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1. Deadpool (2016)
R | 108 min | Action, Comedy
A wisecracking mercenary gets experimented on and becomes immortal yet hideously scarred, and sets out to track down the man who ruined his looks.
Director: Tim Miller | Stars: Ryan Reynolds, Morena Baccarin, T.J. Miller, Ed Skrein
Votes: 1,126,204 | Gross: $363.07M
2. 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: 1,457,618 | Gross: $128.01M
3. This Is the End (2013)
R | 107 min | Comedy, Fantasy
Six Los Angeles celebrities are stuck in James Franco's house after a series of devastating events just destroyed the city. Inside, the group not only have to face the apocalypse, but themselves.
Directors: Evan Goldberg, Seth Rogen | Stars: James Franco, Jonah Hill, Seth Rogen, Jay Baruchel
Votes: 435,058 | Gross: $101.47M
4. Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
Approved | 218 min | Adventure, Biography, Drama
The story of T.E. Lawrence, the English officer who successfully united and led the diverse, often warring, Arab tribes during World War I in order to fight the Turks.
Director: David Lean | Stars: Peter O'Toole, Alec Guinness, Anthony Quinn, Jack Hawkins
Votes: 314,495 | Gross: $44.82M
5. A Bug's Life (1998)
G | 95 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy
A misfit ant, looking for "warriors" to save his colony from greedy grasshoppers, recruits a group of bugs that turn out to be an inept circus troupe.
Directors: John Lasseter, Andrew Stanton | Stars: Kevin Spacey, David Foley, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Hayden Panettiere
Votes: 314,628 | Gross: $162.80M
6. Snowpiercer (2013)
R | 126 min | Action, Drama, Sci-Fi
In a future where a failed climate change experiment has killed all life except for the survivors who boarded the Snowpiercer (a train that travels around the globe), a new class system emerges.
Director: Bong Joon Ho | Stars: Chris Evans, Jamie Bell, Tilda Swinton, Ed Harris
Votes: 389,144 | Gross: $4.56M
7. 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: 354,925 | Gross: $72.08M
8. Unhinged (I) (2020)
R | 90 min | Action, Thriller
After a confrontation with an unstable man at an intersection, a woman becomes the target of his rage.
Director: Derrick Borte | Stars: Russell Crowe, Caren Pistorius, Gabriel Bateman, Jimmi Simpson
Votes: 76,808 | Gross: $20.83M
9. Night of the Living Dead (1968)
Not Rated | 96 min | Horror, Thriller
A ragtag group of Pennsylvanians barricade themselves in an old farmhouse to remain safe from a horde of flesh-eating ghouls that are ravaging the Northeast of the United States.
Director: George A. Romero | Stars: Duane Jones, Judith O'Dea, Karl Hardman, Marilyn Eastman
Votes: 139,188 | Gross: $0.09M
10. The Borrowers (1997)
PG | 89 min | Adventure, Comedy, Family
A secret family of four-inch people living inside the walls of a house must save their home from an evil real estate developer.
Director: Peter Hewitt | Stars: John Goodman, Jim Broadbent, Mark Williams, Celia Imrie
Votes: 23,620 | Gross: $22.36M
11. Dreamcatcher (2003)
R | 134 min | Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
Friends on a camping trip discover that the town they're vacationing in is being plagued in an unusual fashion by parasitic aliens from outer space.
Director: Lawrence Kasdan | Stars: Morgan Freeman, Thomas Jane, Jason Lee, Damian Lewis
Votes: 96,485 | Gross: $33.72M
12. The Girl with All the Gifts (2016)
R | 111 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
A scientist and a teacher living in a dystopian future embark on a journey of survival with a special young girl named Melanie.
Director: Colm McCarthy | Stars: Sennia Nanua, Fisayo Akinade, Dominique Tipper, Paddy Considine
Votes: 64,437
13. District B13 (2004)
R | 84 min | Action, Crime, Sci-Fi
In the ghettos of Paris in 2010, an undercover cop and an ex-thug try to infiltrate a gang in order to defuse a neutron bomb.
Director: Pierre Morel | Stars: Cyril Raffaelli, David Belle, Tony D'Amario, Bibi Naceri
Votes: 73,897 | Gross: $1.20M
14. The Cassandra Crossing (1976)
R | 129 min | Drama, Thriller
Passengers on a European train have been exposed to a deadly disease. Nobody will let them off the train. So what happens next?
