Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "nom-de-plume"

1. Basic Instinct (1992)

R | 127 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller

A violent police detective investigates a brutal murder that might involve a manipulative and seductive novelist.

Director: Paul Verhoeven | Stars: Michael Douglas, Sharon Stone, George Dzundza, Jeanne Tripplehorn

Votes: 219,527 | Gross: $117.73M

2. Curiosa (2019)

18+ | 107 min | Biography, Drama, History

A passionate love story set against a backdrop of sexual freedom, loosely based on the relationship between 19th-century authors Pierre Louÿs and Marie de Régnier.

Director: Lou Jeunet | Stars: Noémie Merlant, Niels Schneider, Benjamin Lavernhe, Camélia Jordana

Votes: 3,590

3. Belle de Jour (1967)

R | 100 min | Drama, Romance

A frigid young housewife decides to spend her midweek afternoons as a prostitute.

Director: Luis Buñuel | Stars: Catherine Deneuve, Jean Sorel, Michel Piccoli, Geneviève Page

Votes: 49,124 | Gross: $0.03M

4. Paranoid (2016)

TV-MA | 45 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

The murder of a female GP in a rural playground in front of numerous witnesses draws a group of detectives into an ever-darkening mystery that takes them across Europe, aided by mysterious notes sent by the "Ghost Detective".

Stars: Indira Varma, Robert Glenister, Dino Fetscher, Christiane Paul

Votes: 10,370

5. Casanova (2005)

R | 112 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama

The fabled romantic Giacomo Casanova, after failing to win the affection of the Venetian woman Francesca Bruni, strives to discover the real meaning of love.

Director: Lasse Hallström | Stars: Heath Ledger, Sienna Miller, Jeremy Irons, Oliver Platt

Votes: 56,367 | Gross: $11.30M

6. The Fifth Estate (2013)

R | 128 min | Biography, Crime, Drama

A dramatic thriller based on real events that reveals the quest to expose the deceptions and corruptions of power that turned an Internet upstart into the 21st century's most fiercely debated organization.

Director: Bill Condon | Stars: Benedict Cumberbatch, Daniel Brühl, Carice van Houten, Alicia Vikander

Votes: 42,733 | Gross: $3.25M

7. The Dark Half (1993)

R | 122 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller

A writer's fictional alter ego wants to take over his life...at any price.

Director: George A. Romero | Stars: Timothy Hutton, Amy Madigan, Michael Rooker, Julie Harris

Votes: 19,375 | Gross: $9.58M

8. Safe in Hell (1931)

Passed | 73 min | Crime, Drama, Romance

After accidentally killing the man who raped her and forced her into prostitution, a New Orleans woman flees to a Caribbean island. While she awaits her fiancé, the vicious local police chief sets his sights on her.

Director: William A. Wellman | Stars: Dorothy Mackaill, Donald Cook, Ralf Harolde, John Wray

Votes: 2,046

9. Beloved Sisters (2014)

Not Rated | 138 min | Drama, History, Romance

The 18th century literary genius Friedrich Schiller falls in love with the sisters Charlotte and Caroline von Lengefeld. After a passionate summer together in a menage a trois, jealousy and rivalry endanger their union.

Director: Dominik Graf | Stars: Hannah Herzsprung, Florian Stetter, Henriette Confurius, Claudia Messner

Votes: 1,599 | Gross: $0.05M

10. My House in Umbria (2003 TV Movie)

TV-14 | 103 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance

An unlikely group of people find solace and friendship after being thrown together in the wake of a terrorist attack.

Director: Richard Loncraine | Stars: Maggie Smith, Ronnie Barker, Chris Cooper, Benno Fürmann

Votes: 3,635

11. Paperback Hero (1999)

Not Rated | 96 min | Comedy, Romance

An Australian truck driver writes romance novels. His engaged, tomboyish, crop duster best friend's name, Ruby Vale, is unasked used as author. Complications arise when his novel takes off. Will they remain friends or...?

Director: Antony J. Bowman | Stars: Claudia Karvan, Hugh Jackman, Angie Milliken, Andrew S. Gilbert

Votes: 2,353

12. The Return of Frank James (1940)

Approved | 92 min | Drama, Western

Frank James continues to avoid arrest in order to take revenge on the Ford brothers for their murder of his brother Jesse.

Director: Fritz Lang | Stars: Henry Fonda, Gene Tierney, Jackie Cooper, Henry Hull

Votes: 3,688

13. Nico, 1988 (2017)

R | 93 min | Biography, Drama, Music

The last year of singer Nico's life, as she tours and grapples with addiction and personal demons.

