Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "reference-to-franz-kafka"

1. Shutter Island (2010)

R | 138 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller

Teddy Daniels and Chuck Aule, two US marshals, are sent to an asylum on a remote island in order to investigate the disappearance of a patient, where Teddy uncovers a shocking truth about the place.

Director: Martin Scorsese | Stars: Leonardo DiCaprio, Emily Mortimer, Mark Ruffalo, Ben Kingsley

Votes: 1,461,780 | Gross: $128.01M

2. Hostel (2005)

R | 94 min | Horror

Three backpackers head to a Slovak city that promises to meet their hedonistic expectations, with no idea of the hell that awaits them.

Director: Eli Roth | Stars: Jay Hernandez, Derek Richardson, Eythor Gudjonsson, Barbara Nedeljakova

Votes: 191,359 | Gross: $47.33M

3. Bridget Jones's Diary (2001)

R | 97 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

Bridget Jones is determined to improve herself while she looks for love in a year in which she keeps a personal diary.

Director: Sharon Maguire | Stars: Renée Zellweger, Colin Firth, Hugh Grant, Gemma Jones

Votes: 264,445 | Gross: $71.54M

4. 1408 (2007)

PG-13 | 104 min | Fantasy, Horror, Mystery

A man who specialises in debunking paranormal occurrences checks into the fabled room 1408 in the Dolphin Hotel. Soon after settling in, he confronts genuine terror.

Director: Mikael Håfström | Stars: John Cusack, Samuel L. Jackson, Mary McCormack, Tony Shalhoub

Votes: 294,812 | Gross: $71.99M

5. Annie Hall (1977)

PG | 93 min | Comedy, Romance

Alvy Singer, a divorced Jewish comedian, reflects on his relationship with ex-lover Annie Hall, an aspiring nightclub singer, which ended abruptly just like his previous marriages.

Director: Woody Allen | Stars: Woody Allen, Diane Keaton, Tony Roberts, Carol Kane

Votes: 278,826 | Gross: $39.20M

6. The Life of David Gale (2003)

R | 130 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

A man against capital punishment is accused of murdering a fellow activist and is sent to death row.

Director: Alan Parker | Stars: Kevin Spacey, Kate Winslet, Laura Linney, Cleo King

Votes: 126,262 | Gross: $19.59M

7. The Squid and the Whale (2005)

R | 81 min | Comedy, Drama

Follows two young boys dealing with their parents' divorce in Brooklyn in the 1980s.

Director: Noah Baumbach | Stars: Owen Kline, Jeff Daniels, Laura Linney, Jesse Eisenberg

Votes: 90,614 | Gross: $7.36M

8. In the House (2012)

R | 105 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller

A high school French teacher is drawn into a precocious student's increasingly transgressive story about his relationship with a friend's family.

Director: François Ozon | Stars: Fabrice Luchini, Vincent Schmitt, Ernst Umhauer, Kristin Scott Thomas

Votes: 34,378 | Gross: $0.35M

9. Deception (2021)

105 min | Drama

An American novelist living for a time in London converses with his wife, his mistress, and other female characters he may have dreamed up.

Director: Arnaud Desplechin | Stars: Léa Seydoux, Denis Podalydès, Anouk Grinberg, Madalina Constantin

Votes: 1,771

10. Loser (2000)

PG-13 | 98 min | Comedy, Romance

A college student, branded a loser by his roommates and booted from the dorm, falls in love with a coed who has eyes for their condescending professor.

Director: Amy Heckerling | Stars: Jason Biggs, Mena Suvari, Zak Orth, Thomas Sadoski

Votes: 30,391 | Gross: $15.62M

11. One Fine Morning (2022)

R | 112 min | Drama, Romance

With a father suffering from neurodegenerative disease, a young woman lives with her eight-year-old daughter. While struggling to secure a decent nursing home, she runs into an unavailable friend with whom she embarks on an affair.

Director: Mia Hansen-Løve | Stars: Léa Seydoux, Pascal Greggory, Melvil Poupaud, Nicole Garcia

Votes: 7,008

12. I Heart Huckabees (2004)

R | 107 min | Comedy

A husband-and-wife team play detective, but not in the traditional sense. Instead, the happy duo helps others solve their existential issues, the kind that keep you up at night, wondering what it all means.

Director: David O. Russell | Stars: Jason Schwartzman, Jude Law, Naomi Watts, Mark Wahlberg

Votes: 66,320 | Gross: $12.78M

13. Guilty of Romance (2011)

144 min | Drama, Horror, Romance

A grisly murder occurs in Maruyama-cho, Shibuya, Tokyo - a love hotel district - a woman was found dead in a derelict apartment. Kazuko (Miki Mizuno) is a police officer called to ... See full summary »

Director: Sion Sono | Stars: Miki Mizuno, Makoto Togashi, Megumi Kagurazaka, Kazuya Kojima

Votes: 5,847

14. Denial (II) (2016)

PG-13 | 109 min | Biography, Drama

Acclaimed writer and historian Deborah E. Lipstadt must battle for historical truth to prove the Holocaust actually occurred when David Irving, a renowned denier, sues her for libel.

