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

1. Basic Instinct (1992)

R | 127 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller

A violent police detective investigates a brutal murder that might involve a manipulative and seductive novelist.

Director: Paul Verhoeven | Stars: Michael Douglas, Sharon Stone, George Dzundza, Jeanne Tripplehorn

Votes: 219,607 | Gross: $117.73M

2. The Patient (2022)

TV-MA | 30 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller

A psychotherapist finds himself held prisoner by a serial killer who demands he help him curb his homicidal urges.

Stars: Steve Carell, Domhnall Gleeson, Laura Niemi, Andrew Leeds

Votes: 30,981

3. The Adjustment Bureau (2011)

PG-13 | 106 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

The affair between a politician and a contemporary dancer is affected by mysterious forces keeping the lovers apart.

Director: George Nolfi | Stars: Matt Damon, Emily Blunt, Lisa Thoreson, Florence Kastriner

Votes: 270,441 | Gross: $62.50M

4. Altered States (1980)

R | 102 min | Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller

A psycho-physiologist experiments with drugs and a sensory-deprivation tank and has visions he believes are genetic memories.

Director: Ken Russell | Stars: William Hurt, Blair Brown, Bob Balaban, Charles Haid

Votes: 38,701 | Gross: $19.85M

5. Wedding Daze (2006)

R | 90 min | Comedy, Romance

A guy proposes to his girlfriend, who drops dead. His BFF tries to get him to date other women but he only talks about his dead big love. At a diner he proposes to a cute waitress just to get his BFF off his back. She says yes.

Director: Michael Ian Black | Stars: Jason Biggs, Isla Fisher, Michael Weston, Ebon Moss-Bachrach

Votes: 17,381

6. The Howling (1981)

R | 91 min | Horror

After a bizarre and near deadly encounter with a serial killer, a television newswoman is sent to a remote mountain resort whose residents may not be what they seem.

Director: Joe Dante | Stars: Dee Wallace, Patrick Macnee, Dennis Dugan, Christopher Stone

Votes: 40,274 | Gross: $17.99M

7. When in Rome (2010)

PG-13 | 91 min | Comedy, Romance

Beth is an ambitious young New Yorker who is completely unlucky in love. On a whirlwind trip to Rome, she impulsively steals some coins from a reputed fountain of love, and is then aggressively pursued by a band of suitors.

Director: Mark Steven Johnson | Stars: Kristen Bell, Josh Duhamel, Anjelica Huston, Danny DeVito

Votes: 64,670 | Gross: $32.67M

8. Alfie (2004)

R | 103 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

A cockney womanizer learns the hard way about the dangers of his actions.

Director: Charles Shyer | Stars: Jude Law, Sienna Miller, Susan Sarandon, Renée Taylor

Votes: 55,015 | Gross: $13.40M

9. My American Uncle (1980)

PG | 125 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

The intersecting stories of three people who face difficult choices in life-changing situations are used to illustrate the theories espoused by Henri Laborit about human behavior and the relationship between the self and society.

Director: Alain Resnais | Stars: Gérard Depardieu, Nicole Garcia, Roger Pierre, Nelly Borgeaud

Votes: 6,862

10. Dead Men Tell (1941)

Approved | 61 min | Crime, Mystery

A treasure map in four pieces, the ghost of a hanged pirate, a talking parrot, and a ship full of red herrings complicate Charlie's search for a murderer on board a docked ship.

Director: Harry Lachman | Stars: Sidney Toler, Sheila Ryan, Robert Weldon, Victor Sen Yung

Votes: 1,345

11. Secrets of a Soul (1926)

Not Rated | 97 min | Drama

A scientist is tormented by an irrational fear of knives and the irresistible compulsion to murder his wife.

Director: Georg Wilhelm Pabst | Stars: Werner Krauss, Ruth Weyher, Ilka Grüning, Jack Trevor

Votes: 808

12. The Directive (2019)

113 min | Action, Comedy, Sci-Fi

One year after a catastrophic pandemic wipes out most of humanity, a lone survivor embarks on a journey to find Safe Zone 57 with the help of a broken robot.

