TV & Movies Referenced in Mr. Robot Season 2
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1. NCIS (2003– )
TV-14 | 60 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Follows the Major Case Response Team (MCRT) from the Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS), as they get to the bottom of criminal cases connected to Navy and Marine Corps personnel.
Stars: David McCallum, Sean Murray, Mark Harmon, Brian Dietzen
Votes: 163,177
2.
Seinfeld (1989–1998)
Episode:
The Parking Garage
(1991)
TV-PG | 22 min | Comedy
The four friends go shopping at the mall and get lost for hours in the parking garage when they forget where they parked their car.
Director: Tom Cherones | Stars: Jerry Seinfeld, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Michael Richards, Jason Alexander
Votes: 5,672
Leon discusses this Seinfeld Episode
3.
Seinfeld (1989–1998)
Episode:
The Chinese Restaurant
(1991)
TV-PG | 23 min | Comedy
Jerry, Elaine and George stop for a quick Chinese dinner before seeing "Plan 9 From Outer Space," but circumstances at the eatery make them miss the movie.
Director: Tom Cherones | Stars: Jerry Seinfeld, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Michael Richards, Jason Alexander
Votes: 5,536
Leon discusses this Seinfeld Episode
4. The Parallax View (1974)
R | 102 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
An ambitious reporter gets in way-over-his-head trouble while investigating a senator's assassination which leads to a vast conspiracy involving a multinational corporation behind every event in the world's headlines.
Director: Alan J. Pakula | Stars: Warren Beatty, Paula Prentiss, William Daniels, Walter McGinn
Votes: 21,790 | Gross: $2.15M
5. Friends (1994–2004)
TV-14 | 22 min | Comedy, Romance
Follows the personal and professional lives of six twenty to thirty year-old friends living in the Manhattan borough of New York City.
Stars: Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox, Lisa Kudrow, Matt LeBlanc
Votes: 1,088,820
6. Forensic Files (1996–2011)
TV-14 | 30 min | Documentary, Crime
A series featuring detailed accounts on how notable crimes and diseases were solved through forensic science.
Stars: Peter Thomas, Tom Bevel, Skip Palenik, Lowell Levine
Votes: 7,279
7. Family Guy (1999– )
TV-MA | 22 min | Animation, Comedy
In a wacky Rhode Island town, a dysfunctional family strives to cope with everyday life as they are thrown from one crazy scenario to another.
Stars: Alex Borstein, Seth MacFarlane, Seth Green, Mila Kunis
Votes: 364,481
8. The Bachelor (2002– )
TV-14 | 60 min | Game-Show, Reality-TV, Romance
A single bachelor dates multiple women over several weeks, narrowing them down to hopefully find his true love.
Stars: Chris Harrison, Brad Womack, Jesse Palmer, Sean Lowe
Votes: 7,587
On TV in scene
9. The First 48 (2004– )
TV-14 | 60 min | Crime, Mystery, Reality-TV
The series follows detectives during the hours immediately following a homicide.
Stars: Dion Graham, Nathan Schilling, Jason White, Dave Walker
Votes: 4,254
10. Nancy Grace (2005–2016)
60 min | News
Former prosecutor, Nancy Grace, covers current trials and legal issues, talking to defense attorneys and giving her take on the issue at hand.
Stars: Nancy Grace, David Caplan, Steve Helling, David Lohr
Votes: 486
On TV in scene
11. Storage Wars (2010– )
TV-14 | 22 min | Reality-TV
The same folks gather at the sales of storage units that have been abandoned by their renters. Having no clue what's inside, there are just enough instances where the buyers hit pay dirt to keep them, as well as the TV audience, addicted.
Stars: Brandi Passante, Jarrod Schulz, Laura Dotson, Dan Dotson
Votes: 10,410
On TV in scene
12. Vanderpump Rules (2013– )
TV-14 | 43 min | Reality-TV
Best known as one of The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills, Lisa Vanderpump opens the salacious kitchen doors of her exclusive Hollywood restaurant and lounge, SUR.
