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1. Inside Man (2006)
R | 129 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A police detective, a bank robber, and a high-power broker enter high-stakes negotiations after the criminal's brilliant heist spirals into a hostage situation.
Director: Spike Lee | Stars: Denzel Washington, Clive Owen, Jodie Foster, Christopher Plummer
Votes: 398,184 | Gross: $88.51M
2. Argo (2012)
R | 120 min | Biography, Drama, History
Acting under the cover of a Hollywood producer scouting a location for a science fiction film, a CIA agent launches a dangerous operation to rescue six Americans in Tehran during the U.S. hostage crisis in Iran in 1979.
Director: Ben Affleck | Stars: Ben Affleck, Bryan Cranston, John Goodman, Alan Arkin
Votes: 639,350 | Gross: $136.03M
3. Spy (2015)
R | 120 min | Action, Comedy
A desk-bound CIA analyst volunteers to go undercover to infiltrate the world of a deadly arms dealer and prevent diabolical global disaster.
Director: Paul Feig | Stars: Melissa McCarthy, Rose Byrne, Jude Law, Jason Statham
Votes: 258,921 | Gross: $110.83M
4. Allegiant (2016)
PG-13 | 120 min | Action, Adventure, Mystery
After the earth-shattering revelations of Insurgent, Tris must escape with Four beyond the wall that encircles Chicago, to finally discover the shocking truth of the world around them.
Director: Robert Schwentke | Stars: Shailene Woodley, Theo James, Jeff Daniels, Naomi Watts
Votes: 134,297 | Gross: $66.18M
5. The Gods Must Be Crazy (1980)
PG | 109 min | Adventure, Comedy
A comic allegory about a traveling Bushman who encounters modern civilization and its stranger aspects, including a clumsy scientist and a band of revolutionaries.
Director: Jamie Uys | Stars: N!xau, Marius Weyers, Sandra Prinsloo, Louw Verwey
Votes: 59,482 | Gross: $30.03M
6. Inside Man: Most Wanted (2019)
R | 105 min | Action, Crime, Thriller
An NYPD hostage negotiator teams up with a federal agent to rescue dozens of tourists held hostage during a 10-hour siege at the U.S. Federal Reserve.
Director: M.J. Bassett | Stars: Aml Ameen, Rhea Seehorn, Roxanne McKee, Urs Rechn
Votes: 4,691
7. Detroit (2017)
R | 143 min | Crime, Drama, History
Fact-based drama set during the 1967 Detroit riots in which a group of rogue police officers respond to a complaint with retribution rather than justice on their minds.
Director: Kathryn Bigelow | Stars: John Boyega, Anthony Mackie, Algee Smith, Jacob Latimore
Votes: 55,975 | Gross: $16.79M
8. The Ultimate Gift (2006)
PG | 114 min | Drama, Family, Romance
A deceased billionaire leaves his spoiled adult grandson a series of odd tasks to perform in order to receive "the ultimate gift," with the resentful grandson having no idea what that might be.
Director: Michael O. Sajbel | Stars: Drew Fuller, James Garner, Abigail Breslin, Bill Cobbs
Votes: 20,446 | Gross: $3.44M
9. Leviathan (2014)
R | 140 min | Crime, Drama
In a Russian coastal town, Kolya is forced to fight the corrupt mayor when he is told that his house will be demolished. He recruits a lawyer friend to help, but the man's arrival brings further misfortune for Kolya and his family.
Director: Andrey Zvyagintsev | Stars: Aleksey Serebryakov, Elena Lyadova, Roman Madyanov, Vladimir Vdovichenkov
Votes: 56,932 | Gross: $1.09M
10. Missing in Action 2: The Beginning (1985)
R | 100 min | Action, Drama, Thriller
Prequel to the first Missing In Action, set in the early 1980s it shows the capture of Colonel Braddock during the Vietnam war in the 1970s, and his captivity with other American POWs in a brutal prison camp, and his plans to escape.
Director: Lance Hool | Stars: Chuck Norris, Soon-Tek Oh, Steven Williams, Bennett Ohta
Votes: 9,314 | Gross: $10.80M
11. Rosewater (2014)
R | 103 min | Biography, Drama
Iranian-Canadian journalist Maziar Bahari is detained by Iranian forces who brutally interrogate him under suspicion that he is a spy.
