Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "standing-on-a-ledge"

1. The Matrix Resurrections (I) (2021)

R | 148 min | Action, Sci-Fi

Return to a world of two realities: one, everyday life; the other, what lies behind it. To find out if his reality is a construct, to truly know himself, Mr. Anderson will have to choose to follow the white rabbit once more.

Director: Lana Wachowski | Stars: Keanu Reeves, Carrie-Anne Moss, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Jonathan Groff

Votes: 279,782

2. The Invisible Guest (2016)

TV-MA | 106 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

A successful entrepreneur accused of murder and a witness preparation expert have less than three hours to come up with an impregnable defense.

Director: Oriol Paulo | Stars: Mario Casas, Ana Wagener, Jose Coronado, Bárbara Lennie

Votes: 192,679

3. Wings of Desire (1987)

PG-13 | 128 min | Drama, Fantasy, Romance

An angel tires of his purely ethereal life of merely overseeing the human activity of Berlin's residents, and longs for the tangible joys of physical existence when he falls in love with a mortal.

Director: Wim Wenders | Stars: Bruno Ganz, Solveig Dommartin, Otto Sander, Curt Bois

Votes: 77,083 | Gross: $3.33M

4. Stranger Than Fiction (2006)

PG-13 | 113 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy

I.R.S. auditor Harold Crick suddenly finds his mundane Chicago life to be the subject of narration only he can hear: narration that begins to affect his entire existence, from his work to his love life to his death.

Director: Marc Forster | Stars: Will Ferrell, Emma Thompson, Dustin Hoffman, Queen Latifah

Votes: 236,514 | Gross: $40.14M

5. Jungle 2 Jungle (1997)

PG | 105 min | Comedy, Family

A man learns he has a thirteen-year-old son who was raised in the jungle and brings the boy to New York City, turning his life upside down in the process.

Director: John Pasquin | Stars: Tim Allen, Martin Short, JoBeth Williams, Lolita Davidovich

Votes: 25,867 | Gross: $59.93M

6. The Hudsucker Proxy (1994)

PG | 111 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy

A naive business graduate is installed as president of a manufacturing company as part of a stock scam.

Directors: Joel Coen, Ethan Coen | Stars: Tim Robbins, Paul Newman, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Charles Durning

Votes: 85,105 | Gross: $2.87M

7. Man on a Ledge (2012)

PG-13 | 102 min | Action, Crime, Thriller

As a police psychologist works to talk down an ex-con who is threatening to jump from a Manhattan hotel rooftop, the biggest diamond heist ever committed is in motion.

Director: Asger Leth | Stars: Sam Worthington, Elizabeth Banks, Jamie Bell, Mandy Gonzalez

Votes: 158,578 | Gross: $18.62M

8. The Fearless Vampire Killers (1967)

Not Rated | 91 min | Comedy, Horror

A noted professor and his dim-witted apprentice fall prey to their inquiring vampires, while on the trail of the ominous damsel in distress.

Director: Roman Polanski | Stars: Jack MacGowran, Roman Polanski, Alfie Bass, Jessie Robins

Votes: 33,876

9. The Man Who Knew Too Little (1997)

PG | 94 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

Wallace Ritchie is mistaken for a spy and must stop a plot to assassinate international leaders at a banquet.

Director: Jon Amiel | Stars: Bill Murray, Joanne Whalley, Peter Gallagher, Richard Wilson

Votes: 34,420 | Gross: $13.80M

10. Cat's Eye (1985)

PG-13 | 94 min | Comedy, Horror, Thriller

A stray cat is the linking element of three tales of suspense and horror.

Director: Lewis Teague | Stars: Drew Barrymore, James Woods, Alan King, Kenneth McMillan

Votes: 28,182 | Gross: $13.09M

11. The Apartment (1996)

R | 116 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance

A recently engaged man sees a former lover and becomes obsessed with meeting her again.

Director: Gilles Mimouni | Stars: Romane Bohringer, Vincent Cassel, Jean-Philippe Écoffey, Monica Bellucci

Votes: 15,920

12. Ishtar (1987)

PG-13 | 107 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy

Two terrible lounge singers get booked to play a gig in a Moroccan hotel but somehow become pawns in an international power play between the C.I.A., the Emir of Ishtar, and the rebels trying to overthrow his regime.

Director: Elaine May | Stars: Warren Beatty, Dustin Hoffman, Isabelle Adjani, Charles Grodin

Votes: 12,035 | Gross: $14.38M

13. The Fable (2019)

123 min | Action, Comedy

Trained as a ruthless assassin since childhood, a mob hitman is ordered to become a normal law-abiding citizen.

