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1. Drive (I) (2011)
R | 100 min | Crime, Drama
A mysterious Hollywood stuntman and mechanic moonlights as a getaway driver and finds himself in trouble when he helps out his neighbor in this action drama.
Director: Nicolas Winding Refn | Stars: Ryan Gosling, Carey Mulligan, Bryan Cranston, Albert Brooks
Votes: 535,185 | Gross: $35.06M
2. Thor (2011)
PG-13 | 115 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy
The powerful but arrogant god Thor is cast out of Asgard to live amongst humans in Midgard (Earth), where he soon becomes one of their finest defenders.
Director: Kenneth Branagh | Stars: Chris Hemsworth, Anthony Hopkins, Natalie Portman, Tom Hiddleston
Votes: 704,422 | Gross: $181.03M
3. Fifty Shades Freed (2018)
R | 105 min | Drama, Romance, Thriller
Anastasia and Christian get married, but Jack Hyde continues to threaten their relationship.
Director: James Foley | Stars: Dakota Johnson, Jamie Dornan, Eric Johnson, Eloise Mumford
Votes: 47,169 | Gross: $100.41M
4. Cloud Atlas (2012)
R | 172 min | Action, Drama, Mystery
An exploration of how the actions of individual lives impact one another in the past, present and future, as one soul is shaped from a killer into a hero, and an act of kindness ripples across centuries to inspire a revolution.
Directors: Tom Tykwer, Lana Wachowski, Lilly Wachowski | Stars: Tom Hanks, Halle Berry, Hugh Grant, Hugo Weaving
Votes: 331,634 | Gross: $27.11M
5. The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian (2008)
PG | 150 min | Action, Adventure, Family
The Pevensie siblings return to Narnia, where they are enlisted to once again help ward off an evil king and restore the rightful heir to the land's throne, Prince Caspian.
Director: Andrew Adamson | Stars: Ben Barnes, Skandar Keynes, Georgie Henley, William Moseley
Votes: 183,570 | Gross: $141.62M
6. Love Ranch (2010)
R | 117 min | Biography, Comedy, Drama
A drama centered around a married couple who opened the first legal brothel in Nevada.
Director: Taylor Hackford | Stars: Helen Mirren, Joe Pesci, Sergio Peris-Mencheta, Gina Gershon
Votes: 2,794 | Gross: $0.13M
7. Stockholm (I) (2018)
R | 92 min | Biography, Comedy, Crime
Based on the absurd but true 1973 bank heist and hostage crisis in Stockholm that was documented in the New Yorker as the origins of the 'Stockholm Syndrome'.
Director: Robert Budreau | Stars: Ethan Hawke, Noomi Rapace, Mark Strong, Christopher Heyerdahl
Votes: 6,148 | Gross: $0.30M
8. Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit (2014)
PG-13 | 105 min | Action, Drama, Thriller
Jack Ryan, as a young covert C.I.A. analyst, uncovers a Russian plot to crash the U.S. economy with a terrorist attack.
Director: Kenneth Branagh | Stars: Chris Pine, Kevin Costner, Keira Knightley, Kenneth Branagh
Votes: 117,192 | Gross: $50.58M
9. The Host (2013)
PG-13 | 125 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
When an unseen enemy threatens mankind by taking over their bodies and erasing their memories, Melanie will risk everything to protect the people she cares most about, proving that love can conquer all in a dangerous new world.
Director: Andrew Niccol | Stars: Saoirse Ronan, Max Irons, Jake Abel, Diane Kruger
Votes: 107,112 | Gross: $26.63M
10. A Cure for Wellness (2016)
R | 146 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
An ambitious young executive is sent to retrieve his company's CEO from an idyllic but mysterious "wellness center" at a remote location in the Swiss Alps, but soon suspects that the spa's treatments are not what they seem.
Director: Gore Verbinski | Stars: Dane DeHaan, Jason Isaacs, Mia Goth, Ivo Nandi
Votes: 73,890 | Gross: $8.11M
11. Rumble in the Bronx (1995)
R | 87 min | Action, Comedy, Crime
A young man visiting and helping his uncle in New York City finds himself forced to fight a street gang and the mob with his martial art skills.
Director: Stanley Tong | Stars: Jackie Chan, Anita Mui, Françoise Yip, Bill Tung
Votes: 36,665 | Gross: $32.39M
12. After.Life (2009)
R | 104 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
After a car accident, a young woman caught between life and death meets a funeral director who claims to have the gift of transitioning the dead into the afterlife.
Director: Agnieszka Wojtowicz-Vosloo | Stars: Christina Ricci, Liam Neeson, Justin Long, Chandler Canterbury
Votes: 35,048 | Gross: $0.11M
13. The Last Seduction (1994)
R | 110 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
A devious sexpot steals her husband's drug money and hides out in a small town where she meets the perfect dupe for her next scheme.