Director: Jon Stewart | Stars: Gael García Bernal, Kim Bodnia, Dimitri Leonidas, Haluk Bilginer
Votes: 10,970 | Gross: $3.13M
12. The Inheritors (1983)
TV-MA | 90 min | Drama
A neo-Nazi organization is recruiting in the 1980s, and two youths of high-school age join for similar reasons, despite class differences. Thomas is the son of a self-made industrialist ... See full summary »
Director: Walter Bannert | Stars: Nikolas Vogel, Roger Schauer, Wolfgang Gasser, Anneliese Stöckl-Eberhard
Votes: 278
13. Femme Fatale (1991)
R | 94 min | Drama, Mystery
A worried artist tries to locate his wife who suddenly abandoned him only to discover that she led a secret life - or two. He proceeds to investigate her past and stirs up a hornet's nest.
Director: Andre R. Guttfreund | Stars: Colin Firth, Lisa Zane, Billy Zane, Scott Wilson
Votes: 620
14. Assassin(s) (1997)
128 min | Crime, Drama
Old professional killer Wagner seeks someone to teach what he knows as long as he is already dying, and he chooses Max, young and passionless thief to be his successor.
Director: Mathieu Kassovitz | Stars: Michel Serrault, Mathieu Kassovitz, Mehdi Benoufa, Robert Gendreu
Votes: 2,227
15. The Naked Runner (1967)
101 min | Drama, Thriller
During the Cold War, an American industrial-designer living in London is used by the MI-6 as an unwilling pawn in the spy game during a trip to a trade show in East Germany.
Director: Sidney J. Furie | Stars: Frank Sinatra, Peter Vaughan, Derren Nesbitt, Nadia Gray
Votes: 554
16. Double Target (1987)
102 min | Action, Adventure, War
After several American and British military personnel are killed in suicide attacks throughout southeast Asia, the U.S. begins to suspect a plot by the Vietnam government. To uncover the ... See full summary »
Directors: Bruno Mattei, Claudio Fragasso | Stars: Miles O'Keeffe, Donald Pleasence, Bo Svenson, Kristine Erlandson
Votes: 418
17. Spy Smasher (1942)
Passed | 215 min | Action, Adventure, Family
Alan Armstrong, aka Spy Smasher, battles a Nazi villain known as The Mask, who heads a gang of saboteurs determined to spread destruction across America.
Director: William Witney | Stars: Kane Richmond, Marguerite Chapman, Sam Flint, Hans Schumm
Votes: 414
18. Prisoner of War (1954)
Approved | 81 min | Drama, War
During the Korean War, an American officer is tasked with infiltrating a Communist-run POW camp in order to investigate the treatment of American prisoners by the enemy.
Director: Andrew Marton | Stars: Ronald Reagan, Steve Forrest, Dewey Martin, Oscar Homolka
Votes: 288
19. Captain Scarlett (1952)
Approved | 75 min | Adventure, Drama
Captain Scarlett returns from gallivanting around the country-side after the Napoleonic wars and finds life in southern France very different. He saves a beautiful princess from an arranged... See full summary »
Director: Thomas Carr | Stars: Richard Greene, Leonora Amar, Nedrick Young, Manolo Fábregas
Votes: 381
20. Reach for Glory (1962)
86 min | Drama, War
During World War II, in a small English coastal town, teenage boys eager to join the army but unable to do so participate in their own homemade private brutal war games with tragic results.
Director: Philip Leacock | Stars: Michael Anderson Jr., Oliver Grimm, Martin Tomlinson, Alexis Kanner
Votes: 194
21. Der Stich des Skorpion (2004 TV Movie)
90 min | Biography, Thriller
Based on a true story, Stephan Wagner's thriller focuses on a man and his fight against the East German secret service. After an escape attempt, Wolfgang Stein is sentenced to ten years in ... See full summary »
Director: Stephan Wagner | Stars: Jörg Schüttauf, Martina Gedeck, Matthias Brandt, Kathrin Kühnel
Votes: 211
22. Der Scout (1983)
102 min | Western
The film is based on real events. At the end of the seventies of the previous century the fights against the Sioux were over, and the US-Army started putting the Indian tribes living to the... See full summary »
Directors: Dshamjangijn Buntar, Konrad Petzold | Stars: Gojko Mitic, Battsetseg Natsagdorj, Klaus Manchen, Milan Beli
Votes: 164
23.
