Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "switch-blade"

1. Donnie Darko (2001)

R | 113 min | Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi

After narrowly escaping a bizarre accident, a troubled teenager is plagued by visions of a man in a large rabbit suit who manipulates him to commit a series of crimes.

Director: Richard Kelly | Stars: Jake Gyllenhaal, Jena Malone, Mary McDonnell, Holmes Osborne

Votes: 849,994 | Gross: $1.48M

2. Savages (I) (2012)

R | 131 min | Action, Crime, Drama

Pot growers Ben and Chon face off against the Mexican drug cartel who kidnapped their shared girlfriend.

Director: Oliver Stone | Stars: Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Taylor Kitsch, Blake Lively, Benicio Del Toro

Votes: 134,521 | Gross: $47.38M

3. Hannibal Rising (2007)

R | 121 min | Adventure, Crime, Drama

After the death of his parents during World War II, young Hannibal Lecter moves in with his beautiful aunt and begins plotting revenge on the barbarians responsible for his sister's death.

Director: Peter Webber | Stars: Gaspard Ulliel, Rhys Ifans, Gong Li, Aaran Thomas

Votes: 115,888 | Gross: $27.67M

4. 10 to Midnight (1983)

R | 101 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

An LAPD detective and his rookie partner are on the trail of a psychopathic young man who is murdering young women.

Director: J. Lee Thompson | Stars: Charles Bronson, Lisa Eilbacher, Andrew Stevens, Gene Davis

Votes: 9,353 | Gross: $7.10M

5. Kiss Me Deadly (1955)

Not Rated | 106 min | Crime, Film-Noir, Mystery

A doomed female hitchhiker pulls Mike Hammer into a deadly whirlpool of intrigue, revolving around a mysterious "great whatsit".

Director: Robert Aldrich | Stars: Ralph Meeker, Albert Dekker, Paul Stewart, Juano Hernandez

Votes: 22,078

6. Joysticks (1983)

R | 88 min | Comedy

When a top local businessman and his two bumbling nephews try to shut down the town's only video arcade, arcade employees and patrons fight back.

Director: Greydon Clark | Stars: Joe Don Baker, Leif Green, Jim Greenleaf, Scott McGinnis

Votes: 2,656

7. Sleepaway Camp III: Teenage Wasteland (1989)

R | 80 min | Comedy, Horror

After murdering a young girl, Angela Baker assumes her identity and travels to Camp New Horizons, built on the grounds of the camp she terrorized the year before, and starts killing again.

Director: Michael A. Simpson | Stars: Pamela Springsteen, Tracy Griffith, Michael J. Pollard, Mark Oliver

Votes: 9,426

8. The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (1947)

Approved | 110 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Romance

A clumsy daydreamer gets caught up in a sinister conspiracy.

Director: Norman Z. McLeod | Stars: Danny Kaye, Virginia Mayo, Boris Karloff, Fay Bainter

Votes: 6,864

9. The Dallas Connection (1994)

R | 94 min | Action

Scientists in charge of a sophisticated, state-of-the-art, military satellite are being assassinated. It's up to a team of federal agents to protect the last surviving scientist able to activate the satellite.

Director: Christian Drew Sidaris | Stars: Bruce Penhall, Mark Barriere, Julie Strain, Rodrigo Obregón

Votes: 1,186

10. Death Wish: The Face of Death (1994)

R | 95 min | Action, Crime, Drama

Paul Kersey is back at working vigilante justice when his fiancée, Olivia, has her business threatened by mobsters.

Director: Allan A. Goldstein | Stars: Charles Bronson, Lesley-Anne Down, Michael Parks, Chuck Shamata

Votes: 8,778 | Gross: $1.70M

11. 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: 6,703

12. Drowning Love (2016)

111 min | Drama, Romance

Natsume - a teen fashion model from Tokyo - feels empty after having moved into a country town with her family. One day, she meets Koh, heir of Shinto priest family and finds herself falling under the spell of a selfish yet handsome boy.

