Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "thrown-down-stairs"

1. John Wick: Chapter 4 (2023)

R | 169 min | Action, Crime, Thriller

John Wick uncovers a path to defeating The High Table. But before he can earn his freedom, Wick must face off against a new enemy with powerful alliances across the globe and forces that turn old friends into foes.

Director: Chad Stahelski | Stars: Keanu Reeves, Laurence Fishburne, George Georgiou, Lance Reddick

Votes: 332,992 | Gross: $187.13M

2. Carlito's Way (1993)

R | 144 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

A Puerto Rican former convict, just released from prison, pledges to stay away from drugs and violence despite the pressure around him and lead on to a better life outside of N.Y.C.

Director: Brian De Palma | Stars: Al Pacino, Sean Penn, Penelope Ann Miller, John Leguizamo

Votes: 232,280 | Gross: $36.95M

3. The Night House (2020)

R | 107 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller

A widow begins to uncover her recently deceased husband's disturbing secrets.

Director: David Bruckner | Stars: Rebecca Hall, Sarah Goldberg, Vondie Curtis-Hall, Evan Jonigkeit

Votes: 67,041

4. Evil Dead II (1987)

R | 84 min | Comedy, Horror

Ash Williams, the lone survivor of an earlier onslaught of flesh-possessing spirits, holes up in a cabin with a group of strangers while the demons continue their attack.

Director: Sam Raimi | Stars: Bruce Campbell, Sarah Berry, Dan Hicks, Kassie Wesley DePaiva

Votes: 181,848 | Gross: $5.92M

5. The 355 (2022)

PG-13 | 122 min | Action, Thriller

When a top-secret weapon falls into mercenary hands, a wild-card C.I.A. agent joins forces with three international agents on a mission to retrieve it, while staying a step ahead of a mysterious woman who's tracking their every move.

Director: Simon Kinberg | Stars: Jessica Chastain, Penélope Cruz, Bingbing Fan, Diane Kruger

Votes: 37,468

6. Obsessed (2009)

PG-13 | 108 min | Drama, Romance, Thriller

A successful executive's seemingly perfect career and marriage starts falling apart when his firm hires a seductive office temp.

Director: Steve Shill | Stars: Beyoncé, Idris Elba, Ali Larter, Jerry O'Connell

Votes: 34,339 | Gross: $68.26M

7. Child's Play 2 (1990)

R | 84 min | Horror, Thriller

While Andy's mother is admitted to a psychiatric hospital, the young boy is placed in foster care, and Chucky, determined to claim Andy's soul, is not far behind.

Director: John Lafia | Stars: Alex Vincent, Jenny Agutter, Gerrit Graham, Christine Elise

Votes: 57,629 | Gross: $28.50M

8. The Stepfather (2009)

PG-13 | 101 min | Mystery, Thriller

Michael Harding (Penn Badgely) returns home from military school to find his mother Susan (Sela Ward) happily in love and living with her new boyfriend David (Dylan Walsh). As the two men get to know each other, he becomes more and more suspicious of the man who is always there to help.

Director: Nelson McCormick | Stars: Penn Badgley, Dylan Walsh, Sela Ward, Amber Heard

Votes: 38,671 | Gross: $29.06M

9. Quo Vadis (1951)

Not Rated | 171 min | Biography, Drama, Romance

After fierce Roman commander Marcus Vinicius becomes infatuated with beautiful Christian hostage Lygia, he begins to question the tyrannical leadership of the despotic emperor Nero.

Directors: Mervyn LeRoy, Anthony Mann | Stars: Robert Taylor, Deborah Kerr, Leo Genn, Peter Ustinov

Votes: 16,739 | Gross: $24.29M

10. Joe Kidd (1972)

PG | 88 min | Drama, Western

An ex-bounty hunter reluctantly helps a wealthy landowner and his henchmen track down a Mexican revolutionary leader.

