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1. Mushoku Tensei: Jobless Reincarnation (2021– )
TV-14 | 24 min | Animation, Action, Adventure
A 34-year-old underachiever gets run over by a bus, but his story isn't over. Reincarnated as an infant, he'll embark on an epic adventure.
Stars: Yumi Uchiyama, Tomokazu Sugita, Amber Lee Connors, Ai Kakuma
Votes: 19,725
2. Death's Game (2023– )
60 min | Drama, Fantasy
Facing hardships and contemplating suicide after a series of setbacks, a man is confronted by Death and tasked with experiencing death over and over again through 13 other lives to earn the chance to live.
Stars: Seo In-Guk, Park So-dam, Lee Jae-wook, Go Yoon-Jung
Votes: 10,776
3. Long Shot (2019)
R | 125 min | Comedy, Romance
Journalist, Fred Flarsky, reunites with his childhood crush, Charlotte Field; now one of the most influential women in the world. As she prepares to run for president, Charlotte hires Fred as her speechwriter, and sparks fly.
Director: Jonathan Levine | Stars: Charlize Theron, Seth Rogen, June Diane Raphael, O'Shea Jackson Jr.
Votes: 121,637 | Gross: $30.32M
4. The Commuter (I) (2018)
PG-13 | 104 min | Action, Mystery, Thriller
An insurance salesman/ex-cop is caught up in a life-threatening conspiracy during his daily commute home.
Director: Jaume Collet-Serra | Stars: Liam Neeson, Vera Farmiga, Patrick Wilson, Jonathan Banks
Votes: 125,343 | Gross: $36.34M
5. Baby Boy (2001)
R | 130 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
In South Central L.A., a misguided 20-year-old African-American man, a "baby boy", faces the commitments of real life.
Director: John Singleton | Stars: Alexsandra Wright, Tyrese Gibson, Taraji P. Henson, Omar Gooding
Votes: 16,553 | Gross: $28.73M
6. Nocturama (2016)
130 min | Drama, Thriller
Some young folks, tired of the society they're living in, plan a bomb attack over Paris before taking shelter for a night in a shopping center.
Director: Bertrand Bonello | Stars: Finnegan Oldfield, Vincent Rottiers, Hamza Meziani, Manal Issa
Votes: 5,324 | Gross: $0.03M
7. ReLIFE (2016–2018)
TV-14 | 24 min | Animation, Comedy, Drama
A young man, failing at life, is offered a new start as a 10 years younger high-school student.
Stars: Jessie James Grelle, Micah Solusod, Jeannie Tirado, Kristen McGuire
Votes: 6,440
8. Taipei Story (1985)
Not Rated | 119 min | Drama
Lung is a former member of the national Little League team who lives with his old childhood sweetheart Ah-chin, a traditional family woman. Although they live together, Ah-chin is weary of Lung's past liaison with another girl.
Director: Edward Yang | Stars: Chin Tsai, Hsiao-Hsien Hou, I-Chen Ko, Su-Yun Ko
Votes: 3,908 | Gross: $0.01M
9. Suburban Gothic (2014)
R | 90 min | Comedy, Horror
City-boy Raymond returns to his hometown and finds a vengeful ghost is terrorizing his house. Therefore, this man-child recruits Becca, a badass local bartender, to solve the mystery of the spirit threatening people's lives.
Director: Richard Bates Jr. | Stars: Matthew Gray Gubler, Kat Dennings, Ray Wise, Barbara Niven
Votes: 5,264
10. Outside In (2017)
Not Rated | 109 min | Drama
An ex-con struggling to readjust to life in his small town forms an intense bond with his former high school teacher.
Director: Lynn Shelton | Stars: Edie Falco, Jay Duplass, Louis Hobson, Alycia Delmore
Votes: 6,301 | Gross: $0.07M
11. The Unbelievable Truth (1989)
R | 90 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A man returns to his home town after serving a prison sentence for homicide, and finds that the details of the crime have been forgotten and replaced with local legends and rumors.
Director: Hal Hartley | Stars: Adrienne Shelly, Robert John Burke, Chris Cooke, Julia McNeal
Votes: 6,284 | Gross: $0.55M
12. The Long Haul (1957)
Approved | 100 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
After leaving his U.S. Army job in Germany, a trucker takes a long-haul driver job in Britain where he runs into an organized-crime syndicate that controls the trucking industry.
Director: Ken Hughes | Stars: Victor Mature, Diana Dors, Patrick Allen, Gene Anderson
Votes: 986
13. Quinceañera (2006)
R | 90 min | Drama
As Magdalena's 15th birthday approaches, her simple, blissful life is complicated by the discovery that she's pregnant. Kicked out of her house, she finds a new family with her great-granduncle and gay cousin.
