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1. Das Boot (1981)

R | 149 min | Drama, War

A German U-boat stalks the frigid waters of the North Atlantic as its young crew experience the sheer terror and claustrophobic life of a submariner in World War II.

Director: Wolfgang Petersen | Stars: Jürgen Prochnow, Herbert Grönemeyer, Klaus Wennemann, Hubertus Bengsch

Votes: 264,305 | Gross: $11.49M

2. Battle Royale (2000)

Not Rated | 114 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

In the future, the Japanese government captures a class of ninth-grade students and forces them to kill one another under the revolutionary "Battle Royale" act.

Director: Kinji Fukasaku | Stars: Tatsuya Fujiwara, Aki Maeda, Tarô Yamamoto, Chiaki Kuriyama

Votes: 194,399

3. Peter Pan (1953)

G | 77 min | Animation, Adventure, Family

Wendy and her brothers are whisked away to the magical world of Neverland with the hero of their stories, Peter Pan.

Directors: Clyde Geronimi, Wilfred Jackson, Hamilton Luske, Jack Kinney | Stars: Bobby Driscoll, Kathryn Beaumont, Hans Conried, Bill Thompson

Votes: 153,067 | Gross: $87.40M

4. The Belko Experiment (2016)

R | 89 min | Horror, Thriller

In a twisted social experiment, eighty Americans are locked in their high-rise corporate office in Bogotá, Colombia, and ordered by an unknown voice coming from the company's intercom system to participate in a deadly game of kill or be killed.

Director: Greg McLean | Stars: John Gallagher Jr., Tony Goldwyn, Adria Arjona, John C. McGinley

Votes: 58,350 | Gross: $10.16M

5. The Fog (1980)

R | 89 min | Horror, Thriller

An unearthly fog rolls into a small coastal town exactly 100 years after a ship mysteriously sank in its waters.

Director: John Carpenter | Stars: Adrienne Barbeau, Jamie Lee Curtis, Janet Leigh, John Houseman

Votes: 82,972 | Gross: $21.38M

6. Ringu (1998)

Not Rated | 96 min | Horror, Mystery

A reporter and her ex-husband investigate a cursed video tape that is rumored to kill the viewer seven days after watching it.

Director: Hideo Nakata | Stars: Nanako Matsushima, Miki Nakatani, Yûko Takeuchi, Hitomi Satô

Votes: 77,473

7. Amityville 1992: It's About Time (1992 Video)

R | 95 min | Horror

An architect brings home a mysterious old clock, not knowing that it's haunted by the demonic presence of the Amityville house. Soon, the clock begins to alter time and space and starts to possess members of the household.

Director: Tony Randel | Stars: Stephen Macht, Shawn Weatherly, Megan Ward, Damon Martin

Votes: 3,449

8. Repulsion (1965)

Not Rated | 105 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller

A sex-repulsed woman who disapproves of her sister's boyfriend sinks into depression and has horrific visions of rape and violence.

Director: Roman Polanski | Stars: Catherine Deneuve, Ian Hendry, John Fraser, Yvonne Furneaux

Votes: 57,270

9. The Sleeping Dictionary (2003)

R | 109 min | Drama, Romance

A young Englishman is sent to Malaysian Borneo in the 1930s to stay with a tribe as UK's colonial representative. A local woman (J.Alba) helps him understand local tradition and language. He falls in love with her etc. despite the taboo.

Director: Guy Jenkin | Stars: Jessica Alba, Brenda Blethyn, Hugh Dancy, Bob Hoskins

Votes: 9,223

10. Days of Being Wild (1990)

Not Rated | 94 min | Crime, Drama, Romance

A man tries to find out who his real mother is after the woman who raised him tells him the truth.

Director: Kar-Wai Wong | Stars: Leslie Cheung, Maggie Cheung, Andy Lau, Carina Lau

Votes: 25,478 | Gross: $0.14M

11. Passing (I) (2021)

PG-13 | 98 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller

"Passing" follows the unexpected reunion of two high school friends, whose renewed acquaintance ignites a mutual obsession that threatens both of their carefully constructed realities.

Director: Rebecca Hall | Stars: Tessa Thompson, Ruth Negga, André Holland, Bill Camp

Votes: 16,523

12. Alice (1988)

Not Rated | 86 min | Animation, Adventure, Fantasy

A surrealistic revision of Alice in Wonderland.

