Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "new-york-times"

1. The Sympathizer (2024)

TV-MA | Comedy, Drama, History

Near the end of the Vietnam War, a plant who was embedded in the South Vietnam army flees to the United States and takes up residence in a refugee community where he continues to secretly spy and report back to the Viet Cong.

Stars: Hoa Xuande, Robert Downey Jr., Toan Le, Fred Nguyen Khan

Votes: 1,830

2. A Gentleman in Moscow (2024– )

TV-14 | Drama, History, Thriller

A Russian aristocrat is spared from death and placed on house arrest while the Bolshevik Revolution plays out before him.

Stars: Ewan McGregor, Daniel Cerqueira, Johnny Harris, Leah Harvey

Votes: 3,194

3. Turtles All the Way Down (2024)

PG-13 | 111 min | Drama, Romance

A teenager with OCD tries to solve a mystery surrounding a fugitive billionaire.

Director: Hannah Marks | Stars: Isabela Merced, Cree, Judy Reyes, Felix Mallard

Votes: 1,301

4. Under the Banner of Heaven (2022)

TV-MA | 67 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

A devout detective's faith is tested as he investigates a brutal murder seemingly connected to an esteemed Utah family's spiral into LDS fundamentalism and their distrust in the government.

Stars: Andrew Garfield, Sam Worthington, Daisy Edgar-Jones, Denise Gough

Votes: 34,843

5. Maid (2021)

TV-MA | 55 min | Drama

After fleeing an abusive relationship, a young mother finds a job cleaning houses as she fights to provide for her child and build them a better future.

Stars: Margaret Qualley, Nick Robinson, Rylea Nevaeh Whittet, Andie MacDowell

Votes: 100,805

6. Firefly Lane (2021–2023)

TV-MA | 1,340 min | Drama, Romance

Tully and Kate support each other through good times and bad with an unbreakable bond that carries them from their teens to their forties.

Stars: Katherine Heigl, Sarah Chalke, Ben Lawson, Ali Skovbye

Votes: 36,993

7. The Post (2017)

PG-13 | 116 min | Biography, Drama, History

A cover-up spanning four U.S. Presidents pushes the country's first female newspaper publisher and her editor to join an unprecedented battle between press and government.

Director: Steven Spielberg | Stars: Meryl Streep, Tom Hanks, Sarah Paulson, Bob Odenkirk

Votes: 162,465 | Gross: $81.90M

8. The Insider (1999)

R | 157 min | Biography, Drama, Thriller

A research chemist comes under personal and professional attack when he decides to appear in a 60 Minutes exposé on Big Tobacco.

Director: Michael Mann | Stars: Russell Crowe, Al Pacino, Christopher Plummer, Diane Venora

Votes: 180,363 | Gross: $28.97M

9. Serpico (1973)

R | 130 min | Biography, Crime, Drama

An honest New York cop named Frank Serpico blows the whistle on rampant corruption in the force only to have his comrades turn against him.

Director: Sidney Lumet | Stars: Al Pacino, John Randolph, Jack Kehoe, Biff McGuire

Votes: 134,975 | Gross: $29.80M

10. Three Days of the Condor (1975)

R | 117 min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller

A bookish CIA researcher in Manhattan finds all his co-workers dead, and must outwit those responsible until he figures out who he can really trust.

Director: Sydney Pollack | Stars: Robert Redford, Faye Dunaway, Cliff Robertson, Max von Sydow

Votes: 62,649 | Gross: $41.51M

11. Luckiest Girl Alive (2022)

R | 113 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller

A woman in New York, who seems to have things under control, is faced with a trauma that makes her life unravel.

Director: Mike Barker | Stars: Mila Kunis, Chiara Aurelia, Finn Wittrock, Connie Britton

Votes: 55,942

12. Capote (2005)

R | 114 min | Biography, Crime, Drama

In 1959, Truman Capote learns of the murder of a Kansas family and decides to write a book about the case. While researching for his novel In Cold Blood, Capote forms a relationship with one of the killers, Perry Smith, who is on death row.

Director: Bennett Miller | Stars: Philip Seymour Hoffman, Clifton Collins Jr., Catherine Keener, Allie Mickelson

Votes: 140,852 | Gross: $28.75M

13. Silkwood (1983)

R | 131 min | Biography, Drama, History

A worker at a plutonium processing plant is purposefully contaminated, psychologically tortured and possibly murdered to prevent her from exposing worker safety violations at the plant.

