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1. Saving Private Ryan (1998)
R | 169 min | Drama, War
Following the Normandy Landings, a group of U.S. soldiers go behind enemy lines to retrieve a paratrooper whose brothers have been killed in action.
Director: Steven Spielberg | Stars: Tom Hanks, Matt Damon, Tom Sizemore, Edward Burns
Votes: 1,495,451 | Gross: $216.54M
2. Hell or High Water (II) (2016)
R | 102 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
Toby is a divorced father who's trying to make a better life. His brother is an ex-con with a short temper and a loose trigger finger. Together, they plan a series of heists against the bank that's about to foreclose on their family ranch.
Director: David Mackenzie | Stars: Chris Pine, Ben Foster, Jeff Bridges, Gil Birmingham
Votes: 252,359 | Gross: $27.01M
3. Constantine (2005)
R | 121 min | Action, Fantasy, Horror
Supernatural exorcist and demonologist John Constantine helps a policewoman prove her sister's death was not a suicide, but something more.
Director: Francis Lawrence | Stars: Keanu Reeves, Rachel Weisz, Djimon Hounsou, Shia LaBeouf
Votes: 373,985 | Gross: $75.98M
4. The Last Picture Show (1971)
R | 118 min | Drama, Romance
In 1951, a group of high schoolers come of age in a bleak, isolated, atrophied North Texas town that is slowly dying, both culturally and economically.
Director: Peter Bogdanovich | Stars: Timothy Bottoms, Jeff Bridges, Cybill Shepherd, Ben Johnson
Votes: 52,352 | Gross: $29.13M
5. Silver Bullet (1985)
R | 95 min | Horror
In a small town, brutal killings start to plague the close knit community. Marty Coslaw, a paraplegic boy, is convinced the murders are the doings of a werewolf.
Director: Daniel Attias | Stars: Gary Busey, Everett McGill, Corey Haim, Megan Follows
Votes: 31,477 | Gross: $5.40M
6. Walkabout (1971)
GP | 100 min | Adventure, Drama
Two city-bred siblings are stranded in the Australian Outback, where they learn to survive with the aid of an Aboriginal boy on his "walkabout": a ritual separation from his tribe.
Director: Nicolas Roeg | Stars: Jenny Agutter, David Gulpilil, Luc Roeg, John Meillon
Votes: 27,330 | Gross: $0.02M
7. Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas (2004 Video Game)
M | Action, Crime
Carl "CJ" Johnson, a member of the Grove Street street gang, comes home after a family tragedy to find it overtaken by crime and corruption, which he must take back before things become worse.
Stars: Young Maylay, Faizon Love, Yolanda 'Yo-Yo' Whittaker, Clifton Powell
Votes: 44,462
8. Yellow Sky (1948)
Approved | 98 min | Crime, Drama, Western
A pistol-packing tomboy and her grandfather discover a band of bank robbing bandits taking refuge in the neighboring ghost town.
Director: William A. Wellman | Stars: Gregory Peck, Anne Baxter, Richard Widmark, Robert Arthur
Votes: 5,757
9. The Grim Reaper (1980)
R | 92 min | Horror
A group of friends and a hitchhiker become stranded on a tourist island where they are stalked by a disfigured cannibalistic killer who is prowling the island after killing its residents.
Director: Joe D'Amato | Stars: Tisa Farrow, Saverio Vallone, Serena Grandi, Margaret Mazzantini
Votes: 6,962
10. Five (1951)
Approved | 93 min | Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
The world is destroyed in a nuclear holocaust. Only five Americans survive, including a pregnant woman, a neo-Nazi, a black man and a bank clerk.
Director: Arch Oboler | Stars: William Phipps, Susan Douglas Rubes, James Anderson, Charles Lampkin
Votes: 1,564
11. Phantoms (1998)
R | 96 min | Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
In the peaceful town of Snowfield, Colorado something evil has wiped out the community. And now, its up to a group of people to stop it, or at least get out of Snowfield alive.
Director: Joe Chappelle | Stars: Peter O'Toole, Rose McGowan, Joanna Going, Liev Schreiber
Votes: 22,351 | Gross: $5.66M
12. Chernobyl Diaries (2012)
R | 86 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Six tourists hire an extreme tour guide who takes them to the abandoned city Pripyat, the former home to the workers of the Chernobyl nuclear reactor. During their exploration, they soon discover they are not alone.
