Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keywords "stranger", "title-directed-by-female"

1. Twilight (I) (2008)

PG-13 | 122 min | Drama, Fantasy, Romance

When Bella Swan moves to a small town in the Pacific Northwest, she falls in love with Edward Cullen, a mysterious classmate who reveals himself to be a 108-year-old vampire.

Director: Catherine Hardwicke | Stars: Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson, Billy Burke, Sarah Clarke

Votes: 487,420 | Gross: $192.77M

2. The Strangers: Chapter 1 (2024)

R | 91 min | Horror | Completed

After their car breaks down in an eerie small town, a young couple are forced to spend the night in a remote cabin. Panic ensues as they are terrorized by three masked strangers who strike with no mercy and seemingly no motive.

Director: Renny Harlin | Stars: Madelaine Petsch, Gabriel Basso, Rachel Shenton, Richard Brake

3. August Rush (2007)

PG | 114 min | Drama, Music

A musically gifted orphan, Evan, runs away from his orphanage and searches New York City for his birth parents. On his journey, he's taken under the wing of the Wizard, a homeless man who lives in an abandoned theater.

Director: Kirsten Sheridan | Stars: Freddie Highmore, Keri Russell, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Terrence Howard

Votes: 111,092 | Gross: $31.66M

4. Kajillionaire (2020)

R | 104 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

A woman's life is turned upside down when her criminal parents invite an outsider to join them on a major heist they're planning.

Director: Miranda July | Stars: Richard Jenkins, Debra Winger, Evan Rachel Wood, Patricia Belcher

Votes: 22,093

5. A Wrinkle in Time (2018)

PG | 109 min | Adventure, Drama, Family

After the disappearance of her scientist father, three peculiar beings send Meg, her brother, and her friend to space in order to find him.

Director: Ava DuVernay | Stars: Storm Reid, Oprah Winfrey, Reese Witherspoon, Mindy Kaling

Votes: 47,775 | Gross: $100.48M

6. Ravenous (1999)

R | 101 min | Adventure, Drama, Horror

In a remote military outpost in the 19th century, Captain John Boyd and his regiment embark on a rescue mission which takes a dark turn when they are ambushed by a sadistic cannibal.

Director: Antonia Bird | Stars: Guy Pearce, Robert Carlyle, David Arquette, Jeremy Davies

Votes: 43,231 | Gross: $2.06M

7. Forces of Nature (1999)

PG-13 | 105 min | Comedy, Romance

A soon-to-be-married man encounters an exciting stranger after his plane suffers an accident on takeoff.

Director: Bronwen Hughes | Stars: Sandra Bullock, Ben Affleck, Maura Tierney, Steve Zahn

Votes: 35,945 | Gross: $52.89M

8. Messiah of Evil (1974)

R | 90 min | Horror

A young woman goes searching for her missing artist father. Her journey takes her to a strange Californian seaside town governed by a mysterious undead cult.

Directors: Willard Huyck, Gloria Katz | Stars: Michael Greer, Marianna Hill, Joy Bang, Anitra Ford

Votes: 5,821

9. True Things (2021)

102 min | Drama

It follows a young woman living on the fringes of society who becomes intoxicated by a stranger who overwhelms her quiet life.

Director: Harry Wootliff | Stars: Ruth Wilson, Tom Burke, Hayley Squires, Elizabeth Rider

Votes: 1,687

10. Trenque Lauquen (2022)

262 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller

With the strange disappearance of Laura, two colleagues, her older boyfriend, Rafael, and Ezequiel, learn of their recent discoveries, which may help them locate her. However, the story is bigger and stranger than they could imagine.

Director: Laura Citarella | Stars: Laura Paredes, Ezequiel Pierri, Rafael Spregelburd, Cecilia Rainero

Votes: 728

11. My Life Without Me (2003)

R | 106 min | Drama, Romance

A young woman conceals the fact of her terminal cancer to live her life with a passion she never had before.

Director: Isabel Coixet | Stars: Sarah Polley, Scott Speedman, Mark Ruffalo, Leonor Watling

Votes: 25,837 | Gross: $0.40M

12. Sweet Bean (2015)

Not Rated | 113 min | Drama

Burdened with a heavy and ever-increasing debt, a dorayaki baker hires a kind ageing woman, after tasting her delicious surprise. Little by little, she unravels her beautiful inner world. Could she be holding the secret to his success?

Director: Naomi Kawase | Stars: Kirin Kiki, Masatoshi Nagase, Kyara Uchida, Miki Mizuno

Votes: 12,699 | Gross: $0.12M

13. Jagged Mind (2023)

18+ | 88 min | Horror, Thriller

Billie is plagued by blackouts and strange visions that lead her to discover she's stuck in a series of time loops, possibly related to her mysterious new girlfriend.

Director: Kelley Kali | Stars: Maisie Richardson-Sellers, Shannon Woodward, Rosaline Elbay, Shein Mompremier

Votes: 967

14. Italiensk for begyndere (2000)

R | 112 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

Several lonely hearts in a semi-provincial suburb of a town in Denmark use a beginner's course in Italian as the platform to meet the romance of their lives.

