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1. E.T. (1982)
PG | 115 min | Adventure, Family, Sci-Fi
A troubled child summons the courage to help a friendly alien escape from Earth and return to his home planet.
Director: Steven Spielberg | Stars: Henry Thomas, Drew Barrymore, Peter Coyote, Dee Wallace
Votes: 438,141 | Gross: $435.11M
2. Watchmen (2009)
R | 162 min | Action, Drama, Mystery
In a version of 1985 where superheroes exist, the murder of a colleague sends active vigilante Rorschach on the trail of a conspiracy that will change the course of history.
Director: Zack Snyder | Stars: Jackie Earle Haley, Patrick Wilson, Carla Gugino, Malin Akerman
Votes: 583,244 | Gross: $107.51M
3. Stand by Me (1986)
R | 89 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama
A writer recounts a childhood journey with his friends to find the body of a missing boy.
Director: Rob Reiner | Stars: Wil Wheaton, River Phoenix, Corey Feldman, Jerry O'Connell
Votes: 442,323 | Gross: $52.29M
4. Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017)
R | 115 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
A mother personally challenges the local authorities to solve her daughter's murder when they fail to catch the culprit.
Director: Martin McDonagh | Stars: Frances McDormand, Woody Harrelson, Sam Rockwell, Caleb Landry Jones
Votes: 555,883 | Gross: $54.51M
5. The Reader (2008)
R | 124 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance
Post-WWII Germany: Nearly a decade after his affair with an older woman came to a mysterious end, law student Michael Berg re-encounters his former lover as she defends herself in a war-crime trial.
Director: Stephen Daldry | Stars: Kate Winslet, Ralph Fiennes, Bruno Ganz, Jeanette Hain
Votes: 260,200 | Gross: $34.19M
6. Life of Pi (2012)
PG | 127 min | Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
A young man who survives a disaster at sea is hurtled into an epic journey of adventure and discovery. While cast away, he forms an unexpected connection with another survivor: a fearsome Bengal tiger.
Director: Ang Lee | Stars: Suraj Sharma, Irrfan Khan, Adil Hussain, Tabu
Votes: 667,599 | Gross: $124.99M
7. Poltergeist (1982)
PG | 114 min | Horror, Thriller
A family's home is haunted by a host of demonic ghosts.
Director: Tobe Hooper | Stars: JoBeth Williams, Heather O'Rourke, Craig T. Nelson, Beatrice Straight
Votes: 179,846 | Gross: $76.61M
8. Overboard (1987)
PG | 112 min | Comedy, Romance
A cruel but beautiful heiress mocks and cheats a hired carpenter. When she gets amnesia after an accident, he decides to introduce her to regular life by convincing her that they're husband and wife.
Director: Garry Marshall | Stars: Goldie Hawn, Kurt Russell, Edward Herrmann, Katherine Helmond
Votes: 68,006 | Gross: $26.71M
9. Midnight Cowboy (1969)
R | 113 min | Drama
A naive hustler travels from Texas to New York City to seek personal fortune, finding a new friend in the process.
Director: John Schlesinger | Stars: Dustin Hoffman, Jon Voight, Sylvia Miles, John McGiver
Votes: 121,025 | Gross: $44.79M
10. The Girl Next Door (2007)
R | 91 min | Crime, Drama, Horror
Follows the unspeakable torture and abuses committed on a teenage girl in the care of her aunt and the boys who witness and fail to report the crime.
Director: Gregory Wilson | Stars: William Atherton, Blythe Auffarth, Blanche Baker, Kevin Chamberlin
Votes: 29,436
11. Firstborn (1984)
PG-13 | 103 min | Drama, Thriller
A teenager must protect his family when his mother's sinister new boyfriend begins exerting his authority in their home.
Director: Michael Apted | Stars: Teri Garr, Peter Weller, Christopher Collet, Corey Haim
Votes: 3,009 | Gross: $6.25M
12. Midnight Special (2016)
PG-13 | 112 min | Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
A father and son go on the run, pursued by the government and a cult drawn to the child's special powers.
Director: Jeff Nichols | Stars: Michael Shannon, Joel Edgerton, Kirsten Dunst, Adam Driver
Votes: 84,077 | Gross: $3.71M
13. The Ice Storm (1997)
R | 112 min | Drama
In suburban New Canaan, Connecticut, 1973, middle-class families experimenting with casual sex and substance abuse find their lives beyond their control.
