Top Mischief Movies & TV Shows

Mythic Quest (2020) TV Show

7.2 456 votes

Genre: Comedy

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 4

Episodes: 40

Audience: TV-MA

Story: Meet the team behind the biggest multiplayer video game of all time. But in a workplace focused on building worlds, molding heroes, and creating legends, the most hard-fought battles don’t occur in the game—they happen in the office.

Style: lighthearted

Plot: video game, sitcom, workplace comedy, video game development, mischievous, playful, hilarious, farcical, ...

Cast

Doris Day

Rock Hudson

Tony Randall

Thelma Ritter

Pillow Talk (1959)

7.1 323 votes

Genre: Comedy, Romance

Country: United States of America

Duration: 102 min.

Audience: NR

Story: Playboy songwriter Brad Allen's succession of romances annoys his neighbor, interior designer Jan Morrow, who shares a telephone party line with him and hears all his breezy routines. After Jan unsuccessfully lodges a complaint against him, Brad sets about to seduce her in the guise of a sincere and upstanding Texas rancher. When mutual friend Jonathan discovers that his best friend is moving in on the girl he desires, however, sparks fly.

Style: romantic

Plot: romcom, deception, romance, playboy, neighbor, texan, millionaire, screwball comedy, ...

Cast

Steve Martin

Michael Caine

Glenne Headly

Anton Rodgers

Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (1988)

7.1 1.1K votes

Genre: Comedy, Crime

Country: United States of America

Duration: 110 min.

Audience: PG

Story: Con artist Lawrence Jamieson is a longtime resident of a luxurious coastal resort, where he enjoys the lavish fruits of his deceptions -- that is, until a competitor, Freddy Benson, shows up. When the new guy's lowbrow tactics impinge on his own sophisticated work and believing him to be the infamous conman 'The Jackal', Lawrence resolves to get rid of him. Confident of his own duplicitous talents, he challenges Freddy to a winner-takes-all competition: whoever swindles their latest mark, American heiress Janet Colgate, out of $50,000 first can stay, while the other must leave town.

Plot: bet, casino, competition, southern france, wheelchair, seduction, con man, swindler, ...

Cast

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Jamie Lee Curtis

Tom Arnold

Bill Paxton

True Lies (1994)

7.1 4.6K votes

Genre: Action, Thriller

Country: United States of America

Duration: 141 min.

Audience: R

Story: A fearless, globe-trotting, terrorist-battling secret agent has his life turned upside down when he discovers his wife might be having an affair with a used car salesman while terrorists smuggle nuclear war heads into the United States.

Plot: horseback riding, gun, kidnapping, spy, florida keys, secret agent, terrorism, terrorist plot, ...

Place: florida

Cast

Tony Shalhoub

7.1 2.6K votes

Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Science Fiction

Country: United States of America

Duration: 102 min.

Audience: PG

Story: For four years, the courageous crew of the NSEA Protector — Commander Peter Quincy Taggart, Lieutenant Tawny Madison, and Doctor Lazarus — set off on a thrilling and often dangerous mission in space... until their series was cancelled! Now, twenty years later, aliens under attack have mistaken the Galaxy Quest television transmissions for "historical documents" and beam up the crew of has-been actors to save the universe. With no script, no director, and no clue, the actors must turn in the performances of their lives.

Style: suspenseful

Plot: spacecraft, teleportation, space battle, time travel, parody, alien, spoof, fans, ...

Cast

Rob Lowe

Mckenna Grace

Sarah Dugdale

Marci T. House

The Bad Seed (2018)

7.1 356 votes

Genre: Horror, Thriller, TV Movie

Country: Canada, United States of America

Duration: 84 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: A widower suspects that his seemingly perfect adolescent daughter is a heartless killer.

Style: shocking

Plot: remake, murder, mischievous, murder confession, psychological drama, enthusiastic

After We Fell (2021)

7.0 2.8K votes

Genre: Drama, Romance

Country: France, United States of America

Duration: 99 min.