Director: Lone Scherfig | Stars: Anders W. Berthelsen, Ann Eleonora Jørgensen, Anette Støvelbæk, Peter Gantzler

Votes: 13,843 | Gross: $4.45M

15. Dear Frankie (2004)

PG-13 | 105 min | Drama, Romance

After having responded to her son's numerous letters in the guise of his father, a woman hires a stranger to pose as his dad when meeting him.

Director: Shona Auerbach | Stars: Emily Mortimer, Jack McElhone, Gerard Butler, Mary Riggans

Votes: 22,475 | Gross: $1.34M

16. The Captive (2000)

Not Rated | 118 min | Drama, Music, Romance

An adaptation of Proust's "La Prisoniere" (book five of "Remembrance of Things Past"). Set in Paris, France, it is a serious tale of a tragic and dysfunctional love.

Director: Chantal Akerman | Stars: Stanislas Merhar, Sylvie Testud, Olivia Bonamy, Liliane Rovère

Votes: 1,954

17. Swept from the Sea (1997)

PG-13 | 115 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance

The story of Russian emigrant Yanko Goorall and servant Amy Foster in the end of nineteenth century. When Yanko enters a farm, sick and hungry after a shipwreck, everyone is afraid of him, except for Amy.

Director: Beeban Kidron | Stars: Rachel Weisz, Vincent Perez, Ian McKellen, Kathy Bates

Votes: 3,608 | Gross: $0.28M

18. Three Wishes (1995)

PG | 115 min | Drama, Family, Fantasy

In an unexplained act of charity, Jeanne Holman, picks up an injured, apparent tramp and takes him home to care for him little realizing who he was, or the effect he would have on her life and those of her family.

Director: Martha Coolidge | Stars: Patrick Swayze, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Joseph Mazzello, Seth Mumy

Votes: 3,265 | Gross: $7.03M

19. Lexi (2022)

79 min | Crime, Horror, Mystery

Motivational influencer "Laughing Lexi" has gone missing. As the tale unfolds, the story of what really happened becomes stranger than fiction.

Director: Victoria Vertuga | Stars: Victoria Vertuga, Thomas Hobson, Susan Louise O'Connor, Maya Zapata

Votes: 1,093

20. Friday Night (2002)

Unrated | 90 min | Drama, Romance

It's Friday night--she's moving in with her boyfriend tomorrow--so she goes out, but gets stuck in traffic--where she meets a handsome stranger.

Director: Claire Denis | Stars: Valérie Lemercier, Vincent Lindon, Hélène de Saint-Père, Hélène Fillières

Votes: 2,139 | Gross: $0.16M

21. Strangers in Good Company (1990)

PG | 101 min | Adventure, Drama

A busload of women become stranded in an isolated part of the Canadian countryside. As they await rescue, they reflect on their lives.

Director: Cynthia Scott | Stars: Alice Diabo, Constance Garneau, Beth Webber, Catherine Roche

Votes: 1,300 | Gross: $1.00M

22. Sophie and the Rising Sun (2016)

R | 105 min | Drama

Autumn of 1941 in Salty Creek, a fishing village in South Carolina, two interracial lovers are swept up in the tides of history.

Director: Maggie Greenwald | Stars: Julianne Nicholson, Takashi Yamaguchi, Margo Martindale, Diane Ladd

Votes: 1,473 | Gross: $0.03M

23. The Tribe (2016)

97 min | Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller

A family of three young sisters live out their days after a pandemic has consumed most of the known world. One day a stranger suddenly shows up and their world changes in ways they never could have imagined.

Director: Roxy Shih | Stars: Jessica Rothe, Anne Winters, Cokey Falkow, Michael Nardelli

Votes: 471

24. I Can't Sleep (1994)

Unrated | 110 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance

A serial killer terrorizes Paris at night, but that doesn't stop Daïga and Théo from meeting up, and falling in love.

Director: Claire Denis | Stars: Yekaterina Golubeva, Richard Courcet, Vincent Dupont, Laurent Grévill

Votes: 1,377 | Gross: $0.11M

25. A Mesma Parte de Um Homem (2021)

99 min | Drama

Renata lives isolated in the countryside with her teenage daughter and her husband, conceiving fear as a common feeling. The arrival of a stranger awakens in her the desire for all that was asleep.

Director: Ana Johann | Stars: Clarissa Kiste, Irandhir Santos, Laís Cristina, Otavio Linhares

Votes: 70

26. La repentie (2002)

125 min | Crime, Drama

When an indistinct woman named Charlotte leaves a train station in hopes of changing her life forever, she's followed by a mysterious stranger with ill intentions.

