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

1. Love Actually (2003)

R | 135 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

Follows the lives of eight very different couples in dealing with their love lives in various loosely interrelated tales all set during a frantic month before Christmas in London, England.

Director: Richard Curtis | Stars: Hugh Grant, Martine McCutcheon, Liam Neeson, Laura Linney

Votes: 531,656 | Gross: $59.70M

2. 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: 51,415

3. The Killers (1946)

Passed | 103 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

Hit men kill an unresisting victim, and investigator Reardon uncovers his past involvement with beautiful, deadly Kitty Collins.

Director: Robert Siodmak | Stars: Burt Lancaster, Ava Gardner, Edmond O'Brien, Albert Dekker

Votes: 23,640

4. Dr. Terror's House of Horrors (1965)

Approved | 98 min | Horror

Aboard a British train, mysterious fortune teller Dr. Schreck uses tarot cards to read the futures of five fellow passengers.

Director: Freddie Francis | Stars: Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing, Neil McCallum, Ursula Howells

Votes: 7,502

5. The Debt Collector (2018)

Not Rated | 95 min | Action, Comedy

A classically-trained martial artist goes to work as a mob debt collector. The job seems easy enough, until a client drags him into a situation deeper than could ever be anticipated.

Director: Jesse V. Johnson | Stars: David Will No, Michael Paré, Scott Adkins, Vladimir Kulich

Votes: 8,945

6. Revoir Paris (2022)

105 min | Drama

Three months after surviving a terrorist attack in a bistro, Mia is still traumatized and unable to recall the events of that night. In an effort to move forward, she investigates her memories and retraces her steps.

Director: Alice Winocour | Stars: Virginie Efira, Benoît Magimel, Grégoire Colin, Maya Sansa

Votes: 3,168

7. Moffie (2019)

Not Rated | 104 min | Drama, Romance, War

A young man in 1981 South Africa must complete his brutal and racist two years of compulsory military service while desperately maintaining the secrecy of his homosexuality.

Director: Oliver Hermanus | Stars: Kai Luke Brummer, Barbara-Marié Immelman, Michael Kirch, Remano De Beer

Votes: 3,799

8. Pickup on South Street (1953)

Passed | 80 min | Crime, Film-Noir, Mystery

A pickpocket unwittingly lifts a message destined for enemy agents and becomes a target for a Communist spy ring.

Director: Samuel Fuller | Stars: Richard Widmark, Jean Peters, Thelma Ritter, Murvyn Vye

Votes: 16,156

9. Amen. (2002)

Not Rated | 132 min | Biography, Crime, Drama

During WWII SS officer Kurt Gerstein tries to inform Pope Pius XII about Jews being sent to extermination camps. Young Jesuit priest Riccardo Fontana helps him in the difficult mission to inform the world.

Director: Costa-Gavras | Stars: Ulrich Tukur, Mathieu Kassovitz, Ulrich Mühe, Michel Duchaussoy

Votes: 14,982 | Gross: $0.27M

10. Frankenstein Meets the Spacemonster (1965)

Unrated | 79 min | Horror, Sci-Fi

A Martian princess and a doctor replace the women on Mars, destroyed by atomic war, by raiding Puerto Rico while a shot down android terrorizes all.

Director: Robert Gaffney | Stars: Marilyn Hanold, James Karen, Lou Cutell, Nancy Marshall

Votes: 1,795

11. Fortune and Men's Eyes (1971)

R | 102 min | Drama

The young, naive Smitty is sent to prison for six months; Cathy, his girlfriend, watches as he disappears behind the bars and barbed wire. He's assigned a cell with Queenie, a balls-out ... See full summary »

Directors: Harvey Hart, Jules Schwerin | Stars: Wendell Burton, Michael Greer, Zooey Hall, Danny Freedman

Votes: 568 | Gross: $0.18M

12. T-Force (1994)

R | 105 min | Action, Sci-Fi

In the near future, after a hostage situation goes awry, the last resort option of law enforcement, cybernaut unit T-Force, is ordered to be disassembled. But the robots see this as a "... See full summary »

Director: Richard Pepin | Stars: Jack Scalia, Evan Lurie, Erin Gray, Bobby Johnston

Votes: 689

13. We Were Here (I) (2011)

Not Rated | 90 min | Documentary, Biography, History

A deep and reflective look at the arrival and impact of AIDS in San Francisco and how individuals rose to the occasion during the first years of this unimaginable crisis.

Directors: David Weissman, Bill Weber | Stars: Ed Wolf, Daniel Goldstein, Guy Clark, Eileen Glutzer

Votes: 2,280

14. The Search for John Gissing (2001)

Not Rated | 91 min | Comedy

Matthew Barnes is a young exec on the move up who finds himself a pawn in corporate in-fighting when he's sent to London to oversee a merger. He's to replace John Gissing; Gissing's gotten ... See full summary »

Director: Mike Binder | Stars: Mike Binder, Tim Briggs, Allan Corduner, Janeane Garofalo

Votes: 962

15. Y2K: The Game (1999 Video Game)

T | Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi

At midnight on December 31st, 1999, a geeky wise-cracking lottery-winner, Buster, and his beautiful girlfriend Candice become trapped in a high-tech house run by an A.I. made self-conscious by the fabled Y2K bug.

Stars: Michael Bell, Dan Castellaneta, Grey Griffin, Tony Jay

16. Family Rewritten (2017)

14 min | Documentary, Animation, Short

Despite battling Cystic Fibrosis, Camilla, age 16, identifies as a typical middle-class American teenager until the thread that holds her family together suddenly snaps.

Director: Yasmin Mistry | Stars: Camilla Tecsy, Lesley Frey, Farhan Ali, Kim Flodin

17. Amy's End (2010)

11 min | Short, Crime, Drama

An unsuspecting family falls victim to a B&E that rapidly escalates into a full-blown home invasion. With the intruder panicking in the next room, a severely injured mother struggles to protect her eight-year-old daughter.

Director: Tracy D. Smith | Stars: Maia Gagnon, Elias Toufexis, Lori Triolo

18. The Outer Limits (1995–2002)
Episode: I, Robot (1995)

TV-PG | 45 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror

Legendary lawyer Thurman Cutler is hired to defend Adam, a humanoid robot with many human qualities including speech, rational mind and empathy, who's been accused of murdering his creator. Cutler suspects there's more to the story.

Director: Adam Nimoy | Stars: Cynthia Preston, Barbara Tyson, Nathaniel DeVeaux, Leonard Nimoy

Votes: 509

19. Superman: The Animated Series (1996–2000)
Episode: The Last Son of Krypton: Part I (1996)

Unrated | 21 min | Animation, Action, Adventure

Jor-El, unable to convince the Kryptonian government of the pending destruction of the planet, plans to save his son while Brainiac makes him a fugitive.

Director: Dan Riba | Stars: Christopher McDonald, Finola Hughes, Corey Burton, Tony Jay

Votes: 756

20. The X-Files (1993–2018)
Episode: Død Kalm (1995)

TV-14 | 45 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

The crew of a U.S. military ship that disappeared in the Norwegian Sea is found dead from what seems to be rapid aging. Thinking it's another Philadelphia Experiment, Mulder boards the ghost ship along with Scully and a local skipper.

Director: Rob Bowman | Stars: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, John Savage, David Cubitt

Votes: 4,653

21. The Last of Us (2023– )
Episode: Left Behind (2023)

TV-MA | 55 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

As Joel fights to survive, Ellie looks back on the night that changed everything.

Director: Liza Johnson | Stars: Pedro Pascal, Bella Ramsey, Storm Reid, Terry Chen

Votes: 67,414