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

1. Men in Black: International (2019)

PG-13 | 114 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy

The MIB tackle a mole in their organization.

Director: F. Gary Gray | Stars: Chris Hemsworth, Tessa Thompson, Kumail Nanjiani, Rebecca Ferguson

Votes: 147,448 | Gross: $80.00M

2. The Raven (1963)

G | 86 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Horror

A magician, who has been turned into a raven, turns to a former sorcerer for help.

Director: Roger Corman | Stars: Vincent Price, Peter Lorre, Boris Karloff, Hazel Court

Votes: 13,612

3. Cam (2018)

TV-MA | 94 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery

Alice, an ambitious camgirl, wakes up one day to discover she's been replaced on her show with an exact replica of herself.

Director: Daniel Goldhaber | Stars: Madeline Brewer, Patch Darragh, Melora Walters, Devin Druid

Votes: 36,181

4. What Happens in Vegas (2008)

PG-13 | 99 min | Comedy, Romance

A man and a woman are compelled, for legal reasons, to live life as a couple for a limited period of time. At stake is a large amount of money.

Director: Tom Vaughan | Stars: Cameron Diaz, Ashton Kutcher, Rob Corddry, Lake Bell

Votes: 188,205 | Gross: $80.28M

5. Hollywood Homicide (2003)

PG-13 | 116 min | Action, Comedy, Crime

Two LAPD detectives who moonlight in other fields investigate the murder of an up-and-coming rap group.

Director: Ron Shelton | Stars: Harrison Ford, Josh Hartnett, Isaiah Washington, Lena Olin

Votes: 39,395 | Gross: $30.94M

6. Taking Sides (2001)

Not Rated | 108 min | Drama, Music, War

After the end of World War II, a famous German conductor is accused of loyalty to the Nazi regime. He argues that art and politics are separate. An investigator thinks otherwise.

Director: István Szabó | Stars: Harvey Keitel, Stellan Skarsgård, Moritz Bleibtreu, Birgit Minichmayr

Votes: 3,862 | Gross: $0.19M

7. Mindhorn (2016)

TV-MA | 89 min | Comedy, Thriller

A has-been actor best known for playing the title character in the 1980s detective series "Mindhorn" must work with the police when a serial killer says that he will only speak with Detective Mindhorn, whom he believes to be a real person.

Director: Sean Foley | Stars: Julian Barratt, Simon Farnaby, Essie Davis, Steve Coogan

Votes: 13,740

8. Sssssss (1973)

PG | 99 min | Horror, Sci-Fi

A college student becomes lab assistant to a scientist who is working on a serum that can transform humans into snakes.

Director: Bernard L. Kowalski | Stars: Strother Martin, Dirk Benedict, Heather Menzies-Urich, Richard B. Shull

Votes: 3,980

9. Dr. Terror's House of Horrors (1965)

Approved | 98 min | Horror

Aboard a British train, mysterious fortune teller Dr. Schreck uses tarot cards to read the futures of five fellow passengers.

Director: Freddie Francis | Stars: Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing, Neil McCallum, Ursula Howells

Votes: 7,528

10. 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

11. Monster in the Closet (1986)

PG | 90 min | Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi

Paul Dooley, Paul Walker, John Carradine and Henry Gibson head up an all-star cast in this horror-comedy about a murderous but misunderstood monster!

Director: Bob Dahlin | Stars: Donald Grant, Denise DuBarry, Claude Akins, Howard Duff

Votes: 2,990

12. Creator (1985)

R | 107 min | Comedy, Romance, Sci-Fi

An eccentric scientist teaches a student in his own manner while he looks for a way to clone his deceased wife.

Director: Ivan Passer | Stars: Peter O'Toole, Mariel Hemingway, Vincent Spano, Virginia Madsen

Votes: 3,513 | Gross: $5.35M

13. Orpheus (1950)

Not Rated | 112 min | Drama, Fantasy, Romance

A poet in love with Death follows his unhappy wife into the underworld.

Director: Jean Cocteau | Stars: Jean Marais, François Périer, María Casares, Marie Déa

Votes: 13,450

14. Mad Dog Time (1996)

R | 93 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

With his boss in the madhouse, a mobster is temporary boss of the criminal empire just as vicious rivals threaten the control of the empire.

Director: Larry Bishop | Stars: Michael J. Pollard, Henry Silva, Gabriel Byrne, Jeff Goldblum

Votes: 3,682 | Gross: $0.08M

15. Something for Everyone (1970)

R | 112 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

In post-war Austria, young, handsome country lad Konrad Ludwig (Michael York) charms his way into a butler position at the castle of the widowed (and destitute) Countess von Ornstein (... See full summary »

Director: Harold Prince | Stars: Angela Lansbury, Michael York, Anthony Higgins, Heidelinde Weis

Votes: 1,094 | Gross: $0.30M

16. Dead in a Week Or Your Money Back (2018)

TV-MA | 90 min | Comedy, Drama

After his ninth unsuccessful attempt on his own life, a young man outsources his suicide to an ageing assassin. "If you're serious about ending it, you need professional help"

Director: Tom Edmunds | Stars: Tom Wilkinson, Aneurin Barnard, Marion Bailey, Freya Mavor

Votes: 6,809

17. Ferpect Crime (2004)

Not Rated | 105 min | Comedy, Crime, Thriller

An ambitious salesman will do anything for that big promotion he's been chasing, but inevitably, he will learn that there is no such thing as the perfect crime.

