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51. They Nest (2000 TV Movie)
PG-13 | 92 min | Sci-Fi, Horror
A Maine island becomes infested with lethal insects that root inside their victims, while a local doctor battles the bugs and incorrigible locals that don't believe him.
Director: Ellory Elkayem | Stars: Thomas Calabro, Dean Stockwell, John Savage, Kristen Dalton
Votes: 2,288
52. The Wind's Fierce (1970)
97 min | Drama, Western
In 19th century Valencia, Spain, a gunslinger begins to develop a conscience after he and his brother are hired by a ruthless landowner to kill the leaders of a local labor movement.
Director: Mario Camus | Stars: Terence Hill, Maria Grazia Buccella, Mario Pardo, Máximo Valverde
Votes: 837
53. When Animals Dream (2014)
R | 84 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
16-year old Marie lives on a small island with her seriously ill mother and her father, who takes care of the family. But suddenly mysterious deaths happen and Marie can feel something strange happening to her body.
Director: Jonas Alexander Arnby | Stars: Sonia Suhl, Lars Mikkelsen, Sonja Richter, Jakob Oftebro
Votes: 4,048
54. Summerfield (1977)
95 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
A teacher discovers one of his students has a rare blood disease, and is drawn into a mystery that culminates in a thrilling climax.
Director: Ken Hannam | Stars: Nick Tate, John Waters, Elizabeth Alexander, Michelle Jarman
Votes: 412
55. Resting Place (1986 TV Movie)
PG | 100 min | Drama
The mysterious death of an army officer comes under investigation by Major Kendall Laird as the young soldier's parents seek an honorable burial place, out of respect for their son. The ... See full summary »
Director: John Korty | Stars: John Lithgow, Richard Bradford, Morgan Freeman, CCH Pounder
Votes: 643
56. Moonshine County Express (1977)
PG | 95 min | Action, Comedy, Crime
When a hillbilly moonshiner is murdered by a powerful competitor, his tough three daughters discover a stash of prohibition whiskey and start undercutting their father's killer's business, with help from a local race car driver.
Director: Gus Trikonis | Stars: John Saxon, Susan Howard, William Conrad, Morgan Woodward
Votes: 497
57. Rain Shadow (2007)
60 min | Drama
Dr Kate McDonald is married to the small farming community of Paringa, where she's been the vet for 15 years. For most of that time she's been hiding a secret, and as a result, refuses to allow anyone to get close to her.
Stars: Rachel Ward, Victoria Thaine, Grant Piro, Tom O'Sullivan
Votes: 277
58. Strisser på Samsø (1997–1998)
55 min | Crime, Drama
A cop on a small island, going about his everyday life.
Stars: Lars Bom, Andrea Vagn Jensen, Amalie Dollerup, Lotte Arnsbjerg
Votes: 416
59. Den sommeren jeg fylte 15 (1976)
98 min | Drama
Peter is telling his story about a special summer, when he was invited over to summer holiday from bickering parents, to his aunt and uncle in the country. He's been there before, but this summer was quite one to remember.
Director: Knut Andersen | Stars: Steffen Rothschild, Anne-Lise Tangstad, Kaare Kroppan, Grethe Ryen
Votes: 203
60. Monstroid (1980)
R | 78 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
A rural Colombian village is attacked by a horrible sea serpent, aroused by industrial pollution of a nearby lake. Based on a real event that took place in June of 1971.
Directors: Kenneth Hartford, Herbert L. Strock | Stars: James Mitchum, John Carradine, Philip Carey, Anthony Eisley
Votes: 862
61. Iona (2015)
85 min | Drama
Iona takes her teenage son to the holy island where she was born so they can hide from a violent crime. As her son seeks forgiveness for what he has done Iona comes to terms with her loss of faith.
Director: Scott Graham | Stars: Ruth Negga, Douglas Henshall, Tom Brooke, Michelle Duncan
Votes: 355
62. The Zone (2017–2018)
TV-MA | 60 min | Action, Adventure, Crime
After a nuclear accident in the north of Spain, a vast exclusion zone was set up to contain the risk of radioactive propagation. A series of murders leads Héctor, the police chief who ... See full summary »
Stars: Eduard Fernández, Álvaro Cervantes, Alexandra Jiménez, Alba Galocha
Votes: 988
63. Bloodlust (1976)
90 min | Horror
A deaf and dumb accountant suffers from a psychic trauma in his childhood. He is collecting puppets and mutilates female bodies in the mortuary. After his secret love died by an accident he starts to kill.
