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

1. Inglourious Basterds (2009)

R | 153 min | Adventure, Drama, War

In Nazi-occupied France during World War II, a plan to assassinate Nazi leaders by a group of Jewish U.S. soldiers coincides with a theatre owner's vengeful plans for the same.

Director: Quentin Tarantino | Stars: Brad Pitt, Diane Kruger, Eli Roth, Mélanie Laurent

Votes: 1,584,585 | Gross: $120.54M

2. Pearl (2022)

R | 103 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller

In 1918, a young woman on the brink of madness pursues stardom in a desperate attempt to escape the drudgery, isolation, and lovelessness of life on her parents' farm.

Director: Ti West | Stars: Mia Goth, David Corenswet, Tandi Wright, Matthew Sunderland

Votes: 96,793 | Gross: $9.42M

3. Zodiac (2007)

R | 157 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Between 1968 and 1983, a San Francisco cartoonist becomes an amateur detective obsessed with tracking down the Zodiac Killer, an unidentified individual who terrorizes Northern California with a killing spree.

Director: David Fincher | Stars: Jake Gyllenhaal, Robert Downey Jr., Mark Ruffalo, Anthony Edwards

Votes: 598,518 | Gross: $33.08M

4. Cinema Paradiso (1988)

R | 174 min | Drama, Romance

A filmmaker recalls his childhood when falling in love with the pictures at the cinema of his home village and forms a deep friendship with the cinema's projectionist.

Director: Giuseppe Tornatore | Stars: Philippe Noiret, Enzo Cannavale, Antonella Attili, Isa Danieli

Votes: 282,976 | Gross: $11.99M

5. Last Action Hero (1993)

PG-13 | 130 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy

With the help of a magic ticket, a young movie fan is transported into the fictional world of his favorite action movie character.

Director: John McTiernan | Stars: Arnold Schwarzenegger, F. Murray Abraham, Art Carney, Charles Dance

Votes: 163,862 | Gross: $50.02M

6. Empire of Light (2022)

R | 115 min | Drama, Romance

A drama about the power of human connection during turbulent times, set in an English coastal town in the early 1980s.

Director: Sam Mendes | Stars: Olivia Colman, Micheal Ward, Colin Firth, Toby Jones

Votes: 24,175

7. Night of the Comet (1984)

PG-13 | 95 min | Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi

A comet wipes out most of life on Earth, leaving two Valley Girls fighting against cannibal zombies and a sinister group of scientists.

Director: Thom Eberhardt | Stars: Catherine Mary Stewart, Kelli Maroney, Robert Beltran, Sharon Farrell

Votes: 24,149 | Gross: $14.42M

8. Bulletproof Monk (2003)

PG-13 | 104 min | Action, Comedy, Fantasy

Based on the very underground comic book of the same name, a Tibetan monk becomes a mentor to a young street punk and tries teaching him how to protect the scroll of ultimate power from a secret Nazi organization bent on world domination.

Director: Paul Hunter | Stars: Chow Yun-Fat, Seann William Scott, Jaime King, Karel Roden

Votes: 52,211 | Gross: $23.02M

9. Sherlock Jr. (1924)

Passed | 45 min | Action, Comedy, Romance

A film projectionist longs to be a detective, and puts his meagre skills to work when he is framed by a rival for stealing his girlfriend's father's pocketwatch.

Director: Buster Keaton | Stars: Buster Keaton, Kathryn McGuire, Joe Keaton, Erwin Connelly

Votes: 57,018 | Gross: $0.98M

10. Wish You Were Here (1987)

R | 88 min | Comedy, Drama

In a staid English seaside town after the Second World War, young Lynda grows up with her widowed father and younger sister. She eventually becomes pregnant by an acquaintance of her father.

Director: David Leland | Stars: Emily Lloyd, Trudi Cavanagh, Clare Clifford, Barbara Durkin

Votes: 3,336 | Gross: $3.28M

11. Clash by Night (1952)

Approved | 105 min | Drama, Film-Noir, Romance

Mae Doyle comes back to her hometown a cynical woman. Her brother Joe fears that his love, fish cannery worker Peggy, may wind up like Mae. Mae marries Jerry and has a baby; she is happy but restless, drawn to Jerry's friend Earl.

Director: Fritz Lang | Stars: Barbara Stanwyck, Robert Ryan, Paul Douglas, Marilyn Monroe

Votes: 7,360

12. Hollywood Boulevard (1976)

R | 83 min | Comedy, Thriller

A young woman arrives in Hollywood to try her luck as an actress. An incompetent agent hooks her up with a production company which specializes in low budget B-movie fair, plagued by strange deadly accidents.

