Need to Watch
by jorgensenwendy | created - 25 Jul 2020 | updated - 9 months ago | PublicMovies and shows I need to watch.
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1. Painkillers (2015)
Not Rated | 104 min | Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Marines sent on a classified mission to Afghanistan find themselves trapped in a military hospital with no memory of how they got there.
Director: Peter Winther | Stars: Tahmoh Penikett, Lesley-Ann Brandt, Colm Feore, Erica Durance
Votes: 732
2. Big Fish (2003)
PG-13 | 125 min | Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
A frustrated son tries to determine the fact from fiction in his dying father's life.
Director: Tim Burton | Stars: Ewan McGregor, Albert Finney, Billy Crudup, Jessica Lange
Votes: 458,809 | Gross: $66.26M
3. Star Trek: Lower Decks (2020–2024)
TV-14 | 25 min | Animation, Action, Adventure
The support crew serving on one of Starfleet's least important ships, the U.S.S. Cerritos, have to keep up with their duties, often while the ship is being rocked by a multitude of sci-fi anomalies.
Stars: Tawny Newsome, Jack Quaid, Noël Wells, Eugene Cordero
Votes: 24,940
4. Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987–1994)
TV-PG | 45 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Set almost 100 years after Captain Kirk's 5-year mission, a new generation of Starfleet officers sets off in the U.S.S. Enterprise-D on its own mission to go where no one has gone before.
Stars: Patrick Stewart, Brent Spiner, Jonathan Frakes, LeVar Burton
Votes: 135,916
5. Battleground (2012)
22 min | Comedy, Drama
A workplace dramedy that goes behind-the-scenes with an unruly group of campaign workers and volunteers living life on the campaign trail.
Stars: Teri Reeves, Jack De Sena, Jay Hayden, Alison Haislip
Votes: 337
6. Riverworld (2010 TV Movie)
TV-14 | 178 min | Action, Drama, Fantasy
Welcome to Riverworld, a place of strange, watery beauty and the current abode of a fascinating cast of the recently (and not-so-recently) dead. It certainly isn't Heaven, but it just might be Hell.
Director: Stuart Gillard | Stars: Tahmoh Penikett, Mark Deklin, Peter Wingfield, Jeananne Goossen
Votes: 2,386
7. Alone Together: A DS9 Companion (2020)
33 min | Drama, Sci-Fi
Set 25 years after the events of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Alone Together follows Dr. Julian Bashir as he goes to visit his old friend Elim Garak on Cardassia, and uncovers a dark secret in the process.
Stars: Alexander Siddig, Andrew Robinson, Shana Collier, Cirroc Lofton
Votes: 73
8. Money Plane (2020)
Not Rated | 82 min | Comedy, Crime, Thriller
A professional thief with $40 million in debt and his family's life on the line must commit one final heist - rob a futuristic airborne casino filled with the world's most dangerous criminals.
Director: Andrew Lawrence | Stars: Adam Copeland, Kelsey Grammer, Thomas Jane, Denise Richards
Votes: 5,683
9. Living Among Us (2018)
TV-MA | 87 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
Vampires have just made themselves public. Now a group of documentarians have been granted access to learn how they live and coexist with humans. But as reality sets in, the crew realize their very lives are in danger.
Director: Brian A. Metcalf | Stars: William Sadler, Andrew Keegan, Jordan Danger, Thomas Ian Nicholas
Votes: 3,041
10. The Observation Level (2015)
5 min | Short, Fantasy
A young woman named Adrianna is sent on a mission by a mysterious stranger. The task will require all of her cunning and willpower, as she is about to discover that everything is a test...
Director: Aidan Duffy | Stars: Florence Ordesh, Lloyd Fitzgibbon, Thomas Rowley
Votes: 1,525
11. Voyage of the Rock Aliens (1984)
PG | 97 min | Comedy, Musical, Sci-Fi
Aliens land in the town of "Speelburgh" searching for the source of rock & roll. They find trouble with Dee Dee, Frankie and the pack.
Director: James Fargo | Stars: Pia Zadora, Craig Sheffer, Tom Nolan, Ruth Gordon
Votes: 1,571
12. The Undead Series (2016)
Documentary
THE UNDEAD SERIES: Think Jerry Seinfeld's COMEDIANS IN CARS GETTING COFFEE - This is: VAMPIRES IN COFFINS GETTING BLOOD. The ONLY series EVER to gather the who's who, A-list of the genre ... See full summary »
Director: Juliet Landau | Stars: Joss Whedon, Tim Burton, Gary Oldman, Anne Rice
Votes: 32
13. All We Are Saying (2005 TV Movie)
103 min | Documentary
All We Are Saying is a personal look at what makes musicians tick -- a look into the psyches of some of the top musical artists of the day. Through a series of intimate conversations, over ... See full summary »
Director: Rosanna Arquette | Stars: B-Real, Burt Bacharach, André 3000, Mary J. Blige
Votes: 166
14. I Know This Much Is True (2020)
TV-MA | 63 min | Drama
Following the parallel lives of identical twin brothers Dominick and Thomas Birdsey in a story of betrayal, sacrifice, and forgiveness.
