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1. The Worst Person in the World (2021)
R | 128 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
The chronicles of four years in the life of Julie, a young woman who navigates the troubled waters of her love life and struggles to find her career path, leading her to take a realistic look at who she really is.
Director: Joachim Trier | Stars: Renate Reinsve, Anders Danielsen Lie, Herbert Nordrum, Hans Olav Brenner
Votes: 97,692
2. The Girl on the Train (2016)
R | 112 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A divorcee becomes entangled in a missing persons investigation that promises to send shockwaves throughout her life.
Director: Tate Taylor | Stars: Emily Blunt, Haley Bennett, Rebecca Ferguson, Justin Theroux
Votes: 199,489 | Gross: $75.40M
3. Beowulf (2007)
PG-13 | 115 min | Animation, Action, Adventure
The warrior Beowulf must fight and defeat the monster Grendel, who is terrorizing Denmark, then Grendel's Mother, who begins killing out of revenge.
Director: Robert Zemeckis | Stars: Ray Winstone, Crispin Glover, Angelina Jolie, Robin Wright
Votes: 174,195 | Gross: $82.16M
4. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966)
Not Rated | 131 min | Drama
A bitter, aging couple, with the help of alcohol, use their young houseguests to fuel anguish and emotional pain towards each other over the course of a distressing night.
Director: Mike Nichols | Stars: Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, George Segal, Sandy Dennis
Votes: 79,953
5. 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: 72,622 | Gross: $13.01M
6. From Here to Eternity (1953)
Passed | 118 min | Drama, Romance, War
At a U.S. Army base in 1941 Hawaii, a private is cruelly punished for not boxing on his unit's team, while his commanding officer's wife and top aide begin a tentative affair.
Director: Fred Zinnemann | Stars: Burt Lancaster, Montgomery Clift, Deborah Kerr, Donna Reed
Votes: 50,846 | Gross: $30.50M
7. I'm Your Man (2021)
R | 108 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
In order to obtain research funds for her studies, a scientist accepts an offer to participate in an extraordinary experiment: for three weeks, she is to live with a humanoid robot, created to make her happy.
Director: Maria Schrader | Stars: Maren Eggert, Dan Stevens, Sandra Hüller, Hans Löw
Votes: 12,653
8. The Bad Seed (1956)
Approved | 129 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller
Rhoda Penmark seems like your average, sweet eight-year-old girl. After her rival at school dies in mysterious circumstances at the school picnic, her mother starts to suspect that Rhoda was responsible.
Director: Mervyn LeRoy | Stars: Nancy Kelly, Patty McCormack, Gage Clarke, Jesse White
Votes: 15,785
9. 45 Years (2015)
R | 95 min | Drama, Romance
A married couple preparing to celebrate their wedding anniversary receives shattering news that promises to forever change the course of their lives.
Director: Andrew Haigh | Stars: Charlotte Rampling, Tom Courtenay, Geraldine James, Dolly Wells
Votes: 35,158 | Gross: $4.25M
10. Under the Sand (2000)
Unrated | 92 min | Drama, Mystery
When her husband goes missing at the beach, a female professor begins to mentally disintegrate as her denial of his disappearance becomes delusional.
Director: François Ozon | Stars: Charlotte Rampling, Bruno Cremer, Jacques Nolot, Alexandra Stewart
Votes: 11,414 | Gross: $1.45M
11. Six Shooter (2004)
Not Rated | 27 min | Short, Comedy, Drama
A black and bloody Irish comedy about a sad train journey where an older man, whose wife has died that morning, encounters a strange and possibly psychotic young oddball....
Director: Martin McDonagh | Stars: Brendan Gleeson, Rúaidhrí Conroy, David Wilmot, Aisling O'Sullivan
Votes: 14,322
12. Désirée (1954)
Approved | 110 min | Biography, Drama, History
The rise and fall of Napoleon Bonaparte, Emperor of France.
Director: Henry Koster | Stars: Marlon Brando, Jean Simmons, Merle Oberon, Michael Rennie
Votes: 3,481 | Gross: $9.81M
13. Unrelated (2007)
Not Rated | 100 min | Drama
A woman in an unhappy relationship takes refuge with a friend's family on holiday in Tuscany.