Director: Álex de la Iglesia | Stars: Guillermo Toledo, Mónica Cervera, Enrique Villén, Luis Varela

Votes: 13,009

18. The House of the Dead (1978)

PG | 79 min | Comedy, Crime, Horror

"The House of the Dead" is a 1978 horror anthology movie with "The Mortician" introducing each scary tale.

Director: Sharron Miller | Stars: John Ericson, Ivor Francis, Judith Novgrod, Burr DeBenning

Votes: 1,144

19. Empowered (2018)

TV-MA | 87 min | Comedy

After to visit a Hindi guru healer, Paz loses control over what she says and starts speaking out everything that comes to her mind.

Director: Santiago Segura | Stars: Maribel Verdú, Diego Martín, Toni Acosta, Rafael Spregelburd

Votes: 2,598

20. Making a Living (1914)

G | 11 min | Short, Comedy

An out-of-work swindler takes a job as a reporter. After witnessing a car go over cliff, he grabs a rival reporter's camera and races to the newspaper office to enter the photo as his own. ... See full summary »

Director: Henry Lehrman | Stars: Charles Chaplin, Emma Clifton, Chester Conklin, Alice Davenport

Votes: 2,308

21. Cop in Drag (1984)

96 min | Comedy, Crime

During a show held at Blue Gay, drag queen cabaret in the center of Rome, an artist of the restaurant is found dead. The investigations are entrusted to Inspector Giraldi.

Director: Bruno Corbucci | Stars: Tomas Milian, Bombolo, Olimpia Di Nardo, Paco Fabrini

Votes: 307

22. Some Time Later (2018)

99 min | Comedy, Sci-Fi

In a distant point of time, a man alters the world he knows when he tries to sell lemonade.

Director: José Luis Cuerda | Stars: Roberto Álamo, Blanca Suárez, Iñaki Ardanaz, Carlos Areces

Votes: 1,481

23. Playmates (1941)

Passed | 96 min | Comedy, Music

For the sake of a lucrative radio contract, John Barrymore agrees to turn bandleader Kay Kyser into a Shakespearian actor.

Director: David Butler | Stars: Kay Kyser, John Barrymore, Lupe Velez, Ginny Simms

Votes: 357

24. The Night My Mother Killed My Father (2016)

R | 94 min | Comedy, Thriller

An actress ready for anything to recover her former glory. A crazy night where all is possible.

Director: Inés París | Stars: Belén Rueda, Diego Peretti, Eduard Fernández, María Pujalte

Votes: 1,569

25. Les rois du gag (1985)

98 min | Comedy

Paul Martin and François Leroux are brothers-in-law and comics without fame. One day, the famous television comics, Gaëtan, finds himself in the little theater where Paul and François produce themselves under the name of "Gagsters".

Director: Claude Zidi | Stars: Michel Serrault, Gérard Jugnot, Thierry Lhermitte, Macha Méril

Votes: 720

26. Pozadí událostí (2022)

Comedy, Crime, Drama

A controversial erotic novel at the university stirs up a wave of resentment and enthusiasm. Who wrote it and who was inspired by it to murder a student?

Stars: Jirí Havelka, Katarzia, Martha Issová, Jitka Cvancarová

Votes: 44

27. I Hate Actors (1986)

PG | 90 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

Hollywood in the 1940s. A tyrannical producer, a paranoid director, a starlet engaged twenty-four times, an actor who refuses to age - all against a backdrop of a series of murders.

Director: Gérard Krawczyk | Stars: Jean Poiret, Michel Blanc, Bernard Blier, Patrick Floersheim

Votes: 260

28. Despido procedente (2017)

TV-MA | 90 min | Comedy

A successful spanish executive living in Argentina, gets stalked by and faces a series of undesired situations created by a man he gives wrong directions to, after almost running over him with his car.

Director: Lucas Figueroa | Stars: Imanol Arias, Darío Grandinetti, Hugo Silva, Miguel Ángel Solá

Votes: 1,036

29. Foreclosure (2013)

13 min | Short, Comedy

Sigmund is a docile and obedient worker who is given an opportunity of a life time when his manager, Mr. Wolfman, assigns him the task of completing a hefty dossier on their company's ... See full summary »

Director: Wayne Wapeemukwa | Stars: Massimo Frau, Alissa Hansen, Dylan Harvey, Vic Stapel

Votes: 25

30. Zlocin v dívcí skole (1966)

107 min | Comedy, Crime

Three short story omnibus. The main hero and connecting link is Lieutenant Boruvka, created by Lubomír Lipsky. He deals with the murder case between climbers, the death of the dancer in the... See full summary »

Directors: Jirí Menzel, Ivo Novák, Ladislav Rychman | Stars: Lubomír Lipský, Jan Preucil, Petr Kostka, Jana Gýrová

Votes: 106

31. 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

32. Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1985–1989)
Episode: Deadly Honeymoon (1986)

TV-PG | Crime, Drama, Mystery

A woman learns from a P.I. that her new husband is suspected of killing his first two wives for insurance money to cover his gambling debts. However, he convincingly denies it. Who to trust?

