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1. Guys and Dolls (1955)
Not Rated | 150 min | Comedy, Crime, Musical
In New York, a gambler is challenged to take a cold female missionary to Havana, but they fall for each other, and the bet has a hidden motive to finance a crap game.
Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz | Stars: Marlon Brando, Jean Simmons, Frank Sinatra, Vivian Blaine
Votes: 19,360 | Gross: $13.00M
2. 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: 375,184 | Gross: $5.51M
3. The Third Man (1949)
Approved | 93 min | Film-Noir, Mystery, Thriller
Pulp novelist Holly Martins travels to shadowy, postwar Vienna, only to find himself investigating the mysterious death of an old friend, Harry Lime.
Director: Carol Reed | Stars: Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten, Alida Valli, Trevor Howard
Votes: 181,815 | Gross: $0.45M
4. The Last of Us (2013 Video Game)
M | Action, Adventure, Drama
In a hostile, post-pandemic world, Joel and Ellie, brought together by desperate circumstances, must rely on each other to survive a brutal journey across what remains of the United States.
Directors: Neil Druckmann, Bruce Straley | Stars: Troy Baker, Ashley Johnson, Hana Hayes, Jeffrey Pierce
Votes: 76,091
5. The Last King of Scotland (2006)
R | 123 min | Biography, Drama, History
Based on the events of the brutal Ugandan dictator Idi Amin's regime as seen by his personal physician during the 1970s.
Director: Kevin Macdonald | Stars: James McAvoy, Forest Whitaker, Gillian Anderson, Kerry Washington
Votes: 196,015 | Gross: $17.61M
6. The Net (I) (1995)
PG-13 | 114 min | Action, Crime, Drama
When Angela Bennett, a computer programmer, stumbles upon government secrets, she finds herself on the run from an unknown enemy hell-bent on destroying her completely.
Director: Irwin Winkler | Stars: Sandra Bullock, Jeremy Northam, Dennis Miller, Diane Baker
Votes: 73,799 | Gross: $50.73M
7. The Innocents (2016)
PG-13 | 115 min | Drama, History
1945. Mathilde is a French Red Cross doctor working on a mission to help the French survivors of the German camps. While she works in Poland, she is asked for help by a nun. In her convent, several nuns are pregnant.
Director: Anne Fontaine | Stars: Lou de Laâge, Agata Buzek, Agata Kulesza, Vincent Macaigne
Votes: 11,606 | Gross: $1.06M
8. Phoenix (II) (2014)
PG-13 | 98 min | Drama, History, Music
After surviving Auschwitz, a former cabaret singer has her disfigured face reconstructed and returns to her war-ravaged hometown to seek out her gentile husband, who may or may not have betrayed her to the Nazis.
Director: Christian Petzold | Stars: Nina Hoss, Ronald Zehrfeld, Nina Kunzendorf, Trystan Pütter
Votes: 20,664
9. Beauty's Revenge (1995 TV Movie)
TV-14 | 96 min | Drama, Thriller
An obsessive small town beauty queen goes to great lengths to keep the love of her life from reconciling with his ex-girlfriend.
Director: William A. Graham | Stars: Courtney Thorne-Smith, Kyle Secor, Stephen Fanning, Tracey Gold
Votes: 486
10. Billy Liar (1963)
Not Rated | 98 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A lazy, irresponsible young clerk (Sir Tom Courtenay) in provincial Northern England lives in his own fantasy world and makes emotionally immature decisions as he alienates friends and family.
Director: John Schlesinger | Stars: Tom Courtenay, Julie Christie, Wilfred Pickles, Mona Washbourne
Votes: 7,097 | Gross: $0.04M
11. Stalked by My Doctor (2015 TV Movie)
TV-14 | 88 min | Horror, Thriller
A doctor's obsession with a teenage patient turns violent and dangerous.
Director: Doug Campbell | Stars: Eric Roberts, Brianna Joy Chomer, Deborah Zoe, Jon Briddell
Votes: 1,858
12. Three Months (2022)
104 min | Comedy, Drama
Coming-of-age film about Caleb, a South Florida teen. On the eve of his high school graduation, everything changes when he's exposed to HIV. While he waits three months for his results, he finds love in the most unlikely of places.
Director: Jared Frieder | Stars: Troye Sivan, Viveik Kalra, Brianne Tju, Ellen Burstyn
Votes: 2,365
13. Radioflash (2019)
Unrated | 103 min | Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
When a nuclear device causes an electromagnetic pulse that kills power to more than 200 million people, a teenage girl must help lead her family to survival in a dark new world.
