Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "battle-of-wills"

1. Road House (1989)

R | 114 min | Action, Thriller

A bouncer hired to clean up the baddest honkytonk in a Missouri town. Armed with a black belt in karate and a degree in philosophy, Patrick Swayze sets out to tame the Double Deuce for its owner.

Director: Rowdy Herrington | Stars: Patrick Swayze, Kelly Lynch, Sam Elliott, Ben Gazzara

Votes: 101,429 | Gross: $30.05M

2. Parasite (2019)

R | 132 min | Drama, Thriller

Greed and class discrimination threaten the newly-formed symbiotic relationship between the wealthy Park family and the destitute Kim clan.

Director: Bong Joon Ho | Stars: Song Kang-ho, Lee Sun-kyun, Cho Yeo-jeong, Choi Woo-sik

Votes: 962,249 | Gross: $53.37M

3. The Innocents (2021)

Not Rated | 117 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror

During the bright Nordic summer, a group of children reveal their dark and mysterious powers when the adults aren't looking. In this original and gripping supernatural thriller, playtime takes a dangerous turn.

Director: Eskil Vogt | Stars: Rakel Lenora Petersen Fløttum, Alva Brynsmo Ramstad, Sam Ashraf, Mina Yasmin Bremseth Asheim

Votes: 24,875

4. We Have Always Lived in the Castle (2018)

Not Rated | 95 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery

Merricat, Constance and their Uncle Julian live in isolation after experiencing a family tragedy six years earlier. When cousin Charles arrives to steal the family fortune, he also threatens a dark secret they've been hiding.

Director: Stacie Passon | Stars: Taissa Farmiga, Alexandra Daddario, Crispin Glover, Sebastian Stan

Votes: 9,565 | Gross: $7.67M

5. Sniper (1993)

R | 98 min | Action, Thriller, War

A veteran US Marine sniper is partnered with a rookie sniper as his spotter to take out a politician and a rebel leader in the jungles of Panama.

Director: Luis Llosa | Stars: Tom Berenger, Billy Zane, J.T. Walsh, Aden Young

Votes: 25,491 | Gross: $18.99M

6. Sugar (II) (2022)

TV-14 | 101 min | Crime, Drama

Two influencers find themselves on a luxury cruise through the Caribbean and South Pacific. But as the mirage of their online personas starts clashing with their real-life ambitions, a battle of wills threatens to tear them apart.

Director: Vic Sarin | Stars: Katherine McNamara, Jasmine Sky Sarin, Éric Bruneau, Anthony Timpano

Votes: 600

7. Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger (1977)

G | 113 min | Action, Adventure, Family

Sinbad the Sailor sails to deliver a cursed prince to a dangerous island in the face of deadly opposition from the powerful witch Zenobia, her son and their several monsters.

Director: Sam Wanamaker | Stars: Patrick Wayne, Jane Seymour, Taryn Power, Margaret Whiting

Votes: 8,683 | Gross: $16.79M

8. Tank (1984)

PG | 113 min | Action, Comedy, Drama

Sergeant Major Zack arrives at a new army base with his wife, son and Sherman tank. One night at a bar he "stops" a pimp/deputy from beating a girl. The corrupt sheriff uses Zack's son for revenge and Zack uses his tank.

Director: Marvin J. Chomsky | Stars: James Garner, Shirley Jones, C. Thomas Howell, Mark Herrier

Votes: 4,685 | Gross: $14.13M

9. Dutch (1991)

PG-13 | 107 min | Comedy, Drama

To get to know his girlfriend's son, a working-class good guy volunteers to pick him up from his prep school, only to learn that he isn't the nicest young man.

Director: Peter Faiman | Stars: Ed O'Neill, Ethan Embry, JoBeth Williams, Christopher McDonald

Votes: 14,381 | Gross: $4.60M

10. The Reckoning (2020)

Not Rated | 110 min | Adventure, Drama, Horror

Grace, a young widow haunted by the recent suicide of her husband Joseph, is falsely accused of being a witch by her Landlord after she rejects his advances.

Director: Neil Marshall | Stars: Charlotte Kirk, Sean Pertwee, Steven Waddington, Joe Anderson

Votes: 3,764

11. Love at First Bite (1979)

PG | 96 min | Comedy, Horror

After being evicted from his castle in Transylvania, Count Dracula and his assistant Renfield travel to New York to find a woman who the Count believes is the reincarnation of the woman he has loved for all eternity.