Director: Mike Nichols | Stars: Meryl Streep, Kurt Russell, Cher, Craig T. Nelson

Votes: 22,227 | Gross: $35.62M

14. True Story (I) (2015)

R | 99 min | Biography, Crime, Drama

When disgraced New York Times reporter Michael Finkel meets accused killer Christian Longo - who has taken on Finkel's identity - his investigation morphs into a game of cat-and-mouse.

Director: Rupert Goold | Stars: James Franco, Jonah Hill, Felicity Jones, Maria Dizzia

Votes: 72,978 | Gross: $4.72M

15. Boy Erased (2018)

R | 115 min | Biography, Drama

The son of a Baptist preacher unwillingly participates in a church-supported gay conversion program after being forcibly outed to his parents.

Director: Joel Edgerton | Stars: Lucas Hedges, Nicole Kidman, Joel Edgerton, Russell Crowe

Votes: 42,159 | Gross: $6.79M

16. The Believer (2001)

R | 98 min | Drama

A young Jewish man develops a fiercely anti-Semitic philosophy. Based on the factual story of a K.K.K. member in the 1960s who was revealed to be Jewish by a New York Times reporter.

Director: Henry Bean | Stars: Ryan Gosling, Summer Phoenix, Peter Meadows, Garret Dillahunt

Votes: 41,153 | Gross: $0.41M

17. Tiny Beautiful Things (2023)

TV-MA | 30 min | Comedy, Drama

Follows a woman who reluctantly becomes Dear Sugar; an anonymous and revered advice columnist, even when her own life is falling apart.

Stars: Kathryn Hahn, Tanzyn Crawford, Quentin Plair, Merritt Wever

Votes: 5,987

18. Big Eyes (I) (2014)

PG-13 | 106 min | Biography, Crime, Drama

A drama about the awakening of painter Margaret Keane, her phenomenal success in the 1950s, and the subsequent legal difficulties she had with her husband, who claimed credit for her works in the 1960s.

Director: Tim Burton | Stars: Amy Adams, Christoph Waltz, Danny Huston, Krysten Ritter

Votes: 99,157 | Gross: $14.48M

19. The Noel Diary (2022)

TV-14 | 99 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

The story of a man who returns home on Christmas to settle his estranged mother's estate. Once there, he discovers a diary that may hold secrets to his own past and of a beautiful young woman on a mysterious journey of her own.

Director: Charles Shyer | Stars: Justin Hartley, Barrett Doss, Bonnie Bedelia, James Remar

Votes: 19,149

20. Good Night, and Good Luck. (2005)

PG | 93 min | Biography, Drama, History

Broadcast journalist Edward R. Murrow looks to bring down Senator Joseph McCarthy.

Director: George Clooney | Stars: David Strathairn, George Clooney, Patricia Clarkson, Jeff Daniels

Votes: 101,332 | Gross: $31.56M

21. Antebellum (2020)

R | 105 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery

Successful author Veronica Henley finds herself trapped in a horrifying reality and must uncover the mind-bending mystery before it's too late.

Directors: Gerard Bush, Christopher Renz | Stars: Janelle Monáe, Eric Lange, Jena Malone, Jack Huston

Votes: 29,834

22. Along for the Ride (2022)

TV-14 | 106 min | Drama, Romance

The summer before college Auden meets the mysterious Eli, a fellow insomniac. While the seaside town of Colby sleeps, the two embark on a nightly quest to help Auden experience the fun, carefree teen life she never knew she wanted.

Director: Sofia Alvarez | Stars: Emma Pasarow, Belmont Cameli, Laura Kariuki, Kate Bosworth

Votes: 9,219

23. 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: 51,068 | Gross: $9.53M

24. Unicorn Academy (2023– )

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

When a dark force threatens to destroy Unicorn Island, a brave teen and her five schoolmates must rise up to protect their beloved magical academy.

Stars: Sara Garcia, Sadie Laflamme-Snow, Kamaia Fairburn, Gabbi Kosmidis

Votes: 269

25. The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

Drama, History | Pre-production

Follows Hollywood legend Evelyn Hugo, who chooses an unknown reporter to tell her life story. Evelyn recounts her time in the Golden Age of Hollywood and her seven marriages.

