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

1. Jurassic World Dominion (2022)

PG-13 | 147 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

Four years after the destruction of Isla Nublar, Biosyn operatives attempt to track down Maisie Lockwood, while Dr Ellie Sattler investigates a genetically engineered swarm of giant insects.

Director: Colin Trevorrow | Stars: Chris Pratt, Bryce Dallas Howard, Laura Dern, Sam Neill

Votes: 207,465 | Gross: $376.85M

2. Morbius (2022)

PG-13 | 104 min | Action, Adventure, Horror

Biochemist Michael Morbius tries to cure himself of a rare blood disease, but he inadvertently infects himself with a form of vampirism instead.

Director: Daniel Espinosa | Stars: Jared Leto, Matt Smith, Adria Arjona, Jared Harris

Votes: 154,471 | Gross: $73.87M

3. Medium (2005–2011)

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

Suburban mom Allison DuBois attempts to balance family life with solving mysteries using her special gift. The dead send her visions of their deaths or other crimes while she sleeps.

Stars: Patricia Arquette, Miguel Sandoval, Jake Weber, Sofia Vassilieva

Votes: 31,240

4. The Box (I) (2009)

PG-13 | 115 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller

With the press of a button, a wooden box bestows riches and death.

Director: Richard Kelly | Stars: Cameron Diaz, James Marsden, Frank Langella, James Rebhorn

Votes: 95,517 | Gross: $15.05M

5. Prince of Darkness (1987)

R | 102 min | Horror

A group of graduate students and scientists uncover an ancient canister in an abandoned church, but when they open the container, they inadvertently unleash a strange liquid and an evil force on all humanity.

Director: John Carpenter | Stars: Donald Pleasence, Lisa Blount, Jameson Parker, Victor Wong

Votes: 50,175 | Gross: $14.18M

6. Unknown (I) (2011)

PG-13 | 113 min | Action, Mystery, Thriller

When a man awakens from a coma only to discover that someone has taken on his identity, he teams up with a young woman to prove who he is.

Director: Jaume Collet-Serra | Stars: Liam Neeson, Diane Kruger, January Jones, Aidan Quinn

Votes: 269,688 | Gross: $63.69M

7. Replicas (2018)

PG-13 | 107 min | Action, Drama, Sci-Fi

A scientist becomes obsessed with bringing back his family members who died in a traffic accident.

Director: Jeffrey Nachmanoff | Stars: Keanu Reeves, Alice Eve, Thomas Middleditch, John Ortiz

Votes: 42,204 | Gross: $4.05M

8. Stealth (2005)

PG-13 | 121 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

Deeply ensconced in a top-secret military program, three pilots struggle to bring an artificial intelligence program under control before it initiates the next world war.

Director: Rob Cohen | Stars: Josh Lucas, Jessica Biel, Jamie Foxx, Sam Shepard

Votes: 56,358 | Gross: $32.12M

9. A Safari Romance (2023 TV Movie)

TV-G | 84 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

Megan Henry, a down-to-earth wildlife biologist, working on a project that will foster protection of wildlife in Africa, is forced to team up with a theme park designer, Tim Ericson who wants to create an over-the-top safari attraction.

Director: Leif Bristow | Stars: Andrew W. Walker, Brittany Bristow, Maxx Moticoe, Nthati Moshesh

Votes: 868

10. The Guyver (1991)

PG-13 | 88 min | Action, Comedy, Horror

Young man merges with mechanical device, becoming cyborg superhero. Strange creatures emerge, seeking to reclaim device. He uncovers plot to genetically engineer monstrous creatures.

Directors: Screaming Mad George, Steve Wang | Stars: Greg Joung Paik, Jimmie 'JJ' Walker, Peter Spellos, Michael Berryman

Votes: 5,967

11. Trapped (I) (2002)

R | 106 min | Action, Crime, Drama

The Jennings' fight for their daughters life after she is kidnapped by an experienced gang of thieves.

Director: Luis Mandoki | Stars: Kevin Bacon, Charlize Theron, Courtney Love, Stuart Townsend

Votes: 25,931 | Gross: $0.06M

12. A Summer Place (1959)

Approved | 130 min | Drama, Romance

A self-made businessman rekindles a romance with a former flame while their two teenage children begin a romance of their own with drastic consequences for both couples.

Director: Delmer Daves | Stars: Richard Egan, Dorothy McGuire, Sandra Dee, Arthur Kennedy

Votes: 3,873

13. Zulu (2013)

R | 110 min | Action, Crime, Drama

Policemen Ali Sokhela and Brian Epkeen investigate the brutal murder of a young white woman, apparently provoked by the availability of a new illegal drug and somehow connected to the disappearance of black street children.

