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

1. Up (2009)

PG | 96 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy

78-year-old Carl Fredricksen travels to Paradise Falls in his house equipped with balloons, inadvertently taking a young stowaway.

Directors: Pete Docter, Bob Peterson | Stars: Edward Asner, Jordan Nagai, John Ratzenberger, Christopher Plummer

Votes: 1,126,860 | Gross: $293.00M

2. Nanny McPhee (2005)

PG | 97 min | Comedy, Family, Fantasy

A governess uses magic to rein in the behavior of seven ne'er-do-well children in her charge.

Director: Kirk Jones | Stars: Emma Thompson, Colin Firth, Angela Lansbury, Kelly Macdonald

Votes: 85,606 | Gross: $47.14M

3. Blithe Spirit (1945)

96 min | Comedy, Fantasy

A man and his second wife are haunted by the ghost of his first wife.

Director: David Lean | Stars: Rex Harrison, Constance Cummings, Kay Hammond, Margaret Rutherford

Votes: 8,043

4. Sometimes Always Never (2018)

PG-13 | 91 min | Comedy, Drama, Mystery

A detective fantasy / family drama where a love of words helps a father reconnect with a missing son.

Director: Carl Hunter | Stars: Bill Nighy, Sam Riley, Alice Lowe, Jenny Agutter

Votes: 3,261

5. The Set-Up (1949)

Approved | 73 min | Crime, Film-Noir, Sport

Expecting the usual loss, a boxing manager takes bribes from a betting gangster without telling his fighter.

Director: Robert Wise | Stars: Robert Ryan, Audrey Totter, George Tobias, Alan Baxter

Votes: 10,104

6. Dangerous Moves (1984)

100 min | Drama, Sport, Thriller

During the Cold War, the World Chess Championship clashed complete opposites - personal and political.

Director: Richard Dembo | Stars: Michel Piccoli, Alexandre Arbatt, Liv Ullmann, Leslie Caron

Votes: 1,490

7. The Stranger Beside Me (2003 TV Movie)

Not Rated | 90 min | Biography, Crime, Drama

While working at a Seattle clinic for women in the 1970s, aspiring crime writer, Ann Rule, unwittingly becomes friends with serial killer Ted Bundy.

Director: Paul Shapiro | Stars: Billy Campbell, Barbara Hershey, Suki Kaiser, Brenda James

Votes: 1,037

8. Hotel Monterey (1973)

65 min | Documentary

Hotel Monterey is a cheap hotel in New York reserved for the outcasts of American society. Chantal Akerman invites viewers to visit this unusual place as well as the people who live there, from the reception up to the last story.

Director: Chantal Akerman

Votes: 918

9. The Accursed (1957)

Not Rated | 78 min | Drama, History, Mystery

Survivors of the World War 2 German Resistance Group attend an annual reunion at an English country house. The reunion is hosted by Colonel Price, who intends to find out which guest had betrayed their leader.

Directors: Gilbert Gunn, Michael McCarthy | Stars: Donald Wolfit, Robert Bray, Jane Griffiths, Anton Diffring

Votes: 316

10. Looo (2005)

6 min | Animation, Short, Comedy

A 3D Animated Short which gracefully mocks the 3D Italian world and it's subjection to the fully developed American Technology.

Director: Bruno Bozzetto | Star: Pietro Ghislandi

Votes: 34

11. Hoch Genug (2006)

26 min | Short

An awkward dinner party at little sister's apartment. An imaginary boyfriend. The guests disappear one by one. A dark doorway. Have the secrets of Helena's past returned? And what is down that hall?

Director: Mathieu Seiler | Stars: Rebecca Hoffmann, Marita Hueber, Sabine Krause, Beat Marti

12. The Last Prom (1980)

24 min | Short, Drama, Thriller

Driver education film depicting the dangers of teen-age drunk driving, wherein a prom date ends tragically.

Director: Gene McPherson | Stars: Sheelagh Bevan, Jamie Bozian, Mary LeClair, Ron Bohmer

Votes: 125

13. Grandpa's Girl (2012)

11 min | Short, Drama, Family

During her Sarah's weekly visits to her bad-tempered grandfather, they sit in silence, only sharing a sweet from a tin he keeps under his armchair. After his death she discovers a different side to her Grandfather.

Director: Rebecca Gillespie | Stars: Megan Bradley, Marie Louise Cookson, Albert Thompson

14. 23 Skidoo (1965)

8 min | Short, Drama

An experimental film that features busy urban areas, but does so without a soul in sight.

Director: Julian Biggs

Votes: 128

15. Itawari (2010)

73 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance

A man is forced to face choices between love and loneliness, the past and the present and ultimately, he must choose life or death.

Director: Mark Charles Adams | Stars: Adam Gibson, Hannah Cork, Gerard P. Howells, Jay Blyth

16. Ko-Ko Baffles the Bulls (1926)

7 min | Animation, Comedy, Short

Max draws a detective to track down Ko-Ko and Fitz, who are hiding from their "boss". Later, when Ko-Ko and Fitz believe Max has been kidnapped, they call a detective to help locate him.

Director: Dave Fleischer | Star: Max Fleischer

Votes: 36

17. Emma (2009)
Episode: Episode #1.4 (2009)

TV-PG | 62 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

A picnic is held at Box hill where Emma and Frank get very flirtatious. Emma also scores cheap points at Miss Bates' expense, wounding her,and George gives her a severe telling-off for ... See full summary »

Director: Jim O'Hanlon | Stars: Romola Garai, Jonny Lee Miller, Michael Gambon, Blake Ritson

Votes: 245

18. The Midnight Club (2022)
Episode: Midnight (2022)

TV-MA | 58 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery

Dr. Stanton reprimands Ilonka the following morning, revealing more about Julia Jayne. Sandra says her goodbyes. At long last, Kevin concludes his story.

Director: Morgan Beggs | Stars: Iman Benson, Igby Rigney, Ruth Codd, Annarah Cymone

Votes: 1,123

19. Sherlock (2010–2017)
Episode: The Final Problem (2017)

TV-14 | 89 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

A dark secret in the Holmes family rears its head with a vengeance, putting Sherlock and friends through a series of sick, manipulative psychological and potentially fatal games.

Director: Benjamin Caron | Stars: Benedict Cumberbatch, Martin Freeman, Mark Gatiss, Una Stubbs

Votes: 29,150

20. Titans (2018–2023)
Episode: Hank and Dawn (2018)

TV-MA | 46 min | Action, Adventure, Crime

As Hank watches over Dawn in a hospital, memories of their early lives - as well as the tragedy that brought them together - come flooding back.

Director: Akiva Goldsman | Stars: Teagan Croft, Elliot Knight, Marina Sirtis, Tait Blum

Votes: 3,979