Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "dead-end"

1. The Pianist (2002)

R | 150 min | Biography, Drama, Music

During WWII, acclaimed Polish musician Wladyslaw faces various struggles as he loses contact with his family. As the situation worsens, he hides in the ruins of Warsaw in order to survive.

Director: Roman Polanski | Stars: Adrien Brody, Thomas Kretschmann, Frank Finlay, Emilia Fox

Votes: 915,690 | Gross: $32.57M

2. The Frozen Ground (2013)

R | 105 min | Biography, Crime, Drama

An Alaska State Trooper partners with a young woman who escaped the clutches of serial killer Robert Hansen to bring the murderer to justice. Based on actual events.

Director: Scott Walker | Stars: Nicolas Cage, Vanessa Hudgens, John Cusack, Dean Norris

Votes: 67,652

3. Game Night (I) (2018)

R | 100 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy

A group of friends who meet regularly for game nights find themselves entangled in a real-life mystery when the shady brother of one of them is seemingly kidnapped by dangerous gangsters.

Directors: John Francis Daley, Jonathan Goldstein | Stars: Jason Bateman, Rachel McAdams, Kyle Chandler, Sharon Horgan

Votes: 256,322 | Gross: $69.18M

4. Dogville (2003)

R | 178 min | Crime, Drama

A woman on the run from the mob is reluctantly accepted in a small Colorado community in exchange for labor, but when a search visits the town she finds out that their support has a price.

Director: Lars von Trier | Stars: Nicole Kidman, Paul Bettany, Lauren Bacall, Harriet Andersson

Votes: 158,975 | Gross: $1.53M

5. V/H/S (2012)

R | 116 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller

When a group of misfits are hired by an unknown third party to burglarize a desolate house and acquire a rare VHS tape, they discover more found footage than they bargained for.

Directors: Matt Bettinelli-Olpin, David Bruckner, Tyler Gillett, Justin Martinez, Glenn McQuaid, Radio Silence, Joe Swanberg, Chad Villella, Ti West, Adam Wingard | Stars: Calvin Lee Reeder, Lane Hughes, Adam Wingard, Hannah Fierman

Votes: 68,555 | Gross: $0.10M

6. Penguins of Madagascar (2014)

PG | 92 min | Animation, Action, Adventure

Skipper, Kowalski, Rico and Private join forces with undercover organization The North Wind to stop the villainous Dr. Octavius Brine from destroying the world as we know it.

Directors: Eric Darnell, Simon J. Smith | Stars: Tom McGrath, Chris Miller, Christopher Knights, Conrad Vernon

Votes: 102,592 | Gross: $83.35M

7. Demons (1985)

Not Rated | 88 min | Horror

A group of random people are invited to a screening of a mysterious movie, only to find themselves trapped in the theater with ravenous demons.

Director: Lamberto Bava | Stars: Urbano Barberini, Natasha Hovey, Karl Zinny, Fiore Argento

Votes: 26,668

8. Love & Mercy (2014)

PG-13 | 121 min | Biography, Drama, Music

In the 60s, Beach Boys leader Brian Wilson struggles with emerging psychosis as he attempts to craft his avant-garde pop masterpiece. In the 80s, he's a broken, confused man under the 24-hour watch of shady therapist, Dr. Eugene Landy.

Director: Bill Pohlad | Stars: John Cusack, Paul Dano, Elizabeth Banks, Paul Giamatti

Votes: 42,678 | Gross: $12.55M

9. Cemetery Man (1994)

R | 105 min | Comedy, Horror

A cemetery man must kill the dead a second time when they become zombies.

Director: Michele Soavi | Stars: Rupert Everett, François Hadji-Lazaro, Anna Falchi, Mickey Knox

Votes: 23,411 | Gross: $0.25M

10. Moonwalker (1988)

PG | 93 min | Action, Crime, Fantasy

Anthology movie by, and starring, Michael Jackson in his prime, combining a number of music videos from his bestselling "Bad" album with a fantasy tale of Michael's confrontation with a ruthless drug dealer known as Mr. Big.

Directors: Jerry Kramer, Jim Blashfield, Colin Chilvers | Stars: Michael Jackson, Joe Pesci, Sean Lennon, Kelley Parker

Votes: 18,280

11. The Bar (2017)

102 min | Thriller

In bustling downtown Madrid, a loud gunshot and two mysterious deaths trap a motley assortment of common urbanites in a decrepit central bar, while paranoia and suspicion force the terrified regulars to turn on each other.

