Highest-Rated Movies about 'Talk Show', Sort by Popularity

Keep the River on Your Right: A Modern Cannibal Tale (2000), Ali & Cavett: The Tale of the Tapes (2018), Jane White Is Sick and Twisted (2002), I Am Not a Witch (2017), Yesterday (2019), Man of the Year (2006), Gamer (2009), Straight Talk (1992) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Talk Show movies.

#1. Keep the River on Your Right: A Modern Cannibal Tale (2000)

Storyline: This documentary tells the tale of Tobias Schneebaum, a gay Jewish New York painter who traveled to New Guinea and Peru in 1955, soon eschewing his western ways, living as a cannibal and tribesman. The camera follows Schneebaum at age 78, as he returns to the jungle.

Plot Keywords: painter, homosexual, cannibal, tribesman, documentarian, lover, engaging ...

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#3. Jane White Is Sick and Twisted (2002)

Storyline: Jane White (Kim Little) is a disturbed young woman living in her own bizarre TV fantasy land. For Jane, life itself is a television program, and she dreams of becoming a star on the small screen. Convincing herself that Gerry King (David L. Lander), a popular talk show host, is her birth father, she sets out on an adventurous road trip -- aided by her equally looney boyfriend, Dick (Wil Wheaton) -- to confront her "father" on the air, and, just maybe, make a splash on reality television.

Plot Keywords: fan, talk show host, anchorman, boyfriend, young woman, outlandish, amusing ...

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#4. I Am Not a Witch (2017)

Storyline: Following a banal incident in her local village, 8-year old girl Shula is accused of witchcraft. After a short trial she is found guilty, taken into state custody and exiled to a witch camp. At the camp she takes part in an initiation ceremony where she is shown the rules surrounding her new life as a witch. Like the other residents, Shula is tied to a ribbon which is attached to a coil that perches on a large truck. She is told that should she ever cut the ribbon, she'll be cursed and transformed into a goat.

Plot Keywords: girl, witch, police officers, accuser, outcast, bleak, brooding ...

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#5. Yesterday (2019)

Storyline: In Lowestoft UK, Jack Malik is a frustrated musician whose musical career is going nowhere despite the faith that his friend/manager Ellie Appleton has in him. However, on the night Jack decides to give up, the whole world is momentarily hit with a massive blackout during which Jack is hit by a bus. Upon regaining consciousness, Jack learns to his astonishment that he is apparently now the only one who knows the music of the Beatles. Realizing this improbable opportunity, Jack begins playing the music of one of the world's greatest rock bands, being forced to claim it as his own. It pays off quickly and Jack becomes a worldwide musical sensation. However, Jack finds himself drifting away from Ellie, only realizing his love for her when she has become intimidated by his success, which depends on a blatant plagiarization that no one could find out. Now, Jack must make a fundamental moral decision about his music to satisfy his conscience as he decides what he truly needs.—Kenneth Chisholm

Plot Keywords: best friend, young man, aspiring musician, family member, talent agent, indian, amusing ...

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#6. Man of the Year (2006)

Storyline: Tom Dobbs, comedic host of a political talk show - a la Bill Maher and Jon Stewart - runs for President of the US as an independent candidate who, after an issues-oriented campaign and an explosive performance in the final debate, gets just enough votes to win. Trouble is he owes his victory to a computer glitch in the national touch-screen voting system marketed by Delacroy, a private company with a rising stock price. To protect their fortune, Delacroy executives want to keep the glitch a secret, but one programmer, Eleanor Green, wants Dobbs to know the truth. Can she get to him?

Plot Keywords: talk show host, presidential candidate, president, computer programmer, fan, campaign manager, hilarious ...

