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1. Coco (I) (2017)
PG | 105 min | Animation, Adventure, Drama
Aspiring musician Miguel, confronted with his family's ancestral ban on music, enters the Land of the Dead to find his great-great-grandfather, a legendary singer.
Directors: Lee Unkrich, Adrian Molina | Stars: Anthony Gonzalez, Gael García Bernal, Benjamin Bratt, Alanna Ubach
Votes: 590,546 | Gross: $209.73M
2. Amsterdam (2022)
R | 134 min | Comedy, Drama, History
In the 1930s, three friends witness a murder, are framed for it, and uncover one of the most outrageous plots in American history.
Director: David O. Russell | Stars: Christian Bale, Margot Robbie, John David Washington, Alessandro Nivola
Votes: 93,263
3. Gosford Park (2001)
R | 137 min | Comedy, Drama, Mystery
Set in the 1930s, a group of pretentious rich and famous get together for a weekend of relaxation at a hunting resort. But when a murder occurs, each one of these interesting characters becomes a suspect.
Director: Robert Altman | Stars: Maggie Smith, Ryan Phillippe, Michael Gambon, Kristin Scott Thomas
Votes: 94,032 | Gross: $41.31M
4. Trilogy of Terror (1975 TV Movie)
Unrated | 72 min | Horror, Thriller
Three bizarre horror stories, all of which star Karen Black in four different roles playing four tormented women.
Director: Dan Curtis | Stars: Robert Burton, John Karlen, George Gaynes, Jim Storm
Votes: 8,719
5. The Crush (1993)
R | 89 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
A journalist becomes the unwanted center of attention for a 14-year-old girl, who proceeds to sabotage his life after he refuses her sexual advances.
Director: Alan Shapiro | Stars: Cary Elwes, Alicia Silverstone, Jennifer Rubin, Kurtwood Smith
Votes: 22,309 | Gross: $13.61M
6. The Orphanage (2007)
R | 105 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
A woman brings her family back to her childhood home, which used to be an orphanage for handicapped children. Before long, her son starts to communicate with an invisible new friend.
Director: J.A. Bayona | Stars: Belén Rueda, Fernando Cayo, Roger Príncep, Mabel Rivera
Votes: 163,616 | Gross: $7.16M
7. Ten Little Indians (1965)
Not Rated | 91 min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Ten people are invited to a luxury mountaintop mansion, only to find that an unseen person is killing them one by one. Could one of them be the killer?
Director: George Pollock | Stars: Hugh O'Brian, Shirley Eaton, Fabian, Leo Genn
Votes: 5,295
8. The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane (1976)
PG | 91 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
A thirteen-year-old girl, who lives with her absentee father, befriends a disabled teenage amateur magician and invites him, gradually, into her tenuous struggle against a predatory local neighbor.
Director: Nicolas Gessner | Stars: Jodie Foster, Martin Sheen, Alexis Smith, Mort Shuman
Votes: 18,086
9. Crime Scene Berlin: Nightlife Killer (2024)
120 min | Documentary, Crime
In 2012, a string of grisly murders sends shock waves through the Berlin party scene. As news of the murders hits the headlines across Germany, the pressure mounts on the investigators to solve the case.
Stars: Miroslaw Wawak, Katrin Faust, Andreas Voges, Monika Laschke
Votes: 673
10. The Paramedic (2020)
TV-MA | 94 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
Angel works in an ambulance service. After a tragic accident, his personal life begins to deteriorate as he becomes more and more suspicious of his partner Vane.
Director: Carles Torras | Stars: Mario Casas, Déborah François, Guillermo Pfening, Maria Rodríguez Soto
Votes: 14,671
11. Hamlet (2000)
R | 112 min | Drama, Romance, Thriller
Modern-day New York City adaptation of Shakespeare's immortal story about Hamlet's plight to avenge his father's murder.
Director: Michael Almereyda | Stars: Ethan Hawke, Kyle MacLachlan, Diane Venora, Sam Shepard
Votes: 9,991 | Gross: $1.57M
12. Sssssss (1973)
PG | 99 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
A college student becomes lab assistant to a scientist who is working on a serum that can transform humans into snakes.
Director: Bernard L. Kowalski | Stars: Strother Martin, Dirk Benedict, Heather Menzies-Urich, Richard B. Shull
Votes: 3,968
13. One on Top of the Other (1969)
R | 108 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
An unscrupulous doctor is accused of killing his asthmatic wife as part of an insurance scam, despite discovering that she has a doppelgänger who works as a stripper and call girl.
