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1. Red Eye (2005)
PG-13 | 85 min | Thriller
A woman is kidnapped by a stranger on a routine flight. Threatened by the potential murder of her father, she is pulled into a plot to assist her captor in a political assassination.
Director: Wes Craven | Stars: Rachel McAdams, Cillian Murphy, Brian Cox, Laura Johnson
Votes: 140,682 | Gross: $57.89M
2. Irreversible (2002)
Not Rated | 97 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Events over the course of one traumatic night in Paris unfold in reverse-chronological order as the beautiful Alex is brutally raped and beaten by a stranger in an underpass tunnel.
Director: Gaspar Noé | Stars: Monica Bellucci, Vincent Cassel, Albert Dupontel, Philippe Nahon
Votes: 147,709 | Gross: $0.75M
3. The Invisible Man (I) (2020)
R | 124 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
When Cecilia's abusive ex takes his own life and leaves her his fortune, she suspects his death was a hoax. As a series of coincidences turn lethal, Cecilia works to prove that she is being hunted by someone nobody can see.
Director: Leigh Whannell | Stars: Elisabeth Moss, Oliver Jackson-Cohen, Harriet Dyer, Aldis Hodge
Votes: 255,588 | Gross: $70.41M
4. Chocolat (2000)
PG-13 | 121 min | Drama, Romance
A French woman and her young daughter open up a chocolate shop in a small remote village that shakes up the rigid morality of the community.
Director: Lasse Hallström | Stars: Juliette Binoche, Johnny Depp, Judi Dench, Alfred Molina
Votes: 201,998 | Gross: $71.51M
5. I, Tonya (2017)
R | 119 min | Biography, Comedy, Drama
Competitive ice skater Tonya Harding rises amongst the ranks at the U.S. Figure Skating Championships, but her future in the activity is thrown into doubt when her ex-husband intervenes.
Director: Craig Gillespie | Stars: Margot Robbie, Sebastian Stan, Allison Janney, Julianne Nicholson
Votes: 242,831 | Gross: $30.01M
6. Ghost (1990)
PG-13 | 127 min | Drama, Fantasy, Romance
After a young man is murdered, his spirit stays behind to warn his lover of impending danger, with the help of a reluctant psychic.
Director: Jerry Zucker | Stars: Patrick Swayze, Demi Moore, Whoopi Goldberg, Tony Goldwyn
Votes: 236,045 | Gross: $217.63M
7. Precious (II) (2009)
R | 110 min | Drama
In New York City's Harlem circa 1987, an overweight, abused, illiterate teen who is pregnant with her second child is invited to enroll in an alternative school in hopes that she can re-route her life in a better direction.
Director: Lee Daniels | Stars: Gabourey Sidibe, Mo'Nique, Paula Patton, Mariah Carey
Votes: 116,266 | Gross: $47.57M
8. Licence to Kill (1989)
PG-13 | 133 min | Action, Adventure, Thriller
A vengeful James Bond goes rogue to infiltrate and take down the organization of a drug lord who has murdered his friend's new wife and left him near death.
Director: John Glen | Stars: Timothy Dalton, Robert Davi, Carey Lowell, Talisa Soto
Votes: 112,113 | Gross: $34.67M
9. Panic Room (2002)
R | 112 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A divorced woman and her diabetic daughter take refuge in their newly-purchased house's safe room when three men break-in, searching for a missing fortune.
Director: David Fincher | Stars: Jodie Foster, Kristen Stewart, Forest Whitaker, Dwight Yoakam
Votes: 296,985 | Gross: $96.40M
10. Da Vinci's Demons (2013–2015)
TV-MA | 60 min | Adventure, Biography, Drama
Follows Leonardo Da Vinci during his early days in Florence, as a young artist, inventor and dreamer, trying to change the future.
Stars: Tom Riley, Gregg Chilingirian, Eros Vlahos, Laura Haddock
Votes: 79,206
11. Sleeping with the Enemy (1991)
R | 99 min | Drama, Thriller
A young woman fakes her own death in an attempt to escape her nightmarish marriage, but discovers it is impossible to elude her controlling husband.
Director: Joseph Ruben | Stars: Julia Roberts, Patrick Bergin, Kevin Anderson, Elizabeth Lawrence
Votes: 65,176 | Gross: $101.60M
12. The Long Goodbye (1973)
R | 112 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
Private investigator Philip Marlowe helps a friend out of a jam, but in doing so gets implicated in his wife's murder.
