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

1. Babylon (I) (2022)

R | 189 min | Comedy, Drama, History

A tale of outsized ambition and outrageous excess, it traces the rise and fall of multiple characters during an era of unbridled decadence and depravity in early Hollywood.

Director: Damien Chazelle | Stars: Brad Pitt, Margot Robbie, Jean Smart, Olivia Wilde

Votes: 168,338

2. Gerald's Game (2017)

TV-MA | 103 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller

A couple tries to spice up their marriage in a remote lake house. After the husband dies unexpectedly, the wife is left handcuffed to their bed frame and must fight to survive and break free.

Director: Mike Flanagan | Stars: Carla Gugino, Bruce Greenwood, Chiara Aurelia, Carel Struycken

Votes: 127,643

3. The Rocketeer (1991)

PG | 108 min | Action, Adventure, Family

A young pilot stumbles onto a prototype jetpack that allows him to become a high-flying masked hero.

Director: Joe Johnston | Stars: Billy Campbell, Jennifer Connelly, Alan Arkin, Timothy Dalton

Votes: 61,834 | Gross: $46.70M

4. From Hell (2001)

R | 122 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller

After five ritualistic murders are committed in 1888 London, Inspector Abberline's assignment is to investigate the "Jack the Ripper" murders. Along with a string of mutilated prostitutes, he uncovers a conspiracy involving the government.

Directors: Albert Hughes, Allen Hughes | Stars: Johnny Depp, Heather Graham, Ian Holm, Robbie Coltrane

Votes: 164,330 | Gross: $31.60M

5. Tarantula (1955)

Approved | 80 min | Horror, Sci-Fi

A spider escapes from an isolated Arizona desert laboratory experimenting in gigantism and grows to tremendous size as it wreaks havoc on the local inhabitants.

Director: Jack Arnold | Stars: John Agar, Mara Corday, Leo G. Carroll, Nestor Paiva

Votes: 10,790 | Gross: $1.10M

6. Andre the Giant (2018 TV Movie)

TV-14 | 85 min | Documentary, Biography, Sport

A look at the life and career of professional wrestler André Roussimoff, who gained notoriety in the 1980s as Andre the Giant.

Director: Jason Hehir | Stars: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Cary Elwes, Robin Wright, Rob Reiner

Votes: 6,871

7. House of Horrors (1946)

Passed | 65 min | Adventure, Crime, Horror

An unsuccessful sculptor saves a madman named "The Creeper" from drowning. Seeing an opportunity for revenge, he tricks the psycho into murdering his critics.

Director: Jean Yarbrough | Stars: Robert Lowery, Virginia Grey, Bill Goodwin, Martin Kosleck

Votes: 1,292

8. The Pearl of Death (1944)

Passed | 69 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

When a valuable pearl with a sinister reputation is stolen, Sherlock Holmes must investigate its link to a series of brutal murders.

Director: Roy William Neill | Stars: Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Dennis Hoey, Evelyn Ankers

Votes: 4,866

9. The Fallen Ones (2005 TV Movie)

Not Rated | 89 min | Horror

An archaeologist finds the mummified remains of a giant--the offspring of a Fallen Angel and a human woman. Now he has to stop the terror he has unleashed.

Director: Kevin VanHook | Stars: Casper Van Dien, Kristen Miller, Geoffrey Lewis, Navid Negahban

Votes: 945

10. Doomwatch (1972)

PG | 92 min | Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi

The waters surrounding an island become contaminated by chemical dumping, and people who eat fish caught in those waters become deformed and violent.

Director: Peter Sasdy | Stars: Ian Bannen, Judy Geeson, John Paul, Simon Oates

Votes: 1,180

11. The Giant (2017)

TV-MA | 114 min | Drama, History

A story about the world's tallest man, this is an unsettling Basque-language period drama focused on sibling rivalry.

Directors: Aitor Arregi, Jon Garaño | Stars: Joseba Usabiaga, Eneko Sagardoy, Iñigo Aranburu, Ramón Agirre

Votes: 4,671

12. The Monster Maker (1944)

Approved | 62 min | Horror, Sci-Fi

A mad scientist injects his enemies with an acromegaly virus, causing them to become hideously deformed.

Director: Sam Newfield | Stars: J. Carrol Naish, Ralph Morgan, Tala Birell, Wanda McKay

Votes: 1,265

13. Beauty (1998 TV Movie)

90 min | Romance

A man hires an artist to fulfill his family tradition of painting a family portrait. In this modern rendition of Beauty and the Beast, the artist is a beautiful female painter, and the model suffers from a disfiguring medical condition.

Director: Jerry London | Stars: Janine Turner, Jamey Sheridan, Linden Ashby, Shirley Broderick

Votes: 422

14. Kevyn Aucoin: Beauty & the Beast in Me (2017)

TV-14 | 90 min | Documentary, Biography

Never-before-seen footage, archival videos and celebrity interviews provide insight into the life, career and legacy of makeup artist Kevyn Aucoin.

Director: Lori Kaye | Stars: Isidore Aucoin, Berta Camal, Naomi Campbell, Cindy Crawford

Votes: 209

15. Una luz en la ventana (1942)

72 min | Thriller, Horror

A nurse begins a new job at an old dark house and finds herself reluctantly working for a mysterious mad doctor preparing a dangerous experiment in order to cure himself of acromegaly.

Director: Manuel Romero | Stars: Narciso Ibáñez Menta, Irma Córdoba, Juan Carlos Thorry, Severo Fernández

Votes: 60

16. Svengoolie (1995– )
Episode: House of Horrors (1998)

120 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy

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Director: Christopher M. Faulkner | Stars: Rich Koz, Doug Scharf, Jim Barton, Kasia Januszewski

Votes: 14

17. Mysteries at the Museum (2010– )
Episode: Black Dahlia, French Angel, Sterling Hall Bombing (2012)

TV-PG | 43 min | Documentary, Adventure, Biography

Don Wildman examines a mysterious box that holds clues to Hollywood's most infamous unsolved murder, inspects a strange bust of a figure and investigates a notorious and deadly domestic terrorist attack.

Stars: Don Wildman, Leslie Bellais, Phillip Brookman, Ted Daeschler

Votes: 13

18. EDGE Science (2017– )
Episode: Prehistoric Manatee Whale Was Heaviest Animal to Ever Live | Perucetus (2023)

22 min | Documentary, Animation

In 2010 Mario Urbina discovered a whale fossil in Peru which he named Perucetus. It may be heavier than the blue whale, long thought to be the largest animal to ever live. But the bones of Perucetus are bigger and denser.