Director: Bradley Parker | Stars: Jesse McCartney, Jonathan Sadowski, Olivia Taylor Dudley, Nathan Phillips
Votes: 68,618 | Gross: $18.12M
13. Ambush at Tomahawk Gap (1953)
Passed | 73 min | Action, Drama, Romance
An innocent cowboy convicted with three robbers, fresh out of Yuma Territorial Prison, travels with them to get a share of their hidden loot.
Director: Fred F. Sears | Stars: John Hodiak, John Derek, David Brian, María Elena Marqués
Votes: 598
14. Tombs of the Blind Dead (1972)
PG | 101 min | Horror
Medieval knights executed for their black magic rituals come back as zombies to torment a group of vacationing college kids.
Director: Amando de Ossorio | Stars: Lone Fleming, César Burner, María Elena Arpón, José Thelman
Votes: 6,410
15. Starfish (2018)
Not Rated | 101 min | Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
A unique, intimate portrayal of a girl grieving for the loss of her best friend, which just so happens to take place on the day the world ends.
Director: A.T. White | Stars: Virginia Gardner, Christina Masterson, Eric Beecroft, Natalie Mitchell
Votes: 3,659 | Gross: $0.01M
16. King of Hearts (1966)
Not Rated | 102 min | Comedy, Drama, War
During World War I, a British private, sent ahead to a French town to scout for enemy presence, is mistaken for a King by the colorful patients of an insane asylum.
Director: Philippe de Broca | Stars: Alan Bates, Geneviève Bujold, Pierre Brasseur, Jean-Claude Brialy
Votes: 4,339 | Gross: $0.02M
17. Resident Evil 5 (2009 Video Game)
M | Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Sent in by the BSAA, Chris Redfield has a new mission. It takes him into South Africa where he encounters a new horror and relives an old past.
Directors: Yasuhiro Anpo, Kenichi Ueda | Stars: Roger Craig Smith, Eva La Dare, D.C. Douglas, Patricia Ja Lee
Votes: 9,443
18. Phantasm III: Lord of the Dead (1994)
R | 91 min | Action, Fantasy, Horror
Mike and Reggie continue to hunt the mysterious Tall Man, discovering along the way that the invasion has already begun.
Director: Don Coscarelli | Stars: Reggie Bannister, A. Michael Baldwin, Bill Thornbury, Gloria Lynne Henry
Votes: 10,616
19. Persons Unknown (2010)
TV-14 | 43 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Several strangers awaken and find themselves imprisoned inside a small ghost town. They quickly search for answers and along the way start to question each other's motives.
Stars: Jason Wiles, Daisy Betts, Chadwick Boseman, Lola Glaudini
Votes: 8,687
20. Who Can Kill a Child? (1976)
R | 112 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
A couple of English tourists arrive on an island where all the children have gone crazy and are murdering the adults.
Director: Narciso Ibáñez Serrador | Stars: Lewis Fiander, Prunella Ransome, Antonio Iranzo, Miguel Narros
Votes: 8,024
21. Hands of Steel (1986)
R | 94 min | Action, Drama, Sci-Fi
A cyborg is programmed to kill a scientist who holds the fate of mankind in his hands. He fails and hides in a diner in a desert run by a woman who likes him. The people who sent him are after him and so is the local arm wrestling champ.
Director: Sergio Martino | Stars: Daniel Greene, Janet Agren, Claudio Cassinelli, George Eastman
Votes: 2,874
22. Curse II: The Bite (1989)
R | 98 min | Horror
After being bitten by a radioactive snake, a young man begins to spawn snake-like creatures with a vicious, murdeous nature.
Director: Federico Prosperi | Stars: Jill Schoelen, J. Eddie Peck, Jamie Farr, Savina Gersak
Votes: 1,569
23. Split Second (1953)
Approved | 85 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Two escaped killers take hostages and hide in a Nevada mining ghost town, knowing that an atom bomb is scheduled to be tested there the next morning.
Director: Dick Powell | Stars: Stephen McNally, Alexis Smith, Jan Sterling, Keith Andes
Votes: 1,812
24. Omega Doom (1996)
R | 84 min | Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
After Earth is taken over by an army of robots, the small number of humans left are forced into hiding. In the nuclear winter, only droids walk the face of the Earth, in fear of the rumored... See full summary »
Director: Albert Pyun | Stars: Rutger Hauer, Shannon Whirry, Norbert Weisser, Tina Cote
Votes: 3,334
25. Run, Man, Run (1968)
Not Rated | 101 min | Adventure, Comedy, Western
A knife-wielding Mexican ne'er-do-well is tasked by a scholar with locating $3 million in revolutionary gold, and finds himself working and competing with various parties for it.
