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51. Leonie (2010)
PG-13 | 102 min | Biography, Drama
A film about the life and relationships of the early 20th century American educator, editor, and journalist Leonie Gilmour, the mother of the acclaimed artist and architect Isamu Noguchi.
Director: Hisako Matsui | Stars: Emily Mortimer, Kazuko Yoshiyuki, Shidô Nakamura, Christina Hendricks
Votes: 609
52. Murder in a Blue World (1973)
R | 88 min | Crime, Drama, Horror
A nurse tries to bring her own style of relief to miserable people, or ones condemned to die. Her identity is a mystery, and she may not be quite what she seems.
Director: Eloy de la Iglesia | Stars: Sue Lyon, Christopher Mitchum, Jean Sorel, Ramón Pons
Votes: 538
53. Summer in February (2013)
Not Rated | 100 min | Biography, Drama, Romance
A true tale of love, liberty and scandal amongst the Edwardian artists' colony in Cornwall in 1914.
Director: Christopher Menaul | Stars: Dominic Cooper, Emily Browning, Dan Stevens, Jane Cussons
Votes: 4,300
54. The Devil's Wedding Night (1973)
R | 83 min | Horror
Lady Dracula uses Dracula's ring to lure beautiful girls to her castle, where she murders them so she can bathe in their blood.
Directors: Luigi Batzella, Joe D'Amato | Stars: Mark Damon, Rosalba Neri, Esmeralda Barros, Enza Sbordone
Votes: 1,039
55. Dismissed (2017)
Not Rated | 87 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller
A straight-edged teacher finds trouble when an honors student is willing to do anything to get an A.
Director: Benjamin Arfmann | Stars: Kent Osborne, Dylan Sprouse, Rae Gray, Alycia Delmore
Votes: 8,005
56. Vincent (1982)
G | 6 min | Animation, Short, Family
Young Vincent Malloy dreams of being just like Vincent Price and loses himself in macabre daydreams which annoys his mother.
Director: Tim Burton | Star: Vincent Price
Votes: 24,325
57. Torture Garden (1967)
Not Rated | 93 min | Fantasy, Horror
An anthology of four short horror stories about people who visit Dr. Diabolo's fairground haunted-house attraction show.
Director: Freddie Francis | Stars: Jack Palance, Burgess Meredith, Beverly Adams, Peter Cushing
Votes: 3,358
58. Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon (1942)
Approved | 68 min | Adventure, Crime, Drama
Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson must protect a Swiss inventor of an advanced bomb sight from falling into German hands.
Director: Roy William Neill | Stars: Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Lionel Atwill, Karen Verne
Votes: 6,659
59. The Music Never Stopped (2011)
PG | 105 min | Drama, Music
Tale of a father who struggles to bond with his estranged son Gabriel, after Gabriel suffers from a brain tumor that prevents him from forming new memories. With Gabriel unable to shed the ... See full summary »
Director: Jim Kohlberg | Stars: Lou Taylor Pucci, J.K. Simmons, Julia Ormond, Cara Seymour
Votes: 8,691 | Gross: $0.26M
60. The Hidden Hand (1942)
Approved | 63 min | Comedy, Horror, Mystery
Peter Thorne (Craig Stevens)is a young attorney who works for an eccentric old woman, Lorinda Channing (Cecil Cunningham), who uses her insane brother, John Channing (Milton Parsons), to ... See full summary »
Director: Benjamin Stoloff | Stars: Craig Stevens, Elisabeth Fraser, Julie Bishop, Willie Best
Votes: 678
61. The Black Room (2017)
Not Rated | 94 min | Comedy, Horror
A young couple moves into their dream house, which quickly becomes a living nightmare upon discovering a demonic secret awaiting them perennially in the cellar - with unholy pleasures, fear feasting and a brute for all who cross its' path.
Director: Rolfe Kanefsky | Stars: Alex Rinehart, Lin Shaye, Tiffany Shepis, Natasha Henstridge
Votes: 3,024
62. The Raven (1935)
Approved | 61 min | Crime, Horror
A brilliant surgeon with a morbid obsession for instruments of torture grows dangerously obsessed with a young socialite whose life he's saved.
Director: Lew Landers | Stars: Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi, Lester Matthews, Irene Ware
Votes: 6,659
63. The Tomb of Ligeia (1964)
Not Rated | 82 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller
A man's obsession with his dead wife drives a wedge between him and his new bride.
