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

1. The Departed (2006)

R | 151 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

8.5

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85 Metascore

An undercover cop and a mole in the police attempt to identify each other while infiltrating an Irish gang in South Boston.

Director: Martin Scorsese | Stars: Leonardo DiCaprio, Matt Damon, Jack Nicholson, Mark Wahlberg

Votes: 1,424,182 | Gross: $132.38M

2. Memento (2000)

R | 113 min | Mystery, Thriller

8.4

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83 Metascore

A man with short-term memory loss attempts to track down his wife's murderer.

Director: Christopher Nolan | Stars: Guy Pearce, Carrie-Anne Moss, Joe Pantoliano, Mark Boone Junior

Votes: 1,324,633 | Gross: $25.54M

3. Waves (I) (2019)

R | 135 min | Drama, Romance, Sport

7.5

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80 Metascore

Traces the journey of a suburban family - led by a well-intentioned but domineering father - as they navigate love, forgiveness, and coming together in the aftermath of a loss.

Director: Trey Edward Shults | Stars: Taylor Russell, Kelvin Harrison Jr., Alexa Demie, Bill Wise

Votes: 30,864

4. Brooklyn (2015)

PG-13 | 117 min | Drama, Romance

7.5

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88 Metascore

An Irish immigrant lands in 1950s Brooklyn, where she quickly falls into a romance with a local. When her past catches up with her, however, she must choose between two countries and the lives that exist within.

Director: John Crowley | Stars: Saoirse Ronan, Emory Cohen, Domhnall Gleeson, Jim Broadbent

Votes: 150,641 | Gross: $38.32M

5. Moon (2009)

R | 97 min | Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi

7.8

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67 Metascore

Astronaut Sam Bell has a quintessentially personal encounter toward the end of his three-year stint on the Moon, where he, working alongside his computer, GERTY, sends back to Earth parcels of a resource that has helped diminish our planet's power problems.

Director: Duncan Jones | Stars: Sam Rockwell, Kevin Spacey, Dominique McElligott, Rosie Shaw

Votes: 376,971 | Gross: $5.01M

6. Blue Jasmine (2013)

PG-13 | 98 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

7.3

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78 Metascore

A New York socialite, deeply troubled and in denial, arrives in San Francisco to impose upon her sister. She looks like a million dollars but isn't bringing money, peace or love.

Director: Woody Allen | Stars: Cate Blanchett, Alec Baldwin, Peter Sarsgaard, Sally Hawkins

Votes: 212,684 | Gross: $33.41M

7. Gypsy (2017)

TV-MA | 51 min | Drama, Thriller

6.7

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Therapist Jean Holloway becomes too immersed in the lives of her patients.

Stars: Naomi Watts, Billy Crudup, Sophie Cookson, Karl Glusman

Votes: 18,750

8. Umma (2022)

PG-13 | 83 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery

4.7

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51 Metascore

Amanda and her daughter live a quiet life on an American farm, but when the remains of her estranged mother arrive from Korea, Amanda becomes haunted by the fear of turning into her own mother.

Director: Iris K. Shim | Stars: Sandra Oh, Fivel Stewart, Dermot Mulroney, Odeya Rush

Votes: 10,614

9. Religulous (2008)

R | 101 min | Documentary, Comedy, War

7.6

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56 Metascore

Bill Maher's take on the current state of world religion.

Director: Larry Charles | Stars: Bill Maher, Tal Bachman, Jonathan Boulden, Steven Burg

Votes: 60,260 | Gross: $13.00M

10. The King of Marvin Gardens (1972)

R | 103 min | Drama

6.5

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A daydreamer convinces his radio personality brother to help fund one of his get-rich-quick schemes.

Director: Bob Rafelson | Stars: Jack Nicholson, Bruce Dern, Ellen Burstyn, Julia Anne Robinson

Votes: 6,088

11. Gang Related (1997)

R | 111 min | Action, Crime, Drama

6.4

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49 Metascore

After murdering an undercover DEA agent, two corrupt cops scramble to cover up what they've done.

