Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "deathbed-confession"

1. Interstellar (2014)

PG-13 | 169 min | Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi

When Earth becomes uninhabitable in the future, a farmer and ex-NASA pilot, Joseph Cooper, is tasked to pilot a spacecraft, along with a team of researchers, to find a new planet for humans.

Director: Christopher Nolan | Stars: Matthew McConaughey, Anne Hathaway, Jessica Chastain, Mackenzie Foy

Votes: 2,097,946 | Gross: $188.02M

2. Prime Suspect 2 (1992)

102 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Detective Chief Inspector Jane Tennison's (Dame Helen Mirren's) investigation of a murder is complicated with the unexpected participation of her secret lover in her detective unit.

Stars: Helen Mirren, Colin Salmon, John Benfield, Jack Ellis

Votes: 4,103

3. The Twelve Chairs (1970)

GP | 94 min | Comedy, Drama

In 1920s Soviet Russia, a fallen aristocrat, a priest and a con artist search for a treasure of jewels hidden inside one of twelve dining chairs, lost during the revolution.

Director: Mel Brooks | Stars: Mel Brooks, Ron Moody, Frank Langella, Dom DeLuise

Votes: 7,111 | Gross: $1.81M

4. The Confession (2016)

116 min | Drama

In a village in France during the German occupation of World War II, a friendship develops between the new priest and an atheist.

Director: Nicolas Boukhrief | Stars: Romain Duris, Marine Vacth, Anne Le Ny, Lucie Debay

Votes: 881

5. Yodha (1991)

Not Rated | 142 min | Action, Drama

Karan a respected lawyer has many enemies including Suraj due to his honesty.Justice Agnihotri is Karan's idol but conducts his illegal activities by name of Daga.Daga takes advantage of Karan and Suraj's rivalry making them sore enemies.

Director: Rahul Rawail | Stars: Sunny Deol, Sanjay Dutt, Sangeeta Bijlani, Paresh Rawal

Votes: 261

6. Kachche Dhaage (1999)

Not Rated | 144 min | Action, Drama, Thriller

Two stepbrothers who loathe each other have to work together to avoid being framed for terrorist activities.

Director: Milan Luthria | Stars: Ajay Devgn, Saif Ali Khan, Manisha Koirala, Namrata Shirodkar

Votes: 1,737

7. Decoy (1946)

Approved | 76 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

A mortally wounded female gangster recounts how she and her gang revived an executed killer from the gas chamber, to try and find out where he buried a fortune in cash.

Director: Jack Bernhard | Stars: Jean Gillie, Edward Norris, Robert Armstrong, Herbert Rudley

Votes: 2,194

8. I Witness (2003)

R | 95 min | Action, Crime, Drama

After 27 bodies are discovered in a collapsed tunnel in Tijuana, a man tries to unravel the mystery before becoming the next victim.

Director: Rowdy Herrington | Stars: Jeff Daniels, James Spader, Portia de Rossi, Clifton Collins Jr.

Votes: 1,582

9. Hamraaz (1967)

170 min | Mystery, Thriller

A stage actor becomes entangled in a murder mystery after he marries a woman with a secret past.

Director: B.R. Chopra | Stars: Sunil Dutt, Raaj Kumar, Mumtaz Askari, S.N. Banerjee

Votes: 499

10. The Mystery of D.B. Cooper (2020)

TV-14 | 85 min | Documentary, Crime, History

A documentary that looks at the well-known case, which is largely regarded as the greatest unsolved heist in American history.

Director: John Dower | Stars: Jo Weber, Duane Weber, Tim Collins, Tina Mucklow

Votes: 2,220

11. Taboo-the Unthinkable Act (2016)

120 min | Drama

In the wake of a tragic emotional event, Angie Dobson is lead to do the unthinkable. She suffers from a history of sexual abuse. Instead of suppressing her feelings, she over indulges to ... See full summary »

Director: Renee S. Warren Peoples | Stars: Brenda Howard, ChelseyRai S. Standberry, Kelvin Rowe, Michael Gladden

Votes: 76

12. The Man Who Lived Again (1936)

Approved | 66 min | Horror, Sci-Fi

Dr. Laurience, a brilliant but unstable scientist experimenting with transferring minds, becomes vengeful when his magnate patron withdraws his support.

Director: Robert Stevenson | Stars: Boris Karloff, Anna Lee, John Loder, Frank Cellier

Votes: 1,202

13. Little Treasure (1985)

R | 95 min | Action, Comedy, Drama

Desperate for a better life, a failed dancer turned stripper teams up with a hunky aimless bartender to find her late father's buried treasure.

Director: Alan Sharp | Stars: Margot Kidder, Ted Danson, Burt Lancaster, Joseph Hacker

Votes: 372

14. JFK: The Final Evidence (2023)

Documentary, Action, Crime

In this two-part series, explore the mystery behind the assassination of President John F Kennedy with Dr David J Hall.