Director: Yûki Yamato | Stars: Nazuki Amano, Mickey Curtis, Masami Horiuchi, Miwako Ichikawa

Votes: 1,360

13. Smithereens (1982)

R | 93 min | Drama, Music

A talent-challenged girl tries to promote herself to stardom in New York's waning punk music world.

Director: Susan Seidelman | Stars: Susan Berman, Brad Rijn, Richard Hell, Nada Despotovich

Votes: 2,631

14. Beyond the Trek (2017)

89 min | Drama, Sci-Fi

A deep space mining vessel has been adrift for two years. It is suspected the crew brutally killed each other, but the reason for the bloodbath is unknown. A rescue crew is sent to find if there are any survivors, what happened and why.

Director: Ian Truitner | Stars: Sunny Mabrey, Lance Broadway, T.J. Hoban, Christian Pitre

Votes: 2,458

15. Jane and the Lost City (1987)

PG | 93 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy

Jane and the colonel must journey to Africa to the lost city to retrieve the diamonds before the Germans do. Based on the classic adult UK comic strip "Jane," especially popular during World War II for its strong pin-up elements.

Director: Terry Marcel | Stars: Sam J. Jones, Maud Adams, Jasper Carrott, Kirsten Hughes

Votes: 625

16. The Escapist (2008)

Not Rated | 102 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

Frank is 14 years into a life sentence when he decides to break out of the London prison to set things right with his ill junkie daughter. He plans an ingenious escape requiring 4 inmates with different skills.

Director: Rupert Wyatt | Stars: Brian Cox, Damian Lewis, Joseph Fiennes, Seu Jorge

Votes: 17,399 | Gross: $0.01M

17. The Astro-Zombies (1968)

92 min | Horror, Sci-Fi

The Plan - to build a super human. How? By murdering innocent, convenient victims, and using various bits of them. The result? Creatures on the rampage.

Director: Ted V. Mikels | Stars: Wendell Corey, John Carradine, Tom Pace, Joan Patrick

Votes: 2,788

18. Hotel Fear (1978)

92 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery

A mother and her daughter run a hotel during the late stages of WWII. The mother suddenly dies, and the daughter finds herself alone with her sleazy guests.

Director: Francesco Barilli | Stars: Luc Merenda, Leonora Fani, Francisco Rabal, Jole Fierro

Votes: 922

19. Bathory: Countess of Blood (2008)

R | 141 min | Biography, Drama, Fantasy

With an unquenchable thirst for blood, Countess Elizabeth Bathory was one of the most prolific serial killers in history.

Director: Juraj Jakubisko | Stars: Anna Friel, Karel Roden, Vincent Regan, Hans Matheson

Votes: 4,692

20. Phantasm IV: Oblivion (1998)

R | 90 min | Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi

Mike travels through time and dimensions to find the Tall Man's origins.

Director: Don Coscarelli | Stars: A. Michael Baldwin, Reggie Bannister, Bill Thornbury, Heidi Marnhout

Votes: 8,427

21. Up the Down Staircase (1967)

Approved | 124 min | Drama

The experiences of a young female English teacher in an inner-city New York high school.

Director: Robert Mulligan | Stars: Patrick Bedford, Sandy Dennis, Eileen Heckart, Ruth White

Votes: 2,477

22. Mothers of America (1969)

R | 94 min | Action, Adventure

Having established Femina, a secret city populated entirely by beautiful women, Sumuru plots to wage a war against all men.

Director: Jesús Franco | Stars: Shirley Eaton, Richard Stapley, George Sanders, Maria Rohm

Votes: 1,242

23. Wild Thing (1987)

PG-13 | 92 min | Action, Drama, Thriller

A child witnesses drug dealers murder his parents. He escapes and grows up wild in the city's slums. Years later he emerges to help the residents of the area who are being terrorized by street gangs and drug dealers.

Director: Max Reid | Stars: Robert Knepper, Kathleen Quinlan, Robert Davi, Maury Chaykin

Votes: 722

24. Joe's Palace (2007 TV Movie)

TV-MA | 108 min | Drama

A drama centered on the relationship between Elliot Graham (Sir Michael Gambon), a strange and wealthy Londoner, and Joe Dix (Danny Lee Wynter), a teenager who takes care of an empty house Elliot owns.

