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1. Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014)

PG-13 | 136 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

As Steve Rogers struggles to embrace his role in the modern world, he teams up with a fellow Avenger and S.H.I.E.L.D agent, Black Widow, to battle a new threat from history: an assassin known as the Winter Soldier.

Directors: Anthony Russo, Joe Russo | Stars: Chris Evans, Samuel L. Jackson, Scarlett Johansson, Robert Redford

Votes: 900,290 | Gross: $259.77M

2. Mechanic: Resurrection (2016)

R | 98 min | Action, Adventure, Crime

Bishop's most formidable foe kidnaps the love of his life in order to make him complete three impossible assassinations and make them look like accidents.

Director: Dennis Gansel | Stars: Jason Statham, Jessica Alba, Tommy Lee Jones, Michelle Yeoh

Votes: 93,540 | Gross: $21.22M

3. The Brothers Grimm (2005)

PG-13 | 118 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy

Will and Jake Grimm are traveling con-artists who encounter a genuine fairy-tale curse which requires true courage instead of their usual bogus exorcisms.

Director: Terry Gilliam | Stars: Matt Damon, Heath Ledger, Monica Bellucci, Petr Ratimec

Votes: 126,363 | Gross: $37.92M

4. The Bad Batch (2016)

R | 118 min | Action, Horror, Mystery

In a desert dystopia, a young woman is kidnapped by cannibals.

Director: Ana Lily Amirpour | Stars: Suki Waterhouse, Jason Momoa, Jayda Fink, Keanu Reeves

Votes: 35,585 | Gross: $0.18M

5. Nightbreed (1990)

R | 102 min | Action, Fantasy, Horror

A troubled young man is drawn to a mythical place called Midian where a variety of friendly monsters are hiding from humanity. Meanwhile, a sadistic serial killer is looking for a patsy.

Director: Clive Barker | Stars: Craig Sheffer, David Cronenberg, Anne Bobby, Charles Haid

Votes: 26,466 | Gross: $8.86M

6. BloodRayne (2005)

R | 95 min | Action, Fantasy, Horror

In the eighteenth century, a vampire escapes from the freak show, in which she once participated, and teams up with a group of vampire slayers to kill the man who raped her mother.

Director: Uwe Boll | Stars: Kristanna Loken, Ben Kingsley, Michelle Rodriguez, Michael Madsen

Votes: 37,226 | Gross: $2.41M

7. Jonah Hex (2010)

PG-13 | 81 min | Action, Drama, Fantasy

The U.S. military makes a scarred bounty hunter with warrants on his own head an offer he cannot refuse: in exchange for his freedom, he must stop a terrorist who is ready to unleash Hell on Earth.

Director: Jimmy Hayward | Stars: Josh Brolin, Megan Fox, John Malkovich, Michael Fassbender

Votes: 61,850 | Gross: $10.54M

8. When a Stranger Calls (1979)

R | 97 min | Mystery, Thriller

A psychopathic killer terrorizes a babysitter, then returns seven years later to menace her again.

Director: Fred Walton | Stars: Carol Kane, Charles Durning, Rutanya Alda, Carmen Argenziano

Votes: 14,358 | Gross: $21.41M

9. Tremors: Shrieker Island (2020 Video)

PG-13 | 103 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy

When a group of hunters genetically modify Graboid eggs, they face an all-out war against the larger, terrifyingly intelligent Graboids, and the swiftly multiplying Shriekers.

Director: Don Michael Paul | Stars: Michael Gross, Jon Heder, Richard Brake, Caroline Langrishe

Votes: 5,323

10. Knights of Badassdom (2013)

R | 86 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy

Live-action role players conjure up a demon from Hell by mistake and they must deal with the consequences.

Director: Joe Lynch | Stars: Ryan Kwanten, Steve Zahn, Peter Dinklage, Summer Glau

Votes: 21,545 | Gross: $0.09M

11. The Big Boss (1971)

R | 99 min | Action, Crime, Drama

A young man sworn to an oath of non-violence works with his cousins in an ice factory where they mysteriously begin to disappear.

Directors: Wei Lo, Chia-Hsiang Wu | Stars: Bruce Lee, Maria Yi, James Tien, Marilyn Bautista

Votes: 29,527 | Gross: $0.04M

12. Spy Hard (1996)

PG-13 | 81 min | Action, Comedy

Dick Steele, Agent WD-40 is assigned by his Director, to stop the evil General Rancor from destroying the world. WD-40 believed Rancor was dead and he teams up with the hot KGB Agent Veronique Ukrinsky to find Rancor and save the world.

