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

1. Nightcrawler (2014)

R | 117 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

When Louis Bloom, a con man desperate for work, muscles into the world of L.A. crime journalism, he blurs the line between observer and participant to become the star of his own story.

Director: Dan Gilroy | Stars: Jake Gyllenhaal, Rene Russo, Bill Paxton, Riz Ahmed

Votes: 604,859 | Gross: $32.38M

2. Notting Hill (1999)

PG-13 | 124 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

A set of circumstances makes Anna Scott, a famous actress, fall in love with William Thacker, owner of a bookstore in Notting Hill. But the paparazzi's fascination with her complicates their bond.

Director: Roger Michell | Stars: Hugh Grant, Julia Roberts, Richard McCabe, Rhys Ifans

Votes: 342,427 | Gross: $116.09M

3. Pink Flamingos (1972)

NC-17 | 93 min | Comedy, Crime

Notorious Baltimore criminal and underground figure Divine goes up against a sleazy married couple who make a passionate attempt to humiliate her and seize her tabloid-given title as "The Filthiest Person Alive".

Director: John Waters | Stars: Divine, David Lochary, Mary Vivian Pearce, Mink Stole

Votes: 27,914 | Gross: $0.18M

4. State of Play (2009)

PG-13 | 127 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

When a congressional aide is killed, a Washington, D.C. journalist starts investigating the case involving the Representative, his old college friend.

Director: Kevin Macdonald | Stars: Russell Crowe, Rachel McAdams, Ben Affleck, Helen Mirren

Votes: 160,458 | Gross: $37.02M

5. Penelope (2006)

PG | 104 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Romance

A modern romantic tale about a young aristocratic heiress born under a curse that can only be broken when she finds true love with "one who will accept her as one of their own."

Director: Mark Palansky | Stars: Christina Ricci, James McAvoy, Reese Witherspoon, Richard E. Grant

Votes: 66,235 | Gross: $10.01M

6. The Naked Truth (1995–1998)

TV-14 | 30 min | Comedy

A respected photojournalist loses everything and ends up taking a job at a sleazy celebrity tabloid.

Stars: Téa Leoni, Holland Taylor, Mark Roberts, Jonathan Penner

Votes: 1,015

7. Fair Game (I) (2010)

PG-13 | 108 min | Biography, Drama, Thriller

CIA operative Valerie Plame discovers her identity is allegedly leaked by the government as payback for an op-ed article her husband wrote criticizing the Bush administration.

Director: Doug Liman | Stars: Naomi Watts, Sean Penn, Sonya Davison, Vanessa Chong

Votes: 51,062 | Gross: $9.53M

8. Prime Suspect 3 (1993)

104 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Assigned to a Vice squad, Detective Chief Inspector Jane Tennison (Dame Helen Mirren) investigates a child murder and discovers a sinister link to the police.

Stars: Helen Mirren, Tom Bell, Karen Tomlin, David Thewlis

Votes: 4,006

9. A Long Way Down (2014)

R | 96 min | Comedy, Drama

Four people meet on New Year's Eve, and form a surrogate family to help one another with the difficulties of their lives.

Director: Pascal Chaumeil | Stars: Pierce Brosnan, Toni Collette, Imogen Poots, Aaron Paul

Votes: 34,647 | Gross: $0.01M

10. Kika (1993)

Unrated | 114 min | Comedy

Kika, a cute cosmetologist, prepares Ramon for funeral when he revives. He proposes to the much older Kika who has his dad as lover. Did Ramon's dad murder his mom? What about the escaped rapist and the PSYCHOlogist video reporter?

Director: Pedro Almodóvar | Stars: Peter Coyote, Verónica Forqué, Victoria Abril, Àlex Casanovas

Votes: 15,056 | Gross: $2.09M

11. Mesrine: Public Enemy No. 1 (2008)

R | 133 min | Action, Biography, Crime

The story of the notorious French gangster Jacques Mesrine, with the focus on his life and death as France's Public Enemy No. 1 in the 1970s.

Director: Jean-François Richet | Stars: Vincent Cassel, Ludivine Sagnier, Mathieu Amalric, Samuel Le Bihan

Votes: 31,246 | Gross: $0.28M

12. Scandal Sheet (1952)

Passed | 82 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

The editor of an exploitation newspaper commits a murder and assigns his protégé to investigate hoping to divert attention away from himself.

