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

1. The Last Samurai (2003)

R | 154 min | Action, Drama

Nathan Algren, a US army veteran, is hired by the Japanese emperor to train his army in the modern warfare techniques. Nathan finds himself trapped in a struggle between two eras and two worlds.

Director: Edward Zwick | Stars: Tom Cruise, Ken Watanabe, Billy Connolly, William Atherton

Votes: 470,980 | Gross: $111.11M

2. Silver Linings Playbook (2012)

R | 122 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

After a stint in a mental institution, former teacher Pat Solitano moves back in with his parents and tries to reconcile with his ex-wife. Things get more challenging when Pat meets Tiffany, a mysterious girl with problems of her own.

Director: David O. Russell | Stars: Bradley Cooper, Jennifer Lawrence, Robert De Niro, Jacki Weaver

Votes: 742,642 | Gross: $132.09M

3. Inherent Vice (2014)

R | 148 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

In 1970, drug-fueled Los Angeles private investigator Larry "Doc" Sportello investigates the disappearance of a former girlfriend.

Director: Paul Thomas Anderson | Stars: Joaquin Phoenix, Josh Brolin, Owen Wilson, Katherine Waterston

Votes: 110,704 | Gross: $8.11M

4. The Post (2017)

PG-13 | 116 min | Biography, Drama, History

A cover-up spanning four U.S. Presidents pushes the country's first female newspaper publisher and her editor to join an unprecedented battle between press and government.

Director: Steven Spielberg | Stars: Meryl Streep, Tom Hanks, Sarah Paulson, Bob Odenkirk

Votes: 162,231 | Gross: $81.90M

5. The Sting (1973)

PG | 129 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

Two grifters team up to pull off the ultimate con.

Director: George Roy Hill | Stars: Paul Newman, Robert Redford, Robert Shaw, Charles Durning

Votes: 279,836 | Gross: $159.60M

6. Brooklyn (2015)

PG-13 | 117 min | Drama, Romance

An Irish immigrant lands in 1950s Brooklyn, where she quickly falls into a romance with a local. When her past catches up with her, however, she must choose between two countries and the lives that exist within.

Director: John Crowley | Stars: Saoirse Ronan, Emory Cohen, Domhnall Gleeson, Jim Broadbent

Votes: 150,458 | Gross: $38.32M

7. Birth (2004)

R | 100 min | Drama, Fantasy, Mystery

A young boy attempts to convince a woman that he is her dead husband reborn.

Director: Jonathan Glazer | Stars: Nicole Kidman, Cameron Bright, Lauren Bacall, Danny Huston

Votes: 40,805 | Gross: $5.01M

8. The Durrells (2016–2019)

TV-PG | 46 min | Biography, Comedy, Drama

Louisa Durrell raises her four children single-handedly after her husband's death. Following a financial crisis, the family moves to the Greek island of Corfu and tries to adapt to life there.

Stars: Keeley Hawes, Josh O'Connor, Milo Parker, Daisy Waterstone

Votes: 14,176

9. The Secret: Dare to Dream (2020)

PG | 107 min | Drama, Romance

A feature film adaptation of the self-help book, 'The Secret', which focuses on the power of positive thinking.

Director: Andy Tennant | Stars: Katie Holmes, Josh Lucas, Celia Weston, Jerry O'Connell

Votes: 17,641

10. The Nest (I) (2020)

R | 107 min | Drama, Romance, Thriller

Life for an entrepreneur and his American family begins to take a twisted turn after moving into an English country manor.

Director: Sean Durkin | Stars: Jude Law, Carrie Coon, Oona Roche, Charlie Shotwell

Votes: 18,428

11. The King of Staten Island (2020)

R | 136 min | Comedy, Drama

Scott has been a case of arrested development since his firefighter dad died. He spends his days smoking weed and dreaming of being a tattoo artist until events force him to grapple with his grief and take his first steps forward in life.

