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

1. Troy (2004)

R | 163 min | Adventure, Drama

An adaptation of Homer's great epic, the film follows the assault on Troy by the united Greek forces and chronicles the fates of the men involved.

Director: Wolfgang Petersen | Stars: Brad Pitt, Eric Bana, Orlando Bloom, Julian Glover

Votes: 571,179 | Gross: $133.38M

2. The Avengers (1961–1969)

TV-14 | 50 min | Action, Comedy, Crime

A quirky spy show of the adventures of eccentrically suave British Agent John Steed and his predominantly female partners.

Stars: Patrick Macnee, Diana Rigg, Honor Blackman, Linda Thorson

Votes: 8,899

3. The Bounty (1984)

PG | 132 min | Adventure, Drama, History

Fed up with their Captain's harsh discipline, a sailing ship's crew decides to take action.

Director: Roger Donaldson | Stars: Mel Gibson, Anthony Hopkins, Laurence Olivier, Edward Fox

Votes: 30,519 | Gross: $8.60M

4. Star Trek: First Contact (1996)

PG-13 | 111 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

The Borg travel back in time intent on preventing Earth's first contact with an alien species. Captain Picard and his crew pursue them to ensure that Zefram Cochrane makes his maiden flight reaching warp speed.

Director: Jonathan Frakes | Stars: Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, Brent Spiner, LeVar Burton

Votes: 132,148 | Gross: $92.00M

5. Last Looks (I) (2021)

R | 110 min | Action, Comedy, Mystery

A disgraced ex-cop seeks solace by moving to the woods, but his quiet life comes to an end when a private eye recruits him to investigate a murder.

Director: Tim Kirkby | Stars: Charlie Hunnam, Mel Gibson, Lucy Fry, Rupert Friend

Votes: 12,012

6. River Lady (1948)

Approved | 78 min | Drama, Western

During the 1850s, crooked lumber syndicate man Beauvais tries to take over the local mill while Sequin, the sensual owner of a gambling riverboat, tries to control the heart of Mississippi lumberjack Dan Corrigan.

Director: George Sherman | Stars: Yvonne De Carlo, Dan Duryea, Rod Cameron, Helena Carter

Votes: 244

7. Richie Rich (1994)

PG | 95 min | Comedy, Family

A rich young boy finds his family the target of an inside job, and must use his cunning to save them.

Director: Donald Petrie | Stars: Macaulay Culkin, Edward Herrmann, John Larroquette, Christine Ebersole

Votes: 73,629 | Gross: $38.09M

8. Extract (2009)

R | 92 min | Comedy, Crime, Romance

Joel, the owner of an extract plant, tries to contend with myriad personal and professional problems, such as his potentially unfaithful wife and employees who want to take advantage of him.

Director: Mike Judge | Stars: Jason Bateman, Kristen Wiig, Ben Affleck, Mila Kunis

Votes: 50,377 | Gross: $10.81M

9. Thunderbirds (2004)

PG | 95 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy

When The Hood finds and invades International Rescue's secret base and traps most of the Tracy family, only young Alan Tracy and his friends can save the day.

Director: Jonathan Frakes | Stars: Bill Paxton, Anthony Edwards, Ben Kingsley, Brady Corbet

Votes: 14,484 | Gross: $6.77M

10. Top Dog (2020– )

44 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

A mysterious disappearance makes two completely separate worlds collide, creating an extremely odd couple - the lawyer Emily and recently released convict Teddy.

Stars: Josefin Asplund, Alexej Manvelov, Gustav Lindh, Jessica Grabowsky

Votes: 2,769

11. Invaders from Mars (1953)

Approved | 78 min | Horror, Sci-Fi

A young boy learns that space aliens are taking over the minds of earthlings.

Director: William Cameron Menzies | Stars: Helena Carter, Arthur Franz, Jimmy Hunt, Leif Erickson

Votes: 8,851

12. Nine Lives (I) (2016)

PG | 87 min | Comedy, Drama, Family

A stuffy businessman finds himself trapped inside the body of his family's cat.

Director: Barry Sonnenfeld | Stars: Kevin Spacey, Jennifer Garner, Robbie Amell, Cheryl Hines

Votes: 24,367 | Gross: $19.64M

13. Turbulence (1997)

R | 100 min | Action, Thriller

After a shootout on a flight transporting prisoners, a flight attendant must outwit a smooth-talking serial killer and land the plane herself.

