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

51. Jung_E (2023)

TV-14 | 98 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

On an uninhabitable 22nd-century Earth, the outcome of a civil war hinges on cloning the brain of an elite soldier to create a robot mercenary.

Director: Yeon Sang-ho | Stars: Kang Soo-youn, Kim Hyun-joo, Ryu Kyung-soo, Park So-yi

Votes: 10,840

52. The Man Who Killed Don Quixote (2018)

Not Rated | 132 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama

Toby, a disillusioned film director, is pulled into a world of time-jumping fantasy when a Spanish cobbler believes himself to be Sancho Panza. He gradually becomes unable to tell dreams from reality.

Director: Terry Gilliam | Stars: José Luis Ferrer, Ismael Fritschi, Juan López-Tagle, Adam Driver

Votes: 22,250 | Gross: $0.39M

53. The Blind Swordsman: Zatoichi (2003)

R | 116 min | Action, Comedy, Crime

The blind masseur/swordsman comes to a town in control of warring gangs, and while bunking with a farming family, he meets two women with their own agenda.

Director: Takeshi Kitano | Stars: Takeshi Kitano, Tadanobu Asano, Yui Natsukawa, Michiyo Yasuda

Votes: 51,659 | Gross: $0.85M

54. The Stunt Man (1980)

R | 131 min | Action, Comedy, Drama

A fugitive stumbles onto a movie set just when they need a new stunt man, takes the job as a way to hide out and falls for the leading lady while facing off with his manipulative director.

Director: Richard Rush | Stars: Peter O'Toole, Steve Railsback, Barbara Hershey, Allen Garfield

Votes: 10,548 | Gross: $7.06M

55. A Cinderella Story: Starstruck (2021)

PG | 100 min | Comedy, Drama, Family

Finley Tremaine, a small town farm girl, longs to spread her wings and soar as an aspiring performer.

Directors: Charlotte Colbert, Michelle Johnston | Stars: Bailee Madison, Michael Evans Behling, April Telek, Lillian Doucet-Roche

Votes: 927

56. Star 80 (1983)

R | 103 min | Biography, Drama

A successful young model finds trouble when her obsessive manager-turned-husband becomes dangerously jealous.

Director: Bob Fosse | Stars: Mariel Hemingway, Eric Roberts, Cliff Robertson, Carroll Baker

Votes: 8,170 | Gross: $6.47M

57. A Very Private Affair (1962)

103 min | Drama

When Jill becomes a movie star she soon discovers that her private life is destroyed by persistent fans that won't leave her alone. Her mother's ex-lover, Fabio, tries to protect her.

Director: Louis Malle | Stars: Brigitte Bardot, Marcello Mastroianni, Nicolas Bataille, Dirk Sanders

Votes: 1,219

58. Venus in Fur (2013)

Not Rated | 96 min | Drama

An actress attempts to convince a director how she's perfect for a role in his upcoming production.

Director: Roman Polanski | Stars: Emmanuelle Seigner, Mathieu Amalric

Votes: 21,013 | Gross: $0.34M

59. Untitled Tom Cruise/SpaceX Project

Pre-production

Tom Cruise and director Doug Liman travel far beyond Earth to film the first ever Hollywood motion picture in outer space

Director: Doug Liman | Star: Tom Cruise

60. Waiting for Guffman (1996)

R | 84 min | Comedy

An aspiring director and the marginally talented amateur cast of a hokey small-town Missouri musical production go overboard when they learn that someone from Broadway will be in attendance.

Director: Christopher Guest | Stars: Christopher Guest, Fred Willard, Catherine O'Hara, Parker Posey

Votes: 30,832 | Gross: $2.92M

61. Teen Titans GO! To the Movies (2018)

PG | 84 min | Animation, Action, Adventure

A villain's maniacal plan for world domination sidetracks five teenage superheroes who dream of Hollywood stardom.

Directors: Aaron Horvath, Peter Rida Michail | Stars: Greg Cipes, Scott Menville, Khary Payton, Tara Strong

Votes: 21,814 | Gross: $29.79M

62. America's Sweethearts (2001)

PG-13 | 102 min | Comedy, Romance

A movie publicist deals with the messy public split of his movie's co-stars while keeping reporters at bay while a reclusive director holds the film's print hostage.

Director: Joe Roth | Stars: Julia Roberts, John Cusack, Billy Crystal, Catherine Zeta-Jones

Votes: 60,478 | Gross: $93.61M

63. Barbed Wire Dolls (1976)

Not Rated | 90 min | Crime, Drama, Horror

Women's prison tale, with Lina Romay as Maria who is jailed after killing her father, played by director Jess Franco, who tries to rape her. Lesbian wardens, torture, nudity, sex, insanity and conspiracy round out the formula.

