Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "hand-signal"

1. Top Gun: Maverick (2022)

PG-13 | 130 min | Action, Drama

After thirty years, Maverick is still pushing the envelope as a top naval aviator, but must confront ghosts of his past when he leads TOP GUN's elite graduates on a mission that demands the ultimate sacrifice from those chosen to fly it.

Director: Joseph Kosinski | Stars: Tom Cruise, Jennifer Connelly, Miles Teller, Val Kilmer

Votes: 703,276 | Gross: $718.73M

2. Full Metal Jacket (1987)

R | 116 min | Drama, War

A pragmatic U.S. Marine observes the dehumanizing effects the Vietnam War has on his fellow recruits from their brutal boot camp training to the bloody street fighting in Hue.

Director: Stanley Kubrick | Stars: Matthew Modine, R. Lee Ermey, Vincent D'Onofrio, Adam Baldwin

Votes: 792,292 | Gross: $46.36M

3. Tropic Thunder (2008)

R | 107 min | Action, Comedy, War

Through a series of freak occurrences, a group of actors shooting a big-budget war movie are forced to become the soldiers they are portraying.

Director: Ben Stiller | Stars: Ben Stiller, Jack Black, Robert Downey Jr., Jeff Kahn

Votes: 449,150 | Gross: $110.52M

4. Easy A (2010)

PG-13 | 92 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

When Olive lies to her best friend about losing her virginity to one of the college boys, a girl overhears their conversation. Soon, her story spreads across the entire school like wildfire.

Director: Will Gluck | Stars: Emma Stone, Amanda Bynes, Penn Badgley, Dan Byrd

Votes: 419,027 | Gross: $58.40M

5. Game Night (I) (2018)

R | 100 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy

A group of friends who meet regularly for game nights find themselves entangled in a real-life mystery when the shady brother of one of them is seemingly kidnapped by dangerous gangsters.

Directors: John Francis Daley, Jonathan Goldstein | Stars: Jason Bateman, Rachel McAdams, Kyle Chandler, Sharon Horgan

Votes: 256,354 | Gross: $69.18M

6. Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol (2011)

PG-13 | 132 min | Action, Adventure, Thriller

The IMF is shut down when it's implicated in the bombing of the Kremlin, causing Ethan Hunt and his new team to go rogue to clear their organization's name.

Director: Brad Bird | Stars: Tom Cruise, Jeremy Renner, Simon Pegg, Paula Patton

Votes: 529,365 | Gross: $209.40M

7. Soldier (I) (1998)

R | 99 min | Action, Drama, Sci-Fi

A soldier trained from birth is deemed obsolete and dumped on a waste planet where he is reluctantly taken in by a community of defenseless, stranded wayfarers.

Director: Paul W.S. Anderson | Stars: Kurt Russell, Jason Scott Lee, Jason Isaacs, Connie Nielsen

Votes: 59,704 | Gross: $14.57M

8. The Bone Collector (1999)

R | 118 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

A quadriplegic ex-homicide detective and his partner try to track down a serial killer who is terrorizing New York City.

Director: Phillip Noyce | Stars: Denzel Washington, Angelina Jolie, Queen Latifah, Michael Rooker

Votes: 185,490 | Gross: $66.52M

9. Shoplifters (2018)

R | 121 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

On the margins of Tokyo, a dysfunctional band of outsiders are united by loyalty, a penchant for petty theft and playful grifting. When the young son is arrested, secrets are exposed that upend their tenuous, below-the-radar existence.

Director: Kore-eda Hirokazu | Stars: Lily Franky, Sakura Andô, Kirin Kiki, Mayu Matsuoka

Votes: 86,839 | Gross: $3.31M

10. Don't Look Back (2009)

Not Rated | 111 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery

A psychodrama about a photographer whose pictures tell a different story to that of her perception.

Director: Marina de Van | Stars: Sophie Marceau, Monica Bellucci, Andrea Di Stefano, Thierry Neuvic

Votes: 7,453

11. Peter Rabbit (2018)

PG | 95 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy

A rabbit sneaks into a garden to steal food, and they get a new challenge with a new owner.

Director: Will Gluck | Stars: James Corden, Fayssal Bazzi, Domhnall Gleeson, Sia

Votes: 48,257 | Gross: $115.25M

12. Resistance (2020)

R | 120 min | Biography, Drama, History

The story of mime Marcel Marceau as he works with a group of Jewish boy scouts and the French Resistance to save the lives of ten thousand orphans during World War II.