Director: Leslye Headland

26. Longtime Companion (1989)

R | 96 min | Drama, Romance

The emergence and devastation of the AIDS epidemic is chronicled in the lives of several gay men living during the 1980s.

Director: Norman René | Stars: Stephen Caffrey, Patrick Cassidy, Brian Cousins, Bruce Davison

Votes: 6,135 | Gross: $4.61M

27. Iron Jawed Angels (2004 TV Movie)

TV-14 | 123 min | Biography, Drama, History

A little known, yet integral piece of American history: based on the lives of Alice Paul and Lucy Burns, two young radical women who were instrumental in getting women the right to vote in America.

Director: Katja von Garnier | Stars: Hilary Swank, Margo Martindale, Anjelica Huston, Frances O'Connor

Votes: 6,433

28. Louder Than Bombs (2015)

R | 109 min | Drama

The fractious family of a father and his two sons confront their different feelings and memories of their deceased wife and mother, a famed war photographer.

Director: Joachim Trier | Stars: Jesse Eisenberg, Gabriel Byrne, Isabelle Huppert, Devin Druid

Votes: 14,206 | Gross: $0.16M

29. Pickup on South Street (1953)

Passed | 80 min | Crime, Film-Noir, Mystery

A pickpocket unwittingly lifts a message destined for enemy agents and becomes a target for a Communist spy ring.

Director: Samuel Fuller | Stars: Richard Widmark, Jean Peters, Thelma Ritter, Murvyn Vye

Votes: 16,160

30. Hush, Hush

Drama, Fantasy, Romance | Pre-production

Based on the New York Times best-selling book franchise series.

Director: Matthew Hastings | Stars: Shay Mitchell, Wolfgang Novogratz

31. Princess Power (2023– )

TV-Y | 15 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy

It tells the story of four princesses from major fruit kingdoms: Kira Kiwi, Beatrice Blueberry, Rita Raspberry and Penelope Pineapple. They embrace their differences to help their fellow fruitizens and make their world a better place.

Stars: Alanna Ubach, Trinity Jo-Li Bliss, Dana Heath, Madison Calderon

Votes: 133

32. The Hoax (2006)

R | 116 min | Biography, Comedy, Drama

In what would cause a fantastic media frenzy, Clifford Irving sells his bogus biography of Howard Hughes to a premiere publishing house in the early 1970s.

Director: Lasse Hallström | Stars: Richard Gere, Alfred Molina, David Aaron Baker, John Carter

Votes: 17,185 | Gross: $7.16M

33. Escaping the NXIVM Cult: A Mother's Fight to Save Her Daughter (2019 TV Movie)

TV-14 | 87 min | Crime, Drama

A mother who will stop at nothing to get her daughter back exposes the intricate seductive power of Allison and Keith and the mental and physical abuse inflicted on her daughter.

Director: Lisa Robinson | Stars: Andrea Roth, Jasper Polish, Sara Fletcher, Kristin Booth

Votes: 598

34. The Supremes at Earl's All-You-Can-Eat

Comedy, Drama | Post-production

Follows a trio of best friends known as "The Supremes" who, for decades, has weathered life's storms together through marriage and children, happiness and blues.

Director: Tina Mabry | Stars: Sanaa Lathan, Julian McMahon, Tati Gabrielle, Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor

35. The Kid Stays in the Picture (2002)

R | 93 min | Documentary, Biography

Documentary about legendary Paramount producer Robert Evans (the film shares the same name as Evans's famous 1994 autobiography).

Directors: Nanette Burstein, Brett Morgen | Stars: Robert Evans, Eddie Albert, Peter Bart, Charlie Bluhdorn

Votes: 7,973 | Gross: $1.43M

36. A Kid Like Jake (2018)

R | 92 min | Drama

The loving parents of a four-year-old must come to terms with the fact that their child is gay.

Director: Silas Howard | Stars: Claire Danes, Jim Parsons, Octavia Spencer, Priyanka Chopra Jonas

Votes: 3,894 | Gross: $0.04M

37. The Woman Who Wasn't There (2012)

Not Rated | 65 min | Documentary

A psychological thriller that goes inside the mind of history's most infamous 9/11 "survivor."

