Portrayals of the media in movies

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Title Year Starring/Description
A Cry In The Dark 1988 Meryl Streep, Sam Neill
A Face in the Crowd 1957 Andy Griffith, Patricia Neal, Anthony Franciosa, Walter Matthau, Lee Remick. Larry "Lonesome" Rhodes is a hobo. Discovered by Marcia Jeffries, he will become a very famous TV star. His success gives him more and more power. That power will corrupt him, turning him from a sympathetic singing vagabond into a cynical and powerthirsty egotist.
A Little Sex 1982 Tim Matheson. A director tries to remain faithful to his wife.
Absence Of Malice 19?? Paul Newman, Sally Field
Airheads 1994 Brendan Fraser. Desperate to get their music heard on the radio, members of a heavy-metal band hold a station hostage.
All The President's Men 19?? Dustin Hoffman
America 1988 Zack Norman, Tammy Grimes
Being There 1979 Peter Sellers, Shirley MacLaine. Jerzy Kosinski's satire of television and politics.
Beziehungskiste - Der Computer und sein Mensch 1996 "The Love Affair - The Computer and its User" is the third film in a series of documentaries about things which changed the world.
Breakfast In Hollywood 1951 Tom Breneman
Broadcast News 1987 William Hurt, Albert Brooks
Callaway Went Thataway 1951  
Chill Factor 1990 Paul Williams, Patrick Macnee
Citizen's Band 1977 Paul Le Mat, Candy Clark. Jonathan Demme's character study of small-town America, with CB radios linking the populace.
Dating the Enemy 1996 Valuable lessons are learned when a messy science journalist and a neat television host switch bodies and lives.
Dead Men Don't Die 1991 Elliot Gould, Melissa Anderson
Deadline U.S.A. 1952 Humphrey Bogart. A big-city editor sets out to smash a crime ring while trying to keep his paper's owners from selling to a rival.
Death Watch 1980 Romy Schneider, Harvey Keitel
Desk Set 1957 Spencer Tracy. Love and automation clash when an efficiency expert installs a computer in a television research department.
E. Nick: A Legend In His Own Mind 1984 Don Calfa, Cleavon Little
Empire Records 1995 Anthony LaPaglia, Rory Cochrane. A record store owner and his teen employees fight to stop a hostile takeover of the business.
Eternity 1990 Jon Voight, Armand Assante
Exiled To Shanghai 1937 Wallace Ford, June Travis
Eyewitness 1981 William Hurt, Sigourney Weaver
Fletch 1985 Chevy Chase
F/X 1988 Byron Brown, Cliff DeYoung
F/X 2: The Deadly Art Of Illusion 1991 Byron Brown, Brian Dennehy
Future Shock 1993 Martin Kove. Anthology film concerning a psychiatrist who uses virtual-reality technology to help his patients confront their fears.
Ginger e Fred 1986 A touchingly nostalgic journey into the past and a viciously satirical attack on television in general and Italian TV in particular.
Good Morning, Babylon 1987 Joaquim De Almeida, Vincent Spano. Vittorio and Paolo Taviani's tribute to early Hollywood, about Italian brothers who immigrate in 1915 and work on D.W. Griffith's "Intolerance."
Hackers 1995 Jonny Lee Miller, Angeline Jolie. High-school students stumble onto an embezzlement scheme and use computer wizardry to thwart the mastermind.
He Said, She Said 1991 Two journalists get their own TV program in which to argue opposing views. Events in their lives are seen separately from each person's perspecive.
His Girl Friday 1940 Cary Grant, Rosalind Russell, Ralph Bellamy (see The Front Page)
Hollywood Shuffle 1987 Robert Townsend, Anne-Marie Johnson
I Guerrieri dell anno 2072 1983 In the future two television networks compete for ratings by producing violent game shows.
I Was A Teenage TV Terrorist 1987 Adam Nathan, Julie Hanlan
International House 1933 W.C. Fields, Peggy Hopkins Joyce, Rudy Vallee
Jimmy Hollywood 1994 Joe Pesci, Christian Slater. A struggling actor becomes a minor celebrity after committing a vigilante act.
Just One of the Guys 1985 Joyce Hyser. A high-schooler disguises herself as a boy to gain support in a journalism competition.
Just Tell Me What You Want 1980 A television producer tries to get out of a relationship with her overbearing boss to marry a young writer.