Director: Marijan Vajda | Stars: Werner Pochath, Ellen Umlauf, Birgit Zamulo, Gerhard Ruhnke
Votes: 608
64. The Postman's White Nights (2014)
100 min | Drama
The film represents life in a godforsaken Russian village. The only way to reach the mainland is to cross the lake by boat and a postman became the only connection with the outside world. A... See full summary »
Director: Andrey Konchalovskiy | Stars: Aleksey Tryapitsyn, Irina Ermolova, Timur Bondarenko, Viktor Kolobkov
Votes: 2,104
65. Hope Island (1999– )
Drama
Reverend Daniel Cooper has come to Hope Island to reopen the Community Church, hoping the assignment will help him through the grief of a terrible loss. Distrusted by the local inhabitants ... See full summary »
Stars: Cameron Daddo, Suki Kaiser, Duncan Fraser, Haig Sutherland
Votes: 136
66. Moonshine Highway (1996 TV Movie)
PG-13 | 96 min | Action, Drama, Thriller
A moonshine runner tries to make a better life for himself by becoming a stock car racer. Unfortunately, the local sheriff is out to wreak revenge on him for having an affair with his estranged wife.
Director: Andy Armstrong | Stars: Kyle MacLachlan, Randy Quaid, Maria del Mar, Alex Carter
Votes: 304
67. American Women (2000)
PG-13 | 90 min | Comedy
Irish lads send an ad to the Miami Herald inviting fit and enticing women, between the ages of 20 and 21, to live in their isolated Donegal village. The whole town knows about the ad, and ... See full summary »
Director: Aileen Ritchie | Stars: Ian Hart, Sean McGinley, Niamh Cusack, Ruth McCabe
Votes: 1,531 | Gross: $0.22M
68. Bootleggers (1974)
PG | 115 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
Details the lives of two feuding families of bootleggers, the Pruitts and the Woodalls, in rural 1920s and 1930s Arkansas.
Director: Charles B. Pierce | Stars: Paul Koslo, Dennis Fimple, Slim Pickens, Jaclyn Smith
Votes: 184
69. Devil Story (1986)
76 min | Horror
A deformed man living with his mother in the countryside roams the woods killing indiscriminately. A couple spend the night nearby, and the wife goes through a nightmarish experience involving a black horse, a mummy, and the deformed man.
Director: Bernard Launois | Stars: Véronique Renaud, Marcel Portier, Catherine Day, Nicole Desailly
Votes: 665
70. Summer of Fear (1996 TV Movie)
100 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
The presence of a malicious stranger threatens to destroy the peace and harmony of a vacationing executive's family life.
Director: Mike Robe | Stars: Gregory Harrison, Glynnis O'Connor, Lee Garlington, David Gallagher
Votes: 302
71. The Day the World Ended (2001 TV Movie)
R | 91 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
When a killer alien creature, who is misunderstood, begins killing specific members of a small town, a school psychologist learns of its link to a young boy's tragic childhood, and his adoptive father's dark secret.
Director: Terence Gross | Stars: Nastassja Kinski, Bobby Edner, Randy Quaid, Harry Groener
Votes: 1,373
72. Vrykolakes
90 min | Comedy, Horror, Thriller | Filming
In a community ruled by a wealthy and charismatic leader encouraging his followers to pursue extreme subjectivist beliefs, two girls are put to death for their heretical realism only to ... See full summary »
Director: John Ryan Karlin | Stars: Dimitra Vogiatzoglou, Anna Vlachou, Aris Noussis, Haris Mega
73. Hi-Riders (1978)
R | 90 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Story of a group of drag races and the young boy and girl who join them.
Director: Greydon Clark | Stars: Mel Ferrer, Stephen McNally, Darby Hinton, Ralph Meeker
Votes: 227
74. It Came from Outer Space II (1996 TV Movie)
PG-13 | 89 min | Mystery, Sci-Fi
Aliens crashland near a small desert town, strewing odd bluish-glowing rocks throughout the area. Townfolk notice something is amiss when temperatures begin to soar, water disappears, power goes down and people seem not to be themselves.
Director: Roger Duchowny | Stars: Brian Kerwin, Elizabeth Peña, Jonathan Carrasco, Adrian Sparks
Votes: 395
75. Psychic Experiment (2010)
R | 93 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
An idyllic, small, self-sufficient community. On the surface, it seems like the perfect neighborhood. Everything you could possibly need is within walking distance. But the pastoral ... See full summary »
Director: Mel House | Stars: Denton Blane Everett, Adrienne King, Reggie Bannister, Glenn Morshower
Votes: 472
76. The Capture of Bigfoot (1979)
PG | 92 min | Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi
A series of killings occur, with no suspects, the locals soon decide that Bigfoot is responsible.