Director: Robert Altman | Stars: Elliott Gould, Nina van Pallandt, Sterling Hayden, Mark Rydell
Votes: 37,299 | Gross: $0.96M
13. Ichi the Killer (2001)
R | 129 min | Action, Crime, Drama
As sadomasochistic yakuza enforcer Kakihara searches for his missing boss he comes across Ichi, a repressed and psychotic killer who may be able to inflict levels of pain that Kakihara has only dreamed of achieving.
Director: Takashi Miike | Stars: Tadanobu Asano, Nao Ômori, Shin'ya Tsukamoto, Paulyn Sun
Votes: 60,061 | Gross: $0.02M
14. 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: 74,790 | Gross: $12.01M
15. Enough (I) (2002)
PG-13 | 115 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
After running away fails, a terrified woman empowers herself in order to battle her abusive husband.
Director: Michael Apted | Stars: Jennifer Lopez, Billy Campbell, Tessa Allen, Juliette Lewis
Votes: 47,772 | Gross: $40.01M
16. Suffragette (2015)
PG-13 | 106 min | Drama, History
In 1912 London, a young working mother is galvanized into radical political activism supporting the right for women to vote, and is willing to meet violence with violence to achieve this end.
Director: Sarah Gavron | Stars: Carey Mulligan, Anne-Marie Duff, Helena Bonham Carter, Meryl Streep
Votes: 44,760 | Gross: $4.69M
17. The Magdalene Sisters (2002)
R | 114 min | Drama
Three young Irish women struggle to maintain their spirits while they endure dehumanizing abuse as inmates of a Magdalene Sisters Asylum.
Director: Peter Mullan | Stars: Eileen Walsh, Dorothy Duffy, Nora-Jane Noone, Anne-Marie Duff
Votes: 28,466 | Gross: $4.89M
18. The Fugitive Kind (1960)
Not Rated | 119 min | Drama, Romance
Valentine "Snakeskin" Xavier, a trouble-prone drifter trying to go straight, wanders into a small Mississippi town looking for a simple and honest life but finds himself embroiled with problem-filled women.
Director: Sidney Lumet | Stars: Marlon Brando, Joanne Woodward, Anna Magnani, Maureen Stapleton
Votes: 7,149
19. Impulse (2008 Video)
R | 101 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Acting on impulse, CLAIRE DENNISON, enjoys a brief fling with a sexy stranger (a dead ringer for her husband), only to realize that the object of her desire is a crazed, manipulative, and tenacious psychopath.
Director: Charles T. Kanganis | Stars: Angus Macfadyen, Willa Ford, Robert Moloney, Ron Selmour
Votes: 1,830
20. Distant Voices, Still Lives (1988)
PG-13 | 84 min | Drama, Music
The lives of an English working-class family are told out of order in a free-associative manner. The first part, "Distant Voices", focuses on the father's role in the family. The second part, "Still Lives", focuses on his children.
Director: Terence Davies | Stars: Pete Postlethwaite, Freda Dowie, Angela Walsh, Dean Williams
Votes: 5,168 | Gross: $0.69M
21. The Hunting Party (1971)
R | 111 min | Action, Drama, Western
A ruthless rancher and his gang use extremely long range rifles to kill the men who kidnapped his infidel wife.
Director: Don Medford | Stars: Oliver Reed, Candice Bergen, Gene Hackman, Simon Oakland
Votes: 3,420
22. Human Desire (1954)
Not Rated | 91 min | Drama, Film-Noir, Romance
A Korean War vet returns to his job as a railroad engineer and becomes involved in an affair with a co-worker's wife following a murder on a train where they meet.
Director: Fritz Lang | Stars: Glenn Ford, Gloria Grahame, Broderick Crawford, Edgar Buchanan
Votes: 6,348
23. On Dangerous Ground (1951)
Approved | 82 min | Drama, Film-Noir
Rough city cop Jim Wilson is disciplined by his captain and is sent upstate, to a snowy mountain town, to help the local sheriff solve a murder case.
Directors: Nicholas Ray, Ida Lupino | Stars: Ida Lupino, Robert Ryan, Ward Bond, Charles Kemper
Votes: 8,067
24. Brother (1997)
99 min | Action, Crime, Drama
An ex-soldier with a personal honor code enters the family crime business in St. Petersburg, Russia.
Director: Aleksey Balabanov | Stars: Sergey Bodrov, Viktor Sukhorukov, Svetlana Pismichenko, Mariya Zhukova
Votes: 24,547
25. Criss Cross (1949)
Not Rated | 84 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
An armored truck driver and his ex-wife conspire with a gang to have his own truck robbed on the route.
