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

1. Lost in Translation (2003)

R | 102 min | Comedy, Drama

A faded movie star and a neglected young woman form an unlikely bond after crossing paths in Tokyo.

Director: Sofia Coppola | Stars: Bill Murray, Scarlett Johansson, Giovanni Ribisi, Anna Faris

Votes: 489,305 | Gross: $44.59M

2. This Is 40 (2012)

R | 134 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

Pete and Debbie are both about to turn 40, their kids hate each other, both of their businesses are failing, they're on the verge of losing their house, and their relationship is threatening to fall apart.

Director: Judd Apatow | Stars: Paul Rudd, Leslie Mann, Maude Apatow, Iris Apatow

Votes: 150,499 | Gross: $67.54M

3. The Pale Blue Eye (2022)

R | 128 min | Crime, Horror, Mystery

A world-weary detective is hired to investigate the murder of a West Point cadet. Stymied by the cadets' code of silence, he enlists one of their own to help unravel the case - a young man the world would come to know as Edgar Allan Poe.

Director: Scott Cooper | Stars: Christian Bale, Harry Melling, Simon McBurney, Timothy Spall

Votes: 124,724

4. Gigi (1958)

G | 115 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance

Weary of the conventions of Parisian society, a rich playboy and a youthful courtesan-in-training enjoy a platonic friendship which may not stay platonic for long.

Directors: Vincente Minnelli, Charles Walters | Stars: Leslie Caron, Maurice Chevalier, Louis Jourdan, Hermione Gingold

Votes: 24,508

5. God's Own Country (2017)

Not Rated | 104 min | Drama, Romance

Spring. Yorkshire. Young farmer Johnny Saxby numbs his daily frustrations with binge drinking and casual sex, until the arrival of a Romanian migrant worker for lambing season ignites an intense relationship that sets Johnny on a new path.

Director: Francis Lee | Stars: Josh O'Connor, Alec Secareanu, Gemma Jones, Ian Hart

Votes: 35,561 | Gross: $0.34M

6. Bell Book and Candle (1958)

Approved | 106 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Romance

A modern-day witch likes her neighbor but despises his fiancée, so she enchants him to love her instead.

Director: Richard Quine | Stars: James Stewart, Kim Novak, Jack Lemmon, Ernie Kovacs

Votes: 13,130

7. The Rules of Attraction (2002)

R | 110 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

The incredibly spoiled and overprivileged students of Camden College are a backdrop for an unusual love triangle between a drug dealer, a virgin and a bisexual classmate.

Director: Roger Avary | Stars: James Van Der Beek, Ian Somerhalder, Shannyn Sossamon, Jessica Biel

Votes: 53,330 | Gross: $6.53M

8. The Smell of Us (2014)

92 min | Drama

A story centered around a group of self-destructive skateboarders in Paris.

Director: Larry Clark | Stars: Lukas Ionesco, Diane Rouxel, Théo Cholbi, Hugo Behar-Thinières

Votes: 1,877

9. Somewhere (2010)

R | 97 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

After withdrawing to the Chateau Marmont, a passionless Hollywood actor reexamines his life when his eleven-year-old daughter surprises him with a visit.

Director: Sofia Coppola | Stars: Stephen Dorff, Elle Fanning, Chris Pontius, Erin Wasson

Votes: 46,710 | Gross: $1.77M

10. The Weather Man (2005)

R | 102 min | Comedy, Drama

A Chicago weather man, separated from his wife and children, debates whether professional and personal success are mutually exclusive.

Director: Gore Verbinski | Stars: Nicolas Cage, Hope Davis, Nicholas Hoult, Michael Caine

Votes: 83,321 | Gross: $12.48M

11. SubUrbia (1996)

R | 121 min | Comedy, Drama

A group of suburban teenagers try to support each other through the difficult task of becoming adults.

Director: Richard Linklater | Stars: Giovanni Ribisi, Steve Zahn, Jayce Bartok, Amie Carey

Votes: 10,669 | Gross: $0.73M

12. La Notte (1961)

Not Rated | 122 min | Drama

A day in the life of an unfaithful married couple and their steadily deteriorating relationship.

Director: Michelangelo Antonioni | Stars: Jeanne Moreau, Marcello Mastroianni, Monica Vitti, Bernhard Wicki

Votes: 24,044 | Gross: $0.04M

13. Happy End (2017)

R | 107 min | Drama

A well-to-do French family deals with a series of setbacks and crises.

Director: Michael Haneke | Stars: Isabelle Huppert, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Mathieu Kassovitz, Fantine Harduin

Votes: 16,937 | Gross: $0.30M

14. The Turin Horse (2011)

Not Rated | 155 min | Drama

A rural farmer is forced to confront the mortality of his faithful horse.

