Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "wad-of-money"

1. The Dark Knight (2008)

PG-13 | 152 min | Action, Crime, Drama

When the menace known as the Joker wreaks havoc and chaos on the people of Gotham, Batman must accept one of the greatest psychological and physical tests of his ability to fight injustice.

Director: Christopher Nolan | Stars: Christian Bale, Heath Ledger, Aaron Eckhart, Michael Caine

Votes: 2,870,960 | Gross: $534.86M

2. Baby Driver (2017)

R | 113 min | Action, Crime, Drama

After being coerced into working for a crime boss, a young getaway driver finds himself taking part in a heist doomed to fail.

Director: Edgar Wright | Stars: Ansel Elgort, Jon Bernthal, Jon Hamm, Eiza González

Votes: 611,095 | Gross: $107.83M

3. The Sting (1973)

PG | 129 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

Two grifters team up to pull off the ultimate con.

Director: George Roy Hill | Stars: Paul Newman, Robert Redford, Robert Shaw, Charles Durning

Votes: 279,914 | Gross: $159.60M

4. Bound (1996)

R | 109 min | Crime, Thriller

Tough ex-con Corky and her lover Violet concoct a scheme to steal millions of stashed mob money and pin the blame on Violet's crooked boyfriend Caesar.

Directors: Lana Wachowski, Lilly Wachowski | Stars: Jennifer Tilly, Gina Gershon, Joe Pantoliano, John P. Ryan

Votes: 60,769 | Gross: $3.80M

5. On the Waterfront (1954)

Approved | 108 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

An ex-prize fighter turned New Jersey longshoreman struggles to stand up to his corrupt union bosses, including his older brother, as he starts to connect with the grieving sister of one of the syndicate's victims.

Director: Elia Kazan | Stars: Marlon Brando, Karl Malden, Lee J. Cobb, Rod Steiger

Votes: 164,918 | Gross: $9.60M

6. The A-Team (2010)

PG-13 | 117 min | Action, Adventure, Crime

A group of Iraq War veterans look to clear their name with the U.S. Military, who suspect the four men of committing a crime for which they were framed.

Director: Joe Carnahan | Stars: Liam Neeson, Bradley Cooper, Sharlto Copley, Jessica Biel

Votes: 268,971 | Gross: $77.22M

7. Battle of the Sexes (2017)

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

The true story of the 1973 tennis match between World number one Billie Jean King and ex-champ and serial hustler Bobby Riggs.

Directors: Jonathan Dayton, Valerie Faris | Stars: Emma Stone, Steve Carell, Andrea Riseborough, Sarah Silverman

Votes: 59,942 | Gross: $12.64M

8. Rough Night (2017)

R | 101 min | Comedy

Things go terribly wrong for a group of girlfriends who hire a male stripper for a bachelorette party in Miami.

Director: Lucia Aniello | Stars: Scarlett Johansson, Kate McKinnon, Zoë Kravitz, Ilana Glazer

Votes: 55,829 | Gross: $22.11M

9. American Mary (2012)

R | 103 min | Drama, Horror

The allure of easy money sends Mary Mason, a medical student, into the world of underground surgeries which ends up leaving more marks on her than her so-called "freakish" clients.

Directors: Jen Soska, Sylvia Soska | Stars: Katharine Isabelle, Antonio Cupo, Tristan Risk, David Lovgren

Votes: 28,327

10. Camp Nowhere (1994)

PG | 96 min | Adventure, Comedy, Family

A group of junior high kids don't want to go to summer camps chosen by their parents. They make their own adult-free camp and "hire" an ex drama teacher to help.

Director: Jonathan Prince | Stars: Jonathan Jackson, Christopher Lloyd, John Putch, Peter Scolari

Votes: 10,673 | Gross: $10.47M

11. Bachelorette (2012)

R | 87 min | Comedy, Romance

Three friends are asked to be bridesmaids at a wedding of a woman they used to ridicule back in high school.

Director: Leslye Headland | Stars: Kirsten Dunst, Isla Fisher, Lizzy Caplan, James Marsden

Votes: 48,861 | Gross: $0.45M

12. Flower (I) (2017)

R | 90 min | Comedy, Drama

A sexually curious teen forms an unorthodox kinship with her mentally unstable stepbrother.

Director: Max Winkler | Stars: Zoey Deutch, Kathryn Hahn, Tim Heidecker, Adam Scott

Votes: 10,417 | Gross: $0.33M

13. Dorm Daze (2003)

R | 96 min | Comedy, Crime, Mystery

Set during a crazy afternoon in the lives of a dozen college students at a co-ed dorm that starts with the arrival of two very different women with the same name of Dominique.