Director: Robert Butler | Stars: Ray Liotta, Lauren Holly, Brendan Gleeson, Hector Elizondo

Votes: 12,617 | Gross: $11.47M

14. Monte Walsh (2003 TV Movie)

TV-14 | 117 min | Drama, Romance, Western

Wyoming, 1892: Monte's been cowboy for ranchers all his life but he's no longer young and big business is taking over the ranches.

Director: Simon Wincer | Stars: Tom Selleck, Isabella Rossellini, Keith Carradine, George Eads

Votes: 3,037

15. Red White & Blue (2010)

Not Rated | 103 min | Drama, Thriller

A woman attracts the attention of a psychopathic former Army interrogator and an emotionally fragile young man caring for his depressed mother.

Director: Simon Rumley | Stars: Amanda Fuller, Marc Senter, Jon Michael Davis, Nick Holden

Votes: 6,148

16. Beans (2020)

92 min | Drama

Based on true events, Tracey Deer's debut feature chronicles the 78-day standoff between two Mohawk communities and government forces in 1990 Quebec.

Director: Tracey Deer | Stars: Kiawentiio, Rainbow Dickerson, Violah Beauvais, Paulina Alexis

Votes: 1,065

17. Twilight's Last Gleaming (1977)

R | 146 min | Drama, Thriller

An imprisoned rogue USAF general with a secret personal agenda, escapes the brig and takes over an ICBM silo, threatening to start WW3.

Director: Robert Aldrich | Stars: Burt Lancaster, Richard Widmark, Roscoe Lee Browne, Joseph Cotten

Votes: 3,730

18. Bucktown (1975)

R | 94 min | Action, Crime, Drama

After being hassled by The Man in a southern town, a cool operator asks some violent friends for help. After all, if you can't trust another brother, who can you trust?

Director: Arthur Marks | Stars: Fred Williamson, Pam Grier, Thalmus Rasulala, Tony King

Votes: 1,602

19. Mickey's House of Villains (2002 Video)

TV-G | 68 min | Animation, Comedy, Family

When villains come to Mickey's House of Mouse, he and his friends attempt to keep the show running.

Directors: Jamie Mitchell, Rick Calabash, Tony Craig, Bobs Gannaway, Burt Gillett, Jack Hannah, Jack King, Mike Moon | Stars: Wayne Allwine, Tony Anselmo, Jeff Bennett, Susanne Blakeslee

Votes: 4,184

20. Civil Brand (2002)

R | 95 min | Drama, Thriller, Crime

Frances is in the pen for killing her abusive husband. The abused the prisoners rise up against the "new plantation" that harvest human labor for profit. Nothing will stop Frances and her fellow inmates in this brutal battle for justice.

Director: Neema Barnette | Stars: LisaRaye McCoy, N'Bushe Wright, Yasiin Bey, Monica Calhoun

Votes: 817 | Gross: $0.24M

21. Command Performance (2009)

R | 93 min | Action, Thriller

When the Russian Premier is taken hostage at a rock concert in Moscow, it's up to a drummer, an ex-biker, to save him.

Director: Dolph Lundgren | Stars: Dolph Lundgren, Melissa Molinaro, Hristo Shopov, Dave Legeno

Votes: 3,496

22. Attica (1980 TV Movie)

97 min | Drama

The true story of the events leading up to and during the 1971 Attica Correctional Facility riot and the aftermath.

Director: Marvin J. Chomsky | Stars: Henry Darrow, Charles Durning, Joel Fabiani, Morgan Freeman

Votes: 541

23. Cyborg X (2016)

90 min | Action, Horror, Sci-Fi

After X-Corp, a radical weapons manufacturer, is taken over by a Cyber Virus, a group of survivors must fight to save humanity from the army of Machines the Virus now controls.

Director: K. King | Stars: Eve Mauro, Rocky Myers, Jake Stormoen, Danny Trejo

Votes: 1,861

24. Billy Rose's Jumbo (1962)

Approved | 123 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance

A debt-ridden circus is saved by a well-meaning but inept publicity man.

Director: Charles Walters | Stars: Doris Day, Jimmy Durante, Stephen Boyd, Martha Raye

Votes: 1,730

25. Broken Trust (2012 TV Movie)

TV-PG | 87 min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller

An attorney tries to rescue a kidnapped mentor while also taking on a case against a major pharmaceutical company.

Director: Ron Oliver | Stars: Laura Vandervoort, Shawn Roberts, Sonya Salomaa, Sean Allan

Votes: 359

26. Black Samson (1974)

R | 88 min | Action, Drama

Noble nightclub owner Samson does his best to keep his neighborhood clean of crime and drugs. When vicious mobster Johnny Nappa tries to muscle in on Samson's territory, Samson takes a brave stand against Nappa and his flunkies.

