Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "melodrama-drama"

1. Star Trek: Discovery (2017–2024)

TV-14 | 60 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

Ten years before Kirk, Spock, and the Enterprise, the USS Discovery discovers new worlds and lifeforms as one Starfleet officer learns to understand all things alien.

Stars: Sonequa Martin-Green, Doug Jones, Anthony Rapp, Mary Wiseman

Votes: 134,796

2. Pearl (2022)

R | 103 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller

In 1918, a young woman on the brink of madness pursues stardom in a desperate attempt to escape the drudgery, isolation, and lovelessness of life on her parents' farm.

Director: Ti West | Stars: Mia Goth, David Corenswet, Tandi Wright, Matthew Sunderland

Votes: 96,281 | Gross: $9.42M

3. Logan (2017)

R | 137 min | Action, Drama, Sci-Fi

In a future where mutants are nearly extinct, an elderly and weary Logan leads a quiet life. But when Laura, a mutant child pursued by scientists, comes to him for help, he must get her to safety.

Director: James Mangold | Stars: Hugh Jackman, Patrick Stewart, Dafne Keen, Boyd Holbrook

Votes: 831,100 | Gross: $226.28M

4. A Star Is Born (2018)

R | 136 min | Drama, Music, Romance

A musician helps a young singer find fame as age and alcoholism send his own career into a downward spiral.

Director: Bradley Cooper | Stars: Lady Gaga, Bradley Cooper, Sam Elliott, Greg Grunberg

Votes: 419,282 | Gross: $215.29M

5. Brooklyn (2015)

PG-13 | 117 min | Drama, Romance

An Irish immigrant lands in 1950s Brooklyn, where she quickly falls into a romance with a local. When her past catches up with her, however, she must choose between two countries and the lives that exist within.

Director: John Crowley | Stars: Saoirse Ronan, Emory Cohen, Domhnall Gleeson, Jim Broadbent

Votes: 150,455 | Gross: $38.32M

6. Pompeii (I) (2014)

PG-13 | 105 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

A slave-turned-gladiator finds himself in a race against time to save his true love, who has been betrothed to a corrupt Roman Senator. As Mount Vesuvius erupts, he must fight to save his beloved as Pompeii crumbles around him.

Director: Paul W.S. Anderson | Stars: Kit Harington, Emily Browning, Kiefer Sutherland, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje

Votes: 116,633 | Gross: $23.22M

7. Redemption (I) (2013)

R | 100 min | Action, Crime, Drama

A damaged ex-special forces soldier navigating London's criminal underworld seizes an opportunity to assume another man's identity.

Director: Steven Knight | Stars: Jason Statham, Agata Buzek, Vicky McClure, Benedict Wong

Votes: 76,951 | Gross: $0.03M

8. Pride and Prejudice and Zombies (2016)

PG-13 | 108 min | Action, Comedy, Fantasy

Five sisters in 19th century England must cope with the pressures to marry while protecting themselves from a growing population of zombies.

Director: Burr Steers | Stars: Lily James, Sam Riley, Jack Huston, Bella Heathcote

Votes: 60,409 | Gross: $10.91M

9. The Concubine (2012)

Unrated | 122 min | Drama, History, Romance

A tragic love triangle story between Hwa-Yeon, a daughter of a nobleman, her true love Kwon-Yoo, a servant and the man who will be King, Prince Sungwon.

Director: Kim Dae-seung | Stars: Cho Yeo-jeong, Kim Dong-wook, Kim Min-joon, Park Ji-young

Votes: 2,627

10. Beautiful Creatures (2013)

PG-13 | 124 min | Drama, Fantasy, Romance

Ethan Wate longs to escape his small southern town. He meets a mysterious new girl, Lena Duchannes. Together, they uncover dark secrets about their respective families, their history, and their town.

Director: Richard LaGravenese | Stars: Alice Englert, Viola Davis, Emma Thompson, Alden Ehrenreich

Votes: 91,009 | Gross: $19.45M

11. Obsessed (2014)

18+ | 132 min | Drama

A secret, passionate affair happens in the summer of 1969 between Colonel Jin Pyeong, trapped in a loveless marriage with Soo Jin, and Jong Ga Heun, the Chinese-Korean wife of Captain Kyung Woo Jin.

Director: Dae-woo Kim | Stars: Song Seung-heon, Lim Ji-yeon, Cho Yeo-jeong, On Joo-Wan

Votes: 2,413

12. Charlie St. Cloud (2010)

PG-13 | 99 min | Drama, Fantasy, Romance

After Charlie survives a car crash that kills his younger brother, he is given the gift of seeing the spirits of his brother and others who he has lost, and must use his powers to save the woman he loves from impending disaster.