Director: Ben McPherson | Stars: Brighton Sharbino, Dominic Monaghan, Will Patton, Fionnula Flanagan
Votes: 5,507
14. Kiss the Blood Off My Hands (1948)
Approved | 79 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Fugitive Bill Saunders and lonely nurse Jane Wharton are crossed by fate when he hides out in her apartment.
Director: Norman Foster | Stars: Joan Fontaine, Burt Lancaster, Robert Newton, Lewis L. Russell
Votes: 2,143
15. Beyond Rangoon (1995)
R | 100 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Laura is trying to pick up the pieces of her life after the murder of her husband and son, and goes on vacation with her sister to Burma. After losing her passport at a political rally, she... See full summary »
Director: John Boorman | Stars: Patricia Arquette, U Aung Ko, Frances McDormand, Spalding Gray
Votes: 5,446 | Gross: $5.75M
16. Lymelife (2008)
R | 95 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A family unit begins to bow under the pressure of a failing marriage.
Director: Derick Martini | Stars: Rory Culkin, Alec Baldwin, Jill Hennessy, Emma Roberts
Votes: 14,611 | Gross: $0.43M
17. The Border Post (2006)
94 min | Comedy, Drama
A small border post on the Yugoslav-Albanian border in the spring of 1987. Frustrated and always drunk, lieutenant Pasic feels a strange pain in his groins. He seeks help from the only ... See full summary »
Director: Rajko Grlic | Stars: Toni Gojanovic, Sergej Trifunovic, Emir Hadzihafizbegovic, Verica Nedeska
Votes: 6,673
18. Death of a Scoundrel (1956)
Approved | 119 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
The New York police investigates the murder of a Czech immigrant whose rags-to-riches story is told by his secretary to homicide detectives.
Director: Charles Martin | Stars: George Sanders, Yvonne De Carlo, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Victor Jory
Votes: 1,179
19. Telling Lies in America (1997)
PG-13 | 101 min | Drama, Music
A loner befriends a local celebrity, Billy Magic, but he soon begins to tell lies in order to maintain the friendship and the newfound status.
Director: Guy Ferland | Stars: Kevin Bacon, Brad Renfro, Maximilian Schell, Calista Flockhart
Votes: 2,426 | Gross: $0.25M
20. Miss Evers' Boys (1997 TV Movie)
PG | 118 min | Drama, War
The true story of the U.S. Government's 1932 Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment, in which a group of black test subjects were allowed to die, despite a cure having been developed.
Director: Joseph Sargent | Stars: Alfre Woodard, Laurence Fishburne, Craig Sheffer, Joe Morton
Votes: 1,411
21. A Year of the Quiet Sun (1984)
PG | 106 min | Drama, Romance, War
In the aftermath of World War II, an American soldier falls in love with a Polish woman, and offers his help of leaving the country. But the circumstances turns out otherwise.
Director: Krzysztof Zanussi | Stars: Maja Komorowska, Scott Wilson, Hanna Skarzanka, Ewa Dalkowska
Votes: 1,420
22. The Nomi Song (2004)
Not Rated | 98 min | Documentary, Biography, Music
Having failed to break into professional opera in his native Germany (where, as an usher in West Berlin's Deutsche Oper, he would serenade the staff after the real performances were over) ... See full summary »
Director: Andrew Horn | Stars: Klaus Nomi, Ann Magnuson, David Bowie, Gabriele Lafari
Votes: 1,122 | Gross: $0.07M
23. 3 Seasons in Hell (2009)
110 min | Drama, Romance
A 19 year old nonconformist poet living in 1947 Czechoslovakia is blind to the Communist behemoth looking over him, and instead lives a bohemian life with sexually liberated girls. There he... See full summary »
Director: Tomas Masin | Stars: Krystof Hádek, Karolina Gruszka, Martin Huba, Jan Kraus
Votes: 422
24. Robot Stories (2003)
Not Rated | 85 min | Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi
Four tales: a robot baby as a pre-adoption test, a mother and her dying son's toy robot collection, a lonely robot office worker, and a sculptor contemplating robot-enabled immortality.
Director: Greg Pak | Stars: Tamlyn Tomita, James Saito, Vin Knight, Gina Quintos
Votes: 1,443 | Gross: $0.13M
25. Desperate Moment (1953)
88 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
Simon Van Halder (Sir Dirk Bogarde) is accused of murdering a British soldier during post-World War II mayhem. His girlfriend works on his behalf to expose the true villain.
