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

1. Convoy (1978)

PG | 110 min | Action, Drama

Truckers form a mile-long "convoy" in support of a trucker's vendetta with an abusive sheriff - Based on the country song of the same title by C.W. McCall.

Director: Sam Peckinpah | Stars: Kris Kristofferson, Ali MacGraw, Ernest Borgnine, Burt Young

Votes: 18,677 | Gross: $45.00M

2. Perfect (1985)

R | 115 min | Drama, Romance

A female aerobics instructor meets a male reporter doing a story on health clubs, but it isn't love at first sight.

Director: James Bridges | Stars: John Travolta, Jamie Lee Curtis, Ramey Ellis, Alma Beltran

Votes: 6,015 | Gross: $12.92M

3. Rampart (2011)

R | 108 min | Crime, Drama

Set in 1999 Los Angeles, veteran police officer Dave Brown, the last of the renegade cops, works to take care of his family, and struggles for his own survival.

Director: Oren Moverman | Stars: Woody Harrelson, Ben Foster, Sigourney Weaver, Jon Bernthal

Votes: 25,276 | Gross: $0.97M

4. Lions for Lambs (2007)

R | 92 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Injuries sustained by two Army rangers behind enemy lines in Afghanistan set off a sequence of events involving a congressman, a journalist and a professor.

Director: Robert Redford | Stars: Tom Cruise, Meryl Streep, Robert Redford, Michael Peña

Votes: 52,790 | Gross: $15.00M

5. The Midnight Hour (1985 TV Movie)

Unrated | 94 min | Comedy, Horror, Romance

Phil, Melissa, Mitch, Mary, and Vinnie are high school friends, who unwittingly raise the dead on Halloween night. Once the dead have returned, Pitchford Cove will never be the same again....or will it?

Director: Jack Bender | Stars: Jonelle Allen, Shari Belafonte, LeVar Burton, Peter DeLuise

Votes: 2,242

6. Death to 2021 (2021 TV Special)

TV-MA | 60 min | Comedy

This comedic retrospective mixes archival footage and scripted sketches as it revisits all the dread and occasional delight that 2021 had to offer.

Directors: Jack Clough, Josh Ruben | Stars: Hugh Grant, Joe Keery, William Jackson Harper, Lucy Liu

Votes: 15,781

7. Sex at 24 Frames Per Second (2003 Video)

R | 101 min | Documentary

Playboy unveils the hottest moments in the history of film. This feature-length documentary traces the evolution of sex in Hollywood cinema and uncovers the formula for successfully arousing audience interest around the world.

Directors: Kevin Burns, Steven C. Smith | Stars: Brandy Snow, Shannon Tweed, Richard Roeper, Paul Verhoeven

Votes: 555

8. Empire of Dreams: The Story of the 'Star Wars' Trilogy (2004 Video)

151 min | Documentary, History, Sci-Fi

An in-depth making of documentary about the original Star Wars trilogy, covering the productions of the three films and their impact on popular culture.

Directors: Edith Becker, Kevin Burns | Stars: Robert Clotworthy, Walter Cronkite, George Lucas, Steven Spielberg

Votes: 5,289

9. Murder by Phone (1982)

R | 95 min | Horror, Thriller, Mystery

A disgruntled phone company employee develops a device whereby those answering a phone can be murdered, and it's up to Nat Bridger to stop the killer.

Director: Michael Anderson | Stars: Richard Chamberlain, John Houseman, Sara Botsford, Robin Gammell

Votes: 928

10. Supernova (2005 TV Movie)

Not Rated | 172 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

A scientific possibility becomes a terrifying reality when the most powerful force in the universe threatens to hurtle home.

Director: John Harrison | Stars: Luke Perry, Tia Carrere, Peter Fonda, Clemency Burton-Hill

Votes: 1,866

11. Tomorrow I'll Wake Up and Scald Myself with Tea (1977)

93 min | Comedy, Romance, Sci-Fi

Jan is a decent, boring man, living a decent, boring life as a rocket designer. When his adventurous twin brother dies in a breakfast accident, Jan decides to impersonate him, unwittingly becoming a part of a Nazi time travel conspiracy.

Director: Jindrich Polák | Stars: Petr Kostka, Jirí Sovák, Vladimír Mensík, Vlastimil Brodský

Votes: 1,474

12. The Weather Underground (2002)

Unrated | 92 min | Documentary, History, War

The remarkable story of The Weather Underground, radical activists of the 1970s, and of radical politics at its best and most disastrous.

Directors: Sam Green, Bill Siegel | Stars: Lili Taylor, Pamela Z, Jim Lange, Evan White

Votes: 3,773 | Gross: $0.56M

13. Don't Touch the White Woman! (1974)

108 min | Comedy, Western

A highly stylized surreal farce about the events leading up to Custer's Last Stand anachronistically reenacted in an urban renewal area in modern Paris.

