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1. The In Between (2022)

PG-13 | 115 min | Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi

After surviving a car accident that took the life of her boyfriend, a teenage girl believes he's attempting to reconnect with her from the after world.

Director: Arie Posin | Stars: Joey King, Kyle Allen, Kim Dickens, John Ortiz

Votes: 10,172

2. The Assignment (I) (2016)

R | 95 min | Action, Crime, Thriller

After waking up and discovering that he has undergone gender reassignment surgery, an assassin seeks to find the doctor responsible.

Director: Walter Hill | Stars: Michelle Rodriguez, Tony Shalhoub, Anthony LaPaglia, Caitlin Gerard

Votes: 9,291

3. New Police Story (2004)

R | 123 min | Action, Crime, Thriller

A hero cop accidentally leads his team into a trap from which he is the only survivor. Drowning his guilt in booze, he is eventually assigned a new younger partner who turns out to have his own secrets.

Director: Benny Chan | Stars: Jackie Chan, Nicholas Tse, Charlie Yeung, Daniel Wu

Votes: 28,985

4. Chappaquiddick (2017)

PG-13 | 106 min | Biography, Drama, History

Depicting Ted Kennedy's involvement in the fatal 1969 car accident that claims the life of a young campaign strategist, Mary Jo Kopechne.

Director: John Curran | Stars: Jason Clarke, Kate Mara, Ed Helms, Bruce Dern

Votes: 14,597 | Gross: $17.40M

5. Jezabel (2022)

108 min | Crime, Thriller

Four upper-class high school students who live carefree between drugs, games and love until one of the girls, Eli, is brutally killed. Sixteen years later, the memory of the crime torments Alain, another member of the group.

Director: Hernán Jabes | Stars: Gabriel Agüero, Eliane Chipia, Johanna Juliethe, Shakti Maal

Votes: 367

6. The Retaliators (2021)

95 min | Horror, Thriller

An upstanding pastor uncovers a dark and twisted underworld as he searches for answers surrounding his daughter's brutal murder.

Directors: Samuel Gonzalez Jr., Bridget Smith | Stars: Michael Lombardi, Marc Menchaca, Joseph Gatt, Jacoby Shaddix

Votes: 2,223

7. Romance in the Wilds (2021)

84 min | Romance

Deep in the Rocky Mountains, lightning strikes a mining site, sparking a deadly wildfire and igniting an unexpected romance between a forest ranger and a geologist as they race to escape the flames.

Director: Justin G. Dyck | Stars: Kaitlyn Leeb, Victor Zinck Jr., Melinda Shankar, Laura Vandervoort

Votes: 366

8. Time for Them to Come Home for Christmas (2021 TV Movie)

TV-G | 84 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

During the holidays, a woman with amnesia catches a ride with her handsome nurse to investigate the only clue to her identity.

Director: Peter Benson | Stars: Jessy Schram, Brendan Penny, Lochlyn Munro, Brendon Zub

Votes: 1,818

9. Secret Agent Dingledorf and His Trusty Dog Splat (2021)

PG | 89 min | Comedy, Family

Using quirky inventions from a spy backpack, young Bernie Dingledorf, his dog, and two best friends, are the only ones who can save the world by facing bullies, thwarting circus clowns and destroying Dr. Chuckles evil laugh generator.

Director: Billy Dickson | Stars: Zackary Arthur, Paul Johansson, Jason Dolley, Shiloh Nelson

Votes: 98

10. Chance Meeting (1959)

95 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

In 1950s London, Dutch painter Jan Van Rooyen has an affair with a rich married Frenchwoman who is supposedly murdered, resulting in Van Rooyen becoming Scotland Yard's prime suspect.

Director: Joseph Losey | Stars: Hardy Krüger, Stanley Baker, Micheline Presle, John Van Eyssen

Votes: 905

11. Adventure in Manhattan (1936)

Passed | 73 min | Adventure, Comedy, Crime

A reporter meets an actress whose producer is a presumed-dead thief, and stakes his reputation on predicting the next crime.

Director: Edward Ludwig | Stars: Jean Arthur, Joel McCrea, Reginald Owen, Thomas Mitchell

Votes: 840

12. Applause (1929)

Passed | 80 min | Drama, Musical, Romance

A burlesque star seeks to keep her convent-raised daughter away from her low-down life and abusive lover/stage manager.

Director: Rouben Mamoulian | Stars: Helen Morgan, Joan Peers, Fuller Mellish Jr., Jack Cameron

Votes: 1,503

13. A Stranger in My Arms (1959)

Approved | 88 min | Drama, Romance, War

After the Korean War, an Air Force pilot meets the family of his KIA navigator and recalls, in flashbacks, the circumstances of their ordeal after being shot down.

