Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "opening-scene-repeated-later-in-film"

1. Deja Vu (2006)

PG-13 | 126 min | Action, Crime, Sci-Fi

After a ferry is bombed in New Orleans, an A.T.F. agent joins a unique investigation using experimental surveillance technology to find the bomber, but soon finds himself becoming obsessed with one of the victims.

Director: Tony Scott | Stars: Denzel Washington, Paula Patton, Jim Caviezel, Val Kilmer

Votes: 327,786 | Gross: $64.04M

2. Queen of Hearts (2019)

Not Rated | 127 min | Drama

A successful lawyer jeopardizes her career and threatens to tear her family apart after engaging in an affair with her teenage stepson.

Director: May el-Toukhy | Stars: Trine Dyrholm, Gustav Lindh, Magnus Krepper, Liv Esmår Dannemann

Votes: 14,529

3. The House That Jack Built (2018)

R | 152 min | Crime, Drama, Horror

In five episodes, failed architect and vicious sociopath Jack recounts his elaborately orchestrated murders -- each, as he views them, a towering work of art that defines his life's work as a serial killer in the Pacific Northwest.

Director: Lars von Trier | Stars: Matt Dillon, Bruno Ganz, Uma Thurman, Siobhan Fallon Hogan

Votes: 92,118 | Gross: $0.09M

4. Out of Sight (1998)

R | 123 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

A career bank robber breaks out of jail, and shares a moment of mutual attraction with a U.S. Marshal he has kidnapped.

Director: Steven Soderbergh | Stars: George Clooney, Jennifer Lopez, Ving Rhames, Steve Zahn

Votes: 99,369 | Gross: $37.56M

5. American Hustle (2013)

R | 138 min | Crime, Drama

A con man, Irving Rosenfeld, along with his seductive partner Sydney Prosser, is forced to work for a wild F.B.I. Agent, Richie DiMaso, who pushes them into a world of Jersey powerbrokers and the Mafia.

Director: David O. Russell | Stars: Christian Bale, Amy Adams, Bradley Cooper, Jennifer Lawrence

Votes: 500,446 | Gross: $150.12M

6. Pitch Perfect 3 (2017)

PG-13 | 93 min | Comedy, Music

Following their win at the world championship, the now separated Bellas reunite for one last singing competition at an overseas USO tour, but face a group who uses both instruments and voices.

Director: Trish Sie | Stars: Anna Kendrick, Rebel Wilson, Brittany Snow, Anna Camp

Votes: 71,890 | Gross: $104.90M

7. Maggie Moore(s) (2023)

R | 99 min | Comedy, Crime, Mystery

Police Chief Sanders (Jon Hamm) investigates the bizarre murders of two women with the same name and unravels a web of small-town lies. He meets and quickly falls for Rita (Tina Fey), a nosy neighbor who is eager to help solve the mystery.

Director: John Slattery | Stars: Jon Hamm, Tina Fey, Micah Stock, Nick Mohammed

Votes: 7,486

8. Running Scared (2006)

R | 122 min | Action, Crime, Drama

A low-ranking thug is entrusted by his crime boss to dispose of a gun that killed corrupt cops, but things get out of control when the gun ends up in wrong hands.

Director: Wayne Kramer | Stars: Paul Walker, Cameron Bright, Chazz Palminteri, Vera Farmiga

Votes: 103,718 | Gross: $6.86M

9. Elle (I) (2016)

R | 130 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

A successful businesswoman gets caught up in a game of cat and mouse as she tracks down the unknown man who raped her.

Director: Paul Verhoeven | Stars: Isabelle Huppert, Laurent Lafitte, Anne Consigny, Charles Berling

Votes: 71,183

10. Pawn Sacrifice (2014)

PG-13 | 115 min | Biography, Drama, History

Set during the Cold War, American chess prodigy Bobby Fischer finds himself caught between two superpowers and his own struggles as he challenges the Soviet Empire.

Director: Edward Zwick | Stars: Tobey Maguire, Liev Schreiber, Peter Sarsgaard, Michael Stuhlbarg

Votes: 49,292 | Gross: $2.44M

11. Shine (1996)

PG-13 | 105 min | Biography, Drama, Music

Pianist David Helfgott, driven by his father and teachers, has a breakdown. Years later he returns to the piano, to popular if not critical acclaim.

Director: Scott Hicks | Stars: Geoffrey Rush, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Justin Braine, Sonia Todd

Votes: 56,724 | Gross: $35.81M

12. The Five Devils (2022)

Unrated | 103 min | Drama, Fantasy, Romance

Vicky lives with her mother Joanne and father Jimmie. When Vicky's aunt Julia arrives after being released from prison, her presence brings back the past in a violent, magical way.

