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

1. Alien (1979)

R | 117 min | Horror, Sci-Fi

The crew of a commercial spacecraft encounters a deadly lifeform after investigating a mysterious transmission of unknown origin.

Director: Ridley Scott | Stars: Sigourney Weaver, Tom Skerritt, John Hurt, Veronica Cartwright

Votes: 951,385 | Gross: $78.90M

2. Basic Instinct (1992)

R | 127 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller

A violent police detective investigates a brutal murder that might involve a manipulative and seductive novelist.

Director: Paul Verhoeven | Stars: Michael Douglas, Sharon Stone, George Dzundza, Jeanne Tripplehorn

Votes: 219,243 | Gross: $117.73M

3. Rush (I) (2013)

R | 123 min | Action, Biography, Drama

The merciless 1970s rivalry between Formula One rivals James Hunt and Niki Lauda.

Director: Ron Howard | Stars: Daniel Brühl, Chris Hemsworth, Olivia Wilde, Alexandra Maria Lara

Votes: 513,904 | Gross: $26.95M

4. Luca (2021)

PG | 95 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy

On the Italian Riviera, an unlikely but strong friendship grows between a human being and a sea monster disguised as a human.

Director: Enrico Casarosa | Stars: Jacob Tremblay, Jack Dylan Grazer, Emma Berman, Saverio Raimondo

Votes: 194,459

5. The Hunt for Red October (1990)

PG | 135 min | Action, Adventure, Thriller

In November 1984, the Soviet Union's best submarine captain violates orders and heads for the U.S. in a new undetectable sub. The American CIA and military must quickly determine: Is he trying to defect or to start a war?

Director: John McTiernan | Stars: Sean Connery, Alec Baldwin, Scott Glenn, Sam Neill

Votes: 214,822 | Gross: $122.01M

6. Only the Brave (2017)

PG-13 | 134 min | Action, Biography, Drama

Based on the true story of the Granite Mountain Hotshots, a group of elite firefighters who risk everything to protect a town from a historic wildfire.

Director: Joseph Kosinski | Stars: Josh Brolin, Miles Teller, Jeff Bridges, Jennifer Connelly

Votes: 77,416 | Gross: $18.34M

7. Lifeforce (1985)

R | 101 min | Action, Horror, Mystery

A race of space vampires arrives in London and infects the populace, beginning an apocalyptic descent into chaos.

Director: Tobe Hooper | Stars: Steve Railsback, Mathilda May, Peter Firth, Frank Finlay

Votes: 29,485 | Gross: $11.60M

8. Return to Oz (1985)

PG | 113 min | Adventure, Family, Fantasy

Dorothy, saved from a psychiatric experiment by a mysterious girl, is somehow called back to Oz when a vain witch and the Nome King destroy everything that makes the magical land beautiful.

Director: Walter Murch | Stars: Fairuza Balk, Nicol Williamson, Jean Marsh, Piper Laurie

Votes: 30,372

9. Along Came Polly (2004)

PG-13 | 90 min | Comedy, Romance

A buttoned-up newlywed finds his strictly organized life descend into chaos when he falls in love with an old classmate.

Director: John Hamburg | Stars: Ben Stiller, Jennifer Aniston, Debra Messing, Philip Seymour Hoffman

Votes: 143,686 | Gross: $88.10M

10. Backdraft (1991)

R | 137 min | Action, Drama, Mystery

Two feuding siblings carrying on a heroic family tradition as Chicago firefighters. But when a puzzling series of arson attacks is reported, they are forced to set aside their differences to solve the mystery surrounding these crimes.

Director: Ron Howard | Stars: Kurt Russell, William Baldwin, Robert De Niro, Donald Sutherland

Votes: 87,880 | Gross: $77.87M

11. 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: 77,862 | Gross: $111.51M

12. Gypsy (2017)

TV-MA | 51 min | Drama, Thriller

Therapist Jean Holloway becomes too immersed in the lives of her patients.

Stars: Naomi Watts, Billy Crudup, Sophie Cookson, Karl Glusman

Votes: 18,740

13. The Wages of Fear (1953)

Not Rated | 131 min | Adventure, Drama, Thriller

In a decrepit South American village, four men are hired to transport an urgent nitroglycerine shipment without the equipment that would make it safe.

Director: Henri-Georges Clouzot | Stars: Yves Montand, Charles Vanel, Peter van Eyck, Folco Lulli

Votes: 66,594

14. Supergirl (1984)

PG | 124 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy

After losing a powerful orb, Kara Zor-El, Superman's cousin, comes to Earth to retrieve it and instead finds herself up against a wicked witch.

