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1. Into the Wild (2007)
R | 148 min | Adventure, Biography, Drama
After graduating from Emory University, top student and athlete Christopher McCandless abandons his possessions, gives his entire $24,000 savings account to charity and hitchhikes to Alaska to live in the wilderness. Along the way, Christopher encounters a series of characters that shape his life.
Director: Sean Penn | Stars: Emile Hirsch, Vince Vaughn, Catherine Keener, Marcia Gay Harden
Votes: 658,014 | Gross: $18.35M
2. Big Fish (2003)
PG-13 | 125 min | Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
A frustrated son tries to determine the fact from fiction in his dying father's life.
Director: Tim Burton | Stars: Ewan McGregor, Albert Finney, Billy Crudup, Jessica Lange
Votes: 458,831 | Gross: $66.26M
3. The Bourne Ultimatum (2007)
PG-13 | 115 min | Action, Mystery, Thriller
Jason Bourne dodges a ruthless C.I.A. official and his Agents from a new assassination program while searching for the origins of his life as a trained killer.
Director: Paul Greengrass | Stars: Matt Damon, Edgar Ramírez, Joan Allen, Julia Stiles
Votes: 658,161 | Gross: $227.47M
4. The Pretender (1996–2000)
TV-14 | 60 min | Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
A specially gifted man, with the ability to instantly master any skill, escapes from a secret testing facility and travels the country taking on different jobs and helping strangers while hiding from his kidnappers.
Stars: Michael T. Weiss, Andrea Parker, Patrick Bauchau, Jon Gries
Votes: 17,084
5. Horns (2013)
R | 120 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
In the aftermath of his girlfriend's mysterious death, a young man awakens to find strange horns sprouting from his forehead.
Director: Alexandre Aja | Stars: Daniel Radcliffe, Juno Temple, Max Minghella, Joe Anderson
Votes: 88,001 | Gross: $0.16M
6. Changeling (2008)
R | 141 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
After Christine's son goes missing, she reaches out to the LAPD to find him. But when they try to pass off an impostor as her son to quieten public protests, she refuses to accept him or give up hope.
Director: Clint Eastwood | Stars: Angelina Jolie, Colm Feore, Amy Ryan, Gattlin Griffith
Votes: 265,242 | Gross: $35.74M
7. Mr. Holmes (2015)
PG | 104 min | Crime, Drama, Family
An aged, retired Sherlock Holmes deals with dementia, as he tries to remember his final case, and a mysterious woman, whose memory haunts him. He also befriends a fan, the young son of his housekeeper, who wants him to work again.
Director: Bill Condon | Stars: Ian McKellen, Laura Linney, Hiroyuki Sanada, Hattie Morahan
Votes: 67,870 | Gross: $17.74M
8. In the Fade (2017)
R | 106 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
Katja's life collapses after the deaths of her husband and son in a bomb attack. After a time of mourning and injustice, Katja seeks revenge.
Director: Fatih Akin | Stars: Numan Acar, Adam Bousdoukos, Diane Kruger, Denis Moschitto
Votes: 35,626 | Gross: $0.32M
9. Fatima (2020)
PG-13 | 113 min | Drama, War
Three young shepherds in Fátima, Portugal report visions of the Virgin Mary, inspiring believers and angering officials of the Church and the government, who try to force them to recant their story. Based on historical events.
Director: Marco Pontecorvo | Stars: Joaquim de Almeida, Goran Visnjic, Stephanie Gil, Alejandra Howard
Votes: 4,103
10. The Past (2013)
PG-13 | 130 min | Drama, Mystery
An Iranian man deserts his French wife and her two children to return to his homeland. Meanwhile, his wife starts up a new relationship, a reality her husband confronts upon his wife's request for a divorce.
Director: Asghar Farhadi | Stars: Bérénice Bejo, Tahar Rahim, Ali Mosaffa, Pauline Burlet
Votes: 50,881 | Gross: $1.33M
11. Secret Name (2021)
112 min | Drama
Nelie takes the identity of Rose, a young woman from a good family, who dies in front of her. She presents herself in her place at Madame de Lengwil's house, to become the reader of this wealthy woman.
Director: Aurélia Georges | Stars: Lyna Khoudri, Sabine Azéma, Maud Wyler, Laurent Poitrenaux
Votes: 612
12. The Third Murder (2017)
Not Rated | 124 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A courtroom drama centered around the murder of a factory president.
Director: Kore-eda Hirokazu | Stars: Masaharu Fukuyama, Koji Yakusho, Suzu Hirose, Shinnosuke Mitsushima
Votes: 7,998 | Gross: $0.09M
13. Camera Buff (1979)
Not Rated | 112 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
An ordinary factory worker buys a camera on the occasion of the birth of his child. The authorities order him to make documentaries about the factory's success. But his endeavor to be truthful leads him to opposition against censorship.
Director: Krzysztof Kieslowski | Stars: Jerzy Stuhr, Malgorzata Zabkowska, Ewa Pokas, Stefan Czyzewski
Votes: 8,280
14. Anesthesia (2015)
R | 90 min | Crime, Drama
Multiple lives intersect in the aftermath of the violent mugging of a Columbia University philosophy professor.
