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

1. Gerald's Game (2017)

TV-MA | 103 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller

A couple tries to spice up their marriage in a remote lake house. After the husband dies unexpectedly, the wife is left handcuffed to their bed frame and must fight to survive and break free.

Director: Mike Flanagan | Stars: Carla Gugino, Bruce Greenwood, Chiara Aurelia, Carel Struycken

Votes: 127,695

2. Fresh (2022)

R | 114 min | Horror, Thriller

After quitting dating apps, a woman meets the supposedly perfect man and accepts his invitation to a romantic weekend getaway, only to find that her new paramour has been hiding some unusual appetites.

Director: Mimi Cave | Stars: Daisy Edgar-Jones, Sebastian Stan, Jojo T. Gibbs, Andrea Bang

Votes: 74,555

3. Bad Times at the El Royale (2018)

R | 141 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

1969. Four strangers check in at the El Royale Hotel. The hotel is deserted, staffed by a single desk clerk. Some of the new guests' reasons for being there are less than innocent and some are not who they appear to be.

Director: Drew Goddard | Stars: Jeff Bridges, Cynthia Erivo, Dakota Johnson, Jon Hamm

Votes: 164,909 | Gross: $17.84M

4. The Dark Tower (2017)

PG-13 | 95 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy

A boy haunted by visions of a dark tower from a parallel reality teams up with the tower's disillusioned guardian to stop an evil warlock known as the Man in Black who plans to use the boy to destroy the tower and open the gates of Hell.

Director: Nikolaj Arcel | Stars: Idris Elba, Matthew McConaughey, Tom Taylor, Dennis Haysbert

Votes: 145,941 | Gross: $50.70M

5. Geostorm (2017)

PG-13 | 109 min | Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller

When the network of satellites designed to control the global climate starts to attack Earth, it's a race against the clock for its creator to uncover the real threat before a worldwide Geostorm wipes out everything and everyone.

Director: Dean Devlin | Stars: Gerard Butler, Jim Sturgess, Abbie Cornish, Alexandra Maria Lara

Votes: 118,740 | Gross: $33.70M

6. Death Stranding (2019 Video Game)

M | Action, Adventure, Drama

Deliveryman Sam Porter must travel across a ravaged wasteland and reconnect the city states of America formed after a mysterious apocalyptic event dubbed 'death stranding' left the world in ruins and plagued by supernatural tar creatures.

Director: Hideo Kojima | Stars: Norman Reedus, Mads Mikkelsen, Léa Seydoux, Troy Baker

Votes: 11,174

7. Harper's Island (2009)

TV-14 | 40 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery

Harper's Island was once the scene of a gruesome series of murders. Seven years later, family and friends gather on the island for a wedding, but one by one they begin to die.

Stars: Elaine Cassidy, Christopher Gorham, Matt Barr, Gina Holden

Votes: 27,483

8. Palm Swings (2020)

Unrated | 95 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

After moving to Palm Springs, a young married couple puts their love to the test when they discover their neighbors are swingers.

Director: Sean Hoessli | Stars: Tia Carrere, Diane Farr, Jason Lewis, Sugar Lyn Beard

Votes: 1,277

9. The Legend of Hell House (1973)

PG | 95 min | Horror

A physicist, his wife and two mediums are hired to investigate the Belasco House, where 27 guests had inexplicably died in 1927, along with most of a team of paranormal investigators that was sent in the early 1950s.

Director: John Hough | Stars: Roddy McDowall, Gayle Hunnicutt, Pamela Franklin, Clive Revill

Votes: 14,047

10. Man-Thing (2005)

R | 97 min | Action, Adventure, Horror

Agents of an oil tycoon vanish while exploring a swamp marked for drilling. The local sheriff investigates and faces a Seminole legend come to life: Man-Thing, a shambling swamp-monster whose touch burns those who feel fear.

