Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "cruel-irony"

1. The Terror (2018–2025)

TV-14 | 60 min | Adventure, Drama, Horror

Supernatural, semihistorical, horror anthology series, where each season is inspired by a different infamous or mysterious real life historical tragedy.

Stars: Jared Harris, Derek Mio, Tobias Menzies, Kiki Sukezane

Votes: 51,462

2. The Blackcoat's Daughter (I) (2015)

R | 93 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller

Two girls must battle a mysterious evil force when they get left behind at their boarding school over winter break.

Director: Oz Perkins | Stars: Emma Roberts, Kiernan Shipka, Lucy Boynton, James Remar

Votes: 26,065 | Gross: $0.02M

3. Aniara (2018)

R | 106 min | Drama, Sci-Fi

A spaceship carrying settlers to Mars is knocked off course, causing the consumption-obsessed passengers to consider their place in the universe.

Directors: Pella Kagerman, Hugo Lilja | Stars: Emelie Garbers, Bianca Cruzeiro, Arvin Kananian, Anneli Martini

Votes: 11,945 | Gross: $0.04M

4. The Man Who Killed Hitler and Then the Bigfoot (2018)

Not Rated | 98 min | Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi

A legendary American war veteran is recruited to hunt a mythical creature.

Director: Robert D. Krzykowski | Stars: Sam Elliott, Rocco Gioffre, Aidan Turner, Melissa Jalali

Votes: 13,818

5. The Rapture (1991)

R | 100 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller

A telephone operator living an empty, amoral life finds God and loses him again.

Director: Michael Tolkin | Stars: Mimi Rogers, David Duchovny, Darwyn Carson, Patrick Bauchau

Votes: 6,037 | Gross: $1.28M

6. An Alan Smithee Film: Burn Hollywood Burn (1997)

R | 86 min | Comedy

When a rookie filmmaker with the unfortunate name Alan Smithee realizes he's an unwitting studio puppet, being forced to make a big-budget action movie he knows is horrible, he steals the master reels and tries to make a deal.

Director: Arthur Hiller | Stars: Ryan O'Neal, Coolio, Chuck D, Eric Idle

Votes: 3,771 | Gross: $0.05M

7. The Day Shall Come (2019)

Unrated | 87 min | Comedy, Crime

An impoverished preacher who brings hope to the Miami projects is offered cash to save his family from eviction. He has no idea his sponsor works for the FBI who plan to turn him into a criminal by fueling his madcap revolutionary dreams.

Director: Christopher Morris | Stars: Andrel McPherson, Miles Robbins, Marchánt Davis, Anna Kendrick

Votes: 4,183

8. Get to Know Your Rabbit (1972)

R | 91 min | Comedy

A young business executive hates the direction his life is taking, and decides to make some changes. He becomes a struggling (but happy) tap-dancing magician. His old boss is financially ruined, but finds a way to bounce back by commercialising his career change.

Director: Brian De Palma | Stars: Tom Smothers, John Astin, Katharine Ross, Orson Welles

Votes: 1,012 | Gross: $0.07M

9. Patient 001 (2018)

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

A desperate wife agrees to have a baby cloned from her comatose husband's DNA. However, the husband gets better and they get rid of the baby - until the past comes calling decades later in a mix of mystery, lust and violence.

Director: Katie Fleischer | Stars: Rosie Fellner, Michael Hayden, Noah Fleiss, Michel Gill

Votes: 201

10. The French Revolution (2005 TV Movie)

100 min | Documentary, History

Documentary about the bloody beginning, bloodier middle and unceremonious end of the French Revolution, an event that ended in blood the reign of kings in France and laid the foundation for a new - republican - system of government.

Director: Doug Shultz | Stars: Edward Herrmann, George Ivascu, Rodica Lazar, Tomi Cristin

Votes: 336

11. Dracula: The Series (1990–1991)
Episode: What a Pleasant Surprise! (1990)

22 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama

When Helsing learns that Lucard is buying an old theater in town, he investigates to find out what the vampire's true interest is in the place.

Director: Allan Eastman | Stars: Bernard Behrens, Kim Coates, Sybil Eastman, Geordie Johnson

Votes: 12

12. Harsh Realm (1999–2000)
Episode: Manus Domini (2000)

TV-14 | Action, Drama, Mystery

Hobbes finds himself trapped in a minefield with one of Santiago's soldiers. A holy order of female healers cares for Pinocchio after he loses his leg and becomes suicidal. Florence is captured by a bounty hunter who's after the healers.

Director: Tony To | Stars: Scott Bairstow, D.B. Sweeney, Terry O'Quinn, Rachel Hayward

Votes: 50

13. Tales from the Crypt (1989–1996)
Episode: The Bribe (1994)

Not Rated | 26 min | Comedy, Crime, Fantasy

A fire inspector is forced to take a bribe from a sleazy strip club owner in order to buy a scholarship for his daughter.

