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1. About Schmidt (2002)
R | 125 min | Drama
A recently retired man embarks on a journey to his estranged daughter's wedding, only to discover more about himself and life than he ever expected.
Director: Alexander Payne | Stars: Jack Nicholson, Hope Davis, Dermot Mulroney, Kathy Bates
Votes: 133,568 | Gross: $65.02M
2. The Lifeguard (2013)
R | 98 min | Drama, Romance
A former valedictorian quits her reporter job in New York and returns to the place she last felt happy: her childhood home in Connecticut. She gets work as a lifeguard and starts a dangerous relationship with a troubled teenager.
Director: Liz W. Garcia | Stars: Kristen Bell, Mamie Gummer, Martin Starr, Joshua Harto
Votes: 15,213
3. Alice in the Cities (1974)
Not Rated | 113 min | Drama
A German journalist is saddled with a nine-year-old girl after encountering her mother at a New York airport.
Director: Wim Wenders | Stars: Yella Rottländer, Rüdiger Vogler, Lisa Kreuzer, Edda Köchl
Votes: 13,234
4. Double Whammy (2001)
R | 93 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
A world-weary police detective who fails to stop a fast-food restaurant massacre struggles to regain his departmental reputation, public image and self-worth.
Director: Tom DiCillo | Stars: Denis Leary, Elizabeth Hurley, Luis Guzmán, Victor Argo
Votes: 3,934
5. The Children Act (2017)
R | 105 min | Drama
As her marriage crumbles, a judge must decide a case involving a teenage boy who is refusing a blood transfusion on religious principle.
Director: Richard Eyre | Stars: Emma Thompson, Stanley Tucci, Reena Lalbihari, Dominic Carter
Votes: 14,751 | Gross: $0.51M
6. Bates Motel (1987 TV Movie)
TV-PG | 90 min | Comedy, Drama, Horror
A mentally disturbed man, who roomed with the late Norman Bates at the state lunatic asylum, inherits the legendary Bates Motel after the death of Norman and tries to fix it up to make it a respectable business.
Director: Richard Rothstein | Stars: Bud Cort, Lori Petty, Moses Gunn, Gregg Henry
Votes: 1,766
7. Journey to Italy (1954)
Not Rated | 97 min | Drama, Romance
An unhappily married couple attempts to find direction and insight while vacationing in Naples.
Director: Roberto Rossellini | Stars: Ingrid Bergman, George Sanders, Maria Mauban, Anna Proclemer
Votes: 12,243
8. Seize the Day (1986)
Unrated | 93 min | Drama
Tommy Wilhelm is a good honest man who's fallen on hard times after losing his job, but what really gets to Tommy is seeing both his friends and family turning their backs on him one after the other. He tries to seize the day - in vain.
Director: Fielder Cook | Stars: Robin Williams, Richard B. Shull, David Bickford, Glenne Headly
Votes: 1,526
9. Europe '51 (1952)
Not Rated | 118 min | Drama
A wealthy woman becomes obsessed with humanitarianism when her young son dies after committing suicide.
Director: Roberto Rossellini | Stars: Ingrid Bergman, Alexander Knox, Ettore Giannini, Giulietta Masina
Votes: 4,785
10. Stuck Apart (2021)
TV-MA | 96 min | Comedy, Drama
The story of Aziz through an existential crisis longing for his youth: he is not happy with his work nor his private life, which is hijacked by his sister and her family, who have been living with him for some time now.
Directors: Durul Taylan, Yagmur Taylan | Stars: Engin Günaydin, Haluk Bilginer, Binnur Kaya, Öner Erkan
Votes: 11,424
11. Truth About Men (2010)
Not Rated | 91 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Mads, a 34-year-old scriptwriter, goes through a life crisis when a close friend has a stroke and ends up in a coma. Mads breaks up with his girlfriend of 10 years and tries to find a ... See full summary »
Director: Nikolaj Arcel | Stars: Thure Lindhardt, Tuva Novotny, Rosalinde Mynster, Signe Egholm Olsen
Votes: 1,452
12. Worlds Apart (2008)
116 min | Drama
The daughter of a Jehovah's Witness is forced to choose between religion and love when she falls for someone outside her faith.
Director: Niels Arden Oplev | Stars: Rosalinde Mynster, Pilou Asbæk, Jens Jørn Spottag, Sarah Boberg
Votes: 3,468
13. Devil's Playground (2002)
77 min | Documentary
Amish teenagers experience and embrace the modern world as a rite-of-passage before deciding which life they will choose.
Director: Lucy Walker | Stars: Velda Bontrager, Mark Bontrager, Dewayne Chupp, Dylan Cole
Votes: 2,703
14. Pride of the Marines (1945)
Approved | 120 min | Biography, Drama, Romance
Marine hero Al Schmid is blinded in battle and returns home to be rehabilitated. He readjusts to his civilian life with the help of his soon to be wife.