Director: Jan Svankmajer | Stars: Kristýna Kohoutová, Camilla Power

Votes: 13,985

13. The $100,000 Pyramid (2016– )

TV-14 | 60 min | Comedy, Game-Show

Revival of the classic game show, hosted by Michael Strahan. With the help of their game partners, contestants paired with celebrities must guess words or phrases that appear on the show's pyramid-shaped gameboard to win money.

Stars: Michael Strahan, Brad Abelle, Rosie O'Donnell, Bobby Moynihan

Votes: 632

14. Mass Effect 3 (2012 Video Game)

M | Action, Adventure, Drama

Earth is under attack by a monstrous race of gigantic living ships known as the Reapers. Even if Commander Shepard could unite all surviving species in the galaxy, only a miracle could save them. Then again, Shepard did come back from the dead.

Director: Casey Hudson | Stars: Jennifer Hale, Mark Meer, Kimberly Brooks, Raphael Sbarge

Votes: 16,883

15. Heavy Rain (2010 Video Game)

M | Crime, Drama, Mystery

As a child goes missing, his father tirelessly works to rescue him, while a journalist, an FBI agent, and a private detective try to identify his kidnapper known only as the "Origami Killer".

Director: David Cage | Stars: Pascal Langdale, Jacqui Ainsley, Judi Beecher, Sam Douglas

Votes: 14,828

16. The Last Face (2016)

R | 130 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

In the midst of African social horror, a love between two volunteers fades out and is reborn.

Director: Sean Penn | Stars: Charlize Theron, Javier Bardem, Brandon Phillips, Anna Strelkov

Votes: 5,530

17. The Green Slime (1968)

G | 90 min | Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi

After destroying a giant asteroid heading towards Earth, a group of scientists unknowingly bring back a strange green substance that soon mutates into a monster.

Director: Kinji Fukasaku | Stars: Robert Horton, Luciana Paluzzi, Richard Jaeckel, Bud Widom

Votes: 3,929

18. Peter Pan (1924)

105 min | Adventure, Family, Fantasy

Peter Pan enters the nursery of the Darling children and, with the help of fairy dust, leads them off to Never Never Land, where they meet the nefarious Captain Hook.

Director: Herbert Brenon | Stars: Betty Bronson, Ernest Torrence, George Ali, Esther Ralston

Votes: 1,261 | Gross: $0.63M

19. Alice or The Last Escapade (1977)

93 min | Drama, Fantasy, Mystery

Alice Carol leaves her husband one rainy night, telling him that she does not love him anymore. She travels alone but when her windscreen breaks on a lonely road, she has to stop and seek ... See full summary »

Director: Claude Chabrol | Stars: Sylvia Kristel, Charles Vanel, Fernand Ledoux, François Perrot

Votes: 1,246

20. The Beast of Yucca Flats (1961)

Unrated | 54 min | Horror, Sci-Fi

A defecting Soviet scientist is hit by a nuclear explosion near Yucca Flats and roams around as a beast.

Director: Coleman Francis | Stars: Douglas Mellor, Barbara Francis, Bing Stafford, Larry Aten

Votes: 10,431

21. The Beast Must Die (1974)

PG | 93 min | Horror, Mystery

Eight people are invited to an island estate for the weekend. One of them is a werewolf. Can you guess which one?

Director: Paul Annett | Stars: Calvin Lockhart, Peter Cushing, Marlene Clark, Charles Gray

Votes: 4,172

22. Web of the Spider (1971)

R | 93 min | Horror

The journalist Alan Foster makes a bet than he can spend one night at the haunted Blackwood Castle. As he learns, the rumors of ghosts at the castle are indeed true. On All Soul's Eve the ... See full summary »

Director: Antonio Margheriti | Stars: Anthony Franciosa, Michèle Mercier, Klaus Kinski, Peter Carsten

Votes: 836

23. Desperate (1947)

Approved | 73 min | Crime, Film-Noir, Thriller

A young married couple flee both the police and a gangster out for revenge.

Director: Anthony Mann | Stars: Steve Brodie, Audrey Long, Raymond Burr, Douglas Fowley

Votes: 2,614

24. Darling (II) (2015)

Not Rated | 78 min | Horror, Thriller

A lonely girl's violent descent into madness.

