Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "john-f.-kennedy-character"

1. Forrest Gump (1994)

PG-13 | 142 min | Drama, Romance

The history of the United States from the 1950s to the '70s unfolds from the perspective of an Alabama man with an IQ of 75, who yearns to be reunited with his childhood sweetheart.

Director: Robert Zemeckis | Stars: Tom Hanks, Robin Wright, Gary Sinise, Sally Field

Votes: 2,255,249 | Gross: $330.25M

2. Watchmen (2009)

R | 162 min | Action, Drama, Mystery

In a version of 1985 where superheroes exist, the murder of a colleague sends active vigilante Rorschach on the trail of a conspiracy that will change the course of history.

Director: Zack Snyder | Stars: Jackie Earle Haley, Patrick Wilson, Carla Gugino, Malin Akerman

Votes: 582,221 | Gross: $107.51M

3. 11.22.63 (2016)

TV-MA | 60 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance

Jake Epping, a teacher, gets a chance to travel back in time to avert the death of John F. Kennedy. However, history's aversion to alteration and his love for the era and a woman endanger him.

Stars: James Franco, Sarah Gadon, George MacKay, Chris Cooper

Votes: 99,198

4. Blonde (2022)

NC-17 | 167 min | Drama, History

The story of American actress Marilyn Monroe, covering her love and professional lives.

Director: Andrew Dominik | Stars: Ana de Armas, Lily Fisher, Julianne Nicholson, Tygh Runyan

Votes: 71,905

5. Transformers: Dark of the Moon (2011)

PG-13 | 154 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

The Autobots learn of a Cybertronian spacecraft hidden on the moon, and race against the Decepticons to reach it and to learn its secrets.

Director: Michael Bay | Stars: Shia LaBeouf, Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, Tyrese Gibson, Josh Duhamel

Votes: 431,875 | Gross: $352.39M

6. JFK (1991)

R | 189 min | Drama, History, Thriller

New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison discovers there's more to the Kennedy assassination than the official story.

Director: Oliver Stone | Stars: Kevin Costner, Gary Oldman, Jack Lemmon, Walter Matthau

Votes: 169,851 | Gross: $70.41M

7. Malcolm X (1992)

PG-13 | 202 min | Biography, Drama, History

Biographical epic of the controversial and influential Black Nationalist leader, from his early life and career as a small-time gangster, to his ministry as a member of the Nation of Islam and his eventual assassination.

Director: Spike Lee | Stars: Denzel Washington, Angela Bassett, Delroy Lindo, Spike Lee

Votes: 101,984 | Gross: $48.17M

8. Thirteen Days (2000)

PG-13 | 145 min | Drama, History, Thriller

In October 1962, the Kennedy administration struggles to contain the Cuban Missile Crisis.

Director: Roger Donaldson | Stars: Kevin Costner, Bruce Greenwood, Shawn Driscoll, Drake Cook

Votes: 62,665 | Gross: $34.59M

9. The Butler (I) (2013)

PG-13 | 132 min | Biography, Drama

As Cecil Gaines serves eight presidents during his tenure as a butler at the White House, the civil rights movement, Vietnam, and other major events affect this man's life, family, and American society.

Director: Lee Daniels | Stars: Forest Whitaker, Oprah Winfrey, John Cusack, Jane Fonda

Votes: 119,720 | Gross: $116.63M

10. Clone High (2023– )

TV-14 | Animation, Comedy, Sci-Fi

Historical figures who have been cloned and placed back in high school, including Abraham Lincoln, Cleopatra, Joan of Arc, John F. Kennedy and more, as they face the trials of normal teenage life.

Stars: Neil Casey, Ayo Edebiri, Will Forte, Mitra Jouhari

Votes: 1,488

11. Jackie (V) (2016)

R | 100 min | Biography, Drama

Following the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy fights through grief and trauma to regain her faith, console her children, and define her husband's historic legacy.

Director: Pablo Larraín | Stars: Natalie Portman, Peter Sarsgaard, Greta Gerwig, Billy Crudup

Votes: 83,400 | Gross: $13.96M

12. Trumbo (2015)

R | 124 min | Biography, Drama

In 1947, Dalton Trumbo was Hollywood's top screenwriter, until he and other artists were jailed and blacklisted for their political beliefs.

Director: Jay Roach | Stars: Bryan Cranston, Diane Lane, Helen Mirren, Louis C.K.

Votes: 84,757 | Gross: $7.86M

13. Parkland (2013)

PG-13 | 93 min | Drama, History, Mystery

A recounting of the chaotic events that occurred at Dallas' Parkland Memorial Hospital on the day President John F. Kennedy was assassinated.

