Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keywords "death-of-father", "therapy"

1. Doctor Sleep (2019)

R | 152 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror

Years following the events of The Shining (1980), a now-adult Dan Torrance must protect a young girl with similar powers from a cult known as The True Knot, who prey on children with powers to remain immortal.

Director: Mike Flanagan | Stars: Ewan McGregor, Rebecca Ferguson, Kyliegh Curran, Cliff Curtis

Votes: 218,487 | Gross: $31.58M

2. The Place Beyond the Pines (2012)

R | 140 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

Two men and their sons must deal with the unforeseen consequences of their actions.

Director: Derek Cianfrance | Stars: Ryan Gosling, Bradley Cooper, Eva Mendes, Craig Van Hook

Votes: 290,374 | Gross: $21.38M

3. The Butterfly Effect (2004)

R | 113 min | Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller

Evan Treborn suffers blackouts during significant events of his life. As he grows up, he finds a way to remember these lost memories and a supernatural way to alter his life by reading his journal.

Directors: Eric Bress, J. Mackye Gruber | Stars: Ashton Kutcher, Amy Smart, Melora Walters, Elden Henson

Votes: 521,169 | Gross: $57.94M

4. Freaky Friday (2003)

PG | 97 min | Comedy, Family, Fantasy

An overworked mother and her daughter did not get along. When they switch bodies, each is forced to adapt to the other's life for one freaky Friday.

Director: Mark Waters | Stars: Jamie Lee Curtis, Lindsay Lohan, Mark Harmon, Harold Gould

Votes: 152,558 | Gross: $110.23M

5. A Cure for Wellness (2016)

R | 146 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror

An ambitious young executive is sent to retrieve his company's CEO from an idyllic but mysterious "wellness center" at a remote location in the Swiss Alps, but soon suspects that the spa's treatments are not what they seem.

Director: Gore Verbinski | Stars: Dane DeHaan, Jason Isaacs, Mia Goth, Ivo Nandi

Votes: 109,634 | Gross: $8.11M

6. A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors (1987)

R | 96 min | Fantasy, Horror

A psychiatrist familiar with knife-wielding dream demon Freddy Krueger helps teens at a mental hospital battle the killer who is invading their dreams.

Director: Chuck Russell | Stars: Heather Langenkamp, Robert Englund, Craig Wasson, Patricia Arquette

Votes: 90,307 | Gross: $44.79M

7. Synecdoche, New York (2008)

R | 124 min | Drama

A theatre director struggles with his work, and the women in his life, as he creates a life-size replica of New York City inside a warehouse as part of his new play.

Director: Charlie Kaufman | Stars: Philip Seymour Hoffman, Samantha Morton, Michelle Williams, Catherine Keener

Votes: 98,235 | Gross: $3.08M

8. Oculus (2013)

R | 104 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller

A recently released inmate from a mental asylum learns from his sister that the murders he was convicted of committing were actually orchestrated by a supernatural entity, the Lasser Glass mirror.

Director: Mike Flanagan | Stars: Karen Gillan, Brenton Thwaites, Katee Sackhoff, Rory Cochrane

Votes: 139,746 | Gross: $27.70M

9. Grosse Pointe Blank (1997)

R | 107 min | Action, Comedy, Crime

Martin Blank is a professional assassin. He is sent on a mission to a small Detroit suburb, Grosse Pointe, and, by coincidence, his ten-year high school reunion party is taking place there at the same time.

Director: George Armitage | Stars: John Cusack, Minnie Driver, Dan Aykroyd, Joan Cusack

Votes: 99,620 | Gross: $28.01M

10. Capturing the Friedmans (2003)

Not Rated | 107 min | Documentary, Biography, Crime

Documentary on the Friedmans, a seemingly typical, upper-middle-class Jewish family whose world is instantly transformed when the father and his youngest son are arrested and charged with shocking and horrible crimes.

Director: Andrew Jarecki | Stars: Arnold Friedman, Jesse Friedman, David Friedman, Elaine Friedman

Votes: 27,121 | Gross: $3.12M

11. The Gift (2000)

R | 111 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror

A fortune teller with extrasensory perception is asked to help find a young woman who has mysteriously disappeared.

Director: Sam Raimi | Stars: Cate Blanchett, Katie Holmes, Keanu Reeves, Giovanni Ribisi

Votes: 74,778 | Gross: $12.01M

12. My Left Foot (1989)

R | 103 min | Biography, Drama

Christy Brown, born with cerebral palsy, learns to paint and write with his only controllable limb - his left foot.

