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

51. Tucker: The Man and His Dream (1988)

PG | 110 min | Biography, Comedy, Drama

The story of Preston Tucker, the maverick car designer and his ill-fated challenge to the auto industry with his revolutionary car concept.

Director: Francis Ford Coppola | Stars: Jeff Bridges, Joan Allen, Martin Landau, Frederic Forrest

Votes: 21,940 | Gross: $19.65M

52. Ice Castles (1978)

PG | 108 min | Drama, Romance, Sport

An inexperienced yet naturally gifted ice skater makes a spectacular debut in the skating world before encountering an event that could possibly derail her hopes and dreams.

Director: Donald Wrye | Stars: Lynn-Holly Johnson, Robby Benson, Colleen Dewhurst, Tom Skerritt

Votes: 4,060 | Gross: $20.71M

53. The Haunted Mansion (2003)

PG | 88 min | Comedy, Family, Fantasy

A realtor and his wife and children are summoned to a mansion, which they soon discover is haunted, and while they attempt to escape, he learns an important lesson about the family he has neglected.

Director: Rob Minkoff | Stars: Eddie Murphy, Marsha Thomason, Jennifer Tilly, Terence Stamp

Votes: 57,037 | Gross: $75.85M

54. Leap! (2016)

PG | 89 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy

An orphan girl dreams of becoming a ballerina and flees her rural Brittany for Paris, where she passes for someone else and accedes to the position of pupil at the Grand Opera House.

Directors: Eric Summer, Éric Warin | Stars: Elle Fanning, Dane DeHaan, Carly Rae Jepsen, Maddie Ziegler

Votes: 24,474 | Gross: $24.70M

55. No Retreat, No Surrender (1985)

PG | 85 min | Action, Comedy, Crime

Jason, a Bruce Lee fan, sees his karate instructor/dad beaten by martial art thugs. They move to Seattle where, after humiliations, he trains with Bruce Lee's ghost so he can defend himself and others against thugs.

Director: Corey Yuen | Stars: Kurt McKinney, Jean-Claude Van Damme, J.W. Fails, Kathie Sileno

Votes: 18,855 | Gross: $4.66M

56. Infinite Storm (2022)

R | 97 min | Drama, Thriller

When a climber gets caught in a blizzard, she encounters a stranded stranger and must get them both down the mountain before nightfall.

Directors: Malgorzata Szumowska, Michal Englert | Stars: Naomi Watts, Billy Howle, Denis O'Hare, Parker Sawyers

Votes: 10,514

57. Jobs (2013)

PG-13 | 128 min | Biography, Drama

The story of Steve Jobs' ascension from college dropout into one of the most revered creative entrepreneurs of the 20th century.

Director: Joshua Michael Stern | Stars: Ashton Kutcher, Dermot Mulroney, Josh Gad, Lukas Haas

Votes: 103,995 | Gross: $16.13M

58. All Is Lost (2013)

PG-13 | 106 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

After a collision with a shipping container at sea, a resourceful sailor finds himself, despite all efforts to the contrary, staring his mortality in the face.

Director: J.C. Chandor | Star: Robert Redford

Votes: 83,921 | Gross: $6.26M

59. D.E.B.S. (2004)

PG-13 | 91 min | Action, Comedy, Romance

Plaid-skirted schoolgirls are groomed by a secret government agency to become the newest members of the elite national-defense group, D.E.B.S.

Director: Angela Robinson | Stars: Sara Foster, Jordana Brewster, Devon Aoki, Jill Ritchie

Votes: 17,905 | Gross: $0.10M

60. Roosevelt

Biography, Drama, History | Pre-production

A biographical drama about President Theodore Roosevelt.

Director: Martin Scorsese | Star: Leonardo DiCaprio

61. Buffaloed (2019)

Not Rated | 95 min | Comedy, Drama

In the underworld of debt-collecting, homegrown hustler Peg Dahl will do anything to escape Buffalo, NY.

Director: Tanya Wexler | Stars: Zoey Deutch, Jai Courtney, Judy Greer, Jermaine Fowler

Votes: 7,615

62. Another Cinderella Story (2008 TV Movie)

PG | 90 min | Comedy, Family, Music

Mary lives with her evil stepmom/sisters and slaves for them. At the high school masquerade ball, she gets to dance with her pop idol, Joey. Running home before midnight, she drops her Zune. Joey tries to find the girl who fits the Zune.

Director: Damon Santostefano | Stars: Selena Gomez, Drew Seeley, Jane Lynch, Katharine Isabelle

Votes: 31,127

63. Mine (II) (2016)

Not Rated | 106 min | Drama, Thriller, War

After a failed assassination attempt, a United States Marine finds himself stranded in the desert. Exposed to the elements, he must survive the dangers of the desert and battle the psychological and physical tolls of the treacherous conditions.

