Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "former-lover"

1. Basic Instinct (1992)

R | 127 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller

A violent police detective investigates a brutal murder that might involve a manipulative and seductive novelist.

Director: Paul Verhoeven | Stars: Michael Douglas, Sharon Stone, George Dzundza, Jeanne Tripplehorn

Votes: 219,041 | Gross: $117.73M

2. Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (2011)

PG-13 | 136 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy

Jack Sparrow and Barbossa embark on a quest to find the elusive fountain of youth, only to discover that Blackbeard and his daughter are after it too.

Director: Rob Marshall | Stars: Johnny Depp, Penélope Cruz, Ian McShane, Geoffrey Rush

Votes: 563,952 | Gross: $241.06M

3. Clue (1985)

PG | 94 min | Comedy, Crime, Mystery

Six guests are anonymously invited to a strange mansion for dinner, but after their host is killed, they must cooperate with the staff to identify the murderer as the bodies pile up.

Director: Jonathan Lynn | Stars: Eileen Brennan, Tim Curry, Madeline Kahn, Christopher Lloyd

Votes: 109,247 | Gross: $14.64M

4. Black Panther (2018)

PG-13 | 134 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

T'Challa, heir to the hidden but advanced kingdom of Wakanda, must step forward to lead his people into a new future and must confront a challenger from his country's past.

Director: Ryan Coogler | Stars: Chadwick Boseman, Michael B. Jordan, Lupita Nyong'o, Danai Gurira

Votes: 837,340 | Gross: $700.06M

5. Lonesome Dove (1989)

TV-14 | 96 min | Adventure, Drama, Western

Two former Texas Rangers renew their spirit of adventure as they and several other residents of a small Texas town join a cattle drive to the Montana Territory.

Stars: Robert Duvall, Tommy Lee Jones, Danny Glover, Diane Lane

Votes: 25,904

6. Primal Fear (1996)

R | 129 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

An altar boy is accused of murdering a priest, and the truth is buried several layers deep.

Director: Gregory Hoblit | Stars: Richard Gere, Laura Linney, Edward Norton, John Mahoney

Votes: 246,934 | Gross: $56.12M

7. Carlito's Way (1993)

R | 144 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

A Puerto Rican former convict, just released from prison, pledges to stay away from drugs and violence despite the pressure around him and lead on to a better life outside of N.Y.C.

Director: Brian De Palma | Stars: Al Pacino, Sean Penn, Penelope Ann Miller, John Leguizamo

Votes: 232,301 | Gross: $36.95M

8. G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra (2009)

PG-13 | 118 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

An elite military unit comprised of special operatives known as G.I. Joe, operating out of The Pit, takes on an evil organization led by a notorious arms dealer.

Director: Stephen Sommers | Stars: Dennis Quaid, Channing Tatum, Marlon Wayans, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje

Votes: 214,993 | Gross: $152.27M

9. Pain and Glory (2019)

R | 113 min | Drama

A film director reflects on the choices he's made in life as the past and present come crashing down around him.

Director: Pedro Almodóvar | Stars: Antonio Banderas, Asier Etxeandia, Leonardo Sbaraglia, Nora Navas

Votes: 63,099

10. Broken Flowers (2005)

R | 106 min | Comedy, Drama, Mystery

As the extremely withdrawn Don Johnston is dumped by his latest woman, he receives an anonymous letter from a former lover informing him that he has a son who may be looking for him. A freelance sleuth neighbor moves Don to embark on a cross-country search for his old flames in search of answers.

Director: Jim Jarmusch | Stars: Bill Murray, Jessica Lange, Sharon Stone, Julie Delpy

Votes: 106,797 | Gross: $13.74M

11. Vamps (2012)

PG-13 | 92 min | Comedy, Horror, Romance

Bloodsucking party girls (Alicia Silverstone, Krysten Ritter) find their destinies at stake when one falls for the son of a vampire hunter and the other encounters a long-ago love.

Director: Amy Heckerling | Stars: Alicia Silverstone, Krysten Ritter, Larry Wilmore, Bettina Bresnan

Votes: 11,131 | Gross: $0.00M

12. The White Buffalo (1977)

PG | 97 min | Action, Adventure, Western

At the closing of 1874 a haunted, dying Wild Bill Hickok teams up with a grieving Crazy Horse to hunt a murderous albino buffalo.

Director: J. Lee Thompson | Stars: Charles Bronson, Jack Warden, Will Sampson, Kim Novak

Votes: 5,213

13. Twisted (I) (2004)

R | 97 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Jessica, whose father killed her mother and committed suicide, is a police officer. While investigating a murder, she finds herself in the center of her own investigation, when her former lovers start being murdered.