Director: Stan Dragoti | Stars: George Hamilton, Susan Saint James, Richard Benjamin, Dick Shawn

Votes: 6,397 | Gross: $43.89M

12. Drácula (1931)

Unrated | 104 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror

Centuries-old vampire Dracula preys upon the innocent Eva and her friends.

Director: George Melford | Stars: Carlos Villarías, Lupita Tovar, Barry Norton, Pablo Álvarez Rubio

Votes: 5,107

13. Damn the Defiant! (1962)

Approved | 101 min | Action, Drama, History

On the H.M.S. Defiant, during the French Revolutionary War, fair Captain Crawford is locked in a battle of wills against his cruel second-in-command Lieutenant Scott-Padget, whose heavy-handed command style pushes the crew to mutiny.

Director: Lewis Gilbert | Stars: Alec Guinness, Dirk Bogarde, Maurice Denham, Nigel Stock

Votes: 3,035

14. Bad Hair (2013)

93 min | Drama

A nine-year-old boy's preening obsession with straightening his hair elicits a tidal wave of homophobic panic in his hard-working mother.

Director: Mariana Rondón | Stars: Samuel Lange Zambrano, Samantha Castillo, Beto Benites, Nelly Ramos

Votes: 2,435

15. To Please a Lady (1950)

Passed | 91 min | Action, Romance, Sport

A former war hero and midget car racer meets his match in a feisty reporter who blames his reckless tactics for an accidental racing death.

Director: Clarence Brown | Stars: Clark Gable, Barbara Stanwyck, Adolphe Menjou, Will Geer

Votes: 1,138

16. A Child's Cry for Help (1994 TV Movie)

110 min | Drama

A recently-widowed doctor moves with her daughter to start at a new hospital. A loving mother brings her son in for treatment. The doctor suspects that something is wrong and theorizes that... See full summary »

Director: Sandor Stern | Stars: Veronica Hamel, Pam Dawber, Daniel Hugh Kelly, Lisa Jakub

Votes: 271

17. Who's the Boss? (2013)

TV-PG | 87 min | Comedy, Romance

A couple of uncommitted partners just looking for fun get into a battle of egos as they fall in love.

Director: Ronni Castillo | Stars: Frank Perozo, Nashla Bogaert, Micky Montilla, Amauris Pérez

Votes: 596

18. The Last Time I Saw Richard (2013)

Not Rated | 23 min | Short, Drama, Fantasy

In 1995, Jonah is proud to be the loner at the teen mental health clinic. But when a new patient, Richard, is admitted and the boys are forced to share a room, Jonah finds himself forming a... See full summary »

Director: Nicholas Verso | Stars: Toby Wallace, Cody Fern, Brian Lipson, Melissa Godbold

Votes: 913

19. Liminal (2008)

14 min | Short, Drama

Ina and Joy are naked and locked in a battle of elimination. Ina must reverse the power to survive. Are they lovers or is Joy the "killer-within?"

Director: Stephen Keep Mills | Stars: Alejandra Gollas, Tonya Cornelisse

Votes: 60

20. Pardon My French (1951)

Approved | 82 min | Comedy, Romance

A Boston school teacher fights with a group of impoverished Frenchmen for possession of an inherited château. Elizabeth Rockwell is indignant when she finds her château filled with ... See full summary »

Director: Bernard Vorhaus | Stars: Paul Henreid, Merle Oberon, Paul Bonifas, Maximilienne

Votes: 39

21. Hell's Drifter (2009)

Not Rated | 94 min | Comedy, Drama, Horror

A malevolent vagrant decides to make life hell for an injured accident victim.

Director: Peter Bergin | Stars: Noel Aungier, Austin Prior, Siobhan Lam, Robert O'Brien

Votes: 34

22. The Stallion (1972 TV Movie)

Drama

Over a number of days a man repeatedly and obsessively tries to capture and subdue a white stallion.

Director: John King | Stars: Peter Arne, Nosey, Bob

Votes: 7

23. The Guest: An Episode in the Life of Eugène Marais (1977)

103 min | Biography, Drama

Eugène Marais is Afrikaner intellectual, naturalist, poet, author, rebel and morphine addict who publicly attacked the repressive Transvaal Government. On a remote farm, trying to overcome ... See full summary »

Director: Ross Devenish | Stars: Athol Fugard, Marius Weyers, Gordon Vorster, Wilma Stockenström

Votes: 13

24. American Masters (1985– )
Episode: Hitchcock, Selznick and the End of Hollywood (1998)

TV-14 | 86 min | Documentary, Biography, History

With Hitchcock's career just beginning and Selznick's on the decline, the final year of their collaboration would mark turning points in both men's lives.