Director: Joanna Hogg | Stars: Kathryn Worth, Harry Kershaw, Emma Hiddleston, Henry Lloyd-Hughes
Votes: 2,954
14. The Long Gray Line (1955)
Approved | 138 min | Biography, Comedy, Drama
In 1898, Irish immigrant Martin Maher is hired as a civilian employee at West Point where, during a 50-year career, he rises to the rank of NCO and instructor.
Director: John Ford | Stars: Tyrone Power, Maureen O'Hara, Robert Francis, Donald Crisp
Votes: 3,285
15. A Tale of Love and Darkness (2015)
PG-13 | 95 min | Biography, Drama, History
The story of Amos Oz's youth, set against the backdrop of the end of the British Mandate for Palestine and the early years of the State of Israel. The film details the young man's relationship with his mother and his beginnings as a writer, while looking at what happens when the stories we tell become the stories we live.
Director: Natalie Portman | Stars: Natalie Portman, Gilad Kahana, Amir Tessler, Moni Moshonov
Votes: 4,353 | Gross: $0.57M
16. Shelley (2016)
Not Rated | 92 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
Louise and Kasper want to become parents but Louise is unable to have children. She seals a pact with her Romanian maid, Elena, to bear Louise's child, but things don't turn out as they planned.
Director: Ali Abbasi | Stars: Ellen Dorrit Petersen, Cosmina Stratan, Peter Christoffersen, Björn Andrésen
Votes: 4,078
17. Sacrifice (II) (2016)
Not Rated | 91 min | Crime, Horror, Mystery
After digging up a bizarrely mutilated corpse on her land, physician Tora Hamilton uncovers a lethal connection to ancient pagan rituals.
Director: Peter A. Dowling | Stars: Radha Mitchell, Rupert Graves, Ian McElhinney, Joanne Crawford
Votes: 4,829
18. To Each His Own (1946)
Approved | 122 min | Drama, Romance
An unwed mother, forced to give up her child to avoid scandal, follows her son's life from afar even as she prospers in business.
Director: Mitchell Leisen | Stars: Olivia de Havilland, John Lund, Mary Anderson, Roland Culver
Votes: 3,026
19. The Baby Maker (1970)
R | 109 min | Drama
After Tish Gray gives up her baby for adoption, she is contacted by a childless couple who want her to have the husband's baby because of the wife's inability to conceive. She accepts the ... See full summary »
Director: James Bridges | Stars: Barbara Hershey, Collin Wilcox Paxton, Sam Groom, Scott Glenn
Votes: 350
20. Mélo (1986)
Not Rated | 112 min | Drama, Romance
In Paris in the 1920s, a concert violinist meets and falls in love with a stylish young flapper who's the wife of an old friend. Romaine instigates the affair with Marcel, and carries it ... See full summary »
Director: Alain Resnais | Stars: Sabine Azéma, Fanny Ardant, Pierre Arditi, André Dussollier
Votes: 1,838
21. Sixtynine 69 (1969)
98 min | Drama, Romance
Tuula's husband Jukka takes care of all domestic chores. Tuula seems to have no idea that her husband spends his evenings working as a major league ice hockey referee. She also finds out ... See full summary »
Director: Jörn Donner | Stars: Ritva Vepsä, Sven-Bertil Taube, Seija Tyni, Jörn Donner
Votes: 261
22. Birthgap (2023)
105 min | Documentary
"Birthgap - Childless World" sets out to understand why birthrates have been falling across the industrialized world and beyond for decades through a journey of discovery across 24 ... See full summary »
Director: Stephen J Shaw | Stars: Jack Ma, Elon Musk, Richard Nixon, Stephen J Shaw
Votes: 54
23. Blossoms in the Dust (1941)
Approved | 99 min | Biography, Drama, Romance
After losing her young son, Edna Gladney opposes the unfair laws discriminating against children whose parents are unknown, and opens an orphanage for those children.
Director: Mervyn LeRoy | Stars: Greer Garson, Walter Pidgeon, Felix Bressart, Marsha Hunt
Votes: 2,293
24. Divided We Fall (2000)
PG-13 | 117 min | Comedy, Drama, War
In German-occupied Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia (Czechoslovakia), a childless couple agree to hide a Jewish friend at great personal risk of discovery and execution.
Director: Jan Hrebejk | Stars: Bolek Polívka, Csongor Kassai, Jaroslav Dusek, Anna Sisková
Votes: 5,392 | Gross: $1.32M
25. Ushpizin (2004)
PG | 90 min | Drama
An Orthodox Jewish couple's faith is tested after praying to the Lord for a child on the Succoth holiday.