Director: Léa Mysius | Stars: Adèle Exarchopoulos, Swala Emati, Sally Dramé, Moustapha Mbengue

Votes: 4,898

13. Only the Animals (2019)

117 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

A woman disappeared. After a snowstorm, her car is discovered on a road to a small remote village. While the police don't know where to start, five people are linked to the disappearance. Each one with his or her own secret.

Director: Dominik Moll | Stars: Denis Ménochet, Laure Calamy, Damien Bonnard, Nadia Tereszkiewicz

Votes: 7,778

14. Boys from County Hell (2020)

88 min | Comedy, Horror

A crew of hardy road workers, led by a bickering father and son, must survive the night when they accidentally awaken an ancient Irish vampire.

Director: Chris Baugh | Stars: Jack Rowan, Nigel O'Neill, Louisa Harland, Michael Hough

Votes: 4,991

15. War Sailor (2022)

TV-MA | 150 min | Drama, War

The sailor Alfred is in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean when World War II breaks out. Suddenly the sailors are in the front of the war, without any weapons.

Director: Gunnar Vikene | Stars: Kristoffer Joner, Pål Sverre Hagen, Ine Marie Wilmann, Henrikke Lund Olsen

Votes: 3,963

16. The Search (III) (2014)

135 min | Drama, War

A French woman who works for a non-governmental organization forms a special relationship with a lost young boy in war-torn Chechnya in 1999.

Director: Michel Hazanavicius | Stars: Bérénice Bejo, Annette Bening, Maksim Emelyanov, Abdul Khalim Mamutsiev

Votes: 2,999

17. From the Land of the Moon (2016)

R | 120 min | Drama, Romance

In 1950s France, Gabrielle is a passionate, free-spirited woman who is in a loveless marriage and falls for another man when she is sent away to the Alps to treat her kidney stones. Gabrielle yearns to free herself and run away with André.

Director: Nicole Garcia | Stars: Marion Cotillard, Louis Garrel, Alex Brendemühl, Brigitte Roüan

Votes: 6,701 | Gross: $0.04M

18. Heli (2013)

Not Rated | 105 min | Crime, Drama, Romance

Heli must try and protect his young family when his 12-year-old sister inadvertently involves them in the brutal drug world. He must battle against the drug cartel that have been angered as well as the corrupt police force.

Director: Amat Escalante | Stars: Armando Espitia, Andrea Vergara, Linda González, Juan Eduardo Palacios

Votes: 5,389

19. The Clan (2015)

R | 108 min | Biography, Crime, Drama

The true story of the Puccio Clan, a family who kidnapped and killed people in the 80s.

Director: Pablo Trapero | Stars: Guillermo Francella, Gastón Cocchiarale, Peter Lanzani, Stefanía Koessl

Votes: 14,314 | Gross: $0.19M

20. Esterno notte (2022)

330 min | Crime, Drama, History

The 1978 kidnapping and assassination of former Italian Prime Minister Aldo Moro by Red Brigades terrorists

Stars: Fabrizio Gifuni, Margherita Buy, Toni Servillo, Fausto Russo Alesi

Votes: 1,692

21. Amundsen (2019)

125 min | Adventure, Biography, Drama

The life and adventures of Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen, the first man to arrive on the South Pole.

Director: Espen Sandberg | Stars: Pål Sverre Hagen, Christian Rubeck, Katherine Waterston, Trond Espen Seim

Votes: 4,995

22. Le Jour Se Leve (1939)

Not Rated | 93 min | Crime, Drama, Romance

After committing a murder, a man locks himself in his apartment and recollects the events that led him to the killing.

Director: Marcel Carné | Stars: Jean Gabin, Jacqueline Laurent, Arletty, Jules Berry

Votes: 8,275 | Gross: $0.03M

23. Blackout (IV) (2008)

R | 85 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller

Three people from different walks of life find themselves trapped inside a stalled elevator. What at first seems like an inconvenience rapidly escalates into a nightmare.

Director: Rigoberto Castañeda | Stars: Amber Tamblyn, Aidan Gillen, Armie Hammer, Katie Stuart

Votes: 3,972

24. Partir (I) (2009)

Unrated | 85 min | Crime, Drama, Romance

Suzanne "Dame Kristin Scott Thomas" is a well to do married mother, but her bourgeois lifestyle gets her down and she decides to go back to work as a physiotherapist by building an office in their backyard. Then Suzanne falls in love with the man hired to build the office.

Director: Catherine Corsini | Stars: Kristin Scott Thomas, Sergi López, Yvan Attal, Bernard Blancan

Votes: 4,538 | Gross: $0.17M

25. La terrazza (1980)

150 min | Comedy, Drama

During a dinner in a Roman terrace, the lives and experiences of multiple characters intertwine.

Director: Ettore Scola | Stars: Vittorio Gassman, Ugo Tognazzi, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Marcello Mastroianni

Votes: 1,833

26. The Mattei Affair (1972)

R | 116 min | Biography, Drama, Mystery

An Italian industrialist died in a plane crash. An accident or an assassination?