Director: Susanna Nicchiarelli | Stars: Trine Dyrholm, John Gordon Sinclair, Anamaria Marinca, Sandor Funtek

Votes: 2,067 | Gross: $0.07M

14. Kannathil Muthamittal (2002)

Not Rated | 136 min | Action, Drama, War

A little girl is told by her parents that she is adopted. Determined to find her real mother, she begs to be taken to Sri Lanka, where her mother works with a militant group of activists.

Director: Mani Ratnam | Stars: Keerthana Parthiepan, Simran, Madhavan, Nandita Das

Votes: 9,233

15. Beauty (1998 TV Movie)

90 min | Romance

A man hires an artist to fulfill his family tradition of painting a family portrait. In this modern rendition of Beauty and the Beast, the artist is a beautiful female painter, and the model suffers from a disfiguring medical condition.

Director: Jerry London | Stars: Janine Turner, Jamey Sheridan, Linden Ashby, Shirley Broderick

Votes: 422

16. In Like Flynn (1985 TV Movie)

100 min | Adventure, Drama, Mystery

Life is one cliff-hanger after another for a bright and beautiful woman and the reluctant young man who joins her in defying death as they investigate a series of baffling murders and ... See full summary »

Director: Richard Lang | Stars: Jenny Seagrove, Murray Cruchley, Robert Webber, Eddie Albert

Votes: 88

17. Shakespeare: The Truth Behind the Name (2021)

99 min | Documentary

Literary history's greatest mystery? Who created the greatest works of iambic thunder in the English language, and who lived the courtly life that is written about in the works of Shakespeare. An uneducated tradesman from Stratford?

Director: Robin K. Phillips | Star: Robin K. Phillips

Votes: 39

18. Whirlpool (1934)

Passed | 80 min | Crime, Drama, Romance

Carnie owner Buck Rankin marries local girl Helen and plans to go straight, but after a brawl ends up with a twenty-year sentence for manslaughter. When a pregnant Helen vows to wait for ... See full summary »

Director: Roy William Neill | Stars: Jack Holt, Jean Arthur, Donald Cook, Allen Jenkins

Votes: 446

19. Nothing Is Truer Than Truth (2018)

75 min | Documentary, Biography, History

NOTHING IS TRUER THAN TRUTH is a feature length documentary about Edward de Vere, Seventeenth Earl of Oxford, A-list party boy on the continental circuit, who spent a year and a half in ... See full summary »

Director: Cheryl Eagan-Donovan | Stars: Charles Bird, Michael Cecil, Alberto Toso Fei, Derek Jacobi

Votes: 126

20. Gallant Journey (1946)

Passed | 85 min | Biography, Drama, History

This historical drama is a biopic of the U.S. aviation pioneer John J. Montgomery who was the first American to fly a glider in 1883.

Director: William A. Wellman | Stars: Glenn Ford, Janet Blair, Charles Ruggles, Henry Travers

Votes: 289

21. The Game That Kills (1937)

Passed | 55 min | Mystery, Romance, Sport

Tom Ferguson, star left wing of the Indians hockey team, is killed during a game in an "accident" with Dick Adams and Bill Drake, two of his own teammates. His brother, Alec Ferguson, is ... See full summary »

Director: D. Ross Lederman | Stars: Charles Quigley, Rita Hayworth, John Gallaudet, J. Farrell MacDonald

Votes: 140

22. Love Bound (1932)

Passed | 60 min | Drama, Mystery

A gold-digging woman wins a big settlement against an older married man, which threatens to destroy the man's family. His son, discovering that the woman is part of a ring of blackmailers ... See full summary »

Director: Robert F. Hill | Stars: Jack Mulhall, Natalie Moorhead, Clara Kimball Young, Edmund Breese

Votes: 151

23. Murder in Greenwich Village (1937)

Approved | 68 min | Action, Comedy, Mystery

An heiress uses a photographer as an alibi when she is accused of a murder she didn't commit.

Director: Albert S. Rogell | Stars: Richard Arlen, Fay Wray, Raymond Walburn, Wyn Cahoon

Votes: 136

24. Three of a Kind (1936)

Approved | 68 min | Comedy, Romance

Barbara "Babs" Penfield is trying to convince her father, laundry-magnate F. Thorndyke Penfield, to invest money in a proposition from her sweetheart Rodney Randall. Her father refuses as ... See full summary »

Director: Phil Rosen | Stars: Evalyn Knapp, Chick Chandler, Berton Churchill, Richard Carle