Director: Álex de la Iglesia | Stars: Blanca Suárez, Mario Casas, Carmen Machi, Secun de la Rosa

Votes: 28,951

12. Dave Made a Maze (2017)

Not Rated | 80 min | Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy

Dave, an artist who has yet to complete anything significant in his career, builds a fort in his living room out of pure frustration, only to wind up trapped by the fantastical pitfalls, booby traps, and critters of his own creation.

Director: Bill Watterson | Stars: Meera Rohit Kumbhani, Nick Thune, Adam Busch, James Urbaniak

Votes: 9,133 | Gross: $0.03M

13. Hearts Beat Loud (2018)

PG-13 | 97 min | Comedy, Drama, Music

A father and daughter form an unlikely songwriting duo in the summer before she leaves for college.

Director: Brett Haley | Stars: Nick Offerman, Kiersey Clemons, Blythe Danner, Toni Collette

Votes: 11,736 | Gross: $2.39M

14. 1990: The Bronx Warriors (1982)

R | 89 min | Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller

In a post-apocalyptic New York City, a policeman infiltrates the Bronx, which has become a battleground for several murderous street gangs.

Director: Enzo G. Castellari | Stars: Mark Gregory, Fred Williamson, Vic Morrow, Christopher Connelly

Votes: 4,089

15. Fullmetal Alchemist: The Revenge of Scar (2022)

TV-14 | 125 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy

When a mysterious figure starts to target State Alchemists for their sins against God, Alchemist Edward Elric and his brother Alphonse are at their most vulnerable, meanwhile the homunculi begin to unveil themselves once again.

Director: Fumihiko Sori | Stars: Ryôsuke Yamada, Tsubasa Honda, Dean Fujioka, Misako Renbutsu

Votes: 2,257

16. Disorganized Crime (1989)

R | 98 min | Action, Comedy, Crime

Career criminal Frank plans a bank heist and sends for his buddies to help pull the job. Before his buddies arrive, he's caught, forcing his cohorts to pull the job alone. Frank soon escapes, setting off a search by the bumbling cops.

Director: Jim Kouf | Stars: Hoyt Axton, Corbin Bernsen, Rubén Blades, Fred Gwynne

Votes: 2,579 | Gross: $7.72M

17. Real Men (1987)

PG-13 | 85 min | Action, Comedy, Sci-Fi

A womanizing CIA agent and an insecure insurance agent are paired together to make sure a deal goes through with aliens for the future of mankind.

Director: Dennis Feldman | Stars: Jim Belushi, John Ritter, Barbara Barrie, Bill Morey

Votes: 4,734 | Gross: $0.87M

18. There Goes the Neighborhood (1992)

PG-13 | 88 min | Comedy, Crime, Romance

A dying prisoner tells the prison therapist about $8,500,000 stolen mob money hidden under a basement floor. A prisoner overhears it and breaks out. Who gets the money.

Director: Bill Phillips | Stars: Jeff Daniels, Catherine O'Hara, Hector Elizondo, Rhea Perlman

Votes: 1,256

19. The Glass Menagerie (1987)

PG | 134 min | Drama

A son longs to escape from his stifling home, where his genteel mother worries about the future prospects of his lame, shy sister.

Director: Paul Newman | Stars: Joanne Woodward, John Malkovich, Karen Allen, James Naughton

Votes: 2,250 | Gross: $0.90M

20. The Garden of Sinners: Paradox Spiral (2008)

TV-MA | 114 min | Animation, Action, Crime

A teenage demon hunter uses her mystical powers to investigate supernatural events.

Director: Takayuki Hirao | Stars: Maaya Sakamoto, Ken'ichi Suzumura, Takako Honda, Ayumi Fujimura

Votes: 2,108

21. Blind Alley (2011)

R | 76 min | Horror, Thriller

A young woman spends a night trapped inside a laundromat with a serial killer.

Director: Antonio Trashorras | Stars: Ana de Armas, Diego Cadavid, Leonor Varela, Judith Diakhate

Votes: 1,012

22. Night of Fear (1973)

54 min | Crime, Horror, Thriller

Insane sadistic hermit stalks and captures those who get lost in his part of the woods. A young woman whose car broke down is about to find out what he does with them next.

Director: Terry Bourke | Stars: Norman Yemm, Carla Hoogeveen, Mike Dorsey, Briony Behets

Votes: 664

23. The Glass Menagerie (1950)

Approved | 107 min | Drama

Merchant marine officer Tom Wingfield reminisces about his life in St. Louis where he had lived with his nagging mother Amanda and crippled shy sister Laura.

Director: Irving Rapper | Stars: Jane Wyman, Kirk Douglas, Gertrude Lawrence, Arthur Kennedy

Votes: 1,284

24. House of the Damned (1963)

Approved | 62 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller

An architect and his wife encounter bizarre occurrences as they survey a mansion built by an eccentric heiress.