Director: Marco Ferreri | Stars: Marcello Mastroianni, Catherine Deneuve, Michel Piccoli, Philippe Noiret

Votes: 956

14. 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

15. The Rockford Files: Friends and Foul Play (1996 TV Movie)

TV-PG | 120 min | Action, Crime, Drama

A friend of Jim's seeks his help for her murdered son, but when she winds up dead not long after an altercation with a mafioso, Jim must do what it takes to put both her soul and her son's to rest himself.

Director: Stuart Margolin | Stars: James Garner, Marcia Strassman, Joe Santos, David Proval

Votes: 265

16. Unlawful Killing (2011)

78 min | Documentary

A documentary about the allegedly conspiratorial killing of Diana, Princess of Wales and Dodi Fayed

Director: Keith Allen | Stars: Keith Allen, Piers Morgan, Mohamed Al-Fayed, Howard Stern

Votes: 393

17. Year Zero: The Silent Death of Cambodia (1979)

50 min | Documentary, History, War

Disturbing documentary, shot on site less than a year after the Khmer Rouge downfall, depicting the shocking situation and recent history of Cambodia.

Director: David Munro | Stars: John Pilger, Henry Kissinger, Richard Nixon, Pol Pot

Votes: 316

18. The Red-Light Sting (1984 TV Movie)

Not Rated | 100 min | Crime, Thriller

Government agent Frank Powell (Beau Bridges) is determined to bring down racketeering crime lord Oliver Sully (Harold Gould) but cannot find any evidence. Powell concocts a plan to have the... See full summary »

Director: Rod Holcomb | Stars: Farrah Fawcett, Beau Bridges, Harold Gould, Paul Burke

Votes: 89

19. Night of the Dribbler (1990)

87 min | Comedy, Horror

The Watergate Plumbers, a poorly-performing college basketball team, lose their best players one by one to death and dismemberment at the hands of a mysterious masked stalker.

Director: Jack Bravman | Stars: Fred Travalena, Gregory Calpakis, Flavia Carrozzi, Cynthia Mantel

Votes: 208

20. Jack the Ripper: The Final Solution (1980 TV Movie)

40 min | Documentary, Crime

In an attempt to solve the mystery, Stephen Knight concluded that five women-Mary Ann Nichols, Annie Chapman, Elizabeth Stride, Catherine Eddowes, and Mary Jane Kelly-were murdered in 1888 ... See full summary »

Stars: Ray McGregor, Stephen Knight

Votes: 51

21. Der Fall Barschel (2015 TV Movie)

177 min | Drama, History, Thriller

Film about the death of the German politician Uwe Barschel, who was found dead under mysterious circumstances in his hotel room in 1987, and the surrounding political scandals.

Director: Kilian Riedhof | Stars: Alexander Fehling, Fabian Hinrichs, Matthias Matschke, Antje Traue

Votes: 298

22. Marvel's Captain America: 75 Heroic Years (2016 TV Movie)

PG | 42 min | Documentary, History

Marvel celebrates the history of Captain America, both in the comics and on TV and film, and examines the character as a reflection of American culture throughout the years.

Director: Zak Knutson | Stars: Axel Alonso, Hayley Atwell, Chloe Bennet, Tom Brevoort

Votes: 403

23. An Evening with Where's My Roy Cohn? (2019 Video)

51 min | Documentary, Biography, History

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Stars: Hilary Helstein, Matt Tyrnauer

24. RiffTrax: Firehead (2013)

TV-14 | 80 min | Action, Sci-Fi

The hilarious trio takes on this story of a Russian cyborg who shoots lasers out of his eyes, starring Christopher Plummer and Martin Landau.

Stars: Bill Corbett, Kevin Murphy, Michael J. Nelson

Votes: 41

25. All in the Family (1971–1979)
Episode: The Locket (1972)

TV-PG | 25 min | Comedy, Drama

When Edith loses her heirloom necklace, Archie wants to report it missing so he can collect the insurance money and buy a color television. He then runs into problems when an agent comes over to verify the claim.

Director: Hal Cooper | Stars: Carroll O'Connor, Jean Stapleton, Rob Reiner, Sally Struthers

Votes: 223

26. All in the Family (1971–1979)
Episode: We're Having a Heat Wave (1973)

TV-PG | 26 min | Comedy, Drama

When a house in the neighborhood is put up for sale, Archie starts a petition to keep ethnic groups out. Henry Jefferson joins the effort when a Hispanic couple show interest. All this happens during a stifling heat wave in New York City.

