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

1. Spirited Away (2001)

PG | 125 min | Animation, Adventure, Family

During her family's move to the suburbs, a sullen 10-year-old girl wanders into a world ruled by gods, witches and spirits, and where humans are changed into beasts.

Director: Hayao Miyazaki | Stars: Daveigh Chase, Suzanne Pleshette, Miyu Irino, Rumi Hiiragi

Votes: 850,321 | Gross: $10.06M

2. Minority Report (2002)

PG-13 | 145 min | Action, Crime, Mystery

John works with the PreCrime police which stop crimes before they take place, with the help of three 'PreCogs' who can foresee crimes. Events ensue when John finds himself framed for a future murder.

Director: Steven Spielberg | Stars: Tom Cruise, Colin Farrell, Samantha Morton, Max von Sydow

Votes: 584,681 | Gross: $132.07M

3. Despicable Me (2010)

PG | 95 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy

Gru, a criminal mastermind, adopts three orphans as pawns to carry out the biggest heist in history. His life takes an unexpected turn when the little girls see the evildoer as their potential father.

Directors: Pierre Coffin, Chris Renaud | Stars: Steve Carell, Jason Segel, Russell Brand, Julie Andrews

Votes: 584,692 | Gross: $251.51M

4. Awake (2007)

R | 84 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

A wealthy young man undergoing heart transplant surgery discovers that the surgical team intend to murder him.

Director: Joby Harold | Stars: Hayden Christensen, Jessica Alba, Terrence Howard, Lena Olin

Votes: 80,617 | Gross: $14.38M

5. My Octopus Teacher (2020)

TV-G | 85 min | Documentary, Drama

A filmmaker forges an unusual friendship with an octopus living in a South African kelp forest, learning as the animal shares the mysteries of her world.

Directors: Pippa Ehrlich, James Reed | Stars: Craig Foster, Tom Foster

Votes: 63,896

6. Would You Rather (2012)

Not Rated | 93 min | Horror, Thriller

Desperate to help her ailing brother, a young woman unknowingly agrees to compete in a deadly game of "Would You Rather," hosted by a sadistic aristocrat.

Director: David Guy Levy | Stars: Brittany Snow, June Squibb, Jeffrey Combs, Jonny Coyne

Votes: 45,440

7. Addams Family Reunion (1998 TV Movie)

PG | 91 min | Comedy, Family, Fantasy

The Addams Family goes on a search for their relatives.

Director: Dave Payne | Stars: Daryl Hannah, Tim Curry, Nicole Fugere, Jerry Messing

Votes: 5,154

8. The Sleeping Dictionary (2003)

R | 109 min | Drama, Romance

A young Englishman is sent to Malaysian Borneo in the 1930s to stay with a tribe as UK's colonial representative. A local woman (J.Alba) helps him understand local tradition and language. He falls in love with her etc. despite the taboo.

Director: Guy Jenkin | Stars: Jessica Alba, Brenda Blethyn, Hugh Dancy, Bob Hoskins

Votes: 9,232

9. Mirai (2018)

PG | 98 min | Animation, Adventure, Drama

A young boy encounters a magical garden which enables him to travel through time and meet his relatives from different eras, with guidance by his younger sister from the future.

Director: Mamoru Hosoda | Stars: Rebecca Hall, Daniel Dae Kim, Koji Yakusho, John Cho

Votes: 18,115 | Gross: $0.81M

10. Cheap Thrills (I) (2013)

Not Rated | 88 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

A scheming couple put a struggling family man and his old friend through a series of increasingly twisted dares over the course of an evening at a local bar.

Director: E.L. Katz | Stars: Pat Healy, Ethan Embry, Sara Paxton, David Koechner

Votes: 20,461 | Gross: $0.06M

11. Beneath Hill 60 (2010)

R | 122 min | Drama, History, War

In 1916, the 1st Australian Tunnelling Company is tunneling beneath German fortifications and bunkers to detonate massive explosive charges.

Director: Jeremy Sims | Stars: Brendan Cowell, Harrison Gilbertson, Steve Le Marquand, Gyton Grantley

Votes: 8,811

12. Sink or Swim (2018)

121 min | Comedy, Drama, Sport

A depressed man joins a synchronized swimming team made up of middle aged men.

Director: Gilles Lellouche | Stars: Mathieu Amalric, Guillaume Canet, Benoît Poelvoorde, Jean-Hugues Anglade

Votes: 11,956

13. Tag: The Assassination Game (1982)

PG | 90 min | Action, Thriller

College assassination game turns deadly as someone starts playing for real.

