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1. The Martian (2015)
PG-13 | 144 min | Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
An astronaut becomes stranded on Mars after his team assume him dead, and must rely on his ingenuity to find a way to signal to Earth that he is alive and can survive until a potential rescue.
Director: Ridley Scott | Stars: Matt Damon, Jessica Chastain, Kristen Wiig, Kate Mara
Votes: 923,803 | Gross: $228.43M
2. No Country for Old Men (2007)
R | 122 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
Violence and mayhem ensue after a hunter stumbles upon the aftermath of a drug deal gone wrong and over two million dollars in cash near the Rio Grande.
Directors: Ethan Coen, Joel Coen | Stars: Tommy Lee Jones, Javier Bardem, Josh Brolin, Woody Harrelson
Votes: 1,058,802 | Gross: $74.28M
3. The Terminator (1984)
R | 107 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
A human soldier is sent from 2029 to 1984 to stop an almost indestructible cyborg killing machine, sent from the same year, which has been programmed to execute a young woman whose unborn son is the key to humanity's future salvation.
Director: James Cameron | Stars: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Linda Hamilton, Michael Biehn, Paul Winfield
Votes: 923,175 | Gross: $38.40M
4. Prometheus (I) (2012)
R | 124 min | Adventure, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Following clues to the origin of mankind, a team finds a structure on a distant moon, but they soon realize they are not alone.
Director: Ridley Scott | Stars: Noomi Rapace, Logan Marshall-Green, Michael Fassbender, Charlize Theron
Votes: 643,639 | Gross: $126.48M
5. Shooter (I) (2007)
R | 124 min | Action, Drama, Thriller
A marksman living in exile is coaxed back into action after hearing of a plot to kill the President. After being-double crossed for the attempt and on the run, he sets out for the real killer and the truth.
Director: Antoine Fuqua | Stars: Mark Wahlberg, Michael Peña, Rhona Mitra, Danny Glover
Votes: 355,287 | Gross: $47.00M
6. The Hunt (II) (2020)
R | 90 min | Action, Horror, Thriller
Twelve strangers wake up in a clearing. They don't know where they are, or how they got there. They don't know they've been chosen - for a very specific purpose - The Hunt.
Director: Craig Zobel | Stars: Betty Gilpin, Hilary Swank, Ike Barinholtz, Wayne Duvall
Votes: 128,584 | Gross: $5.81M
7. First Blood (1982)
R | 93 min | Action, Adventure, Thriller
A veteran Green Beret is forced by a cruel Sheriff and his deputies to flee into the mountains and wage an escalating one-man war against his pursuers.
Director: Ted Kotcheff | Stars: Sylvester Stallone, Brian Dennehy, Richard Crenna, Bill McKinney
Votes: 275,210 | Gross: $47.21M
8. Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines (2003)
R | 109 min | Action, Sci-Fi
A machine from a post-apocalyptic future travels back in time to protect a man and a woman from an advanced robotic assassin to ensure they both survive a nuclear attack.
Director: Jonathan Mostow | Stars: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Nick Stahl, Kristanna Loken, Claire Danes
Votes: 418,283 | Gross: $150.37M
9. 127 Hours (2010)
R | 94 min | Biography, Drama
A mountain climber becomes trapped under a boulder while canyoneering alone near Moab, Utah and resorts to desperate measures in order to survive.
Director: Danny Boyle | Stars: James Franco, Amber Tamblyn, Kate Mara, Sean Bott
Votes: 401,053 | Gross: $18.34M
10. Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003)
PG-13 | 138 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
During the Napoleonic Wars, a brash British captain pushes his ship and crew to their limits in pursuit of a formidable French war vessel around South America.
Director: Peter Weir | Stars: Russell Crowe, Paul Bettany, Billy Boyd, James D'Arcy
Votes: 237,676 | Gross: $93.93M
11. Ghost in the Shell (2017)
PG-13 | 107 min | Action, Crime, Drama
In the near future, Major Mira Killian is the first of her kind: A human saved from a terrible crash, who is cyber-enhanced to be a perfect soldier devoted to stopping the world's most dangerous criminals.
Director: Rupert Sanders | Stars: Scarlett Johansson, Pilou Asbæk, Takeshi Kitano, Juliette Binoche
Votes: 227,717 | Gross: $40.56M
12. Peppermint (2018)
R | 101 min | Action, Thriller
Five years after her husband and daughter are killed in a senseless act of violence, a woman comes back from self-imposed exile to seek revenge against those responsible and the system that let them go free.
Director: Pierre Morel | Stars: Jennifer Garner, John Gallagher Jr., John Ortiz, Juan Pablo Raba
Votes: 70,796 | Gross: $35.42M
13. The Shallows (2016)
PG-13 | 86 min | Action, Drama, Horror
A mere 200 yards from shore, surfer Nancy is attacked by a great white shark, with her short journey to safety becoming the ultimate contest of wills.
