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1. Belfast (2021)
PG-13 | 98 min | Biography, Drama, Romance
A young boy and his working-class Belfast family experience the tumultuous late 1960s.
Director: Kenneth Branagh | Stars: Jude Hill, Lewis McAskie, Caitríona Balfe, Jamie Dornan
Votes: 92,235
2. Banana Fish (2018)
TV-MA | 22 min | Animation, Action, Adventure
The story captures the war between a mafia boss named Dino and a young gang leader searching for redemption.
Stars: Yuma Uchida, Jun Fukuyama, Toshiyuki Morikawa, Makoto Furukawa
Votes: 8,424
3. The Boy with Green Hair (1948)
Approved | 82 min | Comedy, Drama, Family
This parable looks at public reaction when the hair of an American war orphan mysteriously turns green.
Director: Joseph Losey | Stars: Pat O'Brien, Robert Ryan, Barbara Hale, Dean Stockwell
Votes: 3,256
4. A Summer Story (1988)
PG-13 | 95 min | Drama, Romance
Frank Ashton and his best friend are hiking across Dartmoor when he twists his ankle. Frank goes for help at a nearby farmhouse where he stays for a few days and falls in love with Megan.
Director: Piers Haggard | Stars: Imogen Stubbs, James Wilby, Susannah York, Kenneth Colley
Votes: 1,221 | Gross: $0.46M
5. The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner (1962)
Not Rated | 104 min | Drama, Sport
A young thief takes up long-distance running when he is sent to a borstal.
Director: Tony Richardson | Stars: Michael Redgrave, Tom Courtenay, Avis Bunnage, Alec McCowen
Votes: 9,371
6. Silver Fang (1986)
25 min | Animation, Action, Adventure
An Akita-Inu puppy is destined to defend his people against a monstrous bear.
Stars: Eiko Yamada, Keiichi Noda, Hideyuki Tanaka, Toshiko Fujita
Votes: 3,176
7. The Year My Voice Broke (1987)
PG-13 | 103 min | Drama, Romance
In rural 1960s Australia, a boy watches helplessly as his best friend falls in love with a small-time criminal, setting off a violent chain of events.
Director: John Duigan | Stars: Noah Taylor, Loene Carmen, Ben Mendelsohn, Graeme Blundell
Votes: 2,278 | Gross: $0.21M
8. Rolling Vengeance (1987)
R | 90 min | Action, Drama
A truck driver builds a special, eight-ton truck to help get revenge against the rednecks who killed his family and raped his girlfriend.
Director: Steven Hilliard Stern | Stars: Don Michael Paul, Lawrence Dane, Ned Beatty, Lisa Howard
Votes: 762
9. White Mane (1953)
Approved | 47 min | Adventure, Drama, Family
In the Camargue, France, a young boy bonds with a white haired horse that escaped from ranchers.
Director: Albert Lamorisse | Stars: Alain Emery, Laurent Roche, Clan-Clan, Pascal Lamorisse
Votes: 2,317
10. Alpine Fire (1985)
R | 119 min | Drama
Isolated in the Swiss Alps, a young woman who would have liked to become a teacher teaches her deaf brother arithmetic and writing. An incestuous relationship develops between them.
Director: Fredi M. Murer | Stars: Thomas Nock, Johanna Lier, Dorothea Moritz, Rolf Illig
Votes: 1,041
11. Yosemite (2015)
R | 80 min | Drama
It's the fall of 1985. The intertwining tales of three 5th grade friends, Chris, Joe and Ted, unfold in the suburban paradise of Palo Alto, as the threat of a mountain lion looms over the community.
Director: Gabrielle Demeestere | Stars: James Franco, Everett Meckler, Alec Mansky, Calum John
Votes: 942 | Gross: $0.01M
12. Ginga Densetsu Weed (2005–2006)
24 min | Animation, Action, Adventure
After finding out he is the son of the great leader of Ohu, Gin, Weed sets out on a journey to find his father. However, with many friends to find, there are many enemies.
Stars: Blake Swift, Sachi Kokuryu, Naru Kawamoto, Akiko Kobayashi
Votes: 559
13. Ground Zero (1987)
PG-13 | 109 min | Action, Drama, Mystery
A second generation cameraman in Australia finds evidence that his father had filmed a nuclear test that allowed aboriginies to be exposed to and killed by radiation. He begins a search for... See full summary »
Directors: Bruce Myles, Michael Pattinson | Stars: Colin Friels, Jack Thompson, Donald Pleasence, Natalie Bate
Votes: 549 | Gross: $0.20M
14. Cruising (2020)
7 min | Short
Director: Valentino R. Sandoli | Stars: Jordan Blasco, Liam Esteban, Aritz Kortabarria, Jesús Moreno
Votes: 7
15. The Directive (2019)
113 min | Action, Comedy, Sci-Fi
One year after a catastrophic pandemic wipes out most of humanity, a lone survivor embarks on a journey to find Safe Zone 57 with the help of a broken robot.
Director: Alexander Raye Pimentel | Stars: Hannah Pimentel, Nicholas Winand, Kyle Abraham, Hashim Gari
Votes: 1,315
16. A Girl Is a Gun (1971)
100 min | Adventure, Drama, Western
Billy the Kid pursues the witness of a heist in order to eliminate him.
Director: Luc Moullet | Stars: Jean-Pierre Léaud, Rachel Kesterber, Jean Valmont, Bruno Kresoja
Votes: 184
17. Gabriel Rose (2021)
16 min | Short, Comedy
A dark comedy about a beauty influencer.
Director: Léopold Kraus | Stars: Paolo Luka Noé, Apollonia Luisetti, Marie Colomb, Anne Charrier
18. Kahoot Settimanali (2023– )
Game-Show, Reality-TV, Sport
A series exclusive to Twitch, where fans of Alessio Rossi's YouTube channel will face off in an ultimate test to see who knows the most about a subject and the one that gets on top of the leaderboard, wins a prize of money.
Star: Alessio Rossi
19. Malandrino (2022)
19 min | Short, Action
The fortunes and misfortunes of two Italian traffickers trying to develop their business in Switzerland.
Director: Luca Colucci | Stars: Luca Colucci, Christophe Gatto, Yoann Kongolo, Yvan Lecomte
20. Dans la cour des grands (2020)
25 min | Short, Drama
Supported financially by his mother in Paris, Medhi will learn to become an adult through the discovery of his first sexual emotions and emancipate himself from his mother.
Director: Antony Labiod | Stars: Ludovic Laloy, Sonia Chougar, Julien Floreancig, Mathilde Biron
21.
Screen Two (1985–1998)
Episode:
All Things Bright and Beautiful
(1994)
TV-14 | 93 min | Drama
A young boy's innocent observations leads the local priest to believe he has borne witness to a manifestation of the Virgin Mary. Set in an idyllic rural Northern Ireland in the 1950's.
Director: Barry Devlin | Stars: Paddy Scully, Ciarán Fitzgerald, Kevin McNally, Tom Wilkinson
Votes: 82
22.
Billy the Kid (2022– )
Episode:
The Immigrants
(2022)
TV-MA | 50 min | Adventure, Biography, Drama
It's 1871. 12-year-old Billy McCarty and his immigrant Irish family have to leave New York and travel west to seek new opportunities. But the journey proves fatal for some.
Director: Otto Bathurst | Stars: Tom Blyth, Eileen O'Higgins, Joey Batey, Timothy Webber
Votes: 418