Director: Nick Castle | Stars: Robert Carradine, Linda Hamilton, Kristine DeBell, Perry Lang

Votes: 998

14. Hawking (2004 TV Movie)

TV-G | 90 min | Biography, Drama

Theoretical physicist/cosmologist Stephen Hawking's life and search for the beginning of time (1963-6).

Director: Philip Martin | Stars: Benedict Cumberbatch, Michael Brandon, Tom Hodgkins, Christian Rubeck

Votes: 6,365

15. Golgo 13: The Professional (1983)

Not Rated | 91 min | Animation, Action, Crime

After killing the son of a powerful oil tycoon, an infamous hit-man is targeted by American governmental forces and superhuman killers.

Director: Osamu Dezaki | Stars: Tetsurô Sagawa, Gorô Naya, Toshiko Fujita, Kôsei Tomita

Votes: 3,373

16. The Submarine Kid (2015)

Unrated | 109 min | Drama, Romance

Despite a returning Marine's mundane reality, his haunting wartime past shepherds him into a magical and destructive new existence to expose his ultimate truth.

Director: Eric Bilitch | Stars: Emilie de Ravin, Dylan Wittrock, Paul Eiding, Nancy Travis

Votes: 924

17. The Pit and the Pendulum (2009)

TV-MA | 87 min | Horror, Thriller

Seven students join an experiment studying how pain can be eliminated. As students begin to disappear one by one, the true nature of the experiment is revealed.

Director: David DeCoteau | Stars: Lorielle New, Stephen Hansen, Bart Voitila, Michael King

Votes: 481

18. You & Me Forever (2012)

82 min | Drama, Romance

Laura and Christine have been friends forever. One day they meet the mysterious and fascinating Maria, and their friendship is put to the test. For Laura it is a meeting that changes the world she thought she knew so well.

Director: Kaspar Munk | Stars: Julie Brochorst Andersen, Frederikke Dahl Hansen, Emilie Kruse, Benjamin Wandschneider

Votes: 627

19. Steal (2002)

R | 83 min | Action, Crime, Thriller

A gang of extreme sportsmen raises the stakes in their criminal activities.

Director: Gérard Pirès | Stars: Natasha Henstridge, Stephen Dorff, Bruce Payne, Steven Berkoff

Votes: 6,091

20. Women in Temptation (2010)

118 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

When a marriage counselor is abandoned by her husband for a younger woman, she sets out for new companionship.

Director: Jirí Vejdelek | Stars: Lenka Vlasáková, Eliska Balzerová, Vojtech Dyk, Veronika Khek Kubarová

Votes: 812

21. La course à l'échalote (1975)

95 min | Comedy

An awkward banker tracks down cabaret performers, who stole the ownership title of their nightclub.

Director: Claude Zidi | Stars: Pierre Richard, Jane Birkin, Michel Aumont, Marc Doelnitz

Votes: 1,149

22. 30 panen a Pythagoras (1977)

68 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance

Thirty female students in a second-year grammar school are resisting the efforts of old professor Machacek to teach them Pythagoras' theorem. But then, via a collective classroom vision, ... See full summary »

Director: Pavel Hobl | Stars: Milena Asmanová, Vlastimil Brodský, Petr Brukner, Marie Drahokoupilová

Votes: 87

23. The Chicken from Outer Space (1996)

8 min | Animation, Short, Comedy

In this pilot for Courage the Cowardly Dog (1999), Courage, the cowardly dog of an oblivious elderly couple that lives on a remote farm, must defend them from a malicious space chicken bent on conquest and its mutagenic eggs.

Director: John Dilworth | Star: Howard Hoffman

Votes: 877

24. Earthbound (1981)

PG | 99 min | Family, Sci-Fi, Comedy

A family of space aliens crash lands on Earth when their spaceship conks out.

Director: James L. Conway | Stars: Burl Ives, Christopher Connelly, Meredith MacRae, Joseph Campanella

Votes: 206

25. Dead to Rights (2002 Video Game)

M | Action, Crime, Thriller

Grant City, the hardest place on earth. You are Jack Slate, a hard nosed K-9 cop, reports to normal duty call at a construction yard, only to find out that his father has been murdered. He ... See full summary »

Directors: Andre Emerson, Michael P. Kennedy | Stars: Chris Bruno, Patrick Dollaghan, Rebecca Riedy, Steve Susskind

Votes: 255

26. Do Fish Do It? (2002)

104 min | Drama

"What does your paradise look like, then?" - "Dark. Quiet. Wet. And full of fish." Jan likes Shakespeare, water and fish. Nina likes roller-skates, cars and brightly dyed hair. Jan loves ... See full summary »

