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51. Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man (1943)
Passed | 74 min | Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi
The resurrected Wolf Man, seeking a cure for his malady, enlists the aid of a mad scientist, who claims he will not only rid the Wolf Man of his nocturnal metamorphosis, but also revive the frozen body of Frankenstein's inhuman creation.
Director: Roy William Neill | Stars: Lon Chaney Jr., Ilona Massey, Patric Knowles, Lionel Atwill
Votes: 9,982
52. In Dreams (1999)
R | 100 min | Drama, Fantasy, Thriller
A suburban housewife learns that she has a dreamworld connection to a serial murderer, and must stop him from killing again.
Director: Neil Jordan | Stars: Annette Bening, Robert Downey Jr., Katie Sagona, Aidan Quinn
Votes: 13,644 | Gross: $12.02M
53. Bunny Lake Is Missing (1965)
Not Rated | 107 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
A woman reports that her young daughter is missing, but there seems to be no evidence that she ever existed.
Director: Otto Preminger | Stars: Keir Dullea, Carol Lynley, Laurence Olivier, Martita Hunt
Votes: 10,249
54. Neon Maniacs (1986)
R | 91 min | Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
A group of teenagers in San Francisco discover a nest of homicidal monsters living in a tower of the Golden Gate Bridge, but when they try to tell authorities, no one believes them.
Director: Joseph Mangine | Stars: Clyde Hayes, Leilani Sarelle, Donna Locke, Victor Brandt
Votes: 3,020
55. Mermaid Down (2019)
91 min | Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
A mermaid is ripped from the Pacific, her tail is chopped off and she's thrown into a mental home where no one believes she is a mermaid.
Director: Jeffrey Grellman | Stars: Meggan Kaiser, Phillip Andre Botello, Alexandra Bokova, Jessica Honor Carleton
Votes: 11,143
56. The Boy Who Cried Werewolf (2010 TV Movie)
TV-PG | 83 min | Comedy, Drama, Family
A Californian family inherits a castle in Romania. This is especially exciting to the son, who is obsessed with monsters. And he is not disappointed.
Director: Eric Bross | Stars: Victoria Justice, Chase Ellison, Anna Galvin, Matt Winston
Votes: 3,858
57. It! The Terror from Beyond Space (1958)
Approved | 69 min | Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
The first manned expedition to Mars is invaded by an unknown life form, which stows away on the rescue ship.
Director: Edward L. Cahn | Stars: Marshall Thompson, Shirley Patterson, Kim Spalding, Ann Doran
Votes: 6,284
58. The Lady Vanishes (2013 TV Movie)
TV-PG | 90 min | Mystery, Thriller
While traveling by train, a young socialite is befriended by a charming yet enigmatic older woman. However, when the woman disappears, the other passengers deny she ever existed.
Director: Diarmuid Lawrence | Stars: Charles Aitken, Paolo Antonio Simioni, Beatrix Biro, Marta Bolfan
Votes: 2,537
59. Smiley (2012)
R | 95 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
After discovering an urban legend of a demented serial killer, who has nothing but a carved "smiley" on his face, a mentally fragile teenager must figure out if she is going insane - or if she could be the next victim.
Director: Michael J. Gallagher | Stars: Caitlin Gerard, Melanie Papalia, Shane Dawson, Andrew James Allen
Votes: 9,780
60. The Boy Who Cried Werewolf (1973)
PG | 93 min | Horror
A young boy visits his father in a secluded cabin; the father is attacked by a werewolf and becomes one himself every full moon. However, the boy constantly tries to warn others, but no one will believe him.
Director: Nathan Juran | Stars: Kerwin Mathews, Elaine Devry, Scott Sealey, Robert J. Wilke
Votes: 782
61. Irresistible (2006)
R | 103 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
A wife and mother is consumed by the thought that her husband's co-worker is trying to win him away from her and their family.
Director: Ann Turner | Stars: Susan Sarandon, Sam Neill, Emily Blunt, Charles 'Bud' Tingwell
Votes: 6,635
62. Sanctuary (I) (2019)
46 min | Mystery, Thriller
What could be worse than being imprisoned in a locked-down clinic where nothing is what it seems, and nobody believes you are who you say you are? How about beginning to suspect that they're right?
Stars: Josefin Asplund, Lorenzo Richelmy, Barbara Marten, Felix Garcia Guyer
Votes: 1,377
63. A Fire in the Sky (1978 TV Movie)
150 min | Drama, Sci-Fi
Astronomers discover a comet that they believe will crash into Phoenix, Arizona. They attempt to warn officials, but no one believes them.
