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

1. Elementary (2012–2019)

TV-14 | 60 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

A crime-solving duo that cracks the NYPD's most impossible cases. Following his fall from grace in London, eccentric Sherlock escapes to New York where his father forces him to live with his worst nightmare - a sober companion, Dr. Watson.

Stars: Jonny Lee Miller, Lucy Liu, Aidan Quinn, Jon Michael Hill

Votes: 119,366

2. Inuyasha (2000–2004)

TV-14 | 22 min | Animation, Action, Adventure

A teenage girl periodically travels back in time to feudal Japan to help a young half-demon recover the shards of a jewel of great power.

Stars: Kappei Yamaguchi, Richard Ian Cox, Sarah Hauser, Darren Pleavin

Votes: 17,990

3. Ninja Scroll (1993)

Not Rated | 94 min | Animation, Action, Adventure

A vagabond swordsman is aided by a kunoichi and a spy in battling a demonic clan of killers - led by a ghost from his past - who are bent on overthrowing the Tokugawa Shogunate.

Director: Yoshiaki Kawajiri | Stars: Kôichi Yamadera, Emi Shinohara, Takeshi Aono, Osamu Saka

Votes: 40,870

4. Losing Chase (1996 TV Movie)

R | 93 min | Drama

Chase Phillips (Dame Helen Mirren), a lifetime resident of Martha's Vineyard, married Richard (Beau Bridges), and like the area, grew into the upper middle class. Her distaste for ... See full summary »

Director: Kevin Bacon | Stars: Helen Mirren, Kyra Sedgwick, Beau Bridges, Michael Yarmush

Votes: 926 | Gross: $0.03M

5. Dragon's Dogma (2020)

TV-MA | Animation, Action, Adventure

Ethan sets out to vanquish the Dragon that took his heart, but with every demon he battles, he loses more of his humanity.

Stars: Greg Chun, Erica Mendez, David Lodge, Cristina Valenzuela

Votes: 4,165

6. What Ever Happened to Aunt Alice? (1969)

M/PG | 101 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

An aging widow hides a deadly secret which she will do anything to keep buried.

Directors: Lee H. Katzin, Bernard Girard | Stars: Geraldine Page, Ruth Gordon, Rosemary Forsyth, Robert Fuller

Votes: 2,806

7. Comic Relief: Doctor Who - The Curse of Fatal Death (1999 TV Movie)

23 min | Comedy, Sci-Fi

Before the Doctor can settle down to married life, he must face one last confrontation with his deadly enemy of certain death - the Master.

Director: John Henderson | Stars: Rowan Atkinson, Richard E. Grant, Jim Broadbent, Hugh Grant

Votes: 2,176

8. The Bridge of San Luis Rey (1944)

Passed | 107 min | Drama, Romance

A rope bridge over a gorge in the Peruvian Andes snaps, sending five people plunging to their deaths. A priest sets out to find out more about the life of each of the victims.

Director: Rowland V. Lee | Stars: Lynn Bari, Akim Tamiroff, Francis Lederer, Alla Nazimova

Votes: 219

9. The Christmas Wife (1988 TV Movie)

Not Rated | 73 min | Drama

A widower not wanting to face his first Christmas alone responds to an ad for "social introductions".

Director: David Hugh Jones | Stars: Jason Robards, Julie Harris, Don Francks, James Eckhouse

Votes: 418

10. Di mamma non ce n'è una sola (1974)

102 min | Comedy

Marcello, the scion of a noble and rich family, is morbidly obsessed with his mother, Countess Elisabetta di Tarcento. When she dies, things go haywire as people around him reveal their true identity and he gets a new motherly companion.

Director: Alfredo Giannetti | Stars: Senta Berger, Lino Capolicchio, Sonia Petrovna, Vittorio Caprioli

Votes: 36

11. Screen Two (1985–1998)
Episode: Northanger Abbey (1987)

TV-14 | 88 min | Drama

Catherine Morland is a young woman who enjoys reading Gothic Novels. She is invited to Bath by a family friend, Mrs. Allen, and there she meets Henry Tilney and his sister Eleanor. Upon ... See full summary »

Director: Giles Foster | Stars: Katharine Schlesinger, Peter Firth, Robert Hardy, Googie Withers

Votes: 952

12. Sherlock Holmes (1964–1968)
Episode: The Sign of Four (1968)

TV-PG | 50 min | Crime, Drama, History

When a woman receives a series of valuable pearls from an unknown party after the disappearance of her father, Sherlock Holmes is hired to investigate.

Director: William Sterling | Stars: Peter Cushing, Nigel Stock, Ann Bell, Paul Daneman

Votes: 430

13. Julian Fellowes Investigates: A Most Mysterious Murder (2004–2005)
Episode: A Most Mysterious Murder: The Case of Charles Bravo (2004)

60 min | Documentary, Crime, Drama

Julian Fellowes examines the 1876 poisoning of barrister Charles Bravo, recently married to the widow and heiress Florence Ricardo.

Director: Michael Samuels | Stars: Julian Fellowes, Nadia Cameron-Blakey, Michael Fassbender, Elizabeth McKechnie

Votes: 161

14. Sword of Freedom (1957– )
Episode: Adriana (1957)

25 min | Adventure, Family

Angry about his young sister's extravagance and scheming, De Medici arranges for a widow from an influential Roman family to become Francesca's female companion. Soon after she arrives, a ... See full summary »

Director: Peter Maxwell | Stars: Edmund Purdom, Martin Benson, Monica Stevenson, Derek Sydney

15. Doctor Who (2005–2022)
Episode: Blink (2007)

TV-PG | 45 min | Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi

Sally Sparrow receives a cryptic message from the Doctor about a mysterious new enemy species that is after the TARDIS.

