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

1. Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials (2015)

PG-13 | 131 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

After having escaped the Maze, the Gladers now face a new set of challenges on the open roads of a desolate landscape filled with unimaginable obstacles.

Director: Wes Ball | Stars: Dylan O'Brien, Kaya Scodelario, Thomas Brodie-Sangster, Giancarlo Esposito

Votes: 277,435 | Gross: $81.70M

2. Chaos Walking (2021)

PG-13 | 109 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy

Two unlikely companions embark on a perilous adventure through the badlands of an unexplored planet as they try to escape a dangerous and disorienting reality where all thoughts are seen and heard by everyone.

Director: Doug Liman | Stars: Tom Holland, Daisy Ridley, Demián Bichir, David Oyelowo

Votes: 56,231 | Gross: $13.29M

3. The Rebound (2009)

R | 95 min | Comedy, Romance

In New York City, a single mom captivates her new neighbor, a much younger man.

Director: Bart Freundlich | Stars: Catherine Zeta-Jones, Justin Bartha, Andrew Cherry, Kelly Gould

Votes: 50,256

4. The Omega Man (1971)

PG | 98 min | Action, Drama, Sci-Fi

Dr Robert Neville has developed an experimental vaccine which makes him the only immune survivor of a biological catastrophe. A gang of homicidal mutants blame science for their condition and attempt to kill him.

Director: Boris Sagal | Stars: Charlton Heston, Anthony Zerbe, Rosalind Cash, Paul Koslo

Votes: 34,109 | Gross: $8.72M

5. The Power of One (1992)

PG-13 | 127 min | Drama, Sport

An English boy, living in Africa during World War II, through his boxing prowess, becomes a symbol of hope, in a time of war.

Director: John G. Avildsen | Stars: Stephen Dorff, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Morgan Freeman, Nomadlozi Kubheka

Votes: 10,707 | Gross: $2.83M

6. So Long at the Fair (1950)

Approved | 86 min | Drama, Mystery

Vicky Barton visits Paris with her brother Johnny, only to discover the following morning he has gone missing and the hotel staff have no recollection of his presence.

Directors: Antony Darnborough, Terence Fisher | Stars: Jean Simmons, Dirk Bogarde, David Tomlinson, Honor Blackman

Votes: 2,353

7. Undercurrent (1946)

Passed | 116 min | Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller

Middle-aged bride Ann Hamilton soon begins to suspect that her charming husband is really a psychotic who plans to murder her.

Director: Vincente Minnelli | Stars: Katharine Hepburn, Robert Taylor, Robert Mitchum, Edmund Gwenn

Votes: 3,556

8. Dear Frankie (2004)

PG-13 | 105 min | Drama, Romance

After having responded to her son's numerous letters in the guise of his father, a woman hires a stranger to pose as his dad when meeting him.

Director: Shona Auerbach | Stars: Emily Mortimer, Jack McElhone, Gerard Butler, Mary Riggans

Votes: 22,487 | Gross: $1.34M

9. Dragonwyck (1946)

Not Rated | 103 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance

A simple Connecticut farm girl is recruited by a distant relative, an aristocratic patroon, to be governess to his young daughter in his Hudson Valley mansion.

Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz | Stars: Gene Tierney, Walter Huston, Vincent Price, Glenn Langan

Votes: 5,410

10. Escape (1940)

Passed | 104 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

In 1936, a young man arrives in Hitler's Germany, frantically seeking information about his missing German mother, and finds she is pending execution at a concentration camp.

Director: Mervyn LeRoy | Stars: Norma Shearer, Robert Taylor, Conrad Veidt, Alla Nazimova

Votes: 1,158

11. Captain from Castile (1947)

Passed | 140 min | Adventure, Drama

The invasion of Mexico by Cortez, as seen by a young Spanish officer fleeing the Inquisition.

Director: Henry King | Stars: Tyrone Power, Jean Peters, Cesar Romero, Lee J. Cobb

Votes: 2,230

12. Wild Seed (1965)

Approved | 99 min | Drama, Romance

A 17-year-old girl runs away from her East Coast home, going west to Los Angeles to meet her biological father. She has learned from letters her mother kept that he was tragically separated... See full summary »

Director: Brian G. Hutton | Stars: Michael Parks, Celia Milius, Ross Elliott, Woodrow Chambliss

Votes: 407

13. The Murder Man (1935)

Passed | 69 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

When a crooked businessman is fatally shot, a hotshot New York newspaper reporter specializing in murder stories narrows in on the dead man's associate.

Director: Tim Whelan | Stars: Spencer Tracy, James Stewart, Virginia Bruce, Lionel Atwill

Votes: 1,284

14. My Forbidden Past (1951)

Passed | 70 min | Crime, Drama, Romance

Barbara Beaurevel lives with her aunt and cousin in New Orleans in the late 1800s. In love with Mark Lucas, a research doctor at Tulane University, her plans to marry him are thwarted. ... See full summary »

Director: Robert Stevenson | Stars: Robert Mitchum, Ava Gardner, Melvyn Douglas, Lucile Watson

Votes: 1,161

15. Family Pictures (1993)

183 min | Drama

Nina Eberlin comes home to visit her now-divorced parents and while looking through a collection of pictures taken by her father and herself, she reflects on how the pictures illustrate the... See full summary »

Stars: Anjelica Huston, Sam Neill, Kyra Sedgwick, Dermot Mulroney

Votes: 254

16. The Sins of Rachel Cade (1961)

Approved | 124 min | Drama, Romance

While the Nazi regime subjugates European nations during World War II, in the Belgian Congo nurse Rachel Cade tries to cure the local people. Colonel Derode falls in love with her, but an injured young American pilot upsets his plans.

