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

1. Incendies (2010)

R | 131 min | Drama, Mystery, War

Twins journey to the Middle East to discover their family history and fulfill their mother's last wishes.

Director: Denis Villeneuve | Stars: Lubna Azabal, Mélissa Désormeaux-Poulin, Maxim Gaudette, Mustafa Kamel

Votes: 202,462 | Gross: $6.86M

2. The Worst Person in the World (2021)

R | 128 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

The chronicles of four years in the life of Julie, a young woman who navigates the troubled waters of her love life and struggles to find her career path, leading her to take a realistic look at who she really is.

Director: Joachim Trier | Stars: Renate Reinsve, Anders Danielsen Lie, Herbert Nordrum, Hans Olav Brenner

Votes: 99,221

3. Burning (2018)

Not Rated | 148 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller

Jong-su bumps into a girl who used to live in the same neighborhood, who asks him to look after her cat while she's on a trip to Africa. When back, she introduces Ben, a mysterious guy she met there, who confesses his secret hobby.

Director: Lee Chang-dong | Stars: Yoo Ah-in, Steven Yeun, Jeon Jong-seo, Kim Soo-Kyung

Votes: 76,847 | Gross: $0.72M

4. 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: 270,737 | Gross: $62.50M

5. What Happens Later (2023)

R | 103 min | Comedy, Romance

Willa and Bill are ex-lovers that will see each other for the first time in years when they both find themselves snowed in, in-transit, at an airport overnight.

Director: Meg Ryan | Stars: Meg Ryan, David Duchovny, Hal Liggett, Rob Gilchrist

Votes: 2,987

6. Paterson (2016)

R | 118 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

A quiet observation of the triumphs and defeats of daily life, along with the poetry evident in its smallest details.

Director: Jim Jarmusch | Stars: Adam Driver, Golshifteh Farahani, Nellie, Rizwan Manji

Votes: 89,313 | Gross: $2.14M

7. Before We Go (I) (2014)

PG-13 | 95 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

Two strangers stuck in Manhattan for the night grow into each other's most trusted confidants when an evening of unexpected adventure forces them to confront their fears and take control of their lives.

Director: Chris Evans | Stars: Chris Evans, Alice Eve, Emma Fitzpatrick, John Cullum

Votes: 63,999 | Gross: $0.04M

8. The Artist (I) (2011)

PG-13 | 100 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

When George, a silent movie superstar, meets Peppy Miller, a dancer, sparks fly between the two. However, after the introduction of talking pictures, their fortunes change, affecting their dynamic.

Director: Michel Hazanavicius | Stars: Jean Dujardin, Bérénice Bejo, John Goodman, James Cromwell

Votes: 248,939 | Gross: $44.67M

9. Last Night (I) (2010)

R | 93 min | Drama, Romance

The story follows a married couple, apart for a night while the husband takes a business trip with a colleague to whom he's attracted. While he's resisting temptation, his wife encounters her past love.

Director: Massy Tadjedin | Stars: Keira Knightley, Sam Worthington, Eva Mendes, Guillaume Canet

Votes: 50,715 | Gross: $0.10M

10. Alice in Wonderland (1999 TV Movie)

PG | 150 min | Adventure, Comedy, Family

Alice falls down a rabbit hole, and finds herself in Wonderland, a fantasy land of strange characters and ideas.

Director: Nick Willing | Stars: Tina Majorino, Whoopi Goldberg, Robbie Coltrane, Ben Kingsley

Votes: 8,897

11. Smoke (1995)

R | 112 min | Comedy, Drama

A Brooklyn smoke shop is the center of neighborhood activity, and the stories of its customers.

Director: Wayne Wang | Stars: Harvey Keitel, William Hurt, Giancarlo Esposito, José Zúñiga

Votes: 38,280 | Gross: $8.35M

12. Gone in the Night (2022)

R | 90 min | Mystery, Thriller

When Kath and her boyfriend arrive at a remote cabin in the redwoods, they find a mysterious younger couple already there. Her boyfriend disappears with the young woman, and Kath becomes obsessed with finding an explanation.

Director: Eli Horowitz | Stars: Winona Ryder, Dermot Mulroney, John Gallagher Jr., Owen Teague

Votes: 5,741

13. Destination Wedding (2018)

R | 87 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

The story of two miserable and unpleasant wedding guests, Lindsay and Frank, who develop a mutual affection despite themselves.

