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

1. Fargo (1996)

R | 98 min | Crime, Thriller

Minnesota car salesman Jerry Lundegaard's inept crime falls apart due to his and his henchmen's bungling and the persistent police work of the quite pregnant Marge Gunderson.

Directors: Joel Coen, Ethan Coen | Stars: William H. Macy, Frances McDormand, Steve Buscemi, Peter Stormare

Votes: 728,238 | Gross: $24.61M

2. Big Fish (2003)

PG-13 | 125 min | Adventure, Drama, Fantasy

A frustrated son tries to determine the fact from fiction in his dying father's life.

Director: Tim Burton | Stars: Ewan McGregor, Albert Finney, Billy Crudup, Jessica Lange

Votes: 459,500 | Gross: $66.26M

3. How the West Was Won (1962)

G | 164 min | Adventure, War, Western

A family saga covering several decades of Westward expansion in the 19th century, including the Gold Rush, the Civil War, and the building of the railroads.

Directors: John Ford, Henry Hathaway, George Marshall, Richard Thorpe | Stars: James Stewart, John Wayne, Gregory Peck, Henry Fonda

Votes: 23,401 | Gross: $46.50M

4. Red Rocket (2021)

R | 130 min | Comedy, Drama

Mikey Saber is a washed-up porn star who returns to his small Texas hometown, not that anyone really wants him back.

Director: Sean Baker | Stars: Simon Rex, Bree Elrod, Suzanna Son, Brenda Deiss

Votes: 33,391

5. The Dream Team (1989)

PG-13 | 113 min | Comedy, Crime, Thriller

Four mental patients on a field trip in New York City must save their caring chaperon, who ends up being taken to a hospital in a coma after accidentally witnessing a murder, before the killers can find him and finish the job.

Director: Howard Zieff | Stars: Michael Keaton, Christopher Lloyd, Peter Boyle, Stephen Furst

Votes: 16,410 | Gross: $28.89M

6. Portnoy's Complaint (1972)

R | 101 min | Comedy

The movie chronicles a young man's (Richard Benjamin) love and passion in his own kinky way.

Director: Ernest Lehman | Stars: Richard Benjamin, Karen Black, Lee Grant, Jack Somack

Votes: 620 | Gross: $0.61M

7. Violet & Daisy (2011)

R | 88 min | Action, Comedy, Crime

Two teenage assassins accept what they think will be a quick-and-easy job, until an unexpected target throws them off their plan.

Director: Geoffrey Fletcher | Stars: Saoirse Ronan, Alexis Bledel, James Gandolfini, Danny Trejo

Votes: 13,300 | Gross: $0.02M

8. Davy Crockett: King of the Wild Frontier (1955)

Approved | 93 min | Adventure, Drama, Family

American frontiersman Davy Crockett fights in the Creek Indian War, is elected to the U.S. Congress and fights for Texas at the Alamo.

Director: Norman Foster | Stars: Fess Parker, Buddy Ebsen, Basil Ruysdael, Hans Conried

Votes: 4,905

9. The Boys Club (1996)

R | 91 min | Adventure, Crime, Drama

In Ontario, Canada, three fourteen-year-old boys, Kyle, Brad and Eric are forced to perform an ordeal when they find a wounded mysterious fugitive named Luke, who has a gun and claiming to be a cop, has taken a hiding in their clubhouse.

Director: John Fawcett | Stars: Chris Penn, Dominic Zamprogna, Stuart Stone, Devon Sawa

Votes: 1,348

10. Will Penny (1967)

Approved | 108 min | Drama, Romance, Western

Aging cowboy Will Penny gets a line camp job on a large cattle spread and finds his isolated cabin is already occupied by an abandoned woman traveler and her young son.

Director: Tom Gries | Stars: Charlton Heston, Joan Hackett, Donald Pleasence, Lee Majors

Votes: 5,266

11. Long Weekend (2021)

R | 91 min | Comedy, Romance

A struggling writer meets an enigmatic woman who enters his life at the right time.

Director: Steve Basilone | Stars: Steve Basilone, Jennifer Irwin, Jess Jacobs, Finn Wittrock

Votes: 2,052

12. Larceny (1948)

Approved | 89 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

A con man sets out to swindle a widow out of the money she's received to build a memorial to her war-hero husband, but winds up falling in love with her instead.

