Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "grieving-son"

1. The Exorcist (1973)

R | 122 min | Horror

When a young girl is possessed by a mysterious entity, her mother seeks the help of two Catholic priests to save her life.

Director: William Friedkin | Stars: Ellen Burstyn, Max von Sydow, Linda Blair, Lee J. Cobb

Votes: 455,338 | Gross: $232.91M

2. 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: 838,165 | Gross: $700.06M

3. Haunted Mansion (2023)

PG-13 | 123 min | Comedy, Drama, Family

A single mom named Gabbie hires a tour guide, a psychic, a priest and a historian to help exorcise her newly bought mansion after discovering it is inhabited by ghosts.

Director: Justin Simien | Stars: LaKeith Stanfield, Rosario Dawson, Owen Wilson, Tiffany Haddish

Votes: 42,882

4. Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2022)

R | 81 min | Crime, Horror, Thriller

After 48 years of hiding, Leatherface returns to terrorize a group of idealistic young friends who accidentally disrupt his carefully shielded world in a remote Texas town.

Director: David Blue Garcia | Stars: Sarah Yarkin, Elsie Fisher, Mark Burnham, Jacob Latimore

Votes: 61,672

5. Serenity (I) (2019)

R | 106 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller

A fishing boat captain juggles facing his mysterious past and finding himself ensnared in a reality where nothing is what it seems.

Director: Steven Knight | Stars: Matthew McConaughey, Anne Hathaway, Diane Lane, Jason Clarke

Votes: 45,442 | Gross: $8.55M

6. Those Who Wish Me Dead (2021)

R | 100 min | Action, Drama, Thriller

A teenage murder witness finds himself pursued by twin assassins in the Montana wilderness with a survival expert tasked with protecting him -- and a forest fire threatening to consume them all.

Director: Taylor Sheridan | Stars: Angelina Jolie, Nicholas Hoult, Finn Little, Jon Bernthal

Votes: 72,729

7. The Marksman (2021)

PG-13 | 108 min | Action, Drama, Thriller

A rancher on the Arizona border becomes the unlikely defender of a young Mexican boy desperately fleeing the cartel assassins who've pursued him into the U.S.

Director: Robert Lorenz | Stars: Katheryn Winnick, Liam Neeson, Teresa Ruiz, Juan Pablo Raba

Votes: 43,278

8. Until the End of the World (1991)

R | 158 min | Action, Drama, Sci-Fi

In 1999, Claire Tourneur's life is forever changed after she survives a car crash. She rescues Sam and travels the world with him. Writer Eugene Fitzpatrick follows and writes their story as a method of recording dreams is being developed.

Director: Wim Wenders | Stars: William Hurt, Solveig Dommartin, Pietro Falcone, Enzo Turrin

Votes: 11,349 | Gross: $0.75M

9. Striking Distance (1993)

R | 102 min | Action, Crime, Mystery

Coming from a police family, Tom Hardy ends up fighting his uncle after the murder of his father. Tom believes the killer is another cop and goes on the record with his allegations. Demoted then to river duty, the killer taunts Tom.

Director: Rowdy Herrington | Stars: Bruce Willis, Sarah Jessica Parker, Dennis Farina, Tom Sizemore

Votes: 45,545 | Gross: $23.80M

10. The Christmas Chronicles (2018)

PG | 104 min | Adventure, Comedy, Family

The story of sister and brother, Kate and Teddy Pierce, whose Christmas Eve plan to catch Santa Claus on camera turns into an unexpected journey that most kids could only dream about.

Director: Clay Kaytis | Stars: Kurt Russell, Darby Camp, Judah Lewis, Oliver Hudson

Votes: 83,520

11. Are You Here (2013)

R | 114 min | Comedy, Drama

Two childhood best friends, one a superficial womanizer and the other a barely functioning bipolar, embark on a road trip back to their hometown after one of them learns his estranged father has died.