Director: Brett Leonard | Stars: Jack Thompson, Matthew Le Nevez, Steve Bastoni, Rachael Taylor

Votes: 7,039 | Gross: $0.14M

11. Primal Rage (1988)

R | 91 min | Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller

A scientist at a Florida University accidentally creates a "rage virus" while conducting experiments to restore dead brain tissue in baboons. The virus soon spreads.

Director: Vittorio Rambaldi | Stars: Patrick Lowe, Cheryl Arutt, Sarah Buxton, Mitch Watson

Votes: 1,414

12. Beyond: Two Souls (2013 Video Game)

M | Action, Adventure, Drama

Live the life of Jodie Holmes, a young woman who possesses supernatural powers through her psychic link to a mysterious invisible entity.

Director: David Cage | Stars: Elliot Page, Willem Dafoe, Eric Winter, Kadeem Hardison

Votes: 13,100

13. Emanuelle and the Last Cannibals (1977)

R | 94 min | Adventure, Horror

Photojournalist Emanuelle is joined by an anthropologist, two female missionary workers and a treacherous hunter's party in a search for an Amazon cannibal tribe long thought extinct.

Director: Joe D'Amato | Stars: Laura Gemser, Gabriele Tinti, Nieves Navarro, Donald O'Brien

Votes: 3,282

14. Eliminators (1986)

PG | 96 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy

A former pilot rebels against his creator, teaming up with the scientist responsible for android technology, her pet robot Spot, a rough-and-tumble riverboat guide, and a martial arts warrior.

Director: Peter Manoogian | Stars: Andrew Prine, Denise Crosby, Patrick Reynolds, Conan Lee

Votes: 2,514 | Gross: $4.60M

15. Brave New World (1998 TV Movie)

87 min | Drama, Sci-Fi

In a futuristic totalitarian utopian society, babies are created through genetic engineering, everyone has a predestined place in society and their minds are conditioned to follow the rules. A tragic outsider jeopardizes the status quo.

Directors: Leslie Libman, Larry Williams | Stars: Peter Gallagher, Leonard Nimoy, Tim Guinee, Rya Kihlstedt

Votes: 2,150

16. House of Dark Shadows (1970)

GP | 97 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror

Vampire Barnabas Collins is accidentally released from his centuries-long confinement at his family's estate in Maine. He targets his clueless descendants who live there now and pursues Maggie, the incarnation of his lost love.

Director: Dan Curtis | Stars: Jonathan Frid, Grayson Hall, Kathryn Leigh Scott, Roger Davis

Votes: 3,444 | Gross: $4.00M

17. Children of the Stones (1977)

173 min | Adventure, Drama, Family

Scientist Adam Brake and his son Matthew arrive in the sleepy English village of Milbury to find it under the grip of weird psychic powers unleashed by the sinister village squire, Hendrick, and whose power they struggle to break.

Stars: Gareth Thomas, Veronica Strong, Peter Demin, Ruth Dunning

Votes: 856

18. Troma's War (1988)

R | 91 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy

A group of assorted Americans survive a plane crash in a Caribbean island, and discover it is infested with crawling snakes and other venomous beasts. Even worse, terrorists are preparing a full out war on America with a biological weapon.

Directors: Michael Herz, Lloyd Kaufman | Stars: Carolyn Beauchamp, Sean Bowen, Rick Washburn, Patrick Weathers

Votes: 2,458

19. The Maze (1953)

Approved | 80 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror

A Scotsman abruptly breaks off his engagement to pretty Kitty and moves to his uncle's castle in the Scottish highlands. Kitty and her aunt follow Gerald a few weeks later, and discover he ... See full summary »

Director: William Cameron Menzies | Stars: Richard Carlson, Veronica Hurst, Katherine Emery, Michael Pate

Votes: 1,262

20. Gunhed (1989)

TV-14 | 100 min | Action, Drama, Sci-Fi

In a cyberpunk future, Kyron-5 supercomputer attempts to exterminate the human race, but Gunhed mechs stop it. In 2038, five thieves break into a condemned island facility to steal Kyron's dead CPU. The place turns out to be a deathtrap.