Director: Jeannot Szwarc | Stars: Helen Slater, Faye Dunaway, Peter O'Toole, Mia Farrow

Votes: 24,032 | Gross: $13.60M

15. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)

Passed | 126 min | Adventure, Drama, Western

Two down-on-their-luck Americans searching for work in 1920s Mexico convince an old prospector to help them mine for gold in the Sierra Madre Mountains.

Director: John Huston | Stars: Humphrey Bogart, Walter Huston, Tim Holt, Bruce Bennett

Votes: 132,463 | Gross: $5.01M

16. How to Blow Up a Pipeline (2022)

R | 104 min | Action, Crime, Drama

A crew of environmental activists plot a daring plan to disrupt an oil pipeline.

Director: Daniel Goldhaber | Stars: Ariela Barer, Kristine Froseth, Lukas Gage, Forrest Goodluck

Votes: 10,106

17. Secretariat (2010)

PG | 123 min | Biography, Drama, Family

Penny Chenery Tweedy and colleagues guide her long-shot but precocious stallion to set, in 1973, the unbeaten record for winning the Triple Crown.

Director: Randall Wallace | Stars: Diane Lane, John Malkovich, Margo Martindale, Nelsan Ellis

Votes: 30,579 | Gross: $59.71M

18. Senna (2010)

PG-13 | 106 min | Documentary, Biography, Sport

A documentary on Brazilian Formula One racing driver Ayrton Senna, who won the F1 world championship three times before his death at age 34.

Director: Asif Kapadia | Stars: Ayrton Senna, Reginaldo Leme, John Bisignano, Neyde Senna

Votes: 75,849 | Gross: $1.61M

19. Zabriskie Point (1970)

R | 113 min | Drama

At a time of chronic civil unrest in late 1960s America, a young idealist and an anthropology student cross paths at Zabriskie Point in Death Valley, California. They start an unrestrained relationship by making love on the dusty terrain.

Director: Michelangelo Antonioni | Stars: Mark Frechette, Daria Halprin, Paul Fix, G.D. Spradlin

Votes: 17,154 | Gross: $1.05M

20. The Dam Busters (1955)

Approved | 105 min | Drama, History, War

Drama based on the attempt by the RAF to destroy six dams in Germany during World War II.

Director: Michael Anderson | Stars: Richard Todd, Michael Redgrave, Ursula Jeans, Basil Sydney

Votes: 11,372

21. Zero Hour! (1957)

Passed | 81 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

In 1950s Canada, during a commercial flight, the pilots and some passengers suffer food poisoning, thus forcing an ex-WWII fighter pilot (Dana Andrews) to try to land the airliner in heavy fog.

Director: Hall Bartlett | Stars: Dana Andrews, Linda Darnell, Sterling Hayden, Elroy 'Crazylegs' Hirsch

Votes: 2,297

22. Consenting Adults (1992)

R | 99 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

During a joint dinner at the restaurant, the neighbors offer to exchange wives for one night. It was a joke, but only at first.

Director: Alan J. Pakula | Stars: Kevin Kline, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Kevin Spacey, Rebecca Miller

Votes: 8,341 | Gross: $21.59M

23. Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines or How I Flew from London to Paris in 25 Hours 11 Minutes (1965)

G | 138 min | Adventure, Comedy, Family

Hoping to push Britain to the forefront of aviation, a London publisher organizes an international air race across the English Channel, but must contend with two entrants vying for his daughter, as well as national rivalries and cheating.

Director: Ken Annakin | Stars: Stuart Whitman, Sarah Miles, James Fox, Alberto Sordi

Votes: 9,234 | Gross: $31.11M

24. Solitary Man (2009)

R | 90 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

A car magnate watches his personal and professional life hit the skids because of his business and romantic indiscretions.

Directors: Brian Koppelman, David Levien | Stars: Michael Douglas, Susan Sarandon, Jesse Eisenberg, Danny DeVito

Votes: 17,119 | Gross: $4.36M

25. Man on Wire (2008)

PG-13 | 94 min | Documentary, Biography, Crime

A look at tightrope walker Philippe Petit's daring, but illegal, high-wire routine performed between New York City's World Trade Center's twin towers in 1974, what some consider, "the artistic crime of the century".