Director: Lucio Fulci | Stars: Jean Sorel, Marisa Mell, Elsa Martinelli, Alberto de Mendoza
Votes: 2,676
14. Too Late for Tears (1949)
Not Rated | 99 min | Crime, Film-Noir
Through a fluke circumstance, a ruthless woman stumbles across a suitcase filled with $60,000, and is determined to hold onto it even if it means murder.
Director: Byron Haskin | Stars: Lizabeth Scott, Don DeFore, Dan Duryea, Arthur Kennedy
Votes: 5,693
15. Killer Sofa (2019)
81 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
A killer reclining chair becomes enchanted by a girl and starts committing crimes of passion.
Director: Bernie Rao | Stars: Jed Brophy, Jordan Rivers, Piimio Mei, Nathalie Morris
Votes: 3,033
16. Dragonwyck (1946)
Not Rated | 103 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance
A simple Connecticut farm girl is recruited by a distant relative, an aristocratic patroon, to be governess to his young daughter in his Hudson Valley mansion.
Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz | Stars: Gene Tierney, Walter Huston, Vincent Price, Glenn Langan
Votes: 5,399
17. The Last King (2016)
R | 99 min | Action, Drama, History
In the year 1206 Norway is raged by civil war. The King's illegitimate infant son, Håkon Håkonsson, which half the kingdom wants killed off, is guarded in secrecy by two men. A story which changed the course of the country's history.
Director: Nils Gaup | Stars: Jakob Oftebro, Kristofer Hivju, Torkel Dommersnes Soldal, Ane Ulimoen Øverli
Votes: 7,751 | Gross: $0.01M
18. Zoo (I) (2018)
Not Rated | 95 min | Comedy, Drama, Horror
A couple try to save their marriage during a zombie apocalypse.
Director: Antonio Tublen | Stars: Zoë Tapper, Ed Speleers, Antonia Campbell-Hughes, Jan Bijvoet
Votes: 2,145
19. Montenegro (1981)
R | 96 min | Drama, Comedy
A bored wealthy housewife on the verge of insanity cuts loose with some lively Yugoslavian immigrants who delight in their bohemian lifestyle.
Director: Dusan Makavejev | Stars: Susan Anspach, Erland Josephson, Per Oscarsson, Marianne Jacobi
Votes: 2,126
20. Bad Kids of Crestview Academy (2017)
R | 100 min | Action, Comedy, Thriller
5 high school students get Saturday detention. One tries to find her sister's killer. When hit by a computer virus, the school goes on lockdown and the killing continues.
Director: Ben Browder | Stars: Samantha Hanratty, Colby Arps, Sophia Ali, Erika Daly
Votes: 2,349
21. Extracurricular Activities (2019)
Not Rated | 86 min | Comedy, Mystery, Thriller
A mature, intelligent high school student has a side job arranging "accidental" deaths (no two alike) of fellow students' parents. A cop detective notices this student being connected to all the kids of dead parents. Who wins the face-off?
Director: Jay Lowi | Stars: Patrick Fabian, Angela Kinsey, Colin Ford, Darlene Vogel
Votes: 1,574
22. Loot (1970)
PG | 101 min | Comedy, Crime
Based on the play by Joe Orton, this film follows the adventures of two pals who have pulled off a bank robbery and have to hide the loot. Fortunately one of them works in a funeral parlor ... See full summary »
Director: Silvio Narizzano | Stars: Lee Remick, Richard Attenborough, Hywel Bennett, Milo O'Shea
Votes: 628
23. Shrew's Nest (2014)
Not Rated | 91 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller
1950s Madrid: The agoraphobic Montse raised her now 18 y.o. kid sister. The upstairs neighbor falls down the stairs and breaks a leg. The crazy Montse takes him in.
Directors: Juanfer Andrés, Esteban Roel | Stars: Macarena Gómez, Nadia de Santiago, Hugo Silva, Luis Tosar
Votes: 7,729
24. Violette (1978)
Not Rated | 124 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
In an interwar France struggling with profound social and political change, 18-year-old Violette Noziere rebels against the constraints of her claustrophobic, working-class (and possibly incestuous) family, with troubling consequences.
Director: Claude Chabrol | Stars: Isabelle Huppert, Stéphane Audran, Jean Carmet, Jean-François Garreaud
Votes: 2,527
25. Detective Byomkesh Bakshy! (2015)
Not Rated | 139 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Detective Byomkesh Bakshy is set in the 2nd World War torn Calcutta during the 1940s. Enter a magical world of nostalgia and 'Expect the Unexpected'.