Directors: Béla Tarr, Ágnes Hranitzky | Stars: János Derzsi, Erika Bók, Mihály Kormos, Ricsi

Votes: 19,431 | Gross: $0.05M

15. Madame Bovary (1991)

PG-13 | 143 min | Drama, Romance

In nineteenth-century France, the romantic daughter of a country squire marries a dull country doctor. To escape boredom, she throws herself into love affairs with a suave local landowner and a law student, and runs up ruinous debts.

Director: Claude Chabrol | Stars: Isabelle Huppert, Jean-François Balmer, Christophe Malavoy, Jean Yanne

Votes: 4,483 | Gross: $1.94M

16. Winter Passing (2005)

R | 98 min | Comedy, Drama

An editor offers actress/bartender Reese $100,000 for her late mom's letters from her novelist dad. She heads home from NYC to get them and finds her dad living in the garage while two strangers live in the house.

Director: Adam Rapp | Stars: Ed Harris, Zooey Deschanel, Will Ferrell, Darrell Larson

Votes: 8,902 | Gross: $0.10M

17. Lola (1961)

Not Rated | 90 min | Drama, Romance

A bored young man meets with his former girlfriend, now a cabaret dancer and single mother, and soon finds himself falling back in love with her.

Director: Jacques Demy | Stars: Anouk Aimée, Marc Michel, Jacques Harden, Alan Scott

Votes: 7,530

18. Permanent Vacation (1980)

Not Rated | 75 min | Comedy, Drama

A young man wanders New York City searching for some meaning in life and encounters many idiosyncratic characters.

Director: Jim Jarmusch | Stars: Chris Parker, Leila Gastil, John Lurie, Richard Boes

Votes: 10,757

19. HyperNormalisation (2016)

166 min | Documentary

Adam Curtis explains how, at a time of confusing and inexplicable world events, politicians and the people they represent have retreated in to a damaging over-simplified version of what is happening.

Director: Adam Curtis | Stars: Adam Curtis, Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin, Victor Gotbaum

Votes: 7,376

20. Cold Souls (2009)

PG-13 | 101 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy

Paul is an actor who feels bogged down by his participation in a production of Chekov's play, Vanya.

Director: Sophie Barthes | Stars: Paul Giamatti, Emily Watson, Dina Korzun, Armand Schultz

Votes: 10,226 | Gross: $0.90M

21. Love & Pop (1998)

110 min | Drama

A high school girl engages in compensated dating in order to buy an expensive ring before the day ends.

Director: Hideaki Anno | Stars: Tadanobu Asano, Mitsuru Fukikoshi, Megumi Hayashibara, Akira Ishida

Votes: 1,871

22. Little Murders (1971)

PG | 108 min | Comedy, Crime

Pitch black comedy about a young nihilistic New Yorker coping with pervasive urban violence, obscene phone calls, rusty water pipes, electrical blackouts, paranoia and ethnic-racial conflict during a typical summer of the 1970s.

Director: Alan Arkin | Stars: Elliott Gould, Marcia Rodd, Vincent Gardenia, Elizabeth Wilson

Votes: 3,567 | Gross: $0.26M

23. Martyr (2017)

Unrated | 84 min | Drama

A young man's tragic death at Beirut's seaside causes his friends to grapple with loss and to partake in his community's rites and ceremonies, exposing the city's schisms and its society's fault lines.

Director: Mazen Khaled | Stars: Carol Abboud, Hadi Bou Ayash, Moustafa Fahs, Hamza Mekdad

Votes: 738

24. Lonesome Jim (2005)

R | 91 min | Comedy, Drama

Failing to make it on his own, twenty-seven-year-old Jim moves back in with his parents and deals with crippling family obligations.

Director: Steve Buscemi | Stars: Casey Affleck, Liv Tyler, Mary Kay Place, Kevin Corrigan

Votes: 8,084 | Gross: $0.15M

25. Collections privées (1979)

Unrated | 103 min | Drama, Fantasy

Three stories. A solitary sailor falls from his boat and washes ashore on a tropical island. While seeking rescue, he's found by a nearly naked woman who is playful and compliant. He ... See full summary »

Directors: Walerian Borowczyk, Just Jaeckin, Shûji Terayama | Stars: Roland Blanche, Laura Gemser, Catherine Gandois, Marpessa Djian

Votes: 404

26. Gods (2008)

120 min | Drama

Elisa, fiancee of a wealthy industrialist who is twenty years older than her is eager to shed her working-class background in favor of the opulence of her fiancé's elite lifestyle. To her ... See full summary »

Director: Josué Méndez | Stars: Maricielo Effio, Sergio Gjurinovic, Anahí de Cárdenas, Edgar Saba

Votes: 380

27. Love on a Pillow (1962)

Not Rated | 102 min | Drama, Romance

A young girl rescues a man from a suicide attempt. He turns out to be a sociopath, who begins to take over her life, abusing her both verbally and emotionally, yet she can't seem to tear herself away from him.