Director: James Marsh | Stars: Philippe Petit, Jean François Heckel, Jean-Louis Blondeau, Annie Allix

Votes: 58,684 | Gross: $2.96M

26. Amelia (2009)

PG | 111 min | Adventure, Biography, Drama

A look at the life of legendary American pilot Amelia Earhart, who disappeared while flying over the Pacific Ocean in 1937 in an attempt to make a flight around the world.

Director: Mira Nair | Stars: Hilary Swank, Richard Gere, Ewan McGregor, Christopher Eccleston

Votes: 13,626 | Gross: $14.24M

27. Dream Horse (2020)

PG | 113 min | Biography, Comedy, Drama

Dream Alliance is an unlikely race horse bred by small-town Welsh bartender Jan Vokes. With no experience, Jan convinces her neighbors to chip in their meager earnings to help raise Dream in the hopes he can compete with the racing elites.

Director: Euros Lyn | Stars: Toni Collette, Owen Teale, Alan David, Lynda Baron

Votes: 6,952

28. Formula 1 (1950– )

Not Rated | Sport

Formula One is the highest class of single-seat auto racing that is supervised by the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA).

Stars: Fernando Alonso, Lewis Hamilton, Kimi Räikkönen, Rubens Barrichello

Votes: 3,467

29. Henry Fool (1997)

R | 137 min | Comedy, Drama

An introverted garbageman writes his thoughts in a notebook after Henry Fool, writer and ex-con, rents the basement and gives him a notebook and the idea. He writes poetry and Henry helps him along.

Director: Hal Hartley | Stars: Thomas Jay Ryan, James Urbaniak, Parker Posey, Maria Porter

Votes: 7,884 | Gross: $1.34M

30. Freak Show (2017)

Not Rated | 91 min | Comedy, Drama

Follows the story of teenager Billy Bloom who, despite attending an ultra conservative high school, makes the decision to run for homecoming queen.

Director: Trudie Styler | Stars: Alex Lawther, Ian Nelson, AnnaSophia Robb, Celia Weston

Votes: 4,561 | Gross: $0.02M

31. The Gypsy Moths (1969)

R | 107 min | Action, Drama, Romance

Three skydivers and their travelling thrill show barnstorm through a small midwestern town one Fourth of July weekend.

Director: John Frankenheimer | Stars: Burt Lancaster, Deborah Kerr, Gene Hackman, Scott Wilson

Votes: 2,464

32. The Automatic Hate (2015)

Not Rated | 97 min | Comedy, Drama

Davis meets a cute young woman claiming to be his cousin. After confirming that his dad has a secret brother, he visits her and her two sisters. What keeps their dads apart?

Director: Justin Lerner | Stars: Deborah Ann Woll, Joseph Cross, Travis Quentin Young, Ratani Khan

Votes: 1,261 | Gross: $0.00M

33. 37 Days (2014)

60 min | History

A TV mini-series that unveils the behind-closed-doors story of the final weeks before the outbreak of World War I.

Stars: Ian McDiarmid, Nicholas Farrell, Tim Pigott-Smith, Sinéad Cusack

Votes: 1,563

34. Command and Control (2016)

PG | 92 min | Documentary, History

Documentary of 1980's near-launch of a nuclear missile from Arkansas, based on Eric Shlosser's award-winning book of the same name.

Director: Robert Kenner | Stars: Michael Bideller, Andreas Birnbaum, Tom Brokaw, Robin Brosch

Votes: 992 | Gross: $0.05M

35. Gagarin. Pervyy v kosmose (2013)

108 min | Adventure, Biography, Drama

On April 12, 1961, Soviet cosmonaut Gagarin blasted off in a Vostok rocket and he orbited Earth for 106 minutes. He was the cosmonaut who was selected from over three thousand fighter pilots throughout the Soviet Union.

Director: Pavel Parkhomenko | Stars: Yaroslav Zhalnin, Mikhail Filippov, Vladimir Steklov, Vadim Michman

Votes: 3,578

36. I Can Get It for You Wholesale (1951)

Approved | 91 min | Drama, Romance

A ruthless fashion designer steps on everyone in her way in order to reach the top of her profession. Eventually she is forced to choose between her ambition and the man she loves.

Director: Michael Gordon | Stars: Susan Hayward, Dan Dailey, George Sanders, Sam Jaffe

Votes: 583

37. MotoGP (1949– )

Sport

Marc Márquez defends his MotoGP World Championship title. His main rivals are 2-time MotoGP championship winner, Jorge Lorenzo; Dani Pedrosa, 2-time 250cc championship winner; and Valentino Rossi, 7-time MotoGP World championship winner.

