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1. Downfall (2004)

R | 156 min | Biography, Drama, History

Traudl Junge, the final secretary for Adolf Hitler, tells of the Nazi dictator's final days in his Berlin bunker at the end of WWII.

Director: Oliver Hirschbiegel | Stars: Bruno Ganz, Alexandra Maria Lara, Ulrich Matthes, Juliane Köhler

Votes: 375,575 | Gross: $5.51M

2. Beloved (1998)

R | 172 min | Drama, History, Horror

A slave is visited by the spirit of a mysterious young woman.

Director: Jonathan Demme | Stars: Oprah Winfrey, Danny Glover, Yada Beener, Emil Pinnock

Votes: 9,588 | Gross: $22.85M

3. Mother of Tears (2007)

R | 102 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller

An American art student in Rome accidentally triggers the return of Mater Lachrymarum - the Third Mother - and must use her latent magical powers to end the witch's reign of terror.

Director: Dario Argento | Stars: Asia Argento, Cristian Solimeno, Adam James, Moran Atias

Votes: 11,152 | Gross: $0.06M

4. Daisy Diamond (2007)

94 min | Drama

Anna dreams of being an actress when she becomes pregnant. Though she struggles to give her daughter a good life, she fails to unite her dream of acting with creating a safe environment for her child.

Director: Simon Staho | Stars: Noomi Rapace, Thure Lindhardt, Benedikte Hansen, Morten Kirkskov

Votes: 1,509

5. Medea (1969)

Not Rated | 118 min | Drama, Fantasy

After his quest to retrieve the fabled Golden Fleece, Jason returns to Greece with powerful sorceress Medea. However, when the king banishes her, it's only human that Medea plots her furious revenge. Can they escape her wrath?

Director: Pier Paolo Pasolini | Stars: Maria Callas, Massimo Girotti, Laurent Terzieff, Giuseppe Gentile

Votes: 5,495

6. The Story of Sin (1975)

R | 130 min | Drama

A beautiful Polish girl traveling around Europe in search of her lover suffers a variety of tragic adventures as the men around her try to fit her into their own selfish schemes.

Director: Walerian Borowczyk | Stars: Grazyna Dlugolecka, Jerzy Zelnik, Olgierd Lukaszewicz, Roman Wilhelmi

Votes: 880

7. Macabre (1980)

Unrated | 89 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller

A middle-aged woman, traumatized from the death of her adulterous lover, moves into a room at a New Orleans boarding house where the blind landlord becomes suspicious to her activities of continuing her affair with her dead lover.

Director: Lamberto Bava | Stars: Bernice Stegers, Stanko Molnar, Veronica Zinny, Roberto Posse

Votes: 3,096

8. Baby Blues (2008 Video)

R | 85 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller

On a secluded family farm, a mother suffers a psychotic break due to postpartum depression, forcing the eldest son to protect his siblings from the mother they have always known and loved.

Directors: Lars Jacobson, Amardeep Kaleka | Stars: Colleen Porch, Aiden Kersh, Ridge Canipe, Sean Johnson

Votes: 2,462

9. Prime Suspect: The Lost Child (1995 TV Movie)

101 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Superintendent Jane Tennison (Dame Helen Mirren) orchestrates a search for an abducted baby, but events take a turn for the worse when personal emotions cause complications.

Director: John Madden | Stars: Helen Mirren, Beatie Edney, Robert Glenister, Lesley Sharp

Votes: 3,038

10. Mountaintop Motel Massacre (1983)

R | 95 min | Horror

A mentally-unstable elderly woman recently released from a mental asylum proceeds to slaughter all the guests staying at her motel.

Director: Jim McCullough Sr. | Stars: Bill Thurman, Anna Chappell, Will Mitchell, Virginia Loridans

Votes: 1,838

11. Dark Angel (2016)

TV-14 | 63 min | Crime, Drama, History

A two-part drama about the Victorian serial killer Mary Ann Cotton.