Director: Judd Apatow | Stars: Pete Davidson, Bel Powley, Ricky Velez, Lou Wilson

Votes: 76,789

12. Premonition (I) (2007)

PG-13 | 96 min | Drama, Fantasy, Mystery

A depressed woman learns that her husband was killed in a car accident the previous day, then awakens the next morning to find him alive and well at home; then awakens the day after that to find that he's dead.

Director: Mennan Yapo | Stars: Sandra Bullock, Julian McMahon, Amber Valletta, Shyann McClure

Votes: 81,711 | Gross: $47.85M

13. The Farewell (I) (2019)

PG | 100 min | Comedy, Drama

A Chinese family discovers their grandmother has only a short while left to live and decide to keep her in the dark, scheduling a wedding to gather before she dies.

Director: Lulu Wang | Stars: Shuzhen Zhao, Awkwafina, X Mayo, Hong Lu

Votes: 71,119 | Gross: $16.88M

14. The Curse of La Llorona (2019)

R | 93 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller

Ignoring the eerie warning of a troubled mother suspected of child endangerment, a social worker and her own small kids are soon drawn into a frightening supernatural realm.

Director: Michael Chaves | Stars: Linda Cardellini, Raymond Cruz, Patricia Velasquez, Marisol Ramirez

Votes: 57,655 | Gross: $54.73M

15. Wild Mountain Thyme (2020)

PG-13 | 102 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

A pair of star-crossed lovers in Ireland get caught up in their family's land dispute.

Director: John Patrick Shanley | Stars: Emily Blunt, Jamie Dornan, Jon Hamm, Christopher Walken

Votes: 12,070

16. The Aeronauts (2019)

PG-13 | 100 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

A balloon pilot and a scientist find themselves in a fight for survival while attempting to make discoveries in a gas balloon in the 1860s.

Director: Tom Harper | Stars: Felicity Jones, Eddie Redmayne, Himesh Patel, Vincent Perez

Votes: 37,397

17. Song to Song (I) (2017)

R | 129 min | Drama, Music, Romance

Two intersecting love triangles. Obsession and betrayal set against the music scene in Austin, Texas.

Director: Terrence Malick | Stars: Ryan Gosling, Rooney Mara, Michael Fassbender, Natalie Portman

Votes: 22,553 | Gross: $0.44M

18. Love in the Time of Cholera (2007)

R | 139 min | Drama, Romance

Florentino, rejected by the beautiful Fermina at a young age, devotes much of his adult life to carnal affairs as a desperate attempt to heal his broken heart.

Director: Mike Newell | Stars: Javier Bardem, Giovanna Mezzogiorno, Benjamin Bratt, Gina Bernard Forbes

Votes: 24,131 | Gross: $4.61M

19. Till Death (I) (2021)

R | 88 min | Thriller

A woman is left handcuffed to her dead husband as part of a sick revenge plot. Unable to unshackle, she has to survive as two killers arrive to finish her off.

Director: S.K. Dale | Stars: Megan Fox, Eoin Macken, Callan Mulvey, Jack Roth

Votes: 26,198

20. Unit One (2000–2004)

75 min | Action, Crime, Drama

A mobile task force is dispatched across Denmark to help local police solve tough cases.

Stars: Charlotte Fich, Mads Mikkelsen, Lars Brygmann, Waage Sandø

Votes: 4,113

21. Gothika (2003)

R | 98 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller

A psychiatrist awakens as a patient in a mental institution, with no memory of the murder she's accused of committing. As she tries to regain her memory, a vengeful spirit manipulates her.

Director: Mathieu Kassovitz | Stars: Halle Berry, Penélope Cruz, Robert Downey Jr., Charles S. Dutton

Votes: 119,172 | Gross: $59.69M

22. The House with a Clock in Its Walls (2018)

PG | 105 min | Comedy, Family, Fantasy

A young orphan named Lewis Barnavelt aids his magical uncle in locating a clock with the power to bring about the end of the world.

