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1. Bodies Bodies Bodies (2022)
R | 94 min | Comedy, Horror, Mystery
When a group of rich 20-somethings plan a hurricane party at a remote family mansion, a party game turns deadly in this fresh and funny look at backstabbing, fake friends, and one party gone very, very wrong.
Director: Halina Reijn | Stars: Amandla Stenberg, Maria Bakalova, Myha'la, Rachel Sennott
Votes: 68,488
2. Blossom (1990–1995)
TV-PG | 30 min | Comedy, Drama, Family
A teenage girl living in a house run by men dreams what life would be like if she lived in a more conventional family.
Stars: Mayim Bialik, Jenna von Oÿ, Joey Lawrence, Ted Wass
Votes: 9,293
3. Evil Dead (2013)
R | 91 min | Horror
Five friends head to a remote cabin, where the discovery of a Book of the Dead leads them to unwittingly summon up demons living in the nearby woods.
Director: Fede Alvarez | Stars: Jane Levy, Shiloh Fernandez, Jessica Lucas, Lou Taylor Pucci
Votes: 197,353 | Gross: $54.24M
4. Ava (IV) (2020)
R | 96 min | Action, Drama, Thriller
Ava is a deadly assassin who works for a black ops organization, traveling the globe specializing in high profile hits. When a job goes dangerously wrong she is forced to fight for her own survival.
Director: Tate Taylor | Stars: Jessica Chastain, John Malkovich, Common, Geena Davis
Votes: 62,861 | Gross: $0.50M
5. The Drop (2014)
R | 106 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
Bob Saginowski finds himself at the center of a robbery gone awry and entwined in an investigation that digs deeply into the neighborhood's past where friends, families, and foes all work together to make a living--no matter the cost.
Director: Michaël R. Roskam | Stars: Tom Hardy, Noomi Rapace, James Gandolfini, Matthias Schoenaerts
Votes: 162,113 | Gross: $10.72M
6. Deliver Us from Evil (I) (2014)
R | 118 min | Crime, Fantasy, Horror
New York police officer Ralph Sarchie investigates a series of crimes. He joins forces with an unconventional priest, schooled in the rites of exorcism, to combat the possessions that are terrorizing their city.
Director: Scott Derrickson | Stars: Eric Bana, Edgar Ramírez, Olivia Munn, Chris Coy
Votes: 85,751 | Gross: $30.58M
7. Crisis (I) (2021)
R | 118 min | Drama, Thriller
Set against the backdrop of the opioid epidemic, stories of an undercover cop, a professor and a grieving mother collide.
Director: Nicholas Jarecki | Stars: Gary Oldman, Armie Hammer, Evangeline Lilly, Greg Kinnear
Votes: 13,838
8. Law of Tehran (2019)
131 min | Action, Crime, Drama
The police are after a drug lord named Naser Khakzad, but when they finally manage to catch him, he tries whatever he can think of to escape and save his family.
Director: Saeed Roustayi | Stars: Payman Maadi, Navid Mohammadzadeh, Parinaz Izadyar, Farhad Aslani
Votes: 18,579
9. Super (I) (2010)
R | 96 min | Action, Comedy, Crime
After his wife falls under the influence of a drug dealer, an everyday guy transforms himself into Crimson Bolt, a superhero with the best intentions, but lacking in heroic skills.
Director: James Gunn | Stars: Rainn Wilson, Elliot Page, Liv Tyler, Kevin Bacon
Votes: 83,714 | Gross: $0.32M
10. Drugstore Cowboy (1989)
R | 101 min | Crime, Drama
A pharmacy-robbing dope fiend and his crew pop pills and evade the law.
Director: Gus Van Sant | Stars: Matt Dillon, Kelly Lynch, James Le Gros, Heather Graham
Votes: 40,658 | Gross: $4.73M
11. Velvet Goldmine (1998)
R | 118 min | Drama, Music
In 1984, British journalist Arthur Stuart investigates the career of 1970s glam superstar Brian Slade, who was heavily influenced in his early years by hard-living and rebellious American singer Curt Wild.
Director: Todd Haynes | Stars: Ewan McGregor, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Christian Bale, Toni Collette
Votes: 38,317 | Gross: $1.05M
12. Shaft (2019)
R | 111 min | Action, Comedy, Crime
JJ Shaft, a cyber security expert with a degree from MIT, enlists his family's help to uncover the truth behind his best friend's untimely death.