Director: Roger Corman | Stars: Vincent Price, Elizabeth Shepherd, John Westbrook, Derek Francis
Votes: 6,889
64. Murders in the Rue Morgue (1971)
PG-13 | 87 min | Crime, Horror, Mystery
Paris...at the turn of the century. Inspector Vidocq investigates a series of unexplained murders at a Grand Guignol-type theatre...where the players have suddenly become real-life victims. Based on the story by Edgar Allan Poe.
Director: Gordon Hessler | Stars: Jason Robards, Herbert Lom, Christine Kaufmann, Adolfo Celi
Votes: 1,551
65. The Cruise (1998)
PG-13 | 76 min | Documentary
Timothy "Speed" Levitch, an eccentric New York City tour bus guide, takes tourists around the island of Manhattan and shares an archive of beautifully distorted information about the city.
Director: Bennett Miller | Star: Timothy 'Speed' Levitch
Votes: 1,933 | Gross: $0.24M
66. La Flor (2018)
808 min | Drama, Fantasy, Musical
A film in six episodes, connected by the same four actresses, full of various subplots that play with narrative and different cinematic genres , everything structured in an unusual way.
Director: Mariano Llinás | Stars: Elisa Carricajo, Valeria Correa, Pilar Gamboa, Laura Paredes
Votes: 818 | Gross: $0.00M
67. A Fine Madness (1966)
Not Rated | 104 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Samson Shillitoe, mad genius of a poet irresistible to women, but plagued by writer's block, agrees to see a psychiatrist, and his beautiful wife.
Director: Irvin Kershner | Stars: Sean Connery, Joanne Woodward, Jean Seberg, Patrick O'Neal
Votes: 1,524
68. The House on Carroll Street (1988)
PG | 101 min | Thriller
In 1950s America, an FBI agent and a blacklist victim uncover a plot to smuggle Nazi war criminals into the country.
Director: Peter Yates | Stars: Kelly McGillis, Jeff Daniels, Mandy Patinkin, Jessica Tandy
Votes: 2,804 | Gross: $0.46M
69. Clemency (2019)
R | 112 min | Drama
As she prepares to execute another inmate, Bernadine must confront the psychological and emotional demons her job creates, ultimately connecting her to the man she is sanctioned to kill.
Director: Chinonye Chukwu | Stars: Alfre Woodard, Richard Schiff, Aldis Hodge, Wendell Pierce
Votes: 5,421
70. The Sound Barrier (1952)
Approved | 109 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance
Fictionalized story of British aerospace engineers solving the problem of supersonic flight.
Director: David Lean | Stars: Ralph Richardson, Ann Todd, Nigel Patrick, John Justin
Votes: 2,327
71. Harpoon (2019)
Not Rated | 83 min | Comedy, Horror, Thriller
Rivalries, dark secrets, and sexual tension emerge when three best friends find themselves stranded on a yacht in the middle of the ocean desperate for survival.
Director: Rob Grant | Stars: Munro Chambers, Chris Gray, Emily Tyra, Brett Gelman
Votes: 6,215
72. Slipstream (2007)
R | 96 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Aging screenwriter Felix Bonhoeffer has lived his life in two states of existence: in reality and his own interior world. While working on a murder mystery script, and unaware that his brain is on the verge of implosion, Felix is baffled when his characters start to appear in his life, and vice versa.
Director: Anthony Hopkins | Stars: Anthony Hopkins, Stella Hopkins, Christian Slater, John Turturro
Votes: 4,914 | Gross: $0.01M
73. 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: 837
74. Femme Fatale (1991)
R | 94 min | Drama, Mystery
A worried artist tries to locate his wife who suddenly abandoned him only to discover that she led a secret life - or two. He proceeds to investigate her past and stirs up a hornet's nest.
Director: Andre R. Guttfreund | Stars: Colin Firth, Lisa Zane, Billy Zane, Scott Wilson
Votes: 620
75. H.H. Holmes: America's First Serial Killer (2004)
Unrated | 64 min | Documentary, Crime, History
Torture chambers, acid vats, greased chutes and gassing rooms were just some of the devices of death designed by the Torture Doctor, H.H. Holmes in his castle of horrors. Follows Holmes' entire life as a criminal mastermind.
