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

1. Videodrome (1983)

R | 87 min | Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller

7.2

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58 Metascore

A programmer at a Toronto TV station that specializes in adult entertainment searches for the producers of a dangerous and bizarre broadcast.

Director: David Cronenberg | Stars: James Woods, Debbie Harry, Sonja Smits, Peter Dvorsky

Votes: 103,204 | Gross: $2.12M

2. The Cable Guy (1996)

PG-13 | 96 min | Comedy, Drama, Thriller

6.1

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56 Metascore

A designer makes a grievious mistake when he rejects the friendship of a borderline cable guy.

Director: Ben Stiller | Stars: Jim Carrey, Matthew Broderick, Leslie Mann, Jack Black

Votes: 178,284 | Gross: $60.24M

3. Death Race 2 (2010 Video)

R | 96 min | Action, Crime, Sci-Fi

5.6

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Explores the origins of the first "Frankenstein" car driver, Carl "Luke" Lucas, who died in a race at the beginning of the first film.

Director: Roel Reiné | Stars: Luke Goss, Lauren Cohan, Sean Bean, Ving Rhames

Votes: 34,704

4. Elite Squad 2: The Enemy Within (2010)

Not Rated | 115 min | Action, Crime, Drama

8.0

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71 Metascore

After a prison riot, former-Captain Nascimento, now a high ranking security officer in Rio de Janeiro, is swept into a bloody political dispute that involves government officials and paramilitary groups.

Director: José Padilha | Stars: Wagner Moura, Irandhir Santos, André Ramiro, Milhem Cortaz

Votes: 86,888 | Gross: $0.10M

5. The Young and Prodigious T.S. Spivet (2013)

PG | 105 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama

7.0

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53 Metascore

A ten-year-old scientist secretly leaves his family's ranch in Montana where he lives with his cowboy father and scientist mother, escapes home, and travels across the country aboard a freight train to receive an award at the Smithsonian Institute.

Director: Jean-Pierre Jeunet | Stars: Helena Bonham Carter, Judy Davis, Callum Keith Rennie, Kyle Catlett

Votes: 19,989 | Gross: $0.10M

6. Columbo (1971–2003)
Episode: Murder in Malibu (1990)

TV-PG | 98 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

6.6

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A successful writer of romance novels who is involved with a young, ambitious womanizer, is found shot to death in her Malibu home.

Director: Walter Grauman | Stars: Peter Falk, Andrew Stevens, Brenda Vaccaro, Floyd Levine

Votes: 1,834

7. Support the Girls (2018)

R | 93 min | Comedy, Drama

6.4

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85 Metascore

The general manager at a highway-side ''sports bar with curves" has her incurable optimism and faith in her girls, her customers and herself tested over the course of a long, strange day.

Director: Andrew Bujalski | Stars: Regina Hall, Haley Lu Richardson, Dylan Gelula, Zoe Graham

Votes: 8,324 | Gross: $0.13M

8. Showtime (2002)

PG-13 | 95 min | Action, Comedy, Crime

5.5

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32 Metascore

A spoof of buddy cop movies where two very different cops are forced to team up on a new reality based television cop show, while tracking down the manufacturer and distributor of an illegally made semi-automatic firearm.

Director: Tom Dey | Stars: Robert De Niro, Eddie Murphy, Rene Russo, Rachael Harris

Votes: 65,233 | Gross: $38.08M

9. For Your Consideration (2006)

PG-13 | 86 min | Comedy

6.3

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68 Metascore

Three actors learn that their respective performances in the film "Home for Purim," a drama set in the mid-1940s American South, are generating award-season buzz.

Director: Christopher Guest | Stars: Catherine O'Hara, Harry Shearer, Parker Posey, Christopher Guest

Votes: 15,899 | Gross: $5.54M

10. Delirious (1991)

PG | 96 min | Comedy, Fantasy

5.8

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A soap opera writer gets hit on the head and wakes up as a character in his own show.

Director: Tom Mankiewicz | Stars: John Candy, Mariel Hemingway, Emma Samms, Raymond Burr

Votes: 9,549 | Gross: $5.55M

11. GREYLOCK (2023– )

Not Rated | History, Horror, Mystery

8.5

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In the USA, strange creatures and strange discoveries, give birth to cryptic mysteries and mass murders around the town. Including a strange company that wants to change the world in strange ways.

Stars: Sophia Bartolai, Alan Rosenbaum, Liam Hollander, Samantha Genrich

Votes: 57

12. Andre the Giant (2018 TV Movie)

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

7.8

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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: 6,872

13. Desert Blue (1998)

R | 90 min | Drama

6.1

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An academic obsessed with "roadside attractions" and his tv-star daughter finally discover the world's largest ice cream cone, the centerpiece for an old gold-rush town struggling to stay ... See full summary »

Director: Morgan J. Freeman | Stars: Casey Affleck, Brendan Sexton III, Kate Hudson, Christina Ricci

Votes: 2,508 | Gross: $0.10M

14. According to Greta (2009)

PG-13 | 92 min | Drama, Romance

6.1

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A suicidal and rebellious teenager is sent to live with her grandparents for the summer, where life takes an unexpected turn.

