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1. Knowing (2009)
PG-13 | 121 min | Action, Mystery, Sci-Fi
M.I.T. professor John Koestler links a mysterious list of numbers from a time capsule to past and future disasters and sets out to prevent the ultimate catastrophe.
Director: Alex Proyas | Stars: Nicolas Cage, Chandler Canterbury, Rose Byrne, Lara Robinson
Votes: 247,755 | Gross: $79.96M
2. Demolition (2015)
R | 101 min | Comedy, Drama
A successful investment banker struggles after losing his wife in a tragic car crash. With the help of a customer service rep and her young son, he starts to rebuild, beginning with the demolition of the life he once knew.
Director: Jean-Marc Vallée | Stars: Jake Gyllenhaal, Naomi Watts, Chris Cooper, Judah Lewis
Votes: 112,403 | Gross: $1.98M
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: 42,953
4. Dolittle (2020)
PG | 101 min | Adventure, Comedy, Family
A physician who can talk to animals embarks on an adventure to find a legendary island with a young apprentice and a crew of strange pets.
Director: Stephen Gaghan | Stars: Robert Downey Jr., Antonio Banderas, Michael Sheen, Jim Broadbent
Votes: 71,432 | Gross: $77.05M
5. Just Like Heaven (2005)
PG-13 | 95 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
A lonely landscape architect falls for the spirit of the beautiful woman who used to live in his new apartment.
Director: Mark Waters | Stars: Reese Witherspoon, Mark Ruffalo, Donal Logue, Dina Spybey-Waters
Votes: 117,452 | Gross: $48.32M
6. Jayne Mansfield's Car (2012)
R | 122 min | Drama
Alabama; 1969: The death of a clan's estranged wife and mother brings together two very different families. Do the scars of the past hide differences that will tear them apart, or expose truths that could lead to unexpected collisions?
Director: Billy Bob Thornton | Stars: Tippi Hedren, Kevin Bacon, Ray Stevenson, Robert Patrick
Votes: 3,559 | Gross: $0.01M
7. On the Beach (2000 TV Movie)
195 min | Drama, Sci-Fi
After a global nuclear war, the residents of Australia must come to terms with the fact that all life will be destroyed in a matter of months.
Director: Russell Mulcahy | Stars: Armand Assante, Rachel Ward, Bryan Brown, Jacqueline McKenzie
Votes: 4,158
8. Black or White (2014)
PG-13 | 121 min | Drama
A grieving widower is drawn into a custody battle over his granddaughter, whom he helped raise her entire life.
Director: Mike Binder | Stars: Kevin Costner, Octavia Spencer, Gillian Jacobs, Anthony Mackie
Votes: 13,898 | Gross: $21.57M
9. The Diplomat (2009 TV Movie)
190 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A British diplomat is arrested on charges of working with Russian mafia. After death threats to his wife, they are taken into protective custody. Then the MI6 shows up with a new piece of the puzzle.
Director: Peter Andrikidis | Stars: Dougray Scott, Rachael Blake, Jeremy Lindsay Taylor, Richard Roxburgh
Votes: 769
10. Badlapur (2015)
Not Rated | 134 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Raghu begins walking a fine line between good and evil as he exacts violent revenge on two criminals who killed his family 15 years ago.
Director: Sriram Raghavan | Stars: Varun Dhawan, Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Yami Gautam, Huma Qureshi
Votes: 25,873 | Gross: $0.37M
11. Coda (I) (2019)
Not Rated | 96 min | Drama, Music
A famous pianist struggling with stage fright late in his career finds inspiration with a free-spirited music critic.
Director: Claude Lalonde | Stars: Patrick Stewart, Katie Holmes, Giancarlo Esposito, Christoph Gaugler
Votes: 2,291
12. Almost Christmas (2016)
PG-13 | 111 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A dysfunctional family gathers together for their first Christmas since their mom died.
Director: David E. Talbert | Stars: Kimberly Elise, Omar Epps, Danny Glover, Mo'Nique
Votes: 7,876 | Gross: $41.72M
13. Love Liza (2002)
R | 90 min | Comedy, Drama
A depressed widower spends his time huffing gasoline fumes, buying toy planes and acting reckless in public while avoiding reading his wife's suicide note.
Director: Todd Louiso | Stars: Philip Seymour Hoffman, Annie Morgan, Kathy Bates, J.D. Walsh
Votes: 8,616 | Gross: $0.21M
14. The Other Man (2008)
R | 88 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
The story of a husband who suspects his wife of adultery, and sets out to track down the other man in her life.
