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1. The Equalizer 3 (2023)

R | 109 min | Action, Crime, Thriller

Robert McCall finds himself at home in Southern Italy but he discovers his friends are under the control of local crime bosses. As events turn deadly, McCall knows what he has to do: become his friends' protector by taking on the mafia.

Director: Antoine Fuqua | Stars: Denzel Washington, Dakota Fanning, Eugenio Mastrandrea, David Denman

Votes: 120,939

2. Gattaca (1997)

PG-13 | 106 min | Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller

A genetically inferior man assumes the identity of a superior one in order to pursue his lifelong dream of space travel.

Director: Andrew Niccol | Stars: Ethan Hawke, Uma Thurman, Jude Law, Gore Vidal

Votes: 324,379 | Gross: $12.34M

3. Spider-Man 2 (2004)

PG-13 | 127 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

Peter Parker is beset with troubles in his failing personal life as he battles a former brilliant scientist named Otto Octavius.

Director: Sam Raimi | Stars: Tobey Maguire, Kirsten Dunst, Alfred Molina, James Franco

Votes: 712,103 | Gross: $373.59M

4. Starsky & Hutch (2004)

PG-13 | 101 min | Comedy, Crime

Two streetwise cops bust criminals in their red and white Ford Gran Torino, with the help of a police snitch called "Huggy Bear".

Director: Todd Phillips | Stars: Ben Stiller, Owen Wilson, Snoop Dogg, Vince Vaughn

Votes: 154,813 | Gross: $88.24M

5. 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: 138,494 | Gross: $50.58M

6. Freeway (1996)

R | 102 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

A twisted take on "Little Red Riding Hood", with a teenage juvenile delinquent on the run from a social worker travelling to her grandmother's house and being hounded by a charming, but sadistic, serial killer and pedophile.

Director: Matthew Bright | Stars: Reese Witherspoon, Kiefer Sutherland, Bokeem Woodbine, Paul Perri

Votes: 31,920 | Gross: $0.30M

7. The Uninvited (2009)

PG-13 | 87 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror

Anna returns home after a stint in a mental hospital, but her recovery is jeopardized by her father's new girlfriend and ghastly visions of her dead mother.

Directors: Charles Guard, Thomas Guard | Stars: Emily Browning, Arielle Kebbel, Elizabeth Banks, David Strathairn

Votes: 85,275 | Gross: $28.57M

8. I Love You Phillip Morris (2009)

R | 98 min | Biography, Comedy, Crime

A cop turns con man once he comes out of the closet. Once imprisoned, he meets the second love of his life, whom he'll stop at nothing to be with.

Directors: Glenn Ficarra, John Requa | Stars: Jim Carrey, Ewan McGregor, Leslie Mann, Rodrigo Santoro

Votes: 99,979 | Gross: $2.04M

9. Four Good Days (2020)

R | 100 min | Drama

A mother helps her daughter work through four crucial days of recovery from substance abuse.

Director: Rodrigo García | Stars: Mila Kunis, Carla Gallo, Glenn Close, Stephen Root

Votes: 12,620

10. Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story (1993)

PG-13 | 120 min | Action, Biography, Drama

A fictionalized account of the life of the martial arts superstar.

Director: Rob Cohen | Stars: Jason Scott Lee, Lauren Holly, Robert Wagner, Michael Learned

Votes: 32,960 | Gross: $35.11M

11. The Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call - New Orleans (2009)

R | 122 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Terence McDonagh is a drug- and gambling-addled detective in post-Katrina New Orleans investigating the killing of five Senegalese immigrants.

Director: Werner Herzog | Stars: Nicolas Cage, Eva Mendes, Russell M. Haeuser, Val Kilmer

Votes: 81,083 | Gross: $1.70M

12. Virgin Rose (2006)

100 min | Crime, Drama

Simon transports illegal immigrants to New York, leaving them to their fate. He is discovered by the coastguard and Andrés, a young sailor, saves his life. When he falls for a young protegée of Simon conflict erupts.

