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

1. Sunset Boulevard (1950)

Passed | 110 min | Drama, Film-Noir

A screenwriter develops a dangerous relationship with a faded film star determined to make a triumphant return.

Director: Billy Wilder | Stars: William Holden, Gloria Swanson, Erich von Stroheim, Nancy Olson

Votes: 236,931

2. The Full Monty (1997)

R | 91 min | Comedy, Drama

Six unemployed steel workers form a male striptease act. The women cheer them on to go for "the full monty" - total nudity.

Director: Peter Cattaneo | Stars: Robert Carlyle, Tom Wilkinson, Mark Addy, Wim Snape

Votes: 114,265 | Gross: $45.95M

3. Stripes (1981)

R | 106 min | Comedy, War

Two friends who are dissatisfied with their jobs decide to join the army for a bit of fun.

Director: Ivan Reitman | Stars: Bill Murray, John Candy, Harold Ramis, Warren Oates

Votes: 80,161 | Gross: $85.30M

4. House of Sand and Fog (2003)

R | 126 min | Crime, Drama

An abandoned wife is evicted from her house and starts a tragic conflict with her house's new owners.

Director: Vadim Perelman | Stars: Jennifer Connelly, Ben Kingsley, Ron Eldard, Frances Fisher

Votes: 72,709 | Gross: $13.01M

5. John Q (2002)

PG-13 | 116 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

John Quincy Archibald takes a hospital emergency room hostage when his insurance won't cover his son's heart transplant.

Director: Nick Cassavetes | Stars: Denzel Washington, Robert Duvall, Gabriela Oltean, Kimberly Elise

Votes: 143,923 | Gross: $71.76M

6. Repo! The Genetic Opera (2008)

R | 98 min | Horror, Musical, Sci-Fi

A worldwide epidemic encourages a biotech company to launch an organ-financing program similar in nature to a standard car loan. The repossession clause is a killer, however.

Director: Darren Lynn Bousman | Stars: Paul Sorvino, Anthony Head, Alexa PenaVega, Sarah Brightman

Votes: 26,586 | Gross: $0.14M

7. Repo Men (2010)

R | 111 min | Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller

Set in the near future when artificial organs can be bought on credit, it revolves around a man who struggles to make the payments on a heart he has purchased. He must therefore go on the run before said ticker is repossessed.

Director: Miguel Sapochnik | Stars: Jude Law, Forest Whitaker, Alice Braga, Liev Schreiber

Votes: 110,795 | Gross: $13.79M

8. Black Sunday (1960)

Approved | 87 min | Horror

A vengeful witch and her fiendish servant return from the grave and begin a bloody campaign to possess the body of the witch's beautiful look-alike descendant.

Director: Mario Bava | Stars: Barbara Steele, John Richardson, Andrea Checchi, Ivo Garrani

Votes: 17,644

9. Hollywood Homicide (2003)

PG-13 | 116 min | Action, Comedy, Crime

Two LAPD detectives who moonlight in other fields investigate the murder of an up-and-coming rap group.

Director: Ron Shelton | Stars: Harrison Ford, Josh Hartnett, Isaiah Washington, Lena Olin

Votes: 39,395 | Gross: $30.94M

10. Melvin and Howard (1980)

R | 95 min | Comedy, Drama

The story of hard-luck Melvin E. Dummar, who claimed to have received a will naming him an heir to the fortune of Howard Hughes.

Director: Jonathan Demme | Stars: Paul Le Mat, Jason Robards, Elizabeth Cheshire, Mary Steenburgen

Votes: 5,316 | Gross: $4.31M

11. Brassed Off (1996)

R | 108 min | Comedy, Drama, Music

The coal mine in a northern English village may be closing, which would also mean the end of the miners' brass band.

Director: Mark Herman | Stars: Pete Postlethwaite, Tara Fitzgerald, Ewan McGregor, Stephen Tompkinson

Votes: 20,971 | Gross: $2.56M

12. Fun with Dick and Jane (1977)

PG | 95 min | Comedy, Crime

When a successful, middle-class couple finds themselves unemployed and in debt, they turn to armed robbery in desperation.

Director: Ted Kotcheff | Stars: Jane Fonda, George Segal, Ed McMahon, Dick Gautier

Votes: 4,895

13. Stroszek (1977)

Not Rated | 115 min | Comedy, Drama

In Berlin, an alcoholic man, recently released from prison, joins his elderly friend and a prostitute in a determined dream to leave Germany and seek a better life in Wisconsin.