Director: Victor Levin | Stars: Winona Ryder, Keanu Reeves, DJ Dallenbach, Ted Dubost

Votes: 33,521

14. Zorba the Greek (1964)

Not Rated | 142 min | Comedy, Drama

An uptight English writer travelling to Crete, on a matter of business, finds his life changed forever when he meets the gregarious Alexis Zorba.

Director: Michael Cacoyannis | Stars: Anthony Quinn, Alan Bates, Irene Papas, Lila Kedrova

Votes: 24,174

15. Enchanted April (1991)

PG | 95 min | Drama

Four English women, after World War I, who are unhappy with their lives, and their time away on vacation in a beautiful Italian villa.

Director: Mike Newell | Stars: Alfred Molina, Joan Plowright, Miranda Richardson, Polly Walker

Votes: 7,161 | Gross: $13.20M

16. Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy (2021)

121 min | Drama, Romance

An unexpected love triangle, a failed seduction trap and an encounter that results from a misunderstanding, told in three movements to depict three female characters and trace the trajectories between their choices and regrets.

Director: Ryûsuke Hamaguchi | Stars: Kotone Furukawa, Ayumu Nakajima, Hyunri, Kiyohiko Shibukawa

Votes: 9,924

17. Comet (2014)

R | 91 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

Set in a parallel universe, Comet bounces back and forth over the course of an unlikely but perfectly paired couple's six-year relationship.

Director: Sam Esmail | Stars: Justin Long, Emmy Rossum, Kayla Servi, Eric Winter

Votes: 19,699

18. Mother (II) (1996)

PG-13 | 104 min | Comedy, Drama

A neurotic, twice-divorced sci-fi writer moves back in with his mother to solve his personal problems.

Director: Albert Brooks | Stars: Albert Brooks, Debbie Reynolds, Paul Collins, Laura Weekes

Votes: 6,836 | Gross: $19.12M

19. The Sun Is Also a Star (2019)

PG-13 | 100 min | Drama, Music, Romance

A hopeless romantic ambivalent about his future in medical school falls for a hard-luck young woman who doesn't believe in love.

Director: Ry Russo-Young | Stars: Yara Shahidi, Anais Lee, Charles Melton, John Leguizamo

Votes: 8,186 | Gross: $4.95M

20. The Wedding Veil (2022 TV Movie)

TV-G | 84 min | Drama, Romance

Follows longtime friends who find a mysterious, antique veil fabled to unite its bearer with her true love.

Director: Terry Ingram | Stars: Lacey Chabert, Kevin McGarry, Autumn Reeser, Alison Sweeney

Votes: 2,432

21. Between Two Worlds (2021)

106 min | Drama

It is based on French journalist Florence Aubenas's bestselling non-fiction work Le Quai de Ouistreham, investigating rising precarity in French society through her experiences in the northern port city of Caen.

Director: Emmanuel Carrère | Stars: Juliette Binoche, Louise Pociecka, Steve Papagiannis, Aude Ruyter

Votes: 2,356

22. The Kid with a Bike (2011)

PG-13 | 87 min | Drama

Abandoned by his father, a young boy is left in a state-run youth farm. In a random act of kindness, the town hairdresser agrees to foster him on weekends.

Directors: Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne | Stars: Thomas Doret, Cécile de France, Jérémie Renier, Fabrizio Rongione

Votes: 28,690 | Gross: $1.38M

23. Make Mine Music (1946)

Passed | 75 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy

Animation done to contemporary popular music.

Directors: Robert Cormack, Clyde Geronimi, Jack Kinney, Hamilton Luske, Joshua Meador | Stars: Nelson Eddy, Dinah Shore, Laverne Andrews, Maxene Andrews

Votes: 4,975

24. Already Tomorrow in Hong Kong (2015)

Not Rated | 78 min | Comedy, Romance

An attraction forms when a Chinese American girl visiting Hong Kong for the first time meets an American expat who shows her the way, but timing may not quite be on their side. A ... See full summary »

Director: Emily Ting | Stars: Jamie Chung, Bryan Greenberg, Richard Ng, Sarah Lian

Votes: 6,227

25. Wedding Every Weekend (2020 TV Movie)

TV-G | 84 min | Comedy, Romance

Nate and Brooke are going to the same four weddings, four weekends in a row. To avoid set-ups, they go together as "wedding buddies." But what starts as a friendship soon deepens.