Director: Richard Eyre | Stars: Liam Neeson, Antonio Banderas, Laura Linney, Romola Garai
Votes: 12,429
15. Defining Moments (2021)
88 min | Comedy, Family
Defining Moments is a highly comedic film about that one single moment in time that changes you from who you were to who you'll be.
Director: Stephen Wallis | Stars: Burt Reynolds, Sienna Guillory, Tammy Blanchard, Eric Peterson
Votes: 294
16. Revenir (2019)
77 min | Drama
A man in his early thirties returns to the rural farm of his childhood and rejoins the family struggle to get by.
Director: Jessica Palud | Stars: Niels Schneider, Adèle Exarchopoulos, Roman Coustère Hachez, Patrick d'Assumçao
Votes: 587
17. Feed the Beast (2016)
TV-14 | 60 min | Crime, Drama
Two friends open up a restaurant together.
Stars: David Schwimmer, Jim Sturgess, Lorenza Izzo, Michael Gladis
Votes: 3,498
18. The Eddy Duchin Story (1956)
Approved | 123 min | Biography, Drama, Music
The life story of the famous pianist and band-leader of the 1930s and 1940s.
Director: George Sidney | Stars: Tyrone Power, Kim Novak, Victoria Shaw, James Whitmore
Votes: 2,159
19. Fathers & Sons (1992)
R | 109 min | Drama, Thriller
A father/widower and a teenage son live in a seaside town with a serial killer. The son starts hanging out with girls and drug dealers.
Director: Paul Mones | Stars: Jeff Goldblum, Rory Cochrane, Famke Janssen, Mitchell Marchand
Votes: 891
20. The Gold of Naples (1954)
Not Rated | 138 min | Comedy, Drama
A portrait of the people, the defects, and the peculiarities of Naples in six different vignettes.
Director: Vittorio De Sica | Stars: Totò, Lianella Carell, Pasquale Cennamo, Agostino Salvietti
Votes: 2,046
21. The Conquering Power (1921)
TV-G | 89 min | Drama, Romance
After losing his father, a playboy moves in with his miserly uncle, who seeks to cheat him out of his inheritance.
Director: Rex Ingram | Stars: Alice Terry, Rudolph Valentino, Eric Mayne, Ralph Lewis
Votes: 540
22. Return to Paradise (1953)
Approved | 100 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance
An American drifter comes to a remote Polynesian island controlled by a Puritanical missionary and turns the social life of the island upside-down.
Director: Mark Robson | Stars: Gary Cooper, Barry Jones, Roberta Haynes, Moira Walker
Votes: 838
23. Crazy Right (2018)
83 min | Drama, Romance
A stash of old cassette tapes may hold the secrets to an alcoholic's delusions after the death of his wife.
Director: Ian Stewart Fowler | Stars: Patrick D. Green, Lindsae Klein, Dennis Fitzpatrick, Michael Draper
Votes: 118
24. At the Midnight Hour (1995 TV Movie)
87 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance
Wealthy widower Richard Keaton engages young widow Elizabeth 'Liz' Guinness as the 4th consecutive nanny for his pre-teen, equally science-devoted son Andrew, with instructions to disturb ... See full summary »
Director: Charles Jarrott | Stars: Patsy Kensit, Keegan MacIntosh, Cynthia Dale, Lindsay Merrithew
Votes: 429
25. The Unseen (1945)
Approved | 80 min | Drama, Film-Noir, Horror
A secretive widower hires a governess for his children, a willful boy and impressionable girl. Strange occurrences and the governess's curiosity lead her to unlock the secrets of the mysterious and uninhabited brownstone next door.
Director: Lewis Allen | Stars: Joel McCrea, Gail Russell, Herbert Marshall, Phyllis Brooks
Votes: 612
26. Lullaby for Pi (2010)
Not Rated | 98 min | Drama
A washed-up musician befriends a reclusive artist with an unusual name.
Director: Benoît Philippon | Stars: Rupert Friend, Clémence Poésy, Matt Ward, Forest Whitaker
Votes: 957
27. The Christmas Miracle of Jonathan Toomey (2007)
91 min | Family
When a heartbroken boy loses the precious wooden treasure that links him to his dead father, his worried mother convinces a carver to create a replacement.
Director: Bill Clark | Stars: Tom Berenger, Sarah Wildor, Thomas Briggs, Joely Richardson
Votes: 1,249
28. Brigham City (2001)
PG-13 | 119 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
The sheriff of a small Utah community searches for a serial killer.
Director: Richard Dutcher | Stars: Richard Dutcher, Wilford Brimley, Matthew A. Brown, Carrie Morgan
Votes: 1,606 | Gross: $0.85M
29. Night Into Morning (1951)
Passed | 86 min | Drama, Romance
Berkeley university professor adjusts (using alcohol) to tragic fire deaths of wife & son.