Director: Jerry Jameson | Stars: Richard Crenna, Elizabeth Ashley, David Dukes, Joanna Miles
Votes: 569
64. Night of the Demon (1980)
Not Rated | 96 min | Horror
An anthropologist and his students attempt to track down a Bigfoot responsible for a rash of violent murders, only to uncover something even more sinister.
Director: James C. Wasson | Stars: Michael Cutt, Joy Allen, Bob Collins, Jody Lazarus
Votes: 2,524
65. Heart of Midnight (1988)
R | 93 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller
Carol inherits a night club from her weird uncle. She moves into the place, only to find out just how weird her uncle really was. She begins to remember more about her very special ... See full summary »
Director: Matthew Chapman | Stars: Jennifer Jason Leigh, Brenda Vaccaro, Jack Hallett, Nicholas Love
Votes: 1,757 | Gross: $0.11M
66. The Evil Eye (1963)
Not Rated | 86 min | Horror, Mystery, Romance
A mystery novel-loving American tourist witnesses a murder in Rome, and soon finds herself and her suitor caught up in a series of killings.
Director: Mario Bava | Stars: John Saxon, Letícia Román, Valentina Cortese, Titti Tomaino
Votes: 5,373
67. Fear in the Night (1972)
PG | 94 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
A young woman recovering from a nervous breakdown moves with her husband to a boys' school, and finds herself being terrorized by a mysterious one-armed man, but nobody believes her.
Director: Jimmy Sangster | Stars: Judy Geeson, Joan Collins, Ralph Bates, Peter Cushing
Votes: 2,396
68. The Lady Vanishes (1979)
PG | 95 min | Action, Comedy, Mystery
While travelling by rail in interwar Nazi Germany, a young socialite finds that a fellow female passenger has disappeared from the train, but nobody else remembers her having been on board.
Director: Anthony Page | Stars: Elliott Gould, Cybill Shepherd, Angela Lansbury, Herbert Lom
Votes: 2,997
69. Cry Wolf (1947)
Approved | 83 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Recently widowed Sandra Demarest arrives at the isolated home of her late husband for his wake, but his uncle will not allow her to view the corpse.
Director: Peter Godfrey | Stars: Errol Flynn, Barbara Stanwyck, Geraldine Brooks, Richard Basehart
Votes: 1,928
70. Something Evil (1972 TV Movie)
Unrated | 73 min | Horror
A young couple moves into a farmhouse in rural Pennsylvania. What they don't know is that there is an unseen presence in the house, and that it wants to take possession of the wife.
Director: Steven Spielberg | Stars: Darren McGavin, Sandy Dennis, Ralph Bellamy, Jeff Corey
Votes: 2,099
71. Archenemy (2020)
Not Rated | 90 min | Action, Adventure, Crime
Max Fist claims to be a hero from another dimension who fell through time and space to earth, where he has no powers. No one believes his stories except for a local teen named Hamster.
Director: Adam Egypt Mortimer | Stars: Jessica Allain, Mac Brandt, Skylan Brooks, Kieran Gallagher
Votes: 3,622
72. Spoor (2017)
Not Rated | 128 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Janina Duszejko, an elderly woman, lives alone in the Klodzko Valley where a series of mysterious crimes are committed. Duszejko is convinced that she knows who or what is the murderer, but nobody believes her.
Directors: Agnieszka Holland, Kasia Adamik | Stars: Agnieszka Mandat, Wiktor Zborowski, Jakub Gierszal, Patricia Volny
Votes: 6,047
73. The Prince and the Pauper (1937)
Approved | 118 min | Adventure, Drama, Family
A poor boy named Tom Canty and the Prince of Wales exchange identities but events force the pair to experience each other's lives as well.
Directors: William Keighley, William Dieterle | Stars: Errol Flynn, Claude Rains, Henry Stephenson, Barton MacLane
Votes: 2,887
74. Spy School (2008)
PG | 86 min | Adventure, Comedy, Family
Doubting Thomas is the story of a twelve year old boy known for telling tall tales who overhears a plot to kidnap the President's daughter. When he goes public with his story, no one believes him, and he is forced to save her on his own.