Director: Tim Story | Stars: Samuel L. Jackson, Jessie T. Usher, Richard Roundtree, Regina Hall
Votes: 58,773 | Gross: $21.36M
13. Clean and Sober (1988)
R | 124 min | Drama
A hustling drug addict checks himself into rehabilitation to escape trouble with the law and realizes that it's exactly what he needs.
Director: Glenn Gordon Caron | Stars: Michael Keaton, Kathy Baker, Morgan Freeman, Tate Donovan
Votes: 7,241 | Gross: $8.67M
14. Don't Knock Twice (2016)
R | 93 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
A mother desperate to reconnect with her troubled daughter becomes embroiled in the urban legend of a demonic witch.
Director: Caradog W. James | Stars: Katee Sackhoff, Lucy Boynton, Richard Mylan, Nick Moran
Votes: 14,944
15. Bless the Child (2000)
R | 107 min | Crime, Drama, Horror
Cody, a little girl abandoned by her mother and raised by her aunt, a nurse, is kidnapped. The girl's guardian, aided by an F.B.I. agent, learn that Cody has supernatural abilities, and the abductees are a Satanic cult willing to do anything to gain them.
Director: Chuck Russell | Stars: Kim Basinger, Jimmy Smits, Rufus Sewell, Holliston Coleman
Votes: 15,399 | Gross: $29.37M
16. Matthias & Maxime (2019)
Not Rated | 119 min | Drama, Romance
Hidden feelings come to light and threaten the bond of a group of friends in their late 20s.
Director: Xavier Dolan | Stars: Gabriel D'Almeida Freitas, Xavier Dolan, Pier-Luc Funk, Samuel Gauthier
Votes: 9,126
17. American Gothic (2016)
TV-14 | 40 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
The members of a prominent Boston family suspect that one of their own is working with an infamous serial killer.
Stars: Juliet Rylance, Antony Starr, Justin Chatwin, Megan Ketch
Votes: 4,725
18. The Promotion (2008)
R | 86 min | Comedy
Two assistant managers of a corporate grocery store vie for a coveted promotion.
Director: Steve Conrad | Stars: Seann William Scott, John C. Reilly, Chris Conrad, Rick Gonzalez
Votes: 19,706 | Gross: $0.41M
19. The Cleaner (2008–2009)
60 min | Drama
A guy transforms his life by taking control over his addictions and using his story to help others.
Stars: Grace Park, Benjamin Bratt, Amy Price-Francis, Esteban Powell
Votes: 1,839
20. Little Fish (2005)
R | 114 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
A woman trying to escape her past becomes embroiled in a drug deal.
Director: Rowan Woods | Stars: Cate Blanchett, Sam Neill, Hugo Weaving, Martin Henderson
Votes: 9,228 | Gross: $0.01M
21. Fast Color (2018)
PG-13 | 100 min | Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
After years in hiding, a woman is forced to go on the run when her superhuman abilities are discovered. Years after having abandoned her family, the only place she has left to hide is home.
Director: Julia Hart | Stars: Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Lorraine Toussaint, Saniyya Sidney, David Strathairn
Votes: 7,025 | Gross: $0.08M
22. Circumstance (2011)
R | 107 min | Drama
A wealthy Iranian family struggles to contain a teenager's growing sexual rebellion and her brother's dangerous obsession.
Director: Maryam Keshavarz | Stars: Sarah Kazemy, Nikohl Boosheri, Reza Sixo Safai, Soheil Parsa
Votes: 8,011 | Gross: $0.44M
23. Pasadena (2001–2002)
TV-14 | 60 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Lily McAllister has lived a charmed life as part of the most powerful family in the upscale Southern California enclave of Pasadena. All that changes, however, when a murder and coverup in her own mansion thrusts Lily into a search to unlock her family's long-buried secrets.
Stars: Dana Delany, Martin Donovan, Balthazar Getty, Alison Lohman
Votes: 522
24. Duffle Bag Boy (2024)
Action, Adventure, Crime
Lost and forgotten, a homeless veteran hitchhikes his way into becoming an outlaw and goes to war with the kingpin of a criminal empire.
Director: Alexander Raye Pimentel | Stars: Alexander Raye Pimentel, James Anthony Perez, Cheryce Livingston, Don Tempesta
Votes: 14
25. Heroin(e) (2017)
39 min | Documentary, Short
Three women fight to break the cycle one life at a time.