Director: Delmer Daves | Stars: John Garfield, Eleanor Parker, Dane Clark, John Ridgely
Votes: 1,644
15. Let it Rain (2008)
110 min | Comedy, Drama
Agnes Jaoui plays a local political candidate Agathe Villanova, who returns to her childhood home in the south of France in order to help her sister Florence (Pascale Arbillot) sort through... See full summary »
Director: Agnès Jaoui | Stars: Agnès Jaoui, Jean-Pierre Bacri, Jamel Debbouze, Pascale Arbillot
Votes: 1,916 | Gross: $0.11M
16. Aci Ask (2009)
106 min | Crime, Drama
Orhan, who works as a literature professor at a university in Eskisehir, unexpectedly ends his relationship with Ayse whom he was planning to marry, and comes to Istanbul where he meets Oya.
Director: A. Taner Elhan | Stars: Halit Ergenç, Cansu Dere, Songül Öden, Ezgi Asaroglu
Votes: 2,036
17. Wonderland (2017)
92 min | Comedy, Drama
Helena's husband has gone off with a younger woman. Christmas is coming, life is slow and nothing is as it used to be. Helena is getting anxious about spending Christmas alone. Her best ... See full summary »
Director: Inari Niemi | Stars: Milka Ahlroth, Anna Paavilainen, Mari Rantasila, Eero Ritala
Votes: 504
18. Maybe Someday (2022)
91 min | Comedy, Drama
In the midst of separating from her wife, Jay attempts to move across the country to start her life over again as she grapples with the inevitable cycles of love, loss, and everything in between.
Director: Michelle Ehlen | Stars: Michelle Ehlen, Charlie Steers, Shaela Cook, Jeneen Robinson
Votes: 55
19. A Gun in Each Hand (2012)
95 min | Comedy, Drama
A comedy centered on eight men in their 40s, all with identity crises.
Director: Cesc Gay | Stars: Javier Cámara, Ricardo Darín, Eduard Fernández, Jordi Mollà
Votes: 3,382
20. I hus til halsen (2013– )
38 min | Documentary
Stars: Line Franck, Søren Vester, Jesper Nielsen, Anders Busk Faarborg
Votes: 29
21. My Summer with Des (1998 TV Movie)
82 min | Comedy, Romance, Sport
British romcom set during Euro 96.
Director: Simon Curtis | Stars: Neil Morrissey, Rachel Weisz, John Gordon Sinclair, Arabella Weir
Votes: 412
22. Chillicothe (1999)
R | 92 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A dry-witted narrative that follows a year in the life of six friends who have found themselves trapped in a rut in the time following college. It's been four years since graduation, and ... See full summary »
Director: Todd Edwards | Stars: Todd Edwards, Peter Bedgood, Cory Edwards, Brad Knull
Votes: 244
23. Anderssons älskarinna (2001)
347 min | Drama
Lars Andersson's life is about to unravel. He doesn't like his job, he drinks too much and has gambling debts over his ears. His wife has grown tired of his constant cheating, taking their ... See full summary »
Stars: Jakob Eklund, Ebba Forsberg, Örjan Landström, Ingvar Hirdwall
Votes: 63
24. Too Hard to Handle (2016)
TV-PG | 111 min | Comedy, Drama
Karo has lots of psychological Problems, 105 minutes of it.
Director: Laura Lackmann | Stars: Claudia Eisinger, Katja Riemann, Barbara Schöne, Laura Tonke
Votes: 507
25. Becks letzter Sommer (2015)
98 min | Comedy, Drama, Music
A frustrated music teacher and former musician discovers in a pupil a talent for guitar playing and singing and decides to help him into the music business. In the process, the teacher changes also his own life.
Director: Frieder Wittich | Stars: Lena Klenke, Friederike Becht, Nahuel Pérez Biscayart, Hermann Beyer
Votes: 272
26. Cesta z mesta (2000)
104 min | Comedy, Romance
A computer programmer and his son are going out of the city for vacation.