Stars: Emma Long, David J. Hall, Chris Moran

Votes: 26

15. Before Dawn (1933)

Passed | 60 min | Crime, Drama, Horror

Sinister forces compete to find the million dollars in gold hidden by recently deceased gangster Joe Valerie in his family's old dark house 15 years earlier,

Director: Irving Pichel | Stars: Stuart Erwin, Dorothy Wilson, Warner Oland, Dudley Digges

Votes: 513

16. The Undesirable (1915)

Not Rated | 67 min | Drama

Betty (Lili Berky, Duel For Nothing), a young woman living in the country, is told by her dying father that he is really her uncle and raised her as his own when her mother was sent to ... See full summary »

Director: Michael Curtiz | Stars: Lili Berky, Victor Varconi, Mari Jászai, Andor Szakács

Votes: 247

17. Indians (1979)

Biography, Drama

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Director: Gholam Hossein Lotfi | Stars: Ghodrat Delavari, Parviz Fanizadeh, Majid Mozaffari, Reza Fazaeli

Votes: 35

18. Dillagi (1966)

Not Rated | 146 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

Seema lives a wealthy lifestyle along with her parents. One day she meets with a young man named Sapan Rai, who fails to impress her. She then receives a love letter written by Sapan, and ... See full summary »

Director: S.N. Banerjee | Stars: Mala Sinha, Sanjay Khan, Nazima, Johnny Walker

Votes: 23

19. Only a Shop Girl (1922)

Passed | 68 min | Crime, Drama, Romance

Dann Mulvey (William Scott), just released from prison, is falsely accused of murder. The real culprit is the least-suspected person, who makes a deathbed confession.

Director: Edward LeSaint | Stars: Estelle Taylor, Mae Busch, Wallace Beery, William Scott

Votes: 12

20. Stolen Moments (1920)

TV-G | 60 min | Drama, Romance

A novelist blackmails his now married ex-girlfriend into having an affair with him.

Director: James Vincent | Stars: Marguerite Namara, Rudolph Valentino, Albert L. Barrett, Henrietta Simpson

Votes: 230

21. Enlighten Thy Daughter (1917)

Passed | 70 min | Crime, Drama

A story of the difference in fate of two young girls caused by the difference in their home lives and training. This shows vividly the criminal folly of allowing a girl to reach womanhood ... See full summary »

Director: Ivan Abramson | Stars: Frank Sheridan, Katharine Kaelred, Zena Keefe, Arthur Donaldson

22. Fugitive from a Prison Camp (1940)

Approved | 59 min | Drama

Bill Harding's love for Ann Baldwin causes him to become involved with a gang of criminals when he tries to convince Ann's brother Ted to quit the gang. Arrested as an accomplice of the ... See full synopsis »

Director: Lewis D. Collins | Stars: Jack Holt, Marian Marsh, Robert Barrat, Phillip Terry

23. Like Father (2017)

Not Rated | 13 min | Short, Drama

A Jewish New Yorker is bedridden patriarch dying of lung cancer, confesses for the first time to son that he was always attracted to men. Despite his long-lasting marriage and faithfulness to wife.

Director: Jason Stuart | Stars: Jason Stuart, Denise Dowse, Nic Few, Terry Ray

Votes: 29

24. The Price of Silence (1917)

Passed | 50 min | Crime, Drama, Romance

U. S. Senator Frank Deering has spent his life trying to alleviate the misery of child labor. Judge Vernon, his closest friend, aids him in this struggle. Unexpected circumstances force ... See full summary »

Director: Frank Lloyd | Stars: William Farnum, Frank Clark, Vivian Rich, Brooklyn Keller

25. The Friendship of Beaupere (1917)

Passed | 20 min | Short, Drama, Romance

The heart of the Caribou district dwells Jules Beaupere, a trapper of the North, who lives for Celeste, who has grown to womanhood after her parents had died. Roger Lynn, only heir of an ... See full summary »

Director: Alfred E. Green | Stars: George Fawcett, Vivian Reed, Will Machin, Eugenie Besserer

26. The New Batman Adventures (1997–1999)
Episode: Joker's Millions (1998)

TV-PG | 22 min | Animation, Action, Adventure

A destitute Joker unaccountably inherits a fortune from a hated rival, only to find out the hard way why.

Director: Dan Riba | Stars: Kevin Conroy, Tara Strong, Loren Lester, Mark Hamill

Votes: 876

27. Buckskin (1958–1959)
Episode: The Greatest Man in History (1959)

30 min | Western

Newspaper editor Ben Newcomb hears a deathbed confession that appears to implicate the mayor in a shooting. Not wanting to make the confession public, Ben goes to the mayor and tries to convince him to clear the air one way or the other.