Director: Dibakar Banerjee | Stars: Sushant Singh Rajput, Anand Tiwari, Neeraj Kabi, Divya Menon
Votes: 24,375 | Gross: $0.58M
26. Peppermint Frappé (1967)
94 min | Drama, Thriller
Julian, a middle-aged single doctor, meets his childhood friend Pablo again. The latter is back from Africa and has just married a beautiful young blonde, Elena. Julian falls in love with ... See full summary »
Director: Carlos Saura | Stars: Geraldine Chaplin, José Luis López Vázquez, Alfredo Mayo, Emiliano Redondo
Votes: 1,978
27. This Man Must Die (1969)
GP | 110 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A man asserts himself within the life of an actress he believes is somehow responsible for his son's death.
Director: Claude Chabrol | Stars: Michel Duchaussoy, Caroline Cellier, Jean Yanne, Anouk Ferjac
Votes: 4,888
28. Parting Shots (1998)
99 min | Comedy, Crime, Romance
When the doctors tell Harry Sterndale to get his affairs in order, he does just that - with a vengeance. With nothing to lose, Harry is out to give everyone who ever "done him wrong" something to remember him by: exactly what they deserve.
Director: Michael Winner | Stars: Chris Rea, Felicity Kendal, John Cleese, Bob Hoskins
Votes: 1,077
29. Mourning Becomes Electra (1947)
Approved | 159 min | Drama
Eugene O'Neill's updated version of the Oresteia set in New England, after the American Civil War.
Director: Dudley Nichols | Stars: Rosalind Russell, Michael Redgrave, Raymond Massey, Katina Paxinou
Votes: 1,300 | Gross: $0.44M
30. The Killer Is One of 13 (1973)
Not Rated | 95 min | Mystery, Thriller
A widow invites thirteen guests to stay at her rural mansion. She reveals to them that she suspects whoever killed her husband must be one of them. Soon, they too are being murdered one by one.
Director: Javier Aguirre | Stars: Patty Shepard, Simón Andreu, José María Prada, Trini Alonso
Votes: 549
31. A Blueprint for Murder (1953)
Approved | 77 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Whitney Cameron suspects his sister-in-law has poisoned his brother and niece, but without proof how does he prevent the murder of his nephew?
Director: Andrew L. Stone | Stars: Joseph Cotten, Jean Peters, Gary Merrill, Catherine McLeod
Votes: 1,834
32. The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse (1938)
Approved | 87 min | Crime, Drama
A brilliant Park Avenue doctor becomes a criminal in order to do research into the criminal mind.
Director: Anatole Litvak | Stars: Edward G. Robinson, Humphrey Bogart, Claire Trevor, Allen Jenkins
Votes: 2,982
33. Fango bollente (1975)
85 min | Action, Crime
The Savage Three are three young men, fresh into the world, who work together at a computer analysis company. All three appear to be calm, level-headed, well-educated young men with the ... See full summary »
Director: Vittorio Salerno | Stars: Joe Dallesandro, Martine Brochard, Enrico Maria Salerno, Gianfranco De Grassi
Votes: 537
34. Cruel & Unusual (2014)
Unrated | 95 min | Sci-Fi, Thriller
Wrongly condemned for killing his wife, a man finds himself in a mysterious institution where he is sentenced to relive her death for eternity.
Director: Merlin Dervisevic | Stars: David Richmond-Peck, Bernadette Saquibal, Michelle Harrison, Monsour Cataquiz
Votes: 1,647
35. Applecart (2015)
57 min | Crime, Drama, Horror
Experimental b&w anthology film with no dialogue consisting of four gruesome psychosexual stories featuring a masked cast. A woman hates her family. An elderly person is abused. A woman hates her dad. A nut abducts his female co-worker.
Director: Dustin Mills | Stars: Dave Parker, Allison Egan, Haley Madison, Joni Durian
Votes: 147
36. Signore e signori, buonanotte (1976)
105 min | Comedy
An episodic satire of the social and politic status of Italy in the 1970s through the programming of a television channel.
Directors: Leonardo Benvenuti, Luigi Comencini, Piero De Bernardi, Agenore Incrocci, Nanni Loy, Ruggero Maccari, Luigi Magni, Mario Monicelli, Ugo Pirro, Furio Scarpelli, Ettore Scola | Stars: Senta Berger, Adolfo Celi, Vittorio Gassman, Nino Manfredi
Votes: 921
37. Mandalay (1934)
Passed | 65 min | Drama
Abandoned by her lover, a woman becomes the main "hostess" in a decadent nightclub, but tries to put her past behind her on a steamer to Mandalay.
