Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "metaphoric-title"

51. Monos (2019)

R | 102 min | Adventure, Drama, Thriller

On a remote mountaintop, eight kids with guns watch over a hostage and a conscripted milk cow.

Director: Alejandro Landes | Stars: Sofia Buenaventura, Julián Giraldo, Karen Quintero, Laura Castrillón

Votes: 18,986

52. High Ground (2020)

104 min | Action, Drama, Thriller

In a bid to save the last of his family, Gutjuk, a young Aboriginal man, teams up with ex-soldier Travis to track down Baywara, the most dangerous warrior in the Territory, his uncle.

Director: Stephen Johnson | Stars: Guruwuk Mununggurr, Wakarra Gondarra, Mark Garrawurra, Neville Namarnyilk

Votes: 2,517

53. Angel of Mine (2019)

R | 98 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller

A woman grieving over the death of her daughter loses grip of reality when she begins to think her girl may still be alive.

Director: Kim Farrant | Stars: Noomi Rapace, Rebecca Bower, Luke Evans, Finn Little

Votes: 12,258

54. The Wind and the Lion (1975)

PG | 119 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

A Berber chieftain triggers an international incident, drawing the involvement of Theodore Roosevelt, when he kidnaps an American widow and her children in 1900s Morocco.

Director: John Milius | Stars: Sean Connery, Candice Bergen, Brian Keith, John Huston

Votes: 10,185 | Gross: $0.75M

55. Submission (2017)

R | 106 min | Drama, Mystery

A cynical college professor takes a keen interest in a talented young writing student.

Director: Richard Levine | Stars: Stanley Tucci, Addison Timlin, Kyra Sedgwick, Janeane Garofalo

Votes: 1,537 | Gross: $0.04M

56. Riceboy Sleeps (2022)

117 min | Drama, Family, History

Set in the 90s, a Korean single mother raises her young son in the suburbs of Canada determined to provide a better life for him than the one she left behind.

Director: Anthony Shim | Stars: Choi Seung-yoon, Ethan Hwang, Dohyun Noel Hwang, Anthony Shim

Votes: 1,833

57. Metropolitan (1989)

PG-13 | 98 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

A group of young upper-class Manhattanites are blithely passing through the gala debutante season, when an unusual outsider joins them and stirs them up.

Director: Whit Stillman | Stars: Carolyn Farina, Edward Clements, Chris Eigeman, Taylor Nichols

Votes: 12,447 | Gross: $2.94M

58. The Place Promised in Our Early Days (2004)

TV-PG | 90 min | Animation, Drama, Romance

In an alternate postwar timeline, Japan is divided into the Union-controlled North and the US-controlled South.

Directors: Makoto Shinkai, Yoshio Suzuki | Stars: Hidetaka Yoshioka, Masato Hagiwara, Yuka Nanri, Unshô Ishizuka

Votes: 15,181

59. Night Falls on Manhattan (1996)

R | 113 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

A newly elected District Attorney finds himself in the middle of a police corruption investigation that may involve his father and his partner.

Director: Sidney Lumet | Stars: Andy Garcia, Richard Dreyfuss, Lena Olin, Ian Holm

Votes: 8,857 | Gross: $9.88M

60. Flavors of Youth (2018)

TV-PG | 74 min | Animation, Drama, Romance

Three different stories of youth set in different cities of China.

Directors: Haoling Li, Yoshitaka Takeuchi, Xiaoxing Yi | Stars: White-K, Taito Ban, Dorothy Elias-Fahn, Matt Fowler

Votes: 8,710

61. The Big Shave (1967)

Not Rated | 5 min | Short, Drama, Horror

In the process of shaving, a young man cuts himself. A lot.

Director: Martin Scorsese | Star: Peter Bernuth

Votes: 8,784

62. Charter (2020)

94 min | Drama

After a divorce, Alice hasn't seen her children in two months as she awaits a custody verdict. When her son calls her in the middle of the night, Alice takes action, abducting the children on an illicit charter trip to the Canary Islands.

Director: Amanda Kernell | Stars: Ane Dahl Torp, Sverrir Gudnason, Troy Lundkvist, Tintin Poggats Sarri

Votes: 1,520

63. While We Watched (2022)

94 min | Documentary, Biography, News

How independent news reporting in India and beyond is increasingly under threat by budgetary cuts and especially, extremists leveraging alternative platforms to spread misinformation.