Stars: Katie Maloney, Scheana Shay, Tom Sandoval, Lisa Vanderpump
Votes: 4,127
On TV in scene
13. Bates Motel (2013–2017)
TV-MA | 45 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
A contemporary prequel to Psycho, giving a portrayal of how Norman Bates' psyche unravels through his teenage years, and how deeply intricate his relationship with his mother, Norma, truly is.
Stars: Vera Farmiga, Freddie Highmore, Max Thieriot, Nicola Peltz Beckham
Votes: 117,027
14. Pump Up the Volume (1990)
R | 102 min | Comedy, Drama, Music
Mark runs a pirate radio station and causes an uproar when he speaks his mind and enthralls fellow teens.
Director: Allan Moyle | Stars: Christian Slater, Samantha Mathis, Anthony Luke Lucero, Andy Romano
Votes: 31,179 | Gross: $11.54M
S2 EP3 | EPS2.1_K3RNEL-PAN1C.KSD Dom’s chat room sex partner’s alias is “happyhardonhenry806,” which could possibly be a sly reference to the 1990 movie, “Pump Up the Volume,” in which Christian Slater’s character broadcasted over his pirate radio station as “Happy Harry Hard-on” to rail against the status quo of his small town.
15. Citizen Kane (1941)
PG | 119 min | Drama, Mystery
Following the death of publishing tycoon Charles Foster Kane, reporters scramble to uncover the meaning of his final utterance: 'Rosebud.'
Director: Orson Welles | Stars: Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten, Dorothy Comingore, Agnes Moorehead
Votes: 466,144 | Gross: $1.59M
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16. Cool Hand Luke (1967)
GP | 127 min | Crime, Drama
A laid-back Southern man is sentenced to two years in a rural prison, but refuses to conform.
Director: Stuart Rosenberg | Stars: Paul Newman, George Kennedy, Strother Martin, J.D. Cannon
Votes: 188,617 | Gross: $16.22M
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17. A Clockwork Orange (1971)
R | 136 min | Crime, Sci-Fi
In the future, a sadistic gang leader is imprisoned and volunteers for a conduct-aversion experiment, but it doesn't go as planned.
Director: Stanley Kubrick | Stars: Malcolm McDowell, Patrick Magee, Michael Bates, Warren Clarke
Votes: 881,638 | Gross: $6.21M
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18. Cries & Whispers (1972)
R | 91 min | Drama
When a woman dying of cancer in early twentieth-century Sweden is visited by her two sisters, long-repressed feelings between the siblings rise to the surface.
Director: Ingmar Bergman | Stars: Harriet Andersson, Liv Ullmann, Kari Sylwan, Ingrid Thulin
Votes: 37,011 | Gross: $1.74M
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19. The Conversation (1974)
PG | 113 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
A paranoid, secretive surveillance expert has a crisis of conscience when he suspects that the couple he is spying on will be murdered.
Director: Francis Ford Coppola | Stars: Gene Hackman, John Cazale, Allen Garfield, Frederic Forrest
Votes: 121,929 | Gross: $4.42M
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20. Chinatown (1974)
R | 130 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
A private detective hired to expose an adulterer in 1930s Los Angeles finds himself caught up in a web of deceit, corruption, and murder.
Director: Roman Polanski | Stars: Jack Nicholson, Faye Dunaway, John Huston, Perry Lopez
Votes: 350,038
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21. Carrie (1976)
R | 98 min | Horror, Mystery
Carrie White, a shy, friendless teenage girl who is sheltered by her domineering, religious mother, unleashes her telekinetic powers after being humiliated by her classmates at her senior prom.
Director: Brian De Palma | Stars: Sissy Spacek, Piper Laurie, Amy Irving, John Travolta
Votes: 206,796 | Gross: $33.80M
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22. The Shining (1980)
R | 146 min | Drama, Horror
A family heads to an isolated hotel for the winter where a sinister presence influences the father into violence, while his psychic son sees horrific forebodings from both past and future.
Director: Stanley Kubrick | Stars: Jack Nicholson, Shelley Duvall, Danny Lloyd, Scatman Crothers
Votes: 1,107,426 | Gross: $44.02M
23. Child's Play (1988)
R | 87 min | Horror, Thriller
A struggling single mother unknowingly gifts her son a doll imbued with a serial killer's consciousness.