Director: Michael Curtiz | Stars: Kay Francis, Ricardo Cortez, Warner Oland, Lyle Talbot
Votes: 1,125
38. Pink String and Sealing Wax (1945)
Not Rated | 89 min | Drama, Thriller
A drunken, abusive tavern-keeper's adulterous wife uses the backward son of a rigid, puritanical pharmacist who makes his entire family miserable.
Director: Robert Hamer | Stars: Mervyn Johns, Mary Merrall, Gordon Jackson, Jean Ireland
Votes: 685
39. Reel Evil (2012)
Not Rated | 78 min | Horror
Struggling filmmakers - Kennedy, Cory and James - finally catch the break they were looking for when they are hired to shoot a 'behind-the-scenes' documentary for a major studio production.... See full summary »
Director: Danny Draven | Stars: Jessica Morris, Kaiwi Lyman, Jeff Adler, Jamie Bernadette
Votes: 766
40. Mother! The Mosquitoes (2000)
80 min | Comedy
Directors: Miklós Jancsó, István Márton | Stars: Zoltán Mucsi, Péter Scherer, Emese Vasvári, Márta Balogh
Votes: 591
41. Grand Central Murder (1942)
Passed | 73 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
Classic whodunit mystery film about a gold-digging variety show actress who has many enemies and is found dead in her private railroad car at Grand Central Station in New York.
Director: S. Sylvan Simon | Stars: Van Heflin, Patricia Dane, Cecilia Parker, Virginia Grey
Votes: 1,066
42. One Way Ticket (1971)
120 min | Crime, Drama
A small-time criminal wants to give up his life of crime. He performs a robbery with a friend, with similar feelings, and things go sour.
Director: José Giovanni | Stars: Jean-Claude Bouillon, Nicoletta, Maurice Garrel, Paola Pitagora
Votes: 216
43. I Hate Actors (1986)
PG | 90 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
Hollywood in the 1940s. A tyrannical producer, a paranoid director, a starlet engaged twenty-four times, an actor who refuses to age - all against a backdrop of a series of murders.
Director: Gérard Krawczyk | Stars: Jean Poiret, Michel Blanc, Bernard Blier, Patrick Floersheim
Votes: 259
44. 'Ctyri vrazdy stací, drahousku' (1971)
103 min | Comedy, Crime
Two criminal gangs are ruthlessly fighting for a 1-million dollar check that, purely by chance, got into the flat of shy high school teacher George Camel. As the number of victims sharply ... See full summary »
Director: Oldrich Lipský | Stars: Lubomír Lipský, Jirina Bohdalová, Iva Janzurová, Marie Rosulková
Votes: 789
45. Trevor McDonald and the Killer Nurse (2018 TV Movie)
60 min | Documentary, Crime
25 years after he first reported on it, Sir Trevor re-visits the case of Beverley Allitt, one of Britain's most prolific serial killers.
Director: Nathaniel Lippiett | Stars: Stuart Clifton, Charith Nanayakkara, David Crampton, Vincent Marks
Votes: 25
46. Unfiltered (2012)
8 min | Short, Comedy, Drama
It's not easy trying to figure out the opposite sex. Especially when they kill you.
Director: Jeff Fong | Stars: Tyler Crosby, Nolan De Long, Josh Dietz, Murphy Alexandra Donahue
Votes: 15
47. A Game Without Rules (1967)
89 min | Crime
A robbery in a Prague jeweler's shop results in the shop manager Kubát and his deputy Litera being shot and wounded. The culprits take the jewelery away in a stolen car and that very night ... See full summary »
Director: Jindrich Polák | Stars: Svatopluk Matyás, Jirí Adamíra, Zdenek Kryzánek, Karla Chadimová
Votes: 85
48. Marysa (1983 TV Movie)
Drama
Director: Jan Grossman | Stars: Jan Novotný, Miroslav Svejda, Markéta Vosková
49. Forbidden Fruit (I) (2020)
Short, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Director: Aneta Kernová | Stars: Barbora Jánová, Janek Gregor, Zofie Darbujánová, Martina Babisova
50. Poslední opona (1965 TV Movie)
Crime, Mystery
Director: Eva Sadková | Stars: Jaroslava Adamová, Jana Drbohlavová, Milena Dvorská, Josef Gruss