Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "begging-for-mercy"

1. Scarface (1983)

R | 170 min | Crime, Drama

In 1980 Miami, a determined Cuban immigrant takes over a drug cartel and succumbs to greed.

Director: Brian De Palma | Stars: Al Pacino, Michelle Pfeiffer, Steven Bauer, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio

Votes: 915,298 | Gross: $45.60M

2. Us (II) (2019)

R | 116 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller

Adelaide Wilson and her family are attacked by mysterious figures dressed in red. Upon closer inspection, the Wilsons realize that the intruders are exact lookalikes of them.

Director: Jordan Peele | Stars: Lupita Nyong'o, Winston Duke, Elisabeth Moss, Tim Heidecker

Votes: 340,493 | Gross: $175.08M

3. Batman & Robin (1997)

PG-13 | 125 min | Action, Sci-Fi

Batman and Robin try to keep their relationship together even as they must stop Mr. Freeze and Poison Ivy from freezing Gotham City.

Director: Joel Schumacher | Stars: Arnold Schwarzenegger, George Clooney, Chris O'Donnell, Uma Thurman

Votes: 267,932 | Gross: $107.33M

4. Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (2022)

PG-13 | 161 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

The people of Wakanda fight to protect their home from intervening world powers as they mourn the death of King T'Challa.

Director: Ryan Coogler | Stars: Letitia Wright, Lupita Nyong'o, Danai Gurira, Winston Duke

Votes: 304,846 | Gross: $453.72M

5. Mandy (I) (2018)

Not Rated | 121 min | Action, Fantasy, Horror

The enchanted lives of a couple in a secluded forest are brutally shattered by a nightmarish hippie cult and their demon-biker henchmen, propelling a man into a spiraling, surreal rampage of vengeance.

Director: Panos Cosmatos | Stars: Nicolas Cage, Andrea Riseborough, Linus Roache, Ned Dennehy

Votes: 89,364 | Gross: $1.21M

6. The Little Hours (2017)

R | 89 min | Comedy, Romance

In the Middle Ages, a young servant fleeing from his master takes refuge at a convent full of emotionally unstable nuns. Introduced as a deaf mute man, he must fight to hold his cover as the nuns try to resist temptation.

Director: Jeff Baena | Stars: Alison Brie, Dave Franco, Kate Micucci, Aubrey Plaza

Votes: 25,405 | Gross: $1.65M

7. Miller's Crossing (1990)

R | 115 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

Tom Reagan, an advisor to a Prohibition-era crime boss, tries to keep the peace between warring mobs but gets caught in divided loyalties.

Directors: Joel Coen, Ethan Coen | Stars: Gabriel Byrne, Albert Finney, John Turturro, Marcia Gay Harden

Votes: 142,018 | Gross: $5.08M

8. The Belko Experiment (2016)

R | 89 min | Horror, Thriller

In a twisted social experiment, eighty Americans are locked in their high-rise corporate office in Bogotá, Colombia, and ordered by an unknown voice coming from the company's intercom system to participate in a deadly game of kill or be killed.

Director: Greg McLean | Stars: John Gallagher Jr., Tony Goldwyn, Adria Arjona, John C. McGinley

Votes: 58,263 | Gross: $10.16M

9. Season of the Witch (2011)

PG-13 | 95 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy

14th-century knights transport a suspected witch to a monastery, where monks deduce that her powers could be the source of the Black Plague.

Director: Dominic Sena | Stars: Nicolas Cage, Ron Perlman, Claire Foy, Stephen Campbell Moore

Votes: 98,217 | Gross: $24.83M

10. Ip Man 2 (2010)

R | 108 min | Action, Biography, Drama

Centering on Ip Man's migration to Hong Kong in 1949 as he attempts to propagate his discipline of Wing Chun martial arts.

