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1. 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: 582,457 | Gross: $107.51M
2. Pixels (2015)
PG-13 | 105 min | Action, Comedy, Fantasy
When aliens misinterpret video feeds of classic arcade games as a declaration of war, they attack the Earth in the form of the video games.
Director: Chris Columbus | Stars: Adam Sandler, Kevin James, Michelle Monaghan, Peter Dinklage
Votes: 159,281 | Gross: $78.75M
3. A Few Good Men (1992)
R | 138 min | Drama, Thriller
Military lawyer Lieutenant Daniel Kaffee defends Marines accused of murder. They contend they were acting under orders.
Director: Rob Reiner | Stars: Tom Cruise, Jack Nicholson, Demi Moore, Kevin Bacon
Votes: 287,300 | Gross: $141.34M
4. Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016)
PG-13 | 151 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Batman is manipulated by Lex Luthor to fear Superman. Superman´s existence is meanwhile dividing the world and he is framed for murder during an international crisis. The heroes clash and force the neutral Wonder Woman to reemerge.
Director: Zack Snyder | Stars: Ben Affleck, Henry Cavill, Amy Adams, Jesse Eisenberg
Votes: 752,405 | Gross: $330.36M
5. Jarhead (2005)
R | 125 min | Biography, Drama, War
A psychological study of Marine's state of mind during the Gulf War. Told through the eyes of a U.S. Marine sniper who struggles to cope with boredom, a sense of isolation, and other issues back home.
Director: Sam Mendes | Stars: Jake Gyllenhaal, Jamie Foxx, Lucas Black, Scott MacDonald
Votes: 206,514 | Gross: $62.66M
6. When Harry Met Sally... (1989)
R | 95 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Harry and Sally have known each other for years, and are very good friends, but they fear sex would ruin the friendship.
Director: Rob Reiner | Stars: Billy Crystal, Meg Ryan, Carrie Fisher, Bruno Kirby
Votes: 242,679 | Gross: $92.82M
7. Zoolander (2001)
PG-13 | 90 min | Comedy
At the end of his career, a clueless fashion model is brainwashed to kill the Prime Minister of Malaysia.
Director: Ben Stiller | Stars: Ben Stiller, Owen Wilson, Christine Taylor, Will Ferrell
Votes: 291,846 | Gross: $45.17M
8. Capricorn One (1977)
PG | 123 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
When the first manned flight to Mars is deemed unsafe and scrubbed on the launch pad, anxious authorities must scramble to save face and retain their funding - and so an unthinkable plot to fake the mission is hatched.
Director: Peter Hyams | Stars: Elliott Gould, James Brolin, Brenda Vaccaro, Sam Waterston
Votes: 24,724
9. Hot Shots! (1991)
PG-13 | 85 min | Action, Comedy
A parody of Top Gun (1986) in which a talented but unstable fighter pilot must overcome the ghosts of his father and save a mission sabotaged by greedy weapons manufacturers.
Director: Jim Abrahams | Stars: Charlie Sheen, Cary Elwes, Valeria Golino, Lloyd Bridges
Votes: 116,609 | Gross: $69.47M
10. To Sir, with Love (1967)
Approved | 105 min | Drama
Idealistic engineer-trainee and his experiences in teaching a group of rambunctious white high school students from the slums of London's East End.
Director: James Clavell | Stars: Sidney Poitier, Judy Geeson, Christian Roberts, Suzy Kendall
Votes: 20,419 | Gross: $42.43M
11. J. Edgar (2011)
R | 137 min | Biography, Drama, Romance
J. Edgar Hoover, powerful head of the F.B.I. for nearly fifty years, looks back on his professional and personal life.
Director: Clint Eastwood | Stars: Leonardo DiCaprio, Armie Hammer, Naomi Watts, Josh Hamilton
Votes: 133,623 | Gross: $37.31M
12. Slacker (1990)
R | 97 min | Comedy, Drama
A day in the life of Austin, Texas as the camera roams from place to place and provides a brief look at the overeducated, the social misfits, the outcasts and the oddballs.