Director: Don Medford | Stars: Victoria Tennant, David Dukes, Alan Fudge, Nicolas Coster

Votes: 103

33. The Ray Bradbury Theater (1985–1992)
Episode: The Wonderful Death of Dudley Stone (1989)

TV-14 | 23 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror

At a book signing, celebrated author Dudley Stone is approached by a rival who announces his intention to murder him. Stone turns out to be surprisingly enthusiastic about the idea.

Director: David Copeland | Stars: John Saxon, Alan Scarfe, Susan Wilson, Lewis Rowe

Votes: 126

34. The Carol Burnett Show (1967–1978)
Episode: Tim Conway (1975)

TV-G | 22 min | Comedy, Family

Highlights include: a spoof of "The Pirates of Penzance"; guest Tim Conway as a fumbling, bumbling busboy at a Japanese restaurant substituting for their regular chef, and a boxer fighting ... See full summary »

Director: Dave Powers | Stars: Carol Burnett, Harvey Korman, Vicki Lawrence, Tim Conway

Votes: 42

35. Toon in with Me (2021– )
Episode: Mascot Monthly (2021)

TV-PG | Animation, Comedy

Toony is jealous of Svengoolie (1995) mascot Kerwyn, as personal rivalries take center stage both in the studio and in the cartoons: A Star Is Bored (1956), Hip Hip-Hurry! (1958), Let's You and Him Fight (1934), Ain't She Tweet (1952), Ah, Sweet Mouse-Story of Life (1965).

Director: Mike Schmiedeler | Stars: Bill Leff, Kevin Fleming, Leila Gorstein, Rich Koz

Votes: 8

36. Never Have I Ever (2020–2023)
Episode: ...betrayed a friend (2021)

TV-14 | 27 min | Comedy, Drama

While attempting to cover her trail for fueling gossip about Aneesa, Devi's guilt grows. Nalini warms up to a nemesis. Kamala gets a rude shock.

Directors: Lena Khan, Anu Valia | Stars: Maitreyi Ramakrishnan, Richa Moorjani, Darren Barnet, Jaren Lewison

Votes: 868

37. Never Have I Ever (2020–2023)
Episode: ...begged for forgiveness (2021)

TV-14 | 29 min | Comedy, Drama

Devi must learn the art of a genuine apology before it's too late. Kamala considers standing up for herself. Nalini takes some parenting advice.

Director: Lena Khan | Stars: Maitreyi Ramakrishnan, Richa Moorjani, Jaren Lewison, Lee Rodriguez

Votes: 870

38. Murdoch Mysteries (2008– )
Episode: Murdoch in Wonderland (2011)

TV-PG | 48 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

A man is found murdered at a Lewis Carroll costume party. All clues point to the guest dressed as the Mad Hatter.

Director: Cal Coons | Stars: Yannick Bisson, Helene Joy, Thomas Craig, Jonny Harris

Votes: 376

39. Iveta (2022– )
Episode: Snad nám to vyjde (2022)

Biography, Drama

Iveta and Petr buy a car and Petr goes to introduce himself to her parents. Iveta is finally famous and happy. But what if she is not the only woman in Peter's life? What if the relationship she sacrificed so much for is just an illusion?

Director: Michal Samir | Stars: Anna Fialová, Vojtech Vodochodský, Eliska Krenková, Miroslav Hanus

Votes: 13

40. Miss Scarlet & the Duke (2020– )
Episode: The Jewel of the North (2022)

TV-14 | 53 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

The season comes to an explosive climax when Eliza receives a bomb in the morning post. Who sent it and why? Eliza teams up with Duke, Moses and her old enemy Patrick Nash to find out who is behind the deadly delivery

Director: Steve Hughes | Stars: Kate Phillips, Felix Scott, Ansu Kabia, Stuart Martin

Votes: 231

41. Poolhawooseu Teikeu 2 (2012– )
Episode: Episode 5 Part 1 (2012)

TV-Y | 32 min | Romance

A circumstance and a K-pop rival set the stages for either blackmail, entrapment or Take One's downfall.

Stars: Hwang Jeong-eum, No Min-woo, Park Gi-woong, Seol-ah Yu

42. Poolhawooseu Teikeu 2 (2012– )
Episode: Episode 4 Part 1 (2012)

TV-Y | 33 min | Romance

Tae Ik solves the watch mystery but his actions make him look guilty of deliberately hiding it. Han Ga-ryeon reacts at discovering Man Ok's new occupation. Kang Hwi's vision fails him onstage.

Stars: Hwang Jeong-eum, No Min-woo, Park Gi-woong, Seol-ah Yu