Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keywords "embarrassment", "prank"

1. Dazed and Confused (1993)

R | 103 min | Comedy

The adventures of high school and junior high students on the last day of school in May 1976.

Director: Richard Linklater | Stars: Jason London, Wiley Wiggins, Matthew McConaughey, Rory Cochrane

Votes: 199,830 | Gross: $7.99M

2. Happy Gilmore (1996)

PG-13 | 92 min | Comedy, Sport

After his grandmothers house is repossessed by the IRS, bad tempered hockey player takes his talents to golf to earn the big bucks and get his grandmothers house back.

Director: Dennis Dugan | Stars: Adam Sandler, Christopher McDonald, Julie Bowen, Frances Bay

Votes: 248,820 | Gross: $38.62M

3. That '70s Show (1998–2006)

TV-14 | 22 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

A comedy revolving around a group of teenage friends, their mishaps, and their coming of age, set in 1970s Wisconsin.

Stars: Topher Grace, Laura Prepon, Mila Kunis, Danny Masterson

Votes: 189,428

4. Bridesmaids (I) (2011)

R | 125 min | Comedy

Competition between the maid of honor and a bridesmaid, over who is the bride's best friend, threatens to upend the life of an out-of-work pastry chef.

Director: Paul Feig | Stars: Kristen Wiig, Maya Rudolph, Rose Byrne, Terry Crews

Votes: 309,379 | Gross: $169.11M

5. 3 Idiots (2009)

PG-13 | 170 min | Comedy, Drama

Two friends are searching for their long lost companion. They revisit their college days and recall the memories of their friend who inspired them to think differently, even as the rest of the world called them "idiots".

Director: Rajkumar Hirani | Stars: Aamir Khan, Madhavan, Mona Singh, Sharman Joshi

Votes: 434,911 | Gross: $6.53M

6. Scent of a Woman (1992)

R | 156 min | Drama

A prep school student needing money agrees to "babysit" a blind man, but the job is not at all what he anticipated.

Director: Martin Brest | Stars: Al Pacino, Chris O'Donnell, James Rebhorn, Gabrielle Anwar

Votes: 329,222 | Gross: $63.90M

7. Police Academy (1984)

R | 96 min | Comedy

The mayor declares that anyone can enroll in the police academy irrespective of their physical condition or education level, and many misfits descend on the academy, including a young troublemaker who's forced to apply or go to jail.

Director: Hugh Wilson | Stars: Steve Guttenberg, G.W. Bailey, Kim Cattrall, Bubba Smith

Votes: 137,531 | Gross: $81.20M

8. Porky's (1981)

R | 94 min | Comedy

In 1954, a group of Florida high-school guys try to help their buddy lose his virginity, which leads them to seek revenge on a sleazy nightclub owner and his redneck sheriff brother for harassing them.

Director: Bob Clark | Stars: Dan Monahan, Mark Herrier, Wyatt Knight, Roger Wilson

Votes: 45,772 | Gross: $111.29M

9. The Inbetweeners (2008–2010)

TV-14 | 25 min | Comedy

Follows four friends and their antics during their final years of school.

Stars: Simon Bird, James Buckley, Blake Harrison, Joe Thomas

Votes: 94,435

10. Never Been Kissed (1999)

PG-13 | 107 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

A newspaper reporter enrolls in high school as part of research for a story.

Director: Raja Gosnell | Stars: Drew Barrymore, David Arquette, Michael Vartan, Molly Shannon

Votes: 97,625 | Gross: $55.47M

11. The King of Staten Island (2020)

R | 136 min | Comedy, Drama

Scott has been a case of arrested development since his firefighter dad died. He spends his days smoking weed and dreaming of being a tattoo artist until events force him to grapple with his grief and take his first steps forward in life.

Director: Judd Apatow | Stars: Pete Davidson, Bel Powley, Ricky Velez, Lou Wilson

Votes: 76,878

12. The To Do List (2013)

R | 104 min | Comedy, Romance

Feeling pressured to become more sexually experienced before she goes to college, Brandy Klark makes a list of things to accomplish before hitting campus in the fall.

Director: Maggie Carey | Stars: Aubrey Plaza, Johnny Simmons, Bill Hader, Alia Shawkat

Votes: 41,931 | Gross: $3.45M

13. Class (1983)

R | 98 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

A young man in private school spends one crazy night out, and only later does he learn more about the woman who enlivened his night.