Director: Roger Vadim | Stars: Brigitte Bardot, Robert Hossein, Jean-Marc Bory, Michel Serrault

Votes: 733

28. Regular Lovers (2005)

183 min | Drama, Romance

1968 and 1969 in Paris during and after the student and trade-union revolt. 20-year-old François is a poet dodging military service. He takes to the barricades, but won't throw a Molotov ... See full summary »

Director: Philippe Garrel | Stars: Louis Garrel, Clotilde Hesme, Julien Lucas, Eric Rulliat

Votes: 2,987

29. A Few Days from the Life of I.I. Oblomov (1980)

Unrated | 140 min | Comedy, Drama, History

St. Petersburg, mid 19th century: the indolent, middle-aged Oblomov. He sleeps much of the day. His boyhood companion, Stoltz, now an energetic and successful businessman, adds Oblomov to his circle and introduces him to Olga.

Director: Nikita Mikhalkov | Stars: Oleg Tabakov, Yuriy Bogatyryov, Elena Solovey, Andrei Popov

Votes: 2,561

30. Made in U.S.A. (1987)

R | 82 min | Adventure, Comedy, Crime

Two misfit best friends, Dar and Tuck, leave their dying coal-mining town with only one goal in mind - to reach sunny California and hook up with some beach babes. On the road, they meet gun-crazy outlaw Annie, and she takes over.

Director: Ken Friedman | Stars: Judith Baldwin, Lori Singer, Marji Martin, Adrian Pasdar

Votes: 523

31. Swans (2011)

121 min | Drama

Manuel's mother, Petra, lives in Berlin. She is in a coma as a result of chemotherapy treatment. Tarso and Petra have been divorced since Manuel (17) was 3 years old. Manuel and Tarso come ... See full summary »

Directors: Hugo Vieira da Silva, Heidi Wilm | Stars: Kai Hillebrand, Ralph Herforth, Maria Schuster, Vasupol Siriviriyapoon

Votes: 95

32. Unknown Pleasures (2002)

Unrated | 112 min | Comedy, Drama

Two unemployed Chinese teenagers have trouble resisting the temptations of the Western world.

Director: Zhangke Jia | Stars: Wei Wei Zhao, Qiong Wu, Tao Zhao, Qing Feng Zhou

Votes: 2,550 | Gross: $0.01M

33. Passing Strange (2009)

TV-MA | 135 min | Documentary, Musical

Director Spike Lee's passionate adaptation of the thrilling Broadway musical about a young bohemian who experiences sex, drugs and rock and roll on his journey to selfhood.

Directors: Spike Lee, Annie Dorsen | Stars: Stew, De'Adre Aziza, Eisa Davis, Colman Domingo

Votes: 419

34. Shadow of a Doubt (1991 TV Movie)

100 min | Drama, Thriller

Remake of Alfred Hitchcock's Shadow of a Doubt (1943).

Director: Karen Arthur | Stars: Mark Harmon, Margaret Welsh, Norm Skaggs, William Lanteau

Votes: 327

35. Ritual (2000)

78 min | Drama

Sensing there is something terribly wrong at home, a young man drops out of college and tries to 'fix' his family.

Director: Stanley Bennett Clay | Stars: Clarence Williams III, Denise Nicholas, Shawn Michael Howard, Angelle Brooks

Votes: 101

36. Afterlov (2016)

94 min | Comedy, Drama

Twelve hard months after their sudden break-up, a struggling musician invites his ex-lover at a friend's sumptuous villa in search of answers. Living apart, or living together, is equally scary; but, is there an answer to every question?

Director: Stergios Paschos | Stars: Iro Bezou, Haris Fragoulis

Votes: 1,040

37. Barren Illusions (1999)

95 min | Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi

In future Japan, a dangerous pollen falls upon Tokyo, endangering its populace. Two people volunteer to become tests subject for a drug that could possibly provide a cure.

Director: Kiyoshi Kurosawa | Stars: Shinji Aoyama, Shirô Atami, Shingo Ichizawa, Kazushige Inami

Votes: 436

38. The White Dove (1960)

76 min | Drama

A poetic film about a dove getting lost on its way to Prague getting shot down by a paralyzed boy. An artist who finds the dove becomes friends with the boy. Together they take care of it bringing it back to recovery.