Director: John Sturges | Stars: Clint Eastwood, Robert Duvall, John Saxon, Don Stroud

Votes: 21,177

11. The Yards (2000)

R | 115 min | Crime, Drama, Romance

Ex-con Leo tries to go straight, but his plans are derailed after reuniting with his old crew and a well-connected railway contractor.

Director: James Gray | Stars: Mark Wahlberg, Joaquin Phoenix, Charlize Theron, James Caan

Votes: 23,089 | Gross: $0.88M

12. Tokyo Sonata (2008)

PG-13 | 120 min | Drama

An ordinary Japanese family slowly disintegrates after its patriarch loses his job at a prominent company.

Director: Kiyoshi Kurosawa | Stars: Teruyuki Kagawa, Kyôko Koizumi, Yû Koyanagi, Kai Inowaki

Votes: 11,797 | Gross: $0.28M

13. Tales from the Crypt (1972)

PG | 92 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery

Five strangers get lost in a crypt and, after meeting the mysterious Crypt Keeper, receive visions of how they will die.

Director: Freddie Francis | Stars: Joan Collins, Peter Cushing, Ralph Richardson, Geoffrey Bayldon

Votes: 13,014 | Gross: $1.70M

14. The Ruling Class (1972)

PG | 154 min | Comedy, Drama, Musical

A member of the House of Lords dies, leaving his estate to his son. Unfortunately, his son thinks he is Jesus Christ. Their other, somewhat more respectable family members plot to steal the estate from him; murder and mayhem ensue.

Director: Peter Medak | Stars: Peter O'Toole, Alastair Sim, Arthur Lowe, Hugh Owens

Votes: 6,800

15. Hurricane Smith (1992)

R | 86 min | Action, Drama

An oil-field worker from Texas journeys to Australia to look for his missing sister, and his search winds up getting him involved with a violent drug-smuggling gang.

Director: Colin Budds | Stars: Carl Weathers, Jürgen Prochnow, Cassandra Delaney, Tony Bonner

Votes: 523

16. This Gun for Hire (1942)

Passed | 81 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

When assassin Philip Raven shoots a blackmailer and his beautiful female companion dead, he is paid off in marked bills by his treasonous employer who is working with foreign spies.

Director: Frank Tuttle | Stars: Alan Ladd, Veronica Lake, Robert Preston, Laird Cregar

Votes: 10,615

17. Alone in Berlin (2016)

R | 103 min | Drama, History, War

After a Nazi German working class couple loses their son in World War II, they decide to retaliate by secretly leafletting handwritten cards in Berlin denouncing their government.

Director: Vincent Perez | Stars: Louis Hofmann, Emil von Schönfels, Katrin Pollitt, Sammy Scheuritzel

Votes: 9,966

18. Black Caesar (1973)

R | 87 min | Action, Crime, Drama

Raised in Harlem, Tommy Gibbs becomes a successful mob boss but he clashes with the rival Mafia and his old enemy, dirty cop McKinney.

Director: Larry Cohen | Stars: Fred Williamson, Gloria Hendry, Art Lund, D'Urville Martin

Votes: 3,891

19. Never on Sunday (1960)

Not Rated | 97 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

An American scholar in Greece sets about improving the prostitute with whom he is infatuated.

Director: Jules Dassin | Stars: Melina Mercouri, Jules Dassin, Giorgos Foundas, Titos Vandis

Votes: 6,147

20. Dracula III: Legacy (2005 Video)

R | 86 min | Horror

In the near future, Uffizi and Luke travel to the remote reaches of war torn Romania to rescue Elizabeth and finish the vampire once and for all. Along the way, they encounter TV news journalist and a corps of rebels trying to fight the vampire uprising which plagues their country.

Director: Patrick Lussier | Stars: Jason Scott Lee, Stephen Billington, Diane Neal, Jason London

Votes: 3,340

21. The Unbelievable Truth (1989)

R | 90 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

A man returns to his home town after serving a prison sentence for homicide, and finds that the details of the crime have been forgotten and replaced with local legends and rumors.

