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

1. Wonka (2023)

PG | 116 min | Adventure, Comedy, Family

With dreams of opening a shop in a city renowned for its chocolate, a young and poor Willy Wonka discovers that the industry is run by a cartel of greedy chocolatiers.

Director: Paul King | Stars: Timothée Chalamet, Gustave Die, Murray McArthur, Paul G. Raymond

Votes: 139,523

2. Finding Nemo (2003)

G | 100 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy

After his son is captured in the Great Barrier Reef and taken to Sydney, a timid clownfish sets out on a journey to bring him home.

Directors: Andrew Stanton, Lee Unkrich | Stars: Albert Brooks, Ellen DeGeneres, Alexander Gould, Willem Dafoe

Votes: 1,113,275 | Gross: $380.84M

3. The Reader (2008)

R | 124 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance

Post-WWII Germany: Nearly a decade after his affair with an older woman came to a mysterious end, law student Michael Berg re-encounters his former lover as she defends herself in a war-crime trial.

Director: Stephen Daldry | Stars: Kate Winslet, Ralph Fiennes, Bruno Ganz, Jeanette Hain

Votes: 259,846 | Gross: $34.19M

4. Madagascar (2005)

PG | 86 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy

A group of animals who have spent all their life in a New York zoo end up in the jungles of Madagascar, and must adjust to living in the wild.

Directors: Eric Darnell, Tom McGrath | Stars: Chris Rock, Ben Stiller, David Schwimmer, Jada Pinkett Smith

Votes: 437,437 | Gross: $193.60M

5. Zardoz (1974)

R | 105 min | Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi

In the late 23rd century, a savage trained only to kill finds a way into the community of bored immortals that alone preserves humanity's achievements.

Director: John Boorman | Stars: Sean Connery, Charlotte Rampling, Sara Kestelman, John Alderton

Votes: 24,560 | Gross: $0.07M

6. The Secret of NIMH (1982)

G | 82 min | Animation, Adventure, Drama

To save her ill son, a field mouse must seek the aid of a colony of rats, with whom she has a deeper link than she suspected.

Director: Don Bluth | Stars: Elizabeth Hartman, Derek Jacobi, Dom DeLuise, Arthur Malet

Votes: 45,146 | Gross: $10.14M

7. Far and Away (1992)

PG-13 | 140 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance

A young Irish couple flee to the States, but subsequently struggle to obtain land and prosper freely.

Director: Ron Howard | Stars: Tom Cruise, Nicole Kidman, Thomas Gibson, Robert Prosky

Votes: 68,324 | Gross: $58.88M

8. Maid in Manhattan (2002)

PG-13 | 105 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

A Senatorial candidate falls for a hotel maid, thinking she is a socialite, when he sees her trying on a wealthy woman's dress.

Director: Wayne Wang | Stars: Jennifer Lopez, Ralph Fiennes, Natasha Richardson, Stanley Tucci

Votes: 96,185 | Gross: $94.01M

9. The Electric Company (1971–1977)

TV-G | 28 min | Family, Comedy

A comedy variety show that teaches basic phonetic and grammar concepts using live-action sketches, cartoons, songs, and Spider-Man episodes.

Stars: Jim Boyd, Morgan Freeman, Judy Graubart, Skip Hinnant

Votes: 2,288

10. The Mighty (1998)

PG-13 | 100 min | Comedy, Drama

Two young boys are social outcasts in their community due to their disabilities and broken home lives. When they are paired together, they form a bond over their shared circumstances.

Director: Peter Chelsom | Stars: Kieran Culkin, Elden Henson, Sharon Stone, Harry Dean Stanton

Votes: 13,903 | Gross: $2.64M

11. The Boy and the Beast (2015)

PG-13 | 119 min | Animation, Action, Adventure

When a young orphaned boy living on the streets of Shibuya stumbles upon a fantastic world of beasts, he's taken in by a gruff warrior beast looking for an apprentice.

Director: Mamoru Hosoda | Stars: Koji Yakusho, Aoi Miyazaki, Shôta Sometani, Suzu Hirose

Votes: 26,926 | Gross: $0.45M

12. The Limehouse Golem (2016)

Not Rated | 109 min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller

In Victorian London, a Scotland Yard inspector hunts down the sadistic killer behind a series of gory, Jack the Ripper-Like murders.

