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

1. The Blair Witch Project (1999)

R | 81 min | Horror, Mystery

Three film students vanish after traveling into a Maryland forest to film a documentary on the local Blair Witch legend, leaving only their footage behind.

Directors: Daniel Myrick, Eduardo Sánchez | Stars: Heather Donahue, Michael C. Williams, Joshua Leonard, Bob Griffin

Votes: 286,695 | Gross: $140.54M

2. Cloverfield (2008)

PG-13 | 85 min | Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller

A group of friends venture deep into the streets of New York on a rescue mission during a rampaging monster attack.

Director: Matt Reeves | Stars: Mike Vogel, Jessica Lucas, Lizzy Caplan, T.J. Miller

Votes: 421,777 | Gross: $80.05M

3. Eden Lake (2008)

R | 91 min | Horror, Thriller

Refusing to let anything spoil their romantic weekend break, a young couple confront a gang of loutish youths with terrifyingly brutal consequences.

Director: James Watkins | Stars: Kelly Reilly, Michael Fassbender, Tara Ellis, Jack O'Connell

Votes: 95,329 | Gross: $0.01M

4. Poltergeist II: The Other Side (1986)

PG-13 | 91 min | Horror

The Freeling family have a new house, but their troubles with supernatural forces don't seem to be over.

Director: Brian Gibson | Stars: JoBeth Williams, Craig T. Nelson, Heather O'Rourke, Oliver Robins

Votes: 30,004 | Gross: $41.00M

5. Open Water (2003)

R | 79 min | Adventure, Drama, Horror

Based on the true story of two scuba divers accidentally stranded in shark infested waters after their tour boat has left.

Director: Chris Kentis | Stars: Blanchard Ryan, Daniel Travis, Saul Stein, Michael E. Williamson

Votes: 56,558 | Gross: $30.61M

6. Landmine Goes Click (2015)

TV-MA | 105 min | Action, Crime, Drama

Trapped standing on an armed landmine, an American tourist is forced to watch helplessly while his girlfriend is terrorized and brutally assaulted.

Director: Levan Bakhia | Stars: Sterling Knight, Spencer Locke, Kote Tolordava, Dean Geyer

Votes: 6,604

7. Tinker Bell and the Great Fairy Rescue (2010 Video)

G | 76 min | Animation, Adventure, Family

During a summer stay on the mainland, Tinker Bell is accidentally discovered while investigating a little girl's fairy house. As the other fairies launch a daring rescue in the middle of a fierce storm, Tink develops a bond with the girl.

Director: Bradley Raymond | Stars: Mae Whitman, Lauren Mote, Michael Sheen, Pamela Adlon

Votes: 10,044

8. No Mercy (2010)

Not Rated | 123 min | Action, Crime, Mystery

Despite being nearly proven the murderer, a serial killer threatens to kill the daughter of a forensic pathologist if he doesn't get him bailed out.

Director: Kim Hyeong-joon | Stars: Sol Kyung-gu, Ryu Seung-beom, Han Hye-jin, Sung Ji-ru

Votes: 9,502

9. Love (I) (2011)

Not Rated | 84 min | Drama, Music, Sci-Fi

A man spends years alone on a space station orbiting Earth after losing communication with Houston/Earth. He spends time on maintenance, exercise, watching old messages, and reading a journal by a soldier in the American Civil War.

Director: William Eubank | Stars: Gunner Wright, Corey Richardson, Bradley Horne, Nancy Stelle

Votes: 8,975

10. Sortie En Mer (2013)

Short, Adventure, Horror

You are on a boat with your friend Charles, everything is normal until a piece of the boat falls on you and drop into the ocean. Helpless, you try to survive.

Director: Guy Cotten

11. Different Kinds of Rain (2017)

91 min | Drama

A family struggles with the teenager son who suffers from Hikikomori phenomenon. Suddenly, he closes the door and locks himself in, shutting out a helpless father, mother and sister

Director: Isabel Prahl | Stars: Bjarne Mädel, Bibiana Beglau, Emma Bading, Béla Gabor Lenz

Votes: 431

12. Munafiq (2020– )

Drama, Romance

Hailing from a middle class family, Ujala comes face to face with her insecurities when she is married into a high class influential family. Munafiq explores the existence of hierarchy between different social classes.

Stars: Bilal Qureshi, Adeel Chaudhry, Fatima Effendi, Marina Khan

Votes: 23

13. The Dream of a Ridiculous Man (1992)

20 min | Animation, Short, Drama

The man decides to die, but falls asleep at the last moment. He dreams that he died and ended up on another planet, very similar to the Earth, but the people living here do not know sin.

