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

1. Dead Poets Society (1989)

PG | 128 min | Comedy, Drama

Maverick teacher John Keating returns in 1959 to the prestigious New England boys' boarding school where he was once a star student, using poetry to embolden his pupils to new heights of self-expression.

Director: Peter Weir | Stars: Robin Williams, Robert Sean Leonard, Ethan Hawke, Josh Charles

Votes: 546,994 | Gross: $95.86M

2. Last Tango in Paris (1972)

NC-17 | 129 min | Drama, Romance

A young Parisian woman meets a middle-aged American businessman who demands their clandestine relationship be based only on sex.

Director: Bernardo Bertolucci | Stars: Marlon Brando, Maria Schneider, Maria Michi, Giovanna Galletti

Votes: 58,408 | Gross: $36.14M

3. We Need to Talk About Kevin (2011)

R | 112 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller

Kevin's mother struggles to love her strange child despite the increasingly dangerous things he says and does as he grows up. But Kevin is just getting started, and his final act will be beyond anything anyone imagined.

Director: Lynne Ramsay | Stars: Tilda Swinton, John C. Reilly, Ezra Miller, Jasper Newell

Votes: 167,910 | Gross: $1.74M

4. Persona (1966)

Not Rated | 83 min | Drama, Thriller

A nurse is put in charge of a mute actress and finds that their personae are melding together.

Director: Ingmar Bergman | Stars: Bibi Andersson, Liv Ullmann, Margaretha Krook, Gunnar Björnstrand

Votes: 131,049

5. Happy Together (1997)

Not Rated | 96 min | Drama, Romance

A couple take a trip to Argentina but both men find their lives drifting apart in opposite directions.

Director: Kar-Wai Wong | Stars: Leslie Cheung, Tony Leung Chiu-wai, Chang Chen, Gregory Dayton

Votes: 34,088 | Gross: $0.19M

6. Certain Women (2016)

R | 107 min | Drama

The lives of three women intersect in small-town America, where each is imperfectly blazing a trail.

Director: Kelly Reichardt | Stars: Michelle Williams, Kristen Stewart, Laura Dern, James Le Gros

Votes: 15,682 | Gross: $1.03M

7. Anomalisa (2015)

R | 90 min | Animation, Comedy, Drama

A man crippled by the mundanity of his life experiences something out of the ordinary.

Directors: Duke Johnson, Charlie Kaufman | Stars: David Thewlis, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Tom Noonan

Votes: 75,348 | Gross: $3.76M

8. Vivre sa vie (1962)

Not Rated | 85 min | Drama

Twelve episodic tales in the life of a Parisian woman and her slow descent into prostitution.

Director: Jean-Luc Godard | Stars: Anna Karina, Sady Rebbot, André S. Labarthe, Guylaine Schlumberger

Votes: 35,031

9. Identification of a Woman (1982)

Not Rated | 130 min | Drama, Romance

A director's wife leaves him. He pursues another woman who also departs. This inspires a movie idea about women's relationships. He searches for an actress to star in the film and his life.

Director: Michelangelo Antonioni | Stars: Tomas Milian, Daniela Silverio, Christine Boisson, Lara Wendel

Votes: 3,241

10. Light Sleeper (1992)

R | 103 min | Crime, Drama

A drug dealer reconsiders his profession when his boss plans to go straight and an old flame reappears.

Director: Paul Schrader | Stars: Willem Dafoe, Susan Sarandon, Dana Delany, David Clennon

Votes: 9,409 | Gross: $1.05M

11. Model Shop (1969)

M | 97 min | Drama, Romance

George is unemployed, broke, about to be drafted to Vietnam, and suddenly madly in love with the divine Lola, a woman he has only briefly glimpsed. Now George searches for his potential amour through the City of Angels.

Director: Jacques Demy | Stars: Anouk Aimée, Gary Lockwood, Alexandra Hay, Carol Cole

Votes: 2,142

12. Get Out Your Handkerchiefs (1978)

R | 108 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

A worried husband finds a lover for his depressed wife, but she falls in love with a bullied thirteen-year-old math prodigy and wants to have the boy's baby.

Director: Bertrand Blier | Stars: Gérard Depardieu, Carole Laure, Patrick Dewaere, Michel Serrault

Votes: 4,294

13. It's Only the End of the World (2016)

97 min | Drama

Louis (Gaspard Ulliel), a terminally ill writer, returns home after a long absence to tell his family that he is dying.

