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

1. Lost in Translation (2003)

R | 102 min | Comedy, Drama

A faded movie star and a neglected young woman form an unlikely bond after crossing paths in Tokyo.

Director: Sofia Coppola | Stars: Bill Murray, Scarlett Johansson, Giovanni Ribisi, Anna Faris

Votes: 489,320 | Gross: $44.59M

2. The Graduate (1967)

PG | 106 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

A disillusioned college graduate finds himself torn between his older lover and her daughter.

Director: Mike Nichols | Stars: Dustin Hoffman, Anne Bancroft, Katharine Ross, William Daniels

Votes: 288,499 | Gross: $104.95M

3. Cool Hand Luke (1967)

GP | 127 min | Crime, Drama

A laid-back Southern man is sentenced to two years in a rural prison, but refuses to conform.

Director: Stuart Rosenberg | Stars: Paul Newman, George Kennedy, Strother Martin, J.D. Cannon

Votes: 188,593 | Gross: $16.22M

4. The Room (2003)

R | 99 min | Drama

In San Francisco, an amiable banker's seemingly perfect life is turned upside down when his deceitful fiancée embarks on an affair with his best friend.

Director: Tommy Wiseau | Stars: Tommy Wiseau, Juliette Danielle, Greg Sestero, Philip Haldiman

Votes: 95,037 | Gross: $0.22M

5. Easy Rider (1969)

R | 95 min | Adventure, Drama

Two bikers head from L.A. to New Orleans through the open country and desert lands, and along the way they meet a man who bridges a counter-culture gap of which they had been unaware.

Director: Dennis Hopper | Stars: Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper, Jack Nicholson, Antonio Mendoza

Votes: 116,977 | Gross: $41.73M

6. Badlands (1973)

PG | 94 min | Action, Crime, Drama

An impressionable teenage girl from a dead-end town, and her older greaser boyfriend, embark on a killing spree in the South Dakota Badlands.

Director: Terrence Malick | Stars: Martin Sheen, Sissy Spacek, Warren Oates, Ramon Bieri

Votes: 78,424

7. Head-On (2004)

R | 121 min | Drama, Romance

With the intention to break free from the strict familial restrictions, a suicidal young woman sets up a marriage of convenience with a forty-year-old addict, an act that will lead to an outburst of envious love.

Director: Fatih Akin | Stars: Birol Ünel, Sibel Kekilli, Güven Kiraç, Zarah Jane McKenzie

Votes: 57,691

8. Hardball (2001)

PG-13 | 106 min | Comedy, Drama, Sport

A gambling addict and ticket scalper living an aimless life reluctantly agrees to coach a Little League team from the Chicago projects as part of a loan agreement.

Director: Brian Robbins | Stars: Keanu Reeves, Diane Lane, John Hawkes, Bryan Hearne

Votes: 33,382 | Gross: $40.22M

9. The Smell of Us (2014)

92 min | Drama

A story centered around a group of self-destructive skateboarders in Paris.

Director: Larry Clark | Stars: Lukas Ionesco, Diane Rouxel, Théo Cholbi, Hugo Behar-Thinières

Votes: 1,877

10. The Doom Generation (1995)

R | 83 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

Jordan White and Amy Blue, two troubled teens, pick up an adolescent drifter, Xavier Red. Together, the threesome embark on a sex-and-violence-filled journey through an America of psychos and quickie marts.

Director: Gregg Araki | Stars: James Duval, Rose McGowan, Johnathon Schaech, Cress Williams

Votes: 17,889 | Gross: $0.26M

11. Kicking and Screaming (1995)

R | 96 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

A bunch of guys hang around their college for months after graduation, continuing a life much like the one before graduation.

Director: Noah Baumbach | Stars: Josh Hamilton, Eric Stoltz, Samuel Gould, Catherine Kellner

Votes: 15,187 | Gross: $0.70M

12. Vagabond (1985)

Not Rated | 105 min | Drama

A young woman's body is found frozen in a ditch. Through flashbacks and interviews, we see the events that led to her inevitable death.