Director: Lewis John Carlino | Stars: Jacqueline Bisset, Rob Lowe, Andrew McCarthy, Cliff Robertson

Votes: 12,082

14. Mischief (1985)

R | 97 min | Comedy, Romance

Guided by James Dean, the eternal symbol of youthful rebellion, a gawky high school student obsessed with the hottest girl in class takes a crash course in teenage coolness from his motorcycle-rebel neighbor.

Director: Mel Damski | Stars: Doug McKeon, Catherine Mary Stewart, Kelly Preston, Chris Nash

Votes: 7,035 | Gross: $8.69M

15. Ma (I) (2019)

R | 99 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller

A lonely woman befriends a group of teenagers and decides to let them party at her house. Just when the kids think their luck couldn't get any better, things start happening that make them question the intention of their host.

Director: Tate Taylor | Stars: Octavia Spencer, Diana Silvers, Juliette Lewis, McKaley Miller

Votes: 59,686 | Gross: $45.37M

16. Runaway Bride (1999)

PG | 116 min | Comedy, Romance

A reporter is assigned to write a story about a woman who has left a string of fiancés at the altar.

Director: Garry Marshall | Stars: Julia Roberts, Richard Gere, Joan Cusack, Hector Elizondo

Votes: 104,555 | Gross: $152.26M

17. Troll 2 (1990)

PG-13 | 95 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Horror

A vacationing family discovers that the entire town they're visiting is inhabited by goblins, disguised as humans, who plan to eat them.

Director: Claudio Fragasso | Stars: Michael Paul Stephenson, George Hardy, Margo Prey, Connie Young

Votes: 34,695

18. My Friend Dahmer (2017)

R | 107 min | Biography, Drama, Horror

A young Jeffrey Dahmer struggles to belong in high school.

Director: Marc Meyers | Stars: Ross Lynch, Alex Wolff, Anne Heche, Vincent Kartheiser

Votes: 23,661 | Gross: $1.36M

19. Handsome Devil (2016)

TV-MA | 95 min | Comedy, Drama, Sport

Ned and Conor are forced to share a bedroom at their boarding school. The loner and the star athlete at this rugby-mad school form an unlikely friendship until it's tested by the authorities.

Director: John Butler | Stars: Fionn O'Shea, Ardal O'Hanlon, Amy Huberman, Ruairi O'Connor

Votes: 17,084

20. Clifford (1994)

PG | 90 min | Comedy

A bratty 10-year-old boy is obsessed with visiting a dinosaur-themed amusement park. His uptight uncle takes the wily tyke in for a week, and barely lives to regret it.

Director: Paul Flaherty | Stars: Martin Short, Charles Grodin, Mary Steenburgen, Dabney Coleman

Votes: 8,524 | Gross: $7.41M

21. The Hollywood Knights (1980)

R | 91 min | Comedy

Led by their comedic leader, Turk, the Hollywood Knights car club raise hell throughout Beverly Hills on Halloween Night, 1965.

Director: Floyd Mutrux | Stars: Tony Danza, Michelle Pfeiffer, Julius Averitt, Steve Ballard

Votes: 5,158 | Gross: $10.00M

22. Suck Me Shakespeer (2013)

119 min | Comedy

A comedy that follows an ex-convict who lands a position at a school that sits over the spot where money from one of his earlier robberies was stashed.

Director: Bora Dagtekin | Stars: Elyas M'Barek, Karoline Herfurth, Katja Riemann, Jana Pallaske

Votes: 31,718

23. The Way He Looks (2014)

Not Rated | 96 min | Drama, Romance

Leonardo is a blind teenager searching for independence. His everyday life, the relationship with his best friend Giovana, and the way he sees the world change completely with the arrival of Gabriel.

Director: Daniel Ribeiro | Stars: Ghilherme Lobo, Fabio Audi, Tess Amorim, Lúcia Romano

Votes: 27,679 | Gross: $0.10M

24. Tormented (I) (2009)

R | 91 min | Comedy, Horror, Mystery

A bullied teenager comes back from the dead to take revenge on his classmates.

Director: Jon Wright | Stars: Alex Pettyfer, April Pearson, Dimitri Leonidas, Calvin Dean

Votes: 6,543

25. The Dirties (2013)

Not Rated | 83 min | Crime, Drama

Two best friends are filming a comedy about getting revenge on the bullies at their high school. One of them isn't joking.

Director: Matt Johnson | Stars: Matt Johnson, Owen Williams, Padraig Singal, Ross Hill

Votes: 7,963

26. Au Pair (1999 TV Movie)

96 min | Comedy, Family, Romance

A young MBA mistakenly takes the job of looking after a rich executive's spoiled children.

