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1. The Name of the Rose (1986)
R | 130 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
An intellectually nonconformist friar investigates a series of mysterious deaths in an isolated abbey.
Director: Jean-Jacques Annaud | Stars: Sean Connery, Christian Slater, Helmut Qualtinger, Elya Baskin
Votes: 117,768 | Gross: $7.15M
2. The House That Jack Built (2018)
R | 152 min | Crime, Drama, Horror
In five episodes, failed architect and vicious sociopath Jack recounts his elaborately orchestrated murders -- each, as he views them, a towering work of art that defines his life's work as a serial killer in the Pacific Northwest.
Director: Lars von Trier | Stars: Matt Dillon, Bruno Ganz, Uma Thurman, Siobhan Fallon Hogan
Votes: 92,643 | Gross: $0.09M
3. Quo Vadis (1951)
Not Rated | 171 min | Biography, Drama, Romance
After fierce Roman commander Marcus Vinicius becomes infatuated with beautiful Christian hostage Lygia, he begins to question the tyrannical leadership of the despotic emperor Nero.
Directors: Mervyn LeRoy, Anthony Mann | Stars: Robert Taylor, Deborah Kerr, Leo Genn, Peter Ustinov
Votes: 16,825 | Gross: $24.29M
4. An Education (2009)
PG-13 | 100 min | Drama
A coming-of-age story about a teenage girl in 1960s suburban London, and how her life changes with the arrival of a playboy nearly twice her age.
Director: Lone Scherfig | Stars: Carey Mulligan, Peter Sarsgaard, Alfred Molina, Olivia Williams
Votes: 138,259 | Gross: $12.57M
5. Queen of the Desert (2015)
PG-13 | 128 min | Adventure, Biography, Drama
A chronicle of Gertrude Bell's life, a traveler, writer, archaeologist, explorer, cartographer, and political attaché for the British Empire at the dawn of the twentieth century.
Director: Werner Herzog | Stars: Nicole Kidman, James Franco, Robert Pattinson, Damian Lewis
Votes: 12,616
6. November Criminals (2017)
PG-13 | 86 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
After his friend is murdered, a Washington, D.C. teenager undertakes his own investigation of the crime.
Director: Sacha Gervasi | Stars: Ansel Elgort, Chloë Grace Moretz, David Strathairn, Catherine Keener
Votes: 10,860
7. Sound of the Sea (2001)
R | 95 min | Drama, Romance
A new literature teacher, Ulises, comes to a small town near the sea and falls in love with a young woman, Martina. This woman is loved by a rich businessman named Alberto but chooses ... See full summary »
Director: Bigas Luna | Stars: Jordi Mollà, Leonor Watling, Eduard Fernández, Neus Agulló
Votes: 2,283
8. The Art of the Steal (2013)
R | 90 min | Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Crunch Calhoun, a semi-reformed art thief, agrees to get his old gang back together to pull off one last heist.
Director: Jonathan Sobol | Stars: Kurt Russell, Jay Baruchel, Katheryn Winnick, Chris Diamantopoulos
Votes: 26,083 | Gross: $0.06M
9. May Fools (1990)
R | 107 min | Comedy, Romance
During the events of May 1968 in France, different worldviews of conflicting relatives collide in their family estate.
Director: Louis Malle | Stars: Miou-Miou, Michel Piccoli, Michel Duchaussoy, Marcel Bories
Votes: 3,432 | Gross: $1.58M
10. Dante (2024)
TV-14 | 113 min | Documentary
DANTE: Inferno to Paradise chronicles the life, work and legacy of the great 14th century Florentine poet, Dante Alighieri, and his epic masterpiece, The Divine Comedy, one of the greatest achievements in the history of Western Literature.
Stars: Catherine Adoyo, Alan Cox, Dikran Tulaine, Fattori Fraser
Votes: 109
11. Dante's Inferno (1935)
Passed | 89 min | Drama, Romance
Jim Carter moves in on the McWade's carnival concession which shows scenes from Dante's "Inferno". He makes it a going concern, marrying Betty along the way. An inspector calls the ... See full summary »
Director: Harry Lachman | Stars: Spencer Tracy, Claire Trevor, Henry B. Walthall, Alan Dinehart
Votes: 924
12. Love Comes to the Executioner (2006)
R | 89 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A young man is hired as the executioner at a prison where his brother sits on death row. Things get more surreal when he falls in love with his brother's ex-girlfriend -- who's imprisoned herself.
Director: Kyle Bergersen | Stars: Jonathan Tucker, Jeremy Renner, Ginnifer Goodwin, Christine Ebersole
Votes: 945
13. Um Filme Falado (2003)
Not Rated | 96 min | Comedy, Drama, History
Lisbon, Marseilles, Naples, Athens, Istanbul, Cairo, Aden and Bombay. Along with a university teacher and her little daughter, we embark on a long journey, experiencing different cultures and civilizations.