Director: Helmut Käutner | Stars: June Allyson, Jeff Chandler, Sandra Dee, Charles Coburn

Votes: 238

14. Nantucket Noel (2021 TV Movie)

TV-G | 86 min | Romance

Christina learns of a developer who is planning to tear down the wharf that is home to her toy store. Tensions rise as she falls for the developer's son, Andy.

Director: Kirsten Hansen | Stars: Sarah Power, Trevor Donovan, Payton Lepinski, Daniel Bacon

Votes: 1,122

15. No Questions Asked (1951)

Approved | 80 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

An insurance lawyer unhappy with his rate of company advancement becomes a middleman in deals to recover stolen property from the Mob, thus earning a nice living. But his actions attract police attention and set him up for a double-cross.

Director: Harold F. Kress | Stars: Barry Sullivan, Arlene Dahl, George Murphy, Jean Hagen

Votes: 751

16. Smoke in the Wind (1975)

PG | 98 min | Action, Drama, Romance

The Civil War is over but in the Ozarks of Arkansas people are not ready to forgive and forget. The Mondier brothers have returned from fighting for the Union and Mort Fagan is keeping things difficult for them in the community.

Directors: Joseph Kane, Andy Brennan | Stars: John Ashley, John Russell, Myron Healey, Walter Brennan

Votes: 51

17. The Return of Dr. Fu Manchu (1930)

Passed | 73 min | Adventure, Crime, Mystery

The villainous master criminal Dr. Fu Manchu sets out to destroy the people he holds responsible for the death of his family.

Director: Rowland V. Lee | Stars: Warner Oland, O.P. Heggie, Jean Arthur, Neil Hamilton

Votes: 313

18. Hold Back the Night (1956)

80 min | Drama, War

A Marine officer tells his squad the story behind a bottle of liquor that he always keeps with him but never drinks from.

Director: Allan Dwan | Stars: John Payne, Mona Freeman, Peter Graves, Chuck Connors

Votes: 182

19. Albatross (II) (2022)

97 min | Drama

Worlds collide at an awkward 1959 New England dinner party when a progressive biracial couple arrive at a questionable psychiatrist's home. Soon they find themselves pawns in a cynical game exposing the cracks in their facades.

Director: Myles Yaksich | Stars: Mikaela Bisson, Jill Frappier, Romaine Waite, David Huband

Votes: 209

20. Web of Evidence (1959)

Approved | 90 min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller

A British-American returns to Britain after 20 years to discover that his father has been jailed since WW2 for a murder that took place in murky circumstances.

Director: Jack Cardiff | Stars: Van Johnson, Vera Miles, Emlyn Williams, Bernard Lee

Votes: 320

21. Reunion in Vienna (1933)

98 min | Drama, Romance

An archduke who had been banished from Austria returns to Vienna for a reunion of his old fellow aristocrats and meets up with the former love of his life, who is now married to a psychoanalyst.

Director: Sidney Franklin | Stars: John Barrymore, Diana Wynyard, Frank Morgan, Henry Travers

Votes: 359

22. Lady of Secrets (1936)

Approved | 73 min | Drama, Romance

Because of a very unhappy affair she had earlier in her life, a woman shuts herself off from the rest of the world.

Director: Marion Gering | Stars: Ruth Chatterton, Otto Kruger, Lionel Atwill, Marian Marsh

Votes: 76

23. Murder in Miami (2014)

Not Rated | 87 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller

In modern Miami, gleaming new condo skyscrapers become the backdrop to this Film Noir thriller. After several beautiful models are murdered by a disguised serial killer, a young and ... See full summary »

Director: Will Vázquez | Stars: Joseph Myers, Caroline Gutierrez, Oscar A. Diaz, Andy Sottilare

Votes: 78

24. Klondike Fury (1942)

Approved | 68 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

A neurosurgeon is thrown out of the medical profession after he performs a daring but unsuccessful surgery. He flees to Alaska, where his plane crashes in the frozen wilderness.

Director: William K. Howard | Stars: Edmund Lowe, Lucile Fairbanks, William Henry, Ralph Morgan

Votes: 110

25. Wolfblood (1925)

Passed | 68 min | Adventure, Drama, Horror

After wolf blood transfusion, man thinks he's becoming a wolf.

Directors: George Chesebro, Bruce Mitchell | Stars: George Chesebro, Roy Watson, Milburn Morante, Frank Clark

Votes: 358

26. Battle Flame (1959)

Approved | 78 min | Drama, War

The trials and tribulations of a platoon of U.S. Marines, led by 1st Lt. Frank Davis, during the Korean War.