Director: Burr Steers | Stars: Zac Efron, Kim Basinger, Charlie Tahan, Amanda Crew

Votes: 64,702 | Gross: $31.16M

13. Assassination Games (2011)

R | 101 min | Action, Crime, Drama

Two assassins agree to work together as one tries to avenge his wife and the other collects a reward for a job.

Director: Ernie Barbarash | Stars: Jean-Claude Van Damme, Scott Adkins, Ivan Kaye, Valentin Teodosiu

Votes: 18,421

14. Looking for Her (2022)

Not Rated | 104 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

Taylor is headed home for the holidays and her family is finally ready to meet her girlfriend Jess--but Jess isn't her girlfriend anymore. Taylor holds open auditions for someone to play the part for the holidays.

Director: Alexandra Swarens | Stars: Olivia Buckle, Alexandra Swarens, Michelle Hakala Wolf, Sophie Arrick

Votes: 807

15. Kirli Sepeti (2023– )

Comedy, Drama

The lives of Istanbul's richest and most powerful families. Their maids, who are exposed to the secrets, mysteries and crimes hidden behind the closed doors of these houses, often become a part of them.

Stars: Ayça Bingöl, Ceren Moray, Cansu Tosun, Halil Ibrahim Ceyhan

Votes: 362

16. Space Station 76 (2014)

R | 93 min | Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi

A 1970s version of the future, where personalities and asteroids collide.

Director: Jack Plotnick | Stars: Patrick Wilson, Liv Tyler, Marisa Coughlan, Matt Bomer

Votes: 8,605

17. Another Me (2013)

PG-13 | 86 min | Mystery, Thriller

A teenager finds her perfect life upended when she's stalked by a mysterious doppelganger who has her eyes set on assuming her identity.

Director: Isabel Coixet | Stars: Sophie Turner, Claire Forlani, Rhys Ifans, Eugenio Pérez

Votes: 6,068

18. The Next Door (2023)

113 min | Drama, Romance

Everything seems to be going well in the stable relationship between Mari and Rafa, until Isis and Fred move into the apartment next door. The new neighbors make no secret of the fact that they are in an open relationship.

Director: Julia Rezende | Stars: Letícia Colin, Dan Ferreira, Bárbara Paz, Tulio Starling

Votes: 74

19. Too Much, Too Soon (1958)

Passed | 121 min | Biography, Drama, Romance

The daughter of iconic actor John Barrymore becomes reunited with her father after a ten year estrangement and engages in his self-destructive lifestyle.

Director: Art Napoleon | Stars: Dorothy Malone, Errol Flynn, Efrem Zimbalist Jr., Ray Danton

Votes: 766

20. Table for Six (2022)

117 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

A family reunion dinner turns awkward when Bernard arrives with his new girlfriend, who happens to be big brother Steve's old flame. With Steve's casual partner comes to his rescue, anything that can go wrong goes laughably berserk.

Director: Sunny Chan | Stars: Dayo Wong, Stephy Tang, Louis Cheung, Ivana Wong

Votes: 1,173

21. My Lovely Angel (2021)

100 min | Drama

A life-changing story of a man who has lived as a loner his entire life. Jae Shik begins to live together with a child with a hearing-visual disability, as they change each other's lives and try to find a way to communicate.

Directors: Sung-Mo Kwon, Chang-Won Lee | Stars: Jin Goo, Jung Seo-yeon, Alireza Abbas Beygi, Bang Eun-Jung

Votes: 693

22. Noktah Merah Perkawinan (2022)

119 min | Drama, Romance

A couple's relationship hits rock bottom after 11 years - until an intriguing young woman reawakens emotions and threatens to end their marriage.

Director: Sabrina Rochelle Kalangie | Stars: Marsha Timothy, Oka Antara, Sheila Dara Aisha, Jaden Ocean

Votes: 721

23. Trade of Innocents (2012)

PG-13 | 88 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

A couple grieving the loss of their own daughter set out to rescue young girls sold into the sex slave trade.

Director: Christopher M. Bessette | Stars: Dermot Mulroney, Mira Sorvino, John Billingsley, Trieu Tran

Votes: 1,027 | Gross: $0.02M

24. Schoolboy Crush (2007)

Not Rated | 88 min | Drama

An erotic cat and mouse game set in an all-boys' prep school.

Director: Kôtarô Terauchi | Stars: Yoshikazu Kotani, Atsumi Kanno, Yuuki Kawakubo, Kazunori Tani

Votes: 337

25. You've Got a Friend (2022)

Not Rated | 115 min | Drama, Romance

Yoshio is a man who works for the city's water department and live with his mother. He regularly visits to the SM Queen Miho, but he still cannot forget the legendary SM Queen Yukiko.