Director: Elaine McMillion Sheldon | Stars: Jan Rader, Patricia Keller, Necia Freeman, Najah Menapace
Votes: 3,326
26. Repeaters (2010)
89 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Three twenty-somethings find themselves in an impossible time loop, where each day they awaken to the same terrifying day as the preceding one.
Director: Carl Bessai | Stars: Dustin Milligan, Amanda Crew, Richard de Klerk, Alexia Fast
Votes: 7,055
27. Life After the Navigator (2020)
91 min | Documentary
A documentary that not only celebrates the classic film Flight of the Navigator (1986), but also looks at the life of its child star, Joey Cramer.
Director: Lisa Downs | Stars: Joey Cramer, Veronica Cartwright, Cliff De Young, Howard Hesseman
Votes: 526
28. Killer Rats (2003)
R | 92 min | Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Tabloid reporter Samantha (Sara Downing, "Never Been Kissed") goes undercover at the Brookdale Institute to break a story about celebrity drug addicts, but she soon discovers that the real scoop is far more terrifying.
Director: Tibor Takács | Stars: Sara Downing, Amy Parks, Bailey Chase, Michael Zelniker
Votes: 1,204
29. Peep World (2010)
R | 79 min | Comedy, Drama
Four siblings implode after the release of a book written about them.
Director: Barry W. Blaustein | Stars: Michael C. Hall, Sarah Silverman, Rainn Wilson, Lewis Black
Votes: 3,850 | Gross: $0.01M
30. Blood (2004)
R | 90 min | Drama
A recovering addict visits his prostitute sister. Desperate for money, she asks him to do a threesome with a john, which leads to additional revelations.
Director: Jerry Ciccoritti | Stars: Emily Hampshire, Jacob Tierney
Votes: 449
31. The Culling (2015)
Not Rated | 81 min | Horror, Thriller
A terrifying supernatural thriller in which a group of college friends on a road trip find themselves fighting off dark forces at a remote farmhouse after a chance encounter with a strange little girl.
Director: Rustam Branaman | Stars: Jeremy Sumpter, Elizabeth Di Prinzio, Brett Davern, Chris Coy
Votes: 1,860
32. Recovery Boys (2018)
89 min | Documentary
In the heart of America's opioid epidemic, four men attempt to reinvent their lives and reenter society sober after years of drug abuse. Recovery Boys, from Academy Award nominated director... See full summary »
Director: Elaine McMillion Sheldon
Votes: 825
33. Eastern Plays (2009)
83 min | Drama
Through Georgi (a juvenile) and Itso (an adult), we take a quick glance (about one and a half hour quick) at what happens in post cold-war Bulgaria.
Director: Kamen Kalev | Stars: Christo Christov, Ovanes Torosian, Saadet Aksoy, Nikolina Iancheva
Votes: 3,190
34. Liberty Street (1994–1996)
30 min | Drama
Based on the pilot film X-Rated (1994), the series follows the lives of the superintendent and several tenants of an apartment building dubbed "Epitome" in Liberty Village in Toronto, Canada.
Stars: Kimberly Huie, Melissa Daniel, Henriette Ivanans, Jhene Erwin
Votes: 32
35. All Ages Night (2009)
PG-13 | 93 min | Drama, Music, Romance
A London teen discovers the world of rock music when he visits his cousin in California.
Director: Nancy Montuori Stein | Stars: Django Stewart, Katherine Carlsberg, Billy Evans, Liz Nicole Abrams
Votes: 78
36. Rewind (I) (2010)
80 min | Thriller
Karen, a recovering addict, has settled into a successful new life with her husband and young daughter. When Karl, an old boyfriend recently released from prison, turns up unexpectedly, ... See full summary »
Director: P.J. Dillon | Stars: Allen Leech, Amy Huberman, Owen McDonnell, Orlaith Rafter
Votes: 175
37. Drug Stories! (2018)
TV-14 | 80 min | Documentary
A compilation of educational anti-drug and anti-alcohol short films from the 1960s and the 1970s.
Votes: 127
38. Powderburn (1999)
95 min | Thriller
Brad is on his way back from Bangkok, awful sick. The condoms in his tummy are leaking the heroin. Bad news for Brad and perhaps even worse news for Chrisie, who was waiting in Sydney depending on the drug deal to go through. Or else.
