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

1. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)

PG-13 | 178 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

A meek Hobbit from the Shire and eight companions set out on a journey to destroy the powerful One Ring and save Middle-earth from the Dark Lord Sauron.

Director: Peter Jackson | Stars: Elijah Wood, Ian McKellen, Orlando Bloom, Sean Bean

Votes: 2,012,242 | Gross: $315.54M

2. Only Fools and Horses (1981–2003)

TV-PG | 95 min | Comedy

Comedy that follows two brothers from London's rough Peckham estate as they wheel and deal through a number of dodgy deals and search for the big score that'll make them millionaires.

Stars: David Jason, Nicholas Lyndhurst, Roger Lloyd Pack, Buster Merryfield

Votes: 56,842

3. Mary Poppins Returns (2018)

PG | 130 min | Adventure, Comedy, Family

A few decades after her original visit, Mary Poppins, the magical nanny, returns to help the Banks siblings and Michael's children through a difficult time in their lives.

Director: Rob Marshall | Stars: Emily Blunt, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Ben Whishaw, Emily Mortimer

Votes: 95,382 | Gross: $171.96M

4. Baby Boom (1987)

PG | 110 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

The life of super-yuppie J.C. is thrown into turmoil when she inherits a baby from a distant relative.

Director: Charles Shyer | Stars: Diane Keaton, Sam Shepard, Harold Ramis, Kristina Kennedy

Votes: 19,217 | Gross: $26.71M

5. Rosa's Wedding (2020)

97 min | Comedy

About to turn 45, Rosa realises that she's always lived her life to serve everyone else, so she decides to leave it all behind, take charge of her life, and fulfill her dream of starting her own business

Director: Icíar Bollaín | Stars: Candela Peña, Sergi López, Nathalie Poza, Ramón Barea

Votes: 2,040

6. The Princess Switch (2018)

TV-PG | 101 min | Comedy, Drama, Family

Competing in a Christmas baking competition in Belgravia, a Chicago baker bumps into the prince's fiancée--who looks just like her. They switch lives for two days.

Director: Mike Rohl | Stars: Vanessa Hudgens, Sam Palladio, Nick Sagar, Alexa Adeosun

Votes: 31,424

7. My Man (2014)

129 min | Crime, Drama, Romance

After losing everything in a tsunami, 10-year-old Hana is taken in by 26-year-old distant relative Jungo Kusarino. They live as father and daughter but share a profound sense of loss. Jungo... See full summary »

Director: Kazuyoshi Kumakiri | Stars: Fumi Nikaidô, Tadanobu Asano, Aoba Kawai, Tatsuya Fuji

Votes: 712

8. Munster, Go Home! (1966)

Approved | 96 min | Adventure, Comedy, Family

The Munsters travel to England after Herman discovers he's the new Lord of the Munster Hall.

Director: Earl Bellamy | Stars: Fred Gwynne, Yvonne De Carlo, Al Lewis, Butch Patrick

Votes: 3,057

9. Hoshi meguri no machi (2018)

108 min | Drama

Yusaku and his daughter live together and run a business making, selling and delivering tofu. Joining them is Masami who is a distant relative. Masami has lost his family to the earthquake ... See full summary »

Director: Mitsuo Kurotsuchi | Stars: Yôta Arai, Mitsu Dan, Mitsuru Hirata, Hiroshi Kanbe

Votes: 7

10. Toby Tyler or Ten Weeks with a Circus (1960)

Approved | 96 min | Drama, Family

Taken in by distant members of his family after being orphaned, Toby Tyler runs away to join the circus.

Director: Charles Barton | Stars: Kevin Corcoran, Henry Calvin, Gene Sheldon, Bob Sweeney

Votes: 1,058

11. The Man in Grey (1943)

Approved | 90 min | Drama, History, Romance

After a brutish, hedonistic Marquis marries a pretty young Clarissa to act as a 'brood sow,' he begins an affair with her friend who plots to take her place.

Director: Leslie Arliss | Stars: Margaret Lockwood, James Mason, Phyllis Calvert, Stewart Granger

Votes: 1,597

12. The Cat and the Canary (1978)

PG | 98 min | Comedy, Mystery, Horror

A group of potential heirs gather in a forbidding old house to learn which of them will inherit a fortune. Later, they learn that a flesh-rending maniac is loose.

