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1. When Marnie Was There (2014)
PG | 103 min | Animation, Drama, Family
Anna, a shy 12-year-old girl, is sent to spend time with her aunt and uncle who live in the countryside, where she meets Marnie. The two become best friends. But Anna gradually discovers that Marnie is not quite who she appears to be.
Director: Hiromasa Yonebayashi | Stars: Sara Takatsuki, Kasumi Arimura, Nanako Matsushima, Susumu Terajima
Votes: 47,772 | Gross: $0.77M
2. Anomalisa (2015)
R | 90 min | Animation, Comedy, Drama
A man crippled by the mundanity of his life experiences something out of the ordinary.
Directors: Duke Johnson, Charlie Kaufman | Stars: David Thewlis, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Tom Noonan
Votes: 75,269 | Gross: $3.76M
3. My Mad Fat Diary (2013–2015)
TV-MA | 47 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Set in the mid-90s at the height of Cool Britannia, a drama based on real diaries takes an honest look at teenage life through the eyes of funny, music-mad Rae
Stars: Ciara Baxendale, Dan Cohen, Jodie Comer, Darren Evans
Votes: 18,870
4. Cobain: Montage of Heck (2015)
TV-MA | 132 min | Documentary, Animation, Biography
An authorized documentary on the late musician Kurt Cobain, from his early days in Aberdeen, Washington to his success and downfall with the grunge band Nirvana.
Director: Brett Morgen | Stars: Kurt Cobain, Wendy O'Connor, Don Cobain, Jenny Cobain
Votes: 32,116
5. The Importance of Being Earnest (2002)
PG | 97 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
In 1890s London, two friends use the same pseudonym ("Ernest") for their on-the-sly activities. Hilarity ensues.
Director: Oliver Parker | Stars: Rupert Everett, Colin Firth, Frances O'Connor, Reese Witherspoon
Votes: 24,724 | Gross: $8.38M
6. Ghajini (2008)
Not Rated | 186 min | Action, Drama, Mystery
A short-term memory loss patient goes on a killing spree in order to avenge the death of his ladylove.
Director: A.R. Murugadoss | Stars: Aamir Khan, Asin Thottumkal, Jiah Khan, Aamir Naik
Votes: 66,752 | Gross: $2.43M
7. Mrs. Brown (1997)
PG | 101 min | Biography, Drama, History
When Queen Victoria's husband Prince Albert dies, she finds solace in her trusted servant, Mr. John Brown, but their relationship also brings scandal and turmoil.
Director: John Madden | Stars: Judi Dench, Billy Connolly, Geoffrey Palmer, Antony Sher
Votes: 15,571 | Gross: $9.22M
8. Hour of the Wolf (1968)
Not Rated | 88 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
While vacationing on a remote German island with his younger pregnant wife, an artist has an emotional breakdown while confronting his repressed desires.
Director: Ingmar Bergman | Stars: Max von Sydow, Liv Ullmann, Gertrud Fridh, Georg Rydeberg
Votes: 22,556
9. Gemma Bovery (2014)
R | 99 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
After moving to the French countryside with her husband, the British beauty Gemma Bovery draws the attention of a local baker who finds in the moving couple a resemblance to the heroes of Madame Bovary.
Director: Anne Fontaine | Stars: Fabrice Luchini, Gemma Arterton, Jason Flemyng, Isabelle Candelier
Votes: 6,865 | Gross: $0.19M
10. Save the Green Planet! (2003)
Not Rated | 118 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
Byeong-gu believes that the world is on the verge of an alien invasion, and sets out to save the world.
Director: Joon-Hwan Jang | Stars: Shin Ha-kyun, Baek Yun-shik, Hwang Jung-min, Lee Jae-yong
Votes: 8,698 | Gross: $0.01M
11. A Couple (2022)
63 min | Drama
The film follows a long-term relationship between a man and a woman. The man is Leo Tolstoy. The woman is his wife, Sophia.
Director: Frederick Wiseman | Star: Nathalie Boutefeu
Votes: 156
12. Scandal: The Trial of Mary Astor (2018)
62 min | Documentary
Mary Astor has to make a difficult choice after learning her personal diaries have been stolen.
Director: Alexa Foreman | Stars: Lee Grant, Molly Haskell, Leonard Maltin, Ken Bass
Votes: 291
13. The Hearse (1980)
PG | 99 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller
A schoolteacher moves into her deceased aunt's home in a small town, only to find herself plagued by supernatural occurrences and unexplained hostility from the local townspeople connected to her aunt's past.
Director: George Bowers | Stars: Trish Van Devere, Joseph Cotten, David Gautreaux, Donald Hotton
Votes: 2,366
14. Birdboy: The Forgotten Children (2015)
TV-14 | 76 min | Animation, Drama, Horror
Three children decide to leave their homes looking for a better life.
