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1. The Thing (1982)
R | 109 min | Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
A research team in Antarctica is hunted by a shape-shifting alien that assumes the appearance of its victims.
Director: John Carpenter | Stars: Kurt Russell, Wilford Brimley, Keith David, Richard Masur
Votes: 467,083 | Gross: $13.78M
2. The Incredibles (2004)
PG | 115 min | Animation, Action, Adventure
While trying to lead a quiet suburban life, a family of undercover superheroes are forced into action to save the world.
Director: Brad Bird | Stars: Craig T. Nelson, Samuel L. Jackson, Holly Hunter, Jason Lee
Votes: 809,403 | Gross: $261.44M
3. Addams Family Values (1993)
PG-13 | 94 min | Comedy, Fantasy
The Addams Family try to rescue their beloved Uncle Fester from his gold-digging new love, a black widow named Debbie.
Director: Barry Sonnenfeld | Stars: Anjelica Huston, Raul Julia, Christopher Lloyd, Joan Cusack
Votes: 109,695 | Gross: $48.92M
4. 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: 103,081 | Gross: $2.12M
5. They Cloned Tyrone (2023)
R | 122 min | Comedy, Mystery, Sci-Fi
A series of eerie events thrusts an unlikely trio onto the trail of a nefarious government conspiracy in this pulpy mystery caper.
Director: Juel Taylor | Stars: John Boyega, Jamie Foxx, Teyonah Parris, Kiefer Sutherland
Votes: 40,582
6. The Thing (I) (2011)
R | 103 min | Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
At an Antarctica research site, the discovery of an alien craft leads to a confrontation between graduate student Kate Lloyd and scientist Dr. Sander Halvorson.
Director: Matthijs van Heijningen Jr. | Stars: Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Joel Edgerton, Ulrich Thomsen, Eric Christian Olsen
Votes: 145,611 | Gross: $16.93M
7. Leviathan (1989)
R | 98 min | Adventure, Horror, Mystery
Perched on the hull of a wrecked Soviet freighter, a team of deep-sea miners led by head oceanographer Steven Beck comes face to face with a mutant creature that's the product of a failed genetic experiment.
Director: George P. Cosmatos | Stars: Peter Weller, Richard Crenna, Amanda Pays, Daniel Stern
Votes: 23,815 | Gross: $15.70M
8. Australia (2008)
PG-13 | 165 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance
In 1939, an Englishwoman inherits a sprawling ranch in northern Australia and reluctantly makes a pact with a stockman to drive 2000 head of cattle over unforgiving landscape.
Director: Baz Luhrmann | Stars: Nicole Kidman, Hugh Jackman, Shea Adams, Eddie Baroo
Votes: 129,787 | Gross: $49.55M
9. Phenomena (1985)
R | 116 min | Crime, Horror, Mystery
A young girl who has an amazing ability to communicate with insects is transferred to an exclusive Swiss boarding school, where her unusual capability might help solve a string of murders.
Director: Dario Argento | Stars: Jennifer Connelly, Donald Pleasence, Daria Nicolodi, Dalila Di Lazzaro
Votes: 30,080
10. Star Trek: First Contact (1996)
PG-13 | 111 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
The Borg travel back in time intent on preventing Earth's first contact with an alien species. Captain Picard and his crew pursue them to ensure that Zefram Cochrane makes his maiden flight reaching warp speed.
Director: Jonathan Frakes | Stars: Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, Brent Spiner, LeVar Burton
Votes: 132,120 | Gross: $92.00M
11. Coneheads (1993)
PG | 88 min | Comedy, Sci-Fi
Aliens with conical crania crash-land on Earth.
Director: Steve Barron | Stars: Dan Aykroyd, Jane Curtin, Robert Knott, Jonathan Penner
Votes: 58,018 | Gross: $21.27M
12. The Addams Family (2019)
PG | 86 min | Animation, Comedy, Family
The eccentrically macabre family moves to a bland suburb where Wednesday Addams' friendship with the daughter of a hostile and conformist local reality show host exacerbates conflict between the families.
Directors: Greg Tiernan, Conrad Vernon | Stars: Oscar Isaac, Charlize Theron, Chloë Grace Moretz, Finn Wolfhard
Votes: 44,915 | Gross: $100.04M
13. School Ties (1992)
PG-13 | 106 min | Drama
In 1959, a star quarterback from a working-class family is given an opportunity to attend an elite New England preparatory school, but he is conflicted about whether or not to tell his Evangelical classmates that he is Jewish.