Directors: Bob LaHendro, John Rich | Stars: Carroll O'Connor, Jean Stapleton, Rob Reiner, Sally Struthers

Votes: 246

27. B.J. and the Bear (1978–1981)
Episode: A Coffin with a View (1979)

60 min | Adventure, Comedy

It was a dark and stormy night when B.J and the Bear drove two Transylvanian coffins from Frisco to L.A., meeting up along the way with murder, mayhem and maybe even Count Dracula.

Director: Ray Austin | Stars: Greg Evigan, Pamela Hensley, John Carradine, Jack Ging

Votes: 23

28. Banacek (1972–1974)
Episode: No Stone Unturned (1973)

TV-PG | 75 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Discord at a museum when Man in Harmony, an 11' tall, 3-ton stone sculpture, disappears at its own unveiling. Banacek has two days to find out who walked off with it.

Director: Richard T. Heffron | Stars: George Peppard, Christine Belford, Gary Lockwood, Don Stroud

Votes: 171

29. Becker (1998–2004)
Episode: The Ugly Truth (2001)

TV-PG | Comedy

Reggie conducts an experiment on Becker for a psychology course to see if he treats attractive patients more favorably than unattractive ones. Jake is accidentally sent a driver's license.

Director: Andy Ackerman | Stars: Ted Danson, Terry Farrell, Hattie Winston, Shawnee Smith

Votes: 114

30. Cagney & Lacey (1981–1988)
Episode: Unusual Occurence (1984)

TV-PG | 60 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

The press paints Christine's self-defense shooting of a Hispanic drug-dealer as being racially motivated.

Director: Alexander Singer | Stars: Sharon Gless, Tyne Daly, Al Waxman, Carl Lumbly

Votes: 57

31. Eerie, Indiana (1991–1992)
Episode: Mr. Chaney (1992)

TV-Y7 | 23 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama

Marshall wins a lottery to select the next Harvest King, and must go into the woods to face the Eerie wolf. The only problem is that none of the previous 'winners' have ever returned.

Director: Mark Goldblatt | Stars: Omri Katz, Justin Shenkarow, Mary-Margaret Humes, Francis Guinan

Votes: 164

32. Family Ties (1982–1989)
Episode: A Keaton Christmas Carol (1983)

TV-PG | 25 min | Comedy, Drama, Family

With Christmas just around the corner. Alex finds himself lacking holiday spirit as the rest of the Keaton clan prepares for the celebration. On Christmas Eve Alex is visited in a dream by ... See full summary »

Director: Will Mackenzie | Stars: Meredith Baxter, Michael Gross, Michael J. Fox, Justine Bateman

Votes: 189

33. The John Larroquette Show (1993–1996)
Episode: Intern Writer (1996)

Comedy

John gets an internship at a newspaper which doesn't turn out to be the dream job he pictured until he's tasked with the obits that turns into an investigation of the paper's publisher's death. And Gene struggles to comfort his newborn

Director: John Whitesell | Stars: John Larroquette, Liz Torres, Gigi Rice, Daryl Mitchell

Votes: 36

34. The Littlest Hobo (1979–1985)
Episode: Double Vision (1983)

Adventure, Drama, Family

The twin of a corrupt mayor wanders into town and is frequently mistaken for his brother by the media and an equally unscrupulous mayoral candidate.

Director: Mario Azzopardi | Stars: London, Leslie Yeo, James B. Douglas, Chas Lawther

Votes: 13

35. Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman (1993–1997)
Episode: Strange Visitor (From Another Planet) (1993)

TV-PG | 46 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama

A paranoid rogue Federal agent's investigation of Superman leaves Clark wondering about his true origins.

Director: Randy Zisk | Stars: Dean Cain, Teri Hatcher, Lane Smith, Michael Landes

Votes: 453

36. The Mary Tyler Moore Show (1970–1977)
Episode: Neighbors (1974)

TV-PG | 30 min | Comedy

Lou moves into Rhoda's old apartment in Mary's building.

Directors: James Burrows, John C. Chulay | Stars: Mary Tyler Moore, Edward Asner, Gavin MacLeod, Ted Knight

Votes: 145

37. Maude (1972–1978)
Episode: Nostalgia Party (1974)

TV-PG | 26 min | Comedy

Walter and Maude host a New Year's Eve costume where everyone must wear outfits that represent their favorite years. Everyone has a different idea of what year was the best, so the costumes vary greatly.

Director: Hal Cooper | Stars: Bea Arthur, Bill Macy, Adrienne Barbeau, Conrad Bain

Votes: 72

38. Maude (1972–1978)
Episode: The Will (1973)

TV-PG | 30 min | Comedy

Maude and Walter get into an argument over writing their wills and the items each list.

Director: Hal Cooper | Stars: Bea Arthur, Bill Macy, Adrienne Barbeau, Conrad Bain

Votes: 69

39. Popular (1999–2001)
Episode: Ur-ine Trouble (2000)

TV-14 | Comedy, Drama, Romance

Josh must attend the autopsy of a drunk driver. Sam confronts Harrison over his prescription drug abuse only to learn that he might be dying. Ms. Glass takes on Nicole's team in the homecoming race. Carmen reconnects with her mom.

