Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "ironic-ending"

1. Parasite (2019)

R | 132 min | Drama, Thriller

Greed and class discrimination threaten the newly-formed symbiotic relationship between the wealthy Park family and the destitute Kim clan.

Director: Bong Joon Ho | Stars: Song Kang-ho, Lee Sun-kyun, Cho Yeo-jeong, Choi Woo-sik

Votes: 960,271 | Gross: $53.37M

2. No One Will Save You (2023)

PG-13 | 93 min | Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller

An exiled anxiety-ridden homebody must battle an alien who's found its way into her home.

Director: Brian Duffield | Stars: Kaitlyn Dever, Elizabeth Kaluev, Zack Duhame, Lauren L. Murray

Votes: 65,346

3. Das Boot (1981)

R | 149 min | Drama, War

A German U-boat stalks the frigid waters of the North Atlantic as its young crew experience the sheer terror and claustrophobic life of a submariner in World War II.

Director: Wolfgang Petersen | Stars: Jürgen Prochnow, Herbert Grönemeyer, Klaus Wennemann, Hubertus Bengsch

Votes: 264,419 | Gross: $11.49M

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: 61,650

5. The Thing (I) (2011)

R | 103 min | Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi

At an Antarctica research site, the discovery of an alien craft leads to a confrontation between graduate student Kate Lloyd and scientist Dr. Sander Halvorson.

Director: Matthijs van Heijningen Jr. | Stars: Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Joel Edgerton, Ulrich Thomsen, Eric Christian Olsen

Votes: 145,593 | Gross: $16.93M

6. The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)

PG | 161 min | Adventure, Drama, War

British POWs are forced to build a railway bridge across the river Kwai for their Japanese captors in occupied Burma, not knowing that the allied forces are planning a daring commando raid through the jungle to destroy it.

Director: David Lean | Stars: William Holden, Alec Guinness, Jack Hawkins, Sessue Hayakawa

Votes: 233,372 | Gross: $44.91M

7. The Blackcoat's Daughter (I) (2015)

R | 93 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller

Two girls must battle a mysterious evil force when they get left behind at their boarding school over winter break.

Director: Oz Perkins | Stars: Emma Roberts, Kiernan Shipka, Lucy Boynton, James Remar

Votes: 26,025 | Gross: $0.02M

8. Aniara (2018)

R | 106 min | Drama, Sci-Fi

A spaceship carrying settlers to Mars is knocked off course, causing the consumption-obsessed passengers to consider their place in the universe.

Directors: Pella Kagerman, Hugo Lilja | Stars: Emelie Garbers, Bianca Cruzeiro, Arvin Kananian, Anneli Martini

Votes: 11,926 | Gross: $0.04M

9. The Kingdom (2007)

R | 110 min | Action, Drama, Thriller

A team of U.S. government agents are sent to investigate the bombing of an American facility in the Middle East.

Director: Peter Berg | Stars: Jamie Foxx, Chris Cooper, Jennifer Garner, Jason Bateman

Votes: 132,301 | Gross: $47.54M

10. Inserts (1975)

NC-17 | 117 min | Comedy, Drama

A young, once-great Hollywood film director refuses to accept changing times during the early 1930s, and confines himself to his decaying mansion to make silent porn flicks.

Director: John Byrum | Stars: Richard Dreyfuss, Jessica Harper, Bob Hoskins, Veronica Cartwright

Votes: 2,440

11. Black Robe (1991)

R | 101 min | Adventure, Drama, War

In the 17th century, a Jesuit missionary nicknamed Black Robe by the natives and his small party of companions try reaching the Huron tribe in Canada all while facing mistrust, Iroquois warring parties and harsh winter conditions.

Director: Bruce Beresford | Stars: Lothaire Bluteau, Aden Young, Sandrine Holt, August Schellenberg

Votes: 7,667 | Gross: $8.21M

12. Every Man for Himself (1980)

Not Rated | 87 min | Drama

An examination of sexual relationships, in which three protagonists interact in different combinations.

Director: Jean-Luc Godard | Stars: Isabelle Huppert, Jacques Dutronc, Nathalie Baye, Roland Amstutz

Votes: 3,951

13. Party Central (2013)

PG | 5 min | Animation, Short, Adventure

With a little trickery, Mike and Sulley help their social outcast friends at Monsters University have the best frat party ever.

Director: Kelsey Mann | Stars: Billy Crystal, John Goodman, Peter Sohn, Julia Sweeney

Votes: 3,646

14. Mako: The Jaws of Death (1976)

PG | 86 min | Action, Drama, Fantasy

A Vietnam veteran with a psychic connection to sharks discovers their exploitation by the local aquarium and begins an underwater reign of terror to avenge them. The movie action scenes were shot using real sharks.