Audience: R

Story: Just as Tessa's life begins to become unglued, nothing is what she thought it would be. Not her friends nor her family. The only person that she should be able to rely on is Hardin, who is furious when he discovers the massive secret that she's been keeping. Before Tessa makes the biggest decision of her life, everything changes because of revelations about her family.

Plot: based on novel or book, family history, sequel, love, teenage crush, woman director, family tension, zealous, ...

Cast

Lily Sullivan

Alyssa Sutherland

Morgan Davies

Gabrielle Echols

Evil Dead Rise (2023)

6.9 3.8K votes

Genre: Horror, Thriller

Country: New Zealand, Ireland

Duration: 96 min.

Audience: R

Story: A reunion between two estranged sisters gets cut short by the rise of flesh-possessing demons, thrusting them into a primal battle for survival as they face the most nightmarish version of family imaginable.

Plot: sibling relationship, pregnancy, supernatural, earthquake, gore, sequel, demon, spin off, ...

Place: los angeles, california

Cast

Kitana Kiki Rodriguez

Mya Taylor

Karren Karagulian

Mickey O'Hagan

Tangerine (2015)

6.9 808 votes

Genre: Comedy, Drama

Country: United States of America

Duration: 87 min.

Audience: R

Story: It's Christmas Eve in Tinseltown and Sin-Dee is back on the block. Upon hearing that her pimp boyfriend hasn't been faithful during the 28 days she was locked up, the working girl and her best friend, Alexandra, embark on a mission to get to the bottom of the scandalous rumor. Their rip-roaring odyssey leads them through various subcultures of Los Angeles, including an Armenian family dealing with their own repercussions of infidelity.

Style: melancholy, absurd, whimsical

Plot: taxi, prostitute, transsexuality, taxi driver, laundromat, singer, hollywood, los angeles, ...

That '90s Show (2023) TV Show

6.7 219 votes

Genre: Comedy

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 2

Episodes: 26

Audience: TV-14

Story: Hello, Wisconsin! It's 1995 and Leia Forman, daughter of Eric and Donna, is visiting her grandparents for the summer where she bonds with a new generation of Point Place kids under the watchful eye of Kitty and the stern glare of Red. Sex, drugs and rock 'n roll never dies, it just changes clothes.

Plot: high school, first love, sitcom, mischievous, teenager, hilarious, feel-good

Time: 1990s

Cast

Mia Wasikowska

Johnny Depp

Anne Hathaway

Helena Bonham Carter

Alice in Wonderland (2010)

6.6 14.9K votes

Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy

Country: United States of America

Duration: 108 min.

Audience: PG

Story: Alice, now 19 years old, returns to the whimsical world she first entered as a child and embarks on a journey to discover her true destiny.

Plot: based on novel or book, queen, based on children's book, fantasy world, taunting, mad hatter, lewis carroll, live action remake, ...

Cast

George Clooney

Mark Wahlberg

Ice Cube

Spike Jonze

Three Kings (1999)

6.6 2.3K votes

Genre: Action, Comedy, War

Country: United States of America

Duration: 114 min.

Audience: R

Story: A group of American soldiers stationed in Iraq at the end of the Gulf War find a map they believe will take them to a huge cache of stolen Kuwaiti gold hidden near their base, and they embark on a secret mission that's destined to change everything.

Plot: rescue, gold, gulf war, three kings, treasure map, kuwait, interracial relationship, soldier, ...

Place: iraq

Cast

Anthony Michael Hall

Ilan Mitchell-Smith

Kelly LeBrock

Bill Paxton

Weird Science (1985)

6.5 1.6K votes

Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance

Country: United States of America

Duration: 93 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: Two unpopular teenagers, Gary and Wyatt, fail at all attempts to be accepted by their peers. Their desperation to be liked leads them to "create" a woman via their computer. Their living and breathing creation is a gorgeous woman, Lisa, whose purpose is to boost their confidence level by putting them into situations which require Gary and Wyatt to act like men.

