Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "parallel-story"

1. Once Upon a Time (2011–2018)

TV-PG | 60 min | Adventure, Fantasy, Romance

A young woman with a troubled past is drawn to a small town in Maine where fairy tales are to be believed.

Stars: Ginnifer Goodwin, Jennifer Morrison, Lana Parrilla, Robert Carlyle

Votes: 237,132

2. Moulin Rouge! (2001)

PG-13 | 127 min | Drama, Musical, Romance

A poor Bohemian poet in 1890s Paris falls for a beautiful courtesan and nightclub star coveted by a jealous duke.

Director: Baz Luhrmann | Stars: Nicole Kidman, Ewan McGregor, John Leguizamo, Jim Broadbent

Votes: 299,451 | Gross: $57.39M

3. Inland Empire (2006)

R | 180 min | Drama, Fantasy, Mystery

As an actress begins to adopt the persona of her character in a film, her world becomes nightmarish and surreal.

Director: David Lynch | Stars: Karolina Gruszka, Krzysztof Majchrzak, Grace Zabriskie, Laura Dern

Votes: 62,211 | Gross: $0.75M

4. Chungking Express (1994)

PG-13 | 102 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

Two melancholic Hong Kong policemen fall in love: one with a mysterious female underworld figure, the other with a beautiful and ethereal waitress at a late-night restaurant he frequents.

Director: Kar-Wai Wong | Stars: Brigitte Lin, Takeshi Kaneshiro, Tony Leung Chiu-wai, Faye Wong

Votes: 95,872 | Gross: $0.60M

5. Sliding Doors (1998)

PG-13 | 99 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy

After personal and professional setbacks, a woman experiences an alternate reality.

Director: Peter Howitt | Stars: Gwyneth Paltrow, John Hannah, John Lynch, Jeanne Tripplehorn

Votes: 71,510 | Gross: $11.88M

6. The Words (2012)

PG-13 | 102 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance

A writer at the peak of his literary success discovers the steep price he must pay for stealing another man's work.

Directors: Brian Klugman, Lee Sternthal | Stars: Bradley Cooper, Dennis Quaid, Olivia Wilde, Zoe Saldana

Votes: 81,462 | Gross: $11.49M

7. In a Better World (2010)

R | 118 min | Drama, Romance

The lives of two Danish families cross each other, and an extraordinary but risky friendship comes into bud. But loneliness, frailty and sorrow lie in wait.

Director: Susanne Bier | Stars: Mikael Persbrandt, Trine Dyrholm, Markus Rygaard, Wil Johnson

Votes: 41,696 | Gross: $1.01M

8. Hail Mary (1985)

Not Rated | 72 min | Drama

A college student gets pregnant without having intercourse, affecting people close and unrelated to her in different ways.

Director: Jean-Luc Godard | Stars: Myriem Roussel, Thierry Rode, Philippe Lacoste, Manon Andersen

Votes: 3,732

9. The Weight of Water (2000)

R | 114 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

A newspaper photographer researches an 1873 double homicide and finds her own life paralleling that of a witness who survived the tragic ordeal.

Director: Kathryn Bigelow | Stars: Catherine McCormack, Sean Penn, Sarah Polley, Elizabeth Hurley

Votes: 10,038 | Gross: $0.10M

10. The Lost Valentine (2011 TV Movie)

TV-PG | 87 min | Drama, Romance

Lucas Thomas's grandmother Caroline returns every Valentine's Day to the station where, at their first wedding anniversary, she waved off to the Pacific Theater of War in 1944 her husband ... See full summary »

Director: Darnell Martin | Stars: Jennifer Love Hewitt, Betty White, Sean Faris, Billy Magnussen

Votes: 6,499

11. Longitude (2000)

200 min | Drama, History

In two parallel stories, the clockmaker John Harrison builds the marine chronometer for safe navigation at sea in the 18th Century and the horologist Rupert Gould becomes obsessed with restoring it in the 20th Century.

