Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "imaginary-person"

1. Fight Club (1999)

R | 139 min | Drama

An insomniac office worker and a devil-may-care soap maker form an underground fight club that evolves into much more.

Director: David Fincher | Stars: Brad Pitt, Edward Norton, Meat Loaf, Zach Grenier

Votes: 2,324,904 | Gross: $37.03M

2. A Beautiful Mind (2001)

PG-13 | 135 min | Biography, Drama, Mystery

A mathematical genius, John Nash made an astonishing discovery early in his career and stood on the brink of international acclaim. But the handsome and arrogant Nash soon found himself on a harrowing journey of self-discovery.

Director: Ron Howard | Stars: Russell Crowe, Ed Harris, Jennifer Connelly, Christopher Plummer

Votes: 987,266 | Gross: $170.74M

3. Pan's Labyrinth (2006)

R | 118 min | Drama, Fantasy, War

In the Falangist Spain of 1944, the bookish young stepdaughter of a sadistic army officer escapes into an eerie but captivating fantasy world.

Director: Guillermo del Toro | Stars: Ivana Baquero, Ariadna Gil, Sergi López, Maribel Verdú

Votes: 703,170 | Gross: $37.63M

4. Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) (2014)

R | 119 min | Comedy, Drama

A washed-up superhero actor attempts to revive his fading career by writing, directing, and starring in a Broadway production.

Director: Alejandro G. Iñárritu | Stars: Michael Keaton, Zach Galifianakis, Edward Norton, Andrea Riseborough

Votes: 666,650 | Gross: $42.34M

5. Marrowbone (2017)

R | 110 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery

A young man and his three younger siblings, who have kept secret the death of their beloved mother in order to remain together, are plagued by a sinister presence in the sprawling manor in which they live.

Director: Sergio G. Sánchez | Stars: George MacKay, Anya Taylor-Joy, Charlie Heaton, Mia Goth

Votes: 39,507 | Gross: $0.00M

6. Miss Meadows (2014)

Not Rated | 88 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

A proper elementary-school teacher moonlights as a vigilante.

Director: Karen Leigh Hopkins | Stars: Katie Holmes, James Badge Dale, Callan Mulvey, Jean Smart

Votes: 10,071

7. 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: 90,345 | Gross: $44.79M

8. Mr. Brooks (2007)

R | 120 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

A well-respected businessman is sometimes controlled by his murder and mayhem-loving alter ego.

Director: Bruce A. Evans | Stars: Kevin Costner, Demi Moore, William Hurt, Dane Cook

Votes: 156,328 | Gross: $28.48M

9. Goodnight Mommy (2014)

R | 99 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller

Twin boys move to a new house with their mother after she has face-changing cosmetic surgery, but under the bandages is someone the boys don't recognize.

Directors: Severin Fiala, Veronika Franz | Stars: Lukas Schwarz, Elias Schwarz, Susanne Wuest, Hans Escher

Votes: 59,786 | Gross: $1.17M

10. Mary and Max (2009)

Not Rated | 92 min | Animation, Comedy, Drama

In 1976 Melbourne, a lonely 8-year-old girl strikes up a correspondence with an unlikely pen pal: a severely obese 44-year-old New Yorker with Asperger's syndrome.

Director: Adam Elliot | Stars: Toni Collette, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Eric Bana, Barry Humphries

Votes: 186,829

11. Exposed (III) (2016)

R | 102 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

A police detective investigates the truth behind his partner's death. The mysterious case reveals disturbing police corruption and a dangerous secret involving an unlikely young woman.

Director: Gee Malik Linton | Stars: Ana de Armas, Keanu Reeves, Christopher McDonald, Mira Sorvino

Votes: 16,806

12. Ruby Sparks (2012)

R | 104 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy

A novelist struggling with writer's block finds romance in a most unusual way: by creating a female character he thinks will love him, then willing her into existence.

Directors: Jonathan Dayton, Valerie Faris | Stars: Paul Dano, Zoe Kazan, Annette Bening, Antonio Banderas

Votes: 105,451 | Gross: $2.54M

13. Deconstructing Harry (1997)

R | 96 min | Comedy

Suffering from writer's block and eagerly awaiting his writing award, Harry Block remembers events from his past and scenes from his best-selling books as characters, real and fictional, come back to haunt him.

