Radio movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant radio movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out realistic, humorous, feel good, serious, psychological and semi serious films and TV shows about / with radio, radio show, radio station, media, radio dj, radio broadcast, love and romance, radio announcer, dj and death plots mostly in Drama, Comedy and Thriller genres shot in USA, Canada, UK and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as radio: Pump Up the Volume (1990), Radio Days (1987), The Boat That Rocked (2009), The Night Listener (2006), Radioland Murders (1994), Frequency (2000), A Prairie Home Companion (2006), How I Ended This Summer (2010), NewsRadio (1995), Talk Radio (1988).
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Mark Hunter is an intelligent but shy teenager who has just moved to suburban Arizona from New York. Unbeknownst to his parents and peers, at 10pm each school night Mark takes to the shortwave radio in his basement and transforms into pirate DJ ...
Style:
teen, cult classic, independent film, realistic, dark comedy ...
Audience:
teens, date night, teen drama
Plot:
radio, high school, teenager, coming of age, suicide, rebellion, rock, youth, rock and roll, school, misfit, teen angst ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
arizona, seattle, usa, phoenix arizona
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
The Narrator (Woody Allen) tells us how the radio influenced his childhood in the days before TV. In the New York City of the late 1930s to the New Year's Eve 1944, this coming-of-age tale mixes the narrator's experiences with contemporary ...
Style:
humorous, touching, sentimental, talky, emotional ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
radio, working class, dysfunctional family, rescue, lifestyle, love and romance, submarine, family problems, parents and children, nostalgia, world war two, coming of age ...
Time:
1940s, 1930s, 20th century, year 1987
Place:
new york, coney island brooklyn new york city, usa, manhattan new york city, brooklyn new york city
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: UK, France, Germany, USA
Duration: 135 min.
Story:
The Boat that Rocked is an ensemble comedy, where the romance is between the young people of the 60s, and pop music. It's about a band of DJs that captivate Britain, playing the music that defines a generation and standing up to a government ...
Style:
humorous, funny, sentimental, colorful, light ...
Plot:
rock, radio, music, rock and roll, hippie, boat, rock music, friendship, rebellion, musician, coming of age, rebelliousness ...
Time:
60s, year 2009, 20th century
Place:
london, britain
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
In the midst of his crumbling relationship, a radio show host begins speaking to his biggest fan, a young boy, via the telephone. But when questions about the boy's identity come up, the host's life is thrown into chaos.
Style:
psychological, suspense, melancholic, stylized, suspenseful ...
Plot:
radio, aids, gay, listener, book, mental illness, amateur detective, pedophile, snow, illness, hospital, lgbt ...
Time:
year 2006, 21st century
Place:
usa, new york, wisconsin
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Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Musical, Mystery, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
In 1939, WBN, a fourth radio network, is about to take to America's airwaves. As if the confusion of the premiere night wasn't enough, Penny Henderson, the owner's secretary, must deal with an unhappy sponsor, an overbearing boss and ...
Style:
stylized, humorous, witty, suspenseful, semi serious ...
Plot:
radio, radio station, murder, husband wife relationship, director, showbiz, twists and turns, murder mystery, secrets, whodunit, investigation, who done it ...
Time:
20th century, 1930s, year 1994, year 1939
Place:
usa, chicago
Is relevant ?
115K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
When a rare phenomenon gives police officer John Sullivan the chance to speak to his father, 30 years in the past, he takes the opportunity to prevent his dad's tragic death. After his actions inadvertently give rise to a series of brutal ...
Style:
psychological, feel good, suspense, serious, suspenseful ...
Audience:
kids, boys' night
Plot:
time travel, radio, father son relationship, investigation, parallel universe, butterfly effect, time, altering history, murder, serial killer, changing the past or future, rescue ...
Time:
future, year 1969, year 1999, year 2000, y2k ...
Place:
new york, usa
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, Musical, Romance, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
A look at what goes on backstage during the last broadcast of America's most celebrated radio show, where singing cowboys Dusty and Lefty, a country music siren, and a host of others hold court
Style:
humorous, lyrical, feel good, sentimental, touching ...
Plot:
radio, backstage, country music, musician's life, cowboy, lifestyle, showbiz, society, artists and showbiz, singer, music, storytelling ...
Time:
year 2006, 21st century
Place:
minnesota, usa, chicago, wisconsin
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Genre: Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
Two men at a remote Arctic base begin mistrusting each other after an important radio message.
Style:
psychological, tense, atmospheric, realistic, bleak ...
Plot:
wilderness, radio, solitude, arctic, isolation, human nature, danger, confined, dishonesty, survival, snow, winter ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
ussr, soviet union, russia, antarctica
Is relevant ?
17K
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 23 min.
TV show
Story:
NewsRadio is an American television situation comedy that aired on NBC from 1995 to 1999. The series was created by executive producer Paul Simms, and was filmed in front of a studio audience at CBS Studio Center and Sunset Gower Studios. The ...
Style:
sitcom, humorous, semi serious, realistic, witty ...