Director: Aleksandr Petrov | Star: Aleksandr Kaydanovskiy

Votes: 1,233

14. Tere Bina (2017)

Drama, Family, Romance

Tere Bina is a Pakistani episodic television series which started airing in February, 2017 on Geo Entertainment. Written by Saqlain Abbas and directed by Syed Ali Raza Usama, the show stars Sami Khan, Neelum Muneer and Humayun Ashraf.

Stars: Fahad Rehmani, Sami Khan, Neelam Muneer, Humayoun Ashraf

Votes: 30

15. Manchali (2016)

Drama, Family, Romance

Ambreen is a fun-loving and out-going while Afsheen is innocent and soft spoken. Despite of being opposites, they make sure to stand with each other. Will they drift apart as new relationships start to form.

Stars: Sami Khan, Rabab Hashim, Zainab Jameel

16. Surgery (I) (2015)

11 min | Short, Horror

An unknown man who has been kidnapped, is now in the diabolical clutches of the Crude Surgeon, a dart-loving, cold-blooded, psychopath on a terrifying and gruesome mission.

Directors: George Clemens, Samuel Clemens | Stars: Nicholas Ball, Jamie Lee, Lara Lemon, Samuel Clemens

Votes: 57

17. The Best Hotel on Skid Row (1990 TV Movie)

48 min | Documentary

America Undercover goes to the Madison Hotel in the skid-row section of downtown Los Angeles and talks to some of the desperate people living there. It talks to a prostitute and heroin ... See full summary »

Directors: Christine Choy, Renee Tajima-Pena, Geof Bartz | Star: Charles Bukowski

Votes: 58

18. Don't Let Them In (2015)

13 min | Short, Horror

Dan Metzger, a struggling author, consumed with the urban legend of the Black Eyed Kids, fears his obsession has led their evil to his door.

Director: David Lawrence | Stars: Hoyt Richards, Julia Parker, Elizabeth Sandy, Kate Schwab

Votes: 119

19. Die Frau, die Freundin und der Vergewaltiger (2001 TV Movie)

90 min | Drama, Romance, Thriller

Anne marries handsome and distinguished Richard. But his best girlfriend Maike recognizes Richard at the party. Ten years ago Richard was rapes Maike. At first Anne believes Richard's innocence. But Richard's secret will soon be revealed.

Director: Michael Keusch | Stars: Doreen Jacobi, Thomas Scharff, Valerie Niehaus, Jens Schäfer

Votes: 20

20. Port of Missing Girls (1938)

Passed | 65 min | Drama

Nightclub singer Della Mason (Judith Allen)witnesses a murder and is forced by the killer to flee with him from the scene of the crime. Escaping from the gangster, she secretly boards the ... See full summary »

Director: Karl Brown | Stars: Harry Carey, Judith Allen, Milburn Stone, Betty Compson

Votes: 106

21. Man in Box (2017)

5 min | Short, Comedy, Thriller

Trapped in a box with no memory, a man must escape his confines before it's too late. As time runs out he comes closer to the truth of his identity.

Director: Joel David Santner | Stars: Jerry Richardson, Carolyn DiLoreto

Votes: 18

22. Ali Ki Ammi (2015–2016)

Drama, Family

Ali Ki Ammi is a 2015 Pakistani drama serial directed by Wajahat Hussain and written by Ali Moeen. The drama stars Samiya Mumtaz, Asad Malik, Zainab Qayyum in lead roles. It is based on the... See full summary »

Stars: Samiya Mumtaz, Asad Malik, Zainab Qayum

23. Only for One Night (1958)

80 min | Drama, Romance

An infamous safe-breaker seeks refuge in the house of a compassionate prostitute, only to experience a timid and rather unexpected bond between them as she recounts her painful story.

Director: Maria Plyta | Stars: Giorgos Foundas, Voula Zouboulaki, Christoforos Nezer, Dimitris Nikolaidis

Votes: 29

24. How Scared She Was (2020)

10 min | Short, Crime, Drama

A devastated father is the victim of a violent carjacking, his four year old daughter kidnapped in the process. A small town journalist, out of his depth, is tasked with the story; and burdened with the hope of finding the girl.

Director: Alessandro Repetti | Stars: Nicola Brome, Francis Quigley, Mark Highfield, Jessica Downey

25. Closing Time (II) (2015)

4 min | Short, Drama

A baker closes up shop for the last time, contemplating his failures, as well as the future.