Director: William Grefé | Stars: Richard Jaeckel, Jennifer Bishop, Buffy Dee, Harold Sakata

Votes: 1,063

15. Last Holiday (1950)

Not Rated | 88 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

When a lonely, unappreciated farm-equipment salesman discovers he has only a few weeks to live, he withdraws his savings for a final holiday at a "posh" resort.

Director: Henry Cass | Stars: Alec Guinness, Beatrice Campbell, Kay Walsh, Grégoire Aslan

Votes: 2,119

16. B.C. Rock (1980)

R | 84 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy

Adult animated comedy with rock music soundtrack portraying a far-fetched explanation of the Dawn of Man.

Director: Picha | Stars: Richard Darbois, Georges Aminel, Roger Carel, Jacques Ferrière

Votes: 698

17. The Drifter (1988)

R | 89 min | Thriller

A young interior designer with a jealous boyfriend has a one-night stand with a handsome drifter who won't go away.

Director: Larry Brand | Stars: Kim Delaney, Timothy Bottoms, Al Shannon, Miles O'Keeffe

Votes: 541

18. Fever Pitch (1985)

R | 96 min | Drama, Mystery

An investigative journalist gets hooked on the subject of his inquiry - professional gambling.

Director: Richard Brooks | Stars: Ryan O'Neal, Catherine Hicks, Giancarlo Giannini, Bridgette Andersen

Votes: 349 | Gross: $0.62M

19. Cudo nevidjeno (1984)

92 min | Comedy

A well-meaning man tries to convince the inhabitants of a small village who are busy gossiping about the new girl in the village to support his plan to build a tunnel that would connect their village to the sea. Things go horribly wrong.

Director: Zivko Nikolic | Stars: Savina Gersak, Dragan Nikolic, Boro Begovic, Petar Bozovic

Votes: 971

20. Gary the Rat (2003)

TV-14 | 30 min | Animation, Comedy, Fantasy

A big-city lawyer awakens one morning to discover that he has been transformed into a rat.

Stars: Kelsey Grammer, Robb Cullen, Spencer Garrett, Billy Gardell

Votes: 224

21. Nero veneziano (1978)

95 min | Horror, Mystery

A blind boy, who lives alone with his mean sister in a rundown hotel in Venice, receives a vision that warns him of the upcoming birth of the Antichrist. Soon, his sister mysteriously becomes pregnant.

Director: Ugo Liberatore | Stars: Renato Cestiè, Rena Niehaus, Yorgo Voyagis, Fabio Gamma

Votes: 489

22. L'ange noir (1994)

95 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

The wife of an influential judge kills a famous criminal, dubbed Robin Hood by the press, in her home in cold blood. She is put on trial for murder but claims that it was self-defense. Her lawyer investigates her mysterious past.

Director: Jean-Claude Brisseau | Stars: Sylvie Vartan, Michel Piccoli, Tchéky Karyo, Alexandra Winisky

Votes: 544

23. Private Schulz (1981)

310 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

The Time - WWII, the place - Germany. The Germans have a plan to destroy the British economy by flooding the country with forged £5 notes. Private Schultz is coerced into organizing a gang of unwilling volunteers.

Stars: Michael Elphick, Ian Richardson, Cyril Shaps, Billie Whitelaw

Votes: 445

24. Shadows in the Storm (1988)

R | 85 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

A married man suffering from midlife crisis obsesses over a girl from his romantic fantasy. He meets her exact duplicate on vacation and helps her get rid of her abusive husband. They run off together but a caller starts blackmailing him.

Director: Terrell Tannen | Stars: Ned Beatty, Mia Sara, Michael Madsen, Donna Mitchell

Votes: 253

25. Shadow Realm (2002 TV Movie)

120 min | Crime, Drama, Fantasy

Anthology film created from two unaired episodes of Night Visions. A mental patient mustn't stop behaving in patterns. A maze on collage campus is actually a time portal. A town fears music. A court employee can hear thoughts of a killer.

Directors: Keith Gordon, Tobe Hooper, Paul Shapiro, Ian Toynton | Stars: Miguel Ferrer, Malcolm McDowell, Anna Hagan, John Dadey

Votes: 153

26. South of Reno (1988)

R | 97 min | Drama

In a drab desert town, some 200 miles south of Reno, an indecisive man with an unfaithful wife dreams of someday, someday, taking charge of his drifting life.