Director: Jim Kouf | Stars: Jim Belushi, Tupac Shakur, Lela Rochon, Dennis Quaid

Votes: 10,028 | Gross: $5.79M

12. Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood (2017)

Unrated | 98 min | Documentary, Biography, History

6.7

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67 Metascore

A portrait of unsung Hollywood legend Scotty Bowers, whose bestselling memoir chronicled his decades spent as sexual procurer to the stars.

Director: Matt Tyrnauer | Stars: Scotty Bowers, William Mann, David Kuhn, Stephen Fry

Votes: 1,809 | Gross: $0.46M

13. Anesthesia (2015)

R | 90 min | Crime, Drama

6.1

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55 Metascore

Multiple lives intersect in the aftermath of the violent mugging of a Columbia University philosophy professor.

Director: Tim Blake Nelson | Stars: Sam Waterston, Kristen Stewart, Corey Stoll, Gretchen Mol

Votes: 5,030 | Gross: $0.02M

14. Dummy (2002)

R | 91 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

6.6

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48 Metascore

An ex-office worker becomes a ventriloquist, leading to a date with his unemployment counselor; but his quirky family and a gauche female friend may thwart his new career and love life.

Director: Greg Pritikin | Stars: Adrien Brody, Milla Jovovich, Illeana Douglas, Vera Farmiga

Votes: 6,935 | Gross: $0.07M

15. Hot Spell (1958)

Unrated | 86 min | Drama

6.9

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A housewife is doing her best to keep her family together as it's slowly falling apart, a fact she's trying to ignore. Her cheating husband's birthday party is approaching and many lines will be crossed after that event.

Directors: Daniel Mann, George Cukor | Stars: Shirley Booth, Anthony Quinn, Shirley MacLaine, Earl Holliman

Votes: 595

16. Joe Gould's Secret (2000)

R | 104 min | Drama

6.6

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74 Metascore

Around 1940, The New Yorker staff writer Joe Mitchell meets Joe Gould, a Greenwich Village character, who is writing a voluminous Oral History of the World, a record of twenty thousand conversations he's overheard.

Director: Stanley Tucci | Stars: Ian Holm, Stanley Tucci, Hope Davis, Sarah Hyland

Votes: 1,646 | Gross: $0.64M

17. The Spanish Gardener (1956)

Not Rated | 91 min | Drama

6.7

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Rather undiplomatic British diplomat Harrington Brande (Sir Michael Hordern) takes up his new post in Spain accompanied by his son Nicholas (Jon Whiteley). The posting is something of a ... See full summary »

Director: Philip Leacock | Stars: Dirk Bogarde, Jon Whiteley, Michael Hordern, Cyril Cusack

Votes: 1,033

18. The Well

Mystery, Thriller | Pre-production

An injured woman trapped in a deep well must overcome a manipulative stranger with keys to her dark past to save her daughter from a horrific ordeal.

Director: Misko Massanyi

19. Lookwell (1991 TV Movie)

30 min | Comedy, Crime, Mystery

8.2

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The former star of a cancelled cop TV show solves crimes. Pilot episode for a TV series that was never picked up.

Director: E.W. Swackhamer | Stars: Adam West, Ron Frazier, Ann Weldon, Todd Field

Votes: 561

20. The God Who Wasn't There (2005)

62 min | Documentary, Biography, History

6.9

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Did Jesus exist? This film starts with that question, then goes on to examine Christianity as a whole.

Director: Brian Flemming | Stars: Sam Harris, Robert M. Price, Richard Carrier, Earl Doherty

Votes: 5,053

21. Girlhood (2003)

Not Rated | 82 min | Documentary, Crime

7.1

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69 Metascore

Documentary chronicling America's justice system. Follows two female inmates - victims of horrific violence and tragedy - who are serving time in a Maryland juvenile detention center.

