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

1. Click (2006)

PG-13 | 107 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy

A workaholic architect finds a universal remote that allows him to fast-forward and rewind to different parts of his life. Complications arise when the remote starts to overrule his choices.

Director: Frank Coraci | Stars: Adam Sandler, Kate Beckinsale, Christopher Walken, David Hasselhoff

Votes: 357,555 | Gross: $137.36M

2. Back to the Future Part II (1989)

PG | 108 min | Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi

After visiting 2015, Marty McFly must repeat his visit to 1955 to prevent disastrous changes to 1985...without interfering with his first trip.

Director: Robert Zemeckis | Stars: Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd, Lea Thompson, Tom Wilson

Votes: 573,970 | Gross: $118.50M

3. It's a Wonderful Life (1946)

PG | 130 min | Drama, Family, Fantasy

An angel is sent from Heaven to help a desperately frustrated businessman by showing him what life would have been like if he had never existed.

Director: Frank Capra | Stars: James Stewart, Donna Reed, Lionel Barrymore, Thomas Mitchell

Votes: 500,160

4. A Fish Called Wanda (1988)

R | 108 min | Comedy, Crime

In London, four very different people team up on a jewel heist, then try to double-cross one another for the loot, complicated by their efforts to fool a very proper barrister.

Directors: Charles Crichton, John Cleese | Stars: John Cleese, Jamie Lee Curtis, Kevin Kline, Michael Palin

Votes: 154,187 | Gross: $63.49M

5. Flubber (1997)

PG | 93 min | Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi

An absent-minded professor discovers "flubber," a rubber-like super-bouncy substance.

Director: Les Mayfield | Stars: Robin Williams, Marcia Gay Harden, Christopher McDonald, Ted Levine

Votes: 94,802 | Gross: $92.98M

6. Laugh-In (1967–1973)

TV-PG | 60 min | Comedy, Music

The original rapid fire sketch comedy show.

Stars: Dan Rowan, Dick Martin, Gary Owens, Ruth Buzzi

Votes: 3,672

7. Honey, We Shrunk Ourselves! (1997 TV Movie)

PG | 74 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy

This time, the adults have shrunk themselves, and the kids need to fix it.

Director: Dean Cundey | Stars: Rick Moranis, Eve Gordon, Bug Hall, Robin Bartlett

Votes: 17,003

8. 'Pimpernel' Smith (1941)

Passed | 120 min | Adventure, Drama, Thriller

Professor Horatio Smith, while seeming very unassuming, rescues victims of Nazi persecution during World War II.

Director: Leslie Howard | Stars: Leslie Howard, Francis L. Sullivan, Allan Jeayes, Mary Morris

Votes: 1,856

9. The Nutty Professor (1963)

Not Rated | 107 min | Comedy, Romance, Sci-Fi

A timid chemistry teacher discovers a magical potion that can transform him into a suave and handsome womanizer.

Director: Jerry Lewis | Stars: Jerry Lewis, Stella Stevens, Del Moore, Kathleen Freeman

Votes: 19,446 | Gross: $7.63M

10. Death of a Salesman (1985 TV Movie)

PG | 136 min | Drama

An aging traveling salesman recognizes the emptiness of his life and tries to fix it.

Director: Volker Schlöndorff | Stars: Dustin Hoffman, Kate Reid, John Malkovich, Stephen Lang

Votes: 11,726

11. Battle in Heaven (2005)

Unrated | 98 min | Crime, Drama

Marcos lusts after his boss's promiscuous daughter, but after botching an extortion scheme, he becomes wracked with guilt.

Director: Carlos Reygadas | Stars: Marcos Hernández, Anapola Mushkadiz, Bertha Ruiz, David Bornstein

Votes: 6,652 | Gross: $0.07M

12. The Absent Minded Professor (1961)

Approved | 97 min | Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi

A college professor invents an anti-gravity substance which a corrupt businessman wants for himself.

Director: Robert Stevenson | Stars: Fred MacMurray, Nancy Olson, Keenan Wynn, Tommy Kirk

Votes: 9,298 | Gross: $25.38M

13. Monkey Business (1952)

Approved | 97 min | Comedy, Sci-Fi

A chemist finds his personal and professional life turned upside down when one of his chimpanzees finds the fountain of youth.