Director: Maury Dexter | Stars: Ron Foster, Merry Anders, Richard Crane, Erika Peters

Votes: 692

25. Spirtokouto (2003)

80 min | Drama

During an unbearably hot Athenian summer, a cramped flat becomes a hellish urban battlefield for an ornamental paterfamilias and his family. Now, ugly truths and deleterious words become weapons in a dirty war. Can they emerge unscathed?

Director: Yannis Economides | Stars: Errikos Litsis, Eleni Kokkidou, Costas Xikominos, Giannis Voulgarakis

Votes: 3,829

26. Naked Amazon (1954)

69 min | Adventure

Exploitation documentary: A white girl is part of an expedition into the dark Amazon jungle. In addition to native nudity (sex) there are animal killings (violence).

Director: Zygmunt Sulistrowski | Stars: Kazuo Aoki, Andrea Bayard, Ary Blaustein, Bapista de Lima

Votes: 59

27. Dark Country (2009)

R | 88 min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller

A couple en route from Las Vegas are forced to deal with a body in the desert, making their honeymoon one hellish ride.

Director: Thomas Jane | Stars: Thomas Jane, Lauren German, Ron Perlman, Chris Browning

Votes: 4,867

28. The Glass Menagerie (1973 TV Movie)

TV-PG | 100 min | Drama

Amanda Wingfield dominates her children with her faded gentility and exaggerated tales of her Southern belle past. Her son plans escape; her daughter withdraws into a dream world. When a "... See full summary »

Director: Anthony Harvey | Stars: Katharine Hepburn, Sam Waterston, Joanna Miles, Michael Moriarty

Votes: 1,237

29. Daytime Shooting Star (2017)

119 min | Family, Romance

Suzume Yosano's parents have decided to move to Bangladesh when her father's job gets transferred there. However, they're not taking her with them. So, Suzume moves to Tokyo to live with ... See full summary »

Director: Takehiko Shinjô | Stars: Mei Nagano, Shôhei Miura, Alan Shirahama, Maika Yamamoto

Votes: 715

30. Kanal (1957)

Not Rated | 91 min | Drama, War

In 1944, during the Warsaw uprising against the Nazis, Polish Lieutenant Zadra and his resistance fighters use Warsaw's sewer system to escape the German encirclement.

Director: Andrzej Wajda | Stars: Teresa Izewska, Tadeusz Janczar, Wienczyslaw Glinski, Tadeusz Gwiazdowski

Votes: 8,054

31. The Happy Years (1950)

G | 110 min | Comedy, Family, Romance

Based on a collection of stories with the focus on young John Humperdink "Dink" Stover, a student at the Lawrenceville Prepatory School, in 1896, whose family, in Eastcester, New York, have... See full summary »

Director: William A. Wellman | Stars: Dean Stockwell, Darryl Hickman, Scotty Beckett, Leon Ames

Votes: 763

32. Cuckoo in a Dark Forest (1985)

95 min | Drama, War

A portrait of a Nazi officer, the commander of a concentration camp, touches on the contradictory sides of his personality - on the one hand, a caring, nurturing family man, on the other, a... See full summary »

Director: Antonín Moskalyk | Stars: Miroslava Soucková, Oleg Tabakov, Alicja Jachiewicz, Vilém Besser

Votes: 111

33. Le Chat (1971)

86 min | Drama

In 1971 Courbevoie (France), former typographist Julien Bouin and his wife Clemence, who used to perform in a circus, hardly talk to each other in their small house, which is soon to be ... See full summary »

Director: Pierre Granier-Deferre | Stars: Jean Gabin, Simone Signoret, Annie Cordy, Jacques Rispal

Votes: 2,419

34. Lost (I) (2004)

R | 90 min | Action, Adventure, Thriller

Jeremy Stanton (Cain), an ordinary man, makes an extraordinary mistake.

Director: Darren Lemke | Stars: Dean Cain, Ashley Scott, Danny Trejo, Irina Björklund

Votes: 1,850

35. The Musketeers of Pig Alley (1912)

Not Rated | 17 min | Short, Crime, Drama

A tender young woman and her musician husband attempt to eke out a living in the slums of New York City, but find themselves caught in the crossfires of gang violence.