Director: Peter Landesman | Stars: Zac Efron, Tom Welling, Billy Bob Thornton, Paul Giamatti

Votes: 17,465 | Gross: $0.65M

14. Bubba Ho-Tep (2002)

R | 92 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Horror

When residents of their nursing home start dying of dubious causes, an aged Elvis and an African-American senior who claims to be President John F. Kennedy discover that the perpetrator is an Egyptian mummy with murderous intentions.

Director: Don Coscarelli | Stars: Bruce Campbell, Ossie Davis, Bob Ivy, Ella Joyce

Votes: 51,478 | Gross: $2.00M

15. Rise of the Footsoldier (2007)

R | 119 min | Action, Biography, Crime

The life of career criminal Carlton Leach.

Director: Julian Gilbey | Stars: Ricci Harnett, Terry Stone, Craig Fairbrass, Roland Manookian

Votes: 21,745

16. Clone High (2002–2003)

TV-14 | 30 min | Animation, Comedy, Sci-Fi

The greatest minds of the world have been cloned, and are now attending high school together.

Stars: Will Forte, Phil Lord, Michael McDonald, Christa Miller

Votes: 9,011

17. LBJ (2016)

R | 98 min | Biography, Drama, History

Lyndon B. Johnson aligns himself with John F. Kennedy, rises to the Presidency, and deals with the civil rights struggles of the 1960s.

Director: Rob Reiner | Stars: Woody Harrelson, Michael Stahl-David, Richard Jenkins, Jennifer Jason Leigh

Votes: 7,682 | Gross: $2.47M

18. The Rat Pack (1998 TV Movie)

R | 120 min | Biography, Drama, Musical

The public and private lives of Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr. and Peter Lawford.

Director: Rob Cohen | Stars: Ray Liotta, Joe Mantegna, Don Cheadle, Angus Macfadyen

Votes: 3,230

19. Norma Jean & Marilyn (1996 TV Movie)

R | 139 min | Biography, Drama

This film follows Norma Jean from her simple, ambitious youth to her superstar pinnacle and back down. She moves from lover to lover in order to further her career. She finds fame but never happiness, only knowing seduction but not love.

Director: Tim Fywell | Stars: Ashley Judd, Mira Sorvino, Josh Charles, Ron Rifkin

Votes: 2,812

20. The Express (2008)

PG | 130 min | Biography, Drama, Sport

A drama based on the life of college football hero Ernie Davis, the first African-American to win the Heisman Trophy.

Director: Gary Fleder | Stars: Rob Brown, Dennis Quaid, Clancy Brown, Darrin Dewitt Henson

Votes: 22,863 | Gross: $9.59M

21. Superman: Red Son (2020 Video)

PG-13 | 84 min | Animation, Action, Sci-Fi

What if baby Kal-El's rocket landed not in Kansas, but in the Soviet Union? That is the premise of this Elseworld's tale from DC Comics.

Director: Sam Liu | Stars: Jason Isaacs, Amy Acker, Diedrich Bader, Vanessa Marshall

Votes: 16,854

22. An American Carol (2008)

PG-13 | 83 min | Comedy, Fantasy

An anti-American filmmaker who's out to abolish the July Fourth holiday is visited by three ghosts who try to change his perception of the country.

Director: David Zucker | Stars: Kevin P. Farley, Kelsey Grammer, Leslie Nielsen, Trace Adkins

Votes: 10,103 | Gross: $7.00M

23. Executive Action (1973)

PG | 91 min | Crime, Drama, History

Rogue intelligence agents, right-wing politicians, greedy capitalists, and free-lance assassins plot and carry out the JFK assassination.

Director: David Miller | Stars: Burt Lancaster, Robert Ryan, Will Geer, Gilbert Green

Votes: 3,240

24. PT 109 (1963)

Approved | 140 min | Biography, Drama, War

President John F. Kennedy kept a unique inauguration gift on his desk: a plastic-encased coconut. The tale of that coconut is the heroic story of PT 109.

Director: Leslie H. Martinson | Stars: Cliff Robertson, Robert Culp, Ty Hardin, James Gregory

Votes: 2,990

25. Justice League: The New Frontier (2008 Video)

PG-13 | 75 min | Animation, Action, Adventure

In the 1950s, a new generation of superheroes must join forces with the community's active veterans and a hostile US government to fight a menace to Earth.

