Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "standing-on-a-table"

1. Billy Elliot (2000)

R | 110 min | Drama, Music

A talented young boy becomes torn between his unexpected love of dance and the disintegration of his family.

Director: Stephen Daldry | Stars: Jamie Bell, Julie Walters, Jean Heywood, Jamie Draven

Votes: 143,561 | Gross: $22.00M

2. Exam (2009)

Not Rated | 101 min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller

Eight candidates for a highly desirable corporate job are locked together in an exam room and given a final test with just one seemingly simple question. However, it doesn't take long for confusion to ensue and tensions to unravel.

Director: Stuart Hazeldine | Stars: Adar Beck, Gemma Chan, Nathalie Cox, John Lloyd Fillingham

Votes: 125,938

3. The Fisher King (1991)

R | 137 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy

A former radio DJ, suicidally despondent because of a terrible mistake he made, finds redemption in helping a deranged homeless man who was an unwitting victim of that mistake.

Director: Terry Gilliam | Stars: Jeff Bridges, Robin Williams, Adam Bryant, Paul Lombardi

Votes: 91,180 | Gross: $41.90M

4. From Here to Eternity (1953)

Passed | 118 min | Drama, Romance, War

At a U.S. Army base in 1941 Hawaii, a private is cruelly punished for not boxing on his unit's team, while his commanding officer's wife and top aide begin a tentative affair.

Director: Fred Zinnemann | Stars: Burt Lancaster, Montgomery Clift, Deborah Kerr, Donna Reed

Votes: 50,967 | Gross: $30.50M

5. Where the Wild Things Are (2009)

PG | 101 min | Adventure, Drama, Family

Yearning for escape and adventure, a young boy runs away from home and sails to an island filled with creatures that take him in as their king.

Director: Spike Jonze | Stars: Max Records, Catherine O'Hara, Forest Whitaker, Pepita Emmerichs

Votes: 108,638 | Gross: $77.23M

6. Hard to Kill (1990)

R | 96 min | Action, Crime, Drama

Targeted by the mob and its political supporters, hired assassins leave LAPD Detective Mason Storm for dead. Seven years later, he recovers from a deep coma, demanding justice and the opportunity to get even.

Director: Bruce Malmuth | Stars: Steven Seagal, Kelly LeBrock, William Sadler, Frederick Coffin

Votes: 32,471 | Gross: $47.41M

7. The Kid Who Would Be King (2019)

PG | 120 min | Action, Adventure, Family

Alex, a 12-year-old boy, and his friends fight an evil sorceress with the help of Excalibur, the sword of King Arthur, in a bid to save the world from her atrocities.

Director: Joe Cornish | Stars: Louis Ashbourne Serkis, Denise Gough, Dean Chaumoo, Tom Taylor

Votes: 18,787 | Gross: $16.79M

8. Punisher: War Zone (2008)

R | 103 min | Action, Crime, Drama

Frank Castle, known as the Punisher, ruthlessly demolishes organized crime, but it starts an even bigger war.

Director: Lexi Alexander | Stars: Ray Stevenson, Dominic West, Julie Benz, Doug Hutchison

Votes: 67,288 | Gross: $8.05M

9. Norma Rae (1979)

PG | 114 min | Drama

A young single mother and textile worker agrees to help unionize her mill despite the problems and dangers involved.

Director: Martin Ritt | Stars: Sally Field, Beau Bridges, Ron Leibman, Pat Hingle

Votes: 12,879 | Gross: $22.23M

10. Ip Man 2 (2010)

R | 108 min | Action, Biography, Drama

Centering on Ip Man's migration to Hong Kong in 1949 as he attempts to propagate his discipline of Wing Chun martial arts.

Director: Wilson Yip | Stars: Donnie Yen, Xiaoming Huang, Sammo Kam-Bo Hung, Lynn Xiong

Votes: 111,242 | Gross: $0.21M

11. The Oxford Murders (2008)

R | 108 min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller

At Oxford University, a professor and a grad student work together to try to stop a potential series of murders seemingly linked by mathematical symbols.

Director: Álex de la Iglesia | Stars: Elijah Wood, John Hurt, Leonor Watling, Jim Carter

Votes: 30,733 | Gross: $0.00M

12. 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: 39,409 | Gross: $30.94M

13. Wish You Were Here (1987)

R | 88 min | Comedy, Drama

In a staid English seaside town after the Second World War, young Lynda grows up with her widowed father and younger sister. She eventually becomes pregnant by an acquaintance of her father.