Director: Stephen Poliakoff | Stars: Michael Gambon, Danny Lee Wynter, Rupert Penry-Jones, Kelly Reilly

Votes: 1,361

25. The Banker (1989)

R | 96 min | Crime, Horror, Thriller

High-priced prostitutes are being systematically murdered, their corpses mutilated, and a bizarre South American symbol painted in blood is found at the scene. The cop investigating is out to solve the crime before his ex wife, a reporter, becomes the next victim.

Director: William Webb | Stars: Robert Forster, Shanna Reed, Duncan Regehr, Jeff Conaway

Votes: 732

26. Lambada (I) (1990)

PG | 104 min | Drama

Kevin Laird is a Beverly Hills school teacher by day and a mystery man by night. Using his lambada dance moves to first earn the kid's respect and acceptance, Kevin then teaches them ... See full summary »

Director: Joel Silberg | Stars: J. Eddie Peck, Melora Hardin, Adolfo Quinones, Leticia Vasquez

Votes: 1,182 | Gross: $4.26M

27. Alley Cat (1984)

R | 82 min | Action

A martial artist stops a street gang from stealing her car, but her grandmother ends up being killed by the same gang. She witnesses firsthand how corrupt and inept law enforcement is, and decides to take matters into her own hands.

Directors: Victor M. Ordonez, Ed Palmos, Al Valletta | Stars: Karin Mani, Robert Torti, Britt Helfer, Michael Wayne

Votes: 1,051

28. Because of the Cats (1973)

R | 98 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

A gang of wealthy ne'er do wells rape and terrorize women for fun and force their husbands to watch. A police detective tries to catch them, but can he break their twisted loyalty to one another?

Director: Fons Rademakers | Stars: Bryan Marshall, Alexandra Stewart, Edward Judd, Sebastian Graham Jones

Votes: 505

29. Bad Girls from Mars (1990)

R | 86 min | Comedy

There's a killer on the set of a sci-fi cheapie, and the new leading lady (Edy Williams) could be next.

Director: Fred Olen Ray | Stars: Edy Williams, Oliver Darrow, Brinke Stevens, John Henry Richardson

Votes: 722

30. Psycho-Circus (1966)

Not Rated | 91 min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller

A circus becomes the location for stolen loot and murder.

Directors: Werner Jacobs, John Llewellyn Moxey | Stars: Christopher Lee, Leo Genn, Anthony Newlands, Heinz Drache

Votes: 1,471

31. The Sadist of Notre Dame (1979)

94 min | Horror

An ex-priest escapes from an asylum and kills people in God's name. This is a re-edited Spanish-language version of L'éventreur de Notre-Dame (1975) and XXX version Sexorcismes (1975) with newly shot scenes.

Director: Jesús Franco | Stars: Jesús Franco, Lina Romay, Olivier Mathot, Pierre Taylou

Votes: 255

32. The Vintage (1957)

Approved | 92 min | Crime, Drama

Two Italian brothers flee to France and hide out in a vineyard with two sisters and their family.

Director: Jeffrey Hayden | Stars: Pier Angeli, Mel Ferrer, John Kerr, Michèle Morgan

Votes: 155

33. A Girl in Black (1956)

100 min | Drama, Romance

Against the backdrop of a cloudless summer, love's unforeseen complications will entwine an Athenian writer, a morosely beautiful daughter, and a scorned local suitor. And then, calamity strikes. Can love redeem the sad girl in black?

Director: Michael Cacoyannis | Stars: Ellie Lambeti, Dimitris Horn, Eleni Zafeiriou, Stefanos Stratigos

Votes: 1,125

34. Touched by a Killer (2001)

PG-13 | 87 min | Crime, Drama

An investigative reporter (Isabella Hoffman) works to free a man she believes was wrongly convicted of murder before his execution.

