Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "search-for-meaning"

1. Crimes of the Future (2022)

R | 107 min | Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi

Humans adapt to a synthetic environment, with new transformations and mutations. With his partner Caprice, Saul Tenser, celebrity performance artist, publicly showcases the metamorphosis of his organs in avant-garde performances.

Director: David Cronenberg | Stars: Viggo Mortensen, Léa Seydoux, Kristen Stewart, Scott Speedman

Votes: 40,799

2. Nine (2009)

PG-13 | 118 min | Drama, Musical, Romance

Famous film director Guido Contini struggles to find harmony in his professional and personal lives, as he engages in dramatic relationships with his wife, his mistress, his muse, his agent, and his mother.

Director: Rob Marshall | Stars: Daniel Day-Lewis, Marion Cotillard, Penélope Cruz, Sandro Dori

Votes: 45,262 | Gross: $19.68M

3. Drugstore Cowboy (1989)

R | 101 min | Crime, Drama

A pharmacy-robbing dope fiend and his crew pop pills and evade the law.

Director: Gus Van Sant | Stars: Matt Dillon, Kelly Lynch, James Le Gros, Heather Graham

Votes: 40,688 | Gross: $4.73M

4. The Decalogue (1989–1990)

TV-MA | 60 min | Drama

Ten television drama films, each one based on one of the Ten Commandments.

Stars: Artur Barcis, Olgierd Lukaszewicz, Olaf Lubaszenko, Aleksander Bardini

Votes: 27,900 | Gross: $0.10M

5. Close Your Eyes (2023)

169 min | Drama

A Spanish actor disappears during the filming of a movie. Although his body is never found, the police conclude that he has suffered an accident at the edge of a cliff. Many years later, the mystery returns to the present day.

Director: Víctor Erice | Stars: Manolo Solo, Jose Coronado, Ana Torrent, Petra Martínez

Votes: 2,777

6. The Mother and the Whore (1973)

210 min | Drama, Romance

The chauvinist Alexandre balances relationships with several women in the post-1968 intellectual scene of Paris.

Director: Jean Eustache | Stars: Bernadette Lafont, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Françoise Lebrun, Isabelle Weingarten

Votes: 6,712

7. I Heart Huckabees (2004)

R | 107 min | Comedy

A husband-and-wife team play detective, but not in the traditional sense. Instead, the happy duo helps others solve their existential issues, the kind that keep you up at night, wondering what it all means.

Director: David O. Russell | Stars: Jason Schwartzman, Jude Law, Naomi Watts, Mark Wahlberg

Votes: 66,294 | Gross: $12.78M

8. Identification of a Woman (1982)

Not Rated | 130 min | Drama, Romance

A director's wife leaves him. He pursues another woman who also departs. This inspires a movie idea about women's relationships. He searches for an actress to star in the film and his life.

Director: Michelangelo Antonioni | Stars: Tomas Milian, Daniela Silverio, Christine Boisson, Lara Wendel

Votes: 3,241

9. Nightwatching (2007)

R | 134 min | Biography, Drama, History

An extravagant, exotic and moving look at Rembrandt's romantic and professional life, and the controversy he created by the identification of a murderer in the painting 'The Night Watch'.

Director: Peter Greenaway | Stars: Martin Freeman, Emily Holmes, Eva Birthistle, Jodhi May

Votes: 3,453

10. Izzy Gets the Fuck Across Town (2017)

86 min | Comedy, Drama, Music

A woman at rock bottom must find her way across Los Angeles in order to crash her ex-boyfriend's engagement party.

Director: Christian Papierniak | Stars: Mackenzie Davis, Dolly Wells, Alex Russell, LaKeith Stanfield

Votes: 2,051 | Gross: $0.03M

11. Love & Pop (1998)

110 min | Drama

A high school girl engages in compensated dating in order to buy an expensive ring before the day ends.

Director: Hideaki Anno | Stars: Tadanobu Asano, Mitsuru Fukikoshi, Megumi Hayashibara, Akira Ishida

Votes: 1,877

12. Savannah (2013)

PG-13 | 101 min | Drama, Family, History

Drama about the friendship between an Oxford-educated Southerner and a former black slave in turn-of-the-century Savannah.