Director: Hal Hartley | Stars: Adrienne Shelly, Robert John Burke, Chris Cooke, Julia McNeal

Votes: 6,284 | Gross: $0.55M

22. Beneath the Darkness (2011)

R | 96 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller

After watching their best friend get murdered, a group of teens struggle to expose a local hero as the vicious killer and keep from becoming his next victims.

Director: Martin Guigui | Stars: Dennis Quaid, Tony Oller, Aimee Teegarden, Stephen Ford

Votes: 6,341

23. Killer: A Journal of Murder (1995)

R | 91 min | Biography, Crime, Drama

A prison guard at Leavenworth with lofty ideals and hopes of reform struggles to understand a violent, hateful and conscienceless convict. The result is a written testimonial to a crime that no one could have predicted.

Director: Tim Metcalfe | Stars: James Woods, Robert Sean Leonard, Ellen Greene, Cara Buono

Votes: 2,408 | Gross: $0.07M

24. Around the Bend (2004)

R | 85 min | Drama

A bitter, recently divorced man is goaded by his grandfather and son into going on a family road trip to reconcile with his estranged father.

Director: Jordan Roberts | Stars: Michael Caine, Christopher Walken, Josh Lucas, Jonah Bobo

Votes: 4,477 | Gross: $0.19M

25. Omega Doom (1996)

R | 84 min | Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller

After Earth is taken over by an army of robots, the small number of humans left are forced into hiding. In the nuclear winter, only droids walk the face of the Earth, in fear of the rumored... See full summary »

Director: Albert Pyun | Stars: Rutger Hauer, Shannon Whirry, Norbert Weisser, Tina Cote

Votes: 3,334

26. London Kills Me (1991)

R | 107 min | Comedy, Drama

For want of a nail a shoe was lost, for want of a shoe... a young man's life is almost lost, which is exactly what this film is all about: a man barely twenty who wants desperately to pull ... See full summary »

Director: Hanif Kureishi | Stars: Justin Chadwick, Steven Mackintosh, Fiona Shaw, Brad Dourif

Votes: 651 | Gross: $0.17M

27. The Perfect House (2013)

Not Rated | 84 min | Horror

A young couple's dream home turns into a house of horrors when the disturbing, violent acts of three generations of doomed families is reawakened for them to witness.

Directors: Kris Hulbert, Randy Kent | Stars: Felissa Rose, Jonathan Tiersten, John Philbin, Dustin Stevens

Votes: 611

28. Hidden Crimes (2009 TV Movie)

TV-14 | 90 min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller

After her brother is attacked in jail and stays in a coma, Julia has to face her nephew's kidnappers, while trying to figure out what her brother meant with his last letter.

Director: Philippe Gagnon | Stars: Tricia Helfer, Jonathan Scarfe, Kris Holden-Ried, James Gallanders

Votes: 270

29. The Eyes of the Mummy (1918)

Approved | 63 min | Drama, Horror

A girl is kidnapped and held captive in an ancient Egyptian temple. She is rescued and flees to England, but soon finds that her mysterious captor is still haunting her.

Director: Ernst Lubitsch | Stars: Pola Negri, Harry Liedtke, Emil Jannings, Max Laurence

Votes: 734

30. The Get-Man (1974)

PG | 92 min | Drama, Thriller

A police officer becomes greatly obsessed with a sadistic serial killer/rapist called "The Zebra Killer" after his girlfriend is kidnapped, and discovers a string of many brutal murders along the way while tracking him down.

Director: William Girdler | Stars: Juanita Moore, Austin Stoker, Hugh Smith, James Carroll Pickett

Votes: 178

31. Diamonds on Her Naked Flesh (1972)

R | 102 min | Action, Crime

A female hotel manager and her male accomplice, murder a German gangster to steal his diamonds. Soon, other members of the gang arrive to find out what went on.