Director: Kan Eguchi | Stars: Jun'ichi Okada, Fumino Kimura, Mizuki Yamamoto, Sôta Fukushi

Votes: 2,801

14. Barefoot in the Park (1967)

G | 106 min | Comedy, Romance

Paul, a conservative young lawyer, marries the vivacious Corie. Their highly passionate relationship descends into comical discord in a five-flight New York City walk-up apartment.

Director: Gene Saks | Stars: Robert Redford, Jane Fonda, Charles Boyer, Mildred Natwick

Votes: 20,502 | Gross: $19.99M

15. Voice from the Stone (2017)

R | 94 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller

Set in 1950s Tuscany, Voice from the Stone is the haunting and suspenseful story of Verena, a solemn nurse drawn to aid a young boy who has fallen silent since the sudden passing of his mother.

Director: Eric D. Howell | Stars: Emilia Clarke, Marton Csokas, Caterina Murino, Remo Girone

Votes: 12,183

16. Dr. Jekyll and Ms. Hyde (1995)

PG-13 | 90 min | Comedy, Romance, Sci-Fi

A scientist creating perfumes inherits his great grandfather Dr. Jekyll's formula and decides to use modern technology to improve it. He ends up as an ambitious, ruthless woman. She tries to prevent returning into the spineless man.

Director: David Price | Stars: Sean Young, Tim Daly, Lysette Anthony, Stephen Tobolowsky

Votes: 3,022 | Gross: $2.76M

17. The Brides of Dracula (1960)

Unrated | 85 min | Horror

Vampire hunter Dr. Van Helsing returns to Transylvania to destroy handsome bloodsucker Baron Meinster, who has designs on a beautiful young schoolteacher.

Director: Terence Fisher | Stars: Peter Cushing, Martita Hunt, Yvonne Monlaur, Freda Jackson

Votes: 8,884

18. Fright (1971)

PG | 87 min | Horror, Thriller

An English baby sitter is terrorized by her friend's ex-husband, escaped from an asylum.

Director: Peter Collinson | Stars: Honor Blackman, Susan George, George Cole, Tara Collinson

Votes: 1,922 | Gross: $0.17M

19. Sex with a Smile (1976)

R | 100 min | Comedy

Five short comic sketches, all unrelated to each other, except that they are all expressions of Italian sexual humor. In one sketch, Marty Feldman plays a bodyguard, hired by her father to ... See full summary »

Director: Sergio Martino | Stars: Barbara Bouchet, Edwige Fenech, Dayle Haddon, Alberto Lionello

Votes: 485

20. That Man from Rio (1964)

Not Rated | 112 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy

A young man comes to the rescue of his girlfriend abducted by thieves and brought to Rio. An extravagant adventure ensues.

Director: Philippe de Broca | Stars: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Françoise Dorléac, Jean Servais, Roger Dumas

Votes: 6,191 | Gross: $0.04M

21. The Woman in Green (1945)

Approved | 68 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Sherlock Holmes investigates when young women around London turn up murdered, each with a finger severed. Scotland Yard suspects a madman, but Holmes believes the killings to be part of a diabolical plot.

Director: Roy William Neill | Stars: Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Hillary Brooke, Henry Daniell

Votes: 6,874

22. Tokyo Revengers (2021)

TV-14 | 120 min | Action, Crime, Drama

A middle-aged loser travels in time to his school years, and, in order to save the love of his life from future doom, he must become the leader of a dreaded school gang.

Director: Tsutomu Hanabusa | Stars: Takumi Kitamura, Yuki Yamada, Yôsuke Sugino, Keita Arai

Votes: 1,906

23. Mädchen in Uniform (1958)

91 min | Drama

In a strict Prussian boarding school for girls, sensitive student Manuela von Meinhardis develops a forbidden love to one of her teachers, the compassionate Elisabeth von Bernburg.

Director: Géza von Radványi | Stars: Lilli Palmer, Romy Schneider, Therese Giehse, Blandine Ebinger

Votes: 1,762

24. Iceman (2014)

R | 104 min | Action, Comedy, History

An imperial guard and his three traitorous childhood friends ordered to hunt him down get accidentally buried and kept frozen in time. 400 years later passes and they are defrosted continuing the battle they left behind.

Director: Wing-Cheong Law | Stars: Donnie Yen, Baoqiang Wang, Shengyi Huang, Kang Yu

Votes: 3,839 | Gross: $0.01M

25. Darling (II) (2015)

Not Rated | 78 min | Horror, Thriller

A lonely girl's violent descent into madness.