Director: Agnès Varda | Stars: Sandrine Bonnaire, Macha Méril, Stéphane Freiss, Setti Ramdane

Votes: 13,668

13. Summer Palace (2006)

Unrated | 158 min | Drama, Romance

Yu Hong leaves her home village and starts university in Beijing, where she develops a consuming and compulsive relationship with another student. The student riots from 1989 then ensue and take a toll on their lives.

Director: Ye Lou | Stars: Lei Hao, Xiaodong Guo, Xueyun Bai, Lin Cui

Votes: 4,318 | Gross: $0.06M

14. Texhnolyze (2003)

TV-MA | Animation, Drama, Sci-Fi

In a man-made underground society, descendants of a banished generation vie for control of the crumbling city of Lux. Ichise, an orphan turned prize fighter, loses a leg and an arm to satisfy an enraged fight promoter.

Stars: Michael Forest, Liam O'Brien, Patrick Seitz, Shizuka Itou

Votes: 3,111

15. Go Goa Gone (2013)

Not Rated | 111 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy

A group of friends, just looking to have a good time in a rave party on a remote island in Goa, find out that the island is infested with Zombies.

Directors: Krishna D.K., Raj Nidimoru | Stars: Saif Ali Khan, Kunal Kemmu, Vir Das, Anand Tiwari

Votes: 15,311 | Gross: $0.30M

16. Jo Jeeta Wohi Sikandar (1992)

Not Rated | 174 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

A rich brat and a poor chap try to woo a girl, with their rivalry culminating in the most prestigious college event - the marathon cycle race.

Director: Mansoor Khan | Stars: Aamir Khan, Ayesha Jhulka, Deepak Tijori, Pooja Bedi

Votes: 24,284

17. Dev.D (2009)

Not Rated | 144 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

After breaking up with his childhood sweetheart, a young man finds solace in drugs. Meanwhile, a teenage girl is caught in the world of prostitution. Will they be destroyed, or will they find redemption?

Director: Anurag Kashyap | Stars: Abhay Deol, Mahie Gill, Kalki Koechlin, Dibyendu Bhattacharya

Votes: 32,254 | Gross: $0.01M

18. Andaz Apna Apna (1994)

Not Rated | 160 min | Action, Comedy, Romance

Two slackers competing for the affections of an heiress inadvertently become her protectors from an evil criminal.

Director: Rajkumar Santoshi | Stars: Aamir Khan, Salman Khan, Raveena Tandon, Karisma Kapoor

Votes: 55,276

19. Wake Up Sid (2009)

Not Rated | 138 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

The story of a lazy Mumbai college student who does absolutely nothing, with a turn of events will Sid realize his potential in this world and become a success in the fast-paced life of Mumbai.

Director: Ayan Mukerji | Stars: Ranbir Kapoor, Konkona Sen Sharma, Supriya Pathak, Anupam Kher

Votes: 33,953 | Gross: $0.72M

20. The Night (2016)

Not Rated | 136 min | Drama

The story tells, from an accentuated hyper-realistic aesthetic, the life of Martin, a man in his forties who is desperately lonely and seeks, through sex, some company, to spend that time ... See full summary »

Director: Edgardo Castro | Stars: Edgardo Castro, Paula Ituriza, Dolores Guadalupe Olivares, Federico Figari

Votes: 335

21. Acid (2018)

TV-MA | 97 min | Drama

Acid is a silent manifesto of the generation of twenty-year-old. They have been abandoned in a world adorned with concepts such as family, friendship, love, and opportunities. In search of ... See full summary »

Director: Aleksandr Gorchilin | Stars: Filipp Avdeev, Aleksandr Kuznetsov, Roza Khayrullina, Elena Morozova

Votes: 1,617

22. Mouth to Mouth (2005)

Not Rated | 101 min | Drama

Young runaway Sherry meets the radical street collective Spark. Together they experience the group's giddy thrills as well as its punishing manipulations, as Sherry's journey to paradise begins to sour.