Director: Nancy Bardawil | Stars: Hilary Duff, Evan Ross, Michael Murphy, Ellen Burstyn

Votes: 10,366

15. Alex: The Life of a Child (1986 TV Movie)

Unrated | 100 min | Biography, Drama

8.1

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Alexandra Deford, a precious and precocious girl, was just eight years old when she died in 1980 following a battle against the debilitating effects of cystic fibrosis, the number-one ... See full summary »

Director: Robert Markowitz | Stars: Craig T. Nelson, Bonnie Bedelia, Gennie James, Danny Corkill

Votes: 249

16. Every Day (2010)

R | 93 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

5.7

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48 Metascore

A comedy about a New York City couple (Schreiber and Hunt) in romantic and family crisis.

Director: Richard Levine | Stars: Liev Schreiber, Helen Hunt, Carla Gugino, Ezra Miller

Votes: 3,599

17. Fatal Error (1999 TV Movie)

91 min | Action, Mystery, Sci-Fi

4.2

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The seven American lawyers hired by Australian media magnate Jack Doulan, whose company rivals Albert Teal's Digicron for preponderance on the world market of telecommunications, are ... See full summary »

Director: Armand Mastroianni | Stars: Antonio Sabato Jr., Janine Turner, Robert Wagner, Jason Schombing

Votes: 670

18. A Holiday to Remember (1995 TV Movie)

Unrated | 90 min | Drama, Romance

6.1

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Carolyn leaves the big city with her daughter Jordi for her childhood village. She meets her former fiance and finds a lost boy who she wants to adopt, but Jordi is not too keen on the idea.

Director: Jud Taylor | Stars: Connie Sellecca, Asia Vieira, Brenda Bazinet, Kyle Fairlie

Votes: 698

19. Z Channel: A Magnificent Obsession (2004 TV Movie)

R | 122 min | Documentary, Biography, History

7.6

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85 Metascore

The story of Z Channel, one of the first U.S. pay cable stations and its programming chief, Jerry Harvey. Debuting in 1974 in LA, their eclectic slate of movies became a prime example of the untapped power of cable television.

Director: Xan Cassavetes | Stars: Jerry Harvey, Chuck Ross, Timothy Ryerson, Bob Strock

Votes: 1,699

20. F@ck This Job (2021)

104 min | Documentary, News

7.4

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In 2008, Natasha, a newly rich woman, decides to open an independent TV station in Russia and builds an open-minded team of outcasts. By 2020, Natasha has lost everything to Russia's war between Propaganda and Truth.

Director: Vera Krichevskaya | Stars: Natalia Sindeeva, Aleksandr Vinokurov, Vera Krichevskaya, Anna Forshtreter

Votes: 568

21. 25 Watts (2001)

Not Rated | 92 min | Comedy, Drama

7.1

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24 hours in the life of three street youths in Montevideo.

Directors: Juan Pablo Rebella, Pablo Stoll | Stars: Daniel Hendler, Jorge Temponi, Alfonso Tort, Valentín Rivero

Votes: 1,690

22. Hollywood, No Sex Please! (2018)

56 min | Documentary, History

6.1

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The history of sexual mores in America and as shown in Hollywood films is examined, from early cinema through the Hays Code. The 1960s and the sexual revolution were a turning point in society, as reflected on screen.

Directors: Clara Kuperberg, Julia Kuperberg | Stars: Barbara Scaff, Linda Williams, Craig Detweiler, Adrian Lyne

Votes: 135

23. The Directive (2019)

113 min | Action, Comedy, Sci-Fi

2.4

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One year after a catastrophic pandemic wipes out most of humanity, a lone survivor embarks on a journey to find Safe Zone 57 with the help of a broken robot.

Director: Alexander Raye Pimentel | Stars: Kyle Abraham, Scott Thompson, Hannah Pimentel, Hashim Gari

Votes: 1,317

24. Suicide Notes (2013)

Not Rated | 100 min | Comedy

7.6

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Down on his luck playwright, Julian Parker, has written a play in which the lead character commits suicide in the final scene. The only way he can get it produced is when a money hungry ... See full summary »

Director: Travis Ammons | Stars: Lou Martini Jr., Sue Rock, Jared Doreck, Travis Ammons

Votes: 32

25. Midnight Blue Collection, Vol. 1: The Deep Throat Special Edition (2005 Video)

122 min | Documentary, Biography, Talk-Show

6.7

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From 1975 to 2002, MIDNIGHT BLUE was late-night cable's most depraved cavalcade of politics, pornography and perversion hosted by controversial Screw Magazine publisher Al Goldstein. This ... See full summary »