Director: Angelo J. Guglielmo Jr. | Stars: Tania Head, Elia Zedeno, Gerry Bogacz, Brendan Chellis

Votes: 2,643

38. They Both Die at the End

Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi | Announced

Based on the Novel by Adam Silvera, the show is set in the near-future where everyone receives a bureaucratic phone call notifying them at the start of their last day on Earth.

39. Bettie Page Reveals All (2012)

R | 101 min | Documentary, Biography

The world's greatest pinup model and cult icon, Bettie Page, recounts the true story of how her free expression overcame government witch-hunts to help launch America's sexual revolution.

Director: Mark Mori | Stars: Bettie Page, Hugh Hefner, Olivia de Berardinis, Dita Von Teese

Votes: 1,631 | Gross: $0.10M

40. 15 Minutes of Shame (2021)

TV-MA | 85 min | Documentary

A look at public shaming in modern day culture.

Director: Max Joseph | Stars: Max Joseph, Monica Lewinsky, Jon Ronson, Kara Swisher

Votes: 981

41. Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media (1992)

Not Rated | 167 min | Documentary, Biography, War

A film about the noted American linguist/political dissident and his warning about corporate media's role in modern propaganda.

Directors: Mark Achbar, Peter Wintonick | Stars: Noam Chomsky, Mark Achbar, Karin Aguilar-San Juan, Paul Andrews

Votes: 4,938

42. Wordplay (2006)

PG | 94 min | Documentary

An in-depth look at The New York Times' long-time crossword puzzle editor Will Shortz and his loyal fan base.

Director: Patrick Creadon | Stars: Will Shortz, Ken Burns, Jon Stewart, Merl Reagle

Votes: 3,782 | Gross: $3.12M

43. Seymour: An Introduction (2014)

PG | 84 min | Documentary, Biography, Music

Meet Seymour Bernstein: a beloved pianist, teacher and true inspiration who shares eye-opening insights from an amazing life. Ethan Hawke helms this poignant guide to life.

Director: Ethan Hawke | Stars: Seymour Bernstein, Ethan Hawke, Sam Bachelder, Sam Bachelor

Votes: 1,152 | Gross: $0.58M

44. The Fourth Estate (2018)

TV-MA | 243 min | Documentary, History

A look at how The New York Times covered President Trump's controversial first year in office.

Stars: Dean Baquet, Elisabeth Bumiller, Maggie Haberman, Jeremy Peters

Votes: 822

45. Be with Me (2005)

Not Rated | 93 min | Drama, Romance

"Be with Me" consists of three stories of love vs. solitude : 1) An aging, lonesome shopkeeper doesn't believe in life anymore, ever since his wife died. But he is saved from desperation by... See full summary »

Director: Eric Khoo | Stars: Theresa Poh Lin Chan, Chiew Sung Ching, Lawrence Yong, Leong Kooi Eng

Votes: 1,762

46. One Day in December

Drama, Romance | Announced

Laurie believes that love at first sight only happens in the movies, until she looks at a stranger through a bus window. She spends a year looking for him around London, until her best friend introduces her to her new boyfriend.

Star: Lucy Boynton

47. The Will Rogers Follies (1991 TV Movie)

TV-PG | 144 min | Comedy, Musical

A filmed version of the Broadway musical focusing on the life of Will Rogers.

Director: Walter C. Miller | Stars: Keith Carradine, Dee Hoty, Roxane Barlow, Bonnie Brackney

Votes: 27

48. Page One (2011)

R | 92 min | Documentary

Unprecedented access to the New York Times newsroom yields a complex view of the transformation of a media landscape fraught with both peril and opportunity.

Director: Andrew Rossi | Stars: David Carr, Sarah Ellison, Larry Ingrassia, Dennis Crowley

Votes: 3,448 | Gross: $1.07M

49. The Witch Boy

Animation, Adventure, Family | Pre-production

In a magical community where girls are born to be witches and boys grow into shapeshifters, Aster discovers he has emerging witch powers.

Director: Minkyu Lee

50. Op-Docs (2011– )

Documentary

Op-Docs is The New York Times editorial department's award-winning section for short, opinionated documentaries, produced with wide creative latitude and a range of artistic styles, ... See full summary »

Stars: Mo Rocca, Josiah Thompson, Casey Neistat, Logan Ireland

Votes: 37