Director: Jesús Franco | Stars: Lina Romay, Paul Muller, Monica Swinn, Roger Darton

Votes: 1,526

64. The Comeback (2005–2014)

TV-MA | 30 min | Comedy

An ex A-list celebrity attempts to rekindle the flame of her once prominent acting career with nothing but a camera crew and some determination.

Stars: Lisa Kudrow, Lance Barber, Robert Michael Morris, Laura Silverman

Votes: 7,855

65. Gods and Monsters (1998)

R | 105 min | Biography, Drama

The last days of Frankenstein (1931) director James Whale are explored.

Director: Bill Condon | Stars: Ian McKellen, Brendan Fraser, Lynn Redgrave, Lolita Davidovich

Votes: 32,829 | Gross: $6.39M

66. Tales from the Hood (1995)

R | 98 min | Crime, Drama, Horror

A funeral director tells four strange tales of horror with an African American focus to three drug dealers he traps in his place of business.

Director: Rusty Cundieff | Stars: Clarence Williams III, Corbin Bernsen, Joe Torry, De'aundre Bonds

Votes: 9,657 | Gross: $11.80M

67. Day for Night (1973)

PG | 116 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

A committed film director struggles to complete his movie while coping with a myriad of crises, personal and professional, among the cast and crew.

Director: François Truffaut | Stars: Jacqueline Bisset, Jean-Pierre Léaud, François Truffaut, Valentina Cortese

Votes: 24,867 | Gross: $0.02M

68. Celebrity (1998)

R | 113 min | Comedy, Drama

The fortunes of a husband and wife differ drastically after they divorce.

Director: Woody Allen | Stars: Kenneth Branagh, Judy Davis, Leonardo DiCaprio, Greg Mottola

Votes: 28,486 | Gross: $5.03M

69. A Brighter Tomorrow (2023)

95 min | Comedy, Drama

A movie director struggles with his relationship with his family, and with his latest movie, about the impact on the Italian Communist Party of the USSR invasion of Hungary in 1956.

Director: Nanni Moretti | Stars: Nanni Moretti, Margherita Buy, Silvio Orlando, Barbora Bobulova

Votes: 3,191

70. Waltz with Bashir (2008)

R | 90 min | Documentary, Animation, Biography

An Israeli film director interviews fellow veterans of the 1982 invasion of Lebanon to reconstruct his own memories of his term of service in that conflict.

Director: Ari Folman | Stars: Ari Folman, Ron Ben-Yishai, Ronny Dayag, Ori Sivan

Votes: 60,554 | Gross: $2.28M

71. Home Movies (1999–2004)

TV-14 | 30 min | Animation, Comedy, Drama

Brendon Small, an ambitious eight-year-old filmmaker, shoots movies in his basement with his two best friends, while coming to terms with adolescence, life, and relationships.

Stars: Brendon Small, H. Jon Benjamin, Melissa Bardin Galsky, Ron Lynch

Votes: 11,082

72. Seven Veils (2023)

107 min | Drama

An earnest theater director has the task of remounting her former mentor's most famous work, the opera Salome. Some disturbing memories from her past will allow her repressed trauma to color the present.

Director: Atom Egoyan | Stars: Amanda Seyfried, Douglas Smith, Rebecca Liddiard, Mark O'Brien

Votes: 201

73. Analyze That (2002)

R | 96 min | Comedy, Crime

Mobster Paul Vitti is released into Dr. Ben Sobol's care, where only more chaos ensues.

Director: Harold Ramis | Stars: Robert De Niro, Billy Crystal, Lisa Kudrow, Joe Viterelli

Votes: 89,654 | Gross: $32.12M

74. Black Bear (I) (2020)

R | 104 min | Comedy, Drama

A filmmaker at a creative impasse seeks solace from her tumultuous past at a rural retreat, only to find that the woods summon her inner demons in intense and surprising ways.

Director: Lawrence Michael Levine | Stars: Aubrey Plaza, Christopher Abbott, Sarah Gadon, Paola Lázaro

Votes: 16,108

75. Henry's Crime (2010)

R | 108 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

Released from prison for a crime he didn't commit, an ex-con targets the same bank he was sent away for robbing.

Director: Malcolm Venville | Stars: Keanu Reeves, Vera Farmiga, James Caan, Judy Greer

Votes: 21,416 | Gross: $0.10M

76. S.O.B. (1981)

R | 122 min | Comedy, Drama

A successful movie director makes the most expensive film in his career and it becomes a huge flop. He tries to salvage his career by reshooting the film as an erotic production, where its family-friendly star takes her top off.