Director: Robert Siodmak | Stars: Burt Lancaster, Yvonne De Carlo, Dan Duryea, Stephen McNally
Votes: 9,602
26. Boy on a Dolphin (1957)
Not Rated | 111 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance
A woman who finds a treasure is torn between two men: one who wants to sell it, and one who wants to donate it to Greece.
Director: Jean Negulesco | Stars: Alan Ladd, Clifton Webb, Sophia Loren, Alexis Minotis
Votes: 1,904
27. Killer Sally (2022)
TV-MA | 50 min | Documentary, Crime
Interviews with friends, family and Sally McNeil herself chart a bodybuilding couple's rocky marriage and its shocking end in a Valentine's Day murder.
Stars: Sally McNeil, John Lowden, Shantina Lowden, Shannon Brown
Votes: 6,294
28. The Method (2015– )
TV-MA | 53 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
An ambitious young law enforcement graduate is thrilled when her idol takes her on as a trainee. But his methods aren't anything like she imagined.
Stars: Konstantin Khabenskiy, Paulina Andreeva, Kirill Polukhin, Alexander Petrov
Votes: 3,327
29. Look Back in Anger (1959)
Approved | 98 min | Drama
A disillusioned, angry university graduate comes to terms with his grudge against middle-class life and values.
Director: Tony Richardson | Stars: Richard Burton, Claire Bloom, Mary Ure, Edith Evans
Votes: 4,369
30. Ladybird Ladybird (1994)
R | 101 min | Drama
Maggie, an unmarried mother of four children by four different men who abused her, leaves her kids home alone one night. A fire injures them and child services takes custody. Maggie fails to regain custody of her children.
Director: Ken Loach | Stars: Crissy Rock, Vladimir Vega, Sandie Lavelle, Mauricio Venegas
Votes: 3,821 | Gross: $0.15M
31. Personal Velocity (2002)
R | 86 min | Drama, Romance
Three women's escapes from their afflicted lives. Each struggles to flee from the men who confine their personal freedom.
Director: Rebecca Miller | Stars: Kyra Sedgwick, Parker Posey, Fairuza Balk, John Ventimiglia
Votes: 3,936 | Gross: $0.77M
32. Oliver Twist (I) (1982 TV Movie)
103 min | Crime, Drama
The classic Charles Dickens tale of an orphan boy who escapes the horrors of the orphanage only to be taken in by a band of thieves and pickpockets.
Director: Clive Donner | Stars: George C. Scott, Tim Curry, Michael Hordern, Timothy West
Votes: 565
33. Lady of Burlesque (1943)
Approved | 91 min | Comedy, Music, Mystery
After one member of their group is murdered, the performers at a burlesque house must work together to find out who the killer is before he strikes again.
Director: William A. Wellman | Stars: Barbara Stanwyck, Michael O'Shea, J. Edward Bromberg, Iris Adrian
Votes: 2,781
34. The Sweet Ride (1968)
R | 110 min | Drama
At a Malibu rented house, a tennis hustler, a surfer and a musician enjoy a Bohemian lifestyle, fall in-love with an unexpected female visitor and fight off a motorcycle punk gang.
Director: Harvey Hart | Stars: Anthony Franciosa, Michael Sarrazin, Jacqueline Bisset, Bob Denver
Votes: 345 | Gross: $2.60M
35. Battered (1978 TV Movie)
TV-14 | 99 min | Drama
Gritty drama of three interweaving stories of three women of various backgrounds and ages whose marriages are complicated by spouse-abuse by their husbands.
Director: Peter Werner | Stars: Karen Grassle, LeVar Burton, Mike Farrell, Joan Blondell
Votes: 117
36. Iruvar (1997)
140 min | Biography, Drama
A struggling actor and a writer-politician become friends as young men and rise to great heights in cinema and politics respectively. But when both become contenders for the top political post in the state, a rift develops between them.
Director: Mani Ratnam | Stars: Mohanlal, Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, Prakash Raj, Gautami
Votes: 7,327
37. Soulmates (2023)
Drama, Fantasy, Musical
Everybody dreams. Based on a true story two young singer-songwriters sharing the same metaphysical dream since they were children, are faced with the harsh reality of choosing their passionate fate of love or life.
Director: Jim Fitzpatrick | Stars: Jadon Cal, Samantha Reddy, Jim Fitzpatrick, Ethan Rich
Votes: 61
38. Finger Man (1955)
Approved | 82 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
An ex-con goes undercover for the government to "finger" the crime boss who made his sister a drug addict.