Director: Matthew Weiner | Stars: Owen Wilson, Zach Galifianakis, Amy Poehler, Laura Ramsey

Votes: 16,693

12. Dad (1989)

PG | 117 min | Comedy, Drama

While his mom recovers in hospital from a heart attack, John puts his busy life on hold to fly home and help his elderly dad around the house. John's son later joins them and they all truly bond for the first and, tragically, final time.

Director: Gary David Goldberg | Stars: Jack Lemmon, Ted Danson, Olympia Dukakis, Kathy Baker

Votes: 5,280 | Gross: $19.74M

13. Murder on Middle Beach (2020)

TV-MA | 66 min | Documentary, Crime, Mystery

A young man is determined to solve an unspeakable crime and absolve the people he loves, while looking for answers within his fractured family and community.

Stars: Madison Hamburg, Mark E. Safarik

Votes: 4,560

14. Making Contact (1985)

PG | 98 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

Believing to be able to communicate with his deceased father, a young boy develops psychic powers where he uses them to try to stop supernatural forces threatening his family and friends, especially a possessed ventriloquist dummy.

Director: Roland Emmerich | Stars: Joshua Morrell, Eva Kryll, Tammy Shields, Jan Zierold

Votes: 1,779

15. Strange Bargain (1949)

Approved | 68 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

In order to cash-in a life insurance policy, a failing business owner asks one of his employees, who has financial woes of his own, to aid him in disguising his suicide into a robbery-murder.

Director: Will Price | Stars: Martha Scott, Jeffrey Lynn, Harry Morgan, Katherine Emery

Votes: 864

16. Secret World (1969)

M | 94 min | Drama

Francois, an introverted teenager, goes to live with his uncle in scenic Provence after his mother dies. He becomes infatuated by the uncle's stunning girlfriend Wendy, a situation that can only end in heartbreak.

Directors: Paul Feyder, Robert Freeman | Stars: Jacqueline Bisset, Jean-François Vlerick, Pierre Zimmer, Marc Porel

Votes: 221

17. Johnny Hamlet (1968)

PG | 91 min | Drama, Western

Back from the Civil War, Johnny Hamilton learns that his father was murdered by Santana the bandit and that his mother Gertrude married his uncle Claude but Johnny is determined to find out the truth.

Director: Enzo G. Castellari | Stars: Andrea Giordana, Gilbert Roland, Horst Frank, Ennio Girolami

Votes: 659

18. Life After Death (2020)

81 min | Comedy, Drama

A father and son learn to live after the mother dies.

Director: Klaus Härö | Stars: Peik Stenberg, Martin Paul, Lena Labart, Sara Arnia

Votes: 282

19. Christmas Collision (2021)

95 min | Drama, Romance

Theodora, a time consumed professional crosses paths with Charlie, a writer, when she travels to his hometown for business just before Christmas. Both are taken by surprise when unexpected circumstances present themselves.

Director: Lana Read | Stars: Sebrina Scott, Alyssa Ryan, Vernon Wells, Eric Six

Votes: 225

20. Den svavelgula himlen (2021)

120 min | Drama

In the 70s lower class Frej becomes close with upper class Stella when they are teens but their relationship is harder to sustain during the ensuing decades.

Director: Claes Olsson | Stars: Nicke Lignell, Linda Zilliacus, Görel Ahlnäs, Mikko Ahonen

Votes: 129

21. 1132 Pleasant Street (2000)

86 min | Crime, Drama

After his father dies, Bobbie loses it, becomes a white supremacist and targets a perceived traitor to the cause.

Director: Norm Fassbender | Stars: David McNally, Kate Ryan, Mark Gibbon, Christine MacInnis

Votes: 11

22. The Deadness of Dad (1998)

23 min | Short, Drama

Set in 1960s Wales, a grieving small boy refuses to believe that his uncle, who happens to be his late father's twin, is not his dead father.

Directors: Philippa Cousins, Mandy Sprague | Stars: Sean Cahill, Levi Healey, Ben Hopkins, Rhys Ifans

Votes: 30

23. The Lone Gunmen (2001)
Episode: Pilot (2001)

43 min | Comedy, Drama, Mystery

The Lone Gunmen investigate the suspicious death of Byers' father, a top tier government agent, and discover a top secret plan for a false flag operation to crash a plane into the World Trade Center.