Director: Omiros Efstratiadis | Stars: Eleni Anousaki, Kostas Karagiorgis, Hristos Nomikos, Rita Bensousan

Votes: 87

32. Nebenwirkungen (2007 TV Movie)

89 min | Drama, Thriller

Dr. Claudia Keller, project manager at Swiss pharmaceutical giant Beyler, discovers deadly side effects of a new diet pill. The management wants to silence her, but she investigates further with the help of her ex-husband.

Director: Manuel Siebenmann | Stars: Sabine Timoteo, Michael Neuenschwander, Roeland Wiesnekker, Hanspeter Müller

Votes: 32

33. The Mystery Man (1923)

5 min | Short, Comedy

An unconventional super detective (Snub) pursues a trio of crooks who've stolen the fortune of his girlfriend's father. Along the way, absurd things happen like he's tricked into trailing a cow and he enters a cross-country foot race.

Director: Hugh Fay | Stars: 'Snub' Pollard, Marie Mosquini, Joseph Belmont, James Finlayson

Votes: 12

34. Death by Death (2010)

Not Rated | 15 min | Short, Action, Comedy

Three assassins find themselves in a deadly triangle.

Director: Joel Wilson | Stars: Heidi Ervin, Steven J. Wilson, Wynn Reichert, Ryan Smith

Votes: 9

35. Is Spiritualism a Fraud? (1906)

7 min | Short, Comedy

Men expose a fake medium's tricks and take revenge.

Director: J.H. Martin

Votes: 130

36. LVAC Let's Hang Out - Spooky Edition (2019 Video)

Action, Sport

Lehigh Valley Athletics Council gets into the Halloween spirit with a ten-man tag main event with UltraMantis Black leading the Spectral Envoy and The Batiri into action against Dasher ... See full summary »

Stars: Evan Adams, R.B. Banks, Cajun Crawdad, Jeff Cannonball

37. Becker (1998–2004)
Episode: Chris-Mess (2002)

TV-PG | Comedy

Chris is jealous when Becker plans to spend Christmas in Vermont with a magazine editor he is dating. Margaret invites Linda to go caroling with her church group. Bob fears that a street-corner Santa is out to get him.

Director: Gail Mancuso | Stars: Ted Danson, Nancy Travis, Hattie Winston, Alex Désert

Votes: 93

38. The Incredible Hulk (1978–1982)
Episode: Life and Death (1978)

TV-PG | 50 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

David 'Barnard' subjects himself to an experimental DNA test but finds out his doctor's accomplices are gathering newborn babies for similar research.

Director: Jeffrey Hayden | Stars: Bill Bixby, Jack Colvin, Lou Ferrigno, Julie Adams

Votes: 255

39. The Incredible Hulk (1978–1982)
Episode: The Hulk Breaks Las Vegas (1978)

TV-PG | 50 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

David is working as a card shill in Vegas when he learns his Casino owning boss is crooked. To complicate matters, the people holding the evidence are acquaintances of Jack McGee.

Director: Larry Stewart | Stars: Bill Bixby, Jack Colvin, Lou Ferrigno, Julie Gregg

Votes: 279

40. The Incredible Hulk (1978–1982)
Episode: The Phenom (1981)

TV-PG | 48 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

David 'Bedecker' travels to Miami with a farm boy with potential to be a baseball star, and has to protect the boy from an unscrupulous manager.

Director: Bernard McEveety | Stars: Bill Bixby, Jack Colvin, Lou Ferrigno, Brett Cullen

Votes: 159

41. Police Rescue (1989–1996)
Episode: The Cosmic Lightbeam (1991)

49 min | Crime, Drama

A lock-out, a break-in, and a police trainee spell trouble for 'Mickey'.