Director: Jérôme Salle | Stars: Orlando Bloom, Forest Whitaker, Conrad Kemp, Inge Beckmann

Votes: 19,885

14. Hour of Glory (1949)

Approved | 106 min | Drama, Romance, Thriller

As the Germans drop explosive booby-traps on Britain in 1943, the embittered expert who'll have to disarm them fights a private battle with alcohol.

Directors: Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger | Stars: David Farrar, Jack Hawkins, Michael Gough, Henry Caine

Votes: 3,127

15. Jonny Quest (1964–1965)

TV-Y7 | 30 min | Animation, Action, Adventure

The Quest family and their bodyguard investigate strange phenomena and battle villains around the world.

Stars: Mike Road, Tim Matheson, Don Messick, Danny Bravo

Votes: 5,356

16. A Splash of Love (2022 TV Movie)

TV-G | 84 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

A Ph.D. student expands her studies to include the whales of the Pacific Northwest. There she meets a whale-watching tour guide and they soon find themselves bonding over more than just Orcas.

Director: Heather Hawthorn Doyle | Stars: Rhiannon Fish, Benjamin Hollingsworth, Laura Soltis, Brad Abramenko

Votes: 894

17. The Spitfire Grill (1996)

PG-13 | 117 min | Drama

Oscar-winner Ellen Burstyn (The Exorcist) headlines this critically praised drama about a young woman, just out of prison, who finds spiritual redemption working at a cafe in Maine.

Director: Lee David Zlotoff | Stars: Alison Elliott, Ellen Burstyn, Marcia Gay Harden, Will Patton

Votes: 7,224 | Gross: $12.64M

18. The Kiss (1988)

R | 101 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror

After the death of her mother, a teenage girl is faced with bizarre supernatural occurrences when her mother's estranged sister arrives and begins to infiltrate her and her father's lives.

Director: Pen Densham | Stars: Joanna Pacula, Meredith Salenger, Mimi Kuzyk, Nicholas Kilbertus

Votes: 1,935 | Gross: $1.87M

19. Encounters at the End of the World (2007)

G | 99 min | Documentary

Film-maker Werner Herzog travels to the McMurdo Station in Antarctica, looking to capture the continent's beauty and investigate the characters living there.

Director: Werner Herzog | Stars: Werner Herzog, Scott Rowland, Stefan Pashov, Doug MacAyeal

Votes: 19,299 | Gross: $0.94M

20. End of the World (1977)

PG | 86 min | Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi

After witnessing a man's death in a bizarre accident, Father Pergado goes on a spiritual retreat, where he encounters his alien double bent on world conquest.

Director: John Hayes | Stars: Christopher Lee, Sue Lyon, Kirk Scott, Dean Jagger

Votes: 1,216

21. Consumed (II) (2015)

Unrated | 95 min | Drama, Thriller

When her son's persistent rash won't subside, a mother begins investigating and finds herself pulled into the battle between small town organic farmers and Clonestra, a corporation profiting from GMOs.

Director: Daryl Wein | Stars: Zoe Lister-Jones, Victor Garber, Beth Grant, Taylor Kinney

Votes: 1,831

22. The Painted Veil (1934)

Passed | 85 min | Drama, Romance

A wife neglected by her husband, a medical researcher in China, falls in love with a dashing diplomatic attaché.

Director: Richard Boleslawski | Stars: Greta Garbo, Herbert Marshall, George Brent, Warner Oland

Votes: 1,729 | Gross: $1.17M

23. Green Light (1937)

Passed | 85 min | Drama, Romance

A brilliant young surgeon takes the blame for a colleague when a botched surgery causes a patient's death and buries himself at a wilderness research facility.

Director: Frank Borzage | Stars: Errol Flynn, Anita Louise, Margaret Lindsay, Cedric Hardwicke

Votes: 624

24. Destination Moonbase-Alpha (1978 TV Movie)

93 min | Adventure, Sci-Fi

Lunar colonists of Moonbase Alpha are marooned in space after a nuclear explosion pushes the Moon out of its orbit and a rescue spaceship from the Earth is not what it seems to be.

Director: Tom Clegg | Stars: Martin Landau, Barbara Bain, Catherine Schell, Tony Anholt

Votes: 438

25. The Lost Man (1951)

98 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

German scientist murders his fiancée during World War II when he learns that she has been selling the results of his secret research to the enemy.

