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1. Ex Machina (2014)
R | 108 min | Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
A young programmer is selected to participate in a ground-breaking experiment in synthetic intelligence by evaluating the human qualities of a highly advanced humanoid A.I.
Director: Alex Garland | Stars: Alicia Vikander, Domhnall Gleeson, Oscar Isaac, Sonoya Mizuno
Votes: 588,664 | Gross: $25.44M
2. Godzilla vs. Kong (2021)
PG-13 | 113 min | Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
The epic next chapter in the cinematic Monsterverse pits two of the greatest icons in motion picture history against each other--the fearsome Godzilla and the mighty Kong--with humanity caught in the balance.
Director: Adam Wingard | Stars: Alexander Skarsgård, Millie Bobby Brown, Rebecca Hall, Brian Tyree Henry
Votes: 241,143 | Gross: $100.92M
3. Alien (1979)
R | 117 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
The crew of a commercial spacecraft encounters a deadly lifeform after investigating a mysterious transmission of unknown origin.
Director: Ridley Scott | Stars: Sigourney Weaver, Tom Skerritt, John Hurt, Veronica Cartwright
Votes: 949,893 | Gross: $78.90M
4. Shutter Island (2010)
R | 138 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Teddy Daniels and Chuck Aule, two US marshals, are sent to an asylum on a remote island in order to investigate the disappearance of a patient, where Teddy uncovers a shocking truth about the place.
Director: Martin Scorsese | Stars: Leonardo DiCaprio, Emily Mortimer, Mark Ruffalo, Ben Kingsley
Votes: 1,455,611 | Gross: $128.01M
5. Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019)
PG-13 | 132 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy
The crypto-zoological agency Monarch faces off against a battery of god-sized monsters, including the mighty Godzilla, who collides with Mothra, Rodan, and his ultimate nemesis, the three-headed King Ghidorah.
Director: Michael Dougherty | Stars: Kyle Chandler, Vera Farmiga, Millie Bobby Brown, Ken Watanabe
Votes: 206,758 | Gross: $110.50M
6. Jurassic World Dominion (2022)
PG-13 | 147 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Four years after the destruction of Isla Nublar, Biosyn operatives attempt to track down Maisie Lockwood, while Dr Ellie Sattler investigates a genetically engineered swarm of giant insects.
Director: Colin Trevorrow | Stars: Chris Pratt, Bryce Dallas Howard, Laura Dern, Sam Neill
Votes: 204,579 | Gross: $376.85M
7. Inside Man (2006)
R | 129 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A police detective, a bank robber, and a high-power broker enter high-stakes negotiations after the criminal's brilliant heist spirals into a hostage situation.
Director: Spike Lee | Stars: Denzel Washington, Clive Owen, Jodie Foster, Christopher Plummer
Votes: 397,697 | Gross: $88.51M
8. Passengers (I) (2016)
PG-13 | 116 min | Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi
A malfunction in a sleeping pod on a spacecraft traveling to a distant colony planet wakes one passenger 90 years early.
Director: Morten Tyldum | Stars: Jennifer Lawrence, Chris Pratt, Michael Sheen, Laurence Fishburne
Votes: 447,120 | Gross: $100.01M
9. Life (I) (2017)
R | 104 min | Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
A team of scientists aboard the International Space Station discover a rapidly evolving life form that caused extinction on Mars and now threatens all life on Earth.
Director: Daniel Espinosa | Stars: Jake Gyllenhaal, Rebecca Ferguson, Ryan Reynolds, Hiroyuki Sanada
Votes: 253,690 | Gross: $30.23M
10. The Gift (VI) (2015)
R | 108 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
A married couple, Simon and Robyn, run into Gordo, an old classmate. Things take a turn when Gordo begins to drop in unannounced at their house and inundates them with mysterious gifts.
Director: Joel Edgerton | Stars: Jason Bateman, Rebecca Hall, Joel Edgerton, Allison Tolman
Votes: 172,019 | Gross: $43.77M
11. The Nun (2018)
R | 96 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
A priest with a haunted past and a novice on the threshold of her final vows are sent by the Vatican to investigate the death of a young nun in Romania and confront a malevolent force in the form of a demonic nun.
Director: Corin Hardy | Stars: Demián Bichir, Taissa Farmiga, Jonas Bloquet, Bonnie Aarons
Votes: 170,347 | Gross: $117.45M
12. Source Code (2011)
PG-13 | 93 min | Action, Drama, Mystery
A soldier wakes up in someone else's body and discovers he's part of an experimental government program to find the bomber of a commuter train within 8 minutes.