Director: Compton Bennett | Stars: Dirk Bogarde, Mai Zetterling, Philip Friend, Albert Lieven
Votes: 214
26. Two-Man Submarine (1944)
Passed | 62 min | Action, Drama, Romance
Medical researchers find mold on a remote South Pacific Island and develop penicillin in their secret laboratory.
Director: Lew Landers | Stars: Tom Neal, Ann Savage, J. Carrol Naish, Robert B. Williams
Votes: 34
27. Penicillin: The Magic Bullet (2006 TV Movie)
52 min | Documentary, History
This is the story of the invention of penicillin and the scientists behind the work. The main character, Howard Florey, races against time to create his magic bullet that will ultimately ... See full summary »
Director: Gordon Glenn | Stars: Jasper Bagg, Brett Climo, Karl Cottee, Daniela Farinacci
Votes: 46
28. The Midsummer Wreath (2015 TV Movie)
96 min | Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Princess Verunka's marriage is to save the kingdom, impoverished as a result of its ruler's crazy ideas. She's not hard up for suitors: there's a talented poet, twins - one a general, the ... See full summary »
Director: Jirí Strach | Stars: Jirí Mádl, Eliska Jansová, Ivan Trojan, Bolek Polívka
Votes: 113
29. W zawieszeniu (1987)
93 min | Drama
Marcel is a Polish resistance fighter sentenced to death by communist authorities. When he escapes from prison, the only person he can stay at is Anna, his wartime lover.
Director: Waldemar Krzystek | Stars: Krystyna Janda, Jerzy Radziwilowicz, Slawa Kwasniewska, Andrzej Lapicki
Votes: 68
31. The U.S. Syphilis Experiment (2021)
5 min | Documentary, Animation, Short
Afflicting nearly 1 in 10 Americans, syphilis was ravaging the U.S. in the 1930s. Many doctors believed syphilis affected Black and white patients differently, and the Public Health Service... See full summary »
Directors: Rikke Alma Krogshave Planeta, Philip Piaget | Star: Christina Greer
32. Mykoin PH 510 (1963)
98 min | Drama, War
Director: Jirí Lehovec | Stars: Karel Meister, Vlastimil Hasek, Karel Vochoc, Kamil Besták
Votes: 16
33. The Invader (1955)
37 min | Documentary, Short, History
PSA about the history of Syphilis and the medical treatments used to combat it that's meant to raise the public awareness of the dangers of this insidious modern plague and the necessity of blood screenings and treatments.
Director: George C. Stoney | Star: Alexander Scourby
34. The Pill (2013)
9 min | Short, Action, Comedy
Crime team takes on a hot, young apprentice in this cat and mouse game leaving us wonder who's the real mastermind behind it all?
Director: Elizabeth Yoder | Stars: Atif Hashwi, Troy Jones, Elizabeth Yoder
35.
Are You Afraid of the Dark? (1990–2000)
Episode:
The Tale of the Night Nurse
(2000)
Not Rated | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
A murdering nurse's ghost begins terrorizing two teen girls when they spend the week at their grandfather's house.
Stars: Shadia Simmons, Kerry Duff, Charles Biddle Sr., Keenan Macwilliam
Votes: 568
36.
Hogan's Heroes (1965–1971)
Episode:
Is There a Doctor in the House?
(1968)
TV-PG | 30 min | Comedy, War
Klink's illness causes problems for one of Hogan's plots.
Director: Edward H. Feldman | Stars: Bob Crane, Werner Klemperer, John Banner, Robert Clary
Votes: 168
37.
Hogan's Heroes (1965–1971)
Episode:
That's No Lady, That's My Spy
(1971)
TV-PG | 30 min | Comedy, War
Disguised as a German officer's wife, Newkirk collects penicillin for the underground.
Director: Jerry London | Stars: Bob Crane, Werner Klemperer, John Banner, Robert Clary
Votes: 160
38.
House M.D. (2004–2012)
Episode:
Paternity
(2004)
TV-14 | 43 min | Drama, Mystery
The team helps a high school boy (16) who has double vision and night terrors. (Clinic Cases: Unvaccinated baby, man with boil on leg.)
Director: Peter O'Fallon | Stars: Hugh Laurie, Lisa Edelstein, Omar Epps, Robert Sean Leonard
Votes: 4,557
39.
I Spy (1965–1968)
Episode:
Danny Was a Million Laughs
(1965)
60 min | Action, Adventure
Kelly and Scotty must keep an obnoxious drug smuggler alive until his escort arrives to extradite him to the States to testify.