Stars: Jeremy Irons, Anna Chancellor, Emma Kay, Samuel West

Votes: 2,431

12. What If... (2012)

Not Rated | 111 min | Drama, Romance

Under the Athenian night sky, before the silent threat of an imminent socio-economic crisis, a young man goes for a stroll and meets the love of his life. Does fate govern one's existence? What would have happened if he stayed in, instead?

Director: Christopher Papakaliatis | Stars: Christopher Papakaliatis, Marina Kalogirou, Giorgos Konstadinou, Maro Kodou

Votes: 8,410

13. Enter the Matrix (2003 Video Game)

T | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

The game's story picks up just before The Matrix Reloaded and runs parallel to that of the film. Bend the rules of the Matrix with martial arts, pilot the fastest hovercraft in the fleet, or just fight with lots of guns.

Directors: Lana Wachowski, Lilly Wachowski | Stars: Mary Alice, Christine Anu, Steve Bastoni, Don Battee

Votes: 4,117

14. The River Why (2010)

PG-13 | 101 min | Drama, Romance

A young man abandons his family for a solitary life of fly-fishing. His goal was to find his own way in the fishing world and thereby find himself and love.

Director: Matthew Leutwyler | Stars: Zach Gilford, Amber Heard, William Hurt, Dallas Roberts

Votes: 3,926

15. Noah's Ark (1928)

Passed | 135 min | Drama, War

The Biblical story of Noah and the Great Flood, with a parallel story of soldiers in the First World War.

Directors: Michael Curtiz, Darryl F. Zanuck | Stars: Dolores Costello, George O'Brien, Noah Beery, Louise Fazenda

Votes: 920 | Gross: $1.37M

16. Manson, My Name Is Evil (2009)

R | 85 min | Comedy, Crime

Perry, a sheltered chemical engineer, falls in love with Leslie, a former homecoming princess, when he becomes a jury member at her hippie death cult murder trial.

Director: Reg Harkema | Stars: Peter MacNeill, Gregory Smith, Ryan Robbins, Anjelica Scannura

Votes: 909

17. L'enfer (2005)

102 min | Drama

Three sisters share a connection to a violent incident from their childhood reunite to for the chance to come to terms with their past.

Director: Danis Tanovic | Stars: Emmanuelle Béart, Karin Viard, Marie Gillain, Guillaume Canet

Votes: 2,561

18. Dark Corners (2006)

Not Rated | 92 min | Horror, Romance, Thriller

As Susan Hamilton sleeps, she dreams that she is another person in an alternative reality. As her greatest fears come to life, she is pursued by the notorious serial killer known as the Night Stalker.

Director: Ray Gower | Stars: Thora Birch, Toby Stephens, Christien Anholt, Joanna Hole

Votes: 2,727

19. Sifir Dedigimde (2007)

90 min | Drama, Fantasy, Mystery

A young girl who loses a precious book and tries to remember the past through an hypnosis session encounters a mysterious man in the hypnosis world.

Director: Gokhan Yorgancigil | Stars: Oktay Kaynarca, Hazim Körmükcü, Damla Tokel, Görkem Yeltan

Votes: 533

20. Be My Valentine (2013 TV Movie)

TV-G | 83 min | Comedy, Family, Romance

When Kates flower shop has a small fire she meets Dan, the towns fire chief. Dan is a widower and lone father to Tyler. Over time Kate and Dan starts to date and romance is in the air. But ... See full summary »

Director: Graeme Campbell | Stars: William Baldwin, Natalie Brown, Lisa Berry, James Thomas

Votes: 871

21. Autumn Ball (2007)

Not Rated | 123 min | Drama

A film about the loneliness, despair and hope of six people who all live in a bleak Soviet-era apartment complex in Tallinn, Estonia.

Director: Veiko Õunpuu | Stars: Rain Tolk, Taavi Eelmaa, Juhan Ulfsak, Maarja Jakobson

Votes: 2,114

22. The Girl and Death (2012)

127 min | Drama, Romance

The Girl and Death tells us the impossible love story of Nicolai and the courtesan Elise. A love obstructed by materialism, wealth and death threat.

