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

51. Push (2009)

PG-13 | 111 min | Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller

Two young Americans with special abilities must race to find a girl in Hong Kong before a shadowy government organization called Division does.

Director: Paul McGuigan | Stars: Camilla Belle, Dakota Fanning, Chris Evans, Colin Ford

Votes: 115,777 | Gross: $31.81M

52. Definitely, Maybe (2008)

PG-13 | 112 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

A political consultant tries to explain his impending divorce and past relationships to his 11-year-old daughter.

Director: Adam Brooks | Stars: Ryan Reynolds, Rachel Weisz, Abigail Breslin, An Nguyen

Votes: 173,652 | Gross: $31.97M

53. The Last Letter from Your Lover (2021)

TV-MA | 110 min | Drama, Romance

A pair of interwoven stories set in the past and present follow an ambitious journalist determined to solve the mystery of a forbidden love affair at the center of a trove of secret love letters from 1965.

Director: Augustine Frizzell | Stars: Shailene Woodley, Joe Alwyn, Wendy Nottingham, Felicity Jones

Votes: 22,573

54. Rykter (2022– )

9 min | Drama

Erik is forced to move to a shitty island to get away from his past, but you don't easily run away from rumors, and a broken past.

Stars: Alisa Sussmann, Teo Tomczuk, Sisilja Garen, Martin Storebø Koh

Votes: 130

55. Flatliners (1990)

R | 115 min | Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi

Five medical students experiment with "near death" experiences, until the dark consequences of past tragedies begin to jeopardize their lives.

Director: Joel Schumacher | Stars: Kiefer Sutherland, Kevin Bacon, Julia Roberts, William Baldwin

Votes: 93,748 | Gross: $61.49M

56. Dead Man's Shoes (2004)

Not Rated | 90 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

A disaffected soldier returns to his hometown to get even with the thugs who brutalized his mentally-challenged brother years ago.

Director: Shane Meadows | Stars: Paddy Considine, Gary Stretch, Toby Kebbell, Stuart Wolfenden

Votes: 58,616 | Gross: $0.01M

57. Outcome

Comedy, Crime, Drama | Filming

Follows Hollywood star Reef as he is forced to confront his problems and atone for his past after being threatened by a bizarre video footage from his past.

Director: Jonah Hill | Stars: Keanu Reeves, Matt Bomer, Cameron Diaz, Jonah Hill

58. Antebellum (2020)

R | 105 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery

Successful author Veronica Henley finds herself trapped in a horrifying reality and must uncover the mind-bending mystery before it's too late.

Directors: Gerard Bush, Christopher Renz | Stars: Janelle Monáe, Eric Lange, Jena Malone, Jack Huston

Votes: 29,923

59. Kengan Ashura (2019– )

TV-MA | 24 min | Animation, Action, Sport

A timid old man is summoned by his chairman to become the manager of Tokita Ohma, a highly skilled gladiator who only cares about fighting and winning in the Kengan matches.

Stars: Tatsuhisa Suzuki, Jôji Nakata, Tetsu Inada, Hayato Kaneko

Votes: 6,862

60. Marnie (1964)

PG | 130 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Mark marries Marnie although she is a habitual thief and has serious psychological problems, and tries to help her confront and resolve them.

Director: Alfred Hitchcock | Stars: Tippi Hedren, Sean Connery, Martin Gabel, Louise Latham

Votes: 54,052 | Gross: $7.00M

61. Leap Year (2010)

Unrated | 94 min | Drama, Romance

Laura's personal life consists of one affair after another. She meets Arturo and the pair enter into an intense, violent sexual relationship. As days go by, Laura crosses out the days on a calendar, revealing her secret past to her lover.

Director: Michael Rowe | Stars: Mónica Del Carmen, Gustavo Sánchez Parra, Marco Zapata, Diego Chas

Votes: 2,812

62. The Long Kiss Goodnight (1996)

R | 121 min | Action, Crime, Drama

Samantha Caine lives in a small town with her daughter. Eight years ago she emerged, two months pregnant, from a nearby river with no memory of her past or who she is. However, she's getting closer to finding out about her past.

Director: Renny Harlin | Stars: Geena Davis, Samuel L. Jackson, Yvonne Zima, Craig Bierko

Votes: 85,914 | Gross: $33.33M

63. Rebel Without a Cause (1955)

PG-13 | 111 min | Drama

A rebellious young man with a troubled past comes to a new town, finding friends and enemies.