Votes: 141

25. Park Avenue Logger (1937)

Passed | 67 min | Action, Drama, Romance

Millioniare Curran, thinking his son too intellectual, sends him west to learn logging at one of his lumber camps. Unknown to his father, Grant Curan is a professional wrestler and easily ... See full summary »

Director: David Howard | Stars: George O'Brien, Beatrice Roberts, Willard Robertson, Ward Bond

Votes: 100

26. Dawn of a Filmmaker: The Keisuke Kinoshita Story (2013)

96 min | Biography, Drama, War

As a young man, Keisuke Kinoshita (Ryo Kase) carried his mother on a handcart across a mountain. He grew up as a hotblooded young man and was monitored by the military. He then joined ... See full summary »

Director: Keiichi Hara | Stars: Aoi Miyazaki, Mayu Matsuoka, Yûko Tanaka, Ryô Kase

Votes: 120

27. Beware of Ladies (1936)

Approved | 64 min | Action, Crime, Drama

A female reporter with marital problems is sent by her boss to cover the campaign of a young political neophyte who's running against the local crooked political boss.

Director: Irving Pichel | Stars: Donald Cook, Judith Allen, George Meeker, Goodee Montgomery

Votes: 105

28. Mad Holiday (1936)

Passed | 71 min | Comedy, Mystery, Romance

Philip Trent is tired of playing film detective Shelby James, thinking that the stories are tripe, and plans a vacation to get away from Hollywood. But on the ship he meets a mysterious ... See full summary »

Director: George B. Seitz | Stars: Edmund Lowe, Elissa Landi, Zasu Pitts, Ted Healy

Votes: 225

29. Dangerous Intrigue (1936)

Approved | 59 min | Action, Crime, Drama

Brilliant young surgeon Anthony Halliday is forced to resign as chief of staff at a New York hospital when he is compelled to delay an appendectomy on the daughter of John Mitchell, wealthy... See full summary »

Director: David Selman | Stars: Ralph Bellamy, Gloria Shea, Joan Perry, Fred Kohler

30. The Life of Lewis Carroll (2009)

76 min | Documentary, Biography, History

Lewis Carroll (1832-98) was an English writer, logician, mathematician, Anglican deacon and photographer. He excelled in two of these fields, photography and writing. As a photographer, he ... See full summary »

Star: Lewis Carroll

31. Westbound Mail (1937)

Approved | 60 min | Drama, Western

The gold mine belonging to "Gun" Barlow (Edward Keane) is worked out, and Barlow attempts to buy adjacent land, with the hopes his gold vein will continue, from town postmistress Marion ... See full summary »

Director: Folmar Blangsted | Stars: Charles Starrett, Rosalind Keith, Edward Keane, Arthur Stone

Votes: 10

32. Birds of a Feather (1989–2020)
Episode: The Front (1992)

TV-14 | Comedy

Dorien has completed her bonkbuster novel and its publication is forthcoming but, concerned that Marcus doesn't identify her with some of the heroine's racy escapades, she gives Sharon's ... See full summary »

Director: Terry Kinane | Stars: Pauline Quirke, Linda Robson, Lesley Joseph, Alun Lewis

Votes: 33

33. White Collar (2009–2014)
Episode: Most Wanted (2012)

TV-PG | 43 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

Peter must devise a plan to return Neal to New York and avoid Collins.

Director: Paul Holahan | Stars: Matt Bomer, Tim DeKay, Willie Garson, Marsha Thomason

Votes: 834

34. Birds of a Feather (1989–2020)
Episode: Gimme Shelter (2014)

TV-14 | 21 min | Comedy

Sharon and Tracey have not spoken for years, since Sharon called Tracey's new husband Ralph a bad lot - which he was, hence Tracey's divorcing him. Now, in a meeting engineered by Tracey's ... See full summary »

Director: Nick Wood | Stars: Pauline Quirke, Linda Robson, Lesley Joseph, Charlie Quirke

Votes: 57

35. DC's Legends of Tomorrow (2016–2022)
Episode: Legends of To-Meow-Meow (2018)

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

After Constantine breaks the cardinal rule, he, Charlie and Zari try to deal with the ramifications without telling anyone else.

Director: Ben Hernandez Bray | Stars: Brandon Routh, Caity Lotz, Maisie Richardson-Sellers, Tala Ashe

Votes: 2,060

36. Salvation (2017–2018)
Episode: Let the Chips Fall (2018)

TV-14 | 43 min | Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller

Darius and Grace's relationship is tested when her secret is revealed. President Mackenzie tries to unify the fractured country. Re/Syst issues a deadly threat.

Director: Gregory Prange | Stars: Santiago Cabrera, Jennifer Finnigan, Charlie Rowe, Jacqueline Byers

Votes: 417