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

1. Schitt's Creek (2015–2020)

TV-14 | 22 min | Comedy

After being a victim of fraud, Johnny Rose and his family go from extremely wealthy to penniless overnight. The only asset left to them is a small, unsophisticated town: Schitt's Creek. They relocate there. Culture shock ensues.

Stars: Eugene Levy, Catherine O'Hara, Dan Levy, Annie Murphy

Votes: 146,677

2. The Dead Don't Die (2019)

R | 104 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Horror

Two pioneers fight for their lives and their love on the American frontier during the Civil War.

Director: Jim Jarmusch | Stars: Bill Murray, Adam Driver, Tilda Swinton, Tom Waits

Votes: 85,961 | Gross: $6.56M

3. Psycho (1960)

R | 109 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller

A Phoenix secretary embezzles $40,000 from her employer's client, goes on the run and checks into a remote motel run by a young man under the domination of his mother.

Director: Alfred Hitchcock | Stars: Anthony Perkins, Janet Leigh, Vera Miles, John Gavin

Votes: 719,565 | Gross: $32.00M

4. The Neon Demon (2016)

R | 117 min | Horror, Thriller

An aspiring model, Jesse, is new to Los Angeles. However, her beauty and youth, which generate intense fascination and jealousy within the fashion industry, may prove themselves sinister.

Director: Nicolas Winding Refn | Stars: Elle Fanning, Christina Hendricks, Keanu Reeves, Karl Glusman

Votes: 104,076 | Gross: $1.33M

5. The Layover (I) (2017)

R | 88 min | Comedy, Romance

Two friends on a road trip compete for the affections of a handsome man when a hurricane redirects their flight.

Director: William H. Macy | Stars: Kate Upton, Alexandra Daddario, Matt Barr, Matt Jones

Votes: 16,899

6. Psycho (1998)

R | 105 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller

A young female embezzler arrives at the Bates Motel, which has terrible secrets of its own.

Director: Gus Van Sant | Stars: Vince Vaughn, Anne Heche, Julianne Moore, Viggo Mortensen

Votes: 50,746 | Gross: $21.46M

7. Gargoyles (1972 TV Movie)

Not Rated | 74 min | Horror

An anthropologist/paleontologist and his daughter, while travelling through the southwestern U.S., stumble upon a colony of living, breathing gargoyles.

Director: Bill Norton | Stars: Cornel Wilde, Jennifer Salt, Grayson Hall, Bernie Casey

Votes: 3,782

8. Priceless (II) (2016)

PG-13 | 97 min | Crime, Drama, Romance

A widower who's lost custody of his daughter finds himself unable to hold down a job. He agrees to drive a truck cross-country, no questions asked, but when he discovers the nature of his cargo, he is faced with a life-changing decision.

Director: Ben Smallbone | Stars: Joel Smallbone, Bianca A. Santos, David Koechner, Jim Parrack

Votes: 4,149 | Gross: $1.50M

9. Tales from the Crypt: Demon Knight (1995)

R | 92 min | Action, Fantasy, Horror

High-level demons collect low-level demons as warriors in attempt to obtain a key containing the blood of Christ. The key is guarded by immortal warriors called Demon Knights.

Director: Ernest R. Dickerson | Stars: Billy Zane, William Sadler, Jada Pinkett Smith, Brenda Bakke

Votes: 26,353 | Gross: $21.09M

10. Bates Motel (1987 TV Movie)

TV-PG | 90 min | Comedy, Drama, Horror

A mentally disturbed man, who roomed with the late Norman Bates at the state lunatic asylum, inherits the legendary Bates Motel after the death of Norman and tries to fix it up to make it a respectable business.

Director: Richard Rothstein | Stars: Bud Cort, Lori Petty, Moses Gunn, Gregg Henry

Votes: 1,775

11. Taking Woodstock (2009)

R | 120 min | Biography, Comedy, Drama

A man working at his parents' motel in the Catskills inadvertently sets in motion the generation-defining concert in the summer of 1969.