Director: Manuel Gutiérrez Aragón | Stars: Jorge Perugorría, Álex González, Ana de Armas, Broselianda Hernández

Votes: 302

13. The Opposite of Sex (1998)

R | 105 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

A 16-year-old girl visits her gay half-brother and ends up seducing his boyfriend, thus wreaking havoc on all of their lives.

Director: Don Roos | Stars: Christina Ricci, Martin Donovan, Lisa Kudrow, Lyle Lovett

Votes: 21,785 | Gross: $5.88M

14. PT 109 (1963)

Approved | 140 min | Biography, Drama, War

President John F. Kennedy kept a unique inauguration gift on his desk: a plastic-encased coconut. The tale of that coconut is the heroic story of PT 109.

Director: Leslie H. Martinson | Stars: Cliff Robertson, Robert Culp, Ty Hardin, James Gregory

Votes: 3,002

15. Far More (2021)

Not Rated | 98 min | Comedy, Drama

Adrian Grenier stars as Sean McAllister, a successful fashion designer who hasn't seen his family in years. He returns to his hometown for a painstaking family reunion that will take him back to his past only to rebuild his future.

Director: Ally Walker | Stars: Joshua Rush, Adrian Grenier, Joanna Ranee Wood, Betsy Cramer

Votes: 316

16. It Happened on Fifth Avenue (1947)

Passed | 116 min | Comedy, Music, Romance

Two homeless men move into a mansion while its owners are wintering in the South.

Director: Roy Del Ruth | Stars: Don DeFore, Ann Harding, Charles Ruggles, Victor Moore

Votes: 6,304

17. The Answer Man (2009)

R | 95 min | Comedy, Romance

A reclusive author of spiritual books is pursued for advice by a single mother and a man fresh out of rehab.

Director: John Hindman | Stars: Jeff Daniels, Lauren Graham, Lou Taylor Pucci, Olivia Thirlby

Votes: 7,314 | Gross: $0.03M

18. Carry on Doctor (1967)

PG | 94 min | Comedy

Dr Kilmore is sacked after being discovered in a compromising position on the roof of the nurses' home. The patients are determined not to lose him, and so take on the might of the "cutting" Dr Tinkle and the overpowering Matron.

Director: Gerald Thomas | Stars: Frankie Howerd, Sidney James, Charles Hawtrey, Kenneth Williams

Votes: 4,167

19. Sierra (1950)

Approved | 83 min | Western

A tomboy frontier lawyer finds an outlaw and his son hiding out from a false murder charge.

Director: Alfred E. Green | Stars: Audie Murphy, Wanda Hendrix, Burl Ives, Dean Jagger

Votes: 1,088

20. The Corruption of Chris Miller (1973)

R | 107 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery

Abandoned by their husband/father, a traumatized woman and her disturbed stepdaughter hire a drifter handyman at their secluded estate while a series of murders begins.

Director: Juan Antonio Bardem | Stars: Jean Seberg, Marisol, Barry Stokes, Perla Cristal

Votes: 965

21. The TV Set (2006)

R | 88 min | Comedy, Drama

The story of a TV pilot as it goes through the network TV process of casting, production and finally airing.

Director: Jake Kasdan | Stars: David Duchovny, Sigourney Weaver, Ioan Gruffudd, Judy Greer

Votes: 6,037 | Gross: $0.27M

22. Child's Pose (2013)

Not Rated | 112 min | Drama

After the terrible news of a fatal car accident involving her son, a desperate mother will do anything in her power to set her child free.

Director: Cãlin Peter Netzer | Stars: Luminita Gheorghiu, Bogdan Dumitrache, Natasa Raab, Ilinca Goia

Votes: 8,864 | Gross: $0.09M

23. Hot Rods to Hell (1966)

Approved | 92 min | Action, Drama, Thriller

The new owner of a motel in the California desert has a run-in with a gang of delinquent teenage hot rod drivers.

Director: John Brahm | Stars: Dana Andrews, Jeanne Crain, Mimsy Farmer, Laurie Mock

Votes: 1,106

24. Te quiero, imbécil (2020)

TV-MA | 87 min | Comedy

Marcos' life turns upside down after he loses the same day his girlfriend and his job. Marcos' life turns wild after to meet Raquel.