Director: Tom Holland | Stars: Catherine Hicks, Chris Sarandon, Alex Vincent, Brad Dourif
Votes: 116,813 | Gross: $33.24M
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24. Chungking Express (1994)
PG-13 | 102 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
Two melancholic Hong Kong policemen fall in love: one with a mysterious female underworld figure, the other with a beautiful and ethereal waitress at a late-night restaurant he frequents.
Director: Kar-Wai Wong | Stars: Brigitte Lin, Takeshi Kaneshiro, Tony Leung Chiu-wai, Faye Wong
Votes: 95,872 | Gross: $0.60M
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25. Capote (2005)
R | 114 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
In 1959, Truman Capote learns of the murder of a Kansas family and decides to write a book about the case. While researching for his novel In Cold Blood, Capote forms a relationship with one of the killers, Perry Smith, who is on death row.
Director: Bennett Miller | Stars: Philip Seymour Hoffman, Clifton Collins Jr., Catherine Keener, Allie Mickelson
Votes: 140,819 | Gross: $28.75M
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26. Comet (2014)
R | 91 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Set in a parallel universe, Comet bounces back and forth over the course of an unlikely but perfectly paired couple's six-year relationship.
Director: Sam Esmail | Stars: Justin Long, Emmy Rossum, Kayla Servi, Eric Winter
Votes: 19,659
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27. Closer (I) (2004)
R | 104 min | Drama, Romance
The relationships of two couples become complicated and deceitful when the man from one couple meets the woman of the other.
Director: Mike Nichols | Stars: Natalie Portman, Jude Law, Clive Owen, Julia Roberts
Votes: 236,169 | Gross: $33.99M
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28. Citizenfour (2014)
R | 114 min | Documentary, Biography
A documentarian and a reporter travel to Hong Kong for the first of many meetings with Edward Snowden.
Director: Laura Poitras | Stars: Edward Snowden, Glenn Greenwald, William Binney, Jacob Appelbaum
Votes: 57,991 | Gross: $2.80M
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29. Creep (I) (2004)
R | 85 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Trapped in a London subway station, a woman who's being pursued by a potential attacker heads into the unknown labyrinth of tunnels beneath the city's streets.
Director: Christopher Smith | Stars: Franka Potente, Sean Harris, Vas Blackwood, Ken Campbell
Votes: 31,761
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30. The Princess Bride (1987)
PG | 98 min | Adventure, Comedy, Family
A bedridden boy's grandfather reads him the story of a farmboy-turned-pirate who encounters numerous obstacles, enemies and allies in his quest to be reunited with his true love.
Director: Rob Reiner | Stars: Cary Elwes, Mandy Patinkin, Robin Wright, Chris Sarandon
Votes: 451,118 | Gross: $30.86M
31. WarGames (1983)
PG | 114 min | Action, Drama, Sci-Fi
A young man finds a back door into a military central computer in which reality is confused with game-playing, possibly starting World War III.
Director: John Badham | Stars: Matthew Broderick, Ally Sheedy, John Wood, Dabney Coleman
Votes: 110,822 | Gross: $79.57M
32. The Karate Kid (1984)
PG | 126 min | Action, Drama, Family
A martial arts master agrees to teach karate to a bullied teenager.
Director: John G. Avildsen | Stars: Ralph Macchio, Pat Morita, Elisabeth Shue, Martin Kove
Votes: 244,611 | Gross: $90.82M
33. Heathers (1988)
R | 103 min | Comedy, Crime
At Westerburg High where cliques rule, jocks dominate and all the popular girls are named Heather, it's going to take a Veronica and mysterious new kid to give teen angst a body count.
Director: Michael Lehmann | Stars: Winona Ryder, Christian Slater, Shannen Doherty, Lisanne Falk
Votes: 115,946 | Gross: $1.11M
34. Up All Night (1989–1998)
Comedy, Drama, Horror
"USA Up All Night" was a late night hosted horror movie show that showcased cult and b-movies between 1989 until 1998.