Director: Mick Jackson | Stars: Rachel Weisz, Tom Wilkinson, Timothy Spall, Andrew Scott

Votes: 23,573 | Gross: $4.07M

15. Of an Age (2022)

R | 100 min | Drama, Romance

In the summer of 1999, a 17-year-old Serbian-born Australian amateur ballroom dancer experiences an unexpected and intense 24-hour romance with a friend's older brother.

Director: Goran Stolevski | Stars: Matthew Page, Thom Green, Elias Anton, Louise Child

Votes: 4,203

16. The Fifth Estate (2013)

R | 128 min | Biography, Crime, Drama

A dramatic thriller based on real events that reveals the quest to expose the deceptions and corruptions of power that turned an Internet upstart into the 21st century's most fiercely debated organization.

Director: Bill Condon | Stars: Benedict Cumberbatch, Daniel Brühl, Carice van Houten, Alicia Vikander

Votes: 42,753 | Gross: $3.25M

17. The Ninth Configuration (1980)

R | 118 min | Comedy, Drama, Horror

An ex-marine psychiatrist attempts to rehabilitate his patients by indulging their fantasies, and seeks to prove the existence of a loving God to one especially troubled inmate.

Director: William Peter Blatty | Stars: Stacy Keach, Scott Wilson, Jason Miller, Ed Flanders

Votes: 9,005

18. The Russia House (1990)

R | 123 min | Drama, Romance, Thriller

A British publisher is sent a manuscript detailing Soviet Union nuclear missile capabilities. British Intelligence intercept it and recruit him to investigate the author's editor, a beautiful Russian woman he claims never to have met.

Director: Fred Schepisi | Stars: Sean Connery, Michelle Pfeiffer, Roy Scheider, James Fox

Votes: 17,578 | Gross: $23.00M

19. Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion (1970)

R | 115 min | Crime, Drama

A chief of detectives, homicide section, kills his mistress and deliberately leaves clues to prove his own responsibility for the crime.

Director: Elio Petri | Stars: Gian Maria Volontè, Florinda Bolkan, Gianni Santuccio, Orazio Orlando

Votes: 13,398 | Gross: $0.27M

20. Elegy (I) (2008)

R | 112 min | Drama, Romance

Cultural critic David Kepesh finds his life, which he indicates is a state of "emancipated manhood," thrown into tragic disarray by Consuela Castillo, a well-mannered student who awakens a sense of sexual possessiveness in her teacher.

Director: Isabel Coixet | Stars: Ben Kingsley, Penélope Cruz, Patricia Clarkson, Dennis Hopper

Votes: 23,231 | Gross: $3.58M

21. The Daytrippers (1996)

R | 87 min | Comedy, Drama

When she discovers a love letter written to her husband by an unknown paramour, the distraught Eliza turns to her tight-knit Long Island family for advice.

Director: Greg Mottola | Stars: Hope Davis, Stanley Tucci, Parker Posey, Liev Schreiber

Votes: 7,191 | Gross: $2.08M

22. Franz (2025)

Biography, Drama | Filming

It narrates the life of the writer Franz Kafka, from his birth to his death.

Director: Agnieszka Holland | Stars: Katharina Stark, Emma Smetana, Sebastian Schwarz, Jenovéfa Boková

23. School's Out (2018)

Not Rated | 104 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller

A substitute teacher is put in charge of a class of future geniuses after their teacher commits suicide.

Director: Sébastien Marnier | Stars: Laurent Lafitte, Emmanuelle Bercot, Luàna Bajrami, Victor Bonnel

Votes: 3,121

24. Return to Montauk (2017)

PG-13 | 106 min | Drama, Romance

The author Max Zorn, now in his early 60s, is on a promotional book tour in New York when he meets up again with the woman he could never forget. They spend a weekend together. 17 years have passed. Can there be a future for their past?

Director: Volker Schlöndorff | Stars: Stellan Skarsgård, Bronagh Gallagher, Nina Hoss, Niels Arestrup

Votes: 1,362

25. It's Impossible to Learn to Plow by Reading Books (1988)

85 min | Drama

A nameless young character goes into travels to the country, meeting some acquaintances and strangers as well, having banal conversations, dedicating his existence into daily mundane ... See full summary »

Director: Richard Linklater | Stars: Richard Linklater, James Goodwin, Dan Kratochvil, Linda Finney

Votes: 943

26. Zero Motivation (2014)

Unrated | 97 min | Comedy, Drama

A unit of female Israeli soldiers at a remote desert base bide their time as they count down the minutes until they can return to civilian life.