Director: Blake Edwards | Stars: Julie Andrews, William Holden, Marisa Berenson, Larry Hagman

Votes: 6,503 | Gross: $14.87M

77. Cecil B. Demented (2000)

R | 87 min | Comedy, Crime, Thriller

An insane independent film director and his renegade group of teenage filmmakers kidnap an A-list Hollywood actress and force her to star in their underground film.

Director: John Waters | Stars: Melanie Griffith, Stephen Dorff, Alicia Witt, Adrian Grenier

Votes: 16,701 | Gross: $1.28M

78. Street Fighter II: The Animated Movie (1994)

PG-13 | 102 min | Animation, Action, Adventure

A crime boss searching for the world's best fighters pursues a talented Japanese drifter and his American ex-classmate, while an Interpol agent and a US Army captain seek to bring him down.

Director: Gisaburô Sugii | Stars: Kôjiro Shimizu, Kenji Haga, Miki Fujitani, Masane Tsukayama

Votes: 9,947

79. Curtains (1983)

R | 89 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller

Six young actresses auditioning for a movie role at a remote mansion are targeted by a mysterious masked murderer.

Director: Richard Ciupka | Stars: John Vernon, Samantha Eggar, Linda Thorson, Anne Ditchburn

Votes: 5,771

80. The Other Side of the Wind (2018)

R | 122 min | Drama

At a media-swamped party to celebrate his 70th birthday and screen his avant-garde film-in-progress, a legendary but jaded Hollywood director is faced both with voracious fans and unsettling questions about what became of his lead actor.

Director: Orson Welles | Stars: John Huston, Oja Kodar, Peter Bogdanovich, Susan Strasberg

Votes: 8,073

81. Sullivan's Travels (1941)

Passed | 90 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama

Hollywood director John L. Sullivan sets out to experience life as a homeless person in order to gain relevant life experience for his next movie.

Director: Preston Sturges | Stars: Joel McCrea, Veronica Lake, Robert Warwick, William Demarest

Votes: 28,603

82. The Haunted World of El Superbeasto (2009 Video)

R | 77 min | Animation, Action, Comedy

A washed-up luchador and a super-spy investigate Nazi zombies, a nefarious scientist, and a stripper with a Satanic birthmark.

Director: Rob Zombie | Stars: Joe Alaskey, Ken Foree, Sheri Moon Zombie, Tom Papa

Votes: 8,229

83. Viper of Tehran (2024– )

Comedy, Crime, Drama

The adventures of a movie director who gets involved in a murder case.

Stars: Payman Maadi, Mahoor Nemati, Azadeh Samadi, Sahar Dolatshahi

Votes: 661

84. The Book of Solutions (2023)

102 min | Comedy, Drama

Follows a man, a director who tries to vanquish his demons, which are oppressing his creativity.

Director: Michel Gondry | Stars: Pierre Niney, Blanche Gardin, Françoise Lebrun, Frankie Wallach

Votes: 2,236

85. Be My Cat: A Film for Anne (2015)

87 min | Crime, Horror, Thriller

An aspiring filmmaker goes to shocking extremes to convince Hollywood actress Anne Hathaway to star in his film. First entry in Adrian Tofei's trilogy which includes We Put the World to Sleep and Pure.

Director: Adrian Tofei | Stars: Adrian Tofei, Sonia Teodoriu, Florentina Hariton, Alexandra Stroe

Votes: 2,429

86. Identification of a Woman (1982)

Not Rated | 130 min | Drama, Romance

A director's wife leaves him. He pursues another woman who also departs. This inspires a movie idea about women's relationships. He searches for an actress to star in the film and his life.

Director: Michelangelo Antonioni | Stars: Tomas Milian, Daniela Silverio, Christine Boisson, Lara Wendel

Votes: 3,252

87. Falling in Love Like in Movies (2023)

118 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

Bagus, a screenwriter, reunites with his high school friend and crush, Hana, who is still grieving from the loss of her husband. He wants to convince her to fall in love once again, just like in the movies.

Director: Yandy Laurens | Stars: Ringgo Agus Rahman, Nirina Zubir, Alex Abbad, Sheila Dara Aisha

Votes: 1,175

88. Three... Extremes (2004)

R | 125 min | Horror

An Asian cross-cultural trilogy of horror films from accomplished indie directors.