Director: Philip Kaufman | Stars: Ashley Judd, Samuel L. Jackson, Andy Garcia, David Strathairn

Votes: 23,104 | Gross: $25.20M

14. The Last Mistress (2007)

Unrated | 115 min | Drama, Romance

Secrets, rumors and betrayals surround the upcoming marriage between a young dissolute man and virtuous woman of the French aristocracy.

Director: Catherine Breillat | Stars: Asia Argento, Fu'ad Aït Aattou, Roxane Mesquida, Claude Sarraute

Votes: 3,787 | Gross: $0.79M

15. Jiang hu er nü (2018)

Not Rated | 136 min | Crime, Drama, Romance

A story of violent love within a time frame spanning from 2001 to 2017.

Director: Zhangke Jia | Stars: Tao Zhao, Fan Liao, Zheng Xu, Casper Liang

Votes: 10,605 | Gross: $0.42M

16. Straight A's (2013)

R | 91 min | Comedy, Drama

Pressured by his deceased mother's ghost to return home to the family he abandoned, a former addict grabs a bag of pills and a sack of marijuana and hits the road to Louisiana.

Director: James Cox | Stars: Ryan Phillippe, Anna Paquin, Luke Wilson, Riley Thomas Stewart

Votes: 4,834

17. The Great Gatsby (2000 TV Movie)

90 min | Drama, Romance

Stock broker Nick Carraway consents to play Cupid for his rich married cousin Daisy Buchanan and her former love, nouveau riche Jay Gatsby.

Director: Robert Markowitz | Stars: Mira Sorvino, Toby Stephens, Paul Rudd, Martin Donovan

Votes: 1,973

18. Ceremony (2010)

R | 89 min | Comedy, Romance

Two friends are off on a weekend outing. Marshall thinks the trip is to re-establish their friendship, but Sam has ulterior motives in mind as he crashes the wedding of a woman he still loves.

Director: Max Winkler | Stars: Michael Angarano, Uma Thurman, Reece Thompson, Lee Pace

Votes: 4,474 | Gross: $0.02M

19. The Witness (I) (2015)

89 min | Documentary, Biography, Crime

The brother of Kitty Genovese investigates the circumstances of her murder and the truth of the story that dozens of locals witnessed the crime and did nothing to intervene.

Directors: James D. Solomon, Jessica Robinson | Stars: William Genovese, Shannon Beeby, Aaron Adler, Linda Ellen Bonekoskey

Votes: 4,551

20. The Song of Lunch (2010 TV Movie)

50 min | Drama, Romance

A London publisher recounts a lunchtime reunion with a former lover, in poetic monologue.

Director: Niall MacCormick | Stars: Alan Rickman, Emma Thompson, Andi Soric, Siubhan Harrison

Votes: 2,537

21. The Falls: Testament of Love (2013)

Not Rated | 123 min | Drama, Romance

Chris and RJ reunite five years after coming out to their families and their church as gay men, where the factors that led to their separation are revealed as they mourn the death of their mutual friend Rodney.

Director: Jon Garcia | Stars: Nick Ferrucci, Benjamin Farmer, Hannah Barefoot, Bruce Jennings

Votes: 1,940

22. How to Be a Good Wife (2020)

109 min | Comedy, Drama

Paulette and her husband have been running a housekeeping school. After the sudden death of her husband, Paulette discovers that the school is on the verge of bankruptcy and has to take her responsibilities.

Director: Martin Provost | Stars: Juliette Binoche, Yolande Moreau, Noémie Lvovsky, Edouard Baer

Votes: 2,211

23. Eyes in the Night (1942)

Passed | 80 min | Crime, Mystery

A blind detective and his seeing-eye dog investigate a murder and discover a Nazi plot.

Director: Fred Zinnemann | Stars: Edward Arnold, Ann Harding, Donna Reed, Stephen McNally

Votes: 1,956

24. Return to Montauk (2017)

PG-13 | 106 min | Drama, Romance

The author Max Zorn, now in his early 60s, is on a promotional book tour in New York when he meets up again with the woman he could never forget. They spend a weekend together. 17 years have passed. Can there be a future for their past?

Director: Volker Schlöndorff | Stars: Stellan Skarsgård, Bronagh Gallagher, Nina Hoss, Niels Arestrup

Votes: 1,354

25. Kiss the Bride (2007)

R | 100 min | Comedy, Romance

Matt is shocked to learn that his ex-boyfriend Ryan is getting married, and he makes plans to rescue him from whatever "she-devil" has lured him into this huge mistake.

