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

1. Joker (I) (2019)

R | 122 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

During the 1980s, a failed stand-up comedian is driven insane and turns to a life of crime and chaos in Gotham City while becoming an infamous psychopathic crime figure.

Director: Todd Phillips | Stars: Joaquin Phoenix, Robert De Niro, Zazie Beetz, Frances Conroy

Votes: 1,490,176 | Gross: $335.45M

2. The Matrix (1999)

R | 136 min | Action, Sci-Fi

When a beautiful stranger leads computer hacker Neo to a forbidding underworld, he discovers the shocking truth--the life he knows is the elaborate deception of an evil cyber-intelligence.

Directors: Lana Wachowski, Lilly Wachowski | Stars: Keanu Reeves, Laurence Fishburne, Carrie-Anne Moss, Hugo Weaving

Votes: 2,054,295 | Gross: $171.48M

3. Antichrist (2009)

Not Rated | 108 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller

A grieving couple retreat to their cabin in the woods, hoping to repair their broken hearts and troubled marriage, but nature takes its course and things go from bad to worse.

Director: Lars von Trier | Stars: Willem Dafoe, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Storm Acheche Sahlstrøm

Votes: 136,579 | Gross: $0.40M

4. Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) (2014)

R | 119 min | Comedy, Drama

A washed-up superhero actor attempts to revive his fading career by writing, directing, and starring in a Broadway production.

Director: Alejandro G. Iñárritu | Stars: Michael Keaton, Zach Galifianakis, Edward Norton, Andrea Riseborough

Votes: 666,693 | Gross: $42.34M

5. The Ruins (2008)

R | 90 min | Adventure, Horror, Thriller

A leisurely Mexican holiday takes a turn for the worse when a group of friends and a fellow tourist embark on a remote archaeological dig in the jungle, where something evil lives among the ruins.

Director: Carter Smith | Stars: Shawn Ashmore, Jena Malone, Jonathan Tucker, Laura Ramsey

Votes: 84,328 | Gross: $17.43M

6. Martha Marcy May Marlene (2011)

R | 102 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller

Haunted by painful memories and increasing paranoia, a damaged woman struggles to re-assimilate with her family after fleeing an abusive cult.

Director: Sean Durkin | Stars: Elizabeth Olsen, Sarah Paulson, John Hawkes, Christopher Abbott

Votes: 55,830 | Gross: $2.98M

7. Class of 1984 (1982)

R | 98 min | Action, Crime, Drama

A new teacher at a troubled inner-city high school soon ends up clashing with a delinquent punk posse who run the institute with an iron fist.

Director: Mark L. Lester | Stars: Perry King, Merrie Lynn Ross, Timothy Van Patten, Roddy McDowall

Votes: 13,262

8. The Believer (2001)

R | 98 min | Drama

A young Jewish man develops a fiercely anti-Semitic philosophy. Based on the factual story of a K.K.K. member in the 1960s who was revealed to be Jewish by a New York Times reporter.

Director: Henry Bean | Stars: Ryan Gosling, Summer Phoenix, Peter Meadows, Garret Dillahunt

Votes: 41,135 | Gross: $0.41M

9. Immortal Beloved (1994)

R | 121 min | Biography, Drama, Music

The life and death of the legendary Ludwig van Beethoven. Besides all the work he is known for, the composer once wrote a famous love letter to a nameless beloved, and the movie tries to ... See full summary »

Director: Bernard Rose | Stars: Gary Oldman, Jeroen Krabbé, Isabella Rossellini, Johanna ter Steege

Votes: 26,218 | Gross: $9.91M

10. Angst (I) (1983)

Not Rated | 87 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller

A troubled man gets released from prison and starts taking out his sadistic fantasies on an unsuspecting family living in a secluded house.

Director: Gerald Kargl | Stars: Erwin Leder, Robert Hunger-Bühler, Silvia Ryder, Karin Springer

Votes: 13,479

11. Prozac Nation (2001)

R | 95 min | Biography, Drama, Romance

A young woman struggles with depression during her first year at Harvard.

Director: Erik Skjoldbjærg | Stars: Christina Ricci, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Jessica Lange, Anne Heche

Votes: 19,005

12. Atlas Shrugged: Part I (2011)

PG-13 | 97 min | Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi

Railroad executive Dagny Taggart and steel mogul Henry Rearden form an alliance to fight the increasingly authoritarian government of the United States.

Director: Paul Johansson | Stars: Taylor Schilling, Grant Bowler, Matthew Marsden, Edi Gathegi

Votes: 14,321 | Gross: $4.75M

13. Magic in the Moonlight (2014)

PG-13 | 97 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

A romantic comedy about an Englishman brought in to help unmask a possible swindle. Personal and professional complications ensue.