Directors: Fruit Chan, Park Chan-wook, Takashi Miike | Stars: Bai Ling, Lee Byung-hun, Kyoko Hasegawa, Pauline Lau

Votes: 20,924 | Gross: $0.08M

89. The Country Girl (1954)

Unrated | 104 min | Drama, Music

A director hires an alcoholic has-been and strikes up a stormy relationship with the actor's wife, who he believes is the cause of all the man's problems.

Director: George Seaton | Stars: Bing Crosby, Grace Kelly, William Holden, Anthony Ross

Votes: 6,698

90. Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse (1991)

R | 96 min | Documentary

Documentary that chronicles how Francis Ford Coppola's Apocalypse Now (1979) was plagued by extraordinary script, shooting, budget, and casting problems--nearly destroying the life and career of the celebrated director.

Directors: Fax Bahr, George Hickenlooper, Eleanor Coppola | Stars: Dennis Hopper, Martin Sheen, Marlon Brando, George Lucas

Votes: 23,329 | Gross: $1.32M

91. Brother (1997)

99 min | Action, Crime, Drama

An ex-soldier with a personal honor code enters the family crime business in St. Petersburg, Russia.

Director: Aleksey Balabanov | Stars: Sergey Bodrov, Viktor Sukhorukov, Svetlana Pismichenko, Mariya Zhukova

Votes: 24,667

92. La belle époque (2019)

R | 115 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy

Victor, a disillusioned 60-something whose marriage is on the rocks, opts to relive the week of his life when, 40 years earlier, he met his true love through a company that allows customers to return to the time period of their choosing.

Director: Nicolas Bedos | Stars: Daniel Auteuil, Guillaume Canet, Doria Tillier, Fanny Ardant

Votes: 19,699

93. P.O.Box Tinto Brass (1995)

81 min | Comedy

Tinto Brass receives letters containing real stories of women's erotic adventures which are subsequently transformed into short sex vignettes.

Director: Tinto Brass | Stars: Tinto Brass, Cinzia Roccaforte, Cristina Rinaldi, Erika Savastani

Votes: 1,830

94. What If... (2012)

Not Rated | 111 min | Drama, Romance

Under the Athenian night sky, before the silent threat of an imminent socio-economic crisis, a young man goes for a stroll and meets the love of his life. Does fate govern one's existence? What would have happened if he stayed in, instead?

Director: Christopher Papakaliatis | Stars: Christopher Papakaliatis, Marina Kalogirou, Giorgos Konstadinou, Maro Kodou

Votes: 8,432

95. BH90210 (2019)

TV-14 | 43 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

Fictional drama about actors rebooting a global-hit TV show that they had starred in 29 years ago for 10 years. That show was real, the actors from it are now playing versions of themselves. The original show was called Beverly Hills, 90210 (1990)

Stars: Gabrielle Carteris, Shannen Doherty, Jennie Garth, Brian Austin Green

Votes: 4,469

96. Law of Desire (1987)

NC-17 | 102 min | Comedy, Drama, Thriller

A gay filmmaker becomes involved with an obsessive fan while still pining for his absent true love. Meanwhile, he shares a close but complex relationship with his trans sister, an actress.

Director: Pedro Almodóvar | Stars: Eusebio Poncela, Carmen Maura, Antonio Banderas, Miguel Molina

Votes: 14,146

97. Dangerous Game (1993)

R | 108 min | Drama

A New York City film director working on his latest movie in Los Angeles begins to reflect the actions in his movie and real life, especially when he begins an affair with the lead actress.

Director: Abel Ferrara | Stars: Harvey Keitel, Madonna, James Russo, Nancy Ferrara

Votes: 4,277 | Gross: $0.07M

98. Emmanuelle 3 (1977)

X | 98 min | Drama, Romance

Emmanuelle and her architect husband continue their amoral lifestyle in the Seychelles. But when a casual dalliance between her and a film director starts to turn serious her husband shows very traditional signs of jealousy

Director: François Leterrier | Stars: Sylvia Kristel, Umberto Orsini, Jean-Pierre Bouvier, Alexandra Stewart

Votes: 2,066

99. Silent Movie (1976)

Passed | 87 min | Comedy

A film director and his strange friends struggle to produce the first major silent feature film in forty years.

Director: Mel Brooks | Stars: Mel Brooks, Marty Feldman, Dom DeLuise, Sid Caesar

Votes: 18,537 | Gross: $36.15M

100. Aggretsuko (2018–2023)

TV-14 | 15 min | Animation, Short, Comedy

Frustrated with her thankless office job, the 25-year-old red panda copes with her daily struggles by belting out heavy metal karaoke after work.

Stars: Kaolip, Shingo Kato, Rareko, Sôta Arai

Votes: 7,472