Director: Jonathan Jakubowicz | Stars: Jesse Eisenberg, Clémence Poésy, Matthias Schweighöfer, Félix Moati

Votes: 9,006

13. Sniper (1993)

R | 98 min | Action, Thriller, War

A veteran US Marine sniper is partnered with a rookie sniper as his spotter to take out a politician and a rebel leader in the jungles of Panama.

Director: Luis Llosa | Stars: Tom Berenger, Billy Zane, J.T. Walsh, Aden Young

Votes: 25,511 | Gross: $18.99M

14. Deadly Invitations (2024)

89 min | Mystery, Thriller

An influencer comes across a VIP party invite not meant for her and dives headfirst into the side of the industry where secrets are worth killing for.

Director: Monika Mitchell | Stars: Natalie Brown, Lola Flanery, Nik Andrews, Lincoln McGowan

Votes: 41

15. Breakheart Pass (1975)

PG | 95 min | Drama, Mystery, Western

John Deakin is being transported, as a prisoner, on a train with supplies and medicine to Fort Humboldt, Nevada.

Director: Tom Gries | Stars: Charles Bronson, Ben Johnson, Richard Crenna, Jill Ireland

Votes: 8,854

16. When Trumpets Fade (1998 TV Movie)

R | 95 min | Action, Drama, War

A private in the latter days of WWII on the German front struggles between his will to survive and what his superiors perceive as a battlefield instinct.

Director: John Irvin | Stars: Ron Eldard, Zak Orth, Frank Whaley, Dylan Bruno

Votes: 8,265

17. Good Morning (1959)

Not Rated | 94 min | Comedy, Drama, Family

Two boys begin a silence strike to press their parents into buying them a television set.

Director: Yasujirô Ozu | Stars: Keiji Sada, Yoshiko Kuga, Chishû Ryû, Kuniko Miyake

Votes: 11,099

18. Black Moon (1975)

R | 100 min | Fantasy, Horror, Mystery

To escape a gender war, a girl flees to a remote farmhouse and becomes part of an extensive family's unusual, perhaps even supernatural, lifestyle.

Director: Louis Malle | Stars: Cathryn Harrison, Therese Giehse, Alexandra Stewart, Joe Dallesandro

Votes: 6,234

19. Odds Against Tomorrow (1959)

Approved | 96 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

In need of quick money, a fallen former cop recruits a hard-bitten ex-con and a debt-ridden nightclub singer to pull off a bank job. But as the animosity between them boils over, the entire plan threatens to implode.

Director: Robert Wise | Stars: Harry Belafonte, Robert Ryan, Gloria Grahame, Shelley Winters

Votes: 5,579

20. Peach Girl (2017)

116 min | Comedy, Romance

Momo Adachi is a female high school student. She appears to be a wild girl due to her tan skin and dyed hair, but she is a actually naive and sweet student. Since her days in middle school,... See full summary »

Director: Kôji Shintoku | Stars: Kei Inoo, Mizuki Yamamoto, Momoko Kikuchi, Daisuke Kikuta

Votes: 654

21. Behind Enemy Lines: Colombia (2009 Video)

R | 94 min | Action, Thriller

Navy SEALS mount an attack on Colombian special forces to clear their names and rescue a hostage.

Director: Tim Matheson | Stars: Joe Manganiello, Ken Anderson, Channon Roe, Yancey Arias

Votes: 4,645

22. Beauty & the Briefcase (2010 TV Movie)

PG-13 | 83 min | Comedy, Romance

A freelance writer looking for romance sells a story to Cosmopolitan magazine about finding love in the workplace and goes undercover at a Finance Company.

Director: Gil Junger | Stars: Hilary Duff, Chris Carmack, Michael McMillian, Amanda Walsh

Votes: 13,528

23. 711 Ocean Drive (1950)

Passed | 102 min | Action, Crime, Drama

An electronics expert creates a huge bookie broadcast system for his crime boss, and takes over operations when his boss is murdered. His greed leads him on a deadly destructive path.

Director: Joseph M. Newman | Stars: Edmond O'Brien, Joanne Dru, Otto Kruger, Barry Kelley

Votes: 2,053

24. Captain Sindbad (1963)

Passed | 85 min | Action, Adventure, Family

To marry Princess Jana, Captain Sindbad must battle deadly obstacles and fight El Kerim, the evil ruler who also wants to marry the princess.

Director: Byron Haskin | Stars: Guy Williams, Heidi Brühl, Pedro Armendáriz, Abraham Sofaer

Votes: 1,046 | Gross: $5.45M

25. Bus 174 (2002)

R | 122 min | Documentary, Crime

On June 12, 2000, a young man with a gun took the passengers aboard Bus 174 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil hostage. This documentary examines the event itself, the resulting media frenzy, the police response, and the perpetrator's background.