Directors: Fabio Guaglione, Fabio Resinaro | Stars: Armie Hammer, Annabelle Wallis, Tom Cullen, Clint Dyer

Votes: 21,390

64. Invader ZIM (2001–2006)

TV-Y7 | 24 min | Animation, Action, Adventure

An alien named Zim from the planet Irk is sent on a secret mission to conquer Earth, not realising that his leaders were just trying to get rid of him and hoped that he would die. Once there, Zim manages to disguise himself as a human child, but one boy named Dib sees through his disguise.

Stars: Andy Berman, Richard Steven Horvitz, Rikki Simons, Melissa Fahn

Votes: 22,658

65. Rain Dogs (2023– )

TV-MA | Comedy, Drama

An unconventional love story between a working-class single mum, her young daughter and a privileged gay man.

Stars: Daisy May Cooper, Jack Farthing, Fleur Tashjian, Ronke Adekoluejo

Votes: 3,377

66. The Miracle Season (2018)

PG | 101 min | Drama, Sport

After the tragic death of star volleyball player Caroline "Line" Found, a team of dispirited high school girls must band together under the guidance of their tough-love coach in hopes of winning the state championship.

Director: Sean McNamara | Stars: Helen Hunt, Erin Moriarty, William Hurt, Danika Yarosh

Votes: 6,322 | Gross: $10.23M

67. The Thing Called Love (1993)

PG-13 | 116 min | Comedy, Drama, Music

Newcomers to the country-music business seek love and stardom.

Director: Peter Bogdanovich | Stars: River Phoenix, Samantha Mathis, Dermot Mulroney, Sandra Bullock

Votes: 8,780 | Gross: $1.03M

68. Fantasia 2000 (1999)

G | 75 min | Animation, Family, Fantasy

An update of the original film with new interpretations of great works of classical music.

Directors: James Algar, Gaëtan Brizzi, Paul Brizzi, Hendel Butoy, Francis Glebas, Eric Goldberg, Don Hahn, Pixote Hunt | Stars: James Levine, Steve Martin, Itzhak Perlman, Quincy Jones

Votes: 41,513 | Gross: $60.66M

69. Joint Security Area (2000)

Not Rated | 110 min | Action, Drama, Thriller

After a shooting incident at the North-South Korean border DMZ leaves two North Korean soldiers dead, a neutral Swiss and Swedish team investigates what actually happened.

Director: Park Chan-wook | Stars: Lee Yeong-ae, Lee Byung-hun, Song Kang-ho, Kim Tae-woo

Votes: 34,342

70. Kidnap (I) (2017)

R | 95 min | Action, Crime, Thriller

A mother stops at nothing to recover her kidnapped son.

Director: Luis Prieto | Stars: Halle Berry, Sage Correa, Chris McGinn, Lew Temple

Votes: 39,166 | Gross: $30.72M

71. Tall Girl 2 (2022)

TV-PG | 97 min | Comedy, Drama, Family

After Jodi Kreyman gains popularity, her miscommunications start causing rifts with those around her and now she really needs to 'stand tall'.

Director: Emily Ting | Stars: Ava Michelle, Griffin Gluck, Sabrina Carpenter, Anjelika Washington

Votes: 6,306

72. Testament (1983)

PG | 90 min | Drama, Sci-Fi

The life of a suburban American family is scarred after a nuclear attack.

Director: Lynne Littman | Stars: Jane Alexander, William Devane, Rossie Harris, Roxana Zal

Votes: 7,249 | Gross: $2.04M

73. Ratcatcher (1999)

Not Rated | 94 min | Drama

A naïve young lad navigates the dirty squalid streets of 1973 Glasgow and the poor youth around him.

Director: Lynne Ramsay | Stars: Tommy Flanagan, Mandy Matthews, William Eadie, Michelle Stewart

Votes: 11,840 | Gross: $0.22M

74. Ransom for a Dead Man (1971 TV Movie)

Approved | 98 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

After killing her boring husband and disposing of the body, a supposedly brilliant tort attorney fakes his kidnapping and keeps the ransom money. The FBI may be fooled, but not Columbo.

Director: Richard Irving | Stars: Peter Falk, Lee Grant, John Fink, Harold Gould

Votes: 3,756

75. An Inconvenient Truth (2006)

PG | 96 min | Documentary

Filmmaker Davis Guggenheim follows Al Gore on the lecture circuit, as the former presidential candidate campaigns to raise public awareness of the dangers of global warming and calls for immediate action to curb its destructive effects on the environment.