Director: Tim Blake Nelson | Stars: Sam Waterston, Kristen Stewart, Corey Stoll, Gretchen Mol
Votes: 5,025 | Gross: $0.02M
15. When Did You Last See Your Father? (2007)
PG-13 | 92 min | Biography, Drama
The story of a son's conflicting memories of his dying father.
Director: Anand Tucker | Stars: Jim Broadbent, Colin Firth, Juliet Stevenson, Bradley Johnson
Votes: 4,682 | Gross: $1.07M
16. Thesis on a Homicide (2013)
106 min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Roberto Bermudez, a specialist in criminal law, is convinced that one of his students committed a brutal murder. It leads him to start an investigation that becomes his obsession.
Director: Hernán Goldfrid | Stars: Ricardo Darín, Natalia Santiago, Alberto Ammann, Calu Rivero
Votes: 8,404
17. The Night of the Sunflowers (2006)
123 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
The discovery of a mysterious cave coincides with the the murder of a young girl, causing a small town to fall into a cycle of violence, deception and greed in the search for the killer and whatever lies at the bottom of the cave.
Director: Jorge Sánchez-Cabezudo | Stars: Carmelo Gómez, Judith Diakhate, Celso Bugallo, Manuel Morón
Votes: 2,973
18. Johnny Hamlet (1968)
PG | 91 min | Drama, Western
Back from the Civil War, Johnny Hamilton learns that his father was murdered by Santana the bandit and that his mother Gertrude married his uncle Claude but Johnny is determined to find out the truth.
Director: Enzo G. Castellari | Stars: Andrea Giordana, Gilbert Roland, Horst Frank, Ennio Girolami
Votes: 657
19. Eastern Plays (2009)
83 min | Drama
Through Georgi (a juvenile) and Itso (an adult), we take a quick glance (about one and a half hour quick) at what happens in post cold-war Bulgaria.
Director: Kamen Kalev | Stars: Christo Christov, Ovanes Torosian, Saadet Aksoy, Nikolina Iancheva
Votes: 3,188
20. Digging for the Truth (2005– )
60 min | Documentary, History, Mystery
Digging for the Truth is a History Channel's television series hosted for the first three seasons by Josh Bernstein, who explores various historical mysteries.
Stars: Josh Bernstein, Hunter Ellis, Zahi Hawass, Zay Harding
Votes: 247
21. Marie-Octobre (1959)
90 min | Drama, Mystery
Fifteen years after WWII, a group of ex-resistance fighters are brought together by Marie-Octobre, so that the former members of the network can finally relive one fateful night and find out who betrayed their murdered leader, Castille.
Director: Julien Duvivier | Stars: Danielle Darrieux, Bernard Blier, Robert Dalban, Paul Frankeur
Votes: 1,401
22. Other Voices (2000)
R | 104 min | Drama, Romance, Thriller
This stylized turn-of-the-millennium thriller follows troubled couple Phil and Anna, each suspecting the other of infidelity, as they try to keep their paranoia and distrust from further fracturing the strange world around them.
Director: Dan McCormack | Stars: David Aaron Baker, Mary McCormack, Stockard Channing, Campbell Scott
Votes: 300
23. The Directive (2019)
113 min | Action, Comedy, Sci-Fi
One year after a catastrophic pandemic wipes out most of humanity, a lone survivor embarks on a journey to find Safe Zone 57 with the help of a broken robot.
Director: Alexander Raye Pimentel | Stars: Hannah Pimentel, Nicholas Winand, Kyle Abraham, Hashim Gari
Votes: 1,315
24. The Mole (2011)
107 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Pawel, a Polish man in his early 30s, makes a living with his father Zygmunt importing second-hand clothing from the North of France to Southern Poland. On his way back from one of regular ... See full summary »
Director: Rafael Lewandowski | Stars: Borys Szyc, Marian Dziedziel, Magdalena Czerwinska, Wojciech Pszoniak
Votes: 787
25. Find My Family (2009– )
Reality-TV
With the help of a dedicated team of researchers, hosts Tim Green and Lisa Joyner reunite mothers, fathers, daughters and sons who have lost touch for decades.
Stars: Lisa Joyner, Tim Green
Votes: 50
26. The Drifter (I) (2009)
60 min | Drama, Sport
A surfer is trying to identify the rhythm of his soul in the surrounding world. He uses travel as a tool which allows him to discover himself.
Director: Taylor Steele | Stars: Rob Machado, Kelly Slater
Votes: 318
27. Murder: Fight for the Truth (2023– )
60 min | Documentary, Crime
This highly emotive and personal true crime series looks at how brave, determined and passionate people went above and beyond the call of duty in their determination to bring killers to justice.
28. No Man's Truth (2020)
123 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
The peace of a middle-class family is shattered by the suicide of the elder daughter just a month after she is admitted to college. Coral, her younger sister, replaces her in the college to find out the circumstances her sister's death.