Director: Ryûichi Hiroki | Stars: Jun Murakami, Nahana, Wyolica, Momoka Ayukawa

Votes: 75

26. Vixen Highway 2006: It Came from Uranus! (2010)

250 min | Action, Horror, Thriller

Rock-star Bobby Barzell awaits a liver transplant from a psychotic fugitive of the law: as a vengeful blood demon-alien tries to collect on for a past debt.

Directors: Tony Watt, Vivita | Stars: Tony Watt, Vivita, Amabelle Singson, James Taggart

Votes: 143

27. Sella Turcica (2010)

106 min | Horror, Thriller

A paralyzed soldier returns from war to his family in worse shape than anyone at home could imagine.

Director: Fred Vogel | Stars: Camille Keaton, Damien A. Maruscak, Harvey Daniels, Allie Nickel

Votes: 324

28. Acid Head: The Buzzard Nuts County Slaughter (2011)

145 min | Action, Crime, Horror

Acid scarred teenager Pheromone Labonza (aka Acid Head) is a vengeful, bloodsucking cannibal goth-girl killer that slashes her way though rural Buzzard Nuts County, N.Y.'s roadside and Vom College sorority House.

Director: Tony Watt | Stars: Vivita, Tony Watt, Lewis Mercer, Lana Tailor

Votes: 157

29. Änglavakt (2010)

94 min | Drama

An accident overthrows Ernst and Cecilia's well-ordered life. Chance rules in Ernst's rational world while Cecilia is searching for a deeper meaning in what has happened. As they drift ... See full summary »

Director: Johan Brisinger | Stars: Michael Nyqvist, Izabella Scorupco, Tchéky Karyo, Jacob Ericksson

Votes: 529

30. Homeland (2010)

106 min | Drama, Thriller

In a country shaken by major political events, three generations of a Greek family clash over an inside-the-family adoption.

Director: Syllas Tzoumerkas | Stars: Amalia Moutousi, Thanos Samaras, Ioanna Tsirigouli, Errikos Litsis

Votes: 457

31. Glamour Dolls (2016)

Not Rated | 110 min | Comedy, Drama

This is the story of two male prostitutes who want to become professional actors and how they struggle to get into show business.

Director: John De Luca | Stars: John De Luca, Dominik Danielewicz, Ashlie Walker, Laurence Christopher

Votes: 59

32. It Was the Son (2012)

93 min | Comedy, Drama

In 1970s, the Ciraulos are modest scrap-dealers whose uneventful lives are turned upside-down the day their youngest daughter is accidentally killed by clumsy killers. Their immense grief ... See full summary »

Director: Daniele Ciprì | Stars: Toni Servillo, Giselda Volodi, Alfredo Castro, Aurora Quattrocchi

Votes: 1,330

33. Kawa (2010)

Not Rated | 76 min | Drama, Romance

An apparently happy family man must reveal a lifelong secret - that he is gay.

Director: Katie Wolfe | Stars: Calvin Tuteao, Nathalie Boltt, George Henare, Vicky Haughton

Votes: 409

34. Weaverfish (2013)

Not Rated | 95 min | Drama, Horror, Romance

After spending the night partying at a condemned river creek, the atmosphere is soon lost for quiet teenager Reece and his friends. Headaches and heartaches give way to a terrifying race back to civilisation as a grossly disfiguring virus takes hold on the most vulnerable.

Director: Harrison Wall | Stars: Shane O'Meara, Lucy-Jane Quinlan, Josh Ockenden, Jessie Morell

Votes: 281

35. Pierrot Lunaire (2014)

51 min | Drama, Music

A young girl that regularly dresses as a boy falls in love and seduces a young girl that has no clue that her lover has the same sex. When the girl introduces 'her boyfriend' to her father ... See full summary »

Director: Bruce La Bruce | Stars: Susanne Sachße, Paulina Bachmann, Luizo Vega, Maria Ivanenko

Votes: 110

36. The Critic (I) (2018)

15 min | Short, Drama, Thriller

A starry-eyed actress with a troubled past faces her harshest critic during an interview gone wrong.

