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

1. Beneath the Planet of the Apes (1970)

G | 95 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

The sole survivor of an interplanetary rescue mission searches for the only survivor of the previous expedition. He discovers a planet ruled by apes and an underground city run by telepathic humans.

Director: Ted Post | Stars: James Franciscus, Kim Hunter, Maurice Evans, Linda Harrison

Votes: 52,701 | Gross: $19.00M

2. Angels & Demons (2009)

PG-13 | 138 min | Action, Mystery, Thriller

Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon works with a nuclear physicist to solve a murder and prevent a terrorist act against the Vatican during one of the significant events within the church.

Director: Ron Howard | Stars: Tom Hanks, Ewan McGregor, Ayelet Zurer, Stellan Skarsgård

Votes: 310,244 | Gross: $133.38M

3. The Host (2006)

R | 120 min | Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi

A monster emerges from Seoul's Han River and begins attacking people. One victim's loving family does what it can to rescue her from its clutches.

Director: Bong Joon Ho | Stars: Song Kang-ho, Byun Hee-Bong, Park Hae-il, Bae Doona

Votes: 133,126 | Gross: $2.20M

4. Hairspray (1988)

PG | 92 min | Comedy, Drama, Family

A 'pleasantly plump' teenager teaches 1962 Baltimore a thing or two about integration after landing a spot on a local TV dance show.

Director: John Waters | Stars: Sonny Bono, Ruth Brown, Divine, Debbie Harry

Votes: 23,506 | Gross: $6.67M

5. A Taxi Driver (2017)

Not Rated | 137 min | Action, Drama, History

A widowed father and taxi driver who drives a German reporter from Seoul to Gwangju to cover the 1980 uprising, soon finds himself regretting his decision after being caught in the violence around him.

Director: Hun Jang | Stars: Song Kang-ho, Thomas Kretschmann, Yoo Hae-jin, Ryu Jun-yeol

Votes: 31,556 | Gross: $1.53M

6. I Am Not Your Negro (2016)

PG-13 | 93 min | Documentary, History

Writer James Baldwin tells the story of race in modern America with his unfinished novel, Remember This House.

Director: Raoul Peck | Stars: Samuel L. Jackson, James Baldwin, Martin Luther King, Malcolm X

Votes: 23,565 | Gross: $7.12M

7. Meet John Doe (1941)

Passed | 122 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

A penniless drifter is recruited by an ambitious columnist to impersonate a non-existent person who said he'd be committing suicide as a protest, and a social movement begins.

Director: Frank Capra | Stars: Gary Cooper, Barbara Stanwyck, Edward Arnold, Walter Brennan

Votes: 14,948

8. Made in Dagenham (2010)

R | 113 min | Comedy, Drama, History

A dramatization of the 1968 strike at the Ford Dagenham car plant, where female workers walked out in protest against sexual discrimination.

Director: Nigel Cole | Stars: Sally Hawkins, Bob Hoskins, Andrea Riseborough, Jaime Winstone

Votes: 16,089 | Gross: $1.09M

9. Where Angels Go Trouble Follows! (1968)

G | 93 min | Comedy

An old-line Mother Superior is challenged by a modern young nun when they take the girls of St. Francis Academy on a bus trip across the United States.

Director: James Neilson | Stars: Rosalind Russell, Stella Stevens, Binnie Barnes, Mary Wickes

Votes: 1,827

10. City of Joy (1992)

PG-13 | 132 min | Drama

An American doctor, a British nurse, and an illiterate Indian farmer unite to transform a Calcutta ghetto in this uplifting, inspirational movie starring Patrick Swayze and Pauline Collins.

Director: Roland Joffé | Stars: Patrick Swayze, Pauline Collins, Om Puri, Shabana Azmi

Votes: 5,637 | Gross: $14.68M

11. Even the Rain (2010)

Not Rated | 103 min | Drama, History

As a director and his crew shoot a controversial film about Christopher Columbus in Cochabamba, Bolivia, local people rise up against plans to privatize the water supply.