Director: Kevin Fair | Stars: Kimberley Sustad, Paul Campbell, Brandi Alexander, Jaime M. Callica

Votes: 1,417

26. Back Street (1961)

Passed | 107 min | Drama, Romance

In Lincoln, the ambitious aspirant-designer Rae Smith has an incident with a wolf department store businessman and is rescued by the Marine Paul Saxon. They immediately fall in love with ... See full summary »

Director: David Miller | Stars: Susan Hayward, John Gavin, Vera Miles, Charles Drake

Votes: 1,300

27. The Secret Ingredient (2020 TV Movie)

TV-G | 82 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

Small-town baker, Kelly, gets a big surprise when she is invited to compete on a Valentine's Day baking show in New York City - and an even bigger surprise when she runs into her ex-fiancé.

Director: Tibor Takács | Stars: Erin Cahill, Brendan Penny, Maneet Chauhan, Gwynyth Walsh

Votes: 1,444

28. Viceroy's House (2017)

Not Rated | 106 min | Biography, Drama, History

The final Viceroy of India, Louis Francis Albert Victor Nicholas Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma (Hugh Bonneville), is tasked with overseeing the transition of British India to independence, but meets with conflict as different sides clash in the face of monumental change.

Director: Gurinder Chadha | Stars: Hugh Bonneville, Gillian Anderson, Manish Dayal, Huma Qureshi

Votes: 8,576 | Gross: $1.11M

29. Moment by Moment (1978)

R | 102 min | Drama, Romance

Trisha Rawlings, a Beverly Hills socialite suffers from loneliness following the separation of her womanizing husband Stu. Strip, a young drifter, became infatuated with her and, develops a May/December relationship with her.

Director: Jane Wagner | Stars: Lily Tomlin, John Travolta, Andra Akers, Bert Kramer

Votes: 1,341 | Gross: $10.96M

30. Spy Intervention (2020)

Not Rated | 93 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy

When the world's greatest spy meets the woman of his dreams, he abandons his adventurous existence and settles into the security of suburbia.

Director: Drew Mylrea | Stars: Drew Van Acker, Poppy Delevingne, Blake Anderson, Max Silvestri

Votes: 2,027

31. Sunday in New York (1963)

Approved | 105 min | Comedy, Romance

On a Sunday, Eileen Tyler, still a virgin, leaves Albany to visit her airline pilot brother in New York but a chance encounter with a man on a city bus threatens to derail her upcoming marriage to boyfriend Russ.

Director: Peter Tewksbury | Stars: Rod Taylor, Jane Fonda, Cliff Robertson, Robert Culp

Votes: 3,391

32. 3 Hearts (2014)

PG-13 | 108 min | Drama, Romance

A tax inspector, his new bride and her sister become entwined in a love triangle.

Director: Benoît Jacquot | Stars: Benoît Poelvoorde, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Chiara Mastroianni, Catherine Deneuve

Votes: 2,636 | Gross: $0.15M

33. Brief Encounter (1974 TV Movie)

Not Rated | 74 min | Drama

Two strangers, both married to others, meet in a railroad station and find themselves in a brief but intense affair.

Director: Alan Bridges | Stars: Richard Burton, Sophia Loren, Jack Hedley, Rosemary Leach

Votes: 705

34. Quantum Love (2014)

PG | 81 min | Drama, Romance

A family man's encounter with a beautiful woman develops into a mutual fascination.

Director: Lisa Azuelos | Stars: Sophie Marceau, François Cluzet, Lisa Azuelos, Alexandre Astier

Votes: 3,626

35. Mann - Soul's Heart (1999)

Not Rated | 160 min | Drama, Romance

A young woman falls in love with a handsome playboy, while aboard a Singapore to India cruise. They make plans to meet again, but fate may have other plans...

Director: Indra Kumar | Stars: Aamir Khan, Manisha Koirala, Sharmila Tagore, Deepti Bhatnagar

Votes: 5,880

36. Lófej

Drama, Mystery, Thriller | Filming

After their chance encounter, Zsolt and Ildikó team up to uncover a mysterious person who wears a horse head and appears in a field every sunset.

Director: Tóth Milán | Stars: Tóth Zoltán, Vámos Mária, Tóth Viktória, Kolonits Ferenc

37. The Sleeping Car Murder (1965)

95 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

The witnesses of a train murder must take the investigation into their own hands if they want to survive.

Director: Costa-Gavras | Stars: Catherine Allégret, Jacques Perrin, Simone Signoret, Michel Piccoli

Votes: 2,251

38. Someone Is Bleeding (1974)

R | 105 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller

On a beach in Nice, François meets the mysterious Peggy and falls in love with her. Following her to a villa, he meets Marc, a lawyer who has a strange relationship with the girl. Marc tells François that Peggy is a drug addict: she kills men who approach her.