Director: Davis Guggenheim | Stars: Al Gore, Billy West, George Bush, George W. Bush

Votes: 85,288 | Gross: $23.81M

76. Birds of Paradise (2021)

R | 113 min | Drama

Two girls at an elite Parisian ballet academy have their bond and bodies tested as they compete for a contract to join the company of the Opéra national de Paris.

Director: Sarah Adina Smith | Stars: Diana Silvers, Kristine Froseth, Jacqueline Bisset, Osiel Gouneo

Votes: 2,905

77. Teaching Mrs. Tingle (1999)

PG-13 | 96 min | Comedy, Thriller

The story of a girl who is willing to do anything to become Valedictorian, even if it means murdering the teacher that stands in her way.

Director: Kevin Williamson | Stars: Helen Mirren, Marisa Coughlan, Katie Holmes, Jeffrey Tambor

Votes: 21,744 | Gross: $8.95M

78. Born in East L.A. (1987)

R | 85 min | Comedy

When an L.A. born American citizen is mistaken for a Mexican illegal alien and deported to Mexico, he has to do everything he can to get across the border.

Director: Cheech Marin | Stars: Cheech Marin, Daniel Stern, Paul Rodriguez, Kamala Lopez

Votes: 6,591 | Gross: $17.36M

79. Rebound (2005)

PG | 86 min | Comedy, Family, Sport

An acclaimed college basketball coach is demoted to a junior varsity team after a public meltdown.

Director: Steve Carr | Stars: Martin Lawrence, Megan Mullally, Breckin Meyer, Wendy Raquel Robinson

Votes: 13,622 | Gross: $16.81M

80. I Am All Girls (2021)

TV-MA | 107 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

A special crimes investigator forms an unlikely bond with a serial killer to bring down a global child sex trafficking syndicate.

Director: Donovan Marsh | Stars: Erica Wessels, Hlubi Mboya, Leshego Molokwane, Nomvelo Makhanya

Votes: 7,376

81. The Prince and the Showgirl (1957)

PG | 115 min | Comedy, Romance

An American showgirl becomes entangled in political intrigue when the Prince Regent of a foreign country attempts to seduce her.

Director: Laurence Olivier | Stars: Marilyn Monroe, Laurence Olivier, Richard Wattis, David Horne

Votes: 9,201

82. Six Minutes to Midnight (2020)

PG-13 | 99 min | Drama, Thriller, War

UK, Aug. 15, 1939: 17 days before WWII, an English teacher and his camera disappear from a coastal boarding school with 20 German teen girls. Miller gets the job six days later, secretly trying to find out what happened.

Director: Andy Goddard | Stars: Nigel Lindsay, Judi Dench, Eddie Izzard, Jim Broadbent

Votes: 6,053

83. Daphne & Velma (2018)

G | 72 min | Action, Comedy, Crime

The female future members of Mystery Inc. investigate strange goings-on in their school.

Director: Suzi Yoonessi | Stars: Sarah Jeffery, Sarah Gilman, Vanessa Marano, Brian Stepanek

Votes: 2,389

84. Walk. Ride. Rodeo. (2019)

TV-PG | 100 min | Biography, Drama, Sport

A courageous teenager is determined to resume competitive rodeo months after her paralyzing spinal cord injury.

Director: Conor Allyn | Stars: Spencer Locke, Missi Pyle, Bailey Chase, Alyvia Alyn Lind

Votes: 2,790

85. Born Free (1966)

PG | 95 min | Adventure, Biography, Drama

The story of George and Joy Adamson and the orphaned lion cub, Elsa, they adopt.

Directors: James Hill, Tom McGowan | Stars: Virginia McKenna, Bill Travers, Geoffrey Keen, Peter Lukoye

Votes: 7,039

86. Tokyo Revengers (2021)

TV-14 | 120 min | Action, Crime, Drama

A middle-aged loser travels in time to his school years, and, in order to save the love of his life from future doom, he must become the leader of a dreaded school gang.

Director: Tsutomu Hanabusa | Stars: Takumi Kitamura, Yuki Yamada, Yôsuke Sugino, Keita Arai

Votes: 1,925

87. Nothing But a Man (1964)

Not Rated | 95 min | Drama, Romance

A black man and his school-teacher wife face discriminatory challenges in 1960s America.

Director: Michael Roemer | Stars: Ivan Dixon, Abbey Lincoln, Julius Harris, Gloria Foster

Votes: 2,028 | Gross: $0.02M

88. Diary of a Country Priest (1951)

Not Rated | 95 min | Drama

A young priest taking over the parish at Ambricourt tries to fulfill his duties even as he fights a mysterious stomach ailment.