Director: Stella Velon | Stars: Stella Velon, Alan Smyth, Todd Karner

Votes: 90

37. Alia: A Bosniac Rhapsody (2008)

85 min | Action, Drama, History

Alia Izzet Rahmanovic is one of the prosperous and career-savvy Bosniaks of the Tito period Yugoslavia. Captain of Yugoslavia, close guard of Tito, army national team captain and ... See full summary »

Director: Karl Kases | Stars: Birol Tarkan Yildiz, Oktay Kaynarca, Markus Ertelt, Bernhard Leute

Votes: 137

38. The Sorrows of Dolores (1986)

90 min | Drama

Film recounts the madcap tale of sweet Dolores who, after being tortured by her sadistic mother, is thrown into the harsh city environs, innocent and alone. Chased by villains, abducted ... See full summary »

Director: Charles Ludlam | Stars: Black-Eyed Susan, John Brockmeyer, Alan Eichler, Richard France

39. Aficionados (2010)

95 min | Comedy, Romance

'Aficionados' is an experimental film that emerges of a collective creation, from the construction of characters. With a screenplay with no dialogues and without treatment, the actors ... See full summary »

Director: Arturo Dueñas Herrero | Stars: Rebeca Izquierdo, Jesús Burgoa, Nuria De Torres, Laura Torme

Votes: 22

40. U zemlji cudesa (2009)

93 min | Drama

Still today, years after the war, some regions are contaminated with broken families, poverty, crime and low-grade uranium. In the middle of nowhere in Western Herzegovina, at a NATO ... See full summary »

Director: Dejan Sorak | Stars: Marija Stjepanovic, Franjo Kuhar, Dora Lipovcan, Borko Peric

Votes: 180

41. 1MC: Something of Vengeance (2010)

85 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

Sarah Volkova, (aka 1MC), returns to where it all began, with one thing in mind...revenge.

Director: Martyn Park | Stars: Liliya May, Laurence Coy, Terry Serio, James Saivanidis

Votes: 110

42. Adagio sostenuto (2008)

104 min | Drama

The film tells the love story between Anna and José, while at the same time approaches the intersections of urban violence and artistic creation, nature and civilization, war and peace, ... See full summary »

Director: Pompeu Aguiar | Stars: Dedina Bernardelli, Alexandre Borges, Priscilla Rozenbaum

Votes: 24

43. Guilt & Sentence (2010)

PG-13 | 93 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller

A drama of two lost and troubled individuals, Janis suffering from depression & Peter a social worker, who are forever entwined after a traumatic event occurs. Exploring paranoia, the effects of guilt, and the power of true redemption.

Director: Spencer Folmar | Stars: Mase Daniels, Stormi Rebo, Britt Reinke, Stephen Fenush

Votes: 633

44. Bebus (1979)

Drama

Debut film by the director, produced by the famous G.P.Sippy, is a Rajesh Khanna classic renovating the Kannada language rural melodrama Bangaarada Manushya 1972 in Hindi.

Director: Narendra Bedi | Stars: Rajesh Khanna, Zaheera, Asha Sachdev, Om Prakash

Votes: 9

45. Lune de Miel

80 min | Drama | Completed

When his wife Nicole loses her memories due to an accident, Frank (Sebastian Faust) follows the advice from the attending physician Dr. Vogt (Matthias Kaufmann) and sets out for France. ... See full summary »

Directors: Simon Hoff, Jan-Philipp Matthewes | Stars: Emilie Haus, Sebastian Faust, Joel Thum, Clemens Urbschat

46. Together We're Heavy (2009)

92 min | Drama

'Together We're Heavy' is a searing drama which interweaves the lives of a group of very different young people at a Highschool in inner city, Vancouver. Sex, drugs, love, growing pains, ... See full summary »

Director: C.J. Wallis | Stars: Michelle Andrew, Joe Dall'Antonia, Jessica Dallin, Oscar Davila

Votes: 11

47. Lilly (1993)

105 min | Comedy, Drama, Mystery

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Director: David Marcoux | Stars: Shelly Hong, Yan Cui, Agnes Gui, K.K. Ho

48. Prime Time Soap (2011)

105 min | Drama

Brazil, 1978, a group of people live their lives under the dictatorship, the euphoria of disco fever and the fantasy of "Dancin' Days", a prime time soap, which fictional drama is set on ... See full summary »

Director: Odilon Rocha | Stars: Claudia Ohana, Vanessa Giácomo, Mateus Solano, Alexandre Nero

Votes: 151

49. Once Upon a Lie (2008)

Not Rated | 77 min | Thriller

Plagued by visions that his future wife will betray him once she arrives from Africa, the virtuous Harris is warned by his Pastor that he may have to pay the price for the sins of his ... See full summary »

Director: Michael Wellenreiter | Stars: Kollie Bazzie, Mamdou Cisse, Siweh A. Harris III, Leontine Hart

50. La hija sin padre (1987)

93 min | Drama, Music

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Director: Damián Acosta Esparza | Stars: Jaime Moreno, Mercedes Castro, Roberto 'Flaco' Guzmán, Dacia González