Director: Graham Thorburn | Stars: Gary Sweet, Marshall Napier, Tim McKenzie, Steve Bastoni

Votes: 17

42. All Elite Wrestling: Dynamite (2019– )
Episode: Blood & Guts (2021)

TV-14 | 120 min | Action, Sport

Inner Circle vs The Pinnacle. Cody Rhodes vs QT Marshall. 4-Way tag team eliminator match: SCU vs Jurassic Express vs Varsity Blues vs The Acclaimed. Britt Baker in action. Omega & Nakazawa vs Moxley & Eddie Kingston.

Stars: Chad Allegra, Darby Allin, Arn Anderson, Brock Anderson

Votes: 45

43. The Lost Room (2006)
Episode: The Key and the Clock (2006)

TV-G | 90 min | Action, Fantasy, Mystery

Two men are mysteriously killed over a key that lets the user go anywhere with a door. Detective Joe Miller gets the key, and finds himself trying to solve the mystery of the key and other related Objects to get his missing daughter back.

Director: Craig R. Baxley | Stars: Peter Krause, Julianna Margulies, Peter Jacobson, Dennis Christopher

Votes: 720

44. Boy Swallows Universe (2024)
Episode: Boy Seeks Work (2024)

TV-MA | 55 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Eli and Gus show Frankie what they've planned for their future. Later, Eli attempts to get a job as a journalist at the local paper.

Director: Kim Mordaunt | Stars: Simon Baker, Sophie Wilde, Bryan Brown, Travis Fimmel

Votes: 364

45. Person of Interest (2011–2016)
Episode: Judgement (2011)

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

When the Machine produces the number of a judge renowned for his tough sentencing, Reese and Finch have the added challenge of an uncooperative POI who has too many enemies.

Director: Colin Bucksey | Stars: Jim Caviezel, Taraji P. Henson, Kevin Chapman, Michael Emerson

Votes: 3,698

46. Les papillons noirs (2022)
Episode: Les Démons d'Adrien (2022)

TV-MA | 48 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Carrel uncovers a damning lead in the Powell cold case. As his relationship with Nora deteriorates, Adrien becomes acquainted with Albert's friends.

Director: Olivier Abbou | Stars: Nicolas Duvauchelle, Niels Arestrup, Axel Granberger, Alyzée Costes

Votes: 161

47. Bones (2005–2017)
Episode: The Blood from the Stones (2013)

TV-14 | 44 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

An undercover police officer, who was investigating a string of ATM robberies, turns up dead in a van with a bag of diamonds found inside his mutilated body. So the Jeffersonian team must ... See full summary »

Director: François Velle | Stars: Emily Deschanel, David Boreanaz, Michaela Conlin, Tamara Taylor

Votes: 774

48. Indian Summers (2015–2016)
Episode: Episode #1.6 (2015)

TV-14 | 46 min | Drama

Shocked to see Jaya, Adam's mother, Ralph ignores Cynthia Coffin's advice and goes to meet her, where it becomes apparent that Adam is his son, and it was Jaya's father who shot him. He ... See full summary »

Director: Jamie Payne | Stars: Alyy Khan, Hasina Haque, Rick Warden, Olivia Grant

Votes: 111

49. Bones (2005–2017)
Episode: The Murder in the Middle East (2015)

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

Arastoo is kidnapped by a member of the Iranian parliament to help him with a murder case, so Booth and Cam head to the Middle East to expose the killer before it's too late. Meanwhile, ... See full summary »

Director: Milan Cheylov | Stars: Emily Deschanel, David Boreanaz, Michaela Conlin, Tamara Taylor

Votes: 656

50. Aquarius (2015–2016)
Episode: I Will (2016)

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

A newly "retired" Hodiak hunts for the serial killer who's been tormenting him. Charlie sends Tex, Sadie, Emma and Patty on a mission.

Director: Jonas Pate | Stars: David Duchovny, Grey Damon, Gethin Anthony, Emma Dumont

Votes: 237