Director: Gidi Dar | Stars: Shuli Rand, Michal Bat-Sheva Rand, Shaul Mizrahi, Ilan Ganani
Votes: 2,131 | Gross: $1.40M
26. Tsunami (2020)
177 min | Drama, Thriller
The effects of the 2004 tsunami in Thailand on a number of fictional Swedish characters.
Stars: Henrik Norlén, Liv Mjönes, Rufus Glaser, Louise Peterhoff
Votes: 335
27. Close to My Heart (1951)
Approved | 90 min | Drama
A columnist and his wife deal with obstacles when they try to adopt an abandoned baby.
Director: William Keighley | Stars: Ray Milland, Gene Tierney, Fay Bainter, Howard St. John
Votes: 542
28. Producing Adults (2004)
102 min | Comedy, Drama
Longtime couple Venla and Antero come to a serious impasse: After years with Antero, Venla wants to start a family, but her boyfriend, worried that parenthood will stifle his speed-skating ... See full summary »
Director: Aleksi Salmenperä | Stars: Minna Haapkylä, Kari-Pekka Toivonen, Minttu Mustakallio, Tommi Eronen
Votes: 1,321
29. Zonen (1996)
336 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
The Military evacuates a zone in the Lapland mountains, under the pretext that there is an ongoing exercise. The district doctor gets suspicious when one of his patients, who lived inside ... See full summary »
Stars: Jacob Nordenson, Peter Haber, Thomas Hanzon, Sissela Kyle
Votes: 189
30. Rahti (2021)
45 min | Crime, Drama
A young Eritrean woman's life is turned upside down when she is forced to flee to Finland with her husband and daughter.
Stars: Evelyn Rasmussen Osazuwa, Johannes Holopainen, Alain Azerot, Oona Airola
Votes: 223
31. Gorilla My Dreams (1948)
Approved | 7 min | Family, Animation, Short
Mrs. Gorilla want to adopt Bugs; Mr. G. only wants to chase him.
Director: Robert McKimson | Star: Mel Blanc
Votes: 1,301
32. Navodneniye (1993)
99 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
This is 1920: Sophia and Trofim Ivanytch have been living on Vassilievski Island, which is part of Petrograd, for thirteen years. In their house, which looks like a ship wreck, the ... See full summary »
Director: Igor Minaiev | Stars: Isabelle Huppert, Boris Nevzorov, Svetlana Kryuchkova, Mariya Lipkina
Votes: 153
33. Lyubov v bolshom gorode 2 (2010)
Not Rated | 89 min | Comedy, Fantasy
Our three hapless heroes - Igor, Artyom, and Sauna - return for another lesson from St. Valentine. This time they must learn the true value of fatherhood.
Director: Marius Vaysberg | Stars: Aleksey Chadov, Vera Brezhneva, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Svetlana Khodchenkova
Votes: 1,310
34. Kronvittnet (1989)
107 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
Thomas, a scientist, lives in a childless marriage. When his wife travels to Copenhagen he begins an affair with a girl of 19. The girl and large amounts of drugs disappears from Thomas laboratory.
Director: Jon Lindström | Stars: Marika Lagercrantz, Per Mattsson, Gösta Ekman, Emma Norbeck
Votes: 256
35. Manon sur le bitume (I) (2007)
TV-MA | 15 min | Short, Drama, Romance
A woman gains a new insight of life while she's near death.
Directors: Elizabeth Marre, Olivier Pont | Star: Aude Léger
Votes: 350
36. Labyrinten (2000)
259 min | Drama, Thriller
In a small Swedish coastal village, a female prosecutor, Louise Rehnström, gets renewed interest in a series of economic crimes that took place several years ago.
Stars: Kirsti Eline Torhaug, Peter Schildt, Björn Granath, Stefan Sauk
Votes: 36
37. Cape of Good Hope (2004)
PG-13 | 107 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A Drama revolving around 3 women's lives and how they are intertwined.
Director: Mark Bamford | Stars: Debbie Brown, Farouk Valley-Omar, Parinita Jeaven, David Isaacs
Votes: 291
38. Bananas!* (2009)
Not Rated | 88 min | Documentary, Crime, Drama
Juan "Accidentes" Dominguez is on his biggest case ever. On behalf of twelve Nicaraguan banana workers he is tackling Dole Food in a ground-breaking legal battle for their use of a banned pesticide that was known by the company to cause sterility.
