Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keywords "college", "laboratory"

1. Oppenheimer (I) (2023)

R | 180 min | Biography, Drama, History

The story of American scientist J. Robert Oppenheimer and his role in the development of the atomic bomb.

Director: Christopher Nolan | Stars: Cillian Murphy, Emily Blunt, Matt Damon, Robert Downey Jr.

Votes: 734,509 | Gross: $326.11M

2. A Beautiful Mind (2001)

PG-13 | 135 min | Biography, Drama, Mystery

A mathematical genius, John Nash made an astonishing discovery early in his career and stood on the brink of international acclaim. But the handsome and arrogant Nash soon found himself on a harrowing journey of self-discovery.

Director: Ron Howard | Stars: Russell Crowe, Ed Harris, Jennifer Connelly, Christopher Plummer

Votes: 988,012 | Gross: $170.74M

3. Spider-Man 2 (2004)

PG-13 | 127 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

Peter Parker is beset with troubles in his failing personal life as he battles a former brilliant scientist named Otto Octavius.

Director: Sam Raimi | Stars: Tobey Maguire, Kirsten Dunst, Alfred Molina, James Franco

Votes: 709,729 | Gross: $373.59M

4. Ghostbusters: Answer the Call (2016)

PG-13 | 117 min | Action, Comedy, Fantasy

Following a ghost invasion of Manhattan, paranormal enthusiasts Erin Gilbert and Abby Yates, nuclear engineer Jillian Holtzmann, and subway worker Patty Tolan band together to stop the otherworldly threat.

Director: Paul Feig | Stars: Melissa McCarthy, Kristen Wiig, Kate McKinnon, Leslie Jones

Votes: 246,619 | Gross: $128.34M

5. An American Werewolf in London (1981)

R | 97 min | Comedy, Horror

Two American college students on a walking tour of Britain are attacked by a werewolf that none of the locals will admit exists.

Director: John Landis | Stars: David Naughton, Jenny Agutter, Joe Belcher, Griffin Dunne

Votes: 120,678 | Gross: $30.57M

6. Big Hero 6 (2014)

PG | 102 min | Animation, Action, Adventure

A special bond develops between plus-sized inflatable robot Baymax and prodigy Hiro Hamada, who together team up with a group of friends to form a band of high-tech heroes.

Directors: Don Hall, Chris Williams | Stars: Ryan Potter, Scott Adsit, Jamie Chung, T.J. Miller

Votes: 502,926 | Gross: $222.53M

7. Ant-Man and the Wasp (2018)

PG-13 | 118 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy

As Scott Lang balances being both a superhero and a father, Hope van Dyne and Dr. Hank Pym present an urgent new mission that finds the Ant-Man fighting alongside The Wasp to uncover secrets from their past.

Director: Peyton Reed | Stars: Paul Rudd, Evangeline Lilly, Michael Peña, Walton Goggins

Votes: 450,375 | Gross: $216.65M

8. What Lies Beneath (2000)

PG-13 | 130 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery

The wife of a university research scientist believes that her lakeside Vermont home is haunted by a ghost - or that she is losing her mind.

Director: Robert Zemeckis | Stars: Harrison Ford, Michelle Pfeiffer, Katharine Towne, Miranda Otto

Votes: 135,838 | Gross: $155.46M

9. Victor Frankenstein (2015)

PG-13 | 110 min | Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi

Told from Igor's perspective, we see the troubled young assistant's dark origins, his redemptive friendship with the young medical student Viktor Von Frankenstein, and become eyewitnesses to the emergence of how Frankenstein became the man - and the legend - we know today.

Director: Paul McGuigan | Stars: Daniel Radcliffe, James McAvoy, Jessica Brown Findlay, Andrew Scott

Votes: 60,319 | Gross: $5.78M

10. Back to School (1986)

PG-13 | 96 min | Comedy, Romance, Sport

To help his discouraged son get through college, a funloving and obnoxious rich businessman decides to enter the school as a student himself.

Director: Alan Metter | Stars: Rodney Dangerfield, Sally Kellerman, Burt Young, Keith Gordon

Votes: 36,249 | Gross: $91.26M

11. The Golden Compass (2007)

PG-13 | 113 min | Adventure, Family, Fantasy

In a parallel universe, young Lyra Belacqua journeys to the far North to save her best friend and other kidnapped children from terrible experiments by a mysterious organization.

Director: Chris Weitz | Stars: Nicole Kidman, Daniel Craig, Dakota Blue Richards, Ben Walker

Votes: 196,919 | Gross: $70.11M

12. Something the Lord Made (2004 TV Movie)

TV-PG | 110 min | Biography, Drama

A dramatization of the relationship between heart surgery pioneers Alfred Blalock and Vivien Thomas.

