Television movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant television movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out suspense, weird, clever, talky, cult classic and funny films and TV shows about / with television, storytelling, dialogue, greed, catastrophe, mentor, runaway, pornography, husband wife relationship and satire plots mostly in Drama, Comedy and Thriller genres shot in USA, UK, Canada and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as television: The Cable Guy (1996), Stay Tuned (1992), The Morning Show (2019), Network (1976), The Onion Movie (2008), Videodrome (1983), Poltergeist (1982), Quiz Show (1994), To Die For (1995), UHF (1989).
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189K
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
When recently single Steven moves into his new apartment, cable guy Chip comes to hook him up -- and doesn't let go. Initially, Chip is just overzealous in his desire to be Steven's pal, but when Steven tries to end the ...
Style:
dark comedy, cult classic, funny, black comedy, humorous ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
obsession, television, dark humor, stalking, friendship, psychopath, kidnapping, satire, stalker, insanity, falling from height, dumb ...
Time:
20th century, medieval times, 90s
Place:
usa, north america, canada
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Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Salesman Roy Knable spends all his free time watching television, to the exasperation of his wife, Helen. One day, TV salesman Spike convinces Roy to buy a satellite dish offering 666 channels. The new addition to Roy's home entertainment ...
Style:
spoof, satirical, humorous, parody, semi serious ...
Audience:
chick flick, kids, girls' night
Plot:
satire, television, cheerleader, adaptation, survival, remote control, obsession, couple relations, crumbling marriage, media satire, hostage, deal with the devil ...
Time:
80s, year 1992, 90s
Place:
seattle
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
A behind-the-scenes look at the lives of the people who help America wake up in the morning, exploring the unique challenges faced by the men and women who carry out this daily televised ritual.
Style:
disturbing, suspense, emotional, social, captivating ...
Plot:
women, television, career woman, scandal, job, protest, journalism, workplace situations, coworker, co worker co worker relationship, feminism, lifestyle ...
Time:
2010s, 2020s, 21st century
Place:
usa, new york
Is relevant?
184K
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
A TV network cynically exploits a deranged ex-TV anchor's ravings and revelations about the media for their own profit.
Style:
clever, satirical, political, witty, black comedy ...
Plot:
media, journalism, satire, television, social commentary, media manipulation, adultery, corruption, murder, dark humor, business, assassination ...
Time:
70s, year 1976, 20th century, year 1975
Place:
usa, new york, california, manhattan new york city, middle east ...
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Venerable newscaster Norm Archer reports the latest news in politics, health, culture and entertainment - such as an automotive recall of decapitation-inducing "Neckbelts" and a study finding that "depression hits losers ...
Style:
parody, spoof, black comedy, funny, dark comedy ...
Audience:
manly
Plot:
satire, politics, television, sexual humor, irreverence, terrorism, media satire, journalism, racism, absurdism, stereotypes, marijuana ...
Time:
year 2008, 21st century
Place:
usa
Is relevant?
112K
Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
A sleazy cable-TV programmer begins to see his life and the future of media spin out of control in a very unusual fashion when he acquires a new kind of programming for his station.
Style:
surreal, disturbing, psychedelic, cult classic, sexy ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
body horror, surrealism, cyberpunk, television, virtual reality, mind control, hallucination, insanity, dystopia, satire, mind game, brainwashing ...
Time:
80s, year 1983, 20th century
Place:
pittsburgh, malaysia, toronto ontario canada, usa, canada ...
Is relevant?
194K
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
Steve Freeling lives with his wife, Diane, and their three children, Dana, Robbie, and Carol Anne, in Southern California where he sells houses for the company that built the neighborhood. It starts with just a few odd occurrences, such as broken ...
Style:
scary, psychological, suspense, suspenseful, rough ...
Audience:
kids, horror for children, adult
Plot:
poltergeist, haunted house, supernatural, ghost, psychic, suburban life, suburbs, child in peril, children, parallel world, television, supernatural power ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, year 1982
Place:
california
Is relevant?
77K
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 133 min.