Director: Jaume Collet-Serra | Stars: Blake Lively, Óscar Jaenada, Angelo Josue Lozano Corzo, Joseph Salas
Votes: 143,305 | Gross: $55.12M
14. Revenge (II) (2017)
R | 108 min | Action, Drama, Horror
Never take your mistress on an annual guys' getaway, especially one devoted to hunting - a violent lesson for three wealthy married men.
Director: Coralie Fargeat | Stars: Matilda Anna Ingrid Lutz, Kevin Janssens, Vincent Colombe, Guillaume Bouchède
Votes: 48,171 | Gross: $0.10M
15. Crawl (I) (2019)
R | 87 min | Action, Adventure, Horror
A young woman, while attempting to save her father during a category 5 hurricane, finds herself trapped in a flooding house and must fight for her life against alligators.
Director: Alexandre Aja | Stars: Kaya Scodelario, Barry Pepper, Morfydd Clark, Ross Anderson
Votes: 93,924 | Gross: $39.01M
16. Rambo III (1988)
R | 102 min | Action, Adventure, Thriller
Rambo mounts a one-man mission to rescue his friend Colonel Trautman from the clutches of the formidable invading Soviet forces in Afghanistan.
Director: Peter MacDonald | Stars: Sylvester Stallone, Richard Crenna, Marc de Jonge, Kurtwood Smith
Votes: 140,085 | Gross: $53.72M
17. Gunpowder Milkshake (2021)
R | 114 min | Action, Crime, Thriller
Three generations of women fight back against those who could take everything from them.
Director: Navot Papushado | Stars: Karen Gillan, Lena Headey, Carla Gugino, Michelle Yeoh
Votes: 51,046
18. The Hitman's Bodyguard (2017)
R | 118 min | Action, Comedy, Crime
One of the world's top bodyguards gets a new client, a world class hitman who must testify at the International Criminal Court. They must put their differences aside and work together to make it to the trial alive and on time.
Director: Patrick Hughes | Stars: Ryan Reynolds, Samuel L. Jackson, Gary Oldman, Elodie Yung
Votes: 246,770 | Gross: $75.47M
19. The Bourne Legacy (2012)
PG-13 | 135 min | Action, Adventure, Thriller
An expansion of the universe from Robert Ludlum's novels, centered on a new hero whose stakes have been triggered by the events of the previous three films.
Director: Tony Gilroy | Stars: Jeremy Renner, Rachel Weisz, Edward Norton, Scott Glenn
Votes: 315,445 | Gross: $113.20M
20. Flatliners (1990)
R | 115 min | Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
Five medical students experiment with "near death" experiences, until the dark consequences of past tragedies begin to jeopardize their lives.
Director: Joel Schumacher | Stars: Kiefer Sutherland, Kevin Bacon, Julia Roberts, William Baldwin
Votes: 93,333 | Gross: $61.49M
21. The Wall (II) (2017)
R | 88 min | Action, Drama, Thriller
Two American Soldiers are trapped by a lethal sniper, with only an unsteady wall between them.
Director: Doug Liman | Stars: Aaron Taylor-Johnson, John Cena, Laith Nakli
Votes: 30,864 | Gross: $1.80M
22. Captive State (2019)
PG-13 | 109 min | Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
Set in a Chicago neighborhood nearly a decade after an occupation by an extraterrestrial force, 'Captive State' explores the lives on both sides of the conflict - the collaborators and dissidents.
Director: Rupert Wyatt | Stars: John Goodman, Ashton Sanders, Jonathan Majors, Vera Farmiga
Votes: 57,850 | Gross: $5.96M
23. American Mary (2012)
R | 103 min | Drama, Horror
The allure of easy money sends Mary Mason, a medical student, into the world of underground surgeries which ends up leaving more marks on her than her so-called "freakish" clients.
Directors: Jen Soska, Sylvia Soska | Stars: Katharine Isabelle, Antonio Cupo, Tristan Risk, David Lovgren
Votes: 28,285
24. Death Wish (2018)
R | 107 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Dr. Paul Kersey is an experienced trauma surgeon, a man who has spent his life saving lives. After an attack on his family, Paul embarks on his own mission for justice.
Director: Eli Roth | Stars: Bruce Willis, Vincent D'Onofrio, Elisabeth Shue, Camila Morrone
Votes: 76,411 | Gross: $34.02M
25. Lady Terminator (1989)
Unrated | 82 min | Action, Drama, Fantasy
The spirit of an ancient evil queen posesses the body of a young anthropological student, who then goes on a murderous rampage.