Director: Juan Carlos Medina | Stars: Douglas Booth, Olivia Cooke, Sam Reid, María Valverde

Votes: 23,318

13. The Source (2011)

135 min | Comedy, Drama

A comedy/drama set in a village and centered on a battle of the sexes, where women threaten to withhold sexual favors if their men refuse to fetch water from a remote well.

Director: Radu Mihaileanu | Stars: Leïla Bekhti, Hafsia Herzi, Hiam Abbass, Saleh Bakri

Votes: 4,168

14. Wanda (1970)

GP | 102 min | Crime, Drama

Wanda, a lonely housewife, drifts through mining country until she meets a petty thief who takes her in.

Director: Barbara Loden | Stars: Barbara Loden, Michael Higgins, Dorothy Shupenes, Peter Shupenes

Votes: 5,700 | Gross: $0.05M

15. The Hunting Party (1971)

R | 111 min | Action, Drama, Western

A ruthless rancher and his gang use extremely long range rifles to kill the men who kidnapped his infidel wife.

Director: Don Medford | Stars: Oliver Reed, Candice Bergen, Gene Hackman, Simon Oakland

Votes: 3,419

16. Annie Get Your Gun (1950)

Passed | 107 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance

The story of the great sharpshooter Annie Oakley, who rose to fame while dealing with her love/professional rival, Frank Butler.

Directors: George Sidney, Busby Berkeley | Stars: Betty Hutton, Howard Keel, Louis Calhern, J. Carrol Naish

Votes: 5,276 | Gross: $8.00M

17. Religulous (2008)

R | 101 min | Documentary, Comedy, War

Bill Maher's take on the current state of world religion.

Director: Larry Charles | Stars: Bill Maher, Tal Bachman, Jonathan Boulden, Steven Burg

Votes: 60,239 | Gross: $13.00M

18. Heidi: A Girl of the Alps (1974)

24 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy

This animation series follows the childhood "adventures" of a girl named Heidi, who lives with her grandfather somewhere on the Alps.

Stars: Vic Perrin, Randi Kiger, Kazuko Sugiyama, Kôhei Miyauchi

Votes: 6,020

19. Ascendance of a Bookworm (2019–2022)

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

Urano, a young Japanese soon-to-be librarian, dies in an earthquake. She is reincarnated in another world as a young girl named Mayne, but learns books are scarce and only provided to prestigious elites.

Stars: Yuka Iguchi, Show Hayami, Mutsumi Tamura, Megumi Nakajima

Votes: 1,486

20. The Pride and the Passion (1957)

132 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

During the Napoleonic Wars, a British captain is sent to Spain to help prevent the French from stealing a powerful cannon.

Director: Stanley Kramer | Stars: Cary Grant, Frank Sinatra, Sophia Loren, Theodore Bikel

Votes: 3,193 | Gross: $8.75M

21. Pinky (1949)

Approved | 102 min | Drama

A light-skinned black woman falls in love with a white doctor, though he is unaware of her true race.

Directors: Elia Kazan, John Ford | Stars: Jeanne Crain, Ethel Barrymore, Ethel Waters, William Lundigan

Votes: 3,415 | Gross: $4.20M

22. Blood and Sand (1941)

Approved | 125 min | Drama, Romance, Sport

Illiterate peasant Juan Gallardo rises meteorically to fame and fortune in the bullfight arena only to sow the seeds of his own fall.

Director: Rouben Mamoulian | Stars: Tyrone Power, Linda Darnell, Rita Hayworth, Alla Nazimova

Votes: 3,138 | Gross: $5.92M

23. The Black Velvet Gown (1991 TV Movie)

TV-14 | 103 min | Drama

In the 1830's in northern England, Riah Millican, a widow with three children, takes a job as housekeeper to a reclusive former teacher, Percival Miller. Miller makes Riah the gift of a ... See full summary »

Director: Norman Stone | Stars: Bob Peck, Janet McTeer, Geraldine Somerville, Brendan P. Healy

Votes: 658

24. Dragon Seed (1944)

Passed | 148 min | Drama, History, War

The lives of a small Chinese village are turned upside down when the Japanese invade it, and a heroic young woman leads her fellow villagers in an uprising against these invaders.

