Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "year-1887"

1. Van Helsing (2004)

PG-13 | 131 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy

The famed monster hunter is sent to Transylvania to stop Count Dracula, who is using Dr. Frankenstein's research and a werewolf for nefarious purposes.

Director: Stephen Sommers | Stars: Hugh Jackman, Kate Beckinsale, Richard Roxburgh, Shuler Hensley

Votes: 285,700 | Gross: $120.18M

2. Mama (I) (2013)

PG-13 | 100 min | Fantasy, Horror, Thriller

After a young couple take in their two nieces, they suspect that a supernatural spirit named Mama has latched onto their family.

Director: Andy Muschietti | Stars: Jessica Chastain, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Megan Charpentier, Isabelle Nélisse

Votes: 191,347 | Gross: $71.63M

3. The Jungle Book (1994)

PG | 111 min | Adventure, Family, Romance

Rudyard Kipling's classic tale of Mowgli, the orphaned jungle boy raised by wild animals, and how he becomes king of the jungle.

Director: Stephen Sommers | Stars: Jason Scott Lee, Cary Elwes, Lena Headey, Sam Neill

Votes: 18,975 | Gross: $44.34M

4. Shanghai Knights (2003)

PG-13 | 114 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy

When a Chinese rebel murders Chon's estranged father and escapes to England, Chon and Roy make their way to London with revenge on their minds.

Director: David Dobkin | Stars: Jackie Chan, Owen Wilson, Fann Wong, Aaron Taylor-Johnson

Votes: 112,693 | Gross: $60.48M

5. Victoria & Abdul (2017)

PG-13 | 111 min | Biography, Comedy, Drama

Queen Victoria strikes up an unlikely friendship with a young Indian clerk named Abdul Karim.

Director: Stephen Frears | Stars: Judi Dench, Ali Fazal, Tim Pigott-Smith, Eddie Izzard

Votes: 38,327 | Gross: $22.25M

6. Escaping the Madhouse: The Nellie Bly Story (2019 TV Movie)

TV-14 | 88 min | Thriller

A young journalist looks behind the curtain of a nearby mental hospital, only to uncover the grim and gruesome acts they bestow upon their "patients".

Director: Karen Moncrieff | Stars: Christina Ricci, Judith Light, Josh Bowman, Anja Savcic

Votes: 1,975

7. Lawman (1971)

R | 99 min | Adventure, Drama, Western

A lawman from Bannock arrives in Sabbath to arrest all the cattlemen whose wild celebration the year before resulted in the accidental death of an old man.

Director: Michael Winner | Stars: Burt Lancaster, Robert Ryan, Lee J. Cobb, Robert Duvall

Votes: 5,954 | Gross: $5.94M

8. The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes (1970)

PG-13 | 125 min | Adventure, Comedy, Crime

When a bored Holmes eagerly takes the case of Gabrielle Valladon after an attempt on her life, the search for her missing husband leads to Loch Ness and the legendary monster.

Director: Billy Wilder | Stars: Robert Stephens, Christopher Lee, Colin Blakely, Geneviève Page

Votes: 13,353 | Gross: $3.30M

9. Heaven Can Wait (1943)

Passed | 112 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy

An old roué arrives in Hades to review his life with Satan, who will rule on his eligibility to enter the Underworld.

Director: Ernst Lubitsch | Stars: Gene Tierney, Don Ameche, Charles Coburn, Marjorie Main

Votes: 12,411

10. Outlaws and Angels (2016)

R | 120 min | Action, Thriller, Western

When outlaws on the lam invade the home of an unsuspecting, seemingly innocent, frontier family to hide out for the night, an unexpected game of cat and mouse ensues, leading to seduction, role reversal, and ultimately, bloody revenge.

Director: JT Mollner | Stars: Chad Michael Murray, Frances Fisher, Teri Polo, Luke Wilson

Votes: 3,597

11. The Edge of the Blade (2023)

101 min | Drama

Paris, 1887. Dueling banned but persists. Fencing master's nephew challenges colonel. Marie-Rose Astié de Valsayre argues honor applies beyond men. Duels with épées, pistols, sabers depict codes of honor, equality explored.