Stars: Joanne Froggatt, Alun Armstrong, Isla McMonigle, Laura Morgan

Votes: 2,194

12. The Housemaid (2016)

Not Rated | 105 min | Horror, Romance

When an orphaned Vietnamese girl is hired to be a housemaid at a haunted rubber plantation in 1953 French Indochina, she unexpectedly falls in love with the French landowner and awakens the... See full summary »

Director: Derek Nguyen | Stars: Nhung Kate, Jean-Michel Richaud, Kim Xuan, Svitlana Kovalenko

Votes: 899

13. Beware: Children at Play (1989)

R | 94 min | Horror, Thriller

A mentally-disturbed teenager kidnaps and brainwashes children into cannibalistic psychopaths - but not when the adults intervene.

Director: Mik Cribben | Stars: Michael Robertson, Rich Hamilton, Robin Lilly, Lori Romero

Votes: 1,453

14. Flesh-Eating Mothers (1988)

R | 89 min | Comedy, Horror

Suburban housewives turn into vicious cannibals after committing adultery with the neighborhood womanizer.

Director: James Aviles Martin | Stars: Robert Lee Oliver, Donatella Hecht, Neal Rosen, Valorie Hubbard

Votes: 1,284

15. Mother India (1957)

Not Rated | 172 min | Action, Comedy, Drama

In this melodrama, a poverty-stricken woman raises her sons through many trials and tribulations. But no matter the struggles, she always sticks to her own moral code.

Director: Mehboob Khan | Stars: Nargis, Sunil Dutt, Rajendra Kumar Tuli, Raaj Kumar

Votes: 9,862

16. Unholy Women (2006)

107 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery

When Val is released from prison, she's determined to make a new life for herself. But the criminal underworld won't let her go that easily, and her former boss won't stop until she's paid her debt - with blood.

Directors: Keita Amemiya, Takuji Suzuki, Keisuke Toyoshima | Stars: Noriko Nakagoshi, Yûko Kobayashi, Riko Suzuki, Miharu Morina

Votes: 720

17. Silk (2006)

Not Rated | 108 min | Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi

In Taipei, the crippled scientist Hashimoto uses his invention of "Menger Sponge" to capture the energy of the spirit of a child in an old building. He invites the specialist in reading ... See full summary »

Director: Chao-Bin Su | Stars: Chang Chen, Yôsuke Eguchi, Karena Kar-Yan Lam, Barbie Hsu

Votes: 3,498

18. In Your Hands (2004)

101 min | Drama

Anna begins as a rookie chaplain in a women's prison and meets an inmate who can perform miracles and cure drug addicts with a touch. She says Anna is pregnant and a test confirms it. But not all is well.

Director: Annette K. Olesen | Stars: Ann Eleonora Jørgensen, Trine Dyrholm, Nicolaj Kopernikus, Sonja Richter

Votes: 1,194

19. Now (2003)

29 min | Drama, Short

A man and a woman meet in 1960. They marry because that's what you are supposed to do. But something goes wrong on their wedding night. They have no idea what to do with each other. ... See full summary »

Director: Simon Staho | Stars: Mads Mikkelsen, Erland Josephson, Mikael Persbrandt, Henning Moritzen

Votes: 597

20. La llorona (1933)

73 min | Horror, Mystery

In modern day Mexico, a man on the street is supernaturally killed after hearing the eerie sound of a wailing woman. We then arrive at the manor of an upper class family, who are ... See full summary »

Director: Ramón Peón | Stars: Ramón Pereda, Virginia Zurí, Carlos Orellana, Adriana Lamar

Votes: 344

21. A Very Short Life (2009)

85 min | Drama, Thriller

A female police commissioner tries to investigate the murder of an 11-year-old girl at the hands of her mother.

Director: Dennis Law | Stars: Leila Tong, Maggie Siu, Pinky Cheung, Samuel Pang

Votes: 140

22. Kravgi gynaikon (1978)

R | 110 min | Drama

Melina Mercouri plays an actress who is attempting a comeback with a staging of Greek tragedy "Medea".