Director: Richard Linklater | Stars: Richard Linklater, Rudy Basquez, Jean Caffeine, Jan Hockey
Votes: 23,469 | Gross: $1.23M
13. Justice League: The Flashpoint Paradox (2013 Video)
PG-13 | 75 min | Animation, Action, Adventure
The Flash finds himself in a war torn alternate timeline and teams up with alternate versions of his fellow heroes to return home and restore the timeline.
Director: Jay Oliva | Stars: Justin Chambers, C. Thomas Howell, Michael B. Jordan, Kevin McKidd
Votes: 59,792
14. The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada (2005)
R | 121 min | Adventure, Crime, Drama
Ranch foreman Pete Perkins looks to fulfill the promise to his recently deceased best friend by burying him in his hometown in Mexico.
Director: Tommy Lee Jones | Stars: Tommy Lee Jones, Barry Pepper, Dwight Yoakam, January Jones
Votes: 41,883 | Gross: $5.02M
15. Absence of Malice (1981)
PG | 116 min | Drama, Romance, Thriller
When a prosecutor leaks to a Miami reporter that a liquor wholesaler is suspected in the murder of a union head, the man's life begins to unravel.
Director: Sydney Pollack | Stars: Paul Newman, Sally Field, Bob Balaban, Melinda Dillon
Votes: 14,759 | Gross: $40.72M
16. Peppermint Soda (1977)
PG | 97 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A year in the life of two adolescent sisters at an all-girls school in France as they experience a rapid-fire onslaught of 'firsts' during a time of political protest and social change.
Director: Diane Kurys | Stars: Eléonore Klarwein, Odile Michel, Anouk Ferjac, Michel Puterflam
Votes: 1,610
17. JFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass (2021)
TV-14 | 118 min | Documentary, History
Declassified files related to President Kennedy's assassination in a far larger context, aiming to shine more light on what really happened in 1963.
Director: Oliver Stone | Stars: Donald Sutherland, Whoopi Goldberg, Oliver Stone, Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
Votes: 4,230
18. Prime Suspect 5: Errors of Judgement (1996)
100 min | Crime, Mystery, Romance
Superintendent Tennison (Dame Helen Mirren) investigates a seemingly straightforward drug murder that she believes is linked to a smugly smooth crime boss.
Stars: Helen Mirren, John Brobbey, Julia Lane, David O'Hara
Votes: 3,019
19. True Believer (1989)
R | 108 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A cynical former civil liberties attorney now reduced to "specializing" in defending drug dealers becomes transformed by an eight-year-old murder case.
Director: Joseph Ruben | Stars: James Woods, Robert Downey Jr., Margaret Colin, Yuji Okumoto
Votes: 5,431 | Gross: $8.74M
20. I... For Icarus (1979)
120 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Conspiracy thriller inspired by the conspiracy theories surrounding the assassination of JFK. After a fictional president is assassinated, a determined, tough prosecutor investigates the emerging conspiracy behind it.
Director: Henri Verneuil | Stars: Yves Montand, Michel Albertini, Roland Amstutz, Jean-Pierre Bagot
Votes: 4,562
21. Stardust (1974)
R | 111 min | Drama, Music
The rise and fall of the rock singer Jim Maclaine, in the mid 60s, with his manager, Mike, and his group, "The Stray Cats."
Director: Michael Apted | Stars: David Essex, Adam Faith, Larry Hagman, Ines Des Longchamps
Votes: 1,182
22. Reaching for the Moon (2013)
Not Rated | 118 min | Biography, Drama, History
A chronicle of the tragic love affair between American poet Elizabeth Bishop and Brazilian architect Lota de Macedo Soares.
Director: Bruno Barreto | Stars: Glória Pires, Miranda Otto, Tracy Middendorf, Marcello Airoldi
Votes: 3,569 | Gross: $0.04M
23. A Thief of Time (2003 TV Movie)
94 min | Crime, Mystery
Officers Leaphorn and Chee search for a missing anthropologist suspected of stealing artifacts from a burial site.