Director: Fletcher Markle | Stars: Tom Nolan, Sallie Brophy, Mike Road, Michael Lipton

28. Crossroads (1955–1957)
Episode: The Bowery Bishop (1956)

Drama

The minister of a Bowery mission has his donations stolen. A transient working in the mission kitchen knows who did it, and threatens revenge, but the minister persuades him not to, and ... See full summary »

Director: Nathan Juran | Stars: Richard Denning, Robert Armstrong, Jean Willes, Chick Chandler

Votes: 11

29. Custer (1967)
Episode: Suspicion (1967)

60 min | Western

Custer's team is ambushed by a small group of Indians. Custer is furious the Indians knew the nature of his mission, and decides he needs to get to the bottom of how the Indians found out and who is the traitor in his unit. When the troops learn that one of their lieutenants is a Kiowa, suspicion falls on him.

Director: Alex March | Stars: Wayne Maunder, Slim Pickens, Michael Dante, Robert F. Simon

Votes: 14

30. Four Star Playhouse (1952–1956)
Episode: To Die at Midnight (1956)

30 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

A prison warden desperately tries to prove that a man scheduled for execution is innocent.

Director: Don Weis | Stars: Dick Powell, Stacy Harris, Alexander Campbell, Dan Barton

Votes: 18

31. Hunter (1984–1991)
Episode: Scrap Metal (1986)

TV-14 | 47 min | Action, Crime, Drama

A criminal who's dying sends for Hunter and tells him that he's the man who killed Hunter's father and that he was paid to do it by his father's partner. Hunter goes to the man who was ... See full summary »

Director: Michael Preece | Stars: Fred Dryer, Stepfanie Kramer, Kay Lenz, Frank Campanella

Votes: 95

32. Inspector Morse (1987–2000)
Episode: The Way Through the Woods (1995)

TV-14 | 101 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

When a serial killer is murdered in prison, his deathbed confession disavows one of the murders he had previously confessed to. Morse wants to reopen the case.

Director: John Madden | Stars: John Thaw, Kevin Whately, Gary Powell, Vivienne Ritchie

Votes: 855

33. Popular (1999–2001)
Episode: The News of My Death Has Been Greatly Exaggerated (2001)

TV-14 | Comedy, Drama, Romance

News of April Tuna's sudden death make everyone face their prejudices about her and finally appreciate her. Josh is inducted into the secret Mullet Society. Sam learns that Harrison loves her. The new lunch lady may be Nicole's birth mom.

Director: Ryan Murphy | Stars: Leslie Bibb, Carly Pope, Tamara Mello, Christopher Gorham

Votes: 91

34. U.S. Marshal (1958–1960)
Episode: The Stool Pigeon (1958)

30 min | Crime, Drama, Western

Morgan's attempt to break up a narcotics ring has tragic consequences when one of his deputies is killed during a drug bust. The marshals manage to arrest two of the crooks, one of whom is ... See full summary »

Director: Harve Foster | Stars: John Bromfield, Bruce Gordon, Than Wyenn, Arthur Kendall

Votes: 12

35. Waking the Dead (2000–2011)
Episode: Deathwatch: Part 1 (2002)

TV-14 | 58 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

A deathbed confession appears to link the hanging of an East End gangster and the assassination of the jury that found him guilty.

Director: Maurice Phillips | Stars: Trevor Eve, Sue Johnston, Holly Aird, Claire Goose

Votes: 166

36. X-Men: The Animated Series (1992–1997)
Episode: Family Ties (1996)

TV-Y7-FV | 22 min | Animation, Action, Adventure

Pietro Maximoff AKA Quicksilver of the mutant team X-Factor and his sister, Wanda, The Scarlet Witch of the Avengers, learn from their dying father, that they were adopted. Magneto, who is ... See full summary »

Directors: Larry Houston, Fred Miller | Stars: Cedric Smith, Norm Spencer, Catherine Disher, Lenore Zann

Votes: 532

37. The Collector (2004–2006)
Episode: The Alchemist (2006)

42 min | Action, Drama, Fantasy

Morgan's client is a 17th century scientist who sold his soul for alchemy's greatest secrets.

Director: J.B. Sugar | Stars: Chris Kramer, Sonya Salomaa, Christine Chatelain, Aidan Drummond

Votes: 15

38. Law & Order: Criminal Intent (2001–2011)
Episode: Last Rites (2008)

TV-14 | 43 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Logan goes to war with an ambitious A.D.A. planning to run for Attorney General, after a deathbed confession to a priest reopens an investigation into a 16-year-old case where she may have prosecuted the wrong person for personal gain.

