Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "lead-actor's-last-film"

1. The Crow (1994)

R | 102 min | Action, Crime, Drama

A man brutally murdered comes back to life as an undead avenger of his and his fiancée's murder.

Director: Alex Proyas | Stars: Brandon Lee, Michael Wincott, Rochelle Davis, Ernie Hudson

Votes: 204,717 | Gross: $50.69M

2. The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (2003)

PG-13 | 110 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy

In an alternate Victorian Age world, a group of famous contemporary fantasy, science fiction, and adventure characters team up on a secret mission.

Director: Stephen Norrington | Stars: Sean Connery, Stuart Townsend, Peta Wilson, Jason Flemyng

Votes: 184,301 | Gross: $66.47M

3. Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967)

Approved | 108 min | Comedy, Drama

A couple's attitudes are challenged when their daughter introduces them to her African-American fiancé.

Director: Stanley Kramer | Stars: Spencer Tracy, Sidney Poitier, Katharine Hepburn, Katharine Houghton

Votes: 49,063 | Gross: $56.70M

4. The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus (2009)

PG-13 | 123 min | Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy

Having made a deal with the Devil himself for immortality many millennia ago, the now decrepit mystic Doctor Parnassus fights for the freedom of his only daughter's soul.

Director: Terry Gilliam | Stars: Christopher Plummer, Lily Cole, Heath Ledger, Andrew Garfield

Votes: 154,099 | Gross: $7.69M

5. The Straight Story (1999)

G | 112 min | Biography, Drama

An old man makes a long journey by lawnmower to mend his relationship with an ill brother.

Director: David Lynch | Stars: Richard Farnsworth, Sissy Spacek, Jane Galloway Heitz, Joseph A. Carpenter

Votes: 97,791 | Gross: $6.20M

6. The Shootist (1976)

PG | 100 min | Drama, Romance, Western

A dying gunfighter spends his last days looking for a way to die with a minimum of pain and a maximum of dignity.

Director: Don Siegel | Stars: John Wayne, Lauren Bacall, Ron Howard, James Stewart

Votes: 26,953

7. The Misfits (1961)

Not Rated | 125 min | Drama, Romance, Western

A divorcée falls for an over-the-hill cowboy who is struggling to maintain his romantically independent lifestyle.

Director: John Huston | Stars: Clark Gable, Marilyn Monroe, Montgomery Clift, Thelma Ritter

Votes: 23,507 | Gross: $8.94M

8. The Postman (1994)

PG | 108 min | Biography, Comedy, Drama

A simple Italian postman learns to love poetry while delivering mail to a famous poet, and then uses this to woo local beauty Beatrice.

Directors: Michael Radford, Massimo Troisi | Stars: Massimo Troisi, Philippe Noiret, Maria Grazia Cucinotta, Renato Scarpa

Votes: 39,106 | Gross: $21.85M

9. Slaughter High (1986)

R | 90 min | Horror, Thriller

Eight people are invited to their alma mater for their 10-year reunion, where a fellow former student, disfigured from a prank gone wrong, is out to seek revenge.

Directors: George Dugdale, Mark Ezra, Peter Mackenzie Litten | Stars: Caroline Munro, Simon Scuddamore, Carmine Iannaccone, Donna Yeager

Votes: 7,037

10. Walk Don't Run (1966)

Approved | 114 min | Comedy, Romance

During the housing shortage of the Summer Olympic Games in 1964, two men and a woman share a small apartment in Tokyo, and the older man soon starts playing Cupid to the younger pair.

Director: Charles Walters | Stars: Cary Grant, Samantha Eggar, Jim Hutton, John Standing

Votes: 4,538 | Gross: $9.81M

11. Change of Habit (1969)

G | 93 min | Crime, Drama, Music

As an incognito nun tries to help a doctor clean up an inner-city ghetto, the pair grow closer with time.

Director: William A. Graham | Stars: Elvis Presley, Mary Tyler Moore, Barbara McNair, Jane Elliot

Votes: 2,734

12. Neighbors (1981)

R | 94 min | Comedy

A quiet man's peaceful suburban lifestyle is threatened by the new, obnoxious couple that moves in next door.

Director: John G. Avildsen | Stars: John Belushi, Dan Aykroyd, Kathryn Walker, Cathy Moriarty

Votes: 8,614 | Gross: $29.92M

13. Welcome to Mooseport (2004)

PG-13 | 110 min | Comedy, Romance

A US president who has retired after two terms in office returns to his hometown of Mooseport, Maine and decides to run for Mayor against another local candidate.