Stars: Rhonda Shear, Gilbert Gottfried, Caroline Schlitt, Linnea Quigley
Votes: 562
Title sequence featured
35. The Simpsons (1989– )
TV-14 | 22 min | Animation, Comedy
The satiric adventures of a working-class family in the misfit city of Springfield.
Stars: Dan Castellaneta, Nancy Cartwright, Harry Shearer, Julie Kavner
Votes: 436,156
36. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
G | 149 min | Adventure, Sci-Fi
After uncovering a mysterious artifact buried beneath the Lunar surface, a spacecraft is sent to Jupiter to find its origins: a spacecraft manned by two men and the supercomputer HAL 9000.
Director: Stanley Kubrick | Stars: Keir Dullea, Gary Lockwood, William Sylvester, Daniel Richter
Votes: 719,987 | Gross: $56.95M
37. Blow Out (1981)
R | 108 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A movie sound recordist accidentally records the evidence that proves that a car accident was actually murder and consequently finds himself in danger.
Director: Brian De Palma | Stars: John Travolta, Nancy Allen, John Lithgow, Dennis Franz
Votes: 63,351 | Gross: $13.75M
38. Cocktail (1988)
R | 104 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A talented New York City bartender takes a job at a bar in Jamaica and falls in love.
Director: Roger Donaldson | Stars: Tom Cruise, Bryan Brown, Elisabeth Shue, Lisa Banes
Votes: 91,921 | Gross: $78.22M
39. Young Guns (1988)
R | 107 min | Action, Drama, Western
A group of young gunmen, led by Billy the Kid, become deputies to avenge the murder of the rancher who became their benefactor. But when Billy takes their authority too far, they become the hunted.
Director: Christopher Cain | Stars: Emilio Estevez, Kiefer Sutherland, Lou Diamond Phillips, Charlie Sheen
Votes: 68,080 | Gross: $45.66M
40. Romy and Michele's High School Reunion (1997)
R | 92 min | Comedy
Two dim-witted, inseparable friends hit the road for their ten-year high school reunion and concoct an elaborate lie about their lives in order to impress their classmates.
Director: David Mirkin | Stars: Mira Sorvino, Lisa Kudrow, Janeane Garofalo, Alan Cumming
Votes: 53,105 | Gross: $29.21M
41. Being John Malkovich (1999)
R | 113 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
A puppeteer discovers a portal that leads literally into the head of movie star John Malkovich.
Director: Spike Jonze | Stars: John Cusack, Cameron Diaz, Catherine Keener, John Malkovich
Votes: 353,459 | Gross: $22.86M
42.
Friends (1994–2004)
Episode:
The One with the Holiday Armadillo
(2000)
TV-PG | 22 min | Comedy, Romance
Ross wants to introduce Ben to Hanukkah. In order to entice Rachel to move back into their refurbished apartment, Phoebe must drive a wedge between Rachel and current roomie Joey.
Director: Gary Halvorson | Stars: Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox, Lisa Kudrow, Matt LeBlanc
Votes: 4,905
43. Back to the Future Part II (1989)
PG | 108 min | Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi
After visiting 2015, Marty McFly must repeat his visit to 1955 to prevent disastrous changes to 1985...without interfering with his first trip.
Director: Robert Zemeckis | Stars: Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd, Lea Thompson, Tom Wilson
Votes: 572,894 | Gross: $118.50M
44. Burn Notice (2007–2013)
TV-PG | 44 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A spy recently disavowed by the U.S. government uses his special ops training to help others in trouble.
Stars: Jeffrey Donovan, Gabrielle Anwar, Bruce Campbell, Sharon Gless
Votes: 79,202
S2 EP12 | EPS2.9_PYTH0N-PT2.P7Z When Santiago plays bad cop with Darlene during the interrogation, he makes a few references to the network on which “Mr. Robot” airs. USA Network, whose old tagline was “Characters Welcome,” used to air “Burn Notice,” a series, among others at the time, which was considered to be “blue sky” in terms of its sensibility, look and tone.
