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

1. La La Land (2016)

PG-13 | 128 min | Comedy, Drama, Music

While navigating their careers in Los Angeles, a pianist and an actress fall in love while attempting to reconcile their aspirations for the future.

Director: Damien Chazelle | Stars: Ryan Gosling, Emma Stone, Rosemarie DeWitt, J.K. Simmons

Votes: 672,075 | Gross: $151.10M

2. The Hero (I) (2017)

R | 96 min | Drama, Romance

An ailing movie star comes to terms with his past and mortality.

Director: Brett Haley | Stars: Sam Elliott, Laura Prepon, Krysten Ritter, Nick Offerman

Votes: 10,453 | Gross: $4.08M

3. American Heart (1992)

R | 113 min | Crime, Drama, Romance

An ex-convict is tracked down by his estranged teenage son, and the pair try to build a relationship and life together in Seattle.

Director: Martin Bell | Stars: Jeff Bridges, Edward Furlong, John Boylan, Greg Sevigny

Votes: 3,621 | Gross: $0.38M

4. The Iceman Cometh (1973)

PG | 239 min | Drama

A salesman with a sudden passion for reform has an idea to sell to his barfly buddies: throw away your pipe dreams. The drunkards, living in a flophouse above a saloon, resent the idea.

Director: John Frankenheimer | Stars: Lee Marvin, Fredric March, Robert Ryan, Jeff Bridges

Votes: 1,880

5. Miss Juneteenth (2020)

Unrated | 99 min | Drama

A former beauty queen and single mom prepares her rebellious teenage daughter for the "Miss Juneteenth" pageant.

Director: Channing Godfrey Peoples | Stars: Nicole Beharie, Liz Mikel, Marcus M. Mauldin, Kendrick Sampson

Votes: 2,164

6. The Star Maker (1995)

R | 113 min | Drama, Romance

A photographer and the types of people he encounters.

Director: Giuseppe Tornatore | Stars: Sergio Castellitto, Tiziana Lodato, Franco Scaldati, Leopoldo Trieste

Votes: 5,481 | Gross: $0.12M

7. 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

8. Windy City (1984)

R | 103 min | Drama, Romance

The lives of a group of young Chicago men as seen through the eyes of one of them, a thirtysomething writer suffering from the early onset of midlife crisis brought on by nostalgia, his dying friend, and the wedding of his old flame.

Director: Armyan Bernstein | Stars: John Shea, Kate Capshaw, Josh Mostel, Jim Borrelli

Votes: 317 | Gross: $0.34M

9. El Sexo de los Ángeles (2013)

17 min | Short, Drama

Sofía, a tomboy girl fall in love of María, a catechist.

Director: John S. Darwin | Stars: Valeria Bordamalo, Esteban Corzo, Luisa Fernanda Orozco, Daniel Galeano Rojas

10. To paizo... kai poly andras! (1983)

85 min | Comedy

Zinon is a successful fashion designer but he has family problems. His wife, his children and his parents-in law are too abusive and uncaring. Everything changes when the police starts looking for a serial killer who is identical to Zinon.

Director: Errikos Thalassinos | Stars: Sotiris Moustakas, Katerina Gioulaki, Thaleia Papazoglou, Vangelis Protopappas

Votes: 237

11. Tunneling the English Channel (1907)

Not Rated | 15 min | Short, Adventure, Fantasy

King Edward VII of England and the President of the French Republic, Armand Fallières, envision tunnelling the English Channel; nevertheless, only a maiden voyage can determine whether this is a triumphant aspiration or an acrid nightmare.

Director: Georges Méliès | Stars: Fernande Albany, Jehanne d'Alcy, Georges Méliès

Votes: 690

12. We're Going to Be Rich (1938)

78 min | Comedy, Drama, History

A drifter Dobbie and his wife Kit leave Australia in the 1880s for South African gold fields. She discovers happiness is where her husband is.

Director: Monty Banks | Stars: Gracie Fields, Victor McLaglen, Brian Donlevy, Coral Browne

Votes: 35

13. Ubornaya istoriya - lyubovnaya istoriya (2007)

TV-G | 10 min | Animation, Short

In the strangest of places, a lonely public lavatory attendant who dreams of romance will find excitement and perhaps love, when a chivalrous secret admirer keeps leaving flowers in her tip jar. But, what good is an invisible lover?

Director: Konstantin Bronzit

Votes: 1,748

14. The Big Shark (1957)

78 min | Comedy

A debonair and shameless idler who daydreams of making it big to marry his sweetheart will find himself neck-deep in trouble, because of a striking resemblance with a despicable money shark.

Director: Filippos Fylaktos | Stars: Smaroula Giouli, Mimis Fotopoulos, Eleni Hatziargyri, Nitsa Tsaganea

Votes: 16

15. Picket Fences (1992–1996)
Episode: Pilot (1992)

60 min | Crime, Drama, Family

In the small town of Rome, Wisconsin, the daily life of the quiet townspeople is disrupted when the Tin Man drops dead during a local production the "The Wizard of Oz" due to nicotine ... See full summary »

Director: Ron Lagomarsino | Stars: Tom Skerritt, Kathy Baker, Costas Mandylor, Lauren Holly

Votes: 184

16. The Last of Us (2023– )
Episode: Please Hold to My Hand (2023)

TV-MA | 45 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

After abandoning their truck in Kansas City, Joel and Ellie attempt to escape without drawing the attention of a vindictive rebel leader.

Director: Jeremy Webb | Stars: Pedro Pascal, Bella Ramsey, Lamar Johnson, Melanie Lynskey

Votes: 68,374