Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "holding-a-gun-to-one's-own-head"

1. Barbarian (2022)

R | 102 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller

A woman staying at an Airbnb discovers that the house she has rented is not what it seems.

Director: Zach Cregger | Stars: Georgina Campbell, Bill Skarsgård, Justin Long, Matthew Patrick Davis

Votes: 180,026

2. Blazing Saddles (1974)

R | 93 min | Comedy, Western

In order to ruin a western town, a corrupt politician appoints a black Sheriff, who promptly becomes his most formidable adversary.

Director: Mel Brooks | Stars: Cleavon Little, Gene Wilder, Slim Pickens, Harvey Korman

Votes: 152,413 | Gross: $119.50M

3. Ava (IV) (2020)

R | 96 min | Action, Drama, Thriller

Ava is a deadly assassin who works for a black ops organization, traveling the globe specializing in high profile hits. When a job goes dangerously wrong she is forced to fight for her own survival.

Director: Tate Taylor | Stars: Jessica Chastain, John Malkovich, Common, Geena Davis

Votes: 62,792 | Gross: $0.50M

4. The Frighteners (1996)

R | 110 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Horror

After a tragic car accident that kills his wife, a man discovers he can communicate with the dead, and he uses that gift to con people. However, when a demonic spirit appears, he may be the only one who can stop it from killing the living and the dead.

Director: Peter Jackson | Stars: Michael J. Fox, Trini Alvarado, Peter Dobson, John Astin

Votes: 95,463 | Gross: $16.76M

5. River's Edge (1986)

R | 99 min | Crime, Drama

A high school slacker commits a shocking act and proceeds to let his friends in on the secret. However, the friends' reaction is almost as ambiguous and perplexing as the crime itself.

Director: Tim Hunter | Stars: Crispin Glover, Keanu Reeves, Ione Skye, Daniel Roebuck

Votes: 20,661 | Gross: $4.60M

6. Dreamcatcher (2003)

R | 134 min | Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi

Friends on a camping trip discover that the town they're vacationing in is being plagued in an unusual fashion by parasitic aliens from outer space.

Director: Lawrence Kasdan | Stars: Morgan Freeman, Thomas Jane, Jason Lee, Damian Lewis

Votes: 96,446 | Gross: $33.72M

7. Water Drops on Burning Rocks (2000)

Not Rated | 82 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

In 1970s Germany, a 50-year-old businessman falls in love with a 20-year-old man.

Director: François Ozon | Stars: Bernard Giraudeau, Malik Zidi, Ludivine Sagnier, Anna Thomson

Votes: 6,916 | Gross: $0.09M

8. On the Count of Three (2021)

R | 86 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

Jerrod Carmichael makes his directorial debut and stars in On the Count of Three, a darkly comic feature about two best friends, Val (Carmichael) and Kevin (Christopher Abbott), on the last day of their lives.

Director: Jerrod Carmichael | Stars: Jerrod Carmichael, Christopher Abbott, Tiffany Haddish, Lavell Crawford

Votes: 8,764

9. 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: 23,103 | Gross: $25.20M

10. Warrior of the Lost World (1983)

R | 92 min | Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller

A nomad mercenary on a high-tech motorcycle helps bring about the downfall of the evil Orwellian government, the Omega.

Director: David Worth | Stars: Robert Ginty, Persis Khambatta, Donald Pleasence, Fred Williamson

Votes: 2,879

11. Rent-a-Cop (1987)

R | 96 min | Action, Comedy, Crime

Detective Tony is forced to retire and become a store rent-a-cop when his drug sting operation comes to a tragic end by a masked killer. He joins forces with a prostitute, the only one able to identify the killer, to bring him to justice.

Director: Jerry London | Stars: Burt Reynolds, Liza Minnelli, James Remar, Richard Masur

Votes: 2,038 | Gross: $0.30M

12. Population 436 (2006 Video)

R | 92 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery

A census-taker (Sisto) is sent to investigate why a certain small town has had the same population -- 436 residents -- for the last 100 years.

Director: Michelle MacLaren | Stars: David Ames, Leigh Enns, Susan Kelso, Rick Skene

Votes: 13,518

13. Van Gogh (1991)

R | 158 min | Adventure, Biography, Drama

The final sixty-seven days of Van Gogh's life are examined.

Director: Maurice Pialat | Stars: Jacques Dutronc, Alexandra London, Bernard Le Coq, Gérard Séty

Votes: 3,308 | Gross: $0.14M

14. Alexandra's Project (2003)

Unrated | 103 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller

A regular suburban family man comes home from work on his birthday to find a deserted house and a videotape waiting to be played...

Director: Rolf de Heer | Stars: Gary Sweet, Helen Buday, Bogdan Koca, Samantha Knigge

Votes: 5,221

15. Wild Horses (1995)

Unrated | 122 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

A road movie that begins when a man tries to rob a bank and the bank's clerk, a yuppie, pretends the thief has kidnapped him to help him run away. While they're running away, they meet a girl who becomes part of the team.