Director: Michael Epstein | Stars: Gene Hackman, Alfred Hitchcock, David O. Selznick, Peter Bogdanovich

Votes: 390

25. According to Jim (2001–2009)
Episode: The Errand (2003)

TV-PG | 22 min | Comedy, Romance

Jim is outraged to learn they pay for groceries to be delivered. Cheryl says they have deliveries for a lot of things. He says he will take over the job of grocery shopping and other errands himself to save money, but it does not work out.

Director: Philip Charles MacKenzie | Stars: Jim Belushi, Courtney Thorne-Smith, Kimberly Williams-Paisley, Larry Joe Campbell

Votes: 158

26. Danger (1950–1955)
Episode: Surprise for the Boys (1950)

30 min | Drama

In a prison execution chamber, a murderer has a battle of wills with his executioners.

Director: Curt Conway | Stars: Leonard Barry, Joe Bassett, Robert H. Harris, Henry Jones

27. Superman: The Animated Series (1996–2000)
Episode: In Brightest Day... (1999)

Unrated | 22 min | Animation, Action, Adventure

When Green Lantern Abin Sur fatally crash lands on Earth, his power ring selects a young artist as a replacement.

Director: Butch Lukic | Stars: Tim Daly, Dana Delany, Michael P. Greco, Ted Levine

Votes: 429

28. Seinfeld (1989–1998)
Episode: The Parking Space (1992)

TV-PG | 23 min | Comedy

George becomes trapped in a battle of wills over the rightful ownership of a parking space.

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

Votes: 4,145

29. A Haunting (2005– )
Episode: Hell House (2005)

TV-PG | 43 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror

Three ghosts and one demon harass the terrified Beckwith family when they move into a 19th century Connecticut house.

Director: Joe Wiecha | Stars: Anthony D. Call, Debora Balardini, Bonnie Beckwith, Jim Meisner Jr.

Votes: 120

30. The Big Bang Theory (2007–2019)
Episode: The Panty Piñata Polarization (2008)

TV-PG | 21 min | Comedy, Romance

Penny plans revenge when Sheldon bans her from his and Leonard's apartment, while Howard and Raj use the latest technology to try to find the house being used in "America's Next Top Model."

Director: Mark Cendrowski | Stars: Johnny Galecki, Jim Parsons, Kaley Cuoco, Simon Helberg

Votes: 4,786

31. House M.D. (2004–2012)
Episode: Let Them Eat Cake (2008)

TV-14 | 44 min | Drama, Mystery

The drug trial brings back memories for Thirteen; Kutner and Taub scramble as they try to salvage a scam and save the team's patient whose gastric bypass may not have saved her life.

Director: Deran Sarafian | Stars: Hugh Laurie, Lisa Edelstein, Omar Epps, Robert Sean Leonard

Votes: 2,491

32. North & South (2004)
Episode: Episode #1.1 (2004)

TV-14 | 58 min | Drama, Romance

Margaret Hale, a 19-year-old lively young girl, and her parents leave the south, when her father Richard resigns as the clergy in Helstone on a matter of conscience. The family moves to ... See full summary »

Director: Brian Percival | Stars: Daniela Denby-Ashe, Tim Pigott-Smith, Emma Owen, Travis Oliver

Votes: 503

33. Kath & Kim (2008–2009)
Episode: Home (2009)

TV-14 | 21 min | Comedy

Kath redoes her kitchen to impress the judges at the Parade of Homes, and Kim gets upset when Craig doesn't do anything to commemorate their second date anniversary.

Director: Randall Einhorn | Stars: Molly Shannon, Selma Blair, John Michael Higgins, Mikey Day

Votes: 33

34. Daniel Deronda (2002)
Episode: Episode #1.3 (2002)

TV-PG | 49 min | Drama, Romance

The Grandcourt marriage develops. A critical musician, Herr Klesmer is invited to hear Mirah sing. Daniel finds Mirah's brother Ezra and arranges a meeting. Finally, Sir Hugo Mallinger hands Daniel a letter from his mother.

Director: Tom Hooper | Stars: Hugh Dancy, Romola Garai, Hugh Bonneville, Jodhi May

Votes: 60