Director: Donald Petrie | Stars: Gene Hackman, Ray Romano, Maura Tierney, Marcia Gay Harden

Votes: 13,478 | Gross: $14.47M

14. Ride the High Country (1962)

Approved | 94 min | Drama, Western

An ex-union soldier is hired to transport gold from a mining community through dangerous territory. But what he doesn't realize is that his partner and old friend is plotting to double-cross him.

Director: Sam Peckinpah | Stars: Joel McCrea, Randolph Scott, Mariette Hartley, Ron Starr

Votes: 14,902

15. The Legend of the Lone Ranger (1981)

PG | 98 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

The sole surviving Texas Ranger (Klinton Spilsbury) of an ambush arranged by outlaw leader Major Bartholomew "Butch" Cavendish (Christopher Lloyd) returns to fight back as a great masked western hero, The Lone Ranger.

Director: William A. Fraker | Stars: Klinton Spilsbury, Michael Horse, Christopher Lloyd, Matt Clark

Votes: 2,533 | Gross: $12.62M

16. Something's Got to Give (1962)

37 min | Short, Comedy | Announced

Remake of "My Favorite Wife," unfinished because of star Marilyn Monroe's firing, rehiring, and sudden August 1962 death.

Director: George Cukor | Stars: Marilyn Monroe, Dean Martin, Cyd Charisse, Tom Tryon

17. Gang Related (1997)

R | 111 min | Action, Crime, Drama

After murdering an undercover DEA agent, two corrupt cops scramble to cover up what they've done.

Director: Jim Kouf | Stars: Jim Belushi, Tupac Shakur, Lela Rochon, Dennis Quaid

Votes: 10,049 | Gross: $5.79M

18. The Hunter (1980)

PG | 97 min | Action, Biography, Comedy

Bounty hunter Ralph "Papa" Thorson is receiving death threats from a criminal he helped put away. This while his girlfriend is about to give birth, an event he isn't looking forward to.

Director: Buzz Kulik | Stars: Steve McQueen, Eli Wallach, Kathryn Harrold, LeVar Burton

Votes: 7,169

19. Mars (2024)

84 min | Animation, Comedy, Fantasy | Completed

An upcoming animated feature film, written by and starring The Whitest Kids U' Know.

Director: Sevan Najarian | Stars: Zach Cregger, Trevor Moore, Sam Brown, Darren Trumeter

20. The Fiendish Plot of Dr. Fu Manchu (1980)

PG | 100 min | Comedy, Crime, Fantasy

When Fu's age-regressing elixir vitae is spilled by a hapless flunky, Fu Manchu sends his lackeys to round up supplies for a fresh batch of elixir, including a precious jewel, which prompts a team of agents to track him down.

Directors: Piers Haggard, Peter Sellers | Stars: Peter Sellers, Helen Mirren, David Tomlinson, Sid Caesar

Votes: 2,396 | Gross: $10.70M

21. Where Angels Go Trouble Follows! (1968)

G | 93 min | Comedy

An old-line Mother Superior is challenged by a modern young nun when they take the girls of St. Francis Academy on a bus trip across the United States.

Director: James Neilson | Stars: Rosalind Russell, Stella Stevens, Binnie Barnes, Mary Wickes

Votes: 1,829

22. Merrill's Marauders (I) (1962)

Approved | 98 min | Adventure, Drama, War

During WW2, a 3000-strong American unit, known as Merrill's Marauders, battles the Japanese forces in Burma.

Director: Samuel Fuller | Stars: Jeff Chandler, Ty Hardin, Peter Brown, Andrew Duggan

Votes: 2,807

23. The First Deadly Sin (1980)

R | 112 min | Crime, Thriller

A police inspector, nearing retirement, tracks a serial killer who is terrorizing New York.

Director: Brian G. Hutton | Stars: Frank Sinatra, Faye Dunaway, David Dukes, George Coe

Votes: 2,275

24. Perry Mason: The Case of the Killer Kiss (1993 TV Movie)

96 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

On the set of a popular daytime soap opera 'Mile High', actress Kris Buckner is being forced off by co-star Mark Stratton. When she says that she'll 'kill him before she leaves the show', ... See full summary »

Director: Christian I. Nyby II | Stars: Raymond Burr, Barbara Hale, William R. Moses, Stuart Damon

Votes: 487

25. The Alamo: Thirteen Days to Glory (1987 TV Movie)

Not Rated | 140 min | Action, Adventure, Biography

Against orders and with no help of relief Texas patriots led by William Travis, Jim Bowie, and Davy Crockett defend the Alamo against overwhelming Mexican forces.