Director: Annette Haywood-Carter | Stars: Jim Caviezel, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Jaimie Alexander, Bradley Whitford

Votes: 1,772 | Gross: $0.04M

13. The Milky Way (1969)

M/PG | 105 min | Comedy, Drama

Two drifters go on a pilgrimage from France to Santiago de Compostela in Spain. Along the way, they hitchhike, beg for food, and face the Christian dogmas and heresies from different Ages.

Director: Luis Buñuel | Stars: Paul Frankeur, Laurent Terzieff, Alain Cuny, Edith Scob

Votes: 8,100

14. The State of Things (1982)

121 min | Drama

The crew is running out of money to finish their film.

Director: Wim Wenders | Stars: Allen Garfield, Samuel Fuller, Isabelle Weingarten, Rebecca Pauly

Votes: 3,614 | Gross: $6.00M

15. Station to Station (2021)

Unrated | 128 min | Drama

With his life back East upended, a young man escapes to the electric anonymity of Las Vegas. When an intriguing offer puts him on an unexpected path, he learns how easily things left unresolved find a way of forcing their own resolution.

Director: Benjamin Bryant | Stars: David Eggers II, Jordan Getty, Cate Luna, Andrew Cawley

Votes: 196

16. He Died with a Felafel in His Hand (2001)

Not Rated | 107 min | Comedy, Romance

A nightmare chase through hell in a never-ending, unrequited daisy chain of desire...

Director: Richard Lowenstein | Stars: Noah Taylor, Emily Hamilton, Romane Bohringer, Sophie Lee

Votes: 4,053

17. Chloe and Theo (2015)

PG-13 | 81 min | Comedy, Drama

From the northern ice comes a gentler kind of hero.

Director: Ezna Sands | Stars: Theo Ikummaq, Dakota Johnson, Ashley Springer, André De Shields

Votes: 1,809

18. Une femme à sa fenêtre (1976)

110 min | Drama

Margot Santorini is an aristocratic woman in 1936 in Greece, who amuses herself pursuing a shallow loveless affair with a nobleman, but unexpectedly falls in love with a political activist.

Director: Pierre Granier-Deferre | Stars: Romy Schneider, Philippe Noiret, Victor Lanoux, Umberto Orsini

Votes: 642

19. Cold Fever (1995)

Unrated | 83 min | Comedy, Drama, Mystery

A Japanese businessman travels to Iceland and has a series of misadventures while venturing to a remote area to perform a traditional burial ritual where his parents died several years back.

Director: Friðrik Þór Friðriksson | Stars: Masatoshi Nagase, Lili Taylor, Fisher Stevens, Gísli Halldórsson

Votes: 1,895 | Gross: $0.34M

20. L'hypothèse du tableau volé (1978)

66 min | Drama, Mystery

Two narrators, one seen and one unseen, discuss possible connections between a series of paintings. The on-screen narrator walks through three-dimensional reproductions of each painting, ... See full summary »

Director: Raúl Ruiz | Stars: Jean Rougeul, Chantal Paley, Jean Raynaud, Daniel Grimm

Votes: 1,205

21. In Praise of Love (2001)

PG | 97 min | Drama

An author works on a project on the subject of love, and, in the process, crosses paths with a former love in his life.

Director: Jean-Luc Godard | Stars: Bruno Putzulu, Cécile Camp, Jean Davy, Françoise Verny

Votes: 3,021 | Gross: $0.25M

22. The Far Side of the Moon (2003)

Not Rated | 105 min | Drama

After the death of his mother, a man tries to discover a meaning to his life, to the universe and to rebuild a relationship with the only family he has left: his brother.

Director: Robert Lepage | Stars: Robert Lepage, Anne-Marie Cadieux, Marco Poulin, Céline Bonnier

Votes: 1,979 | Gross: $0.01M

23. Medicine Man: The Stan Brock Story (2020)

96 min | Documentary

A documentary adventure recounting the incredible life story of British-born Amazonian cowboy turned US TV star Stan Brock, who sacrificed everything for his unwavering mission to unite a nation and resolve the US healthcare crisis.