Director: Wilson Yip | Stars: Donnie Yen, Xiaoming Huang, Sammo Kam-Bo Hung, Lynn Xiong

Votes: 110,932 | Gross: $0.21M

11. Lady Snowblood (1973)

Not Rated | 97 min | Action, Crime, Drama

A strikingly beautiful young woman is trained from birth to be a deadly instrument of revenge against the swindlers who destroyed her family.

Director: Toshiya Fujita | Stars: Meiko Kaji, Toshio Kurosawa, Masaaki Daimon, Miyoko Akaza

Votes: 16,274

12. Pilgrimage (II) (2017)

Not Rated | 96 min | Action, Drama, History

In 13th-century Ireland, a group of monks must escort a sacred relic across a landscape fraught with peril.

Director: Brendan Muldowney | Stars: Tom Holland, Richard Armitage, Jon Bernthal, Nikos Karathanos

Votes: 6,420

13. The Pit and the Pendulum (1991)

R | 97 min | Horror, Romance

Horror film set in 1492 Toledo, Spain, depicting the cruel deeds of a monk named Torquemada, Grand Inquisitor of the Spanish Inquisition.

Director: Stuart Gordon | Stars: Lance Henriksen, Stephen Lee, William Norris, Mark Margolis

Votes: 5,447 | Gross: $0.00M

14. The Big Combo (1955)

Not Rated | 87 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

A police lieutenant is ordered to stop investigating deadly crime boss Mr. Brown because he hasn't been able to get any hard evidence against him. He goes after Brown's girlfriend, who despises him, for information instead.

Director: Joseph H. Lewis | Stars: Cornel Wilde, Richard Conte, Jean Wallace, Brian Donlevy

Votes: 8,614

15. About Endlessness (2019)

78 min | Drama, Fantasy

Roy Andersson adds to his cinematic oeuvre with a reflection on human life in all its beauty and cruelty, its splendour and banality.

Director: Roy Andersson | Stars: Jessica Louthander, Tatiana Delaunay, Anders Hellström, Bertil J. Nyberg

Votes: 7,749

16. Jungle Book (1942)

Approved | 108 min | Action, Adventure, Family

A boy raised by wild animals tries to adapt to human village life.

Director: Zoltan Korda | Stars: Sabu, Joseph Calleia, John Qualen, Frank Puglia

Votes: 4,691 | Gross: $2.83M

17. The Final (I) (2010)

R | 93 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller

An awkward student with a deadly vendetta leads a group of outcasts who plot to avenge the years of humiliation they faced by the popular students at Hohn High School.

Director: Joey Stewart | Stars: Marc Donato, Jascha Washington, Whitney Hoy, Justin Arnold

Votes: 11,987

18. Iphigenia (1977)

Not Rated | 127 min | Drama

To appease offended gods before going to war, a commander must sacrifice his favorite daughter to them but does so under the pretext of marrying her off.

Director: Michael Cacoyannis | Stars: Irene Papas, Kostas Kazakos, Kostas Karras, Tatiana Papamoschou

Votes: 2,139

19. Snuff (1975)

X | 80 min | Horror

A so-called "snuff" film involving the exploits of a cult leader leading a gang of bikers in a series of supposedly real killings on film.

Directors: Michael Findlay, Horacio Fredriksson, Simon Nuchtern, Roberta Findlay | Stars: Margarita Amuchástegui, Tina Austin, Ana Carro, Brian Cary

Votes: 1,990

20. Superman vs. The Elite (2012 Video)

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

The Man of Steel finds himself outshone by a new team of ruthless superheroes who hold his idealism in contempt.

Director: Michael Chang | Stars: George Newbern, Pauley Perrette, Robin Atkin Downes, Dee Bradley Baker

Votes: 14,995

21. Guernica (2016)

R | 110 min | Drama, History, Romance

The fates of Henry - a cynical American correspondent who has lost his soul - and Teresa, one of the Republic's censors and in charge of overseeing the news that journalists can send abroad, cross in Gernika.

