Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "reference-to-stephen-hawking"

1. Baywatch (2017)

R | 116 min | Action, Comedy, Crime

Devoted lifeguard Mitch Buchannon butts heads with a brash new recruit, as they uncover a criminal plot that threatens the future of the bay.

Director: Seth Gordon | Stars: Dwayne Johnson, Zac Efron, Alexandra Daddario, Priyanka Chopra Jonas

Votes: 202,478 | Gross: $58.06M

2. Donnie Darko (2001)

R | 113 min | Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi

After narrowly escaping a bizarre accident, a troubled teenager is plagued by visions of a man in a large rabbit suit who manipulates him to commit a series of crimes.

Director: Richard Kelly | Stars: Jake Gyllenhaal, Jena Malone, Mary McDonnell, Holmes Osborne

Votes: 851,160 | Gross: $1.48M

3. The Avengers (2012)

PG-13 | 143 min | Action, Sci-Fi

Earth's mightiest heroes must come together and learn to fight as a team if they are going to stop the mischievous Loki and his alien army from enslaving humanity.

Director: Joss Whedon | Stars: Robert Downey Jr., Chris Evans, Scarlett Johansson, Jeremy Renner

Votes: 1,461,051 | Gross: $623.28M

4. Knocked Up (2007)

R | 129 min | Comedy, Romance

For fun-loving party animal Ben Stone, the last thing he ever expected was for his one-night stand to show up on his doorstep eight weeks later to tell him she's pregnant with his child.

Director: Judd Apatow | Stars: Seth Rogen, Katherine Heigl, Paul Rudd, Leslie Mann

Votes: 385,038 | Gross: $148.73M

5. Colossal (2016)

R | 109 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy

Gloria is an out-of-work party girl forced to leave her life in New York City and move back home. When reports surface that a giant creature is destroying Seoul, she gradually comes to the realization that she is somehow connected to this phenomenon.

Director: Nacho Vigalondo | Stars: Anne Hathaway, Jason Sudeikis, Austin Stowell, Tim Blake Nelson

Votes: 69,291 | Gross: $3.02M

6. Sausage Party (2016)

R | 89 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy

A sausage leads a group of supermarket products on a journey to discover the truth about their existence and what really happens when they are picked off the shelf.

Directors: Conrad Vernon, Greg Tiernan | Stars: Seth Rogen, Kristen Wiig, Jonah Hill, Alistair Abell

Votes: 210,416 | Gross: $97.69M

7. Superhero Movie (2008)

PG-13 | 75 min | Action, Comedy, Sci-Fi

Orphaned high school student Rick Riker is bitten by a radioactive dragonfly, develops super powers (except for the ability to fly), and becomes a hero.

Director: Craig Mazin | Stars: Drake Bell, Leslie Nielsen, Sara Paxton, Christopher McDonald

Votes: 75,772 | Gross: $26.64M

8. Hot Tub Time Machine (2010)

R | 99 min | Comedy, Sci-Fi

A malfunctioning time machine at a ski resort takes a man back to 1986 with his two friends and nephew, where they must relive a fateful night and not change anything to make sure the nephew is born.

Director: Steve Pink | Stars: John Cusack, Rob Corddry, Craig Robinson, Clark Duke

Votes: 186,735 | Gross: $50.29M

9. The Theory of Everything (2014)

PG-13 | 123 min | Biography, Drama, Romance

Stephen Hawking gets unprecedented success in the field of physics despite being diagnosed with motor neuron disease at the age of 21. He defeats awful odds as his first wife Jane aids him loyally.

Director: James Marsh | Stars: Eddie Redmayne, Felicity Jones, Tom Prior, Sophie Perry

Votes: 482,704 | Gross: $35.89M

10. Zombieland: Double Tap (2019)

R | 99 min | Action, Comedy, Horror

Columbus, Tallahassee, Wichita, and Little Rock move to the American heartland as they face off against evolved zombies, fellow survivors, and the growing pains of the snarky makeshift family.

Director: Ruben Fleischer | Stars: Woody Harrelson, Jesse Eisenberg, Emma Stone, Abigail Breslin

Votes: 203,277 | Gross: $73.12M

11. Men in Black: International (2019)

PG-13 | 114 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy

The MIB tackle a mole in their organization.

Director: F. Gary Gray | Stars: Chris Hemsworth, Tessa Thompson, Kumail Nanjiani, Rebecca Ferguson

Votes: 147,308 | Gross: $80.00M

12. Extinction (2018)

TV-MA | 95 min | Action, Drama, Sci-Fi

A father has a recurring dream of losing his family. His nightmare turns into reality when the planet is invaded by a force bent on destruction. Fighting for their lives, he comes to realize an unknown strength to keep them safe from harm.