Director: Woody Allen | Stars: Woody Allen, Judy Davis, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Stephanie Roth Haberle

Votes: 47,825 | Gross: $10.69M

14. A Perfect Enemy (2020)

89 min | Drama, Thriller

A successful architect is approached on his trip to the Paris Airport by a chatty girl. Although the meeting seems fortuitous, soon there be a turn that will transform the encounter into something much more sinister and criminal.

Director: Kike Maíllo | Stars: Tomasz Kot, Athena Strates, Marta Nieto, Dominique Pinon

Votes: 3,689

15. Pet (I) (2016)

R | 94 min | Horror, Thriller

A man bumps into an old crush and holds her captive underneath the animal shelter where he works.

Director: Carles Torrens | Stars: Dominic Monaghan, Ksenia Solo, Jennette McCurdy, Da'Vone McDonald

Votes: 18,828 | Gross: $0.01M

16. Big Driver (2014 TV Movie)

Not Rated | 87 min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller

A famous mystery writer sets out for revenge after a brutal attack.

Director: Mikael Salomon | Stars: Maria Bello, Ann Dowd, Will Harris, Joan Jett

Votes: 6,613

17. Josie (2018)

Not Rated | 100 min | Drama, Thriller

Hank, a solitary man living a dull existence in the sleepy, Southern town raises eyebrows when he develops a questionable relationship with Josie, a recently transplanted high school student.

Director: Eric England | Stars: Sophie Turner, Dylan McDermott, Robin Bartlett, Jack Kilmer

Votes: 3,513

18. Bunny Lake Is Missing (1965)

Not Rated | 107 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller

A woman reports that her young daughter is missing, but there seems to be no evidence that she ever existed.

Director: Otto Preminger | Stars: Keir Dullea, Carol Lynley, Laurence Olivier, Martita Hunt

Votes: 10,235

19. Steel (I) (2015)

Unrated | 108 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance

Strong emotions - fear and panic, self-search and isolation, love and sex, self-denial and self-discovery - a ride on an emotional roller coaster while trying to find one's way into life.

Director: Sven J. Matten | Stars: Chad Connell, David Cameron, Mimi Kuzyk, Tamara Gorski

Votes: 996

20. Captain Newman, M.D. (1963)

Passed | 126 min | Comedy, Drama, War

In 1944, an Army doctor is in charge of a neuropsychiatric ward at an Army Air Corps hospital in Arizona, and he must deal with a variety of tough cases.

Director: David Miller | Stars: Gregory Peck, Tony Curtis, Angie Dickinson, Eddie Albert

Votes: 2,920

21. A Summer in Genoa (2008)

R | 93 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance

A man moves his two daughters to Italy after their mother dies in a car accident, in order to revitalize their lives. Genova changes all three of them as the youngest daughter starts to see the ghost of her mother, while the older one discovers her sexuality.

Director: Michael Winterbottom | Stars: Colin Firth, Perla Haney-Jardine, Willa Holland, Catherine Keener

Votes: 6,780

22. Madhouse (2004)

R | 91 min | Horror, Thriller

A young psychiatric intern unearths secrets about the mental health facility in which he works.

Director: William Butler | Stars: Joshua Leonard, Jordan Ladd, Natasha Lyonne, Lance Henriksen

Votes: 6,954

23. Alena (2015)

TV-MA | 83 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller

When Alena arrives at her new elite boarding school, Filippa and the other girls start to harass her. But Alena's best friend Josefin won't let her take anymore beating. If she won't strike back, Josefin will do it for her. Hard.

Director: Daniel di Grado | Stars: Helena Af Sandeberg, Johan Ehn, Ulrika Ellemark, Malin Persson

Votes: 1,370

24. Felicia's Journey (1999)

PG-13 | 116 min | Drama, Thriller

A young woman leaves Ireland to find her boyfriend in England, and while there is helped by a man hiding unsettling secrets.

Director: Atom Egoyan | Stars: Bob Hoskins, Arsinée Khanjian, Elaine Cassidy, Sheila Reid

Votes: 8,406 | Gross: $0.82M

25. Shrew's Nest (2014)

Not Rated | 91 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller

1950s Madrid: The agoraphobic Montse raised her now 18 y.o. kid sister. The upstairs neighbor falls down the stairs and breaks a leg. The crazy Montse takes him in.