Stars: Valentino Rossi, Colin Edwards, Loris Capirossi, Daniel Pedrosa Ramal

Votes: 225

38. Steep (I) (2007)

PG | 92 min | Documentary, Sport

Steep traces the legacy of extreme skiing from its early pioneers to the daredevils of today.

Director: Mark Obenhaus | Stars: Ingrid Backstrom, Anselme Baud, Bill Briggs, Doug Coombs

Votes: 696 | Gross: $0.26M

39. There Will Be No Leave Today (1959 TV Movie)

45 min | Drama, Thriller

Soldiers undertake the perilous task of removing a stockpile of World War II bombshells discovered during roadworks under the ground of a small village.

Directors: Aleksandr Gordon, Andrei Tarkovsky | Stars: Oleg Borisov, Aleksey Alekseev, Pyotr Lyubeshkin, Oleg Mokshantsev

Votes: 1,780

40. Kick (2009)

Not Rated | 155 min | Action, Comedy, Crime

An adrenaline junkie's quest for kicks leads him to a life of crime.

Director: Surender Reddy | Stars: Ravi Teja, Ileana D'Cruz, Shaam, Brahmanandam

Votes: 5,994

41. Corniche Kennedy (2016)

94 min | Crime, Drama

A young group of teenagers enjoying their summer on the beach of Marseille France get involved in some drugs trafficking and investigated by police .

Director: Dominique Cabrera | Stars: Aïssa Maïga, Lola Créton, Alain Demaria, Kamel Kadri

Votes: 356

42. The End of Cruising (2013)

Unrated | 77 min | Documentary

A documentary about gay male cruising and public sex and how it has changed over the years.

Directors: Antony Hickling, Charles Lum, Xavier Stentz, Todd Verow | Stars: Philly Abe, Alex, Mike Dreyden, Dave Hickey

Votes: 141

43. Alphateam - Die Lebensretter im OP (1997–2006)

Drama

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Stars: Marlies Engel, Hermann Toelcke, Uwe Karpa, Moritz Lindbergh

Votes: 51

44. Nascar Cup Series (1948– )

Sport

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Stars: Ryan Michael Blaney, Tyler George Reddick, Alexander Michael Warren Bowman, 'Bubba' Jr. Wallace Jr. William Darrell

45. F1 Sim Racing (2023– )

Game-Show, Sport

After every normal, real life racing year of normal Formula 1 ends, non F1 racers, ( or already known to the competition ), will compete in virtual races inside the official F1 console and computer videogames. The winner's prize is MONEEY.

Stars: Steph Wentworth, Simon Weigang, Ulas Ozyildrim, Jarno Opmeer

46. Svobodnoe plavanie (2006)

101 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

"Free Floating" is a melodrama with elements of comedy about a young lad from an ordinary provincial town like many in Russia, with just one kindergarten, one school, one factory. As a ... See full summary »

Director: Boris Khlebnikov | Stars: Aleksandr Yatsenko, Evgeniy Sytyy, Pyotr Zaychenko, Boris Petrov

Votes: 538

47. O horos ton sfoungaradon (2003)

60 min | Documentary

Kalymnos islanders' dangerous lines of work in Greece and the US. From Sponge Diving to Bridge Painting.

Director: Vassilis Vassiliadis

48. Border Stories (2007 Video)

8 min | Short, Adventure, Drama

After crossing the US Border illegally through the Desert, two Latinos discover a lonely Trailer, but they are not alone. Save a life, while taking the risk being sent back to Mexico, or to move on and let the man die.

Director: Florian Wyss | Stars: Julio Dominguez, Paul Lincoln Alayo, Neil Ruddy, Liz Anne Keigley

49. Locked Up: More Than a Statistic (2008)

7 min | Short

Two young men give personal accounts of what drove them into risky behavior and how the absence of a father figure affected them and how prison ministry changed their lives. Two mentors ... See full summary »

Director: Candi Reeder | Stars: Antonio Hoyte, Brian Reeder, Kevin Resnover Sr., Christopher Woods

50. The New Batman Adventures (1997–1999)
Episode: The Ultimate Thrill (1998)

TV-PG | 22 min | Animation, Action, Adventure

Batman contends with Roxy Rocket, a stuntwoman-turned-criminal who gets a real thrill out of taking dangerous risks.

Director: Dan Riba | Stars: Kevin Conroy, Tara Strong, Charity James, Paul Williams

Votes: 738