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1. Mean Girls (2024)
PG-13 | 112 min | Comedy, Musical
Cady Heron is a hit with the Plastics, an A-list girl clique at her new school. But everything changes when she makes the mistake of falling for Aaron Samuels, the ex-boyfriend of alpha Plastic Regina George.
Directors: Samantha Jayne, Arturo Perez Jr. | Stars: Angourie Rice, Reneé Rapp, Auli'i Cravalho, Jaquel Spivey
Votes: 27,609
2. Blended (2014)
PG-13 | 117 min | Comedy, Romance
After a bad blind date, a man and woman find themselves stuck together at a resort for families, where their attraction grows as their respective kids benefit from the burgeoning relationship.
Director: Frank Coraci | Stars: Adam Sandler, Drew Barrymore, Wendi McLendon-Covey, Kevin Nealon
Votes: 144,634 | Gross: $46.29M
3. The Color Purple (1985)
PG-13 | 154 min | Drama
A tale spanning forty years in the life of Celie, an African-American woman living in the South who survives incredible abuse and bigotry.
Director: Steven Spielberg | Stars: Danny Glover, Whoopi Goldberg, Oprah Winfrey, Margaret Avery
Votes: 97,498 | Gross: $98.47M
4. Brotherhood of the Wolf (2001)
R | 142 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
In 18th-century France, the Chevalier de Fronsac and his Native American friend Mani are sent to the Gevaudan province at the king's behest to investigate the killings of hundreds by a mysterious beast.
Director: Christophe Gans | Stars: Samuel Le Bihan, Mark Dacascos, Jérémie Renier, Vincent Cassel
Votes: 71,564 | Gross: $11.26M
5. War Horse (2011)
PG-13 | 146 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
A young farm boy enlists to serve in World War I after his beloved horse is sold to the cavalry. His hopeful journey takes him out of England and onto the front lines as the war rages on.
Director: Steven Spielberg | Stars: Jeremy Irvine, Emily Watson, David Thewlis, Benedict Cumberbatch
Votes: 165,752 | Gross: $79.88M
6. The Rescuers (1977)
G | 77 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy
Two mice of the Rescue Aid Society search for a little girl kidnapped by unscrupulous treasure hunters.
Directors: John Lounsbery, Wolfgang Reitherman, Art Stevens | Stars: Bob Newhart, Eva Gabor, Geraldine Page, Joe Flynn
Votes: 70,010 | Gross: $71.22M
7. Altered States (1980)
R | 102 min | Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
A psycho-physiologist experiments with drugs and a sensory-deprivation tank and has visions he believes are genetic memories.
Director: Ken Russell | Stars: William Hurt, Blair Brown, Bob Balaban, Charles Haid
Votes: 38,691 | Gross: $19.85M
8. Messiah of Evil (1974)
R | 90 min | Horror
A young woman goes searching for her missing artist father. Her journey takes her to a strange Californian seaside town governed by a mysterious undead cult.
Directors: Willard Huyck, Gloria Katz | Stars: Michael Greer, Marianna Hill, Joy Bang, Anitra Ford
Votes: 5,863
9. Brain Damage (1988)
R | 84 min | Comedy, Horror
One morning, a young man wakes to find that a small, disgusting creature has attached itself to the base of his brain stem. The creature gives him a euphoric state of happiness but demands human victims in return.
Director: Frank Henenlotter | Stars: Rick Hearst, Gordon MacDonald, Jennifer Lowry, Theo Barnes
Votes: 13,191
10. A Raisin in the Sun (1961)
Approved | 128 min | Drama
A substantial insurance payment could mean either financial salvation or personal ruin for a poor black family.
Director: Daniel Petrie | Stars: Sidney Poitier, Claudia McNeil, Ruby Dee, Diana Sands
Votes: 9,588
11. Love the Coopers (2015)
PG-13 | 107 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
The intertwined stories of four generations of Coopers unfold right before the annual family reunion on Christmas Eve. Can they survive the most beautiful time of the year?
Director: Jessie Nelson | Stars: Steve Martin, Diane Keaton, John Goodman, Ed Helms
Votes: 26,792 | Gross: $26.28M
12. The Rezort (2015)
Not Rated | 91 min | Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
The ReZort, a safari park, offers paying guests the opportunity to kill as many zombies as they please following an outbreak.
Director: Steve Barker | Stars: Dougray Scott, Jessica De Gouw, Martin McCann, Claire Goose
Votes: 9,821
13. Chuck (2016)
R | 98 min | Biography, Drama, Sport
A drama inspired by the life of heavyweight boxer Chuck Wepner, who had a once-in-a-lifetime bout with Muhammad Ali that would inspire the film Rocky (1976).