Director: Alison Murray | Stars: Elliot Page, Natasha Wightman, August Diehl, Beatrice Brown

Votes: 4,432

23. Lakshya (2004)

Not Rated | 186 min | Action, Drama, Romance

An aimless, jobless, irresponsible grown man joins the army and matures into a battlefield hero.

Director: Farhan Akhtar | Stars: Hrithik Roshan, Preity G Zinta, Amitabh Bachchan, Om Puri

Votes: 25,551 | Gross: $0.75M

24. Charly (2007)

95 min | Drama

A boy living with a host family runs away to travel to Belle-Île-en-Mer.

Director: Isild Le Besco | Stars: Kolia Litscher, Julie-Marie Parmentier, Jeanne Mauborgne, Abdelkader Belkhodja

Votes: 159

25. Pieces of Me (2012)

90 min | Comedy, Drama

A precocious teenage girl in a small french town has a troubled relationship with her chronically-ill mom after her elder sister left home four year ago.

Director: Nolwenn Lemesle | Stars: Zabou Breitman, Tchéky Karyo, Adèle Exarchopoulos, Adélaïde Leroux

Votes: 528

26. Dog Tags (2008)

Unrated | 90 min | Drama, Romance

Abandoned by his father and raised by a single mother, Nate Merritt joins the Marines to support his soon-to-be fiancée. While on leave in Palm Springs, Nate meets a seemingly free spirited... See full summary »

Director: Damion Dietz | Stars: Paul Preiss, Amy Lindsay, Candy Clark, Hoyt Richards

Votes: 1,685

27. Garm Hava (1974)

146 min | Drama

In post-partition India, a Muslim businessman and his family struggle for their rights in a country which was once their own.

Director: M.S. Sathyu | Stars: Balraj Sahni, A.K. Hangal, Geeta Kak, Jamal Hashmi

Votes: 829

28. Bungalow (2002)

Unrated | 85 min | Drama

A German soldier goes AWOL and returns home to more problems than he left.

Director: Ulrich Köhler | Stars: Lennie Burmeister, Devid Striesow, Trine Dyrholm, Nicole Gläser

Votes: 639

29. Boston Kickout (1995)

R | 110 min | Drama

Young aimless men come of age in a troubled Hertfordshire New Town.

Director: Paul Hills | Stars: John Simm, Emer McCourt, Marc Warren, Andrew Lincoln

Votes: 451

30. Assault! Jack the Ripper (1976)

72 min | Crime, Drama, Horror

Two restaurant employees begin a torturous and sexual killing spree after they accidentally kill a hitch hiker and find that murder and mutilation is their mutual aphrodisiac.

Director: Yasuharu Hasebe | Stars: Tamaki Katsura, Yuri Yamashina, Natsuko Yashiro, Yôko Azusa

Votes: 558

31. Fabian (1980)

R | 110 min | Drama

Novel-based story of Jacob Fabian, a somewhat liberal Berlin advertising copywriter who witnesses the collapse of the prewar German society during the 1930s.

Director: Wolf Gremm | Stars: Hans Peter Hallwachs, Hermann Lause, Silvia Janisch, Mijanou Van Baarzel

Votes: 154

32. Path of the Beast (1980)

71 min | Drama, Romance

Seventeen-year-old Saki has a low paying job and two boyfriends. Things get serious when she becomes pregnant and must decide if she wants to keep the baby.

Director: Tatsumi Kumashiro | Stars: Ayako Yoshimura, Minako Mizushima, Yûya Uchida, Noboru Mitani

Votes: 92

33. Sweet Degeneration (1997)

Not Rated | 118 min | Drama

It's a story about love, desire - Taboo love between a sister and a brother.

Director: Cheng-sheng Lin | Stars: Shiang-chyi Chen, Kang-sheng Lee, Pen-yu Chang, Shih-huang Chen

Votes: 69

34. Boy and Bicycle (1965)

27 min | Short, Adventure, Drama

A teenage boy plays truant from school, and spends the day riding around the town and the deserted beach on his bicycle, letting his mind wander as he imagines he is the only person in the world.