Director: Nicholas Ray | Stars: James Dean, Natalie Wood, Sal Mineo, Jim Backus

Votes: 98,240

64. Mr. Peabody & Sherman (2014)

PG | 92 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy

Sherman, a young boy, misuses a time machine made by his scientist father Mr. Peabody and causes the world history to go haywire. It is now up to Mr. Peabody to rescue his son and the world.

Director: Rob Minkoff | Stars: Ty Burrell, Max Charles, Stephen Colbert, Leslie Mann

Votes: 78,174 | Gross: $111.51M

65. The Desperadoes (1943)

Approved | 87 min | Western

A wanted outlaw arrives in town to rob a bank that has already been held up! His past and his friendship with the sheriff land them both in trouble.

Director: Charles Vidor | Stars: Randolph Scott, Claire Trevor, Glenn Ford, Evelyn Keyes

Votes: 1,639

66. Ringu (1998)

Not Rated | 96 min | Horror, Mystery

A reporter and her ex-husband investigate a cursed video tape that is rumored to kill the viewer seven days after watching it.

Director: Hideo Nakata | Stars: Nanako Matsushima, Miki Nakatani, Yûko Takeuchi, Hitomi Satô

Votes: 77,835

67. Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero (2022)

PG-13 | 100 min | Animation, Action, Adventure

The Red Ribbon Army from Goku's past has returned with two new androids to challenge him and his friends.

Director: Tetsuro Kodama | Stars: Masako Nozawa, Aya Hisakawa, Ryô Horikawa, Takeshi Kusao

Votes: 15,038 | Gross: $38.11M

68. Deadwind (2018–2021)

TV-MA | 45 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

When Sofia Karppi discovers the body of a young woman on a construction site, she triggers a chain of events that threatens to destroy her life--again.

Stars: Pihla Viitala, Lauri Tilkanen, Mimosa Willamo, Noa Tola

Votes: 13,166

69. Out of the Past (1947)

Approved | 97 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

A private eye escapes his past to run a gas station in a small town, but his past catches up with him. Now he must return to the big city world of danger, corruption, double crosses, and duplicitous dames.

Director: Jacques Tourneur | Stars: Robert Mitchum, Jane Greer, Kirk Douglas, Rhonda Fleming

Votes: 41,073

70. Paycheck (2003)

PG-13 | 119 min | Action, Mystery, Sci-Fi

What seemed like a breezy idea that would net an engineer millions of dollars ends up leaving him on the run for his life and trying to piece together why he's being chased.

Director: John Woo | Stars: Ben Affleck, Aaron Eckhart, Uma Thurman, Michael C. Hall

Votes: 113,482 | Gross: $53.79M

71. Sneakers (1992)

PG-13 | 126 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

A security pro finds his past returning to haunt him when he and his unique team are tasked with retrieving a particularly important item.

Director: Phil Alden Robinson | Stars: Robert Redford, Dan Aykroyd, Sidney Poitier, Jo Marr

Votes: 62,691 | Gross: $51.43M

72. Price of Passion (2017–2018)

140 min | Action, Drama, Romance

A doctor who has devoted herself to healing others encounters a cold-blooded killer with a wounded past. What happens when the woman who saves lives is captured by the man who takes them?

Stars: Ibrahim Celikkol, Birce Akalay, Muhammet Uzuner, Cahit Gök

Votes: 8,336

73. Timecop (1994)

R | 99 min | Action, Crime, Sci-Fi

Max Walker, an officer for a security agency that regulates time travel, must fend for his life against a shady politician who's intent on changing the past to control the future.

Director: Peter Hyams | Stars: Jean-Claude Van Damme, Mia Sara, Ron Silver, Bruce McGill

Votes: 64,435 | Gross: $44.85M

74. Full Body Massage (1995 TV Movie)

R | 93 min | Drama

A successful but world-weary art dealer finds out that her usual masseur has sent a substitute for her regular weekly massage at her home. They find that they are both mutually attracted, and annoy one another a great deal.

Director: Nicolas Roeg | Stars: Mimi Rogers, Bryan Brown, Christopher Burgard, Elizabeth Barondes

Votes: 1,723

75. Blue Bayou (2021)

R | 117 min | Drama

As a Korean-American man raised in the Louisiana bayou works hard to make a life for his family, he must confront the ghosts of his past as he discovers that he could be deported from the only country he has ever called home.

Director: Justin Chon | Stars: Justin Chon, Alicia Vikander, Mark O'Brien, Linh-Dan Pham

Votes: 10,624

76. Synchronic (2019)

R | 102 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery

Two New Orleans paramedics' lives are ripped apart after they encounter a series of horrific deaths linked to a designer drug with bizarre, otherworldly effects.