Director: Hettie Macdonald | Stars: David Tennant, Freema Agyeman, Carey Mulligan, Lucy Gaskell

Votes: 24,134

16. Anna Karenina (1977)
Episode: Episode #1.9 (1977)

54 min | Drama, History, Romance

Anna commits suicide after becoming increasingly bitter towards Vronsky.

Director: Basil Coleman | Stars: Nicola Pagett, Eric Porter, Stuart Wilson, Robert Swann

Votes: 13

17. Doctor Who (2005–2022)
Episode: The Next Doctor (2008)

TV-PG | 60 min | Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi

The Doctor arrives in London on Christmas Eve in 1851 where he encounters the Cybermen and a man who claims he's a Time Lord called the Doctor.

Director: Andy Goddard | Stars: David Tennant, David Morrissey, Dervla Kirwan, Velile Tshabalala

Votes: 5,728

18. Doctor Who (2005–2022)
Episode: The Time of the Doctor (2013)

TV-PG | 61 min | Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi

The Doctor's worst enemies, The Daleks, The Cybermen, The Angels and The Silence, return, as the doctor's eleventh life comes to a close, and his twelfth life begins.

Director: Jamie Payne | Stars: Matt Smith, Jenna Coleman, Orla Brady, James Buller

Votes: 7,962

19. Doctor Who (2005–2022)
Episode: Deep Breath (2014)

TV-PG | 76 min | Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi

When the newly-regenerated doctor arrives in Victorian London, he finds a dinosaur rampant in the Thames and a spate of deadly spontaneous combustions.

Director: Ben Wheatley | Stars: Peter Capaldi, Jenna Coleman, Neve McIntosh, Dan Starkey

Votes: 8,803

20. Doctor Who (2005–2022)
Episode: Robot of Sherwood (2014)

TV-PG | 46 min | Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi

In Sherwood Forest, the Doctor uncovers a sinister alien plot and forms an alliance with Robin Hood. With Nottingham at stake, the Doctor must decide who is real and who is fake.

Director: Paul Murphy | Stars: Peter Capaldi, Jenna Coleman, Tom Riley, Roger Ashton-Griffiths

Votes: 7,247

21. Doctor Who (2005–2022)
Episode: Listen (2014)

TV-PG | 47 min | Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi

When ghosts of past and future crowd into their lives, The Doctor and Clara are thrown into an adventure that takes them to the very end of the universe.

Director: Douglas Mackinnon | Stars: Peter Capaldi, Jenna Coleman, Samuel Anderson, Remi Gooding

Votes: 8,969

22. Doctor Who (2005–2022)
Episode: Kill the Moon (2014)

TV-PG | 45 min | Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi

In the near future, the Doctor and Clara find themselves on a space shuttle making a suicide mission to the Moon. Crash-landing on the lunar surface they find the most terrible things.

Director: Paul Wilmshurst | Stars: Peter Capaldi, Jenna Coleman, Samuel Anderson, Ellis George

Votes: 6,786

23. Doctor Who (2005–2022)
Episode: Mummy on the Orient Express (2014)

TV-PG | 46 min | Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi

On the most beautiful train in history, speeding amongst the stars of the future, a deadly and immortal creature is stalking the passengers.

Director: Paul Wilmshurst | Stars: Peter Capaldi, Jenna Coleman, Samuel Anderson, Frank Skinner

Votes: 6,765

24. Doctor Who (2005–2022)
Episode: Flatline (2014)

TV-PG | 43 min | Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi

A problem happens with the Tardis, trapping the Doctor inside and leaving Clara to fend for herself against a two dimensional enemy.

Director: Douglas Mackinnon | Stars: Peter Capaldi, Jenna Coleman, Joivan Wade, Samuel Anderson

Votes: 6,388

25. Doctor Who (2005–2022)
Episode: In the Forest of the Night (2014)

TV-PG | 45 min | Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi

One morning in London, and every city and town in the world, the human race wakes up to the most surprising invasion yet: the trees have moved back in. Everywhere, in every land, a forest has grown and taken back the Earth.

Director: Sheree Folkson | Stars: Peter Capaldi, Jenna Coleman, Samuel Anderson, Abigail Eames

Votes: 6,196

26. Doctor Who (2005–2022)
Episode: Death in Heaven (2014)

TV-PG | 57 min | Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi

With Cybermen on the streets of London, old friends unite against old enemies and the Doctor takes to the air in a startling new role. As the Doctor faces his greatest challenge, sacrifices must be made before the day is won.

Director: Rachel Talalay | Stars: Jenna Coleman, Peter Capaldi, Samuel Anderson, Michelle Gomez

Votes: 6,437

27. Doctor Who (2005–2022)
Episode: Time Heist (2014)

TV-PG | 45 min | Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi

The Doctor and Clara wake up in a room with two other people, unable to remember how they got there. As it turns out Someone known as the Architect has employed them to Break into the Universe's most secure bank.

Director: Douglas Mackinnon | Stars: Peter Capaldi, Jenna Coleman, Keeley Hawes, Jonathan Bailey

Votes: 6,762

28. The Roosevelts: An Intimate History (2014)
Episode: The Storm (1920-1933) (2014)

TV-PG | 115 min | Documentary, Biography, History

FDR's battle with polio. Eleanor's independence and political activism. Political division within the Roosevelt clan. FDR returns to politics in a big way. The Great Depression ends the Roaring Twenties. Assassin targets FDR.

Director: Ken Burns | Stars: Peter Coyote, Geoffrey C. Ward, Doris Kearns Goodwin, George F. Will

Votes: 148