La Grande lessive 1968 A teacher and his colleague and an anarchist start a war against television by climbing onto Paris rooftops and coating TV antennae with a substance to ruin reception.
Livin' Large 1991 Terrence "T.C." Carson, Lisa Arrindell
Loving You 1957 Elvis Presley, Wendell Corey
Man's Best Friend 1993 Ally Sheedy, Lance Henriksen. A genetically engineered guard dog is unleashed from a lab by a TV reporter.
My Favorite Year 1982 Peter O'Toole, Mark Linn-Baker
Network 1976 Faye Dunnaway, Peter Finch, William Holden
Newsfront 1978 Bill Hunter, Gerard Kennedy
Newsies 1992 Christian Bale, David Moscow
Nothing Sacred 1937 Fredric March, Carole Lombard
Oh God! Book II 1980 George Burns. Sequel to "Oh God!" about an ad campaign to improve God's image.
One Of Our Own 19?? ?
Pump Up the Volume 1990 Christian Slater, Samantha Mathis. A shy high-school student leads a secret life as a pirate-radio DJ.
Radio Days 1987 Woody Allen, Mia Farrow, Seth Green. Woody Allen's nostalgic homage to his 1940s New York boyhood and the broadcasts that captured his imagination.
Remote Control 1988 Kevin Dillon. Aliens plant a movie in a video store that turns its viewers into psychopaths.
Scrooged 19?? Bill Murray
sex, lies, and videotape 1989 James Spader, Andie MacDowell, Peter Gallagher. A voyeur uses a video camera to unlock the inner secrets of women.
S. F. W. 1994 Stephen Dorff, Reese Witherspoon. Satire of instant celebrity about the fame thrust upon a slacker who survives an ordeal as a hostage.
Silent Movie 1976 Mel Brooks, Marty Feldman, Dom DeLuise. Mel Brooks is a silent-film director in a salute to the genre.
Six Fois Deux/Sur et Sous la Communication 19?? ?
Soft And Hard 19?? ?
Stay Tuned 19?? John Ritter
Stay Tuned For Murder 1988 Terry Reeves Wolf, Christopher Ginnaven
Tabloid! 19?? ?
Talk Radio 1988 Eric Bogosian
The Big Carnival 1951 Kirk Douglas, Jan Sterling. Charles Tatum, a down-on-his-luck reporter, takes a job with a small New Mexico newspaper. The job is pretty boring until he finds a man trapped in a mine. He jumps at the chance to make a name for himself by taking over and prolonging the rescue effort, and feeding stories to major newspapers. He creates a national media sensation and milks it for all it is worth.
The Big Clock 1948 Ray Milland, Charles Laughton. A reporter probes a clever murder.
The Big Picture 1989 Kevin Bacon, Martin Short. Satire of Tinseltown about a director who sells out.
The Cable Guy 1996 Jim Carrey, Matthew Broderick. A lonely cable installer becomes fixated on a trusting customer.
The China Syndrome 1979 Jane Fonda, Jack Lemmon
The Front Page 1931 Adolphe Menjou, Pat O'Brien, Mary Brian, Edward Everett Horton. Hildy Johnson is the top reporter on a Chicago newspaper during the 1930s. Tired of the whole game he's determined to quit his job to get married. His scheming editor, Walter Burns, has other plans though. It's the day before guilty (but insane) murderer, Earl Williams, is due to go to the chair and Burns tempts Johnson to stay and write the story.
The Front Page 1974 Jack Lemmon, Walter Matthau, Susan Sarandon. (See above.)
The Gladiators 1970 Arthur Pentalow, Frederick Danner
The Groove Tube 1972 Chevy Chase, Lane Sarasohn
The Hollywood Detective 1989 Telly Savalas, Helene Udy
The In Crowd 1988 Donovan Leitch. A teen winds up in the spotlight when he auditions for a TV show on a dare.
The Lost Honor Of Katharina Blum 1975 Angela Winkler, Maria Adorf
The Naked Truth 1958 Peter Sellers, Terry Thomas
The Passenger 1975 Jack Nicholson, Maria Schneider
The Seduction 1982 Morgan Fairchild. A TV anchor is pursued by a psychotic photographer.
The Thrill Of It All 19?? ?
To Die For 1995 Nicole Kidman
Tootsie 1982 Dustin Hoffman, Jessica Lange
Tunnelvision 19?? ?
Video Vixens 19?? ?
Zelig 19?? Woody Allen

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