Director: John Dahl | Stars: Linda Fiorentino, Peter Berg, Bill Pullman, Michael Raysses
Votes: 19,545 | Gross: $6.14M
14. Proud Mary (2018)
R | 89 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Mary (Taraji P. Henson) is a hit woman working for an organized crime family in Boston, whose life is completely turned around when she meets a young boy whose path she crosses when a professional hit goes bad.
Director: Babak Najafi | Stars: Taraji P. Henson, Billy Brown, Jahi Di'Allo Winston, Neal McDonough
Votes: 7,339 | Gross: $20.87M
15. Eaten Alive! (1980)
Not Rated | 92 min | Adventure, Horror
A young woman teams up with an adventurer to find her missing sister in the jungles of New Guinea and they stumble upon a religious cult led by a deranged preacher whom has located his commune in an area inhabited by cannibals.
Director: Umberto Lenzi | Stars: Robert Kerman, Janet Agren, Ivan Rassimov, Paola Senatore
Votes: 3,329
16. Armour of God (1986)
R | 88 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
Asian Hawk (Jackie Chan) and his bumbling sidekick are sent on a quest through Europe to find a mysterious treasure held by a shadowy organization of monks.
Directors: Jackie Chan, Eric Tsang | Stars: Jackie Chan, Alan Tam, Rosamund Kwan, Lola Forner
Votes: 16,356
17. Hysteria (2011)
R | 100 min | Comedy, Romance
The truth of how Mortimer Granville devised the invention of the first vibrator in the name of medical science.
Director: Tanya Wexler | Stars: Maggie Gyllenhaal, Hugh Dancy, Jonathan Pryce, Felicity Jones
Votes: 29,482 | Gross: $1.80M
18. The Perfect Guy (I) (2015)
PG-13 | 100 min | Crime, Drama, Horror
After breaking up with her boyfriend, a professional woman gets involved with a man who seems almost too good to be true.
Director: David M. Rosenthal | Stars: Sanaa Lathan, Michael Ealy, Morris Chestnut, L. Scott Caldwell
Votes: 9,248 | Gross: $57.02M
19. Spartan (2004)
R | 106 min | Action, Crime, Drama
The investigation into a kidnapping of the daughter of a high-ranking US government official.
Director: David Mamet | Stars: Val Kilmer, Derek Luke, William H. Macy, Tia Texada
Votes: 28,518 | Gross: $4.43M
20. Black Moon (1975)
R | 95 min | Fantasy, Mystery, Sci-Fi
To escape a gender war, a girl flees to a remote farmhouse and becomes part of an extensive family's unusual, perhaps even supernatural, lifestyle.
Director: Louis Malle | Stars: Cathryn Harrison, Therese Giehse, Alexandra Stewart, Joe Dallesandro
Votes: 4,512
21. Hawaii (1966)
Approved | 189 min | Drama
An American missionary and his wife travel to the exotic island kingdom of Hawaii, intent on converting the natives. But the clash between the two cultures is too great and instead of understanding there comes tragedy.
Director: George Roy Hill | Stars: Julie Andrews, Max von Sydow, Richard Harris, Gene Hackman
Votes: 2,495 | Gross: $34.56M
22. Kill Me Three Times (2014)
R | 90 min | Action, Comedy, Crime
Professional hit-man Charlie Wolfe finds himself in three tales of murder, blackmail and revenge after a botched contract assignment.
Director: Kriv Stenders | Stars: Simon Pegg, Teresa Palmer, Alice Braga, Luke Hemsworth
Votes: 18,574 | Gross: $0.02M
23. When Trumpets Fade (1998 TV Movie)
R | 95 min | Action, Drama, War
A private in the latter days of WWII on the German front struggles between his will to survive and what his superiors perceive as a battlefield instinct.
Director: John Irvin | Stars: Ron Eldard, Zak Orth, Frank Whaley, Dylan Bruno
Votes: 6,257
24. Circle of Iron (1978)
R | 102 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy
A young martial artist embarks on an adventure, encountering other martial artists in battle until one day he meets an aging blind man who will show him the true meaning of martial arts and life.
Director: Richard Moore | Stars: David Carradine, Jeff Cooper, Christopher Lee, Roddy McDowall
Votes: 2,021
25. Stuck (I) (2007)
R | 85 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
A young woman commits a hit-and-run, then finds her fate tied to her victim.
Director: Stuart Gordon | Stars: Mena Suvari, Stephen Rea, Russell Hornsby, Rukiya Bernard
Votes: 8,961 | Gross: $0.07M
26. The Editor (2014)
Not Rated | 95 min | Comedy, Crime, Horror
A film editor gets embroiled in a string of murders.