Director: Masato Harada | Stars: Masahiro Takashima, Brenda Bakke, James Brewster Thompson, Aya Enjôji

Votes: 1,068

21. They Made Me a Criminal (1939)

Approved | 92 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

A champion boxer on the lamb, believed to have committed murder while drunk, takes refuge and finds redemption at a farm for delinquent youths.

Director: Busby Berkeley | Stars: John Garfield, Claude Rains, The Dead End Kids, Ann Sheridan

Votes: 2,595

22. In the Shadow of Kilimanjaro (1985)

R | 97 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

Because of a severe drought in Kenya in 1984, ninety thousand starving baboons go on a murderous rampage, killing humans and animals alike.

Director: Raju Patel | Stars: John Rhys-Davies, Timothy Bottoms, Irene Miracle, Calvin Jung

Votes: 516 | Gross: $0.18M

23. The Contractor (I) (2013)

PG-13 | 87 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

Elizabeth Chase is busy remodeling her new home with her husband and daughter. She hires a contractor, Javier, to help. But soon, Elizabeth starts to grow suspicious of Javier and learns that he'd targeted the family all along.

Director: Sean Olson | Stars: Danny Trejo, Christina Cox, Brad Rowe, Taylor Spreitler

Votes: 749

24. High Desert Kill (1989 TV Movie)

PG-13 | 89 min | Action, Crime, Drama

Like every year, Jim, Ray, Brad and Paul leave the town for a week to go hunting in the woods. But this year everything is different: There's not a single animal to be found, the whole ... See full summary »

Director: Harry Falk | Stars: Marc Singer, Anthony Geary, Micah Grant, Chuck Connors

Votes: 425

25. It Happened Here (1964)

Not Rated | 93 min | Drama, Sci-Fi, War

In 1940, Germany invades Britain and transforms it into a Fascist state where some Britons collaborate and others resist. In 1944, Pauline, an apolitical Irish nurse becomes a reluctant player in the fight between the two sides.

Directors: Kevin Brownlow, Andrew Mollo | Stars: Pauline Murray, Sebastian Shaw, Bart Allison, Reginald Marsh

Votes: 1,258

26. The Supernaturals (1986)

R | 91 min | Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi

Nichelle Nichols is an army sergeant who leads her platoon into the woods of the deep south on a training exercise. Unfortunately, it is the site where a bunch of yankee soldiers murdered a... See full summary »

Director: Armand Mastroianni | Stars: Maxwell Caulfield, Nichelle Nichols, Talia Balsam, Bradford Bancroft

Votes: 800

27. Viktor (2014)

Not Rated | 134 min | Action, Drama, Thriller

After spending seven years in jail for an art heist, Frenchman Victor Lambert returns to Moscow to uncover the circumstances behind his son Jeremy's brutal murder. He is backed by his lover... See full summary »

Director: Philippe Martinez | Stars: Gérard Depardieu, Elizabeth Hurley, Evgeniya Akhremenko, Andrey Da!

Votes: 559

28. Le altre (1969)

99 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

A modern lesbian couple decides to have a baby, but first they need to find a man to impregnate one of them. They also deal with social pressure and a journalist who wants to expose their unusual story even though they insist on privacy.

Director: Alessandro Fallay | Stars: Erna Schurer, Monica Strebel, Raul Lovecchio, Giuliano Esperati

Votes: 53

29. Blood Reign: Curse of the Yoma (1989)

Unrated | 77 min | Animation, Action, Drama

A terrible war has ravaged the land, and now, fueled by the blood of numerous fallen warriors, the Yoma, demons from hell, emerge once more. A skilled ninja seeks to end the bloodshed these... See full summary »

Stars: Christopher Pryce, Jon Geiger, Mark O'Brien, Jessica Robertson

Votes: 470

30. Thieves (1977)

PG | 92 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

Dramedy of a native New York married couple who splits up in an attempt to rediscover their sanity.

