Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keywords "escape", "high-society"

1. Titanic (1997)

PG-13 | 194 min | Drama, Romance

A seventeen-year-old aristocrat falls in love with a kind but poor artist aboard the luxurious, ill-fated R.M.S. Titanic.

Director: James Cameron | Stars: Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet, Billy Zane, Kathy Bates

Votes: 1,282,325 | Gross: $659.33M

2. American Psycho (2000)

R | 102 min | Crime, Drama, Horror

A wealthy New York City investment banking executive, Patrick Bateman, hides his alternate psychopathic ego from his co-workers and friends as he delves deeper into his violent, hedonistic fantasies.

Director: Mary Harron | Stars: Christian Bale, Justin Theroux, Josh Lucas, Bill Sage

Votes: 717,170 | Gross: $15.07M

3. Knives Out (2019)

PG-13 | 130 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

A detective investigates the death of the patriarch of an eccentric, combative family.

Director: Rian Johnson | Stars: Daniel Craig, Chris Evans, Ana de Armas, Jamie Lee Curtis

Votes: 774,928 | Gross: $165.36M

4. Victor Frankenstein (2015)

PG-13 | 110 min | Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi

Told from Igor's perspective, we see the troubled young assistant's dark origins, his redemptive friendship with the young medical student Viktor Von Frankenstein, and become eyewitnesses to the emergence of how Frankenstein became the man - and the legend - we know today.

Director: Paul McGuigan | Stars: Daniel Radcliffe, James McAvoy, Jessica Brown Findlay, Andrew Scott

Votes: 60,326 | Gross: $5.78M

5. 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: 60,494 | Gross: $10.91M

6. The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover (1989)

NC-17 | 124 min | Crime, Drama

At Le Hollandais gourmet restaurant, every night is filled with opulence, decadence and gluttony. But when the cook, a thief, his wife and her lover all come together, they unleash a shocking torrent of sex, food, murder and revenge.

Director: Peter Greenaway | Stars: Richard Bohringer, Michael Gambon, Helen Mirren, Alan Howard

Votes: 41,797 | Gross: $7.72M

7. Society (1989)

R | 99 min | Comedy, Horror

An ordinary teenage boy discovers his family is part of a gruesome orgy cult for the social elite.

Director: Brian Yuzna | Stars: Billy Warlock, Concetta D'Agnese, Ben Slack, Evan Richards

Votes: 21,983

8. The Bonfire of the Vanities (1990)

R | 125 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

After his mistress runs over a young teen, a Wall Street hotshot sees his life unravel in the spotlight and attracts the interest of a down-and-out reporter.

Director: Brian De Palma | Stars: Tom Hanks, Bruce Willis, Melanie Griffith, Kim Cattrall

Votes: 26,774 | Gross: $15.69M

9. Pandora's Box (1929)

Not Rated | 109 min | Crime, Drama, Romance

The rise and inevitable fall of an amoral but naive young woman whose insouciant eroticism inspires lust and violence in those around her.

Director: Georg Wilhelm Pabst | Stars: Louise Brooks, Fritz Kortner, Francis Lederer, Carl Goetz

Votes: 11,867 | Gross: $0.01M

10. The Last Horror Film (1982)

R | 87 min | Comedy, Horror

A New York taxi driver stalks a beautiful actress attending the Cannes Film Festival, which coincides with a series of violent killings of the lady's friends.

Director: David Winters | Stars: J'Len Winters, John Kelly, Joe Spinell, Simone Overman

Votes: 2,224

11. A Quiet Place to Kill (I) (1970)

Not Rated | 94 min | Crime, Drama, Horror

A troubled race-car driver plots to kill her ex-husband at the behest of his new wife, but their scheme quickly goes awry.

Director: Umberto Lenzi | Stars: Carroll Baker, Jean Sorel, Luis Dávila, Alberto Dalbés

Votes: 1,396

12. Satanik (1968)

Not Rated | 86 min | Crime, Sci-Fi, Thriller

A withered old hag turns into a beautiful young woman after drinking a youth formula.

Director: Piero Vivarelli | Stars: Magda Konopka, Julio Peña, Umberto Raho, Luigi Montini

Votes: 427

13. Tam Lin (1970)

PG-13 | 106 min | Horror, Mystery

An older woman uses witchcraft to keep her young jet-set friends. Based on an ancient Scottish folk song.

Director: Roddy McDowall | Stars: Ava Gardner, Ian McShane, Richard Wattis, Cyril Cusack

Votes: 736

14. Nightmare Castle (1965)

Unrated | 90 min | Horror

A woman and her lover are tortured and killed by her sadistic husband. The pair return from the grave to seek vengeance.

Director: Mario Caiano | Stars: Barbara Steele, Paul Muller, Helga Liné, Marino Masé

Votes: 2,711

15. The Painting (2011)

TV-PG | 80 min | Animation, Adventure, Drama

Three characters of different social classes escape their unfinished painting in search of the Painter, hoping he will complete it.

Director: Jean-François Laguionie | Stars: Jean Barney, Chloé Berthier, JB Blanc, Steve Blum

Votes: 4,530 | Gross: $0.01M

16. Reunion in France (1942)

Passed | 104 min | Drama, Romance, War

In German-occupied Paris, a Frenchwoman tries to help smuggle a downed RAF pilot into Portugal despite strict surveillance by suspicious Gestapo officers.

