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

1. Men (2022)

R | 100 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror

A young woman goes on a solo vacation to the English countryside following the death of her ex-husband.

Director: Alex Garland | Stars: Jessie Buckley, Rory Kinnear, Paapa Essiedu, Gayle Rankin

Votes: 63,326

2. Dances with Wolves (1990)

PG-13 | 181 min | Adventure, Drama, Western

Lieutenant John Dunbar, assigned to a remote western Civil War outpost, finds himself engaging with a neighbouring Sioux settlement, causing him to question his own purpose.

Director: Kevin Costner | Stars: Kevin Costner, Mary McDonnell, Graham Greene, Rodney A. Grant

Votes: 290,778 | Gross: $184.21M

3. A Ghost Story (2017)

R | 92 min | Drama, Fantasy, Mystery

In this singular exploration of legacy, love, loss, and the enormity of existence, a recently deceased, white-sheeted ghost returns to his suburban home to try to reconnect with his bereft wife.

Director: David Lowery | Stars: Casey Affleck, Rooney Mara, McColm Cephas Jr., Kenneisha Thompson

Votes: 79,678 | Gross: $1.60M

4. Hostiles (2017)

R | 134 min | Drama, Western

In 1892, a legendary Army Captain reluctantly agrees to escort a Cheyenne chief and his family through dangerous territory.

Director: Scott Cooper | Stars: Scott Shepherd, Rosamund Pike, Ava Cooper, Stella Cooper

Votes: 95,741 | Gross: $29.82M

5. The Night House (2020)

R | 107 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller

A widow begins to uncover her recently deceased husband's disturbing secrets.

Director: David Bruckner | Stars: Rebecca Hall, Sarah Goldberg, Vondie Curtis-Hall, Evan Jonigkeit

Votes: 67,183

6. The Nightingale (I) (2018)

R | 136 min | Adventure, Drama, Thriller

Set in 1825, Clare, a young Irish convict woman, chases a British officer through the rugged Tasmanian wilderness, bent on revenge for a terrible act of violence he committed against her family. On the way she enlists the services of an Aboriginal tracker named Billy, who is also marked by trauma from his own violence-filled past.

Director: Jennifer Kent | Stars: Aisling Franciosi, Maya Christie, Baykali Ganambarr, Addison Christie

Votes: 35,667 | Gross: $0.39M

7. Luna (1979)

R | 142 min | Drama

While touring in Italy, a recently-widowed American opera singer has an incestuous relationship with her 15-year-old son to help him overcome his heroin addiction.

Director: Bernardo Bertolucci | Stars: Jill Clayburgh, Matthew Barry, Veronica Lazar, Renato Salvatori

Votes: 5,379

8. The Laundromat (I) (2019)

R | 96 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

A widow investigates an insurance fraud, chasing leads to a pair of Panama City law partners exploiting the world's financial system.

Director: Steven Soderbergh | Stars: Gary Oldman, Antonio Banderas, AJ Meijer, Arsenio Castellanos

Votes: 54,935

9. Infinity Train (I) (2019–2021)

TV-PG | 11 min | Animation, Short, Action

Various people get trapped on a mysterious train with an endless number of cars, each one being its own universe, and they must resolve their psychological trauma and emotional issues in order to get home in this animated anthology series.

Stars: Ashley Johnson, Owen Dennis, Jeremy Crutchley, Kirby

Votes: 9,652

10. Scorned (1993)

R | 100 min | Drama, Thriller

A vengeful widow is out to seduce the relatives of the man she blames for her husband's death.

Director: Andrew Stevens | Stars: Andrew Stevens, Shannon Tweed, Kim Morgan Greene, Daniel McVicar

Votes: 2,030

11. Tumbledown (2015)

R | 105 min | Comedy, Music, Romance

A young woman struggles to move on with her life after the death of her husband, an acclaimed folk singer, when a brash New York writer forces her to confront her loss and the ambiguous circumstances of his death.

Director: Sean Mewshaw | Stars: Rebecca Hall, Jason Sudeikis, Blythe Danner, Joe Manganiello

Votes: 8,061 | Gross: $0.14M

12. Black Work (2015)

Not Rated | 135 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

A policewoman sets out to discover who murdered her husband, an undercover officer.

Stars: Sheridan Smith, Matthew McNulty, Oliver Woollford, Honor Kneafsey

Votes: 1,923

13. El embarcadero (2019–2020)

TV-MA | 50 min | Drama, Mystery

When Alexandra discovers that her late husband led a double life, she secretly befriends the other woman, Veronica, to uncover what really happened at the pier the night that he died.