Director: Mickey Keating | Stars: Lauren Ashley Carter, Sean Young, Brian Morvant, Larry Fessenden

Votes: 3,364

25. Weedjies: Halloweed Night (2019)

Not Rated | 75 min | Comedy, Horror

It's the eve of Halloween in Las Vegas and three enterprising young ladies are throwing a massive 420 gala. But little do they know, they're also going to unleash a freakish gaggle of ... See full summary »

Director: Danny Draven | Stars: Brett Hargrave, Victoria Strange, Y, Johnny Jay Lee

Votes: 219

26. Carnosaur 2 (1995)

R | 83 min | Action, Horror, Sci-Fi

A team of scientists go to a nuclear mining facility to investigate a possible meltdown and instead find a large amount of cloned dinosaurs.

Director: Louis Morneau | Stars: John Savage, Cliff De Young, Don Stroud, Rick Dean

Votes: 2,249

27. Lovely, Still (2008)

PG | 92 min | Drama, Romance

A holiday fable that tells the story of an elderly man discovering love for the first time.

Director: Nik Fackler | Stars: Martin Landau, Ellen Burstyn, Elizabeth Banks, Adam Scott

Votes: 2,379 | Gross: $0.12M

28. Under a Killing Moon (1994 Video Game)

Adventure, Comedy, Crime

In the year 2042, a clumsy noir gumshoe named Tex Murphy must stop a cult of religious fanatics who plan to destroy the human race.

Director: Chris Jones | Stars: James Earl Jones, Brian Keith, Russell Means, Margot Kidder

Votes: 344

29. You Are a Widow, Sir! (1971)

97 min | Comedy, Sci-Fi

After a soldier cuts off the arm of king's cousin, king decides to deactivate the army. Of course, generals don't like it at all and they try to kill the king. The assassin should be ... See full summary »

Director: Václav Vorlícek | Stars: Iva Janzurová, Olga Schoberová, Eduard Cupák, Jirí Sovák

Votes: 857

30. The Boy Foretold by the Stars (2020)

Not Rated | 107 min | Romance

The Boy Foretold By The Stars is a romantic comedy movie about two senior high school boys, who thru help of a fortune-teller, find each other at an optional school retreat called Journey with the Lord.

Director: Dolly Dulu | Stars: Adrian Lindayag, Keann Johnson, Iyah Mina, Rissey Reyes

Votes: 198

31. Deadly Maria (1993)

106 min | Drama, Thriller, Fantasy

A woman is trying to escape from a depressing life position.

Director: Tom Tykwer | Stars: Nina Petri, Katja Studt, Juliane Heinemann, Josef Bierbichler

Votes: 1,046

32. Good Cops, Bad Cops (1990 TV Movie)

95 min | Crime, Drama

Fact-based story about a rogue Boston police officer who plotted a bank heist.

Director: Paul Wendkos | Stars: Ray Sharkey, Steve Railsback, James Keach, Franc Luz

Votes: 141

33. Tomorrow at Seven (1933)

Passed | 62 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

People in an old, dark mansion are menaced by a maniac called "The Black Ace."

Director: Ray Enright | Stars: Chester Morris, Vivienne Osborne, Frank McHugh, Allen Jenkins

Votes: 408

34. Easter (2023–2024)

Approved | Mystery

The mental illness of our sleuth, Pascha, pits him against his most formidable foe - himself.

Stars: Lnq, Reginald VelJohnson, Olkens Graham, Gina Martino

35. Smoke and Flesh (1968)

70 min | Drama

Turk, a "cool swinger", throws and wild sex and drugs party, but has trouble when three hoodlum friends of his crash the party and Turk resorts to drastic measures to remove them from the festivities.

Director: Joseph Mangine | Stars: Richard Howell, Ed Sansone, Lee Parker, Joel Bently

Votes: 204

36. Beer and Pretzels (1933)

20 min | Short, Comedy, Musical

Ted Healy and the 3 Stooges are fired and evicted from a theatre because Ted annoys women working there. They then get jobs as waiters at a nightclub. Chaos leads to destruction of the business. At the end, Ted pursues another woman.

Director: Jack Cummings | Stars: Larry Fine, Moe Howard, Curly Howard, Ted Healy

Votes: 410

37. 4th Period Mystery (2009)

86 min | Action, Crime, Drama

High school guys must find the killer of their classmate before the next class start, in 40 minutes.