Director: Laura Mañá | Stars: Quim Gutiérrez, Natalia Tena, Alfonso Bassave, Ernesto Alterio

Votes: 3,832

25. Bheja Fry (2007)

Not Rated | 95 min | Comedy, Drama

Ranjit, who makes fun of idiots, gets completely annoyed when he invites a tax inspector and a singer to his house.

Director: Sagar Ballary | Stars: Vinay Pathak, Rajat Kapoor, Sarika Thakur, Milind Soman

Votes: 12,231

26. Backfire (1950)

Passed | 91 min | Crime, Film-Noir, Mystery

While recuperating from wartime back injuries at a hospital, veteran Bob Corey is visited on Christmas Eve by a beautiful stranger with an even stranger message.

Director: Vincent Sherman | Stars: Viveca Lindfors, Dane Clark, Virginia Mayo, Edmond O'Brien

Votes: 1,802

27. Dark Horse (1992)

PG | 98 min | Drama, Family

A troubled girl, sentenced to community service on a ranch, bonds with a horse there. Her folks suggest that she enters the championship, but both she and the horse get seriously injured in a car accident.

Director: David Hemmings | Stars: Ed Begley Jr., Mimi Rogers, Ari Meyers, Donovan Leitch Jr.

Votes: 909

28. Amreeka (2009)

PG-13 | 96 min | Drama

A drama centered on the trials and tribulations of a proud Palestinian Christian immigrant single mother and her teenage son in small town Indiana.

Director: Cherien Dabis | Stars: Nisreen Faour, Melkar Muallem, Hiam Abbass, Alia Shawkat

Votes: 3,692 | Gross: $0.62M

29. Greatful Dead (2013)

97 min | Comedy, Horror, Thriller

Nami is a young woman with numerous hangups sprouting from a dysfunctional childhood. She inherits a small fortune that allows her to pursue various interests, many of which are abnormal.

Director: Eiji Uchida | Stars: Aira, Itsuji Itao, Yoichiro Kawakami, Hôka Kinoshita

Votes: 858

30. Night of Terror (1972 TV Movie)

Unrated | 73 min | Thriller

A hired killer hunts down a schoolteacher to get something she has. She doesn't know what it is, but he's already killed twice to get it.

Director: Jeannot Szwarc | Stars: Martin Balsam, Catherine Burns, Chuck Connors, Donna Mills

Votes: 310

31. Capricious Summer (1968)

Unrated | 74 min | Comedy

The friends enjoy the charms of nature - and of their guests.

Director: Jirí Menzel | Stars: Rudolf Hrusínský, Vlastimil Brodský, Frantisek Rehák, Míla Myslíková

Votes: 1,630

32. Crazylegs (1953)

Approved | 87 min | Biography, Drama, Sport

The story of the life and career of football star Elroy "Crazylegs" Hirsch (who plays himself).

Director: Francis D. Lyon | Stars: Elroy 'Crazylegs' Hirsch, Lloyd Nolan, Joan Vohs, James Millican

Votes: 195

33. My Scary Girl (2006)

R | 110 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

A young man in love for the first time discovers his girlfriend has a nasty secret in her refrigerator.

Director: Jae-gon Son | Stars: Park Yong-woo, Choi Kang-hee, Jo Eun-ji, Jung Kyung-ho

Votes: 727

34. Time Out for Trouble (1961)

20 min | Short

The spirit of an evil mantle clock, a mother-in-law's gift, desires harm to befall a wife, but she learns to avoid accidents by paying attention to feelings, being wary of boredom, and watching out for dangerous situations.

Director: David S. Glidden | Stars: Alice Spann, Bonnie Hammett, John Nesom, Stephen Bell

Votes: 155

35. Da geht noch was (2013)

101 min | Comedy, Drama

When three generations of one family temporarily have to live together under one roof chaos ensues.

Director: Holger Haase | Stars: Florian David Fitz, Henry Hübchen, Marius V. Haas, Leslie Malton

Votes: 1,361

36. Dance Craze (1964)

15 min | Short, Comedy, Music

A square dances up a storm with hipsters at a nightclub but injures his back doing the twist. He goes to see a doctor who prescribes rest. Back at the club he sits out the dances, but wait - there's the doctor.

