"take on responsibility"

Explore our selection of movies and TV shows "take on responsibility"

poster Denial
Denial
(2.6/5)
103mn - Drama
A young woman tries to leave her troubled past behind. She meets her old flame by accident and they fall in love again, but this obsessive relationship threatens to consume them.
poster Brothers Under the Chin
Brothers Under the Chin
24mn - Comedy
Twin "babies" left at an orphanage bear the same birthmark under the chin. One of them is adopted and then the scene shifts to "twenty years later." The other as captain of a sailing vessel needs an extra…
poster False Arrest
False Arrest
(3.2/5)
192mn - Crime, Drama, Thriller
A luxury home, a handsome husband and terrific children. But it all comes crashing down when she is accused of being a mastermind behind a brutal triple-homicide and is arrested and handcuffed in front of…
poster Deadly Vows
Deadly Vows
(3.0/5)
87mn - Short, Crime, Drama
Tom Weston is a short tempered truck driver who has always aspired to live big. He begins dating Bobbi Gilbert, who is half his age and plans on marrying her, which is a problem since he's already married…
poster Ashes
Ashes
(3.0/5)
39mn - Drama, Fantasy
Dame Eleonora Duse plays a poor woman who, incapable of raising and feed him, leaves her illegitimate son with foster parents. Before she leaves her boy, the woman gives to the child an amulet in order to…
poster For Their Own Good
For Their Own Good
(3.1/5)
118mn - Drama, Short
When a factory worker faces an impossible ultimatum—submit to sterilization or lose her job—she rallies her fellow workers to fight back against their employer's shocking demands, challenging a system tha…
poster The Downy Girl
The Downy Girl
(3.1/5)
124mn - Drama, Comedy, Romance
The mayor's son Mauritz Fristedt, has become deeply in love with the baker's daughter Dunungen. The mayor applauds the engagement because Mauritz will to try to foist a pack of worthless shares from his …
poster Cheers for Miss Bishop
Cheers for Miss Bishop
(3.3/5)
95mn - Comedy, Drama
Ella Bishop is an inhibited girl whose frustrations grow as she approaches womanhood. As a women, her ambitions to teach cause her to lose her only opportunity for true love. Ella's life becomes one of mi…
poster Loyalty
Loyalty
(2.8/5)
71mn - Drama
Kaatje, the daughter of the miller Schoonejans, and Jef, a little shepherd, who live near Delft, are happy together. In a floral parade, the carriage the two children have decorated with tulips wins the f…
poster Suspense.
Suspense.
10mn - Drama, Thriller, Horror
An isolated house is too remote for a lone servant, who leaves a note, quietly exits the back door, and puts the key under the mat. Left alone in the house is a mother and her infant. A tramp has watched …
poster Tol'able David
Tol'able David
(3.6/5)
99mn - Drama
Young David Kinemon is a good-natured, easy-going lad in a mountain village. Circumstances force him to take his brother's place as mail carrier for the community, and this brings him into deadly contact …
poster The Floor Below
The Floor Below
(3.2/5)
80mn - Comedy, Drama
Patricia O'Rourke, a good-natured prankster who works as a copy girl for the Sentinel , angers her co-worker Stubbs and is about to lose her job when the managing editor offers her one more chance. Her as…
poster Excuse My Dust
Excuse My Dust
48mn - Drama, Comedy, Action
A top race-car driver leaves the sport to get married and settle down, because his new wife doesn't want him to race anymore. However, not long afterwards his wife takes their infant son and leaves him to…
poster The Death of Richie
The Death of Richie
(3.4/5)
96mn - Drama, Short
A sensitive but confused teenager feels pressure from all directions and turns to drugs, which causes problems for him in school and at home.
poster Bulldog Courage
Bulldog Courage
60mn - Western
When miner Slim Braddock is swindled out of his valuable mine by corrupt banker Williams, he becomes "The Phantom," a Robin Hood-like outlaw who robs stagecoaches carrying Williams' ill-gotten gains. Afte…
poster The Mischance of a Photographer
The Mischance of a Photographer
3mn - Comedy
A family goes to a photographer. The photographer pushes the boy around, and no one seems to care. The boy gets his revenge.
poster The Execution
The Execution
(2.9/5)
90mn - Drama, Short
The members of a San Diego Wednesday night womens' mah jongg club are five survivors of a Nazi concentration camp. They recognize the owner of a local restaurant, Walter Grossman, as a doctor from the cam…
poster Sounder
Sounder
(3.8/5)
105mn - Drama
The oldest son of a loving and strong family of black sharecroppers comes of age in the Depression-era South after his father is imprisoned for stealing food.
poster Incident at Crestridge
Incident at Crestridge
(2.9/5)
92mn - Crime, Drama, Short
A woman campaigns for and wins election as sheriff in a crusade against the ineptitude and outright corruption of the local law enforcement in a small town in the West.
poster The Web
The Web
(3.6/5)
87mn - Thriller, Drama
A brash young lawyer takes a short-term, high-paying job as bodyguard for a slick business exec being threatened by a former partner, and quickly realizes he may be in over his head.
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