Directors: John Berry, Alfred Viola | Stars: Marlo Thomas, Charles Grodin, Irwin Corey, Hector Elizondo

Votes: 180

31. Angel Terminators II (1992)

93 min | Action, Crime, Thriller

When teens help a friend who's been forced into prostitution they upset some very dangerous people. With the help of a renegade cop a bloody war ensues with tragic consequences.

Directors: Lau Chan, Chun-Ku Lu | Stars: Sibelle Hu, Moon Lee, Yukari Ôshima, Andy Cheng

Votes: 214

32. Area 51 (2005 Video Game)

M | Action, Horror, Mystery

In a routine mission, Soldier Ethan Cole must survive a degenerative contamination and find out what is behind everything, which includes events and cases about UFO's and non-terrestrial life covered by the government.

Stars: David Duchovny, Powers Boothe, Marilyn Manson, Ian Abercrombie

Votes: 569

33. Horror Hotel: The Movie (2016)

103 min | Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi

"Aliens Stole My Boyfriend" - Two cute alien chicks crash land their space buggy in the parking lot of the motor court looking for Earth boyfriends. "Coma Girl" - A macabre maintenance man ... See full summary »

Director: Ricky Hess | Stars: Tera Buerkle, Deborah Childs, Jordan Demers, Austin Freeman

Votes: 1,339

34. Mirage (1995)

R | 92 min | Action, Thriller

Matteo Juarez is a retired detective hired by a local businessman to follow his wife Jennifer. She has a split personality and seems to be putting herself in danger without knowing it.

Director: Paul Williams | Stars: James Andronica, Cuauhtemoc Rivas, Edward James Olmos, Bobalu

Votes: 230

35. Badrinath (2011)

Not Rated | 140 min | Action, Drama, Romance

Badri, a warrior and the protector of Badrinath temple, finds himself in troubled waters after an agnostic woman falls for him and his mentor suspects him of loving her back.

Director: V.V. Vinayak | Stars: Allu Arjun, Tamannaah Bhatia, Prakash Raj, Kelly Dorji

Votes: 2,452 | Gross: $0.05M

36. To Kill a Stranger (1984)

88 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

The wife of an American journalist on an assignment in an unnamed South American country run by a military junta is sexually assaulted by a stranger there. However, she manages to fight back, which leads to unexpected consequences.

Director: Juan López Moctezuma | Stars: Angélica María, Dean Stockwell, Donald Pleasence, Aldo Ray

Votes: 162

37. Blacksite: Area 51 (2007 Video Game)

T | Action, Horror, Sci-Fi

Captain Aeran Pierce and the rest of his Delta Force Echo Squad are sent to investigate a supposed weapons bunker in Iraq in 2003. Until they discovers that bunker is infested with mutated humans and wildlife.

Director: Harvey Smith | Stars: Jason Liebrecht, Ryan Wickerham, Ken Thomas, Alia Al-Yafi

Votes: 138

38. Crusader: No Remorse (1995 Video Game)

T | Action, Sci-Fi

As a Silencer, one of the elite enforcers of the World Economic Consortium, you're supposed to be incorruptible. But if the system you serve is utterly corrupt, where does that leave you? ... See full summary »

Director: Steve Hemphill | Stars: Taylor Gibbler, Tonie Perensky, Suzanne Savoy, Ev Lunning

Votes: 96

39. Psycho Diver: Soul Siren (1997 Video)

Not Rated | 48 min | Animation, Action, Horror

People get their mental problems corrected by the Psycho Divers. One of them is hired to help a young female pop star whose mind is being controlled by a sinister cult.

Director: Mamoru Kanbe | Stars: Junko Iwao, Atsuko Tanaka, Jôji Nakata, Toshiko Fujita

Votes: 198

40. Scratches (2006 Video Game)

T | Adventure, Drama, Horror

Author Michael Arthate is struggling with writers block when he travels to Blackwood Manor, an isolated home outside of the small England town of Rothbury, Northumberland. Soon after moving... See full summary »

Director: Agustín Cordes | Stars: John Bell, Jonathan Boakes, Sue Anderson, Daniel Chase

Votes: 117

41. Barilla: Cafè (1993 Video)

1 min | Short, Comedy

Gérard Depardieu cooks a delicious pasta as an emergency effort to comfort a little girl after a bicycle accident in this commercial directed by David Lynch.