Director: Vinay Shukla | Stars: Ravish Kumar, Sushil Bahuguna, Deepak Chaubey, Sushil Mohapatra

Votes: 2,338

64. Save the Tiger (1973)

R | 100 min | Drama

A disillusioned war veteran has two days to let go of his shaken morals if he wants his small fashion company to survive.

Director: John G. Avildsen | Stars: Jack Lemmon, Jack Gilford, Laurie Heineman, Norman Burton

Votes: 5,627 | Gross: $2.33M

65. Whistle Down the Wind (1961)

Unrated | 99 min | Crime, Drama

When an injured wife murderer takes refuge on a remote Lancashire farm, the owner's three children mistakenly believe him to be the Second Coming of Christ.

Director: Bryan Forbes | Stars: Alan Bates, Bernard Lee, Hayley Mills, Norman Bird

Votes: 3,765

66. Somersault (2004)

Not Rated | 106 min | Drama, Romance

A young girl flees her hometown and arrives in the Australian Alps, where new experiences help her learn the differences between sex and love.

Director: Cate Shortland | Stars: Abbie Cornish, Sam Worthington, Lynette Curran, Damian de Montemas

Votes: 8,199 | Gross: $0.09M

67. Crackerjack (2002)

92 min | Comedy, Sport

A local bowling club faces potential takeover due to dwindling membership and increasing overheads. A thrilling battle ensues, involving young and old, greed and good, and extraordinary circumstances.

Director: Paul Moloney | Stars: Mick Molloy, Bill Hunter, Frank Wilson, Monica Maughan

Votes: 3,161

68. 3 Faces (2018)

100 min | Drama

Three actresses at different stages of their career. One from before the 1979 Islamic Revolution, one popular star of today known throughout the country, and a young girl longing to attend a drama conservatory.

Director: Jafar Panahi | Stars: Behnaz Jafari, Jafar Panahi, Marziyeh Rezaei, Maedeh Erteghaei

Votes: 4,830 | Gross: $0.07M

69. Strawberry Time (1978)

98 min | Drama, Romance

Jagoda Kopriva is a typical teenage girl who hangs out with her friends from school, flirting with boys, quarreling with her parents, and discovering her own sexuality.

Director: Rajko Ranfl | Stars: Irena Kranjc, Roman Gorsic, Metod Pevec, Aleksander Krosl

Votes: 150

70. The Fifth Cord (1971)

Not Rated | 93 min | Crime, Horror, Mystery

A maverick, heavy-drinking journalist pursues a killer who is targeting acquaintances of his, prompting the police to brand him a suspect in their investigation.

Director: Luigi Bazzoni | Stars: Franco Nero, Silvia Monti, Wolfgang Preiss, Ira von Fürstenberg

Votes: 2,588

71. Spoor (2017)

Not Rated | 128 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Janina Duszejko, an elderly woman, lives alone in the Klodzko Valley where a series of mysterious crimes are committed. Duszejko is convinced that she knows who or what is the murderer, but nobody believes her.

Directors: Agnieszka Holland, Kasia Adamik | Stars: Agnieszka Mandat, Wiktor Zborowski, Jakub Gierszal, Patricia Volny

Votes: 6,054

72. The Twilight People (1972)

PG | 81 min | Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi

A kidnapped diver is taken to an island inhabited by a mad scientist and his half-animal, half-human creations.

Director: Eddie Romero | Stars: John Ashley, Pat Woodell, Jan Merlin, Charles Macaulay

Votes: 718

73. Dirt Music (2019)

105 min | Crime, Drama, Romance

The stunning landscape of Western Australia is the backdrop for an impassioned tale of love and grief in Gregor Jordan's adaptation of the acclaimed novel by Tim Winton.

Director: Gregor Jordan | Stars: Kelly Macdonald, Garrett Hedlund, Badger, Jacob Clayton

Votes: 1,031

74. One Child Nation (2019)

R | 83 min | Documentary, History

After becoming a mother, a filmmaker uncovers the untold history of China's one-child policy and the generations of parents and children forever shaped by this social experiment.

Directors: Nanfu Wang, Jialing Zhang | Stars: Nanfu Wang, Zaodi Wang, Zhimei Wang, Tunde Wang

Votes: 7,239 | Gross: $0.18M

75. Better Than Sex (2000)

R | 95 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

After a one-night stand a couple is faced with the terrifying possibility of what they really want.

