Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "first-person-narrative"

1. Carlito's Way (1993)

R | 144 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

A Puerto Rican former convict, just released from prison, pledges to stay away from drugs and violence despite the pressure around him and lead on to a better life outside of N.Y.C.

Director: Brian De Palma | Stars: Al Pacino, Sean Penn, Penelope Ann Miller, John Leguizamo

Votes: 232,738 | Gross: $36.95M

2. Raising Arizona (1987)

PG-13 | 94 min | Comedy, Crime

When a childless couple--an ex-con and an ex-cop--decide to help themselves to one of another family's quintuplets, their lives become more complicated than they anticipated.

Directors: Joel Coen, Ethan Coen | Stars: Nicolas Cage, Holly Hunter, Trey Wilson, John Goodman

Votes: 150,630 | Gross: $22.85M

3. The Black Dahlia (2006)

R | 121 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Two policemen see their personal and professional lives fall apart in the wake of the "Black Dahlia" Elizabeth Short murder investigation.

Director: Brian De Palma | Stars: Josh Hartnett, Aaron Eckhart, Scarlett Johansson, Hilary Swank

Votes: 77,082 | Gross: $22.52M

4. The Lady from Shanghai (1947)

Not Rated | 87 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

Fascinated by gorgeous Mrs. Bannister, seaman Michael O'Hara joins a bizarre yachting cruise, and ends up mired in a complex murder plot.

Director: Orson Welles | Stars: Rita Hayworth, Orson Welles, Everett Sloane, Glenn Anders

Votes: 33,404 | Gross: $0.01M

5. The Killer Inside Me (2010)

R | 109 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

A West Texas Deputy Sheriff is slowly unmasked as a psychotic killer.

Director: Michael Winterbottom | Stars: Casey Affleck, Kate Hudson, Jessica Alba, Ned Beatty

Votes: 35,761 | Gross: $0.21M

6. Murder in the First (1995)

R | 122 min | Drama, Thriller

An eager and idealistic young attorney defends an Alcatraz prisoner accused of murdering a fellow inmate. The extenuating circumstances: his client had just spent over three years in solitary confinement.

Director: Marc Rocco | Stars: Christian Slater, Kevin Bacon, Gary Oldman, Embeth Davidtz

Votes: 30,718 | Gross: $17.38M

7. Jane Eyre (1943)

Approved | 97 min | Drama, Romance

After a harsh childhood, orphan Jane Eyre is hired by Edward Rochester, the brooding lord of a mysterious manor house, to care for his young daughter.

Director: Robert Stevenson | Stars: Orson Welles, Joan Fontaine, Margaret O'Brien, Peggy Ann Garner

Votes: 9,517 | Gross: $3.82M

8. I, You, He, She (1974)

86 min | Drama

'Je' is a girl voluntarily lock up in a room. 'Tu' is the script. 'Il' is a lorry driver. 'Elle' is the girlfriend.

Director: Chantal Akerman | Stars: Chantal Akerman, Niels Arestrup, Claire Wauthion

Votes: 2,980

9. Pressure Point (1962)

Not Rated | 91 min | Drama

A black prison psychiatrist is assigned the distasteful task of helping a paranoid American Nazi charged with sedition.

Director: Hubert Cornfield | Stars: Sidney Poitier, Bobby Darin, Peter Falk, Carl Benton Reid

Votes: 2,049

10. The Beaches of Agnès (2008)

Not Rated | 112 min | Documentary, Biography

Agnès Varda explores her memories, mostly chronologically, with photographs, film clips, interviews, reenactments, and droll, playful contemporary scenes of her narrating her story.

Director: Agnès Varda | Stars: Agnès Varda, André Lubrano, Blaise Fournier, Vincent Fournier

Votes: 4,795 | Gross: $0.24M

11. Ulysses (1967)

Not Rated | 123 min | Drama

James Joyce's masterpiece incarnated: The story of two seperated Dublin wanderers, Leopold Bloom and Stephen Dedalus, struggling to control their personal lives.

Director: Joseph Strick | Stars: Milo O'Shea, Barbara Jefford, Maurice Roëves, T.P. McKenna

Votes: 979

12. The Return of Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer (1986 TV Movie)

Not Rated | 94 min | Action, Crime, Mystery

A young girl is kidnapped and there is an attempt on the daughter of an well-known actress. The kidnapper then turns up dead. Hammer is hired to protect the girl and travels to Los Angeles, where she is then kidnapped.

Director: Ray Danton | Stars: Stacy Keach, Don Stroud, Lindsay Bloom, Kent Williams

Votes: 260

13. Kisaragi Station (2022)

82 min | Drama, Horror

Haruna Tsunematsu (Yuri Tsunematsu) is studying folklore at university and she decides the subject of her graduation thesis will be the "Kisaragi Station" urban legend which has been a hot topic on the Internet since 2004.

Director: Jirô Nagae | Stars: Yuri Tsunematsu, Miyu Honda, Rui Kihara, Tsubouchi Mamoru

Votes: 332

14. One Room (2017–2020)

TV-14 | 4 min | Animation, Short, Drama

You are the protagonist. A new project in virtual anime from SMIRAL Animation that also brought you the "Anitore" series and "Makuranodanshi." This time, the project is about 3 stories that develop in your (one) room.

