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1. Warrior (2011)

PG-13 | 140 min | Action, Drama, Sport

The youngest son of an alcoholic former boxer returns home, where he's trained by his father for competition in a mixed martial arts tournament - a path that puts the fighter on a collision course with his estranged, older brother.

Director: Gavin O'Connor | Stars: Tom Hardy, Nick Nolte, Joel Edgerton, Jennifer Morrison

Votes: 498,205 | Gross: $13.66M

2. Bad Teacher (2011)

R | 92 min | Comedy, Romance

A lazy, incompetent middle school teacher who hates her job, her students, and her co-workers is forced to return to teaching to make enough money for breast implants after her wealthy fiancé dumps her.

Director: Jake Kasdan | Stars: Cameron Diaz, Jason Segel, Justin Timberlake, Lucy Punch

Votes: 212,752 | Gross: $100.29M

3. Joey (2004–2006)

TV-14 | 22 min | Comedy, Romance

In this spin-off of Friends (1994), Joey Tribbiani moves to Los Angeles to pursue his acting career.

Stars: Matt LeBlanc, Paulo Costanzo, Drea de Matteo, Andrea Anders

Votes: 44,202

4. Taggart (1983–2010)

TV-14 | 120 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

The Maryhill CID investigates gruesome murders against the bleak backdrop of the city of Glasgow.

Stars: Blythe Duff, James MacPherson, Robert Robertson, Iain Anders

Votes: 2,008

5. Dalziel and Pascoe (1996–2007)

TV-14 | 120 min | Crime, Mystery, Drama

Superintendent Dalziel and partner DI Pascoe investigate murder, and find a bond forming between them despite their blatantly different personalities.

Stars: Warren Clarke, Colin Buchanan, David Royle, Jennifer James

Votes: 3,310

6. The China Syndrome (1979)

PG | 122 min | Drama, Thriller

A reporter finds what appears to be a cover-up of safety hazards at a nuclear power plant.

Director: James Bridges | Stars: Jane Fonda, Jack Lemmon, Michael Douglas, Scott Brady

Votes: 33,063 | Gross: $51.72M

7. Hard Boiled (1992)

R | 128 min | Action, Crime, Thriller

A tough-as-nails cop teams up with an undercover agent to shut down a sinister mobster and his crew.

Director: John Woo | Stars: Chow Yun-Fat, Tony Leung Chiu-wai, Teresa Mo, Philip Chan

Votes: 54,059

8. Three Christs (2017)

R | 109 min | Drama

Three Christs follows Dr. Alan Stone who is treating three paranoid schizophrenic patients at the Ypsilanti State Hospital in Michigan, each of whom believed they were Jesus Christ. What transpires is both comic and deeply moving.

Director: Jon Avnet | Stars: Richard Gere, Peter Dinklage, Bradley Whitford, Walton Goggins

Votes: 3,752

9. Caged Heat (1974)

R | 80 min | Action, Comedy, Drama

In a women's prison, a group of inmates band together to combat the repressive and abusive policies of the crippled female warden and the corrupt prison doctor.

Director: Jonathan Demme | Stars: Juanita Brown, Erica Gavin, Roberta Collins, Ella Reid

Votes: 2,993 | Gross: $0.10M

10. Tales from the Crypt (1972)

PG | 92 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery

Five strangers get lost in a crypt and, after meeting the mysterious Crypt Keeper, receive visions of how they will die.

Director: Freddie Francis | Stars: Joan Collins, Peter Cushing, Ralph Richardson, Geoffrey Bayldon

Votes: 13,028 | Gross: $1.70M

11. Manhattan Murder Mystery (1993)

PG | 104 min | Comedy, Mystery

A middle-aged couple suspects foul play when their neighbor's wife suddenly drops dead.

Director: Woody Allen | Stars: Woody Allen, Diane Keaton, Jerry Adler, Lynn Cohen

Votes: 46,854 | Gross: $11.29M

12. Violent Saturday (1955)

Not Rated | 90 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

Three hoodlums carefully case a small town while planning to rob the bank on the upcoming Saturday. On Saturday, things turn violent and deadly.

Director: Richard Fleischer | Stars: Victor Mature, Richard Egan, Stephen McNally, Virginia Leith

Votes: 2,874

13. Of Unknown Origin (1983)

R | 88 min | Horror, Thriller

A man becomes destructively obsessed with killing a dangerous rat, which has taken residence in his recently renovated house.

