Films about television

2008 film directed by Danny Boyle

1998 film directed by Peter Weir

2000 US film by Darren Aronofsky

2003 film by Tom Shadyac

2002 film directed by Gore Verbinski

1997 film by Barry Levinson

The Substance is a 2024 body horror film written and directed by Coralie Fargeat. It follows a fading celebrity who is fired by her producer due to her age and uses a black market drug that creates a younger version of herself with unexpected side effects.

1994 film directed by Oliver Stone

1976 film by Sidney Lumet

2007 film by Adam Shankman

1996 film by Ben Stiller

2005 film by George Clooney

1999 film directed by Michael Mann

2003 film directed by David Zucker

1982 film by Martin Scorsese

2004 American comedy film directed by Adam McKay

Idiocracy is a 2006 American science fiction comedy film directed and produced by Mike Judge, who co-wrote with Etan Cohen. The plot follows United States Army librarian Joe Bauers and prostitute Rita who undergo a government hibernation experiment and awake five hundred years later in a dystopian anti-intellectual society. The cast includes Luke Wilson, Maya Rudolph, Dax Shepard, Terry Crews, David Herman, Justin Long, Andrew Wilson, and Brad Jordan.

1982 film directed by Tobe Hooper

The Running Man is a 1987 American science fiction action film directed by Paul Michael Glaser from a screenplay by Steven E. de Souza. It is loosely based on the 1982 novel The Running Man by Stephen King. Starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, María Conchita Alonso, Richard Dawson, Yaphet Kotto, and Jesse Ventura, the film is set in a dystopic and totalitarian future United States, where a state-controlled broadcaster airs a deadly game show in which convicted criminals, known as "runners", must survive pursuit by themed gladiatorial assassins called "stalkers". The story follows Captain Ben Richards (Schwarzenegger), a framed police officer forced to compete on the show, who becomes an unlikely symbol of resistance against a corrupt government and its manipulative media machine.

2009 film by Robert Luketic

2005 American film directed by Hideo Nakata

1999 science-fiction comedy film directed by Dean Parisot

1998 Japanese horror film by Hideo Nakata

1979 film by James Bridges

1998 film directed by Gary Ross

2002 film directed by George Clooney

1979 film by Hal Ashby

2016 film directed by Jodie Foster

1992 film directed by Penelope Spheeris

Videodrome is a 1983 Canadian science fiction body horror film written and directed by David Cronenberg and starring James Woods, Sonja Smits, and Debbie Harry. Set in Toronto during the early 1980s, it follows the CEO of a small UHF television station who stumbles upon a broadcast signal of snuff films. Layers of deception and mind-control conspiracy unfold as he attempts to uncover the signal's source, complicated by increasingly intense hallucinations that cause him to lose his grip on reality.

1994 film by Robert Redford

2013 film by Adam McKay

1994 film by Robert Altman

1987 film by James L. Brooks

1992 film directed by Stephen Frears

2022 film directed by Akiva Schaffer

2001 film by John Herzfeld

2005 film directed by Nora Ephron

2002 film directed by Tom Dey

1983 film by Steven Spielberg, John Landis, George Miller, Joe Dante

1996 film directed by Jon Avnet

EDtv is a 1999 American satirical comedy film directed by Ron Howard. An adaptation of the 1994 Quebecois film Louis 19, King of the Airwaves (Louis 19, le roi des ondes), it stars Matthew McConaughey, Jenna Elfman, Woody Harrelson, Ellen DeGeneres, Martin Landau, Rob Reiner, Sally Kirkland, Elizabeth Hurley, Clint Howard, and Dennis Hopper.

The Running Man is a 2025 science-fiction action film co-produced and directed by Edgar Wright, from a screenplay by Wright and Michael Bacall. It is the second adaptation of the 1982 novel by Stephen King, following the 1987 film. It stars Glen Powell as Ben Richards, a competitor on a lethal reality television show. The cast also features William H. Macy, Lee Pace, Michael Cera, Emilia Jones, Daniel Ezra, Jayme Lawson, Sean Hayes, Colman Domingo, and Josh Brolin.

2021 film directed by Aaron Sorkin

1986 film by Federico Fellini

Scrooged is a 1988 American Christmas fantasy black comedy film directed by Richard Donner and written by Mitch Glazer and Michael O'Donoghue. Inspired by Charles Dickens' 1843 novella A Christmas Carol, the film is a metafictional modern retelling that follows Bill Murray as Frank Cross, a cynical and selfish television executive who, while prepping for a live broadcast adaptation of A Christmas Carol, is visited on Christmas Eve by a succession of ghosts intent on helping him regain his Christmas spirit. The supporting cast includes Karen Allen, John Forsythe, Bobcat Goldthwait, Carol Kane,

2007 film directed by Amy Heckerling

2024 film by Tim Fehlbaum

1988 film by John Waters

1976 film by Martin Ritt

2024 film directed by Jason Reitman

2002 film by Danny DeVito

2004 film by Nick Hurran

1989 film by Wes Craven

2012 film directed by Bobby Farrelly and Peter Farrelly

2019 film directed by Klim Shipenko

1957 film by Elia Kazan

1957 film by Frank Tashlin

2024 film directed by Jane Schoenbrun

I Swear is a 2025 British biographical comedy-drama film directed, written, and produced by Kirk Jones. It is based on the true life story of John Davidson, a Scottish man with severe Tourette syndrome who was the subject of the 1989 television documentary John's Not Mad. The film stars Robert Aramayo as Davidson, alongside Maxine Peake, Shirley Henderson, and Peter Mullan in supporting roles. Scott Ellis Watson makes his acting debut as a young Davidson.