Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "begins-with-voice-over-narration-by-lead-character"

1. The Babysitters (2007)

R | 88 min | Drama

After fooling around with one of her customers, a teenager turns her babysitting service into a call-girl service for married guys.

Director: David Ross | Stars: Lauren Birkell, Paul Borghese, Chira Cassel, Anthony Cirillo

Votes: 12,813 | Gross: $0.04M

2. Deadfall (2012)

R | 95 min | Action, Adventure, Crime

Two siblings decide to fend for themselves in the wake of a botched casino heist and their unlikely reunion during another family's Thanksgiving celebration.

Director: Stefan Ruzowitzky | Stars: Eric Bana, Olivia Wilde, Charlie Hunnam, Sissy Spacek

Votes: 41,127 | Gross: $0.07M

3. Dirty Girl (2010)

R | 90 min | Comedy, Drama

It's 1987 and Danielle, the high-school 'Dirty Girl', is running away. With her is chubby, gay Clarke, a bag of flour called Joa and a Walkman full of glorious '80s tunes.

Director: Abe Sylvia | Stars: Juno Temple, Jeremy Dozier, Milla Jovovich, Zach Lasry

Votes: 11,374 | Gross: $0.05M

4. Flirting (1991)

R | 99 min | Drama, Romance

Two freethinking teenagers - a boy and a girl - confront with authoritarian teachers in their boarding schools. The other students treat this differently.

Director: John Duigan | Stars: Noah Taylor, Thandiwe Newton, Nicole Kidman, Bartholomew Rose

Votes: 6,423 | Gross: $2.42M

5. Cherry (I) (2010)

R | 99 min | Comedy, Drama

An Ivy League freshman gets an unexpected education when he falls for an older woman and her 14 year-old daughter develops a crush on him.

Director: Jeffrey Fine | Stars: Kyle Gallner, Laura Allen, Britt Robertson, Matt Walsh

Votes: 5,218 | Gross: $0.01M

6. On the Come Up (2022)

PG-13 | 116 min | Comedy, Drama, Music

Story centers on 16-year-old Bri, who wants to be one of the greatest rappers of all time. Facing controversies and with an eviction notice staring down her family, Bri doesn't just want to make it, she has to make it.

Director: Sanaa Lathan | Stars: Jamila Gray, Noa Dior Rucker, Sanaa Lathan, Michael Cooper Jr.

Votes: 754

7. Intimate Affairs (2001)

R | 108 min | Comedy, Drama

A group of men and two female stenographers scientifically study sex.

Director: Alan Rudolph | Stars: Dermot Mulroney, Julie Delpy, Robin Tunney, Neve Campbell

Votes: 1,853

8. Peyton Place (1957)

Approved | 157 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

A peaceful New England town hides secrets and scandals.

Director: Mark Robson | Stars: Lana Turner, Lee Philips, Lloyd Nolan, Arthur Kennedy

Votes: 6,631 | Gross: $25.60M

9. The Big Clock (1948)

Not Rated | 95 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

A magazine tycoon commits a murder and pins it on an innocent man, who then tries to solve the murder himself.

Director: John Farrow | Stars: Ray Milland, Maureen O'Sullivan, Charles Laughton, George Macready

Votes: 9,560

10. Voyager (1991)

PG-13 | 117 min | Drama, Romance

April 1957: Rational engineer Faber's plane crashes in Mexico. He learns that he became a dad in 1938. He takes a ship from NYC to France and meets cute, young Sabeth. Fate?

Director: Volker Schlöndorff | Stars: Sam Shepard, Julie Delpy, Barbara Sukowa, Traci Lind

Votes: 3,576 | Gross: $0.52M

11. Cougar Hunting (2011)

R | 102 min | Comedy, Romance

Tells the tale of three buddies in their 20's whose love-lives are in shambles. They go to Aspen to pursue the booming trend of dating cougars: hot older women who prey on hot young guys.

Director: Robin Blazak | Stars: Matt Prokop, Randy Wayne, Jareb Dauplaise, Jillian Murray

Votes: 1,235

12. Daddy's Girl (II) (2018)

Not Rated | 81 min | Crime, Horror, Thriller

A young woman held captive by her stepfather becomes the focus of a female vigilante.

Director: Julian Richards | Stars: Jemma Dallender, Costas Mandylor, Britt McKillip, Jesse Moss

Votes: 758

13. Confession (II) (2022)

80 min | Action, Thriller

One church, one priest (Colm Meaney), a wounded man (Colm Meaney) and his loaded gun. An intense thriller played out in real time during one night where a vengeful confession must take place.

Director: David Beton | Stars: Stephen Moyer, Colm Meaney, Clare-Hope Ashitey, Kris Johnson

Votes: 317

14. East Side, West Side (1949)

Passed | 108 min | Drama, Romance

A vain businessman puts a strain on happy marriage to a rich, beautiful socialite by allowing himself to be seduced by a former girlfriend.

Director: Mervyn LeRoy | Stars: Barbara Stanwyck, James Mason, Van Heflin, Ava Gardner

Votes: 2,514

15. The Dark Past (1948)

Passed | 73 min | Crime, Film-Noir, Thriller

An escaped psychopathic killer who takes the family and neighbors of police psychologist hostage reveals a recurring nightmare to the doctor.