Director: George P. Cosmatos | Stars: Sophia Loren, Richard Harris, Martin Sheen, O.J. Simpson
Votes: 9,887
15. Batman: The Long Halloween (2021)
R | 168 min | Animation, Action, Crime
Atrocious serial killings on holidays in Gotham City send The World's Greatest Detective into action - confronting both organized crime and a unified front of classic DC Super-Villains - while attempting to stop the mysterious murderer.
Director: Chris Palmer | Stars: Jensen Ackles, Laila Berzins, Frances Callier, Zach Callison
Votes: 2,563
16. Scorpio (1973)
PG | 114 min | Action, Drama, Thriller
During the Cold War, the CIA orders free-lance operative Scorpio to assassinate his former CIA mentor Cross and a deadly cat-and-mouse game ensues.
Director: Michael Winner | Stars: Burt Lancaster, Alain Delon, Paul Scofield, John Colicos
Votes: 5,210
17. A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1949)
Approved | 106 min | Comedy, Family, Fantasy
A singing mechanic from 1912 finds himself in Arthurian Britain.
Director: Tay Garnett | Stars: Bing Crosby, Rhonda Fleming, Cedric Hardwicke, William Bendix
Votes: 2,746
18. Liverleaf (2018)
Not Rated | 114 min | Horror
As if bullied by her classmates everyday is not enough, Nozaki finds her house burnt to the ground and her parents dead. Knowing that the fire is not an accident, she sneaks off to punish those responsible one by one.
Director: Eisuke Naitô | Stars: Anna Yamada, Hiroya Shimizu, Rinka Ôtani, Rena Ôtsuka
Votes: 1,182
19. The Strange Color of Your Body's Tears (2013)
Not Rated | 102 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Returning home from a business trip to discover his wife missing, a man delves deeper and deeper into a surreal kaleidoscope of half-baked leads, seduction, deceit, and murder. Does anyone in the building know something?
Directors: Hélène Cattet, Bruno Forzani | Stars: Klaus Tange, Ursula Bedena, Joe Koener, Birgit Yew
Votes: 4,361 | Gross: $0.01M
20. Night of the Animated Dead (2021)
R | 71 min | Animation, Horror
Visiting their dad's grave in the countryside, two siblings are attacked by a zombie. Barbara escapes to a farmhouse. A man helps barricade the house as more zombies arrive outside.
Director: Jason Axinn | Stars: Josh Duhamel, Dulé Hill, Katharine Isabelle, James Roday Rodriguez
Votes: 836
21. Female Prisoner Scorpion: Beast Stable (1973)
Not Rated | 87 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
Matsu is sheltered by an incestuous prostitute on her run from the police, her ex-prison mate and a cop whose arm she hacked off.
Director: Shun'ya Itô | Stars: Meiko Kaji, Mikio Narita, Reisen Ri, Yayoi Watanabe
Votes: 2,106
22. Psycho from Texas (1975)
R | 89 min | Crime, Horror
A drifter/hitman is hired by a local business man to kidnap the local oil baron. The hitman had been reared in squalor, suffering the abuses of his whoring mama. When the baron escapes his ... See full summary »
Directors: Jack Collins, Jim Feazell | Stars: John King III, Herschel Mays, Christian Feazell, Candy Dee
Votes: 371
23. Thru the Mirror (1936)
Approved | 9 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
Mickey has been reading Lewis Carroll's "Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There", and falls asleep. He finds himself on the other side of the mirror, where the furniture is ... See full summary »
Director: David Hand | Stars: Pinto Colvig, Clarence Nash, Purv Pullen, Walt Disney
Votes: 2,800
24. Crazy Hong Kong (1993)
Not Rated | 91 min | Adventure, Comedy
The gods are still crazy after all these years! "Crazy Hong Kong" (1993), also known as "The Gods Must Be Crazy IV", finds N!xau, the bushman star of the classic comedy "The Gods Must Be ... See full summary »
Director: Wellson Chin | Stars: N!xau, Carina Lau, Cecilia Yip, Ching Wan Lau
Votes: 662
25. Billy Boy (1954)
Passed | 6 min | Animation, Family, Comedy
A farmer is initially delighted to get a baby goat, but this soon turns to apprehension when he discovers that it eats literally anything (including, at one point, the animation artwork).