Director: Ang Lee | Stars: Demetri Martin, Henry Goodman, Edward Hibbert, Imelda Staunton

Votes: 30,023 | Gross: $7.44M

12. Sweet Virginia (2017)

R | 93 min | Action, Drama, Thriller

A former rodeo champ befriends a young man with a propensity for violence.

Director: Jamie M. Dagg | Stars: Jon Bernthal, Christopher Abbott, Imogen Poots, Rosemarie DeWitt

Votes: 11,680 | Gross: $0.01M

13. The City of the Dead (1960)

PG-13 | 76 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller

A young college student arrives in a sleepy Massachusetts town to research witchcraft; during her stay at an eerie inn, she discovers a startling secret about the town and its inhabitants.

Director: John Llewellyn Moxey | Stars: Patricia Jessel, Dennis Lotis, Christopher Lee, Tom Naylor

Votes: 8,539

14. Looking Glass (I) (2018)

R | 103 min | Mystery, Thriller

A couple buy a desert motel where they find that strange, mysterious events occur.

Director: Tim Hunter | Stars: Nicolas Cage, Robin Tunney, Marc Blucas, Ernie Lively

Votes: 7,873

15. Cold Comes the Night (2013)

R | 90 min | Action, Crime, Mystery

A struggling motel owner and her daughter are taken hostage by a nearly blind career criminal to be his eyes as he attempts to retrieve his cash package from a crooked cop.

Director: Tze Chun | Stars: Alice Eve, Bryan Cranston, Logan Marshall-Green, Ursula Parker

Votes: 9,847

16. The Silence of the Hams (1994)

R | 81 min | Comedy, Thriller

The federal agent Jo Dee Fostar is currently investigating a serial killer, helped by doctor Animal who is isolated in a maximum security jail.

Director: Ezio Greggio | Stars: Ezio Greggio, Dom DeLuise, Billy Zane, Joanna Pacula

Votes: 6,042

17. Digging to China (1997)

PG | 98 min | Drama

10 y.o. Harriet's divorced mom owns and runs a motel. Harriet's an outsider and wants to leave. A woman stays there with her adult, disabled son who befriends Harriet.

Director: Timothy Hutton | Stars: Evan Rachel Wood, Kevin Bacon, Mary Stuart Masterson, Marian Seldes

Votes: 2,985 | Gross: $0.03M

18. The Prowler (1951)

Approved | 92 min | Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller

After Susan Gilvray reports a prowler outside her house police officer Webb Garwood investigates and sparks fly. If only her husband wasn't in the way.

Director: Joseph Losey | Stars: Van Heflin, Evelyn Keyes, John Maxwell, Katherine Warren

Votes: 4,108

19. Palm Springs Weekend (1963)

Unrated | 100 min | Comedy, Drama

College students on spring break in Palm Springs pursue romantic entanglements. Jim falls for Bunny, Biff for Amanda. Gayle poses as a student while Eric courts her. Their coach flirts with a motel owner amid her son's antics.

Director: Norman Taurog | Stars: Troy Donahue, Connie Stevens, Ty Hardin, Stefanie Powers

Votes: 1,193

20. I Died a Thousand Times (1955)

Passed | 109 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

After aging criminal Roy Earle is released from prison he decides to pull one last heist before retiring - by robbing a resort hotel.

Director: Stuart Heisler | Stars: Jack Palance, Shelley Winters, Lori Nelson, Lee Marvin

Votes: 1,625

21. The Motel (2005)

Not Rated | 75 min | Comedy, Drama

Thirteen-year-old Ernest Chin lives and works at a sleazy hourly-rate motel on a strip of desolate suburban bi-way. Misunderstood by his family and blindly careening into puberty, Ernest ... See full summary »

Director: Michael Kang | Stars: Jeffrey Chyau, Sung Kang, Jade Wu, Samantha Futerman

Votes: 1,427 | Gross: $0.05M

22. Taking Chances (2009)

R | 99 min | Comedy

A troubled town is having an Indian casino built on a historic battlefield. Chase, working at the town museum, opposes it. He meets the cute Lucy. They start a petition against the casino.