Stars: Mark Ruffalo, John Procaccino, Rob Huebel, Gabe Fazio
Votes: 23,437
15. Paranoid Park (2007)
R | 85 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A teenage skateboarder's life begins to fray after he is involved in the accidental death of a security guard.
Director: Gus Van Sant | Stars: Gabe Nevins, Daniel Liu, Taylor Momsen, Jake Miller
Votes: 31,912 | Gross: $0.49M
16. Gerry (2002)
R | 103 min | Adventure, Drama, Mystery
A friendship between two young men is tested when they go for a hike in a desert and forget to bring any water or food with them.
Director: Gus Van Sant | Stars: Casey Affleck, Matt Damon
Votes: 19,698 | Gross: $0.24M
17. Papillon (I) (2017)
R | 133 min | Adventure, Biography, Crime
Wrongfully convicted for murder, Henri Charriere forms an unlikely relationship with fellow inmate and quirky convicted counterfeiter, Louis Dega, in an attempt to escape from the notorious penal colony on Devil's Island.
Director: Michael Noer | Stars: Charlie Hunnam, Damijan Oklopdzic, Christopher Fairbank, Jason Ryan
Votes: 86,133 | Gross: $2.34M
18. The Yards (2000)
R | 115 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
Ex-con Leo tries to go straight, but his plans are derailed after reuniting with his old crew and a well-connected railway contractor.
Director: James Gray | Stars: Mark Wahlberg, Joaquin Phoenix, Charlize Theron, James Caan
Votes: 23,093 | Gross: $0.88M
19. Not Another Tolkien Movie (2004)
Not Rated | 88 min | Comedy
Just when you thought you had reached Tolkien overload, along comes an adaptation like none you've ever seen... a docu-comedy. The story chronicles writer/director/actor, Arthur Krize's (... See full summary »
Director: Dallas Shelby | Stars: Brock Fanning, Dallas Shelby, Mark Burlet, Aaron Cullers
Votes: 69
20. Bad Vegan and the Teleportation Machine (2016)
90 min | Comedy, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Lily, a dismal stand-up comedian, falls for Spike, a handsome physicist who enlists her to work on his teleportation machine, changing her life for ever.
Director: Anton Goenechea | Stars: Tamara Tunie, Steve Hytner, Andy Bean, Adam Scarimbolo
Votes: 34
21.
Drunken Star Trek (2015– )
Episode:
Darmok
(2016)
13 min | Comedy
The Empterprize encounters a seemingly-nonsensical alien race. Picard faces a digital foe, others do research.
Director: Ramon Yvarra | Stars: Aaron Birenbaum, Avery Conant, Michael DeFabio, Margarita Femmeinista
22. Winnebago Man (2009)
Not Rated | 85 min | Documentary, Biography, Comedy
Jack Rebney is the most famous man you've never heard of - after cursing his way through a Winnebago sales video, Rebney's outrageously funny outtakes became an underground sensation and ... See full summary »
Director: Ben Steinbauer | Stars: Jack Rebney, Ben Steinbauer, Keith Gordon, Nick Prueher
Votes: 5,088 | Gross: $0.18M
23. Holy Motors (2012)
Not Rated | 115 min | Drama, Fantasy
A man boards a limousine to be driven to his day's work: nine mysterious "appointments."
Director: Leos Carax | Stars: Denis Lavant, Edith Scob, Eva Mendes, Kylie Minogue
Votes: 48,894
24. Prisoners of the Ghostland (2021)
103 min | Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
A notorious criminal must break an evil curse in order to rescue an abducted girl who has mysteriously disappeared.
Director: Sion Sono | Stars: Nicolas Cage, Sofia Boutella, Nick Cassavetes, Bill Moseley
Votes: 14,050
25. Paper Towns (2015)
PG-13 | 109 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama
After an all-night adventure, Quentin's lifelong crush, Margo, disappears, leaving behind clues that Quentin and his friends follow on the journey of a lifetime.
Director: Jake Schreier | Stars: Nat Wolff, Cara Delevingne, Austin Abrams, Justice Smith
Votes: 107,968 | Gross: $32.00M
26. Severance (2006)
R | 96 min | Comedy, Horror
During a team-building retreat in the mountains a group of sales representatives are hunted down one by one.