Director: Gilbert M. Shilton | Stars: Isabella Hofmann, James Wilder, Erin Gray, Jerry Wasserman

Votes: 188

35. The Adventures of Adderall Boy (2017)

22 min | Short, Action, Adventure

A distressed college student finds relief in the study drug, Adderall. Little does he know the pill will invite supernatural abilities, certain challenges and inherent dangers. Written, ... See full summary »

Director: Conor Holway | Star: Conor Holway

36. Thriller (1973–1976)
Episode: The Double Kill (1975)

TV-14 | 73 min | Crime, Drama, Fantasy

Hugh's house is full of priceless treasures. So why is he advertising the fact that he has no burglar alarms?

Director: Ian Fordyce | Stars: Gary Collins, Penelope Horner, James Villiers, Peter Bowles

Votes: 176

37. The Jeffersons (1975–1985)
Episode: A Small Victory (1982)

TV-PG | 25 min | Comedy

Insufficient money for social programs at the Help Center tempts Louise and Helen to quit, until they meet a young prostitute who is being physically abused by her pimp.

Director: Bob Lally | Stars: Isabel Sanford, Sherman Hemsley, Roxie Roker, Franklin Cover

Votes: 61

38. Relic Hunter (1999–2002)
Episode: Gypsy Jigsaw (2000)

TV-14 | 42 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy

Romania, 1830: The dying Romani king gives orders to hide the crown. Trinity College, 2000: Sydney receives a deck of rare tarot cards by mail from her friend who just died. The infamous ... See full summary »

Director: Larry A. McLean | Stars: Tia Carrere, Christien Anholt, Lindy Booth, Noam Jenkins

Votes: 93

39. Místo zlocinu Ostrava (2020– )
Episode: Krásné svetlo (2020)

61 min | Crime, Drama

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Director: Dan Wlodarczyk | Stars: Pavla Beretová, Stanislav Majer, Pavel Kríz, Karel Dobrý

Votes: 10

40. Wired (2008)
Episode: Episode #1.2 (2008)

44 min | Drama, Thriller

Soon Louise becomes entangled with a ring of ruthless killers prepared to do anything to pull off their multimillion-pound scam. But she could use a little money herself, and she doesn't ... See full summary »

Director: Kenneth Glenaan | Stars: Riz Ahmed, Charlie Brooks, Katy Cavanagh-Jupe, Micky Dacks

Votes: 19

41. Deadliest Warrior (2009– )
Episode: Jesse James vs. Al Capone (2010)

TV-14 | 23 min | Action, Game-Show, History

Jesse James, one of the most feared outlaws in the American West, vs. Al Capone, America's most notorious gangster.

Directors: Kiran Gonsalves, Michael S. Ojeda | Stars: Andre Alexsen, David Anthony Buglione, Geoff Desmoulin, Joey Rocketshoes Dillon

Votes: 48

42. The Mentalist (2008–2015)
Episode: Il Tavolo Bianco (2014)

TV-PG | 41 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

While Patrick is part of a sting to catch a mobster suspected of jury tampering to avoid a murder charge, agent Cho finds a new clue that could take the sex trafficking investigation in a new direction.

Director: W. Thomas Snyder | Stars: Simon Baker, Robin Tunney, Tim Kang, Rockmond Dunbar

Votes: 1,180

43. Better Call Saul (2015–2022)
Episode: Piñata (2018)

TV-14 | 46 min | Crime, Drama

While Jimmy daydreams about reconstituting Wexler-McGill, Kim sets out to secure her own future; Mike puts a plan into motion for Gus.

Director: Andrew Stanton | Stars: Bob Odenkirk, Jonathan Banks, Rhea Seehorn, Patrick Fabian

Votes: 11,467

44. Bob's Burgers (2011– )
Episode: Roamin' Bob-iday (2019)

TV-PG | 22 min | Animation, Comedy

Bob winds up working at a local sandwich shop when the family forces him to take a day off; a last-minute baby shower is thrown for a female biker group.

Directors: Bernard Derriman, Ian Hamilton | Stars: H. Jon Benjamin, Dan Mintz, Eugene Mirman, Larry Murphy

Votes: 651