Director: Radley Metzger | Stars: Honor Blackman, Michael Callan, Edward Fox, Wendy Hiller

Votes: 1,683

13. The Prisoner of Zenda (1952)

Approved | 96 min | Adventure, Mystery, Romance

An Englishman vacationing in a Ruritarian kingdom is recruited to impersonate his cousin, the soon-to-be-crowned king, after the monarch is drugged and kidnapped.

Director: Richard Thorpe | Stars: Stewart Granger, Deborah Kerr, James Mason, Louis Calhern

Votes: 4,012

14. Maradona (2018)

148 min | Action, Comedy, Thriller

Maradona, a young man, due to some dangerous situations, moves out of his hometown and reaches Bangalore to stay with his distant relatives. However, during his stay there, his situation worsens further.

Director: Vishnu Narayan | Stars: Tovino Thomas, Chemban Vinod Jose, Sharanya R. Nair, Tito Wilson

Votes: 742

15. The Body Beneath (1970)

82 min | Horror

A family of vampires takes over an estate known as Carfax Abbey. Since inbreeding is destroying the family line, they need new blood to keep the family going, so they set out to find new sources.

Director: Andy Milligan | Stars: Gavin Reed, Jackie Skarvellis, Berwick Kaler, Susan Heard

Votes: 604

16. The Prisoner of Zenda (1922)

Passed | 125 min | Adventure, Romance

When the king is drugged and abducted by his ambitious brother, a lookalike relative must take his place to keep the evil sibling off the throne.

Director: Rex Ingram | Stars: Lewis Stone, Alice Terry, Robert Edeson, Stuart Holmes

Votes: 553

17. The Richard Pryor Special? (1977 TV Special)

60 min | Comedy

Richard Pryor wanders around the NBC Studio, encountering various eccentrics. Meanwhile, the Reverend James L. White, the Ugandan dictator Idi Amin Dada and others are taping their own segments.

Director: John Moffitt | Stars: Richard Pryor, Maya Angelou, Shirley Hemphill, LaWanda Page

Votes: 87

18. SuperCroc (2001 TV Movie)

TV-PG | 96 min | Documentary

Paleontologist Paul Sereno and reptile expert Brady Barr are doing a research on "Sarcosuchus Imperator", a 40 feet long prehistoric relative of crocodiles. The story about the creature is presented through CGI animation as well.

Stars: Gregory Erickson, Sam Neill, Paul Sereno

Votes: 90

19. Loose in London (1953)

Approved | 62 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy

The Bowery Boys find themselves in London, in an old mansion complete with a dungeon, an ominous bell tower and the ghost of an old hangman.

Director: Edward Bernds | Stars: Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall, Bernard Gorcey, Angela Greene

Votes: 350

20. Hong lou chun shang chun (1978)

86 min | Comedy, Romance

Story of a 15 year old Pao-Yu and his preoccupation with bedding beautiful women.

Director: Hsin Chin | Stars: Leslie Cheung, Cecilia Wong, Wei-Ying Chen, Yee-Hing Chan

Votes: 63

21. Ricky Rapper and the Miser from Seville (2015)

73 min | Family

Ricky Rapper gets a letter from a distant relative who's looking for an heir.

Director: Timo Koivusalo | Stars: Vesa Vierikko, Timo Kahilainen, Heikki Silvennoinen, Riitta Havukainen

Votes: 158

22. Lopun alku (2009– )

108 min | Drama

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Stars: Saana Hyvärinen, Kai Lehtinen, Niillas Holmberg, Risto Aaltonen

Votes: 18

23. Mámi (1937)

84 min | Comedy, Romance

Torday Henrik is a wealthy invalid on his deathbed but, when relatives start gathering like vultures, he decides to spite them and get well. In the midst of the celebration Mami Gasparne ... See full summary »

Director: János Vaszary | Stars: Sári Fedák, Jenö Pataky, Piroska Vaszary, Béla Mihályffi

Votes: 29

24. Bewitched (1964–1972)
Episode: The Leprechaun (1966)

TV-G | 25 min | Comedy, Family, Fantasy

Samantha must help a leprechaun from Darrin's side of the family.

Director: William Asher | Stars: Elizabeth Montgomery, Dick York, Agnes Moorehead, Jess Kirkpatrick

Votes: 389

25. Goosebumps (1995–1998)
Episode: Ghost Beach (1996)

Not Rated | 22 min | Fantasy, Horror, Mystery

While visiting their elderly cousins in a remote coastal town, brother and sister Jerry and Terri are told about an apparently haunted cave by two mysterious teenagers. However, when they explore the cave, the mystery deepens.