Director: Burt Kennedy | Stars: James Arness, Brian Keith, Alec Baldwin, David Ogden Stiers

Votes: 746

26. I Live for Your Death (1968)

R | 94 min | Western

Mike Sturges and his younger brother, Roy, are sentenced to Yuma Penitentiary on a trumped-up train robbery charge. Both endure cruel treatment before Mike escapes to extract revenge on their enemies.

Director: Camillo Bazzoni | Stars: Steve Reeves, Wayde Preston, Guido Lollobrigida, Mimmo Palmara

Votes: 422

27. Unmasking the Idol (1986)

PG | 90 min | Action, Adventure

Duncan Jax is facing his most challenging mission ever, to save the world from evil terrorists!

Director: Worth Keeter | Stars: Ian Hunter, C.K. Bibby, Bud Browning, Ron Campbell

Votes: 374

28. Smart Woman (1931)

Passed | 68 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

A wife turns the tables on her cheating husband.

Director: Gregory La Cava | Stars: Mary Astor, Robert Ames, John Halliday, Edward Everett Horton

Votes: 514

29. The Defector (1966)

Not Rated | 106 min | Drama, Thriller

An American scientist is sent by the CIA to East Germany to retrieve a secret microfilm from a Soviet scientist interested in defecting to the West but the Stasi secret police's surveillance complicates matters.

Director: Raoul Lévy | Stars: Montgomery Clift, Hardy Krüger, Macha Méril, David Opatoshu

Votes: 814

30. The Vegas Strip War (1984 TV Movie)

Not Rated | 96 min | Drama

Neil Chaine, a charming Las Vegas hotel/casino owner, tries to turn his decaying building into the Strip's top attraction to avenge his outing by his former partners who run a more fancy hotel/casino just across the street.

Director: George Englund | Stars: Rock Hudson, Sharon Stone, Madison Mason, Robert Costanzo

Votes: 190

31. The Lady in Question (1999 TV Movie)

TV-PG | 94 min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller

In 1938, Jewish rights activist Emma Sachs is targeted by the Nazis. When she dies, foul play is suspected. But was it the Nazis, or was it someone else? Detective Tony Rossini investigates... See full summary »

Director: Joyce Chopra | Stars: Gene Wilder, Mike Starr, Cherry Jones, Barbara Sukowa

Votes: 334

32. IP5: The Island of Pachyderms (1992)

119 min | Adventure, Crime, Drama

Two young robbers meet an old man. The three start traveling together, looking for the same thing.

Director: Jean-Jacques Beineix | Stars: Yves Montand, Olivier Martinez, Sekkou Sall, Géraldine Pailhas

Votes: 764

33. George Carlin... It's Bad for Ya! (2008 TV Special)

TV-MA | 70 min | Documentary, Comedy

It's Bad For Ya, Carlin's Emmy-nominated 14th and final HBO special from March of 2008 features Carlin's noted irreverent and unapologetic observations on topics ranging from death, ... See full summary »

Director: Rocco Urbisci | Star: George Carlin

Votes: 6,501

34. Gunsmoke: One Man's Justice (1994 TV Movie)

91 min | Drama, Western

Retired Marshal Matt Dillon goes after a fifteen-year-old boy who is determined to kill the men responsible for the murder of his mother during a stagecoach robbery.

Director: Jerry Jameson | Stars: James Arness, Bruce Boxleitner, Amy Stoch, Alan Scarfe

Votes: 403

35. The Order of the Black Eagle (1987)

R | 93 min | Action, Adventure, Thriller

A James Bondish spy and his female assistant infiltrate a group of South American Nazis who have kept Hitler alive until they take over the... using the ultimate weapon. In HD.

Director: Worth Keeter | Stars: Ian Hunter, C.K. Bibby, William Hicks, Anna Rapagna

Votes: 509

36. Summer Solstice (1981 TV Movie)

75 min | Drama, Romance

Fifty years after their wedding, a couple celebrating their golden anniversary reminisce about when they first met. Through flashbacks, we see them fall in love.

Director: Ralph Rosenblum | Stars: Henry Fonda, Myrna Loy, Stephen Collins, Lindsay Crouse

Votes: 283

37. Cuban Rebel Girls (1959)

Not Rated | 68 min | Adventure

Errol Flynn , playing himself as a war correspondent, helps Fidel Castro overthrow Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista . The film was shot, with Castro's cooperation, while he was still fighting Batista.

Director: Barry Mahon | Stars: Errol Flynn, Beverly Aadland, John McKay, Jackie Jackler

Votes: 327

38. American Gun (2002)

R | 89 min | Drama

When his daughter is shot just before Christmas, Martin Tillman journeys across the U.S. using the gun's serial number to track down the truth behind Penny's killing.