Directors: Sang-Yong Lee, Lee Sang-yong, Lee Sang-Yong-I | Stars: Chi-yong Ahn, Ryoo Byeong-Gil, Im Chan-Woo, In-sook Choi

Votes: 487

38. Peacock Alley (1930)

Passed | 63 min | Drama, Music, Romance

Claire Tree is a singer/dancer who goes after what she wants in a straight-forward, no-nonsense manner, so when she finds herself in the New York City hotel-suite, in fashionable Peacock ... See full summary »

Director: Marcel De Sano | Stars: Mae Murray, George Barraud, Jason Robards Sr., Richard Tucker

Votes: 149

39. I Like Mountain Music (I) (1933)

7 min | Animation, Short, Comedy

The magazines and books in a drugstore come to life and sing the title song, among others. Some celebrities shown: Will Rogers, Sonja Henie, Kay Kyser; like most of this genre, there's an ... See full summary »

Director: Rudolf Ising | Stars: Rudolf Ising, The King's Men, Johnny Murray

Votes: 269

40. Coffin 2 (2017)

101 min | Crime, Horror, Thriller

Trick is among five hostages trapped together, paralyzed from the neck down. While an FBI agent and former detective race against the clock to find their location, the group tries to figure a way out before their promised execution.

Director: Kipp Tribble | Stars: Robert Allen Mukes, Johnny Alonso, Kipp Tribble, Derik Wingo

Votes: 3,606

41. Collateral Damage: A Covid 19 Lockdown Story (2020)

8 min | Short, Drama

A teenage girl experiences the highs and lows of the 2020 Covid 19 Lockdown.

Director: Adrian Roman | Star: Anna Stadler

42. Vagenda Stories (2019)

90 min | Comedy

a zany, contemporary comedy about the misfortunes of three thirtysomething girlfriends dealing with the social pressure that focuses on children, careers and relationships.

Director: Natascha Beller | Stars: Michèle Rohrbach, Anne Haug, Sarah Hostettler, Anna E. Auernhammer

Votes: 155

43. Peril (2000 Video)

R | 92 min | Thriller

With police on his trail, escaped psychotic mental patient Vincent takes Terry, a woman in need of help, hostage.

Director: David Giancola | Stars: Michael Paré, Morgan Fairchild, John James, Steve Eastin

Votes: 117

44. Pica Don (1978)

8 min | Animation, Short

An animation documentary describing the tragic consequences of the A-bomb explosion in Hiroshima on August 6th, 1945. The flash of the A-bomb, 100 times brighter than the sun, is called "... See full summary »

Director: Renzo Kinoshita

Votes: 78

45. The Night Club Lady (1932)

Passed | 66 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

New York Police Commissioner Thatcher Colt must save a wealthy socialite from a rendezvous with death on New Year's Eve.

Director: Irving Cummings | Stars: Adolphe Menjou, Mayo Methot, Richard 'Skeets' Gallagher, Ruthelma Stevens

Votes: 99

46. Himitsu: Top Secret - The Revelation (2008)

22 min | Animation, Crime, Drama

In the near future, it is possible to extract memories from a person's brain up until 48 hours after their death. A special police unit uses this method to solve crimes, but this raises many ethical dilemmas and privacy concerns.

Stars: Daisuke Namikawa, Tomokazu Seki, Ai Nonaka, Nozomu Sasaki

Votes: 44

47. Jasper in a Jam (1946)

Approved | 7 min | Animation, Comedy, Short

Jasper, a young black boy, gets trapped inside a pawnshop at midnight. All the musical instruments come to life and play jazz, but a war-whooping, jazz-hating wooden Indian self-animates as well.

Director: Duke Goldstone | Stars: Charlie Barnet, Charlie Barnet and His Orchestra, Peggy Lee

Votes: 136

48. The Whip (IV)

82 min | Drama, Thriller | Post-production

With the looming threat of devastating welfare reforms known as Independence Credit, a full-time carer plots an audacious heist in a bid to halt the scheme in its tracks.

Director: Christopher Presswell | Stars: Shian Denovan, Gala Wesson, Tom Knight, Daniel Davids

49. Cheating (1952)

12 min | Drama, Short

A student suffers the consequences of cheating.

Director: Herk Harvey | Star: Arden Booth

Votes: 304

50. Sleeping Betty (2007)

9 min | Animation, Short, Comedy

In a world of odd people and surreal habits, the Queen weeps and wails: her daughter Betty won't wake up. With the court looking on, the King swings into action, jiggling the bed with the ... See full summary »

Director: Claude Cloutier | Stars: Martin Barry, Johanne Garneau, Rick Jones

Votes: 567