45. Casablanca (1942)
PG | 102 min | Drama, Romance, War
A cynical expatriate American cafe owner struggles to decide whether or not to help his former lover and her fugitive husband escape the Nazis in French Morocco.
Director: Michael Curtiz | Stars: Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, Paul Henreid, Claude Rains
Votes: 606,291 | Gross: $1.02M
46. Back to the Future (1985)
PG | 116 min | Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Marty McFly, a 17-year-old high school student, is accidentally sent 30 years into the past in a time-traveling DeLorean invented by his close friend, the maverick scientist Doc Brown.
Director: Robert Zemeckis | Stars: Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd, Lea Thompson, Crispin Glover
Votes: 1,307,609 | Gross: $210.61M
47.
Seinfeld (1989–1998)
Episode:
The Fire
(1994)
TV-PG | 23 min | Comedy
George struggles to keep his cool in a fire. Elaine's co-worker heckles Jerry's act, and Jerry's retaliation causes an accident where Kramer has to save the day.
Director: Tom Cherones | Stars: Jerry Seinfeld, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Michael Richards, Jason Alexander
Votes: 4,080
48.
Seinfeld (1989–1998)
Episode:
The Betrayal
(1997)
TV-PG | 24 min | Comedy
Elaine and the gang head to India to attend a wedding; Jerry betrays George by having sex with his prospective girlfriend; Kramer grapples with a malignant wish.
Director: Andy Ackerman | Stars: Jason Alexander, Michael Richards, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Jerry Seinfeld
Votes: 5,046
49.
Million Dollar Listing New York (2012– )
Episode:
I Love You, Puffer Munkin
(2015)
TV-14 | 44 min | Reality-TV
Ryan tries to close the biggest deal of his life and he plans on sealing this one with a kiss. A winter wonderland awaits Fredrik in his native Sweden but will this trip have a fairytale ... See full summary »
Stars: Fredrik Eklund, Luis D. Ortiz, Ryan Serhant
Votes: 8
50. The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972)
PG | 102 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
A surreal, virtually plotless series of dreams centered around six middle-class people and their consistently interrupted attempts to have a meal together.
Director: Luis Buñuel | Stars: Fernando Rey, Delphine Seyrig, Paul Frankeur, Bulle Ogier
Votes: 46,857 | Gross: $0.20M
Homaged in "The Careful Massacre of the Bourgeoisie"
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The title of Elliot and Darlene’s favorite (fake) film from growing up, "The Careful Massacre of the Bourgeousie," sounds an awful lot like one of Sam Esmail’s (real) favorite flicks, "The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie," directed and co-written by Luis Buñuel in 1972. The fake movie points to the origin of the fsociety mask among other references to come.
51. Clarissa Explains It All (1991–1994)
TV-G | 30 min | Comedy, Family
As events unfold in her life, Clarissa explains to the viewer the motivations behind people's actions.
Stars: Melissa Joan Hart, Jason Zimbler, Elizabeth Hess, Joe O'Connor
Votes: 9,669
52. Nancy Grace (2005–2016)
60 min | News
Former prosecutor, Nancy Grace, covers current trials and legal issues, talking to defense attorneys and giving her take on the issue at hand.
Stars: Nancy Grace, David Caplan, Steve Helling, David Lohr
Votes: 486
53. Hackers (1995)
PG-13 | 105 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
Teenage hackers discover a criminal conspiracy with plans to use a computer virus that will capsize five oil tankers.
Director: Iain Softley | Stars: Jonny Lee Miller, Angelina Jolie, Jesse Bradford, Matthew Lillard
Votes: 74,898 | Gross: $7.56M
EPS2.0_UNM4SK-PT1.TC When Darlene sets up the E Corp bank hack, her screen says, “Hack the Gibson,” which is not only a reference to the 1995 cult film, “Hackers,” but also a real line in the Social-Engineer Toolkit (SET) she’s using, which is real, free coding software.
54. Seinfeld (1989–1998)
TV-PG | 22 min | Comedy
The continuing misadventures of neurotic New York City stand-up comedian Jerry Seinfeld and his equally neurotic New York City friends.