Directors: Juanfer Andrés, Esteban Roel | Stars: Macarena Gómez, Nadia de Santiago, Hugo Silva, Luis Tosar

Votes: 7,729

26. Ben X (2007)

Not Rated | 93 min | Drama, Thriller

As an alternative to getting bullied at school, an autistic teenager retreats into the world of online role-playing games.

Director: Nic Balthazar | Stars: Marijke Pinoy, Greg Timmermans, Cesar De Sutter, Gilles De Schryver

Votes: 19,380 | Gross: $0.00M

27. A Secret (2007)

Not Rated | 105 min | Drama, War

A 15-year-old boy unearths a shocking family secret.

Director: Claude Miller | Stars: Cécile de France, Patrick Bruel, Ludivine Sagnier, Julie Depardieu

Votes: 3,267 | Gross: $0.62M

28. Rossz versek (2018)

97 min | Comedy, Drama

33-years old Tamás is heartbroken after his girlfriend Anna, who is on a scholarship in Paris, breaks up with him. While wallowing in self-pity, he takes a trip down memory lane to figure out if love only exists when it's practically gone.

Director: Gábor Reisz | Stars: Gábor Reisz, Katica Nagy, Zsolt Kovács, Katalin Takács

Votes: 2,833

29. Cognitio (2018)

20 min | Short, Drama

Tobias makes friends with Emil during a spell in psychiatric hospital.

Director: Rebecca Emcken | Stars: Lasse Steen, Lior Cohen, Mikkel Rishøj, Sanne Kristensen

Votes: 397

30. O gois (1969)

88 min | Comedy

A non-existent uncle provides the necessary status required from two best friends to woo two wealthy sisters; however, an unforeseen meeting with him in the flesh shall lead to embarrassing complications. Who is this gift-bearing relative?

Director: Giannis Dalianidis | Stars: Kostas Voutsas, Nora Valsami, Dionysis Papagiannopoulos, Hronis Exarhakos

Votes: 306

31. The Backup Dancer (2016)

90 min | Comedy, Drama

A story about love and loss. And maybe one day - love again.

Director: Amanda Sharp | Stars: Rose Leslie, Ray Liotta, Carmen Tonry, Alex Reznik

Votes: 1,011

32. Invisible Child (1999 TV Movie)

Not Rated | 120 min | Drama

A woman from London starts working for a family as a nanny and discovers that the mother thinks she has an imaginary child called Maggie.

Director: Joan Micklin Silver | Stars: Rita Wilson, Victor Garber, Tushka Bergen, Mae Whitman

Votes: 827

33. House of Fools (2002)

R | 104 min | Drama, Music, Romance

In the midst of the Chechen War, a remote psychiatric institution is left without staff leaving the patients to fend for themselves. Based on a true story.

Director: Andrey Konchalovskiy | Stars: Yuliya Vysotskaya, Sultan Islamov, Bryan Adams, Evgeniy Mironov

Votes: 2,901 | Gross: $0.06M

34. Star Time (1992)

85 min | Crime, Drama, Horror

A delusional misfit becomes suicidal when his favorite TV show is cancelled. An agent promises to make him a TV star if he kills certain people, so he becomes "The Baby Mask Killer."

Director: Alexander Cassini | Stars: John P. Ryan, Michael St. Gerard, Maureen Teefy, Dana Dantine

Votes: 428

35. The Telephone (1988)

R | 96 min | Comedy, Drama

A crazy out of work actress, Vashti Blue, spends all her time in her small apartment with her pet owl and her telephone, which she uses to try and solve all her problems with life.

Director: Rip Torn | Stars: Whoopi Goldberg, Severn Darden, Amy Wright, Elliott Gould

Votes: 1,149 | Gross: $0.10M

36. 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

37. Betlémské svetlo (2022)

100 min | Comedy, Fantasy

Everyday existence of writer Sejnoha is enlivened by persistent characters from his stories to remind him of some major questions. How to fulfill our own expectations of a better existence without destroying everything we have?

Director: Jan Sverák | Stars: Zdenek Sverák, Daniela Kolárová, Vojtech Kotek, Tereza Ramba

Votes: 145

38. Aloys (2016)

Not Rated | 91 min | Drama, Fantasy

A lonely private investigator is contacted by a mysterious woman who pulls him into a mind game known as 'telephone walking'. Fascinated by her voice, Aloys discovers an imaginary universe that allows him to break out of his isolation.