Director: Vincent Perez | Stars: Roschdy Zem, Doria Tillier, Guillaume Gallienne, Damien Bonnard

Votes: 345

12. Show Boat (1936)

Approved | 113 min | Comedy, Drama, Musical

Despite her mother's objections, the naive young daughter of a show boat captain is thrust into the limelight as the company's new leading lady.

Director: James Whale | Stars: Irene Dunne, Allan Jones, Charles Winninger, Paul Robeson

Votes: 3,696

13. Hetty Feather (2015–2020)

30 min | Drama, Family

In Victorian London, feisty heroine Hetty Feather is trapped in the Foundling Hospital, the strict institution ruled over by the formidable Matron Bottomley. Aided by friends and thwarted by enemies, Hetty battles to win her freedom.

Stars: Isabel Clifton, Dasharn Anderson, Polly Allen, Eva Pope

Votes: 316

14. Wolvesbayne (2009 TV Movie)

Unrated | 92 min | Fantasy, Horror

In 1887, the powerful vampire Lilith is vanquished by a vampire council and four amulets avoid her return to the world of living. In the present days, the greedy Realtor Russel Bayne is ... See full summary »

Director: Griff Furst | Stars: Mark Dacascos, Yancy Butler, Rhett Giles, Christy Carlson Romano

Votes: 1,207

15. West of the Pecos (1945)

Approved | 66 min | Western

Heading west for his health, Colonel Lambeth takes his daughter Rill along. Lost on the desert they are saved by Pecos and Chito. The Colonel hires the two and the Lambeths soon find ... See full summary »

Director: Edward Killy | Stars: Robert Mitchum, Barbara Hale, Richard Martin, Thurston Hall

Votes: 391

16. Showdown on the Brazos (2022)

120 min | Western

The year was 1887, in a little-known town in Texas situated on the banks of the Brazos River. Brazos was once a quiet and peaceful place to live and raise a family; but that was before the ... See full summary »

Director: Bill Foster | Stars: Bill Foster, Brent Rock, Jf Davis, Larry Welch

17. I Love You Rosa (1972)

77 min | Drama

The love of Nissim for his widowed sister-in-law, Rosa, in the Old City of Jerusalem at the turn of the century. Under a (very old) Jewish religious law, Nissim has the duty to marry his childless sister-in-law on the death of his brother.

Director: Moshé Mizrahi | Stars: Michal Bat-Adam, Gabi Otterman, Moshe Tal, Levana Finkelstein

Votes: 251

18. Santo in the Treasure of Dracula (1969)

81 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy

Mexican wrestler El Santo invents a time machine. After somebody uses the machine to find the hidden location of Drácula's treasure, El Santo must hunt down the vampire.

Director: René Cardona | Stars: Santo, Aldo Monti, Noelia Noel, Roberto G. Rivera

Votes: 564

19. The Crucifer of Blood (1991 TV Movie)

Not Rated | 103 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

A beautiful young woman asks Holmes to help her father, a former army captain and hopeless opium addict break free of the curse surrounding a stolen treasure.

Director: Fraser C. Heston | Stars: Charlton Heston, Richard Johnson, Susannah Harker, Edward Fox

Votes: 600

20. Orson & Olivia (1994– )

Animation

Orson and Olivia are 2 eleven-year-old orphans who live on a boat. They have to find food in order to survive and catch rats to make money. They also get into various situations with their friends.

Stars: Aurélia Bruno, Gay Marshall, Karen Strassman, Zaïra Benbadis

Votes: 93

21. Man Walking Around the Corner (1887)

1 min | Documentary, Short

A frame sequence featuring a man walking around a corner.

Director: Louis Aimé Augustin Le Prince

Votes: 1,578

22. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1973 TV Movie)

78 min | Horror, Musical, Sci-Fi

Musical version of the story in which Dr. Henry Jekyll experiments with scientific means of revealing the hidden, dark side of man and releases a murderer from within himself.