Director: Robert Mandel | Stars: Brendan Fraser, Matt Damon, Chris O'Donnell, Randall Batinkoff
Votes: 27,413 | Gross: $14.72M
14. Antebellum (2020)
R | 105 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
Successful author Veronica Henley finds herself trapped in a horrifying reality and must uncover the mind-bending mystery before it's too late.
Directors: Gerard Bush, Christopher Renz | Stars: Janelle Monáe, Eric Lange, Jena Malone, Jack Huston
Votes: 29,828
15. Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)
Approved | 80 min | Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
A small-town doctor learns that the population of his community is being replaced by emotionless alien duplicates.
Director: Don Siegel | Stars: Kevin McCarthy, Dana Wynter, Larry Gates, King Donovan
Votes: 54,804
16. Splinter (I) (2008)
R | 82 min | Crime, Horror, Sci-Fi
Trapped in an isolated gas station by a voracious Splinter parasite that transforms its still-living victims into deadly hosts, a young couple and an escaped convict must find a way to work together to survive this primal terror.
Director: Toby Wilkins | Stars: Shea Whigham, Jill Wagner, Paulo Costanzo, Charles Baker
Votes: 40,957
17. Body Snatchers (1993)
R | 87 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
A teenage girl and her father discover alien clones are replacing humans on a remote U.S. military base in Alabama.
Director: Abel Ferrara | Stars: Gabrielle Anwar, Meg Tilly, Terry Kinney, Reilly Murphy
Votes: 21,265 | Gross: $0.43M
18. Sunshine (1999)
R | 181 min | Drama, History, Romance
The fate of a Hungarian Jewish family throughout the 20th century.
Director: István Szabó | Stars: Ralph Fiennes, Rosemary Harris, Rachel Weisz, Jennifer Ehle
Votes: 15,802 | Gross: $5.10M
19. Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee (2007 TV Movie)
TV-14 | 133 min | Drama, History, Western
A historic chronicle based on the book by Dee Brown explains how Native Americans were displaced as the United States expanded west.
Director: Yves Simoneau | Stars: Aidan Quinn, Adam Beach, August Schellenberg, Anna Paquin
Votes: 7,444
20. Indian Horse (2017)
Not Rated | 101 min | Drama, Sport
Follows the life of Native Canadian Saul Indian Horse as he survives residential school and life amongst the racism of the 1970s. A talented hockey player, Saul must find his own path as he battles stereotypes and alcoholism.
Director: Stephen S. Campanelli | Stars: Ajuawak Kapashesit, Wayne Baker, Sladen Peltier, Skye Pelletier
Votes: 2,655 | Gross: $1.95M
21. Assimilate (I) (2019)
TV-PG | 93 min | Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Three friends making a web series about their town discover that their neighbors are being killed and replaced by creatures who are perfect copies of their victims.
Director: John Murlowski | Stars: Joel Courtney, Calum Worthy, Andi Matichak, Katherine McNamara
Votes: 6,210
22. Meet the Applegates (1990)
R | 90 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
Modelling themselves after an idyllic cookie-cutter suburban 1950s family, a colony of insects move from South America into the United States with the intent of getting access to the nation's nuclear resources.
Director: Michael Lehmann | Stars: Ed Begley Jr., Stockard Channing, Dabney Coleman, Bobby Jacoby
Votes: 2,615 | Gross: $0.49M
23. Pocket Hercules: Naim Süleymanoglu (2019)
141 min | Biography, Drama, History
The biography of Turkish weightlifter and Olympic champion Naim Suleymanoglu.
Director: Özer Feyzioglu | Stars: Hayat Van Eck, Selen Öztürk, Yetkin Dikinciler, Gürkan Uygun
Votes: 14,031
24. Synonyms (2019)
Unrated | 123 min | Comedy, Drama
A young Israeli man absconds to Paris to flee his nationality, aided by his trusty Franco-Israeli dictionary.
Director: Nadav Lapid | Stars: Tom Mercier, Quentin Dolmaire, Louise Chevillotte, Uria Hayik
Votes: 6,294
25. Outsourced (2006)
PG-13 | 103 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
After his entire department is outsourced, an American novelty products salesman (Hamilton) heads to India to train his replacement.
Director: John Jeffcoat | Stars: Josh Hamilton, Ayesha Dharker, Asif Basra, Matt Smith
Votes: 12,196 | Gross: $0.16M
26. ¿Qué pasa, U.S.A.? (1977–1980)
TV-PG | 30 min | Comedy
In the Peña household, language barriers arise, cultures clash... and hilarity ensues!
