Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "man-on-a-ledge"

1. The Invisible Guest (2016)

TV-MA | 106 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

A successful entrepreneur accused of murder and a witness preparation expert have less than three hours to come up with an impregnable defense.

Director: Oriol Paulo | Stars: Mario Casas, Ana Wagener, Jose Coronado, Bárbara Lennie

Votes: 192,833

2. Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol (2011)

PG-13 | 132 min | Action, Adventure, Thriller

The IMF is shut down when it's implicated in the bombing of the Kremlin, causing Ethan Hunt and his new team to go rogue to clear their organization's name.

Director: Brad Bird | Stars: Tom Cruise, Jeremy Renner, Simon Pegg, Paula Patton

Votes: 528,856 | Gross: $209.40M

3. Yes Man (2008)

PG-13 | 104 min | Comedy, Romance

A man challenges himself to say "yes" to everything.

Director: Peyton Reed | Stars: Jim Carrey, Zooey Deschanel, Bradley Cooper, John Michael Higgins

Votes: 383,554 | Gross: $97.69M

4. Last Holiday (2006)

PG-13 | 112 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

Upon learning of a terminal illness, a shy woman decides to sell all her possessions and live it up at a posh Central European hotel.

Director: Wayne Wang | Stars: Queen Latifah, LL Cool J, Timothy Hutton, Giancarlo Esposito

Votes: 36,296 | Gross: $38.36M

5. The Hudsucker Proxy (1994)

PG | 111 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy

A naive business graduate is installed as president of a manufacturing company as part of a stock scam.

Directors: Joel Coen, Ethan Coen | Stars: Tim Robbins, Paul Newman, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Charles Durning

Votes: 85,135 | Gross: $2.87M

6. The Fearless Vampire Killers (1967)

Not Rated | 91 min | Comedy, Horror

A noted professor and his dim-witted apprentice fall prey to their inquiring vampires, while on the trail of the ominous damsel in distress.

Director: Roman Polanski | Stars: Jack MacGowran, Roman Polanski, Alfie Bass, Jessie Robins

Votes: 33,892

7. Man on a Ledge (2012)

PG-13 | 102 min | Action, Crime, Thriller

As a police psychologist works to talk down an ex-con who is threatening to jump from a Manhattan hotel rooftop, the biggest diamond heist ever committed is in motion.

Director: Asger Leth | Stars: Sam Worthington, Elizabeth Banks, Jamie Bell, Mandy Gonzalez

Votes: 158,618 | Gross: $18.62M

8. Cat's Eye (1985)

PG-13 | 94 min | Comedy, Horror, Thriller

A stray cat is the linking element of three tales of suspense and horror.

Director: Lewis Teague | Stars: Drew Barrymore, James Woods, Alan King, Kenneth McMillan

Votes: 28,202 | Gross: $13.09M

9. The Man Who Knew Too Little (1997)

PG | 94 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

Wallace Ritchie is mistaken for a spy and must stop a plot to assassinate international leaders at a banquet.

Director: Jon Amiel | Stars: Bill Murray, Joanne Whalley, Peter Gallagher, Richard Wilson

Votes: 34,452 | Gross: $13.80M

10. Ishtar (1987)

PG-13 | 107 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy

Two terrible lounge singers get booked to play a gig in a Moroccan hotel but somehow become pawns in an international power play between the C.I.A., the Emir of Ishtar, and the rebels trying to overthrow his regime.

Director: Elaine May | Stars: Warren Beatty, Dustin Hoffman, Isabelle Adjani, Charles Grodin

Votes: 12,049 | Gross: $14.38M

11. The Ledge (2011)

R | 101 min | Drama, Romance, Thriller

A police officer looks to talk down a young man lured by his lover's husband to the ledge of a high rise, where he has one hour to contemplate a fateful decision.

Director: Matthew Chapman | Stars: Charlie Hunnam, Terrence Howard, Patrick Wilson, Liv Tyler

Votes: 20,420 | Gross: $0.01M

12. The Double (2013)

R | 93 min | Comedy, Drama, Mystery

The unenviable life of a government-agency clerk takes a horrific turn with the arrival of a new co-worker who is both his exact physical double and his opposite otherwise--he's a confident, charismatic ladies' man.

Director: Richard Ayoade | Stars: Jesse Eisenberg, Mia Wasikowska, Wallace Shawn, Noah Taylor

Votes: 53,061 | Gross: $0.20M

13. Leatherheads (2008)

PG-13 | 114 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

In 1925, an enterprising pro football player convinces America's too-good-to-be-true college football hero to play for his team and keep the league from going under.