Director: Peter Lorre | Stars: Peter Lorre, Karl John, Helmuth Rudolph, Johanna Hofer

Votes: 1,164

26. Four Wives (1939)

Approved | 110 min | Drama, Romance

Three of the four musically inclined daughters of Adam Lemp, the Dean of the Briarwood Music Foundation, are settling into their lives as wives, but not all is well. Thea Lemp has long ... See full summary »

Director: Michael Curtiz | Stars: Priscilla Lane, Rosemary Lane, Lola Lane, Gale Page

Votes: 735 | Gross: $0.36M

27. Otkroveniya (2012)

26 min | Crime, Drama

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Stars: Polina Filonenko, Lidiya Velezheva, Evgeniy Tsyganov, Dmitriy Nazarov

Votes: 32

28. Caught in the Net (1960)

64 min | Family

Bob Ketley is a young boy whose older brother is a research scientist working with fish. He helps catch criminals who are poaching salmon by dropping dynamite into the river.

Director: John Haggerty | Stars: Jeremy Bulloch, Anthony Parker, Larry Burns, Bruce Wightman

Votes: 19

29. Climat: mon cerveau fait l'autruche (2022 TV Movie)

53 min | Documentary

Although a real awareness of the populations is underway - the multiplication of natural disasters and heat records helping - the human activities responsible for global warming remain ... See full summary »

Directors: Sylvie Deleule, Raphaël Hitier

Votes: 14

30. Tornado Video Classics (1992 Video)

Not Rated | 120 min | Documentary

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Stars: Howard Bluestein, Ted Fujita, David Ross

Votes: 11

31. Chasing the Cure (2002– )

60 min | Documentary

These researchers are looking for treatments for widespread killers-heart disease, cancer, bacterial poisoning. In the next 20 years, their findings will change the face of medicine.

Stars: Allen J. Abel, Freda Miller, Michael Hayden, Brenda Gallie

32. Action Lady & Other Tales (2000 Video)

X | 75 min | Adventure

Bondage video with three story lines. In the first, the blonde bombshell who stars in a TV adventure series finds her real life mimicking her career on the small screen when a crazed fan ... See full summary »

Director: Jon Woods | Stars: Yvette D'Aqui, Alex Foxx, Summer Knight, Shannan Leigh

33. Hunnovations

50 min | Documentary | Completed

Innovative developments from Hungary.

Director: Krisztina Kopp

34. Invisible Interloper (2001 Video)

55 min | Adventure

When a scientist discovers the secret of invisibility, her untrustworthy assistant seeks to learn the secret as well, for her own nefarious purposes. Soon the ladies are turning themselves ... See full summary »

Director: Oak O'Kork | Stars: Sadie Atkins, Cleo Nicole

35. The Incredible Hulk (1978–1982)
Episode: The Beast Within (1978)

TV-PG | 50 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

David 'Bradburn' is researching control methods for animal aggression with a female doctor at a zoo. She gets into trouble when new animals keep dying from a mysterious illness.

Director: Kenneth Gilbert | Stars: Bill Bixby, Jack Colvin, Lou Ferrigno, Caroline McWilliams

Votes: 314

36. Science Fiction Theatre (1955–1957)
Episode: The Frozen Sound (1955)

30 min | Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi

Government agents attempt to rescue a kidnapped research scientist.

Director: Leigh Jason | Stars: Truman Bradley, Marshall Thompson, Marilyn Erskine, Ray Collins

Votes: 29

37. Science Fiction Theatre (1955–1957)
Episode: The Stones Began to Move (1955)

30 min | Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi

A discovery inside the recently-opened tomb of an Egyptian pharaoh may hold a clue as to the construction of the pyramids.

Director: Lew Landers | Stars: Truman Bradley, Basil Rathbone, Robin Short, Jean Willes

Votes: 38

38. Soldiers of Fortune (1955–1957)
Episode: Last Days of Dolores (1955)

30 min | Adventure

Tim and Toubo are hired to find a research scientist who failed to return from an expedition in remote Mexico.

Director: John English | Stars: John Russell, Chick Chandler, Hayden Rorke, Kasey Rogers

39. Small Axe (2020)
Episode: Red, White and Blue (2020)

TV-MA | 80 min | Drama, History

Spotlights the true story of Leroy Logan, who at a young age saw his father assaulted by two policemen, motivating him to join the Metropolitan Police and change their racist attitudes from within.

Director: Steve McQueen | Stars: Neal Barry, Jack Bence, Stephen Boxer, John Boyega

Votes: 3,345

40. Animaniacs (1993–1998)
Episode: The Senses Song/The World Can Wait/Kiki's Kitten (1993)

Not Rated | 22 min | Animation, Short, Adventure

The Warners sing "The Senses Song," a ditty delving into the six senses and beyond. "The World Can Wait" when The Brain falls in love and enlists Pinky's help to woo the object of his affection.

