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51. A Promise (2013)
R | 98 min | Drama, Romance
A romantic drama set in Germany just before WWI and centered on a married woman who falls in love with her husband's protégé. Separated first by duties and then by the war, they pledge their devotion to one another.
Director: Patrice Leconte | Stars: Rebecca Hall, Alan Rickman, Richard Madden, Toby Murray
Votes: 4,528
52. Poison (2001 Video)
R | 92 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A scorned woman seeks revenge for her husband's suicide by integrating herself as a housekeeper for the dysfunctional Garrett family to first alienate, and then emotionally and sexually destroy them.
Director: Jim Wynorski | Stars: Kari Wuhrer, Jeff Trachta, Barbara Crampton, Melissa Stone
Votes: 949
53. The Carpetbaggers (1964)
Approved | 150 min | Drama, Romance
Jonas Cord is a disagreeable young tycoon who's building planes, directing films, and catting around on the corporate make in 1930s Hollywood.
Director: Edward Dmytryk | Stars: George Peppard, Alan Ladd, Robert Cummings, Martha Hyer
Votes: 2,502 | Gross: $28.41M
54. Inshallah a Boy (2023)
113 min | Drama
A widow pretends to be pregnant with a son in order to save her daughter and home from a relative exploiting Jordan's patriarchal inheritance laws.
Director: Amjad Al Rasheed | Stars: Mouna Hawa, Haitham Alomari, Yumna Marwan, Salwa Nakkara
Votes: 1,119
55. Jack of All Trades (2000)
30 min | Adventure, Action, Comedy
Jack Stiles, American spy stationed on a South Pacific island in the early 19th century, teams up with no nonsense British agent Emilia Rothschild to stop Napoleon's colonizing efforts. Jack's alter ego is the Zorro-esque Daring Dragoon.
Stars: Bruce Campbell, Angela Marie Dotchin, Stuart Devenie, Stephen Papps
Votes: 3,113
56. The Glass Bottom Boat (1966)
Approved | 110 min | Comedy, Romance
After a series of misunderstandings, the head of an aerospace research laboratory begins to suspect that his new girlfriend is a Russian spy.
Director: Frank Tashlin | Stars: Doris Day, Rod Taylor, Arthur Godfrey, John McGiver
Votes: 5,252
57. Double Jeopardy (1992 TV Movie)
R | 99 min | Thriller
Jack is married to a lawyer and has a daughter. Lisa, an ex, pops up after ten years. Lisa kills a man raping her in her apartment. Complications - Jack just left her after sex.
Director: Lawrence Schiller | Stars: Rachel Ward, Bruce Boxleitner, Sela Ward, Sally Kirkland
Votes: 751
58. Revenir (2019)
77 min | Drama
A man in his early thirties returns to the rural farm of his childhood and rejoins the family struggle to get by.
Director: Jessica Palud | Stars: Niels Schneider, Adèle Exarchopoulos, Roman Coustère Hachez, Patrick d'Assumçao
Votes: 592
59. Incendiary (2008)
R | 96 min | Drama, Romance, Thriller
A woman's life is forever changed when tragedy strikes at a soccer match.
Director: Sharon Maguire | Stars: Michelle Williams, Ewan McGregor, Matthew Macfadyen, Nicholas Gleaves
Votes: 9,079
60. The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea (1976)
R | 105 min | Drama, Romance, Thriller
After his father dies, a disturbed young boy plots to take revenge on the new man in his mother's life.
Director: Lewis John Carlino | Stars: Sarah Miles, Kris Kristofferson, Jonathan Kahn, Margo Cunningham
Votes: 1,652
61. Caged (1950)
Not Rated | 97 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
A gentle, naive, pregnant 19-year-old widow is slowly, inexorably ground down by the hardened criminals, sadistic guards, and matron at a woman's prison. Will she be the same person when her sentence is up?
Director: John Cromwell | Stars: Eleanor Parker, Agnes Moorehead, Ellen Corby, Hope Emerson
Votes: 4,733
62. Ghosts Can't Do It (1989)
R | 95 min | Comedy, Crime, Fantasy
Elderly Scott kills himself after a heart attack wrecks his body, but then comes back as a ghost and convinces his loving young hot wife Katie to pick and kill a young man in order for Scott to possess his body and be with her again.
Director: John Derek | Stars: Bo Derek, Anthony Quinn, Don Murray, Julie Newmar
Votes: 2,943
63. The Lost City (2005)
R | 144 min | Drama, Romance
A wealthy Havana club owner and his family are torn apart by the violent sociopolitical upheaval brought about by the transition from the dictatorial regime of Batista to the Marxist revolution led by Fidel Castro in 1950s Cuba.