Directors: Allan Arkush, Joe Dante | Stars: Mary Woronov, Paul Bartel, George Wagner, Jonathan Kaplan

Votes: 1,491

13. The Family Way (1966)

Approved | 115 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

Compassionate look at the troubles of two young newlyweds, whose marriage has yet to be consummated.

Directors: John Boulting, Roy Boulting | Stars: Hayley Mills, Hywel Bennett, Avril Angers, John Comer

Votes: 1,878

14. Service (2008)

R | 87 min | Drama, Romance

The Pineda family struggles with bigamy, unwanted pregnancy, possible incest, and skin irritations in a dilapidated movie theater.

Director: Brillante Mendoza | Stars: Gina Pareño, Jaclyn Jose, Julio Diaz, Coco Martin

Votes: 1,921 | Gross: $0.06M

15. Goodbye, Dragon Inn (2003)

82 min | Drama, Comedy

On a dark, wet night a historic and regal Chinese cinema sees its final film. Together with a small handful of souls they bid "Goodbye, Dragon Inn".

Director: Tsai Ming-liang | Stars: Kang-sheng Lee, Shiang-chyi Chen, Kiyonobu Mitamura, Chun Shih

Votes: 6,173 | Gross: $0.03M

16. Fear City: A Family-Style Comedy (1994)

100 min | Comedy, Horror

A second-class horror movie has to be shown at Cannes Film Festival, but, before each screening, the projectionist is killed by a mysterious fellow, with hammer and sickle, just as it happens in the film to be shown.

Director: Alain Berbérian | Stars: Chantal Lauby, Alain Chabat, Dominique Farrugia, Gérard Darmon

Votes: 10,424

17. Last Film Show (2021)

110 min | Drama

Samay fights heaven and earth to find light. He wants to catch, control, cut and project that light to tell stories. Now to pursue that dream he must leave everything he loves and take a flight to find the light.

Director: Pan Nalin | Stars: Bhavin Rabari, Richa Meena, Bhavesh Shrimali, Dipen Raval

Votes: 4,427

18. The Slasher ...is the Sex Maniac! (1972)

X | 88 min | Crime, Drama, Horror

A serial killer is on the loose. His victims are unfaithful wives and he always leaves compromising photographs at the crime scene.

Director: Roberto Bianchi Montero | Stars: Farley Granger, Sylva Koscina, Silvano Tranquilli, Annabella Incontrera

Votes: 1,092

19. Winter Sleepers (1997)

122 min | Drama, Romance, Thriller

Setin a small mountain town, a man, looking for revenge because of his daughter's accidental killing, mistakenly tracks out a young couple, troubling with their ordinary life problems.

Director: Tom Tykwer | Stars: Ulrich Matthes, Marie-Lou Sellem, Floriane Daniel, Heino Ferch

Votes: 4,648 | Gross: $0.32M

20. No te mueras sin decirme adónde vas (1995)

PG | 120 min | Drama, Fantasy, Romance

It is the fantastic story of a couple that has the chance to live for centuries loving one another because of various reincarnations.

Director: Eliseo Subiela | Stars: Darío Grandinetti, Mariana Arias, Oscar Martínez, Mónica Galán

Votes: 875

21. The Adopted Son (1998)

81 min | Drama

In a Kyrgyz village, five older women adopt an infant foundling. Jump ahead about 12 years: the boy, Beshkempir, is entering puberty, the age, his granny says, when life goes berserk. He ... See full summary »

Director: Aktan Arym Kubat | Stars: Mirlan Abdykalykov, Adir Abilkassimov, Mirlan Cinkozoev, Bakit Dzhylkychiev

Votes: 632

22. The Gleiwitz Case (1961)

70 min | Drama, History, Thriller

Re-enacted true story of successful assault by Nazis, posing as Poles, on a German border radio station so that Hitler could "justify" thereby his invasion of Poland.

Director: Gerhard Klein | Stars: Hannjo Hasse, Christoph Beyertt, Wolfgang Kalweit, Georg Leopold

Votes: 336

23. Centaur (2017)

89 min | Drama

Centaur lives a modest life with his family in rural Kyrgyzstan until he abruptly becomes the center of attention when he is caught stealing a racehorse at night. A story inspired by the myth when horses became the wings of men.

Director: Aktan Arym Kubat | Stars: Nuraly Tursunkojoev, Zarema Asanalieva, Aktan Arym Kubat, Taalaikan Abazova

Votes: 469

24. Farewell to Harry (2002)

103 min | Drama

A down-and-out writer, Nick Sennet, runs into Harry, a man that, legend has it, died long ago. Together they attempt to revitalize a defunct factory as well as their lives.