Director: Jonathan Teplitzky | Stars: David Wenham, Susie Porter, Kris McQuade, Simon Bossell

Votes: 2,270 | Gross: $0.09M

76. Water (I) (2005)

PG-13 | 117 min | Drama

Set in colonial India against Gandhi's rise to power, it's the story of 8-year-old Chuyia, who is widowed and sent to a home to live in penitence; once there, Chuyia's feisty presence deeply affects the lives of the other residents.

Director: Deepa Mehta | Stars: Lisa Ray, John Abraham, Seema Biswas, Sarala Kariyawasam

Votes: 15,370 | Gross: $3.22M

77. The Last House on the Beach (1978)

Not Rated | 86 min | Crime, Drama, Horror

Sister Cristina (Florinda Bolkan) plays a nun who takes the teenage girls in her care to a remote house where they rehearse A Midsummer Night's Dream. Three thugs show up, brutally raping ... See full summary »

Director: Francesco Prosperi | Stars: Florinda Bolkan, Ray Lovelock, Flavio Andreini, Sherry Buchanan

Votes: 857

78. Pimped (2018)

90 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

Two twisted housemates lure an unbalanced woman into a sexual trap, with murderous results.

Director: David Barker | Stars: Ella Scott Lynch, Benedict Samuel, Heather Mitchell, Lewis Fitz-Gerald

Votes: 909

79. A Storm Foretold (2023)

90 min | Documentary, Biography, History

With Trump's political godfather, Roger Stone, as the film's central character the film documents how Trump's presidential period had to find its logical end point in The Storm at the Capitol.

Director: Christoffer Guldbrandsen | Stars: Christoffer Guldbrandsen, Roger Stone, Joe Biggs, Kristin Davis

Votes: 511

80. Eye in the Labyrinth (1972)

95 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller

A woman searches for her missing lover, a psychiatrist who has suddenly vanished for no apparent reason. She ends up at a villa populated by a group of eccentric individuals. A string of murders commences immediately.

Director: Mario Caiano | Stars: Rosemary Dexter, Adolfo Celi, Horst Frank, Sybil Danning

Votes: 1,079

81. The Last Daughter (2022)

90 min | Documentary, Biography, History

A woman searches for her former foster family, uncovering secrets about her Aboriginal roots and the trauma of being separated from both families. Her journey explores policies, personal identity, and the possibility of reconciliation.

Directors: Brenda Matthews, Nathaniel Schmidt | Stars: Brenda Matthews, Mark Matthews, Mac Ockers, Connie Ockers

Votes: 197

82. Ship to Shore (1993–1994)

24 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama

The comic adventures of the kids who live on Circe Island, a fishing community off the coast of Western Australia. Some kids call it Paradise, the others call it a prison and long for the mainland.

Stars: Clinton Voss, Kimberley Stark, Greg Carroll, Francoise Sas

Votes: 305

83. Last Ride (2009)

Not Rated | 90 min | Crime, Drama

A young boy travels across Australia with his father, who's wanted by the law for committing a violent crime.

Director: Glendyn Ivin | Stars: Hugo Weaving, Tom Russell, Anita Hegh, John Brumpton

Votes: 2,609 | Gross: $0.01M

84. Standing Up for Sunny (2019)

105 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

An isolated guy with cerebral palsy is railroaded into helping an unassertive comedienne, and finds love and acceptance through stand up comedy.

Director: Steven Vidler | Stars: Sam Reid, Radha Mitchell, RJ Mitte, Matt Nable

Votes: 629

85. Young Aphrodites (1963)

88 min | Drama, History, Romance

200 BC. During a merciless drought, the brute nature of man and the delicate essence of woman become inextricably intertwined, as the omnipotence of the carnal instinct demands the total surrender of the flesh.

Director: Nikos Koundouros | Stars: Eleni Prokopiou, Takis Emmanuel, Kleopatra Rota, Vangelis Ioannidis

Votes: 842

86. Against the Tide (I) (2023)

97 min | Documentary

Bombay fishermen Rakesh and Ganesh are inheritors of the Koli knowledge system of harvesting the sea following the moon and the tides. Rakesh has kept faith in the traditional fishing methods; Ganesh has instead embraced technology.

Director: Sarvnik Kaur | Stars: Rakesh Koli, Ganesh Nakhawa

Votes: 128

87. A Model Daughter: The Killing of Caroline Byrne (2009 TV Movie)

94 min | Crime, Drama, History

A grieving father embarks on a quest for justice in this Australian drama based on true events. When a model dies after falling from a clifftop, was it suicide or murder?