Director: Mark Rezyka | Stars: Jeff Osterhage, Lisa Blount, Joe Estevez, Lewis Van Bergen

Votes: 230

27. The Secret Cinema (1966)

27 min | Short, Comedy, Horror

A woman suspects that someone has clandestinely been filming her life and that her friends and acquaintences are seeing the movies in secret screenings.

Director: Paul Bartel | Stars: Amy Vane, Philip Carlson, Barry Dennen, Connie Ellison

Votes: 438

28. Shadow Warrior 2 (2016 Video Game)

M | Action, Adventure, Comedy

Set five years after the events of the previous game. Lo Wang now lives in the wildlands as a hired sword. Demons, and humans under the command of nemesis Orochi Zilla now live side by side and both are out for his blood.

Director: Michal Szustak | Stars: Jason Liebrecht, Elizabeth Maxwell, Michele Landry, Gary Clarke

Votes: 379

29. The Town with No Name (1992 Video Game)

16+ | Adventure, Comedy, Western

In this western spoof, a stranger, who sounds like John Wayne, arrives in a small western town to meet somebody, but ends up dueling with members of a local gang. Between fights, explore the town, play cards or sleep with the saloon girl.

Director: Fergus McNeill | Stars: Chris Lipscombe, Fergus McNeill, Barry Milgate, Athelstan Popkess

Votes: 110

30. Valley of Peace (1956)

82 min | Drama, War

During WWII in Slovenia, two orphaned children seeking the imaginary Valley of Peace run into a downed black American pilot who tries to protect them from the Germans until the Yugoslav Partisans can arrive.

Director: France Stiglic | Stars: John Kitzmiller, Evelyne Wohlfeiler, Tugo Stiglic, Boris Kralj

Votes: 402

31. Messiah (2000 Video Game)

M | Action, Adventure, Fantasy

Third person action adventure about cherub Bob who arrives on Earth in a cyberpunk dystopian future where Satan disguised as the head of the biggest biotech corporation, rules the world in secret. God gave up on Man, but Bob won't.

Director: David Perry | Stars: Scott Barrett, Patrick Berryhill, Shawn Berryhill, Lynel Brown

Votes: 41

32. Father Jack-Leg (1972)

PG | 99 min | Action, Comedy, Western

A con man inherits a gold mine. Knowing that his family are even bigger con artists than he is, he assumes the mine is worthless, and teams up with a partner in a scheme to unload it on some unsuspecting chumps.

Director: Enzo G. Castellari | Stars: Jack Palance, Giancarlo Prete, Lionel Stander, Francesca Romana Coluzzi

Votes: 184

33. Gunman's Hands (1965)

88 min | Western

A reformed gunman returns to his earlier life seeking justice when the Castle brothers shoot his friends.

Director: Rafael Romero Marchent | Stars: Craig Hill, Gloria Milland, Conchita Núñez, Carlos Romero Marchent

Votes: 187

34. Satan Returns (1996)

95 min | Action, Horror

Female police psychologist is targeted by a supernatural devil-worshiping serial killer who wants to prove to her that she's the Antichrist. A tough cop, his inept womanizing comic relief partner and a reverend try to stop him.

Director: Wai-Lun Lam | Stars: Chingmy Yau, Francis Ng, Donnie Yen, Dayo Wong

Votes: 296

35. Hopeless (2010)

17 min | Short, Crime, Drama

Two young lovers on the run.

Director: Andrew Napier | Stars: Amanda Fuller, Joe Williamson, Ross Alden, Cenk Uygur

Votes: 22

36. Realms of the Haunting (1997 Video Game)

T | Action, Adventure, Fantasy

To uncover the secrets of his dead father's haunted mansion in order to find portals to other dimension like hell and heaven and stop a demon from taking over the world, Adam Randall has to solve puzzles and kill monsters. Or does he?

Director: Alan Coltman | Stars: David Tuomi, Emma Powell, David Learner, Marc Finn

Votes: 91

37. Tehran Has No More Pomegrenates! (2007)

Not Rated | 67 min | Documentary, Comedy, History

This is the story of Tehran from the Qajar time (middle of 19th century) to today. Tehran has become a metropolis from a small village, now a developed city with many social problems.