Stars: Jerry Seinfeld, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Michael Richards, Jason Alexander
Votes: 351,801
S2 EP1 | EPS2.0_UNM4SK-PT1.TC Leon, Elliot’s new “Seinfeld”-obsessed buddy, is played by first-time actor but well-known rap artist, Joey Bada$$.
55. Vanderpump Rules (2013– )
TV-14 | 43 min | Reality-TV
Best known as one of The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills, Lisa Vanderpump opens the salacious kitchen doors of her exclusive Hollywood restaurant and lounge, SUR.
Stars: Katie Maloney, Scheana Shay, Tom Sandoval, Lisa Vanderpump
Votes: 4,127
S2 EP2 | EPS2.0_UNM4SK-PT2.TC When Derek is looking for something to watch on TV, he chooses “Vanderpump Rules,” which Joanna has no interest in watching—deliberate irony since Stephanie Corneliussen is friends with stars Katie Maloney and Kristen Doute in real life.
56. Breaking Bad (2008–2013)
TV-MA | 45 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A chemistry teacher diagnosed with inoperable lung cancer turns to manufacturing and selling methamphetamine with a former student in order to secure his family's future.
Stars: Bryan Cranston, Aaron Paul, Anna Gunn, Betsy Brandt
Votes: 2,138,633
S2 EP3 | EPS2.1_K3RNEL-PAN1C.KSD The bald man with the porkpie hat and glasses who ominously appears in the diner in episode 201 returns to snatch Elliot off the street. It’s probably no coincidence that he resembles “Breaking Bad’s” Walter White, who eventually took on the alias, “Heisenberg.”
57. The Shining (1980)
R | 146 min | Drama, Horror
A family heads to an isolated hotel for the winter where a sinister presence influences the father into violence, while his psychic son sees horrific forebodings from both past and future.
Director: Stanley Kubrick | Stars: Jack Nicholson, Shelley Duvall, Danny Lloyd, Scatman Crothers
Votes: 1,107,426 | Gross: $44.02M
S2 EP3 | EPS2.1_K3RNEL-PAN1C.KSD While this scene is certainly a nod to The Shining, this clip was actually inspired by musician Jenny Lewis' album cover for “Rabbit Fur Coat.”
58. Cool Hand Luke (1967)
GP | 127 min | Crime, Drama
A laid-back Southern man is sentenced to two years in a rural prison, but refuses to conform.
Director: Stuart Rosenberg | Stars: Paul Newman, George Kennedy, Strother Martin, J.D. Cannon
Votes: 188,617 | Gross: $16.22M
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59. The Tragedy of Macbeth (2021)
R | 105 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
A Scottish lord becomes convinced by a trio of witches that he will become the next King of Scotland, and his ambitious wife supports him in his plans of seizing power.
Director: Joel Coen | Stars: Denzel Washington, Frances McDormand, Alex Hassell, Bertie Carvel
Votes: 39,738
S2 EP5 | EPS2.3_LOGIC-B0MB.HC When Whiterose as Zhang catches Dom looking for the bathroom, the lines that Whiterose quotes are from a famous scene from Shakespeare’s “Macbeth” when Macbeth finds out Lady Macbeth is dead in Act V, Scene 5.
60. A.L.F. (1987–1989)
TV-Y | 30 min | Animation, Comedy, Family
The adventures and misadventures of ALF, under the real name Gordon Shumway, on his home planet of Melmac before he crashlanded on Earth.
Stars: Don Francks, Paul Fusco, Tabitha St. Germain, Ellen-Ray Hennessy
Votes: 534
S2 EP6 | EPS2.4_M4STER-S1AVE.AES When Elliot’s ‘90s family sitcom spoof aired, Sam Esmail tweeted that one of his favorite guest stars made an appearance in this episode: Paul Fusco, as the voice (and creator) of ALF, the iconic late ‘80s/early ‘90s sitcom (puppet) extraterrestrial.
61. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)
R | 133 min | Drama
In the Fall of 1963, a Korean War veteran and criminal pleads insanity and is admitted to a mental institution, where he rallies up the scared patients against the tyrannical nurse.