Director: Talmage Cooley | Stars: Justin Long, Emmanuelle Chriqui, Rob Corddry, Keir O'Donnell

Votes: 1,449

23. Stray Dolls (2019)

Unrated | 97 min | Crime, Thriller

One petty crime spirals into the next.

Director: Sonejuhi Sinha | Stars: Cynthia Nixon, Olivia DeJonge, Robert Aramayo, Shiloh Verrico

Votes: 503

24. The Big Chase (1954)

Approved | 60 min | Crime, Drama

An LAPD rookie tangles with state prison paroled convicts who plan to rob an armored payroll truck in Los Angeles.

Directors: Arthur Hilton, Robert L. Lippert Jr. | Stars: Glenn Langan, Adele Jergens, Lon Chaney Jr., Jim Davis

Votes: 175

25. Shadows in the Storm (1988)

R | 85 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

A married man suffering from midlife crisis obsesses over a girl from his romantic fantasy. He meets her exact duplicate on vacation and helps her get rid of her abusive husband. They run off together but a caller starts blackmailing him.

Director: Terrell Tannen | Stars: Ned Beatty, Mia Sara, Michael Madsen, Donna Mitchell

Votes: 253

26. Portrait of a White Marriage (1988 TV Movie)

101 min | Comedy, Romance

Joyce and Hal Harrison have a perfect marriage until Joyce asks her favorite daytime talk show host Martin Mull to visit their small town in Ohio and shoot an episode of his TV show there. Hal quickly becomes jealous and acts out on it.

Director: Harry Shearer | Stars: Martin Mull, Mary Kay Place, Fred Willard, David Arnott

Votes: 140

27. The Circle (I) (2005)

Not Rated | 103 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller

A frantic young woman begs a stranger to help save her marked husband, not realizing that the stranger is the hit man hired to kill him. Experimental digital movie shot entirely in one take and in real time.

Director: Yuri Zeltser | Stars: Angela Bettis, Scott Cohen, Henry Czerny, David Proval

Votes: 372

28. Monsters (1988–1990)
Episode: Jar (1989)

TV-14 | 21 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy

Neo-noir tale set in a motel about a shady private investigator and a femme fatale who uses the content of a mysterious jar to get rid of her husband.

Director: Bette Gordon | Stars: Fritz Weaver, Richard Edson, Gina Gershon, Ed Kovens

Votes: 98

29. A Country Practice (1981–1993)
Episode: Friday the 13th: Part 2 (1984)

Drama, Romance

Janet continues to call Terence at the clinic threatening suicide but the situation grows more serious when she tells Terence she plans to take her daughter with her.

Director: Bob Meillon | Stars: Shane Porteous, Grant Dodwell, Penny Cook, Lorrae Desmond

30. Derrick (1974–1998)
Episode: Raskos Kinder (1985)

59 min | Crime, Drama

Albert Rasko, a money courier, is robbed and stabbed to death.

Director: Theodor Grädler | Stars: Horst Tappert, Fritz Wepper, Anja Jaenicke, Volker Eckstein

Votes: 61

31. Perry Mason (1957–1966)
Episode: The Case of the Restless Redhead (1957)

TV-PG | 52 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Perry's client is menaced by a car driven by a hooded man, whom she shoots at with a gun that was planted in her room. When the guy winds up dead from a bullet, Perry confuses matters by firing an identical gun later at the scene.

Director: William D. Russell | Stars: Raymond Burr, Barbara Hale, William Hopper, William Talman

Votes: 760

32. Tales from the Darkside (1983–1988)
Episode: The Old Soft Shoe (1986)

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

A traveling salesman has a ghostly date with an attractive woman in a motel, which turns ominous.