Director: Phil Karlson | Stars: John Derek, Donna Reed, Broderick Crawford, Rosemary DeCamp

Votes: 3,480

13. The Truth About Love (2005)

R | 100 min | Comedy, Romance

Drunk, Archie sends a valentine to his best friend's wife. She sends one to her husband. He hides it so she disguises herself as a slut. Will he cheat on his wife - with his wife? Let us see what happens.

Director: John Hay | Stars: Dougray Scott, Jennifer Love Hewitt, David Christian, Branka Katic

Votes: 4,447

14. The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum (1975)

R | 106 min | Crime, Drama

A young woman's life is scrutinized by police and tabloid press after she spends the night with a suspected terrorist.

Directors: Volker Schlöndorff, Margarethe von Trotta | Stars: Angela Winkler, Mario Adorf, Dieter Laser, Jürgen Prochnow

Votes: 4,896

15. Prime Suspect: The Scent of Darkness (1995 TV Movie)

105 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

A series of brutal sex murders disturbingly similar to the pattern of Superintendent Jane Tennison's (Dame Helen Mirren's) first major case leads to the awful suggestion that she may have caught the wrong man the first time.

Director: Paul Marcus | Stars: Helen Mirren, Pip Donaghy, Tim Woodward, Stephen Boxer

Votes: 2,669

16. Scandal (1950)

Approved | 105 min | Drama

A celebrity photograph sparks a court case as a tabloid magazine spins a scandalous yarn over a painter and a famous singer.

Director: Akira Kurosawa | Stars: Toshirô Mifune, Shirley Yamaguchi, Yôko Katsuragi, Noriko Sengoku

Votes: 4,672

17. Little Gloria... Happy at Last (1982)

180 min | Biography, Drama

The story deals with Gloria Vanderbilt's difficult coming-of-age when, at eleven, she was a pawn in a custody battle between her sybaritic mother and her aunt.

Stars: Angela Lansbury, Maureen Stapleton, Martin Balsam, Glynis Johns

Votes: 876

18. The Chronicle (2001–2002)

48 min | Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi

A young, highly qualified reporter can't find work with a major paper and signs on with a tabloid. There he learns that all the tabloid stories including aliens, big foot, and reincarnation are true.

Stars: Chad Willett, Rena Sofer, Reno Wilson, Jon Polito

Votes: 375

19. Five Star Final (1931)

Not Rated | 89 min | Crime, Drama

The City Editor of a sleazy tabloid goes against his own journalistic ethics to resurrect a twenty year old murder case... with tragic results.

Director: Mervyn LeRoy | Stars: Edward G. Robinson, Marian Marsh, H.B. Warner, Anthony Bushell

Votes: 2,531

20. Hillsborough (1996 TV Movie)

100 min | Drama, History, Sport

A number of grieving families in the UK struggle to come to terms with the unexpected and tragic 1989 Hillsborough Disaster, in which 95 football fans were crushed to death.

Director: Charles McDougall | Stars: Tracey Wilkinson, Kevin Knapman, Mark Womack, Sarah Graham

Votes: 925

21. The Insider (2004–2017)

TV-PG | 30 min | News

The Insider brings you the latest celebrity and entertainment news. The Insider tackles the trending celebrity stories of the day, as well as exclusive interviews and in-depth reporting.

Stars: Keltie Knight, Michael Yo, Louis Aguirre, Debbie Matenopoulos

Votes: 671

22. Living It Up (1954)

Approved | 95 min | Comedy, Musical

An unsophisticated stationmaster from provincial New Mexico fraudulently claims that he is dying in order to get an expense-paid dream tour of New York.

Director: Norman Taurog | Stars: Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis, Janet Leigh, Edward Arnold

Votes: 1,751 | Gross: $9.35M

23. Client 9 (2010)

R | 117 min | Documentary

An in-depth look at the rise and fall of New York Governor Eliot Spitzer, including interviews with the scandalized, former politician.

Director: Alex Gibney | Stars: Eliot Spitzer, Alex Gibney, Hulbert Waldroup, Lloyd Constantine

Votes: 2,593 | Gross: $0.19M

24. All the Way (2003)

R | 97 min | Biography, Comedy, Drama

Based on the true events surrounding Frank Sinatra's tour of Australia. When Sinatra calls a local reporter a "two-bit hooker", every union in the country black-bans the star until he issues an apology.