Director: George P. Cosmatos | Stars: Peter Weller, Jennifer Dale, Lawrence Dane, Kenneth Welsh

Votes: 3,788 | Gross: $1.08M

14. Women in Cages (1971)

R | 81 min | Action, Crime, Drama

American women prisoners in a foreign country. Sex and action.

Director: Gerardo de Leon | Stars: Judith Brown, Roberta Collins, Jennifer Gan, Pam Grier

Votes: 1,940

15. The Boys of St. Vincent (1992 TV Movie)

93 min | Biography, Drama

The true story of boys being sexually abused at their orphanage ran by a religious community in Newfoundland.

Director: John N. Smith | Stars: Henry Czerny, Johnny Morina, Brian Dooley, Philip Dinn

Votes: 1,981 | Gross: $0.20M

16. Remember My Name (1978)

R | 94 min | Drama, Thriller

Just released from prison, a young woman arrives in town to "start a new life", but soon begins stalking a married construction worker for no apparent reason, turning his life inside out and eventually terrorizing him and his wife.

Director: Alan Rudolph | Stars: Geraldine Chaplin, Anthony Perkins, Moses Gunn, Berry Berenson

Votes: 1,677

17. The Beast in the Cellar (1971)

R | 88 min | Horror, Thriller

Soldiers in a rural English town are being brutally murdered by an unknown creature. Two sisters living nearby realize they might understand what's happening.

Director: James Kelley | Stars: Beryl Reid, Flora Robson, John Hamill, Tessa Wyatt

Votes: 1,111

18. Nightmare in Badham County (1976 TV Movie)

R | 102 min | Drama, Thriller

During a road trip, two UCLA coeds end up in a Southern prison farm on trumped-up charges brought on by a small town sex-crazed corrupt sheriff.

Director: John Llewellyn Moxey | Stars: Deborah Raffin, Lynne Moody, Chuck Connors, Fionnula Flanagan

Votes: 689

19. The Invisible Man Returns (1940)

Passed | 81 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery

The owner of a coal mining operation, falsely imprisoned for fratricide, takes a drug to make him invisible, despite its side effect: gradual madness.

Director: Joe May | Stars: Cedric Hardwicke, Vincent Price, Nan Grey, John Sutton

Votes: 5,300

20. The Boys of St. Vincent: 15 Years Later (1992 TV Movie)

R | 90 min | Drama

Fifteen years after the events of The Boys of St. Vincent took place, the various boys involved are brought in to testify against the brothers, now finally standing trial, who assaulted ... See full summary »

Director: John N. Smith | Stars: Henry Czerny, Sebastian Spence, Lise Roy, David Hewlett

Votes: 567

21. Cause for Alarm! (1951)

Passed | 74 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

An invalid husband (Barry Sullivan) wrongly believes his wife (Loretta Young) and doctor (Bruce Cowling) are conspiring to kill him and outlines that suspicion in a letter, which causes a serious concern when he ends up dying anyway.

Director: Tay Garnett | Stars: Loretta Young, Barry Sullivan, Bruce Cowling, Margalo Gillmore

Votes: 2,651

22. William Comes to Town (1948)

89 min | Comedy

William Brown attempts to secure more pay and shorter hours for schoolboys.

Director: Val Guest | Stars: William Graham, Garry Marsh, Jane Welsh, Hugh Cross

Votes: 42

23. Crime School (1938)

Passed | 85 min | Crime, Drama

A gang of underprivileged teenagers are sentenced to serve two years in a reform school after almost killing a criminal fence who attacked them.

Directors: Lewis Seiler, William Clemens | Stars: Humphrey Bogart, The Dead End Kids, Gale Page, Billy Halop

Votes: 1,400

24. A Shriek in the Night (1933)

Unrated | 66 min | Crime, Mystery, Romance

Pat Morgan and Ted Kord are rival newspaper reporters always trying to outscoop each other. They join together to solve a series of murders being committed in an apartment building.

Director: Albert Ray | Stars: Ginger Rogers, Lyle Talbot, Harvey Clark, Purnell Pratt

Votes: 1,091

25. A Single Rider (2017)

Not Rated | 97 min | Drama

A man who has lost everything in his life travels to Australia in search of his family.