Directors: Adam Brooks, Matthew Kennedy | Stars: Paz de la Huerta, Adam Brooks, Matthew Kennedy, Conor Sweeney
Votes: 2,214
27. 'Sheba, Baby' (1975)
PG | 90 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A Chicago private detective returns back home to Louisville, Kentucky, to help her father fight mobsters.
Director: William Girdler | Stars: Pam Grier, Austin Stoker, D'Urville Martin, Rudy Challenger
Votes: 1,088
28. All Through the Night (1942)
Approved | 107 min | Action, Comedy, Crime
Runyonesque Broadway gamblers turn patriotic when they stumble onto a cell of Nazi saboteurs.
Director: Vincent Sherman | Stars: Humphrey Bogart, Conrad Veidt, Kaaren Verne, Jane Darwell
Votes: 3,479
29. Glass House: The Good Mother (2006 Video)
R | 94 min | Crime, Drama, Horror
Young siblings Abby and Ethan are adopted by outwardly perfect parents Eve and Raymond Goode, only to find that that their new guardian's remote mansion is far from the idyllic abode that it initially appears to be.
Director: Steve Antin | Stars: Angie Harmon, Joel Gretsch, Jordan Danger, Bobby Coleman
Votes: 2,320
30. The Maddening (1995)
R | 95 min | Thriller
Burt Reynolds finally goes completely insane in this psycho-horror flick about a deranged father who'll stop at nothing to protect his family's secrets.
Director: Danny Huston | Stars: Burt Reynolds, Angie Dickinson, Mia Sara, Brian Wimmer
Votes: 640
31. No News from God (2001)
R | 112 min | Crime, Drama
Two angels, one from the heaven and one from the hell, come to earth to save the soul of a boxer.
Director: Agustín Díaz Yanes | Stars: Penélope Cruz, Victoria Abril, Jero García, Gerardo Giacinti
Votes: 5,169 | Gross: $0.08M
32. Snow White and the Three Stooges (1961)
Approved | 107 min | Adventure, Comedy, Family
An ice-skating Snow White finds refuge from the Wicked Queen with the Three Stooges.
Directors: Walter Lang, Frank Tashlin | Stars: Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Carol Heiss, Edson Stroll
Votes: 855 | Gross: $2.62M
33. Giant of the 20th Century (1977)
105 min | Adventure, Fantasy
Professor Wassermann (John Stacy) is asked by industry magnate Morgan Hunnicut (Eddie Faye) to lead an expedition to study the giant Yeti creature found frozen in a large ice block on ... See full summary »
Director: Gianfranco Parolini | Stars: Antonella Interlenghi, Mimmo Crao, Jim Sullivan, Tony Kendall
Votes: 283
34. Rampage: The Hillside Strangler Murders (2006)
R | 85 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
The notorious case of the Hillside Strangler is the basis for this startling thriller directed primarily with an over-used hand-held camera by Chris Fisher (Nightstalker (2002)).
Kenneth ... See full synopsis »
Director: Chris Fisher | Stars: Joleigh Fiore, Bret Roberts, Brittany Daniel, Joseph McKelheer
Votes: 754
35. East of Sudan (1964)
Approved | 85 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance
During the Mahdist insurrection in the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, veteran colonial Private Baker teams up with freshly arrived gentleman Murchison, trying to evacuate from southern Barash the ... See full summary »
Director: Nathan Juran | Stars: Anthony Quayle, Sylvia Syms, Derek Fowlds, Jenny Agutter
Votes: 171
36. Final Judgement (1992 Video)
R | 90 min | Drama, Thriller
A priest is suspected in the brutal murder of a young stripper. To prove his innocence, he descends into the world of strip clubs and pornography, hoping to catch the killer. The priest is ... See full summary »
Director: Louis Morneau | Stars: Brad Dourif, David Ledingham, Maria Ford, Simone Allen
Votes: 116
37. Malvolio (2009)
98 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A sequel to Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, set as a modern-day mafia thriller film.
Directors: Alexander Kominek, Peter Kominek | Stars: Scott Roberts, Caralyn Stone, Jason Schneider, Jeremy Park
Votes: 10
38. She Couldn't Say No (1970)
46 min | Drama
A nymphomaniac recounts her memories of taboo sex.
Stars: Alex Elliot, Kathy Hilton, Terri Johnson
Votes: 8
39. Infernal Street (1973)
Not Rated | 94 min | Action
A Chinese doctor's assistant fights the morphine-dealing criminals who run a Japanese nightclub.
Director: Chiang Shen | Stars: Tien-Lung Yu, Ching-Ping Wang, Feng Chang, Shao Chun Chang
Votes: 75
40.
