh Jackman, Jake Gyllenhaal, Viola Davis, Melissa Leo

Votes: 812,459 | Gross: $61.00M

2. The Place Beyond the Pines (2012)

R | 140 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

Two men and their sons must deal with the unforeseen consequences of their actions.

Director: Derek Cianfrance | Stars: Ryan Gosling, Bradley Cooper, Eva Mendes, Craig Van Hook

Votes: 291,017 | Gross: $21.38M

3. Dunkirk (2017)

PG-13 | 106 min | Action, Drama, History

Allied soldiers from Belgium, the British Commonwealth and Empire, and France are surrounded by the German Army and evacuated during a fierce battle in World War II.

Director: Christopher Nolan | Stars: Fionn Whitehead, Barry Keoghan, Mark Rylance, Tom Hardy

Votes: 742,117 | Gross: $188.37M

4. Don't Breathe (2016)

R | 88 min | Crime, Horror, Thriller

Hoping to walk away with a massive fortune, a trio of thieves break into the house of a blind man who isn't as helpless as he seems.

Director: Fede Alvarez | Stars: Stephen Lang, Jane Levy, Dylan Minnette, Daniel Zovatto

Votes: 301,617 | Gross: $89.22M

5. Limitless (I) (2011)

PG-13 | 105 min | Sci-Fi, Thriller

A mysterious pill that enables the user to access 100% of his brain's abilities transforms a struggling writer into a financial wizard, but it also puts him in a new world with many dangers.

Director: Neil Burger | Stars: Bradley Cooper, Anna Friel, Abbie Cornish, Robert De Niro

Votes: 613,445 | Gross: $79.25M

6. Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey (1991)

PG | 93 min | Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy

A tyrant from the future creates evil android doubles of Bill and Ted and sends them back to eliminate the originals.

Director: Peter Hewitt | Stars: Keanu Reeves, Alex Winter, William Sadler, Joss Ackland

Votes: 81,202 | Gross: $38.04M

7. A Place in the Sun (1951)

Passed | 122 min | Drama, Romance

A poor boy gets a job working for his rich uncle and ends up falling in love with two women.

Director: George Stevens | Stars: Montgomery Clift, Elizabeth Taylor, Shelley Winters, Anne Revere

Votes: 24,851

8. The Invisible Man (1933)

TV-PG | 71 min | Horror, Sci-Fi

A scientist finds a way of becoming invisible, but in doing so, he becomes murderously insane.

Director: James Whale | Stars: Claude Rains, Gloria Stuart, William Harrigan, Henry Travers

Votes: 40,074

9. Yoga Hosers (2016)

PG-13 | 88 min | Action, Comedy, Horror

Two teenage yoga enthusiasts must do battle with an evil presence that is threatening to rise from its underground lair and endanger their major party plans.

Director: Kevin Smith | Stars: Lily-Rose Depp, Harley Quinn Smith, Johnny Depp, Adam Brody

Votes: 15,518

10. The Kid Detective (2020)

R | 100 min | Comedy, Drama, Mystery

A once-celebrated kid detective, now 32, continues to solve the same trivial mysteries between hangovers and bouts of self-pity; until a naive client brings him his first 'adult' case to find out who brutally murdered her boyfriend.

Director: Evan Morgan | Stars: Kaitlyn Chalmers-Rizzato, Adam Brody, Kaleb Horn, Wendy Crewson

Votes: 22,600

11. Absence of Malice (1981)

PG | 116 min | Drama, Romance, Thriller

When a prosecutor leaks to a Miami reporter that a liquor wholesaler is suspected in the murder of a union head, the man's life begins to unravel.

Director: Sydney Pollack | Stars: Paul Newman, Sally Field, Bob Balaban, Melinda Dillon

Votes: 14,791 | Gross: $40.72M

12. If Looks Could Kill (1991)

PG-13 | 88 min | Action, Comedy

Michael has to take summer class in French, a class trip to France, to graduate high school. He is, however, mistaken for an agent and people try to kill him. There are 007 style cars, cuties, crooks etc.

Director: William Dear | Stars: Richard Grieco, Linda Hunt, Roger Rees, Robin Bartlett

Votes: 7,709 | Gross: $7.79M

13. The Americanization of Emily (1964)

Approved | 115 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

An American Naval Officer's talent for living the good life in wartime is challenged when he falls in love and is sent on a dangerous mission.