Director: Howard Hawks | Stars: Cary Grant, Ginger Rogers, Marilyn Monroe, Charles Coburn

Votes: 15,599

14. Dr. T & the Women (2000)

R | 122 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

A wealthy gynecologist's ideal life is thrown into turmoil when the women closest to him begin to affect his life in unexpecting ways.

Director: Robert Altman | Stars: Richard Gere, Helen Hunt, Farrah Fawcett, Laura Dern

Votes: 20,280 | Gross: $13.11M

15. The Girl Most Likely to... (1973 TV Movie)

Not Rated | 64 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

After an accident causes an ugly duckling girl to undergo reconstructive surgery, she emerges from behind the bandages a ravishing beauty. It's payback time when she uses her new attractiveness to exact revenge on those who wronged her.

Director: Lee Philips | Stars: Stockard Channing, Edward Asner, Jim Backus, Joe Flynn

Votes: 1,559

16. Folks! (1992)

PG-13 | 107 min | Comedy, Drama

A slightly self absorbed yuppie takes in his parents including his senile father, after their home burns down. But his personal and professional life fall apart soon after.

Director: Ted Kotcheff | Stars: Tom Selleck, Don Ameche, Anne Jackson, Christine Ebersole

Votes: 2,823 | Gross: $6.13M

17. Son of Flubber (1962)

Approved | 102 min | Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi

When Professor Brainard experiments further on Flubber derivatives, he gets in trouble and only his students can help.

Director: Robert Stevenson | Stars: Fred MacMurray, Nancy Olson, Keenan Wynn, Tommy Kirk

Votes: 3,215 | Gross: $22.13M

18. Black Friday (1940)

Approved | 70 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

Dr. Sovac transplants the brain of a gangster into his professor friend's body to save his life, but there is a side effect that causes a dangerous split personality.

Director: Arthur Lubin | Stars: Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi, Stanley Ridges, Anne Nagel

Votes: 2,886

19. The Invisible Woman (1940)

Approved | 72 min | Comedy, Romance, Sci-Fi

An attractive model with an ulterior motive volunteers as guinea pig for an invisibility machine.

Director: A. Edward Sutherland | Stars: Virginia Bruce, John Barrymore, John Howard, Charles Ruggles

Votes: 3,373

20. Men in War (1957)

Approved | 102 min | Action, Drama, War

During the Korean War, a battle-worn lieutenant and his platoon are behind enemy lines, and have orders to march to Hill 465 for possible relief.

Director: Anthony Mann | Stars: Robert Ryan, Aldo Ray, Robert Keith, Phillip Pine

Votes: 3,002

21. My Sex Life... or How I Got Into an Argument (1996)

178 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

Paul Dedalus is at a crossroads in his life. He has to make several decisions; should he complete his doctorate, does he want to become a full professor, does he really love his ... See full summary »

Director: Arnaud Desplechin | Stars: Mathieu Amalric, Emmanuelle Devos, Emmanuel Salinger, Marianne Denicourt

Votes: 1,706

22. Seventeen Moments of Spring (1973)

830 min | Drama, History, War

During World War II, a Soviet undercover spy manages to infiltrate the Nazi elite.

Stars: Vyacheslav Tikhonov, Yefim Kopelyan, Leonid Bronevoy, Ekaterina Gradova

Votes: 4,991

23. Dear Brigitte (1965)

Not Rated | 100 min | Comedy, Family

Professor Leaf, an absent-minded poet, is forced to face the fact that his son is a math prodigy who is as colorblind as he's in love with Brigitte Bardot, the French bombshell.

Director: Henry Koster | Stars: James Stewart, Fabian, Glynis Johns, Cindy Carol

Votes: 1,798

24. The War Is Over (1966)

121 min | Drama, War

A middle-aged political activist tries to dissuade his young followers from taking radical action.

Director: Alain Resnais | Stars: Yves Montand, Ingrid Thulin, Geneviève Bujold, Jean Dasté

Votes: 2,447

25. Bibi Blocksberg (2002)

102 min | Comedy, Family, Fantasy

An evil witch tries to take possession of a crystal ball from the hands of a young and benevolent witch.

Director: Hermine Huntgeburth | Stars: Sidonie von Krosigk, Katja Riemann, Corinna Harfouch, Max Befort

Votes: 1,018

26. WataMote: No Matter How I Look at It, It's You Guys' Fault I'm Not Popular! (2013)

TV-14 | 25 min | Animation, Comedy, Drama

Kuroki Tomoko is a super popular female schoolgirl, with 50 years experience in dating and more than 100 boys - but just in the dating video games. In real life is a closed and shy person ... See full summary »

Stars: Izumi Kitta, Ayaka Asai, Monica Rial, Yûko Kurose

Votes: 2,454

27. Zotz! (1962)

Not Rated | 87 min | Comedy, Fantasy

A professor comes into possession of an amulet with magical powers.