Directors: David Hillenbrand, Scott Hillenbrand | Stars: Tatyana Ali, Boti Bliss, Gable Carr, Patrick Cavanaugh

Votes: 8,205 | Gross: $0.06M

14. Rurouni Kenshin Part I: Origins (2012)

TV-MA | 134 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

A former assassin who has resolved to never kill again has his vow sorely tested.

Director: Keishi Otomo | Stars: Takeru Satoh, Emi Takei, Yû Aoi, Munetaka Aoki

Votes: 29,016

15. Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, Part 1 (2012 Video)

PG-13 | 76 min | Animation, Action, Crime

Batman has not been seen for ten years. A new breed of criminal ravages Gotham City, forcing 55-year-old Bruce Wayne back into the cape and cowl. But, does he still have what it takes to fight crime in a new era?

Director: Jay Oliva | Stars: Peter Weller, Ariel Winter, David Selby, Wade Williams

Votes: 63,210

16. Nights of Cabiria (1957)

Not Rated | 110 min | Drama

A waifish prostitute wanders the streets of Rome looking for true love but finds only heartbreak.

Director: Federico Fellini | Stars: Giulietta Masina, François Périer, Franca Marzi, Dorian Gray

Votes: 51,943 | Gross: $0.75M

17. The Assignment (I) (2016)

R | 95 min | Action, Crime, Thriller

After waking up and discovering that he has undergone gender reassignment surgery, an assassin seeks to find the doctor responsible.

Director: Walter Hill | Stars: Michelle Rodriguez, Tony Shalhoub, Anthony LaPaglia, Caitlin Gerard

Votes: 9,298

18. The Liability (2012)

R | 82 min | Comedy, Crime, Thriller

When 19-year-old Adam agrees to do a day's driving for his mum's gangster boyfriend Peter, it takes him on a 24-hour journey into a nightmarish world of murder, sex trafficking and revenge, in the company of aging hit man Roy.

Director: Craig Viveiros | Stars: Tim Roth, Jack O'Connell, Peter Mullan, Talulah Riley

Votes: 9,140

19. Death Hunt (1981)

R | 97 min | Action, Adventure, Crime

In 1931 Canada, Yukon trapper Johnson has a feud with a dog owner who later retaliates by publicly accusing Johnson of murder and thus triggering a police manhunt in the wilderness.

Director: Peter R. Hunt | Stars: Charles Bronson, Lee Marvin, Andrew Stevens, Carl Weathers

Votes: 8,345

20. Female Prisoner #701: Scorpion (1972)

Not Rated | 87 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

After being used and betrayed by the detective she had fallen in love with, young Matsu is sent to a female prison full of sadistic guards and disobedient prisoners.

Director: Shun'ya Itô | Stars: Meiko Kaji, Rie Yokoyama, Yayoi Watanabe, Yôko Mihara

Votes: 4,871

21. Blackbeard's Ghost (1968)

Approved | 106 min | Comedy, Family, Fantasy

An unassuming track coach accidentally invokes the spirit of a notorious pirate long believed dead, and who must now team up to lay the pirate to rest, and save a local hotel from a mobster.

Director: Robert Stevenson | Stars: Peter Ustinov, Dean Jones, Suzanne Pleshette, Elsa Lanchester

Votes: 6,754 | Gross: $10.90M

22. The Guilty (2000)

R | 108 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

A young person gets hired to kill someone completely unknown, by someone equally unknown. Or is that true? Nothing is what it seems.

Director: Anthony Waller | Stars: Bill Pullman, Devon Sawa, Gabrielle Anwar, Angela Featherstone

Votes: 3,851

23. The Last Adventure (1967)

M | 112 min | Adventure, Drama

Best friends become aware of a crashed plane lying on the bottom of the ocean, allegedly stuffed with wealth. Adventurers set off in search of prey. And along with them, Letizia is linked, with whom both friends are secretly in love.

Director: Robert Enrico | Stars: Alain Delon, Lino Ventura, Joanna Shimkus, Serge Reggiani

Votes: 3,861

24. The Moon Is Blue (1953)

M/PG | 99 min | Comedy, Romance

Two aging playboys are both after the same attractive young woman, but she fends them off by claiming that she plans to remain a virgin until her wedding night. Both men determine to find a way around her objections.

Director: Otto Preminger | Stars: William Holden, David Niven, Maggie McNamara, Tom Tully

Votes: 2,519

25. Hold That Ghost (1941)

Passed | 86 min | Comedy, Crime, Horror

After inheriting a fortune from a gangster, two dim-witted service station attendants find themselves stranded in a haunted house.