Director: D.W. Griffith | Stars: Elmer Booth, Lillian Gish, Clara T. Bracy, Walter Miller

Votes: 2,498

36. Grind (1997)

Not Rated | 96 min | Drama, Romance

When Eddie, a drag-racing, hard-luck parolee moves in with his older brother Terry in hopes of that ever-elusive fresh start in life, he's sure to be warm for the form of his brother's ... See full summary »

Director: Chris Kentis | Stars: Billy Crudup, Adrienne Shelly, Paul Schulze, Frank Vincent

Votes: 458

37. July 14 (1933)

86 min | Comedy, Romance

Jean is a young cab driver. Anna, a flower-girl neighbour, is in love with him. But he is still thinking to Pola, who just left him. Jean asks her to the bal. Many events (Pola's come back,... See full summary »

Director: René Clair | Stars: Annabella, Jorge Rigaud, Raymond Cordy, Paul Ollivier

Votes: 474

38. Bad Ol' Putty Tat (1949)

Approved | 7 min | Animation, Short, Comedy

Sylvester the Cat makes every attempt to snatch or lure Tweety from his birdhouse.

Director: Friz Freleng | Star: Mel Blanc

Votes: 739

39. Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1985 Video Game)

Not Rated | Action, Adventure, Fantasy

Play as Indy and whips your way through the levels rescuing children from Mola Ram, jumping gaps using the whip and riding the mine carts, choosing the right track to avoid obstacles.

Director: Peter Lipson | Stars: Katie Leigh, Amrish Puri

Votes: 158

40. Sudden Love (1984)

100 min | Drama, Romance

Still reluctant to call it quits on her dying marriage, a conventional Athenian housewife gets caught up in a whirlwind romance with a successful man. Will this deliciously dangerous affair lead to true love or sharp disappointment?

Director: Yorgos Tsemberopoulos | Stars: Betty Livanou, Antonis Theodorakopoulos, Nikitas Tsakiroglou, Margarita Labrinou

Votes: 128

41. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1989 Video Game)

Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

Four humanoid turtles experts on martial arts must defeat Shredder, who has kidnapped the reporter and friend April O'Neil.

Votes: 305

42. The Protectors (1973)

100 min | Drama

Up against his money-grabbing relatives, his compromised superiors, and the state, a firm painter decides to protest by bricking up the windows of his house. Everyone wants to get their hands on his legacy. Will the protectors succeed?

Director: Pavlos Tasios | Stars: Manos Katrakis, Margarita Labrinou, Nikitas Tsakiroglou, Zorz Sarri

Votes: 52

43. Dog Collared (1950)

Approved | 7 min | Animation, Short, Comedy

On Be Kind to Animals Week, Porky Pig decides to practice the principle and affectionately pets a large, slobbering dog. The dog takes an instant liking to Porky and follows the pig everywhere.

Director: Robert McKimson | Star: Mel Blanc

Votes: 189

44. Pitfall! (1982 Video Game)

E | Adventure

Pitfall Harry must collect treasures while dodging obstacles in a South American jungle.

Votes: 336

45. Toll Bridge Troubles (1942)

7 min | Animation, Short, Comedy

The Fox refuses to pay a toll to the Crow and invents many ways to cross the river without paying.

Directors: Bob Wickersham, Frank Tashlin | Star: Frank Graham

Votes: 39

46. Otan oi rodes horevoun (1984)

88 min | Drama, Musical, Romance

Yorgos and his friends are a bike gang that lives wild, until he meets Eirini and things get complicated.

Director: Giannis Dalianidis | Stars: Stamatis Gardelis, Vasia Panagopoulou, Tolis Velonakis, Pavlos Evagelopoulos

Votes: 176

47. Stealin Aint Honest (1940)

Approved | 7 min | Animation, Short, Comedy

Olive has a secret treasure map, but while she's showing it to Popeye, Bluto photographs it and gets there first.

Directors: Dave Fleischer, Thomas Johnson | Stars: Margie Hines, Jack Mercer, Tedd Pierce

Votes: 194

48. Tickled Pink (1968)

G | 6 min | Animation, Short, Comedy

Calamity results when the Pink Panther wishes for a pair of roller-skates and is granted his wish by his fairy godmother. The "enchanted" skates take the Pink Panther on an uncontrollable ... See full summary »

Director: Gerry Chiniquy | Star: Mel Blanc

Votes: 180

49. In Your Dreams! (2016)

79 min | Family, Romance

16-year-old Laura is swift, lively and stubborn. She wants to join a group of parkourists and gets caught off guard by love which she begins to feel toward Luky. She starts living a double ... See full summary »

Director: Petr Oukropec | Stars: Barbora Stikarová, Klára Melísková, Jan Vondrácek, Ivan Martinka

Votes: 68

50. Dead End Falls (2009)

90 min | Action, Thriller

The desert heat rises as a Russian girl named Sasha swears to protect her friend Victoria's secrets while having a few of her own. Michael, a private business owner, will do anything to ... See full summary »

Director: Gouzalia Van Mater | Stars: Gouzalia Van Mater, Cal Giardina, Khadizhat Nurbagandova, Paul Teodo

Votes: 22