Story:
Quiz Show is a 1994 American historical drama film which tells the true story of the Twenty One quiz show scandal of the 1950s.
Style:
intellectual, period piece, game show, talky, intense ...
Plot:
greed, investigation, moral dilemma, fame, ethics, television, corruption, advertising, idealism, lawyer, fraud, professor ...
Time:
1950s, 20th century, 50s, year 1957, year 1994 ...
Place:
new york, usa, washington d.c., boston
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Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, Canada, USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Suzanne Stone (Maretto) wants to be a world-famous news anchor and she is willing to do anything to get what she wants. What she lacks in intelligence, she makes up for in cold determination and diabolical wiles. As she pursues her goal with ...
Style:
sexy, black comedy, satirical, dark comedy, cynical ...
Audience:
boys' night, chick flick, teens, adult
Plot:
journalism, femme fatale, satire, female protagonist, erotic fantasy, teenage girl, oral sex, murder, television, cheating wife, adultery, erotic scene ...
Time:
90s, year 1995
Place:
new hampshire, usa, california, minnesota, canada
Is relevant?
34K
Genre: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
The eccentric new manager of a UHF television channel tries to save the station from financial ruin with an odd array of programming.
Style:
parody, cult classic, spoof, slapstick, funny ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
satire, absurd humor, television, janitor, mad scientist, fired from the job, filmmaking, gambling, workplace, imagination, loser, kidnapping ...
Time:
80s, year 1989
Place:
oklahoma city
Is relevant?
143K
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
Geeky teenager David and his popular twin sister, Jennifer, get sucked into the black-and-white world of a 1950s TV sitcom called "Pleasantville," and find a world where everything is peachy keen all the time. But when Jennifer's ...
Style:
touching, retro, humorous, teen, clever ...
Audience:
date night, teens, kids, teen fantasy, teen drama
Plot:
small town, coming of age, time travel, alternate reality, adolescence, parallel world, satire, utopia, siblings relations, fantasy world, small town life, american dream ...
Time:
1950s, 50s, 90s, future, year 1998 ...
Place:
america, france, paris france
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Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
After a bizarre and near fatal encounter with a serial killer, a newswoman is sent to a rehabilitation center whose inhabitants may not be what they seem.
Style:
scary, gothic, cult classic, creepy, sexy ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
werewolf, serial killer, transformation, psychiatrist, macabre, shapeshifting, creature feature, group therapy, outdoor sex, murder, supernatural, lost in the woods ...
Time:
80s
Place:
california, los angeles
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Parapsychologist Elise Rainier and her team travel to Five Keys, N.M., to investigate a man's claim of a haunting. Terror soon strikes when Rainier realizes that the house he lives in was her family's old home.
Style:
scary, suspense, psychological, suspenseful, demonic ...
Plot:
supernatural, haunted house, haunted, spirit, ghost, medium, supernatural horror, evil spirit, psychic, father daughter relationship, demon, father ...
Time:
year 2010, 1950s, year 1953, 50s
Is relevant?
18K
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
Christine is an ambitious 29-year-old news reporter, in Sarasota, FL, circa 1974. Relentlessly motivated to succeed, she knows she has talent, but being a driven career woman in the 1970s comes with its own challenges, especially when competition ...
Style:
sad, melancholic, depressing, disturbing, independent film ...
Plot:
suicide, depression, female reporter, loneliness, female journalist, television reporter, television, employer employee relationship, workplace, existentialism, self discovery, journalism ...
Time:
70s, year 1970, year 1974, 20th century
Place:
florida, new jersey
Is relevant?
7K
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
The Monkees are tossed about in a psychedelic, surrealist, plotless, circular bit of fun fluff.
Style:
psychedelic, surreal, cult classic, grindhouse, parody ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
surrealism, desert, television, rock and roll, anti war, counterculture, dying repeatedly, psychedelia, concert, tank, vietnam war, trippy ...
Time:
60s, 80s, 70s
Place:
vietnam, asia, california
Is relevant?
