Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "grabbed-by-the-hair"

1. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (2001)

PG | 152 min | Adventure, Family, Fantasy

An orphaned boy enrolls in a school of wizardry, where he learns the truth about himself, his family and the terrible evil that haunts the magical world.

Director: Chris Columbus | Stars: Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, Emma Watson, Richard Harris

Votes: 856,498 | Gross: $317.58M

2. Pleasure (2021)

R | 109 min | Drama

Bella Cherry arrives in Los Angeles with dreams of becoming an adult film star, but she soon learns that fame won't come easy as she harnesses her ambition and cunning to rise to the top of this mesmerizing and singular world.

Director: Ninja Thyberg | Stars: Sofia Kappel, Zelda Morrison, Evelyn Claire, Chris Cock

Votes: 22,475

3. Sucker Punch (2011)

PG-13 | 110 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy

A young girl institutionalized by her abusive stepfather retreats to an alternative reality as a coping strategy and envisions a plan to help her escape.

Director: Zack Snyder | Stars: Emily Browning, Vanessa Hudgens, Abbie Cornish, Jena Malone

Votes: 252,874 | Gross: $36.39M

4. Planet Terror (2007)

R | 105 min | Action, Comedy, Horror

After an experimental bio-weapon is released, turning thousands into zombie-like creatures, it's up to a rag-tag group of survivors to stop the infected and those behind its release.

Director: Robert Rodriguez | Stars: Rose McGowan, Freddy Rodríguez, Josh Brolin, Marley Shelton

Votes: 223,356

5. Hercules (I) (2014)

PG-13 | 98 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy

Having endured his legendary twelve labors, Hercules, the Greek demigod, has his life as a sword-for-hire tested when the King of Thrace and his daughter seek his aid in defeating a tyrannical warlord.

Director: Brett Ratner | Stars: Dwayne Johnson, John Hurt, Ian McShane, Joseph Fiennes

Votes: 164,425 | Gross: $72.69M

6. Sleepy Hollow (1999)

R | 105 min | Fantasy, Horror, Mystery

Ichabod Crane is sent to Sleepy Hollow to investigate the decapitations of three people; the culprit is legendary apparition The Headless Horseman.

Director: Tim Burton | Stars: Johnny Depp, Christina Ricci, Miranda Richardson, Michael Gambon

Votes: 384,062 | Gross: $101.07M

7. The Fog (1980)

R | 89 min | Horror, Thriller

An unearthly fog rolls into a small coastal town exactly 100 years after a ship mysteriously sank in its waters.

Director: John Carpenter | Stars: Adrienne Barbeau, Jamie Lee Curtis, Janet Leigh, John Houseman

Votes: 83,047 | Gross: $21.38M

8. The Tourist (I) (2010)

PG-13 | 103 min | Action, Thriller

Revolves around Frank, an American tourist visiting Italy to mend a broken heart. Elise is an extraordinary woman who deliberately crosses his path.

Director: Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck | Stars: Johnny Depp, Angelina Jolie, Paul Bettany, Timothy Dalton

Votes: 256,483 | Gross: $67.63M

9. Villains (I) (2019)

R | 90 min | Comedy, Drama, Horror

After a pair of amateur criminals break into a suburban home, they stumble upon a dark secret that two sadistic homeowners will do anything to keep from getting out.

Directors: Dan Berk, Robert Olsen | Stars: Bill Skarsgård, Maika Monroe, Blake Baumgartner, Jeffrey Donovan

Votes: 18,265

10. Fear Street: Part Two - 1978 (2021)

R | 109 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery

Shadyside, 1978. School's out for summer and the activities at Camp Nightwing are about to begin. But when another Shadysider is possessed with the urge to kill, the fun in the sun becomes a gruesome fight for survival.

Director: Leigh Janiak | Stars: Sadie Sink, Emily Rudd, Ryan Simpkins, McCabe Slye

Votes: 76,379

11. Twins of Evil (1971)

R | 87 min | Horror

A religious sect led by Gustav Weil hunts all women suspected of witchcraft, killing a number of innocent victims. Young Frieda, Gustav's niece, will involve herself in a devilish cult, and become an instrument of Justice in the region.

Director: John Hough | Stars: Peter Cushing, Dennis Price, Mary Collinson, Madeleine Collinson

Votes: 6,503

12. Black Christmas (1974)

R | 98 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller

During their Christmas break, a group of sorority girls are stalked by a stranger.