Stars: Alex Bennett, Carol Connors, Gerard Damiano, Al Goldstein

Votes: 52

26. No eres tú, soy yo (2011–2020)

Talk-Show

7.2

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Stars: Carola Brethauer, Gabriel Martina, Javiera Suárez, Jessica Abudinen

Votes: 7

27. Natasha Mail Order Bride Escape to America (2012 TV Movie)

22 min | Comedy

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Natasha the Mail Order Bride Escape to America is a Half-hour Comedy that follows the adventures of Natasha, a citizen of Crapistan, who has come to America, desperate to be a "True American".

Directors: Brooke Forbes, Basil Nestor | Stars: Brooke Forbes, Renée Taylor, Ken Davitian, Todd Lowe

28. Comedienne (1984)

82 min | Documentary, Biography, Comedy

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If you think Mrs. Maisel captures the reality of being a woman in comedy, you need to see this documentary from the last comedy boom. COMEDIENNE (already an outdated term) follows two women... See full summary »

Director: Katherine Matheson | Stars: Cheryl Klein, Zora Rasmussen, Sterling Swan, Nancy Sigworth

29. The (718) (2010 TV Movie)

22 min | Comedy, Drama

9.4

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With humility and heartbreaking hilarity, 'the(718)' presents the misadventures of beer-drinking, football-watching, awkward homosexual Stephen and his two straight best friends (as well as... See full summary »

Director: Darren Coyle | Stars: Parrish Hurley, Stas May, Patrick Edgar, Brian Dykstra

Votes: 37

30. The Culture Is (2022– )

News

1.6

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MSNBC's The Culture Is series aims to generate authentic and thought-provoking conversations across communities of women, including Black, Latina, Asian American Pacific Islander, ... See full summary »

Stars: Rosie Perez, Justina Machado, Robin Thede, Kamala Harris

Votes: 37

31. Social Dream (2018 TV Special)

Reality-TV

9.0

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Director: Tak Kuroha | Stars: Sascha Burci, Lorenzo Ostuni, Sabrina Cereseto, Stefano Lepri

Votes: 11

32. Social face (2016–2018)

21 min | Comedy, Reality-TV

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8 YouTube celebrities will participate in Social Face. The celebrities will have to face against the craziest of challenges, funny, bad and painful punishments and much much more. Who will ... See full summary »

Stars: Lorenzo Ostuni, Surrealpower, Francesco Posa, Awed

33. Norman Checks In (1984)

11 min | Short

3.9

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Norman Krasner checks into a hotel and finds himself bumped from his reserved room by a raucous taxidermy convention to room 13X.

Director: Shevard Goldstein | Star: Douglas P. MacIntosh

Votes: 60

34. TV3 007 Bondfever Desmond Llewelyn 'Q' Television Commercial (1997 Video)

1 min | Short, Action, Adventure

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Stars: Desmond Llewelyn, Sean Connery, Timothy Dalton, Roger Moore

35. Tenebrae: Interview with Dario Argento and Daria Nicolodi (1982 Video)

37 min | Documentary, Short, Biography

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Stars: Dario Argento, Daria Nicolodi

36. Feeding the Beast: The 24-Hour News Revolution (2004 TV Movie)

90 min | Documentary

3.7

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Stars: Roger Ailes, Ann Coulter, Katie Couric, Linda Ellerbee

Votes: 13

37. The Cable Company (2021– )

Comedy

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Stars: Danny Ross, Julia Rachilewski, Elitia Daniels, Alex Pike

38. The Twilight Channel & Other Tales (2000 Video)

60 min | Fantasy

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Andrea and Amber discover that their new cable TV service has a strange channel that shows what will happen to them five minutes in the future. In other vignettes, Shawna, Gloria and ... See full summary »

Director: Jon Woods | Stars: Amber Allen, Artemis Antoine, Jessica Jones, Shawna Lake

39. Solyanka po-Piterski (2011)

20 min | Short, Comedy

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Anthology sketch comedy, parodying Russian cable television.

Director: Kirill Kalandzhi | Stars: Kirill Kalandzhi, Anton Mosin, Alya Belokopytova, Dmitriy Ilyin

40. The Styxhexenhammer666 Channel (2010– )
Episode: Stop the Hammering!: MSNBC Host Lawrence O'Donnell Goes Ballistic (2017)

11 min | News

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Footage is leaked of MSNBC host Lawrence O'Donnell losing his temper between takes; Styx is amused.

Star: Styxhexenhammer666

41. Localization (1973 Video)

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Experimental audio/video installation, produced at Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York, featuring live video and audio interchange between two indoor locations through two-way, black-and-white, cable television system.

Director: Bill Viola