Director: Tom DiCillo | Stars: Chris Noth, Julianne Nicholson, Eric Bogosian, Denis O'Hare

Votes: 334

39. Young Charlie Chaplin (1989)
Episode: Episode #1.4 (1989)

TV-PG | 27 min | Biography, Comedy, Drama

After Charles Sr. helps discharge Charlie from the School for Orphans, Charlie discovers his innate ability as an actor, and convinces his father to reunite with his mother. Then, when life challenges the Chaplins once again, Syd returns.

Director: Baz Taylor | Stars: Joe Geary, Lee Whitlock, Twiggy, Ian McShane

40. Waking the Dead (2000–2011)
Episode: Deathwatch: Part 2 (2002)

TV-14 | 58 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Expatriate gangster Frank Sutton returns to Britain and recruits reporter Graham Barker to gather enough evidence and publish the truth about his brother Charles, who was framed and hung for murder.

Director: Maurice Phillips | Stars: Trevor Eve, Sue Johnston, Holly Aird, Claire Goose

Votes: 155

41. The Irish Mob (2008–2016)
Episode: Frank 'The Irishman' Sheeran/Whitey Bulger (2008)

Documentary, Biography, Crime

In a deathbed confession, Frank "The Irishman" Sheeran revealed his role in one of the great unsolved mysteries of the 20th century - who killed Jimmy Hoffa? James "Whitey" Bulger was ... See full summary »

Director: Dathaí Keane | Stars: T.J. English, Arthur Sloane, Dick Lehr, Howie Carr

42. Criminal Minds (2005– )
Episode: Omnivore (2009)

TV-14 | 42 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

After being inactive for 10 years, Hotch's first BAU case, an elusive serial killer known as the Reaper, starts killing again.

Director: Nelson McCormick | Stars: Joe Mantegna, Paget Brewster, Shemar Moore, Matthew Gray Gubler

Votes: 2,440

43. The Mark of a Killer (2019– )
Episode: The Interstate Killer (2021)

Documentary, Crime

A killer crisscrosses the Midwest leaving a string of victims along the interstate. When investigators are hot on the highway killer's trail, the murderer suddenly changes his mark.

Directors: Chad Cunningham, Wendy Greene | Stars: Dan Colin, Gera-Lind Kolarik, Tim Nugent, Perry Hollowell

Votes: 13

44. Historic Hauntings (2018)
Episode: Wales (2018)

History

Deep in Wales' long memory is a history of violence and bloody curses. Acts of treachery and vengeance leave their stain within Wales' haunted castles.

Star: Robert Hardy

Votes: 6

45. The Watcher (2022– )
Episode: Haunting (2022)

TV-MA | 52 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery

Nora urges Dean to move on, but the past continues to haunt him. A shocking confession doesn't add up. Back at the house, keen eyes continue to watch.

Director: Jennifer Lynch | Stars: Naomi Watts, Bobby Cannavale, Mia Farrow, Noma Dumezweni

Votes: 1,910

46. Johnny Midnight (1960)
Episode: Pay-Off to Death (1960)

30 min | Crime, Drama

A deathbed confession sets Johnny Midnight racing against the clock to clear a cop convicted of murder.

Director: John English | Stars: Edmond O'Brien, Andrea King, Virginia Gibson, Russ Conway

47. History's Greatest Mysteries (2020– )
Episode: The Disappearance of Jimmy Hoffa (2022)

TV-PG | Documentary, History, Mystery

A powerful union activist disappears from a Detroit suburb. 45 years later, he is still a missing person cases. The mystery of Jimmy Hoffa's disappearance seems like a Hollywood movie plot.

Stars: Laurence Fishburne, Gregory Stejskal, Rebecca Salminen-Witt, James Buccellato

Votes: 63

48. Downton Abbey (2010–2015)
Episode: Episode #2.8 (2011)

TV-14 | 67 min | Drama, Romance

The Spanish Flu disrupts plans for Matthew's wedding when Cora, Lavinia, Carson, Molesley, and other staff members fall ill. Ethel has to decide the future for her son, and Jane resigns from Downton.

Director: James Strong | Stars: Hugh Bonneville, Jessica Brown Findlay, Laura Carmichael, Jim Carter

Votes: 2,150

49. Mobs Mheiriceá (2007– )
Episode: Frank "The Irishman" Sheeran (2010)

Documentary

In a deathbed confession Frank 'the Irishman' Sheeran revealed his role in one of the great unsolved mysteries of the twentieth century: Who killed Jimmy Hoffa?

Stars: Jimmy Hoffa, Frank Sheeran

50. Prime Suspect 2 (1992)
Episode: Operation Nadine: Part 2 (1992)

104 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

In Series 2, Tennison has proven herself and won her colleagues' grudging respect. When she is assigned to head a murder inquiry in the African Caribbean community, it seems further ... See full summary »

Director: John Strickland | Stars: Helen Mirren, Colin Salmon, John Benfield, Jack Ellis

Votes: 276