Director: Joseph Sargent | Stars: Cliff McMullen, Yasiin Bey, Luray Cooper, Alan Rickman

Votes: 15,396

13. Night of the Creeps (1986)

R | 88 min | Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi

Alien brain parasites, entering humans through the mouth, turn their host into a killing zombie. Some teenagers start to fight against them.

Director: Fred Dekker | Stars: Jason Lively, Tom Atkins, Steve Marshall, Jill Whitlow

Votes: 26,137 | Gross: $0.59M

14. Species III (2004 TV Movie)

R | 111 min | Horror, Sci-Fi

As her species decays succumbing to infections and illnesses, an alien seductress immunologically stronger becomes the only hope for them to live on.

Director: Brad Turner | Stars: Robin Dunne, Robert Knepper, Sunny Mabrey, Amelia Cooke

Votes: 10,824

15. House of the Dead (2003)

R | 90 min | Action, Adventure, Horror

A group of college students travels to a mysterious island to attend a rave, which is soon taken over by bloodthirsty zombies.

Director: Uwe Boll | Stars: Jonathan Cherry, Tyron Leitso, Clint Howard, Ona Grauer

Votes: 38,572 | Gross: $10.25M

16. Good Kids (I) (2016)

R | 86 min | Comedy, Drama

Four high school students look to redefine themselves after graduation.

Director: Chris McCoy | Stars: Nicholas Braun, Zoey Deutch, Mateo Arias, Israel Broussard

Votes: 10,969

17. The Nutty Professor (1963)

Not Rated | 107 min | Comedy, Romance, Sci-Fi

A timid chemistry teacher discovers a magical potion that can transform him into a suave and handsome womanizer.

Director: Jerry Lewis | Stars: Jerry Lewis, Stella Stevens, Del Moore, Kathleen Freeman

Votes: 19,430 | Gross: $7.63M

18. Sssssss (1973)

PG | 99 min | Horror, Sci-Fi

A college student becomes lab assistant to a scientist who is working on a serum that can transform humans into snakes.

Director: Bernard L. Kowalski | Stars: Strother Martin, Dirk Benedict, Heather Menzies-Urich, Richard B. Shull

Votes: 3,978

19. The Coed and the Zombie Stoner (2014)

Unrated | 91 min | Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi

When a nerdy sorority girl falls in love with a zombie, it's only a matter of time before a zombie apocalypse is unleashed on campus. The sorority girl discovers that weed is the cure--now ... See full summary »

Director: Glenn Miller | Stars: Catherine Annette, Grant O'Connell, Jamie Noel, Aaron Caleb

Votes: 1,580

20. Attack of the 50 Foot Cheerleader (2012)

R | 83 min | Adventure, Comedy, Romance

Aspiring college cheerleader Cassie Stratford consumes an experimental drug that grants her beauty and enough athletic ability to make the cheer squad. It has an unforeseen side effect - she starts to grow and grow and grow.

Director: Kevin O'Neill | Stars: Jena Sims, Sean Young, Treat Williams, Sasha Jackson

Votes: 1,586

21. The Legend of Bhagat Singh (2002)

Not Rated | 155 min | Action, Biography, Drama

The story of a young revolutionary who raised an armed resistance against the British rule in India.

Director: Rajkumar Santoshi | Stars: Ajay Devgn, Sushant Singh, D. Santosh, Akhilendra Mishra

Votes: 17,300

22. Mumford (1999)

R | 112 min | Comedy, Drama

In the small town of Mumford, a psychologist of the same name moves in and quickly becomes very popular, despite a questionable past.

Director: Lawrence Kasdan | Stars: Loren Dean, Hope Davis, Jason Lee, Alfre Woodard

Votes: 9,507 | Gross: $4.55M

23. Juste une question d'amour (2000 TV Movie)

88 min | Drama, Romance

After his gay cousin dies from hepatitis, young Laurent, who lives with his best friend Carole, falls in love with Cedric, a plant scientist. He's afraid to inform his conservative parents that he is gay.

Director: Christian Faure | Stars: Cyrille Thouvenin, Stéphan Guérin-Tillié, Éva Darlan, Caroline Veyt

Votes: 6,084

24. A Kiss Before Dying (1956)

Approved | 94 min | Crime, Film-Noir, Mystery

A ruthless college student resorts to murder in an attempt to marry an heiress.

