Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "reference-to-washington-d.c."

1. Clue (1985)

PG | 94 min | Comedy, Crime, Mystery

Six guests are anonymously invited to a strange mansion for dinner, but after their host is killed, they must cooperate with the staff to identify the murderer as the bodies pile up.

Director: Jonathan Lynn | Stars: Eileen Brennan, Tim Curry, Madeline Kahn, Christopher Lloyd

Votes: 109,746 | Gross: $14.64M

2. Paid in Full (2002)

R | 97 min | Action, Crime, Drama

A young man from Harlem, forced to cope with the 1980s drug scene, builds an illegal empire, only to have a crisis of conscience.

Director: Charles Stone III | Stars: Mekhi Phifer, Wood Harris, Chi McBride, Kevin Carroll

Votes: 14,297 | Gross: $3.04M

3. Midnight Special (2016)

PG-13 | 112 min | Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi

A father and son go on the run, pursued by the government and a cult drawn to the child's special powers.

Director: Jeff Nichols | Stars: Michael Shannon, Joel Edgerton, Kirsten Dunst, Adam Driver

Votes: 84,141 | Gross: $3.71M

4. The Company You Keep (2012)

R | 125 min | Drama, Thriller

After a journalist discovers his identity, a former Weather Underground activist goes on the run.

Director: Robert Redford | Stars: Robert Redford, Brit Marling, Stanley Tucci, Nick Nolte

Votes: 35,018 | Gross: $5.13M

5. The Unknown Country (2022)

85 min | Adventure, Drama, Mystery

An unexpected invitation rushes a grieving young woman into a lonely road trip through the American Midwest towards the border between Texas and Mexico.

Director: Morrisa Maltz | Stars: Lily Gladstone, Pam Richter, Tommy Heitkamp, Scott Stampe

Votes: 681

6. The Americanization of Emily (1964)

Approved | 115 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

An American Naval Officer's talent for living the good life in wartime is challenged when he falls in love and is sent on a dangerous mission.

Director: Arthur Hiller | Stars: James Garner, Julie Andrews, Melvyn Douglas, James Coburn

Votes: 5,724

7. Dinner at Eight (1933)

Passed | 111 min | Drama

Affluent Millicent and Oliver Jordan throw a dinner for a handful of wealthy and/or well-born acquaintances, each of whom has much to reveal.

Director: George Cukor | Stars: Marie Dressler, John Barrymore, Wallace Beery, Jean Harlow

Votes: 9,054 | Gross: $4.58M

8. Going Clear: Scientology & the Prison of Belief (2015)

Not Rated | 119 min | Documentary

A documentary looking at the inner-workings of the Church of Scientology.

Director: Alex Gibney | Stars: Paul Haggis, Jason Beghe, Spanky Taylor, David Miscavige

Votes: 40,950

9. The Major and the Minor (1942)

Passed | 100 min | Comedy, Romance

A frustrated city girl disguises herself as a youngster in order to get a cheaper train ticket home. But little "Sue Sue" finds herself in a whole heap of grown-up trouble when she hides out in a compartment with a handsome Major.

Director: Billy Wilder | Stars: Ginger Rogers, Ray Milland, Rita Johnson, Robert Benchley

Votes: 7,666 | Gross: $6.38M

10. Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story (2017)

88 min | Documentary, Biography, History

The life and career of the hailed Hollywood movie star and underappreciated genius inventor, Hedy Lamarr.

Director: Alexandra Dean | Stars: Hedy Lamarr, Mel Brooks, Jennifer Hom, Anthony Loder

Votes: 4,320 | Gross: $0.82M

11. PT 109 (1963)

Approved | 140 min | Biography, Drama, War

President John F. Kennedy kept a unique inauguration gift on his desk: a plastic-encased coconut. The tale of that coconut is the heroic story of PT 109.

Director: Leslie H. Martinson | Stars: Cliff Robertson, Robert Culp, Ty Hardin, James Gregory

Votes: 2,999

12. It Happened on Fifth Avenue (1947)

Passed | 116 min | Comedy, Music, Romance

Two homeless men move into a mansion while its owners are wintering in the South.

Director: Roy Del Ruth | Stars: Don DeFore, Ann Harding, Charles Ruggles, Victor Moore

Votes: 6,304

13. At First Light (I) (2018)

TV-14 | 90 min | Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller

Alex is floating unconscious in a lake when light from a UFO of light saves her by enhancing her abilities such as telekinesis and healing power. Her friend Sean helps her. The authorities want her - not just for stealing a police car.

Director: Jason Stone | Stars: Stefanie Scott, Théodore Pellerin, Saïd Taghmaoui, Percy Hynes White

Votes: 4,182 | Gross: $0.00M

14. Daddy Long Legs (1955)

Approved | 126 min | Musical, Romance

A wealthy American has a chance encounter with a joyful young French woman, and anonymously pays for her education. She writes letters to her mysterious benefactor, nicknaming him from the description given by some of her fellow orphans.