Director: Andy Garcia | Stars: Andy Garcia, Inés Sastre, Bill Murray, Alfredo Armenteros
Votes: 9,933 | Gross: $2.48M
64. Wild River (1960)
Approved | 110 min | Drama, History, Romance
A TVA bureaucrat comes to the river to do what none of his predecessors have been able to do - evict a stubborn octogenarian from her island before the rising waters engulf her.
Director: Elia Kazan | Stars: Montgomery Clift, Lee Remick, Jo Van Fleet, Albert Salmi
Votes: 6,196
65. Sunset Song (2015)
R | 135 min | Drama
The daughter of a Scottish farmer comes of age in the early 1900s.
Director: Terence Davies | Stars: Ken Blackburn, Mark Bonnar, Stuart Bowman, Emily-Jane Boyle
Votes: 4,062 | Gross: $0.16M
66. Delicacy (2011)
PG-13 | 108 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A French woman mourning over the death of her husband three years prior is courted by a Swedish co-worker.
Directors: David Foenkinos, Stéphane Foenkinos | Stars: Audrey Tautou, François Damiens, Bruno Todeschini, Mélanie Bernier
Votes: 13,926
67. Old Boyfriends (1979)
R | 103 min | Drama
When her marriage falls apart, a psychiatrist seeks out the former boyfriends who left the biggest impacts on her life, mostly in negative ways.
Director: Joan Tewkesbury | Stars: Talia Shire, Richard Jordan, John Belushi, Keith Carradine
Votes: 605
68. Dragonwyck (1946)
Not Rated | 103 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance
A simple Connecticut farm girl is recruited by a distant relative, an aristocratic patroon, to be governess to his young daughter in his Hudson Valley mansion.
Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz | Stars: Gene Tierney, Walter Huston, Vincent Price, Glenn Langan
Votes: 5,419
69. Pioneer Woman (1973 TV Movie)
TV-PG | 74 min | Western
Despite some initial hesitations, a family from the East decides to try their luck by settling in the harsh and dangerous West in 1867.
Director: Buzz Kulik | Stars: Joanna Pettet, William Shatner, David Janssen, Lance LeGault
Votes: 358
70. The Turning Point (1952)
Passed | 85 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Jerry McKibbon is a tough, no nonsense reporter, mentoring special prosecutor John Conroy in routing out corrupt officials in the city, which may even include Conroy's own police detective father as a suspect.
Director: William Dieterle | Stars: William Holden, Edmond O'Brien, Alexis Smith, Tom Tully
Votes: 1,785
71. Harper Valley P.T.A. (1978)
PG | 93 min | Comedy
A carefree single mother challenges the local PTA after they threaten to expel her daughter from school, due to her lifestyle.
Directors: Richard C. Bennett, Ralph Senensky | Stars: Barbara Eden, Ronny Cox, Nanette Fabray, Louis Nye
Votes: 1,274
72. Bad Therapy (2020)
97 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A couple seeks out Judy Small, a marriage counselor; but the counselor is more than what meets the eye.
Director: William Teitler | Stars: Rob Corddry, Anna Pniowsky, Alicia Silverstone, Aisha Tyler
Votes: 1,073
73. My 5 Wives (2000)
R | 100 min | Comedy
After his third divorce, a rich LA builder buys land in Utah for a ski resort. The dead landowner's cute wives come with the deal. A Vegas mob boss wanted the land and problems follow.
Director: Sidney J. Furie | Stars: Rodney Dangerfield, Andrew Dice Clay, John Byner, Molly Shannon
Votes: 1,901
74. Dangerous Liaisons (2012)
Not Rated | 110 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance
In Shanghai, an aging socialite's infatuation with her ex-boyfriend manifests itself as a risky game, where her former lover agrees to seduce, then abandon a naive young woman.
Director: Hur Jin-ho | Stars: Cecilia Cheung, Jang Dong-gun, Ziyi Zhang, Shawn Dou
Votes: 2,075 | Gross: $0.05M
75. Late Autumn (1960)
Not Rated | 128 min | Comedy, Drama
A widow tries to marry off her daughter with the help of her late husband's three friends.
Director: Yasujirô Ozu | Stars: Setsuko Hara, Yôko Tsukasa, Mariko Okada, Keiji Sada
Votes: 6,199
76. The Great Queen Seondeok (2009)
60 min | Biography, Drama, History
Story of Queen Seondeok who was born a princess, brought up among commoners and overcame many trials to become the ruler of Silla.