Director: Duncan Jones | Stars: Jake Gyllenhaal, Michelle Monaghan, Vera Farmiga, Jeffrey Wright
Votes: 549,543 | Gross: $54.71M
13. 10 Cloverfield Lane (2016)
PG-13 | 103 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
A young woman is held in an underground bunker by a man who insists that a hostile event has left the surface of the Earth uninhabitable.
Director: Dan Trachtenberg | Stars: John Goodman, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, John Gallagher Jr., Douglas M. Griffin
Votes: 354,544 | Gross: $72.08M
14. Moon (2009)
R | 97 min | Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Astronaut Sam Bell has a quintessentially personal encounter toward the end of his three-year stint on the Moon, where he, working alongside his computer, GERTY, sends back to Earth parcels of a resource that has helped diminish our planet's power problems.
Director: Duncan Jones | Stars: Sam Rockwell, Kevin Spacey, Dominique McElligott, Rosie Shaw
Votes: 376,604 | Gross: $5.01M
15. The Purge (I) (2013)
R | 85 min | Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
A wealthy family is held hostage for harboring the target of a murderous syndicate during the Purge, a 12-hour period in which any and all crime is legal.
Director: James DeMonaco | Stars: Ethan Hawke, Lena Headey, Max Burkholder, Adelaide Kane
Votes: 239,906 | Gross: $64.47M
16. 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: 296,813 | Gross: $96.40M
17. The Shallows (2016)
PG-13 | 86 min | Action, Drama, Horror
A mere 200 yards from shore, surfer Nancy is attacked by a great white shark, with her short journey to safety becoming the ultimate contest of wills.
Director: Jaume Collet-Serra | Stars: Blake Lively, Óscar Jaenada, Angelo Josue Lozano Corzo, Joseph Salas
Votes: 143,372 | Gross: $55.12M
18. The Blob (1988)
R | 95 min | Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
A deadly entity from space crash-lands near a small town and begins consuming everyone in its path. Panic ensues as shady government scientists try to contain the horrific creature.
Director: Chuck Russell | Stars: Shawnee Smith, Kevin Dillon, Donovan Leitch Jr., Jeffrey DeMunn
Votes: 43,475 | Gross: $8.25M
19. Crawl (I) (2019)
R | 87 min | Action, Adventure, Horror
A young woman, while attempting to save her father during a category 5 hurricane, finds herself trapped in a flooding house and must fight for her life against alligators.
Director: Alexandre Aja | Stars: Kaya Scodelario, Barry Pepper, Morfydd Clark, Ross Anderson
Votes: 93,987 | Gross: $39.01M
20. Flightplan (2005)
PG-13 | 98 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
A bereaved woman and her daughter are flying home from Berlin to America. At 30,000 feet, the child vanishes, and nobody will admit she was ever on the plane.
Director: Robert Schwentke | Stars: Jodie Foster, Peter Sarsgaard, Sean Bean, Kate Beahan
Votes: 171,781 | Gross: $89.71M
21. K-19: The Widowmaker (2002)
PG-13 | 138 min | Drama, History, Thriller
When Russia's first nuclear submarine malfunctions on its maiden voyage, the crew must race to save the ship and prevent a nuclear disaster.
Director: Kathryn Bigelow | Stars: Harrison Ford, Sam Spruell, Peter Stebbings, Christian Camargo
Votes: 67,381 | Gross: $35.17M
22. Phone Booth (2002)
R | 81 min | Crime, Thriller
Publicist Stuart Shepard finds himself trapped in a phone booth, pinned down by an extortionist's sniper rifle. Unable to leave or receive outside help, Stuart's negotiation with the caller leads to a jaw-dropping climax.
Director: Joel Schumacher | Stars: Colin Farrell, Kiefer Sutherland, Forest Whitaker, Radha Mitchell
Votes: 285,686 | Gross: $46.57M
23. Outbreak (1995)
R | 127 min | Action, Drama, Thriller
Army doctors struggle to find a cure for a deadly virus spreading throughout a California town that was brought to America by an African monkey.
Director: Wolfgang Petersen | Stars: Dustin Hoffman, Rene Russo, Morgan Freeman, Kevin Spacey
Votes: 137,711 | Gross: $67.82M
24. Non-Stop (2014)
PG-13 | 106 min | Action, Mystery, Thriller
An air marshal springs into action during a transatlantic flight after receiving a series of text messages demanding $150 million into an off-shore account, or someone will die every 20 minutes.