Director: Paul Michael Angell | Star: Stan Brock

Votes: 48

24. Chronopolis (1982)

52 min | Animation, Drama, Fantasy

Weary immortals inhabit a metropolis in the sky and amuse themselves with constructions as they kill time and await whatever comes next.

Director: Piotr Kamler | Star: Michael Lonsdale

Votes: 567

25. L'homme sans ombre (2004)

9 min | Animation, Short, Drama

A solitary man without a shadow rises from his desk, dons his hat, and leaves his apartment. He walks through a city to a large door, knocks, shows his invitation, and is admitted to a ... See full summary »

Director: Georges Schwizgebel

Votes: 511

26. Journey to the Land of Rimbaud (1983)

65 min | Biography, Drama

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Director: Dariush Mehrjui | Stars: Pierre Bayle, Mathieu Joly, Nicolas Joly, Dariush Mehrjui

Votes: 26

27. A Wise Man Once Said...

Animation, Short, Comedy | Announced

An inquisitive young man searches for the meaning of life - and finds that it isn't quite what he expected it to be.

Director: Martin Horlacher | Star: Martin Horlacher

28. Finding X (2022)

11 min | Animation, Short

X is born in a world where everyone's numerical value is known and sets out on a quest to find himself.

Director: Benjamin Zaugg | Star: Toby Hendy

Votes: 6

29. The Official Guidebook to Lying (2023)

11 min | Short, Comedy, Drama

A lifetime of abusing his natural talent for making up stories has led an arrogant liar to quit his deceiving ways forever. As a final hurrah, this scrappy university student shares an epic masterclass on how to execute the perfect lie.

Director: Corinne Langmuir | Stars: Kevin Nguyen, Jackie Wong, Jackie Ngai

30. Skin Shed (2023)

18 min | Short, Western

Miserable Cowboy breakfasts with his wife when he receives a phone call - his girlfriend. He reads her French poetry and pleads to see her. She accepts. Upon arrival, he enters into his own flat where his wife waits for him.

Director: Anna de Cavalera | Stars: Carraic H. O'Donnel, Ester Freider, Ana-Maria Margarit, Enoch Hitchcock

31. Plenty of Fish in the Sea (2017)

7 min | Short

One morning, an elderly man decides to go fishing by the sea. As he does so, something bites the hook. But what he pulls out of the water is definitely not a fish.

Director: Leander Behal | Stars: Faro Como, Mariella Furco

32. Terminus (I) (2020)

Drama, Thriller

Livia, head of company, finds out she has cancer. She decides to hide it from her husband, Julien. Zoe, Livia's friend, will sow seeds of doubt in the couple's mind, turning Julien against ... See full summary »

Directors: Lucas Noël, Tristan Noël | Stars: Lucas Noël, Louna Richard, Margot Vuichard, Vanessa Thebaudeau

33. Fuis-moi, je te suis! (2022)

34 min | Short, Comedy, Romance

Adèle and Thibault play the dangerous game of desire. But Adèle is not sure of her feelings or those of her lover.

Director: Abigaëlle Janssens-Rivallain | Stars: Victor Perret, Abigaëlle Janssens-Rivallain, Severine Leus, Sabine Rivallain

34. Télévision de chambre (1982–1984)
Episode: Une villa aux environs de New York (1982)

55 min | Drama

Karl, a young European immigrant, lives with his uncle in New York. The uncle watches over the education of his nephew. Karl is invited to Mr Pallunder. Despite strong opposition from his uncle, Karl accepts.

Director: Benoît Jacquot | Stars: Nicolas Baby, Anne-Laure Meury, Hubert Deschamps, Michel Delahaye

35. The Fallen State (2016– )
Catholic Nun, Sister Rose Pacatte, Joins Jesse! (2020 Podcast Episode)

Documentary, Talk-Show

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Stars: Jesse Lee Peterson, Rose Pacatte