Director: R.G. Springsteen | Stars: Scott Brady, Elaine Edwards, Robert Blake, Wayne Heffley

Votes: 54

27. Cold Caller (2020)

10 min | Short, Horror, Sci-Fi

Deep within an English garden under a dark canopy of trees, other-worldly powers are at work which soon become a theatre for a malevolent puppeteer.

Director: Darren J. Perry | Stars: Alexander Wilson, A. Ozzle, Richard John Norton

Votes: 7

28. Boomerang Bill (1922)

Passed | 60 min | Action, Adventure, Crime

When New York City police officer O'Malley learns of a young man who is about to embark on a life of crime by taking part in a robbery, he takes the boy aside and tells him the story of ... See full summary »

Director: Tom Terriss | Stars: Lionel Barrymore, Marguerite Marsh, Margaret Seddon, Frank Shannon

Votes: 21

29. Pompei, ieri, oggi, domani (2007– )

180 min | Drama

Epic drama of forbidden love in Pompeii at the city's height of glory, up to the eruption of Vesuvius in AD 79. We follow nobles, slaves, gladiators and the secret gatherings of early Christians. Mostly in English.

Stars: Tomas Arana, Victor Alfieri, Tony Musante, Bettina Zimmermann

Votes: 155

30. Street Corner (1948)

73 min | Drama

Naive small-town girl gets pregnant on her prom night, and winds up in the clutches of the local abortionist.

Director: Albert H. Kelley | Stars: Joseph Crehan, Marcia Mae Jones, Jean Fenwick, Don Brodie

Votes: 121

31. Me hace falta un bigote (1986)

86 min | Comedy

When Manolo, a film director, receives a letter from his first love, he decides to finish as soon as possible a film he is shooting with a hidden camera, because now his project is to shoot a film that evokes the memories of the past.

Director: Manuel Summers | Stars: Jacobo Echeverría, Paloma San Millán, Gregorio García Morcillo, Beatriz Martínez

Votes: 43

32. I Really like You (2014)

Not Rated | 13 min | Short, Action, Drama

When Brandt walks into Michael's life, Michael shows him his unique collection of past loves.

Director: Jason Karman | Stars: Steve Bradley, Garrett Black, Gareth Rees, Christine Reade

Votes: 52

33. The Forgotten (IV) (2019)

8 min | Short, Drama, Mystery

A young, troubled woman grapples with her haunting past and an unusual gift of recollection.

Director: Kailani D'Amour | Stars: Alena Blinova, Jamie Taljaard, Emmeline Spitz, Diana Wendland

34. Brotherly Love (2009)

16 min | Short, Crime, Drama

A poetic and melancholic short film about two brothers with different intentions. A personal struggle involving obsession, abuse, and guilt.

Director: Marcus Schwenzel | Stars: Thorsten Feller, Anthony Gorin, Levi Meaden

Votes: 45

35. Blues and Bullets (2015 Video Game)

Adventure

Having brought in Al Capone twenty years ago, Elliot Ness has since become the owner of the Blues and Bullets Diner. However, one day, Al Capone calls him back, asking for help to find his kidnapped granddaughter, Sofia.

Stars: Tom Clarke Hill, Doug Cockle, Jules de Jongh, John Guerrasio

Votes: 32

36. Screen Two (1985–1998)
Episode: Bad Boy Blues (1996)

TV-14 | 62 min | Drama

Two boyhood friends end up on different sides of the law. How will each react when they meet up for the first time since school?

Director: Andy Wilson | Stars: Clive Owen, Maynard Eziashi, Christopher Fulford, Eve Bland

Votes: 33

37. 227 (1985–1990)
Episode: Blues (1988)

TV-PG | 24 min | Comedy

Brenda accidentally destroys her grandfather's special recording of a classic blues song.

Director: Gerren Keith | Stars: Marla Gibbs, Hal Williams, Alaina Reed-Hall, Jackée Harry

Votes: 25

38. The Jeffersons (1975–1985)
Episode: Change of a Dollar (1983)

TV-PG | 25 min | Comedy

George's quick stop at his Queens cleaning store en route to dinner frames a flashback story to when he opened his first store, served his first customer, and earned his first dollar fifteen years earlier in 1968.

Director: Bob Lally | Stars: Isabel Sanford, Sherman Hemsley, Roxie Roker, Franklin Cover

Votes: 89

39. Quincy M.E. (1976–1983)
Episode: The Shadow of Death (1982)

TV-PG | 60 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

After a former Vietnam nurse suffering from PTSD turns up dead, Quincy gets involved with a veteran support group in an effort to get the victim's friend, another former nurse, the treatment she needs for her disorder.