Directors: Richard Glatzer, Wash Westmoreland | Stars: Emily Rios, Jesse Garcia, Chalo González, Jesus Castanos
Votes: 4,297 | Gross: $1.69M
14. Loulou (1980)
TV-14 | 101 min | Drama, Romance
A bored wife leaves her husband for an unemployed, petty criminal.
Director: Maurice Pialat | Stars: Isabelle Huppert, Gérard Depardieu, Guy Marchand, Humbert Balsan
Votes: 3,700
15. American Loser (2007)
R | 94 min | Comedy, Drama
A hilarious comedy about a young man from the Upper East Side of Manhattan and the gold-digging girl who inspires him to try to get it together.
Director: Tod Harrison Williams | Stars: Seann William Scott, Gretchen Mol, Deirdre O'Connell, Kevin Conway
Votes: 2,983
16. Duffle Bag Boy (2024)
Action, Adventure, Crime
Lost and forgotten, a homeless veteran hitchhikes his way into becoming an outlaw and goes to war with the kingpin of a criminal empire.
Director: Alexander Raye Pimentel | Stars: Alexander Raye Pimentel, Cheryce Livingston, James Anthony Perez, Don Tempesta
17. Lazy Susan (2020)
Not Rated | 90 min | Comedy
A slice-of-life comedy about a woman on the edge with nowhere to go but over, Lazy Susan is a story about a spectacularly unmotivated woman for whom doing nothing is exhausting.
Director: Nick Peet | Stars: Sean Hayes, Maria Shriver, Leah Huebner, Dominick LaRuffa Jr.
Votes: 1,017
18. Nothing But a Man (1964)
Not Rated | 95 min | Drama, Romance
A black man and his school-teacher wife face discriminatory challenges in 1960s America.
Director: Michael Roemer | Stars: Ivan Dixon, Abbey Lincoln, Julius Harris, Gloria Foster
Votes: 1,984 | Gross: $0.02M
19. Ilo Ilo (2013)
Not Rated | 99 min | Drama
In 90s Singapore, the friendship between Filipino nursemaid Teresa and her young charge Jiale makes waves in a family, while the Asian recession hits the region.
Director: Anthony Chen | Stars: Yann Yann Yeo, Tian Wen Chen, Angeli Bayani, Jia Ler Koh
Votes: 4,995 | Gross: $0.05M
20. Faultless (2016)
103 min | Drama, Thriller
Having been fired from her old job as a real estate agent, 40 years old Constance thinks her former boss will hire her in a vacancy, but he chooses a younger and prettier woman. Constance can't take that and starts her stalking.
Director: Sébastien Marnier | Stars: Marina Foïs, Jérémie Elkaïm, Joséphine Japy, Benjamin Biolay
Votes: 1,032
21. Dizzy Doctors (1937)
Not Rated | 19 min | Comedy, Short
The Stooges get a job selling "Brighto", what they think is cleaning fluid. After ruining a cop's uniform and a new car, they discover that Brighto is actually medicine. Taking their sales ... See full summary »
Director: Del Lord | Stars: Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Curly Howard, Eva Murray
Votes: 711
22. Ayka (2018)
100 min | Drama
A poor migrant woman in Moscow struggles with her life.
Director: Sergei Dvortsevoy | Stars: Samal Yeslyamova, Sergey Mazur, Zhipara Abdilaeva, David Alaverdyan
Votes: 2,252
23. Chocolate City (2015)
R | 91 min | Drama
Life for a struggling college student changes in an instant when he meets the owner of a male strip club who convinces him to give amateur night a whirl.
Director: Jean-Claude La Marre | Stars: Robert Ri'chard, Tyson Beckford, DeRay Davis, Vivica A. Fox
Votes: 1,216 | Gross: $0.21M
24. After Love (2016)
100 min | Drama
After 15 years of marriage, a couple with two kids is about to divorce. Until the husband find a new place to live, they have to cohabit, and figure out how to share their belongings.
Director: Joachim Lafosse | Stars: Bérénice Bejo, Cédric Kahn, Marthe Keller, Jade Soentjens
Votes: 2,444 | Gross: $0.01M
25. My Sweet Orange Tree (2012)
99 min | Drama, Family
My Sweet Orange Tree begins with José Mauro de Vasconcelos (Caco Ciocler) receiving an edition of his finished novel. Then, the film starts to tell the story from the writer's memories, ... See full summary »
Director: Marcos Bernstein | Stars: João Guilherme, José de Abreu, Caco Ciocler, Eduardo Dascar
Votes: 1,465
26. Invisibles (2018)
102 min | Comedy, Drama
Following a municipal decision, SDF Women's Shelter, will close. There are only three months left for social workers to reintegrate at any cost the women they care for: falsification, pistons, lies - From now on, everything is allowed.