Director: Manoel de Oliveira | Stars: Leonor Silveira, Filipa de Almeida, John Malkovich, Catherine Deneuve
Votes: 2,095 | Gross: $0.01M
14. Opfergang (1944)
98 min | Drama
Idle intellectuals Albrecht, Octavia and Äls, are given to quoting and emulating their philosopher hero, Nietzsche. Albrecht later contracts typhus bringing the foster child gravely ill Äls out of an infected area.
Director: Veit Harlan | Stars: Carl Raddatz, Kristina Söderbaum, Irene von Meyendorff, Franz Schafheitlin
Votes: 756
15. Nothing Is Truer Than Truth (2018)
75 min | Documentary, Biography, History
NOTHING IS TRUER THAN TRUTH is a feature length documentary about Edward de Vere, Seventeenth Earl of Oxford, A-list party boy on the continental circuit, who spent a year and a half in ... See full summary »
Director: Cheryl Eagan-Donovan | Stars: Charles Bird, Michael Cecil, Alberto Toso Fei, Derek Jacobi
Votes: 127
16. L'Inferno (Remastered) (2024)
63 min | Action, Family, Fantasy | Post-production
L'Inferno (1911) was the first Italian feature production in history. It was originally filmed in black and white and as a silent film.
Directors: Francesco Bertolini, Adolfo Padovan, Boris Acosta | Stars: Franco Nero, Salvatore Papa, Vittorio Gassman, Arturo Pirovano
17. Solo (1970)
83 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
During an orgy with minor girls, some old and wealthy notables are being murdered by a small group of leftist young revolutionaries. Very soon the police are tracking down Virgile Cabral, ... See full summary »
Director: Jean-Pierre Mocky | Stars: Jean-Pierre Mocky, Sylvie Bréal, Anne Deleuze, Denis Le Guillou
Votes: 428
18. Carthage: The Roman Holocaust (2004 TV Movie)
PG | 105 min | Documentary
When Rome was still in its infancy, Carthage was the dominant power of the Mediterranean. As Rome grew, Carthage remained its only great rival. It was that rivalry that drove Rome to utterly destroy Carthage, and massacre its people.
Director: Joseph Maxwell | Star: Richard Miles
Votes: 119
19. Unsterbliches Pompeji (2020 TV Movie)
53 min | Documentary, History
In 79 A.D., Mount Vesuvius erupted, killing 2,000 people. This documentary asks what happened next as experts explore Ancient Rome's crisis management.
Director: Sabine Bier | Stars: Marion von Stengel, Mark Bradley, Gabriella Cianciolo Cosentino, Ersilia D'Ambrosio
Votes: 75
20. Mont Saint-Michel, Scanning the Wonder (2017 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 88 min | Documentary
The town and Abbey of the Mont Saint-Michel built on a tiny rocky tidal island overlooking the Bay has captured the imagination of millions of visitors. The settlement on the island dates ... See full summary »
Director: Marc Jampolsky | Stars: Immacolata Aulisa, Xavier Bailly, Pierre Bouet, François Caligny Delahaye
Votes: 67
21. La ferme des sept péchés (1949)
90 min | Biography, Drama, History
In 1825, Paul-Louis Courier, a Republican writer known for publishing pamphlets against the French monarchy, was killed in the farm where he had retired. Was it a political assassination or... See full summary »
Director: Jean Devaivre | Stars: Jacques Dumesnil, Claude Génia, Aimé Clariond, Pierre Renoir
Votes: 92
22.
A Dorothy L. Sayers Mystery (1987)
Episode:
Gaudy Night: Episode One
(1987)
154 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
While Peter is on a governmental mission, Harriet attends a reunion at Oxford and is recruited to find the author of a rash of vicious poison pen letters there.
Directors: Michael Simpson, Michael Simpson | Stars: Harriet Walter, Edward Petherbridge, Richard Morant, Sheila Burrell
Votes: 224
23.
ER (1994–2009)
Episode:
Friendly Fire
(1997)
TV-14 | 46 min | Drama, Romance
Cynthia Hooper starts as the new desk clerk. Benton and Carla disagree over whether or not their son should be circumcised. Al gets in an accident at work.
Director: Félix Enríquez Alcalá | Stars: Anthony Edwards, George Clooney, Noah Wyle, Julianna Margulies
Votes: 433
24.
Frasier (1993–2004)
Episode:
The Great Crane Robbery
(2000)
TV-PG | 22 min | Comedy
Frasier adopts the role of cultural mentor to Todd Peterson, a Silicon Valley billionaire who's just become the station's new owner.
Director: Katy Garretson | Stars: Kelsey Grammer, Jane Leeves, David Hyde Pierce, Peri Gilpin
Votes: 809
25.
Inspector Morse (1987–2000)
Episode:
Greeks Bearing Gifts
(1991)
TV-14 | 104 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Among the suspects in the murder of a Greek chef and his sister are a Ancient Greek scholar, a dodgy British entrepreneur, and a Greek shipping magnate.
Director: Adrian Shergold | Stars: John Thaw, Kevin Whately, James Hazeldine, Mike Kremastoules
Votes: 720
26.