Director: Mickey Keating | Stars: Lauren Ashley Carter, Sean Young, Brian Morvant, Larry Fessenden

Votes: 3,367

26. Tibor vagyok, de hódítani akarok (2006)

88 min | Comedy

"Young, dumb and full of love!" is a hilarious comedy about sex, love and youth. What happens when a clumsy teenage boy meets the woman of his dreams? A woman who's a little bit older, a ... See full summary »

Director: Gergely Fonyó | Stars: Péter Fancsikai, Bálint Egri, Bernadett Gregor, Kata Gáspár

Votes: 1,020

27. Mädchen in Uniform (1931)

Passed | 87 min | Drama, Romance

At an all-girls boarding school, Manuela falls in love with a teacher, to terrific consequences.

Directors: Leontine Sagan, Carl Froelich | Stars: Dorothea Wieck, Hertha Thiele, Emilia Unda, Hedy Krilla

Votes: 3,742

28. Recently, My Sister Is Unusual (2014)

Not Rated | 107 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Romance

Mitsuki and Yuya become stepsister and stepbrother because of their parents' marriage. Mitsuki can't get along with her new family and Yuya doesn't know how to approach his new stepsister. ... See full summary »

Directors: Yûki Aoyama, Iggy Coen | Stars: Tenka Hashimoto, Yukichi Kobayashi, Mayu Mitsui, Mika Yano

Votes: 524

29. Invisible Stripes (1939)

Passed | 81 min | Action, Crime, Drama

An ex-con who wants to go straight has difficulties trying to reintegrate into society while on parole.

Director: Lloyd Bacon | Stars: George Raft, Jane Bryan, William Holden, Humphrey Bogart

Votes: 1,923 | Gross: $0.11M

30. Never Weaken (1921)

Passed | 19 min | Short, Comedy, Thriller

A man hits the streets with a scheme to keep his fiancé from losing her job, however, things quickly go from bad to worse.

Director: Fred C. Newmeyer | Stars: Harold Lloyd, Mildred Davis, Roy Brooks, Mark Jones

Votes: 2,096

31. Une époque formidable... (1991)

96 min | Comedy, Drama

A working man brutally loses both his job and his wife. He suddenly discovers poverty and is thrown in the street where he will meet tramps who will help him recover what he has lost.

Director: Gérard Jugnot | Stars: Gérard Jugnot, Richard Bohringer, Victoria Abril, Ticky Holgado

Votes: 1,400

32. Paradox (2006)

19 min | Short, Drama, Thriller

Two men are stranded at the bottom of a well. One, with a serious injury to his head, thinks his has fallen in is own back garden in present-day Britain. But the other tells him they are really prisoners in a medieval dungeon. Who is right, and where are they really?

Director: Jeremy Haccoun | Stars: Simon McLinden, George Tardios, Martin Wimbush, Julian Agnew

Votes: 960

33. Superpower Girl (2017)

16+ | 25 min | Short, Fantasy, Horror

'Superpower girl' Mina. Top of her class, the center of attention and envy. 'No-power girl' Juri. Her classmates sometimes forget she even exists. One day, Mina can't seem to close her ... See full summary »

Director: Soo-Young Kim | Stars: Kim Hye-jun, In-seo Kim, Lee Yoo-mi

Votes: 123

34. Somnambulance (2003)

129 min | Drama

1944, Estonia. An impending Russian invasion forces thousands to flee. Eetla leaves the last boat, thus giving up her chance to escape. Defying the cold wind and rain of autumn, she returns to the lighthouse manned by her father Gottfrid.

Director: Sulev Keedus | Stars: Katariina Unt, Evald Aavik, Ivo Uukkivi, Jan Uuspõld

Votes: 294

35. Dear Friends (2007)

115 min | Drama

Rina is the it girl. She is thin, has long hair, is flaunting and dresses attractively. Every man wants to be with her and every woman wants to be like her. She also happens to be ... See full summary »

Director: Kazuyuki Morosawa | Stars: Kentaro Arai, Avery Fane, Masaya Kikawada, Keiko Kitagawa

Votes: 444

36. Duos sur canapé (1979)

85 min | Comedy

Bernard, a lawyer, and Jacqueline, a dentist, married for many years, each have their own home office. This becomes problematic when they decide to divorce and neither of them wants to move their practice.

Director: Marc Camoletti | Stars: Jean Lefebvre, Michel Galabru, Bernard Menez, Marina Vlady

Votes: 93

37. Cutie Honey: Tears (2016)

92 min | Action, Sci-Fi

Scientist Dr. Kisaragi creates Cutie Honey, an android that possesses human emotions, in order to stop an evil organization.

Directors: Takeshi Asai, Ryo Higuchi | Stars: Keita Arai, Hina Fukatsu, Ren Imai, Nicole Ishida

Votes: 299

38. Wife and Auto Trouble (1916)

14 min | Short, Comedy, Romance

A mild-mannered man's problems with his domineering wife and mother-in-law lead to complications with the law.