Director: H. Tjut Djalil | Stars: Barbara Anne Constable, Christopher J. Hart, Claudia Angelique Rademaker, Joseph P. McGlynn
Votes: 2,012
26. Saw V (2008)
R | 92 min | Horror, Thriller
Following Jigsaw's grisly demise, Mark Hoffman is commended as a hero, but Agent Strahm is suspicious, and delves into Hoffman's past. Meanwhile, another group of people are put through a series of gruesome tests.
Director: David Hackl | Stars: Scott Patterson, Costas Mandylor, Tobin Bell, Betsy Russell
Votes: 137,496 | Gross: $56.75M
27. Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes (1984)
PG | 143 min | Adventure, Drama
A missing heir of respected Scottish family, raised in African jungles by animals, finally returns to his estate only to realize that difference between the two worlds is really significant.
Director: Hugh Hudson | Stars: Christopher Lambert, Andie MacDowell, Ralph Richardson, Ian Holm
Votes: 21,241 | Gross: $45.90M
28. Dead Snow (2009)
Not Rated | 91 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
A ski vacation turns horrific for a group of medical students, as they find themselves confronted by an unimaginable menace: Nazi zombies.
Director: Tommy Wirkola | Stars: Jeppe Beck Laursen, Charlotte Frogner, Jenny Skavlan, Geir Vegar Hoel
Votes: 69,975 | Gross: $0.04M
29. Black and Blue (I) (2019)
R | 108 min | Action, Thriller
A rookie New Orleans police officer is forced to balance her identity as a black woman after she witnesses two corrupt cops committing murder.
Director: Deon Taylor | Stars: Naomie Harris, Tyrese Gibson, Frank Grillo, Mike Colter
Votes: 26,642 | Gross: $22.06M
30. Glorious (2022)
79 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
After a breakup, Wes ends up at a remote rest stop. He finds himself locked inside the bathroom with a mysterious figure speaking from an adjacent stall. Soon Wes realizes he is involved in a situation more terrible than he could imagine.
Director: Rebekah McKendry | Stars: Ryan Kwanten, J.K. Simmons, Sylvia Grace Crim, André Lamar
Votes: 7,162
31. Dr. Giggles (1992)
R | 95 min | Comedy, Drama, Horror
A madman who believes he's a doctor comes to the town where his crazy father was killed, and soon begins murdering people and becoming infatuated with a teenage girl who has a heart condition.
Director: Manny Coto | Stars: Larry Drake, Holly Marie Combs, Cliff De Young, Glenn Quinn
Votes: 7,196 | Gross: $8.40M
32. The Tournament (2009)
R | 95 min | Action, Thriller
A tournament is watched by dozens of wealthy men betting on which one of the 30 assassins will survive the next 24 hours "kill or die" and claim the USD10,000,000 prize. It takes place in an English town with plenty of CCTVs.
Director: Scott Mann | Stars: Ving Rhames, Robert Carlyle, Kelly Hu, Ian Somerhalder
Votes: 36,255
33. Half Past Dead (2002)
PG-13 | 98 min | Action, Crime, Thriller
A man goes undercover in a hi-tech prison to find information to help prosecute those who killed his wife. While there he stumbles onto a plot involving a death-row inmate and his $200 million stash of gold.
Director: Don Michael Paul | Stars: Morris Chestnut, Steven Seagal, Matt Battaglia, Ja Rule
Votes: 16,733 | Gross: $15.36M
34. Laid to Rest (2009)
R | 90 min | Horror, Thriller
A young girl wakes up in a casket with a head injury and no memory of her identity. She quickly realizes she was abducted by a serial killer and she must fight to survive.
Director: Robert Hall | Stars: Bobbi Sue Luther, Kevin Gage, Lena Headey, Sean Whalen
Votes: 8,932
35. Contracted: Phase II (2015)
Not Rated | 78 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller
Riley searches for a cure to the virus that took over Samantha before it consumes him and the entire world.
Director: Josh Forbes | Stars: Matt Mercer, Marianna Palka, Morgan Peter Brown, Anna Lore
Votes: 5,221
36. He Walked by Night (1948)
Approved | 79 min | Crime, Film-Noir, Thriller
This film-noir piece, told in semi-documentary style, follows police on the hunt for a resourceful criminal who shoots and kills a cop.
Directors: Alfred L. Werker, Anthony Mann | Stars: Richard Basehart, Scott Brady, Roy Roberts, Whit Bissell
Votes: 6,692
37. Infested (2002)
R | 84 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
A funeral for one becomes a deathtrap for many when five old friend are held hostage at a remote summer home infested with killer flies.
Director: Josh Olson | Stars: Zach Galligan, Lisa Ann Hadley, Daniel Jenkins, Amy Jo Johnson
Votes: 1,432
38. Penance (I) (2009)
Not Rated | 85 min | Horror, Thriller
A young mother decides to become a stripper to earn some fast cash, only to find her worst nightmares are about to begin.