Director: Koldo Serra | Stars: James D'Arcy, María Valverde, Jack Davenport, Ingrid García Jonsson

Votes: 2,493

22. Kaminey (2009)

Not Rated | 130 min | Action, Crime, Drama

The desperate lives of two estranged twin brothers converge over missing drugs, politics, racial prejudice, corrupt cops and an unplanned pregnancy.

Director: Vishal Bhardwaj | Stars: Shahid Kapoor, Priyanka Chopra Jonas, Deb Mukherjee, Shivkumar Subramaniam

Votes: 18,115 | Gross: $1.29M

23. Stoic (2009)

Not Rated | 91 min | Crime, Drama

A heated game of poker causes three men incarcerated for nonviolent offenses to brutalize their cellmate before taking drastic measures in order to cover up their crime.

Director: Uwe Boll | Stars: Edward Furlong, Shaun Sipos, Sam Levinson, Steffen Mennekes

Votes: 2,880

24. The Banker (1989)

R | 96 min | Crime, Horror, Thriller

High-priced prostitutes are being systematically murdered, their corpses mutilated, and a bizarre South American symbol painted in blood is found at the scene. The cop investigating is out to solve the crime before his ex wife, a reporter, becomes the next victim.

Director: William Webb | Stars: Robert Forster, Shanna Reed, Duncan Regehr, Jeff Conaway

Votes: 727

25. Gunda (1998)

Not Rated | 129 min | Action, Comedy, Crime

When a coolie's family is murdered by a group of gangsters and politicians, he swears revenge on them.

Director: Kanti Shah | Stars: Mithun Chakraborty, Mukesh Rishi, Mohan Joshi, Shakti Kapoor

Votes: 10,933

26. Badrinath (2011)

Not Rated | 140 min | Action, Drama, Romance

Badri, a warrior and the protector of Badrinath temple, finds himself in troubled waters after an agnostic woman falls for him and his mentor suspects him of loving her back.

Director: V.V. Vinayak | Stars: Allu Arjun, Tamannaah Bhatia, Prakash Raj, Kelly Dorji

Votes: 2,441 | Gross: $0.05M

27. Angry Harvest (1985)

R | 105 min | Drama, Romance, War

In the winter of 1942-43, a Jewish family leaps from a train going through Silesia. They are separated in the woods, and Leon, a local peasant who's now a farmer of some wealth, discovers ... See full summary »

Director: Agnieszka Holland | Stars: Armin Mueller-Stahl, Elisabeth Trissenaar, Wojciech Pszoniak, Gerd Baltus

Votes: 867

28. Steel Toes (2006)

R | 87 min | Crime, Drama

A Jewish humanist and lawyer (Academy-Award® nominated David Strathairn) is court-appointed to represent a Neo-Nazi Skinhead on trial for the racially-motivated murder of an East Indian immigrant.

Directors: Mark Adam, David Gow | Stars: David Strathairn, Andrew W. Walker, Marina Orsini, Ivana Shein

Votes: 1,255

29. WWF Royal Rumble: No Chance in Hell (1999 TV Special)

166 min | Action, Sport

The twelfth annual WWF Royal Rumble battle royal, with the winner receiving a WWF Title shot at WrestleMania XV, WWF Title (I Quit Match) : Mankind vs. The Rock, WWF Intercontinental Title:... See full summary »

Director: Kevin Dunn | Stars: Dwayne Johnson, Mick Foley, Vince McMahon, Steve Austin

Votes: 549

30. Rusty Knife (1958)

90 min | Crime, Drama

Two friends who witnessed an organized crime murder are threatened by the local mob into keeping quiet.

Director: Toshio Masuda | Stars: Yûjirô Ishihara, Mie Kitahara, Akira Kobayashi, Mari Shiraki

Votes: 723

31. Mega Man 2 (1988 Video Game)

E | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

Dr. Wily escapes from prison and plans revenge on Mega Man.