Director: David Winters | Stars: Kirk Douglas, Susan George, Susan Hampshire, Stanley Holloway

Votes: 234

23. A Cold Day in Hell (2011)

PG-13 | 95 min | Western

Sierra Nevada Mountains, 1887: William Drayton, once a crack sharpshooter in the Civil War, has lost his wife and home. He has ascended to the high country, wanting never to be heard from again.

Director: Christopher Forbes | Stars: Karyn Belenke, Ronald Bumgardner, Kathryn Campbell, Kimberly Campbell

Votes: 513

24. Ghost-Town Gold (1936)

Approved | 55 min | Drama, Western

The three Mesquiteers try to recover the gold stolen by a gang in its effort to ruin the banker/mayor who ordered them to leave town.

Director: Joseph Kane | Stars: Robert Livingston, Ray Corrigan, Max Terhune, Kay Hughes

Votes: 133

25. One-Eyed Horse (2008)

PG-13 | 137 min | Drama, Western

Hadley, Missouri 1887. Justin Gatewood has recently been released from prison for attempting to kill an old adversary, William Curry. Twenty-five years earlier, Gatewood and his brother ... See full summary »

Director: Wayne Shipley | Stars: Mark Redfield, Michael Hagan, Jennifer Rouse, Kelly Potchak

Votes: 80

26. Douce (1943)

Not Rated | 90 min | Drama

In Paris in 1887, Irène works as a governess to Douce, the grand-daughter of the dowager Countess de Bonafé. Douce believes she is in love with Fabien, the handsome manager of the estate. ... See full summary »

Director: Claude Autant-Lara | Stars: Odette Joyeux, Madeleine Robinson, Marguerite Moreno, Jean Debucourt

Votes: 421

27. Child Carrying Flowers to Woman (1887)

1 min | Short

Eadweard Muybridge's motion photography film depicts a child bringing a bouquet of flowers to a topless woman who kisses his cheek.

Director: Eadweard Muybridge

Votes: 424

28. Woman Walking Downstairs (1887)

1 min | Documentary, Short

A series a photographs, depicting a nude model coming down a staircase and towards the viewer.

Director: Eadweard Muybridge

Votes: 385

29. Cockatoo Flying (1887)

Documentary, Short

This series of images by Muybridge pictures a cockatoo in flight.

Director: Eadweard Muybridge

Votes: 259

30. Adjutant Walking (1887)

1 min | Documentary, Short

A series of photographs shot by Eadweard Muybridge, depicting an adjutant walking.

Director: Eadweard Muybridge

Votes: 133

31. Chickens Scared by Torpedo (1887)

1 min | Documentary, Short

A locomotion study by Muybridge, made up of still photographs and featuring some chickens frightened at the explosion of several torpedoes.

Director: Eadweard Muybridge

Votes: 210

32. Woman Throwing Baseball (1887)

1 min | Documentary, Short

A series of photographic images by photographer Eadweard Muybridge, showing a nude woman picking up a baseball and throwing it.

Director: Eadweard Muybridge

Votes: 267

33. Lioness Walking (1887)

Documentary, Short

A female lion walking in a series of photographs shot by Eadweard Muybridge.

Director: Eadweard Muybridge

Votes: 200

34. Antelope Trotting (1887)

1 min | Documentary, Short

A series of photographs of an antelope in motion, photographed by Eadweard Muybridge.

Director: Eadweard Muybridge

Votes: 124

35. Baboon Climbing a Pole (1887)

1 min | Documentary, Short

A photographic series depicting a baboon climbing up a pole.

Director: Eadweard Muybridge

Votes: 134

36. Lion Walking (1887)

Documentary, Short

A series of photographs depicting a male lion walking, shot by Eadweard Muybridge.

Director: Eadweard Muybridge

Votes: 187

37. Woman Setting Down Jug (1887)

1 min | Documentary, Short

A nude model poses for a series of photographs, which depict her setting down a jug on the floor.

Director: Eadweard Muybridge

Votes: 176

38. Elephant Walking (1887)

1 min | Documentary, Short

A series of photographs picturing an elephant walking.

Director: Eadweard Muybridge

Votes: 186

39. Ostrich Walking (1887)

1 min | Documentary, Short

Two series of images by Eadweard Muybridge of an ostrich walking: one taken from the side, the other from the back.

