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1. Past Lives (2023)

PG-13 | 105 min | Drama, Romance

Nora and Hae Sung, two deeply connected childhood friends, are wrested apart after Nora's family emigrates from South Korea. Twenty years later, they are reunited for one fateful week as they confront notions of love and destiny.

Director: Celine Song | Stars: Greta Lee, Teo Yoo, John Magaro, Moon Seung-ah

Votes: 113,957

2. May December (2023)

R | 117 min | Drama

Twenty years after their notorious tabloid romance gripped the nation, a married couple buckles under pressure when an actress arrives to do research for a film about their past.

Director: Todd Haynes | Stars: Natalie Portman, Chris Tenzis, Charles Melton, Julianne Moore

Votes: 52,162

3. American History X (1998)

R | 119 min | Crime, Drama

Living a life marked by violence, neo-Nazi Derek finally goes to prison after killing two black youths. Upon his release, Derek vows to change; he hopes to prevent his brother, Danny, who idolizes Derek, from following in his footsteps.

Director: Tony Kaye | Stars: Edward Norton, Edward Furlong, Beverly D'Angelo, Jennifer Lien

Votes: 1,185,755 | Gross: $6.72M

4. Expats (2023–2024)

TV-MA | 96 min | Drama

A look at the personal and professional lives of a tight-knit group of expatriates living in Hong Kong.

Stars: Nicole Kidman, Sarayu Blue, Ji-young Yoo, Brian Tee

Votes: 7,705

5. 2 Broke Girls (2011–2017)

TV-14 | 22 min | Comedy

Two young women waitressing at a greasy spoon diner strike up an unlikely friendship in the hopes of launching a successful business - if only they can raise the cash.

Stars: Kat Dennings, Beth Behrs, Garrett Morris, Jonathan Kite

Votes: 104,824

6. Falling Down (1993)

R | 113 min | Action, Crime, Drama

An ordinary man frustrated with the various flaws he sees in society begins to psychotically and violently lash out against them.

Director: Joel Schumacher | Stars: Michael Douglas, Robert Duvall, Barbara Hershey, Rachel Ticotin

Votes: 206,556 | Gross: $40.90M

7. Joy Ride (2023)

R | 95 min | Comedy

Follows four Asian American friends as they bond and discover the truth of what it means to know and love who you are, while they travel through China in search of one of their birth mothers.

Director: Adele Lim | Stars: Ashley Park, Sherry Cola, Stephanie Hsu, Sabrina Wu

Votes: 23,200

8. Crash (I) (2004)

R | 112 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

Los Angeles citizens with vastly separate lives collide in interweaving stories of race, loss and redemption.

Director: Paul Haggis | Stars: Don Cheadle, Sandra Bullock, Thandiwe Newton, Karina Arroyave

Votes: 448,938 | Gross: $54.58M

9. Starsky & Hutch (2004)

PG-13 | 101 min | Comedy, Crime

Two streetwise cops bust criminals in their red and white Ford Gran Torino, with the help of a police snitch called "Huggy Bear".

Director: Todd Phillips | Stars: Ben Stiller, Owen Wilson, Snoop Dogg, Vince Vaughn

Votes: 154,495 | Gross: $88.24M

10. Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle (2004)

R | 88 min | Adventure, Comedy

A Korean-American office worker and his Indian-American stoner friend embark on a quest to satisfy their desire for White Castle burgers.

Director: Danny Leiner | Stars: John Cho, Kal Penn, Ethan Embry, Rob Tinkler

Votes: 206,006 | Gross: $18.23M

11. Minari (2020)

PG-13 | 115 min | Drama

A Korean American family moves to an Arkansas farm in search of its own American dream. Amidst the challenges of new life in the strange and rugged Ozarks, they discover the undeniable resilience of family and what really makes a home.

Director: Lee Isaac Chung | Stars: Steven Yeun, Han Yeri, Alan Kim, Noel Cho

Votes: 96,857

12. To All the Boys I've Loved Before (2018)

TV-14 | 99 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

A teenage girl's secret love letters are exposed and wreak havoc on her love life.

Director: Susan Johnson | Stars: Lana Condor, Noah Centineo, Janel Parrish, Anna Cathcart

Votes: 123,704

13. Bad Lieutenant (1992)

NC-17 | 96 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

While investigating a young nun's rape, a corrupt New York City police detective, with a serious drug and gambling addiction, tries to change his ways and find forgiveness and redemption.