Director: David Leland | Stars: Emily Lloyd, Trudi Cavanagh, Clare Clifford, Barbara Durkin

Votes: 3,360 | Gross: $3.28M

14. Toc Toc (2017)

TV-MA | 90 min | Comedy

The adventures and misadventures of a group of patients with OCD appointed at the same time.

Director: Vicente Villanueva | Stars: Paco León, Alexandra Jiménez, Rossy de Palma, Nuria Herrero

Votes: 21,579

15. The Tournament (2009)

R | 95 min | Action, Thriller

A tournament is watched by dozens of wealthy men betting on which one of the 30 assassins will survive the next 24 hours "kill or die" and claim the USD10,000,000 prize. It takes place in an English town with plenty of CCTVs.

Director: Scott Mann | Stars: Ving Rhames, Robert Carlyle, Kelly Hu, Ian Somerhalder

Votes: 36,308

16. Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man (1943)

Passed | 74 min | Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi

The resurrected Wolf Man, seeking a cure for his malady, enlists the aid of a mad scientist, who claims he will not only rid the Wolf Man of his nocturnal metamorphosis, but also revive the frozen body of Frankenstein's inhuman creation.

Director: Roy William Neill | Stars: Lon Chaney Jr., Ilona Massey, Patric Knowles, Lionel Atwill

Votes: 10,001

17. Flesh (1968)

R | 89 min | Drama

A man desperate for money and no income, turns prostitute and interplays with a variety of clients and hustlers.

Director: Paul Morrissey | Stars: Joe Dallesandro, Geraldine Smith, Patti D'Arbanville, Candy Darling

Votes: 2,604

18. The Adjuster (1991)

R | 102 min | Comedy, Drama

A family with the lack of sincerity faces a crisis.

Director: Atom Egoyan | Stars: Elias Koteas, Arsinée Khanjian, Maury Chaykin, Gabrielle Rose

Votes: 3,773 | Gross: $0.40M

19. From a Whisper to a Scream (1987)

R | 99 min | Action, Drama, Horror

In a small Tennessee town, a historian relates four horror stories to a reporter.

Director: Jeff Burr | Stars: Vincent Price, Clu Gulager, Terry Kiser, Harry Caesar

Votes: 2,999 | Gross: $1.36M

20. Grand Blue (2020)

107 min | Comedy

A college student spends his year at the seaside town of Izu, having fun on the beach with his school friends.

Director: Tsutomu Hanabusa | Stars: Keita Arai, Aya Asahina, Yuya Hirata, Atsuhiro Inukai

Votes: 383

21. The Love Parade (1929)

Passed | 107 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance

The queen of mythical Sylvania marries a courtier, who finds his new life unsatisfying.

Director: Ernst Lubitsch | Stars: Maurice Chevalier, Jeanette MacDonald, Lupino Lane, Lillian Roth

Votes: 2,628

22. I Can Quit Whenever I Want (2019)

TV-MA | 98 min | Comedy

Three university teachers who have lost their jobs turn into drug dealers after one of them creates an experimental new pill.

Director: Carlos Therón | Stars: David Verdaguer, Ernesto Sevilla, Carlos Santos, Cristina Castaño

Votes: 1,947

23. Special (2006)

R | 81 min | Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi

A lonely comic book fan, Les Franken, has a reaction to medication and becomes convinced he's a superhero.

Directors: Hal Haberman, Jeremy Passmore | Stars: Michael Rapaport, Paul Blackthorne, Josh Peck, Robert Baker

Votes: 5,919 | Gross: $0.01M

24. Ostia (1970)

103 min | Drama

Two brothers live by petty thievery and try to recover from their upbringing. Bandiera and Rabbino were children when they pushed their drunken father out of a window for killing their pet ... See full summary »

Director: Sergio Citti | Stars: Laurent Terzieff, Franco Citti, Anita Sanders, Ninetto Davoli

Votes: 321

25. Women in Temptation (2010)

118 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

When a marriage counselor is abandoned by her husband for a younger woman, she sets out for new companionship.

Director: Jirí Vejdelek | Stars: Lenka Vlasáková, Eliska Balzerová, Vojtech Dyk, Veronika Khek Kubarová

Votes: 812

26. Maybe (1999)

109 min | Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi

After having sex with his girlfriend Lucie in a bathroom, Arthur discovers that a ceiling panel is a time portal to Paris in the future, although it appears more like a sun-baked desert city by that point.

Director: Cédric Klapisch | Stars: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Romain Duris, Géraldine Pailhas, Ann'So

Votes: 1,713

27. Daughter (2015)

86 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller

A psychologist wishes for her daughter to marry well and sets her up with a rich suitor, but things do not go as planned. Her increasingly rebellious and strange behavior scares off those around her, so the mother considers exorcism.