Director: Jim Sheridan | Stars: Daniel Day-Lewis, Brenda Fricker, Alison Whelan, Kirsten Sheridan

Votes: 79,792 | Gross: $14.74M

13. Flawless (1999)

R | 112 min | Crime, Drama

An ultraconservative security guard suffers a debilitating stroke and is assigned to a rehabilitative program that includes singing lessons with the drag queen next door.

Director: Joel Schumacher | Stars: Robert De Niro, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Barry Miller, Chris Bauer

Votes: 20,009 | Gross: $4.49M

14. Analyze That (2002)

R | 96 min | Comedy, Crime

Mobster Paul Vitti is released into Dr. Ben Sobol's care, where only more chaos ensues.

Director: Harold Ramis | Stars: Robert De Niro, Billy Crystal, Lisa Kudrow, Joe Viterelli

Votes: 89,493 | Gross: $32.12M

15. Black Sheep (2006)

Not Rated | 87 min | Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi

An experiment in genetic engineering turns harmless sheep into bloodthirsty killers that terrorize a sprawling New Zealand farm.

Director: Jonathan King | Stars: Oliver Driver, Nathan Meister, Tammy Davis, Matthew Chamberlain

Votes: 42,101 | Gross: $0.08M

16. Beginners (2010)

R | 105 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

A young man is rocked by two announcements from his elderly father: that he has terminal cancer and that he has a young male lover.

Director: Mike Mills | Stars: Ewan McGregor, Christopher Plummer, Mélanie Laurent, Goran Visnjic

Votes: 94,817 | Gross: $5.79M

17. A Lizard in a Woman's Skin (1971)

Not Rated | 95 min | Mystery, Thriller

The potentially unhinged daughter of a British politician is accused of killing her hedonistic neighbor after she witnesses the murder in a dream.

Director: Lucio Fulci | Stars: Florinda Bolkan, Stanley Baker, Jean Sorel, Silvia Monti

Votes: 5,789

18. It Runs in the Family (2003)

PG-13 | 109 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

This is the story of a dysfunctional New York family, and their attempts to reconcile.

Director: Fred Schepisi | Stars: Kirk Douglas, Michael Douglas, Bernadette Peters, Rory Culkin

Votes: 5,241 | Gross: $7.38M

19. Hush (1998)

PG-13 | 96 min | Drama, Thriller

Newlyweds move to the family thoroughbred horse ranch, where the husband's obsessive mother resolves to get rid of her new daughter-in-law.

Director: Jonathan Darby | Stars: Jessica Lange, Gwyneth Paltrow, Johnathon Schaech, Nina Foch

Votes: 13,287 | Gross: $13.51M

20. Sordid Lives (2000)

R | 111 min | Comedy, Romance

As three generations of a family in a small Texas town gather for a funeral, we learn the hilarious, sad, trashy truth of their "Sordid Lives."

Director: Del Shores | Stars: Delta Burke, Bonnie Bedelia, Olivia Newton-John, Kirk Geiger

Votes: 3,509 | Gross: $1.11M

21. Sublime (2007 Video)

R | 113 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery

A man gets a colonoscopy. He wakes up in a hospital bed after a wrong operation. He's confused/scared and thinks back at talks at his 40th birthday party about hospital errors, scams etc.

Director: Tony Krantz | Stars: Tom Cavanagh, Kathleen York, Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs, Kat Coiro

Votes: 7,078

22. Wilbur Wants to Kill Himself (2002)

R | 109 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

The chronically suicidal Wilbur, and his good-hearted big brother, Harbour, are in their thirties when, their father dies and leaves them with nothing but a worn down second-hand bookshop in Glasgow.

Director: Lone Scherfig | Stars: Jamie Sives, Adrian Rawlins, Shirley Henderson, Lisa McKinlay

Votes: 8,078 | Gross: $0.23M

23. Advantages of Travelling by Train (2019)

106 min | Comedy, Mystery, Thriller

Bizarre stories unfold surrounding the encounter of a woman and her husband's psychiatrist in a train.

Director: Aritz Moreno | Stars: Luis Tosar, Pilar Castro, Ernesto Alterio, Quim Gutiérrez

Votes: 3,279

24. Murder Party (I) (2022)

103 min | Comedy, Crime, Mystery

Follows Jeanne, a brilliant architect that suddenly has to investigate the murder of the landlord and patriarch of the mansion she was assigned to renovate.

Director: Nicolas Pleskof | Stars: Alice Pol, Eddy Mitchell, Miou-Miou, Pablo Pauly

Votes: 801

25. Poranek kojota (2001)

100 min | Comedy

Kuba, a young cartoon artist who works as a waiter at sophisticated parties, falls in love with beautiful Noemi and accidentally gets involved in gangster affairs.