Stars: Rie Takahashi, Inori Minase, Mao Ichimichi, Yumiri Hanamori

Votes: 186

15. Nothing Funny (1995)

95 min | Comedy, Drama

Tracks the hilariously bumbling, calamity-ridden life of director Adam Miauczynski. Both his career and his romantic relationships are suffering, but, since his total lack of common sense ... See full summary »

Director: Marek Koterski | Stars: Cezary Pazura, Marek Kondrat, Ewa Blaszczyk, Henryk Bista

Votes: 3,871

16. The Black Glove (1954)

Not Rated | 84 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

Newly arrived in Britain, a jet-lagged musician impulsively goes to the apartment of a beautiful blues singer he's just met and hours later is accused of her murder.

Director: Terence Fisher | Stars: Alex Nicol, Eleanor Summerfield, John Salew, Paul Carpenter

Votes: 385

17. Dungeon Girl (2008 Video)

R | 81 min | Crime, Drama, Horror

A shocking story of captivity and survival inspired by actual events.

Director: Ulli Lommel | Stars: Gwen Trevathan, Wendi Jean Linn, Gunter Ziegler, Marcia James

Votes: 945

18. The City Dark (2011)

Not Rated | 83 min | Documentary, News

THE CITY DARK is a feature documentary about the loss of night. After moving to NYC from rural Maine, filmmaker Ian Cheney asks a simple question - do we need the stars? - taking him from ... See full summary »

Director: Ian Cheney

Votes: 339

19. Agatha Christie: A Life in Pictures (2004 TV Movie)

90 min | Drama

Late in 1926 acclaimed mystery writer Agatha Christie disappears after marital problems and creates a media frenzy.

Director: Richard Curson Smith | Stars: Olivia Williams, Anna Massey, Raymond Coulthard, Stephen Boxer

Votes: 250

20. Teddy Bear (2008 TV Movie)

99 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

Ben Corisky has a warm, boyish face and an infectious charm. He works, visits his son and pays his child support when he can. He is also a serial killer and he's on a search for answers in the mind of a monster... himself.

Director: Yuval Daniel | Stars: David Sparrow, Tracey Hway, Marie Ward, Sonya Côté

Votes: 12

21. Missing Pieces (1983 TV Movie)

Not Rated | 96 min | Mystery

A private detective has to deal with an unpleasant memory, a near-insoluble mystery, and a pursuing murderer inflicted with drugs and political corruption. The detective narrated throughout in this novel-based story by Karl Alexander.

Director: Mike Hodges | Stars: Elizabeth Montgomery, Ron Karabatsos, John Reilly, Louanne

Votes: 93

22. Massoud, l'Afghan (1998)

89 min | Documentary, History, War

The friendship between Christophe de Ponfilly and Commander Massoud, a legendary figure of the Afghan resistance against the Soviet invader, goes back to the filmmaker's first film, "A ... See full summary »

Director: Christophe de Ponfilly | Stars: Christophe de Ponfilly, Ahmad Shah Massoud, Merabuddine

Votes: 130 | Gross: $0.01M

23. Exil (2016)

77 min | Biography, Drama

Exil is a visionary narration of the exile of Cambodians during the Red Khmer regime, during which the country was renamed Democratic Kampuchea.

Director: Rithy Panh | Star: Randal Douc

Votes: 112

24. Zycie wewnetrzne (1987)

86 min | Drama

A grumpy, dislikable neurotic living in a high-rise apartment building cannot stand anything that surrounds him, people included. Most of all he hates his wife.

Director: Marek Koterski | Stars: Wojciech Wysocki, Joanna Sienkiewicz, Maria Probosz, Jolanta Nowak

Votes: 253

25. The Universal Clock: The Resistance of Peter Watkins (2001)

77 min | Documentary, History

This film looks at Peter Watkins and his uncompromising devotion to his ideals.

Director: Geoff Bowie | Stars: Marie-Josephe Barrere, Renaud Bazin, Kamel Ikachamene, Sara Louis

Votes: 73

26. KonTiki Project

Documentary, History, Mystery | Filming

An archaeological excavation in the ancient Museum of Human Anatomy in Pisa, Italy.

Director: Beatrice Barberis | Stars: Pasquale Barile, Maria Longhena, Ramona Melli, Stefania Zampetti

27. Georges Méliès: Cinema Magician (1978)

Not Rated | 21 min | Documentary, Short, Biography

Documentary on Georges Méliès life and works.

Directors: Luciano Martinengo, Patrick Montgomery | Star: Georges Méliès

Votes: 110

28. Daughter of Suicide (2000)

72 min | Documentary, Biography

Daughter of Suicide is a groundbreaking personal documentary which explores the topics of suicide and depression in an honest and eye-opening manner. It reveals the reality of one mother's ... See full summary »

Director: Dempsey Rice | Stars: Crissie Rice, Dempsey Rice, Ray Rice

Votes: 15

29. Ruth Rendell Mysteries (1987–2000)
Episode: The Orchard Walls (1998)

TV-14 | 60 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

A bright young teenage girl is 'farmed out' to relatives in the rural West Country during the Battle of Britain and makes many astute observations about life there.

Director: Gwennan Sage | Stars: Honeysuckle Weeks, Marsha Fitzalan, John McGlynn, Sylvia Syms

Votes: 66

30. Front Row (2017– )
Episode: Episode #5.1 (2019)

39 min | Music, News, Talk-Show

Mary Beard and her panel of guests discuss the art of the memoir ahead of the publication of David Cameron's memoir. They also explore the art of the self-portrait.

Directors: Dino Charalambous, Nicky Lessware | Stars: Mary Beard, Peter Hitchens, Sathnam Sanghera, Germaine Greer