Director: Mark Griffiths | Stars: Gregory Harrison, Heidi Lenhart, Jane Sibbett, Katie Volding

Votes: 2,163

27. Zappa (1983)

Not Rated | 103 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

In the early '60s, 3 Danish classmates join a "den"/tree house. Steen likes his pet fish Zappa because it eats the weaker fish. Bjørn attracts girls and Mulle is a talkative, strong boy. Steen gets them into burglary and later escalates.

Director: Bille August | Stars: Adam Tønsberg, Peter Reichhardt, Morten Hoff, Lone Lindorff

Votes: 2,980

28. Harper Valley P.T.A. (1978)

PG | 93 min | Comedy

A carefree single mother challenges the local PTA after they threaten to expel her daughter from school, due to her lifestyle.

Directors: Richard C. Bennett, Ralph Senensky | Stars: Barbara Eden, Ronny Cox, Nanette Fabray, Louis Nye

Votes: 1,268

29. An American Rhapsody (2001)

PG-13 | 106 min | Drama

A young Hungarian girl struggles to find her place in the world when she's reunited with her parents in the USA years after she was left behind during their flight from the communist country in the 1950s.

Director: Éva Gárdos | Stars: Nastassja Kinski, Scarlett Johansson, Raffaella Bánsági, Tony Goldwyn

Votes: 4,597 | Gross: $0.85M

30. Bad Johnson (2014)

Not Rated | 88 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Romance

A charismatic womanizer receives his comeuppance after his penis mysteriously leaves his body and takes human form.

Director: Huck Botko | Stars: Jamie Chung, Cam Gigandet, Katherine Cunningham, Nick Thune

Votes: 5,347

31. My Summer Prince (2016 TV Movie)

TV-G | 87 min | Comedy, Family, Romance

PR crisis manager Deidre and her assistant Mandy fly in when rebellious royal Prince Colin is arrested in small-town Idaho. But when Deidre faces her own fiasco, Mandy finds herself with unexpected career (and romantic) opportunities.

Director: Peter Sullivan | Stars: Taylor Cole, Jack Turner, Lauren Holly, Marina Sirtis

Votes: 2,449

32. Saint Ralph (2004)

PG-13 | 98 min | Comedy, Drama, Sport

Saint Ralph is the unlikely story of Ralph Walker, a ninth-grader who outran everyone's expectations except his own in his bold quest to win the 1954 Boston Marathon.

Director: Michael McGowan | Stars: Adam Butcher, Campbell Scott, Jennifer Tilly, Michael Kanevsky

Votes: 6,340 | Gross: $0.80M

33. Mr. Troop Mom (2008 TV Movie)

G | 84 min | Comedy, Family

Funnyman George Lopez stars in this family misadventure as a dad who volunteers to chaperone his daughter's camping troop - unaware he'll be the only guy in a world of girls.

Director: William Dear | Stars: George Lopez, Daniela Bobadilla, Jane Lynch, Julia Benson

Votes: 928

34. Crown for Christmas (2015 TV Movie)

TV-G | 86 min | Comedy, Drama, Family

After getting fired from her job as a maid at a ritzy New York City hotel, Allie reluctantly accepts a temporary gig as the governess to a young girl who is part of a powerful family in Europe that lives in a castle.

Director: Alex Zamm | Stars: Danica McKellar, Rupert Penry-Jones, Ellie Botterill, Pavel Douglas

Votes: 5,652

35. Linkeroever (2008)

Not Rated | 102 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery

When Marie moves into her boyfriend's apartment, she uncovers a disturbing mystery.

Director: Pieter Van Hees | Stars: Eline Kuppens, Matthias Schoenaerts, Sien Eggers, Marilou Mermans

Votes: 2,935

36. Flirting with Madness (2015)

TV-14 | 83 min | Thriller

A lonely computer programmer exacts harsh revenge on three teenage girls after they play a cruel prank on him.

Director: Christine Conradt | Stars: Anne Winters, Travis Hammer, Annalisa Cochrane, Lauren Gaw

Votes: 800

37. Satte Pe Satta (1982)

160 min | Action, Comedy, Drama

The eldest of seven brothers, who run a family farm together, marries a pretty nurse, inspiring his country-bumpkin siblings to follow his example.