Director: Rick Friedberg | Stars: Leslie Nielsen, Nicollette Sheridan, Charles Durning, Marcia Gay Harden

Votes: 40,464 | Gross: $29.00M

13. The Warrior and the Sorceress (1984)

R | 81 min | Adventure, Fantasy

A fearsome swordsman, Kain, crosses the barren wastelands and comes upon a town where two arch enemies fight incessantly for control of the town's only well.

Director: John C. Broderick | Stars: David Carradine, Luke Askew, María Socas, Anthony De Longis

Votes: 2,537 | Gross: $2.89M

14. Dressed to Kill (1946)

Passed | 76 min | Crime, Mystery

Sherlock Holmes sets out to discover why a trio of murderous villains, including a dangerously attractive female, are desperate to obtain three unassuming and inexpensive little music boxes.

Director: Roy William Neill | Stars: Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Patricia Morison, Edmund Breon

Votes: 6,930

15. Donnybrook (2018)

R | 101 min | Action, Drama, Thriller

Two men prepare to compete in a legendary bare-knuckle fight where the winner gets a $100,000 prize.

Director: Tim Sutton | Stars: Michael Agee, Adam Bartley, Jamie Bell, Chris Browning

Votes: 2,480 | Gross: $0.03M

16. Death Walks at Midnight (1972)

Not Rated | 102 min | Crime, Horror, Mystery

During a drug-fuelled photoshoot, a model witnesses a brutal murder in the apartment opposite hers, and is forced to become an amateur sleuth to unravel the mystery.

Director: Luciano Ercoli | Stars: Nieves Navarro, Simón Andreu, Peter Martell, Carlo Gentili

Votes: 2,012

17. Troma's War (1988)

R | 91 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy

A group of assorted Americans survive a plane crash in a Caribbean island, and discover it is infested with crawling snakes and other venomous beasts. Even worse, terrorists are preparing a full out war on America with a biological weapon.

Directors: Michael Herz, Lloyd Kaufman | Stars: Carolyn Beauchamp, Sean Bowen, Rick Washburn, Patrick Weathers

Votes: 2,458

18. I Sell the Dead (2008)

Not Rated | 85 min | Comedy, Horror

A grave robber reflects on his life of crime.

Director: Glenn McQuaid | Stars: Dominic Monaghan, Ron Perlman, Larry Fessenden, Angus Scrimm

Votes: 11,203 | Gross: $0.01M

19. 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: 1,473

20. Thief (2014 Video Game)

M | Action, Adventure, Crime

Waking up after a magic ritual gone wrong that killed his apprentice, master thief Garrett finds his medieval City ravaged by a mysterious plague. With citizens chafing under the Baron's tyrannical rule, the City is ripe for revolution.

Director: Wilson Mui | Stars: Romano Orzari, Daniel Kash, Vanessa Matsui, Matthew Edison

Votes: 1,415

21. Valentine (2017)

TV-14 | 97 min | Action, Adventure, Crime

Man recruits girl under the guise of making a movie, while really trying to turn her into a masked vigilante.

Directors: Agus Hermansyah Mawardy, Ubay Fox, Agus Pestol | Stars: Estelle Linden, Arie Dagienkz, Matthew Settle, Ahmad Affandy

Votes: 981

22. Phantom of Chinatown (1940)

Approved | 62 min | Mystery

Detective James Lee Wong is on the scene as archaeologist Dr. John Benton, recently returned from an expedition in China where a valuable ancient scroll was recovered, is murdered while giving a lecture on the expedition.

Director: Phil Rosen | Stars: Keye Luke, Lotus Long, Grant Withers, Charles Miller

Votes: 835

23. Here Come the Girls (1953)

Approved | 78 min | Comedy, Musical

A clumsy, full-of-himself chorus boy gets a chance at Broadway stardom when he's a stand-in for a leading actor threatened by an infamous killer.

Director: Claude Binyon | Stars: Bob Hope, Tony Martin, Arlene Dahl, Rosemary Clooney

Votes: 435

24. Final Mission (1984)

R | 101 min | Action, Crime, War

Vince Deacon, a higly decorated Vietnam War veteran, serves as a SWAT team captain for LAPD. When his family gets attacked by thugs and he kills one of them in self defense he's being ... See full summary »

Director: Cirio H. Santiago | Stars: Richard Young, Christine L. Tudor, Jason Ross, John Dresden

Votes: 221

25. Dutch Wife in the Desert (1967)

NC-17 | 85 min | Action, Crime, Drama

A private detective is hired to find a woman who has apparently been murdered in a snuff film. It turns out the woman's not dead, but very much alive, and he gets sucked into a torrid ... See full summary »

Director: Atsushi Yamatoya | Stars: Miki Watari, Yûichi Minato, Shôhei Yamamoto, Masayoshi Nogami

Votes: 539

26. Birds in Peru (1968)

X | 95 min | Drama

On a beach, a group of sailors have sex with a depressed young woman. Madam of a nearby brothel takes her in but she leaves with an artist who lives close by. Meanwhile, her old rich husband and his sinister chauffeur are looking for her.