Director: Frantisek Vlácil | Stars: Katerina Irmanovová, Karel Smyczek, Vjaceslav Irmanov, Gustav Püttjer

Votes: 751

39. Une grande fille comme toi (2003 TV Movie)

90 min | Drama

Voluptuous and bored, rebellious 16-year-old Sabine is interested in sex and clubbing, and not much else. But when she leaves home to move to Paris, she finds herself plunged into a world ... See full summary »

Directors: Christophe Blanc, Mercedes Cecchetto | Stars: Mercedes Cecchetto, Laura Locatelli, Sarah Zidhane, Jean-Yves Dubois

Votes: 127

40. Vacuums and the Whistling Pig

Comedy, Drama | Pre-production

Struggling to keep their carpet cleaning business afloat, three lifelong friends must confront a lethal emptiness within their own souls as they are headed nowhere fast with tragic results.

Director: Enrico Colantoni | Stars: Laura San Giacomo, Eric McCormack

41. First Love, Last Rites (1997)

R | 94 min | Drama, Romance

Joey and Sissel are two misfits spending most of their time together talking or having sex. Gradually and slowly their relationships are becoming boring for them.

Director: Jesse Peretz | Stars: Natasha Gregson Wagner, Giovanni Ribisi, Robert John Burke, Jeannetta Arnette

Votes: 363 | Gross: $0.04M

42. South of Reno (1988)

R | 97 min | Drama

In a drab desert town, some 200 miles south of Reno, an indecisive man with an unfaithful wife dreams of someday, someday, taking charge of his drifting life.

Director: Mark Rezyka | Stars: Jeff Osterhage, Lisa Blount, Joe Estevez, Lewis Van Bergen

Votes: 229

43. Erotic Diary of an Office Lady (1977)

72 min | Drama, Romance

At 24, Asima lives with her father and works as an office girl, watching men get promoted and having their pick of the young women in the steno pool. She appears removed from it all, but ... See full summary »

Director: Masaru Konuma | Stars: Asami Ogawa, Michio Hino, Tatsuya Hamaguchi, Hidetoshi Kageyama

Votes: 158

44. I a Man (1967)

99 min | Drama

About a male hustler who talks with and sleeps with a series of women.

Directors: Paul Morrissey, Andy Warhol | Stars: Tom Baker, Nico, Valerie Solanas, Ingrid Superstar

Votes: 177

45. 4:30 (2005)

93 min | Drama

"4:30" traces the relationship between Xiao Wu, an eleven year old Chinese Boy and his tenant Jung, a thirty-something Korean man. Told entirely from the perspective of the boy, Xiao Wu, ... See full summary »

Director: Royston Tan | Stars: Young-jun Kim, Andrew Seow, Xiao Li Yuan

Votes: 544

46. Never Met Picasso (1996)

Not Rated | 101 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

A gay thirty year old lives at home and is in the midst of a serious creative funk. Rejected by numerous art schools and lacking romantic prospects, he looks to his charismatic Uncle Alfred for inspiration.

Director: Stephen Kijak | Stars: Alexis Arquette, Georgia Ragsdale, Margot Kidder, Don McKellar

Votes: 156

47. No Autumn, No Spring (2012)

115 min | Drama

The portrait of an invisible generation. A punk ballad told from the point of view of 10 youngsters with stories that interconnect, not with their destinies but with their concepts: the ... See full summary »

Director: Iván Mora Manzano | Stars: Enzo Macchiavello, Andres Troya Holst, Paola Baldion, Alejandro Fajardo

Votes: 141

48. Martian Through Georgia (1962)

6 min | Animation, Short, Comedy

Way out in space, on another world whose population is contented, one of its people decides that travel broadens the mind and relieves boredom. So, he flies to Earth in hope of helping the ... See full summary »

Directors: Chuck Jones, Abe Levitow, Maurice Noble | Stars: Mel Blanc, Ed Prentiss, June Foray

Votes: 295

49. Texture of Skin (2007)

Not Rated | 93 min | Romance

Min-Woo is a journalist who lives in the apartment of a woman who died in a car crash. Min-Woo has examined the car wreck and slowly becomes obsessed by the woman's past, also because her ... See full summary »

Director: Seong-gang Lee | Stars: Kim Yun-tae, Kim Joo-ryung, Bo-Yeong Choi, Yoon Ki-won

Votes: 80

50. Maya (1961)

Drama, Romance

Disillusioned with his wealthy friends, a male goes to live in the slums and falls in love with a burglar's sister.

Director: D.D. Kashyap | Stars: Dev Anand, Mala Sinha, Lalita Pawar, Sudesh Kumar

Votes: 84