Director: Abel Ferrara | Stars: Harvey Keitel, Brian McElroy, Frank Acciarito, Peggy Gormley

Votes: 47,847 | Gross: $2.00M

14. Gonjiam: Haunted Asylum (2018)

Not Rated | 95 min | Horror

The crew of a horror web series travels to an abandoned asylum for a live broadcast. It soon encounters much more than expected as it moves deeper inside the nightmarish old building.

Director: Jung Bum-shik | Stars: Oh Ah-yeon, Wi Ha-joon, Yoo Je-Yoon, Park Ji-ah

Votes: 15,389 | Gross: $0.12M

15. Searching (III) (2018)

PG-13 | 102 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller

After his teenage daughter goes missing, a desperate father tries to find clues on her laptop.

Director: Aneesh Chaganty | Stars: John Cho, Debra Messing, Joseph Lee, Michelle La

Votes: 179,866 | Gross: $26.02M

16. Partner Track (2022)

TV-MA | 60 min | Drama

Centers on Ingrid Yun, an idealistic young lawyer, struggles with her moral compass and her passions as she fights to climb the partner track at an elite New York City law firm.

Stars: Arden Cho, Alexandra Turshen, Bradley Gibson, Dominic Sherwood

Votes: 7,382

17. Always Be My Maybe (2019)

PG-13 | 101 min | Comedy, Romance

Everyone assumed that Sasha and Marcus would wind up together, except for Sasha and Marcus. Reconnecting after 15 years, the two start to wonder--maybe?

Director: Nahnatchka Khan | Stars: Ali Wong, Randall Park, James Saito, Michelle Buteau

Votes: 62,650

18. Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay (2008)

R | 114 min | Adventure, Comedy

After being mistaken for terrorists and thrown into Guantánamo Bay, stoners Harold and Kumar escape and return to the U.S., where they proceed to flee across the country with federal agents in hot pursuit.

Directors: Jon Hurwitz, Hayden Schlossberg | Stars: John Cho, Kal Penn, Neil Patrick Harris, Rob Corddry

Votes: 141,987 | Gross: $38.09M

19. Dark Blue (2002)

R | 118 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

A robbery homicide investigation triggers a series of events that will cause a corrupt LAPD officer to question his tactics.

Director: Ron Shelton | Stars: Kurt Russell, Ving Rhames, Scott Speedman, Michael Michele

Votes: 24,056 | Gross: $9.06M

20. Mona Lisa and the Blood Moon (2021)

R | 106 min | Fantasy, Thriller

A girl with unusual powers escapes from a mental asylum and tries to make it on her own in New Orleans.

Director: Ana Lily Amirpour | Stars: Kate Hudson, Jeon Jong-seo, Craig Robinson, Ed Skrein

Votes: 5,519

21. Blue Bayou (2021)

R | 117 min | Drama

As a Korean-American man raised in the Louisiana bayou works hard to make a life for his family, he must confront the ghosts of his past as he discovers that he could be deported from the only country he has ever called home.

Director: Justin Chon | Stars: Justin Chon, Alicia Vikander, Mark O'Brien, Linh-Dan Pham

Votes: 10,436

22. Crossing Over (2009)

R | 113 min | Crime, Drama

Crossing Over is about illegal aliens of many nationalities in the Los Angeles area and the authorities and individuals dealing with them.

Director: Wayne Kramer | Stars: Harrison Ford, Ashley Judd, Ray Liotta, Jim Sturgess

Votes: 24,523 | Gross: $0.45M

23. Bullet to the Head (2012)

R | 92 min | Action, Crime, Thriller

After watching their respective partners die, a New Orleans hitman and a Washington, D.C. detective form an alliance in order to bring down their common enemy.

Director: Walter Hill | Stars: Sylvester Stallone, Jason Momoa, Christian Slater, Sung Kang

Votes: 52,424 | Gross: $9.48M

24. Beyond the Law (1993)

R | 108 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

An undercover cop joins a murderous, arms-dealing biker gang to try to put them behind bars.

Director: Larry Ferguson | Stars: Charlie Sheen, Linda Fiorentino, Michael Madsen, Courtney B. Vance

Votes: 7,740

25. Umma (2022)

PG-13 | 83 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery

Amanda and her daughter live a quiet life on an American farm, but when the remains of her estranged mother arrive from Korea, Amanda becomes haunted by the fear of turning into her own mother.

Director: Iris K. Shim | Stars: Sandra Oh, Fivel Stewart, Dermot Mulroney, Odeya Rush

Votes: 10,577

26. A Very Harold & Kumar Christmas (2011)

R | 90 min | Adventure, Comedy

Six years after their Guantanamo Bay adventure, stoner buds Harold Lee and Kumar Patel cause a holiday fracas by inadvertently burning down Harold's father-in-law's prize Christmas tree.