Director: William Castle | Stars: Tom Poston, Julia Meade, Jim Backus, Fred Clark

Votes: 927

28. Convicts (1991)

PG | 93 min | Drama, Western

Horton Foote's story of a teen-aged boy in the Depression who finds work on an eccentric's sugar plantation and learns life's surprising lessons from the team of convicts who also work there.

Director: Peter Masterson | Stars: Robert Duvall, Lukas Haas, James Earl Jones, Starletta DuPois

Votes: 733

29. Five Came Back (1939)

Passed | 75 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance

A plane has engine trouble while flying over a jungle inhabited by cannibals.

Director: John Farrow | Stars: Chester Morris, Lucille Ball, Wendy Barrie, John Carradine

Votes: 2,362

30. Shaadi Ke Side Effects (2014)

Not Rated | 145 min | Comedy, Romance

A complicated relationship develops between a man and woman after getting married and having a baby.

Director: Saket Chaudhary | Stars: Farhan Akhtar, Vidya Balan, Vir Das, Ram Kapoor

Votes: 4,218 | Gross: $0.58M

31. Santa Claus (1959)

G | 94 min | Comedy, Family, Fantasy

With Merlin's aid, Santa Claus must defeat the evil machinations of the devil Pitch to ruin Christmas.

Director: René Cardona | Stars: José Elías Moreno, Cesáreo Quezadas 'Pulgarcito', José Luis Aguirre 'Trotsky', Armando Arriola

Votes: 5,167

32. Mammoth (2006 TV Movie)

90 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy

On a hot summer afternoon in the sleepy town of Blackwater, Louisiana locals exiting a retro-fitted theater excitedly watch as a meteor streaks across the sky and crashes through the roof ... See full summary »

Director: Abram Cox | Stars: Vincent Ventresca, Constantin Draganescu, Summer Glau, Tom Skerritt

Votes: 2,459

33. The Inside Story (1948)

Approved | 87 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

A collection agent arrives in a small town with $1000 for a local farmer. Whilst waiting for the farmer to arrive the money is put in a safe at a hotel for safe keeping. However, it is ... See full summary »

Director: Allan Dwan | Stars: Marsha Hunt, William Lundigan, Charles Winninger, Gail Patrick

Votes: 302

34. Distracted (1970)

85 min | Comedy

A comedy about an absent-minded man who works at a advertising company. He topples from one problem to another.

Director: Pierre Richard | Stars: Pierre Richard, Marie-Christine Barrault, Maria Pacôme, Catherine Samie

Votes: 1,684

35. Please Tell Me! Galko-chan (2016–2017)

TV-14 | 8 min | Animation, Comedy

Three teenage girls discuss subjects that are usually of an embarrassing nature. Their interactions are gently humorous and often informative.

Stars: Azumi Waki, Miyu Tomita, Minami Takahashi, Mamiko Noto

Votes: 337

36. The Garden of Sinners: Oblivion Recording (2008)

59 min | Animation, Action, Drama

January 1999: Meet Azaka Kokuto. She plans to win Mikiya over as her lover despite the presence of a dangerous woman named Shiki Ryogi. There is only one problem - Azaka is his sister. And ... See full summary »

Director: Takahiro Miura | Stars: Maaya Sakamoto, Ken'ichi Suzumura, Takako Honda, Ayumi Fujimura

Votes: 1,576

37. The Cockeyed Miracle (1946)

Approved | 81 min | Comedy, Fantasy

Man returns from heaven to make up for financial errors he made that caused harm to his family.

Director: S. Sylvan Simon | Stars: Frank Morgan, Keenan Wynn, Cecil Kellaway, Audrey Totter

Votes: 435

38. The Absent-Minded Waiter (1977)

G | 7 min | Comedy, Short

Bernie Cates requests the services of the most absent-minded waiter he's ever seen, who pours water before setting the glasses, endlessly repeats questions, brings wrong orders, and ruins everything- but the bill.

