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1. Clue (1985)
PG | 94 min | Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Six guests are anonymously invited to a strange mansion for dinner, but after their host is killed, they must cooperate with the staff to identify the murderer as the bodies pile up.
Director: Jonathan Lynn | Stars: Eileen Brennan, Tim Curry, Madeline Kahn, Christopher Lloyd
Votes: 109,458 | Gross: $14.64M
2. The Aviator (2004)
PG-13 | 170 min | Biography, Drama
A biopic depicting the early years of legendary director and aviator Howard Hughes' career from the late 1920s to the mid 1940s.
Director: Martin Scorsese | Stars: Leonardo DiCaprio, Cate Blanchett, Kate Beckinsale, John C. Reilly
Votes: 384,388 | Gross: $102.61M
3. East of Eden (1955)
PG | 118 min | Drama
Two brothers in 1910s California struggle to maintain their strict, Bible-toting father's favor as an old secret about their long-absent mother comes to light.
Director: Elia Kazan | Stars: James Dean, Raymond Massey, Julie Harris, Burl Ives
Votes: 48,852
4. Brother Sun, Sister Moon (1972)
PG | 121 min | Biography, Drama, History
Dramatization of events in the life of St. Francis of Assisi from before his conversion experience through his audience with the pope, including his friendship with St. Clare.
Director: Franco Zeffirelli | Stars: Graham Faulkner, Judi Bowker, Leigh Lawson, Kenneth Cranham
Votes: 4,952
5. Rubicon (2010)
TV-14 | 45 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Will Travers is an analyst at a New York City-based federal intelligence agency who is thrown into a story where nothing is as it appears to be.
Stars: James Badge Dale, Jessica Ann Collins, Lauren Hodges, Dallas Roberts
Votes: 11,103
6. Betrayed (2020)
126 min | Drama, History, War
The Braude family's experiences when Norway was occupied by Nazi Germany and Jews were arrested and deported.
Director: Eirik Svensson | Stars: Jakob Oftebro, Pia Halvorsen, Michalis Koutsogiannakis, Carl Martin Eggesbø
Votes: 2,417
7. See You Up There (2017)
TV-MA | 117 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
In November 1919, two soldiers--a disfigured but brilliant artist and an ex-accountant--start a memorial con. But in Roaring Twenties France, their adventures soon turn dangerous.
Director: Albert Dupontel | Stars: Nahuel Pérez Biscayart, Albert Dupontel, Laurent Lafitte, Niels Arestrup
Votes: 11,002
8. The Shadow in the North (2007 TV Movie)
94 min | Adventure, Crime, Drama
Sally Lockhart and friends investigate the disappearance of a steamship, a magician who is threatened by thugs, a psychic with dark visions, and a heartless industrialist.
Director: John Alexander | Stars: Jared Harris, Doña Croll, David Harewood, JJ Feild
Votes: 1,095
9. Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media (1992)
Not Rated | 167 min | Documentary, Biography, War
A film about the noted American linguist/political dissident and his warning about corporate media's role in modern propaganda.
Directors: Mark Achbar, Peter Wintonick | Stars: Noam Chomsky, Mark Achbar, Karin Aguilar-San Juan, Paul Andrews
Votes: 4,937
10. Mille milliards de dollars (1982)
132 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A young journalist stumbles across something much more sinister than a simple suicide in the death of a politician - the death seems to be an assassination contrived by an American ... See full summary »
Director: Henri Verneuil | Stars: Patrick Dewaere, Mel Ferrer, Michel Auclair, Caroline Cellier
Votes: 969
11. The Halfway House (1944)
78 min | Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
A group of travellers, all with something to hide in their past, take shelter from a storm in an old inn. The inn-keeper seems a little mysterious...
Directors: Basil Dearden, Alberto Cavalcanti | Stars: Mervyn Johns, Glynis Johns, Tom Walls, Françoise Rosay
Votes: 1,208
12. Karate Girl (2011)
TV-MA | 92 min | Action
A mysterious group kidnap a girl's sister. Years later, the group reappears and she is determined to get her sister back.
Director: Yoshikatsu Kimura | Stars: Rina Takeda, Hina Tobimatsu, Tatsuya Naka, Kazutoshi Yokoyama
Votes: 594
13. Mockery (1927)
75 min | Drama, Romance
During the Russian Revolution, a mentally challenged peasant saves then obsesses over a beautiful countess.
Director: Benjamin Christensen | Stars: Lon Chaney, Ricardo Cortez, Barbara Bedford, Mack Swain
Votes: 541 | Gross: $0.45M
14. Blockade (1938)
Passed | 85 min | Drama, Romance, War
A simple peasant is forced to take up arms to defend his farm during the Spanish Civil War. Along the way he falls in love with Russian whose father is involved in espionage.