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
Set in the changing world of the late 1960s, Susanna Kaysen's prescribed "short rest" from a psychiatrist she had met only once becomes a strange, unknown journey into Alice's Wonderland, where she struggles with the thin line ...
Style:
psychological, crying, gothic, serious, heartbreaking ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick, teens, teen drama, adult
Plot:
mental illness, suicide, coming of age, psychiatric ward, suicide attempt, mental institution, teenage girl, psychiatrist, borderline personality disorder, insanity, female protagonist, mentally unstable ...
Time:
20th century, year 1999, 90s, year 1967, 60s
Place:
usa
Is relevant?
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
By 2017, the global economy has collapsed and American society has become a totalitarian police state, censoring all cultural activity. The government pacifies the populace by broadcasting a number of game shows in which convicted criminals fight ...
Style:
rough, futuristic, cult classic, exciting, tech noir ...
Audience:
boys' night, manly
Plot:
dystopian future, cyberpunk, distopia, chase, chases and races, dystopic future, prison, danger, dishonesty, rivalry, tough heroes, social commentary ...
Time:
future, near future, 80s, 20th century, year 2019 ...
Place:
los angeles, california
Is relevant?
47K
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
Video store clerk Ed agrees to have his life filmed by a camera crew for a tv network.
Style:
satirical, humorous, light, entertaining, funny ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night
Plot:
fictional reality show, satire, happy ending, television, surveillance, media hype, brother brother relationship, fish out of water, audition, life philosophy, misfit, human nature ...
Time:
20th century, year 1999, 90s
Place:
san francisco, usa, california, new jersey
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
A simple-minded gardener named Chance has spent all his life in the Washington D.C. house of an old man. When the man dies, Chance is put out on the street with no knowledge of the world except what he has learned from television.
Style:
political, clever, witty, black comedy, satirical ...
Plot:
politics, satire, comedy of errors, lawyer, secret service, impotence, mansion, funeral, eviction, country estate, wealth, garden ...
Time:
year 1979, 20th century, 70s
Place:
washington d.c., north carolina, usa
Is relevant?
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: UK
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
This special one-off drama travels back in time to 1963 to see how Doctor Who was first brought to the screen. Actor William Hartnell felt trapped by a succession of hard-man roles. Wannabe producer Verity Lambert was frustrated by the TV ...
Style:
sincere, captivating, sentimental, atmospheric, stylized ...
Plot:
doctor who, time travel, television, producer, director, british, fantasy world, artists and showbiz, cultural icon, backstage, media, biopic ...
Time:
60s, 20th century, year 1963, year 1964, year 1965 ...
Place:
england, london
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: UK, France, Japan, USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
The story of journalist, Edward R Murrow's stand against Senator McCarthy's anti-communist witch-hunts in the early 1950s.
Style:
political, tense, period piece, factual, melancholic ...
Plot:
politics, media, television, mccarthyism, journalist, reporter, fighting the system, cold war, propaganda, terrorist, patriotism, communism ...
Time:
1950s, 20th century, 50s, year 2005, 90s ...
Place:
new york, washington d.c., california, usa, soviet union ...
Is relevant?
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
As a writer named Mike struggles to shepherd his semi-autobiographical sitcom into development, his vision is slowly eroded by a domineering network executive named Lenny who favors trashy reality programming. The irony, of course, is that every ...
Style:
satirical, melancholic, witty, semi serious, funny ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
sarcasm, television, showbiz, audition, deadpan, farce, artists and showbiz, media satire, nothing goes right, actor's life, strong female character, filmmaking ...
Time:
year 2006
Place:
usa, los angeles
Is relevant?
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, Germany, USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Tells the story of Rainbow Randolph, the corrupt, costumed star of a popular children's TV show, who is fired over a bribery scandal and replaced by squeaky-clean Smoochy, a puffy fuscia rhinoceros. As Smoochy catapults to fame - scoring hit ...
Style:
dark comedy, black comedy, humorous, cynical, funny ...