Director: Eadweard Muybridge

Votes: 187

40. Woman Picking Up Child (1887)

Documentary, Short

This series of photographs depict two nude models: a woman and a young child, as the woman picks up the child.

Director: Eadweard Muybridge

Votes: 151

41. Renmark on the River (1964)

11 min | Documentary, Short, History

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Director: Geoffrey Scoresby Shepherd

42. Dobrodruzství kriminalistiky (1989–1998)
Episode: Bertillonáz (1989)

50 min | Crime, History

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Director: Antonín Moskalyk | Stars: Ondrej Havelka, Jana Riháková, Josef Stefl, Petr Pelzer

Votes: 14

43. Frontier (1955–1956)
Episode: Hostage (1956)

30 min | Western

An outlaw gang, no longer needing the bank clerk they took as a hostage, decide to eliminate the unfortunate man. Before they can kill him, the rest of the outlaws they double-crossed ... See full summary »

Director: Bernard L. Kowalski | Stars: Jack Kelly, Kenneth Tobey, Ted de Corsia, Trevor Bardette

Votes: 7

44. Stage 7 (1955–1956)
Episode: Fox Hunt (1955)

Drama

Ranger Jim Harris comes to town after the sheriff is killed tracking the Fox Durkin gang. He has a tough time putting together a posse to bring the outlaws in; no one is even sure what ... See full summary »

Director: Stuart Gilmore | Stars: Dennis Morgan, Harry Shannon, John Doucette, Howard Negley

Votes: 15

45. Tombstone Territory (1957–1960)
Episode: Shoot Out at Dark (1958)

TV-PG | 30 min | Western

Buckskin Frank Leslie is paroled from Yuma prison and returns to Tombstone to be with the woman who arranged for his release - the former wife of the man he killed. The dead man's brothers ... See full summary »

Director: Eddie Davis | Stars: Pat Conway, Richard Eastham, John Beradino, Mary Anderson

Votes: 44

46. Becoming Evil: Sisterhood of Murder (2019– )
Episode: America's Most Notorious Serial Killers: The First Wave (2019)

TV-14 | 56 min | Documentary, Crime

We profile some of America's most notorious serial killers including the Axeman of New Orleans who terrorised the city, and the gruesome crimes of Albert Fish, the infamous Brooklyn vampire.

Director: Ron Meyer | Stars: Jack Levin, Frederic Reamer, Kirk Gill, Eric Hickey

Votes: 16

47. Great Canadian Rivers (2001– )
Episode: Athabaska River (2001)

Documentary

The Athabaska River is one of four rivers originating in the Columbia Ice Field in the Rocky Mountains. In the late nineteenth century it was an important commercial river now displaced by ... See full summary »

Stars: Mike Gizmondi, Tom Jackson, Peter Johnson, Peter Lemieux

48. Lock 'N Load with R. Lee Ermey (2009– )
Episode: Shotguns (2009)

TV-PG | 45 min | Documentary, History, War

Starting with the blunderbuss Gunny tries out the great shotguns throughout history that are perfect for his favorite sport; hunting. Of course he also takes the opportunity to hop on a stagecoach and ride shotgun.

Director: French Horwitz | Stars: R. Lee Ermey, Phil Spangenberger

Votes: 21

49. Prof James Ker-Lindsay (2019– )
Episode: Guyana | A Venezuelan Invasion? (2023)

14 min | News

The colonial border despite between Vensuala and Guyana was settled in 1905 but Venezuala reopened the issue 1962, as Guyana became independent, by rejecting the agreement. Fifty years of ... See full summary »

Star: James Ker-Lindsay

50. White Collar (2009–2014)
Episode: Digging Deeper (2013)

TV-PG | 44 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

Neal and Peter take on an unprecedented asset recovery case for the Museum of Natural History: a stolen Tyrannosaurus Rex skeleton and its egg.

Director: Sanford Bookstaver | Stars: Matt Bomer, Tim DeKay, Willie Garson, Marsha Thomason

Votes: 631