Director: Arthur Hiller | Stars: James Garner, Julie Andrews, Melvyn Douglas, James Coburn

Votes: 5,716

14. Shocker (1989)

R | 109 min | Comedy, Horror, Thriller

After being sent to the electric chair, a serial killer uses electricity to come back from the dead and carry out his vengeance on the football player who turned him in to the police.

Director: Wes Craven | Stars: Michael Murphy, Mitch Pileggi, John Tesh, Heather Langenkamp

Votes: 17,747 | Gross: $16.55M

15. Miracle on 34th Street (1947)

Not Rated | 96 min | Comedy, Drama, Family

After a divorced New York mother hires a nice old man to play Santa Claus at Macy's, she is startled by his claim to be the genuine article. When his sanity is questioned, a lawyer defends him in court by arguing that he's not mistaken.

Director: George Seaton | Stars: Edmund Gwenn, Maureen O'Hara, John Payne, Gene Lockhart

Votes: 54,978 | Gross: $2.65M

16. The Coed and the Zombie Stoner (2014)

Unrated | 91 min | Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi

When a nerdy sorority girl falls in love with a zombie, it's only a matter of time before a zombie apocalypse is unleashed on campus. The sorority girl discovers that weed is the cure--now ... See full summary »

Director: Glenn Miller | Stars: Catherine Annette, Grant O'Connell, Jamie Noel, Aaron Caleb

Votes: 1,583

17. The Vagrant (1992)

R | 91 min | Comedy, Horror, Thriller

A business man buys a house, but he has a hard time trying to get rid of its previous tenant, a dirty bum.

Director: Chris Walas | Stars: Bill Paxton, Michael Ironside, Marshall Bell, Mitzi Kapture

Votes: 2,043

18. I Spy (2002)

PG-13 | 97 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy

A professional athlete has to help a U.S. government agent recover a missing jet.

Director: Betty Thomas | Stars: Eddie Murphy, Owen Wilson, Famke Janssen, Malcolm McDowell

Votes: 53,484 | Gross: $33.56M

19. Crush (II) (2013)

PG-13 | 94 min | Horror, Thriller

A secret admirer's crush on a high school athlete takes a fatal turn.

Director: Malik Bader | Stars: Ashleigh Craig, Cody Hamilton, Lucas Till, Crystal Reed

Votes: 6,653

20. People Will Talk (1951)

Approved | 110 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

Dr. Noah Praetorius falls in love with Deborah, a student who discovers that she is pregnant by her old boyfriend.

Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz | Stars: Cary Grant, Jeanne Crain, Finlay Currie, Hume Cronyn

Votes: 7,115

21. Martin Eden (2019)

TV-PG | 129 min | Drama, Romance

Martin Eden struggles to rise above his destitute, proletarian circumstances through an intense and passionate pursuit of self-education, hoping to achieve a place among the literary elite.

Director: Pietro Marcello | Stars: Luca Marinelli, Jessica Cressy, Vincenzo Nemolato, Marco Leonardi

Votes: 7,689

22. S.F.W. (1994)

R | 96 min | Comedy, Drama

An alienated and misanthropic teenager gains sudden and unwanted celebrity status after he's taken hostage by terrorists where his indifference to their threats to kill him makes news headlines.

Director: Jefery Levy | Stars: Stephen Dorff, Reese Witherspoon, Jake Busey, Joey Lauren Adams

Votes: 5,419 | Gross: $0.06M

23. Those People (2015)

Not Rated | 89 min | Drama, Romance

On Manhattan's gilded Upper East Side, a young gay painter is torn between an obsession with his infamous socialite best friend and a promising new romance with an older foreign concert pianist.

Director: Joey Kuhn | Stars: Jonathan Gordon, Jason Ralph, Haaz Sleiman, Britt Lower

Votes: 6,637

24. Make Mine Music (1946)

Passed | 75 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy

Animation done to contemporary popular music.

Directors: Robert Cormack, Clyde Geronimi, Jack Kinney, Hamilton Luske, Joshua Meador | Stars: Nelson Eddy, Dinah Shore, Laverne Andrews, Maxene Andrews

Votes: 4,972

25. The Motive (2017)

TV-MA | 112 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

A man obsessed with the idea of writing "high literature" starts to cause conflicts around him to write about it.