Director: Bill Rebane | Stars: Janus Raudkivi, Randolph Rebane, Stafford Morgan, Katherine Hopkins Nicholas
Votes: 702
77. The Prayer (2018)
107 min | Drama
Thomas is a drug addict. In an effort to put an end to his habit, he joins a community of former addicts who live isolated in the mountains and use prayer as a way to cure themselves.
Director: Cédric Kahn | Stars: Anthony Bajon, Damien Chapelle, Alex Brendemühl, Louise Grinberg
Votes: 1,287
78. Inferno (I) (2002)
PG | 91 min | Action, Drama
A fire chief (Gunn) is investigating the cause of a string of blazes that threaten to destroy her small town, while at the same time dealing with her teen daughter's rebelliousness.
Director: Dusty Nelson | Stars: Jeff Fahey, Janet Gunn, Richard Danielson, Greta Danielle Newgren
Votes: 307
79. Fjällbackamorden: Vänner för livet (2013 TV Movie)
90 min | Crime
Erica mentions in a TV interview, that her next book's about her friend, Peter, who vanished when they were 13. Shortly after, Peter's brother gets murdered. Erica and her cop husband investigate separately.
Director: Richard Holm | Stars: Claudia Galli, Richard Ulfsäter, Eva Fritjofson, Pamela Cortes Bruna
Votes: 814
80. The Bride of Glomdal (1926)
115 min | Drama, Romance
Tore takes over the rundown family farm. Applying his youthful energy, he intends to make it into a big farm like Glomgården on the other side of the river, where beautiful Berit lives. ... See full summary »
Director: Carl Theodor Dreyer | Stars: Einar Sissener, Tove Tellback, Stub Wiberg, Harald Stormoen
Votes: 635
81. Mom Squad (2019)
99 min | Comedy, Drama
Newly mom Line lives the jet-set life in Hong Kong. But when she catches her husband, the arrogant businessman Bjørn, in an affair with the nanny, she flies home to Denmark.
Director: Charlotte Sachs Bostrup | Stars: Danica Curcic, Anders W. Berthelsen, Julie Agnete Vang, Lærke Winther
Votes: 728
82. Bloody Angels (1998)
R | 100 min | Horror, Thriller
An Oslo detective visits a hick town to investigate some murders rumored by the locals to have been the work of 'angels'. More likely, given the unsavory types he meets, vengeance and vigilantism are the very human motivations behind.
Director: Karin Julsrud | Stars: Reidar Sørensen, Jon Øigarden, Gaute Boris Skjegstad, Trond Høvik
Votes: 514
83. The Beasts Are on the Streets (1978 TV Movie)
100 min | Thriller
Panic grips a small community after a tanker truck crashes through a fence at a wild animal park, freeing dozens of dangerous beasts.
Director: Peter R. Hunt | Stars: Carol Lynley, Dale Robinette, Billy Green Bush, Philip Michael Thomas
Votes: 127
84. Vulcano (1950)
Approved | 106 min | Drama
While awaiting Production Code seal approval in the USA this Italian-made production went through three American distributors in three years; first Motion Picture Sales Corporation that ... See full summary »
Director: William Dieterle | Stars: Anna Magnani, Rossano Brazzi, Geraldine Brooks, Eduardo Ciannelli
Votes: 336
85. Dark Secrets of a Trillion Dollar Island: Garenne (2021)
86 min | Documentary, Crime
Tells the extraordinary story of the child abuse scandal that erupted on the idyllic island of Jersey in 2007. For a long time, the victims' voices had remained unheard, but when widespread... See full summary »
Director: Camilla Hall
Votes: 174
86. Pieniä suuria valheita (2018)
94 min | Comedy, Drama
A priest who left his cheating wife (Mikko Nousiainen) moves with his school-aged son to a small town in Kainuu, where he plans to start a new life. The beginning, however, is not very rosy... See full summary »
Director: Matti Kinnunen | Stars: Mikko Nousiainen, Niila Nousiainen, Santtu Karvonen, Pihla Penttinen
Votes: 247
87. Vedreba (1967)
77 min | Drama
Brave sons of Khevsureti and Kisteti fight against each to protect their homelands. But, they confront faulty domestic traditions to respect enemy's true prowess and find themselves in conflict with own compatriots.
Director: Tengiz Abuladze | Stars: Spartak Bagashvili, Rusudan Kiknadze, Ramaz Chkhikvadze, Otar Megvinetukhutsesi
Votes: 895
88. Crazy Paradise (1962)
95 min | Comedy
The small windswept Danish island Trangö is home of the famous Trangö-eggs. Besides being bigger and whiter than all the others, these eggs light a fire under every woman's skirts.