Director: Michael M. Robin | Stars: Leslie Bibb, Carly Pope, Tamara Mello, Christopher Gorham

Votes: 71

40. Sanford and Son (1972–1978)
Episode: A House Is Not a Pool Room (1973)

TV-PG | 30 min | Comedy

Lamont suffers buyer's remorse after the pool table he gave Fred for his birthday brings the boys over for billiards every day while Fred's work and girlfriend Donna go neglected.

Director: Jack Shea | Stars: Redd Foxx, Demond Wilson, Lynn Hamilton, Whitman Mayo

Votes: 142

41. Sanford and Son (1972–1978)
Episode: Della, Della, Della (1975)

TV-PG | 30 min | Comedy

When two competing politicians each seek to use Fred's junkyard for a campaign headquarters, Della Reese appeals to Fred to stand by her man.

Director: Mark Warren | Stars: Redd Foxx, Demond Wilson, Della Reese, Arnold Johnson

Votes: 106

42. Sanford and Son (1972–1978)
Episode: Fuentes, Fuentes, Sanford & Chico (1973)

TV-PG | 30 min | Comedy

Feeling betrayed when Lamont starts a sideline business with Julio, Fred moves out and into a downtown flophouse.

Director: Jack Shea | Stars: Redd Foxx, Demond Wilson, Gregory Sierra, Whitman Mayo

Votes: 143

43. Sanford and Son (1972–1978)
Episode: Lamont as Othello (1973)

TV-PG | 30 min | Comedy

Fred is uneasy with Lamont's rehearsing Othello with a white actress in their home, so Marilyn invites Fred and Lamont to come to her home in Beverly Hills.

Director: Peter Baldwin | Stars: Redd Foxx, Demond Wilson, Maureen Arthur, Don Bexley

Votes: 160

44. Sanford and Son (1972–1978)
Episode: There'll Be Some Changes Made (1974)

TV-PG | 30 min | Comedy

Lamont moves out after a fight with Fred, but Fred lures his son back by agreeing to allow Lamont's eccentric encounter group to hold its meeting in their home. This episode introduces the recurring character Ah Chew.

Director: Norman Abbott | Stars: Redd Foxx, Demond Wilson, LaWanda Page, Pat Morita

Votes: 130

45. Sanford and Son (1972–1978)
Episode: This Land Is Whose Land? (1974)

TV-PG | 30 min | Comedy

Fred, petty and prejudiced against his Puerto Rican neighbor, hires a surveyor to mark the legal property line to ensure Julio keeps his stuff off the Sanford side.

Director: Peter Baldwin | Stars: Redd Foxx, Demond Wilson, Gregory Sierra, Rodolfo Hoyos Jr.

Votes: 130

46. That's My Mama (1974–1975)
Episode: Whose Child Is This? (1974)

30 min | Comedy

Clifton's past catches up with him, when a woman from his past shows up at the barbershop with a baby and claiming it's his. When he refuses to marry her, she gets an "attorney". Mama 'feels' something fishy.

Director: Bob LaHendro | Stars: Clifton Davis, Theresa Merritt, Ed Bernard, Lynne Moody

Votes: 34

47. Maude (1972–1978)
Episode: Maude's Facelift: Part 2 (1973)

TV-PG | 30 min | Comedy

Since Vivian returned from a trip with a face lift, now Maude wants one. She goes to Boston to have it done.

Director: Hal Cooper | Stars: Bea Arthur, Bill Macy, Adrienne Barbeau, Conrad Bain

Votes: 82

48. I Can Go for That: The Smooth World of Yacht Rock (2019)
Episode: 70s (2019)

Documentary, Music

Katie Puckrik explores the 1970s American music phenomenon of yacht rock.

Director: Benjamin Whalley | Stars: Katie Puckrik, Matthew Hamilton, J.D. Ryznar, Sarah Churchwell

49. Price preko pune linije (1982–1983)
Episode: Votergejtic (1983)

Comedy

A patient uses his wit to explain to his bunk buddy what a small 'watergate' is solely based on his understanding of the semantics of the word.

Director: Nikola Lorencin | Stars: Zivka Matic, Ratko Saric, Miodrag Andric, Stojan 'Stole' Arandjelovic

50. Heels (2021–2023)
Episode: Cutting Promos (2021)

TV-MA | 58 min | Drama, Sport

After a house fire forces Jack and his family to move in with Carol and Ace, the two brothers put their differences aside and their heads together to generate a DWL promo to further grow the league's fan base.

Director: Jessica Lowrey | Stars: Stephen Amell, Alexander Ludwig, Alison Luff, Mary McCormack

Votes: 593