Director: John Borowski | Stars: Tony Jay, Ed Bertagnoli, Cary Callison, Willy Laszlo
Votes: 1,915
76. Ghost Story (1974)
87 min | Horror, Mystery
Several old college friends converge at a mansion, ostensibly for a pleasant reunion. Talbot, the most easygoing of the bunch, comes to the conclusion that all is not well in the old dark ... See full summary »
Director: Stephen Weeks | Stars: Marianne Faithfull, Leigh Lawson, Anthony Bate, Larry Dann
Votes: 561
77. Extraordinary Tales (2013)
Not Rated | 73 min | Animation, Horror, Mystery
An animated anthology of five tales adapted from Edgar Allan Poe's stories.
Director: Raul Garcia | Stars: Christopher Lee, Bela Lugosi, Julian Sands, Guillermo del Toro
Votes: 3,568
78. Joe Gould's Secret (2000)
R | 104 min | Drama
Around 1940, The New Yorker staff writer Joe Mitchell meets Joe Gould, a Greenwich Village character, who is writing a voluminous Oral History of the World, a record of twenty thousand conversations he's overheard.
Director: Stanley Tucci | Stars: Ian Holm, Stanley Tucci, Hope Davis, Sarah Hyland
Votes: 1,646 | Gross: $0.64M
79. The Girls of Huntington House (1973 TV Movie)
74 min | Drama
An unmarried teacher in a school for unwed mothers finds herself becoming too emotionally attached to her students and their problems.
Director: Alf Kjellin | Stars: Shirley Jones, Mercedes McCambridge, Pamela Sue Martin, William Windom
Votes: 147
80. Man Made Monster (1941)
Passed | 59 min | Drama, Horror, Romance
A mad scientist turns a man into an electrically-controlled monster to do his bidding.
Director: George Waggner | Stars: Lionel Atwill, Lon Chaney Jr., Anne Nagel, Frank Albertson
Votes: 1,881
81. 78/52 (2017)
Not Rated | 91 min | Documentary
An unprecedented look at the iconic shower scene in Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho (1960), the "man behind the curtain", and the screen murder that profoundly changed the course of world cinema.
Director: Alexandre O. Philippe | Stars: Marli Renfro, Alfred Hitchcock, Tere Carrubba, Alan Barnette
Votes: 3,873 | Gross: $0.04M
82. The Man Without a Country (1973 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 78 min | Adventure, Drama
During the 1800s, an American officer who renounces his country during his court-martial is sentenced to sail the seas on American warships without ever setting foot on American soil again or getting news of America.
Director: Delbert Mann | Stars: Cliff Robertson, Beau Bridges, Peter Strauss, Robert Ryan
Votes: 225
83. A Talent for Murder (1984 TV Movie)
80 min | Drama, Mystery, Comedy
A famed mystery writer (Dame Angela Lansbury) and her doctor ex-lover (Sir Laurence Olivier) solve her daughter-in-law's murder.
Director: Alvin Rakoff | Stars: Angela Lansbury, Laurence Olivier, Hildegard Neil, Charles Keating
Votes: 172
84. The Bloody Ape (1997 Video)
Not Rated | 77 min | Horror
THE BLOODY APE is the most outrageous, drive-in movie take on Poe's "Murders in the Rue Morgue" ever committed to film. A carnival barker foolishly releases his 400 pound gorilla, who then ... See full summary »
Director: Keith J. Crocker | Stars: Arlene Burns, Bob Ceislick, Christina Zuber Crocker, Kevin Crocker
Votes: 96
85. Das Ungeheuer von London-City (1964)
90 min | Crime, Horror
Then the spirit of Jack the Ripper seems to be very much alive in 1960s London as a series of brutal slayings by the Monster of London City has Scotland Yard baffled. In a macabre ... See full summary »
Director: Edwin Zbonek | Stars: Hansjörg Felmy, Marianne Koch, Dietmar Schönherr, Hans Nielsen
Votes: 268
86. The Mummy Lives (1993)
PG-13 | 97 min | Horror
A mummy returns from the dead and becomes obsessed with a woman which he thinks is the reincarnation of his dead lover.
Director: Gerry O'Hara | Stars: Tony Curtis, Leslie Hardy, Greg Wrangler, Jacques Cohen
Votes: 426
87. La lucha con la pantera (1975)
94 min | Crime, Drama
Living in the 1970s is hard. For example, three nymphets struggle to have a beneficial youth: Ana (Mildred Macías) is suicidal, Mercedes (Marissa Makendosky) is attracted to her brother ... See full summary »
Director: Alberto Bojórquez | Stars: Rocío Brambila, Marissa Maynez, Mildred Macías, Roberto Dumont
Votes: 53
88. Night of Horror (1981)
Unrated | 76 min | Horror
Four friends are stranded on what was once an old civil war battle ground and are haunted by the souls of those who died there.