Directors: Pedro Rivero, Alberto Vázquez | Stars: Andrea Alzuri, Eba Ojanguren, Josu Cubero, Félix Arcarazo
Votes: 3,137 | Gross: $0.04M
15. Yurigokoro (2017)
128 min | Mystery
Adapted from a 2011 novel by author Mahokaru Numata, Yurigokoro has Ryosuke's father, who is stricken with advanced cancer, as a man with a diary. When the family discovers the father's ... See full summary »
Director: Naoto Kumazawa | Stars: Yuriko Yoshitaka, Tae Kimura, Kaya Kiyohara, Ken'ichi Matsuyama
Votes: 539
16. Anita & Me (2002)
Not Rated | 89 min | Comedy, Drama
Meena, a 12-year-old living in a mining village in the English Midlands in 1972, is the daughter of Indian parents who have come to England to give her a better life. This idyllic existence... See full summary »
Director: Metin Hüseyin | Stars: Kabir Bedi, Max Beesley, Sanjeev Bhaskar, Anna Brewster
Votes: 1,816
17. Lolo (2015)
Not Rated | 99 min | Comedy
Violette, a 40-year old workaholic with a career in the fashion industry falls for a provincial computer geek, Jean-Rene, while on a spa retreat with her best friend.
Director: Julie Delpy | Stars: Julie Delpy, Dany Boon, Vincent Lacoste, Karin Viard
Votes: 4,431 | Gross: $0.02M
18. Fidelio: Alice's Odyssey (2014)
97 min | Drama, Romance
Thirty-year-old Alice's occupation is rather unusual for a woman: she works as an engineer on a freighter. She loves her job and does it competently but even in a greasy blue overall a ... See full summary »
Director: Lucie Borleteau | Stars: Ariane Labed, Melvil Poupaud, Anders Danielsen Lie, Pascal Tagnati
Votes: 903 | Gross: $0.00M
19. The Zen Diaries of Garry Shandling (2018 TV Movie)
TV-MA | 259 min | Documentary, Biography, Comedy
Judd Apatow presents an emotional two-part in-depth look at the life, career and complex internal struggles of his loving mentor, the influential stand-up comedian and actor Garry Shandling, based on Shandling's personal diaries.
Director: Judd Apatow | Stars: Garry Shandling, Judd Apatow, Kevin Nealon, Mike Shandling
Votes: 2,176
20. Fatima (I) (2015)
Not Rated | 79 min | Drama, Family
An immigrant mother realizes that her daughters become estranged.
Director: Philippe Faucon | Stars: Soria Zeroual, Zita Hanrot, Kenza Noah Aïche, Chawki Amari
Votes: 1,499 | Gross: $0.05M
21. Tarzan's Magic Fountain (1949)
Approved | 73 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Tarzan secretly arrives in Blue Valley, the land of the magical fountain of youth, to find the intrepid aviatrix who can save an innocent man. But, is she the same person she used to be? Can Tarzan protect the vale's ultimate mystery?
Director: Lee Sholem | Stars: Lex Barker, Brenda Joyce, Albert Dekker, Evelyn Ankers
Votes: 651
22. Clue II: Murder in Disguise (1987 Video)
60 min | Adventure, Comedy, Crime
Sequel to the live action VHS version of Parker Brothers' classic board game 'Clue' (or 'Cluedo'). The characters from the game are now on the run from an Interpol inspector because of all the crimes they've committed.
Director: Ed Buffman | Stars: Betty Lee Bogue, Mara Clark, Walter Covell, Michael Dell'Orto
Votes: 56
23. Rage in Heaven (1941)
Approved | 85 min | Drama, Thriller
Robert Montgomery and George Sanders team-up to play against type in this probing psychological thriller that features Ingrid Bergman as the object of their obsessions.
Directors: W.S. Van Dyke, Robert B. Sinclair, Richard Thorpe | Stars: Robert Montgomery, Ingrid Bergman, George Sanders, Lucile Watson
Votes: 1,352
24. Journal d'une femme en blanc (1965)
105 min | Drama
A young female gynecologist tries to break taboos in the sixties: women's right to own and control their own body.
Director: Claude Autant-Lara | Stars: Marie-José Nat, Jean Valmont, Claude Gensac, Germaine Delbat
Votes: 76
26. Cendres (2013)
74 min | Documentary
Directors: Idrissa Guiro, Mélanie Pavy | Star: Hiromi Asai
Votes: 11
27. En attendant la révolution (2002)
60 min | Documentary
Il aime les femmes et la bicyclette. Il aime aussi son passé. Son appartement du centre de Moscou va être privatisé. L'imminence de son déménagement se confond avec le grand chambardement ... See full synopsis »
Director: Xavier Villetard
28. Amnesia Diaries (2012)
103 min | Biography, History
The director creates a parallel of thirty years of her life (mid-1980s to 2012) and the evolution of her country, Greece. The loss of her lover, revived in archive photographs and 8 mm ... See full summary »
Director: Stella Theodoraki | Stars: Peter Rose, Elias Kostandakopoulos, Thanos Anastopoulos, Vasilis Tsokopoulos
Votes: 15
29.