Director: Steve DiMarco | Stars: Sheldon Smith, Jessica Hogeveen, Bill Turnbull, Anna Majewski

Votes: 673

26. Lovejoy (1986–1994)
Episode: The Lost Colony (1993)

TV-14 | 95 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

Lovejoy journeys to North Carolina on the trail of stolen Sir Walter Raleigh and his beautiful but larcenous "cousin," Mary-John Lovejoy.

Director: Geoffrey Sax | Stars: Ian McShane, Dudley Sutton, Caroline Langrishe, Diane Parish

Votes: 70

27. Petticoat Junction (1963–1970)
Episode: Granny, the Baby Expert (1968)

TV-G | 26 min | Comedy

Betty Jo and the baby are coming home from the hospital. They'll be staying at the Shady Rest temporarily so that Betty Jo and Steve can have some support. Part of that support is a doctor ... See full summary »

Director: Ralph Levy | Stars: Edgar Buchanan, Linda Henning, Mike Minor, Meredith MacRae

Votes: 44

28. Punk'd (2003–2015)
Episode: Episode #1.6 (2003)

TV-14 | 20 min | Comedy, Reality-TV

Ryan plays a fearless fan who is first unceremoniously abandoned by his father with Jessica Biel and her dinner date Eric Balfour, then 'convinces' daddy her alleged abuse (at least ... See full summary »

Director: Brendon Carter | Stars: Ashton Kutcher, Eric Balfour, Kory Bassett, Cullen G. Chambers

Votes: 51

29. Seinfeld (1989–1998)
Episode: The Pony Remark (1991)

TV-PG | 23 min | Comedy

Jerry fears that an inappropriate comment he made at a dinner party caused his relative's subsequent death.

Director: Tom Cherones | Stars: Jerry Seinfeld, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Michael Richards, Jason Alexander

Votes: 5,015

30. Sky King (1951–1962)
Episode: A Mickey for Sky (1959)

TV-PG | Adventure, Drama, Family

Young Mickey, a distant relative of Sky's, is traveling to visit the Flying Crown Ranch while his guardian is out of the country. En route, he overhears two men discuss shooting a foreign ... See full summary »

Director: William Witney | Stars: Kirby Grant, Gloria Winters, Gary Hunley, John Mylong

31. The Bullwinkle Show (1959–1963)
Episode: Upsidaisium/Big Bomb at Frostbite Falls or The Exploding Metropolis (1960)

TV-G | 30 min | Animation, Action, Adventure

Rocky and Bullwinkle "Upsidaisium" Part 1, Aesop and Son "The Hares and the Frog", Dudley Do-Right of the Mounties "The Centaur", Rocky and Bullwinkle "Upsidaisium" Part 2.

Directors: Gerard Baldwin, Pete Burness, William T. Hurtz, Ted Parmelee, Gerald Ray, Dun Roman, Bob Schleh, George Singer, Ernest Terrazas | Stars: Edward Everett Horton, June Foray, Paul Frees, William Conrad

Votes: 44

32. Downton Abbey (2010–2015)
Episode: Episode #1.1 (2010)

TV-14 | 66 min | Drama, Romance

April 1912 . The family and staff of Downton are shocked when they find that the heir to the title and fiancé of the Earl's daughter Mary perished on the Titanic, and the Earl hires a crippled army comrade as valet.

Director: Brian Percival | Stars: Hugh Bonneville, Jessica Brown Findlay, Laura Carmichael, Jim Carter

Votes: 3,340

33. Good Morning Britain (2014– )
Episode: Episode dated 17 October 2017 (2017)

TV-14 | 126 min | News, Talk-Show

Breakfast show presented by Susanna Reid, Piers Morgan and Charlotte Hawkins. Strictly star Brendan Cole talks about being Charlotte's partner on this series of the show. Sananda Maitreya ... See full summary »

Stars: Piers Morgan, Susanna Reid, Juliet Dunlop, Pearce Flannery

34. Van Helsing (2016–2021)
Episode: Crooked Steps (2018)

TV-14 | 42 min | Action, Drama, Fantasy

Vanessa and Scarlett find the Third Elder on a distant island. Vanessa make a choice for her path forward and Scarlett disagrees.

Director: Jonathan Scarfe | Stars: Kelly Overton, Missy Peregrym, Michael Eklund, Jesse Stanley

Votes: 307