Stars: Jeong Woong-in, Kim Jung-hyun, Ryu Dam, Lee Yo-won
Votes: 1,420
77. How Much Loving Does a Normal Couple Need? (1967)
R | 70 min | Comedy
A man runs a broken down tourist trap along the Colorado River along with his French wife and his daughter. Business is so bad that he must pay a local alcoholic to entice tourists, called "suckers", to spend some time and money there.
Director: Russ Meyer | Stars: Jackie Moran, Babette Bardot, Adele Rein, Frank Bolger
Votes: 767
78. A Lovely Way to Die (1968)
TV-PG | 103 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A cop quits the force after too much disappointment in the system and becomes bodyguard to a rich recent widow on trial for her husband's murder. He decides to help her clear her name--and get over her husband.
Director: David Lowell Rich | Stars: Kirk Douglas, Sylva Koscina, Eli Wallach, Kenneth Haigh
Votes: 623
79. Suddenly (2013)
Not Rated | 90 min | Thriller
Four assassins pose as Secret Service agents to assassinate the President of the United States.
Director: Uwe Boll | Stars: Ray Liotta, Erin Karpluk, Dominic Purcell, Don MacKay
Votes: 1,783
80. Serangoon Road (2013)
561 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Serangoon Road is a detective noir series set against the tumultuous backdrop of 1960s Singapore.
Stars: Don Hany, Joan Chen, Maeve Dermody, Alaric
Votes: 697
81. Black Coal, Thin Ice (2014)
Not Rated | 110 min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller
An ex cop and his ex partner decide to follow up on investigation of a series of murders that ended their careers and shamed them, when identical murders begin again.
Director: Yi'nan Diao | Stars: Fan Liao, Gwei Lun-Mei, Xuebing Wang, Jingchun Wang
Votes: 9,598
82. Westbound (1958)
Passed | 72 min | Western
In 1864 Capt. John Hayes goes to Colorado to take over the stagecoach line and keep the flow of Western gold flowing and help the North win the Civil War.
Director: Budd Boetticher | Stars: Randolph Scott, Virginia Mayo, Karen Steele, Michael Dante
Votes: 1,513
83. Agostino (1962)
90 min | Drama
Agostino is a 13-year-old boy on vacation in Venice with his widowed mother. When a local stud seduces her, jealous Agostino joins a local group of juvenile delinquents out of protest. They force him to face his budding sexuality.
Director: Mauro Bolognini | Stars: Ingrid Thulin, Paolo Colombo, Mario Bartoletti, Aldo Bussaglia
Votes: 241
84. The Grasshopper (1970)
R | 98 min | Drama, Romance
A young woman's odyssey from innocence to decadence. Hopeful for a career in show business, Christine Adams leaves British Columbia with her boyfriend at age 19. But a detour to Las Vegas leads her into a life that no one would envy.
Director: Jerry Paris | Stars: Jacqueline Bisset, Jim Brown, Joseph Cotten, Corbett Monica
Votes: 609
85. Rollover (1981)
R | 116 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance
The wife of a murdered petrochemical company chairman and a banker investigating the liquidity of his new bank stumble upon an international financial scheme that could lead to global economic collapse.
Director: Alan J. Pakula | Stars: Jane Fonda, Kris Kristofferson, Hume Cronyn, Josef Sommer
Votes: 1,445 | Gross: $10.85M
86. The White River Kid (1999)
R | 99 min | Action, Comedy
Brother Edgar (Bob Hoskins) is a generous entrepreneur of low-quality socks who hides behind a self-bestowed cassock to avoid the low-level corruption of local sheriff (Randy Travis). He ... See full summary »
Director: Arne Glimcher | Stars: Bob Hoskins, Antonio Banderas, Ellen Barkin, Wes Bentley
Votes: 1,333
87. Confession of a Child of the Century (2012)
TV-MA | 120 min | Drama, Romance
Paris, 1830: Octave, betrayed by his mistress, sinks into despair and debauchery. His father's death leads him to the country where he meets Brigitte, a widow who is ten years his elder. ... See full summary »
Director: Sylvie Verheyde | Stars: Charlotte Gainsbourg, Pete Doherty, August Diehl, Lily Cole
Votes: 666
88. Holiday Affair (1949)
Approved | 87 min | Comedy, Drama, Family
A young widow is torn between a boring attorney and a romantic ne'er-do-well.