Director: George Sherman | Stars: John Payne, Joan Caulfield, Dan Duryea, Shelley Winters

Votes: 933

13. Spy School (2008)

PG | 86 min | Adventure, Comedy, Family

Doubting Thomas is the story of a twelve year old boy known for telling tall tales who overhears a plot to kidnap the President's daughter. When he goes public with his story, no one believes him, and he is forced to save her on his own.

Director: Mark Blutman | Stars: Forrest Landis, AnnaSophia Robb, Rider Strong, Lea Thompson

Votes: 1,712

14. Sword of Trust (2019)

R | 88 min | Comedy, Drama

Cynthia and Mary show up to collect Cynthia's inheritance from her deceased grandfather, but the only item she receives is an antique sword that was believed by her grandfather to be proof that the South won the Civil War.

Director: Lynn Shelton | Stars: Marc Maron, Jon Bass, Michaela Watkins, Jillian Bell

Votes: 4,115 | Gross: $0.32M

15. The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1943)

Not Rated | 110 min | Comedy, Adventure, Fantasy

This lavish, impudent, adult fairy tale takes the viewer from 18th-century Braunschweig to St. Petersburg, Constantinople, Venice, and then to the moon using ingenious special effects, stunning location shooting.

Director: Josef von Báky | Stars: Hans Albers, Wilhelm Bendow, Michael Bohnen, Hans Brausewetter

Votes: 2,185

16. Paper Tiger (1975)

PG | 99 min | Action, Adventure, Thriller

A somewhat prim and proper Englishman is hired as the tutor to the son of the Japanese ambassador. His life changes when he and the boy are kidnapped by terrorists for political purposes.

Director: Ken Annakin | Stars: David Niven, Toshirô Mifune, Hardy Krüger, Kazuhito Andô

Votes: 756

17. Tall Tales & Legends (1985–1988)

Comedy, Drama, Family

An anthology series that showcases various mythical characters and incidents throughout history.

Stars: Shelley Duvall, David McCharen, Stewart Duvall, Michael McKean

Votes: 230

18. Bade Miyan Chote Miyan (1998)

Not Rated | 140 min | Action, Comedy, Musical

Arjun and Pyare Mohan are honest policemen who work together. Trouble follows when thieves Bade Miyan and Chote Miyan, look-alikes of Arjun and Pyare, commit crimes and the hapless duo are blamed for it.

Director: David Dhawan | Stars: Amitabh Bachchan, Govinda, Raveena Tandon, Ramya Krishnan

Votes: 3,423

19. Axe Giant: The Wrath of Paul Bunyan (2013)

R | 90 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy

Young adults at a first-time offenders' boot camp discover the legend of the giant lumberjack Paul Bunyan is real, but is much more horrifying than they could have imagined.

Director: Gary Jones | Stars: Amber Connor, Joe Estevez, Dan Haggerty, Thomas Downey

Votes: 1,313 | Gross: $0.00M

20. Bunyan and Babe (2017)

PG | 84 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy

Travis and Whitney visit their grandparents and stumble upon the evil plan of a greedy land developer. Travis falls through a magical portal which transports him to the world of American hero, Paul Bunyan and his pet ox, Babe.

Director: Louis Ross | Stars: John Goodman, Jeff Foxworthy, Kelsey Grammer, Johnny Orlando

Votes: 444

21. A Touch of Sweden (1971)

R | 89 min | Comedy

While on vacation in Sweden, a young woman tells a friend about the sexy escapades she's been involved in back in the U.S.

Director: Joseph F. Robertson | Stars: Uschi Digard, Starlyn Simone, Sandy Dempsey, Ray Sebastian

Votes: 94

22. John Henry (2000)

G | 10 min | Animation, Short, Drama

Disney's retelling of the legend of John Henry, the steel-driving man.

Director: Mark Henn | Stars: Alfre Woodard, Geoffrey Jones, Tim Hodge, Dave Murray

Votes: 1,882

23. Secondary Effects (2006)

R | 111 min | Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy

Four people meet again at their high school reunion, with some of the same old baggage, doubts, and questions that haunted them then, and some new ones, that come with being on the verge of turning 30.

Director: Issa López | Stars: Marina de Tavira, Alejandra Gollas, Arturo Barba, Pedro Izquierdo

Votes: 795

24. Legend of the Boneknapper Dragon (2010 TV Short)

TV-PG | 17 min | Animation, Short, Adventure

Hiccup and the gang join Gobber on a quest to find a legendary boneclad Dragon.