Plot:
satire, children, vengeance, revenge, television, naivete, depression, showbiz, performer's life, artists and showbiz, rivalry, success ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
usa, coney island brooklyn new york city, new york, manhattan new york city, brooklyn new york city ...
Is relevant?
128K
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
In this modern take on Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol," Frank Cross (Bill Murray) is a wildly successful television executive whose cold ambition and curmudgeonly nature has driven away the love of his life, Claire Phillips ...
Style:
parody, light, humorous, christmas horror, funny ...
Audience:
chick flick, kids
Plot:
christmas, ghost, christmas eve, greed, holiday, supernatural, santa claus, xmas, happy ending, redemption, new year, christmas carol ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, future, 70s, 60s ...
Place:
usa, new york
Is relevant?
663K
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Andy heads off to Cowboy Camp, leaving his toys to their own devices. Things shift into high gear when an obsessive toy collector named Al McWhiggen, owner of Al's Toy Barn kidnaps Woody. Andy's toys mount a daring rescue mission, Buzz ...
Style:
feel good, humorous, 3d animation, saga, funny ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, girls' night, teens, toddlers ...
Plot:
toy story, escape, toy comes to life, chase, friendship, villain, toys, doll, dream, cartoon dog, rescue, mistaken identity ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, year 1999
Place:
north america, ohio
Is relevant?
1.7M
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada, Australia
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
During the 1980s, a failed stand-up comedian is driven insane and turns to a life of crime and chaos in Gotham City while becoming an infamous psychopathic crime figure.
Style:
thought provoking, atmospheric, suspense, bleak, psychological thriller ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
mental illness, villain, loneliness, mental patient, psycho, comedian, psychological trauma, mental disorder, psychopath, social problems, insanity, social decay ...
Time:
2010s, 80s, year 2019, 20th century, year 1981
Place:
new york, new jersey, los angeles, persia, bronx new york city
Is relevant?
465K
Genre: Animation, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 22 min.
TV show
Story:
Set in Springfield, the average American town, the show focuses on the antics and everyday adventures of the Simpson family; Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa and Maggie, as well as a virtual cast of thousands. Since the beginning, the series has been a pop ...
Style:
sitcom, humorous, adult animation, adult cartoon, spoof ...
Audience:
teens, family outing, chick flick, toddlers, kids ...
Plot:
dark humor, goofy hero, satire, social satire, beer, suburbs, bully, siblings relations, family relations, werewolf, eccentric family, adult humor ...
Time:
90s, 2000s, 2010s, 20th century, 80s ...
Place:
usa, nova scotia
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Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Musical
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Eccentric candy man Willy Wonka prompts a worldwide frenzy when he announces that golden tickets hidden inside five of his delicious candy bars will admit their lucky holders into his top-secret confectionary. But does Wonka have an agenda hidden ...
Style:
feel good, visually stunning, light, surreal, entertaining ...
Audience:
kids, family friendly, family outing, teens, girls' night ...
Plot:
chocolate, children, teacher, overweight child, tour guide, mischievous children, inventor, child protagonist, childhood, surrealism, child, river ...
Time:
20th century, 1900s, 90s, 70s, year 1971
Place:
germany, europe, west germany, paraguay, arizona ...
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Genre: Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Italy
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A family's new satellite TV system starts receiving signals from another planet, and soon it becomes the passageway to an alien world.
Style:
horror comedy, cult horror, psychotronic, scary, slasher ...
Plot:
voyeur, television, absurd humor, brother sister relationship, creature feature, ufo, body horror, exploitation, alien invasion, satellite, punk, creature ...
Time:
80s
Is relevant?
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Austria
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Two psychotic young men take a mother, father, and son hostage in their vacation cabin and force them to play sadistic "games" with one another for their own amusement.
Style:
disturbing, suspense, psychological, psychological thriller, bleak ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
psychopath, serial killer, bad guy wins, home invasion, torture, sadism, torment, family in danger, husband wife relationship, evil wins, violence, holiday horror ...
Time:
20th century, 90s, near future, year 1997
Place:
austria, germany, europe
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