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1. Black Swan (2010)
R | 108 min | Drama, Thriller
Nina is a talented but unstable ballerina on the verge of stardom. Pushed to the breaking point by her artistic director and a seductive rival, Nina's grip on reality slips, plunging her into a waking nightmare.
Director: Darren Aronofsky | Stars: Natalie Portman, Mila Kunis, Vincent Cassel, Winona Ryder
Votes: 826,179 | Gross: $106.95M
2. Dawn of the Dead (2004)
R | 101 min | Action, Horror
A nurse, a policeman, a young married couple, a salesman and other survivors of a worldwide plague that is producing aggressive, flesh-eating zombies, take refuge in a mega Midwestern shopping mall.
Director: Zack Snyder | Stars: Sarah Polley, Ving Rhames, Mekhi Phifer, Jake Weber
Votes: 272,857 | Gross: $59.02M
3. Flight (I) (2012)
R | 138 min | Drama, Thriller
Troubling questions arise after airline pilot Whip Whitaker makes a miracle landing after a mid-air catastrophe.
Director: Robert Zemeckis | Stars: Denzel Washington, Nadine Velazquez, Don Cheadle, John Goodman
Votes: 376,510 | Gross: $93.77M
4. Melancholia (2011)
R | 135 min | Drama, Sci-Fi
Two sisters find their already strained relationship challenged as a mysterious new planet threatens to collide with Earth.
Director: Lars von Trier | Stars: Kirsten Dunst, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Kiefer Sutherland, Alexander Skarsgård
Votes: 196,187 | Gross: $3.03M
5. Lie with Me (2005)
Not Rated | 93 min | Drama, Romance
An outgoing, sexually aggressive young woman meets and begins a torrid affair with an equally aggressive young man in which their affair begins to bring a strain on their personal lives.
Director: Clement Virgo | Stars: Lauren Lee Smith, Eric Balfour, Polly Shannon, Mayko Nguyen
Votes: 16,788
6. Angel Heart (1987)
X | 113 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
A private investigator is hired by a man who calls himself Louis Cyphre to track down a singer named Johnny Favorite. But the investigation takes an unexpected and somber turn.
Director: Alan Parker | Stars: Mickey Rourke, Robert De Niro, Lisa Bonet, Charlotte Rampling
Votes: 95,964 | Gross: $17.19M
7. Videodrome (1983)
R | 87 min | Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
A programmer at a Toronto TV station that specializes in adult entertainment searches for the producers of a dangerous and bizarre broadcast.
Director: David Cronenberg | Stars: James Woods, Debbie Harry, Sonja Smits, Peter Dvorsky
Votes: 103,204 | Gross: $2.12M
8. Chloe (2009)
R | 96 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Suspecting her husband of infidelity, gynecologist Dr. Catherine Stewart hires an escort named Chloe in order to test his faithfulness. Soon, the relationships between all three intensify.
Director: Atom Egoyan | Stars: Julianne Moore, Amanda Seyfried, Liam Neeson, Max Thieriot
Votes: 77,961 | Gross: $3.07M
9. The Gift (2000)
R | 111 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
A fortune teller with extrasensory perception is asked to help find a young woman who has mysteriously disappeared.
Director: Sam Raimi | Stars: Cate Blanchett, Katie Holmes, Keanu Reeves, Giovanni Ribisi
Votes: 74,865 | Gross: $12.01M
10. Cosmopolis (2012)
R | 109 min | Crime, Drama, Fantasy
Riding across Manhattan in a stretch limo in order to get a haircut, a 28-year-old billionaire asset manager's day devolves into an odyssey with a cast of characters that start to tear his world apart.
Director: David Cronenberg | Stars: Robert Pattinson, Juliette Binoche, Sarah Gadon, Mathieu Amalric
Votes: 50,123 | Gross: $0.74M
11. Rabid (1977)
R | 91 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
A young woman develops a taste for human blood after experimental plastic surgery, and her victims turn into blood-thirsty zombies, leading into a city-wide epidemic.
Director: David Cronenberg | Stars: Marilyn Chambers, Frank Moore, Terry Schonblum, Joe Silver
Votes: 21,423
12. Better Than Chocolate (1999)
R | 101 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Maggie, 19, works at a lesbian/LGBT bookstore. Her mom's getting divorced and has invited herself to stay with Maggie. Maggie hasn't told her, she's lesbian. Her new girlfriend moves in as well.