Director: Ben Young | Stars: Michael Peña, Lizzy Caplan, Amelia Crouch, Erica Tremblay

Votes: 57,772

13. Time Trap (2017)

Not Rated | 87 min | Action, Adventure, Mystery

A professor enters a cave and goes missing. Some of his students come looking for him and get trapped in the cave as well.

Directors: Mark Dennis, Ben Foster | Stars: Reiley McClendon, Cassidy Gifford, Brianne Howey, Olivia Draguicevich

Votes: 43,647

14. Night School (2018)

PG-13 | 111 min | Comedy

A group of high school dropouts is forced to attend night school in hopes that they will pass the GED exam to finish high school.

Director: Malcolm D. Lee | Stars: Kevin Hart, Tiffany Haddish, Rob Riggle, Romany Malco

Votes: 44,459 | Gross: $77.34M

15. The Package (II) (2018)

TV-MA | 94 min | Comedy, Thriller

When a group of teenage friends go on a spring break camping trip, an unfortunate accident sets off a race against time to save their friend's most prized possession.

Director: Jake Szymanski | Stars: Daniel Doheny, Geraldine Viswanathan, Sadie Calvano, Luke Spencer Roberts

Votes: 21,289

16. Synchronic (2019)

R | 102 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery

Two New Orleans paramedics' lives are ripped apart after they encounter a series of horrific deaths linked to a designer drug with bizarre, otherworldly effects.

Directors: Justin Benson, Aaron Moorhead | Stars: Anthony Mackie, Jamie Dornan, Katie Aselton, Ally Ioannides

Votes: 40,309

17. The Map of Tiny Perfect Things (2021)

PG-13 | 98 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Romance

Two teens live the same day repeatedly, enabling them to create a map of things to remember.

Director: Ian Samuels | Stars: Kathryn Newton, Kyle Allen, Jermaine Harris, Anna Mikami

Votes: 28,014

18. God's Not Dead (2014)

PG | 113 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama

College philosophy professor Mr. Radisson's curriculum is challenged by his new student, Josh, who believes God exists.

Director: Harold Cronk | Stars: Shane Harper, Kevin Sorbo, David A.R. White, Dean Cain

Votes: 45,018 | Gross: $60.76M

19. Mary and Max (2009)

Not Rated | 92 min | Animation, Comedy, Drama

In 1976 Melbourne, a lonely 8-year-old girl strikes up a correspondence with an unlikely pen pal: a severely obese 44-year-old New Yorker with Asperger's syndrome.

Director: Adam Elliot | Stars: Toni Collette, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Eric Bana, Barry Humphries

Votes: 186,990

20. On the Rocks (2020)

R | 96 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

A young mother reconnects with her larger-than-life playboy father on an adventure through New York.

Director: Sofia Coppola | Stars: Bill Murray, Rashida Jones, Marlon Wayans, Jessica Henwick

Votes: 36,532

21. Fifty Shades of Black (2016)

R | 92 min | Comedy

An inexperienced college student meets a wealthy businessman whose sexual practices put a strain on their relationship.

Director: Michael Tiddes | Stars: Marlon Wayans, Kali Hawk, Fred Willard, Mike Epps

Votes: 23,263 | Gross: $11.69M

22. What Is a Woman? (2022)

95 min | Documentary

Political commentator Matt Walsh explores the changing concepts of sex and gender in the digital age, particularly the transgender rights movement, anti-transgender bigotry, and what it means to be a woman.

Director: Justin Folk | Stars: Matt Walsh, Gert Comfrey, Marci Bowers, Don Sucher

Votes: 42,129

23. The Double (I) (2011)

PG-13 | 98 min | Action, Adventure, Crime

A retired CIA operative is paired with a young FBI agent to unravel the mystery of a senator's murder, with all signs pointing to a Soviet assassin.

Director: Michael Brandt | Stars: Richard Gere, Topher Grace, Martin Sheen, Tamer Hassan

Votes: 31,572

24. Sex Ed (2014)

Not Rated | 92 min | Comedy, Romance

Eddie lands his first teaching gig at an inner city middle school and finds his highly pubescent pupils are receiving no form of sexual education. Eddie isn't really equipped to teach them...he's not exactly experienced romantically.

Director: Isaac Feder | Stars: Haley Joel Osment, Lorenza Izzo, Kevin Balmore, Retta

Votes: 5,684

25. S1m0ne (2002)

PG-13 | 117 min | Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi

A producer's film is endangered when his star walks off, so he decides to digitally create an actress to substitute for the star, becoming an overnight sensation that everyone thinks is a real person.