Director: Rudolph Maté | Stars: William Holden, Nina Foch, Lee J. Cobb, Adele Jergens

Votes: 2,154

16. Marquis de Sade (1996)

R | 93 min | Drama, History

An innocent woman's search for her missing sister leads her into the infamous world of Marquis de Sade. In a test of wills and wits, she must follow him to his chateau of sin to discover her sister's fate...and to determine her own.

Director: Gwyneth Gibby | Stars: Nick Mancuso, Janet Gunn, John Rhys-Davies, Charlotte Nielsen

Votes: 682

17. Esau (2019)

TV-14 | 110 min | Drama

A 40-year-old writer returns to his family house where he was raised and that he escaped after half a lifetime - to face his brother who stayed instead, inherited their family bakery and married the woman who they both loved.

Director: Pavel Lungin | Stars: Lior Ashkenazi, Mark Ivanir, Yuliya Peresild, Harvey Keitel

Votes: 170

18. Ptitsy bez gnyozd (1996)

89 min | Biography, Drama

A film based on Belarusian poet Larisa Geniyush's memoir. Despite living through the difficult times and being in emigration, she fought for freedom in her homeland and expressed devotion to the nation and it's language.

Director: Vitaliy Dudin | Stars: Tatyana Kovalevskaya, Pavel Kormunin, Aleksey Buldakov, Gennadiy Garbuk

Votes: 21

19. My Stepson, My Lover (1997 TV Movie)

TV-PG | 93 min | Drama, Thriller

A kind nurse finds herself embroiled in a tense and potentially deadly family affair when she falls for the son of her ruthless new husband.

Director: Mary Lambert | Stars: Rachel Ward, Joshua Morrow, Terry O'Quinn, Al Wiggins

Votes: 387

20. Twin Flames (2017)

Short

Born in a world where one can only see in the color of their soulmates eyes, Charlie Carter's week could not get worse. Just when things are looking up, the universe (which she's grown some... See full summary »

Director: Moog Ferlita | Stars: David Alan Graf, Nancy Hale, Mel Glickman, Kayleigh Jankowski

21. A Thing Called Love (2004)

60 min | Romance, Drama

As Valentine Day approaches, Gary is reminded how much he has been neglecting his long-term girlfriend Mel, and decides to propose.

Stars: Paul Nicholls, Liz White, Ben Miles, Karl Collins

Votes: 100

22. When I Was 12 (2001 TV Movie)

83 min | Drama

A tween girl moves with her alcoholic mother and abusive brother to Burnley. She meets and older boy, suffering from a similar home, and they run away together.

Director: Dominic Savage | Stars: Holly Scourfield, Jody Latham, Ashley Thewlis, Lisa Millett

Votes: 56

23. Mnemosyne Rising (2010)

Not Rated | 20 min | Short, Sci-Fi

A deep-space transmitter pilot begins to experience unusual flashbacks while in orbit around a newly discovered moon. Alone on his ship, he must uncover the truth behind the reawakening of his long-forgotten memories.

Director: Miguel Alvarez | Stars: Marc Pouhe, Karina Dominguez, Dan Braverman

Votes: 59

24. Nana Rosa (2019)

11 min | Short, Drama, War

Words cannot describe the maltreatment of women under the yoke of Japan during the Japanese occupation in the Philippines. They remained silent, gagged, and blindfolded, handled as animals, made for comfort. The Comfort Women.

Director: Renmar Lescano | Stars: Jayrelle Jimena, Paula Aubrey Hombrebueno, Hannah Manero, Icy Morales

25. Backstab (2021)

Not Rated | 25 min | Short, Horror

As two besties are preparing for Halloween, a serial killer stalks and murders students at their high school. The two girls wonder who is the real killer?

Director: Ariana Frank | Stars: Ava Ahlbrecht, Ariana Frank, Isaac Frank, Lisa Frank

26. Transformation (III) (2016)

20 min | Short

A young woman who is attacked by a supernatural being. Soon after, she starts to have the thirst for blood.

Directors: Jooyeon Kwon, David Lyons, Sol Song, Miaomiao Wang, Keisha Williams | Stars: Tanisha Caple, Vee Kumari, Corrie Moone, Conor Turoci

27. Secret Diary of a Call Girl (2007–2011)
Episode: Episode #1.1 (2007)

TV-MA | 23 min | Drama

'Belle de Jour' introduces herself to us, talking directly to camera,as she will throughout the series, and explaining that she is a call-girl, working through an agent - partly for safety ... See full summary »

Director: Yann Demange | Stars: Billie Piper, Cherie Lunghi, Iddo Goldberg, Tom Mannion

Votes: 329

28. Outer Range (2022– )
Episode: The Void (2022)

TV-MA | 57 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller

Wyoming rancher Royal Abbott discovers an unfathomable mystery at the edge of his property, setting in motion a catastrophic chain of events.

Director: Alonso Ruizpalacios | Stars: Josh Brolin, Imogen Poots, Lili Taylor, Tom Pelphrey

Votes: 2,021

29. The Flash (2014–2023)
Episode: Things You Can't Outrun (2014)

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

Barry and Joe track a deadly metahuman with toxic gas powers, and Caitlin relives the night of the explosion that killed her fiancé.

Director: Jesse Warn | Stars: Grant Gustin, Candice Patton, Danielle Panabaker, Rick Cosnett

Votes: 6,656