Director: Ridley Scott | Star: Tony Scott

Votes: 1,248

35. Kaptn Oskar (2013)

PG-13 | 78 min | Drama, Romance

The turbulent relationship between Oskar and Alex ends in a big blaze, Alex has set in Oskar's apartment. So Oskar decides that everything shall be different with the next one and he makes ... See full summary »

Director: Tom Lass | Stars: Amelie Kiefer, Tom Lass, Martina Schöne-Radunski, Gunnar Teuber

Votes: 270

36. Go for It, Baby (1968)

79 min | Comedy

A free-wheeling comedy, Zur Sache Schaetzchen chronicles a day in the life of Martin, a witty yet lazy songwriter who'd rather not get out of bed. During the opening sequence, Martin ... See full summary »

Director: May Spils | Stars: Werner Enke, Uschi Glas, Henry van Lyck, Rainer Basedow

Votes: 546

37. Room (I) (2005)

Not Rated | 75 min | Drama, Mystery

An overworked, middle-aged Texas woman embezzles from her employer and abandons her family to seek out a mysterious room that has been appearing to her in visions during seizure-like attacks.

Director: Kyle Henry | Stars: Cyndi Williams, Kenneth Wayne Bradley, Alex Kiester, Hannah Nicolas

Votes: 456

38. Die Abfahrer (1978)

97 min | Comedy

In the Germany of the late 1970s, three unemployed young men try to escape the dreariness of their lives.

Director: Adolf Winkelmann | Stars: Anastasios Avgeris, Beate Brockstedt, Josefine Carree, Martha Dors

Votes: 182

39. Chikan densha: Iyarashii kôi (1993)

54 min | Drama

A boy, abandoned by the whole family - torn apart by obsessions, perversions and problems of every kind-start looking at everything around him through the eye of the camera, so that nothing... See full summary »

Director: Hisayasu Satô | Stars: Yumika Hayashi, Kôichi Imaizumi, Kiyomi Itô, Yuri Ishihara

Votes: 71

40. A Great Big Thing (1968)

80 min | Drama

A 23-year-old Canadian wanders aimlessly throughout his wasted life.

Director: Eric Till | Stars: Reni Santoni, Louise Latraverse, Paul Sand, Marcy Plotnick

41. Mniejsze niebo (1981)

96 min | Drama

A successful middle-aged scientist suddenly abandons his family and workplace, and decides to rent a room near the railway station while experiencing a major existential crisis.

Director: Janusz Morgenstern | Stars: Roman Wilhelmi, Beata Tyszkiewicz, Jan Englert, Wladyslaw Kowalski

Votes: 87

42. Herbst der Gammler (1967)

67 min | Documentary

The Gammlers of the 60s were German equivalents of the US beatniks.With their unkempt appearance and disdain for the work ethic they shocked the comfortable Munich citizenry of the time.

Director: Peter Fleischmann

Votes: 48

43. Freigeist (2015)

20 min | Short, Drama

Right after being released from jail, Michael beats up an innocent store owner and finds himself running from the police. His older brother denies him any help. Alone and struck by anger, Michael flees into the dark and unforgiving night.

Directors: Yannick Leopold, Alexander Nickolai | Stars: Arne Rudolf, Gerhard Bös, Murat Yeginer, Rolf Becker

44. She Was Murdered (2017 Video)

70 min | Talk-Show

Stefan Molyneux's caller is Brian, whose life has been aimless since the (still-unsolved) murder of his mother.

Stars: Stefan Molyneux, Mike M. DeMarco

45. Clatterford (2006–2009)
Episode: Problem Daughter (2006)

TV-14 | 29 min | Comedy

The Church is being decorated for the Harvest Festival by the Ladies Guild. The vicar is grumpy and Rosie has neglected her meds.

Director: Mandie Fletcher | Stars: Sue Johnston, Miriam Margolyes, Sally Phillips, Dawn French

Votes: 33