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1. Succession (2018–2023)
TV-MA | 60 min | Comedy, Drama
The Roy family is known for controlling the biggest media and entertainment company in the world. However, their world changes when their father steps down from the company.
Stars: Nicholas Braun, Brian Cox, Kieran Culkin, Peter Friedman
Votes: 273,907
2. 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: 466,253 | Gross: $1.59M
3. Tomorrow Never Dies (1997)
PG-13 | 119 min | Action, Adventure, Thriller
James Bond sets out to stop a media mogul's plan to induce war between China and the UK in order to obtain exclusive global media coverage.
Director: Roger Spottiswoode | Stars: Pierce Brosnan, Jonathan Pryce, Michelle Yeoh, Teri Hatcher
Votes: 204,772 | Gross: $125.33M
4. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
Passed | 129 min | Comedy, Drama
A naive youth leader is appointed to fill a vacancy in the U.S. Senate. His idealistic plans promptly collide with corruption at home and subterfuge from his hero in Washington, but he tries to forge ahead despite attacks on his character.
Director: Frank Capra | Stars: James Stewart, Jean Arthur, Claude Rains, Edward Arnold
Votes: 121,452 | Gross: $9.60M
5. The Critic (1994–2001)
TV-14 | 522 min | Animation, Comedy, Drama
Jay Sherman is a New York film critic who has to review films he doesn't like for a living.
Stars: Jon Lovitz, Nick Jameson, Maurice LaMarche, Nancy Cartwright
Votes: 9,096
6. The Omega Code (1999)
PG-13 | 100 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy
SPOILER: A rabbi in Jerusalem develops software that can unlock prophecies in the Torah. He's murdered and the software stolen. A powerful man uses it to gain world domination.
Director: Robert Marcarelli | Stars: Casper Van Dien, Michael York, Catherine Oxenberg, Michael Ironside
Votes: 5,544 | Gross: $12.61M
7. RKO 281 (1999 TV Movie)
R | 86 min | Biography, Drama
Orson Welles produces his greatest film, Citizen Kane (1941), despite the opposition of the film's de facto subject, William Randolph Hearst.
Director: Benjamin Ross | Stars: Liev Schreiber, James Cromwell, Melanie Griffith, John Malkovich
Votes: 6,507
8. Loro 1 (2018)
104 min | Biography, Drama
A film about the life of Silvio Berlusconi.
Director: Paolo Sorrentino | Stars: Toni Servillo, Elena Sofia Ricci, Riccardo Scamarcio, Kasia Smutniak
Votes: 5,308
9. Weapons of Mass Distraction (1997 TV Movie)
R | 100 min | Comedy, Drama, Crime
Two media moguls get into a nasty power struggle for the ownership of a pro football team, which causes drastic effects on their personal and professional lives.
Director: Stephen Surjik | Stars: Gabriel Byrne, Ben Kingsley, Mimi Rogers, Jeffrey Tambor
Votes: 817
10. Jane Fonda in Five Acts (2018)
TV-14 | 133 min | Documentary, Biography
A look at the life, work, activism and controversies of actress and fitness tycoon, Jane Fonda.
Director: Susan Lacy | Stars: Jane Fonda, Richard Nixon, Robert Redford, Nathalie Vadim
Votes: 2,678
11. Winchell (1998 TV Movie)
R | 105 min | Biography, Drama, Romance
The true story of the influential and controversial columnist, Walter Winchell.
Director: Paul Mazursky | Stars: Stanley Tucci, Glenne Headly, Paul Giamatti, Christopher Plummer
Votes: 630
12. Kamikaze 89 (1982)
Not Rated | 106 min | Sci-Fi, Thriller
In a totalitarian society of the future, in which the government controls all facets of the press, a homicide detective investigates a string of bombings, and finds out more than he bargained for.
Director: Wolf Gremm | Stars: Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Günther Kaufmann, Boy Gobert, Arnold Marquis
Votes: 827 | Gross: $0.02M
13. The Caiman (2006)
112 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A skewering of Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi.
Director: Nanni Moretti | Stars: Silvio Orlando, Margherita Buy, Jasmine Trinca, Michele Placido
Votes: 5,284
14. La grande lessive (!) (1968)
95 min | Comedy
An addiction is spreading in Paris: Television. Literature teacher Saint-Just is confronted by overtired pupils who can no longer keep their eyes open from all the TV. He and a colleague set out on a mission to save the pupils from the TV.