Director: Lee Joo-young | Stars: Lee Byung-hun, Kong Hyo-jin, Sohee, Jack Campbell

Votes: 1,017

26. Looking for Kitty (2004)

R | 95 min | Comedy, Drama

A high school baseball coach (Krumholtz) and a down-on-his-luck private investigator (Burns) form a bond as they scour New York City for the coach's wife, who's run away with a second-rate ... See full summary »

Director: Edward Burns | Stars: Max Baker, Connie Britton, Edward Burns, Craig Carlisle

Votes: 962 | Gross: $0.00M

27. Jericho Mansions (2003)

R | 98 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller

A murder in an old apartment building leads the superintendent to suspect everyone, and eventually himself, of the murder.

Director: Alberto Sciamma | Stars: James Caan, Geneviève Bujold, Jennifer Tilly, Maribel Verdú

Votes: 1,019

28. I Just Didn't Do It (2006)

143 min | Drama

A young man is falsely accused of molesting a high-school girl on a train. He is arrested and charged, and goes through endless court sessions, all the while insisting that he is innocent.

Director: Masayuki Suô | Stars: Ryô Kase, Asaka Seto, Kôji Yamamoto, Masako Motai

Votes: 1,908

29. The Super (1972)

30 min | Comedy

A single dad (Richard S. Castellano) has a lot to deal with, being the super of a large apartment building in New York. Raising his teenage son adds to the complications.

Stars: Richard S. Castellano, Ardell Sheridan, Margaret E. Castellano, Bruno Kirby

Votes: 34

30. Shipmates Forever (1935)

Approved | 109 min | Drama, Musical, Romance

A successful crooner who doesn't want to join the Navy decides to prove to his father, a Navy admiral, that he has what it takes to make it in the fleet.

Director: Frank Borzage | Stars: Dick Powell, Ruby Keeler, Lewis Stone, Ross Alexander

Votes: 410

31. Queen of the Morning Calm (2019)

86 min | Drama

A film about a young immigrant sex worker, her little girl and their journey of self-empowerment and love.

Director: Gloria Kim | Stars: Tina Jung, Eponine Lee, Jesse LaVercombe, Shaun Benson

Votes: 141

32. I Heart Shakey (2012)

PG | 90 min | Adventure, Comedy, Family

This is a family film about a thirty-five-year-old widower named J.T. O'Neil, his precocious ten-year-old daughter, and their devoted mutt Shakey. After moving from a small town to Chicago,... See full summary »

Director: Kevin Cooper | Stars: Beverly D'Angelo, Steve Guttenberg, Sean Giambrone, Alfonso Arau

Votes: 232

33. Stairway to Light (1945)

Approved | 10 min | Short, Drama, History

The story of 18th Century French physician Dr. Phillipe Pinel, whose initiated enlightened, humane treatment of the mentally ill.

Director: Sammy Lee | Stars: John Nesbitt, Harry Cording, Lotte Palfi Andor, Dewey Robinson

Votes: 271

34. Gryphon (1990 TV Movie)

55 min | Family

When Rickey and his friends put a snake in the desk of the new substitute teacher, to their surprise, she lovingly picks it up and puts it around her neck. Soon her strange stories of the ... See full summary »

Director: Mark Cullingham | Stars: Alexis Cruz, Nico Hughes, Edward O'Connor, Virgilio Martí

Votes: 59

35. Les cigognes n'en font qu'à leur tête (1989)

80 min | Comedy, Drama

Married to Jeremie, Marie wants desperately to have a child. She has a 20 year old daughter from a former marriage with the police commissioner. When the gynecologist confirms they are ... See full summary »

Director: Didier Kaminka | Stars: Marlène Jobert, Patrick Chesnais, Claude Rich, Ariane Lorent

Votes: 117

36. The Sailor Takes a Wife (1945)

Approved | 92 min | Comedy, Romance

While waiting in New York City to ship out to Europe, a sailor stops by a serviceman's canteen and meets a USO hostess. They immediately fall for each other and get married that night. ... See full summary »

Director: Richard Whorf | Stars: Robert Walker, June Allyson, Hume Cronyn, Audrey Totter

Votes: 270

37. El rati horror show (2010)

Not Rated | 98 min | Documentary

"The Police Horror Show" is a documentary portraying the dramatic story of Fernando Ariel Carrera, an ordinary man unjustly convicted to 30 years of prison due systemic corruption.

Directors: Enrique Piñeyro, Pablo Tesoriere | Stars: Enrique Piñeyro, Germán Cantore, Agustin Negrussi, Andrés Bagg

Votes: 467

38. Johnny Holiday (1949)

92 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

Young street tough sent to a reform farm is torn between friends from his past and those who are trying to help him change his life.