Director: Gordon Douglas | Stars: Angie Dickinson, Peter Finch, Roger Moore, Errol John

Votes: 605

17. American Refugee (2021)

94 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller

Follows a family seeking shelter in their neighbor's bunker, when the American economy is in collapse, and the danger inside is greater than outside.

Director: Ali LeRoi | Stars: Erika Alexander, Derek Luke, Sam Trammell, Zamani Wilder

Votes: 960

18. Big City Blues (1932)

Passed | 63 min | Comedy, Drama

Young man from small town moves to New York City looking for better life.

Director: Mervyn LeRoy | Stars: Joan Blondell, Eric Linden, Jobyna Howland, Ned Sparks

Votes: 887

19. We Live Again (1934)

Approved | 85 min | Drama, Romance, War

Nekhlyudov, a Russian nobleman serving on a jury, discovers that the young girl on trial, Katusha, is someone he once seduced and abandoned and that he himself bears responsibility for ... See full summary »

Director: Rouben Mamoulian | Stars: Anna Sten, Fredric March, Jane Baxter, C. Aubrey Smith

Votes: 532

20. This Woman Is Dangerous (1952)

Approved | 97 min | Drama

A tough lady gangster learns that she will be totally blind within a week. She seeks help from the one eye surgeon who may be able to save her sight. In the process, he also causes her to have a change of heart.

Director: Felix E. Feist | Stars: Joan Crawford, Dennis Morgan, David Brian, Richard Webb

Votes: 1,185

21. Musical Chairs (2011)

PG-13 | 102 min | Drama, Romance

When, Mia, a dance teacher, lands in the hospital after an accident, Armando, a would-be dancer who admires her from afar, persuades her to train for an upcoming wheelchair ballroom dancing contest.

Director: Susan Seidelman | Stars: Leah Pipes, E.J. Bonilla, Priscilla Lopez, Jamie Tirelli

Votes: 342 | Gross: $0.03M

22. Careless (2007)

R | 90 min | Comedy, Mystery, Romance

An LA bookstore clerk finds a severed human finger on his kitchen floor. The police ignore his call. What to do? He meets a cute nine fingered girl.

Director: Peter Spears | Stars: Colin Hanks, Rachel Blanchard, Fran Kranz, Tony Shalhoub

Votes: 467

23. Outward Bound (1930)

Unrated | 83 min | Drama, Fantasy

Later remade as "Between Two Worlds."

Directors: Robert Milton, Ray Enright | Stars: Leslie Howard, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Beryl Mercer, Dudley Digges

Votes: 622

24. Success at Any Price (1934)

Passed | 74 min | Drama

Joe comes from a rough neighborhood and when his brother Mike is gunned down in 1927, he decides to go into legitimate business. He wants to make a lot of money and fast so he is ambitious ... See full summary »

Director: J. Walter Ruben | Stars: Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Genevieve Tobin, Frank Morgan, Colleen Moore

Votes: 353

25. Tornado (1943)

Approved | 83 min | Drama

Pete Ramsey (Morris) is a hard-working coal miner who falls in love with and marries scheming showgirl Victory Kane (Kelly). Victory presses Pete to fight for the position of the mine ... See full summary »

Director: William Berke | Stars: Chester Morris, Nancy Kelly, William Henry, Gwen Kenyon

Votes: 127

26. Sweepings (1933)

Passed | 80 min | Drama

Starting over with almost nothing after the great Chicago Fire, Daniel Pardway builds the biggest department store in town. He wants to pass on the business to his daughter and three sons, ... See full summary »

Director: John Cromwell | Stars: Lionel Barrymore, Eric Linden, William Gargan, Gloria Stuart

Votes: 476

27. Not Today (II) (2022)

13 min | Short, Drama | Completed

Two lost souls, Jerome and Britt, meet under an old tree. It's Christmas Eve and they are deep in the woods. They begin a solemn ritual - But timid Jerome soon has doubts about the promise they made to each other.

Director: Lara Jacobs | Stars: Oliver Jordan Tewelde, Louise Debatin

28. The Barbara Stanwyck Show (1960–1961)
Episode: Yanqui Go Home (1961)

30 min | Drama

Just ahead of vicious revolutionaries, an American engineer and his wife escape from their home, a jungle oil field. Soon, they are hijacked by counter revolutionaries, and get caught in a ... See full summary »

Director: David Lowell Rich | Stars: Barbara Stanwyck, Dana Andrews, Rodolfo Acosta, Alex Montoya

Votes: 32

29. Daisy Jones & The Six (2023)
Episode: Track 10: Rock 'n' Roll Suicide (2023)

16+ | 66 min | Drama, Music, Romance

In what will become their final performance, Daisy Jones and The Six perform to a sold-out crowd at Soldier Field in Chicago, Illinois. This is the story of that fateful day - and how their lives were forever changed as a result.

Director: Nzingha Stewart | Stars: Riley Keough, Sam Claflin, Camila Morrone, Suki Waterhouse

Votes: 1,435

30. Caught (2018)
Episode: Bone Dog (2018)

TV-14 | 44 min | Crime, Drama

Slaney (Allan Hawco) heads to Colombia with Ada (Tori Anderson) to pick up Hearn's (Eric Johnson) money. With the DEA and the RCMP closing in on them, Slaney and Hearn face off in the explosive season one finale.

Director: John Vatcher | Stars: Allan Hawco, Paul Gross, Eric Johnson, Tori Anderson

Votes: 37

31. Watchmen (2019)
Episode: See How They Fly (2019)

TV-MA | 67 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Everything ends. For real this time.

Director: Frederick E.O. Toye | Stars: Regina King, Jean Smart, Tim Blake Nelson, Hong Chau

Votes: 6,912