Director: Ramón Menéndez | Stars: Terry O'Quinn, Kimberly Williams-Paisley, Benicio Del Toro, Hal Williams

Votes: 592

14. That '80s Show (2002)
Episode: My Dead Friend (2002)

TV-14 | Comedy

Thanks to Tuesday, Corey is tapped to give the eulogy for a guy he doesn't know. Sophia tries for a romantic weekend with Katie and Owen. Margaret struggles with a moral dilemma. And what is Tuesday's real name?

Director: Terry Hughes | Stars: Glenn Howerton, Tinsley Grimes, Chyler Leigh, Eddie Shin

Votes: 49

15. The Wild Wild West (1965–1969)
Episode: The Night of the Lord of Limbo (1966)

TV-PG | 60 min | Action, Adventure, Western

When a magician makes Arte disappear, Jim must travel to another dimension to find him. What his journey back in time reveals is a plot to change the outcome of the Civil War.

Director: Jesse Hibbs | Stars: Robert Conrad, Ross Martin, Ricardo Montalban, Dianne Foster

Votes: 225

16. Secrets of the Dead (2000– )
Episode: Killer Flu (2003)

TV-PG | Documentary, History, War

Scientists investigate the Spanish Flu, an unusually severe and deadly strain of avian influenza that caused the 1918 flu pandemic which killed almost 100 million people around the world.

Director: Bill Lyons | Star: Liev Schreiber

Votes: 31

17. Who Do You Think You Are? (2004– )
Episode: Ruth Jones (2020)

Documentary, Biography, History

Actress and screenwriter Ruth Jones returns to her Welsh seaside hometown to explore the fascinating family line of her great great great grandfather on her mother's side, a hardworking ... See full summary »

Director: Ben Southwell | Stars: Ruth Jones, Phil Davis

Votes: 54

18. Creepshow (2019– )
Episode: A Creepshow Animated Special: Survivor Type/Twittering from the Circus of the Dead (2020)

TV-MA | 46 min | Fantasy, Horror, Mystery

A man is determined to stay alive alone on a deserted island no matter what the cost; A teen's family road trip includes a visit to the gravest show on earth.

Director: Greg Nicotero | Stars: Kiefer Sutherland, Joey King, Fayna Sanchez, Mason Pike

Votes: 800

19. Animaniacs (2020–2023)
Episode: Good Warner Hunting/No Brainer/Ralph Cam (2020)

TV-PG | 27 min | Animation, Short, Adventure

A hunter tries to catch the Warners; Pinky and the Brain break into the National Security Agency; Ralph falls asleep at the security gate.

Directors: Adriel Garcia, Katie Rice, Dave Thomas | Stars: Jess Harnell, Maurice LaMarche, Tress MacNeille, Rob Paulsen

Votes: 209

20. Secrets of the Dead (2000– )
Episode: The Lost Diary of Dr. Livingstone (2014)

Not Rated | 53 min | Documentary, History, War

On his third and final journey to Africa, David Livingstone, one of the greatest explorers in history, kept a diary that's only now being deciphered. It shines a new light on the horrors of slave trade in Africa, and Livingstone himself.

Directors: Melisa Akdogan, Ben Mole | Stars: Peter De Jersey, Jay O. Sanders, Adrian Wisnicki, Neil Wilson

Votes: 70

21. American Dad! (2005– )
Episode: OreTron Trail (2018)

TV-14 | 21 min | Animation, Comedy

Traumatized by The Oregon Trail (1971), Roger becomes concerned about outliving the family, so he fakes his death, spoofs Renegade (1992) and traps the family in the game. Klaus opens a convenience store but becomes paranoid about shoplifters.

Directors: Josue Cervantes, Ron Hughart | Stars: Seth MacFarlane, Wendy Schaal, Scott Grimes, Rachael MacFarlane

Votes: 444

22. The Price of Duty (2018– )
Episode: John Garcia (2018)

TV-14 | 43 min | Documentary, Crime, Drama

John Garcia investigates the murder of Oscar-winning Cambodian actor and activist Haing Ngor.

Stars: John Garcia, Haing S. Ngor, Craig Hum, Ed Yee

23. Tigtone (2018–2020)
Episode: Tigtone and the Wizard Hunt (2019)

TV-MA | 11 min | Animation, Action, Adventure

Tigtone temporarily becomes a wizard on the very same day of the year when all wizards lose their powers and the traditional hunt on them begins. Meanwhile, the Queen/King try to raise their favorite court wizard from the dead.

Directors: Freddy Cristy, Benjamin Martian | Stars: Trace Beaulieu, Bill Corbett, Lucy Davis, Debi Derryberry

Votes: 20