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1. And Your Mother Too (2001)
R | 106 min | Drama
In Mexico, two teenage boys and an older woman embark on a road trip and learn a thing or two about life and each other.
Director: Alfonso Cuarón | Stars: Maribel Verdú, Gael García Bernal, Daniel Giménez Cacho, Ana López Mercado
Votes: 128,888 | Gross: $13.62M
2. Puss in Boots (2011)
PG | 90 min | Animation, Action, Adventure
An outlaw cat, his childhood egg-friend, and a seductive thief kitty set out in search for the eggs of the fabled Golden Goose to clear his name, restore his lost honor, and regain the trust of his mother and town.
Director: Chris Miller | Stars: Antonio Banderas, Salma Hayek, Zach Galifianakis, Billy Bob Thornton
Votes: 192,306 | Gross: $149.26M
3. The Quiet Man (1952)
Passed | 129 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A retired American boxer returns to the village of his birth in 1920s Ireland, where he falls for a spirited redhead whose brother is contemptuous of their union.
Director: John Ford | Stars: John Wayne, Maureen O'Hara, Barry Fitzgerald, Ward Bond
Votes: 42,401 | Gross: $10.55M
4. Departures (2008)
PG-13 | 130 min | Drama
Soon after buying an expensive cello, Daigo learns that his orchestra is disbanding. He moves back to his hometown with his wife, where he answers an ad for what Daigo thinks is a travel agency but is, in actuality, a mortuary.
Director: Yôjirô Takita | Stars: Masahiro Motoki, Ryôko Hirosue, Tsutomu Yamazaki, Kazuko Yoshiyuki
Votes: 54,976 | Gross: $1.50M
5. The Crazy Stranger (1997)
Unrated | 102 min | Comedy, Drama, Music
A man is looking for a singer he had heard on cassette. He finds much more.
Director: Tony Gatlif | Stars: Romain Duris, Rona Hartner, Izidor Serban, Ovidiu Balan
Votes: 8,370 | Gross: $0.67M
6. Looking for Richard (1996)
PG-13 | 111 min | Documentary, Drama
Al Pacino's deeply-felt rumination on Shakespeare's significance and relevance to the modern world through interviews and an in-depth analysis of "Richard III."
Director: Al Pacino | Stars: Al Pacino, Alec Baldwin, Kevin Spacey, Frederic Kimball
Votes: 8,570 | Gross: $1.36M
7. The Abandoned (2006)
R | 99 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
An adopted woman returns to her home country and the family home that she never knew and must face the mystery that lies there.
Director: Nacho Cerdá | Stars: Anastasia Hille, Karel Roden, Valentin Goshev, Valentin Ganev
Votes: 13,297 | Gross: $1.26M
8. Southside with You (2016)
PG-13 | 84 min | Biography, Drama, History
Chronicles the 1989 summer afternoon when the future President of the United States, Barack Obama, wooed his future First Lady, Michelle Obama, on a first date across Chicago's South Side.
Director: Richard Tanne | Stars: Tika Sumpter, Parker Sawyers, Vanessa Bell Calloway, Phillip Edward Van Lear
Votes: 10,136 | Gross: $6.30M
9. Tito and Me (1992)
104 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A 10-year-old boy goes through variety of silly situations and confusions during the peak of Marshal Tito's cult of personality in 1950's Yugoslavia.
Director: Goran Markovic | Stars: Dimitrije Vojnov, Lazar Ristovski, Predrag 'Miki' Manojlovic, Anica Dobra
Votes: 6,129 | Gross: $0.14M
10. Cousinhood (2011)
Not Rated | 98 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Three cousins travel to the village where they spent summer vacations as kids.
Directors: Daniel Sánchez Arévalo, Raúl Arévalo | Stars: Quim Gutiérrez, Inma Cuesta, Raúl Arévalo, Antonio de la Torre
Votes: 5,157
11. My Dad and Mr. Ito (2016)
119 min | Comedy, Drama
He is rejected by his sister when the brother floats the idea that their father move from his house to her apartment. The father has other ideas however and shows up unannounced at her ... See full summary »
Director: Yuki Tanada | Stars: Tatsuya Fuji, Sei Andô, Lily Franky, Tomoharu Hasegawa
Votes: 209
12. Birthplace (1992)
47 min | Documentary
After almost 50 years, Holocaust survivor Henryk Grynberg visits the village he grew up in. He was also hiding there during the Nazi occupation. Grynberg wants to know what happened to his father and younger brother during the war.