Directors: Alfred Gimeno, Gary Hartle, Audu Paden, Greg Reyna | Stars: Rob Paulsen, Jess Harnell, Tress MacNeille, Maurice LaMarche

Votes: 152

41. Flipper (1995–2000)
Episode: Pilot (1995)

TV-PG | 45 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

Dr. Pam Blondel, a U.S. Navy officer, is hired to join Dr. Ricks' dolphin research team, but her son isn't happy to be living in remote Bal Harbor.

Director: Tommy Lee Wallace | Stars: Brian Wimmer, Colleen Flynn, Payton Haas, Jessica Alba

Votes: 24

42. Medium (2005–2011)
Episode: The Devil Inside, Part One (2009)

TV-14 | 41 min | Crime, Drama, Fantasy

Allison is being stalked by a man who believes that it is his duty to end her life in the name of God. This soon puts her entire family at risk and they are forced into a home lockdown.

Director: Peter Werner | Stars: Patricia Arquette, Miguel Sandoval, David Cubitt, Sofia Vassilieva

Votes: 222

43. Medium (2005–2011)
Episode: The Devil Inside, Part Two (2009)

TV-14 | 41 min | Crime, Drama, Fantasy

Allison is no longer able to trust her dreams because the ghost of a madman has jumped into her mind and is turning all of her dreams into nightmares.

Director: Peter Werner | Stars: Patricia Arquette, Miguel Sandoval, David Cubitt, Sofia Vassilieva

Votes: 219

44. Medium (2005–2011)
Episode: The First Bite Is the Deepest (2009)

TV-14 | 41 min | Crime, Drama, Fantasy

Cynthia Keener returns, asking Allison to help find a missing friend of hers. Allison is also asked by a real estate mogul to help find his missing wife.

Director: Patricia Arquette | Stars: Patricia Arquette, Miguel Sandoval, David Cubitt, Sofia Vassilieva

Votes: 188

45. Let the Right One In (2022)
Episode: Intercessors (2022)

TV-MA | 52 min | Drama, Horror

Mark chases down a lead that might help him discover a cure for Eleanor. Eleanor sneaks off to Isaiah's talent show while Naomi discovers an unsettling pattern in a string of local murders.

Director: Seith Mann | Stars: Demián Bichir, Anika Noni Rose, Grace Gummer, Madison Taylor Baez

Votes: 341

46. Inspector Lewis (2006–2015)
Episode: The Soul of Genius (2012)

TV-PG | 89 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

A scholar obsessed with Lewis Carroll's poem "The Hunting of the Snark" is found buried in the botanical gardens frequented by the author during his life.

Director: Brian Kelly | Stars: Daisy May, Oliver Johnstone, Annabel Mullion, James Fleet

Votes: 651

47. Inspector Lewis (2006–2015)
Episode: Fearful Symmetry (2012)

TV-PG | 89 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

After a pretty graduate student moonlighting as a baby sitter is found bound on a bed and smothered, it is found that she posed for provocative bondage photos.

Director: Nicholas Renton | Stars: Abigail Hardingham, Georgia Taylor, Ciarán McMenamin, Lucy Cohu

Votes: 612

48. Beware the Batman (2013–2014)
Episode: Doppleganger (2014)

TV-PG | 23 min | Animation, Action, Adventure

After his ordeal at Blackgate Prison, Batman is haunted in his dreams by a mysterious winged humanoid bat, only to later discover that he really exists. Meanwhile, Alfred returns and tries to help Bruce work out his personal issues.

Directors: Rick Morales, Butch Lukic | Stars: Anthony Ruivivar, JB Blanc, Robin Atkin Downes, Brian George

Votes: 105

49. The X-Files (1993–2018)
Episode: Founder's Mutation (2016)

TV-14 | 44 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

A scientist working for the DOD commits suicide. Mulder and Scully start an investigation only to discover a secret mutation experiment.

Director: James Wong | Stars: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Mitch Pileggi, Jonathan Whitesell

Votes: 6,678

50. Mars (2016–2018)
Episode: Pressure Drop (2016)

TV-14 | 47 min | Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi

In 2033, the Daedalus crew struggles to find permanent shelter. Currently, the European Space Agency and Roscosmos partner to launch an orbiter.

Director: Everardo Gout | Stars: Jihae, Alberto Ammann, Clémentine Poidatz, Anamaria Marinca

Votes: 642