Director: Romain Gary | Stars: Jean Seberg, Maurice Ronet, Pierre Brasseur, Danielle Darrieux

Votes: 196

27. The Member of the Wedding (1997 TV Movie)

PG | 92 min | Drama, Romance

Frankie Addams, 12-year-old tomboy, feels disconnected from the world. Frankie's mother died when she was born, and her father is a distant, uncomprehending figure. Her closest companions ... See full summary »

Director: Fielder Cook | Stars: Anna Paquin, Alfre Woodard, Corey Dunn, Enrico Colantoni

Votes: 194

28. The Owl (1991 TV Movie)

84 min | Action

After the violent murder of his family, a man becomes a vigilante dispensing his own kind of justice to people in need.

Director: Tom Holland | Stars: Adrian Paul, Patricia Charbonneau, Brian Thompson, Erika Flores

Votes: 269

29. Black Cobra 3: The Manila Connection (1990)

R | 92 min | Action

A shipment of American weapons is stolen in the Philippines. An American named Hawkins tries to find the weapons. Hawkins ends up dead. Chicago policeman Bob Malone is called in to ... See full summary »

Director: Edoardo Margheriti | Stars: Fred Williamson, Forry Smith, Debra Ward, David Light

Votes: 334

30. Star Trek: Klingon (1996 Video Game)

M | Action, Adventure, Comedy

FMV choose-your-path adventure game, where famous Klingon warrior Gowron sets up a simulated scenario for the player about young Klingon Pok, whom Gowron helps find his father's murderer. The player also learns about Klingon culture.

Director: Jonathan Frakes | Stars: Robert O'Reilly, John Cothran, Joan Scheckel, Martha Hackett

Votes: 144

31. Guardians (2009)

Not Rated | 87 min | Horror, Sci-Fi

Twilight Cove, a small forgotten town, is besieged by hideous creatures summoned into our dimension. It's only a matter of time before the army of creatures attacks the rest of civilization... See full summary »

Director: Drew Maxwell | Stars: Chris Bell, Benjamin Budd, Tylan Canady, Eric Cherney

Votes: 304

32. Jo and the Pirates (2016)

17 min | Short, Adventure, Sci-Fi

Jo and the Pirates is a short film about Jo (Joanne), a fourteen year old girl living in her second foster home with two malicious foster siblings, an overworked foster mother, and the ... See full summary »

Director: Adam Murray | Stars: Shane Cambria, Travis Clark, Kimmy Gatewood, Allie Goertz

33. Pulis Probinsya II (1995)

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Director: Augusto Salvador | Stars: Phillip Salvador, Sheryl Cruz, Eddie Gutierrez, Julio Diaz

34. Magindanao (1982)

Action, War

A MUSLIM REBEL LEADER DREAMS OF A SEPARATE MUSLIM STATE FOR HIS PEOPLE.

Director: Diego Cagahastian | Stars: Dante Varona, Muhammad Faisal, Rex Lapid, Laarni Enriquez

35. Prinsipe Abante (1973)

Action, Adventure, Comedy

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Director: Danny Ochoa | Stars: Chiquito, Liza Lorena, Rhodora Silva, Romy Mallari

36. Torchy Turns Turtle (1933)

21 min | Short, Comedy

Office boy Torchy stumbles upon a spy network intent upon stealing the secret formula from his boss' safe. Can clueless Torcy get the formula back? With the help of the boss' daughter and a Tommy gun, he has a chance.

Director: C.C. Burr | Stars: Ray Cooke, Marion Shockley, Edmund Breese, Franklin Pangborn

Votes: 8

37. Stepdaughter Slaughter (2010)

10 min | Short, Drama, Thriller

A 14 year old girl risks being sent back to a mental institution by her concerned family. She will do whatever it takes to make sure they do not succeed. Even if the solution is deadly.

Director: Shayna Lee Burtman | Stars: Nanci Burrows, Peter Gustini, Morgan McNair, Hannah Smith

38. Baklad (2007)

Short, Drama, Horror

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Director: Glesor C. Moreno | Stars: John Carlo Mondilla, Jean Mondilla, Johnnie Diaz, Helena Liguin

39. Taggart (1983–2010)
Episode: Fatal Inheritance (1993)

TV-14 | 76 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

When Dr Janet Napier walks free from court on a "Not Proven" verdict, Taggart begins a more personal investigation. However as more murders are commited Taggart must admit that even he might have been wrong about the good doctors guilt.