Director: Philippe Falardeau | Stars: Liev Schreiber, Elisabeth Moss, Ron Perlman, Naomi Watts
Votes: 6,986 | Gross: $0.32M
14. The Garden of the Finzi-Continis (1970)
R | 94 min | Drama, History, War
The story of the Finzi-Continis, a noble family of Ferrara, during the Jewish persecution in Italy's 1930s.
Director: Vittorio De Sica | Stars: Dominique Sanda, Lino Capolicchio, Helmut Berger, Fabio Testi
Votes: 7,683 | Gross: $0.60M
15. Savannah (2013)
PG-13 | 101 min | Drama, Family, History
Drama about the friendship between an Oxford-educated Southerner and a former black slave in turn-of-the-century Savannah.
Director: Annette Haywood-Carter | Stars: Jim Caviezel, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Jaimie Alexander, Bradley Whitford
Votes: 1,772 | Gross: $0.04M
16. The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman (1974 TV Movie)
TV-PG | 110 min | Drama, History
Story of a black woman in the South who was born into slavery in the 1850s and lives to become a part of the civil rights movement in the 1960s.
Director: John Korty | Stars: Cicely Tyson, Eric Brown, Richard Dysart, Joel Fluellen
Votes: 2,506
17. Boa vs. Python (2004 Video)
R | 92 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
After a genetically-altered python escapes, a scientist is enlisted to help kill it by releasing a giant boa constrictor that he owns.
Director: David Flores | Stars: David Hewlett, Jaime Bergman, Kirk B.R. Woller, Adamo Palladino
Votes: 4,172
18. Parting Glances (1986)
Not Rated | 90 min | Drama, Music, Romance
As Michael and Robert, a gay couple in New York, prepare for Robert's departure for a two-year work assignment in Africa, Michael must face Robert's true motives for leaving while dealing ... See full summary »
Director: Bill Sherwood | Stars: John Bolger, Richard Ganoung, Steve Buscemi, Adam Nathan
Votes: 3,240 | Gross: $0.54M
19. Bombers B-52 (1957)
Passed | 106 min | Drama, Romance, War
Sgt. Chuck Brennan always disliked playboy and hotshot, Col. Jim Herlihy. Now Chuck has even more reason to, Jim is dating his daughter, Lois.
Director: Gordon Douglas | Stars: Natalie Wood, Karl Malden, Marsha Hunt, Efrem Zimbalist Jr.
Votes: 920
20. Block-Heads (1938)
Approved | 57 min | Comedy, Family, War
Stan, who has remained faithfully at his World War I post for twenty years, finally comes home where his best friend, Ollie, takes him in, thus allowing him to discover the many conveniences of the modern world.
Director: John G. Blystone | Stars: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Patricia Ellis, Minna Gombell
Votes: 4,518
21. Bad Little Angel (1939)
Approved | 72 min | Drama
A Bible-guided Victorian orphan befriends a bootblack in a strange town.
Director: Wilhelm Thiele | Stars: Virginia Weidler, Gene Reynolds, Guy Kibbee, Ian Hunter
Votes: 314
22. The Duchess of Langeais (2007)
Unrated | 137 min | Drama, Music, Romance
In Majorca, in 1823, a French general, Armand de Montriveau, overhears a cloistered nun singing in a chapel; he insists on speaking to her. She is Antoinette, for five years he has searched... See full summary »
Director: Jacques Rivette | Stars: Jeanne Balibar, Guillaume Depardieu, Bulle Ogier, Michel Piccoli
Votes: 1,463 | Gross: $0.28M
23. Catherine Tate's Nan (2014 TV Movie)
35 min | Comedy
Catherine returns with one of her most beloved characters in a full comedy series following the life and hilarious antics of a potty-mouthed granny.
Director: Geoff Posner | Stars: Catherine Tate, Mathew Horne, Ami Metcalf, Niky Wardley
Votes: 266
24. The Investigation: A Haunting in Sherwood (2019)
70 min | Horror
Private investigator Gareth Morris went missing in 2018 while investigating noises coming from a house in Sherwood.He hacked in to the homes security system and recorded everything.A chilling found footage horror to chill your blood.
Director: Richard Mansfield | Stars: Matthew James Finkel, Gavin Gordon, Daniel Mansfield, Michael Muyunda
Votes: 164
25. Hell: A Cyberpunk Thriller (1994 Video Game)
Adventure, Horror, Mystery
Dystopian FMV-lite point and click adventure game. By 2095, America has become a fascist theocracy. Two government enforcers are forced to join the underground resistance movement after someone orders the secret police to kill them.