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#7. Gamer (2009)

Storyline: Ken Castle is extremely rich, popular, and powerful since he invented and started exploiting the virtual online parallel reality games. In these games, people can either pay to be a user or get paid to be an 'actor' in a system of mind-control. In the ultimate version, Slayers, death row convicts act as gladiators in a desperate dim bid for survival, which no one has achieved yet. The champion, John 'Kable' Tillman, is scheduled to die just before he'd gain release, but he persuades his teenage 'handler' to hand over the reins so he can fully use his talents and experience. Kable escapes to freedom, but Castle's men chase him. Kable has to fight his way back to Castle's headquarters to challenge his hidden evil plans.

Plot Keywords: prisoner, teen boy, talk show host, game designer, hacker, wife, brutal ...

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#8. Straight Talk (1992)

Storyline: Honest and straightforward small-town Shirlee Kenyon chucks her boyfriend and heads for Chicago. Accidentally having to host a radio problem phone-in show, it is clear she is a natural, and is hired on the spot. But the station insists she call herself Doctor, and as her popularity grows a local reporter starts digging for the truth. Problem is, the more he is around her, the more he fancies her.—Jeremy Perkins {J-26}

Plot Keywords: country girl, radio personality, reporter, doctor, amusing, lighthearted, chicago ...

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#9. How to Kill Your Neighbor's Dog (2000)

Storyline: Peter (Kenneth Branagh) is a successful playwright who has hit a dry spell. His wife Melanie (Robin Wright Penn) wants a baby, but Peter isn't ready. His mother-in-law (Lynn Redgrave) has moved in. He's being stalked by a fan who thinks that he is Peter. After his new neighbor's dog starts barking in the middle of the night, Peter starts to spend time with their daughter Amy (Suzi Hofrichter). He begins to form a friendship with her and realizes how to solve his writer's block...

Plot Keywords: playwright, wife, mother-in-law, fan, daughter, dog, endearing ...

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#10. Love Happens (2009)

Storyline: Burke is a motivational speaker whose book about dealing with grief is a best seller. His wife died in a car accident three years ago. He's in Seattle to lead a week-long workshop on healing and to negotiate a major multi-media deal. But something's amiss: he's a closet drinker, he won't ride elevators, his moods swing, he's estranged from his wife's father, and he's very much alone. In a hotel hallway, he bumps into a woman arranging flowers, tries to chat with her, and gets the brush-off. She's Eloise, a local florist who's just broken up with a boyfriend. He's persistent and they eventually go to dinner - it goes badly. What's blocking Burke? Can the physician heal himself.

Plot Keywords: author, self-help guru, widower, florist, friend, father-in-law, engaging ...

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#12. Rosewood Lane (2011)

Storyline: One year after the death of her father, psychiatrist and radio talk show host Dr. Sonny Blake, returns to Rosewood Lane in Stillwater to live in his house. Sonny who was abused by her father is a traumatized woman receiving therapy from Dr. Cloey. Sonny's boyfriend DA Barrett Tanner helps her move to a new home. On her arrival, the next door neighbor advises Sonny that the paperboy is a dangerous weirdo. Sonny finds that the paperboy has broken into her house and might be the person who killed her father. Detectives Briggs and Sabatino don't believe Sonny, thinking that it is her imagination. When Tanner is attacked and goes missing Sonny and her friend Paula Crenshaw call the police, but he is not found in the house. Is Sonny freaking out or is the paperboy an evil being?—Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro,

Plot Keywords: sociopath, psychiatrist, suspenseful, talk show, childhood home, battle, death ...

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#14. Thirteen at Dinner (1985)

Storyline: When actress Jane Wilkinson (Faye Dunaway) forcefully demands a divorce from her husband, she appears unstable. Consequently, she is the main suspect when her husband turns up murdered. Master Detective Hercule Poirot (Peter Ustinov), who meets the actress through actor Bryan Martin (Lee Horsley), must determine, along with Inspector Japp (David Suchet), if Wilkinson's claims of innocence are true, and whether Carlotta Adams (also Dunaway), a Wilkinson impersonator, is involved.

Plot Keywords: hercule poirot, inspector, actress, lord, actor, impersonator, suspenseful ...

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