Directors: Tex Avery, Dick Lundy | Star: Daws Butler
Votes: 541
26. The Secret Fury (1950)
Approved | 85 min | Film-Noir, Mystery, Thriller
A woman preparing to marry her fiance is accused of bigamy by a stranger but she fights back by trying to prove she's the victim of a conspiracy designed to discredit her.
Director: Mel Ferrer | Stars: Claudette Colbert, Robert Ryan, Jane Cowl, Paul Kelly
Votes: 1,311
27. Hans Christian Andersen: My Life as a Fairy Tale (2003 TV Movie)
174 min | Adventure, Drama, Family
A fictionalized account of the young life of Hans Christian Andersen, a young man with a penchant for storytelling but struggles to find his place in the world and gain the affection of the... See full summary »
Director: Philip Saville | Stars: Kieran Bew, Emily Hamilton, Flora Montgomery, James Fox
Votes: 574
28. Late Night Shopping (2001)
91 min | Comedy
An upbeat, oddball, after-hours comedy about the ups and downs of sex and shelf-stacking in the 21st century.
Director: Saul Metzstein | Stars: Luke de Woolfson, James Lance, Kate Ashfield, Enzo Cilenti
Votes: 2,305
29. Pigs in a Polka (1943)
Approved | 8 min | Animation, Short, Adventure
The story of the three little pigs and the big bad wolf, this time performed as pantomime to the Hungarian Dances by Johannes Brahms.
Director: Friz Freleng | Stars: Bea Benaderet, Sara Berner, Mel Blanc
Votes: 1,046
30. Blondie Plays Cupid (1940)
Passed | 68 min | Adventure, Comedy, Family
The Bumstead family is off to see relatives in the country when Blondie runs into Charlie and Millie, an eloping couple needing her help.
Director: Frank R. Strayer | Stars: Penny Singleton, Arthur Lake, Larry Simms, Daisy
Votes: 399
31. Shake, Rattle & Roll 9 (2007)
130 min | Comedy, Horror, Music
Like the previous installments, Shake,Rattle and Roll 9 showcases three horror episodes. The first story, Christmas Tree is about a family who are spending their christmas vacation on their... See full summary »
Directors: Paul Daza, Topel Lee, Michael Tuviera | Stars: John Prats, Gina Alajar, Boots Anson-Roa, Tonton Gutierrez
Votes: 89
32. Katamari Damacy (2004 Video Game)
E | Action, Fantasy
Playing as the royal son of the Prince of All Cosmos, you are sent to Earth with orders to roll its contents into several oddly-shaped balls to be used as replacements for the missing stars and constellations in the sky.
Director: Keita Takahashi | Stars: Julia Yermakov, Ryan Drees, Towa McCauley, Michael Fearney
Votes: 389
33. Dirt Dauber (2009)
35 min | Short, Horror
A man awakes naked and confused in a isolated mountainous region, and soon encounters a strange local who offers to help him. The helpful stranger tells the man of local folklore that ... See full summary »
Director: Steve Daniels | Stars: Lyon Forrest Hill, Lee O. Smith
Votes: 50
34. Pipe Dreams (1938)
Passed | 8 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
Late one night in a large mansion, the hear/see/speak no evil monkeys come to life from a small statue on a mantelpiece. They find a pipe and smoke it, and enter a world where all manner of smoking paraphernalia comes to life.
Director: Hugh Harman | Stars: Jeanne Dunne, Rudolf Ising, Dick Nelson, Shirley Reed
Votes: 164
35. MGMT: When You Die (2017 Music Video)
4 min | Music
A failing magician appears to die and watches his death through a psychedelic trip.