Director: Stephen Prime | Stars: Blazey Best, Nic Bishop, Ian Bliss, Blaise Cooper
Votes: 89
39. Every Act of Life (2018)
93 min | Documentary, Biography
The life of Tony-winning playwright Terrence McNally (Master Class, Ragtime): 60 years of groundbreaking plays and musicals, the struggle for LGBT rights, addiction and recovery, finding ... See full summary »
Director: Jeff Kaufman | Stars: F. Murray Abraham, Lynn Ahrens, Jon Robin Baitz, Christine Baranski
Votes: 164
40. The Low End (2019)
72 min | Thriller
Over the course of forty-eight hours during a music festival, a recovering drug addict attempts to rekindle his relationship; but with little money, he is forced to engage in a dangerous ... See full summary »
Director: Graham Schmidt | Stars: David Zallis, Michael Kunicki, Mariana Castro, Warren Polk
Votes: 22
41. Alles wird gut (2003 TV Movie)
90 min | Crime, Drama
Herbert and his wife Heidi have a daughter who is addicted to drugs. After a rehab, Isabelle soon relapses and takes off. Herbert desperately tries to find her and comes under increasing pressure in his search for Isabelle.
Director: Thomas Hess | Stars: Michael Finger, Roberto Guerra, Walter Hess, Anne-Marie Kuster
Votes: 9
42. Happy to Be Here (2009)
72 min | Drama
Dorian Winters is miserable. His Father, an ex-professional wrestler by the name of Butch "the Beefcake" Winters is in the hospital in a coma. His brother, Barry, is a recovering addict, ... See full summary »
Director: Sean MacPherson | Stars: Sean MacPherson, John Parlett, Adam Lolacher, Susanna Kjundzic
Votes: 9
43. Kerry Katona: Coming Clean (2010 TV Movie)
Documentary
Director: Claudette Baker | Stars: Sian Polhill-Thomas, Kerry Katona
45.
Columbo (1971–2003)
Episode:
Make Me a Perfect Murder
(1978)
TV-PG | 100 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
An Emmy-winning TV executive kills her lover who's also her boss; Lt. Columbo is on the case.
Director: James Frawley | Stars: Peter Falk, Trish Van Devere, Laurence Luckinbill, James McEachin
Votes: 2,389
46.
Barnaby Jones (1973–1980)
Episode:
School of Terror
(1979)
60 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A counselor at a Fresh Start program for kids with drug problems dies in an accident after allegedly getting high on drugs. J.R. goes undercover as his replacement to find out who has been smuggling those drugs into their school.
Director: Kenneth Gilbert | Stars: Buddy Ebsen, Lee Meriwether, Mark Shera, Ed Harris
Votes: 75
47.
CSI: NY (2004–2013)
Episode:
American Dreamers
(2004)
TV-14 | 43 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A skeleton of a teenage boy is found on a tour bus, completely dressed up. Evidence shows that he has been dead for at least a decade.
Director: Rob Bailey | Stars: Gary Sinise, Melina Kanakaredes, Carmine Giovinazzo, Vanessa Ferlito
Votes: 425
48.
L.A. Law (1986–1994)
Episode:
Bound for Glory
(1990)
TV-PG | 48 min | Drama
Kelsey stands before Judge Grace Van Owen in a wrongful death suit in representing the parents of a deceased black youth, killed by a skinhead, who are suing the skinhead's parents. ... See full summary »
Director: Win Phelps | Stars: Harry Hamlin, Susan Dey, Corbin Bernsen, Jill Eikenberry
Votes: 38
49.
Miami Vice (1984–1989)
Episode:
Amen... Send Money
(1987)
TV-14 | 46 min | Action, Crime, Drama
The wife of a televangelist is arrested on drug charges by Tubbs who finds himself the target of preacher's vengeance. However, a rival televangelist makes his play.
Director: James Quinn | Stars: Don Johnson, Philip Michael Thomas, Saundra Santiago, Michael Talbott
Votes: 358
50.
Mod Squad (1968–1973)
Episode:
Survival House
(1970)
TV-PG | Action, Crime, Drama
Sammy Davis Jr. plays Billy Lee Watson, a recovered drug addict who is accused of statutory rape by his alleged victim's father, who wants to close down the halfway house Billy has been ... See full summary »
Director: George McCowan | Stars: Michael Cole, Clarence Williams III, Peggy Lipton, Tige Andrews
Votes: 38