Director: Georges Lautner | Stars: Alain Delon, Mireille Darc, Claude Brasseur, Fiore De Rienzo

Votes: 1,044

39. The Bakery Girl of Monceau (1963)

Not Rated | 23 min | Short, Romance

A law student regularly visits a Paris bakery to flirt with a brunette employee.

Director: Éric Rohmer | Stars: Barbet Schroeder, Claudine Soubrier, Michèle Girardon, Fred Junck

Votes: 5,467

40. Rings of the Unpromised (2023)

69 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

In a world of broken promises, one woman finds the answer to fulfill the only promise that truly matters.

Director: Michelle Arthur | Stars: Michelle Arthur, Kat Kramer, Linney Allen, Jeff Vernon

Votes: 21

41. Aurora (I) (2019)

106 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

Aurora, a commitment-phobic party animal, meets Iranian Darian one night at a hot-dog stand in Lapland. Darian is running from death and Aurora is running from love. They need each other in order to finally stop running.

Director: Miia Tervo | Stars: Mimosa Willamo, Amir Escandari, Elá Yildirim, Oona Airola

Votes: 1,854

42. East of Sweden (2018)

104 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller

The lives of three troubled people are connected by accident when they are faced with moral questions.

Director: Simo Halinen | Stars: Samuli Vauramo, David Nzinga, Laura Birn, Andreas af Enehielm

Votes: 628

43. Pinocchio (2012)

PG | 75 min | Animation, Adventure, Family

In this dazzling, delightful re-imagining of the classic family legend, a playful puppet comes to life and experiences incredible adventures in his struggle to become human.

Director: Enzo D'Alò | Stars: Gabriele Caprio, Mino Caprio, Maricla Affatato, Lucrezia Marricchi

Votes: 387

44. Never Have I Ever (IV)

Thriller | Post-production

Sam is having a terrible day. He is late delivering a screenplay and the threat of being forced to repay his advance looms ominously over him as he simply doesn't have the money left. But ... See full summary »

Director: Damon Rickard | Stars: Andrew Lee Potts, Amber Doig-Thorne, Graham Skipper, Beatrice Fletcher

45. Enas Germanos sta Kalavryta (1970)

89 min | Adventure, Drama

On his way to the heroic village of Kalavryta, a young doctor crosses paths with the former SS officer responsible for the annihilation of the community's entire male population. Will anyone ever forget the abominable December of 1943?

Director: Memas Papadatos | Stars: Angelos Antonopoulos, Spyros Kalogirou, Giorgos Tzortzis, Tonia Kaziani

Votes: 19

46. A Stranger to Love (1996 TV Movie)

PG | 96 min | Drama, Romance

Alan is a normal middleaged man with a wife and two kids. One night he is attacked and loses his memory. His family believes that he is dead when a dead body is found in the river.

Director: Peter Levin | Stars: Beau Bridges, Pam Dawber, Tess Harper, Erik von Detten

Votes: 271

47. Dear Inspector (1977)

PG | 105 min | Action, Comedy, Crime

Parisian detective Lise meets her childhood sweetheart Antoine by chance. Extremely happy about the reunion, the two arrange to meet. But Lise's duties as an inspector thwart their plans.

Director: Philippe de Broca | Stars: Annie Girardot, Philippe Noiret, Catherine Alric, Hubert Deschamps

Votes: 1,143

48. Lucrèce Borgia (1953)

Not Rated | 120 min | Action, Drama, History

In the early 16th century, Italy is ruled by the powerful Borgia family, led by César Borgia and his sister Lucrètè. In a ruthless power play, César plots to have his sister's husband ... See full summary »

Director: Christian-Jaque | Stars: Martine Carol, Pedro Armendáriz, Valentine Tessier, Arnoldo Foà

Votes: 205

49. The Hideout (1956)

Not Rated | 55 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

An insurance investigator has a chance encounter with the sister of a fur dealer and soon finds himself embroiled in intrigue involving a case filled with cash as well as a potential outbreak of anthrax.

Director: Peter Graham Scott | Stars: Dermot Walsh, Rona Anderson, Ronald Howard, Sam Kydd

Votes: 175

50. Break Free: Two People. Two Years. One Dream (2019)

120 min | Documentary, Adventure

When Lena and Ulli start the engine of their old Land Rover, Lady Terés, they have a plan: to drive from Hamburg to South Africa in six months. What they don't know yet is that they won't ... See full summary »

Director: Lena Wendt | Stars: Ulrich Stirnat, Lena Wendt, Fufu, Ziza

Votes: 254