Director: Jaume Collet-Serra | Stars: Liam Neeson, Julianne Moore, Scoot McNairy, Michelle Dockery
Votes: 276,486 | Gross: $92.17M
25. Containment (2016)
TV-14 | 60 min | Drama
The series follows an epidemic that breaks out in Atlanta, leaving the large city quarantined and those stuck on the inside fighting for their lives.
Stars: David Gyasi, Christina Moses, Chris Wood, Claudia Black
Votes: 11,377
26. Control (I) (2023)
84 min | Action, Thriller
British Home Secretary Stella Simmons drives home one night while engaging in an affair with the Prime Minister. A mysterious man remotely hijacks her self-driving car, forcing her on a rampage through London.
Director: Gene Fallaize | Stars: Kevin Spacey, Lauren Metcalfe, Mark Hampton, Natasha Kemball
Votes: 169
27. Liberty Stands Still (2002)
R | 96 min | Action, Drama, Thriller
Liberty, the wife of a gun manufacturer, is held hostage at a hot dog stand by a sniper seeking revenge.
Director: Kari Skogland | Stars: Tanya Allen, Hart Bochner, Fulvio Cecere, Gregory Calpakis
Votes: 8,028
28. The Well
Mystery, Thriller | Pre-production
An injured woman trapped in a deep well must overcome a manipulative stranger with keys to her dark past to save her daughter from a horrific ordeal.
Director: Misko Massanyi
29. Hell's Belles (1995)
NC-17 | 91 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
It's near the 21st century, and the Devil wants to com out and play. He's been stuck with the same women in Hell for thousands of years and he's bored! He's ready for some mortal babes. ... See full summary »
Directors: Ed Hansen, Gerben Cath | Stars: Terence Cooper, Nadine Kalmes, K.C. Kelly, Martin Howells
Votes: 44
30. Intersection (2020)
75 min | Thriller
When a conman discovers his son is abducted, he is forced to drive the streets of Sydney completing an escalating series of trials to appease the kidnapper, and atone for his career of deception.
Director: Samuel Bartlett | Stars: Matt Doran, Lianne Mackessy, Lucy Fry, Daniel Kajtaz
Votes: 184
31. Dark Sector (2008 Video Game)
M | Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Hayden Tenno, a covert CIA operative, has been sent into the dark city of Lasria to perform a simple clean-up job, but is unknowingly thrust into a deceptive world where an unknown enemy is always close.
Directors: Michael McCormick, Robert Taylor | Stars: Michael Rosenbaum, Dwight Schultz, Jürgen Prochnow, Julianne Buescher
Votes: 378
32. Artifact (2013)
Action, Adventure, Drama
Human's struggle to obtain ancient Artifacts that have been scattered throughout space.
Stars: Cesar D' La Torre, Rich Finley, Ksenia Valenti, Daniel Begus
Votes: 55
33. LV 16 (2008)
2 min | Short, Horror
A man is thrown into a plastic blood splattered room, his head tied tight with a plastic bag, escaping suffocation he soon realises the nightmare has only begun.
Director: Ryan Haysom | Stars: Hayley Coleman, Jason Croot, Heather Gatley, Mark Vincent
Votes: 56
34. Artificial (II)
Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller | Announced
An amnesia-ridden victim wakes up in a mysterious house with a woman who's nursed him back to health. As the two grow close, he begins to suspect she isn't telling him the whole truth, and must do everything he can to get out alive.
35. 1x1 (2022)
10 min | Short, Horror, Thriller
An early evening run turns deadly when two friends happen upon a crazed farmer and his ailing victim.
Director: Jacob Byrd | Stars: Jonathan Michel, Floyd Strayer, Alycia McDonald, Sara Clementina King
36. Infection Containment (2020)
16 min | Short, Drama, Thriller
The Apocalypse has come to the world and while two couples are hiding away in an apartment in a university town in Indiana. The worse happens when they go for a supply run and all hell brakes loose.
Director: Connor Noble | Stars: Joshua Neal Lamon, Leanne Johnson, Montez Lafayette, Kaitlynn Nailon
37. Dominance and Terror: A Discussion with Noam Chomsky (2004 TV Short)
15 min | Documentary, Short, History
An illuminating window into the mind of American linguist, philosopher, political activist, author and the most cited scholar of our time. Director Roberto S. Oregel composes a provocative ... See full summary »
Director: Roberto S. Oregel | Star: Noam Chomsky
Votes: 24
38.
Flack (2019–2021)
Episode:
Duncan
(2020)
TV-14 | Comedy, Drama
Danny Davis has a crisis, but Caroline is attending a funeral, Eve is at a hen party and Robyn has disappeared, which all leaves Melody to contain the situation on her own.