Director: Icíar Bollaín | Stars: Gael García Bernal, Luis Tosar, Karra Elejalde, Juan Carlos Aduviri

Votes: 14,244 | Gross: $0.56M

12. The Efficiency Expert (1991)

PG | 85 min | Comedy, Drama

An expert on productivity shows wacky workers in 1966 Australia how to run their moccasin factory like clockwork, despite laying off more than half the workforce.

Director: Mark Joffe | Stars: Anthony Hopkins, Ben Mendelsohn, Alwyn Kurts, Bruno Lawrence

Votes: 2,215 | Gross: $0.10M

13. Venicephrenia (2021)

R | 100 min | Horror

A group of Spanish tourists in Venecia will find themselves fighting for their lives against locals that are not too keen on foreigners.

Director: Álex de la Iglesia | Stars: Ingrid García Jonsson, Silvia Alonso, Goize Blanco, Nicolás Illoro

Votes: 3,205

14. Germinal (1993)

R | 160 min | Drama, Romance

In mid-nineteenth-century northern France, a coal mining town's workers are exploited by the mine's owner. One day, they decide to go on strike, and the authorities repress them.

Director: Claude Berri | Stars: Renaud, Gérard Depardieu, Miou-Miou, Jean Carmet

Votes: 5,761 | Gross: $0.38M

15. Tall Story (1960)

Approved | 91 min | Comedy, Sport

A young insecure college sportsman is in trouble. He wants to marry his very straightforward girlfriend, also a student, but has no money. When he is offered a bribe to fix a game, he is torn even more about the matter.

Director: Joshua Logan | Stars: Anthony Perkins, Jane Fonda, Ray Walston, Marc Connelly

Votes: 1,248 | Gross: $12.00M

16. The Impossible Years (1968)

G | 92 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

The eldest daughter of a Professor of Psychology at a large conservative university causes havoc, and great embarrassment, for her father with her free-willed and uninhibited lifestyle.

Director: Michael Gordon | Stars: David Niven, Lola Albright, Chad Everett, Ozzie Nelson

Votes: 802

17. This Is Not Berlin (2019)

Not Rated | 115 min | Drama

In the 1980s, an outsider gets invited to a mythical nightclub where he's unleashed to punk, sexual liberty and drugs.

Director: Hari Sama | Stars: Lumi Cavazos, Marina de Tavira, Ximena Romo, Dalia Xiuhcoatl

Votes: 1,432

18. True Love Blooms (2019 TV Movie)

TV-G | 82 min | Comedy, Romance

Spring is in full bloom when urban gardener Vikki fights to save her community garden from a handsome real estate developer. Both are caught off guard when it's not just the flowers that are blooming, but also love.

Director: Matthew Diamond | Stars: Sara Rue, Jordan Bridges, Aisha Duran, Amy LoCicero

Votes: 961

19. My Brother's Keeper (1995 TV Movie)

Unrated | 94 min | Biography, Drama

A man and his HIV-positive twin take an insurance company to court over a possibly life-saving bone marrow transplant.

Director: Glenn Jordan | Stars: John Lithgow, Annette O'Toole, Veronica Cartwright, Zeljko Ivanek

Votes: 143

20. Wackersdorf (2018)

123 min | Drama, History

District of Schwandorf, Upper Palatinate, in the 1980s. The Bavarian state government is quietly planning to build a nuclear reprocessing plant (WAA). The structurally weak region with ... See full summary »

Director: Oliver Haffner | Stars: August Zirner, Frederic Linkemann, Johannes Zeiler, Anna Maria Sturm

Votes: 538

21. Nos frangins (2022)

92 min | Drama

Based on the story of 22-year-old Malik Oussekinean, whose death is believed was caused by an affair of police violence after several weeks of student protests against a university reform bill.

Director: Rachid Bouchareb | Stars: Reda Kateb, Lyna Khoudri, Raphaël Personnaz, Samir Guesmi

Votes: 205

22. The National Tree (2009 TV Movie)

TV-G | 88 min | Drama

A teenager has his Sitka Spruce tree chosen to be planted outside the White House as the new national Christmas Tree.