Director: Arthur Lubin | Stars: Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Richard Carlson, Joan Davis

Votes: 4,265

26. Murder Ahoy (1964)

Unrated | 93 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

After Miss Jane Marple is made a trustee of a merchant marine training vessel, a fellow trustee is poisoned, and ship's officers are later murdered after she comes on board.

Director: George Pollock | Stars: Margaret Rutherford, Lionel Jeffries, Charles 'Bud' Tingwell, William Mervyn

Votes: 5,805

27. The Art of Love (1965)

99 min | Comedy

Struggling artist fakes his own death so his works will increase in value.

Director: Norman Jewison | Stars: James Garner, Dick Van Dyke, Elke Sommer, Angie Dickinson

Votes: 991 | Gross: $7.63M

28. Much Loved (2015)

104 min | Drama

A group of women in Morocco make a living as prostitutes in a culture that is very unforgiving toward women in that profession.

Director: Nabil Ayouch | Stars: Loubna Abidar, Asmaa Lazrak, Halima Karaouane, Sara Elhamdi Elalaoui

Votes: 3,043

29. Mardi Gras Massacre (1978)

Not Rated | 97 min | Horror

Police try to capture someone who is commiting ritual murders of women during Mardi Gras in New Orleans.

Director: Jack Weis | Stars: Curt Dawson, Gwen Arment, William Metzo, Laura Misch Owens

Votes: 1,018

30. The Leech Woman (1960)

Not Rated | 77 min | Horror, Romance, Sci-Fi

An endocrinologist in a dysfunctional marriage with an aging, alcoholic wife journeys to Africa seeking a drug that will restore youth.

Director: Edward Dein | Stars: Coleen Gray, Grant Williams, Phillip Terry, Gloria Talbott

Votes: 2,145

31. Dirty Deeds (2002)

R | 110 min | Comedy, Crime

1973 Sydney: An Australian gangster sees booming business, due to U.S. soldiers being in town for relaxing between their tours to the Vietnam war, attracts the attention of first the Chicago mafia, and then their East Coast competitors.

Director: David Caesar | Stars: Bryan Brown, Toni Collette, John Goodman, Sam Neill

Votes: 3,427

32. The Pawnshop (1916)

TV-G | 25 min | Comedy, Short

Charlie competes with his fellow shop assistant. He is fired by the pawnbroker and rehired. He nearly destroys everything in the shop and himself. He helps capture a burglar. He destroys a client's clock while examining it in detail.

Director: Charles Chaplin | Stars: Charles Chaplin, Henry Bergman, Edna Purviance, John Rand

Votes: 3,698

33. Satan in High Heels (1962)

Not Rated | 90 min | Drama

A carnival burlesque dancer robs her junkie ex-husband, goes to New York, gets a job at a high-class club where she becomes the mistress of the wealthy owner. She seduces his son and causes a murder.

Director: Jerald Intrator | Stars: Meg Myles, Grayson Hall, Mike Keene, Robert Yuro

Votes: 569

34. The River's Edge (1957)

Approved | 87 min | Adventure, Crime, Drama

A murderous thief on the run with stolen loot forces a poor rancher to guide him across the desert into Mexico. Accompanying them is the rancher's wife, who happens to be the killer's former girlfriend.

Director: Allan Dwan | Stars: Ray Milland, Anthony Quinn, Debra Paget, Harry Carey Jr.

Votes: 1,378

35. Telling Secrets (1993 TV Movie)

TV-14 | 240 min | Crime, Mystery, Romance

A rich woman plots the murder of her adulterous husband's mistress through a series of elaborate schemes, but soon falls under the suspicion of the investigating detective, who must prove her involvement.

Director: Marvin J. Chomsky | Stars: Cybill Shepherd, Ken Olin, Christopher McDonald, G.D. Spradlin

Votes: 282

36. Double Dynamite (1951)

Approved | 80 min | Adventure, Comedy, Music

An innocent bank teller, suspected of embezzlement, is aided by an eccentric, wisecracking waiter.

Director: Irving Cummings | Stars: Jane Russell, Groucho Marx, Frank Sinatra, Don McGuire

Votes: 1,291

37. The Spies (1957)

Not Rated | 125 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller

Short of cash for his private clinic, a French psychiatrist accepts money from a NATO Intelligence agent to shelter a defecting Soviet-bloc scientist but enemy spies are closing-in.

Director: Henri-Georges Clouzot | Stars: Curd Jürgens, Peter Ustinov, O.E. Hasse, Sam Jaffe

Votes: 1,098

38. Old Stone (2016)

Unrated | 80 min | Thriller

A psychological thriller about a taxi driver battling bureaucracy and legal manipulation in China.