Director: Richard Friedman | Stars: Paul Dooley, John Fiedler, Kathy McLain, Dorothy Parke

Votes: 267

33. The X-Files (1993–2018)
Episode: Humbug (1995)

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

The agents search for a killer in a Florida town inhabited by sideshow performers.

Director: Kim Manners | Stars: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Jim Rose, Wayne Grace

Votes: 5,940

34. Schitt's Creek (2015–2020)
Episode: Sunrise, Sunset (2020)

TV-14 | 22 min | Comedy

Moira's former "Sunrise Bay" producers show up with big news while Alexis binge-watches old episodes of the soap.

Director: Jordan Canning | Stars: Eugene Levy, Catherine O'Hara, Dan Levy, Annie Murphy

Votes: 1,253

35. NCIS (2003– )
Episode: No Vacancy (2019)

TV-14 | 43 min | Action, Crime, Drama

While investigating a Marine's murder, the NCIS team uncovers a network of live-streaming hidden spy cameras in the rooms of a Virginia motel.

Director: Rocky Carroll | Stars: Mark Harmon, Sean Murray, Wilmer Valderrama, Emily Wickersham

Votes: 465

36. S.W.A.T. (2017– )
Episode: Witness (2023)

TV-14 | Action, Adventure, Crime

The SWAT team races to locate a young boy abducted from a homeless shelter. Street allows his personal history to cloud his judgment. Hondo and Nichelle disagree over spiritual beliefs.

Director: Alex Russell | Stars: Shemar Moore, Alex Russell, Kenny Johnson, David Lim

Votes: 338

37. Sleepy Hollow (2013–2017)
Episode: Spellcaster (2015)

TV-14 | 44 min | Action, Adventure, Crime

After escaping purgatory, a warlock who triggered the Salem witch trials returns to find a dangerous book of spells. Meanwhile, Abbie attempts to trust Frank Irving again, while Henry struggles to find his identity.

Director: Paul A. Edwards | Stars: Tom Mison, Nicole Beharie, Orlando Jones, Katia Winter

Votes: 576

38. Battle Creek (2015)
Episode: Old Wounds (2015)

TV-14 | 44 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

Milt is caught in the middle of Commander Guziewicz's personal life when her adopted son (Rotimi Akinosho) asks him to investigate if the man jailed for his birth parents' murders is actually innocent.

Director: Randy Zisk | Stars: Josh Duhamel, Dean Winters, Aubrey Dollar, Edward Fordham Jr.

Votes: 273

39. Quarry (2016)
Episode: Seldom Realized (2016)

TV-MA | 58 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

Fearing for his wife's safety, Mac checks himself and Joni into a motel.

Director: Greg Yaitanes | Stars: Logan Marshall-Green, Jodi Balfour, Damon Herriman, Edoardo Ballerini

Votes: 598

40. Half Minute Horror (2014– )
Episode: Steak & Eggs Part I (2014)

Horror

Check into the Edward's B&B - Steak and Eggs for breakfast, bright and early at 8am.

Director: Tashina Southard | Star: Alex Newborn

41. Schitt's Creek (2015–2020)
Episode: Driving Test (2017)

TV-MA | 22 min | Comedy

Johnny and Moira worry about the future of the motel; David panics at the thought of retaking his driving test.

Director: Paul Fox | Stars: Eugene Levy, Catherine O'Hara, Dan Levy, Annie Murphy

Votes: 1,468

42. Mike Tyson Mysteries (2014–2020)
Episode: Mike Tysonland (2018)

TV-14 | 11 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy

After wrapping up his subplot with Carol, Mike and the gang visit a piece of worthless desert land he plans to put in good use. A local clan of paranoid rednecks mistakes them for the Feds who came for their guns and decides to kill them.

Stars: Mike Tyson, Norm MacDonald, Rachel Ramras, Jim Rash

Votes: 71