Director: Werner Herzog | Stars: Bruno S., Eva Mattes, Clemens Scheitz, Wilhelm von Homburg

Votes: 15,370

14. Model Shop (1969)

M | 97 min | Drama, Romance

George is unemployed, broke, about to be drafted to Vietnam, and suddenly madly in love with the divine Lola, a woman he has only briefly glimpsed. Now George searches for his potential amour through the City of Angels.

Director: Jacques Demy | Stars: Anouk Aimée, Gary Lockwood, Alexandra Hay, Carol Cole

Votes: 2,146

15. King of California (2007)

PG-13 | 93 min | Comedy, Drama

An unstable dad who after getting out of a mental institution tries to convince his daughter that there's Spanish gold buried somewhere under suburbia.

Director: M. Cahill | Stars: Michael Douglas, Evan Rachel Wood, Willis Burks II, Laura Kachergus

Votes: 23,683 | Gross: $0.26M

16. Folks! (1992)

PG-13 | 107 min | Comedy, Drama

A slightly self absorbed yuppie takes in his parents including his senile father, after their home burns down. But his personal and professional life fall apart soon after.

Director: Ted Kotcheff | Stars: Tom Selleck, Don Ameche, Anne Jackson, Christine Ebersole

Votes: 2,823 | Gross: $6.13M

17. Lizard Lick Towing (2011–2014)

TV-14 | 30 min | Reality-TV

Ronny opened Lizard Lick with one truck. The business grew over 10 years with Ronny's best friend Bobby.

Stars: Ron Shirley, Amy Shirley, Bobby Brantley, Brian Lee

Votes: 2,051

18. Telstar: The Joe Meek Story (2008)

R | 119 min | Biography, Drama, Music

A music-infused drama about Joe Meek, the flamboyantly gay, tone deaf, songwriter-producer behind the '60s hits "Have I the Right," "Just Like Eddie," "Johnny, Remember Me" and "Telstar."

Director: Nick Moran | Stars: Con O'Neill, Kevin Spacey, Pam Ferris, JJ Feild

Votes: 1,942

19. Salt of the Earth (1954)

Not Rated | 94 min | Drama, History

Mexican workers at a zinc mine call a general strike. It is only through the solidarity of the workers, and importantly the indomitable resolve of their wives, mothers, and daughters, that they eventually triumph.

Director: Herbert J. Biberman | Stars: Juan Chacón, Rosaura Revueltas, Will Geer, David Bauer

Votes: 4,050

20. Christmas in July (1940)

Passed | 67 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

After the co-workers of an ambitious clerk trick him into thinking he has won $25,000 in a slogan contest, he begins to use the money to fulfill his dreams. What will happen when the ruse is discovered?

Director: Preston Sturges | Stars: Dick Powell, Ellen Drew, Raymond Walburn, Alexander Carr

Votes: 4,276

21. $9.99 (2008)

R | 78 min | Animation, Drama, Fantasy

A stop-motion animated story about people living in a Sydney apartment complex looking for meaning in their lives.

Director: Tatia Rosenthal | Stars: Geoffrey Rush, Anthony LaPaglia, Samuel Johnson, Barry Otto

Votes: 3,479 | Gross: $0.05M

22. Can't Pay? We'll Take It Away! (2014–2018)

TV-MA | 60 min | Documentary

Camera follow teams of High Court Enforcement Agents, dealing with the execution of High Court Writs.

Stars: Jason Done, Paul Bohill, Steve Pinner, Stewart McCracken

Votes: 693

23. Airplane Repo (2010– )

Drama

Airplane Repo men chase luxury planes for big dollars, but are the rewards worth the risk? Watch Airplane Repo videos, only on Discovery.

Stars: Ken Cage, Danny Thompson, Kevin Lacey, Mike Kennedy

Votes: 485

24. The Big Store (1941)

Passed | 83 min | Comedy, Family, Musical

A detective is hired to protect the life of a singer, who has recently inherited a department store, from the store's crooked manager.

Director: Charles Reisner | Stars: Groucho Marx, Chico Marx, Harpo Marx, Tony Martin

Votes: 5,475

25. Blondie (1938)

Passed | 70 min | Comedy, Family

Dagwood loses his job on the eve of his and Blondie's fifth wedding anniversary.

Director: Frank R. Strayer | Stars: Penny Singleton, Arthur Lake, Larry Simms, Daisy

Votes: 873

26. The Great Smokey Roadblock (1977)

PG | 104 min | Comedy, Drama

After his rig is repossessed, an aging trucker by the name of Elegant John Howard decides he and his truck have one more good run in them, and with the help of a hitchhiker and a few others he will make it happen.