Director: C. Jay Cox | Stars: Tori Spelling, Philipp Karner, James O'Shea, Joanna Cassidy

Votes: 1,683 | Gross: $0.03M

26. Her Highness and the Bellboy (1945)

Approved | 112 min | Comedy, Romance

A bellboy at a swanky New York hotel starts to ignore his girlfriend after meeting a beautiful European princess.

Director: Richard Thorpe | Stars: Hedy Lamarr, Robert Walker, June Allyson, Carl Esmond

Votes: 847

27. Long Live Freedom (2013)

Not Rated | 94 min | Comedy, Drama

When a politician disappears, his (mad) twin brother is brought to replace him.

Director: Roberto Andò | Stars: Toni Servillo, Valerio Mastandrea, Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, Michela Cescon

Votes: 4,703 | Gross: $0.05M

28. Baja (1995 Video)

R | 92 min | Drama, Crime, Thriller

A couple has a big drug deal go bad and flees across the border to Baja California, Mexico. Bebe's dad sends her ex-husband there to talk sense into her. Somebody sends a hit-man there.

Director: Kurt Voss | Stars: Molly Ringwald, Donal Logue, Chris Shearer, Nelson Lyon

Votes: 418

29. Crowned and Dangerous (1997 TV Movie)

PG-13 | 96 min | Comedy, Crime, Mystery

After the murder of a beauty queen, an investigation reveals the suspects to be a former lover, a rival contestant, and a stage mother.

Director: Christopher Leitch | Stars: Yasmine Bleeth, Jill Clayburgh, Cassidy Rae, Gates McFadden

Votes: 489

30. Just Me (2018)

Not Rated | 11 min | Short, Drama

Scott (PHILIP OLIVIER) gets a visit from Connor (CARL LOUGHLIN) which brings his past back to haunt him, but will it change his future? LBGT Short Film.

Director: Mickey Jones | Stars: John James Hart, Carl Loughlin, Philip Olivier

Votes: 87

31. Zum Glück gibt's Schreiner (2020 TV Movie)

89 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

Lawyer Katharina is looking for the perfect man.

Director: Neelesha Barthel | Stars: Henriette Richter-Röhl, Thekla Carola Wied, Jochen Matschke, Christiane Bärwald

Votes: 72

32. Honeymoon for Three (1941)

Approved | 75 min | Comedy, Romance

Noted writer Kenneth Bixby, in love with his witty secretary Anne Rogers, nevertheless agrees to a tete-a-tete with a former college fling, loopy Danish girl Julie who is married to ... See full summary »

Director: Lloyd Bacon | Stars: Ann Sheridan, George Brent, Charles Ruggles, Osa Massen

Votes: 590

33. Zoom In: Rape Apartments (1980)

Not Rated | 68 min | Horror, Mystery

Saeko, a somewhat enigmatic young woman, is brutally beaten with a rock and raped by a man wearing a dark-colored mask and black gloves. She eventually recovers, but not long afterwards a ... See full summary »

Director: Naosuke Kurosawa | Stars: Erina Miyai, Yôko Azusa, Yûko Ôsaki, Yûko Araragi

Votes: 185

34. Late Chrysanthemums (1954)

101 min | Drama

What is the life of a Geisha like once her beauty has faded and she has retired? Kin has saved her money, and has become a wealthy money-lender, spending her days cold-heartedly collecting ... See full summary »

Director: Mikio Naruse | Stars: Haruko Sugimura, Ken Uehara, Sadako Sawamura, Chikako Hosokawa

Votes: 1,195

35. Rewind (I) (2010)

80 min | Thriller

Karen, a recovering addict, has settled into a successful new life with her husband and young daughter. When Karl, an old boyfriend recently released from prison, turns up unexpectedly, ... See full summary »

Director: P.J. Dillon | Stars: Allen Leech, Amy Huberman, Owen McDonnell, Orlaith Rafter

Votes: 175

36. Red Kiss (1985)

110 min | Drama, Romance

1952, Paris. Nadia, a Red Diaper baby, has a sister, Polish parents, and at 15 is an active Communist. When cops beat her during an anti-American demonstration, she's rescued by a "Match" ... See full summary »

Director: Véra Belmont | Stars: Charlotte Valandrey, Lambert Wilson, Marthe Keller, Laurent Terzieff

Votes: 334

37. Michael Lost and Found (2017)

19 min | Documentary, Short

When a feature film is made about them seven years after their break-up, Benjie Nycum visits his ex-boyfriend Michael Glatze and finally tries to get answers about his bewildering shift from gay activist to ex-gay evangelical.