Director: John Puglisi | Stars: Jay Baruchel, Gerard Butler, Craig Ferguson, America Ferrera

Votes: 4,024

25. As Far as My Feet Will Carry Me (2001)

TV-G | 158 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

A German Army officer is captured by the Soviets in World War II and sent to a labor camp in Eastern Siberia. After five years of enormous hardship he escapes, commencing an incredible, arduous, danger-filled journey.

Director: Hardy Martins | Stars: Bernhard Bettermann, Iris Böhm, Anatoliy Kotenyov, Michael Mendl

Votes: 8,104

26. The Sea Hawk (1924)

Passed | 123 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance

A wrongly-convicted English gentleman goes from galley slave to pirate captain.

Director: Frank Lloyd | Stars: Milton Sills, Enid Bennett, Lloyd Hughes, Wallace Beery

Votes: 643 | Gross: $0.78M

27. Trail Street (1947)

Approved | 84 min | Western

Bat Masterson's old friend Billy Burns convinces him to become marshal of Liberal, Kansas and help the residents fight drought and a destructive range war.

Director: Ray Enright | Stars: Randolph Scott, Robert Ryan, Anne Jeffreys, George 'Gabby' Hayes

Votes: 832

28. Paul Bunyan (1958)

Approved | 17 min | Animation, Short, Adventure

The life, career, and challenges of the legendary giant lumberjack.

Director: Les Clark | Stars: Bill Lee, The Mellowmen Quartet, Thurl Ravenscroft, Max Smith

Votes: 1,192

29. Pecos Bill (1948)

23 min | Animation, Short, Western

The life of the legendary Texas cowboy with his horse, Widowmaker, and how his romance with Slue Foot Sue disrupted it.

Director: Clyde Geronimi | Stars: Roy Rogers, Bob Nolan, Luana Patten

Votes: 399

30. 4 (2004)

Not Rated | 126 min | Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi

Two men and a woman happen to meet in a bar. We learn from their conversations both the intriguing and banal details of their lives. But is anyone really telling the truth? From the meat ... See full summary »

Director: Ilya Khrzhanovskiy | Stars: Yuriy Laguta, Marina Vovchenko, Sergey Shnurov, Andrei Kudriashov

Votes: 2,260

31. Captain Calamity (1936)

Passed | 66 min | Action, Adventure, Crime

A South Seas skipper fights off thieves and pirates who are after a lost treasure.

Director: John Reinhardt | Stars: George Houston, Marian Nixon, Vince Barnett, Crane Wilbur

Votes: 159

32. Pop 'im Pop! (1950)

Approved | 7 min | Animation, Family, Comedy

A circus comes to town featuring Gracie the Fighting Kangaroo and her youngster, Hippety Hopper. Hippety slips out of the circus tent and hops into a yard where Sylvester Cat is bragging to... See full summary »

Director: Robert McKimson | Star: Mel Blanc

Votes: 273

33. Uncle Tom's Cabaña (1947)

8 min | Animation, Short, Adventure

Uncle Tom tells the blood curdling story of how the evil Simon Legree tried to foreclose on Tom's simple log cabin.

Director: Tex Avery | Stars: Sara Berner, Ruby Dandridge, Paul Frees, Imogene Lynn

Votes: 331

34. John Henry and the Inky-Poo (1946)

7 min | Animation, Short

John Henry springs to life as a full-grown man, and in no time at all establishes himself as the mightiest steel-driver around. When a newfangled steel-driving machine threatens his livelihood, he sets out to beat it in a one-on-one race.

Director: George Pal | Stars: Rex Ingram, Lillian Randolph

Votes: 298

35. Rabbit Ears: Pecos Bill (1988 Video)

25 min | Short, Family

Take a rollicking ride through the Wild, Wild West with the original cowboy, Pecos Bill. Raised by coyotes to brave the great frontier, Pecos rides his wild mustang Widow-Maker and invents ... See full summary »

Director: Tim Raglin | Star: Robin Williams

Votes: 97

36. His Hare Raising Tale (1951)

Approved | 7 min | Family, Animation, Short

Bugs tells stories to his nephew Clyde, derived from earlier cartoons (Baseball Bugs (1946), Stage Door Cartoon (1944), Rabbit Punch (1948), Falling Hare (1943) and Haredevil Hare (1948)).

