Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "united-nations-building"

1. 24 (2001–2010)

TV-14 | 44 min | Action, Crime, Drama

Counter Terrorism Agent Jack Bauer races against the clock to subvert terrorist plots and save his nation from ultimate disaster.

Stars: Kiefer Sutherland, Mary Lynn Rajskub, Carlos Bernard, Dennis Haysbert

Votes: 197,103

2. North by Northwest (1959)

Approved | 136 min | Action, Adventure, Mystery

A New York City advertising executive goes on the run after being mistaken for a government agent by a group of foreign spies, and falls for a woman whose loyalties he begins to doubt.

Director: Alfred Hitchcock | Stars: Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint, James Mason, Jessie Royce Landis

Votes: 346,324 | Gross: $13.28M

3. The Hurt Locker (2008)

R | 131 min | Drama, Thriller, War

During the Iraq War, a Sergeant recently assigned to an army bomb squad is put at odds with his squad mates due to his maverick way of handling his work.

Director: Kathryn Bigelow | Stars: Jeremy Renner, Anthony Mackie, Brian Geraghty, Guy Pearce

Votes: 473,991 | Gross: $17.02M

4. The Rescuers (1977)

G | 77 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy

Two mice of the Rescue Aid Society search for a little girl kidnapped by unscrupulous treasure hunters.

Directors: John Lounsbery, Wolfgang Reitherman, Art Stevens | Stars: Bob Newhart, Eva Gabor, Geraldine Page, Joe Flynn

Votes: 69,944 | Gross: $71.22M

5. The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (1964–1968)

TV-PG | 50 min | Action, Adventure, Crime

The two top Agents of the United Network Command for Law and Enforcement (U.N.C.L.E.) fight the enemies of peace, particularly the forces of T.H.R.U.S.H.

Stars: Robert Vaughn, David McCallum, Leo G. Carroll, John Herman Shaner

Votes: 6,269

6. The Interpreter (2005)

PG-13 | 128 min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller

Political intrigue and deception unfold inside the United Nations, where a U.S. Secret Service agent is assigned to investigate an interpreter who overhears an assassination plot.

Director: Sydney Pollack | Stars: Nicole Kidman, Sean Penn, Catherine Keener, Jesper Christensen

Votes: 110,956 | Gross: $72.71M

7. The Pink Panther Strikes Again (1976)

PG | 103 min | Comedy, Crime

After escaping from an insane asylum, the bonkers Charles Dreyfus sends 26 assassins on the trail of the forever bumbling Inspector Clouseau.

Director: Blake Edwards | Stars: Peter Sellers, Herbert Lom, Lesley-Anne Down, Burt Kwouk

Votes: 32,013 | Gross: $33.83M

8. Che: Part One (2008)

Not Rated | 134 min | Biography, Drama, History

In 1956, Ernesto 'Che' Guevara and a band of Castro-led Cuban exiles mobilize an army to topple the regime of dictator Fulgencio Batista.

Director: Steven Soderbergh | Stars: Julia Ormond, Benicio Del Toro, Oscar Isaac, Pablo Guevara

Votes: 47,963 | Gross: $1.80M

9. The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes (1969)

G | 91 min | Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi

At Medfield College, an accident with a donated computer gives Dexter Riley the ability to remember any knowledge learned instantly and perfectly.

Director: Robert Butler | Stars: Kurt Russell, Cesar Romero, Joe Flynn, William Schallert

Votes: 5,948 | Gross: $0.73M

10. The World of Henry Orient (1964)

Approved | 106 min | Comedy, Drama

A mischievous, adventuresome fourteen-year-old girl and her best friend begin following an eccentric concert pianist around New York City after she develops a crush on him.

Director: George Roy Hill | Stars: Peter Sellers, Tippy Walker, Merrie Spaeth, Paula Prentiss

Votes: 3,847

11. The Colossus of New York (1958)

Unrated | 70 min | Horror, Sci-Fi

A brilliant surgeon encases his dead son's brain in a large robot body, with unintended results...

Director: Eugène Lourié | Stars: John Baragrey, Mala Powers, Otto Kruger, Robert Hutton

Votes: 1,245

12. The Giant Claw (1957)

Approved | 75 min | Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi

Global panic ensues when it is revealed that a mysterious UFO is actually a giant bird that flies at supersonic speed and has no regard for life or architecture.

Director: Fred F. Sears | Stars: Jeff Morrow, Mara Corday, Morris Ankrum, Louis Merrill

Votes: 4,422

13. We'll Take Manhattan (2012 TV Movie)

90 min | Drama, Romance

A look at the love affair between 1960s supermodel Jean Shrimpton and photographer David Bailey.

Director: John McKay | Stars: Sascha Bailey, Frances Barber, Aneurin Barnard, Fiona Button

Votes: 1,269

14. The Glass Wall (1953)

Approved | 82 min | Drama, Film-Noir

Peter is a refugee who wants to make a better life for himself in America, but he doesn't have the proper papers. Desperate for entry, he jumps ship and flees to New York to search for a World War II veteran whom he helped during the war.

Director: Maxwell Shane | Stars: Vittorio Gassman, Gloria Grahame, Ann Robinson, Douglas Spencer

Votes: 1,340

15. Three for the Show (1955)

Approved | 93 min | Musical

A widowed singer marries her late husband's songwriting partner, which leads to trouble when her first husband turns up very much alive.

Director: H.C. Potter | Stars: Betty Grable, Marge Champion, Gower Champion, Jack Lemmon

Votes: 459

16. The Velvet Touch (1948)

Approved | 100 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

A Broadway star unintentionally kills her impresario but keeps mum about it after the police investigator targets a rival actress.