Director: Anne Wheeler | Stars: Wendy Crewson, Karyn Dwyer, Christina Cox, Ann-Marie MacDonald
Votes: 8,760 | Gross: $2.01M
13. The Sessions (2012)
R | 95 min | Biography, Comedy, Drama
A man in an iron lung who wishes to lose his virginity contacts a professional sex surrogate with the help of his therapist and priest.
Director: Ben Lewin | Stars: John Hawkes, Helen Hunt, William H. Macy, Moon Bloodgood
Votes: 44,003 | Gross: $6.00M
14. Exotica (1994)
R | 103 min | Drama
A man plagued by neuroses frequents the club Exotica in an attempt to find solace, but even there his past is never far away.
Director: Atom Egoyan | Stars: Bruce Greenwood, Elias Koteas, Don McKellar, David Hemblen
Votes: 21,115 | Gross: $4.18M
15. Different Strokes (1998 Video)
R | 88 min | Drama, Romance
A Los Angeles fashion model falls in love with a female art director during a photo shoot which puts their newfound romance at odds with the model's photographer boyfriend.
Director: Michael Paul Girard | Stars: Dana Plato, Bentley Mitchum, Landon Hall, David Millbern
Votes: 602
16. Manderlay (2005)
Not Rated | 139 min | Drama
A story of slavery, set in the southern U.S. in the 1930s.
Director: Lars von Trier | Stars: Bryce Dallas Howard, Isaach De Bankolé, Danny Glover, Willem Dafoe
Votes: 25,201 | Gross: $0.08M
17. The Burning Bed (1984 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 95 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
An abused battered wife has had enough of her husband beating up on her. Everywhere she turns for help, there's not much anyone will do. After he rapes her one night, she sets the bed on fire with him in it asleep.
Director: Robert Greenwald | Stars: Farrah Fawcett, Paul Le Mat, Richard Masur, Grace Zabriskie
Votes: 3,448
18. When Will I Be Loved (2004)
R | 81 min | Drama, Thriller
Feeling undervalued by her boyfriend, a young woman begins to explore her sexuality with other people.
Director: James Toback | Stars: Neve Campbell, Frederick Weller, Dominic Chianese, Ashley Shelton
Votes: 3,553 | Gross: $0.16M
19. Lay the Favorite (2012)
R | 94 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Ex-private dancer Beth aspires to be a Las Vegas cocktail waitress, when she falls in with Dink, a sports gambler. Sparks fly as she proves to be something of a gambling prodigy--much to the ire of Dink's wife, Tulip.
Director: Stephen Frears | Stars: Rebecca Hall, Bruce Willis, Vince Vaughn, Catherine Zeta-Jones
Votes: 12,071 | Gross: $0.02M
20. Chained Heat (1983)
R | 95 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Young Carol Henderson ends up in prison where she must learn how to survive in an environment plagued by violence, murder, rape, racism, drugs and staff corruption and brutality.
Director: Paul Nicholas | Stars: Linda Blair, John Vernon, Sybil Danning, Tamara Dobson
Votes: 2,633 | Gross: $6.15M
21. Poison Ivy: The Secret Society (2008 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 95 min | Drama, Thriller
Daisy starts college and meets Blake. She finds herself up against a secret sisterhood, The Ivies, that maybe was involved in a student's death 6 months earlier.
Director: Jason Hreno | Stars: Miriam McDonald, Shawna Waldron, Ryan Kennedy, Yan-Kay Crystal Lowe
Votes: 2,387
22. Mother's Boys (1993)
R | 96 min | Drama, Thriller
Jude Madigan abandons her husband Robert and her three sons without any explanation. Three years later Jude inexplicably returns to reunite her family. However Robert and his new lover ... See full summary »
Director: Yves Simoneau | Stars: Jamie Lee Curtis, Peter Gallagher, Joanne Whalley, Vanessa Redgrave
Votes: 3,602 | Gross: $0.87M
23. The Caller (2011)
R | 92 min | Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
A young divorcee is getting her life back together by moving into an apartment. But what will she do when a strange person repeatedly calls her, and threatens to change her new life around?
Director: Matthew Parkhill | Stars: Rachelle Lefevre, Stephen Moyer, Lorna Raver, Ed Quinn
Votes: 12,154
24. Normal (2007)
R | 100 min | Drama
A deadly car accident brings together a group of previously unrelated people, each of whom is forced to deal with the emotional fallout.