Director: Paul Goldman | Stars: Joel Edgerton, Rose Byrne, Dennis Hopper, Melanie Griffith

Votes: 1,018

25. Lights, Camera, Christmas! (2022 TV Movie)

TV-G | 85 min | Comedy, Romance

When Kerry steps in as costume designer for a holiday rom-com movie shooting in her town, she rediscovers her passion for costume design and finds herself falling for Brad, the film's famous leading man.

Director: David Weaver | Stars: Kimberley Sustad, John Brotherton, Laura Soltis, Matthew Kevin Anderson

Votes: 1,175

26. Sweet Mountain Christmas (2019 TV Movie)

TV-G | 88 min | Romance

As country-music star Laney Blu spends more time in her hometown, it becomes less and less like she remembered it.

Director: David Weaver | Stars: Megan Hilty, Marcus Rosner, Teryl Rothery, Kate Craven

Votes: 738

27. Ban the Sadist Videos! (2005 Video)

R | 52 min | Documentary

An in-depth analysis of the "Video Nasty" scandal of the early 1980s in Britain.

Director: David Gregory | Stars: Chris Theobald, Norman Abbott, Barrie Gold, Bill Best

Votes: 487

28. A Star for Christmas (2012 TV Movie)

TV-PG | 88 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

A Hollywood bad boy movie star comes to a town far away. He gets a job in the back of a bakery as he likes the recently dumped owner/baker and her cupcakes. He's in a movie filmed there in December.

Director: Michael Feifer | Stars: Briana Evigan, Corey Sevier, Karissa Vacker, Jeremy Howard

Votes: 1,127

29. Recipe for Revenge (1998 TV Movie)

Unrated | 120 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

A caterer witnesses a brutal murder and must seek police protection until she can testify.

Director: Stacey Stewart Curtis | Stars: Kim Huffman, Alex Carter, Corbin Bernsen, Hugh Thompson

Votes: 382

30. 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: 631

31. The French Revolution (2005 TV Movie)

100 min | Documentary, History

Documentary about the bloody beginning, bloodier middle and unceremonious end of the French Revolution, an event that ended in blood the reign of kings in France and laid the foundation for a new - republican - system of government.

Director: Doug Shultz | Stars: Edward Herrmann, George Ivascu, Rodica Lazar, Tomi Cristin

Votes: 336

32. The Man Inside (1990)

PG | 93 min | Drama

Gunter Wallraff is a journalist seeking to expose the unethical journalism practiced by The Standard, a very popular and powerful German newspaper. He goes undercover, using forged identity... See full summary »

Director: Bobby Roth | Stars: Jürgen Prochnow, Peter Coyote, Nathalie Baye, Dieter Laser

Votes: 182

33. Fog Over Frisco (1934)

Approved | 68 min | Crime, Mystery, Romance

The lifestyles of Arlene and Valkyr Bradford, half-sisters from a respected San Francisco family, diverge markedly as Arlene takes up with criminals.

Director: William Dieterle | Stars: Bette Davis, Donald Woods, Margaret Lindsay, Lyle Talbot

Votes: 1,750

34. Discopathe (2013)

Not Rated | 81 min | Crime, Fantasy, Horror

The mid-70's: a timid young New Yorker leads an uneventful life until he is fatefully exposed to the pulsating rhythms of a brand-new genre of music: disco. Unable to control his murderous ... See full summary »

Director: Renaud Gauthier | Stars: Jérémie Earp, Sandrine Bisson, Ivan Freud, Ingrid Falaise

Votes: 758

35. Dorian Gray in the Mirror of the Yellow Press (1984)

150 min | Drama, Horror

Our organization will create a human being whom we can shape and manipulate according to our needs. Dorian Gray: young, rich and handsome. We will make him, seduce him and break him.

Director: Ulrike Ottinger | Stars: Veruschka von Lehndorff, Delphine Seyrig, Tabea Blumenschein, Toyo Tanaka

Votes: 155

36. Tabloid (2001)

112 min | Comedy, Drama, Thriller

A slimy television host, who makes a living by embarrassing celebrities, is tricked into revealing some dark secrets of his own.

Director: David Blair | Stars: Matthew Rhys, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, John Hurt, Danny Dyer

Votes: 217

37. On the Front Page (1926)

22 min | Comedy, Short

After being scooped for a scandal story, a reporter has 24 hours to dig up a more scandalous story. After spending the night in the wrong street, he comes up with a plan: catch the Countess and her butler in a compromising situation.