Director: Ang Lee | Stars: Kevin Kline, Joan Allen, Sigourney Weaver, Henry Czerny
Votes: 60,020 | Gross: $7.84M
14. Supergirl (1984)
PG | 124 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy
After losing a powerful orb, Kara Zor-El, Superman's cousin, comes to Earth to retrieve it and instead finds herself up against a wicked witch.
Director: Jeannot Szwarc | Stars: Helen Slater, Faye Dunaway, Peter O'Toole, Mia Farrow
Votes: 24,045 | Gross: $13.60M
15. Humanoids from the Deep (1980)
R | 80 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
Humanoid sea creatures start killing a fishing town's residents, and raping their women. It's up to the townsfolk and a visiting biologist to fight back and fend them off.
Directors: Barbara Peeters, Jimmy T. Murakami | Stars: Doug McClure, Ann Turkel, Vic Morrow, Cindy Weintraub
Votes: 10,540
16. Employee of the Month (2006)
PG-13 | 103 min | Comedy, Romance
A slacker competes with a repeat winner for the "Employee of the Month" title at work, in order to gain the affections of a new female employee.
Director: Greg Coolidge | Stars: Jessica Simpson, Dane Cook, Dax Shepard, Andy Dick
Votes: 50,189 | Gross: $28.44M
17. Tales from the Crypt: Demon Knight (1995)
R | 92 min | Action, Fantasy, Horror
High-level demons collect low-level demons as warriors in attempt to obtain a key containing the blood of Christ. The key is guarded by immortal warriors called Demon Knights.
Director: Ernest R. Dickerson | Stars: Billy Zane, William Sadler, Jada Pinkett Smith, Brenda Bakke
Votes: 26,342 | Gross: $21.09M
18. The Second Wife (1998)
122 min | Comedy, Romance
In the early 1960s, a Sicilian single mother marries an older, crass widowed truck driver. When he is arrested trying to smuggle an antique, she ends up falling in love with her handsome stepson.
Director: Ugo Chiti | Stars: Maria Grazia Cucinotta, Lazar Ristovski, Giorgio Noè, Jessica Auriemma
Votes: 865
19. The Enemy Below (1957)
Approved | 98 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
During WWII an American destroyer discovers a German U-boat, and in the ensuing duel the American captain must draw upon all his experience to defeat the equally experienced German commander.
Director: Dick Powell | Stars: Robert Mitchum, Curd Jürgens, David Hedison, Theodore Bikel
Votes: 12,282
20. Baba Yaga (1973)
Unrated | 89 min | Horror
A photographer finds herself falling under the spell of a witch.
Director: Corrado Farina | Stars: Carroll Baker, George Eastman, Isabelle De Funès, Ely Galleani
Votes: 2,248
21. Artists and Models (1955)
Approved | 109 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
Rick Todd uses the dreams of his roommate Eugene as the basis for a successful comic book.
Director: Frank Tashlin | Stars: Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis, Shirley MacLaine, Dorothy Malone
Votes: 4,399 | Gross: $9.35M
22. Freaks: You're One of Us (2020)
TV-MA | 92 min | Action, Drama, Fantasy
Tipped by a mysterious tramp, a meek fry cook discovers she has superpowers -- and uncovers an unsavory, vast conspiracy.
Director: Felix Binder | Stars: Cornelia Gröschel, Tim Oliver Schultz, Wotan Wilke Möhring, Nina Kunzendorf
Votes: 6,880
23. Blue Iguana (2018)
Not Rated | 100 min | Action, Comedy, Crime
Ex-jailbirds Eddie and Paul are on parole and working in a New York diner. Their lives are a dead end. That is, until English lawyer Katherine Rookwood walks into the diner with an offer they can't refuse.
Director: Hadi Hajaig | Stars: Sam Rockwell, Phoebe Fox, Ben Schwartz, Peter Ferdinando
Votes: 6,915
24. Neon Maniacs (1986)
R | 91 min | Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
A group of teenagers in San Francisco discover a nest of homicidal monsters living in a tower of the Golden Gate Bridge, but when they try to tell authorities, no one believes them.