Director: Tony Tilse | Stars: Garry McDonald, David Lyons, Cariba Heine, Tiriel Mora

Votes: 532

88. Seven Types of Ambiguity (2017)

55 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

A complicated chain of events is triggered when a child is taken and relationships are thrown into crisis.

Stars: Xavier Samuel, Alex Dimitriades, Andrea Demetriades, Leeanna Walsman

Votes: 951

89. A Brand New Life (1989–1990)

60 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

A millionaire father of three (Don Murray) falls in love with and marries a sweet blue-collar waitress (Barbara Eden), who has her own three kids. They combine families in Murray's Bel-Air ... See full summary »

Stars: Barbara Eden, Don Murray, David Tom, Shawnee Smith

Votes: 76

90. Mind Games (1989)

R | 93 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

Rita and Dana Lund's marriage is in a crisis, Rita's frustrated from being just a housewife. To save their marriage, they set out for a camping trip through California with their son. At a ... See full summary »

Director: Bob Yari | Stars: Maxwell Caulfield, Edward Albert, Shawn Weatherly, Matt Norero

Votes: 316

91. Puzzle (1974)

92 min | Crime, Drama, Horror

An amnesiac man and his estranged wife restart their romance, only to find themselves hounded by unscrupulous figures from his past life.

Director: Duccio Tessari | Stars: Senta Berger, Luc Merenda, Umberto Orsini, Anita Strindberg

Votes: 1,202

92. The Merger (2018)

Not Rated | 103 min | Comedy, Drama, Sport

Troy Carrington, a former professional football player returns to his country town after an abrupt end to his sporting career and is persuaded to coach the hapless local footy team, the Roosters.

Director: Mark Grentell | Stars: Damian Callinan, Kate Mulvany, John Howard, Rafferty Grierson

Votes: 1,094

93. Crimson Gold (2003)

Unrated | 95 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

An Iranian pizza delivery man sees the worst of corruption and social unbalance in his city and is driven to crime.

Director: Jafar Panahi | Stars: Hossain Emadeddin, Kamyar Sheisi, Azita Rayeji, Shahram Vaziri

Votes: 5,319 | Gross: $0.15M

94. Sea of Shadows (2019)

PG-13 | 105 min | Documentary, Crime, History

The vaquita, the world's smallest whale, is near extinction as its habitat is destroyed by Mexican cartels and Chinese mafia, who harvest the swim bladder of the totoaba fish, the "cocaine ... See full summary »

Directors: Richard Ladkani, Sean Bogle, Matthew Podolsky | Stars: Romel Eduardo Ledezma Abaroa, Rafael Pacchiano Alamán, Hector Capetillo, Andrea Crosta

Votes: 798

95. Public Eye (2021)

120 min | Comedy, Drama

A children's entertainer falls from grace when NSFW content of him circulates online.

Director: Davo Hardy | Stars: Davo Hardy, Caroline McQuade, British Flower, Ethan Taylor

Votes: 132

96. New York City... Melting Point (1966)

Documentary, History, News

A documentary about New York City produced in collaboration with the United States Information Agency (USIA) for educational and information purposes.

Director: Martin Scorsese

Votes: 93

97. Healing (I) (2014)

R | 112 min | Drama

Inspired by true events, HEALING is a story of redemption, the discovery of hope and the healing of the spirit - in the most unlikely place for the most unlikely men.

Director: Craig Monahan | Stars: Hugo Weaving, Don Hany, Xavier Samuel, Mark Leonard Winter

Votes: 1,093

98. The Final Quarter (2019)

75 min | Documentary, Biography, History

Australian documentary filmmaker Ian Darling re-examines the incidents that marked the final 3 years of footballer Adam Goodes' playing career.

Director: Ian Darling | Star: Adam Goodes

Votes: 509

99. The Cards Never Lie (2016)

Drama

In the blink of an eye your entire world can be turned upside down. The ultimate betrayal is just around the corner.

Director: Paul Cavallo | Stars: Phoebe Plasto, Darren K. Hawkins, Sarah Foukas, Sean Michael

100. Sundome (2007)

81 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

Hideo Aiba is a virgin at high school. He has never had a girlfriend, is awe of women and mostly involved in his studies, school club and activities and his male friends. Kurumi Sahana has ... See full summary »

Director: Daigo Udagawa | Stars: Kazuki Hiro'oka, Mayuko Irie, Takatsugu Iwama, Takuma Matsuno

Votes: 95