Director: David Lynch | Star: Gérard Depardieu

Votes: 180

42. Barrow Hill: The Dark Path (2016 Video Game)

Adventure, Fantasy, Horror

Ten years after the events of the first game, you return during another Autumn Equinox to Barrow Hill, a haunting ancient foresty hamlet in Cornwall, to save Mia, a girl possessed by Baibin, the evil druidic female spirit of the forest.

Director: Matt Clark | Stars: Emma Harry, Amy Kenny, Jonathan Boakes, Matt Clark

43. Monsters (1988–1990)
Episode: The Match Game (1989)

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

In a haunted Victorian mansion, two couples play a game where each person tells part of a ghost story about the late former owner while a match burns. The story somehow comes true, and he rises from the grave to take their lives.

Director: Michael Brandon | Stars: Byron Thames, Sasha Jenson, Tori Spelling, Ashley Laurence

Votes: 196

44. Becker (1998–2004)
Episode: DNR (2004)

TV-PG | Comedy

Chris fears that John is going to break up with her after he invites her to dinner at a nice restaurant with no explanation. Jake decides how to spend his inheritance from his grandmother. Linda finds a boyfriend.

Director: Chris Brougham | Stars: Ted Danson, Nancy Travis, Hattie Winston, Shawnee Smith

Votes: 145

45. Fallen Angels (1993–1996)
Episode: Fearless (1995)

Crime, Drama, Mystery

In 1945, African American G.I. is saved from two racist cops by another black soldier. Some years later, the man asks him to return the favor by helping his vamp girlfriend free herself from the manager of the bar where she sings.

Director: Jim McBride | Stars: Eyde Byrde, James DuMont, Giancarlo Esposito, Ray Lykins

Votes: 34

46. Millennium (1996–1999)
Episode: A Room with No View (1998)

TV-14 | 60 min | Crime, Drama, Horror

Frank senses that his demonic archnemesis who killed Bletch is responsible for the disappearance of a teenage boy, but that's just the first step in a much larger game of pure evil in which the goal is to rob the world of its future.

Director: Thomas J. Wright | Stars: Lance Henriksen, Megan Gallagher, Terry O'Quinn, Stephen J. Lang

Votes: 376

47. Monsters (1988–1990)
Episode: A Bond of Silk (1989)

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

A newlywed couple book themselves into the basement suite of a fancy hotel which soon turns out to be the lair of a monstrously sized arachnid.

Director: Ernest Farino | Stars: Lydia Cornell, Marc McClure, Dale Brady

Votes: 121

48. Monsters (1988–1990)
Episode: Fools' Gold (1989)

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

Three construction workers find a hidden cave with treasure guarded by a troll.

Director: Greg Cannom | Stars: Jeff Conaway, Mary Cadorette, T.J. Castronovo, Debbie Lee Carrington

Votes: 137

49. Night Gallery (1969–1973)
Episode: The Girl with the Hungry Eyes (1972)

TV-PG | Drama, Fantasy, Horror

Photographer David Faulker is frightened by the "hungry eyes" of his new reclusive model that no man can resist.

Director: John Badham | Stars: Rod Serling, James Farentino, John Astin, Joanna Pettet

Votes: 296

50. The Outer Limits (1995–2002)
Episode: Falling Star (1996)

TV-PG | 45 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror

Fading pop singer Melissa McCammon is about to commit suicide, but, Rachel, an ardent fan from the future, wants to save her. Later, authorities from the future show up wanting Melissa dead in order to restore their time-line.

Director: Ken Girotti | Stars: Sheena Easton, John Pyper-Ferguson, Kristin Lehman, Sarah Strange

Votes: 320