Director: Alexander Raye Pimentel | Stars: Kyle Abraham, Scott Thompson, Hannah Pimentel, Hashim Gari

Votes: 1,317

13. She Wouldn't Say Yes (1945)

Approved | 87 min | Comedy, Romance

Susan Lane is a gifted psychiatrist, grounded in self-control. Before returning by train to her practice in Chicago, she spends time back East with war veterans, building their self-esteem,... See full summary »

Director: Alexander Hall | Stars: Rosalind Russell, Lee Bowman, Adele Jergens, Charles Winninger

Votes: 579

14. Revanche (1983)

105 min | Drama, Romance

During a hot summer somewhere in the early-1980s Athenian urban jungle, three friends experiment with a difficult love triangle. Will their ambivalent feelings and the unbearably lingering identity crisis consume them?

Director: Nikos Vergitsis | Stars: Antonis Kafetzopoulos, Giota Festa, Panos Iliopoulos, Dimitris Poulikakos

Votes: 166

15. Never Happened (2015)

8 min | Short, Comedy, Romance

A pair of business travellers have an affair and decide it might be easier to just forget about it.

Director: Mark Slutsky | Stars: Aaron Abrams, Anna Hopkins, Mia Kirshner

Votes: 153

16. The Night of the Crocodile (2020)

19 min | Short, Drama, Thriller

Three forces of nature, three animal-individuals that meet in the clear area of the human jungle just for an instant. Then, everything is suspended, they recognize each other, they measure ... See full summary »

Director: Igor Fernández | Stars: Kino Gil, Carlos Indriago, Laura Mayo

17. Futurama (1999– )
Episode: My Three Suns (1999)

TV-PG | 23 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy

Delivery Boy Philip J. Fry is promoted to Emperor after accidentally drinking his fluid-based predecessor.

Directors: Jeffrey Lynch, Kevin O'Brien, Rich Moore, Gregg Vanzo | Stars: Billy West, Katey Sagal, John DiMaggio, David Herman

Votes: 3,438

18. The Romantics and Us (2020)
Episode: The Chambers of the Mind (2020)

60 min | Documentary, History

Simon looks at how the Romantics, before the dawn of the modern psychological revolution, delved into their own minds and the human subconscious, often at great personal cost.

Director: Hugo Macgregor | Stars: Simon Schama, Sigmund Freud, Pete Doherty, Piotr Anderszewski

Votes: 19

19. New Discourses (2020– )
Groomer Schools 2: Queer Futurity and the Sexual Abuse of Your Children (2021 Podcast Episode)

147 min

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Star: James Lindsay

20. Se solicita príncipe azul (2005–2007)
Episode: Episode #1.85 (2005)

TV-PG | 45 min | Drama, Romance

Joaquin is fed up with Petrica. Maria Carlota packs her bags. Ricardo and Alejandro form an alliance. Santiago is preparing a surprise party. India is photographed. Dalia steals the baby.

Directors: Luis Alberto Lamata, Arquímedes Rivero, Omar Hurtado, Édgar Liendo | Stars: Gaby Espino, Rafael Novoa, Daniela Alvarado, Adrián Delgado

21. Yakari (2005– )
Episode: Tracking the Thieves (2008)

TV-Y | 13 min | Animation, Adventure, Family

An ancient artefact depicting the Sioux tribe's history has been stolen from Restful Rock's teepee, and Buffalo Seed sets off to find it before anyone else, with Yakari close by. But in this quest for honour, is it always best to be first?

Director: Xavier Giacometti

22. Room 104 (2017–2020)
Episode: Prank Call (2019)

TV-MA | 24 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy

Left alone by her parents in Room 104, a bored neglected teenage girl makes a series of prank calls where she pretends to be a jail bait seductress tempting married men and even offering ... See full summary »

Director: So Yong Kim | Stars: Mary Mouser, Macon Blair, Carl De Gregorio, Kristina Harrison

Votes: 197