Director: Almut Getto | Stars: Tino Mewes, Sophie Rogall, Hans-Martin Stier, Annette Uhlen

Votes: 1,203

27. Asako in Ruby Shoes (2000)

117 min | Drama, Romance

U-in (Lee Jung-jae) is a public servant and bored by his job and his life. He feels lonely and is interested in a red-haired girl he meets at work. However, she isn't interested in him. He ... See full summary »

Director: Je-yong Lee | Stars: Lee Jung-jae, Misato Tachibana, Urara Awata, Kim Ji-yeong

Votes: 277

28. Little Man (2014)

30 min | Short, Romance, Sport

David and Eliab, two apprentice jockeys get to know each other between admiration, rivalry and jealousy.

Director: Jean-Guillaume Sonnier | Stars: Thomas Doret, Hamza Meziani, Ilian Bergala, Anthony Bajon

Votes: 72

29. Touché and Go (1957)

6 min | Animation, Short, Comedy

The amorous skunk, Pepé le Pew, chases a female cat by the seaside, under the sea and finally on a desert island.

Director: Chuck Jones | Star: Mel Blanc

Votes: 430

30. Displaced (2010)

18 min | Short, Drama

The story of Daniel, an 11-year-old victim of the foster system, and his last chance at finding a family.

Director: Rick Stevenson | Stars: Nathan Gamble, Darius Williams-Watt, Marlette Buchanan, Rachel Pate

Votes: 42

31. The Swimmer (2013)

16 min | Short, Drama, Horror

Perth, Western Australia. Shark attacks 10 year-old boy leaving a scar that will never heal.

Director: Giovanni Basso | Stars: Tommaso Puccini, Daniel Wilkins, Finleigh Dignam, Luca Wilkins

Votes: 51

32. Yuukai shoujo (2014)

82 min | Thriller

One sister is in the third year of junior high school while the other is in the third year of high school. Their parents are divorced. They were often beaten when they lived with both ... See full summary »

Director: Kôsuke Hishinuma | Stars: Himeka Asami, Natsumi Kawashima, Ryôsuke Midorikawa, Sakura Morishima

33. 100 meter fri (1993)

3 min | Drama, Short

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Director: Annette Riisager | Stars: Camilla Bøgelund, Inge Gøtz, Heidi Jensen, Tanya Jensen

Votes: 21

34. Persistence (2003)

10 min | Short, Drama, Romance

A wheelchair-bound nursing-home resident repeatedly attempts to leave the facility during a rainstorm, but is frustrated by an increasingly exasperated nurse.

Director: James J. Cullinane | Stars: Richard Hoover, Elizabeth Fox, Michele L'Amourt, Tory Wynter

Votes: 46

35. Pige under vand (2012)

18 min | Short, Drama

Two girls - at once very different and very similar - co-exist in an apartment. As one goes to a drug-fueled party in the suburbs the other tags along. This decision will have consequences for both of their lives.

Director: Helle Rossing | Stars: Helle Rossing, Christian Tranberg, Patric Lindström

36. Legenda, the Robber (1973)

91 min | Crime, Drama

It is 1905. The police director gets Jindrich Legenda (Eduard Cupák) shadowed as, yet Legenda had served his sentence for a burglary, the jewels have not been found. Russian revolution ... See full summary »

Director: Karel Steklý | Stars: Eduard Cupák, Vladimír Mensík, Eliska Balzerová, Bohuslav Cáp

Votes: 13

37. Le passage (2011)

18 min | Short, Fantasy

A lonely teenager will enter in an adventure out of time which will reveal a dark moment about her family history.

Director: Fabien Montagner | Stars: Fanny Capretta, Cindy Colpaert, Vernon Dobtcheff, Pierre Hatet

Votes: 38

38. 24 (2001–2010)
Episode: Day 5: 7:00 p.m.-8:00 p.m. (2006)

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

While CTU itself deals with an attack, the Vice President tries to convince the President to declare martial law in Los Angeles.

Director: Brad Turner | Stars: Kiefer Sutherland, Kim Raver, Mary Lynn Rajskub, Carlos Bernard

Votes: 1,374

39. L.A. Law (1986–1994)
Episode: Odor in the Court (1993)

TV-PG | 47 min | Drama

Mullaney fights against the state mental hospital to prevent the release of a couple's daughter's convicted killer David Orcott (their son-in-law) from the hospital where he was committed. ... See full summary »

Director: Victor Lobl | Stars: Corbin Bernsen, Jill Eikenberry, Alan Rachins, Michael Tucker

Votes: 27

40. Married... with Children (1987–1997)
Episode: One Down, Two to Go (1990)

TV-PG | 23 min | Comedy

Tired of Al escorting her dates out through the doorway, "grown-up" Kelly gets her own apartment.