Director: John Leone | Stars: Henry Fonda, Eileen Brennan, Austin Pendleton, Robert Englund

Votes: 607

27. Zero to Sixty (1978)

PG | 101 min | Comedy

A divorced man hooks up with a street-smart 16-year-old who makes her living by repossessing cars from their owners.

Director: Don Weis | Stars: Darren McGavin, Sylvia Miles, Joan Collins, Denise Nickerson

Votes: 244

28. Happy Ever Afters (2009)

Not Rated | 101 min | Comedy

Two weddings collide when both receptions are held at one hotel.

Director: Stephen Burke | Stars: Sally Hawkins, Tom Riley, Sinead Maguire, Tina Kellegher

Votes: 1,046

29. Dance with Me (2019)

103 min | Adventure, Comedy, Musical

Suzuki Shizuka is an office lady at a conglomerate who is treated by a hypnotist and left under the spell. Thereafter she cannot but sing and dance whenever she hears any melody whatsoever.... See full summary »

Director: Shinobu Yaguchi | Stars: Ayaka Miyoshi, Yû Yashiro, Chay, Takahiro Miura

Votes: 845

30. Bacon Grabbers (1929)

Passed | 20 min | Comedy, Short

The novice repo men, Stan and Ollie, are sent to serve a summons to a tough customer who hasn't paid for a radio, as canines, a rifle, and a steamroller threaten to put an end to their ambitions. Just how hard is it to get the job done?

Director: Lewis R. Foster | Stars: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Edgar Kennedy, Jean Harlow

Votes: 770

31. My Bill (1938)

Approved | 64 min | Drama, Romance

The town of Colbrook, Massachusetts was founded by the family of the same name, and as such they are its leading family. Widowed Mrs. Reginald Colbrook - Mary - has had to manage the family... See full summary »

Director: John Farrow | Stars: Kay Francis, Bonita Granville, John Litel, Anita Louise

Votes: 484

32. Wildcat Bus (1940)

Approved | 64 min | Action, Crime, Drama

A small bus company run by a father/daughter team comes under attack by a group of "wildcatters" who want to put the company out of business so they can take over the profitable Los Angeles-to-San Francisco route.

Director: Frank Woodruff | Stars: Fay Wray, Charles Lang, Paul Guilfoyle, Don Costello

Votes: 219

33. Biography of a Bachelor Girl (1935)

Approved | 82 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

Everyweek Newsmagazine editor Richard Kurt pursues psuedo-portait artist Marion Forsythe on her arrival from Europe after painting (and possibly being involved with) notables all over the ... See full summary »

Director: Edward H. Griffith | Stars: Ann Harding, Robert Montgomery, Edward Everett Horton, Edward Arnold

Votes: 446

34. Does This Mean We're Married? (1991 TV Movie)

PG-13 | 94 min | Comedy

Deena, an American stand-up comic living in Paris, has an expired visa. So, she marries Nick Foulliet, a struggling musician with a different woman for every day of the week. First the ... See full summary »

Director: Carol Wiseman | Stars: Patsy Kensit, Stéphane Freiss, Mouss Diouf, Anne-Marie Pisani

Votes: 184

35. The Delicate Art of Parking (2003)

90 min | Comedy

A fictitious Vancouver film crew documents the professional life of a parking enforcement officer.

Director: Trent Carlson | Stars: Andrew McNee, Diana Pavlovská, Dov Tiefenbach, Harry Rob Bruner

Votes: 825

36. Aggro seizeman (1975)

110 min | Drama

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Directors: James Mannas, Brian Stuart-Young | Stars: Gordon Case, Martha Gonsalves, Pauline McKenzie, Oscar Edwards

37. The Repo Man (2010)

21 min | Short, Action, Drama

David Cross makes a living as a Repo Man, but when he takes a car belonging to the bad guys, his wife is kidnapped and he has to do what he can to save her.