Director: Fletcher Markle | Stars: Ray Milland, John Hodiak, Nancy Reagan, Lewis Stone
Votes: 584
30. One Foot in Hell (1960)
Approved | 90 min | Western
In this Western, Alan Ladd exacts revenge on a small town the best way he knows how -- by becoming sheriff.
Director: James B. Clark | Stars: Alan Ladd, Don Murray, Dan O'Herlihy, Dolores Michaels
Votes: 658
31. La vengeance au triple galop (2021 TV Movie)
105 min | Comedy
Parody of the acclaimed Australian TV series of the 80s, Return to Eden (1983). Wealthy heiress Stephanie Harper marries Craig Danners, without suspecting that he only wants her money and is having an affair with her best friend.
Directors: Alex Lutz, Arthur Sanigou | Stars: Audrey Lamy, Alex Lutz, Guillaume Gallienne, Leïla Bekhti
Votes: 140
32. Broken Dreams (1933)
Passed | 68 min | Drama
Medical intern Robert is distraught after his wife dies in childbirth. He's resentful of his new son and wants nothing to do with him. He leaves the child with his aunt and uncle and heads off to Europe to pursue medicine.
Director: Robert G. Vignola | Stars: Randolph Scott, Martha Sleeper, Beryl Mercer, Joseph Cawthorn
Votes: 112
33. Fishnets (2021)
40 min | Short, Drama
Charisma Harper, a vulnerable teenager, finds romance and comfort in a charming online boyfriend, Eli. Disturbances in her home life push her into the arms of her newfound love until Eli ... See full summary »
Director: Brian Nesbit | Stars: La'Myah, Quasheem D. Herring, Edwin L. Wright, Chamise Renee
Votes: 11
34. Wild Oranges (1924)
Passed | 88 min | Drama, Romance
Millie Stope lives with her grandfather on a remote island. Her grandfather fled there for political reasons. But they're not alone. An escaped prisoner, Nicholas, is terrorizing them, and ... See full summary »
Director: King Vidor | Stars: Frank Mayo, Virginia Valli, Ford Sterling, Nigel De Brulier
Votes: 565
35. The Incredible Stranger (1942)
Unrated | 11 min | Short
In 1893, an odd stranger arrives in a small town and keeps a promise he made to his wife.
Director: Jacques Tourneur | Stars: John Nesbitt, Sam Ash, Walter Bacon, Walter Baldwin
Votes: 203
36.
Amazing Stories (1985–1987)
Episode:
Vanessa in the Garden
(1985)
Not Rated | 25 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama
When a brilliant young artist's beloved wife dies in a carriage wreck, the grief-stricken husband is possessed with an incredible plan to bring her back through his art.
Director: Clint Eastwood | Stars: Harvey Keitel, Sondra Locke, Beau Bridges, Margaret Howell
Votes: 478
37.
Odyssey 5 (2002–2004)
Episode:
Begotten
(2003)
TV-14 | 43 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Chuck takes a trip down memory lane with a young female hitchhiker. Kurt grows a human-synthetic hybrid. It attacks him and escapes. He suffers a mental breakdown and becomes convinced that the crew has been replaced by synthetics.
Director: Terry Ingram | Stars: Peter Weller, Sebastian Roché, Christopher Gorham, Leslie Silva
Votes: 78
38.
Odyssey 5 (2002–2004)
Episode:
Vanishing Point
(2003)
TV-14 | 48 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Chuck suddenly wakes up in a hospital with his dead wife by his side. She claims that it was he who almost died, not she. Sarah and Angela investigate a mass grave tied to a Transhumanist group. Neil loses his virginity - again.
Director: David Winkler | Stars: Peter Weller, Sebastian Roché, Christopher Gorham, Leslie Silva
Votes: 75
39.
The Outer Limits (1995–2002)
Episode:
Breaking Point
(2000)
TV-PG | 45 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
A scientist is fired because his employers don't believe in his time travel theories. He uses his time machine to prove them wrong, only to arrive to see his wife die two days into the future and see himself drive away.
Director: Neill Fearnley | Stars: Rick Roberts, Laurie Holden, Patricia Harras, William deVry
Votes: 218
40.
Perversions of Science (1997)
Episode:
Planely Possible
(1997)
TV-MA | 27 min | Action, Comedy, Drama
Brilliant ex NASA scientist conducts a dangerous experiments to send grieving widower Walter to alternate realities where his murdered loving wife is still alive. However, these realities turn out to be the stuff of nightmares.