Director: Pang-Chun Chan | Stars: Kara Wai, Yanny Wing-yan Chan, Tak-Bun Wong, Miao Yu

Votes: 114

28. Tender Age (1984)

120 min | Comedy, Drama

This film on campus life and love centers on the love triangle of a female teacher, a male student, and a female student.

Director: Joey Gosiengfiao | Stars: Eddie Rodriguez, Dina Bonnevie, Carmi Martin, Nova Villa

29. Father, Mother, My Wife and I (1955)

105 min | Comedy

Robert Langlois is now married to Catherine, the former housemaid. And they would live happily ever after if the housing crisis did not force them to live together with Gabrielle and ... See full summary »

Director: Jean-Paul Le Chanois | Stars: Robert Lamoureux, Gaby Morlay, Fernand Ledoux, Nicole Courcel

Votes: 190

30. Stuck with a Perfect Woman (2016)

97 min | Comedy, Romance

Eliska's husband has left her for a younger woman. She is childless, in her early forties, yet still attractive. Till then she had taken care of her successful husband, but now she has to ... See full summary »

Director: Tomas Hoffman | Stars: Petra Hrebícková, Ondrej Vetchý, Miroslav Táborský, Jirí Langmajer

Votes: 454

31. Ty, ty, Yetti (1987 TV Movie)

39 min | Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi

Martin manages to summon an emissary from the Dog Planet to Earth - a dachshund that can transform into a human. Mr. Dog, who is a janitor on the Dog Planet, befriends Martin and his ... See full summary »

Director: Josef Vondrácek | Stars: Josef Abrhám, Hana Cízková, Hana Frejková, Ota Jirák

32. A Ten-Minute Egg (1924)

15 min | Comedy, Short

Jimmy prints up business cards that give his job description as "bouncer," which intimidates everyone--until he runs out of cards.

Director: Leo McCarey | Stars: Charley Chase, Ena Gregory, Noah Young, Jack Gavin

Votes: 66

33. Guests Wanted (1932)

18 min | Short, Comedy

A man inherits a hotel in California and hires his friends to help him run it. Business is bad so he plants a story that his late uncle hid his fortune in the hotel. The place is soon overrun with treasure hunters.

Director: Ralph Ceder | Stars: Benny Rubin, Nell Breen, Louise Carver, Bud Jamison

Votes: 11

34. The Carol Burnett Show (1967–1978)
Episode: Rock Hudson and Nancy Walker (1975)

TV-G | 51 min | Comedy, Family

Highlights of this edition with guests Rock Hudson and Nancy Walker include: another look at the most memorable TV commercials of the year; Rock and Nancy duet on "Mine"; and "When My Baby ... See full summary »

Director: Dave Powers | Stars: Carol Burnett, Harvey Korman, Vicki Lawrence, Rock Hudson

Votes: 61

35. Friends (1994–2004)
Episode: The One with the Ick Factor (1995)

TV-PG | 22 min | Comedy, Romance

Monica gets a shock when she finds out her boyfriend is a high school student. Chandler finds out his colleagues don't like him when Phoebe temps as his secretary.

Director: Robby Benson | Stars: Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox, Lisa Kudrow, Matt LeBlanc

Votes: 6,012

36. Sapphire & Steel (1979–1982)
Episode: Assignment One: Part 5 (1979)

TV-PG | 26 min | Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller

The time break strengthens after a nursery rhyme hidden in a book becomes stuck in Helen's head. Sapphire burns the nursery rhyme book and Steel and Lead barely succeed in stopping the time... See full summary »

Director: Shaun O'Riordan | Stars: David McCallum, Joanna Lumley, Steven O'Shea, Tamasin Bridge

Votes: 111

37. Coffee with Scott Adams (2018– )
All the 'Ridiculous Bullsh*t' in the News Today (2019 Podcast Episode)

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Star: Scott Adams

38. Moon Knight (2022)
Episode: The Goldfish Problem (2022)

TV-14 | 47 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy

Socially awkward, amiable , "gift shop-ist" Steven Grant learns that he may share a body with a ruthless mercenary.

Director: Mohamed Diab | Stars: Oscar Isaac, Ethan Hawke, May Calamawy, F. Murray Abraham

Votes: 28,436

39. Doom Patrol (2019–2023)
Episode: Sex Patrol (2020)

TV-MA | 52 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy

The Dannyzens hold a party at the manor to try and bring Danny back.