Stars: Velia Martinez, Ana Margarita Martínez Casado, Luis G. Oquendo, Manolo Villaverde
Votes: 319
27. Triumphs of a Man Called Horse (1983)
PG | 86 min | Drama, Western
When gold is found on Sioux lands, crooked men attempt to provoke the Sioux into a war with the army and the prospectors.
Director: John Hough | Stars: Richard Harris, Michael Beck, Ana De Sade, Vaughn Armstrong
Votes: 707
28. Growing Up Smith (2015)
PG-13 | 102 min | Comedy, Drama, Family
In 1979, an Indian family moves to America with hopes of living the American Dream. While their 10-year-old boy Smith falls head-over-heels for the girl next door, his desire to become a "good old boy" propels him further away from his family's ideals than ever before.
Director: Frank Lotito | Stars: Jason Lee, Anjul Nigam, Brighton Sharbino, Hilarie Burton Morgan
Votes: 1,431 | Gross: $0.01M
29. Anne Frank Remembered (1995)
PG | 117 min | Documentary, Biography, War
Tells the story of the Frank family and paints a portrait of their brash and free-spirited daughter Anne, perhaps the world's most famous victim of the Holocaust.
Director: Jon Blair | Stars: Kenneth Branagh, Glenn Close, Isa Baschwitz, Mary Bos
Votes: 1,350 | Gross: $1.31M
30. Je'vida (2023)
100 min | Drama, History
Iida, an elderly Skolt Sámi woman who has abandoned her past under the pressures of assimilation, weaving across three different historical eras to examine the fate of Finland's Indigenous peoples in the post-war period.
Director: Katja Gauriloff | Stars: Agafia Niemenmaa, Heidi Gauriloff, Sanna-Kaisa Palo, Seidi Haarla
Votes: 146
31. Unholy Women (2006)
107 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
When Val is released from prison, she's determined to make a new life for herself. But the criminal underworld won't let her go that easily, and her former boss won't stop until she's paid her debt - with blood.
Directors: Keita Amemiya, Takuji Suzuki, Keisuke Toyoshima | Stars: Noriko Nakagoshi, Yûko Kobayashi, Riko Suzuki, Miharu Morina
Votes: 720
32. Let's Go Jets (2017)
121 min | Comedy, Drama, Sport
Led by a demanding coach, an unlikely squad of small town girls vie for victory in a major US cheer dance championship. Based on true events.
Director: Hayato Kawai | Stars: Suzu Hirose, Yûki Amami, Ayami Nakajô, Miu Tomita
Votes: 846
33. Rockford (1999)
102 min | Comedy, Drama
The movie chronicles the arrival of a (Hindu) student to a strict all-boys Christian boarding school in India and his assimilation into the school. The change is quite dramatic to the ... See full summary »
Director: Nagesh Kukunoor | Stars: Rohan Dey, Jayant Kripalani, Nandita Das, Soumyarka Gupta
Votes: 1,448
34. The Broken Chain (1993 TV Movie)
93 min | Drama, War, Action
The story of two Iroquis brothers caught in the midst of the Revolutionary War.
Director: Lamont Johnson | Stars: Eric Schweig, Wes Studi, Buffy Sainte-Marie, Pierce Brosnan
Votes: 426
35. Tevya (1939)
Approved | 93 min | Drama
The original, non-musical film version of the book which inspired "Fiddler on the Roof".
Director: Maurice Schwartz | Stars: Maurice Schwartz, Miriam Riselle, Rebecca Weintraub, Paula Lubelski
Votes: 394
36. Yellow (IV) (2006)
4 min | Short, Action, Sci-Fi
An android is given the ability to think and learn and lives among society for 18 months.
Director: Neill Blomkamp | Stars: Julien Phipps, Gideon Karmel, Jason Bell, Jaeson Lee
Votes: 617
37. Right Cross (1950)
Passed | 90 min | Drama, Sport
Two boxing promoters compete to sign up Mexican-American prizefighter Johnny Monterez who, despite his talent, is ashamed of his heritage and boxes on borrowed time due to a permanent hand injury.