Director: Jules Dassin | Stars: Melina Mercouri, Ellen Burstyn, Andréas Voutsinas, Despo Diamantidou

Votes: 397

23. The President (1919)

85 min | Drama

A judge sees his illegitimate daughter facing a trial for the murder of her newborn child, also out of wedlock. He is certain that she will be sentenced to death.

Director: Carl Theodor Dreyer | Stars: Carl Walther Meyer, Elith Pio, Halvard Hoff, Jacoba Jessen

Votes: 1,058

24. Hilde Warren und der Tod (1917)

80 min | Horror

Hilde Warren, a famous actress, is impregnated by a convicted murderer and becomes plagued by visions of an extremely gaunt and sepulchral Death. Upon discovering her child is the image of ... See full summary »

Director: Joe May | Stars: Mia May, Bruno Kastner, Georg John, Hans Mierendorff

Votes: 155

25. A Mother's Vengeance (1992 Video)

Not Rated | 76 min | Horror, Thriller

A single mother takes justice into her own hands as she tracks down the man who sexually abused her daughter.

Director: Mick McCleery | Stars: Christine McCleery, Rutger Powell, Paul Federico

26. Medea (II) (1983 TV Movie)

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Director: Pål Løkkeberg | Stars: Lars Finholt, Jan Frostad, Gro Mette Garmo, Marit Grønhaug

27. Hush (I) (2006)

5 min | Short, Crime, Drama

Some time after miscarrying, the psychologically traumatized Fay Malony finds herself accused of kidnapping. In the course of police investigation, the detective assigned to the case ... See full summary »

Director: Tom Delfino | Stars: Jacquelyn Knabusch, Tony Pratt, Winona Yellowhammer, Sean Barnes

Votes: 7

28. Oz (1997–2003)
Episode: Losing Your Appeal (1998)

TV-MA | 58 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

Augustus Hill's appeal is denied, despite the efforts of Said, who has better luck with Poet's poems. Meanwhile, O'Reily survives his lumpectomy, and now focuses his attention on Dr. Nathan.

Director: Keith Samples | Stars: Kirk Acevedo, Ernie Hudson, Terry Kinney, Rita Moreno

Votes: 2,117

29. Deadly Women (2008– )
Episode: Bad Medicine (2008)

TV-14 | 45 min | Documentary, Crime

A rogue nurse turns a children's ward into a killing field, medicine becomes a deadly weapon for a desperate housewife and a mother uses a medical diagnosis to hide a horrifying compulsion.

Director: John Mavety | Stars: Janis Amatuzio, Matthew Benns, Candice DeLong, Mike Dunbar

Votes: 38

30. Medium (2005–2011)
Episode: A Taste of Her Own Medicine (2009)

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

Allison attempts to help find the daughter of Devalos' friends, who seemed to have simply left town. Meanwhile Joe finds out that he is suffering from sleep deprivation, and Scanlon and Lynn's relationship takes an unexpected turn.

Director: Ronald L. Schwary | Stars: Patricia Arquette, Miguel Sandoval, David Cubitt, Sofia Vassilieva

Votes: 219

31. Women Behind Bars (2008– )
Episode: Donna Buchanan & Marion Faye Cason (2009)

TV-14 | 42 min | Documentary

A 37-year-old drug addict fatally stabbed her controlling 80-year-old boyfriend 54 times to the chest, back, and head. A 24-year-old was convicted for the murder of her 2-year-old daughter along with her roommate, a convicted child abuser.

Director: Richard Swindell | Stars: Ashley Crary, Ken Kaminsky, George Reres, Donna Buchanan

Votes: 16

32. Rizzoli & Isles (2010–2016)
Episode: No One Mourns the Wicked (2013)

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

When someone begins to stage copycat murders presented at a symposium on serial killers, detectives believe the suspect is one of the meeting participants.

Director: Steve Robin | Stars: Angie Harmon, Sasha Alexander, Brian Goodman, Jordan Bridges

Votes: 434

33. The Matt Walsh Show (2018– )
The Unexplored Connection Between Psychoactive Drugs and Mass Shootings (2023 Podcast Episode)

News, Talk-Show

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Director: Mark Jones | Star: Matt Walsh