Directors: Harold S. Bucquet, Jack Conway | Stars: Katharine Hepburn, Walter Huston, Aline MacMahon, Akim Tamiroff

Votes: 1,339

25. Al-mohager (1994)

129 min | Drama

Ram leaves the nomadic life and embarks on a quest for knowledge in a pharaonic Egypt mired in political intrigue. Based on a biblical story.

Director: Youssef Chahine | Stars: Youssra, Khaled Nabawy, Mahmoud Hemida, Michel Piccoli

Votes: 1,132

26. The Inspector General (1949)

Approved | 102 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance

A town's corrupt officials think a fool is actually an investigator in disguise.

Director: Henry Koster | Stars: Danny Kaye, Walter Slezak, Barbara Bates, Elsa Lanchester

Votes: 3,563

27. The First Grader (2010)

PG-13 | 103 min | Biography, Drama, Romance

The story of an 84 year-old Kenyan villager and ex Mau Mau veteran who fights for his right to go to school for the first time to get the education he could never afford.

Director: Justin Chadwick | Stars: Naomie Harris, Oliver Litondo, Tony Kgoroge, Alfred Munyua

Votes: 4,893 | Gross: $0.33M

28. Ayali (2023– )

Drama

Young Tamizhselvi dreams of becoming a doctor. But her village, Veerappannai, has fearsome age-old customs and traditions which inadvertently suppress women of the village. Will she be able to overcome them?

Stars: Abi Natchatra, Madan Ravichandran, Pragadeeshwaran, Jenson

Votes: 1,316

29. The Sower (2017)

98 min | Drama, Romance

Violette is old enough to get married when her village in the Lower Alps is cruelly deprived of all its men by the repression that followed the republican uprising of December 1851. For the... See full summary »

Director: Marine Francen | Stars: Pauline Burlet, Géraldine Pailhas, Alban Lenoir, Iliana Zabeth

Votes: 709 | Gross: $0.04M

30. Tree with Deep Roots (2011)

Not Rated | 70 min | Drama

A series of murders occurred during the reign of King Sejong. As Kang Chae Yoon who is investigating these cases gets closer to the root of the truth, he finds himself embroiled in a ... See full summary »

Stars: Ahn Suk-hwan, Yeo Jin-goo, Lee Soo-hyuk, Cho Jin-woong

Votes: 604

31. Plymouth Adventure (1952)

Passed | 105 min | Adventure, Drama, History

Trials and tribulations beset the one hundred odd settlers that journey to Virginia in 1620 including unexpectedly arriving in Plymouth, Massachusetts.

Director: Clarence Brown | Stars: Spencer Tracy, Gene Tierney, Van Johnson, Leo Genn

Votes: 1,652

32. The War on Democracy (2007)

Not Rated | 96 min | Documentary

Venezuela, Guatemala, Cuba, Chile, Salvador, Bolivia: people's struggle for democracy versus US imperialism in Latin America since the 1950s, backing coups and supporting dictatorships.

Directors: Chris Martin, John Pilger, Sean Crotty | Stars: John Pilger, Philip Agee, Salvador Allende, George Bush

Votes: 2,526

33. Texas Lady (1955)

Approved | 86 min | Western

A strong-headed woman from the East inherits a newspaper in a small Texas town where the local cattle barons, who control the region, want her out of their hair.

Director: Tim Whelan | Stars: Claudette Colbert, Barry Sullivan, Ray Collins, James Bell

Votes: 334

34. Tennessee Johnson (1942)

Passed | 103 min | Biography, Drama

Biography of Andrew Johnson, who followed Abraham Lincoln into office and became the first President of the United States ever to be impeached.

Director: William Dieterle | Stars: Van Heflin, Lionel Barrymore, Ruth Hussey, Marjorie Main

Votes: 673

35. The Italian (2005)

PG-13 | 90 min | Drama

Set in 2002, an abandoned 5-year-old boy living in a rundown orphanage in a small Russian village is adopted by an Italian family.