Director: Laetitia Masson | Stars: Isabelle Adjani, Sami Frey, Samy Naceri, Aurore Clément

Votes: 459

27. Ten (2014)

Not Rated | 83 min | Adventure, Horror, Mystery

Ten women find themselves in a vacant mansion on Spektor Island in December, 1972. Each believes she's traveled to the house on business, but they all agree that something seems strange. ... See full summary »

Directors: Sophia Cacciola, Michael J. Epstein | Stars: Jade Sylvan, Molly Carlisle, Molly Devon, Karin Webb

Votes: 626

28. The Wayward Girl (1959)

Not Rated | 95 min | Drama, Romance

The story of a young Gerd, played by Liv Ullmann in her first leading role, who falls in love with a young boy. She is considered a 'loose' woman, and the boy's family does not accept their... See full summary »

Director: Edith Carlmar | Stars: Liv Ullmann, Atle Merton, Rolf Søder, Nanna Stenersen

Votes: 746

29. Great Moments in Aviation (1994)

R | 93 min | Comedy, Drama, Mystery

A young woman becomes involved with a man who not only may be an art thief, but a murderer.

Director: Beeban Kidron | Stars: Vanessa Redgrave, John Hurt, Jonathan Pryce, Dorothy Tutin

Votes: 371

30. Menekse Koyu (1991)

90 min | Drama, Romance

Kerem goes to a village to start a new life for his family. It will not be easy for Kerem's wife Neriman to get used to her new life.

Director: Barbro Karabuda | Stars: Türkan Soray, Sven Wollter, Macit Koper, Yavuzer Çetinkaya

Votes: 34

31. Max (2000)

85 min | Crime

Released after three years in prison, Max finds out her father, a wealthy businessman, has hired a stranger to play his son. Meanwhile, the ex-husband of the Rent-a-Family director plans to rob Max' father.

Director: Trine Piil Christensen | Stars: Sidse Babett Knudsen, Nicolaj Kopernikus, Nikolaj Lie Kaas, Paprika Steen

Votes: 185

32. Never Go with Strangers (1971)

19 min | Animation, Short, Drama

An educational film warning children not to go with strangers.

Director: Sarah Erulkar | Star: Gary Kemp

Votes: 46

33. Sweets and Teats (2008)

85 min | Drama

When a sexy stranger plays fast and furious with the local talent attitudes and sleeping arrangements must change!

Director: Geretta Geretta | Stars: Urs Althaus, Geretta Geretta, Cindy Leadbetter

34. Gary and the Underworld (2018)

70 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror | Completed

On Gary's first day of being homeless, he encounters an intriguing stranger with a demonic destiny and realizes sometimes you've gotta go down in order to rise up.

Directors: Amy McCullough, Jimmie Buchanan Jr. | Stars: Jimmie Buchanan Jr., Amy McCullough, Chris Blair, Bob McCullough

35. Le diable dans la ville (1925)

61 min | Drama

A small town during the 15th century. A band of smugglers settle in the abandoned Grey Tower. At a city auction a mysterious stranger buys the tower. Rumors has he is sent by the devil.

Director: Germaine Dulac | Stars: Jacqueline Blanc, Michelle Clairfont, Léon Mathot, René Donnio

Votes: 31

36. Babysitter (2018)

9 min | Short, Horror, Thriller

The average teenage babysitter shows up to watch Mr. Murphy's children. She receives strange calls all night from a prank caller. She tries to keep calm, but senses something terrible is bound to happen.

Director: Dana Rubanowitz | Stars: Zachary Cirino, Nina Quezada, Alexis White

37. Complex (2009)

PG | 5 min | Short, Drama, Romance

A lesbian mathematician looks to solve her problems, but the answers are never easy to find.

Director: Emily Schooley | Stars: Emily Schooley, Emily Turner, C. Edward Stewart

Votes: 8

38. The Outer Limits (1995–2002)
Episode: The Conversion (1995)

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

An omniscient friendly stranger tries to convince a man on the run who tried to kill his corrupt backstabbing boss but ended up accidentally killing three bystanders instead that there is a way for him to redeem himself.

Director: Rebecca De Mornay | Stars: John Savage, Beau Starr, Rebecca De Mornay, Frank Whaley

Votes: 669

39. Z Nation (2014–2018)
Episode: Crisis of Faith (2017)

TV-14 | 42 min | Action, Comedy, Drama

Warren and the others encounter a mysterious stranger who they think is a grave robber, but he's something much more than that.

Director: Jennifer Derwingson | Stars: Kellita Smith, Keith Allan, Russell Hodgkinson, Nat Zang

Votes: 407

40. The Twilight Zone (2019–2020)
Episode: A Traveler (2019)

TV-MA | 51 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror

A mysterious man's arrival at an Alaska police station's Christmas party prompts a sergeant to investigate his ulterior motives.

Director: Ana Lily Amirpour | Stars: Steven Yeun, Marika Sila, Patrick Gallagher, Eric Keenleyside

Votes: 3,315

41. Room 104 (2017–2020)
Episode: Prank Call (2019)

TV-MA | 24 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy

Left alone by her parents in Room 104, a bored neglected teenage girl makes a series of prank calls where she pretends to be a jail bait seductress tempting married men and even offering ... See full summary »

Director: So Yong Kim | Stars: Mary Mouser, Macon Blair, Carl De Gregorio, Kristina Harrison

Votes: 197