Directors: José Padilha, Felipe Lacerda | Stars: Sandro do Nascimento, Rodrigo Pimentel, Luiz Eduardo Soares, Anonymous

Votes: 8,634 | Gross: $0.22M

26. Down River (2018)

70 min | Action, Drama, Thriller

Four soldiers trapped behind enemy lines must confront their fears and desires while finding a way back to their battalion.

Director: Alexander Raye Pimentel | Stars: Alexander Raye Pimentel, Zachary Greene, Cody Poirot, Nicholas Winand

Votes: 592

27. The Break (1995)

PG-13 | 100 min | Drama, Sport

A depressed and destitute Nick Irons, a tennis pro banned from the tour for slugging a player during a TV match, agrees to coach a bookie's "head case" son, Joel, who wants to turn pro. The... See full summary »

Director: Lee H. Katzin | Stars: Vincent Van Patten, Rae Dawn Chong, Martin Sheen, Valerie Perrine

Votes: 350

28. The Happiest Days of Your Life (1950)

Not Rated | 81 min | Comedy

Chaos ensues for staff and students alike after an all-boys and an all-girls school are amalgamated into one.

Director: Frank Launder | Stars: Alastair Sim, Margaret Rutherford, John Turnbull, Richard Wattis

Votes: 1,889

29. Car of Tomorrow (1951)

6 min | Animation, Short, Comedy

A series of demonstrations of the kind of motoring accessories we'll all take for granted in the future...

Director: Tex Avery | Stars: Frank Lachapelle, Tex Avery, June Foray, Gilman Rankin

Votes: 659

30. One Got Fat (1963)

Approved | 15 min | Short

This bicycle-safety film shows children what can happen when bicycles are driven carelessly and recklessly.

Director: William Dale Jennings | Stars: Ralph Hulett Jr., Charles Hagens, Dick Hutto, Don Moody

Votes: 458

31. Their Big Moment (1934)

Passed | 68 min | Comedy, Mystery, Romance

A vaudeville magician act is hired to right a wrong. Some comedy relief.

Director: James Cruze | Stars: Zasu Pitts, Slim Summerville, William Gaxton, Bruce Cabot

Votes: 194

32. The Motorist (2020)

10 min | Short, Fantasy, Horror

When a man refuses to get out of his car after knocking someone down, justice takes a bizarre form.

Director: Ciaran Lyons | Stars: John Cooke, Maria Macdonnel, Douglas Russell, Dominic Watters

Votes: 53

33. The Shepherd (2022 Video)

33 min | Animation, Short, Adventure

A De Havilland Vampire pilot flying home from RAF Celle in northern Germany to RAF Lakenheath in Suffolk on Christmas Eve 1957, suffers a complete electrical failure mid-flight. Lost in fog... See full summary »

Director: Stephen Parker

34. Wimmin Hadn't Oughta Drive (1940)

Approved | 6 min | Animation, Comedy, Short

Popeye has a new car; Olive wants a driving lesson. Things don't go well.

Directors: Dave Fleischer, Orestes Calpini | Stars: Margie Hines, Jack Mercer

Votes: 201

35. Onmyô taisenki (2004–2005)

30 min | Animation, Action, Adventure

All his life, Riku Tachibana has been raised by his grandfather. For some reason, the old man has always been fond of strange hand gestures, and they've rubbed off on Riku, who performs ... See full summary »

Stars: Mamiko Noto, Jun Fukuyama, Sayaka Aida, Yukimasa Kishino

Votes: 26

36. The New Member (1921)

Approved | 11 min | Short, Comedy

A street fight broken up by a secret hand signal leads to the discovery of the Royal Order of the Wriggle Fingers, a bizarre Satanic cult run by the police and endowed with magical powers.

Director: Grover Jones | Stars: Billy Franey, Charles Haefeli, Charles A. Post, E. Villipp

37. Last Act (2010)

13 min | Short, War

In the midst of a deadly war zone, a squad of soldiers enters a church to seek refuge. But the sanctuary is cut short as a hidden sniper begins to pick them off one by one. Will anybody survive?

Director: Mackenzie Storhaug | Stars: Joseph Scott Anthony, Zechariah Metzler, Joseph Lyman, Garrett Isham

38. Marianella (2006)

2 min | Short, Comedy, Drama

How many times have we seen that we are our own worst enemy (?)