Director: Tomás Vorel | Stars: Tomás Hanák, Barbora Nimcová, Michal Vorel, Anezka Kusiaková
Votes: 495
27. Pussy (2014)
17 min | Short, Comedy, Drama
Oliver (25) is not quite happy. Something is wrong in his life. He begins to doubt his relationship with his girlfriend Signe. It just feels wrong so he decides to break up with her. It ... See full summary »
Director: Ville Gideon Sörman | Stars: Aske Bang, Simon Bennebjerg, Vic Carmen Sonne
Votes: 16
28. Behind the Wall (1971 TV Movie)
56 min | Drama
Jan is a young assistant professor in chemistry and a workaholic, whose entire life is dedicated to study and advancement to full professorship. Anna is an unsuccesful science writer who ... See full summary »
Director: Krzysztof Zanussi | Stars: Maja Komorowska, Zbigniew Zapasiewicz, Eugenia Herman, Jadwiga Colonna-Walewska
Votes: 153
29. Lune de Miel
80 min | Drama | Completed
When his wife Nicole loses her memories due to an accident, Frank (Sebastian Faust) follows the advice from the attending physician Dr. Vogt (Matthias Kaufmann) and sets out for France. ... See full summary »
Directors: Simon Hoff, Jan-Philipp Matthewes | Stars: Emilie Haus, Sebastian Faust, Joel Thum, Clemens Urbschat
30. María y los niños pobres (2010)
80 min | Adventure, Crime, Drama
Due to different circumstances several kids work in the streets of La Paz (Bolivia). While a group of Catholic priests help them they are endangered by organ thieves and drug dealers. When ... See full summary »
Director: Leonidas Zegarra | Stars: Mariana Liquitaya, Sebastián Obermaier, Jorge Luis Villacorta Santamato, Mauricio Aparicio
Votes: 23
31. Ud, spring over, ind (2013)
27 min | Short, Drama
Director: Thomas Daneskov | Stars: Thomas Ernst, Søren Spanning, Zinnini Elkington, Lea Gregersen
Votes: 39
32. Elevator (I) (2007)
19 min | Short, Drama
Two men are stuck in an elevator. One thinks he is going up and the other thinks he is going down. For each, the elevator is on an endless trip in his direction until they question the reasons that led them to meet each other.
Director: Aliocha | Stars: John B. McCann, Joseph Raven
Votes: 18
33. Läckan (1994)
235 min | Crime, Thriller
Sune Bergström, who a few years ago belonged to the elite at the National Criminal Court, is going through a life crisis and is now relocated to "desk service" on the surveillance force. He... See full summary »
Stars: Anders Ahlbom Rosendahl, Jonas Falk, Åke Lindman, Marika Lagercrantz
Votes: 61
34. The Place Between Heaven and Hell (2002)
Not Rated | 87 min | Adventure, Drama
Justin is distort over the fatal car accident which takes the lives of his fiancée and best friend. When suicide seems to be his only option, he visits his uncle Peter, the therapist to discuss his emotion struggles.
Director: Craig Horowitz | Stars: David Madison, Carson Grant, Leslie Bornstein, Richard Sturtevant
36. Who Killed Jenny Langby? (1974 TV Movie)
55 min | Documentary, Drama
Director: Donald Crombie | Stars: Julie Dawson, Peter Cummins, Mark Lawrence, Jane Kilgariff
37. Telling Mackenzie (2008)
14 min | Short, Drama
When Lucas decides to tell his wife his earth shattering secret, he must figure out the best and most appropriate way of telling her.
Director: William A. Butland | Stars: David Anderton, Ankara Savone
38. Nebraska Supersonic (2001)
Unrated | 75 min | Comedy
In Omaha, Nebraska, three buddies--all sub-par French majors--start a business that should not succeed on the vast Great Plains: a bicycle courier service. Through absurd adventures, ... See full summary »
Director: Jeremy Lerman | Stars: Nate Hall, Corrin Hodgson, Jesse Joyner, Matt Kelehan
Votes: 20
39. Wildnis (2016)
28 min | Short, Drama
Nemo doesn't know anymore how to deal with his current life. The illusion of a harmonic relationship with his girlfriend Linda is already evaporated. Just at this crucial moment he ... See full summary »
Director: Jasper Graeve | Stars: Sebastian Martin Rehm, India Antony, Tanja Gsell, Tanja Gsell
Votes: 6
40. Altsein ist ein herrliches Ding, wenn man nicht vergessen hat, was anfangen heißt (1978 TV Movie)
65 min | Documentary
Director: Jörg A. Eggers
41.
PSI Factor: Chronicles of the Paranormal (1996–2000)
Episode:
The Fog/House on Garden Street
(1997)
TV-14 | Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
New convict, a feared Russian hitman dubbed the Angel of Death, somehow causes strange hallucinogenic fog to appear in the high security prison he's in. Wife's frustration over her busy yuppie husband manifests itself as an apparition.
Directors: Clay Borris, Craig Pryce | Stars: Paul Miller, Nancy Anne Sakovich, Barclay Hope, Colin Fox
Votes: 23
42.
Tag 7 (2006– )
Episode:
Tod auf den Gleisen - Trauma eines Lokführers
(2010)
Documentary
Director: Mechthild Gassner | Stars: Alexander Keim, Sarah Keim, Stefan Lampadius
Votes: 6