Director: Graeme Campbell | Stars: Andrew McCarthy, Evan Williams, Kari Matchett, Paula Brancati

Votes: 642

23. Varsity Show (1937)

Approved | 120 min | Musical, Romance

A former student who is now a big Broadway show producer with three flops to his reputation, is invited back to direct the College's annual student stage show.

Director: William Keighley | Stars: Dick Powell, Fred Waring and His Pennsylvanians, Ted Healy, Rosemary Lane

Votes: 502

24. Pirate TV (2012)

108 min | Comedy

Jean-Lou, Yasmina, Victor, Clara, Adonism and the others create their own TV channel. They especially want to make the revolution.

Director: Michel Leclerc | Stars: Félix Moati, Eric Elmosnino, Sara Forestier, Maïwenn

Votes: 446

25. König des Comics (2012)

Not Rated | 80 min | Documentary, Comedy, Romance

Ralf König, one of the most successful German cartoonists, became famous with his comic book "The Most Desired Man," which was made into a film in starring Til Schweiger back in 1994. ... See full summary »

Director: Rosa von Praunheim | Stars: Ralf König, Oliver Dressnandt, Olaf Gabriel, René Krummenacher

Votes: 88

26. Insanlari Seveceksin (1979)

79 min | Action, Crime, Drama

Halil is a teenage boy, son of a poor porter, and sees him dying when serving a man without compassion. Halil keeps on with father's work, to pay for his younger brother and their old ... See full summary »

Director: Melih Gülgen | Stars: Cüneyt Arkin, Sevda Karaca, Selan Karay, Gloria Piedimonte

Votes: 83

27. Wet Asphalt (1958)

90 min | Drama, Thriller

In Berlin, when the journalist Greg Bachmann is released from prison six months before the end of his sentence, there is a driver named Jupp waiting for him.

Director: Frank Wisbar | Stars: Horst Buchholz, Martin Held, Maria Perschy, Gert Fröbe

Votes: 188

28. What Would Jesus Buy? (2007)

PG | 91 min | Documentary, Comedy

An examination of the commercialization of Christmas in America while following Reverend Billy and the Church of Stop Shopping Gospel Choir on a cross-country mission to save Christmas from... See full summary »

Director: Rob VanAlkemade | Stars: Adetola Abiade, Paul Allen, Paul Norman Allen, Shannon Baxter

Votes: 1,186 | Gross: $0.20M

29. Lux: Warrior of Light (2018)

104 min | Drama

It is the story of a young man who moves out to do good. But instead of changing the world, it changes him.

Director: Daniel Wild | Stars: Serkan Kaya, Franz Rogowski, Heiko Pinkowski, Tilman Strauss

Votes: 185

30. La muerte de Mikel (1984)

90 min | Crime, Drama

Opening at the funeral mass for Mikel, we flashback to those that played a part in Mikel's life and death; his estranged wife, his traditional Basque mother, a female impersonator and ... See full summary »

Director: Imanol Uribe | Stars: Imanol Arias, Montserrat Salvador, Fernando Telletxea, Amaia Lasa

Votes: 215

31. Sicale (2018)

1 min | Animation, Short

Several Brazilian tribes are travelling to town in order to protect their rights and their home.

Directors: Clara Danjoux, Grégoire de Bernouis, Maxime Jouniot, Jade Khoo, Camille Letouze, Léa Rey-Mauzaize

Votes: 7

32. Columbo (1971–2003)
Episode: A Case of Immunity (1975)

TV-PG | 70 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

The first secretary to the Suarian king may have immunity from the consequences of committing murder, but Lt. Columbo is wilier than any foreign diplomat.

Director: Ted Post | Stars: Peter Falk, Hector Elizondo, Sal Mineo, Kenneth Tobey

Votes: 2,291

33. Fish (2000– )
Episode: Another Shade of White (2000)

48 min | Drama

An anthropology lecturer is fired after her new book sparks racial controversy.