Director: George Clooney | Stars: George Clooney, Renée Zellweger, John Krasinski, David de Vries

Votes: 33,459 | Gross: $31.20M

14. That Man from Rio (1964)

Not Rated | 112 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy

A young private on military leave comes to the rescue of his girlfriend who's been abducted by thieves and brought to Rio de Janeiro. An extravagant adventure ensues.

Director: Philippe de Broca | Stars: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Françoise Dorléac, Jean Servais, Roger Dumas

Votes: 6,197 | Gross: $0.04M

15. In Like Flint (1967)

Unrated | 114 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy

Super-spy Flint takes on a cabal of women plotting to rule the world.

Director: Gordon Douglas | Stars: James Coburn, Lee J. Cobb, Jean Hale, Andrew Duggan

Votes: 6,102 | Gross: $11.00M

16. Terminal Exposure (1987)

R | 105 min | Comedy, Crime

Two beach combing-shutterbugs accidentally capture a murder on film. Now detectives, the boys set out to capture a murderess shot only from behind, with a rose tattoo on her behind. Fun in ... See full summary »

Director: Nico Mastorakis | Stars: Mark Hennessy, Scott King, Hope Marie Carlton, Steve Donmyer

Votes: 1,391

17. Love Is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon (1998)

Unrated | 87 min | Biography, Drama, Romance

Biography of British painter Francis Bacon focuses on his relationship with his lover, George Dyer, a former small time crook.

Director: John Maybury | Stars: Derek Jacobi, Daniel Craig, Tilda Swinton, Anne Lambton

Votes: 3,999 | Gross: $0.34M

18. Those People (2015)

Not Rated | 89 min | Drama, Romance

On Manhattan's gilded Upper East Side, a young gay painter is torn between an obsession with his infamous socialite best friend and a promising new romance with an older foreign concert pianist.

Director: Joey Kuhn | Stars: Jonathan Gordon, Jason Ralph, Haaz Sleiman, Britt Lower

Votes: 6,635

19. Dr. Jekyll and Ms. Hyde (1995)

PG-13 | 90 min | Comedy, Romance, Sci-Fi

A scientist creating perfumes inherits his great grandfather Dr. Jekyll's formula and decides to use modern technology to improve it. He ends up as an ambitious, ruthless woman. She tries to prevent returning into the spineless man.

Director: David Price | Stars: Sean Young, Tim Daly, Lysette Anthony, Stephen Tobolowsky

Votes: 3,024 | Gross: $2.76M

20. Fright (1971)

PG | 87 min | Horror, Thriller

An English baby sitter is terrorized by her friend's ex-husband, escaped from an asylum.

Director: Peter Collinson | Stars: Honor Blackman, Susan George, George Cole, Tara Collinson

Votes: 1,925 | Gross: $0.17M

21. Sex with a Smile (1976)

R | 100 min | Comedy

Five short comic sketches, all unrelated to each other, except that they are all expressions of Italian sexual humor. In one sketch, Marty Feldman plays a bodyguard, hired by her father to ... See full summary »

Director: Sergio Martino | Stars: Barbara Bouchet, Edwige Fenech, Dayle Haddon, Alberto Lionello

Votes: 485

22. Eastern Boys (2013)

Unrated | 128 min | Crime, Drama, Romance

A businessman makes a regular arrangement with a Ukrainian prostitute, despite the youngster's involvement in a controlling street gang.

Director: Robin Campillo | Stars: Olivier Rabourdin, Kirill Emelyanov, Daniil Vorobyov, Edéa Darcque

Votes: 3,846 | Gross: $0.02M

23. The Enforcer (1951)

Approved | 87 min | Crime, Film-Noir, Thriller

A crusading district attorney finally gets a chance to prosecute the organizer and boss of Murder Inc.

Directors: Bretaigne Windust, Raoul Walsh | Stars: Humphrey Bogart, Zero Mostel, Ted de Corsia, Everett Sloane

Votes: 5,653

24. Fear in the Night (1946)

Passed | 72 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

A man dreams he committed murder, then begins to suspect it was real.

Director: Maxwell Shane | Stars: Paul Kelly, DeForest Kelley, Kay Scott, Ann Doran

Votes: 1,814

25. Murders in the Rue Morgue (1971)

PG-13 | 87 min | Crime, Horror, Mystery

Paris...at the turn of the century. Inspector Vidocq investigates a series of unexplained murders at a Grand Guignol-type theatre...where the players have suddenly become real-life victims. Based on the story by Edgar Allan Poe.

Director: Gordon Hessler | Stars: Jason Robards, Herbert Lom, Christine Kaufmann, Adolfo Celi

Votes: 1,552

26. Full Moon High (1981)

PG | 93 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Horror

A popular high school football player becomes a werewolf after a trip to Romania, and struggles to come to terms with his new reality.