Director: Ray Martinez | Stars: Will Alamo, Ray Martinez, Tiffany Gans, Stephanie Ann Stockdale

Votes: 14

38. Money to Loan (1939)

Passed | 20 min | Short, Crime, Drama

The MGM crime reporter introduces Norman Kennedy, District Attorney of a large city, who talks about the general want for money, and the extraordinary lengths to which some will go to get ... See full summary »

Director: Joseph M. Newman | Stars: Alan Dinehart, Paul Guilfoyle, John Butler, Addison Richards

Votes: 101

39. Skyline Revue (1938)

Approved | 20 min | Short, Comedy, Music

One of the entries of shorts in the Nu-Atlas series that used a vaudeville skit as the premise of a story to weave in and around lots of no-name singers, dancers and novelty acts. What ... See full summary »

Director: Milton Schwarzwald | Stars: Paula Stone, Eddie Bruce, Lita Grey, Sugar Nichols

40. Pop Always Pays (1940)

Approved | 67 min | Comedy

A girl's (Adele Pearce) father (Leon Errol) refuses to let her marry her boyfriend (Dennis O'Keefe) until he has $1,000 in the bank.

Directors: Leslie Goodwins, Charles E. Roberts | Stars: Leon Errol, Dennis O'Keefe, Pamela Blake, Walter Catlett

Votes: 129

41. Älä itke Iines (1987)

96 min | Comedy, Drama

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Director: Janne Kuusi | Stars: Eija Vilpas, Sari Mällinen, Pirkka-Pekka Petelius, Kari Väänänen

Votes: 85

42. Stick It (2014)

5 min | Short, Romance, Sport

The single channel video STICK IT combines television footage of women's gymnastics with recordings of the artist attempting the same routines. Merging himself and the young gymnasts of the... See full summary »

Director: Stefan Ramirez Perez

43. The White Hope (1936)

19 min | Short, Comedy

Joe Cook (Joe Cook)is a gymnasium owner and boxing promoter who is working to build up prizefighter George the Greek (George Givot)as the next Great White Hope that will defeat ... See full summary »

Director: Walter Graham | Stars: Joe Cook, George Givot, Bernadene Hayes, George Watts

Votes: 13

44. The Recovery Agents

Action, Adventure, Thriller | Announced

After an air racer loses his sponsorship and returns to his day job repossessing airplanes from criminals and corporate deadbeats, he finds himself in an unenviable situation: piloting a plane with a weapon of mass destruction.

45. Thanksgiving Day (1928)

9 min | Short, Comedy

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Director: Bryan Foy | Stars: Harry Kelly, Cornelius Keefe, Fred Howard, Walter Rodgers

Votes: 12

46. Edward Flemmings' Please Enjoy Segment (2007)

Unrated | 103 min | Comedy

The ruin of Edward P. Flemmings' life is shown through his four public-access television segments.

Directors: Chris Cook, Nate Tuenge, Calvin Johannsen, Brandon Neil, Christy Sundstrom, Kara Wiese | Stars: Chris Cook, Ben Lepley, Nathan Epley, Amanda Lynn Juhl

47. Friends (1994–2004)
Episode: The One Where Eddie Won't Go (1996)

TV-PG | 22 min | Comedy, Romance

Chandler demands that Eddie move out; however, he doesn't seem to get the message. Meanwhile, a book on empowerment for women inspires the girls. In order to pay his bills, Ross convinces Joey to audition for a role he doesn't want.

Director: Michael Lembeck | Stars: Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox, Lisa Kudrow, Matt LeBlanc

Votes: 5,598

48. Rocko's Modern Life (1993–1996)
Episode: No Pain, No Gain/Who Gives a Buck? (1993)

TV-Y7 | 24 min | Animation, Comedy, Family

Rocko and Heffer join a health club. Rocko goes shopping to the mall with his new credit card.

Directors: Joe Murray, Timothy Björklund, Roger Chiasson, Don Spencer | Stars: Carlos Alazraqui, Tom Kenny, Charlie Adler, Linda Wallem

Votes: 188

49. The Simpsons (1989– )
Episode: The Canine Mutiny (1997)

TV-14 | 30 min | Animation, Comedy

When the items Bart purchased with a fake credit card are repossessed, he claims that Santa's Little Helper is the dog he bought instead of his new pet, Laddie.

Director: Dominic Polcino | Stars: Dan Castellaneta, Julie Kavner, Nancy Cartwright, Yeardley Smith

Votes: 2,567

50. Tales from the Darkside (1983–1988)
Episode: Do Not Open This Box (1988)

TV-14 | 22 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy

Charles is a meek inventor living with his greedy nagging wife Rose. The mail brings them a misdirected box saying "Do Not Open This Box". Then the postman comes looking for it and says there will be Hell to pay if he doesn't get it back.

Director: Jodie Foster | Stars: Eileen Heckart, William LeMassena, Richard B. Shull, Fay Gold

Votes: 262