Director: Sergio Sollima | Stars: Tomas Milian, Donald O'Brien, Linda Veras, Marco Guglielmi
Votes: 2,011
26. The New People (1969–1970)
45 min | Drama
A group of young people crash-land on a deserted island that was a never-used atomic bomb test site. With the world thinking that they were all killed, they set out to form a civilization.
Stars: Tiffany Bolling, Zooey Hall, David Moses, Peter Ratray
Votes: 113
27. The Last Seven (2011)
84 min | Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
A feature length thriller/horror set in post-apocalyptic London starring Danny Dyer, Tamer Hassan, Simon Phillips, Ronan Vibert, Sebastian Street, Daisy Head, Rita Ramnani and John Mawson. ... See full summary »
Directors: Imran Naqvi, Simon Phillips | Stars: Tamer Hassan, Simon Phillips, Daisy Head, Sebastian Street
Votes: 2,074
28. Seuls (2017)
Not Rated | 98 min | Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Five kids wake up in a world where everybody has disappeared.
Director: David Moreau | Stars: Sofia Lesaffre, Stéphane Bak, Jean-Stan Du Pac, Paul Scarfoglio
Votes: 1,734
29. A Sky Full of Stars for a Roof (1968)
100 min | Comedy, Western
Two drifters meet and soon become travelling companions. But one of them, Tim (Gemma), is being chased by a crazed killer and his band of gunmen to settle an old score. The two (Adore being... See full summary »
Director: Giulio Petroni | Stars: Giuliano Gemma, Mario Adorf, Magda Konopka, Federico Boido
Votes: 625
30. Dead End (1985)
88 min | Comedy, Horror, Thriller
An unstable filmmaker risks his crew to shoot a documentary in a town overrun with flesh-eating zombies.
Director: Emerson Bixby | Stars: Emerson Bixby, Rachel McBride, Melinda Pierce, Albert Stetman
Votes: 166
31. The Dirty Outlaws (1967)
R | 103 min | Drama, Western
An outlaw masquerades as the son of a blind man in order to find a cache of gold located in a vacated town.
Director: Franco Rossetti | Stars: Andrea Giordana, Rosemary Dexter, Franco Giornelli, Dana Ghia
Votes: 429
32. Scooby-Doo and the Spooky Swamp (2010 Video Game)
E10+ | Action, Adventure, Comedy
Shaggy and Scooby-Doo, as hungry as always, venture into the swamp following a scent. There they meet swamp resident Lila who asks them to recover ingredients to finish her stew.
Stars: Steve Blum, Cam Clarke, Mindy Cohn, Jim Cummings
Votes: 104
33. 2 Alone in Paris (2008)
94 min | Comedy
Everybody in Paris has vanished exept a clueless cop and the robber he's been pursuing for years.
Directors: Ramzy Bedia, Eric Judor | Stars: Ramzy Bedia, Eric Judor, Hafid F. Benamar, Élodie Bouchez
Votes: 2,745
34. Donbass. Okraina (2019)
96 min | Drama, History, Thriller
People with different beliefs find themselves in the epicenter of a military conflict, but in order to survive, they will have to unite.
Director: Renat Davletyarov | Stars: Gela Meskhi, Evgeniy Mikheev, Sergey Kholmogorov, Ulyana Pokhlebaeva
Votes: 404
35. The Directive (2019)
113 min | Action, Comedy, Sci-Fi
One year after a catastrophic pandemic wipes out most of humanity, a lone survivor embarks on a journey to find Safe Zone 57 with the help of a broken robot.
Director: Alexander Raye Pimentel | Stars: Hannah Pimentel, Nicholas Winand, Kyle Abraham, Hashim Gari
Votes: 1,315
36. Evil Dead: A Fistful of Boomstick (2003 Video Game)
M | Action, Adventure, Comedy
Ash battles his way through Dearborn town, fighting Deadites.
Director: Chris Mullender | Stars: Bruce Campbell, Philece Sampler, Bill Farmer, Wally Wingert
Votes: 514
37. Anna (VII) (2015)
24 min | Short, Drama
On a hot summer day, Anna embarks on a little journey in the deserted desert town she lives in. She tries to find a man to give her a comforting touch, even for a brief moment .