Director: Chris Eyre | Stars: Gary Farmer, Adam Beach, Ernest Tsosie III, Wes Studi
Votes: 709
24. Stealing Sinatra (2003)
R | 96 min | Biography, Comedy, Drama
In need of a grubstake, a young man convinces a couple of friends to help him kidnap Frank Sinatra Jr. It's a true story.
Director: Ron Underwood | Stars: David Arquette, William H. Macy, James Russo, Ryan Browning
Votes: 803
25. A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Moon (2001 Video)
47 min | Documentary, History
A documentary on the evidence which shows that the Apollo 11 astronauts never actually landed on the moon.
Director: Bart Sibrel | Stars: Anne Tonelson, Buzz Aldrin, Neil Armstrong, Mike Collins
Votes: 703
26. Horror Noire: A History of Black Horror (2019)
Not Rated | 83 min | Documentary
A look at the history of black horror films and the role of African Americans in the film genre from the very beginning.
Director: Xavier Burgin | Stars: Rusty Cundieff, Ernest R. Dickerson, Robin R. Means Coleman, Jordan Peele
Votes: 2,093
27. Shadow Warrior (2013 Video Game)
M | Action, Adventure, Comedy
Lo Wang, a top hit man for the Zilla Corporation, is trying to retrieve an ancient sword during a demon invasion.
Director: Michal Szustak | Stars: Jason Liebrecht, Alex Dobrenko, Eugene Lee, Nicholas Saenz
Votes: 490
28. Tatlo, dalawa, isa (1974)
Not Rated | 156 min | Drama
(Tagalog with English subtitles) Filipino cinema lenged, Lino Brocka, directs this compilation of three intimate stories about the perseverance of hope featuring a drug addict, an abandoned daughter and a repressed catholic.
Director: Lino Brocka | Stars: Jay Ilagan, Perla Bautista, Laurice Guillen, Soxy Topacio
Votes: 415
29. There Is No Game: Wrong Dimension (2020 Video Game)
E10+ | Adventure, Comedy, Mystery
There is no game. So don't go messing things up by clicking everywhere. You don't want to be kicked out of your video game world, do you? Of course not.
Director: Pascal Cammisotto | Stars: Pascal Cammisotto, Julie Shields, Daniel Francis-Berenson, Robert Paterson
Votes: 120
30. Kennedy, Sinatra and the Mafia (2023 TV Movie)
Documentary, Crime, History
With his mafia wiseguy links and access to entertainment industry star power, Frank Sinatra helped John F. Kennedy into the White House in 1960. But it all came to a bitter end.
Director: David Harvey | Stars: Chuck Granata, Lenny Luizzi, Robert Foster, Robbyn Swan
Votes: 57
31. JFK: The Final Evidence (2023)
Documentary, Action, Crime
In this two-part series, explore the mystery behind the assassination of President John F Kennedy with Dr David J Hall.
Stars: Emma Long, David J. Hall, Chris Moran
Votes: 26
32. Golden Slumber (2010)
139 min | Action, Drama, Thriller
Aoyagi meets an old friend and ends up framed for the murder of the prime minister.
Director: Yoshihiro Nakamura | Stars: Yûko Takeuchi, Nao Ômori, Teruyuki Kagawa, Masato Sakai
Votes: 1,376
33. Days of Rage: the Rolling Stones' Road to Altamont (2020)
107 min | Documentary, History, Music
The decade that began with peace and love was shattered in the late 1960s amidst riots, assassinations and a war that wouldn't end. The Rolling Stones became the voice of this new era, which came to a horrific end at the Altamont festival.
Director: Tom O'Dell | Stars: Michael Lydon, Sam Culter, Ronnie Schneider, Anthony DeCurtis
Votes: 104
34. Manson: Music from an Unsound Mind (2019)
Not Rated | 108 min | Documentary, Biography, Music
The untold story of Charles Manson's obsession to become a rock star, his rise in the LA music scene, the celebrities who championed his music including the Beach Boys' Dennis Wilson and his descen...