Director: Charles Bail | Stars: Rockne Tarkington, William Smith, Connie Strickland, Carol Speed

Votes: 630 | Gross: $0.09M

27. Denver & Rio Grande (1952)

Passed | 89 min | Drama, Western

A romanticized history of the building of the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad in the Colorado mountains.

Director: Byron Haskin | Stars: Edmond O'Brien, Sterling Hayden, Dean Jagger, Kasey Rogers

Votes: 619

28. Slaves in Bondage (1937)

Passed | 70 min | Crime, Drama

Berrywood Roadhouse is a den of iniquity outside of town. Crooks use a beauty shop to recruit floozies into vice. The crooks target Dona Lee, who works at the beauty salon and is pursued by reporter wannabe Phillip as their next victim.

Director: Elmer Clifton | Stars: Lona Andre, Donald Reed, Wheeler Oakman, Florence Dudley

Votes: 242

29. Coffee, Kill Boss (2013)

Not Rated | 94 min | Comedy, Mystery

When ten executives secretly meet to sell off their company, they're murdered one by one in this darkly comedic romp through the halls of corporate America.

Director: Nathan Marshall | Stars: Eddie Jemison, Noureen DeWulf, Peter Breitmayer, Richard Riehle

Votes: 72

30. The Uninvited (1997)

50 min | Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi

Investigating the phenomena of alien abductions

Stars: Douglas Hodge, Leslie Grantham, Lia Williams, Sylvestra Le Touzel

Votes: 133

31. Club Dead (1994 Video Game)

M | Adventure, Crime, Mystery

A series of suspicious, bizarre suicides is plaguing Metacorp's elite cyberpunk hotel resort. Unhinged security chief Scudder has only one suspect in mind - ex con Sam Frost. To prove his innocence, Sam must crack this mystery himself.

Director: Gregory Harrison | Stars: Andrew Micheli, Wendy James, Nick Offerman, Jeffrey Frace

Votes: 21

32. The Silken Affair (1956)

Approved | 96 min | Comedy, Crime, Romance

Spoiler: Roger Tweakham, a married accountant leading a humdrum life, gets involved with a motivating model, tweaks the books of a stocking factory whose owner he likes so it will show a ... See full summary »

Director: Roy Kellino | Stars: David Niven, Geneviève Page, Ronald Squire, Beatrice Straight

Votes: 52

33. Akko's Secret (2012)

120 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Romance

Young Atsuko Kagami comes into possession of a magical mirror that lets her transform into anything she wishes. Atsuko Kagami then attempts to save a company which is about to be sold by ... See full summary »

Director: Yasuhiro Kawamura | Stars: Haruka Ayase, Ai Yoshikawa, Masaki Okada, Takeshi Kaga

Votes: 328

34. In Our Village (1951)

66 min | Drama, History, Music

The film shows that Romanian peasants were divided between those opposing and those embracing collectivization. The heated debates between the pro and con camps would ultimately lead to murder.

Directors: Jean Georgescu, Victor Iliu | Stars: Constantin Ramadan, George Manu, Nana Ianculescu, Aurel Ghitescu

Votes: 36

35. Humørkort-stativ-sælgerens søn (2002)

85 min | Comedy

The 33 years old publishing editor really likes to make people happy. He has big difficulties in saying no to his surroundings, and that causes him a lot of trouble along the road...

Director: Peter Bay | Stars: Thomas Bo Larsen, Hella Joof, Anette Støvelbæk, Niels Olsen

Votes: 317

36. The Real Deal (2009 Video)

Not Rated | 77 min | Drama

In the aftermath of a major world media takeover several seniors at Arrupe High School are challenged to act out against a world they are truly disconnected from.

Directors: Michael Breault, Eddie Siebert | Stars: Kevin Connolly, Matthew Warzel, Orion Acaba, Elijah Adams

Votes: 6

37. Life at the Resort (2011)

90 min | Comedy

Lots of funny things happening at the resort.

Directors: Jeff Sable, Zander Villayne | Stars: Marc Singer, Marisa Petroro, Adrian R'Mante, Vail Bloom

Votes: 77

38. NXT TakeOver: The End (2016 TV Special)

TV-PG | 120 min | Action, Sport

NXT TakeOver: The End was a wrestling PPV that aired on the WWE Network June 8, 2016. It featured the likes of Samoa Joe, Asuka, Nia Jax, Finn Balor, Austin Aries, and Shinsuke Nakamura

Director: Paul Levesque | Stars: Joe Seanoa, Fergal Devitt, Kanako Urai, Shinsuke Nakamura

Votes: 248

39. Back to Malheur: Two Years Later (2018)

13 min | Documentary, Short

Add a Plot

Director: David Byars | Stars: Andy Dunbar, Tucker Dunbar, Duncan Evered, Hal Herring

40. The Mastodon (1975)

83 min | Drama

In 1946 Romania's oil rich regions are coveted by unscrupulous foreign oil companies and by the Communists who aim to nationalize Romania's oil industry.