Director: Alan Jacobs | Stars: James Coburn, Virginia Madsen, Barbara Bain, Alexandra Holden

Votes: 1,292

39. The Noah (1975)

R | 107 min | Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi

After a nuclear attack kills everyone, the last man on earth, going mad from loneliness and isolation, creates a companion in his mind. He soon finds himself living a lie when his imaginary world builds up into something complex.

Director: Daniel Bourla | Stars: Robert Strauss, Geoffrey Holder, Sally Kirkland, Jim Blackmore

Votes: 407

40. Single Room Furnished (1966)

PG | 93 min | Drama

The fall of a blonde, Mansfield, from innocence to prostitution. Mansfield died before the movie was completed.

Director: Matt Cimber | Stars: Jayne Mansfield, Dorothy Keller, Fabian Dean, Billy M. Greene

Votes: 522

41. Strike of the Panther (1988)

90 min | Action

Martial artist and cop Jason Blade must venture into a volatile chemical plant to bring down his archenemy Jim Baxter and save his girlfriend.

Director: Brian Trenchard-Smith | Stars: Edward John Stazak, John Stanton, Rowena Wallace, James Richards

Votes: 257

42. The Man Who Shook the Hand of Vicente Fernandez (2012)

Not Rated | 99 min | Comedy, Drama, Western

Ernest Borgnine plays Rex Page, an old man who is bitter about never becoming famous and having lived a life without any meaning. After suffering a stroke, he ends up in a nursing home ... See full summary »

Director: Elia Petridis | Stars: Ernest Borgnine, Barry Corbin, Carla Ortiz, Arturo Del Puerto

Votes: 337

43. Down the Drain (1990)

R | 105 min | Comedy, Crime

A crooked lawyer brings together some of the clients he's gotten off and schemes to rob a bank vault. After the robbery he discovers that he's stolen a top-secret microchip that foreign powers will stop at nothing to get.

Director: Robert Hughes | Stars: Andrew Stevens, Teri Copley, John Matuszak, Joseph Campanella

Votes: 244

44. Voyage to the Beginning of the World (1997)

91 min | Biography, Drama

Manoel is an aging film director who travels with his film crew through Portugal in search of the origins of Afonso, a famous French actor whose father emigrated from Portugal to France. In the process, he remembers his own youth.

Director: Manoel de Oliveira | Stars: Marcello Mastroianni, Jean-Yves Gautier, Leonor Silveira, Diogo Dória

Votes: 824

45. Chargesheet (2011)

Drama, Mystery, Thriller

The story revolves around the murder case of an actress.

Director: Dev Anand | Stars: Dev Anand, Sanket Dhawan, Divya Dutta, Kabbir

Votes: 116

46. Kindar the Invulnerable (1965)

96 min | Action, Adventure, Mystery

An evil desert bandit kidnaps the son of a sultan and raises him as his own. It turns out that the son has magic powers and is invincible. Years later, as a young man, he falls in love with... See full summary »

Director: Osvaldo Civirani | Stars: Mark Forest, Mimmo Palmara, Rosalba Neri, Dea Flowers

Votes: 162

47. Segretissimo (1967)

94 min | Crime, Drama

A man escapes from a Russian prison and then from a United States embassy, taking with him some very important top secret information from both sides.

Director: Fernando Cerchio | Stars: Gordon Scott, Magda Konopka, Aurora de Alba, Antonio Gradoli

Votes: 59

48. Au voleur (2009)

100 min | Crime, Drama, Romance

Reacting impulsively to an inappropriate crush, a respectable young teacher lays her safety on the line for a grubby petty thief. Before she knows it, she's on the run - Bonnie to his Clyde... See full summary »

Director: Sarah Leonor | Stars: Guillaume Depardieu, Florence Loiret Caille, Jacques Nolot, Benjamin Wangermee

Votes: 178

49. Mustang Country (1976)

G | 79 min | Drama, Family, Western

A rancher and former rodeo star comes across a runaway boy while he is hunting a wild stallion.

Director: John C. Champion | Stars: Joel McCrea, Robert Fuller, Patrick Wayne, Nika Mina

Votes: 298

50. Heureux qui comme Ulysse... (1970)

90 min | Comedy

For 25 years now, under the Provence sun, Antonin, a farmhand, has shared his work and everyday life with a horse named Ulysse. What a shock when Pascal, the farmer, tells him he has ... See full summary »

Director: Henri Colpi | Stars: Fernandel, Rellys, Mireille Audibert, Gilberte Rivet

Votes: 350