Stars: Dennis Hopper, Stephanie Seymour, Grace Jones, Geoffrey Holder
Votes: 48
26. Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles (2014)
PG-13 | 91 min | Documentary, Biography
A look at the life and work of the great theatre, radio and film artist.
Director: Chuck Workman | Stars: Orson Welles, Simon Callow, Christopher Welles, Joanne Hill Styles
Votes: 974 | Gross: $0.02M
27. Toki rakujitsu (1992)
119 min | Biography, Drama
Director: Seijirô Kôyama | Stars: Yoshiko Mita, Hiroshi Mikami, Tatsuya Nakadai, Riho Makise
Votes: 30
28. Legacy of the Cannibal God (2002 Video)
13 min | Documentary, Short
Director: G. Vitacane | Stars: Ursula Andress, Claudio Cassinelli, Stacy Keach, Antonio Marsina
29. The Atlantic Slave Trade: What Too Few Textbooks Told You (2014)
6 min | Documentary, Animation, Short
Director: Mike Schell | Star: Addison Anderson
30.
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (2000–2015)
Episode:
Forever
(2003)
TV-14 | 44 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
When a private jet lands after a party, they find the trainer Lori Hutchins dead apparently stomped by the horse in the cargo bay. Grissom, Catherine, Nick and Capt. Brass investigate the ... See full summary »
Director: David Grossman | Stars: William Petersen, Marg Helgenberger, Gary Dourdan, George Eads
Votes: 765
31.
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (2000–2015)
Episode:
Getting Off
(2004)
TV-14 | 43 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A man who works at a half-way house is found dead in an area filled with drug addicts and prostitutes at night. His belongings were stolen, from car to shoes. Another body is found wearing only his boxers, with signs of a clown's make-up.
Director: Kenneth Fink | Stars: William Petersen, Marg Helgenberger, Gary Dourdan, George Eads
Votes: 757
32.
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (2000–2015)
Episode:
Primum Non Nocere
(2002)
TV-PG | 45 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
An ice hockey player dies during a game.
Director: Danny Cannon | Stars: William Petersen, Marg Helgenberger, Gary Dourdan, George Eads
Votes: 886
33.
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (2000–2015)
Episode:
Revenge Is Best Served Cold
(2002)
TV-PG | 43 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A world-famous poker champion drops dead in the middle of a game. He appears to have had a heart attack. Outside of the city, Nick and Catherine investigate the death of a young street racer.
Director: Danny Cannon | Stars: William Petersen, Marg Helgenberger, Gary Dourdan, George Eads
Votes: 891
34.
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (2000–2015)
Episode:
Unbearable
(2005)
TV-14 | 45 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
When the young mother Lori Kyman is reported missing by her husband, Grissom and Sofia meets with Capt. Brass on the highway where her car was found with flat tire. Sara and Capt. Brass go ... See full summary »
Director: Kenneth Fink | Stars: William Petersen, Marg Helgenberger, Gary Dourdan, George Eads
Votes: 757
35.
CSI: NY (2004–2013)
Episode:
Wasted
(2006)
TV-14 | 55 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A famous model drops dead on the catwalk. Though she is thin, the young model is very healthy. Mac, Danny, and Sheldon Hawkes work together to solve the mystery. At the PD, a man gives ... See full summary »
Director: Jeff T. Thomas | Stars: Gary Sinise, Melina Kanakaredes, Carmine Giovinazzo, Anna Belknap
Votes: 311
36.
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (1999– )
Episode:
Ritual
(2004)
TV-14 | 41 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Two garbage collectors run into what they first think is a scene of animal sacrifice.
Director: Ed Bianchi | Stars: Christopher Meloni, Mariska Hargitay, Richard Belzer, Diane Neal
Votes: 1,009
37.
Miami Vice (1984–1989)
Episode:
One Eyed Jack
(1984)
TV-14 | 49 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Crockett attempts to help an old flame free herself from a racketeer, then is framed for taking bribes. Martin Castillo becomes the squad's new lieutenant.
Director: Lee H. Katzin | Stars: Don Johnson, Philip Michael Thomas, Saundra Santiago, Michael Talbott
Votes: 735
38.
Shelley (1979–1983)
Episode:
Foreign Affairs
(1981)
Comedy
Shelley is still gainfully unemployed - and his honest approach at interviews isn't exactly improving his job prospects. When an opportunity arises for a plum job at the foreign office, ... See full summary »
Director: Anthony Parker | Stars: Hywel Bennett, Belinda Sinclair, Josephine Tewson, James Cossins
Votes: 17
39.
Shelley (1979–1983)
Episode:
Universal Trust
(1981)
Comedy
With Fran busy at her ante-natal class, Shelley seeks solace in a cafe. His peace is short-lived though, when he seems to attract the attentions of the local nutter...