Director: Don Hartman | Stars: Robert Mitchum, Janet Leigh, Wendell Corey, Gordon Gebert
Votes: 7,059
89. Personal Property (1937)
Approved | 84 min | Comedy, Romance
Raymond Dabney returns to his family after trouble with the law. He convinces the sheriff to give him a job watching the house and furniture of widow Crystal Wetherby without knowing she is engaged to his brother.
Director: W.S. Van Dyke | Stars: Jean Harlow, Robert Taylor, Reginald Owen, Una O'Connor
Votes: 1,116
90. Lady Dragon (1992)
R | 97 min | Action, Crime, Drama
An ex-CIA agent (Kathy Gallagher) living in Indonesia tracks Ludvig Hauptman, the arms dealer who killed her husband. Along the way, she meets a young boy and his grandfather, who teach her in the ways of the Lady Dragon.
Director: David Worth | Stars: Cynthia Rothrock, Richard Norton, Robert Ginty, Bella Esperance
Votes: 712
91. The Cradle Will Fall (2004 TV Movie)
PG-13 | 93 min | Crime, Thriller
Charged with investigating the suicide of a pregnant woman, prosecutor Kate DeMaio unwittingly becomes entangled in a complex mystery involving cheating husbands, strange doctors and murder.
Director: Rob W. King | Stars: Angie Everhart, John Ralston, Philippe Brenninkmeyer, William B. Davis
Votes: 376
92. Lines of Wellington (2012)
Not Rated | 151 min | Drama, History, War
On September 27, 1810, the French troops commanded by Marshal Massena, were defeated in the Serra do Buçaco by the Anglo-Portuguese army of general Wellington. Despite the victory, ... See full summary »
Director: Valeria Sarmiento | Stars: Nuno Lopes, Soraia Chaves, Marisa Paredes, John Malkovich
Votes: 1,573
93. Little Gloria... Happy at Last (1982)
180 min | Biography, Drama
The story deals with Gloria Vanderbilt's difficult coming-of-age when, at eleven, she was a pawn in a custody battle between her sybaritic mother and her aunt.
Stars: Angela Lansbury, Maureen Stapleton, Martin Balsam, Glynis Johns
Votes: 878
94. Lover Boy (1975)
95 min | Comedy
A telegram has just arrived ant the Persichette home in Italy. It seems that their late grandfather's second wife, Maria Juana, is traveling from Venezuela to Italy to visit her stepson and... See full summary »
Director: Marino Girolami | Stars: Edwige Fenech, Valerio Fioravanti, Enrico Simonetti, Gianfranco D'Angelo
Votes: 386
95. Teresa (1987)
98 min | Drama
Teresa is a young widow who is concentrated on her little business until she hires Gino.
Director: Dino Risi | Stars: Serena Grandi, Luca Barbareschi, Eros Pagni, Flora Carosello
Votes: 171
96. The Chapman Report (1962)
Not Rated | 125 min | Drama, Romance
Based on the best-selling novel by Irving Wallace that was inspired by the Kinsey Report on the sexual mores of suburban women, the film follows the personal (read sexual) lives of four ... See full summary »
Director: George Cukor | Stars: Efrem Zimbalist Jr., Shelley Winters, Jane Fonda, Claire Bloom
Votes: 1,047
97. Young Widow (1946)
Passed | 100 min | Drama, Romance
A grieving war widow meets a young Lieutenant but spurns him for trying too hard to gain her affection. Will she give him a second chance when they meet again?
Director: Edwin L. Marin | Stars: Jane Russell, Louis Hayward, Faith Domergue, Marie Wilson
Votes: 342
98. All My Good Countrymen (1969)
120 min | Comedy, Drama
Various scenes in the life of a tight-knit community in Czechoslovakia exploring the human spirit in the backdrop of the political changes that they experience.
Director: Vojtech Jasný | Stars: Vlastimil Brodský, Radoslav Brzobohatý, Vladimír Mensík, Waldemar Matuska
Votes: 1,096
99. I Love You Rosa (1972)
77 min | Drama
The love of Nissim for his widowed sister-in-law, Rosa, in the Old City of Jerusalem at the turn of the century. Under a (very old) Jewish religious law, Nissim has the duty to marry his childless sister-in-law on the death of his brother.
Director: Moshé Mizrahi | Stars: Michal Bat-Adam, Gabi Otterman, Moshe Tal, Levana Finkelstein
Votes: 251
100. Tentazione (1987)
83 min | Drama, Thriller
Director: Sergio Bergonzelli | Stars: Trine Michelsen, Antonio Marsina, Olinka Hardiman, Marzio Honorato
Votes: 82