Director: Russell Mulcahy | Stars: George Newbern, Vincent Schiavelli, Joyce Brothers, Elizabeth Berkley
Votes: 74
41.
Skärgårdsdoktorn (1997–2000)
Episode:
Stadsfolk och öbor
(1998)
57 min | Drama
Wilma decide to cheer up a grieving widower. Dr Steen receive a young girl who may suffer from meningitis.
Director: Martin Asphaug | Stars: Samuel Fröler, Ebba Hultkvist Stragne, Sten Ljunggren, Helena Brodin
Votes: 20
42.
Mike Tyson Mysteries (2014–2020)
Episode:
The Christmas Episode
(2019)
TV-14 | 10 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy
On Christmas, a woman asks the team to somehow help her father, who is in a nursing home suffering from dementia, fulfill his wish of seeing his late wife one more time.
Stars: Mike Tyson, Norm MacDonald, Rachel Ramras, Jim Rash
Votes: 49
43.
The Six Wives of Henry VIII (1970)
Episode:
Jane Seymour
(1970)
TV-14 | 91 min | Drama, History, Romance
The King is embroiled with the Reformation, and after the execution of Anne Boleyn he marries the kind and loving gentlewoman Jane Seymour. Will she provide him with the peace and comfort he needs and, even more importantly, a male heir?
Director: John Glenister | Stars: Anne Stallybrass, Daniel Moynihan, Gillian Bailey, Dorothy Black
Votes: 97
44.
Dalgliesh (2021– )
Episode:
The Black Tower - Part One
(2021)
TV-MA | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Dalgliesh travels to Dorset to visit his friend Father Michael, but it turns out the man died two weeks earlier. To make things worse, Dalgliesh learns that another resident of the estate died a suspicious death a few weeks before that.
Directors: Andy Tohill, Ryan Tohill | Stars: Paul Mallon, Darren Swift, Bertie Carvel, Mirren Mack
Votes: 501
45.
Dalgliesh (2021– )
Episode:
The Black Tower - Part Two
(2021)
TV-MA | Crime, Drama, Mystery
WIth Grace dead, the future of the estate is more uncertain than ever. Wilfred organizes a vote to establish whether he should continue as the residents' spiritual adviser. Dalgliesh digs deeper into the operation's secrets.
Directors: Andy Tohill, Ryan Tohill | Stars: Bertie Carvel, Mirren Mack, Jenny Howe, Steven Mackintosh
Votes: 430
46.
Dalgliesh (2021– )
Episode:
A Taste for Death - Part Two
(2021)
TV-MA | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Dalgliesh digs into the Berownes' family secrets. He eventually confronts the killer - and reveals some deeply personal things about himself.
Director: Lisa Clarke | Stars: Bertie Carvel, Jim Norton, Jeremy Irvine, Carlyss Peer
Votes: 412
47.
Collision (2009)
Episode:
Episode #1.1
(2009)
TV-PG | 45 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Police Inspector John Tolin returns to work after the car crash that killed his wife and crippled his daughter Jodie to investigate a multiple pile-up on an A road, possibly caused when a ... See full summary »
Director: Marc Evans | Stars: Douglas Henshall, Jo Woodcock, Christopher Fulford, Pip Torrens
Votes: 138
48.
The Ministry of Time (2015–2020)
Episode:
El tiempo es el que es
(2015)
TV-MA | Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
Three Ministry of Time agents travel to 1808 to recover a modern pistol that could change the course of the Peninsular War if it fell in the wrong hands.
Director: Marc Vigil | Stars: Rodolfo Sancho, Aura Garrido, Nacho Fresneda, Cayetana Guillén Cuervo
Votes: 365
49.
The Ministry of Time (2015–2020)
Episode:
Una negociación a tiempo
(2015)
TV-MA | Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
Salvador sends the team to 1491 to save the first discoverer of the time doors from the Spanish Inquisition, and Amelia hides her job at the Ministry by telling her 1880 parents that she has a boyfriend.
Directors: Jorge Dorado, Marc Vigil | Stars: Rodolfo Sancho, Aura Garrido, Nacho Fresneda, Cayetana Guillén Cuervo
Votes: 253
50.
The Ministry of Time (2015–2020)
Episode:
La leyenda del tiempo
(2015)
TV-MA | 72 min | Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
The team travels to Madrid's Student Residence in 1924 after a Dalí painting depicting a graphics tablet is found. Once there, they find strange photographs that were seemingly planted to taunt them.
Director: Marc Vigil | Stars: Rodolfo Sancho, Aura Garrido, Nacho Fresneda, Cayetana Guillén Cuervo
Votes: 240