Director: Jean-Pierre Mocky | Stars: Bourvil, Francis Blanche, Roland Dubillard, Jean Tissier
Votes: 450
15. Monopol (1996)
106 min | Comedy
A middle-aged simple man, Egil, becomes the victim of a candid-camera in Hacke Häger's television show 'Långa näsan'. But to Häger's surprise, Egil refuses to give them his permission to ... See full summary »
Director: Claes Eriksson | Stars: Knut Agnred, Kerstin Granlund, Peter Rangmar, Anders Eriksson
Votes: 619
16. The Rise of the Murdoch Dynasty (2020)
179 min | Documentary, Biography
A dramatic three-part series tells the incredible story of Rupert Murdoch's Empire, interweaving his behind-the-scenes influence on world events with the personal battle for power at the heart of his own family.
Stars: Kate Fleetwood, Piers Morgan, Andrew Neil, Sarah Ellison
Votes: 709
17. Videocracy (2009)
Not Rated | 85 min | Documentary
A look at segments of the Italian population who are consumed with celebrity worship.
Director: Erik Gandini | Stars: Silvio Berlusconi, Flavio Briatore, Fabio Calvi, Riccardo Canevali
Votes: 1,907 | Gross: $0.02M
18. The Prime Minister and the Press (2003 TV Movie)
56 min | Documentary
Berlusconi owns half of Italian television channels, owns, controls the other half of the television, controls all the advertisements, which in the business is no small thing, as you may know. He controls most of the press.
Directors: Andrea Cairola, Susan Gray | Stars: Alessandro Amadori, Giovanni Sartori, Enzo Biagi, Carlo Freccero
Votes: 146
19. Autumn 1929 - Shadows above Babylon (2020 TV Movie)
44 min | Documentary
Autumn 1929: Berlin becomes more and more the scene of political disputes. The world economic crisis intensifies the polarization, even division, of the city. A media mogul allies himself ... See full summary »
Director: Matthias Luthardt | Stars: Benno Fürmann, Fritzi Haberlandt, Sebastian Urzendowsky, Godehard Giese
20. El diario de Agustín (2008)
80 min | Documentary
Exposé of the CIA-financed efforts of the Edwards family of Chile to cover up the human rights abuses of the Pinochet dictatorship through its newspaper 'El Mercurio'.
Director: Ignacio Agüero | Stars: Salvador Allende, Patricio Aylwin, Raquel Correa, John Dinges
Votes: 97
21. Der vergessene Führer: Aufstieg und Fall des Medienzaren Alfred Hugenberg (1982)
146 min | Documentary
The documentary sheds light on the historical role of German industrialist, media mogul and politician Alfred Hugenberg (1865-1951). During his tenure as chairman of the board of Krupp AG, ... See full summary »
Director: Peter Heller
22. RaiOt (2003– )
47 min | Comedy, Talk-Show
A satyric show on Silvio Berlusconi's government, legal problems and ambition to control the whole Italian TV system.
Stars: Sabina Guzzanti, Roberto Herlitzka, Sabrina Impacciatore, Corinna Locastro
Votes: 26
23.
American Experience (1987– )
Episode:
The Battle Over Citizen Kane
(1996)
TV-PG | 108 min | Documentary, Biography, History
Documentary about the battle between Orson Welles and William Randolph Hearst over Welles' Citizen Kane (1941). Features interviews with Welles' and Hearst's co-workers also as a relative complete bio of Hearst.
Directors: Michael Epstein, Thomas Lennon | Stars: Richard Ben Cramer, William Alland, Thomas Anderson, Peter Bogdanovich
Votes: 1,458
24.
V.I.P. (1998–2002)
Episode:
What to Do with Vallery When You're Dead
(1998)
Action, Comedy, Crime
V.I.P. tries to get media mogul Balek as client but ends doing near pro bono protection for a journalist making an exposé on Balek and claiming a car bomb was from Balek.
Director: Patrick R. Norris | Stars: Pamela Anderson, Molly Culver, Shaun Baker, Natalie Raitano
Votes: 50