Director: Carl Bessai | Stars: Carrie-Anne Moss, Kevin Zegers, Callum Keith Rennie, Andrew Airlie
Votes: 1,472
25. Daydream Nation (2010)
R | 98 min | Drama, Romance
A city girl who moves to a small town and becomes entangled in a love triangle between her high school teacher and a stoner classmate.
Director: Michael Goldbach | Stars: Kat Dennings, Reece Thompson, Andie MacDowell, Josh Lucas
Votes: 13,058
26. Crystal Fairy & the Magical Cactus (2013)
Not Rated | 98 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama
As Jamie travels in Chile, he invites an eccentric woman to join his group's quest to score a fabled hallucinogen, a move that finds him at odds with his new companion, until they drink the magic brew on a beach at the edge of the desert.
Director: Sebastián Silva | Stars: Michael Cera, Gaby Hoffmann, Juan Andrés Silva, Agustín Silva
Votes: 9,088 | Gross: $0.19M
27. Creature (2011)
R | 93 min | Horror
In the back country of Louisiana, a group of friends unearth a terrible secret that unleashes a monster from the depths of the swamp.
Director: Fred Andrews | Stars: Mehcad Brooks, Serinda Swan, Daniel Bernhardt, Dillon Casey
Votes: 3,090 | Gross: $0.33M
28. Night School (1981)
R | 88 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Who's been decapitating the innocent girls at a local night school? The police are baffled.
Director: Ken Hughes | Stars: Leonard Mann, Rachel Ward, Drew Snyder, Joseph R. Sicari
Votes: 3,259 | Gross: $1.17M
29. Dear Wendy (2005)
Not Rated | 105 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
A young boy in a nameless, timeless American town establishes a gang of youthful misfits united in their love of guns and their code of honor.
Director: Thomas Vinterberg | Stars: Jamie Bell, Alison Pill, Chris Owen, Bill Pullman
Votes: 10,477 | Gross: $0.02M
30. Borderline (2008)
110 min | Drama
An erotic drama about a woman facing her 30th birthday who looks back at her life growing-up with her grandmother, crazy mother and her over-indulgence with men, sex and alcohol.
Director: Lyne Charlebois | Stars: Isabelle Blais, Jean-Hugues Anglade, Angèle Coutu, Sylvie Drapeau
Votes: 1,244
31. Obsession (1981)
PG | 106 min | Drama
The story of the impossible love between a schoolgirl and a sixty-year-old painter.
Director: Jules Dassin | Stars: Tatum O'Neal, Norma Dell'Agnese, Donann Cavin, Elan Ross Gibson
Votes: 693
32. Love on the Side (2004)
R | 102 min | Comedy, Romance
A small-town waitress vies with a sassy city slicker for the attention of the town's most eligible bachelor.
Director: Vic Sarin | Stars: Marla Sokoloff, Jennifer Tilly, Monika Schnarre, Dave Thomas
Votes: 984
33. An Invisible Sign (2010)
PG-13 | 96 min | Comedy, Drama, Family
Mona Gray is a 20-year-old loner who turned to math for salvation as a child after her father became ill. As an adult she now teaches the subject and helps her students through their own crises.
Director: Marilyn Agrelo | Stars: Jessica Alba, Chris Messina, Sonia Braga, John Shea
Votes: 4,389
34. Manson, My Name Is Evil (2009)
R | 85 min | Comedy, Crime
Perry, a sheltered chemical engineer, falls in love with Leslie, a former homecoming princess, when he becomes a jury member at her hippie death cult murder trial.
Director: Reg Harkema | Stars: Peter MacNeill, Gregory Smith, Ryan Robbins, Anjelica Scannura
Votes: 911
35. When She Was Bad... (1979 TV Movie)
100 min | Drama
Stressed by a recent move and being a stay-at-home mom, Teeny takes out her bottled-up rage on her daughter Robbie. Only the help of her friends, family, and counselors can stop her from harming Robbie and herself.
Director: Peter H. Hunt | Stars: Cheryl Ladd, Robert Urich, Eileen Brennan, Dabney Coleman
Votes: 252
36. Pursuit of Happiness (2001)
Not Rated | 93 min | Comedy, Romance
An advertising executive fails to realize that the woman of his dreams is his best friend since first grade, now married to his cheating co-worker.