Director: Gerd Oswald | Stars: Robert Wagner, Jeffrey Hunter, Virginia Leith, Joanne Woodward

Votes: 4,325

25. The Strongest Man in the World (1975)

G | 92 min | Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi

Dexter Riley and his friends accidently discover a new chemical mixed with a cereal seems to give anyone temporary superhuman strength

Director: Vincent McEveety | Stars: Kurt Russell, Joe Flynn, Eve Arden, Cesar Romero

Votes: 3,741

26. The Brave Little Toaster to the Rescue (1997 Video)

Not Rated | 74 min | Animation, Adventure, Family

The Brave Little Toaster and friends must rescue the animals at a veterinary hospital from being sent to a testing laboratory.

Directors: Robert C. Ramirez, Patrick A. Ventura | Stars: Jessica Tuck, Chris Young, Roger Kabler, Deanna Oliver

Votes: 1,845

27. Abandon (2002)

PG-13 | 99 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance

An investigation of a college student's missing boyfriend becomes quite strange when she begins to see him periodically.

Director: Stephen Gaghan | Stars: Katie Holmes, Benjamin Bratt, Charlie Hunnam, Zooey Deschanel

Votes: 10,171 | Gross: $10.73M

28. Time Walker (1982)

PG | 83 min | Horror, Sci-Fi

An alien, buried in King Tut's tomb, terrorizes a college campus.

Director: Tom Kennedy | Stars: Ben Murphy, Nina Axelrod, Kevin Brophy, Robert Random

Votes: 2,197 | Gross: $0.43M

29. I've Loved You So Long (2008)

PG-13 | 117 min | Drama

A woman struggles to interact with her family and find her place in society after spending fifteen years in prison.

Director: Philippe Claudel | Stars: Kristin Scott Thomas, Elsa Zylberstein, Serge Hazanavicius, Laurent Grévill

Votes: 20,720 | Gross: $3.17M

30. Spasms (1983)

R | 90 min | Horror, Sci-Fi

A gigantic serpent is captured on a remote island and shipped to an American college for experimentation. A British millionaire and an American scientist must pursue the beast when it escapes and starts to kill innocent people.

Director: William Fruet | Stars: Peter Fonda, Oliver Reed, Kerrie Keane, Al Waxman

Votes: 1,309

31. Now You See Him, Now You Don't (1972)

G | 88 min | Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi

A chemistry student invents a spray that makes its wearer invisible. A crook finds out about it, and plans to steal it for himself.

Director: Robert Butler | Stars: Kurt Russell, Cesar Romero, Joe Flynn, Jim Backus

Votes: 2,294

32. Class of Nuke 'Em High Part II: Subhumanoid Meltdown (1991)

R | 90 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Horror

When school reporter Roger Smith meets a beautiful subhumanoid named Victoria, they fall in love but becomes determined to save her and the new school from a giant mutant squirrel, Tromie.

Director: Eric Louzil | Stars: Brick Bronsky, Lisa Gaye, Leesa Rowland, Michael Kurtz

Votes: 2,487

33. The Good Mother (1988)

R | 103 min | Drama, Romance

A divorced mother may lose custody of her young daughter to her ex-husband after he learns that the little girl crawled into bed with the mother and her boyfriend.

Director: Leonard Nimoy | Stars: Diane Keaton, Liam Neeson, Jason Robards, Ralph Bellamy

Votes: 1,789 | Gross: $4.76M

34. Science Fell in Love, So I Tried to Prove It (2020–2022)

TV-14 | 24 min | Animation, Comedy, Romance

Two scientists seek to find if love can be solved by a scientific theory. They will find the answer in their own hearts and feelings.

Stars: Yuma Uchida, Sora Amamiya, Natsuko Hara, Nichika Ohmori

Votes: 1,016

35. Bedtime for Bonzo (1951)

Not Rated | 83 min | Comedy, Family, Romance

A college professor attempts to salvage his personal and professional reputation by using a laboratory chimpanzee to prove that environment trumps heredity in behavioral development.

Director: Frederick De Cordova | Stars: Ronald Reagan, Diana Lynn, Walter Slezak, Lucille Barkley

Votes: 1,109

36. Getting In (1994)

R | 94 min | Comedy, Romance, Thriller

Applicants to a renowned medical school meet with mysterious ends when a desperate student is put on the waiting list.

Director: Doug Liman | Stars: Stephen Mailer, Grahame Wood, Kristy Swanson, Daniel R. Gerson

Votes: 582

37. Bikini Frankenstein (2010 Video)

Unrated | 81 min | Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi

Convinced that the average male couldn't tell the difference between a living woman and a corpse, the nefarious Dr. Frankenstein creates an undead sex-kitten named Eve.