Director: Willis Goldbeck | Stars: William Bendix, Stanley Clements, Hoagy Carmichael, Allen Martin Jr.

Votes: 108

39. The Man with 100 Faces (1938)

Approved | 72 min | Comedy, Crime, Romance

Jack Drake,a man with a hundred faces and in reality a modern-day Robin Hood known only as Crackerjack, thrills all England with his exploits of stealing from the rich and giving to the ... See full summary »

Director: Albert de Courville | Stars: Tom Walls, Lilli Palmer, Noel Madison, Leon M. Lion

Votes: 246

40. Mortadelo y Filemón (1994– )

25 min | Animation, Comedy

Phil and Mort is a clever slapstick comic turned into a cartoon. A parody on an intelligence agency, called the TIA is their base of operations. Schemes and how they go wrong is the primary focus of every episode, rather than spying.

Stars: Enric Cusí, Xavier Martín, Miguel Ángel Jenner, Rafael Calvo

Votes: 234

41. To fragma (1982)

115 min | Drama

A government-mandated expert on dams arrives at a rain-soaked village to inspect a weather-beaten barrier, and his fears come true. Amid corruption, bureaucracy, and superstition, failure is inevitable. Will the water claim back its land?

Director: Dimitris Makris | Stars: Nikos Kourkoulos, Danis Katranidis, Grigoris Vafias, Daniella Moreti

Votes: 49

42. The Secret (1955)

80 min | Crime, Drama

Diamond smuggling, and the disappearance of the mother of several children, in the seaside resort of Brighton after World War II.

Director: Cy Endfield | Stars: Sam Wanamaker, Mandy Miller, André Morell, Marian Spencer

Votes: 68

43. The Kleptomaniac (1905)

Not Rated | 8 min | Crime, Drama, Short

A well-dressed woman steals several items from a department store. Meanwhile, a poor woman with two small children steals a loaf of bread out of desperation, and she is quickly caught and arrested. In court, what penalty will each face?

Director: Edwin S. Porter | Stars: Aline Boyd, Phineas Nairs, Jane Stewart, George Voijere

Votes: 417

44. The Great Hospital Mystery (1937)

Approved | 58 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

When gangsters threaten the life of the brother of a nurse, she and her superintendent make it look as if he died while a hospital patient.

Director: James Tinling | Stars: Jane Darwell, Sig Ruman, Sally Blane, Thomas Beck

Votes: 77

45. Mariah (1987– )

60 min | Drama

The work of the prison staff at Mariah State Penitentiary.

Stars: John Getz, Susan Brown, Wanda De Jesus, Tovah Feldshuh

Votes: 15

46. Old Mother Clobber (1958)

Approved | 6 min | Animation, Family, Comedy

A CinemaScope cartoon in which Clint Clobber, in his usual job as an apartment-house manager, is annoyed no end by a brat of a girl who seems determined to drive him out of his mind as she ... See full summary »

Directors: Connie Rasinski, Gene Deitch | Stars: Allen Swift, Norma MacMillan

Votes: 9

47. Bolted (2002)

4 min | Animation, Short

In a small dark factory there is curiosity in one small factory robot with a buildup of determination to find a better life.

Director: Scott Bogoniewski

Votes: 8

48. Hush (III) (2008)

18 min | Short, Drama, Thriller

Alice, a young urban housewife, meanders through her lonely daily routines in an apartment. She is tortured by the emotional scars of losing her unborn child. Her husband Frank is ... See full summary »

Director: Fernando Cordero | Stars: Anne Roser, Michael Gentile, Mike Getz

49. Poirot (1989–2013)
Episode: Murder in Mesopotamia (2001)

TV-14 | 98 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

While Poirot is on holiday in Iraq, the wife of the head scientist at an archaeological dig confides to him that she is the target of threatening letters.

Director: Tom Clegg | Stars: David Suchet, Hugh Fraser, Ron Berglas, Barbara Barnes

Votes: 2,298

50. A Touch of Frost (1992–2010)
Episode: Line of Fire: Part 1 (1999)

TV-14 | 75 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

DI Frost investigates the murder of a policeman murdered during a sting of a ring of international; car thieves and someone murdering local pets.

Director: Robert Knights | Stars: David Jason, Bruce Alexander, Paul Jesson, Nicky Henson

Votes: 267