Director: Liz Garbus

Votes: 612 | Gross: $0.06M

22. A Visitor from the Living (1999)

Not Rated | 65 min | Documentary

7.5

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An interview with a WWII Red Cross official who wrote a glowing report on a Jewish ghetto-cum-death camp.

Director: Claude Lanzmann | Stars: Maurice Rossel, Claude Lanzmann

Votes: 278

23. Artifact (2013)

Action, Adventure, Drama

7.7

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Human's struggle to obtain ancient Artifacts that have been scattered throughout space.

Stars: Cesar D' La Torre, Rich Finley, Ksenia Valenti, Daniel Begus

Votes: 56

24. Puff and the Incredible Mr. Nobody (1982 TV Movie)

30 min | Animation, Family, Fantasy

7.7

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The magic dragon teaches a boy to believe in his own creative abilities.

Director: Fred Wolf | Stars: Burgess Meredith, David Mendenhall, Diana Dumpis, Joan Gerber

Votes: 100

25. Puff the Magic Dragon in the Land of the Living Lies (1979 TV Movie)

30 min | Animation, Fantasy

7.6

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Puff shows a girl named Sandy the truth about lies as they travel through The Land of Living Lies.

Directors: Charles Swenson, Fred Wolf | Stars: Burgess Meredith, Mischa Bond, Alan Barzman, Ike Eisenmann

Votes: 100

26. Judas Goat (2014– )

Drama, Fantasy, Horror

7.9

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A mini-series delving into the darker side of urban myth - a world of monsters through the eyes of their servants.

Stars: Susanne Wuest, Guy Evans, Donald Morrison, Huld Martha

Votes: 57

27. Rakastunut rampa (1975)

67 min | Comedy, Drama

5.1

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Krokelby in the 1920s. Sakris Kukkelman is a crippled, Nietzsche reading village idiot who believes himself to be a romantic hero.

Directors: Esko Favén, Tarja Laine | Stars: Vesa-Matti Loiri, Leena Uotila, Ritva Valkama, Heikki Nousiainen

Votes: 110

28. Altered States of Plaine (2012)

88 min | Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi

5.6

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A young man on the run from a mysterious government agency is desperate to find the cure for a condition that causes him to wake up at random places around the world when he falls asleep.

Director: Nick Gaglia | Stars: George Gallagher, Kether Donohue, Michael G. Mathis, Donald Pritt

Votes: 212

29. Lapse (V) (2010)

75 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller

6.3

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A woman wakes up one morning alone in the desert with no memory and blood on her hands. Reality and memory collide as she struggles to make sense of events.

Director: Marianne Hansen | Stars: Karolina Dryzner, Sirry Jons, Keith Roenke, Emmett J Scanlan

Votes: 11

30. Why I Faked Being a Hot Girl Online for Attention (2017 Video)

93 min | News

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Stefan Molyneux talks to a straight man who pretends to be a woman in an online video game for attention; but now he wants to come clean to a male friend he has fooled for five years.

Stars: Stefan Molyneux, Mike M. DeMarco

31. The Parasomniac (2010)

78 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

8.1

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A man who suffers from somnambulism attempts to piece together clues in order to find out what happened to his missing roommate.

Director: George Lin | Stars: Gregory Doyle, Christopher DeStefano, Mariel Rosen, Michael Mooney

Votes: 43

32. Don't Blink (III) (2023)

5 min | Short, Drama

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Kelsey is clever but increasingly desperate: she needs to grift her late grandmother's money to save her own life, and she's running out of options.

Director: Don Starnes | Stars: Eric E. Johnston, Shaw Jones, Kailena Mai

33. The Streets of San Francisco (1972–1977)
Episode: Bitter Wine (1972)

TV-PG | 60 min | Action, Crime, Drama

7.4

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Stone oversteps his authority when he entrusts to a traditional Greek patriarch his ex-con son just released from San Quentin. When the son is implicated in a suspicious fire, Stone and Keller's investigation uncovers ugly family secrets.

Director: Christian Nyby | Stars: Karl Malden, Michael Douglas, Nehemiah Persoff, Scott Marlowe

Votes: 186