Director: Massoud Bakhshi | Stars: Ain Al-Daula, Massoud Bakhshi, Winston Churchill, Forugh Farrokhzad

Votes: 401

38. Le voile du bonheur (1923)

75 min | Drama

A blind Chinese poet, in his affliction, believes that everyone and everything about him is good and kind but immediately his sight is restored, the words of a prophet are fulfilled and he ... See full summary »

Director: Édouard-Émile Violet | Stars: Susie Wata, Shu Hou, Liao Szi-Yen, Chen Pao-Tan

39. Bugs Bunny's Bustin' Out All Over (1980 TV Special)

Not Rated | 30 min | Animation, Short, Comedy

TV special which features three new shorts ("Portrait of the Artist as a Young Bunny", "Spaced Out Bunny" and "Soup or Sonic"), tied together by Bugs, who's overjoyed that it's springtime again.

Directors: Chuck Jones, Phil Monroe | Stars: Mel Blanc, Paul Julian

Votes: 239

40. Hembra (1971)

117 min | Crime, Drama

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Director: César Fernández Ardavín | Stars: Emma Cohen, Manuel de Blas, Adriano Domínguez, Julián Mateos

41. Chick Bloodhound (2001)

37 min | Short, Drama, Thriller

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Director: Paul Fraser | Stars: Jeff Polage, Jennifer Nardini, Jason Pendergraft, David Miller

42. OK K.O.! Let's Be Heroes: Barrels and Crates (2016 TV Short)

2 min | Animation, Short, Action

KO looks for a crowbar, but doesn't follow procedure.

Stars: David Herman, Ian Jones-Quartey, Stephanie Nadolny

Votes: 12

43. Alibi Mark (1937)

Approved | 13 min | Short, Drama, Crime

When an out-of-work Chicagoan travels west as a hobo on a freight train, he finds himself falsely accused of murder.

Director: Joseph Henabery | Stars: Floyd Gibbons, Dennis Moore, Cliff Storey, Fred Whitehouse

Votes: 90

44. Der goldene Zweig (2012)

25 min | Short, Drama, Mystery

After a string of unsuccessful job interviews, out-of-work David realizes that someone is conspiring to keep him from finding employment. Based on a short story by Salman Rushdie.

Director: Matthias Zucker | Stars: Alexander Ritter, Timur Isik, Dietrich Adam, Roland Riebeling

Votes: 14

45. Night Gallery (1969–1973)
Episode: Pilot (1969)

Unrated | 98 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror

A seemingly haunted painting drives a greedy man insane. A rich blind woman gets a new pair of eyes that allow her to see for only one brief ironic moment. An idyllic painting gives a Nazi war criminal in hiding some fleeting comfort.

Directors: Boris Sagal, Barry Shear, Steven Spielberg | Stars: Joan Crawford, Ossie Davis, Richard Kiley, Roddy McDowall

Votes: 2,042

46. Amazing Stories (1985–1987)
Episode: Family Dog (1987)

G | 21 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama

The only animated episode of the show that's also a backdoor pilot. It has three segments: A family takes out their frustrations on their poor dog, watches their Christmas home movie, and sends the dog to guard dog school after a burglary.

Director: Brad Bird | Stars: Stan Freberg, Annie Potts, Mercedes McCambridge, Scott Menville

Votes: 599

47. Monsters (1988–1990)
Episode: The Demons (1989)

TV-14 | 21 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy

A greedy alien named Arcturus tries to enslaved a demon to grant his wishes, but instead gets a poor insurance agent from Chicago named Arthur Gammet. Poor Arthur must grant the alien's wishes even if it means getting a demon of his own.

Director: Scott Alexander | Stars: Richard Moll, Jeff Silverman, Karen Hensel, Louis Mustillo

Votes: 99

48. Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1985–1989)
Episode: Driving Under the Influence (1989)

TV-PG | Crime, Drama, Mystery

A drunk driver hits a pedestrian and leaves her for dead.

Director: Brad Silberling | Stars: Alfred Hitchcock, Shirley Douglas, Mike Connors, John Novak

Votes: 82

49. Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1985–1989)
Episode: Enough Rope for Two (1986)

TV-PG | Crime, Drama, Mystery

A man's girlfriend invites her unstable cousin to join their weekend camping trip.

Director: David Chase | Stars: Alfred Hitchcock, Jeff Fahey, Darlanne Fluegel, Tim Daly

Votes: 116

50. Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1985–1989)
Episode: Happy Birthday (1986)

TV-PG | Crime, Drama, Mystery

A man's quiet 50th birthday is interrupted when he is arrested for a murder from 22 years before. Dumbfounded, he tries to convince the detectives who are transporting him to the station of his innocence.

Director: Randy Roberts | Stars: Alfred Hitchcock, Lane Smith, Lee de Broux, Bruce Gray

Votes: 114