Andromeda (2000–2005)
Episode:
Forced Perspective
(2001)
TV-PG | 43 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
A mission that Dylan performed for the old Commonwealth comes to haunt him. He and his partner deposed a tyrannical despot on Mobius. His replacement turned out much worse, a person Dylan ... See full summary »
Director: George Mendeluk | Stars: Kevin Sorbo, Lisa Ryder, Keith Hamilton Cobb, Laura Bertram
Votes: 253
24.
JAG (1995–2005)
Episode:
Scimitar
(1995)
TV-14 | 48 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Two Marines in a Humvee mistakenly drive into Iraq; an Iraqi detail intercepts them, kills one, and captures the other. Ihe Iraqis try the survivor for espionage; Harm and Meg defend. Harm also carries out the duty of springing the Marine.
Director: John McPherson | Stars: David James Elliott, Tracey Needham, Ron Livingston, Nicholas Kadi
Votes: 202
25.
Quantum Leap (1989–1993)
Episode:
Running for Honor - June 11, 1964
(1992)
TV-PG | 48 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
At a Naval college, Sam must prevent a gay fellow classmate from being killed by a gang of other students.
Director: Bob Hulme | Stars: Scott Bakula, Dean Stockwell, John Finn, Sean O'Bryan
Votes: 462
26.
Mysterious Island (1995)
Episode:
All That Glitters
(1995)
43 min | Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Pirates land on the island, taking the castaways by surprise. The pirates seek to recover buried treasure and their arrival prompts the release of new and disturbing information about the hermit, Ayrton.
Director: Mark Beesley | Stars: Alan Scarfe, C. David Johnson, Colette Stevenson, Stephen Lovatt
Votes: 15
27.
Helstrom (2020)
Episode:
Underneath
(2020)
TV-MA | 50 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Relationships deepen as stakes increase. To save a life, Hastings and Ana must do the unthinkable. Gabriella and Daimon journey to his childhood home in search of an old relic. A mother loses a son but gains an heir.
Director: Cherie Nowlan | Stars: Tom Austen, Sydney Lemmon, Elizabeth Marvel, Ariana Guerra
Votes: 450
28.
Game of Thrones (2011–2019)
Episode:
The Old Gods and the New
(2012)
TV-MA | 54 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Theon seizes control of Winterfell. Jon captures a wildling, named Ygritte. The people of King's Landing begin to turn against King Joffrey. Daenerys looks to buy ships to sail for the Seven Kingdoms.
Director: David Nutter | Stars: Peter Dinklage, Lena Headey, Michelle Fairley, Emilia Clarke
Votes: 32,863
29.
Detektiven från Beledweyne (2023– )
Episode:
Episode #1.4
(2023)
43 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Tilda is heavily employed by both the media and her father. She is pressured to achieve results but is constantly pushed down by her successful sister Beata.
Director: Zaida Bergroth | Stars: Malin Levanon, Nasir Dhagole, Kristofer Kamiyasu, Ellen Jelinek
Votes: 46
30.
Blue Eyes (2014–2015)
Episode:
...jord skall du åter varda
(2014)
TV-14 | 58 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Elin Hammar find an important clue to learn more about the missing chief of staff. In a rural church the funeral of murdered Annika Nilsson take place.
Directors: Fredrik Edfeldt, Henrik Georgsson | Stars: Louise Peterhoff, Sven Nordin, Karin Franz Körlof, Linnéa Lindström
Votes: 50
31.
Family Guy (1999– )
Episode:
Take My Wife
(2015)
TV-14 | 22 min | Animation, Comedy
Lois books a couple's vacation, but it turns out to be a marriage counseling program. Carter is frustrated because the kids are so into their electronics.
Directors: John Holmquist, Dominic Bianchi, James Purdum | Stars: Seth MacFarlane, Alex Borstein, Seth Green, Mila Kunis
Votes: 1,265
32.
The State (2017– )
Episode:
Episode #1.4
(2017)
48 min | Drama, Thriller
Jalal is given a new role by ISIS and witnesses barbaric punishments and mock executions to feed its propaganda machine. Shakira's worries that Isaac is being readied for front-line battle make her contemplate leaving The State.
Director: Peter Kosminsky | Stars: Ali Suliman, Hiam Abbass, Maisa Abd Elhadi, Nana Agyeman-Bediako
Votes: 83