Director: Louis-Julien Petit | Stars: Patricia Mouchon, Khoukha Boukherbache, Bérangère Toural, Patricia Guery
Votes: 1,611
27. Buffering (2011)
Unrated | 80 min | Comedy
From the makers of Shank and Release comes this raunchy British comedy about a young couple who decide to broadcast their sex life via webcam to pay the bills.
Directors: Darren Flaxstone, Christian Martin | Stars: Alex Anthony, Conner Mckenzy, Jessica Matthews, Oliver Park
Votes: 532
28. Suzy Q (1999 TV Movie)
82 min | Biography, Drama
A weekend in the life of a bizarre family in the sixties. Their lives will never be the same after it.
Director: Martin Koolhoven | Stars: Carice van Houten, Roeland Fernhout, Linda van Dyck, Jack Wouterse
Votes: 664
29. Maya 3D (2016)
Horror
An injustice is committed against Maya, a transgender woman who had to pay with her life. But that is not the end of Maya. She will return to see justice done.
Director: Donald Jayantha | Stars: Damitha Abeyratne, Kumuduni Adikari, Sarath Chandrasiri, Maureen Charuni
Votes: 321
30. Hard Labor (2011)
Not Rated | 99 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
Young housewife Helena is on the verge of fulfilling a dream as she prepares to open her own business: a neighborhood grocery store. She hires a maid, Paula, to take care of her house and ... See full summary »
Directors: Marco Dutra, Juliana Rojas | Stars: Helena Albergaria, Marat Descartes, Naloana Lima, Gilda Nomacce
Votes: 944
31. Not Dead (2012)
92 min | Comedy
The film tells the story of 2 brothers. One punk, one salesman. The salesman get laid off, and slowly becomes a punk like his brother.
Directors: Benoît Delépine, Gustave Kervern | Stars: Benoît Poelvoorde, Albert Dupontel, Brigitte Fontaine, Areski Belkacem
Votes: 2,091
32. Touched in the Head (1974)
104 min | Drama
Baker's apprentice Chris is sacked from his job for being late. Unwilling to give up the flat that goes with the job, he and his friends resort to squatting. Liv, a Swedish girl moves in ... See full summary »
Director: Jacques Doillon | Stars: Christophe Soto, Olivier Bousquet, Roselyne Vuillaume, Ann Zacharias
Votes: 166
33. Scams (2019– )
Action, Crime, Drama
Kusano has a bright future with his fancy university degree and new job. yet, it is not to be. The blood sucking financial giant which he works at goes broke and leaves him on the pavement.... See full summary »
Stars: Maika Yamamoto, Yôsuke Sugino, Shuntarô Yanagi, Ryôhei Ohtani
Votes: 445
34. My Piece of the Pie (2011)
Not Rated | 109 min | Comedy, Drama
After losing her job at a local factory, a single mother enrolls in a housekeeper training program, soon landing work cleaning the Paris apartment of handsome but cocky power broker.
Director: Cédric Klapisch | Stars: Karin Viard, Gilles Lellouche, Audrey Lamy, Jean-Pierre Martins
Votes: 2,340 | Gross: $0.00M
35. Back to Mom's (2016)
97 min | Comedy, Drama
Stéphanie, a French architect in her early forties, has to return to her mother after losing her job. Conflicts with her mother and her siblings ensue.
Director: Eric Lavaine | Stars: Josiane Balasko, Alexandra Lamy, Mathilde Seigner, Philippe Lefebvre
Votes: 2,350
36. Pop Goes the Easel (1935)
TV-PG | 20 min | Comedy, Short
The stooges are down and out. With a cop chasing them, they flee into an artists studio where they are mistaken for students. The cop continues to hunt for them and they use a variety of ... See full summary »
Director: Del Lord | Stars: Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Curly Howard, Bobby Burns
Votes: 885
37. Odd Job (2016)
Not Rated | 107 min | Comedy, Crime
An unemployed factory worker takes a job as a hit man to make ends meet.
Director: Pascal Chaumeil | Stars: Romain Duris, Michel Blanc, Alice Belaïdi, Gustave Kervern
Votes: 1,929
38. I Am a Soldier (2015)
96 min | Drama
Out of job and out of shelter, Sandrine goes back to her mother's house where she is sent to work in her uncle's dogs kennels.