Director: Andrey Kravchuk | Stars: Nikolay Spiridonov, Mariya Kuznetsova, Nikolay Reutov, Yuriy Itskov

Votes: 3,339 | Gross: $0.55M

36. Marvin & Tige (1983)

PG | 104 min | Drama

Marvin is a heavy-drinking widower who's seen better days and now ekes out a living at odd jobs. He meets Tige, an 11-year-old boy about to kill himself because his mother has just died. With nowhere else to stay, Tige moves in

Director: Eric Weston | Stars: John Cassavetes, Billy Dee Williams, Gibran Brown, Denise Nicholas

Votes: 243

37. The Pride of Jesse Hallam (1981 TV Movie)

97 min | Drama

Jesse Hallam, an illiterate coal miner from Kentucky, moves to Cincinnati so that his daughter may receive spinal surgery. Determined to support his family in the city, he decides he must ... See full summary »

Director: Gary Nelson | Stars: Johnny Cash, Brenda Vaccaro, Ben Marley, Eli Wallach

Votes: 347

38. Palunku (2006)

Drama

Monichan and Susamma migrate into town area with their children for the better education of their daughters

Director: Blessy | Stars: Mammootty, Lakshmi Sharma, Nazriya Nazim, Nivedita

Votes: 348

39. In the Navel of the Sea (1998)

116 min | Drama, Romance

Pepito, growing up in a remote fishing village in the Philippines is destined to become the successor of his mother: the only midwife in the whole district, a job given from generation to ... See full summary »

Director: Marilou Diaz-Abaya | Stars: Jomari Yllana, Elizabeth Oropesa, Chin Chin Gutierrez, Pen Medina

Votes: 55

40. Manoro (2006)

75 min | Documentary, Drama

Jonalyn and her father go on a search for Apong Bisen, her grandfather who went hunting in the forest and did not return to cast his vote for the election. Throughout the journey, Manoro ... See full summary »

Director: Brillante Mendoza | Stars: Jonalyn Ablong, Edgar Ablong, Carol Ablong, Carlito Ablong

Votes: 38

41. Rudolf the Black Cat (2016)

89 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy

A stranded little cat tries to find a way to back home.

Directors: Motonori Sakakibara, Kunihiko Yuyama | Stars: Mao Inoue, Ryohei Suzuki, Akio Ôtsuka, Arata Furuta

Votes: 904

42. The Delivery (I) (2008)

30 min | Short, Fantasy

A reluctant-reader teen's quest for a solution to an due-yesterday English Lit assignment leads to her discovering the value of the audiobook. She encounters temperament, talent, and a ... See full summary »

Director: Gabrielle de Cuir | Stars: J. Paul Boehmer, Scott Brick, Emily Janice Card, Orson Scott Card

43. Learn to Read (1987– )

30 min | Family

"Famous" Wally Amos hosts this program designed to teach reading skills and literacy to adults.

Stars: Wally Amos, Doris Biscoe, Caitlyn Jenner

Votes: 116

44. Green Screen Adventures (2007–2014)

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

Actors in front of a green screen act out stories written by children.

Stars: Jessica Honor Carleton, Kierra Bunch, Brendan Buckley, Ariel Coleman-Turner

Votes: 24

45. Afghan Alphabet (2002)

45 min | Documentary

Documentary showing the life of children of the Afghan villages bordering Iran, and how their life and culture were affected by Taliban regime.

Director: Mohsen Makhmalbaf | Stars: Ghafour Barahouyi, Maryam Ozbak, Mohsen Makhmalbaf

Votes: 302

46. The Ad and the Ego (1997)

57 min | Documentary

Intercutting thousands of contemporary and classic television commercials with insights by Stuart Ewen, Jean Kilbourne, Sut JhalIy and others, this film scrutinizes late 20th century ... See full summary »

Director: Harold Boihem

Votes: 45

47. The Write Offs (2020)

60 min | Documentary

Sandi Toksvig helps a diverse group of eight adults who can't read or write to master basic literacy an then sets them challenges to test what they have learned so far.

Star: Sandi Toksvig

Votes: 23

48. Dear America: A Picture of Freedom (1999 TV Movie)

TV-Y7 | 30 min | Drama, Family, History

Living on a Southern plantation before the Civil War, a young slave girl secretly learns how to read and write, and determines to teach others.

Director: Helaine Head | Stars: Shadia Simmons, Alison Sealy-Smith, Erica Luttrell, Jason Burke

Votes: 87

49. The Book Lady (2009)

Documentary

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Director: Natasha Ryan | Stars: Kurt Browning, Miley Cyrus, Sarah Harmer, Natalie McMaster

Votes: 21

50. Stolen History (2017 Video)

69 min | News

Stefan Molyneux talks to Dr. Tom Woods, senior fellow at the Mises Institute, about the worst arguments in favor of socialism and against capitalism.

Stars: Tom Woods, Stefan Molyneux