Director: Dell Henderson | Stars: William Collier Sr., Blanche Payson, Joseph Belmont, Alice Davenport

Votes: 201

39. Haunted Campus (2016)

93 min | Horror, Thriller

Set at a university where a series of bizarre and unexplained phenomena are occurring the movie is the plot of the popular Haunted Campus novel put to film. Members of the 'occult study ... See full summary »

Director: Satoshi Takemoto | Stars: Yûma Nakayama, Haruka Shimazaki, Maryjun Takahashi, Miu Tomita

Votes: 111

40. Buldoci a tresne (1981)

99 min | Comedy, Crime

Mafioso Carmello was guilty of the principles of his organization when he tried to fool the boss and earned a death sentence. The convict runs away from the killer.

Director: Juraj Herz | Stars: Marián Labuda, Jirí Kodet, Miroslav Streda, Jirí Hrzán

Votes: 102

41. The Druggist's Dilemma (1933)

17 min | Comedy, Short

Bobby Clark and Paul McCullough star as a couple of wacky soda jerks. They do a high wire act while delivering a much needed pair of pants to their boss.

Director: Mark Sandrich | Stars: Bobby Clark, Paul McCullough, James Finlayson, Cecil Cunningham

Votes: 32

42. Publicity Pays (1924)

10 min | Short, Comedy

Jimmy Jump's young wife goes in strongly for amateur theatricals. After one of her performances a theater manager signs her up. He opens a publicity campaign by having her appear in public ... See full summary »

Director: Leo McCarey | Stars: Charley Chase, Beth Darlington, Eddie Baker, Noah Young

Votes: 46

43. Hold Your Breath (1921)

Comedy, Short

Charles and Bert who have defied the Volstead act are seen clambering about the roof of a building, high above a busy street. After a few hair-raising stunts that will give nervous ones in ... See full summary »

Director: William Watson | Stars: Charles Dorety, Bert Roach, The Century Lions

44. Fire!! (1926)

20 min | Short, Comedy

At the Sans Scruples Hotel, the house fire inspector has to steer clear of a vamp and her jealous husband, and put out a fire to win the girl.

Director: James D. Davis | Stars: 'Snub' Pollard, Gladys Harvey, Max Asher, Jean Hope

Votes: 28

45. All in the Family (1971–1979)
Episode: The Unemployment Story: Part 2 (1976)

TV-PG | Comedy, Drama

Archie continues to have problems with finances and with finding another job. At the grocery store, he stresses himself about Edith's spending habits and tries to save money even if it ... See full summary »

Director: Paul Bogart | Stars: Carroll O'Connor, Jean Stapleton, Rob Reiner, Sally Struthers

Votes: 172

46. Father Ted (1995–1998)
Episode: Going to America (1998)

TV-14 | 25 min | Comedy

After saving a fellow priest from suicide, Father Ted is invited to work at an American parish.

Director: Andy De Emmony | Stars: Dermot Morgan, Ardal O'Hanlon, Frank Kelly, Pauline McLynn

Votes: 521

47. Frasier (1993–2004)
Episode: Agents in America: Part 3 (1995)

TV-PG | 22 min | Comedy

When the station plays hardball instead of giving in to Frasier's demand for a raise, Frasier begins to worry - but his agent, the notorious Bebe Glazer, has a few tricks up her sleeve.

Director: Philip Charles MacKenzie | Stars: Kelsey Grammer, Jane Leeves, David Hyde Pierce, Peri Gilpin

Votes: 1,068

48. The Nanny (1993–1999)
Episode: The Playwright (1994)

TV-PG | 23 min | Comedy, Family, Romance

A man whom Fran snubbed in high school has written a play and threatens to jump off a ledge unless Maxwell reads it.

Director: Gail Mancuso | Stars: Fran Drescher, Charles Shaughnessy, Daniel Davis, Lauren Lane

Votes: 404

49. Punky Brewster (1984–1988)
Episode: This Spud's for You (1987)

Not Rated | 30 min | Comedy, Family

Spud threatens to jump off a building if Punky won't go to the Sadie Hawkins dance with him.

Director: Joanie Rhodes | Stars: George Gaynes, Soleil Moon Frye, Susie Garrett, Cherie Johnson

Votes: 30

50. Westworld (2016–2022)
Episode: The Absence of Field (2020)

TV-MA | 59 min | Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi

Charlotte grapples with reality; Dolores and Caleb begin to form a key partnership.

Director: Amanda Marsalis | Stars: Evan Rachel Wood, Thandiwe Newton, Jeffrey Wright, Tessa Thompson

Votes: 8,953