Director: Claire Winyard | Stars: Paul McGann, Jemma Redgrave, Mick Ford, Jack Stanley

34. L.A. Law (1986–1994)
Episode: Odor in the Court (1993)

TV-PG | 47 min | Drama

Mullaney fights against the state mental hospital to prevent the release of a couple's daughter's convicted killer David Orcott (their son-in-law) from the hospital where he was committed. ... See full summary »

Director: Victor Lobl | Stars: Corbin Bernsen, Jill Eikenberry, Alan Rachins, Michael Tucker

Votes: 26

35. L.A. Law (1986–1994)
Episode: Spanky and the Art Gang (1993)

TV-PG | 47 min | Drama

Morales and Becker are defending a sexual-bondage dominatrix who is being charged for the murder of Eric Schuller and the revelations of Schuller's connections with the prostitution world ... See full summary »

Director: Elodie Keene | Stars: Corbin Bernsen, Jill Eikenberry, Alan Rachins, Michael Tucker

Votes: 24

36. Mod Squad (1968–1973)
Episode: No More Oak Leaves for Ernie Holland (1972)

TV-PG | Action, Crime, Drama

A Vietnam veteran returns to the police force with questionable ideas of dealing with dissident ghetto residents.

Director: Seymour Robbie | Stars: Michael Cole, Clarence Williams III, Peggy Lipton, Tige Andrews

Votes: 34

37. Arena (1975– )
Episode: The Strange Case of Yukio Mishima (1985)

55 min | Documentary

About Yukio Mishima that highlights the many known major aspects of his life and personality. Mishima was a pen name he adopted en route to his chosen life as a writer.

Director: Michael McIntyre | Stars: Yukio Mishima, John Hurt, Nobuko Lady Albery, Hirohito

Votes: 91

38. Kath & Kim (2008–2009)
Episode: Florida (2009)

TV-14 | 21 min | Comedy

Kim is traumatized when one of Kath's clients dies, and she doesn't tell Craig the truth about their Rotteweiler's litter. Meanwhile, Phil tries to help an obese person who goes to his sandwich shop lose weight.

Director: Roger Kumble | Stars: Molly Shannon, Selma Blair, John Michael Higgins, Mikey Day

Votes: 29

39. Majority Rules! (2009– )
Episode: Strange Bedfellows (2010)

TV-G | Comedy

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Director: Craig Pryce | Stars: Tracy Spiridakos, Jenny Raven, Sasha Clements, Dalmar Abuzeid

40. Castle (2009–2016)
Episode: 47 Seconds (2012)

TV-PG | 45 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

The FBI commandeers the NYPD detectives for little more than leg work after a bomb explodes during an anti-capitalist demonstration. Castle is asked by Captain Gates to help out by using ... See full summary »

Director: Paul Holahan | Stars: Nathan Fillion, Stana Katic, Susan Sullivan, Jon Huertas

Votes: 1,395

41. Cedar Cove (2013–2015)
Episode: A House Divided (2013)

TV-G | 42 min | Drama, Romance

In the town of Cedar Cove, the lighthouse is not only a historic landmark but a symbol of hope for so many of the residents. When property developer Warren Saget plans to demolish the ... See full summary »

Director: Andy Mikita | Stars: Andie MacDowell, Dylan Neal, Teryl Rothery, Sarah Smyth

Votes: 86

42. Show Me a Hero (2015)
Episode: Episode #1.3 (2015)

TV-MA | 57 min | Drama, History

The crisis drags on into September 1988, and Nick finds himself unable to solicit support from anyone. Meanwhile, Carmen receives unexpected news, and Doreen struggles to adjust to life in a new home.

Director: Paul Haggis | Stars: Oscar Isaac, Catherine Keener, Ilfenesh Hadera, Natalie Paul

Votes: 408

43. Criminals: Caught on Camera (2013–2015)
Episode: Mobs and Yobs (2013)

TV-14 | 43 min | Documentary, Crime

A crowd of protestors in Guy Fawkes masks descend on the Parliament, captured on CCTV cameras on the ground and in helicopters.

Director: Philip Shotton | Stars: Nick Wallis, Julian Bell, Geoff Feavyour, Mansue Fouladgar

Votes: 9