Director: Woody Allen | Stars: Colin Firth, Emma Stone, Marcia Gay Harden, Hamish Linklater

Votes: 70,898 | Gross: $10.51M

14. Good (2008)

R | 92 min | Drama, Romance, War

John Halder, a German literature professor in the 1930s, is initially reluctant to accept the ideas of the Nazi Party. He is pulled in different emotional directions by his wife, his mother, his mistress, and a Jewish friend.

Director: Vicente Amorim | Stars: Viggo Mortensen, Jason Isaacs, Jodie Whittaker, Steven Mackintosh

Votes: 7,838 | Gross: $0.02M

15. Save Me (2017–2019)

TV-14 | 60 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller

A young girl coming to a small town with her family. And through tragic events getting involved with a religious cult.

Stars: Jo Jae-yoon, Chun Ho-jin, Eom Tae-goo, Esom

Votes: 1,916

16. The Fountainhead (1949)

Approved | 114 min | Drama, Romance

An uncompromising, visionary architect struggles to maintain his integrity and individualism despite personal, professional and economic pressures to conform to popular standards.

Director: King Vidor | Stars: Gary Cooper, Patricia Neal, Raymond Massey, Kent Smith

Votes: 10,909

17. Magic Magic (2013)

R | 97 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller

A naive young tourist's road trip across Chile with friends turns into a waking nightmare.

Director: Sebastián Silva | Stars: Michael Cera, Juno Temple, Emily Browning, Catalina Sandino Moreno

Votes: 10,369

18. Holy Hell (2016)

Not Rated | 100 min | Documentary, Drama

An inside look at Buddhafield, a West Hollywood cult formed by a charismatic teacher in the 1980s that eventually imploded.

Director: Will Allen | Stars: Will Allen, Dimitrius Pulido, Phillipe Coquet, David Christopher

Votes: 6,069 | Gross: $0.02M

19. Religulous (2008)

R | 101 min | Documentary, Comedy, War

Bill Maher's take on the current state of world religion.

Director: Larry Charles | Stars: Bill Maher, Tal Bachman, Jonathan Boulden, Steven Burg

Votes: 60,252 | Gross: $13.00M

20. He Loves Me, He Loves Me Not (2002)

PG-13 | 92 min | Romance, Thriller

A young woman who is in love with a married doctor becomes dangerous when her attempts to persuade him to leave his wife are unsuccessful. However, when things are seen from his point of view, the real situation becomes clear.

Director: Laetitia Colombani | Stars: Audrey Tautou, Samuel Le Bihan, Isabelle Carré, Sophie Guillemin

Votes: 19,534 | Gross: $1.01M

21. How to Get Ahead in Advertising (1989)

R | 90 min | Comedy, Fantasy

A cynical advertising exec has a block at work leading to a meltdown. He's hilariously out of control. Getting a big, talking boil on his shoulder doesn't help.

Director: Bruce Robinson | Stars: Richard E. Grant, Rachel Ward, Richard Wilson, Jacqueline Tong

Votes: 6,631 | Gross: $0.42M

22. The Student (2016)

Unrated | 118 min | Drama

Contemporary Russia. A high school student becomes convinced that the world has been lost to evil, and begins to challenge the morals and beliefs of the adults around him.

Director: Kirill Serebrennikov | Stars: Pyotr Skvortsov, Viktoriya Isakova, Yuliya Aug, Aleksandr Gorchilin

Votes: 6,077 | Gross: $0.00M

23. The Century of the Self (2002)

59 min | Documentary

A documentary about the rise of psychoanalysis as a powerful means of persuasion for both governments and corporations.

Stars: Adam Curtis, Robert Reich, Ann Bernays, Alfred Pritz

Votes: 6,362

24. Fateless (2005)

R | 140 min | Drama, Romance, War

14-year-old György's life is torn apart in WWII Hungary, as he is deported first to Auschwitz and then to Buchenwald, where he is forced to become a man in the midst of hatred, and what it really means to be Jewish.

Director: Lajos Koltai | Stars: Marcell Nagy, Béla Dóra, Bálint Péntek, Áron Dimény

Votes: 7,159 | Gross: $0.20M

25. Possessed by the Night (1994 Video)

R | 84 min | Action, Horror, Sci-Fi

Several subplots revolve around story of mutant embryo in jar that exercises control over the lives of those who come into contact with it.