Director: Andrew Niccol | Stars: Al Pacino, Catherine Keener, Rachel Roberts, Benjamin Salisbury

Votes: 62,502 | Gross: $9.68M

26. The Young Offenders (2016)

83 min | Adventure, Comedy, Crime

Two teenage boys cycle 160km on stolen bikes pursued by police to find a missing bale of cocaine worth 7 million euro. Set around the real event of Ireland's biggest cocaine seizure in 2007 of 440 million euro.

Director: Peter Foott | Stars: Alex Murphy, Chris Walley, Hilary Rose, Dominic MacHale

Votes: 13,309

27. The Late Bloomer (2016)

R | 90 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

The story of an adult male who, after the successful removal of a benign tumor resting against his pituitary gland, experiences all the changes and effects of puberty over a three-week period.

Director: Kevin Pollak | Stars: Charlotte McKinney, Johnny Simmons, Blake Cooper, Kumail Nanjiani

Votes: 10,609

28. A Brilliant Young Mind (2014)

PG-13 | 111 min | Drama, Romance

A socially awkward teenage maths prodigy finds new confidence and new friendships when he lands a spot on the British squad at the International Mathematics Olympiad.

Director: Morgan Matthews | Stars: Asa Butterfield, Rafe Spall, Sally Hawkins, Eddie Marsan

Votes: 30,345 | Gross: $0.14M

29. Here Today (2021)

PG-13 | 117 min | Comedy, Drama, Music

When veteran comedy writer Charlie Burnz meets New York street singer Emma Payge, they form an unlikely yet hilarious and touching friendship that kicks the generation gap aside and redefines the meaning of love and trust.

Director: Billy Crystal | Stars: Billy Crystal, Chad Jennings, Dierdre Friel, Alex Brightman

Votes: 5,928

30. Kill Your Friends (2015)

Not Rated | 103 min | Comedy, Crime, Music

An A&R man working at the height of the Britpop music craze goes to extremes in order to find his next hit.

Director: Owen Harris | Stars: Nicholas Hoult, Thomas Conroy, James Corden, Georgia King

Votes: 10,040

31. Cyberbully (2015 TV Movie)

62 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

A British teenager is forced by a computer hacker to do his bidding. If she refuses, the hacker will leak compromising photos of her to the public.

Director: Ben Chanan | Stars: Maisie Williams, Ella Purnell, Wilson Haagens, Anthony Shuster

Votes: 7,873

32. Big Nothing (2006)

R | 86 min | Comedy, Crime, Thriller

A frustrated, unemployed professor joins forces with a scammer and a friend of his in a blackmailing scheme.

Director: Jean-Baptiste Andrea | Stars: David Schwimmer, Simon Pegg, Alice Eve, Jon Polito

Votes: 31,850

33. Run Ronnie Run (2002)

Unrated | 86 min | Comedy

A redneck with an uncanny knack for getting arrested becomes the star of his own reality program.

Director: Troy Miller | Stars: David Cross, Bob Odenkirk, Bruce Taylor, Leon Lamar

Votes: 6,104

34. Blue Iguana (2018)

Not Rated | 100 min | Action, Comedy, Crime

Ex-jailbirds Eddie and Paul are on parole and working in a New York diner. Their lives are a dead end. That is, until English lawyer Katherine Rookwood walks into the diner with an offer they can't refuse.

Director: Hadi Hajaig | Stars: Sam Rockwell, Phoebe Fox, Ben Schwartz, Peter Ferdinando

Votes: 6,915

35. The New Romantic (2018)

Not Rated | 82 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

Frustrated with the lack of chivalrous guys her own age, a college senior gives up on dating for love to date an older man in exchange for gifts instead.

Director: Carly Stone | Stars: Jessica Barden, Hayley Law, Brett Dier, Camila Mendes

Votes: 2,420

36. Adventures in Public School (2017)

TV-14 | 86 min | Comedy, Drama

A socially awkward home-schooled kid forces his way into public-school against his suffocating but loving mother's wishes.

Director: Kyle Rideout | Stars: Judy Greer, Daniel Doheny, Siobhan Williams, Andrew McNee

Votes: 2,174

37. Robin Williams Live on Broadway (2002 TV Special)

TV-MA | 99 min | Documentary, Comedy

The fourth HBO stand-up special by Robin Williams.

Director: Marty Callner | Star: Robin Williams

Votes: 6,297

38. Ghosts and the Afterlife (2022)

90 min | Documentary

The existence of ghosts is a real phenomenon. Scientific research, historical evidence and first-hand accounts prove that our souls are consciousness with or without the physical body. Doctors discuss what happens upon death.