Director: Talya Lavie | Stars: Dana Ivgy, Nelly Tagar, Shani Klein, Heli Twito

Votes: 4,529 | Gross: $0.10M

27. My Blind Date with Life (2017)

111 min | Biography, Comedy, Drama

An ambitious young man struggles to achieve his dream of becoming an employee in a Munich luxury hotel despite being strongly visually impaired.

Director: Marc Rothemund | Stars: Kostja Ullmann, Jacob Matschenz, Anna Maria Mühe, Johann von Bülow

Votes: 5,793

28. A Christmas Tale (2008)

Not Rated | 150 min | Comedy, Drama

The troubled Vuillard family is no stranger to illness, grief, and banishment, but when their matriarch requires a bone-marrow transplant, the estranged clan reunites just in time for Christmas.

Director: Arnaud Desplechin | Stars: Catherine Deneuve, Jean-Paul Roussillon, Mathieu Amalric, Anne Consigny

Votes: 7,572 | Gross: $1.06M

29. Esau (2019)

TV-14 | 110 min | Drama

A 40-year-old writer returns to his family house where he was raised and that he escaped after half a lifetime - to face his brother who stayed instead, inherited their family bakery and married the woman who they both loved.

Director: Pavel Lungin | Stars: Lior Ashkenazi, Mark Ivanir, Yuliya Peresild, Harvey Keitel

Votes: 169

30. The Swindle (1997)

Not Rated | 101 min | Comedy, Crime, Thriller

Betty and Victor are a pair of scam artists. One day Betty brings in Maurice, a treasurer of a multinational company. Maurice is due to transfer 5 millions francs out of Switzerland, and Betty is convinced he plans to steal that money.

Director: Claude Chabrol | Stars: Isabelle Huppert, Michel Serrault, François Cluzet, Jean-François Balmer

Votes: 3,003 | Gross: $0.23M

31. Give Me Liberty (2019)

110 min | Comedy, Drama

In this freewheeling comedy, medical transport driver Vic risks his job to shuttle a group of rowdy seniors and a Russian boxer to a funeral, dragging clients like Tracy, a young woman with ALS, along for the ride.

Director: Kirill Mikhanovsky | Stars: Chris Galust, Lauren 'Lolo' Spencer, Maksim Stoyanov, Steve Wolski

Votes: 2,212 | Gross: $0.14M

32. Filmworker (2017)

Not Rated | 94 min | Documentary, Biography

A documentary about how English actor Leon Vitali came to work as an assistant to American filmmaker Stanley Kubrick for over 30 years.

Director: Tony Zierra | Stars: Leon Vitali, Ryan O'Neal, Brian Capron, Mike Alfreds

Votes: 3,514 | Gross: $0.10M

33. M (II) (2018)

105 min | Documentary

After 15 years of self-imposed exile, Menahem gets back to his ultra-orthodox home town of Bnei Brak, where he wants to face the traumatic childhood experiences of long-lasting sexual abuse within the Khasidic community.

Director: Yolande Zauberman | Stars: Menachem Lang, Talleen Abu Hanna

Votes: 342

34. Man of the Century (1999)

R | 77 min | Comedy, Romance

Fantasy-comedy about a young man who lives as if it is 1928 or so, and his encounters with modern-day women and modern-day criminals.

Director: Adam Abraham | Stars: Gibson Frazier, Cara Buono, Ian Edwards, Brian Davies

Votes: 1,271 | Gross: $0.03M

35. Maigret voit rouge (1963)

87 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Division Commissioner Jules Maigret and his team hunt a ring of American racketeers sent to Paris to silence an embarrassing witness

Director: Gilles Grangier | Stars: Jean Gabin, Françoise Fabian, Roland Armontel, Paul Frankeur

Votes: 696

36. Hawaiian Gardens (2001)

Not Rated | 110 min

A seductive 17-year-old temptress who loves to read finds herself in an unusual triangle between her mother's lover--a 70-year-old writer--and a German copyright pirate.

Director: Percy Adlon | Stars: Tzi Ma, Richard Roundtree, Rodney Rincon, Joseph Anthony

Votes: 66

37. La vie sexuelle des Belges 1950-1978 (1994)

85 min | Biography, Comedy, Romance

A semi-autobiography of the first 28 years of the director, the Flemish anarchist Jan Bucquoy.

Director: Jan Bucquoy | Stars: Jean-Henri Compère, Noe Francq, Isabelle Legros, Sophie Schneider

Votes: 650

38. Bye Bye Braverman (1968)

Approved | 94 min | Comedy, Drama

Four Jewish intellectuals carpool to the funeral of their old friend Leslie Braverman, who died suddenly at age 41.