Director: Todd Strauss-Schulson | Stars: Kal Penn, John Cho, Neil Patrick Harris, Patton Oswalt

Votes: 72,720 | Gross: $35.03M

27. Stand Up Guys (2012)

R | 95 min | Comedy, Crime, Thriller

A pair of aging stickup men try to get the old gang back together for one last hurrah before one of the guys takes his last assignment - to kill his comrade.

Director: Fisher Stevens | Stars: Al Pacino, Christopher Walken, Alan Arkin, Julianna Margulies

Votes: 57,724 | Gross: $3.30M

28. Eden (I) (2012)

R | 98 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

A young Korean-American girl, abducted and forced into prostitution by domestic human traffickers, cooperates with her captors in a desperate ploy to survive.

Director: Megan Griffiths | Stars: Jamie Chung, Beau Bridges, Matt O'Leary, Eddie Martinez

Votes: 9,453

29. The Sun Is Also a Star (2019)

PG-13 | 100 min | Drama, Music, Romance

A hopeless romantic ambivalent about his future in medical school falls for a hard-luck young woman who doesn't believe in love.

Director: Ry Russo-Young | Stars: Yara Shahidi, Anais Lee, Charles Melton, John Leguizamo

Votes: 8,161 | Gross: $4.95M

30. The Perfect Weapon (1991)

R | 83 min | Action, Crime, Drama

An expert in "kenpo" karate avenges his Koreatown friend, slain by a mobster in Los Angeles.

Director: Mark DiSalle | Stars: Jeff Speakman, John Dye, Mako, James Hong

Votes: 4,848 | Gross: $14.06M

31. True Believer (1989)

R | 108 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

A cynical former civil liberties attorney now reduced to "specializing" in defending drug dealers becomes transformed by an eight-year-old murder case.

Director: Joseph Ruben | Stars: James Woods, Robert Downey Jr., Margaret Colin, Yuji Okumoto

Votes: 5,427 | Gross: $8.74M

32. The People I've Slept With (2012)

Not Rated | 89 min | Comedy

A promiscuous woman tries to find out who got her pregnant so she can get married and live a normal life.

Director: Quentin Lee | Stars: Karin Anna Cheung, Wilson Cruz, Archie Kao, Lynn Chen

Votes: 816

33. Norman (2016)

R | 118 min | Drama, Thriller

Norman Oppenheimer is a small time operator who befriends a young politician at a low point in his life. Three years later, when the politician becomes an influential world leader, Norman's life dramatically changes for better and worse.

Director: Joseph Cedar | Stars: Richard Gere, Lior Ashkenazi, Michael Sheen, Steve Buscemi

Votes: 6,543 | Gross: $3.81M

34. Rocket Science (2007)

R | 101 min | Comedy, Drama

Looking for answers to life's big questions, a stuttering boy joins his high school debate team.

Director: Jeffrey Blitz | Stars: Reece Thompson, Anna Kendrick, Nicholas D'Agosto, Utkarsh Ambudkar

Votes: 13,690 | Gross: $0.71M

35. LA 92 (2017)

R | 114 min | Documentary, Crime, History

Twenty-five years after the verdict in the Rodney King trial sparked several days of protests, violence and looting in Los Angeles, filmmakers examine that tumultuous period through rarely seen archival footage.

Directors: Daniel Lindsay, T.J. Martin | Stars: Henry Alfaro, Danny Bakewell, John D. Barnett, Bart Bartholomew

Votes: 6,900

36. Sullivan & Son (2012–2014)

30 min | Comedy

Steve Sullivan surprises his parents when he leaves his job as a corporate lawyer to take over a bar owned by his father in Pittsburgh.

Stars: Steve Byrne, Brian Doyle-Murray, Christine Ebersole, Jodi Long

Votes: 2,279

37. Silver City (2004)

R | 128 min | Comedy, Drama, Mystery

The discovery of a corpse threatens to unravel a bumbling local politician's campaign for governor of Colorado.

Director: John Sayles | Stars: Chris Cooper, Thora Birch, Maria Bello, Billy Zane

Votes: 4,224 | Gross: $1.02M

38. All-American Girl (1994–1995)

30 min | Comedy

Follows the culture clashes that occurred between a traditional Korean mother and her fully-Americanized daughter.