Style: lighthearted, absurd, whimsical

Plot: chicago, illinois, nerd, biker, based on comic, morphing, mischievous, hilarious, ...

Cast

Charlie Hunnam

Robert Pattinson

Sienna Miller

Tom Holland

The Lost City of Z (2017)

6.4 3.1K votes

Genre: Adventure, Drama, History

Country: United States of America, Northern Ireland

Duration: 141 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: A true-life drama in the 1920s, centering on British explorer Col. Percy Fawcett, who discovered evidence of a previously unknown, advanced civilization in the Amazon and disappeared whilst searching for it.

Plot: based on novel or book, snake, river, expedition, lost civilisation, tribe, biography, amazon rainforest, ...

Time: world war i, 1920s

Place: south america

Cast

Malachi Pearson

Christina Ricci

Bill Pullman

Cathy Moriarty

Casper (1995)

6.3 5.0K votes

Genre: Comedy, Family, Fantasy

Country: United States of America

Duration: 100 min.

Audience: PG

Story: Casper is a kind young ghost who peacefully haunts a mansion in Maine. When specialist James Harvey arrives to communicate with Casper and his fellow spirits, he brings along his teenage daughter, Kat. Casper quickly falls in love with Kat, but their budding relationship is complicated not only by his transparent state, but also by his troublemaking apparition uncles and their mischievous antics.

Plot: friendship, afterlife, supernatural, halloween, bullying, treasure hunt, based on comic, friends, ...

Cast

Eddie Murphy

Arsenio Hall

Jermaine Fowler

Leslie Jones

Coming 2 America (2021)

6.3 2.4K votes

Genre: Comedy

Country: United States of America

Duration: 108 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: Prince Akeem Joffer is set to become King of Zamunda when he discovers he has a son he never knew about in America – a street savvy Queens native named Lavelle. Honoring his royal father's dying wish to groom this son as the crown prince, Akeem and Semmi set off to America once again.

Plot: africa, prince, heir to the throne, sequel, mischievous, dramatic

The Exorcist III (1990)

6.3 872 votes

Genre: Horror, Mystery

Country: United States of America

Duration: 110 min.

Audience: R

Story: On the fifteenth anniversary of the exorcism that claimed Father Damien Karras' life, Police Lieutenant Kinderman's world is once again shattered when a boy is found decapitated and savagely crucified.

Style: whimsical

Plot: death penalty, based on novel or book, religion and supernatural, suspicion of murder, investigation, exorcism, doomed man, halloween, ...

Cast

Cillian Murphy

Brie Larson

Armie Hammer

Sharlto Copley

Free Fire (2017)

6.3 1.2K votes

Genre: Action, Crime, Mystery

Country: United Kingdom

Duration: 91 min.

Audience: R

Story: Set in Boston in 1978, a meeting in a deserted warehouse between two gangs turns into a shoot-out and a game of survival.

Style: tense

Plot: sniper, boston, massachusetts, gang, shootout, warehouse, mischievous, amused

Time: 1970s

Cast

James Franco

Jonah Hill

Seth Rogen

Jay Baruchel

This Is the End (2013)

6.2 6.9K votes

Genre: Action, Comedy

Country: United States of America

Duration: 106 min.

Audience: R

Story: While attending a party at James Franco's house, Seth Rogen, Jay Baruchel and many other celebrities are faced with the apocalypse.

Style: claustrophobic

Plot: friendship, monster, panic, painting, exorcism, dark comedy, possession, satire, ...

Cast

Ranbir Kapoor

Katrina Kaif

Upen Patel

Govind Namdeo

Ajab Prem Ki Ghazab Kahani (2009)

6.2 160 votes

Genre: Action, Comedy, Romance

Country: India

Duration: 150 min.

Audience: PG

Story: When his love interest doesn't show up for a meeting, a man and his friends go to Goa in order to find her, where they discover she loves someone else.

Style: romantic

Plot: mischievous

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