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2. Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955–1962)
TV-14 | 25 min | Drama, Mystery
Series of unrelated short stories covering elements of crime, horror, drama, and comedy about people of different backgrounds committing murders, suicides, thefts, and other sorts of crime caused by certain motivations, perceived or not.
Stars: Alfred Hitchcock, Harry Tyler, John Williams, Patricia Hitchcock
Votes: 19,328
3. The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind (1988 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 124 min | Documentary
This is a documentary that revisits the making of Gone with the Wind (1939) with archival footage, screen tests, insightful interviews and rare film footage.
Director: David Hinton | Stars: Christopher Plummer, L. Jeffrey Selznick, David O. Selznick, Irene Mayer Selznick
Votes: 673
4. Mark Lawson Talks to... (2003–2015)
60 min | Talk-Show
A series in which arts presenter Mark Lawson has a 60-minute in-depth conversation with a notable figure.
Stars: Mark Lawson, Noel Gallagher, Terry Wogan, Celia Imrie
Votes: 75
5.
Imagine (2003– )
Episode:
Philip Roth Unleashed, Part One
(2014)
TV-14 | Biography, History
Director: Sarah Aspinall | Stars: Alan Yentob, Jane Brown Maas, Edna O'Brien, Claudia Roth Pierpont
Votes: 11
6.
The Plot Against America (2020)
Episode:
Part 6
(2020)
TV-MA | 72 min | Drama, Thriller
As riots and conspiracies spread across the country in the lead up to election day, Herman takes measures to keep his family safe; Bess does all she can at a great distance to help a small child caught in a maelstrom of anti-Semitism.
Director: Thomas Schlamme | Stars: Winona Ryder, Anthony Boyle, Zoe Kazan, Morgan Spector
Votes: 611
7. American Masters (1985– )
TV-14 | 90 min | Documentary, Biography, History
Documentary series focusing on great American artists and personalities.
Stars: Martin Scorsese, Peter Bogdanovich, Tony Bennett, Dick Cavett
Votes: 1,170
8.
Imagine (2003– )
Episode:
Philip Roth Unleashed, Part Two
(2014)
TV-14 | Biography, History
Director: Sarah Aspinall | Stars: Alan Yentob, Philip Roth
Votes: 10
9. Druckfrisch (2003– )
30 min
Hot off the press.
Stars: Denis Scheck, T.C. Boyle, Hans Magnus Enzensberger, Thomas Hettche
Votes: 36
10.
The Plot Against America (2020)
Episode:
Part 4
(2020)
TV-MA | 61 min | Drama, Thriller
Evelyn and Bengelsdorf receive an invitation from Mrs. Lindbergh to a state dinner for Nazi Germany's foreign minister; back from war, Alvin takes a job at his uncle's warehouse; Phillip is traumatized by a death.
Director: Thomas Schlamme | Stars: Winona Ryder, Anthony Boyle, Zoe Kazan, Morgan Spector
Votes: 609
11.
The Plot Against America (2020)
Episode:
Part 5
(2020)
TV-MA | 61 min | Drama, Thriller
After learning the family has been selected for a forced relocation, Herman looks to make a challenge in court; Bess gives Herman an ultimatum when violence breaks out at a rally for Lindbergh's most public liberal challenger.
Director: Thomas Schlamme | Stars: Winona Ryder, Anthony Boyle, Zoe Kazan, Morgan Spector
Votes: 584
12.
The Plot Against America (2020)
Episode:
Part 3
(2020)
TV-MA | 61 min | Drama, Thriller
Lindbergh puts Bengelsdorf in charge of a program called Just Folks; Bess places her family on a waiting list to emigrate to Canada; the Levins take a trip to Washington, D.C., where they experience anti-Semitism among citizens and police.
Director: Minkie Spiro | Stars: Winona Ryder, Anthony Boyle, Zoe Kazan, Morgan Spector
Votes: 656
13. Arena (1975– )
60 min | Documentary
Wide-ranging arts program.
Stars: Gavin Millar, Kenneth Tynan, John Walters, Jonathan Miller
Votes: 320
14. Un siècle d'écrivains (1995– )
Documentary
From 1995 through 2001,France 3 Tv presented a series of 257 hour long documentaries on authors of the 2oth century.
Stars: Bernard Rapp, Philippe Sollers, Jean-Claude Dauphin, François Marthouret
Votes: 28
15. La grande librairie (2008– )
55 min | Talk-Show
Stars: François Busnel, Augustin Trapenard, Amélie Nothomb, Erik Orsenna
Votes: 30
16. American Playhouse (1980–1994)
61 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Anthology series which ran on PBS throughout the 1980s.
Stars: Jeffrey DeMunn, Elizabeth Franz, Edward Herrmann, Sada Thompson
Votes: 414
17. Imagine (2003– )
TV-14 | 60 min | Biography, History
Wide-ranging BBC arts programme.
Stars: Alan Yentob, Tracey Emin, Chuck Close, Richard Rogers
Votes: 146
18. Philip Roth: Unmasked (2013)
Not Rated | 84 min | Biography
Explore the life of Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winning novelist Philip Roth, often referred to as the greatest living American writer.