Plot:
radio, workplace, radio station, producer, employer employee relationship, boss and employee, friendship, power relations, workplace intrigue, workplace situations, office, ceo ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, 21st century
Place:
new york, usa, manhattan new york city, wisconsin
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
A rude, contemptuous talk show host becomes overwhelmed by the hatred that surrounds his program just before it goes national.
Style:
disturbing, talky, tense, suspense, serious ...
Plot:
radio, paranoid, radio dj, murder, death, racism, anonymity, twists and turns, liberal, media, media satire, radio station ...
Time:
20th century, year 1988, 80s
Place:
texas, usa, dallas texas
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Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story:
Radio Free Roscoe was a Canadian television series filmed in Toronto, Ontario. The show was produced by Decode Entertainment, and it first aired on 1 August 2003 on Family, in Canada. It has also been dubbed in French in the province of Quebec and ...
Style:
realistic, humorous, psychological, sincere, teen ...
Audience:
kids, teens
Plot:
radio, high school, teenage life, friends, rebelliousness, lifestyle, high school life, generation gap, underground, misfit, radio station, unrequited love ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
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44K
Genre: Biography, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
High school football coach, Harold Jones befriends Radio, a mentally-challenged man who becomes a student at T.L. Hanna High School in Anderson, South Carolina. Their friendship extends over several decades, where Radio transforms from a shy, ...
Style:
feel good, inspirational, sentimental, touching, emotional ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night, family outing, adult
Plot:
american football, football, disability, underdog, radio, friendship, teacher, prejudice, high school football, greed, rags to riches, autism ...
Time:
20th century, year 2003, 70s, 60s
Place:
cuba, south carolina
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
High school senior Tara is so painfully shy that she dreads speaking to anyone in the hallways or getting called on in class. But in the privacy of her bedroom with her iPod in hand, she rocks out -- doing mock broadcasts for Miami's hottest FM ...
Style:
realistic, semi serious, humorous, teen, light ...
Audience:
teens, kids, girls' night, chick flick, family outing ...
Plot:
high school, teenager, high school life, teenage girl, teenage love, prom, youth, popularity, secret identity, teenage life, first love, shyness ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
seattle, usa, washington d.c.
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Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 73 min.
Story:
A late night radio host is trapped inside the station by a violent storm after being bitten by a rabid bat.
Style:
suspense, scary, psychotronic, unusual plot structure, suspenseful
Plot:
radio, radio station, monster, scream queen, vampire bite, creature, vampirism, chase, killings, escapades, supernatural power, vengeance ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
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Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
Radio funny man Adrian Cronauer is sent to Vietnam to bring a little comedy back into the lives of the soldiers. After setting up shop, Cronauer delights the G.I.s but shocks his superior officer, Sergeant Major Dickerson, with his irreverent take ...
Style:
funny, feel good, political, clever, realistic ...
Plot:
vietnam war, radio, military, radio dj, great war, politics, wartime, satire, radio station, violence, conflict, american history ...
Time:
20th century, 60s, year 1965
Place:
vietnam, saigon, asia
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
"I'll blow up Mapo Bridge." An anonymous call comes into a radio station one day. When it turns out to be legitimate, a terrorist's threats end up getting broadcast live throughout the country.
Style:
suspense, exciting, serious, realistic, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
radio, terrorist, terrorism, reporter, negotiation, media sensation, media, danger, once in a lifetime opportunity, terror, justice, threat ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
korea, south korea, seoul
Is relevant ?
35K
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
When disc jockey Grant Mazzy reports to his basement radio station in the Canadian town of Pontypool, he thinks it's just another day at work. But when he hears reports of a virus that turns people into zombies, Mazzy barricades himself in the ...
Style:
suspense, suspenseful, tense, cult classic, bleak ...
Audience:
boys' night, adult
Plot:
zombie, epidemic, deadly virus, virus, radio station, survival, zombie apocalypse, supernatural, radio, infection, small town, fear ...
Time:
year 2008, distant future
Place:
ontario canada
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
On Halloween night in New Salem, Radio DJs Chilly Billy and Paul tell a twisted anthology of terrifying local myths. Residents of the small-town experience horrifying paranormal encounters that lead them to a grim end.
Style:
anthology, bleak, scary, suspense, slasher ...
Plot:
halloween, radio, clown, creature, monster, evil clown, violence, chase, serial murder, society, violent, alter ego ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story:
When a Cincinnati radio station switches from sedate music to top-40 rock 'n' roll, its staff of oddball characters is forced to switch gears quickly. New programming director Andy Travis brings in a new DJ named Venus Flytrap to work with ...
Style:
sitcom, not serious, realistic, humorous, witty ...
Plot:
radio, workplace, radio station, radio dj, stoner, team, new year, christmas, lust, secretary, satire, power relations ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, 70s
Place:
ohio, usa, cincinnati ohio
Is relevant ?
292K
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 150 min.
Story:
Contact is a science fiction film about an encounter with alien intelligence. Based on the novel by Carl Sagan the film starred Jodie Foster as the one chosen scientist who must make some difficult decisions between her beliefs, the truth, and ...