Director: Bob Clark | Stars: Olivia Hussey, Keir Dullea, Margot Kidder, John Saxon

Votes: 48,377 | Gross: $4.05M

13. Heavy Metal 2000 (2000)

R | 88 min | Animation, Action, Adventure

After surviving an invasion on her peaceful homeworld, a beautiful avenger must stop a powerful psychopath from gaining immortality and rescue her kidnapped sister.

Directors: Michael Coldewey, Michel Lemire | Stars: Michael Ironside, Julie Strain, Billy Idol, Pier Paquette

Votes: 9,329

14. Fantasia 2000 (1999)

G | 75 min | Animation, Family, Fantasy

An update of the original film with new interpretations of great works of classical music.

Directors: James Algar, Gaëtan Brizzi, Paul Brizzi, Hendel Butoy, Francis Glebas, Eric Goldberg, Don Hahn, Pixote Hunt | Stars: James Levine, Steve Martin, Itzhak Perlman, Quincy Jones

Votes: 41,443 | Gross: $60.66M

15. Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker (2000 Video)

PG-13 | 76 min | Animation, Action, Crime

The Joker is back with a vengeance, and Gotham's newest Dark Knight needs answers as he stands alone to face Gotham's most infamous Clown Prince of Crime.

Director: Curt Geda | Stars: Will Friedle, Mark Hamill, Kevin Conroy, Angie Harmon

Votes: 29,800

16. Chained Heat (1983)

R | 95 min | Action, Crime, Drama

Young Carol Henderson ends up in prison where she must learn how to survive in an environment plagued by violence, murder, rape, racism, drugs and staff corruption and brutality.

Director: Paul Nicholas | Stars: Linda Blair, John Vernon, Sybil Danning, Tamara Dobson

Votes: 2,631 | Gross: $6.15M

17. Snow White: A Tale of Terror (1997)

R | 100 min | Adventure, Fantasy, Horror

In this dark take on the fairy tale, the growing hatred of a noblewoman, secretly a practitioner of the dark arts, for her stepdaughter, and the witch's horrifying attempts to kill her.

Director: Michael Cohn | Stars: Sigourney Weaver, Sam Neill, Gil Bellows, Taryn Davis

Votes: 11,378

18. Retroactive (1997)

R | 91 min | Action, Crime, Drama

A psychiatrist makes multiple trips through time to save a woman that was murdered by her brutal husband.

Director: Louis Morneau | Stars: Jim Belushi, Kylie Travis, Shannon Whirry, Frank Whaley

Votes: 6,707

19. Appointment with a Shadow (1957)

Approved | 72 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

George Nader plays a reporter whose career is ruined by liquor. A comeback opportunity presents itself when he is a bystander at the arrest of a well-known criminal.

Director: Richard Carlson | Stars: George Nader, Joanna Moore, Brian Keith, Virginia Field

Votes: 393

20. The Rape of Richard Beck (1985 TV Movie)

100 min | Action, Crime, Drama

Seattle veteran cop Richard Beck becomes a sexual assault victim and must deal with the painful aftermath.

Director: Karen Arthur | Stars: Richard Crenna, Meredith Baxter, Pat Hingle, Frances Lee McCain

Votes: 536

21. Gritta of the Rats' Castle (1985)

79 min | Comedy, Family, Fantasy

The tale of young Gritta who lives with her father, an unsuccessful inventor. When her new stepmother tries to put her away in a convent she discovers some dark secrets there.

Director: Jürgen Brauer | Stars: Nadja Klier, Hermann Beyer, Suher Saleh, Fred Delmare

Votes: 166

22. Matalo! (Kill Him) (1970)

Not Rated | 94 min | Action, Drama, Thriller

A gang of outlaws find themselves in conflict with a mysterious, boomerang-wielding drifter and a widower who arrive in the ghost town they have holed up in.

Director: Cesare Canevari | Stars: Lou Castel, Corrado Pani, Antonio Salines, Luis Dávila

Votes: 620

23. Lighthouse (1999)

R | 95 min | Horror, Thriller

Members of a sunken prison ship take refuge at an old lighthouse, unaware one of their most notorious criminals has taken shelter there as well.

Director: Simon Hunter | Stars: James Purefoy, Rachel Shelley, Christopher Adamson, Paul Brooke

Votes: 1,315

24. The Fireman (1916)

TV-G | 24 min | Short, Comedy

Charlie is a fireman who always does everything wrong. A man talks the Fire Chief into ignoring his burning home (he wants the insurance money) unaware that his daughter (the love of the ... See full summary »

Director: Charles Chaplin | Stars: Charles Chaplin, Edna Purviance, Lloyd Bacon, Eric Campbell

Votes: 2,884

25. Puppet Love (1944)

7 min | Animation, Family, Comedy

Bluto builds a Popeye puppet and manipulates it to treat Olive rudely. Then he comes in and takes Olive away. When Popeye discovers the ruse, knocks Bluto out and ties puppet strings to him.