Director: Tony Malanowski | Stars: Steve Sandkuhler, Gae Schmitt, Rebecca Bach, Jeff Canfield
Votes: 445
89. You Can't Have Everything (1937)
Passed | 100 min | Comedy, Music, Mystery
Starving playwright Judith Wells meets playboy writer of musicals George Macrae over a plate of stolen spaghetti. He persuades producer Sam Gordon to buy her ridiculous play "North Winds" ... See full summary »
Director: Norman Taurog | Stars: Alice Faye, The Ritz Brothers, Don Ameche, Charles Winninger
Votes: 276
90. Maigret and the St. Fiacre Case (1959)
101 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
The Countess de Saint-Fiacre, having received a terrible anonymous letter predicting her imminent death, summons Commissioner Maigret in the hope that he can protect her and save her from a secret ill-wisher.
Director: Jean Delannoy | Stars: Jean Gabin, Michel Auclair, Valentine Tessier, Jacques Morel
Votes: 1,510
91. I Was a Teenage Zombie (1987)
Not Rated | 90 min | Comedy, Horror
Teenage vigilantes kill a drug pusher only to have him return as a zombie.
Director: John Elias Michalakis | Stars: Michael Rubin, Steve McCoy, George Seminara, Craig Sabin
Votes: 951
92. The Cheaters (1945)
Passed | 87 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
An eccentric wealthy family facing bankruptcy schemes to steal an inheritance, but an alcoholic ex-actor they take in for Christmas charity complicates their plan.
Director: Joseph Kane | Stars: Joseph Schildkraut, Billie Burke, Eugene Pallette, Ona Munson
Votes: 910
93. The Plot Thickens (1936)
Passed | 69 min | Comedy, Drama, Mystery
A priceless Cellini silver cup is stolen from a local museum with both Hildegarde and Oscar on the case.
Director: Ben Holmes | Stars: James Gleason, Zasu Pitts, Owen Davis Jr., Louise Latimer
Votes: 388
94. Fragile.com (2019)
22 min | Short, Thriller
A teenage girl who more than anything wants to be told she's special is approached by a charming man who promises her fame, fortune, and affection - if she agrees to livestream herself crying for his niche website,
Director: Alison-Eve Hammersley | Stars: Carly Stewart, Colin Woodell, Nick Fink, Noah Crawford
Votes: 142
95. Bulgarian Lovers (2003)
R | 101 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
A straight-laced Spanish man falls in love with a young foreigner.
Director: Eloy de la Iglesia | Stars: Fernando Guillén Cuervo, Dritan Biba, Pepón Nieto, Roger Pera
Votes: 959 | Gross: $0.06M
96. The Cuckoo Clock (1950)
Passed | 6 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
A cat is driven up the wall by the inhabitant of the cuckoo clock, so he spends the film trying to catch him.
Director: Tex Avery | Stars: Daws Butler, William Hanna
Votes: 480
97. No Parking Hare (1954)
Approved | 7 min | Family, Animation, Short
A construction worker wants to blast Bugs out of his rabbit hole so he can build a freeway.
Director: Robert McKimson | Stars: Mel Blanc, John T. Smith
Votes: 515
98. Mary No More (2015)
24 min | Short, Drama
With her grandmother's impending death, 18 year old Mary returns to the family home in the country. She has a distant relationship with her grandmother and Mary finds it difficult to ... See full summary »
Director: Joshua Carver | Stars: Georgie Matthews, Jonathan Massey, Sarah Tattersall, Shereen Brierton
Votes: 181
99. Invisible Dad (1998 Video)
PG | 90 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Doug Baily's father is weird, but a strange machine in the garage now makes him invisible too. Its a roller coaster ride of fun and hijinks as Doug tries to turn his invisible dad back to ... See full summary »
Director: Fred Olen Ray | Stars: Karen Black, Charles Dierkop, Daran Norris, Mary Elizabeth McGlynn
Votes: 314
100. The Fall of Usher (2021)
95 min | Horror
A young man caring for his terminally ill father gets pulled into a maelstrom of murder, madness and the macabre. Based on the works of Edgar Allan Poe.
Director: Brian Cunningham | Stars: Rita Hight, Riker Hill, Spencer Korcz, Michael R Mcguire
Votes: 135