Director: Xavier Dolan | Stars: Gaspard Ulliel, Marion Cotillard, Léa Seydoux, Vincent Cassel

Votes: 25,213

14. Limbo (2021)

118 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

Rookie policeman Will Ren and his partner, the veteran cop Cham Lau, are pursuing an obsessive and especially brutal murderer of women.

Director: Soi Cheang | Stars: Ka-Tung Lam, Yase Liu, Mason Lee, Hiroyuki Ikeuchi

Votes: 3,279

15. Poetry (2010)

TV-PG | 139 min | Drama

A sixty-something woman, faced with the discovery of a heinous family crime and in the early stages of Alzheimer's disease, finds strength and purpose when she enrolls in a poetry class.

Director: Lee Chang-dong | Stars: Yun Jeong-hie, Lee Da-wit, Kim Hee-ra, Ahn Nae-sang

Votes: 13,553 | Gross: $0.36M

16. Junebug (2005)

R | 106 min | Comedy, Drama

A dealer in "outsider" art travels from Chicago to North Carolina to meet her new in-laws, challenging the equilibrium of this middle class Southern home.

Director: Phil Morrison | Stars: Embeth Davidtz, Alessandro Nivola, David Kuhn, Alicia Van Couvering

Votes: 23,435 | Gross: $2.68M

17. The Fire Within (1963)

Not Rated | 108 min | Drama

Depressed Alain Leroy leaves the clinic where he was detoxified. He meets friends, acquaintances and women, trying to find a reason to continue living. Will this help him?

Director: Louis Malle | Stars: Maurice Ronet, Léna Skerla, Yvonne Clech, Hubert Deschamps

Votes: 10,483

18. Katie Says Goodbye (2016)

88 min | Drama

A kindhearted 17-year-old in the American Southwest turns to prostitution to fulfill her dream of a new life in San Francisco.

Director: Wayne Roberts | Stars: Christopher Abbott, Mary Steenburgen, Olivia Cooke, Mireille Enos

Votes: 2,361

19. Goodbye, Dragon Inn (2003)

82 min | Drama, Comedy

On a dark, wet night a historic and regal Chinese cinema sees its final film. Together with a small handful of souls they bid "Goodbye, Dragon Inn".

Director: Tsai Ming-liang | Stars: Kang-sheng Lee, Shiang-chyi Chen, Kiyonobu Mitamura, Chun Shih

Votes: 6,184 | Gross: $0.03M

20. The Man Who Sleeps (1974)

77 min | Drama

A 25-year-old male student in Paris becomes indifferent to the world around him, and subsequently feels a strong sense of alienation and hopelessness.

Director: Bernard Queysanne | Stars: Jacques Spiesser, Ludmila Mikaël

Votes: 4,663

21. David's Birthday (2009)

Not Rated | 106 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance

Two couples are enjoying their summer at the beach, but when the grown son of one couple arrives, it surprisingly stirs something in the husband of the other couple, will the forbidden feelings end badly?

Director: Marco Filiberti | Stars: Alessandro Gassmann, Maria de Medeiros, Massimo Poggio, Michela Cescon

Votes: 2,542

22. Passion (1982)

R | 88 min | Comedy, Drama

A film director has an inspirational crisis while working on the production, Passion, and struggles with the nature of work and art.

Director: Jean-Luc Godard | Stars: Isabelle Huppert, Hanna Schygulla, Michel Piccoli, Jerzy Radziwilowicz

Votes: 2,848

23. First Name: Carmen (1983)

R | 85 min | Crime, Drama, Music

A woman involved with a terrorist group becomes dangerously close to the police officer guarding the bank they plan to rob.

Director: Jean-Luc Godard | Stars: Maruschka Detmers, Jacques Bonnaffé, Myriem Roussel, Christophe Odent

Votes: 4,515

24. Detective (1985)

Unrated | 95 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

At a Paris hotel, a hotel detective fired after a murder took place there continues to investigate, helped by his inspector nephew and girlfriend. A boxing manager, owing money to a couple and the mafia, rides on a match next day.

Director: Jean-Luc Godard | Stars: Laurent Terzieff, Aurelle Doazan, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Nathalie Baye

Votes: 2,338

25. The Olive Tree (2016)

100 min | Comedy, Drama

A girl, her uncle and a friend start an emotional travel to recover a family tree.