Director: Eli Roth | Stars: Jack Black, Cate Blanchett, Owen Vaccaro, Kyle MacLachlan

Votes: 55,330 | Gross: $68.55M

23. The Old Man & the Gun (2018)

PG-13 | 93 min | Biography, Comedy, Crime

Based on the true story of Forrest Tucker and his audacious escape from San Quentin at the age of 70 to an unprecedented string of heists that confounded authorities and enchanted the public.

Director: David Lowery | Stars: Robert Redford, Casey Affleck, Sissy Spacek, Danny Glover

Votes: 49,597 | Gross: $11.28M

24. Starlet (I) (2012)

Not Rated | 103 min | Drama

An unlikely friendship forms between twenty-one-year-old Jane and the elderly Sadie after Jane discovers a hidden stash of money inside an object at Sadie's yard sale.

Director: Sean Baker | Stars: Dree Hemingway, Besedka Johnson, Boonee, Stella Maeve

Votes: 8,683 | Gross: $0.09M

25. Scorned (1993)

R | 100 min | Drama, Thriller

A vengeful widow is out to seduce the relatives of the man she blames for her husband's death.

Director: Andrew Stevens | Stars: Andrew Stevens, Shannon Tweed, Kim Morgan Greene, Daniel McVicar

Votes: 2,028

26. Robert the Bruce (2019)

TV-14 | 124 min | Biography, Drama, History

The story of the nobleman-turned-outlaw hero who was crowned king of Scots in the 14th century.

Director: Richard Gray | Stars: Angus Macfadyen, Diarmaid Murtagh, Jared Harris, Stephen Murphy

Votes: 4,879

27. The Iron Lady (2011)

PG-13 | 105 min | Biography, Drama

An elderly Margaret Thatcher talks to the imagined presence of her recently deceased husband as she struggles to come to terms with his death while scenes from her past life, from girlhood to British prime minister, intervene.

Director: Phyllida Lloyd | Stars: Meryl Streep, Jim Broadbent, Richard E. Grant, Susan Brown

Votes: 113,616 | Gross: $30.02M

28. Tyrannosaur (2011)

Not Rated | 92 min | Drama

Joseph, a man plagued by violence and a rage that is driving him to self-destruction, earns a chance of redemption that appears in the form of Hannah, a Christian charity shop worker.

Director: Paddy Considine | Stars: Peter Mullan, Archie Lal, Jag Sanghera, Mike Fearnley

Votes: 33,764 | Gross: $0.02M

29. French Exit (2020)

R | 113 min | Comedy, Drama

An aging Manhattan socialite existing on the last of her inheritance moves to a small Paris apartment with her son and cat.

Director: Azazel Jacobs | Stars: Michelle Pfeiffer, Lucas Hedges, Tracy Letts, Valerie Mahaffey

Votes: 8,764

30. Calendar Girls (2003)

PG-13 | 108 min | Comedy, Drama

A Women's Institute chapter's fundraising effort for a local hospital by posing nude for a calendar becomes a media sensation.

Director: Nigel Cole | Stars: Helen Mirren, Julie Walters, Penelope Wilton, John Alderton

Votes: 28,030 | Gross: $31.04M

31. Careful What You Wish For (2015)

R | 91 min | Drama, Thriller

A guy gets more than he bargained for after entering into an affair with the wife of an investment banker. Soon, a suspicious death and substantial life insurance policy embroil him in a scandal.

Director: Elizabeth Allen Rosenbaum | Stars: Nick Jonas, Kiki Harris, David Sherrill, Graham Rogers

Votes: 8,666

32. How to Be a Latin Lover (2017)

PG-13 | 115 min | Comedy, Drama

Finding himself dumped after twenty-five years of marriage, a man who made a career of seducing rich older women must move in with his estranged sister, where he begins to learn the value of family.

Director: Ken Marino | Stars: Eugenio Derbez, Salma Hayek, Raphael Alejandro, Rob Lowe

Votes: 17,524 | Gross: $32.09M

33. Come to Daddy (2019)

R | 96 min | Comedy, Mystery, Thriller

A man in his thirties travels to a remote cabin to reconnect with his estranged father.