Directors: Seymour Kneitel, James Tyer | Stars: Jackson Beck, Jack Mercer, Mae Questel

Votes: 112

26. Trigga (2016)

16 min | Short, Drama, Family

She'd rather not speak and prefers life as a horse, but the girls at school just won't leave her alone. Based on a true story.

Director: Meloni Poole | Stars: Lily-Rose Aslandogdu, Thea Barnes, Frankie Pike, Amelia Mae Thompson

Votes: 26

27. Atrapada (2020)

4 min | Short, Drama

At the end of a date, the woman says no. Her date is not taking No for an answer.

Director: Ricardo Zavala | Stars: Javier Uriarte, Sofía Basurco

28. The Tainted (2017)

11 min | Short, Horror

Tangled amid an apocalypse a father and his daughters are locked in their house in an attempt of survival. However they begin to fear the indoors with their abusive father, so they begin to... See full summary »

Director: Jack Carlin | Stars: David Childs, Tayla Kenyon, Julia Meola, Evelyn Roberts

29. Maid Marian and Her Merry Men (1989–1994)
Episode: Rotten Rose: Part 2 (1990)

24 min | Adventure, Comedy, Family

Due to be executed with Marian, Robin realises that she did not betray him when Rose reveals that she wants his body stuffed for her Robin Hood Museum. Fortunately the other merry men ... See full summary »

Director: David Bell | Stars: Kate Lonergan, Adam Morris, Danny John-Jules, Howard Lew Lewis

Votes: 14

30. Supernatural (2005–2020)
Episode: No Exit (2006)

TV-14 | 47 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror

Sam and Dean meet up with America's first serial killer, while Jo lies to her mother about going to Vegas and joins Sam and Dean to help them on their hunt.

Director: Kim Manners | Stars: Jared Padalecki, Jensen Ackles, Alona Tal, Samantha Ferris

Votes: 5,950

31. Banshee (2013–2016)
Episode: Meet the New Boss (2013)

TV-MA | 49 min | Action, Crime, Drama

Anastasia breaks into her father's extremely secure home to make a deal for her safety. Proctor and Longshadow make a deal to build a hotel on the reservation. Hood performs his brand of an arrest on a rapist, ultimate fighter champion.

Director: Ole Christian Madsen | Stars: Antony Starr, Ivana Milicevic, Ulrich Thomsen, Frankie Faison

Votes: 3,256

32. Justified (2010–2015)
Episode: This Bird Has Flown (2013)

TV-MA | 39 min | Action, Crime, Drama

Raylan tries to track down Randall, Lindsey, and his stolen money. Meanwhile, Ava has to figure out how to tie up loose ends with Ellen Mae.

Director: Bill Johnson | Stars: Timothy Olyphant, Nick Searcy, Joelle Carter, Jacob Pitts

Votes: 1,379

33. Justified (2010–2015)
Episode: Money Trap (2013)

TV-MA | 40 min | Action, Crime, Drama

While Raylan has to track down a fugitive for a second time, Boyd and Ava go to an exclusive party hoping to track down Drew Thompson.

Director: Don Kurt | Stars: Timothy Olyphant, Nick Searcy, Joelle Carter, Jacob Pitts

Votes: 1,406

34. Super Power Beat Down (2012–2020)
Episode: White Ranger vs. Scorpion (2013)

8 min | Short

Scorpion, an undead ninja specter character from the Mortal Kombat gaming franchise, seeks to battle The White Ranger, the mightiest Power Ranger, in a battle to the death.

Director: Aaron Schoenke | Stars: Marisha Ray, Matthew Mercer, Aaron Schoenke, Jason David Frank

Votes: 44

35. Bob's Burgers (2011– )
Episode: Purple Rain-Union (2013)

TV-14 | 21 min | Animation, Comedy

Linda has an upcoming 25 year reunion at Cardinal Gennaro High. Debbie, chairman of the reunion, needs entertainment for the gala. Linda's old band, The Ta Tas, are not even her 3rd choice,... See full summary »

Directors: Tyree Dillihay, Bernard Derriman | Stars: H. Jon Benjamin, Dan Mintz, Eugene Mirman, Larry Murphy

Votes: 971