Director: Jack Gage | Stars: Rosalind Russell, Leo Genn, Claire Trevor, Sydney Greenstreet

Votes: 1,284

17. The Statue (1971)

R | 84 min | Comedy

A Nobel Prize-winning professor suspects his wife of infidelity when she makes and unveils an 18-foot statue of him with private parts recognizably not his own.

Director: Rod Amateau | Stars: David Niven, Virna Lisi, Robert Vaughn, Ann Bell

Votes: 313 | Gross: $0.22M

18. Madam President (2012)

90 min | Documentary

A documentary following the last year of Tarja Halonen's as the president of Finland.

Director: Aleksi Bardy | Stars: Tarja Halonen, Pentti Arajärvi, Eila Nevalainen, Heli Sariola

Votes: 192

19. Kansakuntien asialla (1956)

9 min | Documentary, Short

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Director: Orvo Saarikivi | Stars: Olavi Puusaari, Dag Hammarskjöld, Karl-August Fagerholm, Urho Kekkonen

20. Doctor Who (1963–1989)
Episode: The Enemy of the World: Episode 1 (1967)

TV-G | 24 min | Adventure, Drama, Family

After the Doctor is attacked by a group of mysterious gunmen, he discovers he is the physical double of the famous scientist Salamander.

Director: Barry Letts | Stars: Patrick Troughton, Frazer Hines, Deborah Watling, Henry Stamper

Votes: 587

21. Extreme Ghostbusters (1997)
Episode: The Sphinx (1997)

TV-Y7 | 20 min | Animation, Action, Adventure

A sphinx preys on the intellectuals of New York, turning them into slobbering idiots when they cannot answer his riddle. The EGBs must stop the ghost before it attacks a meeting of the world's most powerful minds at the United Nations.

Directors: Tim Eldred, Bob Fuentes III | Stars: Tara Strong, Maurice LaMarche, Jason Marsden, Pat Musick

Votes: 32

22. Centurions (1986)
Episode: The Monsters from Below (1986)

TV-Y7-FV | 30 min | Animation, Action, Family

Dr. Romulus creates hideous monsters that could take the appearance of any person by looking into their eyes. Dr. Terror sends the monsters after members of the Council including Crystal to capture them and take their appearances.

Stars: Pat Fraley, Neil Ross, Vince Edwards, Ron Feinberg

Votes: 17

23. Centurions (1986)
Episode: The Sky Is on Fire (1986)

TV-Y7-FV | 30 min | Animation, Action, Family

The Centurions are taken to a special facility where they are developing a device known as a cryogenic ray which will cool down even the hottest of objects. But Doc Terror covets the ... See full summary »

Stars: Pat Fraley, Neil Ross, Vince Edwards, Ron Feinberg

Votes: 24

24. Young Justice (2010–2023)
Episode: Happy New Year (2012)

TV-PG | 22 min | Animation, Action, Adventure

Five years after the Justice League were controlled by Vandal Savage, their time under his control comes back to haunt them. The Team has to take on alien invaders, starting with Lobo.

Director: Tim Divar | Stars: Cameron Bowen, Lacey Chabert, Tim Curry, Bruce Greenwood

Votes: 3,113

25. The Amazing Race (2001– )
Episode: Take Down That Million (2012)

TV-PG | 87 min | Adventure, Family, Reality-TV

The four teams travel from Palma de Mallorca, Spain to Chenonceaux, France. In the Loire Valley, one person from each team has to pick three different types of mushrooms in a terrifying ... See full summary »

Director: Bertram van Munster | Stars: Phil Keoghan, Amy Purdy, Daniel Gale, James Lomenzo

Votes: 73

26. The Bullwinkle Show (1959–1963)
Episode: The Space Rat or Of Mice and Menace/The Shot Heard Round the World or First National Bang (1960)

TV-G | 22 min | Animation, Action, Adventure

Rocky and Bullwinkle - "Metal Eating Mice" Part 9, Aesop and Son - "The Vain Crow", Peabody's Improbable History - "Stephen Decatur", Rocky and Bullwinkle - "Metal Eating Mice" Part 10.

Directors: Gerard Baldwin, Pete Burness, William T. Hurtz, Ted Parmelee, Gerald Ray, Dun Roman, George Singer, Ernest Terrazas | Stars: Edward Everett Horton, June Foray, Paul Frees, William Conrad

Votes: 31

27. Justice League Action (2016–2018)
Episode: Mxy's Mix-Up (2017)

TV-Y7 | 11 min | Animation, Action, Adventure

While the Justice League attempts to protect the United Nations from Grodd's gorilla army, Mr. Mxyptlk pops up from the fifth dimension and thinks it would be great fun to put each of the Super Heroes' brains into another hero's body.

Director: Doug Murphy | Stars: P.J. Byrne, Kevin Conroy, Gilbert Gottfried, Natalie Lander

Votes: 97

28. Blindspot (2015–2020)
Episode: Defection (2018)

TV-14 | 43 min | Action, Crime, Drama

Jane is forced to recruit someone from her past to help take down a dangerous alliance.

Director: David S. Tuttman | Stars: Sullivan Stapleton, Jaimie Alexander, Rob Brown, Audrey Esparza

Votes: 532

29. The Blacklist (2013–2023)
Episode: The Corsican (No. 20) (2019)

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

As Liz and the Task Force race to stop an imminent bombing by a Blacklister, Red encounters a life changing situation.

Director: Kurt Kuenne | Stars: James Spader, Megan Boone, Diego Klattenhoff, Amir Arison

Votes: 1,559