Director: Oliver Lansley | Stars: Anna Paquin, Lydia Wilson, Rebecca Benson, Paul Ready
Votes: 126
39.
Flack (2019–2021)
Episode:
Danny & Deepak
(2020)
TV-14 | Comedy, Drama
With Robyn clearly not coping, the team are called in to contain Danny Davis and make sure a live TV show goes to air. The truth comes out and Robyn pays the price.
Director: Stephen Moyer | Stars: Anna Paquin, Lydia Wilson, Genevieve Angelson, Rebecca Benson
Votes: 119
40.
Bordertown (2016–2020)
Episode:
Shakkitarina 1/2
(2019)
TV-MA | 57 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A mysterious outbreak leaves Kari locked down in a hospital ward - just as he and the team brace for the return of Lasse Maasalo.
Director: Juuso Syrjä | Stars: Ville Virtanen, Matleena Kuusniemi, Anu Sinisalo, Lenita Susi
Votes: 153
41.
Artifact (2013)
Episode:
CruxEnigma
(2017)
Action, Adventure, Drama
In a Stroy by Allan Linder, a fallen Astronaut searches the unknown for a way home. What he finds will change the future of humanity forever.
Votes: 22
42.
CaspianReport (2010– )
Episode:
The making of an Asian NATO
(2021)
16 min | Documentary
The 2004 Tsunami brought together an improvised coalition of Australia, India, Japan and the United States to provide humanitarian aid. This prompted Shinzo Abe, prime minister of Japan, to... See full summary »
Star: Shirvan Neftchi
43.
CaspianReport (2010– )
Episode:
Europe's plan to checkmate Russia
(2020)
14 min | Documentary
Appalled by the prospect of hegemony by a reinvigorated Russia, twelve nations in Central Europe are forging an alliance reminiscent of the Intermarium. They are considering a plethora of ... See full summary »
Star: Shirvan Neftchi
44.
CaspianReport (2010– )
Episode:
New Zealand at the centre of big power play
(2020)
12 min | Documentary
Besides the two Aukland Islands New Zealand is comprised of numerous far flung islands that give the country the ninth largest maritime zone in the world. Seafloor mapping over the past ten... See full summary »
Star: Shirvan Neftchi
45.
Lost Girl (2010–2016)
Episode:
Original Skin
(2011)
TV-14 | 45 min | Action, Drama, Fantasy
Kenzi and Bo's night out on the town leads to a series of potentially-deadly out of body experiences when an escaped Dark Fae madman poisons the beer kegs.
Director: Paul Fox | Stars: Anna Silk, Kris Holden-Ried, Ksenia Solo, Zoie Palmer
Votes: 407
46.
Secrets of War (1998– )
Episode:
Cold War: Inside the CIA
(1998)
TV-PG | 60 min | Documentary, History, War
An inside perspective on the CIA agency and its secret missions throughout the Cold War. From revolutionary coups and election rigging to embassy spying, the West employed the CIA in controversial ways to win the Cold War.
Stars: Charlton Heston, Richard Helms, Evan Thomas, Thomas B. Allen
47.
Krystal Kyle & Friends (2020– )
John Washington
(2024 Podcast Episode)
News
Stars: Krystal Ball, Kyle Kulinski, John Washington
48.
Helix (2014–2015)
Episode:
Vector
(2014)
TV-PG | 38 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
As Dr. Alan Farragut (Billy Campbell) accelerates the hunt for his infected brother Peter (Neil Napier), the quarantine of three scientists threatens to create panic at the lab. Doreen (... See full summary »
Director: Brad Turner | Stars: Billy Campbell, Hiroyuki Sanada, Kyra Zagorsky, Mark Ghanimé
Votes: 758
49.
The Code (2014–2016)
Episode:
Episode #1.5
(2014)
TV-MA | 54 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
Ned and Jesse uncover the truth about the Physanto truck's cargo, and Niko takes Hani captive in exchange for the decrypted files.
Director: Shawn Seet | Stars: Dan Spielman, Ashley Zukerman, Adele Perovic, Adam Garcia
Votes: 150
50.
Artifact (2013)
Episode:
First Contact (Pilot)
(2013)
Action, Adventure, Drama
An excavation team's Captain must save his crew from being consumed and driven mad by a recovered artifact.
Director: Alexander Raye Pimentel | Stars: Daniel Begus, Cesar D' La Torre, David Fichtenmayer, Rich Finley
Votes: 28