Director: Laurent Larivière | Stars: Louise Bourgoin, Jean-Hugues Anglade, Anne Benoît, Laurent Capelluto
Votes: 374
39. The Dangerous (1983)
91 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Unable to cope with unemployment, a tiler arrives in Athens, only to face equally grave problems. The only way out for him and his friends is a lucrative heist; however, when freedom is at stake, what good is the promise of a treasure?
Director: Giannis Dalianidis | Stars: Panos Mihalopoulos, Stamatis Gardelis, Kaiti Finou, Sofia Aliberti
Votes: 205
40. The Tunnel (1940)
Not Rated | 76 min | Drama, Music
In a Welsh coal mining valley, a young man with a beautiful singing voice is called upon to make the ultimate sacrifice when a pit disaster threatens.
Director: Pen Tennyson | Stars: Paul Robeson, Edward Chapman, Simon Lack, Rachel Thomas
Votes: 611
41. Pour cent briques t'as plus rien (1982)
85 min | Comedy
After getting screwed over by life (again), two losers decide that enough is enough. Using stolen ski masks and stolen toy guns, they take hostages in their local bank, holding them for ... See full summary »
Director: Édouard Molinaro | Stars: Daniel Auteuil, Gérard Jugnot, Anémone, Jean-Pierre Castaldi
Votes: 941
42. The Great & The Small (2016)
104 min | Drama
A 26-year-old parolee must deal with his criminal boss and an enigmatic detective as he tries to find his way back into society and win back his ex-girlfriend. Starring Nick Fink, Melanie Lynskey, Richie Coster & Ann Dowd.
Director: Dusty Bias | Stars: Nick Fink, Ritchie Coster, Melanie Lynskey, Louisa Krause
Votes: 349
43. Radio City Revels (1938)
Approved | 90 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
A songwriter uses the songs one of his pupils writes while sleeping for his own contract.
Director: Benjamin Stoloff | Stars: Bob Burns, Jack Oakie, Kenny Baker, Ann Miller
Votes: 128 | Gross: $0.51M
44. The Way Out (2014)
103 min | Drama
The Way Out tells a story of a young Romani couple, Zaneta and David, the parents of little Janicka. Their efforts to live a decent and dignified life run up against the "Romani social trap... See full summary »
Director: Petr Václav | Stars: Klaudia Dudová, David Istok, Milan Cifra, Zdenek Godla
Votes: 178
45. Love Your Neighbour! (1998)
94 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Director: Detlev Buck | Stars: Lea Mornar, Heike Makatsch, Moritz Bleibtreu, Elsa Grube-Deister
Votes: 388
46. Hommage (2021)
108 min | Drama
A jobless female filmmaker is offered work restoring a film which ultimately reveals the struggles that have faced female directors in Korea.
Director: Su-won Shin | Stars: Lee Jeong-eun, Kwon Hae-hyo, Tang Joon-sang
Votes: 86
47. The Best Man Wins (1935)
Approved | 75 min | Crime, Drama
A diver saves his best friend's life but loses his own arm in doing so. Later, unable to find work because of his missing arm, he is forced to go to work for a criminal searching for lost ... See full summary »
Director: Erle C. Kenton | Stars: Edmund Lowe, Jack Holt, Bela Lugosi, Florence Rice
Votes: 84
48. The Ice Dragon (2012)
80 min | Adventure, Family
The great adventure of 11-year-old Mik starts when he has to leave his home in search of a new one. Along the way, he learns about whales, fishing, friends and love. Forced to flee from the authorities, his friends join on an Ice Dragon.
Director: Martin Högdahl | Stars: Philip Olsson, Feline Andersson, Lisbeth Johansson, Malin Morgan
Votes: 253
49. The Most Wanted Man (1953)
Unrated | 85 min | Comedy, Crime
Joe Calvert (Fernandel) is a nearsighted, friendly man who works as a clerk in a large department store, who gets into embarrassing situations when he isn't wearing his glasses. Since Joe ... See full summary »
Director: Henri Verneuil | Stars: Fernandel, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Louis Seigner, David Opatoshu
Votes: 305
50. Paper Flags (2018)
102 min | Drama
He is 30 and just got out of jail after 12 years of detention. She is almost 24 and has a simple life away from the city. One day, he comes to her and she let him stay with her. That's ... See full summary »
Director: Nathan Ambrosioni | Stars: Noémie Merlant, Guillaume Gouix, Sébastien Houbani, Jérôme Kircher
Votes: 180