Director: Joseph Mangine | Stars: Clyde Hayes, Leilani Sarelle, Donna Locke, Victor Brandt
Votes: 3,019
25. Xtra Credit (2009 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 86 min | Action, Thriller
A troubled youth (Micah Alberti) has an affair with a seductive woman (Marina Black) whose husband is found murdered.
Director: Martin Jay Weiss | Stars: Micah Alberti, Marina Black, Mitch Pileggi, Nina Siemaszko
Votes: 208
26. The 10th Victim (1965)
Not Rated | 92 min | Action, Comedy, Romance
In a future where a human vs. human "Big Hunt" is used as an alternative to war, a veteran huntress' plan to kill a "victim" for a major TV sponsorship deal is compounded by romance.
Director: Elio Petri | Stars: Marcello Mastroianni, Ursula Andress, Elsa Martinelli, Salvo Randone
Votes: 5,010
27. Taekwondo (2016)
Unrated | 112 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A man invites another guy he trains with to spend some time in his country house among other male friends.
Directors: Marco Berger, Martín Farina | Stars: Gabriel Epstein, Lucas Papa, Nicolás Barsoff, Francisco Bertín
Votes: 3,344
28. California Dreaming (1979)
R | 92 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A nerd from Chicago tries desperately to fit in with the California surfing crowd, blind to the fact that their lives are even more boring and empty than his.
Director: John D. Hancock | Stars: Glynnis O'Connor, Seymour Cassel, Dorothy Tristan, Dennis Christopher
Votes: 874
29. SOS (1988)
104 min | Comedy, Family
The landlubber Stig-Helmer and his Norwegian friend Ole get on a barge by mistake. They arrive to an island in the archipelago and have to spend Midsummer among the fancy rich people, their... See full summary »
Director: Lasse Åberg | Stars: Lasse Åberg, Jon Skolmen, Birgitte Söndergaard, Tor Isedal
Votes: 5,505
30. 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: 2,352
31. Zone Troopers (1985)
PG | 86 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
In Italy, during World War II some American soldiers find an alien UFO.
Director: Danny Bilson | Stars: Tim Thomerson, Timothy Van Patten, Art LaFleur, Biff Manard
Votes: 1,828
32. Hope You Die Next Time:-) (2018)
96 min | Drama, Thriller
Eszter has a crush on her english teacher, but he announces that he will leave the county for a foreign job. So she starts a sexting relationship with him.
Director: Mihály Schwechtje | Stars: Kristóf Vajda, Szilvia Herr, Csaba Polgár, Dávid Rácz
Votes: 2,524
33. Everything Beautiful Is Far Away (2017)
Not Rated | 91 min | Fantasy, Sci-Fi
A guy, a girl, and a robothead hike across a desert planet in search of a mythical lake.
Directors: Pete Ohs, Andrea Sisson | Stars: Julia Garner, C.S. Lee, Joseph Cross, Jillian Mayer
Votes: 1,149
34. Daffy Duck's Quackbusters (1988)
G | 72 min | Animation, Action, Adventure
Daffy Duck opens a detective agency for the supernatural along side his Looney Toon buddies.
Directors: Greg Ford, Friz Freleng, Chuck Jones, Terry Lennon, Robert McKimson, Maurice Noble | Stars: Mel Blanc, Mel Tormé, Roy Firestone, B.J. Ward
Votes: 2,674
35. Caprice Italian Style (1968)
95 min | Comedy
The film consists of six short stories created by different directors, but all the stories share one thing: a warm irony to current events.
Directors: Mauro Bolognini, Mario Monicelli, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Steno, Pino Zac, Franco Rossi | Stars: Totò, Ugo D'Alessio, Regina Seiffert, Dante Maggio
Votes: 633
36. Dracula Blows His Cool (1979)
R | 90 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
A descendant of the famous vampire gets a job as a photographer shooting beautiful fashion models at the family estate. Being around so much naked and semi-naked flesh has the expected effect on him.