Director: Mark Blutman | Stars: Forrest Landis, AnnaSophia Robb, Rider Strong, Lea Thompson
Votes: 1,711
75. If I Had a Million (1932)
Passed | 88 min | Comedy, Drama
A dying tycoon gives million-dollar windfalls to eight people picked from the city directory.
Directors: James Cruze, H. Bruce Humberstone, Ernst Lubitsch, Norman Z. McLeod, Stephen Roberts, William A. Seiter, Norman Taurog, Lothar Mendes | Stars: Gary Cooper, Charles Laughton, W.C. Fields, George Raft
Votes: 2,308
76. Witness to Murder (1954)
Approved | 83 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
A woman's sanity comes into question, after she claims to have witnessed a murder from her apartment window.
Director: Roy Rowland | Stars: Barbara Stanwyck, George Sanders, Gary Merrill, Jesse White
Votes: 3,440
77. Stepmonster (1993 Video)
PG-13 | 85 min | Comedy, Horror
Todd Dougherty has an imagination driven by comic book. So when he accuses his soon-to-be stepmother of being a monster, no one believes him. When neighbors start turning up dead, it ... See full summary »
Director: Jeremy Stanford | Stars: Alan Thicke, Molly Cheek, Billy Corben, Robin Riker
Votes: 637
78. Scream for Help (1984)
R | 89 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
A teenaged girl discovers that her stepfather is trying to murder her and her mother, but when she tells people, no one will believe her.
Director: Michael Winner | Stars: Rachael Kelly, David Allen Brooks, Marie Masters, Rocco Sisto
Votes: 1,278
79. I Married a Monster from Outer Space (1958)
Not Rated | 78 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
Aliens arrive on Earth to possess the bodies of humans. One of their first victims is a young man, whose new wife soon realizes something is wrong with him.
Director: Gene Fowler Jr. | Stars: Tom Tryon, Gloria Talbott, Peter Baldwin, Robert Ivers
Votes: 3,105
80. Shadow of Fear (1955)
76 min | Mystery
A college student returns home to attend her father's funeral and begins to suspect her stepmother of foul play.
Director: Albert S. Rogell | Stars: Mona Freeman, Jean Kent, Maxwell Reed, Hugh Miller
Votes: 210
81. Intruder (2020)
102 min | Mystery, Thriller
Seo-Jin is a popular architect. He suffers from a trauma when his younger sister Yoo-Jin went missing. 25 years after her disappearance, Yoo-Jin comes back to her family. Seo-Jin feels something is not right with Yoo-Jin.
Director: Sohn Won-Pyung | Stars: So Hee-jung, Lee Je-Yeon, Song Ji-hyo, Yang Mal-bok
Votes: 2,193
82. Alien Conquest (2021)
Unrated | 87 min | Action, Sci-Fi
Sibling astronomers discover Martians are threatening to attack Earth, but no one believes them-until Martians land and nearly destroy all of New York City.
Director: Mario N. Bonassin | Stars: Emily Killian, Anthony Jensen, Tom Sizemore, Michael DeVorzon
Votes: 1,022
83. 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
84. Boomerang! (1947)
Passed | 88 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
The true story of a prosecutor's fight to prove the innocence of a man accused of a notorious murder.
Director: Elia Kazan | Stars: Dana Andrews, Jane Wyatt, Lee J. Cobb, Cara Williams
Votes: 5,067
85. Invasion of the Saucer Men (1957)
Passed | 69 min | Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Aliens equipped with venomous claws invade a small town but the town's teenage population is mobilized to fight the menace.
Director: Edward L. Cahn | Stars: Steven Terrell, Gloria Castillo, Frank Gorshin, Raymond Hatton
Votes: 2,176
86. Schizo (1976)
R | 109 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
A newly-married woman becomes convinced someone from her past is stalking her, but nobody believes her until the bodies start to pile up.
Director: Pete Walker | Stars: Lynne Frederick, John Leyton, Stephanie Beacham, John Fraser
Votes: 1,451
87. Nails (I) (2017)
85 min | Horror, Mystery
Recovering after a terrible accident, Dana struggles to regain her life and family when she encounters a malevolent ghost in her hospital room.
Director: Dennis Bartok | Stars: Shauna Macdonald, Steve Wall, Leah McNamara, Ross Noble
Votes: 2,786
88. Knocking (2021)
78 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
A woman leaves a psychiatric ward after a nervous breakdown, only to start hearing mysterious knocking sounds in her apartment.