Director: Olaf Lubaszenko | Stars: Maciej Stuhr, Karolina Rosinska, Michal Milowicz, Magdalena Kumorek

Votes: 4,058

26. Intimate Strangers (2004)

R | 104 min | Drama, Romance, Thriller

A Frenchwoman tells her marital troubles to a man she mistakes for a psychiatrist, and soon they form an unusual relationship.

Director: Patrice Leconte | Stars: Sandrine Bonnaire, Fabrice Luchini, Michel Duchaussoy, Anne Brochet

Votes: 5,279 | Gross: $2.11M

27. The Sleeping Tiger (1954)

Approved | 89 min | Drama, Thriller

After a convict breaks in a psychotherapist's home, he agrees to rehabilitation rather than arrest but the therapist's wife becomes infatuated with him.

Director: Joseph Losey | Stars: Dirk Bogarde, Alexis Smith, Alexander Knox, Hugh Griffith

Votes: 1,213

28. Evil Eye (1975)

R | 106 min | Crime, Horror, Mystery

The police has to face some extremely brutal murders. How is the rich playboy Peter Crane (Jorge Rivero) involved in this? He suffers from horrible nightmares that make him believe that he is responsible for these murders.

Director: Mario Siciliano | Stars: Anthony Steffen, Richard Conte, Pilar Velázquez, Jorge Rivero

Votes: 399

29. I Am the Cheese (1983)

PG | 100 min | Drama, Fantasy

A teenage lad struggles to piece together his reality following a traumatic event.

Director: Robert Jiras | Stars: Robert MacNaughton, Hope Lange, Don Murray, Robert Wagner

Votes: 321

30. Ánimas (2018)

TV-MA | 83 min | Horror, Thriller

This time, horror comes fron the other side.

Directors: Laura Alvea, José Ortuño | Stars: Ángela Molina, Chacha Huang, Iván Pellicer, Luis Bermejo

Votes: 1,518

31. Consenting Adult (1985 TV Movie)

100 min | Drama

A young gay man tries to find acceptance from his shocked mother and disgusted father. Through this journey, he also learns to accept himself for who he is.

Director: Gilbert Cates | Stars: Marlo Thomas, Martin Sheen, Barry Tubb, Talia Balsam

Votes: 446

32. Die Geschichte vom kleinen Muck (1953)

100 min | Family, Fantasy

An old man living in an oriental city tells the story of his life to a group of kids: He too was once a young boy by the name of Little Muck - much like them, but with better manners and a ... See full summary »

Director: Wolfgang Staudte | Stars: Thomas Schmidt, Johannes Maus, Friedrich Richter, Trude Hesterberg

Votes: 799

33. Gilles (2005)

90 min | Drama, Fantasy, Mystery

Gilles, a 12-year-old boy from the Brussels region, is a football (soccer) player. His dream is to become a member of the Belgian National Squad, the so called "Red Devils".

Directors: Jan Verheyen, Pieter Van Hees | Stars: Ilya Van Malderghem, Joke Devynck, Filip Peeters, Pauline Grossen

Votes: 626

34. My Life's in Turnaround (1993)

R | 84 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

Two Manhattan slacker dudes, best friends, want to make a movie about their lives. Splick drives a hack, Jason tends bar; each has a stuttering relationship with a down-to-earth woman. But ... See full summary »

Directors: Eric Schaeffer, Donal Lardner Ward | Stars: Eric Schaeffer, Donal Lardner Ward, Dolores McDougal, Tara Shannon

Votes: 459 | Gross: $0.20M

35. Amores Possíveis (2001)

Unrated | 98 min | Comedy, Romance, Drama

Fifteen year ago, Carlos went to the cinema to meet Júlia, his university colleague with whom he was in love. She never showed up. Carlos was left waiting in the lobby alone. While he waits... See full summary »

Director: Sandra Werneck | Stars: Murilo Benício, Carolina Ferraz, Emílio de Mello, Beth Goulart

Votes: 1,107

36. Peau d'homme coeur de bête (1999)

100 min | Drama, Mystery

Aurélie, five years old, is spending holidays with her grandmother with her sister and her young uncle. But one day their father, after fifteen years of absence, returns to the heart of the family clan, disturbing their summer peace.