Directors: Justin Benson, Aaron Moorhead | Stars: Anthony Mackie, Jamie Dornan, Katie Aselton, Ally Ioannides

Votes: 40,445

77. Deep Red (1975)

R | 127 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller

A jazz pianist and a wisecracking journalist are pulled into a complex web of mystery after the former witnesses the brutal murder of a psychic.

Director: Dario Argento | Stars: David Hemmings, Daria Nicolodi, Gabriele Lavia, Macha Méril

Votes: 42,862

78. Game of Love (2022)

91 min | Drama, Romance

Vivien accompanies her partner Roy to his childhood home to prepare for the sale of the family estate. Their relationship is put into jeopardy when secrets from Roy's past are revealed.

Director: Elisa Amoruso | Stars: Bella Thorne, Benjamin Mascolo, Michael E. Rodgers, Alma Noce

Votes: 1,890

79. The Noel Diary (2022)

TV-14 | 99 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

The story of a man who returns home on Christmas to settle his estranged mother's estate. Once there, he discovers a diary that may hold secrets to his own past and of a beautiful young woman on a mysterious journey of her own.

Director: Charles Shyer | Stars: Justin Hartley, Barrett Doss, Bonnie Bedelia, James Remar

Votes: 19,222

80. Rachel Getting Married (2008)

R | 113 min | Drama, Romance

A young woman who has been in and out of rehab for the past ten years returns home for the weekend for her sister's wedding.

Director: Jonathan Demme | Stars: Anne Hathaway, Rosemarie DeWitt, Debra Winger, Sebastian Stan

Votes: 51,398 | Gross: $12.80M

81. Dangerous Waters (2023)

TV-14 | 101 min | Thriller

A sailing holiday spirals out of control when a teenage daughter uncovers the dark past of her mother's new boyfriend.

Director: John Barr | Stars: Odeya Rush, Eric Dane, Saffron Burrows, Ray Liotta

Votes: 1,758

82. Beautiful Kate (2009)

R | 100 min | Drama, Mystery

A writer reawakens his childhood trauma from the past when he returns home, at the request of his estranged sister, to grieve their father's impending death.

Director: Rachel Ward | Stars: Ben Mendelsohn, Sophie Lowe, Maeve Dermody, Rachel Griffiths

Votes: 4,105

83. Session 9 (2001)

R | 97 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery

Tensions rise within an asbestos cleaning crew as they work in an abandoned mental hospital with a horrific past that seems to be coming back.

Director: Brad Anderson | Stars: David Caruso, Stephen Gevedon, Paul Guilfoyle, Josh Lucas

Votes: 63,085 | Gross: $0.38M

84. Femme Fatale (2002)

R | 114 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

A woman tries to straighten out her life, even as her past as a con-woman comes back to haunt her.

Director: Brian De Palma | Stars: Rebecca Romijn, Antonio Banderas, Peter Coyote, Eriq Ebouaney

Votes: 37,742 | Gross: $6.59M

85. Brideshead Revisited (1981)

TV-14 | 60 min | Drama, Romance

The life, friendships and romances of the protagonist Charles Ryder-including his friendship with the Flytes, a family of wealthy English Catholics who live in a palatial mansion called Brideshead Castle.

Stars: Jeremy Irons, Diana Quick, Roger Milner, Phoebe Nicholls

Votes: 8,074

86. The Beast (1975)

Not Rated | 98 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror

In order to inherit a fortune a young woman agrees to marry a young man. She soon discovers that his family harbours a dark past involving a monstrous beast.

Director: Walerian Borowczyk | Stars: Sirpa Lane, Lisbeth Hummel, Elisabeth Kaza, Pierre Benedetti

Votes: 5,369

87. Trancers (1984)

PG-13 | 76 min | Action, Sci-Fi

A gruff bounty hunter travels back in time to 1980s Los Angeles to stop a twisted criminal who can transform people into zombie-like creatures.

Director: Charles Band | Stars: Tim Thomerson, Helen Hunt, Michael Stefani, Art LaFleur

Votes: 7,626

88. Star Wars: Clone Wars (2003–2005)

TV-Y7 | 6 min | Animation, Action, Adventure

The events and battles of the Galactic Republic's last major war are recounted.