Director: Gabriel Axel | Stars: Dirch Passer, Ove Sprogøe, Hans W. Petersen, Ghita Nørby
Votes: 130
89. Bastion (2016)
106 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
In an alternative future in which the Cold War never ended, a man called David, flees the city with his pregnant wife, Abigail, in search of freedom.
Directors: Louis Hannan, Dominic Hodge | Stars: Leo Taylor-Jannati, Victoria Slinger, Andrew Swift, Craig Carr
Votes: 17
90. Isle of Darkness (1997)
83 min | Horror, Thriller, Mystery
Fed up with her unfaithful boyfriend and big-city life, Julie, a newly-qualified young teacher from Copenhagen, takes a job as a teacher on an idyllic island in southern Norway. Julie finds... See full summary »
Director: Trygve Allister Diesen | Stars: Sofie Gråbøl, Paul-Ottar Haga, Sina Langfeldt, Martin Slaatto
Votes: 516
91. The Town That Was (2007)
TV-G | 71 min | Documentary
Portrait of John Lokitis, the youngest of 11 remaining residents of Centralia, Pennsylvania, a town destroyed by an underground mine fire.
Directors: Chris Perkel, Georgie Roland | Stars: John Lokitis, John Coddington, David DeKok, Todd Domboski
Votes: 286
92. The Barefoot Mailman (1951)
Approved | 83 min | Adventure, Comedy
A 19th-century con artist flees to the wilds of Florida to elude the law.
Director: Earl McEvoy | Stars: Robert Cummings, Jerome Courtland, Terry Moore, John Russell
Votes: 137
93. Kamilla og tyven II (1989)
97 min | Drama, Family
Kamilla goes on fighting to get Sebastian accepted, both while in jail and after being released. She's the only one believing that he wills top stealing. Is her support enough to keep him away from that?
Director: Grete S. Hynnekleiv | Stars: Veronika Flåt Tjelle, Dennis Storhøi, Agnete G. Haaland, Silje Trones Lønseth
Votes: 323
94. Herman U.S.A. (2001)
PG-13 | 89 min | Comedy, Romance
When 78 eligible bachelors from a small Minnesota town advertise for female companionship, women from 37 states and four foreign countries arrive, changing the men's lives forever.
Director: Bill Semans | Stars: Kevin Chamberlin, Michael O'Keefe, Enid Graham, Ann Hamilton
Votes: 156 | Gross: $0.07M
95. Cave In (2003 TV Movie)
PG | 120 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
When a cave in threatens the lives of four miners, including a father and son, it becomes a fight for survival. The superintendent struggles against the ticking clock to save her crew and family from impending doom.
Director: Rex Piano | Stars: Mimi Rogers, Ted Shackelford, Bruce Allpress, Paul Gittins
Votes: 179
96. Soria Moria (2000– )
45 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Stars: Knut Steen, Henrik Mestad, Ivar Nørve, Marit Østbye
Votes: 29
97. Edge of Isolation (2018)
89 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller
Stranded deep in the woods, a young married couple is taken in by an isolationist family, one that lives off the blood and plunder from lost hikers, and they want the couple to stay for the rest of their lives.
Director: Jeff Houkal | Stars: Michael Marcel, Marem Hassler, Alexandra Peters, Monte Markham
Votes: 309
98. Silence (2011)
110 min | Drama, War
A drama between people under unconventional circumstances. In the Second World War Finland was the only nation who brought casualties killed-in-action back to be buried at home. These ... See full summary »
Director: Sakari Kirjavainen | Stars: Joonas Saartamo, Lauri Tilkanen, Terhi Suorlahti, Joanna Haartti
Votes: 467
99. Property (1979)
Not Rated | 92 min | Drama
A group of likeable eccentrics whose sense of their own culture sparks them to try to buy up their houses from developers. Contradictions abound. Affectionate comic sense deftly captures the afterglow of a generation.
Director: Penny Allen | Stars: Walt Curtis, Lola Desmond, Cork Hubbert, M.G. Horowitz
Votes: 44
100. Children of Fortune (2000 TV Movie)
TV-14 | 96 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Navy detective Dave Passenger is assigned to investigate the murder of a sailor's girlfriend. He follows the trail of evidence to a small Arizona community where polygamy is still being ... See full summary »
Director: Sheldon Larry | Stars: James Brolin, Virginia Madsen, Amanda Fuller, Michael Moriarty
Votes: 147