Director: Jules Dassin | Stars: Joan Crawford, John Wayne, Philip Dorn, Reginald Owen

Votes: 1,892

17. Forbidden (1984)

PG-13 | 114 min | Drama, Romance, War

In Berlin in the early 1940s, romance is forbidden between the young countess who is studying veterinary medicine and a young man she meets at the home of a former professor. But they fall ... See full summary »

Director: Anthony Page | Stars: Jacqueline Bisset, Jürgen Prochnow, Irene Worth, Peter Vaughan

Votes: 252

18. Rosario (2010)

120 min | Drama, Romance

The film tells the saga of Rosario, a young and liberated woman in the 1920s who has just arrived from New York, and is spending her vacation in their hacienda.There, she meets and falls in... See full synopsis »

Director: Albert Martinez | Stars: Dolphy, Phillip Salvador, Jennylyn Mercado, Yul Servo

Votes: 81

19. I Killed Einstein, Gentlemen (1970)

95 min | Comedy, Romance, Sci-Fi

This futuristic science fiction comedy features an atomic bomb blast that causes women to grow beards and lose the ability to have children. A summit meeting is held at the United Nations, ... See full summary »

Director: Oldrich Lipský | Stars: Jirí Sovák, Jana Brejchová, Lubomír Lipský, Iva Janzurová

Votes: 574

20. Fantômas: The Dead Man Who Killed (1913)

Not Rated | 90 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

After a body disappears from inside the prison, a series of crimes take place, all seemingly by the dead man. With Juve presumed dead, Fandor must investigate alone. Will Fantomas finally be brought to justice?

Director: Louis Feuillade | Stars: René Navarre, Edmund Breon, Georges Melchior, André Luguet

Votes: 1,335

21. You Are a Widow, Sir! (1971)

97 min | Comedy, Sci-Fi

After a soldier cuts off the arm of king's cousin, king decides to deactivate the army. Of course, generals don't like it at all and they try to kill the king. The assassin should be ... See full summary »

Director: Václav Vorlícek | Stars: Iva Janzurová, Olga Schoberová, Eduard Cupák, Jirí Sovák

Votes: 857

22. Fantom Morrisvillu (1966)

89 min | Comedy, Mystery

Inspector Brumpby (Jaroslav Marvan) and the young crime reporter Allan Pinkerton (Vít Olmer) attend wedding of Sir Hannibal Morris (Oldrich Nový) with beautiful Clarence (Kveta Fialová). ... See full summary »

Director: Borivoj Zeman | Stars: Oldrich Nový, Kveta Fialová, Jana Novaková, Vít Olmer

Votes: 443

23. L'homme sans ombre (2004)

9 min | Animation, Short, Drama

A solitary man without a shadow rises from his desk, dons his hat, and leaves his apartment. He walks through a city to a large door, knocks, shows his invitation, and is admitted to a ... See full summary »

Director: Georges Schwizgebel

Votes: 512

24. With Pleasure, Madame (1936)

Approved | 75 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance

It is the height of the fashionable season and the world-famous singer, Anita Stella, comes to Cannes on the Riviera, where she has been engaged to perform at a Charity Ball sponsored by ... See full summary »

Directors: Victor Hanbury, John Stafford | Stars: Conrad Nagel, Marta Labarr, Lu Ann Meredith, Fred Conyngham

Votes: 12

25. Reckless Youth (1922)

Passed | 65 min | Drama, Romance

Alice Schuyler, a feckless, not too sympathetic flapper, rushes into marriage to escape from her family. But she is still way too immature and careless and routinely takes off from her husband to go dancing with friends or out to drinks.

Director: Ralph Ince | Stars: Elaine Hammerstein, Niles Welch, Myrtle Stedman, Robert Lee Keeling

Votes: 34

26. They Wanted to Marry (1937)

Approved | 60 min | Adventure, Comedy, Romance

Newspaper photographer Jim Tyler sneaks into a society girl's wedding, and the bride's sister (mad-cap heiress Sheila Hunter) decides she prefers him to her upper-crust suitors. She even likes his pigeon, who travels everywhere with him.

Director: Lew Landers | Stars: Betty Furness, Gordon Jones, E.E. Clive, Patsy Parsons

Votes: 146

27. The Pig's Curly Tail (1926)

Passed | 8 min | Animation, Short, Comedy

Two pigs steal the snobby Mrs. Hippo's new Ford and, while being pursued by the police, they hit a stone wall, fly into the air and land in a laundry. They get involved with a ... See full summary »

Director: Walter Lantz | Stars: Walter Lantz, Nancy Kelly

28. The Palm Beach Girl (1926)

Passed | 70 min | Adventure, Comedy, Romance

Emily Bennett, arriving in Palm Beach on a train, puts her head out of the window and her face is smudged black from the locomotive's coal smoke. She is mistaken for a black girl and this ... See full summary »

Director: Erle C. Kenton | Stars: Bebe Daniels, Lawrence Gray, Marguerite Clayton, Josephine Drake

Votes: 19

29. Fox Mystery Theater (1984)
Episode: The Late Nancy Irving (1984)

70 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery

A famous US golfer with an extremely rare blood type is taken to a private hospital after falling ill. Her recovery prolongs and she befriends the people there. One day, she sees a TV news report on her death and realizes she's trapped.

Director: Peter Sasdy | Stars: Cristina Raines, Marius Goring, Simon Williams, Tony Anholt

Votes: 139

30. Heer & Meester (2014–2016)
Episode: Fabergé (2014)

67 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

Private detective, Valentijn Rixtus Bentinck Valentine sneaks into a party. In a series of unfortunate coincidences, Valentijn is arrested and becomes the prime suspect in a murder case. At... See full summary »

Director: Pollo de Pimentel | Stars: Daan Schuurmans, Sytske van der Ster, Hubert Fermin, Ferdi Stofmeel

Votes: 19