Director: Fred Olen Ray | Stars: Jayden Cole, Brandin Rackley, Frankie Cullen, Christine Nguyen

Votes: 273

38. Knute Rockne All American (1940)

Approved | 98 min | Biography, Drama, Family

The story of legendary Notre Dame football player and coach Knute Rockne.

Directors: Lloyd Bacon, William K. Howard | Stars: Pat O'Brien, Gale Page, Ronald Reagan, Donald Crisp

Votes: 2,157

39. The Monkey's Uncle (1965)

G | 91 min | Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi

A student is able to save Midvale College's football reputation using his radical invention.

Director: Robert Stevenson | Stars: Tommy Kirk, Annette Funicello, Leon Ames, Arthur O'Connell

Votes: 998

40. Frankenstein: The College Years (1991 TV Movie)

Unrated | 100 min | Sci-Fi, Comedy

When professor Lippzigger dies, his favorite student Mark inherits the key to his secret laboratory. There he and his friend Jay find the hundreds of years old body of Frankenstein - and ... See full summary »

Director: Tom Shadyac | Stars: William Ragsdale, Christopher Daniel Barnes, Larry Miller, Andrea Elson

Votes: 310

41. Violent Is the Word for Curly (1938)

Not Rated | 18 min | Comedy, Short

Three bumbling gas station attendants are mistaken for college professors arriving from Germany to teach at a prestigious women's college.

Director: Charley Chase | Stars: Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Curly Howard, Samuel Adams

Votes: 941

42. Leeches! (2003 Video)

R | 85 min | Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi

Common-type aquatic leeches grow to large size after feeding on steroid-laced blood of a number of college endurance swimmers, and then the nasty creatures lay siege to the entire campus for more.

Director: David DeCoteau | Stars: Matthew Twining, Josh Henderson, Stacey Nelson, Alexandra Westmore

Votes: 1,278

43. For Men Only (1952)

Approved | 93 min | Crime, Drama

A college professor begins to suspect that a student's accidental death was tied to his refusal to take part in a traditional "hazing" and was no accident.

Director: Paul Henreid | Stars: Paul Henreid, Margaret Field, James Dobson, Douglas Kennedy

Votes: 187

44. Playboy: Freshman Class (1998 Video)

Unrated | 59 min | Documentary

They're sweet, wide-eyed innocents living away from home for the first time. Or are they? Playboy's Freshman Class gives you an uncensored look into the freshman dorms. What really goes on when girls first hit campus?

Director: Lawrence Lanoff | Stars: Jacqueline Lovell, Malisia Petropoulos, Laura Selway, Yvette Garcia

Votes: 60

45. The Body Disappears (1941)

Approved | 72 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Romance

Comedy about an invisible man.

Director: D. Ross Lederman | Stars: Jeffrey Lynn, Jane Wyman, Edward Everett Horton, Herbert Anderson

Votes: 574

46. Harufuwei (2009)

85 min | Drama, Romance

In this high school romance Hiro is dismayed to learn her new love Shu will be going away to college in Tokyo. She asks him not to go.

Director: Eriko Kitagawa | Stars: Kie Kitano, Masaki Okada, Junpei Mizobata, Riisa Naka

Votes: 444

47. The Adventures of Frank Merriwell (1936)

Passed | 219 min | Action, Adventure, Mystery

A 12-episode serial in which scholastic sports star Frank Merriwell leaves school to search for his missing father. His adventures involve a mysterious inscription on a ring, buried ... See full summary »

Directors: Clifford Smith, Lew Landers | Stars: Donald Briggs, Jean Rogers, John 'Dusty' King, Carla Laemmle

Votes: 50

48. Bacterial World (2016)

Not Rated | 54 min | Documentary

Coming in all shapes and sizes, bacteria are present in every corner of the Earth. Dive into the world of Bacteria to experience the latest discoveries and scientific knowledge surrounding these plentiful and necessary microbes.

Director: Stéphane Bégoin | Star: Doug Rand

Votes: 7

49. Qualia (2017)

15 min | Short, Drama, Fantasy

Faced with enormous debt, recent college graduate Mary Dennet is given the chance to absolve all her student loans by partaking in a radical thought experiment. Given only five minutes to ... See full summary »

Director: Mark Sashegyi | Stars: Jeffry Druce, Fiona Lakeland, Sarah Navratil, Sam Silverstein

50. Research: The Musical (2011)

108 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance

An eclectic group of biology students must complete their summer internships with a wacky professor, romance, and stolen teddy bears.

Directors: Stephen Vanderpool, Qiqige Zhang | Stars: Aungelique Scott, Jacob Fagan, Khoi Vo, Cristina Mazzone