Director: Jake Kennedy | Stars: Marieh Delfino, Jason Connery, Michael Rooker, Graham McTavish
Votes: 1,198
39. Preservation (2014)
Not Rated | 88 min | Horror, Thriller
An anesthesiologist must awaken her animal instincts when she, her husband and her brother-in-law become the quarry of unseen hunters who want to turn them all into trophies.
Director: Christopher Denham | Stars: Wrenn Schmidt, Pablo Schreiber, Aaron Staton, Cody Saintgnue
Votes: 6,055
40. Antisocial (I) (2013)
R | 90 min | Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Five university friends gather at a house party to ring in the New Year. Unbeknownst to them, an epidemic has erupted outside, causing outbreaks around the world.
Director: Cody Calahan | Stars: Michelle Mylett, Cody Ray Thompson, Adam Christie, Ana Alic
Votes: 3,560
41. Steel Frontier (1995 Video)
R | 105 min | Action, Sci-Fi
In a post-apocalyptic 2019, a lone gunman named Yuma fights a gang of bandits called the United Regime who have invaded the town of New Hope.
Directors: Jacobsen Hart, Paul G. Volk | Stars: Joe Lara, Bo Svenson, Stacie Foster, Brion James
Votes: 638
42. Brotherhood of Blood (2007)
R | 88 min | Horror, Thriller
Claustrophobic thriller about a team of vampire hunters who infiltrate a nest of undead to rescue one of their own.
Directors: Michael Roesch, Peter Scheerer | Stars: Victoria Pratt, Jason Connery, Ken Foree, Sid Haig
Votes: 3,345
43.
Justice League (2001–2004)
Episode:
Tabula Rasa
(2003)
TV-PG | 22 min | Animation, Action, Adventure
Lex Luthor finds an extremely advanced android that can imitate superpowers and manipulates it to attack the Justice League.
Director: Dan Riba | Stars: Kevin Conroy, Maria Canals-Barrera, Susan Eisenberg, Phil LaMarr
Votes: 696
44.
Most Dangerous Game (2020–2023)
Episode:
Return Tools to Their Place
(2020)
TV-MA | 8 min | Short, Action, Thriller
Not all games are fair. Dodge learns a painful lesson when it's revealed that the hunters have a secret advantage.
Director: Phil Abraham | Stars: Liam Hemsworth, Sarah Gadon, Christoph Waltz, Jimmy Akingbola
Votes: 263
45.
Biohackers (2020–2021)
Episode:
Secrets
(2020)
TV-MA | 40 min | Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Mia tries to wheedle her way into a job at Dr. Lorenz's biomedical institute but runs into a problem when she's asked to participate in a genetic study.
Director: Christian Ditter | Stars: Nina Zorzi, Sebastian Gerasch, Jessica Schwarz, Luna Wedler
Votes: 368
46.
Creepshow (2019– )
Episode:
A Creepshow Animated Special: Survivor Type/Twittering from the Circus of the Dead
(2020)
TV-MA | 46 min | Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
A man is determined to stay alive alone on a deserted island no matter what the cost; A teen's family road trip includes a visit to the gravest show on earth.
Director: Greg Nicotero | Stars: Kiefer Sutherland, Joey King, Fayna Sanchez, Mason Pike
Votes: 796
47.
Silo (2023– )
Episode:
Freedom Day
(2023)
TV-MA | 59 min | Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Sheriff Becker's plans for the future are thrown off course after his wife meets a hacker with information about the silo.
Director: Morten Tyldum | Stars: Rashida Jones, David Oyelowo, Common, Tim Robbins
Votes: 6,588
48.
Fringe (2008–2013)
Episode:
White Tulip
(2010)
TV-14 | 44 min | Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
The Fringe team investigate a train full of people who died in a mysterious way. Olivia and the others then meet the astrophysicist who was responsible for the "experiment" and who can reset the time.
Director: Thomas Yatsko | Stars: Anna Torv, Joshua Jackson, Lance Reddick, Blair Brown
Votes: 3,654
49.
Ninja Scroll: The Series (2003)
Episode:
Rengoku shôten
(2003)
TV-MA | Animation, Action, Adventure
Rengoku will do whatever it takes to kill Jubei to avenge her brother's death.
Directors: Hiroshi Hara, Tatsuo Satô | Stars: Rikiya Koyama, Houko Kuwashima, Yuzuru Fujimoto, Romi Park
Votes: 28
50.
House M.D. (2004–2012)
Episode:
After Hours
(2011)
TV-14 | 43 min | Drama, Mystery
Darrien steals a car after getting stabbed and hurries to her friend 13's home for help. Chase brings an ultrasound and helps. House performs surgery on his own leg at home after using experimental drugs.
Director: Miguel Sapochnik | Stars: Hugh Laurie, Lisa Edelstein, Omar Epps, Robert Sean Leonard
Votes: 3,327