Director: Manuel Martín Cuenca | Stars: Javier Gutiérrez, María León, Adelfa Calvo, Adriana Paz

Votes: 6,743

26. Full Moon High (1981)

PG | 93 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Horror

A popular high school football player becomes a werewolf after a trip to Romania, and struggles to come to terms with his new reality.

Director: Larry Cohen | Stars: Adam Arkin, Roz Kelly, Ed McMahon, Joanne Nail

Votes: 1,628

27. Test Tube Teens from the Year 2000 (1994 Video)

R | 74 min | Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi

In the future, corporations have taken over the world and banned sex. A group of rebellious high school students devise a way to go back in time and change history to prevent that from ... See full summary »

Director: David DeCoteau | Stars: Morgan Fairchild, Ian Abercrombie, Brian Bremer, Christopher Wolf

Votes: 630

28. My Past (1931)

Approved | 72 min | Drama, Romance

Young man and an older man fall for a stage actress.

Director: Roy Del Ruth | Stars: Bebe Daniels, Lewis Stone, Ben Lyon, Joan Blondell

Votes: 307

29. It Always Rains on Sunday (1947)

92 min | Crime, Drama, Romance

An escaped convict tries to hide out at his former lover's house, but she has since married and is reluctant to help him.

Director: Robert Hamer | Stars: Googie Withers, Jack Warner, John McCallum, Edward Chapman

Votes: 2,396 | Gross: $0.01M

30. Populaire (2012)

R | 111 min | Comedy, Romance, Sport

1958. Rose is a terrible secretary but a demon typist. Her handsome boss resolves to turn her into the fastest girl in the world.

Director: Régis Roinsard | Stars: Romain Duris, Féodor Atkine, Déborah François, Bérénice Bejo

Votes: 12,726 | Gross: $0.18M

31. Those Redheads from Seattle (1953)

Approved | 90 min | Musical, Western

A woman takes her four beautiful daughters to Dawson City Yukon during the Gold Rush to find their fortune.

Director: Lewis R. Foster | Stars: Rhonda Fleming, Gene Barry, Agnes Moorehead, Teresa Brewer

Votes: 286

32. Goodbye Gemini (1970)

R | 89 min | Crime, Drama, Horror

Unnaturally-close jet-setting twins become enmeshed in the Swinging London scene, where their relationship is strained after they befriend a predatory hustler and his girlfriend.

Director: Alan Gibson | Stars: Judy Geeson, Martin Potter, Michael Redgrave, Alexis Kanner

Votes: 462

33. 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: 727

34. Narcotic (1933)

Not Rated | 57 min | Biography, Drama, Horror

Exploitation film which follows the downward spiral of an idealistic medical student whose fall from grace leads him to opium dens, a carnival freakshow, swanky drug parties, dingy brothels, and finally the barrel of his own revolver.

Directors: Dwain Esper, Vival Sodar't | Stars: Harry Cording, Joan Dix, Patricia Farley, Jean Lacy

Votes: 423

35. Rat Fink (1965)

80 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

A sadistic rock singer will do whatever it takes to become a star.

Director: James Landis | Stars: Schuyler Hayden, Hal Bokar, Judy Hughes, Warrene Ott

Votes: 129

36. The Spies (1957)

Not Rated | 125 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller

Short of cash for his private clinic, a French psychiatrist accepts money from a NATO Intelligence agent to shelter a defecting Soviet-bloc scientist but enemy spies are closing-in.

Director: Henri-Georges Clouzot | Stars: Curd Jürgens, Peter Ustinov, O.E. Hasse, Sam Jaffe

Votes: 1,100

37. The Ugliest Woman in the World (1999)

TV-MA | 108 min | Comedy, Crime, Sci-Fi

2012 Madrid DF. Lola Otero, the ugliest woman in the world, suffers the cruelty of the people until at 18 a surgery transforms her into a beauty. When the mutilated corpse of an old woman is discovered, it seems Lola as suspicious.