Directors: Friz Freleng, Robert Clampett, Chuck Jones | Star: Mel Blanc

Votes: 316

37. The Rawhide Terror (1934)

Approved | 52 min | Western

Twelve renegades dressed as Indians kill the parents of two brothers. The brothers who have similar birth marks then separate. Ten years later a man known as the Rawhide Terror is murdering the renegades who are now town citizens.

Directors: Bruce Mitchell, Jack Nelson | Stars: Art Mix, Edmund Cobb, William Desmond, William Barrymore

Votes: 183

38. Ego Trip (1969)

X | 58 min | Drama, Romance

An egotistical man tells the stories of his many female conquests.

Stars: Ron Oakes, Mary Peel, John Dullaghan, Pam Brown

Votes: 25

39. The Lyin' Mouse (1937)

Approved | 7 min | Family, Animation, Short

A mouse is trying to free himself from a trap when a cat arrives. The mouse, desperate, asks if the cat has heard the story of the lion and the mouse. We see the lion, scaring all the ... See full summary »

Director: Friz Freleng | Stars: Mel Blanc, Billy Bletcher, Bernice Hansen

Votes: 194

40. Well Wishes (2015)

Not Rated | 94 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama

After losing his job on a coin-toss a man concocts a fantastical plan to build an enterprise of harvesting coins from wishing fountains.

Director: Anderson Boyd | Stars: Shane Callahan, Cullen Moss, Don Henderson Baker, Anna Stromberg

Votes: 461

41. War Story (1989)

5 min | Documentary, Animation, Short

This short animated piece uses a real interview as its soundtrack. Bill Perry relates stories about his youth, his tilted house, and adventures during WWII in Bristol, England during the blitz.

Director: Peter Lord | Stars: Bill Perry, Peter Lawrence

Votes: 273

42. The Legend of John Henry (1974)

11 min | Animation, Short, Family

The folk legend of John Henry, and his contest with a steam engine to cut a railroad tunnel through a mountain, is told in song by Roberta Flack.

Director: Sam Weiss | Star: Roberta Flack

Votes: 103

43. It's a Bird (1930)

14 min | Animation, Short, Comedy

A junk man travels to Africa to find a rare metal-eating bird.

Director: Harold L. Muller | Stars: Charles R. Bowers, Lowell Thomas

Votes: 274

44. Totosexy (1963)

90 min | Comedy, Musical

Two strange street musicians end up in jail and exchange sexy stories to while away time.

Director: Mario Amendola | Stars: Totò, Erminio Macario, Mario Castellani, Gianni Agus

Votes: 114

45. Bold King Cole (1936)

Passed | 7 min | Animation, Short, Comedy

Felix the Cat is perched in a tree playing his guitar and serenading himself and a canary with a little ditty called "Nature and Me." It is a beautiful day in cartoon-land but Mother Nature... See full summary »

Director: Burt Gillett | Star: Walter Tetley

Votes: 294

46. Ahoy the Movie (1997)

2 min | Animation, Short, Comedy

One night at a seedy dockside pub, a crusty old pirate tries to earn a free tankard of ale by telling a scary sea story to his mates, but he is thwarted by a young sailor who claims to have... See full summary »

Director: Bruce Pukema

47. Life After Hockey (1989)

48 min | Drama, Sport

An amateur hockey player talks about his life, his love affair with hockey and his supposed one time shot in the big time.

Director: Tom Radford | Stars: Ken Brown, Kurt Browning, Patricia Phillips, Maurice Richard

Votes: 14

48. Whys and Otherwise (1927)

7 min | Animation, Short, Comedy

Felix the Cat comes home late after a night of drunken revelry at a nightclub. He tells his rolling pin-wielding wife three ludicrous tales to explain himself.

Director: Otto Messmer

Votes: 43

49. Hell's Fire (1934)

7 min | Animation, Short, Comedy

Willie Whopper and his dog visit Hell, where they meet Satan, Cerberus, and some of the infamous members of the damned.

Director: Ub Iwerks

Votes: 97

50. The Legend of Paul Bunyan (1973)

13 min | Short, Animation, Fantasy

The story of Paul Bunyan and his encounters with Hels Helson and their legendary fight which caused the creation of many landmarks such as Niagara Falls, the Great Lakes and the Grand Canyon!

Director: Sam Weiss | Star: Jack Angel

Votes: 6