Director: Jean Negulesco | Stars: Fred Astaire, Leslie Caron, Terry Moore, Thelma Ritter

Votes: 4,299

15. Man on Fire (1957)

Approved | 95 min | Drama

A wealthy businessman whose wife has divorced him, is bitter about the divorce, and prevents his ex-wife from seeing their child. She takes him to court, and a judge tries to determine what will be best for the child.

Director: Ranald MacDougall | Stars: Bing Crosby, Inger Stevens, Mary Fickett, E.G. Marshall

Votes: 450

16. Sunshine State (2002)

PG-13 | 141 min | Drama, Romance

A woman and her new husband returns to her hometown roots in coastal northern Florida, and must deal with family, business, and encroaching real estate development.

Director: John Sayles | Stars: Angela Bassett, Edie Falco, Alex Lewis, Alan King

Votes: 4,249 | Gross: $3.06M

17. Tick, Tick, Tick (1970)

G | 100 min | Action, Crime, Drama

Racial tensions threaten to explode when a black man is elected Sheriff of a small, racially divided town in the deep south.

Director: Ralph Nelson | Stars: Jim Brown, George Kennedy, Fredric March, Lynn Carlin

Votes: 1,368 | Gross: $1.24M

18. The Fallen Sparrow (1943)

Passed | 94 min | Film-Noir, Mystery

In 1940, an American former Republican prisoner during the Spanish Civil War, John McKittrick, is determined to find the killer of NYPD Lieutenant Louie Lepetino, who had helped him escape.

Director: Richard Wallace | Stars: John Garfield, Maureen O'Hara, Walter Slezak, Patricia Morison

Votes: 1,995

19. Eyes in the Night (1942)

Passed | 80 min | Crime, Mystery

A blind detective and his seeing-eye dog investigate a murder and discover a Nazi plot.

Director: Fred Zinnemann | Stars: Edward Arnold, Ann Harding, Donna Reed, Stephen McNally

Votes: 1,964

20. Parts Per Billion (2014)

R | 98 min | Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi

In the midst of a manmade biological disaster and a terrible fate, three couples try to find meaning in their lives.

Director: Brian Horiuchi | Stars: Frank Langella, Gena Rowlands, Rosario Dawson, Josh Hartnett

Votes: 2,174

21. Skirts Ahoy! (1952)

Passed | 109 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance

Three women in three different situations report for induction at the Great Lakes Naval Training Station and end up roommates. What follows is a frothy and fun musical.

Director: Sidney Lanfield | Stars: Esther Williams, Joan Evans, Vivian Blaine, Barry Sullivan

Votes: 580

22. The Disco Years (1991)

Not Rated | 30 min | Short, Drama

Tom Peters looks back to 1978, the year in high school that he came out of the closet. Tom's mom is both sweet and intrusive, urging him to take out girls. She also drags him to her ... See full summary »

Director: Robert Lee King | Stars: Matt Nolan, Gwen Welles, Dennis Christopher, Russell Scott Lewis

Votes: 433

23. Cass Timberlane (1947)

Passed | 119 min | Drama, Romance

Judge Cass Timberlane marries a girl from the wrong side of the tracks, Virginia Marshland. After their baby is stillborn, Virginia turns more and more to Cass' attorney friend Bradd Criley... See full summary »

Director: George Sidney | Stars: Spencer Tracy, Lana Turner, Zachary Scott, Tom Drake

Votes: 1,112

24. A Woman Rebels (1936)

Approved | 88 min | Drama, History, Romance

Pamela, a woman in late-1800s England, wishes to be her own person and has no intention to ever marry. After she has a great deal of difficulty finding a job, she finally lands a position ... See full summary »

Director: Mark Sandrich | Stars: Katharine Hepburn, Herbert Marshall, Elizabeth Allan, Donald Crisp

Votes: 932

25. Just This Once (1952)

Passed | 90 min | Comedy

Mark MacLene owes the IRS, the banks, and others a lot of money. The problem is that his trust makes $1,000,000 a year, but he spends $150,000 every month. His trustee Sam uses the power of... See full summary »

Director: Don Weis | Stars: Janet Leigh, Peter Lawford, Lewis Stone, Marilyn Erskine

Votes: 452

26. Tap World (2015)

Not Rated | 72 min | Documentary, History, Music

About ten years ago, a group of us produced a fourteen-minute short film, 'Tap Heat', which film contrasted the traditional tap with the contemporary, as it's being created and performed by... See full summary »

Director: Dean Hargrove | Stars: Jason Samuels Smith, Joshua Johnson, Ivery Wheeler, Ted Louis Levy

Votes: 57 | Gross: $0.02M

27. Allies (1983)

100 min | Documentary

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Director: Marian Wilkinson | Stars: Christopher Boyce, Ed Clark, William Colby, Marshall Green

28. The Exceptional Life of Benjamin Banneker (2017)

4 min | Animation, Short, Biography

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Director: Jun Zee Myers | Star: Pen-Pen Chen

29. The Music of Power (2019 Video)

5 min | Documentary, Short, Musical

Vice (2018) writer/director Adam McKay and other crew members offer behind-the-scenes insight into the elaborate musical number that was ultimately cut from the film, before the musical sequence is shown in its entirety.