Directors: Mike Burakoff, Hallie Cooper-Novack | Stars: MGMT, Alex Karpovsky, Lucy Kaminsky, Ben Goldwasser
Votes: 23
36. The Bookworm (1939)
Approved | 8 min | Comedy, Animation, Short
Three witches need a worm to complete their potion; they dispatch a raven to catch one, and he goes after a bookworm. He chases the worm into the horror section, where the monsters attack ... See full summary »
Directors: Friz Freleng, Hugh Harman | Stars: Mel Blanc, Elvia Allman, Frank Elmquist, Martha Wentworth
Votes: 222
37. Little Buck Cheeser (1937)
8 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
Little Cheeser and his friends, inspired by Buck Rogers (and visions of cheese) build a rocket ship and fly to the moon
Director: Rudolf Ising | Stars: Jeanne Dunne, Bernice Hansen, Leone Le Doux, Shirley Reed
Votes: 253
38. Svédská zápalka (1982 TV Movie)
67 min | Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Director: Jirí Svoboda | Stars: Josef Somr, Josef Abrhám, Rudolf Hrusínský, Jirí Menzel
Votes: 28
39. Yearbook (2004 Video)
Not Rated | 71 min | Sport
School is in session, featuring the honor students of skiing performing at the top of their game. Classrooms include: Bella Coola, B.C., Aspen CO, and the Alps of Norway. Senior Class ... See full summary »
Director: Steve Winter | Stars: Mark Abma, Sarah Burke, Shane McConkey
Votes: 29
41. Game Over (VIII) (2014)
6 min | Short, Crime, Thriller
Director: Pranav | Stars: Gautham Anirudh Dharanipragada, Uday Jasta, Ravi Kumar, Pranav
42. After the Break (1998)
13 min | Short
A woman attempting to get over break up struggles to find a balance between forgetting and remembering the feelings.
Director: Annette Kennerley | Stars: Helen Paris, Lucky, Jan Haydn Rowles
43. Matsumoto Seichô no Atsui kûki - Kaseifu wa mita! Fûfu no himitsu 'Kogeta' (1983 TV Movie)
Director: Sôkichi Tomimoto | Stars: Etsuko Ichihara, Kazuko Yoshiyuki, Izumi Yamaguchi, Kenji Takaoka
44. Feel the Fear (2012)
4 min | Short, Horror, Music
Director: Dale Pendlebury | Star: Dale Pendlebury
45. Compliments of the Season (1930)
Approved | 13 min | Short, Crime, Drama
A recently released thief trying to go straight wanders the streets on Christmas Eve. He stops a lonely young woman from jumping in the river to commit suicide and in the process makes a couple friends and learns the spirit of the season.
Director: Arthur Hurley | Stars: Eric Dressler, Lenita Lane, Weldon Heyburn, Pat O'Brien
Votes: 204
46. Daughters: Guest House (2019 Music Video)
5 min | Drama, Music, Thriller
Music video for an American noise rock band's song "Guest House".
Director: A.F. Cortes | Stars: Daughters, Alexis S.F. Marshall, Nicholas Sadler, Jon Svverson
47.
Cracker (1993–1996)
Episode:
To Be a Somebody: Part 1
(1994)
TV-MA | 50 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A working class man, distraught at the recent death of his father, impulsively becomes a skinhead and murders a Pakistani shopkeeper over a perceived insult.
Director: Tim Fywell | Stars: Robert Carlyle, Tracy Gillman, Gemma Phoenix, Robbie Coltrane
Votes: 624
48.
Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1985–1989)
Episode:
Final Escape
(1985)
TV-PG | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A manipulative female jailed killer needs a naive old mortician's help to escape.
Director: Thomas Carter | Stars: Alfred Hitchcock, Season Hubley, George DiCenzo, Patrice Donnelly
Votes: 282
49.
Matlock (1986–1995)
Episode:
The Black Widow
(1989)
TV-PG | 60 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
After seven years in prison for killing his wife Ann, Ken Wilson gets out and finds her working in a real estate office. Anne soon turns up dead and Ken is tried, once again, for killing his wife.
Director: Christopher Hibler | Stars: Andy Griffith, Nancy Stafford, Julie Sommars, Kene Holiday
Votes: 121
50.
Scooby Doo, Where Are You! (1969–1978)
Episode:
A Clue for Scooby Doo
(1969)
TV-G | 22 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy
The kids suspect an old ghost in a green-glowing sea-diver suit is connected with the disappearance of several boats.
Directors: Joseph Barbera, William Hanna | Stars: Nicole Jaffe, Casey Kasem, Don Messick, Vic Perrin
Votes: 818