Director: Robert Bresson | Stars: Claude Laydu, Nicole Ladmiral, Jean Riveyre, Adrien Borel

Votes: 12,755

89. The Death of Mr. Lazarescu (2005)

R | 153 min | Comedy, Drama

Mr. Lãzãrescu, a dying old man, is shuttled from hospital to hospital by a loyal paramedic as doctors refuse to operate and no one can agree on a diagnosis.

Director: Cristi Puiu | Stars: Doru Ana, Monica Barladeanu, Alina Berzunteanu, Dorian Boguta

Votes: 15,951 | Gross: $0.08M

90. Bigger Fatter Liar (2017)

PG | 94 min | Adventure, Comedy, Family

When a scheming producer steals his idea for a new video game, Kevin Shepard and his best friend Becca, declare "GAME ON" and stop at nothing to set the record straight.

Director: Ron Oliver | Stars: Barry Bostwick, Ricky Garcia, Jodelle Ferland, Fiona Vroom

Votes: 1,072

91. Strip Club Massacre (2017)

100 min | Horror, Thriller

A young woman starting a new life is forced to take extreme measures against those around her after things go violently awry.

Director: Bob Clark | Stars: Alicia Watson, Erin Brown, Courtney Riggs, Mark Law

Votes: 1,538

92. Full Out (2015)

TV-PG | 90 min | Biography, Drama, Family

A young gymnast's Olympic aspirations are crushed after a debilitating accident.

Director: Sean Cisterna | Stars: Ana Golja, Jennifer Beals, Sarah Fisher, Asha Ashanti Bromfield

Votes: 3,021

93. Kirikou and the Sorceress (1998)

TV-PG | 71 min | Animation, Adventure, Family

Kirikou, an unusual little boy, must search the wisdom of the forbidden mountain in order to save his village from a spell cast by the evil sorceress Karaba

Directors: Michel Ocelot, Raymond Burlet | Stars: Doudou Gueye Thiaw, Maimouna N'Diaye, Awa Sene Sarr, Robert Liensol

Votes: 10,841 | Gross: $0.06M

94. The Perfume of the Lady in Black (1974)

R | 103 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery

Sylvia, an industrial scientist, is troubled by strange hallucinations related to the tragic suicide of her mother.

Director: Francesco Barilli | Stars: Mimsy Farmer, Maurizio Bonuglia, Mario Scaccia, Jho Jhenkins

Votes: 3,006

95. Exit Speed (2008)

R | 91 min | Thriller

Ten bus passengers become stranded inside a scrap yard after being run off the road by bikers. In order to survive they must improvise weapons and have the sheer guts to mount a defense against the murderous bikers.

Director: Scott Ziehl | Stars: Desmond Harrington, Lea Thompson, Julie Mond, Alice Greczyn

Votes: 2,622

96. Céline (2008 TV Movie)

PG | 90 min | Biography, Drama, Music

A biopic on singer Céline Dion.

Director: Jeff Woolnough | Stars: Christine Ghawi, Jodelle Ferland, Peter MacNeill, Louise Pitre

Votes: 806

97. 2040 (2019)

92 min | Documentary

Practical solutions to environmental concerns are addressed with the hope that the filmmaker's daughter, 21 years old in the year 2040, will face a hopeful future.

Director: Damon Gameau | Stars: Damon Gameau, Eva Lazzaro, Zoë Gameau, Davini Malcolm

Votes: 1,411

98. Snow Eagle Lord (2023– )

TV-14 | 45 min | Action, Drama, Fantasy

Dong Bo Xue Ying (Xu Kai), also known as the Snow Eagle Lord, is a young man who was born in a land known as Snow Eagle Territory. His father came from humble origins to eventually buy Snow... See full summary »

Stars: Kai Xu, Gülnezer Bextiyar, Kai Zheng, Tingyu Lu

Votes: 130

99. Douluo Continent (2021)

TV-14 | 38 min | Action, Drama, Fantasy

Having lost his mother at a very young age, Tang San grew up relying on his father just as much as his father relied upon him. Meticulous and mature for his age, with extraordinary talent and wit, he was sent to Ruoding Academy.

Stars: Zhan Xiao, Liu Qing, Kai Wang, Xuanyi Wu

Votes: 3,485

100. Kiss and Cry (I) (2017)

95 min | Biography, Drama, Music

A romantic drama based on the story of Carley Allison, a promising 18-year-old figure skater and singer who made medical history in her fight against a rare 1-in-3.5 billion type of sarcoma.

Director: Sean Cisterna | Stars: Sarah Fisher, Luke Bilyk, Chantal Kreviazuk, Sergio Di Zio

Votes: 3,193