Director: Harold D. Schuster | Stars: Frank Lovejoy, Forrest Tucker, Peggie Castle, Timothy Carey
Votes: 425
39. Sólo mía (2001)
100 min | Drama
A woman meets a charming man and falls in love, they get married and start a family. As they age and have children, the man's becomes violent and abusive.
Director: Javier Balaguer | Stars: Sergi López, Paz Vega, Elvira Mínguez, Alberto Jiménez
Votes: 660
40. Ab... Bas! (2004)
Not Rated | 137 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
Somiya Mathur lives a middle-class lifestyle with her dad and mom in Mumbai. At the age of five her parents go through a bitter divorce and she moves out to live with her mom. After she ... See full summary »
Director: Rajesh Kumar Singh | Stars: Chetanya Adib, Shawar Ali, Arun Bakshi, Chitrapama Banerjee
Votes: 97
41. Aakrosh (2010)
Not Rated | 146 min | Action, Crime, Drama
The Central Bureau of Investigation deputes two officers to investigate the disappearance of three medical students, which they believe to be an incident of 'honour killing' in a small, closed community.
Director: Priyadarshan | Stars: Ajay Devgn, Akshaye Khanna, Bipasha Basu, Paresh Rawal
Votes: 4,087
42. The Scarlet Hour (1956)
Approved | 95 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
An unhappy wife uses her powers of manipulation to draw an infatuated man into an ill-fated jewelry heist.
Director: Michael Curtiz | Stars: Carol Ohmart, Tom Tryon, Jody Lawrance, James Gregory
Votes: 733
43. Call-center (2020)
44 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
On the 12th floor of the Moscow skyscraper, is the office of the call center "Online Store for Adults." One morning, as usual, having come to work, twelve people who are in the office ... See full summary »
Stars: Pavel Tabakov, Yuliya Khlynina, Vladimir Yaglych, Sabina Akhmedova
Votes: 800
44. Lyubi ikh vsekh (2019)
Not Rated | 100 min | Drama
She always has a plan. For each one. Each has its own name. One needs Faith. To another - Hope. And Love to almost everyone. She has a special approach to each of the men. But they always ... See full summary »
Director: Mariya Agranovich | Stars: Alyona Mikhaylova, Aleksandr Kuznetsov, Sergey Garmash, Aleksandra Kiseleva
Votes: 292
45. Utopia (1983)
198 min | Drama
A treatise on love and desire tainted by harsh reality of capitalism, in which submission to the laws of lust-as-commerce is played out by five prostitutes and their pimp, who pits them ... See full summary »
Director: Sohrab Shahid Saless | Stars: Manfred Zapatka, Imke Barnstedt, Gundula Petrovska, Gabriele Fischer
Votes: 351
46. Kidnapped (1938)
Approved | 90 min | Adventure, Drama
In 1747, young David Balfour's life is threatened by his greedy uncle Ebenezer who wishes to become heir to the considerable Balfour estate.
Directors: Alfred L. Werker, Otto Preminger | Stars: Warner Baxter, Freddie Bartholomew, Arleen Whelan, C. Aubrey Smith
Votes: 337
47. Ichi the Killer: Episode 0 (2002 Video)
Not Rated | 46 min | Animation, Action, Drama
Animated prequel to Ichi the Killer (2001), focusing on the origin story of the psychopathic killer Ichi.
Director: Shinji Ishihira | Stars: Chihiro Suzuki, Shinpachi Tsuji, Sayaka Ôhara, Takashi Miike
Votes: 822
48. Aetbaar (2004)
Not Rated | 152 min | Action, Drama, Musical
A protective father starts digging deeper into the past of his daughter's possessive, unpredictable and violent boyfriend.
Director: Vikram Bhatt | Stars: Amitabh Bachchan, John Abraham, Bipasha Basu, Supriya Pilgaonkar
Votes: 1,154
49. Trench Road (2004)
111 min | Comedy, Drama
Matti Virtanen is trying to get his family back by buying a house.
Director: Veikko Aaltonen | Stars: Eero Aho, Tiina Lymi, Ella Lymi, Kari Väänänen
Votes: 935
50. The Monster of Mangatiti (2015 TV Movie)
70 min | Documentary, Biography, Crime
Heather Walsh tells her story of the time she was an emotional prisoner of Bill Cornelius at his remote farm.
Directors: Riccardo Pellizzeri, Philly de Lacey | Stars: Greta Gregory, Mark Mitchinson, Flynn Allan, Mark Warren
Votes: 824