Director: Sergi Rubió | Stars: Lavinia Hervás, Anna Bertran, Tony Casla, Leticia Guillén

39. The Other Fellow (1937)

8 min | Short, Comedy

Edgar Kennedy plays multiple roles showing how inconsiderate some drivers can be on the road.

Stars: Edgar Kennedy, Henry Hall

Votes: 11

40. Signal Advice (1958)

2 min | Documentary, Short

Theatrically-released PSA about hand signals when driving.

41. SeaQuest 2032 (1993–1996)
Episode: To Be or Not to Be (1993)

TV-PG | 88 min | Action, Adventure, Family

Captain Nathan Bridger is hauled out of retirement to command the new submarine SeaQuest, under the authority of the United Earth/Oceans Organization. His ship goes up against pirate forces... See full summary »

Director: Irvin Kershner | Stars: Roy Scheider, Stephanie Beacham, Stacy Haiduk, Don Franklin

Votes: 1,292

42. According to Jim (2001–2009)
Episode: No Crime, But Punishment (2004)

TV-PG | 22 min | Comedy, Romance

Gracie has been acting up lately, and Jim says that Cheryl's gentle ways are not working for improvement. Jim comes up with a harsh punishment plan but takes it too far when he blames her for something she did not do.

Director: Jim Belushi | Stars: Jim Belushi, Courtney Thorne-Smith, Kimberly Williams-Paisley, Larry Joe Campbell

Votes: 154

43. The Brady Bunch (1969–1974)
Episode: The Voice of Christmas (1969)

Not Rated | 25 min | Comedy, Family

Carol has laryngitis and will not be able to sing at church on Christmas Day, but a department store Santa Claus promises Cindy that she will get her voice back in time.

Director: Oscar Rudolph | Stars: Robert Reed, Florence Henderson, Ann B. Davis, Maureen McCormick

Votes: 296

44. The Carol Burnett Show (1967–1978)
Episode: Tony Randall and Dick Van Dyke (1976)

TV-G | 60 min | Comedy, Family

Highlights include: a traveling encyclopedia salesman (guest Dick Van Dyke) tries to peddle his wares at the home of a bickering couple (Carol, Harvey); guest Tony Randall performs "Madeira... See full summary »

Director: Dave Powers | Stars: Carol Burnett, Harvey Korman, Vicki Lawrence, Tim Conway

Votes: 45

45. Keeping Up Appearances (1990–1995)
Episode: A Strange Man (1991)

TV-PG | 29 min | Comedy

Hyacinth is appalled when she spots a strange man wrapped in only a towel exiting Elizabeth's house next door. Convinced that it is her moral duty to save her friend from this scandalous ... See full summary »

Director: Harold Snoad | Stars: Patricia Routledge, Judy Cornwell, Josephine Tewson, Geoffrey Hughes

Votes: 326

46. Relic Hunter (1999–2002)
Episode: Afterlife and Death (2000)

TV-14 | 42 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy

Sydney and Nigel are in Cairo, Egypt and then Amsterdam. They must beat rival relic hunter Avery Ko to the Pharaoh Thutmose's diamond before it is cut up and sold.

Director: Don McCutcheon | Stars: Tia Carrere, Christien Anholt, Lindy Booth, Kevin Jubinville

Votes: 111

47. Seinfeld (1989–1998)
Episode: The Van Buren Boys (1997)

TV-PG | 23 min | Comedy

Kramer gets mixed up with a gang when he is mugged by them and mistakenly shows their secret sign.

Director: Andy Ackerman | Stars: Jerry Seinfeld, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Michael Richards, Jason Alexander

Votes: 3,285

48. The Twilight Zone (1959–1964)
Episode: Cavender Is Coming (1962)

TV-PG | 25 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror

Inept guardian angel Harmon Cavender is given a chance to earn his wings by helping an unconventional big city woman, the young, awkward Agnes Grep.

Director: Christian Nyby | Stars: Jesse White, Carol Burnett, Howard Smith, Frank Behrens

Votes: 2,180

49. Stargate SG-1 (1997–2007)
Episode: 200 (2006)

TV-PG | 44 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

Martin Lloyd seeks out SG-1 for assistance when his failed TV show based on the real Stargate program becomes a feature film.

Director: Martin Wood | Stars: Ben Browder, Amanda Tapping, Christopher Judge, Claudia Black

Votes: 1,838

50. Law & Order: Criminal Intent (2001–2011)
Episode: Cruise to Nowhere (2006)

TV-14 | 60 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

A gambling cruise patron is found washed up on shore.

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

Votes: 359