Director: Rocky Pajarito | Star: Rocky Pajarito

26. To teleftaio antio (1969)

85 min | Drama

A young woman senses that something terrible is going to happen, and no one can help her. Soon, a disturbing secret from the dark years of the German Occupation in Greece will intertwine everyone's fates. How hard are the last goodbyes?

Director: Andreas Katsimitsoulias | Stars: Elda Athanasaki, Telis Zotos, Ilia Livykou, Lykourgos Kallergis

Votes: 8

27. The Helpless Letter (2018)

15 min | Short, Drama

A homeless boy encounters some unusual adventures along his way which changes his life and teaches him a very valuable lesson. While a crippled girl is on her mission to reach out to her ... See full summary »

Director: Abhinav Duggal | Stars: Abhinav Duggal, Manini Sahoo, Anish Sahu, Sadhna Shirin

28. Victims of Crime (1991 TV Movie)

49 min | Documentary, Crime

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Director: Jeffrey Bruer | Star: Julia Lester

29. The Test of a Civilization (2006)

18 min | Documentary, Short

A detailed look behind the locked doors of America's medical, university, and cosmetic testing labs. The footage is from an older period, but narrator James Cromwell reports on the situation in 2006. It contains sensitive footage.

Stars: Neal Barnard, James Cromwell

30. Tales of the Unexpected (1979–1988)
Episode: Neck (1979)

TV-14 | 23 min | Comedy, Drama, Horror

Invited to a weekend house party by Sir Basil Turton and his younger wife Natalia, John Bannister is struck by the lady's infidelity. She tries to undo his pyjamas and is plainly having an ... See full summary »

Director: Christopher Miles | Stars: Roald Dahl, Joan Collins, Michael Aldridge, Peter Bowles

Votes: 409

31. Hungarian Folk Tales (1980–2012)
Episode: A bugyuta ember (1991)

7 min | Animation

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Directors: Tamás Gyapai, Mária Horváth | Star: Gyula Szabó

Votes: 9

32. Secrets of War (1998– )
Episode: Prisoners of War, Part Two - Battle for the Mind (1998)

TV-PG | 51 min | Documentary, History, War

Examines the treatment of prisoners of war on both sides during WWII. From interrogation to housing to repatriation, civilian and military POWs were often used as pawns between warring nations.

Stars: Charlton Heston, Mark Seaman, Robert C. Doyle, Sydney Dowse

33. Cavalier Clemens (2020– )
Episode: 4 Types of Friends According to the Buddha (2020)

6 min | Documentary

Budha considered friends essential and identified four types of false friends: takers, talkers, flatterers and reckless. Valuable friends are helpers, enduring, mentors or compassionate.

Star: Cavalier Clemens

34. Yakari (2005– )
Episode: Save the Nest (2005)

TV-Y | Animation, Adventure, Family

The well-meaning beaver, Wooden Head, cuts down a large tree, and as a result, a mother bird's nest runs aground a dark underground cavern occupied by an irascible wolverine. Can Yakari with the help of a kind bat save the brood?

Director: Xavier Giacometti

35. Yakari (2005– )
Episode: The Eye of the Lynx (2005)

TV-Y | Animation, Adventure, Family

To no avail, Yakari tries to find Little Thunder after a failed attempt to jump over a deep ravine, when unexpectedly, a magnificent lynx offers his skills to help. Can the Great Lynx see what cannot be seen and save the poor pony?

Director: Xavier Giacometti | Stars: Maxime Nivet, Yoann Sover

36. Planet Earth II (2016)
Episode: Jungles (2016)

TV-PG | 50 min | Documentary

Jungles provide the richest habitats on the planet - mysterious worlds of high drama where extraordinary animals attempt to survive in the most competitive place on earth.

Director: Emma Napper | Stars: David Attenborough, Thomas Crowley, Juarez Sena Feitoza, J.P. Magnan

Votes: 3,485

37. A Cow, a Cat and the Ocean (2006)
Episode: Plate-forme (2006)

11 min | Animation, Family

From a distance, the Cow and the Cat notice a leaky oil platform in the middle of the ocean which covers them and a little seagull with sticky black goo. Should the poor animals give the only oil rig operator a taste of his own medicine?

Director: Prakash Topsy | Stars: Laura Préjean, Donald Reignoux

38. Project Runway (2004– )
Episode: The Ultimate Faceoff (2017)

TV-PG | 61 min | Reality-TV

It's the JCPenney Challenge and the designers must use men's fabrics and designs to create a fashion forward look for their female models. Not only that, they must work in teams to do it, ... See full summary »

Director: Rich Kim | Stars: Heidi Klum, Tim Gunn, Zac Posen, Nina Garcia

Votes: 46