Director: Or Sinai | Stars: Evgenia Dodina, Miki Leon, Alon Dahan, Daniel Brosoveni
Votes: 41
38. Sodomu no Ichi (2004)
104 min | Action, Comedy, Fantasy
Bad things happen when innocent blood is shed. In the early 1700s, Lord Sodom Ichibei is happily celebrating his wedding day when his wife-to-be suddenly dies. In his search for an ... See full summary »
Director: Hiroshi Takahashi | Stars: Naomi Akimoto, Mari Asato, Rena Komine, Seiji Kondô
Votes: 71
39. Sogno (2010)
21 min | Short, Drama, Fantasy
A young student awakens in the morning and finds the entire town completely deserted with no signs of human presence anywhere.
Director: Francesco Roder | Stars: Laura De Bortoli, Federica Del Col, Sara Beinat, Davide Giacometti
40. My Atomic Aunt (2013)
73 min | Documentary
Director Kyoko Miyake remembered Namie, a fishing village ravaged by the 2011 Fukushima nuclear catastrophe, as her childhood paradise. Revisiting her family's hometown after 10 years ... See full summary »
Director: Kyoko Miyake
Votes: 72
41. Atlanten (1995)
76 min | Documentary, History
A documentary about the islands in the Atlantic, about the islanders and their stories.
Directors: Magnus Enquist, Kristian Petri, Jan Röed | Stars: Max von Sydow, Thordur Halldorson, Fredrick Otto Thomas, Joao Quaresma
Votes: 60
42. Dioses de lo inhóspito
40 min | Short, Sci-Fi | Post-production
A humanoid that wanders on a deserted land remembers its interactions with the last man on earth.
Director: Nicolás Baires | Stars: Armando Rivera, Gabriel Pinto
43. One of Them (2013)
10 min | Short, Horror, Sci-Fi
A detective, investigating a communications blackout, comes to a deserted town where the remaining inhabitants trust no one.
Director: Corey Logsdon | Stars: Randy Manning, Joe Hammerstone, Jackie Manker, Howard Hirshfield
45.
Doctor Who (1963–1989)
Episode:
The Android Invasion: Part One
(1975)
TV-G | 24 min | Adventure, Drama, Family
The Doctor and Sarah return to Earth in the present day to find a strangely deserted village and woods stalked by white-clad figures.
Director: Barry Letts | Stars: Tom Baker, Elisabeth Sladen, Milton Johns, Peter Welch
Votes: 555
46.
The Incredible Hulk (1978–1982)
Episode:
The Antowuk Horror
(1978)
TV-PG | 49 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
As the people of Antowuk resort community take advantage of a Hulk sighting, David 'Barton's' hotheaded boss goes as far as to dress up as a creature.
Director: Sigmund Neufeld Jr. | Stars: Bill Bixby, Jack Colvin, Lou Ferrigno, William Lucking
Votes: 228
47.
Mighty Morphin Power Rangers (1993–1996)
Episode:
Wild West Rangers: Part II
(1995)
Not Rated | 21 min | Action, Adventure, Family
Kimberly helps the Rangers' ancestors morph into Wild West Rangers to fight the Needle Nose monster and save the world.
Director: Armand Garabidian | Stars: Amy Jo Johnson, David Yost, Johnny Yong Bosch, Karan Ashley
Votes: 448
48.
The Outcasts (1968–1969)
Episode:
The Town That Wouldn't
(1969)
60 min | Western
Corey and Jamal ride into a nearly deserted town to collect a bounty, only to find the remaining assorted characters hostile, believing they are parr of an outlaw gang bent in destroying ... See full summary »
Director: Allen Reisner | Stars: Don Murray, Otis Young, Ruth Roman, Pippa Scott
Votes: 9
49.
The Prisoner (1967–1968)
Episode:
Many Happy Returns
(1967)
TV-PG | 60 min | Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Number Six wakes up to find the Village totally deserted.
Director: Patrick McGoohan | Stars: Patrick McGoohan, Donald Sinden, Patrick Cargill, Georgina Cookson
Votes: 917
50.
Riverboat (1959–1961)
Episode:
Three Graves
(1960)
60 min | Adventure, Western
The crew finds three recent graves at a town they had planned to dock in. They also find residents of a nearby town want to kill anyone who came in contact with the three dead men. Captain ... See full summary »
Director: William Witney | Stars: Darren McGavin, Jack Lambert, Bart Patton, Michael McGreevey
Votes: 8