Director: Fred Olen Ray | Stars: Shannon Tweed, Ted Prior, Sandahl Bergman, Chad McQueen

Votes: 724

26. Intruders (1992)

163 min | Biography, Horror, Mystery

All over the world, people report being visited by aliens, taken aboard spaceships and clinically examined. Authorities seem to know all about these visitations but will not admit it publicly.

Stars: Richard Crenna, Mare Winningham, Susan Blakely, Daphne Ashbrook

Votes: 1,458

27. The Boys Club (1996)

R | 91 min | Adventure, Crime, Drama

In Ontario, Canada, three fourteen-year-old boys, Kyle, Brad and Eric are forced to perform an ordeal when they find a wounded mysterious fugitive named Luke, who has a gun and claiming to be a cop, has taken a hiding in their clubhouse.

Director: John Fawcett | Stars: Chris Penn, Dominic Zamprogna, Stuart Stone, Devon Sawa

Votes: 1,345

28. The Premature Burial (1962)

Unrated | 81 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery

An artist grows distant from his new wife as an irrational horror of premature burial consumes him.

Director: Roger Corman | Stars: Ray Milland, Hazel Court, Richard Ney, Heather Angel

Votes: 4,861

29. Acid (2018)

TV-MA | 97 min | Drama

Acid is a silent manifesto of the generation of twenty-year-old. They have been abandoned in a world adorned with concepts such as family, friendship, love, and opportunities. In search of ... See full summary »

Director: Aleksandr Gorchilin | Stars: Filipp Avdeev, Aleksandr Kuznetsov, Roza Khayrullina, Elena Morozova

Votes: 1,617

30. Henri-Georges Clouzot's Inferno (2009)

Not Rated | 100 min | Documentary

Henri-Georges Clouzot's unfinished masterpiece, Inferno (1964), is reconstructed in this film which is part drama and part documentary.

Directors: Serge Bromberg, Ruxandra Medrea | Stars: Romy Schneider, Bérénice Bejo, Serge Reggiani, Jacques Gamblin

Votes: 2,002 | Gross: $0.02M

31. A Stalker in the House (2021)

84 min | Thriller

A woman finds herself in a fight for her life when the man she met online becomes dangerously obsessed with her.

Director: Jared Cohn | Stars: Veronika Issa, Jack Pearson, Scout Taylor-Compton, Michelle Ng Mini

Votes: 248

32. Inn Love by Christmas (2020 TV Movie)

88 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

On her way home to spend Christmas with her grandmother, Mandy runs into Lucas, her old high school rival.

Director: Jesse D. Ikeman | Stars: Jonna Walsh, Jesse Hutch, Jayne Eastwood, Tammy Isbell

Votes: 800

33. The Pied Piper (1972)

G | 86 min | Drama, Fantasy, Musical

In 1349, while the Black Plague threatens Germany, the town of Hamelin hires a wandering pied piper (Donovan) to lure rats away with his magic pipe, but then refuses to pay for his services, causing him to lure the town's children away.

Director: Jacques Demy | Stars: Keith Buckley, Patsy Puttnam, Arthur Hewlett, Paul Hennen

Votes: 911

34. Our History (1984)

110 min | Drama

A desperate alcoholic reaches a turning-point in his life when he meets a strange woman in a railway carriage: they make love, but then she leaves. Chasing after the girl, he clings to her as if she were his final chance.

Director: Bertrand Blier | Stars: Alain Delon, Nathalie Baye, Gérard Darmon, Geneviève Fontanel

Votes: 1,166

35. Excision (2008)

18 min | Short, Horror

A neglected teen takes refuge in the dreams that used to haunt her and orchestrates a shocking plan to prove her worth to her disapproving parents.

Director: Richard Bates Jr. | Stars: Tessa Ferrer, Karen Tiegren, Paul Fahrenkopf, Carly Hobson

Votes: 592

36. City of Pirates (1983)

Not Rated | 111 min | Adventure, Drama, Fantasy

A surreal odyssey in which a melancholic maidservant crosses paths with a homicidal little boy, travels to a tiny island and encounters a man with multiple personalities.

Director: Raúl Ruiz | Stars: Hugues Quester, Anne Alvaro, Melvil Poupaud, André Engel

Votes: 1,070

37. Wild Grass (2009)

PG | 104 min | Drama, Romance

A quirky woman who spends her free time as a pilot has her purse stolen; when a mysterious man finds her wallet, they embark on a peculiar romance.

Director: Alain Resnais | Stars: André Dussollier, Sabine Azéma, Anne Consigny, Emmanuelle Devos

Votes: 3,987 | Gross: $0.40M

38. The God Who Wasn't There (2005)

62 min | Documentary, Biography, History

Did Jesus exist? This film starts with that question, then goes on to examine Christianity as a whole.