Director: Larry Cohen | Stars: Adam Arkin, Roz Kelly, Ed McMahon, Joanne Nail

Votes: 1,624

27. Kamikaze (1986)

90 min | Crime, Sci-Fi, Thriller

A crazy old and bored scientist invents a system which allows him to reach through the airwaves and transform live TV cameras into weapons to kill whoever is being filmed.

Director: Didier Grousset | Stars: Richard Bohringer, Michel Galabru, Dominique Lavanant, Romane Bohringer

Votes: 726

28. Fourteen Hours (1951)

Approved | 92 min | Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller

An unhappy man threatens suicide by standing on the ledge of a high-rise building for 14 hours.

Director: Henry Hathaway | Stars: Paul Douglas, Richard Basehart, Barbara Bel Geddes, Debra Paget

Votes: 2,971

29. Invisible Stripes (1939)

Passed | 81 min | Action, Crime, Drama

An ex-con who wants to go straight has difficulties trying to reintegrate into society while on parole.

Director: Lloyd Bacon | Stars: George Raft, Jane Bryan, William Holden, Humphrey Bogart

Votes: 1,925 | Gross: $0.11M

30. The Shadow of the Cat (1961)

Approved | 79 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller

A house cat sees her mistress murdered by two servants under orders from her husband , and becomes ferociously bent on revenge.

Director: John Gilling | Stars: André Morell, Barbara Shelley, William Lucas, Freda Jackson

Votes: 1,571

31. The Wanderings of Ivan (2018)

Unrated | 75 min | Drama

Ivan is a young Russian vagrant in Paris. Rejected by all, he takes refuge in the woods of Vincennes. But this new haven of peace turns into a nightmare when Ivan tries to resist the traffic of an underworld wildlife.

Director: Claude Chamis | Stars: Aram Arakelyan, Benjamin Baclet, Camille Freychet, Franck Zerbib

Votes: 49

32. Happy Ever Afters (2009)

Not Rated | 101 min | Comedy

Two weddings collide when both receptions are held at one hotel.

Director: Stephen Burke | Stars: Sally Hawkins, Tom Riley, Sinead Maguire, Tina Kellegher

Votes: 1,045

33. The Angel Levine (1970)

PG-13 | 104 min | Drama

Morris Mishkin is an elderly Jewish tailor plagued by hard times who prays to God for help and receives it in the person of a most unusual angel named Levine, a young, black, Jewish hustler from somewhere between Harlem and Heaven.

Director: Ján Kadár | Stars: Zero Mostel, Harry Belafonte, Ida Kaminska, Milo O'Shea

Votes: 839 | Gross: $0.43M

34. A Date with the Falcon (1942)

Approved | 63 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

A scientist has discovered how to make synthetic diamonds and a criminal gang (closely pursued by the Falcon) are out to discover the formula.

Director: Irving Reis | Stars: George Sanders, Wendy Barrie, James Gleason, Allen Jenkins

Votes: 1,032

35. Duos sur canapé (1979)

85 min | Comedy

Bernard, a lawyer, and Jacqueline, a dentist, married for many years, each have their own home office. This becomes problematic when they decide to divorce and neither of them wants to move their practice.

Director: Marc Camoletti | Stars: Jean Lefebvre, Michel Galabru, Bernard Menez, Marina Vlady

Votes: 93

36. Detective Kitty O'Day (1944)

Approved | 61 min | Comedy, Mystery, Romance

When a girl and her boyfriend are suspected of murdering her employer, they have to clear their names and find the real killer.

Director: William Beaudine | Stars: Jean Parker, Peter Cookson, Tim Ryan, Veda Ann Borg

Votes: 322

37. Pokój z widokiem na morze (1978)

94 min | Drama

A man is on the ledge in a high building, ready to jump. There are efforts to get him back in. The gaping passers by are there, an irate police inspector, and people who's work is disturbed... See full summary »

Director: Janusz Zaorski | Stars: Piotr Fronczewski, Gustaw Holoubek, Marek Bargielowski, Marcin Tronski

Votes: 97

38. Pan Tomsík (1972 TV Movie)

45 min | Comedy, Fantasy

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Director: Tomás Skrdlant | Stars: Jirí Hrzán, Hana Pastejríková, Jirí Hálek, Angelika Hannaeurová

39. Buldoci a tresne (1981)

99 min | Comedy, Crime

Mafioso Carmello was guilty of the principles of his organization when he tried to fool the boss and earned a death sentence. The convict runs away from the killer.