Director: John Sturges | Stars: June Allyson, Dick Powell, Ricardo Montalban, Lionel Barrymore
Votes: 529
38. Good Kurds, Bad Kurds: No Friends But the Mountains (2000)
72 min | Documentary, War
A war of national liberation or a war against terrorism? Film-maker and acclaimed freelance journalist Kevin McKiernan poses this question at the outset of this stirring, provocative film ... See full summary »
Director: Kevin McKiernan | Stars: William Hartung, Jim McGovern, Kevin McKiernan, Abdullah Ocalan
Votes: 93
39. Masala (1991)
Unrated | 106 min | Comedy, Music, Romance
Five years ago, under the watchful eye of the great god Krishna, a plane of Indians returning to the homeland exploded in Canadian skies; a mortal named Krishna lost his family in that ... See full summary »
Director: Srinivas Krishna | Stars: Srinivas Krishna, Sakina Jaffrey, Zohra Sehgal, Saeed Jaffrey
Votes: 220
40. Class Dismissed: How TV Frames the Working Class (2005 Video)
62 min | Documentary
Based on the forthcoming book by Pepi Leistyna, Class Dismissed navigates the steady stream of narrow working class representations from American television's beginnings to today's sitcoms,... See full summary »
Director: Loretta Alper | Stars: Stanley Aronowitz, Edward Asner, Roseanne Barr, George W. Bush
Votes: 70
41. A koppányi aga testamentuma (1967)
92 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama
The story is placed in the 16th century, during the Turkish oppression of Hungary. Laszlo Babocsai, a young Hungarian warrior defeats Oglu, the Turkish agha of the Koppány nahiyah (today: ... See full summary »
Director: Éva Zsurzs | Stars: Ferenc Bessenyei, Klári Tolnay, Péter Benkö, Ádám Szirtes
Votes: 292
42. Tie a Yellow Ribbon (2007)
Drama
Estranged from her family due to a childhood indiscretion with her white brother, a young Korean adoptee seeks to regain a sense of home by exploring ties with the East Asian Americans she ... See full summary »
Director: Joy Dietrich | Stars: Kim Jiang Dubaniewicz, Jane Kim, Patrick Heusinger, Ian Wen
Votes: 43
43. America So Beautiful (2001)
91 min | Drama
America So Beautiful follows the odyssey of a group of Iranian Immigrants in Los Angeles, trying to find their place in America amidst the unfolding of the 1979 Iran hostage crises. ... See full summary »
Director: Babak Shokrian | Stars: Atossa Leoni, Belinda Waymouth, Shohreh Aghdashloo, Mansour
Votes: 198
44. Savage (IV) (2009)
6 min | Short, Drama, Musical
On a summer day in the 1950s, a native Cree girl watches the countryside go by from the backseat of a car. A woman at her kitchen table sings a lullaby in her Cree language. When the girl ... See full summary »
Director: Lisa Jackson | Stars: Ta'kaiya Blaney, Skeena Reece, Marshall Abery, Morgan Abery
Votes: 28
45. Star Trek: Armada II (2001 Video Game)
E | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
The Borg have been spotted in Federation space using a new vessel employed to assimilate planetary surfaces. The Cardassian Union is becoming increasingly aggressive, and the Klingons are growing tired of their role as peacekeepers.
Stars: Patrick Stewart, J.G. Hertzler, Alice Krige, Judi M. Durand
Votes: 195
46. Out of Faith (2006)
82 min | Documentary
OUT OF FAITH, a feature-length documentary, follows three generations of a family being torn apart by conflicts over interfaith marriage. The family's matriarch, Leah Welbel, and her ... See full summary »
Director: Lisa Leeman
Votes: 13
47. Sa ilalim ng tulay (2011)
Drama
Director: Earl Bontuyan | Stars: Bong Cabrera, Chris Pasturan, Remy Tolentino, Christopher Canduli
Votes: 6
48. The Statue (2019)
16 min | Short, Comedy, Family
Kids Comedy. A recently immigrated 2nd grader struggles with his new life that only becomes more challenging when his dance teacher casts him in the class play.
Director: Becca Wolff | Stars: Nikhil Gomez, Ella Lee-Clark, Olivia Dunn, Mohana Rajagopal
49. The Chaos Engine (1993 Video Game)
Action, Sci-Fi
In 19th century Britain, a baron learns from a marooned time traveler how to create artificial intelligence. Unfortunately, the A.I. goes insane and attacks humanity. Now only mercs can stop it in this classic steampunk top down shooter.
Votes: 36
50. Ellis Island (1997 TV Movie)
138 min | Documentary, History
The story of the Ellis Island immigration station, as related by historians and the immigrants themselves.
Director: Lisa Bourgoujian | Stars: Mandy Patinkin, Cy Abrams, Isabel Belarsky, Marinus de Nooyer