Director: Alan Macmillan | Stars: Mark McManus, James MacPherson, Hannah Gordon, Francis Matthews

Votes: 91

40. Airwolf (1987)
Episode: The Golden One (1987)

47 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

St. John uncovers smuggling while tracking the old boyfriend who invited Jo to Afghanistan.

Director: George Erschbamer | Stars: Barry Van Dyke, Geraint Wyn Davies, Michele Scarabelli, Anthony Sherwood

Votes: 35

41. Death Valley Days (1952–1970)
Episode: Peter the Hunter (1964)

TV-PG | 25 min | Western

A hunter and his daughters save an Easterner.

Director: Lee Sholem | Stars: Peter Whitney, Julie Sommars, Anthony Costello, Jenny Maxwell

Votes: 36

42. Doctor Who (1963–1989)
Episode: The Smugglers: Episode 1 (1966)

TV-PG | 25 min | Adventure, Drama, Family

The Doctor discovers Polly and Ben aboard the TARDIS shortly before the ship arrives in 17th century Cornwall, where the local churchwarden gives the Doctor a cryptic message shortly before being murdered.

Director: Julia Smith | Stars: William Hartnell, Anneke Wills, Michael Craze, Terence de Marney

Votes: 358

43. Wiseguy (1987–1990)
Episode: The Birthday Surprise (1987)

TV-14 | 48 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

When Vinnie's young cousin, a boxer, is found dead of an apparent drug overdose, Vinnie jeopardizes his cover by going to "legals" -- the coroner, the homicide cops -- to get them moving on what he knows was a murder.

Director: Robert Iscove | Stars: Ken Wahl, Jonathan Banks, Jim Byrnes, Ray Sharkey

Votes: 68

44. Dark Shadows (1966–1971)
Episode: Episode #1.708 (1969)

TV-G | 23 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror

Barnabas denies knowing the secret. The family looks for Edith's will. Quentin and Evan plot to forge a will in Quentin's favor, and Quentin tricks Jamison into helping him.

Director: Lela Swift | Stars: Jonathan Frid, Louis Edmonds, Grayson Hall, Humbert Allen Astredo

Votes: 33

45. The 100 (2014–2020)
Episode: The Flock (2020)

TV-MA | 41 min | Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi

Murphy and Indra must defuse a tense situation. Meanwhile, old friends make new allegiances.

Director: Amyn Kaderali | Stars: Eliza Taylor, Bob Morley, Marie Avgeropoulos, Lindsey Morgan

Votes: 2,021

46. Chuck (2007–2012)
Episode: Chuck Versus the Third Dimension (2009)

TV-PG | 43 min | Action, Comedy, Drama

In a special 3-D episode, Sarah and Casey kidnap an international rock star to see who's behind a plot to murder him. Morgan must pick someone to accompany him backstage to a concert.

Director: Robert Duncan McNeill | Stars: Zachary Levi, Yvonne Strahovski, Joshua Gomez, Ryan McPartlin

Votes: 1,372

47. Chuck (2007–2012)
Episode: Chuck Versus the Cougars (2008)

TV-PG | 44 min | Action, Comedy, Drama

A person from Sarah's past recognizes her, Sarah tries her best to avoid her, but Chuck gets a flash. Now Sarah has no choice but to go to her High School Reunion.

Director: Patrick R. Norris | Stars: Zachary Levi, Yvonne Strahovski, Joshua Gomez, Ryan McPartlin

Votes: 1,475

48. Ballmastrz 9009 (2018–2020)
Episode: Can't Stand the Heat? Ultimate Kitchen Technique! Finish Them, Warrior Bard!! (2020)

TV-14 | 11 min | Animation, Short, Action

The Leptons learn that Leto can cook after he makes them grilled cheese sandwiches while they are high and pressure him to be on Crayzar's cooking competition.

Director: Christy Karacas | Stars: Natasha Lyonne, Jessica DiCicco, Dana Snyder, Eric Bauza

Votes: 18

49. Chuck (2007–2012)
Episode: Chuck Versus the Ring (2009)

TV-PG | 42 min | Action, Comedy, Drama

Chuck is given an opportunity to rid himself of the Intersect but will have to protect Ellie from Fulcrum on her wedding day.

Director: Robert Duncan McNeill | Stars: Zachary Levi, Yvonne Strahovski, Joshua Gomez, Ryan McPartlin

Votes: 2,396

50. Chuck (2007–2012)
Episode: Chuck Versus the Three Words (2010)

TV-PG | 43 min | Action, Comedy, Drama

Things are turned upside-down when Carina pays a visit with her fiancé. A lie told by Morgan complicates matters.

Director: Peter Lauer | Stars: Zachary Levi, Yvonne Strahovski, Joshua Gomez, Ryan McPartlin

Votes: 1,380