Director: Pawel Lozinski | Star: Henryk Grynberg
Votes: 240
13. Malou (1981)
R | 95 min | Biography, Drama, Romance
Malou feels that the difficulties she is experiencing in her relationships lie in her past and so she searches out information about her mother. Her mother, a nightclub singer who lived in ... See full summary »
Director: Jeanine Meerapfel | Stars: Ingrid Caven, Grischa Huber, Helmut Griem, Ivan Desny
Votes: 52
14. Driving Lessons (2013)
19 min | Short, Drama
Nick, along with his wife and child, are traveling to his family's house in the countryside. It soon becomes clear that this is no ordinary visit.
Director: Vassilis Kalamakis | Stars: Yorgos Pirpassopoulos, Elpidoforos Gotsis, Mirto Alikaki, Francesca Alexandrou
Votes: 61
15. I sfragida tou Theou (1969)
117 min | Drama
A sailor returns to his island and takes over the debts and the boat of his dead father. But the girl who knows and falls in love is the daughter of the enemy of her family.
Director: Apostolos Tegopoulos | Stars: Nikos Xanthopoulos, Katerina Vasilakou, Stefanos Stratigos, Anestis Vlahos
Votes: 71
16. Rough Seas (1966)
85 min | Comedy, Romance
After many years at sea, a coarse seaman returns to his home in the beautiful island of Andros, unbeknownst to him that his wife wants to marry their daughters to landsmen. Would the captain ever allow a marriage to a stalwart mariner?
Director: Orestis Laskos | Stars: Mary Aroni, Dionysis Papagiannopoulos, Andreas Douzos, Ria Deloutsi
Votes: 93
17. Hip Hop Legends (2007 Video)
Not Rated | 62 min | History, Music
In the tradition of "Scratch", HIP HOP LEGENDS tells the story of the genesis of hip hop through specific, in-depth exclusive interviews with legends such as DMC, DJ Skribble, and Affrika Bambaataa and the Zulu Nation.
Directors: Mike Corbera, Rick Underhill | Stars: Melle Mel, Scorpio, Rahiem, Afrika Bambaataa
Votes: 31
18. Tango Is a Sad Thought to Be Danced (1997)
90 min | Drama
A famous fashion designer returns to his birthplace in a tiny Serb town, in the wake of the recent war. Although the inhabitants still love to dance the tango and live life's pleasures to the full, the Mafia have gained a foothold.
Director: Mladomir 'Purisa' Djordjevic | Stars: Ana Sofrenovic, Dragan Micanovic, Sonja Savic, Ljuba Tadic
Votes: 84
19. Karasevdah: Srebrenica Blues (2007)
46 min | Documentary, Biography, Drama
A young man and a boy within him, return to the town of the childhood, 12 years after the genocide. It is Lyrical Soulessencia. 'This cinematic document is truthful and this rare quality ... See full summary »
Director: Saidin Mido Salkic | Star: Saidin Mido Salkic
20. Jane McDonald's Yorkshire (2022– )
Documentary, Biography
Jane's love letter to the county she has called home all her life. She revisits the places she grew up in as she shares stories from her upbringing as well as the wealth of history in Yorkshire's landscape, ruins, and heritage,.
Star: Jane McDonald
Votes: 18
21. Marriage Adventures (1959)
84 min | Comedy, Romance
On her way back to Greece after two years in Paris as a student, a beautiful woman has a chance encounter with a kind co-passenger who wants to marry her. However, another handsome suitor arrives from America. Who will be the lucky one?
Director: Kostas Yeorgoutsos | Stars: Dinos Iliopoulos, Xenia Kalogeropoulou, Kostas Kakavas, Yorgos Damasiotis
Votes: 60
22. Les Bonnes Adresses du passé (1962–1974)
50 min | Documentary
Stars: Jean Berger, Mme Gérard Mante-Proust, Georges Cattaui, François Beaulieu
23. The Child of a Drunk (1961)
69 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
As the successful director of a small acting troupe returns to his birthplace and reunites with loved ones, his dormant love for the neighbourhood's belle awakes. However, will she reciprocate the feelings of the drunkard's child?
Director: Giorgos Petridis | Stars: Kostas Kakavas, Dina Trianti, Lavrentis Dianellos, Niki Linardou
Votes: 12
24. Sayome (2012)
56 min | Documentary
Adopted by her grandfather at a tender age, Sayome grew up in a small and remote Japanese village without ever knowing her parents.
Director: Nikos Dagiadas | Stars: Alexandros, Manolis, Sayome
Votes: 48
25. From Liverpool to Stratford (1949)
Approved | 9 min | Short, History
James A. Fitzpatrick and his cameramen visit several points of interest in England, including the port of Liverpool; war-destruction at Coventry; the historic Warwick Castle; and Stratford-on-Avon, the birthplace of William Shakespeare.