Director: Miguel Bardem | Stars: Elia Galera, Roberto Álvarez, Javivi, Héctor Alterio

Votes: 648

38. Black Journal (1977)

115 min | Crime, Drama, Horror

Lea's only son Michele has to endure his mother's zealous affection . She is convinced she rescued him by making a deal with Death. When his son gets engaged to a woman, Lea is ready to make a new deal with Death.

Director: Mauro Bolognini | Stars: Shelley Winters, Max von Sydow, Renato Pozzetto, Alberto Lionello

Votes: 528

39. Coming In (2014)

104 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

Notoriously-hip Berlin-based hairdresser Tom Herzner falls in love with beauty-parlor owner Heidi, turning both of their worlds upside down. So far so good. Only one problem: Tom is gay.

Director: Marco Kreuzpaintner | Stars: Katja Riemann, Andreja Schneider, Aylin Tezel, Max Felder

Votes: 770

40. Il ladro della Gioconda (1966)

104 min | Comedy, Crime, Mystery

Vincent, the framer, get a job as an apprentice, but really wants to steel Mona Lisa...

Director: Michel Deville | Stars: Marina Vlady, George Chakiris, Paul Frankeur, Jean Lefebvre

Votes: 162

41. The Whale Who Wanted to Sing at the Met (1946)

15 min | Animation, Family, Fantasy

The Metropolitan Opera is looking for the sea monster reported in newspaper headlines, because this monster sings beautifully! The "monster" is actually Willie, a whale who can sing in ... See full summary »

Directors: Clyde Geronimi, Hamilton Luske | Star: Nelson Eddy

Votes: 583

42. Hepzibah - Sie holt dich im Schlaf (2010 TV Movie)

Horror, Mystery, Thriller

Just before her 18th birthday, Kirsten leaves for a village called Selmen. All the girls kill themselves when they turn 18. Kirsten finds out that just before that, they all had problems ... See full summary »

Director: Robert Sigl | Stars: Eleanor Tomlinson, Finn Atkins, Christopher Elson, David Bamber

Votes: 273

43. I Give My Love (1934)

Approved | 70 min | Crime, Drama

A woman devotes her life to her son, who went to prison for killing her abusive husband.

Director: Karl Freund | Stars: Paul Lukas, Wynne Gibson, Eric Linden, Anita Louise

Votes: 30

44. One Way Ticket (1971)

120 min | Crime, Drama

A small-time criminal wants to give up his life of crime. He performs a robbery with a friend, with similar feelings, and things go sour.

Director: José Giovanni | Stars: Jean-Claude Bouillon, Nicoletta, Maurice Garrel, Paola Pitagora

Votes: 216

45. Veni, vidi, vici (2009)

95 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

A young boy named Honza is a bad student, but becomes a promising golfer and experiences the sweet life in the spotlight. But he almost loses not only his girl but also himself in the process.

Directors: Jirí Chlumský, Pavel Göbl | Stars: Filip Tomsa, Jitka Kocurová, Sandra Nováková, Bohumil Klepl

Votes: 92

46. Namnala (2014)

15 min | Short, Drama

Jose is an obsolete man who owns an obsolete business. His store, a technical reparation center that made him feel alive when he was young, it is going to close very soon. One of his last ... See full summary »

Director: Nacho Solana | Stars: Álex Angulo, Babou Cham

Votes: 20

47. La madone des sleepings (1955)

96 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama

The main occupation of the beautiful Lady Diana Winham is to travel through Europe in luxury trains. She also owns a uranium mine that is of interest to many people.

Director: Henri Diamant-Berger | Stars: Gisèle Pascal, Jean Gaven, Erich von Stroheim, Philippe Mareuil

Votes: 41

48. Aplaus (2012 TV Movie)

89 min | Drama

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Director: Jaroslav Brabec | Stars: Daniel Fikejz, Petr Florián, Michal Kern, Jaromír Meduna

Votes: 11

49. Stop (2007 TV Short)

43 min | Short, Comedy, Drama

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Director: Jakub Sommer | Stars: Martha Issová, Matej Dadák, Rudolf Hrusínský, Simona Babcáková

Votes: 8

50. Portrét (1972 TV Short)

43 min | Short, Drama, Mystery

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Director: Vladimír Kavciak | Stars: Jozef Budský, Eduard Cupák, Ondrej Jariabek, Frantisek Kristof-Veselý