Stars: Álvaro Morte, Verónica Sánchez, Irene Arcos, Roberto Enríquez

Votes: 3,779

14. Georgetown (2019)

R | 99 min | Biography, Crime, Drama

Ulrich Mott, an ambitious social climber, marries a wealthy widow in Washington D.C. in order to mix with powerful political players.

Director: Christoph Waltz | Stars: Christoph Waltz, Vanessa Redgrave, Annette Bening, Corey Hawkins

Votes: 6,162

15. Thank You, I'm Sorry (2023)

90 min | Comedy, Drama

Suddenly alone during the late stages of her pregnancy, Sara receives an unexpected lifeline when Linda, her estranged older sister, arrives.

Director: Lisa Aschan | Stars: Sanna Sundqvist, Charlotta Björck, Amaël Blomgren Alcaide, Ia Langhammer

Votes: 1,160

16. Napszállta (2018)

R | 142 min | Drama, History

A young girl grows up to become a strong and fearless woman in Budapest before World War I.

Director: László Nemes | Stars: Juli Jakab, Vlad Ivanov, Evelin Dobos, Marcin Czarnik

Votes: 4,596 | Gross: $0.16M

17. Firepower (1979)

R | 104 min | Action, Adventure, Crime

A merc is hired by the F.B.I. to track down a powerful recluse criminal. A woman is also trying to track him down for her own personal vendetta.

Director: Michael Winner | Stars: Sophia Loren, James Coburn, O.J. Simpson, Eli Wallach

Votes: 1,135

18. The Rose Tattoo (1955)

Unrated | 117 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

A Sicilian seamstress who idolizes her husband must deal with several family crises upon his sudden death.

Director: Daniel Mann | Stars: Anna Magnani, Burt Lancaster, Marisa Pavan, Ben Cooper

Votes: 4,601

19. The Neighbors' Window (2019)

21 min | Short, Drama

It tells the story of a middle aged woman with small children whose life is shaken up when two free-spirited twenty-somethings move in across the street.

Director: Marshall Curry | Stars: Maria Dizzia, Greg Keller, Juliana Canfield, Bret Lada

Votes: 5,889

20. Strange Bargain (1949)

Approved | 68 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

In order to cash-in a life insurance policy, a failing business owner asks one of his employees, who has financial woes of his own, to aid him in disguising his suicide into a robbery-murder.

Director: Will Price | Stars: Martha Scott, Jeffrey Lynn, Harry Morgan, Katherine Emery

Votes: 864

21. Assassin's Bullet (I) (2012)

R | 89 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy

A woman is killing off int'l bad guys (and witnesses). An ex FBI new man at the American Embassy in Sofia, Bulgaria, is put in charge of investigating the vigilante's actions there.

Director: Isaac Florentine | Stars: Christian Slater, Donald Sutherland, Elika Portnoy, Timothy Spall

Votes: 3,481

22. Moonshine County Express (1977)

PG | 95 min | Action, Comedy, Crime

When a hillbilly moonshiner is murdered by a powerful competitor, his tough three daughters discover a stash of prohibition whiskey and start undercutting their father's killer's business, with help from a local race car driver.

Director: Gus Trikonis | Stars: John Saxon, Susan Howard, William Conrad, Morgan Woodward

Votes: 495

23. Clover (1997 TV Movie)

Not Rated | 92 min | Drama

Sara marries Gaten a single father who is African-American. Not long after they're married Gaten dies. So Sara has to take care of Gaten's daughter, Clover. Problem is she and Clover have ... See full summary »

Director: Jud Taylor | Stars: Elizabeth McGovern, Ernie Hudson, Zelda Harris, Loretta Devine

Votes: 185

24. Serangoon Road (2013)

561 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Serangoon Road is a detective noir series set against the tumultuous backdrop of 1960s Singapore.

Stars: Don Hany, Joan Chen, Maeve Dermody, Alaric

Votes: 692

25. Christmas Bedtime Stories (2022 TV Movie)

TV-G | 84 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

Left to raise her daughter alone after her husband goes MIA and is presumed dead, Danielle starts to tell her daughter bedtime stories about her father.

Director: Alysse Leite-Rogers | Stars: Erin Cahill, Steve Lund, Alice Comer, Victoria Dunsmore

Votes: 943

26. Who's That Girl? (2011)

PG | 107 min | Comedy

Elizabeth Pedroza (Curtis) has been crushing on the hottest guy in her University, John Eduque Jr. (Manzano). She remains unnoticed because she's just an ordinary girl who ordinarily adores... See full summary »

Director: Wenn V. Deramas | Stars: Anne Curtis, Luis Manzano, Eugene Domingo, Dina Bonnevie

Votes: 82

27. Young Widow (1946)

Passed | 100 min | Drama, Romance

A grieving war widow meets a young Lieutenant but spurns him for trying too hard to gain her affection. Will she give him a second chance when they meet again?