Star: James A. FitzPatrick
Votes: 32
26. Wilson Day 1912 (2013 Video)
57 min | Documentary, History
On November 5, 1912 New Jersey Governor Woodrow Wilson won the highly contested Presidential election and traveled by train to Staunton, Virginia. At the request of a supportive group ... See full summary »
Stars: Ken Scott, Paul Roth, Tim Wronka, Al Stone
27. Land of the Quintuplets (1942)
Passed | 9 min | Documentary, Short
Multiple births like the Dionne Quintuplets were very rare for the 1930s. There were no popular fertility drugs at the time to cause artificial multiple births like these five girls.
Director: James A. FitzPatrick | Stars: James A. FitzPatrick, The Dionne Quintuplets, Doreen Chaput, Gaëtana Vézina
Votes: 64
28. Birthplace (2013)
18 min | Documentary, Short, Biography
Birthplace is a short documentary film that tells the story of elders in a rural Italian village who cling to memories of the past and the deeper meaning of where they come from. Whether ... See full summary »
Director: Francesco Paciocco | Star: Isabella Bertoletti
29. The Nixon Library (2009 Video)
7 min | Documentary, Short, Biography
Stars: George Bush, John Dean, Gerald Ford, Ron Howard
30.
The Dick Van Dyke Show (1961–1966)
Episode:
The Curse of the Petrie People
(1966)
TV-G | 30 min | Comedy, Family
Laura accidentally drops a recently bestowed Petrie family heirloom (as ugly as it is priceless) down the garbage disposal and tries to cover up the mishap before anyone notices.
Director: Jerry Paris | Stars: Dick Van Dyke, Rose Marie, Morey Amsterdam, Larry Mathews
Votes: 237
31.
Roar (1997)
Episode:
Daybreak
(1997)
44 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy
When Conor returns to his home village to bury his father's body to in the family burial ground, he is shocked to learn that the villagers deny him permission to dig another grave.
Director: Ian Toynton | Stars: Heath Ledger, Lisa Zane, Sebastian Roché, Vera Farmiga
Votes: 36
32.
Michael Palin's Hemingway Adventure (1999– )
Episode:
Episode #1.2
(1999)
50 min | Documentary, Adventure
Palin travels to Chicago where he visits Hemingway's childhood home. In northern Michigan he tries his hand at bird hunting but only gets a sack full of clay pigeons and fly fishing where ... See full summary »
Director: David F. Turnbull | Star: Michael Palin
Votes: 15
33.
Head Hunters (2019– )
Episode:
Episode #1.29
(2019)
44 min | Game-Show
Television, geography, science and technology, famous buildings, fashion, books, classical music, royalty and Olympics are the question categories facing the contestants today.
Director: Chris Power | Star: Rob Beckett
34.
Wanted Down Under (2007– )
Episode:
Hegarty Family
(2020)
44 min | Reality-TV
Donner Hegarty dreams of living her life in New Zealand, but her Kiwi husband Peter has no desire to return. Will a trial week convince him to change his mind?
Directors: Jon Bowden, Brian Stanley | Star: Nicki Chapman
35.
Willow (2022–2023)
Episode:
The Whispers of Nockmaar
(2022)
TV-14 | 47 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
The journey leads the adventurers to seek refuge in the haunted castle of Nockmaar.
Director: Debs Paterson | Stars: Ellie Bamber, Ruby Cruz, Amar Chadha-Patel, Tony Revolori
Votes: 2,901
36.
Antiques Road Trip (2010– )
Episode:
Episode #24.10
(2022)
44 min | Reality-TV
It's the last leg of Izzie and David's Mini road trip and they are hunting for antiques in the Scottish Highlands. Along the way, David visits the Cromarty birthplace of a Scottish hero and Izzie sees some of the last wild cats in Britain.
Directors: Amy Harrison, Sam Hughes | Stars: Tim Wonnacott, Izzie Balmer, David Harper
37.
Kokugo Gannen (1985– )
Episode:
Episode #1.2
(1985)
Comedy, Drama
Director: Yuji Murakami | Stars: Takuzô Kawatani, Eri Ishida, Jun Hamamura, Gorô Ôhashi
38.
Laurie Moto Club (2012– )
Episode:
Dans La Roue Du Che
(2014)
Documentary, Adventure
On her first ride to Latin America, Laurie will follow the iconic route of the revolutionary Ernesto "Che" Guevara during the 1500km from Buenos Aires to Córdoba, and from there, to Rosario, Che's birthplace.
Directors: Frédéric Réau, Laurie Bernard | Star: Laurie Bernard
39.
Servant (2019–2023)
Episode:
Balloon
(2020)
TV-MA | 30 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
After Jericho's baptism, uninvited guests force difficult decisions.
Director: John Dahl | Stars: Lauren Ambrose, Toby Kebbell, Nell Tiger Free, Rupert Grint
Votes: 1,601