Bad Girls (1999–2006)
Episode:
Episode #7.6
(2005)
TV-14 | 46 min | Crime, Drama
Sylvia's in a quandary over Aunty Margaret's will stipulation, unaware of Malcolm's gold digging intentions. Buxton enlists Janine's help to get out of lock up. Kerrigan wastes no time exacting revenge on Sister Thomas.
Director: Laurence Moody | Stars: Liz May Brice, Philip McGough, Helen Fraser, Jack Ellis
Votes: 29
30.
Bad Girls (1999–2006)
Episode:
The Leaving
(2000)
TV-14 | 48 min | Crime, Drama
Josh calls it quits with Crystal and leaves Larkhall. The girls have a "leaving" party for Zandra. Shell steals Barbara's diary. New arrival Shaz causes a stir.
Director: Mike Adams | Stars: Joe Shaw, Victoria Alcock, Kika Mirylees, Debra Stephenson
Votes: 43
31.
Poltergeist: The Legacy (1996–1999)
Episode:
The Tenement
(1996)
TV-14 | 44 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Alex testifies against a slum lord, who is sentenced to "do time" in his own dilapidated building. She stumbles upon the building's tragic history, and is forced to help him fight the evil forces that haunt it.
Director: Jerry Ciccoritti | Stars: Derek de Lint, Robbi Chong, Martin Cummins, Helen Shaver
Votes: 62
32.
Sliders (1995–2000)
Episode:
Luck of the Draw
(1995)
TV-PG | 45 min | Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
In a seemingly Utopian world where population control is a priority, citizens play the lottery at local ATM machines. The more they withdraw from the public account, the more chances they ... See full summary »
Director: Les Landau | Stars: Jerry O'Connell, Sabrina Lloyd, Cleavant Derricks, John Rhys-Davies
Votes: 387
33.
Murder by the Book (2006– )
Episode:
Lisa Scottoline
(2006)
Documentary, Crime
The case of 37-year-old schoolteacher Susan G. Reinert, who was murdered by morphine injection in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania in 1979.
Directors: Emma Webster, Gabe Torres | Stars: Ron McLarty, Floyd Baxter, G. Larry Butler, Ben Feuer
34.
Secrets of the Dead (2000– )
Episode:
Death at Jamestown
(2001)
TV-PG | Documentary, History, War
Scientists investigate what led to the demise of the British colony of Jamestown, VA around 1610. Were the starvation and outbreaks they faced caused by a string of unfortunate events or did Spain have something to do with it as well?
Director: Alexander Marengo | Star: Liev Schreiber
Votes: 20
35.
My Grandparents' War (2019– )
Episode:
Helena Bonham Carter
(2019)
47 min | Documentary, Biography, History
Helena Bonham Carter goes in search of the truth behind her relatives' involvement in World War II. Both sets of her grandparents, one pair in France the other in England, were unconventional war heroes.
Director: Francis Hanly | Stars: Helena Bonham Carter, Caroline Catz
Votes: 62
36.
Crime Stories (1998– )
Episode:
The Slaying Sweethearts
(2009)
46 min | Documentary, Crime
Having told neighbors and police that her house had been broken into and her mother and brother murdered by Albanian thugs, Erika De Nardo's story began to crumble upon a closer police ... See full summary »
Directors: Steve Allen, Chris Triffo | Stars: Bill Courage, Kathleen Podtepa, Mike Navid, Fred Anderson
37.
Cold Justice (2013– )
Episode:
Small Town Tragedy
(2013)
TV-14 | 41 min | Documentary, Crime, Reality-TV
The case of Mary Anne Holmes, a 29-year-old mother-of-two who was sexually assaulted and murdered in her own her own home in Thatcher, Arizona in 1995.
Stars: Kelly Siegler, Yolanda McClary, Barbara Abbott, David Black
Votes: 63
38.
Secrets of the Dead (2000– )
Episode:
Jamestown's Dark Winter
(2015)
TV-14 | 54 min | Documentary, History, War
Forensic anthropologists investigate the recently found remains of a young girl in the British colony of Jamestown, Virginia, which may prove the rumors of cannibalism in the colony during the time of great hunger around 1610.
Director: Richard J. Wells | Stars: William Kelso, James Horn, Jamie May, Bly Straube
Votes: 58
39.
Archie's Weird Mysteries (1999–2000)
Episode:
Halloween of Horror
(2000)
TV-Y7 | 22 min | Animation, Action, Adventure
After the events of previous two episodes, it's now Halloween and Archie and his friends gather for the Lodge's annual Halloween party. Count Medlock betrays Scarlet and goes to the party to turn Veronica and start a vampire apocalypse.
Stars: Ben Beck, Jerry Longe, Chris Lundquist, Andrew Rannells
Votes: 14
40.
iZombie (2015–2019)
Episode:
Brainless in Seattle, Part 2
(2018)
TV-14 | 42 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
Liv and Clive discover the murder they are investigating was the work of a serial killer. Meanwhile, Major enters dangerous territory.
Director: Michael Fields | Stars: Rose McIver, Malcolm Goodwin, Rahul Kohli, Robert Buckley
Votes: 664