Director: Edwin L. Marin | Stars: Jane Russell, Louis Hayward, Faith Domergue, Marie Wilson

Votes: 340

28. Love. Die. Repeat. (2024– )

TV-14 | Crime, Drama, Mystery

A widow stuck in a time loop of her husband's death attempts to change his fate, but faces unforeseen consequences that threaten her reality.

Stars: Jennylyn Mercado, Xian Lim, Mike Tan, Valeen Montenegro

Votes: 14

29. Incident Light (2015)

Not Rated | 95 min | Drama

In this poignant period drama set in 1960s Argentina, a young woman, struggling to raise her twin daughters alone after the tragic death of her husband, accepts the courtship of a charming but mysterious older suitor.

Director: Ariel Rotter | Stars: Erica Rivas, Marcelo Subiotto, Susana Pampín, Elvira Onetto

Votes: 385

30. To Keep the Light (2016)

TV-MA | 88 min | Drama, History

Inspired by true stories, a lighthouse keeper's wife struggles with her work and her sanity as she cares for her sick husband in 19th century Maine.

Director: Erica Fae | Stars: Antti Reini, Erica Fae, David Patrick Kelly, Meagen Fay

Votes: 269

31. Giving Up the Ghost (1998 TV Movie)

Unrated | 96 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

A dead man comes back to try to convince his wife to join him in the afterlife.

Director: Claudia Weill | Stars: Marg Helgenberger, Alan Rosenberg, Brian Kerwin, Richard Romanus

Votes: 82

32. Rolling Home (1946)

Passed | 71 min | Drama, Romance, Western

A small town minister adopts an orphan boy and his injured rodeo horse.

Director: William Berke | Stars: Jean Parker, Russell Hayden, Raymond Hatton, Pamela Blake

Votes: 90

33. Návraty z neskutocna (1997 TV Movie)

58 min | Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi

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Director: Peter Mikulík | Stars: Richard Stanke, Vladimir Cerny, Frantisek Kovár, Ludmila Mandzárová

34. A Place Filled with Memories (2017)

13 min | Short, Drama

Jean is preparing to leave her home that she shared with her late husband Brian who was taken from her in a tragic accident. She recounts the pivotal moments in their life together and the loss she feels now that he's gone.

Director: Tyrone James Stewart | Stars: Rufus Graham, Jane Hayward

35. 24 (2001–2010)
Episode: Day 3: 12:00 p.m.-1:00 p.m. (2004)

TV-14 | 42 min | Action, Crime, Drama

Jack and Chase corner Saunders' henchman Arthur Rabens in an active public school. Tony faces losing command of CTU and treason charges for saving Michelle. An emotionally broken President ... See full summary »

Director: Jon Cassar | Stars: Kiefer Sutherland, Elisha Cuthbert, Carlos Bernard, Reiko Aylesworth

Votes: 1,494

36. 24 (2001–2010)
Episode: Day 5: 2:00 p.m.-3:00 p.m. (2006)

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

Jack poses as a terrorist and hundreds of lives are at risk in a shopping mall. Meanwhile, the President must manage a high-profile suicide.

Director: Brad Turner | Stars: Kiefer Sutherland, Kim Raver, Mary Lynn Rajskub, Gregory Itzin

Votes: 1,250

37. Bonanza (1959–1973)
Episode: Twilight Town (1963)

TV-PG | 60 min | Western

Little Joe is attacked by outlaws, but finds that his biggest challenge is fighting his way through the secrets of a town shrouded in mystery.

Director: John Florea | Stars: Lorne Greene, Pernell Roberts, Dan Blocker, Michael Landon

Votes: 219

38. CHiPs (1977–1983)
Episode: MAIT Team (1979)

TV-PG | 60 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Cahill is critically injured in a multi-vehicle pile-up that claims eleven lives. Ponch and Jon are tapped to serve on the Multidisciplinary Accident Investigation Team determined to pinpoint the cause and to clear Cahill from blame.

Director: John Florea | Stars: Larry Wilcox, Erik Estrada, Robert Pine, Eric Braeden

Votes: 129

39. Cimarron Strip (1967–1968)
Episode: The Legend of Jud Starr (1967)

TV-PG | 75 min | Western

Notorious outlaw Jud Starr is rescued by his gang. Under Jud's leadership the outlaws raid the Cimarron Strip and use the Cherokee land as a haven. Marshal Crown captures Starr on the eve ... See full summary »

Director: Vincent McEveety | Stars: Stuart Whitman, Percy Herbert, Randy Boone, Jill Townsend

Votes: 60

40. Hetty Wainthropp Investigates (1996–1998)
Episode: Fingers (1996)

TV-14 | 49 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

While vacationing in Tuscany Hetty is hired by a local restaurateur whose son has been kidnapped, possibly by Mafioso who have been mailing him the boy's fingers.