Director: Marina Libik | Stars: Coral Bhamra, Chirag Saluja, Divya Sharma, Akshay Jha
Votes: 37
29. Six Million Steps: A Journey Inward (2011)
93 min | Documentary
"Six Million Steps" is a documentary film that chronicles the lives of hikers during their adventure on the Pacific Crest Trail, which spans 2,650 miles, the length of the U.S. Pacific ... See full summary »
Votes: 84
30. The Raven (1977)
120 min | Drama, History, Mystery
When Mr. Esalat is looking for a topic for his TV show, he notices an advertisement in the newspaper about a missing girl. The picture of the missing girl is very familiar to him and he ... See full summary »
Director: Bahram Beyzaie | Stars: Parvaneh Massoumi, Hossein Parvaresh, Anik Shefrazian, Manuchehr Farid
Votes: 338
31. Lapse (V) (2010)
75 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
A woman wakes up one morning alone in the desert with no memory and blood on her hands. Reality and memory collide as she struggles to make sense of events.
Director: Marianne Hansen | Stars: Karolina Dryzner, Sirry Jons, Keith Roenke, Emmett J Scanlan
Votes: 11
32. Who Was Felix Kersten? (1998)
56 min | Documentary, Biography, History
Himmler's personal physical therapist with magical power in his fingers, that alleviated the Nazi's severe stomach pains with his skills and gained his trust. Felix Kersten's life (1898-1960) is confusing like a smoke screen.
Director: Arto Koskinen | Stars: Veera Marila, Irmgard Kersten, Arno Kersten, Hugh Trevor-Roper
Votes: 15
33. Genesis (XVI)
Short, Drama | Post-production
Director: Rashayn Alexander | Stars: Caleb Nsingi, Emmanuel Trier, Denzel Onaba, Ivanna Ihekwoaba
34. Why Daniel Dennett Is Wrong About Memetics (2018 Video)
211 min | News
35. There Is No Problem (2005 Video)
105 min | Documentary
In a satsang given in Santa Cruz, California, Adyashanti delivers the message that there is no problem, a message the mind perpetually resists.
Stars: Adyashanti, Bonnie
36. Welcome to Reality (2006 Video)
92 min | Documentary
Adyashanti, delivering a talk in Santa Cruz, California, tells his audience what it is like to be enlightened.
Star: Adyashanti
37.
Planet of the Apes (1974)
Episode:
Escape from Tomorrow
(1974)
TV-PG | 60 min | Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Two astronauts survive a crash-landing on a planet where intelligent apes rule over humans. The men find that their own intelligence challenges the apes' superiority and puts their lives in danger.
Director: Don Weis | Stars: Roddy McDowall, Ron Harper, James Naughton, Royal Dano
Votes: 322
38.
Dexter (2006–2013)
Episode:
Truth Be Told
(2006)
TV-MA | 54 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
The Ice Truck Killer kidnaps someone close to Dexter, forcing him into a trap that will forever change his life, while Doakes begins to harbor suspicions about Dexter's odd behavior.
Director: Keith Gordon | Stars: Michael C. Hall, Julie Benz, Jennifer Carpenter, Erik King
Votes: 7,259
39.
Stumptown (2019–2020)
Episode:
The Dex Files
(2020)
TV-14 | 42 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Dex's former client Jeremy introduces her to Major Elders who has intel on Benny's death. Dex, suspicious of the information and looking for answers, investigates a potential cover up ... See full summary »
Director: Alex Zakrzewski | Stars: Cobie Smulders, Jake Johnson, Tantoo Cardinal, Cole Sibus
Votes: 346
40.
Unexplained (2008– )
Episode:
The Ghosts of Glastonbury
(2008)
TV-G | 48 min | Documentary, Horror
Discover the world of automatic writing, a link to memories of the past. Were supernatural forces really behind one of the most controversial archaeological claims of the 20th century?
Director: Alex Nikolic-Dunlop | Stars: Tony Robinson, Becky McCall, Chris French, Tim Hopkinson-Ball
Votes: 7
41.
London Spy (2015)
Episode:
If This Is a Lie
(2015)
TV-MA | 59 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Danny finally discovers the shocking truth about what really happened to his lover, and what really took place that night in the attic where he died.
Director: Jakob Verbruggen | Stars: Ben Whishaw, Harriet Walter, Jim Broadbent, Zrinka Cvitesic
Votes: 373
42.
Girlfriends (2018)
Episode:
Episode #1.3
(2018)
47 min | Drama
Linda is questioned on suspicion of murdering Micky and Gail and Sue desperately try to help her. However, as they try to expose the lies behind Carole's accusations they are shocked when they uncover the truth.
Director: Kay Mellor | Stars: Zoë Wanamaker, Phyllis Logan, Miranda Richardson, Matthew Lewis
Votes: 44
43.
Dirty John (2018–2020)
Episode:
Shrapnel
(2018)
TV-14 | 43 min | Crime, Drama
Debra confronts John; Arlane's past is revealed.
Director: Jeffrey Reiner | Stars: Connie Britton, Eric Bana, Juno Temple, Julia Garner
Votes: 568