Director: Carl Schenkel | Stars: Gianni Garko, Betty Vergès, Bea Fiedler, Giacomo Rizzo
Votes: 197
37. For My Brother (2014)
TV-MA | 117 min | Drama
The two brothers Aske and Bastian live with their father, Lasse, in a world of fear, violence and alcohol but the brothers' strong and close relationship means everything. Aske must serve ... See full summary »
Director: Brian Bang | Stars: Elias Munk, Christoffer Jensen, Allan Karlsen, Frank Schiellerup
Votes: 734
38. Bianca (1984)
R | 96 min | Comedy, Drama
Michele is a mathematics professor who just started a new job in a school with some peculiar teaching methods. After a woman in his neighborhood is murdered, Michele meets beautiful ... See full summary »
Director: Nanni Moretti | Stars: Nanni Moretti, Laura Morante, Roberto Vezzosi, Remo Remotti
Votes: 3,590
39. Firehead (1991)
R | 88 min | Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
When a Russian cyborg with telekinetic powers terrorizes a city, an elite government agency intervenes. A chemist teams up with a special agent to capture the menace but they find out that the true villain isn't who they expected.
Director: Peter Yuval | Stars: Christopher Plummer, Chris Lemmon, Brett Porter, Gretchen Becker
Votes: 512 | Gross: $0.06M
40. Lucio Flavio (1977)
118 min | Crime, Drama
History of a famous Brazilian bandit of the early seventies.
Director: Hector Babenco | Stars: Reginaldo Faria, Ana Maria Magalhães, Milton Gonçalves, Paulo César Peréio
Votes: 876
41. Kidnap Syndicate (1975)
R | 98 min | Crime, Thriller
Based on an actual event "The Kidnap Syndicate" is the story of two boys, one from a rich family and the other from a poor family, who are kidnapped and held for ransom.
Director: Fernando Di Leo | Stars: Luc Merenda, James Mason, Irina Maleeva, Marino Masé
Votes: 902
42. Binky Nelson Unpacified (2015 Video)
G | 5 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
The Nelsons go and rob a museum and Binky Nelson loses his pacifier while him and his family were robbing the bank. So Binky Nelson goes back to the museum to get his pacifier back.
Directors: Fabrice Joubert, Brian Lynch | Stars: Michael Keaton, Allison Janney, Matt Kawczynski, Michael Beattie
Votes: 703
43. Storm (2005)
Not Rated | 110 min | Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
A shiftless loner finds that he suddenly has something worth living for, as he tries to protect the enigmatic love of his life from the men who want to do her harm.
Directors: Måns Mårlind, Björn Stein | Stars: Eric Ericson, Eva Röse, Jonas Karlsson, Lina Englund
Votes: 2,745
44. Hunting Scenes from Bavaria (1969)
88 min | Drama, Horror
Abram returns to his small village and although his repairing skills are needed, people's suspicion about his sexual preferences make his life hard.
Director: Peter Fleischmann | Stars: Martin Sperr, Angela Winkler, Else Quecke, Michael Strixner
Votes: 758
45. '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
46. Under the Hood (2009 Video)
PG | 38 min | Short, Action, Adventure
A television interview with Hollis Mason, The first Nite-Owl, about his life and the superhero community.
Director: Eric Matthies | Stars: Ted Friend, Stephen McHattie, Carla Gugino, Jeffrey Dean Morgan
Votes: 1,963
47. Heroine Disqualified (2015)
112 min | Comedy, Romance
Hatori is in love with her childhood friend Rita, but when Rita gets himself a girlfriend Hatoris world turns upside down.
Director: Tsutomu Hanabusa | Stars: Mirei Kiritani, Kento Yamazaki, Kentarô Sakaguchi, Towa Araki
Votes: 1,545
48. Au Revoir L'Ete (2013)
125 min | Drama
After failing her university entrance exam, Sakuko is invited by her aunt Mikie to spend summer vacation in a beautiful seaside town. Sakuko gets to know the people of the town, including Takashi, a shy relative of her childhood friend.
Director: Kôji Fukada | Stars: Fumi Nikaidô, Mayu Tsuruta, Taiga Nakano, Kanji Furutachi
Votes: 457
49. La feldmarescialla (1967)
110 min | Comedy, Musical, War
A waitress helps a scientist flee the Nazis.
Director: Steno | Stars: Rita Pavone, Francis Blanche, Terence Hill, Aroldo Tieri
Votes: 260
50. The Great American Pastime (1956)
Approved | 90 min | Comedy, Sport
Bruce Hallerton becomes coach of the Panthers, a little league baseball team. The fact that an attractive widow has her son in the team causes problems with his wife.
Director: Herman Hoffman | Stars: Tom Ewell, Anne Francis, Ann Miller, Dean Jones
Votes: 329