Director: Juraj Herz | Stars: Marián Labuda, Jirí Kodet, Miroslav Streda, Jirí Hrzán

Votes: 102

40. Fandy, ó Fandy (1983)

87 min | Comedy

Little kids, little worries, big kids, big worries, sighs many a parent often. This is no different for the mother of eighteen-year-old Frantisek, who has just graduated from high school ... See full summary »

Director: Karel Kachyna | Stars: Bohumir Stary, Dana Medrická, Stanislava Coufalová, Zuzana Hradecká

Votes: 45

41. Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955–1962)
Episode: Man with a Problem (1958)

TV-14 | 30 min | Drama, Mystery

Karen Adams' infidelity drives her husband Carl to attempt suicide by jumping from a high window ledge at a hotel. Can police officer Barrett stop him?

Director: Robert Stevens | Stars: Alfred Hitchcock, Gary Merrill, Peter Mark Richman, Elizabeth Montgomery

Votes: 752

42. Bewitched (1964–1972)
Episode: Follow That Witch: Part 1 (1966)

TV-G | 25 min | Comedy, Family, Fantasy

A detective one of Darrin's client's employees hires discovers that Samantha is a witch. His employer thinks that he is crazy so he decides to blackmail Samantha.

Director: William Asher | Stars: Elizabeth Montgomery, Dick York, Agnes Moorehead, Mary Grace Canfield

Votes: 411

43. The Golden Girls (1985–1992)
Episode: Mister Terrific (1988)

TV-PG | 30 min | Comedy, Drama

Rose must persuade a kids' TV show host not to kill himself after he is fired.

Director: Terry Hughes | Stars: Bea Arthur, Betty White, Rue McClanahan, Estelle Getty

Votes: 479

44. The Good Guys (1968–1970)
Episode: Big Tom Gets Married (1969)

30 min | Comedy

Rufus is wrangled into proposing to Gertie on behalf of the tongue-tied Big Tom, and Gertie's three protective brothers then hold Rufus responsible for getting the boozing Big Tom to the wedding sober.

Director: Reza Badiyi | Stars: Bob Denver, Herb Edelman, Joyce Van Patten, Alan Hale Jr.

45. The Nanny (1993–1999)
Episode: The Playwright (1994)

TV-PG | 23 min | Comedy, Family, Romance

A man whom Fran snubbed in high school has written a play and threatens to jump off a ledge unless Maxwell reads it.

Director: Gail Mancuso | Stars: Fran Drescher, Charles Shaughnessy, Daniel Davis, Lauren Lane

Votes: 405

46. The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis (1959–1963)
Episode: A Funny Thing Happened to Me on the Way to a Funny Thing (1962)

TV-Y7 | 26 min | Comedy, Family

A misunderstanding results in Maynard being committed to a mental hospital. Dobie is determined to bust out his good buddy by impersonating iconic television doctor Ben Casey.

Director: Rod Amateau | Stars: Dwayne Hickman, Frank Faylen, Florida Friebus, Bob Denver

Votes: 26

47. Herec (2020– )
Episode: Epizoda 1 (2020)

TV-MA | 76 min | Drama, Thriller

Under the communist regime, a struggling actor joins the KGB as an informant to make ends meet. He quickly finds himself caught up in a dangerous web of deceit and treachery.

Director: Peter Bebjak | Stars: Jan Cina, Jenovéfa Boková, Martin Finger, Jan Nedbal

Votes: 30

48. Martin Kane (1949–1954)
Episode: The Shoeshine Murder (1954)

Crime, Drama

When two poker players fall out over a game of cards, one of the men winds up dead. A shoeshine boy who saw the murder flees the scene and Kane tries to find him before the killer can eliminate the only witness to the crime.

Director: Edgar C. Kahn | Stars: King Calder, Joseph Walsh, Hugh Reilly, Mary Johnson

Votes: 10

49. Battle Creek (2015)
Episode: Cereal Killer (2015)

TV-14 | 42 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

An assassination attempt is made on the life of Battle Creek's mayor.

Director: Craig Zisk | Stars: Josh Duhamel, Dean Winters, Aubrey Dollar, Edward Fordham Jr.

Votes: 287

50. You, Me and the Apocalypse (2015–2022)
Episode: What Happens to Idiots (2015)

TV-PG | 43 min | Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi

Still on the run Rhonda and Leanne manage to escape tough marshal Tess Carter when Rhonda's desperation goads her into hostage taking whilst their erstwhile captor Ariel, Jamie's twin, uses... See full summary »

Director: Saul Metzstein | Stars: Will Attenborough, Mathew Baynton, Jenna Fischer, Joel Fry

Votes: 224