Stars: Andy Blankenbuehler, Nicholas Britell, Brittany Howard, Adam McKay

30. Martin Luther King Jr.: Marked Man (2018 TV Movie)

44 min | Documentary

Martin Luther King Jr. helps drive change in the United States in the face of bitter opposition, not least from opponents within the U.S. government; King is subjected to a fierce campaign of intimidation by J. Edgar Hoover's FBI.

Director: Edward Cotterill | Stars: Martin Luther King, Cheryl Sterling, Tim Weiner, Bonnie Greer

Votes: 28

31. Barney Miller (1975–1982)
Episode: Bureaucrat (1975)

TV-PG | 30 min | Comedy, Drama

Among others, the 12th hosts a drunken bureaucrat and the 12-year-old who robbed Chano's apartment. Wojo forces the precinct's favorite deli closed for minor health code infractions.

Director: Bob Finkel | Stars: Hal Linden, Barbara Barrie, Abe Vigoda, Max Gail

Votes: 173

32. CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (2000–2015)
Episode: All for Our Country (2003)

TV-14 | 43 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

A grossly decomposed corpse in a bath tub is identified as frat student Daniel O'Hannissey. He was last seen in a bar, taking part in a brawl about team sports, but left apparently unhurt. ... See full summary »

Director: Richard J. Lewis | Stars: William Petersen, Marg Helgenberger, Gary Dourdan, George Eads

Votes: 856

33. CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (2000–2015)
Episode: Sex, Lies and Larvae (2000)

TV-PG | 46 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Sara and Grissom investigate the death of a woman, Kaye Shelton, found wrapped in a blanket in the mountains. With no way to confirm the time of death, Grissom relies on the insects found ... See full summary »

Director: Thomas J. Wright | Stars: William Petersen, Marg Helgenberger, Gary Dourdan, George Eads

Votes: 988

34. The Golden Girls (1985–1992)
Episode: Stan's Return (1985)

TV-PG | 30 min | Comedy, Drama

Stan returns to try and make amends with Dorothy.

Director: Jim Drake | Stars: Bea Arthur, Betty White, Rue McClanahan, Estelle Getty

Votes: 608

35. Law & Order: Criminal Intent (2001–2011)
Episode: Gemini (2003)

TV-14 | 43 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

A string of murder victims that include an optician, plastic surgeon, and hair stylist seems to have racial overtones.

Director: Frank Prinzi | Stars: Vincent D'Onofrio, Kathryn Erbe, Jamey Sheridan, Courtney B. Vance

Votes: 325

36. Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (1999– )
Episode: Deception (2002)

TV-14 | 44 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

A child's drawing leads detectives to investigate a mother for possible abuse of her teenage stepson.

Director: Constantine Makris | Stars: Christopher Meloni, Mariska Hargitay, Richard Belzer, Stephanie March

Votes: 882

37. Miami Vice (1984–1989)
Episode: Amen... Send Money (1987)

TV-14 | 46 min | Action, Crime, Drama

The wife of a televangelist is arrested on drug charges by Tubbs who finds himself the target of preacher's vengeance. However, a rival televangelist makes his play.

Director: James Quinn | Stars: Don Johnson, Philip Michael Thomas, Saundra Santiago, Michael Talbott

Votes: 362

38. Miami Vice (1984–1989)
Episode: Baby Blues (1986)

TV-14 | 47 min | Action, Crime, Drama

The team learns of a baby selling ring when one of the children's mother comes to Miami looking for her child. The trail leads them to a sleazy lawyer. When the lawyer manages to tie up any... See full summary »

Director: Daniel Attias | Stars: Don Johnson, Philip Michael Thomas, Saundra Santiago, Michael Talbott

Votes: 397

39. Miami Vice (1984–1989)
Episode: Baseballs of Death (1988)

TV-14 | 47 min | Action, Crime, Drama

Crockett and Tubbs are investigating the murders of prostitutes which appears to be the work of a sadist. They discover that the killer is a Chilean police official. They try to arrest him ... See full summary »

Director: Bill Duke | Stars: Don Johnson, Philip Michael Thomas, Saundra Santiago, Michael Talbott

Votes: 337

40. Miami Vice (1984–1989)
Episode: Definitely Miami (1986)

TV-14 | 48 min | Action, Crime, Drama

Crockett finds out first hand about Charlie Basset as a violent drug runner with an enticing wife that Sonny just can't get out of his mind.