Director: William Dieterle | Stars: Madeleine Carroll, Henry Fonda, Leo Carrillo, John Halliday
Votes: 640
15. The Return of Bulldog Drummond (1934)
73 min | Action, Mystery, Thriller
Drummond leads a black-shirted platoon of men from his former unit against foreign interlopers trying to pull England into dangerous overseas entanglements.
Director: Walter Summers | Stars: Ralph Richardson, Ann Todd, Joyce Kennedy, Francis L. Sullivan
Votes: 382
16. Iraq for Sale: The War Profiteers (2006)
Not Rated | 75 min | Documentary, War
Robert Greenwald looks at war profiteering in Iraq by private contracting companies Halliburton, CACI, and KBR.
Director: Robert Greenwald | Stars: Katy Helvenston-Wettengal, Scott Helvenston, Donna Zovko, Jozo Zovko
Votes: 1,667
17. King Kennedy (2011)
110 min | Documentary, Biography, Crime
A BRIEF MOMENT IN TIME (formerly King Kennedy) tells the stories of John F Kennedy, Robert F Kennedy and Martin Luther King in a manner never before attempted. Using 100% archive material ... See full summary »
Director: Ronan O'Rahilly | Stars: Fidel Castro, Sam Giancana, Richard Helms, Jimmy Hoffa
Votes: 8
18.
Foyle's War (2002–2015)
Episode:
The French Drop
(2004)
TV-14 | 93 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
February 1941: A local murder investigation sidetracks Foyle's endeavor to pursue a position that would contribute more to the war effort as he finds himself caught between rival spy organizations.
Director: Gavin Millar | Stars: Jake Harders, Mark Berry, Michael Kitchen, Amanda Pointer
Votes: 690
19.
Hondo (1967)
Episode:
Hondo and the War Hawks
(1967)
60 min | Western
When the calvary decides to confiscate the guns of the Apache, Chief Vittoro vows to resist. Hondo becomes involved when he encounters unscrupulous weapon dealers.
Director: Michael D. Moore | Stars: Ralph Taeger, Kathie Browne, Noah Beery Jr., Gary Clarke
Votes: 20
20.
The Rat Patrol (1966–1968)
Episode:
The Gun Runner Raid
(1966)
25 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
The Rat Patrol is taken prisoner by an embittered American soldier turned traitor. From his lavish desert compound he sells captured American weapons and equipment to the Germans. His proposition to Troy and Moffitt: Join me as partners.
Director: Lee H. Katzin | Stars: Christopher George, Gary Raymond, Eric Braeden, Lawrence P. Casey
Votes: 58
21.
The Gray Ghost (1957– )
Episode:
Jimmy
(1957)
26 min | Adventure, War, Western
A crooked sutler, angry at Major Mosby for taking his wagon-load of contraband gunpowder, works with a Union cavalry officer to lure the Confederate raider into a trap with a young orphan ... See full summary »
Director: Hollingsworth Morse | Stars: Tod Andrews, Phil Chambers, Peter J. Votrian, Ed Kemmer
Votes: 6
22.
To Serve Them All My Days (1980–1981)
Episode:
Part Three
(1980)
Drama
Alderman Blunt wants to donate a war memorial to Bamfylde, but some of the Board resent a donation from a war profiteer. David and Beth marry and settle at Bamfylde, where Beth soon becomes... See full summary »
Director: Ronald Wilson | Stars: John Duttine, Frank Middlemass, Alan MacNaughtan, Patricia Lawrence
Votes: 20
23.
Reilly: Ace of Spies (1983)
Episode:
Prelude to War
(1983)
TV-MA | 50 min | Crime, Drama
As an agent of Japan's ally Great Britain, Reilly must aid the Japanese fleet invade Port Arthur beginning the Russo-Japanese War.
Director: Martin Campbell | Stars: Sam Neill, Jeananne Crowley, David Suchet, Derek Newark
Votes: 87
24.
Manhunt (2024)
Episode:
The Secret Line
(2024)
TV-MA | 50 min | Drama, History, Thriller
Stanton and Detective Baker investigate ties between Manhattan's most elite Wall Street traders, the Confederacy, and Booth.
Director: John Dahl | Stars: Tobias Menzies, Anthony Boyle, Lovie Simone, Will Harrison
Votes: 228
25.
Genius (2017– )
Episode:
Einstein: Chapter Seven
(2017)
TV-14 | 50 min | Biography, Drama, History
In the wake of the war, patriotism corrupts one of Albert Einstein's closest friends, Fritz Haber, pitting them against each other.
Director: James Hawes | Stars: Geoffrey Rush, Johnny Flynn, Samantha Colley, Ralph Brown
Votes: 689