Director: Brian Flemming | Stars: Sam Harris, Robert M. Price, Richard Carrier, Earl Doherty

Votes: 5,052

39. The Last Flight (1931)

Passed | 76 min | Drama

World War I veterans roam Paris, drinking and admiring a woman they recently met.

Director: William Dieterle | Stars: Richard Barthelmess, David Manners, Johnny Mack Brown, Helen Chandler

Votes: 1,391

40. The Golden Boat (1990)

83 min | Adventure, Comedy, Crime

An absurdist odyssey through downtown Manhattan with a sweet old serial killer, a student-cum-critic-cum-musician and assorted international bohemians.

Director: Raúl Ruiz | Stars: Michael Kirby, Federico Muchnik, Brett Alexander, Mary Hestand

Votes: 153

41. Join Us (2007)

Not Rated | 100 min | Documentary

Award winning filmmaker, Ondi Timoner, follows four families as they leave an abusive church in South Carolina and realize they have been in a cult. The film documents them as they enter ... See full summary »

Director: Ondi Timoner | Stars: Raymund Melz, Deborah Melz, Joaquin Sullivan, Liz Shaw

Votes: 148

42. Brief History of Disbelief (2004– )

178 min | Documentary

A mini-series which follows the history of atheism.

Stars: Bernard Hill, Jonathan Miller, Richard Dawkins, Simon Schaffer

Votes: 513

43. Soldiers in the Army of God (2000)

70 min | Documentary

Between 1973 and 2000, the USA witnessed over 2400 physical attacks on doctors, resulting in 7 murders and the destruction of more than 150 clinics. The documentary sheds light on the US Christian terrorist organization, the Army of God.

Directors: Marc Levin, Daphne Pinkerson | Stars: Paul Hill, Neal Horsley, Bob Lokey, Jonathan O'Toole

Votes: 192

44. Discussions with Richard Dawkins, Episode 1: The Four Horsemen (2008 Video)

120 min | Documentary

Richard Dawkins is joined by Daniel Dennett, Sam Harris and Christopher Hitchens to discuss science, god, religion and much more.

Director: Josh Timonen | Stars: Richard Dawkins, Daniel C. Dennett, Sam Harris, Christopher Hitchens

Votes: 458

45. 100 (1973)

97 min | Drama, Romance

In 1970s Romania a rebellious and erratic teenager is vying for his older step brother's love and attention while envying his fame and lifestyle.

Director: Mircea Saucan | Stars: Ion Dichiseanu, Ileana Popovici, Violeta Andrei, Ilarion Ciobanu

Votes: 159

46. Triti kai 13 (1963)

95 min | Comedy

A chain of bizarrely perfect and utterly extraordinary coincidences will convince a superstitious civil engineer that his impoverished long-lost friend is indeed a bearer of good fortune; however, is he truly an invaluable mascot?

Director: Orestis Laskos | Stars: Nikos Stavridis, Giannis Gionakis, Beata Asimakopoulou, Popi Lazou

Votes: 178

47. Chloé (2019)

15 min | Short, Drama

A fight with another girl condemns Chloé to return to school. After a goodbye to her best friend, Chloe gets into her father's car with whom she will make the road through the Gers countryside.

Director: Bastien Solignac | Stars: Ilys Barillot, Rodolphe Briand, Melha Mammeri, Matilda Marty-Giraut

48. The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp (1955–1961)
Episode: He's My Brother (1960)

TV-PG | 30 min | Western

Marshal Pritchard is severely wounded in front of Doc Goodfellow. Doc tells Earp that he believes the shooter may be mentally unstable and not responsible for his actions. Earp has to fight to bring the shooter and his brother in unharmed.

Director: Sidney Salkow | Stars: Hugh O'Brian, Morgan Woodward, Damian O'Flynn, Stacy Harris

Votes: 45

49. The Outer Limits (1995–2002)
Episode: Sarcophagus (1998)

TV-PG | 44 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror

An amber-like cocoon mass found in an ancient burial chamber begins to affect a man, imprinting him with the last memories of a long suspended alien and begins to affect his life and decisions.

Director: Jeff Woolnough | Stars: Lisa Zane, David Cubitt, Peter Wilds, Eli Gabay

Votes: 246

50. Star Trek (1966–1969)
Episode: And the Children Shall Lead (1968)

TV-PG | 51 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

The Enterprise reaches a Federation colony where the adults have all killed themselves but the children play without care.

Director: Marvin J. Chomsky | Stars: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, Craig Huxley

Votes: 3,409