Director: Francesco Rosi | Stars: Gian Maria Volontè, Luigi Squarzina, Peter Baldwin, Renato Romano

Votes: 2,461

27. The Grief of Others (2015)

103 min | Drama

The story is based on the novel by Leah Hager Cohen in which a couple's baby dies 57 hours after his birth and the parents try to return to their previous lives and struggle to regain a ... See full summary »

Director: Patrick Wang | Stars: Wendy Moniz, Trevor St. John, Rachel Dratch, Chris Conroy

Votes: 289

28. Müslüm (2018)

136 min | Biography, Drama, Music

A biopic about turkish vocal artist Müslüm Gürses, drama, childhood, his life.

Directors: Ketche, Can Ulkay | Stars: Timuçin Esen, Zerrin Tekindor, Ayça Bingöl, Erkan Can

Votes: 20,335

29. Amnesia (I) (2015)

96 min | Drama

Jo has come to Ibiza to be a DJ in the club Amnesia. He befriends a solitary woman who's trying to forget her past. As Jo draws her into techno music, Martha puts everything she had previously lived by into question.

Director: Barbet Schroeder | Stars: Marthe Keller, Max Riemelt, Bruno Ganz, Corinna Kirchhoff

Votes: 1,205

30. Twin Flower (2018)

Unrated | 96 min | Drama

In a South of Italy full of beauty and hidden dangers, two adolescents, abused and damaged by life, Anna, whose father has been murdered and Basim, an immigrant orphan, escape together towards a new start.

Director: Laura Luchetti | Stars: Anastasiya Bogach, Kallil Kone, Aniello Arena, Mauro Addis

Votes: 228

31. Beyond the Hill (2012)

94 min | Drama

When some people from the other side of the mountain invade the territory of a farming family, the family head tries to unite the family and fight back. But then problems within the family start to appear as well.

Director: Emin Alper | Stars: Tamer Levent, Reha Özcan, Mehmet Özgür, Berk Hakman

Votes: 3,947

32. L'eau à la bouche (1960)

85 min | Comedy, Romance

Miléna is living in her grandmother's baroque château when the rich lady dies. The lawyer Miguel, who had a previous relationship with Miléna, insists the other two grandchildren, Fifine ... See full summary »

Director: Jacques Doniol-Valcroze | Stars: Bernadette Lafont, Françoise Brion, Alexandra Stewart, Michel Galabru

Votes: 270

33. Superstar (2012)

112 min | Drama

An average guy who works in a recycling plant wakes up one morning to discover that he's become inexplicably famous.

Director: Xavier Giannoli | Stars: Kad Merad, Cécile de France, Louis-Do de Lencquesaing, Cédric Ben Abdallah

Votes: 1,057

34. Abou Leila (2019)

135 min | Drama, Thriller

Algeria, 1994. S. and Lotfi, two childhood friends, cross the desert in search of Abu Leila, a dangerous terrorist.

Director: Amin Sidi-Boumédiène | Stars: Slimane Benouari, Lyès Salem, Azouz Abdelkader, Fouad Megiraga

Votes: 350

35. The Clearstream Affair (2014)

Not Rated | 106 min | Thriller

In this French thriller, journalist Denis Robert sets the world of finance ablaze when he exposes a major European bank's opaque operations. In his search for the truth, he uncovers a dark political financial machine of bribes and threats.

Director: Vincent Garenq | Stars: Gilles Lellouche, Charles Berling, Laurent Capelluto, Florence Loiret Caille

Votes: 1,008

36. Get Outta Town (1960)

Not Rated | 62 min | Crime, Drama

In this obscure B potboiler, a longtime criminal returns to his native Los Angeles, determined to avenge his brother's murder.

Director: Charles Davis | Stars: Doug Wilson, Jeanne Baird, Marilyn O'Connor, Tony Louis

Votes: 145

37. Leave Us Alone (2013)

14 min | Short, Horror, Sci-Fi

Sam, a city dwelling single mother inherits a profitable piece of farm land from a grandfather she never knew. On the grandfather's deathbed, he tells Sam about a ship that crash landed on ... See full summary »

Director: Nicholas Treeshin | Stars: Leah Gibson, Philip Granger, John Hainsworth, Collin MacKechnie

Votes: 40

38. Chennai Circuit (2019)

Not Rated | 15 min | Short, Action, Sci-Fi

In AD 2072, a young techie fights to protect his problematic invention from an enemy who wants it despite the flaws.

Director: Achyut Prashast Singh | Star: Achyut Prashast Singh

39. This Is Us (2016–2022)
Episode: The Last Seven Weeks (2019)

TV-14 | 43 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

Randall's campaign comes to a close. Kevin meets someone from Zoe's past. Kate and Toby get ready for the baby.

Director: Roxann Dawson | Stars: Milo Ventimiglia, Mandy Moore, Sterling K. Brown, Chrissy Metz

Votes: 1,475