Director: Sidney Lumet | Stars: George Segal, Jack Warden, Joseph Wiseman, Sorrell Booke

Votes: 858

39. Insect (2018)

98 min | Comedy, Drama

Amateur actors rehearsing "Pictures from the Insects' Life". The actors find themselves living out their characters' roles and hallucinating insects. "Insects", is intercut with the ... See full summary »

Director: Jan Svankmajer | Stars: Jirí Lábus, Jan Budar, Pavel Nový, Norbert Lichý

Votes: 524

40. We Are Little Zombies (2019)

120 min | Comedy, Drama, Music

Four orphans meet at a funeral home and none of them are sad about the recent deaths of their parents. They decide to become friends and live on their own.

Director: Makoto Nagahisa | Stars: Keita Ninomiya, Mondo Okumura, Satoshi Mizuno, Sena Nakajima

Votes: 948

41. Nena (I) (2014)

95 min | Biography, Comedy, Drama

In the summer of 1989, a teenage girl finds herself facing adulthood as she deals with her handicapped father's suicide attempt - while also falling in love for the first time in her life.

Director: Saskia Diesing | Stars: Abbey Hoes, Uwe Ochsenknecht, Gijs Blom, Monic Hendrickx

Votes: 597

42. The Lady in Number 6: Music Saved My Life (2013)

39 min | Documentary, Short, Biography

Aliza Sommer-Herz, aged 109 and the world's oldest Holocaust survivor, tells the story of how music saved her life: both during her time at Theresienstadt concentration camp and in the years afterwards.

Director: Malcolm Clarke | Stars: Aliza Sommer-Herz, Zdenka Fantlova, Anita Lasker-Wallfisch, Malcolm Clarke

Votes: 1,006

43. The Chair (1988)

R | 100 min | Horror

A psychologist, a psychiatrist and a prison warden open up a long-closed prison, unaware that the ghost of an electrocuted convict haunts it.

Director: Waldemar Korzeniowsky | Stars: James Coco, Trini Alvarado, Paul Benedict, Gary McCleery

Votes: 260

44. Mr. Kaplan (2014)

Not Rated | 98 min | Comedy, Drama, Thriller

HD. A grumpy old man sees opportunity when he learns of a mysterious German man he suspects is a Nazi in hiding.

Director: Álvaro Brechner | Stars: Héctor Noguera, Néstor Guzzini, Rolf Becker, Nidia Telles

Votes: 977

45. Láska hory prenásí (2022)

90 min | Comedy, Romance

A screwball comedy about wedding preparations, set in a mountain hotel, told successively from the point of view of three different characters.

Director: Jakub Machala | Stars: Anna Fialová, Natalia Germani, Marek Lambora, Richard Stanke

Votes: 58

46. Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles (2014)

PG-13 | 91 min | Documentary, Biography

A look at the life and work of the great theatre, radio and film artist.

Director: Chuck Workman | Stars: Orson Welles, Simon Callow, Christopher Welles, Joanne Hill Styles

Votes: 976 | Gross: $0.02M

47. Kafka for Kids (2022)

111 min | Comedy, Musical

Basically, Kafka's Metamorphosis is unfilmable. After all, the author didn't want visual representations to appear of the insect Gregor Samsa turned into; readers should visualise that ... See full summary »

Director: Roee Rosen | Stars: Jeff Francis, Hani Furstenberg, Eli Gorenstein, Orna Katz

Votes: 25

48. Deadly Betrayal: The Bruce Curtis Story (1991 TV Movie)

93 min | Drama

A "true crime" docu-drama: in July 1982, Al and Rosemary Podgis were shot dead in their home in New Jersey. Rosemary's son Scott and his Canadian high-school friend Bruce Curtis were ... See full summary »

Director: Graeme Campbell | Stars: Simon Reynolds, Jaimz Woolvett, John Kapelos, Bruce Boa

Votes: 113

49. 3 Seasons in Hell (2009)

110 min | Drama, Romance

A 19 year old nonconformist poet living in 1947 Czechoslovakia is blind to the Communist behemoth looking over him, and instead lives a bohemian life with sexually liberated girls. There he... See full summary »

Director: Tomas Masin | Stars: Krystof Hádek, Karolina Gruszka, Martin Huba, Jan Kraus

Votes: 423

50. 11 Colours of the Bird (2020)

120 min | Documentary

Unique view behind the curtain of development and production of The Painted Bird, a film adaptation of Jerzy Kosiskis novel, which has travelled festivals all over the world. 11 Colours of ... See full summary »

Director: Vojtech Kopecký | Stars: Tomas Chlost, Jitka Cvancarová, Lech Dyblik, Radim Fiala

Votes: 14