Director: Milos Forman | Stars: Jack Nicholson, Louise Fletcher, Michael Berryman, Peter Brocco
Votes: 1,072,866 | Gross: $112.00M
S2 EP9 | EPS2.7_INIT_5.FVE As Leon introduces Elliot to life at the prison, the book they see Hot Carla is burning is Ken Kesey’s “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest,” a seminal novel from the 1960s that’s narrated by a paranoid-schizophrenic character in a mental hospital who has delusions that could be construed as similar to Elliot’s.
62. Watch Dogs (2014 Video Game)
M | Action, Crime, Drama
After losing his niece in an assassination attempt, Aiden Pierce, a street-smart vigilante, uses hacking apps on his phone to take over a new operating system in Chicago to hunt the criminals that killed his niece.
Directors: Jonathan Morin, Kun Chang | Stars: Noam Jenkins, R. Charles Wilkerson, Holly Uloth, Isabelle Blais
Votes: 9,932
S2 EP10 | EPS2.8_H1DDEN-PR0CESS.AXX Do you think Sutherland has clued into the irony of playing “Watch Dogs,” a game that lets you take on the persona of a brilliant hacker with a criminal past out to avenge a violent family tragedy, while Elliot shops for phone hacking tools? Guessing not. But we have.
63. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler (1995 TV Movie)
92 min | Comedy, Drama, Family
Two runaway kids hide in a museum. Once they are locked inside overnight, they try to solve a mystery about a statue supposedly carved by Michaelangelo, known as "The Angel". Will they solve the mystery in time?
Director: Marcus Cole | Stars: Lauren Bacall, Jean Marie Barnwell, Jesse Lee Soffer, Miriam Flynn
Votes: 314
S2 EP10 | EPS2.8_H1DDEN-PR0CESS.AXX In season one, Angela tells Elliot that when she was a kid, she always wanted to be Claudia Kincaid from the classic childhood tale, “From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler,” hence her Wickr screen name. The book also inspired her idea for them to run away from home, though they wound up at the wrong museum.
64. Maniac Mansion (1987 Video Game)
E | Adventure, Comedy, Mystery
A meteor crashes into Dr. Fred Edison's front yard and takes control over him. When Fred kidnaps Sandy, a college teenager, her boyfriend Dave Miller and his friends plan to break into the mansion and save her.
Director: Ron Gilbert
Votes: 784
S2 EP11 | EPS2.9_PYTH0N-PT1.P7Z Two of the games loaded onto Whiterose’s C64 are real -- “Maniac Mansion,” which was Lucasfilm Games’ first self-published product, and “Pitfall” from Activision -- but “Land of Ecodelia” is not. Or, at least, not yet. When The Hollywood Reporter asked Kor Adana if there’s a backstory and set of rules for Angela’s game in the writers room, Kor said he wasn’t at liberty to speak about it.
65. Pitfall! (1982 Video Game)
E | Adventure
Pitfall Harry must collect treasures while dodging obstacles in a South American jungle.
Votes: 336
S2 EP11 | EPS2.9_PYTH0N-PT1.P7Z Two of the games loaded onto Whiterose’s C64 are real -- “Maniac Mansion,” which was Lucasfilm Games’ first self-published product, and “Pitfall” from Activision -- but “Land of Ecodelia” is not. Or, at least, not yet. When The Hollywood Reporter asked Kor Adana if there’s a backstory and set of rules for Angela’s game in the writers room, Kor said he wasn’t at liberty to speak about it.
66. Lolita (1962)
Not Rated | 153 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
A middle-aged college professor becomes infatuated with a 14-year-old girl.
Director: Stanley Kubrick | Stars: James Mason, Shelley Winters, Sue Lyon, Gary Cockrell
Votes: 108,845 | Gross: $9.25M
S2 EP11 | EPS2.9_PYTH0N-PT1.P7Z The presence of Vladimir Nabokov’s “Lolita” on the desk doesn’t seem to be random: Angela’s response to the “where’s the key?” question is a direct quote from the novel. And don’t forget Darlene’s IRC screen name and her love of heart shaped glasses…
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