Director: Ant Timpson | Stars: Elijah Wood, Stephen McHattie, Garfield Wilson, Madeleine Sami

Votes: 20,409

34. Patti Cake$ (2017)

R | 109 min | Drama, Music

PATTI CAKE$ is centered on aspiring rapper Patricia Dombrowski, a.k.a. Killa P, a.k.a. Patti Cake$, who is fighting an unlikely quest for glory in her downtrodden hometown in New Jersey.

Director: Geremy Jasper | Stars: Danielle Macdonald, Sahr Ngaujah, Bridget Everett, Mamoudou Athie

Votes: 10,525 | Gross: $0.80M

35. Beanpole (2019)

Unrated | 130 min | Drama, War

1945, Leningrad. WWII has devastated the city, demolishing its buildings and leaving its citizens in tatters, physically and mentally. Two young women search for meaning and hope in the struggle to rebuild their lives amongst the ruins.

Director: Kantemir Balagov | Stars: Viktoria Miroshnichenko, Vasilisa Perelygina, Andrey Bykov, Igor Shirokov

Votes: 12,252

36. The Neighborhood Watch (2018 TV Movie)

TV-14 | 87 min | Thriller

A security guard's unhealthy obsession with a single mom and her daughter escalates into something terrifying.

Director: Sam Irvin | Stars: Sierra McCormick, Beth Broderick, Andrea Bogart, Reagan Pasternak

Votes: 259

37. Dear Ex (2018)

TV-MA | 100 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

A teenage boy and his mother are further driven apart when they find out that his father's life insurance policy is to be received by his lover.

Directors: Chih-Yen Hsu, Mag Hsu | Stars: Roy Chiu, Ying-Hsuan Hsieh, Spark Chen, Joseph Huang

Votes: 7,394

38. The Mystery of Oberwald (1980)

129 min | Drama, Romance

One long decade after the assassination of her husband, a reclusive queen comes face-to-face with the deceased's doppelgänger and anarchist poet, and strikes a three-day pact; however, fate has other plans. What is the mystery of Oberwald?

Director: Michelangelo Antonioni | Stars: Monica Vitti, Paolo Bonacelli, Franco Branciaroli, Luigi Diberti

Votes: 975

39. Snijeg (2008)

100 min | Drama

Post traumatic life of the Bosnian Muslim widows and daughters after their husbands and fathers were murdered by Bosnian Serb Army. Plot is set in post war eastern Bosnian village near town of Zvornik.

Director: Aida Begic | Stars: Zana Marjanovic, Jasna Beri, Sadzida Setic, Vesna Masic

Votes: 1,148

40. Alvilág (2019– )

45 min | Crime

Nóra's husband is killed and she has to face everything she has closed her eyes to, and take care of the family business.

Stars: Mónika Balsai, Gábor Hevér, Zsófia Bujáki, Zoltán Cservák

Votes: 226

41. Her Penalty (1921)

Drama

A man marries his secretary, and her 'dead' husband returns.

Director: Einar Bruun | Stars: Stewart Rome, Pauline Peters, Clive Brook, Philip Hewland

42. The Nolans Go Cruising (2020–2021)
Episode: Episode #2.3 (2021)

44 min | Reality-TV

Linda opens up about her beloved late husband's issues with alcohol. When a new guest joins them by surprise, the ladies hit the arcade together.

Director: Joss Cubitt | Stars: Anne Nolan, Coleen Nolan, Denise Nolan, Linda Nolan

43. Fargo (2014–2024)
Episode: Palindrome (2015)

TV-MA | 54 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

In the events following the motel massacre, Hanzee goes after Ed and Peggy.

Director: Adam Arkin | Stars: Kirsten Dunst, Patrick Wilson, Jesse Plemons, Jean Smart

Votes: 8,038