Director: Daniel J. Wilner | Stars: Mike Glatze, Rebekah Glatze, Benjie Nycum

Votes: 389

38. Three Dangerous Ladies (1977)

88 min | Horror, Mystery

Three unrelated horror shorts from 1975 UK horror anthology series "Classics Dark and Dangerous" edited together into one horror film anthology with three segments. Each story features a woman who willingly or unwillingly spreads evil.

Directors: Robert Fuest, Alvin Rakoff, Don Thompson | Stars: Ronee Blakley, Graham Crowden, Ed Devereaux, Keir Dullea

Votes: 121

39. The Lady from the Sea (1974 TV Movie)

110 min | Drama

A lighthouse keeper's daughter, lives her opportunist marital life, until her past lover appears in her life.

Director: Basil Coleman | Stars: Eileen Atkins, Denholm Elliott, Carole Nimmons, Lynne Frederick

Votes: 52

40. Blue Rain Ôsaka (1983)

79 min | Drama

Tale of sorrow and nostalgia mixed with pop songs and feminine strength.

Director: Masaru Konuma | Stars: Kiriko Shimizu, Saeko Kuga, Ryûmei Azuma, Osamu Egami

Votes: 73

41. Hedda Gabler (1981 TV Movie)

78 min | Drama

Hedda Gabler (Dame Diana Rigg) is a beautiful woman married to the solid and respectable academic George Tesman (Denis Lill). Then an old flame, the dreamer Eilert Lovborg (Philip Bond), turns up on the scene with tragic results.

Director: David Cunliffe | Stars: Elizabeth Bell, Philip Bond, Kathleen Byron, Alan Dobie

Votes: 64

42. Hu-Man (1975)

93 min | Sci-Fi

An actor is placed in dangerous situations and his fear will be broadcast to the television audience. The audience's emotions will determine whether he is sent into the future or the past.

Director: Jérôme Laperrousaz | Stars: Terence Stamp, Jeanne Moreau, Agnès Stevenin, Frederik van Pallandt

Votes: 111

43. Svegliati amore mio (2021– )

Drama

A small Italian community suffers mysterious illnesses until one mother's quest for the truth changes everything.

Stars: Sabrina Ferilli, Matteo Bianchi, Maria Vittoria Casarotti Todeschini, Francesco Arca

Votes: 25

44. Culpables (2020)

Thriller, Crime

An apparently normal family is subject to a 48-hour home abduction, where their worst secrets are revealed.

Director: José Enrique Pintor | Stars: Jalsen Santana, Ernesto Baez, Manuel Emilio Cabrera, Carlota Carretero

45. The Low End (2019)

72 min | Thriller

Over the course of forty-eight hours during a music festival, a recovering drug addict attempts to rekindle his relationship; but with little money, he is forced to engage in a dangerous ... See full summary »

Director: Graham Schmidt | Stars: David Zallis, Michael Kunicki, Mariana Castro, Warren Polk

Votes: 22

46. Fox Spirit Matchmaker (2017)

25 min | Animation, Comedy, Fantasy

In a world where Spirits and Humans coexist and can fall in love with each other, many Spirits see their human loved ones die before them due to the Spirits' much longer life expectancy. ... See full summary »

Stars: Kana Asumi, Wataru Hatano, Marina Inoue, Ai Kakuma

47. Memories of a Penitent Heart (2016)

TV-14 | 69 min | Documentary, Family

Twenty-five years after Miguel died of AIDS, his niece tracks down his estranged lover and cracks open a Pandora's box of unresolved family drama.

Director: Cecilia Aldarondo

Votes: 96

48. Heart of Paris (1937)

86 min | Comedy, Drama

In a trial, one of the jurors makes the jury change their mind as new evidences are found:Camille helps save defendant Natalie from the "eleven angry men".

Director: Marc Allégret | Stars: Raimu, Michèle Morgan, Gilbert Gil, Jean Worms

Votes: 157

49. Retribution Road (2007 Video)

PG-13 | 85 min | Western

In the vein of traditional westerns such as 'High Noon,' comes 'Blue Eyes,' nickname of Johnny Rios, the most sadistic outlaw in south Texas. After being captured in a foiled bank robbery ... See full summary »

Director: Chuck Walker | Stars: Michael Gregory, John Castellanos, Leslie Easterbrook, Burton Gilliam

Votes: 75

50. Wiano (1964)

91 min | Drama, Romance

Bronka is a lame country girl and a daughter of a well-off local party activist. She is seduced by handsome Staszek who is more interested in her father's land than in Bronka herself. When Staszek cheats on Bronka, the tragedy pursues.

Director: Jan Lomnicki | Stars: Zofia Kucówna, Roman Wilhelmi, Marta Lipinska, Tadeusz Lomnicki

Votes: 23