Style:
cerebral, inspirational, philosophical, futuristic, emotional ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
science, space travel, scientist, nasa, alien encounter, outer space, alien, space and aliens, first contact, astronomy, religion, alien contact ...
Time:
future, 90s, 20th century, distant future
Place:
puerto rico, new mexico, washington d.c., usa, hokkaido ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
A young boy who tries to set his dad up on a date after the death of his mother. He calls into a radio station to talk about his dad’s loneliness which soon leads the dad into meeting a Journalist Annie who flies to Seattle to write a story about ...
Style:
romantic, feel good, touching, sentimental, inspirational ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night, family outing, kids, girls' night ...
Plot:
happy ending, life, radio, loneliness, single parent, love and romance, looking for love, love, starting over, couples, grief, love story ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
seattle, manhattan new york city, new york, baltimore, washington state ...
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484
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story:
FM is a British sitcom which aired on ITV2, starring Chris O'Dowd, Kevin Bishop and Nina Sosanya. The series followed the lives of two DJs and their producer on their FM radio programme, "Skin 86.5 FM". The show also featured music ...
Style:
humorous, sitcom, not serious, realistic, dark comedy
Plot:
radio, producer, radio dj, artists and showbiz, workplace situations, lifestyle, workplace, music, power relations, disorder, media, radio station ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
england
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Genre: Comedy
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
Larry Abbot, speaker in the radio horror shows of Manhattan Mystery Theater wants to marry. For the marriage he takes his fiancée home to the castle where he grew up among his eccentric relatives. His uncle decides that he needs to be cured from a ...
Style:
parody, humorous, funny, melancholic, absurd ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
ghost, dysfunctional family, farce, radio, haunted house, family relations, couples, nothing goes right, love and romance, family problems, disorder, stalking ...
Time:
80s
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A successful veterinarian and radio show host with low self-esteem asks her model friend to impersonate her when a handsome man wants to see her.
Style:
entertaining, touching, romantic, sweet, light ...
Audience:
date night, kids, girls' night, chick flick, teen drama
Plot:
dog, love and romance, mistaken identity, model, radio, friendship, love story, happy ending, disorder, comedy of errors, women, relationships ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, year 1996
Place:
usa
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24K
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Because of a technical defect an American bomber team mistakenly orders the destruction of Moscow. The President of the United States has but little time to prevent an atomic catastrophe from occurring. Director Sidney Lumet gives an atmospheric ...
Style:
tense, political thriller, political, realistic, bleak ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
cold war, nuclear holocaust, nuclear war, nuclear threat, politics, military, u.s. air force, atomic bomb, nuclear, chaos, radio, president ...
Time:
20th century, 60s, year 1967
Place:
russia, new york, usa, moscow russia, washington d.c. ...
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
A brief fling between a male disc jockey and an obsessed female fan takes a frightening, and perhaps even deadly turn when another woman enters the picture.
Style:
psychological, suspenseful, creepy, suspense, neo noir ...
Plot:
obsession, stalker, jazz, femme fatale, radio, insanity, murder, manipulation, stalking, unrequited love, psychotic woman, macabre ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
california, san francisco, monterey california, usa, pacific ocean
Is relevant ?
1K
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Q-SKY is the #1 radio station in Los Angeles mainly because of the music they play; running the station the way they want to, it has made them a ratings success.
Style:
political, semi serious, realistic, biting, offbeat ...
Plot:
radio, radio station, workplace, love, musician, satire, revolution, friends, media, artists and showbiz, fighting the system, love and romance ...
Time:
year 1978, 70s
Place:
los angeles, usa, california
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 137 min.
Story:
Two troubled men face their terrible destinies and events of their past as they join together on a mission to find the Holy Grail and thus to save themselves.
Style:
psychological, touching, compassionate, inspirational, disturbing ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
self discovery, friendship, insanity, mental illness, redemption, transformation, homelessness, holy grail, tragic event, radio, guilty conscience, medical ...
Time:
90s, year 1991, 20th century
Place:
new york, usa, manhattan new york city, grand central station manhattan new york city
Is relevant ?
95K
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 22 min.
TV show
Story:
After many years spent at the “Cheers” bar, Frasier moves back home to Seattle to work as a radio psychiatrist after his policeman father gets shot in the hip on duty.
Style:
sitcom, humorous, not serious, talky, witty ...
Plot:
father son relationship, doctor, psychiatrist, living with parents, brother brother relationship, dating, radio, sibling rivalry, sibling relationship, verbal byplay, love and romance, uptight character ...
Time:
20th century, 90s, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
seattle, usa, washington state, manchester
Is relevant ?
56K
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
The Lone Rangers have heavy-metal dreams and a single demo tape they can't get anyone to play. The solution: Hijack an AM rock station and hold the deejays hostage until they agree to broadcast the band's tape.
Style:
funny, light, entertaining, not serious, humorous ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
heavy metal, music, rock and roll, farce, hostage, radio, stupidity, rock band, satire, music band, artists and showbiz, rock ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
seattle
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