Director: Georg Fenady | Stars: Jack Klugman, Garry Walberg, John S. Ragin, Val Bisoglio

Votes: 70

40. Mare of Easttown (2021)
Episode: Sore Must Be the Storm (2021)

TV-MA | 59 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Mare returns to work and immediately takes care of the murdered girl. During investigations the victim's bike is found in the river and the policewoman has to face the demons of her past.

Director: Craig Zobel | Stars: Kate Winslet, Julianne Nicholson, Jean Smart, Angourie Rice

Votes: 5,305

41. The Blacklist (2013–2023)
Episode: Misère (2021)

TV-14 | 43 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

In a retrospective look at key turning points, steps are retraced that lead Elizabeth Keen to align with a powerful enemy.

Director: Christine Gee | Stars: James Spader, Megan Boone, Diego Klattenhoff, Amir Arison

Votes: 2,240

42. American Horror Story (2011– )
Episode: Inside (2021)

TV-MA | 40 min | Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi

The president struggles with the morality of a deal he must make.

Director: Tessa Blake | Stars: Sarah Paulson, Lily Rabe, Leslie Grossman, Angelica Ross

Votes: 2,560

43. Star Trek: Picard (2020–2023)
Episode: Seventeen Seconds (2023)

TV-MA | 56 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

Picard grapples with a life-altering revelation as the crew of the Titan attempt to outmaneuver Vadic, while Raffi and Worf uncover a plot by a vengeful enemy.

Director: Jonathan Frakes | Stars: Patrick Stewart, Jeri Ryan, Michelle Hurd, Ed Speleers

Votes: 4,868

44. The Mentalist (2008–2015)
Episode: Little Red Book (2011)

TV-14 | 43 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Patrick conspires to get the old team back together after he is reassigned to a new team investigating the murder of a fitness trainer.

Director: Eric Laneuville | Stars: Simon Baker, Robin Tunney, Tim Kang, Owain Yeoman

Votes: 1,432

45. The Mentalist (2008–2015)
Episode: Pretty Red Balloon (2011)

TV-14 | 42 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

A nine-year-old boy is kidnapped, and the mother is one of Patrick's former clients who refuses to believe that he conned her.

Director: John F. Showalter | Stars: Simon Baker, Robin Tunney, Tim Kang, Owain Yeoman

Votes: 1,337

46. Star Trek: Picard (2020–2023)
Episode: No Win Scenario (2023)

TV-MA | 58 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

Picard, Riker and crew must confront the sins of their past as the Titan drifts helplessly in a mysterious space anomaly.

Director: Jonathan Frakes | Stars: Patrick Stewart, Jeri Ryan, Michelle Hurd, Ed Speleers

Votes: 5,336

47. Star Trek: Picard (2020–2023)
Episode: Disengage (2023)

TV-MA | 49 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

Aided by crew of the U.S.S. Titan, Picard makes a discovery that will alter his life forever and puts him on a collision course with the most cunning enemy he's ever encountered.

Director: Douglas Aarniokoski | Stars: Patrick Stewart, Jeri Ryan, Michelle Hurd, Ed Speleers

Votes: 5,004

48. Rules of Engagement (2007–2013)
Episode: A Wee Problem (2013)

TV-14 | 21 min | Comedy, Romance

Jeff tries to make Brenda laugh until she wets herself, Audrey helps Adam overcome his wedding day stress, and Russell finds a replacement for Timmy.

Director: Carlos Piñero | Stars: Patrick Warburton, Megyn Price, Oliver Hudson, Bianca Kajlich

Votes: 406

49. Heartland (2007– )
Episode: There Will Be Changes (2016)

TV-PG | 42 min | Drama, Family

Amy and Ty work to resolve a dangerous pregnancy issue. Georgie's Extreme Team practices start back up. Tim confronts Mitch. Lou makes a decision about a new business venture.

Stars: Amber Marshall, Michelle Morgan, Graham Wardle, Chris Potter

Votes: 201

50. Caught (2018)
Episode: The Break (2018)

TV-14 | 44 min | Crime, Drama

David Slaney breaks out of prison after 5 years under the pretense that he is working undercover for renegade detective Roy Patterson in an effort to help apprehend Slaney's old drug cartel partner Brian Hearn.

Director: T.J. Scott | Stars: Allan Hawco, Paul Gross, Eric Johnson, Tori Anderson

Votes: 61