Director: Virgil Calotescu | Stars: Zephi Alsec, Ion Anghel, Emil Botta, Toma Caragiu

Votes: 49

41. Out of This World (II) (1954)

Approved | 75 min | Documentary, History, News

This was filmed in 1949 when Lowell Thomas and Lowell Thomas Jr. took a journey to Tibet before the Red Chinese had moved in. It shows Tibet as it was then and, for that matter, as it had ... See full summary »

Directors: Lowell Thomas Jr., Lowell Thomas | Stars: Lowell Thomas, Lowell Thomas Jr.

Votes: 8

42. The Guerrilla Masquerade Party (2004)

15 min | Documentary, Short

The story of Dirty Bunny (A.K.A. Dan Garlington), and his creation Guerrilla Masquerade Party - a monthly costume party that invaded unsuspecting Seattle locations in thematic costumes from 2003 to 2008.

Stars: Joey Berkins, Treah Caldwell, Dan Dembiczak, Dan Garlington

43. The Fortress (2014)

Short, Action, Drama

The film is set in the future post-war Finland. The food, gasoline, weapons and ammo are of high value. The story tells the story of a survival group, composed of former soldiers and civilian fighters.

Director: Tuukka Kuusisto | Stars: Joni Aaltonen, Harri Jokinen, Marko Mäkelä, Tarmo Pasanen

44. Giglomerate

Comedy, Drama, Fantasy | Announced

A company that is involved vitally in a country's issue and it gets more dramatic with time

Director: Loay 'cielo' Tattan

45. Andromeda (2000–2005)
Episode: An Affirming Flame (2000)

TV-PG | 43 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

Captain Dylan Hunt attempts to drive the invaders from his ship. He manages to scare Gerentex off, but he leaves many of his employees behind. He takes the Maru and uses it to send the ... See full summary »

Director: Brenton Spencer | Stars: Kevin Sorbo, Lisa Ryder, Keith Hamilton Cobb, Laura Bertram

Votes: 368

46. Division 4 (1969–1975)
Episode: Big Fish Small Fry (1975)

Crime, Drama

An assault on an accountant has the Yarra Central police baffled until they discover that the take over of a major prostitution racket is behind the assault.

Director: David Hinrichsen | Stars: Gerard Kennedy, Chuck Faulkner, Terence Donovan, Frank Taylor

47. Friday the 13th: The Series (1987–1990)
Episode: Mesmer's Bauble (1989)

TV-MA | 46 min | Fantasy, Horror, Mystery

A record store clerk with psychotic tendencies is granted unspeakable powers by a magical pendant, which he abuses to fulfill his dream of meeting a beautiful rock star.

Director: Armand Mastroianni | Stars: John D. LeMay, Louise Robey, Chris Wiggins, Vanity

Votes: 141

48. Homicide (1964–1977)
Episode: The Last Task (1976)

Action, Crime, Drama

For the final case, a former member of the squad, now an Inspector, returns to help in the investigation of a massage parlour murder.

Director: Kevin James Dobson | Stars: Charles 'Bud' Tingwell, Don Barker, Dennis Grosvenor, Gary Day

49. L.A. Law (1986–1994)
Episode: Blood, Sweat and Fears (1990)

TV-PG | 48 min | Drama

Kuzak uses new evidence and a testimony by a very hostile witness to plead for a new trial for Earl Williams. Meanwhile, Victor defends Dr. Michael Dayan, a surgeon being sued for wrongful ... See full summary »

Director: Edwin Sherin | Stars: Harry Hamlin, Susan Dey, Corbin Bernsen, Jill Eikenberry

Votes: 43

50. The Mighty Boosh (2003–2007)
Episode: Jungle (2004)

TV-PG | 27 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Musical

With the zoo sale and destruction imminent for a future road, Howard's only chance to save the zoo is to find his previous boss: Absentee owner, and hero Tommy Nookah who is hidden within the bizarrely large 'Jungle' section of the zoo.

Director: Paul King | Stars: Julian Barratt, Noel Fielding, Rich Fulcher, Michael Fielding

Votes: 362