Director: Marcelo Piñeyro | Stars: Héctor Alterio, Leonardo Sbaraglia, Cecilia Dopazo, Fernán Mirás

Votes: 1,792

16. Seconds Apart (2011)

R | 89 min | Horror, Thriller

Seth and Jonah are twins with a dangerous ability: telekinesis. Things spiral out of control as their classmates die one by one. But jealousy soon divides them and they can no longer trust each other leading to a battle against themselves.

Director: Antonio Negret | Stars: Orlando Jones, Edmund Entin, Gary Entin, Samantha Droke

Votes: 6,421

17. The Club (1980)

PG | 96 min | Comedy, Drama, Sport

Boardroom and dressing-room intrigues spill on to the field at the Australian Rules football club.

Director: Bruce Beresford | Stars: Jack Thompson, Graham Kennedy, Frank Wilson, Harold Hopkins

Votes: 1,121

18. Daulat Ki Jung (1992)

Not Rated | 143 min | Action, Adventure, Romance

Two young lovers elope to get married and get caught between two gangs searching for buried treasure.

Director: S.A. Kader | Stars: Aamir Khan, Juhi Chawla, Shafi Inamdar, Chitra Deshmukh

Votes: 923

19. The Pirate's Gold (1908)

16 min | Short, Action

Young Wilkinson is leaving his dear old mother for a journey to seek his fortune in a foreign clime. Now, the little cottage is situated near the coast. The waters of the sea have been ... See full summary »

Director: D.W. Griffith | Stars: George Gebhardt, Linda Arvidson, Charles Inslee, Arthur V. Johnson

Votes: 19

20. Psychosis (II) (2021)

14 min | Short, Sci-Fi

Alone and locked in a nightclub a man struggles to find a way out before his own sanity turns on him.

Director: Blake Ridder | Stars: Louis James, Sarah Alexandra Marks, Danny Parsons, Blake Ridder

Votes: 19

21. Tribe: The Untold Story of the Making of Vice Cops (2020)

Not Rated | 10 min | Short, Comedy, Crime

Two friends are at odds while writing a script together, which turns into something much bigger than they ever imagined.

Director: Manuel Alejandro Vargas | Stars: Xavier Alvarado, Thomas Burke, Daniel Grisak, Mick Primmer

Votes: 10

22. Pinky & Mole (2020)

Comedy, Drama

A tale of two kindhearted petty thieves who come across an abandoned baby and a woman who has lost her will to live.

Director: Francis Rollins | Stars: Rene Castillo, Gardy Helve, Silvio Mora, Annie Pichardo

23. The Last Checkmate (2014)

26 min | Short, Drama

A chamber piece about a piece with one in the chamber.

Director: Joe Zappa | Stars: Bob Elkins, Ernie Rowland

24. 24 (2001–2010)
Episode: Day 3: 6:00 a.m.-7:00 a.m. (2004)

TV-14 | 44 min | Action, Crime, Drama

Jack has to comply with another one of Saunders' demands: the death of Regional Director Ryan Chappelle. Michelle discovers that one of the infected hotel patrons got out before the quarantine was enforced.

Director: Ian Toynton | Stars: Kiefer Sutherland, Elisha Cuthbert, Carlos Bernard, Reiko Aylesworth

Votes: 1,667

25. The Addams Family (1964–1966)
Episode: Ophelia Visits Morticia (1966)

TV-G | 25 min | Comedy, Family, Horror

Ophelia's upset that her latest beau, Montrose, has gone off to join the Peace Corps. His strong resemblance to Uncle Fester gives Fester the idea to join the Peace Corps as well. Ophelia's... See full summary »

Director: Sidney Lanfield | Stars: Carolyn Jones, John Astin, Jackie Coogan, Ted Cassidy

Votes: 201

26. Police Rescue (1989–1996)
Episode: Judgement Day (1992)

Crime, Drama

Frog seems to be running out of luck: first while trying to save a girl in a demolished building, then when a man wipe out his whole family and finally climbing down a cliff to rescue a boy.

Director: Michael Carson | Stars: Gary Sweet, Sonia Todd, Steve Bastoni, Steve Bisley

Votes: 10

27. Red Shoe Diaries (1992–1999)
Episode: Love at First Sight (1993)

TV-MA | 31 min | Drama, Romance

Harry and Cecelia, on the run in a stolen car, pick up a hitchhiking virgin bride who threatens suicide if she is not made love to immediately, but she's to inherit a fortune, if she's a virgin when she marries. Harry marries Precious.

Director: Zalman King | Stars: Alexandra Tydings, Anthony Addabbo, Denice D. Lewis, David Duchovny

Votes: 35

28. You Can't Do That on Television (1979–2004)
Episode: Drugs (1981)

TV-Y | 25 min | Comedy, Family

Self-splatting pie addicts abound to comically lampoon the foolishness of drug addiction.