Director: James Parrott | Stars: Stan Laurel, Lillian Rich, Tyler Brooke, Bull Montana

Votes: 183

38. Paparazzi Princess: The Paris Hilton Story (2008 TV Movie)

89 min | Comedy

A look at the lavish lifestyles of young, wealthy girls living in Hollywood.

Director: Terry Ingram | Stars: Amber Hay, Sara Canning, Bruce Ramsay, Farrah Aviva

Votes: 148

39. Up Goes Maisie (1946)

Passed | 89 min | Comedy

After graduating college Maisie becomes involved both professionally and personally Joe Morton, who's just developed a revolutionary helicopter.

Director: Harry Beaumont | Stars: Ann Sothern, George Murphy, Hillary Brooke, Stephen McNally

Votes: 350

40. Spaced Out (2006 Video)

Not Rated | 99 min | Comedy, Sci-Fi

The planet earth is in peril of impending doom, and maniacal destructive forces from outer space are closely at hand! Twisted, demented alien terrorists are single-handedly about to reap ... See full summary »

Director: Scott Grenke | Stars: James Vallo, Greg Maurer, Michael Wexler, William Hainsworth

Votes: 91

41. Zarah: Wilde Jahre (2017)

265 min | Drama

Hamburg 1973. When the well-known women's rights activist Zarah Wolf receives the offer to become Deputy Editor-in-Chief of the high-circulation magazine "Relevant", the dedicated ... See full summary »

Stars: Claudia Eisinger, Torben Liebrecht, Svenja Jung, Uwe Preuss

Votes: 177

42. Achtung, Reichelt! (2022– )

30 min | Drama, Reality-TV, Talk-Show

"Achtung, Reichelt!" is a tabloid talk-show of Rome Medien GmbH.

Stars: Julian Reichelt, Gloria von Thurn und Taxis, Eva Vlaardingerbroek, Julius Böhm

Votes: 10

43. Smash His Camera (2010)

PG-13 | 87 min | Documentary

A film centering on the life and work of Ron Galella that examines the nature and effect of paparazzi.

Director: Leon Gast | Stars: Floyd Abrams, Gilbert M. 'Broncho Billy' Anderson, Joseph Basile, Harry Benson

Votes: 964 | Gross: $0.00M

44. Nick Nolte: No Exit (2008)

Not Rated | 74 min | Documentary, Biography

A frank and unconventional view of the life and work of actor Nick Nolte.

Director: Tom Thurman | Stars: Rosanna Arquette, Jacqueline Bisset, Powers Boothe, F.X. Feeney

Votes: 156

45. Seis días para morir (1967)

90 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller

Six days to die (La Rabia) is a Mexican film of 1967. Some of its scenes were recorded in the sources of the "Forest of Chapultepec", showing documentation of the daily life of Mexico City ... See full summary »

Director: Emilio Gómez Muriel | Stars: David Reynoso, José Elías Moreno, Joaquín Cordero, Libertad Leblanc

Votes: 48

46. Prince Andrew and Scandal in the Royal House of York (2019 TV Movie)

67 min | Documentary, Biography, Crime

Documentary examining the history of scandals that have beset Prince Andrew the Duke of York and his family, with special focus on his controversial friendship with Jeffrey Epstein, and how it compares to the previous Dukes of York.

Directors: Sam Budd, Lucy Johnstone | Stars: Glynis Barber, Emily Andrews, Dickie Arbiter, Princess Beatrice

Votes: 17

47. Ban the Sadist Videos! Part 2 (2006 Video)

R | 46 min | Documentary

An investigation of UK video censorship after the video recordings act was introduced.

Director: David Gregory | Stars: Chris Theobald, Mary Whitehouse, Graham Bright, Ken Penry

Votes: 260

48. Fear, Panic & Censorship (2000 TV Movie)

52 min | Documentary

Rare documentary about Video Nasties and film, video and internet censorship in the UK. Was first screened as part of Channel 4's controversial "Banned Weekend" which focused on films and ... See full summary »

Director: David Kenny | Stars: Tom Dewe Mathews, Jack Sargeant, Nigel Wingrove, John Beyer

Votes: 46

49. Die geheimen Akten der NASA (2021– )

60 min | Documentary, Drama, Reality-TV

Die geheimen Akten der NASA is a tabloid documentary on german BILD Television.

50. Reif ist LIVE (2021– )

60 min | Drama, Reality-TV, Sport

Reif ist LIVE is a tabloid soccer show on german BILD Television.

Stars: Marcel Reif, Matthias Brügelmann, Julian Nagelsmann, Robert Lewandowski