Director: William Karel | Stars: Jonathan Franzen, Nicole Krauss, Philip Roth
Votes: 80
19.
The Plot Against America (2020)
Episode:
Part 2
(2020)
TV-MA | 61 min | Drama, Thriller
Lindbergh's increasingly popular campaign captures some in the Levin family, as well as Bengelsdorf; Alvin must decide between serving a local real estate magnate or not doing so.
Director: Minkie Spiro | Stars: Winona Ryder, Anthony Boyle, Zoe Kazan, Morgan Spector
Votes: 676
20. The Plot Against America (2020)
TV-MA | 62 min | Drama, Thriller
Characters live in an alternative history in which Franklin D. Roosevelt was defeated in the U.S. presidential election of 1940 by Charles Lindbergh.
Stars: Winona Ryder, Anthony Boyle, Zoe Kazan, Morgan Spector
Votes: 11,244
21. The Adventures of Saul Bellow (2021)
85 min | Documentary, Biography
An Israeli documentarian delves into the relationship between the life of the controversial author and the work, specifically the way Bellow borrowed real people from his past as the inspiration for characters in his stories.
Director: Asaf Galay | Stars: Martin Amis, Adam Bellow, Daniel Bellow, Gregory Bellow
Votes: 37
22.
Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955–1962)
Episode:
The Contest for Aaron Gold
(1960)
TV-14 | 30 min | Drama, Mystery
Bernie Samuelson is a ceramic arts teacher at a children's summer camp. From the very first day, he notices that young Aaron Gold has a real talent for sculpture. Aaron much prefers ... See full summary »
Director: Norman Lloyd | Stars: Alfred Hitchcock, Barry Gordon, Sydney Pollack, Frank Maxwell
Votes: 474
23. Roth on Roth (2011 TV Movie)
52 min | Documentary, Biography
Directors: William Karel, Livia Manera | Stars: André Dussollier, Mia Farrow, Philip Roth
Votes: 21
24.
American Playhouse (1980–1994)
Episode:
The Ghost Writer
(1984)
PG | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Nathan Zuckerman is a promising young writer who spends a night in the home of E.I. Lonoff, an established author whom Zuckerman idolizes. Also staying in the Lonoff home is Amy Bellette, a... See full summary »
Director: Tristram Powell | Stars: Mark Linn-Baker, Claire Bloom, Sam Wanamaker, Paulette Smit
Votes: 43
25.
The Plot Against America (2020)
Episode:
Part 1
(2020)
TV-MA | 58 min | Drama, Thriller
Herman takes his family to look at a house in an upwardly mobile neighborhood, though Bess is wary of leaving the safety of their tight-knit Jewish community; Evelyn becomes charmed by a distinguished local clergyman.
Director: Minkie Spiro | Stars: Winona Ryder, Anthony Boyle, Zoe Kazan, Morgan Spector
Votes: 889
26. Campus, le magazine de l'écrit (2001–2006)
Documentary
Stars: Guillaume Durand, Josyane Savigneau, François Reynaert, Agnès Léglise
Votes: 39
27. Elegy (I) (2008)
R | 112 min | Drama, Romance
Cultural critic David Kepesh finds his life, which he indicates is a state of "emancipated manhood," thrown into tragic disarray by Consuela Castillo, a well-mannered student who awakens a sense of sexual possessiveness in her teacher.
Director: Isabel Coixet | Stars: Ben Kingsley, Penélope Cruz, Patricia Clarkson, Dennis Hopper
Votes: 23,214 | Gross: $3.58M
28. Indignation (2016)
R | 110 min | Drama, Romance
In 1951, Marcus, a working-class Jewish student from New Jersey, attends a small Ohio college, where he struggles with sexual repression and cultural disaffection, amid the ongoing Korean War.
Director: James Schamus | Stars: Logan Lerman, Sarah Gadon, Tijuana Ricks, Sue Dahlman
Votes: 12,622 | Gross: $3.40M
29. The (In)Famous Youssef Salem (2022)
97 min | Comedy
A Maghrebi novelist struggles with the pros and cons of overnight success after publishing a book about his family.
Director: Baya Kasmi | Stars: Ramzy Bedia, Noémie Lvovsky, Abbes Zahmani, Tassadit Mandi
Votes: 548
30.
American Masters (1985– )
Episode:
Philip Roth: Unmasked
(2013)
TV-14 | Documentary, Biography, History
American Masters explores the life and career of Pulitzer Prize- and National Book Award-winning novelist Philip Roth.
Directors: William Karel, Livia Manera | Star: Philip Roth
Votes: 21
31. It Takes a Lunatic (2019)
126 min | Documentary, Biography, Drama
The life and career of acting teacher and co-founder/director of the American Place Theater, Wynn Handman.
Directors: Billy Lyons, Kim Ferraro, Seth Isler | Stars: Alec Baldwin, André Bishop, Michael Douglas, Richard Gere
Votes: 200
32. Goodbye, Columbus (1969)
R | 102 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
An intelligent graduate and working-class Army veteran has an affair and clashes with a 'nouveau riche' young woman who cares not for birth control or the use of any other precautions to avoid pregnancy.