Director: Omar Madha | Stars: Diane Guerrero, April Bowlby, Joivan Wade, Matt Bomer

Votes: 1,636

40. One Piece (2023– )
Episode: Tell No Tales (2023)

TV-14 | 58 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy

Luffy, Zoro, and Nami meet Usopp in the Syrup Village a small, peaceful village. Usopp tells all sorts of lies about his adventures he has never been to his friend, Kaya, who has been sick in bed for over a year since she lost her parents.

Director: Emma Sullivan | Stars: Iñaki Godoy, Emily Rudd, Mackenyu, Jacob Romero

Votes: 11,166

41. Servants (2003)
Episode: Episode #1.1 (2003)

Drama

In 1850 the Earl of Taplow and his family return from Italy to Taplows,their country house,with their retinue of servants,led by butler Jarvis and house-keeper Flora. George Cosmo, a ... See full summary »

Director: Tim Whitby | Stars: Shaun Parkes, Kenny Doughty, Joe Absolom, George Davey

Votes: 9

42. Justified (2010–2015)
Episode: Fathers and Sons (2010)

TV-MA | 40 min | Action, Crime, Drama

The marshals are forced to turn to Arlo for help in making a case against Bo Crowder, but will he go along? Meanwhile, Bo is having problems of his own with Boyd, who continues to wage a religious war against his drug business.

Director: Michael Katleman | Stars: Timothy Olyphant, Nick Searcy, Joelle Carter, Jacob Pitts

Votes: 1,845

43. Franklin (2024– )
Episode: Sauce for Prayers (2024)

TV-MA | 59 min | Biography, Drama, History

As the American Revolution hangs in the balance, Benjamin Franklin and his grandson navigate a treacherous web of secrets and lies to secure the nation's freedom.

Director: Timothy Van Patten | Stars: Michael Douglas, Noah Jupe, Daniel Mays, Ludivine Sagnier

Votes: 276

44. Sons of Anarchy (2008–2014)
Episode: Una Venta (2011)

TV-MA | 43 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

SAMCRO makes a run to set up a new business venture while Gemma makes a new ally in Charming.

Director: Billy Gierhart | Stars: Charlie Hunnam, Katey Sagal, Mark Boone Junior, Dayton Callie

Votes: 2,565

45. Excused (2011–2013)
Episode: Down in the Dumpster (2011)

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Star: Iliza Shlesinger

Votes: 9

46. Psych (2006–2014)
Episode: Cog Blocked (2014)

TV-PG | 43 min | Comedy, Crime, Mystery

Gus is determined to solve the murder of a man whose life was strangely similar to his own. Meanwhile, Shawn decides to try to make up for his mooching ways.

Director: Brad Turner | Stars: James Roday Rodriguez, Dulé Hill, Timothy Omundson, Maggie Lawson

Votes: 783

47. Psych (2006–2014)
Episode: Remake A.K.A. Cloudy... With a Chance of Improvement (2014)

TV-PG | 42 min | Comedy, Crime, Mystery

Psych makes television history in a never-been-done remake of the Season One episode "Cloudy... with a Chance of Murder."

Director: Andy Berman | Stars: James Roday Rodriguez, Dulé Hill, Timothy Omundson, Maggie Lawson

Votes: 1,121

48. The Michael J. Fox Show (2013–2014)
Episode: Health (2014)

TV-PG | 21 min | Comedy

When the new principal at Eve's school disagrees with Annie about her English curriculum, he forces her to teach Health class instead. Ian and Harris get a hold of a copy of the manuscript for Leigh's book.

Director: John Fortenberry | Stars: Michael J. Fox, Betsy Brandt, Wendell Pierce, Katie Finneran

Votes: 50

49. Justified (2010–2015)
Episode: Restitution (2014)

TV-MA | 51 min | Action, Crime, Drama

The Mexican cartel catches up with Boyd and demands payback for the dead bodies, Ava goes on the offensive after being accused of snitching, and Wendy faces a hard choice after she learns that Kendal will be tried as an adult.

Director: Adam Arkin | Stars: Timothy Olyphant, Nick Searcy, Jere Burns, Joelle Carter

Votes: 1,386

50. Stalker (2014–2015)
Episode: Whatever Happened to Baby James? (2014)

TV-14 | 42 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

The team investigate a teenage girl, who had a stalker break into her house, and soon realize she's not the one being targeted; Perry pays Beth an unsolicited visit at work.

Director: Liz Friedlander | Stars: Dylan McDermott, Maggie Q, Victor Rasuk, Mariana Klaveno

Votes: 487