Director: Jos Stelling | Stars: Sylvia Hoeks, Renata Litvinova, Dieter Hallervorden, Sergey Makovetskiy

Votes: 783

23. The Lord of the Rings: The Third Age (I) (2004 Video Game)

T | Action, Adventure, Fantasy

Travel throughout Middle-earth, forming a fellowship of heroes and travel through familiar and little-seen lands as you fight to destroy the One Ring.

Stars: Ian McKellen, Christopher Lee, Chris Edgerly, Lori Phillips

Votes: 1,270

24. Feel (2006)

Not Rated | 90 min | Drama

Over the course of a single day, four different men visit a massage parlor looking for some kind of emotional or physical connection. Simultaneously, the film explores the complex emotional experiences of the women who work there.

Director: Matt Mahurin | Stars: William Baldwin, Tom Bower, Grant Chang, Kevin Corrigan

Votes: 175

25. Zivi i mrtvi (2007)

87 min | Fantasy, War, Horror

In 1943, group of Croatian soldiers overtake a strategically important point in western Bosnia with a goal to destroy a group of communist partisans. On the way they met some supernatural ... See full summary »

Director: Kristijan Milic | Stars: Filip Sovagovic, Velibor Topic, Slaven Knezovic, Marinko Prga

Votes: 998

26. My Father's House (1975 TV Movie)

Not Rated | 95 min | Drama

While recuperating from a heart attack--brought about in part by his job as a hard-charging but highly paid executive--a man begins to reflect on his life and the simpler time when he was growing up.

Director: Alex Segal | Stars: Cliff Robertson, Robert Preston, Eileen Brennan, Rosemary Forsyth

Votes: 71

27. Lazare (2020)

108 min | Drama, Fantasy, Musical

A team of French-Brazilian actors goes to Bucharest to shoot a film at a lower cost. But the Romanian technical team secretly shoot their own film.

Director: Philippe Chalem | Stars: Emine Meyrem, Milena Straube, Lionel Rousselot, Stanislas Siwiorek

Votes: 11

28. Days of Light (2019)

88 min | Drama, Thriller

A solar storm hits Central America. Its inhabitants must face life disconnected from technology. Fear, friendship and love emerge as they come together with others, while the skies are lit by lights never seen before.

Directors: Gloria Carrión Fonseca, Julio López Fernández, Enrique Medrano, Mauro Borges Mora, Enrique Pérez Him, Sergio Ramírez | Stars: Zenith Gálvez, Cloty Luna, Joel Davaz, Gustavo Gómez

Votes: 37

29. Crazy Little Thing Called Love (1996)

98 min | Drama, Romance

Two parallel stories about two couples. Chivalrous tough guy Rong vows to care for secretive Min after the sudden death of her father. Young secretary Youge falls for her married boss Wenshan and becomes pregnant.

Director: Xin Lee | Stars: Winston Chao, Ya'nan Wang, Xiao Guo, Yi'nan Chen

Votes: 12

30. Pryamokhozhdenie (2005)

94 min | Drama, Sci-Fi

An entomologist and painter who moves into an old house with his family discovers the work of a mysterious scientist. He finds a cinematography archive with a completely new theory on the reasons why humans became bipedal.

Director: Evgeniy Yufit | Stars: Aleksandr Anikeyenko, Sergey Chernov, Stanislav Ilyukhin, Valeri Krishtapenko

Votes: 155

31. The Bet (I) (2007)

85 min | Biography, Comedy

A documentary that shows how hard is for a young filmmaker to reach his dream... And its behind-the-scenes footage that shows just the same.

Director: Alessia Pertoldi | Stars: Federica Del Col, Luca Ferri, Claudia Soberón, Sara Piersantelli

Votes: 51

32. The Bet (2016–2020)

7 min | Short, Biography, Comedy

Following the butterfly effect concept, a small idea from a film student in 2009 creates a chain of events that will change her life forever.