Director: Fredrik Gertten | Stars: Byron Rosales Romero, Juan J. Dominguez, Duane Miller, Rick McKnight
Votes: 961
39. Female Ninja Magic: 100 Trampled Flowers (1974)
76 min | Drama
This action-packed softcore melodrama concerns a group of female ninjas who use sexual magic along with their considerable fighting skills to protect their province from takeover by a ruthless shogun and his band of fighters.
Director: Chûsei Sone | Stars: Junko Miyashita, Hitomi Kozue, Yuko Katagiri, Hiroshi Chô
Votes: 47
40. Rakkauselokuva (1984)
72 min | Comedy, Drama
The Torniainen are a couple consisting of Raija, a flight attendant, and Hanski, a civil engineer. They have long wanted to have a child. Tests show that Hanski is infertile, and the doctor offers little hope.
Director: Anssi Mänttäri | Stars: Liisa Halonen, Antti Litja, Markku Toikka, Erkki Saarela
Votes: 48
41. Ystävät, toverit (1990)
132 min | Drama
Arno Jurmala is an appreciated nickel tycoon. He has an elegant wife and he owns a huge nickel factory somewhere in Northern Finland. When he is celebrating his birthday in the late 1930s, ... See full summary »
Director: Rauni Mollberg | Stars: Mikk Mikiver, Stina Ekblad, Hannu Lauri, Paavo Liski
Votes: 124
42. Bettkantengeschichten (1983–1990)
30 min | Drama, Family
At the beginning of each episode, a child makes an evil experience.
Stars: David Bredel, Gerrit Schmidt-Foß, Thomas Hodin, Peter Kirsch
Votes: 20
43. Mother Holly (1954)
90 min | Family, Fantasy
Director: Fritz Genschow | Stars: Renée Stobrawa, Rita-Maria Nowotny, Erika Petrick, Werner Stock
Votes: 36
44. Foetus (1994)
102 min | Drama
Director: Márta Mészáros | Stars: Adél Kováts, Aliona Antonova, Jan Nowicki, Barbara Hegyi
Votes: 44
45. The Wind Carpet (2003)
111 min | Drama, Family
A Japanese designer wants to have a custom woven Persian carpet to take part in a splendid Art Festival held in her hometown, Takayama. However, the weaver suddenly dies before the rug is ready.
Director: Kamal Tabrizi | Stars: Reza Kianian, Rentarô Mikuni, Takaaki Enoki, Miyu Yagyu
Votes: 430
46. Race Suicide (1916)
Drama
Following a prologue which shows that animals frequently desert their young, a jilted prehistoric suitor murders the child of the woman he loves. During the age of the Roman Empire, a ... See full summary »
Directors: George Terwilliger, Raymond L. Ditmars | Stars: Ormi Hawley, Earl Metcalfe, Kempton Greene, Octavia Handworth
47. Onnen varjot (2005)
99 min | Drama
Onnen varjot is a drama about human relationships, about love and forgiveness.
Director: Claes Olsson | Stars: Tiina Lymi, Nicke Lignell, Milka Ahlroth, Santeri Kinnunen
Votes: 303
48. Lumikit (1986 TV Movie)
80 min | Comedy, Drama
Director: Hannu Kahakorpi | Stars: Eeva-Maija Haukinen, Tarja Keinänen, Liisamaija Laaksonen, Kaija Pakarinen
Votes: 35
49. The Actor (1993)
88 min | Comedy, Drama
It is about a burly film actor who wants to act only in art films but is forced by his family's economic demands to do a string of trashy commercial movies. His tormented wife, infertile ... See full summary »
Director: Mohsen Makhmalbaf | Stars: Akbar Abdi, Azita Hajian, Hamideh Kheirabadi, Fatemah Motamed-Aria
Votes: 711
50. Nishi Padma (1970)
90 min | Drama
Pushpa is thrown out of her house by her husband, is pushed into prostitution by someone she trusts, and has a complex relationship with an unhappily married businessman, but finally gets what she has always longed for, i.e. becoming a mother.
Director: Arabinda Mukhopadhyay | Stars: Gangapada Basu, Premangshu Bose, Nripati Chatterjee, Savitri Chatterjee
Votes: 44