Director: John Putch | Stars: Frank Whaley, Annabeth Gish, Amy Jo Johnson, Patrick Van Horn
Votes: 468
37. Texas Lightning (1981)
R | 91 min | Action, Comedy, Drama
A rough and tough macho truck driver decides to make his soft son more of a man by taking him hunting. They go on a holiday and go to a honky-tonk bar where the younger man falls in love with a burned out waitress.
Director: Gary Graver | Stars: Cameron Mitchell, Cameron Mitchell Jr., Maureen McCormick, Peter Jason
Votes: 241
38. Iced (1989)
Unrated | 86 min | Horror
A group of childhood friends are invited to the opening of a posh ski resort, unaware that an old nemesis has murderous plans in mind for them.
Director: Jeff Kwitny | Stars: Debra De Liso, Doug Stevenson, Ron Kologie, Elizabeth Gorcey
Votes: 743
39. Cold Comfort (1989)
R | 111 min | Drama, Thriller
Three lonely people depend on each other when they get stranded at a deserted gas station in a blizzard. Floyd is a truck driver balancing on the edge of lunacy. He is the caring father of ... See full summary »
Director: Vic Sarin | Stars: Maury Chaykin, Margaret Langrick, Paul Gross, Jayne Eastwood
Votes: 400
40. Vital Signs (2009)
88 min | Drama
Simone leaves her lover and regular student life behind to help people who are about to die.
Director: Sophie Deraspe | Stars: Marie-Hélène Bellavance, Francis Ducharme, Suzanne St-Michel, Marie Brassard
Votes: 251
41. Consumed (2014 Video)
10 min | Short, Action, Crime
An online video trailer for David Cronenberg's debut novel, "Consumed".
Director: David Cronenberg | Stars: Evelyne Brochu, David Cronenberg
Votes: 121
42. One Way Out (2002 Video)
R | 95 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
Harry Woltz is a homicide cop with a gambling problem; a problem that leaves him owing a great deal of money to the Russell brothers. To clear the debt they ask him to train John Farrow to ... See full summary »
Director: Allan A. Goldstein | Stars: Jim Belushi, Jason Bateman, Angela Featherstone, Guylaine St-Onge
Votes: 690
43. Berkeley (2005)
R | 88 min | Drama
Berkeley is the story of Ben Sweet, an eighteen year old boy who comes to UC Berkeley in 1968 to study accounting and avoid the draft. There begins an odyssey through sex, drugs, rock and ... See full summary »
Director: Bobby Roth | Stars: Nick Roth, Laura Jordan, Henry Winkler, Sarah Carter
Votes: 270
44. 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
45. Control Alt Delete (2008)
R | 93 min | Comedy, Drama
A moody romantic comedy exploring fetishism, addiction and love in the information age.
Director: Cameron Labine | Stars: Tyler Labine, Sonja Bennett, Geoff Gustafson, Keith Dallas
Votes: 529
46. Terminal City (2005)
50 min | Drama
A woman diagnosed with breast cancer, takes over an ailing reality show, turning it into a hit as her body and life begin to change.
Stars: Maria del Mar, Gil Bellows, Paul Soles, Jane McLean Guerra
Votes: 133
47. Lovelife (1997)
R | 96 min | Comedy, Drama
Danny is a student whose girlfriend is writer Zoey. Professor Alan lives with unfocused Molly. Other pairs also don't quite match, and the partners begin to change one another..
Director: Jon Harmon Feldman | Stars: Saffron Burrows, Bruce Davison, Sherilyn Fenn, Carla Gugino
Votes: 486
48. The Line (2009)
Action, Drama
Being police officers has stripped Max and Donny bare, to the point where they're about as morally ambiguous as the criminals they chase. Max has developed his own methods for dealing with ... See full summary »
Stars: Ron White, Daniel Kash, Clé Bennett, Sarah Manninen
Votes: 157
49. This Beautiful City (2007)
Not Rated | 85 min | Drama
When a woman plummets from her condo balcony in Toronto's West Queen West neighbourhood, five turbulent lives collide, releasing spurts and geysers of long suppressed sexuality and aggression.
Director: Ed Gass-Donnelly | Stars: Aaron Poole, Kristin Booth, Caroline Cave, Noam Jenkins
Votes: 249
50. Je n'aime que toi (2004)
105 min | Romance
The unexpected acquaintance with a young prostitute helps the venerable writer to overcome writer's block. Quite shocking story of her life inspires him for a new book.
Director: Claude Fournier | Stars: Michel Forget, Noémie Godin-Vigneau, Dorothée Berryman, Jean-Nicolas Verreault
Votes: 108