Director: Mark Rydell | Stars: Robert Culp, Bill Cosby, Martin Landau, Jeanette Nolan
Votes: 78
40.
Mission: Impossible (1966–1973)
Episode:
The Numbers Game
(1969)
TV-PG | 50 min | Action, Adventure, Crime
The IMF stages World War III complete with a nuclear holocaust, all for the benefit of one man, a former dictator who plans to return to power through an invasion funded by $600,000,000 he ... See full summary »
Director: Reza Badiyi | Stars: Peter Graves, Leonard Nimoy, Greg Morris, Peter Lupus
Votes: 191
41.
Sliders (1995–2000)
Episode:
Fever
(1995)
TV-PG | 44 min | Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
The sliders race to find the cure for a deadly plague which is consuming the inhabitants of that dimension.
Director: Mario Azzopardi | Stars: Jerry O'Connell, Sabrina Lloyd, Cleavant Derricks, John Rhys-Davies
Votes: 464
42.
Tales of Tomorrow (1951–1953)
Episode:
Past Tense
(1953)
TV-G | 30 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
A physician invents a time machine to go back in time and make a fortune by selling penicillin to a pharmaceutical firm. His wife is more concerned about paying bills because he's ... See full summary »
Director: Don Medford | Stars: Boris Karloff, John McGovern, Katherine Meskill, Allen Nourse
Votes: 70
43.
Midas Letter Raw (2018– )
Episode:
SLANG Worldwide, FSD Pharma Inc, Hill Street Beverage Company
(2019)
News, Talk-Show
Stars: Howard Glassman, Ed Milewski, Ricki Gurwitz, Ben Smith
44.
A Science Odyssey (1998– )
Episode:
Matters of Life and Death
(1998)
History
The passion and determination of medical science in the twentieth century. Dramatic experiments, the politics of science, and races against the clock form a backdrop to the discovery of new... See full summary »
Stars: Charles Osgood, Michael Bliss, Gert H. Brieger, Elizabeth W. Etheridge
45.
Shantaram (2022)
Episode:
Bad Medicine
(2022)
TV-MA | 53 min | Action, Adventure, Crime
Lin finds his priorities pulled in two directions: the people of Sagar Wada and Khader's underground network.
Director: Iain B. MacDonald | Stars: Charlie Hunnam, Fayssal Bazzi, Sujaya Dasgupta, Antonia Desplat
Votes: 509
46.
Hospital at the End of the City Twenty Years On (2003– )
Episode:
Pomluva
(2003)
Drama, Romance
Defamation.
Director: Hynek Bocan | Stars: Josef Abrhám, Eliska Balzerová, Andrea Cunderlíková, Josef Dvorák
Votes: 12
47.
Charité (2017– )
Episode:
Sepsis
(2021)
TV-MA | 50 min | Drama, History, Sci-Fi
Dr. Alexander Nowack was appointed senior physician for internal medicine. Ella knows the price he paid for it: silence in the case of the bismuth patient. After Curt Bruncken's leave and Nowack's promotion, she is disaffected.
Director: Christine Hartmann | Stars: Nina Gummich, Nina Kunzendorf, Philipp Hochmair, Hana Baronová
Votes: 65
48.
Fringe (2008–2013)
Episode:
There's More Than One of Everything
(2009)
TV-14 | 48 min | Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
David Robert Jones comes out of hiding following an attempt on Nina Sharp's life while Walter leaves accompanied by the mysterious Observer.
Director: Brad Anderson | Stars: Anna Torv, Joshua Jackson, Lance Reddick, Kirk Acevedo
Votes: 3,087
49.
Jin (2009– )
Episode:
Dai go wa
(2009)
46 min | Drama, Fantasy, Romance
After the check-up with Oyoji, Courtesan Nokaze asks Jin to see another patient. He discovers a former courtesan in the last stages of syphilis. There is no cure, since penicillin has not ... See full summary »
Director: Yûichirô Hirakawa | Stars: Takao Osawa, Miki Nakatani, Haruka Ayase, Keisuke Koide
Votes: 8
50.
Jin (2009– )
Episode:
Dai roku wa
(2009)
46 min | Drama, Fantasy, Romance
With Jin's growing popularity, the Study of Medicine Office find him a threat to their livelihood and status as the medical authority. A surgical instrument of Saburi's is found in the room... See full summary »
Director: Daisuke Yamamuro | Stars: Takao Osawa, Miki Nakatani, Haruka Ayase, Keisuke Koide
Votes: 8