Director: Dave Bullock | Stars: David Boreanaz, Miguel Ferrer, Neil Patrick Harris, John Heard

Votes: 21,377

26. Kennedy (1983)

282 min | Biography, Drama, History

Biography of the 1961-1963 Presidency of John F. Kennedy with Martin Sheen and Blair Brown. Covers the momentous presidential years and the lives, loves, and triumphs of one of the most controversial families of the twentieth-century.

Stars: John Shea, E.G. Marshall, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Andrew Rayden

Votes: 590

27. King (1978)

271 min | Biography, Drama, History

The story of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., stretching from his days as a Southern Baptist minister up to his assassination in Memphis in 1968.

Stars: Paul Winfield, Cicely Tyson, Tony Bennett, Roscoe Lee Browne

Votes: 443

28. Jackie, Ethel, Joan: The Women of Camelot (2001 TV Movie)

163 min | Biography, Drama

They were more than Washington wives. They were part of an American dream known as Camelot. With strength and cunning they upheld their public image by concealing their private truths. ... See full summary »

Director: Larry Shaw | Stars: Jill Hennessy, Lauren Holly, Leslie Stefanson, Daniel Hugh Kelly

Votes: 462

29. The Missiles of October (1974 TV Movie)

150 min | Drama, History, Thriller

In October 1962, the Kennedy administration struggles to contain the Cuban Missile Crisis.

Director: Anthony Page | Stars: William Devane, Ralph Bellamy, Howard Da Silva, James Hong

Votes: 1,124

30. Onassis: The Richest Man in the World (1988 TV Movie)

Unrated | 120 min | Biography, Drama, Romance

Biography of the life of Aristotle Onassis, a Greek who rose to become one of the world's most wealthiest men, detailing his rise to power and unhappy marriages.

Director: Waris Hussein | Stars: Raul Julia, Jane Seymour, Anthony Quinn, Francesca Annis

Votes: 752

31. A Woman Named Jackie (1991)

PG | 246 min | Biography, Drama

This starts when Jackie Kennedy was working after college; and spans her life through the Presidency of John F. Kennedy and her marriage to Aristotle Onassis after the assassination of President Kennedy.

Stars: Sarah Michelle Gellar, Roma Downey, Anna Thomson, Bob Gunton

Votes: 337

32. The Kennedys of Massachusetts (1990)

278 min | Drama

This sweeping mini-series profiling the Kennedy family ran three nights. The film chronicles 55 years in the lives of the family opening in 1906 with the marriage of Joseph P. Kennedy, a ... See full summary »

Stars: Casey Affleck, Annette O'Toole, Madolyn Smith Osborne, Steven Weber

Votes: 175

33. Jackie Bouvier Kennedy Onassis (2000 TV Movie)

240 min | Biography, Drama

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Director: David Burton Morris | Stars: Joanne Whalley, Tim Matheson, Tom Skerritt, Frances Fisher

Votes: 213

34. Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy (1981 TV Movie)

PG | 150 min | Biography, Drama

Biography focusing on the former First Lady's years in D.C., from working as a newspaper's "Inquiring Camera Girl" to meeting and being courted by Rep. Jack Kennedy to life on the campaign trail and into the White House.

Director: Steve Gethers | Stars: Jaclyn Smith, James Franciscus, Rod Taylor, Stephen Elliott

Votes: 242

35. RFK (2002 TV Movie)

94 min | Drama, History

Following the death of his brother John, Robert Kennedy is forced to rise to the challenge of leading his country and carrying on his brother's vision of what America could be.

Director: Robert Dornhelm | Stars: Linus Roache, James Cromwell, David Paymer, Martin Donovan

Votes: 448

36. Blood Feud (1983 TV Movie)

210 min | Crime, Drama

Made for TV movie about Bobby Kennedy's campaign to bring Jimmy Hoffa to justice.

Director: Mike Newell | Stars: Robert Blake, Cotter Smith, Danny Aiello, Edward Albert

Votes: 212

37. Marilyn Monroe's Last Press Conference (2022)

Drama, History

Amid swirling, salacious rumors, Marilyn Monroe schedules a "tell-all" press conference. She's found new purpose after meetings with President Kennedy and Fox Studios mogul Darryl Zanuck. Powerful conspirators, however, want her silenced.

Directors: Frank H. Cutler, Lenni Uitto | Stars: Savannah Meyer, Lenni Uitto, Belinda Glenn, Corey Sondrup

Votes: 10

38. J. Edgar Hoover (1987 TV Movie)

PG | 108 min | Drama

He battled the Kennedys and Martin Luther King, encouraged McCarthy and single-handedly changed the course of history. Hired by F.D.R. to be the director of the FBI, Hoover erected the most sophisticated investigatory agency in the world.