Director: Christopher Smith | Stars: Danny Dyer, Laura Harris, Tim McInnerny, Toby Stephens
Votes: 40,681 | Gross: $0.14M
27. Defying Gravity (2009)
TV-14 | 60 min | Drama, Sci-Fi
Eight astronauts living aboard an international spacecraft on a mission through the solar system, as the world watches from billions of kilometers away.
Stars: Ron Livingston, Malik Yoba, Andrew Airlie, Paula Garcés
Votes: 10,055
28. Mr. Dramatic (2005)
12 min | Short, Comedy
After a series of fruitless relationships, an innocent young woman ventures out yet again into the cruel world of desperate assholes, the social wasteland known as Hollywood, California. On... See full summary »
Director: John Stalberg Jr. | Stars: Oliver Hudson, Amy Acker, Katharine Towne, Alana De La Garza
Votes: 97
29. Out of Time (III) (2021)
90 min | Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
A troubled young man, puzzled by his father's mysterious disappearance, goes to a British era mansion along with his friends where he gets stuck in a never ending time loop, only to discover astonishing facts from the past.
Director: Arijit Lahiri | Stars: Danny Sura, Menaka Lalwani, Ashish Bhatt, Sahil Phull
Votes: 52
30. The Tommyknockers (1993)
R | 94 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
The small town of Haven becomes a hot-bed of inventions all run by a strange green power device. The whole town is digging something up in the woods, and only an alcoholic poet can discover the secret of the Tommyknockers.
Stars: Jimmy Smits, Marg Helgenberger, John Ashton, Allyce Beasley
Votes: 12,257
31. Howl (I) (2015)
Not Rated | 92 min | Action, Fantasy, Horror
When passengers on a train are attacked by a creature, they must band together in order to survive until morning.
Director: Paul Hyett | Stars: Elliot Cowan, Rosie Day, Calvin Dean, Sam Gittins
Votes: 15,550
32. Tortilla Heaven (2007)
PG-13 | 98 min | Comedy
Isidor's Tortilla Heaven is the best restaurant in the world, but has few customers and makes little money in a small town. During Mass one Sunday he is blessed with a miracle: the face of Jesus appears on one of his tortillas.
Director: Judy Hecht Dumontet | Stars: José Zúñiga, George Lopez, Miguel Sandoval, Olivia Hussey
Votes: 461 | Gross: $0.10M
33. Alex Cross (2012)
PG-13 | 101 min | Action, Crime, Mystery
A homicide detective is pushed to the brink of his moral and physical limits as he tangles with a ferociously skilled hired killer who specializes in torture and pain.
Director: Rob Cohen | Stars: Tyler Perry, Matthew Fox, Rachel Nichols, Edward Burns
Votes: 35,414 | Gross: $25.89M
34. Mike Tyson Mysteries (2014–2020)
TV-14 | 12 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy
In this macabre comedy, retired boxing champion Mike Tyson, his brainy adopted Asian-American daughter, a friendly but wimpy gay gentleman ghost and a cursed perverse mean-spirited talking pigeon solve weird mysteries together.
Stars: Mike Tyson, Norm MacDonald, Rachel Ramras, Jim Rash
Votes: 5,636
35. Brief Interviews with Hideous Men (2009)
Not Rated | 80 min | Comedy, Drama
A graduate student (Nicholson) copes with a recent breakup by conducting interviews with various men.
Director: John Krasinski | Stars: Julianne Nicholson, Ben Shenkman, Timothy Hutton, Michael Cerveris
Votes: 3,653 | Gross: $0.03M
36. Lawless (2012)
R | 116 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
Set in Depression-era Franklin County, Virginia, a trio of bootlegging brothers are threatened by a new special deputy and other authorities angling for a cut of their profits.
Director: John Hillcoat | Stars: Tom Hardy, Shia LaBeouf, Guy Pearce, Jason Clarke
Votes: 253,413 | Gross: $37.40M
37. ReGenesis (2004–2008)
TV-14 | 49 min | Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Geneticist David Sandstrom is the chief scientist at the prestigious virology/micro-biology NORBAC laboratory, a joint enterprise between the USA, Canada and Mexico for countering bio-terrorism.
Stars: Peter Outerbridge, Conrad Pla, Dmitry Chepovetsky, Mayko Nguyen
Votes: 3,448
38. Butcher, Baker, Nightmare Maker (1981)
R | 96 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
An orphaned teenager finds himself being dominated by his aunt who's hell-bent on keeping him with her...at all costs.
Director: William Asher | Stars: Jimmy McNichol, Susan Tyrrell, Bo Svenson, Marcia Lewis
Votes: 4,831
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