Director: Icíar Bollaín | Stars: Anna Castillo, Javier Gutiérrez, Pep Ambròs, Manuel Cucala

Votes: 3,810

26. The Girlfriends (1955)

Not Rated | 104 min | Drama, Romance

A young woman returns to her hometown of Turin to set up a new fashion salon and gets involved with a troubled woman and her three wealthy friends.

Director: Michelangelo Antonioni | Stars: Eleonora Rossi Drago, Gabriele Ferzetti, Franco Fabrizi, Valentina Cortese

Votes: 3,411 | Gross: $0.05M

27. Il Grido (1957)

Not Rated | 116 min | Drama

A man wanders aimlessly away from his town, away from the woman he loves, emotionally and socially inactive.

Director: Michelangelo Antonioni | Stars: Gabriella Pallotta, Steve Cochran, Alida Valli, Dorian Gray

Votes: 5,447

28. Delta (2008)

92 min | Drama

A man comes home to meet his mother and sister after many years away. He finds his mother living with a new boyfriend, and his sister to be grown-up. He begins to settle down in this new ... See full summary »

Director: Kornél Mundruczó | Stars: Félix Lajkó, Orsolya Tóth, Lili Monori, Sándor Gáspár

Votes: 1,749

29. French film

90 min | Drama, Romance | Post-production

Sam and Léna, two actors, are in love. Sam wants to completely possess Léna. She gives herself entirely to him. Yet their relationship deteriorates to the point of disaster.

Director: Claude Chamis | Stars: Luca Colucci, Pauline Miocekovitz, Augustin De Winter, Nathan Moreira

30. A Week's Vacation (1980)

R | 102 min | Drama

Laurence, French teacher at a Lyon secondary school, simply can't take any more. Her doctor prescribes a week off. Whilst her partner Pierre has no idea how to help her, she decides to get ... See full summary »

Director: Bertrand Tavernier | Stars: Nathalie Baye, Gérard Lanvin, Flore Fitzgerald, Michel Galabru

Votes: 731

31. The Kreutzer Sonata (1956)

Not Rated | 50 min | Crime, Drama

In this adaptation of Tolstoy's argument for sexual abstinence, a man recounts the events that led to the killing of his wife.

Director: Éric Rohmer | Stars: Éric Rohmer, Françoise Martinelli, Jean-Claude Brialy, André Bazin

Votes: 518

32. I'm Glad My Mother Is Alive (2009)

Not Rated | 91 min | Drama

Given up for adoption as a toddler, troubled teenager Thomas becomes obsessed with tracking down his birth mother. After years of searching, Thomas finds her single, with a small child, ... See full summary »

Directors: Claude Miller, Nathan Miller | Stars: Vincent Rottiers, Sophie Cattani, Christine Citti, Yves Verhoeven

Votes: 581 | Gross: $0.01M

33. Winter's Child (1989)

84 min | Drama

A man leaves his pregnant wife because he does not want to be a father, then he begins a relationship with another woman who loves someone else.

Director: Olivier Assayas | Stars: Clotilde de Bayser, Michel Feller, Marie Matheron, Jean-Philippe Écoffey

Votes: 275

34. A Time Apart

Drama | Post-production

Alyssa returns to Paris to finalize her divorce but while spending the week with her soon-to-be ex-husband, she starts to question whether she's making the right decision.

Director: Courtney Hope Thérond | Stars: Lana Boy, Emmanuel Berthelot, Victor Pontecorvo, Olivia Cade

35. Palermo or Wolfsburg (1980)

173 min | Drama

An impoverished young man from Sicily travels to Wolfsburg, West Germany to find work. He takes a job in the Volkswagen factory after he travels through Northern Italy by train.

Director: Werner Schroeter | Stars: Nicola Zarbo, Otto Sander, Ida Di Benedetto, Magdalena Montezuma

Votes: 272

36. Tutte le donne di un uomo da nulla (2009)

95 min | Drama

Paul is married with Lorenza , a rich woman who does not much esteem him . After losing a poker game with Donato, Paul decides to hide the truth to his wife and to earn easy and quick money... See full summary »

Director: Roger A. Fratter | Stars: Margherita Di Sarno, Roger A. Fratter, Claudia Vismara, Alessandra Di Lorenzo

37. Mon cas (1986)

92 min | Drama, Fantasy

Four versions of the same story, first in the perspective of a theatre play, second in the perspective of a silent film, third in the perspective of a film of the 50s and finally in a biblical philosophical perspective.