Director: Robert L. Collins | Stars: Treat Williams, Rip Torn, David Ogden Stiers, Andrew Duggan

Votes: 82

39. Hoover vs. the Kennedys: The Second Civil War (1987)

200 min | Drama

This is the story of feud between FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover and the Kennedys. It shows how much Hoover hated them and how they tried to stand up to him. From the day John Kennedy was ... See full summary »

Stars: Heather Thomas, Robert Pine, Jack Warden, Richard Anderson

Votes: 40

40. Finest Hours (2019)

2 min | Short, History

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Director: Ralph Scherer | Stars: Andy Abell, Tom Cutler, Ian Flanders, Gina Grinkemeyer

41. J.F.K.: A One-Man Show (1984 TV Movie)

90 min | Biography

Dramatization of the career of John Fitzgerald Kennedy.

Director: Frank Perry | Stars: Walter Cronkite, Mike Farrell

Votes: 6

42. JFK: One Day in November

History | Announced

An investigator uncovers the hidden truth behind the JFK assassination, revealing the sinister crime of the century that changed the course of history.

Director: Jeff Olm | Stars: Stefano Capone, John Tolbert, Catherine Parish, Mark D Valenti

43. Death of an Ally (2007)

15 min | Short, Comedy

Sixteen-year-old Fidel Castro loves America. He even hopes to reach Hollywood one day and become a star like his hero, Clark Gable. But a competition at a bar over a California girl with one 25-year-old John F. Kennedy changes all that.

Director: Julio Quintana | Stars: Lucas Quintana, Zac Bryant, Michele Salem, Sermini

Votes: 8

44. Bóthar go dtí an White House (2009– )

26 min | Documentary

The story of Irish-American politics from the famine to JFK.

Stars: Tara Breathnach, Eamonn Draper, Liam Alex Heffron, Antony Conaty

45. Untitled John F. Kennedy/Netflix Project

Biography, Drama, History | Announced

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46. Clone High (2002–2003)
Episode: A Room of One's Clone: The Pie of the Storm (2003)

TV-14 | 22 min | Animation, Comedy, Sci-Fi

Abe is stuck in the middle of a Civil War between Joan and Cleo when they are forced to move in together. And by "Civil War" I mean "girl fight" and by "move in together" I mean "roll around ripping each other's clothes off."

Directors: Ted Collyer, Harold Harris, Phil Lord, Christopher Miller | Stars: Will Forte, Phil Lord, Michael McDonald, Christa Miller

Votes: 228

47. Red Dwarf (1988– )
Episode: Tikka to Ride (1997)

TV-14 | 29 min | Comedy, Sci-Fi

Following the encounter with their future selves, Kryten forbids the use of time travel but Lister wishes to go back in time to get some curry. However, the crew instead end up in Dallas, 1963 on the day John F. Kennedy is assassinated.

Director: Ed Bye | Stars: Chris Barrie, Craig Charles, Danny John-Jules, Robert Llewellyn

Votes: 897

48. Saturday Night Live (1975– )
Episode: Madonna/Simple Minds (1985)

TV-14 | 90 min | Comedy, Music

No cold opening. In her monologue, the host Madonna talks about her and Sean Penn's recent secretive wedding and shows mockumentary clips from it. Hell beer commercial carries a warning for... See full summary »

Directors: Dave Wilson, John Fox, Robert Leacock, Matthew Meshekoff, James Signorelli | Stars: Joan Cusack, Robert Downey Jr., Nora Dunn, Anthony Michael Hall

Votes: 86

49. South Park (1997– )
Episode: Do the Handicapped Go to Hell? (2000)

TV-MA | 22 min | Animation, Comedy

The boys become obsessed with religion after a sermon about hell scares them. Meanwhile, Saddam returns to Hell and tries to dispose of Satan's new boyfriend.

Director: Trey Parker | Stars: Trey Parker, Matt Stone, Milan Agnone, Dian Bachar

Votes: 2,947

50. The Whitest Kids U'Know (2007–2011)
Episode: Episode #2.3 (2008)

TV-MA | Comedy

Instant Karma Bigot / Weird / Joining the Army / Jack and Oswald / Elephant Balls / George Lucas / The America Song

Directors: Zach Cregger, Trevor Moore | Stars: Trevor Moore, Sam Brown, Zach Cregger, Darren Trumeter

Votes: 25