Director: Frida Kempff | Stars: Cecilia Milocco, Albin Grenholm, Ville Virtanen, Krister Kern
Votes: 1,708
89. Cub (2014)
Not Rated | 84 min | Adventure, Horror
Over-imaginative 12 year-old Sam heads off to the woods to summer scout camp with his pack convinced he will encounter a monster...and he does.
Director: Jonas Govaerts | Stars: Maurice Luijten, Evelien Bosmans, Titus De Voogdt, Stef Aerts
Votes: 6,187
90. The Screaming Woman (1972 TV Movie)
TV-PG | 73 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller
A wealthy former mental patient goes home to her estate to rest and recuperate. While walking the grounds one day she hears the screams of a woman coming from underneath the ground who has ... See full summary »
Director: Jack Smight | Stars: Olivia de Havilland, Ed Nelson, Laraine Stephens, Joseph Cotten
Votes: 922
91. The Lost Choices (2015)
108 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A young women is raped while on her way home. When she is rejected by the police, because they don't believe her, she sets out for revenge. Not only on her rapist, but also the police and everybody who did not believe her.
Director: Yeong-hoon Ahn | Stars: Shin Hyeon-bin, Yoon So-yi, Hyeok-il Kim, Jeong Ae-yeon
Votes: 222
92. Undeniable (2014)
45 min | Drama, Thriller
25 years ago, Jane saw a man killing her mother. Today she's a well-adjusted wife and mother herself. While having a physical, she notices a doctor who looks like the killer and reports him. No one believes her--except one cop.
Stars: Claire Goose, Alisha Kelly, Felix Scott, Robert Pugh
Votes: 1,082
93. The Ghost Ship (1943)
Passed | 69 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Third Officer Tom Merriam accuses Captain Will Stone of being a homicidal maniac, but no one believes him.
Director: Mark Robson | Stars: Richard Dix, Russell Wade, Edith Barrett, Ben Bard
Votes: 3,792
94. Slammer Girls (1987)
R | 80 min | Comedy
A young girl is framed for a crime she didn't commit and sent to the state penitentiary, which is run by a crooked warden and a corrupt staff. A reporter manages to get herself sent to the ... See full summary »
Director: Chuck Vincent | Stars: Devon Jenkin, Jeffrey Hurst, Veronica Hart, Henri Pachard
Votes: 169
95. Whispers (1990)
R | 100 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
A woman is stalked by a psychopathic killer. She eventually kills him, only for the man to show up again, this time sane and without any knowledge of the attacks. The police don't believe her, but one detective agrees to look into it.
Director: Douglas Jackson | Stars: Victoria Tennant, Jean Leclerc, Chris Sarandon, Peter MacNeill
Votes: 672
96. The Brass Bottle (1964)
Passed | 89 min | Comedy, Fantasy
An architect buys an antique brass bottle that contains an ancient genie who's determined to fulfill his new master's every wish.
Director: Harry Keller | Stars: Tony Randall, Burl Ives, Barbara Eden, Kamala Devi
Votes: 998
97. The Fantastic World of D.C. Collins (1984 TV Movie)
Unrated | 100 min | Comedy
D. C. is a dreamer who can't keep in the real world longer than a few minutes. After a top secret disk finds its way in his backpack, he finds himself right in the middle of a big spy mission. Only no one will believe him....
Director: Leslie H. Martinson | Stars: Gary Coleman, Bernie Casey, Shelley Smith, Fred Dryer
Votes: 235
98. The Old Man Who Cried Wolf (1970 TV Movie)
73 min | Thriller
Emile Pulska is visiting his old friend Abe Stillman. During the visit they are attacked and Emile is struck senseless. When he wakes up he is told that Abe is dead, dead by natural causes,... See full summary »
Director: Walter Grauman | Stars: Edward G. Robinson, Martin Balsam, Diane Baker, Ruth Roman
Votes: 286
99. Killer Bees (2002 TV Movie)
TV-14 | 96 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
After a truck accident causes their release, a small rural town is faced with a swarm of killer bees.
Director: Penelope Buitenhuis | Stars: C. Thomas Howell, Tracy Nelson, Fiona Loewi, Noel Fisher
Votes: 956
100. Lady on a Train (1945)
Passed | 94 min | Comedy, Crime, Film-Noir
In New York, a woman who partially witnesses a killing from a train window seeks the aid of a crime novelist to solve the murder.
Director: Charles David | Stars: Deanna Durbin, Ralph Bellamy, David Bruce, George Coulouris
Votes: 2,572