Nikita (2010–2013)
Episode:
2.0
(2010)
TV-14 | 42 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Percy and Michael take their latest assignment, a Slavic leader wanted for war crimes, into protective custody. Nikita learns of their hideout and attempts to thwart their plan, but a ... See full summary »
Director: Danny Cannon | Stars: Maggie Q, Shane West, Lyndsy Fonseca, Aaron Stanford
Votes: 634
41.
24 (2001–2010)
Episode:
2:00 a.m.-3:00 a.m.
(2001)
TV-14 | 41 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Jack thinks he's identified the mole inside CTU. Kim and Janet realize they are being kidnapped and try to escape. Palmer orders an employee to get dirt on a reporter who might jeopardize his campaign. Ira Gaines' plans come to a halt when he must renegotiate with a conspirator.
Director: Stephen Hopkins | Stars: Kiefer Sutherland, Leslie Hope, Sarah Clarke, Elisha Cuthbert
Votes: 1,509
42.
Burn Notice (2007–2013)
Episode:
All or Nothing
(2013)
TV-PG | 42 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Michael is conflicted when he asks Fiona to help him steal intelligence data for Sonya. Sam and Jesse help Barry track down an old girlfriend.
Director: Jonathan Frakes | Stars: Jeffrey Donovan, Gabrielle Anwar, Coby Bell, Bruce Campbell
Votes: 231
43.
Person of Interest (2011–2016)
Episode:
Asylum
(2015)
TV-14 | 43 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Reese and Fusco get caught in the war between Elias and Dominic while Finch and Root follow a clue to Shaw's whereabouts.
Director: Frederick E.O. Toye | Stars: Jim Caviezel, Kevin Chapman, Amy Acker, Michael Emerson
Votes: 3,525
44.
Once Upon a Time in Wonderland (2013–2014)
Episode:
Bad Blood
(2013)
TV-PG | 43 min | Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
Alice learns her father is in Wonderland and they start healing their relationship; young Jafar is distressed by his mother's death.
Director: Ciaran Donnelly | Stars: Sophie Lowe, Michael Socha, Peter Gadiot, Emma Rigby
Votes: 197
45.
Gotham (2014–2019)
Episode:
Beasts of Prey
(2015)
TV-14 | 40 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Gordon and Bullock inspect a cold case involving "the Ogre", a serial killer who targets young women in Gotham City. Meanwhile, Fish plots her escape from the Dollmaker, and Bruce and Selina confront Reggie.
Director: Eagle Egilsson | Stars: Ben McKenzie, Donal Logue, David Mazouz, Zabryna Guevara
Votes: 2,726
46.
Fear the Walking Dead (2015– )
Episode:
Blood in the Streets
(2016)
TV-14 | 44 min | Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
The group lets a family in distress board the Abigail. Strand's past begins to come to light. Nick looks for an associate of Strand's.
Director: Michael Uppendahl | Stars: Kim Dickens, Cliff Curtis, Frank Dillane, Alycia Debnam-Carey
Votes: 3,174
47.
Burn Notice (2007–2013)
Episode:
Bloodlines
(2011)
TV-PG | 43 min | Action, Crime, Drama
While the CIA assigns Michael to babysit a scientist, Jesse asks him for help in bringing a group of Yakuza human traffickers to justice.
Director: Colin Bucksey | Stars: Jeffrey Donovan, Gabrielle Anwar, Coby Bell, Bruce Campbell
Votes: 291
48.
Star Trek: Enterprise (2001–2005)
Episode:
Borderland
(2004)
TV-PG | 43 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
After a Klingon ship is attacked, it's discovered the imprisoned Dr. Soong's genetically enhanced humans are responsible. Archer takes him to prevent a war.
Director: David Livingston | Stars: Scott Bakula, John Billingsley, Jolene Blalock, Dominic Keating
Votes: 926
49.
24 (2001–2010)
Episode:
Day 2: 9:00 p.m.-10:00 p.m.
(2003)
TV-14 | 45 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Jack and Kate try to get Marie to reveal the exact location of the bomb in the airfield. Mason steps down as Director after his condition worsens. President Palmer confronts Sherry.
Director: Jon Cassar | Stars: Kiefer Sutherland, Sarah Wynter, Elisha Cuthbert, Xander Berkeley
Votes: 988
50.
24 (2001–2010)
Episode:
Day 3: 2:00 p.m.-3:00 p.m.
(2003)
TV-14 | 45 min | Action, Crime, Drama
After Goss' infected body is dropped at the hospital Jack and Chase begin to trace his last known locations while CTU tries to figure out how the virus is gonna be unleashed to the public at large. Once they figure out it's gonna be spread through cocaine shipments CTU begins to track down drug dealers in East LA. President Palmer considers canceling the debate.
Director: Jon Cassar | Stars: Kiefer Sutherland, Elisha Cuthbert, Carlos Bernard, Reiko Aylesworth
Votes: 928