Director: Akira Kitamura

Votes: 1,284

32. Madame Sans-Gêne (1941)

100 min | Comedy, Drama, History

The ordeals of a crude washerwoman in the chic court of Napoleon the First;La Maréchale Lefèvre ,a former launderer who followed the emperor in many of his campaigns is the laughing stock ... See full summary »

Director: Roger Richebé | Stars: Arletty, Aimé Clariond, Maurice Escande, Henri Nassiet

Votes: 75

33. Power Trip (2003)

Unrated | 86 min | Documentary

Corruption, assassination and street rioting surround the story of the award-winning film, Power Trip, which follows an American multi-national trying to solve the electricity crisis in ... See full summary »

Director: Paul Devlin | Stars: Dennis Bakke, Piers Lewis, Butch Mederos, Bill O'Reilly

Votes: 230 | Gross: $0.04M

34. Tickled Beyond Belief (2011 Video)

47 min | Adventure

Eight beautiful and tightly bound women in various degrees of nakedness are tormented by ruthless ticklers who assault their feet, ribs and underarms with furtive fingers.

Stars: Amy Anderson, Loren Chance, Jenni Czech, Randy Moore

35. Fido Beta Kappa (1954)

Approved | 7 min | Animation, Short, Comedy

A duck hunter sends his stupid mutt to dog college, and he comes back superciliously clever.

Directors: Izzy Sparber, Al Eugster | Stars: Jackson Beck, Allen Swift

Votes: 21

36. Maid Marian and Her Merry Men (1989–1994)
Episode: Robert the Incredible Chicken (1989)

24 min | Adventure, Comedy, Family

Robin accidentally fires an arrow into the sheriff's hat,leading him to believe that he is a fine archer and so King John arranges an archery contest in Worksop to flush Robin out. Against ... See full summary »

Director: David Bell | Stars: Kate Lonergan, Adam Morris, Danny John-Jules, Howard Lew Lewis

Votes: 33

37. Tales from the Crypt (1989–1996)
Episode: The Man Who Was Death (1989)

Not Rated | 26 min | Comedy, Crime, Fantasy

After the death penalty is abolished, an executioner continues his former job through freelancing...

Director: Walter Hill | Stars: William Sadler, J.W. Smith, Roy Brocksmith, David Wohl

Votes: 2,004

38. The X-Files (1993–2018)
Episode: The Walk (1995)

TV-14 | 45 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

A quadruple amputee becomes the prime suspect in a series of bizarre deaths at an army hospital.

Director: Rob Bowman | Stars: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Thomas Kopache, Willie Garson

Votes: 4,210

39. Doctor Who (1963–1989)
Episode: The Sontaran Experiment: Part Two (1975)

TV-G | 25 min | Adventure, Drama, Family

The Doctor learns that Styre has been experimenting on the Galsec crewmembers to pave the way for a Sontaran invasion of Earth and decides the only way to halt his plans is to challenge him to a duel.

Director: Rodney Bennett | Stars: Tom Baker, Elisabeth Sladen, Ian Marter, Kevin Lindsay

Votes: 706

40. Oggy and the Cockroaches (1997–2018)
Episode: Oggy et les bébés (1998)

TV-Y | Animation, Adventure, Comedy

Oggy and Jack, after eradicating the cockroaches from their house, receive 3 baby kittens that look like Jack - little do they knew and suspect that these bundles of joy are actually the roaches in disguise.

Director: Olivier Jean-Marie | Star: Hugues Le Bars

Votes: 29

41. Maid Marian and Her Merry Men (1989–1994)
Episode: Robin the Bad (1994)

23 min | Adventure, Comedy, Family

King John hires a man who is Robin's exact double to do bad things around Worksop, thereby discrediting him and the outlaws. However he is rumbled by Marian who persuades him to work with ... See full summary »

Director: David Bell | Stars: Kate Lonergan, Adam Morris, Danny John-Jules, Howard Lew Lewis

Votes: 20

42. The Bold and the Beautiful (1987– )
Episode: Episode #1.5255 (2008)

TV-14 | Drama, Romance

Katie pleads with Stephanie to show some compassion to her brother. Nick is brought up short when Taylor announces that she is taking baby Jack home with her.