Stars: Margaret Cho, Amy Hill, Jodi Long, Clyde Kusatsu

Votes: 529

39. WrestleMania XX (2004 TV Special)

TV-14 | 275 min | Sport

Triple H puts his Heavyweight Championship on the line in a Triple Threat Match against Chris Benoit and Shawn Michaels. WWE Champion Eddie Guerrero defends against Kurt Angle. Plus, Kane ... See full summary »

Director: Kevin Dunn | Stars: Paul Levesque, Chris Benoit, Shawn Michaels, Eddie Guerrero

Votes: 1,971

40. Spa Night (2016)

Unrated | 93 min | Drama

A closeted Korean-American teenager takes a job at a Korean spa to help his struggling family, only to discover an underground world of gay sex at the spa that both scares and excites him.

Director: Andrew Ahn | Stars: Joe Seo, Youn Ho Cho, Haerry Kim, Topher Park

Votes: 1,355 | Gross: $0.04M

41. The Rose of Sharon (2006)

Drama, Family

Mina Sohn is a Christian, Korean woman living in Los Angeles. She runs a flower shop for a living and ministers to those around as her calling. When a young, Jewish lawyer shows up in need ... See full summary »

Director: Elliott Hong | Stars: Annie Lee, Paul Galliano, Choi Sun-ja, Ed Flanagan

Votes: 46

42. The Motel (2005)

Not Rated | 75 min | Comedy, Drama

Thirteen-year-old Ernest Chin lives and works at a sleazy hourly-rate motel on a strip of desolate suburban bi-way. Misunderstood by his family and blindly careening into puberty, Ernest ... See full summary »

Director: Michael Kang | Stars: Jeffrey Chyau, Sung Kang, Jade Wu, Samantha Futerman

Votes: 1,424 | Gross: $0.05M

43. Seoul Searching (2015)

TV-MA | 105 min | Comedy, Drama, Music

In 1986, a group of foreign-born Korean teenagers attend a summer camp in South Korea.

Director: Benson Lee | Stars: Cha In-pyo, Justin Chon, Jessika Van, Teo Yoo

Votes: 1,909 | Gross: $0.02M

44. WrestleMania XXVI (2010 TV Special)

TV-PG | 240 min | Action, Sport

Still stinging from his narrow defeat a year earlier, The Heartbreak Kid Shawn Michaels has goaded Undertaker into a rematch by putting his career on the line. Something's gotta give- The ... See full summary »

Director: Kevin Dunn | Stars: Mark Calaway, Shawn Michaels, Dave Bautista, John Cena

Votes: 1,174

45. Burn Motherfucker, Burn! (2017)

TV-MA | 99 min | Documentary

Explores the roots of civil unrest in California and the relationship between African Americans and LAPD.

Director: Sacha Jenkins | Stars: Alex Alonso, Nicolas Alonso, B-Real, Danny Bakewell

Votes: 603

46. White Rabbit (I) (2018)

TV-MA | 71 min | Comedy, Drama

A dramatic comedy following a Korean-American performance artist who struggles to be authentically heard and seen through her multiple identities in modern Los Angeles.

Director: Daryl Wein | Stars: Vivian Bang, Nana Ghana, Nico Evers-Swindell, Tracy Hazas

Votes: 392

47. Let It Fall: Los Angeles 1982-1992 (2017)

TV-MA | 144 min | Documentary, History

An in-depth look at the culture of Los Angeles in the ten years leading up to the 1992 uprising that erupted after the verdict of police officers cleared of beating Rodney King.

Director: John Ridley | Stars: Daryl Gates, Tom Bradley, Damian 'Football' Williams, Michael Moulin

Votes: 837

48. Maria the Korean Bride (2013)

Not Rated | 75 min | Documentary, Adventure, Biography

Performance artist Maria Yoon, is a first generation Korean-American. Calling herself 'the voice of the unmarried Asian-American woman.' Like many single women of a certain age, Maria felt ... See full summary »

Director: Maria Yoon | Stars: Maria Yoon, Bryant Parson, Steve Warren

49. Who Are the DeBolts? and Where Did They Get Nineteen Kids? (1977)

Not Rated | 72 min | Documentary, Biography

Dorothy and Bob DeBolt's tale of the struggles and joys involved in their 19 adopted children, many of who are physically disabled war orphans.

Director: John Korty | Stars: Kim Atwood, Marty Atwood, Mike Atwood, Mimi Atwood

Votes: 248

50. A Thousand Men and a Baby (1997 TV Movie)

96 min | Drama

A baby in a foreign land is adopted by the men on a U.S. Navy ship and brought to America.

Director: Marcus Cole | Stars: Richard Thomas, Gerald McRaney, Jonathan Banks, Doris Roberts

Votes: 157