Director: Tom O'Dell | Stars: Simon Wells, Jeff Guinn, Anthony DeCurtis, Peter Richardson
Votes: 307
35. The 9/11 Conspiracies: Fact or Fiction (2006 TV Movie)
Documentary
Documentary examining the growing number of conspiracy theories surrounding the destruction of the World Trade Center that have been circulating online.
Stars: Jon Rand, Lester Holt, Charles B. Strozier, Chip Berlet
Votes: 32
36. JFK: The Lost Bullet (2011 TV Movie)
Documentary, History
The uncovering of the 3 shots fired that resulted in the assassination of Jon F. Kennedy
Director: Robert Stone | Stars: Max Holland, Dave Markun, Michael Wilder, Fred Nichals Ciacelli
Votes: 109
37. JFK: The Final Hours (2013 TV Movie)
120 min | Documentary, History
The final day of Kennedy's life through first-hand accounts from people who were among the last to interact with him.
Director: Erik Nelson | Stars: Bill Paxton, Clint Hill, Martin K.A. Morgan, Quin Mathews
Votes: 76
39. Jim Garrison Responds to NBC News White Paper (1967 TV Special)
27 min | News
After NBC publishing a critical attack on prosecutor Jim Garrison and his at the time on-going investigation on the murder of JFK, Mr. Garrison was invited by his attackers to present his ... See full summary »
Star: Jim Garrison
Votes: 11
40. The Killing of JFK: Minute by Minute (2023 TV Special)
Documentary, History
A gripping examination of the events around the infamous assassination from three crucial perspectives, including new information about what J Edgar Hoover knew before the shooting.
Director: Ian A. Hunt | Stars: Onyeka Nubia, Clive Webb, Althea Legal-Miller, Philip Shenon
41. Fahrt ans Ende der Nacht (2015)
96 min | Documentary
Director: Björn Last | Stars: Jacob Weigert, Pola Fendel, Nicolaas Schmidt, Tommy Gause
Votes: 12
45. The Holy Bible: A Sure Word of Prophecy (2007 Video)
103 min | Documentary
Stars: Michael Hoggard, Kenneth Copeland, Mike Evans, Rodney Howard-Browne
46. The King James Code, Volume 6: The Cult of 33 (2011 Video)
80 min | Documentary
Pastor Mike teaches about the scripture numerics of the number 33, as found in the King James Bible.
Star: Michael Hoggard
47. They Might Be Giants: Purple Toupee (1989 Music Video)
2 min | Short, Music
They Might Be Giants star in their music video for "Purple Toupee".
Director: Helene Silverman | Stars: John Flansburgh, John Linnell, They Might Be Giants
Votes: 6
48.
The Inspector Lynley Mysteries (2001–2007)
Episode:
In Divine Proportion
(2005)
Not Rated | 88 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
The unusual shotgun murder of an interior decorator is linked to the rape and subsequent suicide of her sister fifteen years earlier.
Director: Brian Stirner | Stars: Louise Hickson, Sylvestra Le Touzel, Craig Parkinson, Nathaniel Parker
Votes: 379
49.
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (2000–2015)
Episode:
Dog Eat Dog
(2005)
TV-14 | 43 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A man is found in a dumpster with a very full stomach. A divorcing couple are found dead together on the floor of their house, where their dog becomes the first suspect.
Director: Duane Clark | Stars: William Petersen, Marg Helgenberger, Gary Dourdan, George Eads
Votes: 743
50.
The Lone Gunmen (2001)
Episode:
All About Yves
(2001)
Comedy, Drama, Mystery
In the series finale, the Gunmen team up with Morris Fletcher, the sleazy Man in Black from The X-Files: Dreamland (1998), to find the person who stole the list of false flag operations. The cliffhanger ending is resolved in The X-Files: Jump the Shark (2002).
Director: Bryan Spicer | Stars: Bruce Harwood, Tom Braidwood, Dean Haglund, Stephen Snedden
Votes: 323