Director: Larry Peerce | Stars: Richard Benjamin, Ali MacGraw, Jack Klugman, Nan Martin
Votes: 2,322 | Gross: $22.94M
33. The Human Stain (2003)
R | 106 min | Drama, Romance, Thriller
When a disgraced former college dean has a romance with a mysterious younger woman haunted by her dark, twisted past, he is forced to confront a shocking fact about his own life that he has kept secret for fifty years.
Director: Robert Benton | Stars: Anthony Hopkins, Nicole Kidman, Ed Harris, Gary Sinise
Votes: 32,258 | Gross: $5.38M
34. American Pastoral (2016)
R | 108 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
An All-American college star and his beauty queen wife watch their seemingly perfect life fall apart as their daughter joins the turmoil of '60s America.
Director: Ewan McGregor | Stars: Ewan McGregor, Jennifer Connelly, Dakota Fanning, Peter Riegert
Votes: 18,051 | Gross: $0.54M
35. West Wing Week (2010–2017)
Stars: Barack Obama, Joe Biden, Josh Earnest, Michelle Obama
Votes: 17
36. The Humbling (2014)
R | 112 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A stage actor who is slowly losing his mind engages in a relationship with a sexually confused younger woman.
Director: Barry Levinson | Stars: Al Pacino, Greta Gerwig, Nina Arianda, Charles Grodin
Votes: 7,204
37. Deception (2021)
105 min | Drama
An American novelist living for a time in London converses with his wife, his mistress, and other female characters he may have dreamed up.
Director: Arnaud Desplechin | Stars: Léa Seydoux, Denis Podalydès, Anouk Grinberg, Madalina Constantin
Votes: 1,659
38. Portnoy's Complaint (1972)
R | 101 min | Comedy
The movie chronicles a young man's (Richard Benjamin) love and passion in his own kinky way.
Director: Ernest Lehman | Stars: Richard Benjamin, Karen Black, Lee Grant, Jack Somack
Votes: 584 | Gross: $0.61M
39. Miradas 2 (2004–2013)
25 min | Documentary
Stars: Montse Elias, Georgina Cisquella, Antonio Gárate, Anna Cler
Votes: 48
40. The Prague Orgy (2019)
103 min | Drama
When a famous American writer accepts a quest from a Czech emigrant to bring him back unique Yiddish manuscripts, he accepts not only a dangerous journey to Prague, where he is watched at ... See full summary »
Director: Irena Pavlásková | Stars: Jonas Chernick, Kseniya Rappoport, Pavel Kríz, Jirí Havelka
Votes: 184
41. Battle of Blood Island (1960)
TV-PG | 64 min | Drama, War
Two American GIs are the only survivors of a unit wiped out in a battle with Japanese troops on an isolated island. The two, who don't like each other, find try to put aside their differences in order to evade the Japanese and survive.
Director: Joel Rapp | Stars: Richard Devon, Ron Gans, Roger Corman
Votes: 293
42. The Ghost Writer (1983 TV Movie)
Drama
Director: Tristram Powell | Stars: Rose Arrick, Claire Bloom, MacIntyre Dixon, Mark Linn-Baker
43. Nemesis (XXI)
Drama | Pre-production
A Houghton Mifflin Harcourt novel published in October 2010, is set in the summer of 1944 and explores the impact of a polio epidemic on a Newark, New Jersey, neighborhood and its infants.
Director: Abner Benaim
44. NOS Uit het Leven (2014– )
60 min | Documentary
Stars: Herman van der Zandt, Henk Palm, Hennie Ribbink, Giny Rozema
45. American Pastoral (2008)
Short, Drama
A nonprofit USC Graduate short film adaptation of Philip Roth's novel about a father searching for his daughter during the tumultuous 1960s and the dissolution of the seemingly perfect American family.
Director: Alex George Pickering | Stars: Craig Barnett, Celeste Marie Martinez
46. Les Carnets de route de François Busnel (2011– )
60 min | Documentary
Stars: François Busnel, Laurent Lederer, Colum McCann, Philip Roth
47. Vol de nuit (1999–2008)
Talk-Show
Stars: Patrick Poivre d'Arvor, Didier Van Cauwelaert, Erik Orsenna, Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt
48. Rencontre avec Philip Roth (2015 TV Movie)
Documentary
The author of many outstanding publications beloved by millions of readers around the world on the occasion of the release of his latest work announces the end of his long-standing career. ... See full summary »
Director: François Busnel | Star: Philip Roth
49. Tetradia, Thanasis Lalas (2017– )
25 min | Talk-Show
Stars: Thanasis Lalas, Charlotte Rampling, Philip Roth
50.
Mark Lawson Talks to... (2003–2015)
Episode:
Philip Roth
(2006)
Talk-Show
In a frank and provocative interview, writer Philip Roth discusses his most recent novel, the monumental impact of 9/11 and his disillusionment with the Bush administration.
Stars: Mark Lawson, Philip Roth