Stars: Mat Lucas, James Arnold Taylor, André Sogliuzzo, Grey Griffin

Votes: 29,072

89. Ninja Scroll (1993)

Not Rated | 94 min | Animation, Action, Adventure

A vagabond swordsman is aided by a kunoichi and a spy in battling a demonic clan of killers - led by a ghost from his past - who are bent on overthrowing the Tokugawa Shogunate.

Director: Yoshiaki Kawajiri | Stars: Kôichi Yamadera, Emi Shinohara, Takeshi Aono, Osamu Saka

Votes: 40,898

90. Lone Star (1996)

R | 135 min | Drama, Mystery, Western

When the skeleton of his murdered predecessor is found, Sheriff Sam Deeds unearths many other long-buried secrets in his Texas border town.

Director: John Sayles | Stars: Chris Cooper, Elizabeth Peña, Stephen Mendillo, Stephen J. Lang

Votes: 32,506 | Gross: $13.27M

91. A Million Little Pieces (2018)

R | 113 min | Drama

A drug-dependent young man faces his past and his inner demons after he is interned in an institution for the addicted.

Director: Sam Taylor-Johnson | Stars: Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Billy Bob Thornton, Odessa Young, Giovanni Ribisi

Votes: 4,244

92. The Watcher in the Woods (1980)

PG | 84 min | Family, Horror, Mystery

When a family moves to a country home, the young girls experience strange happenings that have a link to an occult event years past.

Directors: John Hough, Vincent McEveety | Stars: Bette Davis, Lynn-Holly Johnson, Kyle Richards, Carroll Baker

Votes: 7,105 | Gross: $5.00M

93. The Beyond (1981)

R | 87 min | Horror

A young woman inherits an old hotel in Louisiana where, following a series of supernatural "accidents", she learns that the building was built over one of the entrances to Hell.

Director: Lucio Fulci | Stars: Catriona MacColl, David Warbeck, Cinzia Monreale, Antoine Saint-John

Votes: 25,436 | Gross: $0.12M

94. Close Your Eyes (2023)

169 min | Drama

A Spanish actor disappears during the filming of a movie. Although his body is never found, the police conclude that he has suffered an accident at the edge of a cliff. Many years later, the mystery returns to the present day.

Director: Víctor Erice | Stars: Manolo Solo, Jose Coronado, Ana Torrent, Petra Martínez

Votes: 2,901

95. Buddy Games (2019)

R | 96 min | Comedy

A group of friends reunite to play The Buddy Games, a wild assortment of absurd physical and mental challenges. In the process, they'll heal old wounds, right past wrongs and figure out the true meaning of friendship...or die trying.

Director: Josh Duhamel | Stars: Dan Bakkedahl, Kevin Dillon, Josh Duhamel, Olivia Munn

Votes: 8,591

96. Prom Night (I) (2008)

PG-13 | 88 min | Horror

Donna's senior prom is supposed to be the best night of her life, though a sadistic killer from her past has different plans for her and her friends.

Director: Nelson McCormick | Stars: Brittany Snow, Scott Porter, Jessica Stroup, Dana Davis

Votes: 38,237 | Gross: $43.87M

97. How Do You Know (2010)

PG-13 | 121 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

After being cut from the U.S.A. softball team and feeling a bit past her prime, Lisa finds herself evaluating her life and in the middle of a love triangle, as a corporate guy in crisis competes with her current, baseball-playing beau.

Director: James L. Brooks | Stars: Reese Witherspoon, Paul Rudd, Owen Wilson, Jack Nicholson

Votes: 54,701 | Gross: $30.21M

98. Orlando (1992)

PG-13 | 94 min | Biography, Drama, Fantasy

After Queen Elizabeth I commands him not to grow old, a young nobleman struggles with love and his place in the world.

Director: Sally Potter | Stars: Tilda Swinton, Billy Zane, Quentin Crisp, Jimmy Somerville

Votes: 18,797 | Gross: $5.29M

99. Les Misérables (1998)

PG-13 | 134 min | Crime, Drama, Romance

Valjean, a former criminal, has atoned for his past and now finds himself in the midst of the French Revolution, avoiding a law-obsessed policeman hell-bent on capturing him.

Director: Bille August | Stars: Liam Neeson, Geoffrey Rush, Uma Thurman, Christopher Adamson

Votes: 43,266 | Gross: $14.10M

100. Yi Yi (2000)

Not Rated | 173 min | Drama, Romance

Each member of a middle-class Taipei family seeks to reconcile past and present relationships within their daily lives.

Director: Edward Yang | Stars: Nien-Jen Wu, Elaine Jin, Issei Ogata, Kelly Lee

Votes: 28,630 | Gross: $1.14M