Director: Gerry Cohen | Stars: Ed O'Neill, Katey Sagal, Amanda Bearse, Christina Applegate

Votes: 606

41. Seinfeld (1989–1998)
Episode: The Airport (1992)

PG | 23 min | Comedy

Jerry and Elaine fly back to New York. Jerry travels on first class while Elaine on coach. George and Kramer run into trouble while trying to arrive on time to pick up Jerry and Elaine at the airport.

Director: Tom Cherones | Stars: Jerry Seinfeld, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Michael Richards, Jason Alexander

Votes: 4,951

42. Smart Guy (1997–1999)
Episode: Love Bug (1998)

TV-G | Comedy, Drama, Family

Marcus tries to get everyone out of the house so he can be alone with a girl rumored to be easy, but has to pick up TJ from a sleepover when he gets sick on the big night.

Director: Lex Passaris | Stars: Tahj Mowry, John Marshall Jones, Jason Weaver, Omar Gooding

Votes: 24

43. Taxi (1978–1983)
Episode: Memories of Cab 804: Part 1 (1978)

TV-PG | 25 min | Comedy

After cab driver John Burns has an accident in taxicab #804, the gang at Sunshine Cab, while mechanic Latka is making repairs, talks about memorable customers they encountered in that cab.

Director: James Burrows | Stars: Judd Hirsch, Jeff Conaway, Danny DeVito, Marilu Henner

Votes: 219

44. That '80s Show (2002)
Episode: Double Date (2002)

TV-PG | Comedy

Tuesday fixes Roger up with a "friend" for the Bob Marley concert. Sophia invents the infomercial. Katie might have to come clean to R.T. about dropping out of college.

Director: Terry Hughes | Stars: Glenn Howerton, Tinsley Grimes, Chyler Leigh, Eddie Shin

Votes: 49

45. You Can't Do That on Television (1979–2004)
Episode: Marketing (1984)

TV-PG | Comedy, Family

The kids try to find something to market for the show so it does not get axed.

Director: Geoffrey Darby | Stars: Kevin Akyeampong, Justin Cammy, Abby Hagyard, Les Lye

46. It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia (2005– )
Episode: Dennis Looks Like a Registered Sex Offender (2007)

TV-MA | 23 min | Comedy

Dennis is angry because he's being mistaken for a fat guy rather than the sex offender who moved next door to Charlie. Meanwhile, Mac's father is released from prison and he and Mac have some catching up to do.

Director: Jerry Levine | Stars: Charlie Day, Glenn Howerton, Rob McElhenney, Kaitlin Olson

Votes: 3,142

47. Darkwing Duck (1991–1992)
Episode: Apes of Wrath (1991)

TV-Y7 | 22 min | Animation, Short, Action

Darkwing Duck is sent to rescue Dr. Bruté from the depths of the jungle and its ape inhabitants. But, are the gorillas the true enemies?

Directors: Tad Stones, Alan Zaslove | Stars: Charlie Adler, Victoria Carroll, Christine Cavanaugh, Jim Cummings

Votes: 210

48. Hannah Montana (2006–2011)
Episode: I Will Always Loathe You (2007)

TV-G | 23 min | Comedy, Family, Music

Mamaw and Aunt Dolly come to celebrate the winning of an International Music Award. The only trouble is that they can't stand each other; they've been fighting for years over Elvis.

Director: Roger Christiansen | Stars: Miley Cyrus, Emily Osment, Mitchel Musso, Jason Earles

Votes: 261

49. Religions of the World (1998– )
Episode: Buddhism

47 min | Documentary

Buddhism, a religion or philosophy or both, depending on one's point of view, is the subject of this overview of its history, teachings and practices.

Director: Stephen Kopels | Stars: Ben Kingsley, Rina Sircar, Lewis Lancaster, Jakusho Kwong-roshi

50. The Flash (2014–2023)
Episode: Heart of the Matter, Part 2 (2021)

TV-PG | 42 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

The Flash enlists a host of speedster allies, including Iris and his children from the future - Bart and Nora-West Allen to end the speedster war and defeat a deadly new adversary: The villainous Godspeed.

Director: Marcus Stokes | Stars: Grant Gustin, Candice Patton, Danielle Panabaker, Carlos Valdes

Votes: 1,798