Director: Geoffrey Darby | Stars: Angie Coddett, Les Lye, Mike Lyon, Christine McGlade

Votes: 34

29. Magnum P.I. (2018–2024)
Episode: Dead Inside (2019)

TV-14 | 43 min | Action, Adventure, Crime

When Katsumoto suspects that one of his fellow cops is dirty and has stolen evidence, he begrudgingly asks Magnum and Higgins for help; Rick and TC help Los Angeles Rams defensive Aaron Donald recover his stolen tablet.

Director: Krishna Rao | Stars: Jay Hernandez, Perdita Weeks, Zachary Knighton, Stephen Hill

Votes: 512

30. The Walking Dead (2010–2022)
Episode: Days Gone Bye (2010)

TV-14 | 67 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller

Deputy Sheriff Rick Grimes awakens from a coma, and searches for his family in a world ravaged by the undead.

Director: Frank Darabont | Stars: Andrew Lincoln, Jon Bernthal, Sarah Wayne Callies, Laurie Holden

Votes: 29,876

31. Justified (2010–2015)
Episode: Hatless (2010)

TV-MA | 41 min | Action, Crime, Drama

While away from the Marshall's office because of a forced "vacation," Raylan comes to the aid of his ex-wife after she is threatened by dangerous loan collectors who are looking for her husband.

Director: Peter Werner | Stars: Timothy Olyphant, Nick Searcy, Joelle Carter, Jacob Pitts

Votes: 1,959

32. Balthazar (2018–2023)
Episode: Dernier recours (2022)

TV-14 | 57 min | Crime, Thriller

During a lecture at the school of medicine, Balthazar and his team are held hostage by a student desperate to exonerate his father, who has already confessed to murder. Meanwhile, Camille continues meeting her mysterious friend.

Director: Franck Brett | Stars: Tomer Sisley, Constance Labbé, Yannig Samot, Philypa Phoenix

Votes: 46

33. American Crime Story (2016– )
Episode: The Run of His Life (2016)

TV-MA | 41 min | Biography, Crime, Drama

O.J. Simpson's lawyers must handle an intense situation when he goes missing.

Director: Ryan Murphy | Stars: Sterling K. Brown, Kenneth Choi, Christian Clemenson, Cuba Gooding Jr.

Votes: 3,979

34. The Bullwinkle Show (1959–1963)
Episode: The Weather Lady: Parts 5-6 (1963)

TV-G | Animation, Action, Adventure

Rocky and Bullwinkle "The Weather Lady" Part 5 of 6, Fractured Fairy Tales "Little Red Riding Hood", Dudley Do-Right of the Mounties "The Locket", Rocky and Bullwinkle "The Weather Lady" Part 6 of 6.

Directors: Gerard Baldwin, Pete Burness, Sal Faillace, William T. Hurtz, Lew Keller, Ted Parmelee, George Singer | Stars: June Foray, Paul Frees, Edward Everett Horton, Hans Conried

Votes: 19

35. The Bullwinkle Show (1959–1963)
Episode: Moosylvania Saved: Parts 1-2 (1963)

TV-G | Animation, Action, Adventure

Rocky and Bullwinkle "Moosylvania Saved" Part 1 of 4, Aesop and Son "The French Poodle and the Alley Cat", Peabody's Improbable History "Sir Isaac Newton", Rocky and Bullwinkle "Moosylvania Saved" Part 2 of 4.

Directors: Gerard Baldwin, Pete Burness, Sal Faillace, William T. Hurtz, Lew Keller, Ted Parmelee, George Singer | Stars: June Foray, Paul Frees, Edward Everett Horton, Hans Conried

Votes: 17

36. When We Rise (2017)
Episode: Parts VI and VII (2017)

TV-14 | 85 min | Drama

Part VI. 2008. The legalization of same-sex marriage has had a roller coaster of a ride. The latest victory was the California Supreme Court ruling that it is a constitutional right for ... See full summary »

Director: Dustin Lance Black | Stars: Rachel Griffiths, Mary-Louise Parker, Guy Pearce, Michael Kenneth Williams

Votes: 323

37. Amigas y rivales (2001)
Episode: Episode #1.98 (2001)

43 min | Drama, Romance

Carlos and Jimena go on a first date. Roberto takes full control of the company. Roxana has news for Angela. The new math teacher has a crush on a student. Ofelia and Susana catch up. Nayeli visits Laura.

Stars: Michelle Vieth, Angélica Vale, Ludwika Paleta, Arath de la Torre

38. The Bullwinkle Show (1959–1963)
Episode: Goof Gas Attack: Parts 5-6 (1962)

TV-G | Animation, Action, Adventure

Rocky and Bullwinkle "Goof Gas Attack" Part 5 of 8, Aesop and Son "The French Poodle and the Alley Cat", Peabody's Improbable History "Florence Nightingale", Rocky and Bullwinkle "Goof Gas Attack" Part 6 of 8.

Directors: Gerard Baldwin, Pete Burness, Sal Faillace, William T. Hurtz, Lew Keller, Ted Parmelee, George Singer | Stars: June Foray, Paul Frees, Edward Everett Horton, Hans Conried

Votes: 17