Director: Johnny Ma | Stars: Gang Chen, Nai An, Hongwei Wang, Zebin Zhang

Votes: 606 | Gross: $0.00M

39. Flesh and the Woman (1954)

100 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance

Bankrupt and disbarred, Parisian lawyer Pierre Martel heads for Algiers where he's supposed to rejoin his high-maintenance Italian girlfriend Sylvia but when she fails to show-up a heart-broken Pierre joins the French Foreign Legion.

Director: Robert Siodmak | Stars: Gina Lollobrigida, Jean-Claude Pascal, Raymond Pellegrin, Peter van Eyck

Votes: 155

40. La Rasante (2021)

Drama

After 20 years separated from his father, Raúl must reunite with him, starting a relationship of conflict and longing.

Director: Hans García | Stars: Madeline Abreu, Miguel Bucarelly, Jhon Burgos, Belkys Cuello

Votes: 6

41. El Vendedor de Arte (2023)

Drama

An art dealer reluctant to sell modern art sees in a young immigrant the salvation of his gallery.

Director: Marcel Fondeur | Stars: Cinthia Almonte, Andrés Castillo, Randall Connoly, Francis Cruz

42. The Water Nymph (1912)

Not Rated | 8 min | Comedy, Short

Mabel and her sweetheart go to the beach and play a trick on the boyfriend's father.

Director: Mack Sennett | Stars: Mabel Normand, Mack Sennett, Ford Sterling, Gus Pixley

Votes: 260

43. Sheer Audacity! (1998)

Not Rated | 85 min | Short, Comedy

A sketch comedy show which aired in Los Angeles in the late 90's, re-cut and reformatted to a feature length film. It focuses on the absurd aspects of sex in America.

Directors: B.J. Grogan, David Rickett, John Travers | Stars: Jami Bassman, Cary Thompson, Cynthia Abeln, Jason Van Clef

44. Derrière la façade (1939)

85 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

The owner of an apartment building is found murdered. Two rival policemen, Boucheron and Lambert, investigate the matter and get into the private lives of the tenants: an unfaithful judge, ... See full summary »

Directors: Georges Lacombe, Yves Mirande | Stars: Lucien Baroux, Jules Berry, André Lefaur, Gaby Morlay

Votes: 151

45. Dov'è Meneghetti? (1988)

12 min | Short, Comedy, History

In 1926, the famous thief Gino Meneghetti (Luiz Ramalho) escapes from the police running on the roofs of the houses in São Paulo.

Director: Beto Brant | Stars: Luiz Ramalho, Gilberto Caetano, Rosi Campos, Lígia Cortez

Votes: 38

46. Thick and Thin (1928)

22 min | Short, Comedy

Roommates unable to pay the rent take to the streets in search of easy cash and free food. They pull a staged pedestrian accident on a wealthy man, but go too far trying it on his daughter, too.

Director: Leslie Goodwins | Stars: 'Snub' Pollard, Marvin Loback

Votes: 12

47. Becker (1998–2004)
Episode: The 100th (2002)

TV-PG | Comedy

Becker tries to discourage a friend from expressing interest in Chris by telling him that she is gay. Unfortunately, the friend sets up Chris with a lesbian acquaintance. Bob buys a pair of... See full summary »

Director: Ken Levine | Stars: Ted Danson, Nancy Travis, Hattie Winston, Shawnee Smith

Votes: 90

48. Carnivàle (2003–2005)
Episode: New Canaan, CA (2005)

TV-MA | 52 min | Drama, Fantasy, Mystery

In the cliff-hanging season finale, Samson devises a grand plan by scheming with Ben, Jones, and the entire troupe to lure Brother Justin to Carnivale for his confrontation with Ben. ... See full summary »

Director: Scott Winant | Stars: Michael J. Anderson, Adrienne Barbeau, Clancy Brown, Debra Christofferson

Votes: 695

49. Perry Mason (1957–1966)
Episode: The Case of the Married Moonlighter (1958)

TV-PG | 52 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Danny Harrison, a schoolteacher, holds a second job at Luke Hickey's diner to make ends meet. Frank Curran comes to the diner flashing a wad of cash, which is tempting to Danny. When Curran is robbed and killed, Danny is charged.

Director: Arthur Marks | Stars: Raymond Burr, Barbara Hale, William Hopper, William Talman

Votes: 345

50. The Untouchables (1959–1963)
Episode: Star Witness (1960)

52 min | Action, Crime, Drama

An accountant with a brilliant mind for numbers agrees to testify against the mob. But keeping him safe before the trial keeps Ness and his men on the run.

Director: Tay Garnett | Stars: Robert Stack, Marc Lawrence, Jim Backus, Jerry Paris

Votes: 102