Director: Carl Gottlieb | Stars: Steve Martin, Buck Henry, Teri Garr, Ivor Barry

Votes: 805

39. Lucky Jim (1957)

Not Rated | 95 min | Comedy

Jim Dixon feels anything but lucky. At the university he has to do the bidding of absent-minded and boring Professor Welch to have any hope of keeping his job. Worse, he has managed to get ... See full summary »

Director: John Boulting | Stars: John Welsh, Ronald Cardew, Hugh Griffith, Kenneth Griffith

Votes: 776

40. Párpados azules (2007)

R | 98 min | Comedy, Drama

Marina wins a paradise vacation for two, but when she realizes that she has no one to bring along, she decides to invite a stranger named Victor. The pair soon discovers that true love depends more on compatibility rather than idyllic scenery.

Director: Ernesto Contreras | Stars: Cecilia Suárez, Enrique Arreola, Magali Boysselle, Armando Casas

Votes: 853

41. Brother Rat and a Baby (1940)

Passed | 87 min | Comedy

Three comrades graduate from Viriginia Military Institute. Bing has a chance to return to VMI as a football coach.

Director: Ray Enright | Stars: Priscilla Lane, Wayne Morris, Jane Bryan, Eddie Albert

Votes: 358 | Gross: $0.12M

42. A Dispatch from Reuters (1940)

Approved | 90 min | Biography, Drama

Starting with a small flock of carrier pigeons, nineteenth-century entrepreneur Julius Reuter turns his small company into Europe's most respected news wire service.

Director: William Dieterle | Stars: Edward G. Robinson, Edna Best, Eddie Albert, Albert Bassermann

Votes: 673

43. Chess Fever (1925)

Not Rated | 20 min | Comedy, Short

With an international chess tournament in progress, a young man becomes completely obsessed with the game. His fiancée has no interest in it, and becomes frustrated and depressed by his ... See full summary »

Directors: Vsevolod Pudovkin, Mykola Shpykovskyi | Stars: José Raúl Capablanca, Vladimir Fogel, Anna Zemtsova, Natalya Glan

Votes: 1,480

44. Every Madman to His Specialty (1939)

Approved | 123 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

A scared horror writer is sent to what he believes is a sanatorium to treat him for his fears, but it turns out to be a haunted castle where he becomes embroiled in a rich family's internal battles for a coveted inheritance.

Director: Juan Bustillo Oro | Stars: Enrique Herrera, Joaquín Pardavé, Gloria Marín, Antonio R. Frausto

Votes: 83

45. The Big Brain (1963 TV Movie)

30 min | Comedy

In this unsold 1962 pilot for a proposed NBC comedy series, scientist Lester Belstrup invents a machine that forces people to tell the truth.

Director: Paul Stanley | Stars: Frank Aletter, Ellen Burstyn, George N. Neise, Evelyn Ward

46. Hare-Less Wolf (1958)

7 min | Family, Animation, Short

An absent-minded wolf sets out to catch Bugs for dinner but keeps forgetting what he was heading out to shoot in the first place.

Director: Friz Freleng | Stars: Mel Blanc, June Foray

Votes: 359

47. Nims Bond (2008)

115 min | Comedy, Romance

A clumsy police officer who is a huge fan of the James Bond movies finds himself assigned to solve a murder.

Directors: Ahmad El-Badri, Umar Gabr | Stars: Hani Ramzi, Ahmed Rateb, Lotfy Labib, Dolli Shahin

Votes: 558

48. Kantor ideál (1932)

85 min | Comedy

A new professor, the shy and impractical Karel Suchý, enters the girls' grammar school. From the very beginning, he becomes the object of the quadruple interest of the girls. In inventing ... See full summary »

Director: Martin Fric | Stars: Karel Lamac, Anny Ondra, Oscar Marion, Theodor Pistek

Votes: 61

49. Mexican Spitfire's Elephant (1942)

Approved | 64 min | Comedy, Romance

Dizzy Carmelita and Uncle Matt inadvertently become involved with thieves smuggling jewels inside a ceramic elephant.

Director: Leslie Goodwins | Stars: Lupe Velez, Leon Errol, Walter Reed, Elisabeth Risdon

Votes: 226

50. Kuriton sukupolvi (1957)

94 min | Comedy, Drama

An aging professor of mathematics completes his life's work, a research project that has taken him decades, and climbs up from the boiler room (his study) and back to real life. He can ... See full summary »

Director: Matti Kassila | Stars: Tauno Palo, Irma Seikkula, Maikki Länsiö, Kaija Siikala

Votes: 172