Director: Rob Bowman | Stars: Bruce Harwood, Tom Braidwood, Dean Haglund, Zuleikha Robinson

Votes: 504

24. Miami Vice (1984–1989)
Episode: To Have and to Hold (1989)

TV-14 | 47 min | Action, Crime, Drama

Crockett goes on leave to spend some time with his young troubled son Billy, who can't adjust to the unexpected new situation in the household. Tubbs falls for the widow of an assassinated drug lord, whose family is now being targeted.

Director: Eugene Corr | Stars: Don Johnson, Philip Michael Thomas, Saundra Santiago, Michael Talbott

Votes: 268

25. The Practice (1997–2004)
Episode: Blessed Are They (2003)

TV-PG | 42 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Alan gets appointed to defend a serial toilet cleaner. Sheila, becoming more unstable, jumps at defending a taxidermist stuffing his mom's head. Brad gets another lawyer,

Director: Simon Curtis | Stars: Steve Harris, Camryn Manheim, Michael Badalucco, Jessica Capshaw

Votes: 108

26. Nurses Who Kill (2016– )
Episode: Alison Firth (2019)

TV-14 | 44 min | Documentary, Crime

This edition examines the story of Alison Firth, a nurse who was unable to face the amount of work required caring for her 84-year-old charge and resorted to extreme lengths to avoid the work.

Director: Will Hanrahan | Stars: Lisa Clare, Sue Moore, Alan Wales, Colin Sutton

27. Gangs of London (2020– )
Episode: Episode #2.5 (2022)

TV-MA | 52 min | Action, Crime, Drama

The pieces fall into place for Elliot as he tries to free himself of the Investors once and for all, but manoeuvres elsewhere threaten to derail him.

Director: Nima Nourizadeh | Stars: Sope Dirisu, Jude Akuwudike, Joe Cole, Narges Rashidi

Votes: 551

28. Gangs of London (2020– )
Episode: Episode #2.6 (2022)

TV-MA | 48 min | Action, Crime, Drama

As alliances are redrawn, Lale comes face to face with nemesis Asif and enters into a dangerous game of cat and mouse.

Director: Nima Nourizadeh | Stars: Sope Dirisu, April V Woods, Asif Raza Mir, Waleed Zuaiter

Votes: 624

29. C.B. Strike (2017– )
Episode: Troubled Blood: Part 3 (2022)

TV-MA | 60 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Spurred on by the father of a young woman who also went missing in the 1970s, the detectives attempt to outwit an incarcerated serial killer who may hold the key to the case.

Director: Susan Tully | Stars: Mollie Holder, Billy Boyle, Tom Burke, Holliday Grainger

Votes: 495

30. The Forsyte Saga (2002–2003)
Episode: Episode #1.6 (2002)

TV-PG | 56 min | Drama, History, Romance

Soames sends Jolyon to Irene in order to secure a divorce so he can remarry a French girl,, but the cousins have a falling out,t and it ends badly,

Director: David Moore | Stars: Christian Coulson, Rupert Graves, Gillian Kearney, Barbara Flynn

Votes: 81

31. Fear the Walking Dead (2015–2023)
Episode: The Good Man (2015)

TV-MA | 52 min | Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi

With information Daniel retrieved from the guard he tortured, the three families attempt a dangerous rescue to free Nick and Liza so they can all leave town to find safety.

Director: Stefan Schwartz | Stars: Kim Dickens, Cliff Curtis, Frank Dillane, Alycia Debnam-Carey

Votes: 7,575

32. Street Legal (2019)
Episode: Cracks (2019)

Drama

A judge passes away; Leon arrives. The class-action case heads to trial.

Director: Chloé Robichaud | Stars: Cynthia Dale, Cara Ricketts, Steve Lund, Yvonne Chapman

Votes: 15