Director: Tobias Nölle | Stars: Georg Friedrich, Tilde von Overbeck, Kamil Krejcí, Yufei Li

Votes: 2,252

39. The Killer of Dolls (1975)

98 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller

A groundskeeper's son, who is mentally unstable due to childhood trauma, goes on a murdering spree where his perception of reality is distorted by imagining people as mannequins and vice versa.

Director: Miguel Madrid | Stars: David Rocha, Inma de Santis, Helga Liné, Elisenda Ribas

Votes: 392

40. Entanglement (III) (2017)

85 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

While recovering from a suicide attempt, Ben Layton accidentally falls in love with a girl who was very nearly, almost his sister - and then things start to get weird.

Director: Jason James | Stars: Diana Bang, Thomas Middleditch, Jess Weixler, Johannah Newmarch

Votes: 858

41. Panic (1972)

85 min | Fantasy, Horror, Mystery

A young woman is nursing a doll like a real baby, and even hears its cries. Her fantasies becomes more deranged and her paranoia never lets her go. Is someone chasing her? Was she abused by three men?

Director: Julián Soler | Stars: Ana Martín, Ofelia Guilmáin, Joaquín Cordero, José Gálvez

Votes: 96

42. It's Love Again (1936)

83 min | Comedy, Musical

Elaine Bradford is a young singer and dancer, looking for her big break. Peter Carlton is a gossip columnist facing a deadline and a blank page. So, Peter invents "Mrs. Smythe-Smythe", a ... See full summary »

Director: Victor Saville | Stars: Jessie Matthews, Robert Young, Sonnie Hale, Ernest Milton

Votes: 334

43. Stuk! (2014)

113 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

Elizabeth, a voluptuous, shy and unpopular girl, is the object of ridicule at school by the cool in-crowd. Her life spirals downward after the death of her only friend, her grandmother. But... See full summary »

Director: Steven de Jong | Stars: Amin Ait Bihi, Mees Bink, Sanneke Bos, Yolanthe Cabau

Votes: 259

44. Uncle Cyril (1989)

107 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror

A surreal look at madness in a brooding Czech countryside mansion.

Director: Jirí Svoboda | Stars: Petr Brukner, Radoslav Brzobohatý, Václav Burkert, Petr Cepek

Votes: 183

45. Flex (I) (2020)

16 min | Short, Comedy

It all started, when Charles (Charles Gould) saw a man flexing his muscle in a TV advertisement as a young boy.

Director: Matt Porter | Stars: Charles Gould, Charles Rogers, Ellington Wells, Brianna Baker

Votes: 127

46. Live Girls (2010)

12 min | Short, Comedy, Crime

A disenfranchised porn store employee finds an unlikely mentor in a realistic sex doll who arrives at the shop.

Director: Pamela Romanowsky | Stars: Gage Cass, John Fico, Carter Jackson, Sarah Kate Jackson

47. Stuck with a Perfect Woman (2016)

97 min | Comedy, Romance

Eliska's husband has left her for a younger woman. She is childless, in her early forties, yet still attractive. Till then she had taken care of her successful husband, but now she has to ... See full summary »

Director: Tomas Hoffman | Stars: Petra Hrebícková, Ondrej Vetchý, Miroslav Táborský, Jirí Langmajer

Votes: 448

48. Jak se zbavit Helenky (1968)

75 min | Comedy, Drama

Radio announcer Petrícek (Václav Voska) reads the evening news in a studio. Viki (Jirina Jirásková), the female editor of a woman's program, is annoyed by the stereotypical information he ... See full summary »

Director: Václav Gajer | Stars: Václav Voska, Jirina Jirásková, Eduard Cupák, Consuela Morávková

Votes: 47

49. Love You Thank You (2017)

27 min | Short, Comedy, Drama

Lance relives the good and the bad in his past relationship to decide whether or not to see his ex-boyfriend, Adam, that night.

Director: Chad Hylton | Stars: Donovan Mendelovitz, Michael Nicolo, Tim Torre

Votes: 52

50. A Trick of the Mind (2006 TV Movie)

Not Rated | 88 min | Drama, Mystery

A woman puts her own life on the line by helping a private investigator gather evidence against her potentially dangerous husband.

Director: Terry Ingram | Stars: Alexandra Holden, Paul Johansson, Stacy Grant, Wanda Cannon

Votes: 272