Director: Robert Tronson | Stars: Patricia Routledge, Derek Benfield, Dominic Monaghan, John Graham-Davies

Votes: 140

41. The Hunger (1997–2000)
Episode: Anaïs (1997)

TV-MA | 27 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror

An architect travels away from home city on business. To pass the time, he makes drawings featuring a woman he meets named "Anais". Eventually, Anais becomes part of his life.

Director: Darrell Wasyk | Stars: Terence Stamp, Nick Mancuso, Ilona Elkin, Rebecca Dewey

Votes: 93

42. It's Garry Shandling's Show. (1986–1990)
Episode: Killer Routine (1988)

TV-14 | Comedy

During Garry's opening stand-up routine, one of the studio audience members dies from laughing too hard. Distraught over this, Garry considers quitting the business, but Carl Reiner suggests that he talks to the dead man first.

Director: Alan Rafkin | Stars: Garry Shandling, Molly Cheek, Scott Nemes, Michael Tucci

Votes: 35

43. Law & Order (1990– )
Episode: The Dead Wives Club (2004)

TV-14 | 41 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

A "9-11 Widow" who received a lucrative settlement after her firefighter husband's death is murdered. Another firefighter's ex-wife, who was dumped for the victim after 9-11, is charged.

Director: David Platt | Stars: Dennis Farina, Jesse L. Martin, S. Epatha Merkerson, Sam Waterston

Votes: 297

44. Lovejoy (1986–1994)
Episode: To Sleep No More (1986)

TV-14 | 54 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

After a skilled antiques forger dies and a thief steals a forged snuff box, his only legacy to his widow, Lovejoy vows to retrieve it.

Director: Ken Hannam | Stars: Ian McShane, Phyllis Logan, Dudley Sutton, Malcolm Tierney

Votes: 101

45. Miami Vice (1984–1989)
Episode: World of Trouble (1989)

TV-14 | 47 min | Action, Crime, Drama

Experimental EMP railgun is stolen by the son of Al Lombard, Sonny's recurring frienemy and former mob underboss, who vanished after his boss Librizzi sent hitmen after him. When Al reappears to visit his kid, the hitmen find them.

Director: Alan Myerson | Stars: Don Johnson, Philip Michael Thomas, Saundra Santiago, Michael Talbott

Votes: 279

46. PSI Factor: Chronicles of the Paranormal (1996–2000)
Episode: Forever and a Day: Part 1 (1999)

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

Faith healer Nicholai Mosher is taken in by the OSIR to help a dying child of an influential man. He fails and the child dies. Nicholai is soon assassinated as payback. The people behind his death start dying supernaturally.

Director: Ron Oliver | Stars: Matt Frewer, Nancy Anne Sakovich, Barclay Hope, Colin Fox

Votes: 18

47. PSI Factor: Chronicles of the Paranormal (1996–2000)
Episode: Reptilian Revenge/Ghostly Voices (1996)

TV-14 | Drama, Fantasy, Mystery

In a small town, pet snakes seek revenge. After she experiences what seems to be poltergeist activity, an old rich grieving widow becomes convinced that her dead loving husband is trying to contact her.

Directors: Allan Kroeker, Giles Walker | Stars: Paul Miller, Nancy Anne Sakovich, Barclay Hope, Colin Fox

Votes: 32

48. The Streets of San Francisco (1972–1977)
Episode: Commitment (1974)

TV-PG | 60 min | Action, Crime, Drama

An undercover cop is murdered with Mike Stone's gun and a hotshot young inspector seems determined to pin the rap on Stone.

Director: Richard Donner | Stars: Karl Malden, Michael Douglas, Geoffrey Deuel, Darleen Carr

Votes: 128

49. Waking the Dead (2000–2011)
Episode: Breaking Glass: Part 1 (2003)

TV-14 | 59 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

The CCS is alerted to sexual abuse of young boys in care homes. The team race to identify the murderer before his vengeful victims reach him.

Director: David Thacker | Stars: Trevor Eve, Sue Johnston, Holly Aird, Claire Goose

Votes: 139

50. The X-Files (1993–2018)
Episode: Salvage (2001)

TV-14 | 44 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

A man believed to be dead from Gulf War Syndrome comes back to life and slowly turns into metal while taking revenge on those who made him that way.

Director: Rod Hardy | Stars: Gillian Anderson, Robert Patrick, Wade Williams, Jennifer Parsons

Votes: 2,627