Director: Michael Stich | Stars: William deVry, Susan Flannery, Jennifer Gareis, Katherine Kelly Lang

43. The New Woody Woodpecker Show (1999–2002)
Episode: Ya Gonna Eat That?/Chilly & Hungry/Brother Cockroach (1999)

TV-Y7 | 21 min | Animation, Short, Adventure

Woody Woodpecker tries to mooch from Wally Walrus... A cockroach tries to mooch from Woody... Chilly Willy wants to snuggle up with a vegetarian polar bear.

Directors: Mauro Casalese, Bob Jaques | Stars: Billy West, Elizabeth Daily, Dan Castellaneta, Jim Cummings

Votes: 26

44. Sons of Anarchy (2008–2014)
Episode: NS (2010)

TV-MA | 57 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

Both the ATF and the Russians prove to be obstacles as the club looks to heal old wounds and settle old scores.

Director: Kurt Sutter | Stars: Charlie Hunnam, Katey Sagal, Mark Boone Junior, Dayton Callie

Votes: 6,847

45. Yellowstone (2018– )
Episode: Grass on the Streets and Weeds on the Rooftops (2022)

TV-MA | 77 min | Drama, Western

To the Duttons, family is everything; however, newfound truths threaten that bond. Jimmy comes home and has important decisions to make. Beth takes family matters into her own hands.

Director: Stephen Kay | Stars: Kevin Costner, Luke Grimes, Kelly Reilly, Wes Bentley

Votes: 2,792

46. Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated (2010–2013)
Episode: The Shrieking Madness (2010)

TV-Y7 | 23 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy

With Mystery Inc. broken up, the gang decides to check out life after High School and spend a weekend at DARROW COLLEGE.

Director: Victor Cook | Stars: Frank Welker, Mindy Cohn, Grey Griffin, Matthew Lillard

Votes: 484

47. Game of Thrones (2011–2019)
Episode: The Pointy End (2011)

TV-MA | 59 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

The Lannisters press their advantage over the Starks; Robb rallies his father's northern allies and heads south to war; The White Walkers attack the Wall; Tyrion returns to his father with some new friends.

Director: Daniel Minahan | Stars: Sean Bean, Michelle Fairley, Lena Headey, Emilia Clarke

Votes: 36,095

48. Game of Thrones (2011–2019)
Episode: Baelor (2011)

TV-MA | 57 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

Robb goes to war against the Lannisters. Jon finds himself struggling on deciding if his place is with Robb or the Night's Watch. Drogo has fallen ill from a fresh battle wound. Daenerys is desperate to save him.

Director: Alan Taylor | Stars: Sean Bean, Michelle Fairley, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Lena Headey

Votes: 50,758

49. Transformers Prime (2010–2013)
Episode: Rock Bottom (2011)

TV-Y7-FV | 22 min | Animation, Action, Adventure

Arcee, Bulkhead, Jack and Miko are out investigating a seemingly abandoned mining cave. However Megatron picked this very day and cave to execute the traitorous Starscream, and when the two... See full summary »

Directors: Shaunt Nigoghossian, David Hartman | Stars: Frank Welker, Steve Blum, Sumalee Montano, Kevin Michael Richardson

Votes: 146

50. Hell on Wheels (2011–2016)
Episode: Derailed (2012)

TV-14 | 43 min | Drama, Western

A train is derailed by the Cheyenne. Durant orders Cullen to lead a team to track them. Lily moves out of Durant's coach and into her own tent beside the brothel. Tension mounts for ... See full summary »

Director: David Von Ancken | Stars: Anson Mount, Colm Meaney, Common, Dominique McElligott

Votes: 802