Stars: Federica Del Col, Francesco Roder, Iselin Mork, Heather Langenkamp

Votes: 9

33. Voorbijgangers (2011)

Drama, Mystery

An intimate and confronting portrait of a couple of individuals who struggle with the dark side of their lives, placed in an everyday and recognizable context.

Director: Fabian van Dongen | Stars: Amanda Smits, Anne van Lieshout, Arno van Koolwijk, Babette Holtmann

Votes: 19

34. Buenos Aires Vice Verse (1996)

122 min | Comedy, Drama

This is Buenos Aires, its characters, its history, its reality. A complex movie for a complex city, depicted in the character's language, and in their relationship with the present and the ... See full summary »

Director: Alejandro Agresti | Stars: Vera Fogwill, Nicolás Pauls, Fernán Mirás, Mirta Busnelli

Votes: 500

35. 3 saisons (2009)

100 min | Drama

Three stories unfold over the course of 9 months. Two couples live at extreme opposites of each other, yet they share one commonality: an unexpected pregnancy. Carmine and Sasha live in a ... See full summary »

Director: Jim Donovan | Stars: Caroline Néron, Romano Orzari, Frank Schorpion, Carinne Leduc

Votes: 67

36. A Question of Faith (1979)

97 min | Biography, Drama

The last days of famous Russian author Leo Tolstoy which are paralleled with one of his last stories - The Death of Ivan Ilyich - about a man who is happy with his life until he finds out he's sick and is about to die.

Director: Colin Nears | Stars: Harry Andrews, Alan Dobie, Rosemary Leach, Annette Crosbie

Votes: 22

37. Esti Kornél csodálatos utazása (1995)

99 min | Drama, Fantasy, Romance

A middle-aged writer (Kornél Esti) travels to Germany to deliver a lecture. During the long journey he recalls the memories of another journey he made 30 years before.

Director: József Pacskovszky | Stars: Gábor Máté, Éva Igó, Gabriella Németh, Gyula Benkö

Votes: 90

38. The Contact Enigma (2021)

52 min | Mystery, Sci-Fi

Three people become connected through mysterious circumstances involving electronic devices which spontaneously appeared in their world.

Director: Joel Shelton | Stars: Ben Hoilman, Julie Nutter, Jason Smalling, Lance Metcalf

Votes: 26

39. Alas and Alack (1915)

13 min | Short, Drama, Romance

A fishwife tells her young daughter a fairy story about a princess imprisoned by a hunchback in a seashell, a story that parallels her own life.

Director: Joseph De Grasse | Stars: Cleo Madison, Arthur Shirley, Mary Kearnen, Lon Chaney

Votes: 100

40. Prosta historia o milosci (2010)

77 min | Drama, Romance

Two screenwriters traveling by train to Hel are trying to create a script for a movie about a man and a woman meeting.

Director: Arkadiusz Jakubik | Stars: Magdalena Poplawska, Rafal Mackowiak, Bartlomiej Topa, Jacek Lenartowicz

Votes: 79

41. Jam (2014)

7 min | Short, Comedy, Music

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Director: Roberto Villar | Stars: Luis Arrieta, Dan Elefant, Judd Sarao, Julian Vistan

42. The Debridement of Rome (2012)

20 min | Short, Drama, History

Vignettes of Empire; history as doomed love affair.

Director: Felix Else | Stars: Dov Halpern, Khris Lewin, Catrin Hedström, Lorna Haughton

Votes: 14

43. Will & Grace (1998–2020)
Episode: Lows in the Mid-Eighties, Part II (2000)

TV-14 | 42 min | Comedy, Romance

The flashback to Thanksgiving 1985 continues, and when Will finally tells Grace the truth, she orders him out of the house -- and her life. Meanwhile, Karen meets someone who will become a permanent fixture in her life.

Director: James Burrows | Stars: Eric McCormack, Debra Messing, Megan Mullally, Sean Hayes

Votes: 251