Director: Steve Sayre | Stars: Kelsey Bohlen, James Van Praagh, Jay Thomas, Max Bear

Votes: 888

39. Crumbs (II) (2015)

Not Rated | 68 min | Adventure, Fantasy, Mystery

Our figurine sized supermen hero embarks on an epic surreal journey that will take him across the Ethiopian post apocalyptic landscape in search of a way to get on the hovering spacecraft that for years has become a landmark in the skies.

Director: Miguel Llansó | Stars: Daniel Tadesse, Quino Piñero, Selam Tesfayie, Mengistu Berhanu

Votes: 762

40. B4 (2012)

50 min | Sci-Fi, Thriller

Three friends find themselves trapped in an underground parking garage with doorways leading into the past and future and floors that repeat themselves for eternity. They must struggle to keep their sanity, if not their lives.

Director: Matthew Stedman | Stars: Phillip Daniel, Sean Durrie, Joanne Spracklen, John Stanisci

Votes: 277

41. The Penitent Man (2010)

Not Rated | 92 min | Drama, Sci-Fi

A young analyst talks with an old man claiming to be from the future - a dystopian future.

Director: Nicholas Gyeney | Stars: Lance Henriksen, Lathrop Walker, Andrew Keegan, Melissa Roberts

Votes: 5,526

42. 'Weird Al' Yankovic: White & Nerdy (2006 Music Video)

3 min | Comedy, Music

The music video for Weird Al Yankovic's "White and Nerdy," showing Al as a nerd with various nerdy interests but who also tries and fails to "roll with the gangstas."

Director: 'Weird Al' Yankovic | Stars: 'Weird Al' Yankovic, Seth Green, Keegan-Michael Key, Donny Osmond

Votes: 510

43. Timelapse of the Future: A Journey to the End of Time (2019)

TV-PG | 29 min | Documentary, Animation, Short

View what the modern science points to what the future looks like from the present year all the way to trillions upon trillions of years into the future.

Director: John D. Boswell | Stars: David Attenborough, Sean Carroll, Craig Childs, Brian Cox

Votes: 455

44. ¿Para qué sirve un oso? (2011)

Not Rated | 113 min | Comedy

Guillermo discovers plant-life in the Arctic and, becoming depressed about the prospects of conservation, returns to Spain to see his brother Alejandro, who is obsessed with trying to get ... See full summary »

Director: Tom Fernández | Stars: Geraldine Chaplin, Oona Chaplin, Javier Cámara, Gonzalo de Castro

Votes: 602

45. Grand Unified Theory (2016)

104 min | Comedy, Drama, Family

During one fateful weekend, the family of brilliant astrophysicist Albert James has a complete meltdown, setting in motion a raucous and hilarious series of events that mirror his radical theories of the behavior of the universe.

Director: David Ray | Stars: Scott Bellis, Kendall Cross, Emma Grabinsky, Maxwell Haynes

Votes: 103

46. Letting Go of God (2008)

130 min | Documentary

Letting Go of God is a humorous monologue by Julia Sweeney chronicling her search for God. She begins in the Catholic church, the religion her family raised her in, and takes a Bible study ... See full summary »

Director: Julia Sweeney

Votes: 690

47. Cinematic Titanic: The Oozing Skull (2007 Video)

Not Rated | 81 min | Comedy

Cinematic Titanic dissects The Oozing Skull, aka _Brain of Blood (1972)_.

Stars: Trace Beaulieu, Frank Conniff, Joel Hodgson, Mary Jo Pehl

Votes: 308

48. Stestí je krásná vec (2020)

96 min | Comedy

Cenda and Jana form a couple. They live in a village, and neither of them has a job. Cenda owes everyone, and the executors have their doors at the door. Nevertheless, they love each other ... See full summary »

Director: Jirí Diarmaid Novák | Stars: Petra Hrebícková, Karel Zima, Ondrej Pavelka, Jan Dolanský

Votes: 79

49. How to Live with a Vegan Without Killing Them (2004)

84 min | Comedy

Against his better judgment, Scott lets his vegan girlfriend-from-hell move into his house. Within hours, his quiet life turns into hell. Now he has to find a way to maintain his sanity and... See full summary »

Director: Thomas A. Koch | Stars: Troy Anderson, Tyler Lennox Bush, Sophia Dhaliwal, Nikki Gahan

Votes: 38

50. Kill your darlings (2021)

16 min | Short, Comedy, Sci-Fi

The writer of detective novels has to travel to another dimension to save many lives.

Director: Dimitri Kanjuka | Stars: Roman Dvorak, Daniel Svoboda, Dominik Vrba