Director: Raj N. Sippy | Stars: Amitabh Bachchan, Hema Malini, Ranjeeta Kaur, Amjad Khan

Votes: 3,624

38. May Who? (2015)

117 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Romance

Super standard girl in school (May Who) is on a quest to win the love of a school senior heart-throbber (Fame) with her new-found friend (Pong). The only secret is that she can discharge electricity when she gets excited.

Director: Chayanop Boonprakob | Stars: Sutatta Udomsilp, Thiti Mahayotaruk, Thanapob Leeratanakachorn, Narikun Ketprapakorn

Votes: 1,442

39. Volley (2014)

Unrated | 95 min | Comedy

A group of friends has a New Year's Eve party.

Director: Martín Piroyansky | Stars: Martín Piroyansky, Violeta Urtizberea, Inés Efron, Chino Darín

Votes: 1,404

40. De Boskampi's (2015)

102 min | Comedy, Crime, Family

Rik Boskamp is dreaming of a different life where he's not constantly bullied in and one in which his father is not a total loser.

Directors: Arne Toonen, Arent Jack | Stars: Thor Braun, Henry van Loon, Meral Polat, René van 't Hof

Votes: 1,126

41. Bennie Brat (2011)

93 min | Adventure, Family, Musical

Fisherman's son Benjamin 'Bennie' Stout is mischievous, in a prank war with the mayor's spoiled-rotten son Roderik, and accident-prone, making life hard for his big brother Steven, who left... See full summary »

Director: Johan Nijenhuis | Stars: Koen Dobbelaer, Marijn Bekkenk, Hanna Verboom, Koert-Jan de Bruijn

Votes: 361

42. The Zigzag Kid (2012)

Unrated | 95 min | Adventure, Drama, Family

Nono, a Dutch kid lacking two days being thirteen, runs away from problems at home and, disguised as a girl, takes up with the world's cleverest thief, who unbeknownst to Nono, may hold the bizarre key to his true identity.

Director: Vincent Bal | Stars: Thomas Simon, Fedja van Huêt, Jessica Zeylmaker, Burghart Klaußner

Votes: 493

43. Benidorm Bastards (2010–2012)

30 min | Comedy, Reality-TV

A Flemish variation on candid camera. Each episode consists of loose sketches where one or more senior actors, surprise other people by atypically mischievous, often rude or even gross behavior.

Stars: Chuck Hargrove, Lea Witvrouwen, Gaston Rombauts, Hilda Vleugels

Votes: 114

44. Teacher's Pet (1930)

20 min | Comedy, Family, Short

Jackie prepares a series of elaborate jokes for his new teacher.

Director: Robert F. McGowan | Stars: Matthew 'Stymie' Beard, Norman 'Chubby' Chaney, Jackie Cooper, Dorothy DeBorba

Votes: 321

45. 3 Times a Charm (2011)

TV-PG | 87 min | Comedy

Emma, the studious editor of the school paper, is tempted by the most popular boy in school, Chris Duval, to cheat. She is given a magical necklace that will give her 3 chances.

Director: Letia Clouston | Stars: Carlo Marks, Lexi Giovagnoli, Noelle Perris, Michelle Glavan

Votes: 417

46. The Rocket (2019)

98 min | Adventure, Comedy

A pathological liar goes to extreme lengths to prove to his friends that he is telling the truth.

Director: Stefanos Sitaras | Stars: Stathis Arfariotis, Aris Mavropoulos, Anne-Marie Lezineau, Mariety Papatheodorou

Votes: 61

47. De terugkeer van de wespendief (2017 TV Movie)

90 min | Drama, Thriller

Stuck in trauma from his past, Simon needs to navigate the pressing matters at hand.

Director: Stanley Kolk | Stars: Benja Bruijning, Sanne Langelaar, Mandela Wee Wee, Michel Sluysmans

Votes: 197

48. Voll daneben - Gags mit Diether Krebs (1990– )

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Stars: Diether Krebs, Klaus Barner, Karin Heym, Gerd Lohmeyer

Votes: 13

49. Císarovy nové saty (1955 TV Short)

17 min | Animation, Short, Comedy

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Director: Jindrich Polák | Stars: Eduard Cupák, Frantisek Filipovský, Lubomír Lipský, Radovan Lukavský

50. I'll Be Good, Old Man! (1979)

86 min | Comedy

To the intolerant and bloody-minded Prague actor Bergner (Milos Kopecký) is the lead in Moliere's Misanthrope which he is studying now as tailor-made. On top of that he is malicious and he ... See full summary »

Director: Petr Schulhoff | Stars: Milos Kopecký, Alena Vránová, Ladislav Pesek, Frantisek Filipovský

Votes: 120