Director: Rob Cohen | Stars: Don Johnson, Philip Michael Thomas, Saundra Santiago, Michael Talbott

Votes: 2,057

41. Miami Vice (1984–1989)
Episode: Free Verse (1986)

TV-14 | 48 min | Action, Crime, Drama

The team is assigned to protect a renowned poet who has come to the US seeking political asylum. With sexy Carmen in the mix, things get complicated.

Director: John Nicolella | Stars: Don Johnson, Philip Michael Thomas, Saundra Santiago, Michael Talbott

Votes: 430

42. Miami Vice (1984–1989)
Episode: Heroes of the Revolution (1987)

TV-14 | 47 min | Action, Crime, Drama

The team is working on a Cuban named Pedroza. They discover another man keeping tabs on him. They learn that he's a Communist agent. He goes to see Gina and tells her that he knew her ... See full summary »

Director: Gabrielle Beaumont | Stars: Don Johnson, Philip Michael Thomas, Saundra Santiago, Michael Talbott

Votes: 361

43. Miami Vice (1984–1989)
Episode: Indian Wars (1988)

TV-14 | 47 min | Action, Crime, Drama

Castillo goes under cover as a drug lord to break up another operation, but things are complicated by a group of paramilitary Indian tribe members who want to stop the ring and restore ... See full summary »

Director: Leon Ichaso | Stars: Don Johnson, Philip Michael Thomas, Saundra Santiago, Michael Talbott

Votes: 297

44. Miami Vice (1984–1989)
Episode: Knock, Knock... Who's There? (1987)

TV-14 | 47 min | Action, Crime, Drama

While Crockett and Tubbs are meeting undercover with a dealer, DEA agents raid the buy and take the cash and drugs. The DEA admits to nothing, setting in motion an Internal Affairs ... See full summary »

Director: Tony Wharmby | Stars: Don Johnson, Philip Michael Thomas, Saundra Santiago, Michael Talbott

Votes: 372

45. Miami Vice (1984–1989)
Episode: Stone's War (1986)

TV-14 | 48 min | Action, Crime, Drama

When Ira Stone films a video of American forces on illegal operations in South America, Crockett must protect him from their old nemesis Maynard, who will stop at nothing to silence Stone.

Director: David Jackson | Stars: Don Johnson, Philip Michael Thomas, Saundra Santiago, Michael Talbott

Votes: 482

46. Miami Vice (1984–1989)
Episode: The Cows of October (1988)

TV-14 | 47 min | Action, Crime, Drama

Miami Vice is on the trail of a stolen canister containing priceless semen of a prized bull called Gargantua. A dangerous Cuban spy is also after the canister, but why?

Director: Vern Gillum | Stars: Don Johnson, Philip Michael Thomas, Saundra Santiago, Michael Talbott

Votes: 330

47. Science Fiction Theatre (1955–1957)
Episode: Sound of Murder (1956)

30 min | Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi

A scientist accused of murder uses his professional knowledge to prove his innocence.

Director: Jack Arnold | Stars: Truman Bradley, Howard Duff, Russ Conway, Wheaton Chambers

Votes: 26

48. What's My Line? (1950–1967)
Episode: Terry Moore (1955)

30 min | Family, Game-Show

The regular panel, Dorothy Kilgallen, Fred Allen, Arlene Francis and Bennett Cerf, appear this evening. The first contestant is a New York City woman named Virginia Hall. Miss Hall is the ... See full summary »

Director: Franklin Heller | Stars: Dorothy Kilgallen, Fred Allen, Arlene Francis, Bennett Cerf

Votes: 40

49. CSI: NY (2004–2013)
Episode: The Ride In (2007)

TV-14 | 43 min | Action, Crime, Drama

A conman is shot to death, and detectives discover a large "Noah's Ark" behind his house. Meanwhile, an anti-cigarette protester is killed when somebody sets his cigarette outfit on fire.

Director: Steven DePaul | Stars: Gary Sinise, Melina Kanakaredes, Carmine Giovinazzo, Anna Belknap

Votes: 301

50. CSI: NY (2004–2013)
Episode: Cold Reveal (2007)

TV-14 | 44 min | Action, Crime, Drama

Detective Scotty Valens from Philadelphia's Cold Case unit comes to NY to investigate a murder that connects to Stella's past. Also Mac's recent solo bust is scrutinized because a handcuffed criminal fell off a rooftop.

Director: Marshall Adams | Stars: Gary Sinise, Melina Kanakaredes, Carmine Giovinazzo, Anna Belknap

Votes: 340