Shows and Movies Starting with 'A' - Up Next
American Conspiracy: The Octopus Murders
TV-MA | Documentary, Crime | 1 season, 4 episodes | Avg. episode: 56 minutes - An investigative journalist pursuing a political conspiracy known as the Octopus is found dead in his hotel room. Decades later, new details emerge.
American Crime
TV-14 | Drama, Crime, Mystery | 3 seasons, 29 episodes | Avg. episode: 43 minutes - An anthology drama focusing on all aspects of the U.S. criminal justice system dealing with crimes committed in America.
American Crime Story
TV-MA | Crime, Drama | 3 seasons, 29 episodes | Avg. episode: 51 minutes - An anthology series centered around some of history's most famous criminal investigations.
American Dad!
TV-14 | Animation, Comedy | 22 seasons, 399 episodes | Next episode June 21, 2026 | Avg. episode: 22 minutes - The series focuses on an eccentric motley crew that is the Smith family and their three housemates: Father, husband, and breadwinner Stan Smith; his better half housewife, Francine Smith; their college-aged daughter, Hayley Smith; and their high-school-aged son, Steve Smith. Outside of the Smith family, there are three additional main characters, including Hayley's boyfriend turned husband, Jeff Fischer; the family's man-in-a-goldfish-body pet, Klaus; and most notably the family's zany alien, Roger, who is "full of masquerades, brazenness, and shocking antics."
American Dharma
Documentary | 1 hour 35 minutes - A portrait of controversial Breitbart honcho and Donald Trump advisor, Stephen K. Bannon.
American Dream/American Knightmare
R | Documentary, Music | 1 hour 25 minutes - Documentary that delves deep into the life and storied exploits of the iconic Death Row Records co-founder Suge Knight, as well as the volatile and highly influential era in gangsta rap he presided over. Through a series of interviewers face to face with director Antoine Fuqua, Knight reveals exactly how it all happened and why it all fell apart. Knight is currently in jail pending trial on murder, attempted-murder and hit-and-run charges.
American Dreamer
Comedy | 1 hour 46 minutes - In this winsome comedy, an entitled Economics professor pursues a tactic to buy an ailing widow’s mansion for nothing, but he quickly realizes that his seemingly foolproof strategy won’t be as easy as he thought.
American Experience
TV-PG | Documentary | 38 seasons, 400 episodes | Avg. episode: 55 minutes - TV's most-watched history series brings to life the compelling stories from our past that inform our understanding of the world today.
American Fiction
Comedy, Drama | 1 hour 57 minutes - A novelist fed up with the establishment profiting from "Black" entertainment uses a pen name to write a book that propels him into the heart of hypocrisy and the madness he claims to disdain.
American Gangster
R | Drama, Crime | 2 hours 37 minutes - Loosely based on the criminal career of Frank Lucas, a gangster from La Grange, North Carolina, who smuggled heroin into the United States on American service planes returning from the Vietnam War, before being detained by a task force led by Newark Detective Richie Roberts.
American Gigolo
R | Crime, Drama, Mystery | 1 hour 57 minutes - Julian makes a lucrative living as an escort to older women in the Los Angeles area. He begins a relationship with Michelle, a local politician's wife, without expecting any pay. One of his clients is murdered and Detective Sunday begins pumping him for details on his different clients, something he is reluctant to do considering the nature of his work. Julian begins to suspect he's being framed. Meanwhile Michelle begins to fall in love with him.
American Gods
TV-MA | Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi & Fantasy | 3 seasons, 26 episodes | Avg. episode: 55 minutes - An ex-con becomes the traveling partner of a conman who turns out to be one of the older gods trying to recruit troops to battle the upstart deities. Based on Neil Gaiman's fantasy novel.
American Graffiti
PG | Comedy, Drama | 1 hour 52 minutes - A couple of high school graduates spend one final night cruising the strip with their buddies before they go off to college.
American Horror Stories
TV-MA | Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi & Fantasy | 3 seasons, 24 episodes | Avg. episode: 45 minutes - An anthology series of stand alone episodes delving into horror myths, legends and lore.
American Horror Story
TV-MA | Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi & Fantasy | 12 seasons, 132 episodes | Avg. episode: 44 minutes - An anthology horror drama series centering on different characters and locations, including a house with a murderous past, an asylum, a witch coven, a freak show, a hotel, a farmhouse in Roanoke, a cult, the apocalypse and a summer camp.
American Housewife
TV-PG | Comedy | 5 seasons, 103 episodes | Avg. episode: 21 minutes - A family comedy narrated by Katie, a strong-willed mother, raising her flawed family in a wealthy town filled with perfect wives and their perfect offspring.
American Hustle
R | Drama, Crime | 2 hours 18 minutes - A conman and his seductive partner are forced to work for a wild FBI agent, who pushes them into a world of Jersey power-brokers and the Mafia.
American Idiot
American Idol
TV-PG | Reality | 15 seasons, 567 episodes | Avg. episode: 1 hour 25 minutes - Each year, hopeful singers from all over the country audition to be part of one of the biggest shows in American television history. Who will become the new American Idol?
American Made
R | Comedy, Crime, Drama | 1 hour 55 minutes - The true story of pilot Barry Seal, who transported contraband for the CIA and the Medellin cartel in the 1980s.