Director: Anthony Parker | Stars: Hywel Bennett, Belinda Sinclair, Josephine Tewson, Nicholas Le Prevost
Votes: 18
40.
The Transformers (1984–1987)
Episode:
Changing Gears
(1985)
TV-Y7 | 23 min | Animation, Action, Adventure
The Decepticons set up a trap for the Autobots and kidnap Gears. Now, with Gears as his slave, Megatron creates a solar needle in order to steal the sun's energy. But the consequences could be disastrous.
Directors: Andy Kim, Bob Kirk, Al Kouzel, Bob Matz, Norm McCabe, Margaret Nichols, Karen Peterson, Tom Ray, Robert Shellhorn, Bob Treat, Terry Lennon | Stars: Corey Burton, Christopher Collins, Peter Cullen, Dan Gilvezan
Votes: 144
41.
CSI: NY (2004–2013)
Episode:
Not What It Looks Like
(2006)
TV-14 | 45 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Three women identically dressed as the Audrey Hepburn character Holly Golightly rob a jewelry store; a mummified woman is found in a building slated for demolition.
Director: Duane Clark | Stars: Gary Sinise, Melina Kanakaredes, Carmine Giovinazzo, Anna Belknap
Votes: 359
42.
Law & Order (1990– )
Episode:
Charity Case
(2007)
TV-14 | 60 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
The adopted infant of a soap opera star and a relative of the baby's biological father are central to a murder investigation.
Director: Michael Pressman | Stars: Jesse L. Martin, Milena Govich, S. Epatha Merkerson, Sam Waterston
Votes: 280
43.
Condor (2018–2020)
Episode:
Not Necessarily to Lose
(2020)
TV-MA | 48 min | Action, Drama, Thriller
In the final episode, the traitor is revealed to Joe Turner and an old adversary makes a visit to senior CIA operative Reuel Abbott.
Director: Jason Smilovic | Stars: Max Irons, Constance Zimmer, Alexei Bondar, Isidora Goreshter
Votes: 351
44.
Hospital at the End of the City (1977– )
Episode:
Zánet
(1981)
59 min | Drama
Inflammation.
Director: Jaroslav Dudek | Stars: Ladislav Chudík, Milos Kopecký, Dana Medrická, Josef Abrhám
Votes: 17
45.
CSI: NY (2004–2013)
Episode:
Taxi
(2008)
TV-14 | 41 min | Action, Crime, Drama
The search continues for the taxicab killer, who has now captured Reed and is forcing him to use his blog to publicize the next attack.
Director: Christine Moore | Stars: Gary Sinise, Melina Kanakaredes, Carmine Giovinazzo, Anna Belknap
Votes: 326
46.
Suzanne's Saturday Night Scares (2020– )
Episode:
Messiah of Evil
102 min | Action, Comedy, Crime
Director: Dale Fabrigar | Stars: Suzanne DeLaurentiis, Lara Parker
47.
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (1999– )
Episode:
Wildlife
(2008)
TV-14 | 60 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Stabler is shot while working undercover investigating a violent animal smuggling ring believed to be connected to a young woman's murder.
Director: Peter Leto | Stars: Christopher Meloni, Mariska Hargitay, Richard Belzer, Ice-T
Votes: 1,093
48.
CSI: NY (2004–2013)
Episode:
Forbidden Fruit
(2008)
TV-14 | 55 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Night find the big city as two NYPD officers come upon a young man attempting to put a young woman's body in the trunk of a car. When the police go after him, the young man is impaled on a ... See full summary »
Director: John Behring | Stars: Gary Sinise, Melina Kanakaredes, Carmine Giovinazzo, Anna Belknap
Votes: 311
49.
The Boondocks (2005–2014)
Episode:
The Uncle Ruckus Reality Show
(2008)
TV-MA | 23 min | Animation, Action, Comedy
In the wake of Huey's failed protest against the network, BET's Harvard-educated programming chief, Weggie Rudlin, is moving ahead with his promise to create The Uncle Ruckus Reality Show.
Directors: Seung Eun Kim, Bob Hathcock | Stars: Regina King, John Witherspoon, Cedric Yarbrough, Gary Anthony Williams
Votes: 318
50.
The Boys (2019– )
Episode:
The Only Man in the Sky
(2022)
TV-MA | 60 min | Action, Comedy, Crime
Homelander, America's greatest Supe. Defending our shores from sea to shining sea. Today, America honors him on his birthday. Vought Shopping Network is celebrating by offering an exclusive Homelander Limited Birthday Edition Gold Coin.
Director: Philip Sgriccia | Stars: Karl Urban, Jack Quaid, Antony Starr, Erin Moriarty
Votes: 14,023