Director: Manoel de Oliveira | Stars: Bulle Ogier, Luís Miguel Cintra, Axel Bogousslavsky, Fred Personne

Votes: 222

38. Corpo d'amore (1973)

102 min | Drama

A father and son, separated by the "generation gap," discover kinship in their common affection for a young woman washed up onto their shore. Their bond is then strongly reinforced when, together, they kill a dangerous intruder.

Director: Fabio Carpi | Stars: Mimsy Farmer, François Simon, Giovanni Rosselli, Lino Capolicchio

Votes: 75

39. Dancing in the Dark (1986)

PG-13 | 93 min | Drama

The present unfolds along with scenes from the past in this intense psychological drama about Edna, a woman in the hospital who each day writes down her memories.

Director: Leon Marr | Stars: Martha Henry, Neil Munro, Anne Butler, Vince Metcalfe

Votes: 100

40. Oldás és kötés (1963)

94 min | Drama

A young doctor undergoes a spiritual crisis when he returns to his rural home.

Director: Miklós Jancsó | Stars: Zoltán Latinovits, Andor Ajtay, Béla Barsi, Miklós Szakáts

Votes: 661

41. The Butterfly's Dream (1994)

111 min | Drama, Romance

Massimo is a young actor who is a spellbinding livewire on stage. A theatre director is moved by his talent and wants to do a play about him, to turn him into a great role to be interpreted... See full summary »

Director: Marco Bellocchio | Stars: Thierry Blanc, Simona Cavallari, Nathalie Boutefeu, Roberto Herlitzka

Votes: 113

42. Gabriel Rose (2021)

16 min | Short, Comedy

A dark comedy about a beauty influencer.

Director: Léopold Kraus | Stars: Paolo Luka Noé, Apollonia Luisetti, Marie Colomb, Anne Charrier

43. La piscina (2012)

Not Rated | 65 min | Drama

During summer in La Habana, four adolescents with physical problems, while in vacation from school, spend a day in a swimming pool with their apathetic instructor.

Director: Carlos Quintela | Stars: Raúl Capote, Mónica Molinet, Carlos Javier Martinez, Felipe García

Votes: 49

44. Carlo et Charles (2022)

17 min | Short, Drama

Charles, old, rich, weighed down by years, meets Carlo, young, poor, in good shape, who has just immigrated to Switzerland, at a small train station.

Director: Nino Ilacqua | Stars: Luca Colucci, Gil Pidoux, Dino Tassotti, Petros Christidis

45. Dis-moi oui, dis-moi non (1989)

17 min | Short

Cécile thinks one thing and its opposite. She wants one thing and its opposite. She doesn't know what she thinks or what she wants. So she talks about one thing and its opposite.

Director: Noémie Lvovsky | Stars: Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, Emmanuelle Devos, Emmanuel Salinger, Nicolas Briançon

Votes: 26

46. Stick It (2014)

5 min | Short, Romance, Sport

The single channel video STICK IT combines television footage of women's gymnastics with recordings of the artist attempting the same routines. Merging himself and the young gymnasts of the... See full summary »

Director: Stefan Ramirez Perez

47. Benny (2019)

Short, Drama

Anna and Christian move to an isolated cottage in the woods to cope with their 3 year old son Benny's asthmatic condition. Anna is gradually driven into a state of isolation, as she is faced with what it truly means to be a mother.

Director: Vasco Viana | Stars: Miroslav Houha, Olga Mikulska, Marek Nemec

48. Fried (2022)

M | 12 min | Short, Comedy, Mystery

A man's attempts to eat breakfast are constantly interrupted, by the repeated appearances of a stoned out time traveler.

Director: Mars Fargo | Stars: Mars Fargo, Brian Lachowski

49. Giallo (2014)

8 min | Short, Comedy, Thriller

In the library of Centre Pompidou (Paris), a shy and clumsy student is terribly attracted by the young girl sitting in front of him, so close and so inaccessible, and he gradually falls ... See full summary »

Directors: Marco Chiappetta, Laetitia Cardi, Savinien Lalau, Raphaël Marriq | Stars: Benoit Chazal, Léa Quinsac, Laetitia Cardi

50. Mon frère (2021)

8 min | Short, Drama

Florian looks after his mentally handicapped brother, Thomas. An unconditional love unites the two brothers. But Florian is drowning in debt, and fate is about to separate them.

Director: Ted Etienne | Stars: Cyril Pinero, Benjamin Jaouen, Lauryanne Philippe, Thomas Combret