Night Gallery (1969–1973)
Episode:
The Boy Who Predicted Earthquakes/Miss Lovecraft Sent Me/The Hand of Borgus Weems/Phantom of What Opera?
(1971)
TV-PG | 60 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
A boy's gift for prophecy pressures him when he forecasts disaster. / A babysitter fears that the baby is a monster. / Peter Lacland asks a doctor to amputate his possessed hand. / A comic twist on "Phantom of the Opera."
Directors: John Badham, Gene R. Kearney, John Meredyth Lucas | Stars: Michael Constantine, Clint Howard, Joseph Campanella, Sue Lyon
Votes: 482
27.
Red Dwarf (1988– )
Episode:
The Inquisitor
(1992)
TV-14 | 29 min | Comedy, Sci-Fi
The red dwarf crew encounter the inquisitor, a mechanical lifeform who has made himself judge, jury and executioner of all of humanity throughout history. If he decides your life hasn't ... See full summary »
Directors: Rob Grant, Doug Naylor | Stars: Chris Barrie, Craig Charles, Danny John-Jules, Hattie Hayridge
Votes: 931
28.
The Michael Knowles Show (2017– )
The Cruelty Is the Point
(2020 Podcast Episode)
52 min | Talk-Show
Star: Michael J. Knowles
29.
Unter schwarzem Kreuz - Der Deutschritterorden (2017)
Episode:
Ein neuer Staat
(2017)
51 min | Documentary, History
Director: Pawel Pitera
30.
Terra X - Rätsel alter Weltkulturen (1982– )
Episode:
Das Trojanische Pferd: Auf der Spur eines Mythos
(2021)
52 min | Documentary, History
Director: Roland May | Stars: Hans-Eckart Eckhardt, James Newton, Francesco Tiboni, Boris Dunsch
Votes: 10
31.
Pawn Stars (2009– )
Episode:
Never Surrender
(2010)
TV-14 | 22 min | Comedy, Reality-TV
Chumlee is charged with getting a remote controlled car running. Rick has a Winston Churchill letter verified. But he is creeped out, not to mention risking eternal damnation, when he ... See full summary »
Director: Jairus Cobb | Stars: Corey Harrison, Richard Harrison, Rick Harrison, Austin 'Chumlee' Russell
Votes: 55
32.
The Borgias (2011–2013)
Episode:
Lucrezia's Wedding
(2011)
TV-MA | 57 min | Crime, Drama, History
Rodrigo's children insist that their mother be invited to Lucrezia's arranged political marriage to a Sforza, but the Pope resists.
Director: Simon Cellan Jones | Stars: Jeremy Irons, François Arnaud, Holliday Grainger, Joanne Whalley
Votes: 704
33.
Stan Lee's Superhero Kindergarten (2021– )
Episode:
The Substitute
(2023)
TV-Y7 | 24 min | Animation, Action, Family
When Mr. Arnold misses class to attend a retired superhero meeting, the new substitute teaches the Super K's a lesson on trusting their instincts.
Director: John Landis | Stars: Rae Lim, Arnold Schwarzenegger
34.
TopTenz (2010– )
Episode:
10 Misconceptions About Ancient Greece
(2022)
14 min | Documentary
Let's debunk some myths about the world's most famous source of mythology because the gods aren't the only mythology about Ancient Greece.
Star: Simon Whistler
35.
Simple History (2014– )
Episode:
Stop Repeating these Military Lies
(2023)
48 min | Documentary, Animation, History
Since myths pervade every aspect of society it's no surprise that the world's militaries are engulfed in misinformation. Let's debunk a few about the French, Polis and American militaries.
36.
EWTN Bookmark (1998– )
Episode:
Still Point: Loss, Longing and Our Search for God
(2014)
27 min | Family, Talk-Show
Dr. Regis Martin, author of Still Point, describes his personal crisis of faith following crushing family tragedies. Doug Keck and Dr. Martin engage in a sobering discussion of death and loss in literature and in life.
Directors: Mike Holmes, Fred Williams | Stars: Doug Keck, Regis Martin
37.
Great Artists with Tim Marlow (2001– )
Episode:
Turner
(2001)
23 min | Documentary
The most famous of all British painters, J. M. W. Turner was a visionary and a maverick, whose landscape paintings both astounded and antagonized those that saw them.
Directors: Phil Grabsky, Ali Ray, Mehreen Saigol | Star: Tim Marlow
Votes: 6
38.
La nuit écoute (1964–1967)
Episode:
Jean Giono
(1965)
26 min | Short, Talk-Show
Director: Jean Bertho | Stars: Jean Giono, Claude Santelli
39.
Les grands maîtres de la musique (1963–1969)
Episode:
Hector Berlioz
(1966)
36 min | Short, Biography, Music
Director: Denise Billon | Stars: Claude Rostand, Régine Crespin, Jean-Claude Hartemann, Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France
40.
The Conversation (2017– )
Episode #1.11
(2018 Podcast Episode)
News, Talk-Show
Star: Andrew Klavan