Director: Hélène Angel | Stars: Serge Riaboukine, Bernard Blancan, Pascal Cervo, Maaike Jansen

Votes: 296

37. First Comes Love (2013)

105 min | Documentary

First comes love, then comes marriage, then comes baby in the baby carriage. For filmmaker Nina Davenport, that old playground song didn't go as planned. Single at age 41, she decides to ... See full summary »

Director: Nina Davenport | Stars: Nina Davenport, Eric E. Oleson

Votes: 318

38. Por Um Triz (2015– )

24 min | Comedy, Drama, Mystery

A dark comedy-drama about the power of human connection during turbulent times, set in an Portuguese coastal town in the mid-2010s.

Stars: Luís Ganito, Nuno Pardal, Adelaide Teixeira, Jorge Loureiro

39. Stuck (X) (2023)

Short, Drama, Thriller

Plagued with grief over his father's death, Jason begins to experience strange phenomenon over the course of his grieving process.

Director: Danielle M. Patton | Stars: Yisrael Dubov, Brad Stein, Jim Childs, Kelsey Davidson

40. The Winter of Her (2004)

21 min | Drama, Short

Twenty years ago, Alicia Hunter's father took his own life. She was seven years old. Now grown to adulthood, Alicia still lives in the same decaying home, in the same sleepy mountain town. ... See full summary »

Director: Heath Ward | Stars: Bronwen Carson, Abbie Deanne Johnson, Kaitlyn Richardson, Doug Brooks

Votes: 12

41. Miehen kuva (2010)

81 min | Documentary, Drama, Family

What is the mental legacy and set of values that the liberal late 1960s and early 1970s gave to the people who were born and grew up during that time, to the people who are now approaching middle-age?

Director: Visa Koiso-Kanttila | Stars: Kalle Rissanen, Aukusti Rissanen, Heikki Y. Rissanen, Janne Rissanen

Votes: 36

42. Carnets d'ado (2001–2003)
Episode: Life After All (2003)

90 min

Two kids parents go out to dinner for the evening and are killed in a car crash. The boys have to learn how to deal.

Director: Olivier Péray | Stars: Marianne Basler, Matthieu Tribes, Maxime Monsimier, Eric Savin

Votes: 81

43. CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (2000–2015)
Episode: Woulda, Coulda, Shoulda (2008)

TV-14 | 41 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

A man blames the anonymous sender of emailed death threats after his wife and daughter are shot. Two teens in a convertible crash into a tree; one has an inexplicable shoulder injury. Grissom attends a transfer hearing.

Director: Brad Tanenbaum | Stars: William Petersen, Marg Helgenberger, George Eads, Eric Szmanda

Votes: 703

44. Walker (2021– )
Episode: Defend the Ranch (2021)

TV-14 | Action, Crime, Drama

Walker's past comes back with a vengeance and it threatens the very thing he loves the most - his family.

Director: Alex Pillai | Stars: Jared Padalecki, Lindsey Morgan, Molly Hagan, Keegan Allen

Votes: 1,828

45. Ted Lasso (2020–2023)
Episode: No Weddings and a Funeral (2021)

TV-MA | 46 min | Comedy, Drama, Sport

Rebecca is stunned by a sudden loss. The team rallies to show their support, but Ted finds himself grappling with a piece of his past.

Director: M.J. Delaney | Stars: Jason Sudeikis, Hannah Waddingham, Jeremy Swift, Phil Dunster

Votes: 7,769

46. Midsomer Murders (1997– )
Episode: Fit for Murder (2011)

TV-14 | 89 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Joyce talks Barnaby into enrolling in a spa located in a remodeled manor house but the bodies start to pile up when he's there.

Director: Renny Rye | Stars: John Nettles, Jason Hughes, Jane Wymark, Laura Howard

Votes: 784

47. Por Um Triz (2015– )
Episode: Grupo de Apoio (2015)

24 min | Comedy, Drama, Mystery

A suicidal attempt forces Francisco to go to a support group meeting, giving him the courage to face his problems.

Director: Bruno Moreira | Stars: Luís Ganito, Nuno Pardal, Adelaide Teixeira, Jorge Loureiro

48. Por Um Triz (2015– )
Episode: O Enterro (2015)

23 min | Comedy, Drama, Mystery

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Director: Bruno Moreira | Stars: Luís Ganito, Nuno Pardal, Adelaide Teixeira, Jorge Loureiro

49. Por Um Triz (2015– )
Episode: A Procura de Emprego (2015)

24 min | Comedy, Drama, Mystery

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Director: Bruno Moreira | Stars: Luís Ganito, Nuno Pardal, Adelaide Teixeira, Jorge Loureiro

50. Por Um Triz (2015– )
Episode: O Plano (2015)

23 min | Comedy, Drama, Mystery

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Director: Bruno Moreira | Stars: Luís Ganito, Nuno Pardal, Adelaide Teixeira, Jorge Loureiro