Director: Garrett Bennett | Stars: Joe Flanigan, William Hall Jr., Lysette Anthony, Joseph Franklin

Votes: 168

25. The Blind Owl (1987)

105 min | Drama, Fantasy

A surrealistic and fantastic view of the world through the eyes of a film projectionist and a movie he projects which takes him to mysterious and dreamy places and situations while the ... See full summary »

Director: Raúl Ruiz | Stars: Jean-François Lapalus, Jessica Forde, Jean-Bernard Guillard, Jean-Marie Boëglin

Votes: 145

26. Electric Shadows (2004)

Not Rated | 93 min | Drama

For no apparent reason, a mute young woman assaults a youth who delivers water on his bicycle, injuring him and ruining his bike. Surprisingly, she asks him to feed her fish while she is in... See full summary »

Director: Jiang Xiao | Stars: Yu Xia, Haibin Li, Yijing Zhang, Zhongyang Qi

Votes: 1,071 | Gross: $0.01M

27. Talking the Pictures (2019)

126 min | Comedy, Drama, History

Set in early 20th Century Japan, the movie follows the adventures of a young man who wants to get into the movie business -- but in a job unique to his country: a dramatic narrator for ... See full summary »

Director: Masayuki Suô | Stars: Ryo Narita, Yuina Kuroshima, Kengo Kôra, Mao Inoue

Votes: 441

28. Hiçbiryerde (2002)

90 min | Drama

Sükran who works at pay box of Haydarpasa is around 40 ages. She has a son whose name is Veysel. He works in a factory. She suffered from her husband's political actions, so she wants to ... See full summary »

Director: Tayfun Pirselimoglu | Stars: Zuhal Olcay, Michael Mendl, Parkan Özturan, Meral Okay

Votes: 706

29. Jol (2001)

85 min | Drama

A film director takes to the road on a trip to visit his sick mother and we follow his thoughts and human encounters along the way.

Director: Darezhan Omirbayev | Stars: Jamshed Usmonov, Saule Toktybayeva, Alnur Turgambayeva, Magjane Omirbayev

Votes: 136

30. Great (I) (2013)

23 min | Short, Comedy, Drama

Did the Nazis ever see Charlie Chaplin's 'The Great Dictator'? Yugoslavia, 1942 - The young Serbian projectionist Nikola Radosevic decides to teach the German oppressors a lesson they won't... See full summary »

Director: Andreas Henn | Stars: Milos Bikovic, Sebastian Brummer, Raphael Dwinger, Mirijam Verena Jeremic

Votes: 61

31. Jinghun dianying yuan (2015)

84 min | Horror

A group of random strangers are invited to a cinema to watch a horror film called Admission by Guts (which resulted in the disappearance of a couple of audience members who watched it at the same theater a couple of years earlier.

Director: Ming Wang | Stars: Tu Hong, Zhongwei Jiang, Xiaofan Lin, Jiayi Liu

Votes: 7

32. The Man in the Booth (2012)

9 min | Documentary, Short, Biography

A documentary about former Willow Creek Theatre Head Projectionist Dave Hilsgen reflecting on his beginnings in the film industry as movie theatres across the nation convert from 35mm projection to digital cinema.

Director: Justin Christopher Ayd | Stars: Dave Hilsgen, Corey Ayd, Justin Christopher Ayd

33. The Last Reel (2015)

7 min | Documentary, Short

A small-town theater in Ohio prepares to screen its final non-digital film.

Director: Steven Bognar | Stars: Andy Holyoke, Jenny Cowperthwaite

34. Laborers, Pt.1: The Projectionist (2015)

67 min | Drama

First part in a series of essays documenting what people do at their workplace.

Director: Davor Radic | Star: Calle Wahlgren

35. Legend (2004)

3 min | Short, Drama, Music

Edited from the 8mm chronicles filmed in Irpen and Kyiv under Soviet Union, this short music film explores the connections between modern times in Ukraine and mythology of the Soviet Union.

Director: Konstantin Sergienko | Stars: Mul Priyomnyi Syn Osla, Konstantin Sergienko, Sergey Twob

36. Homicide (1964–1977)
Episode: Spools and Clocks (1975)

Action, Crime, Drama

An elderly cinema projectionist witnesses the killing of a man on a parking station. He is only too willing to help the police in their investigation, which results in tragedy for him.

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

37. Grantchester (2014–2025)
Episode: Episode #5.3 (2020)

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

Will asks Ellie out to the cinema. There has been a brutal murder in the projection booth. The Chapmans get a brick through their window, and Keating discovers that someone has been sleeping in the cinema. What is the connection?

Director: Christiana Ebohon-Green | Stars: Robson Green, Tom Brittney, Al Weaver, Tessa Peake-Jones

Votes: 307