Director: Bill Rebane | Stars: Sig Sagowicz, Sandra Keto, Frankie DeSanti, Ral Donner

Votes: 23

37. The Mirror for Christine (1976)

90 min | Drama

A 19-year-old volleyball player has been bedridden for a long time due to a spinal cord injury. The self-confident and energetic girl has time to look back on her life and her short sports career so far.

Director: Jirí Svoboda | Stars: Lenka Skopalová, Vera Galatíková, Ludek Munzar, Lenka Korínková

Votes: 23

38. Jablko (1979 TV Movie)

35 min | Comedy

On New Year's Eve, Jitka, a library worker, buys some apples and bites into one of them and dislocates her jaw. Together with her colleague Karel, she tries to put the jaw back in various ways, but to no avail.

Director: Václav Hudecek | Stars: Vítezslav Cerný, Frantisek Filipovský, Vlastimil Hasek, Iva Janzurová

Votes: 9

39. Elektrický nuz (2000 TV Movie)

50 min | Drama

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Director: Antonín Pridal | Stars: Ladislav Lakomý, Viktor Skála

40. Felipa: North of the Border (1971)

17 min | Short, Drama, Family

Felipa, a first-generation American girl, dreams of becoming a teacher. Her first pupil is her uncle, who she tutors in English so he can get a driver's license and a better job.

Director: Bert Salzman | Stars: Phyllis Valencia, David Herrera, Francisco Soto, Dolores Jaurique

41. Nerve Dancer (2019)

10 min | Short, Drama | Completed

A terminally injured young man and an aspiring ballet dancer find themselves reflecting on their past and how their current situations have dramatically changed since then. Through a ... See full summary »

Director: Spencer Haughian | Stars: Jonah Duvall, Bella Reber

42. Vzkrísení (2018 TV Movie)

125 min | Comedy, Drama

Strange things are happening at a small publishing house that publishes a popular contemporary author. It all starts when a famous author, who the publisher lives off of, comes in and ... See full summary »

Directors: Ondrej Kepka, Michal Vajdicka | Stars: Ivan Trojan, Václav Neuzil, Matej Hádek, Veronika Khek Kubarová

Votes: 13

43. Becker (1998–2004)
Episode: Dr. Angry Head (2000)

TV-PG | 21 min | Comedy

Becker strains his back on a department store Christmas display and is immobilized. Reggie competes with a rival in organizing a toy drive. Linda looks for meaning in Christmas.

Director: Andy Ackerman | Stars: Ted Danson, Terry Farrell, Hattie Winston, Shawnee Smith

Votes: 107

44. The Campbells (1986–1990)
Episode: Souls of Like Mind (1990)

Adventure, Drama, Family

Neil visits and finds his father has injured his back, so he stays to help with the farm. Neil and John are disturbed by the disappearance of a father and son who planned to start a Utopian community and try to solve the mystery.

Director: René Bonnière | Stars: Malcolm Stoddard, Amber Lea Weston, Eric Richards, Cedric Smith

45. Coach (1989–1997)
Episode: Rizzendough Revisited (1992)

TV-PG | 30 min | Comedy, Sport

Hoping to finagle a major donation to the football program, Hayden plots to bond with Mrs. Rizzendough by assisting in a senior exercise program.

Director: Alan Rafkin | Stars: Craig T. Nelson, Jerry Van Dyke, Clare Carey, Bill Fagerbakke

Votes: 57

46. The Secrets of Isis (1975–1976)
Episode: The Hitchhiker (1976)

TV-Y7 | 22 min | Adventure, Family, Fantasy

Isis saves Hope, a habitual hitchhiker, from a potentially fatal automobile accident and warns her not to continue hitching rides.

Director: Earl Bellamy | Stars: JoAnna Cameron, Brian Cutler, Ronalda Douglas, Jewel Blanch

Votes: 33

47. Malibu, CA (1998–2000)
Episode: Photo Shoot (1998)

TV-Y | 21 min | Comedy

Samantha is chosen by fashion photographer Devon for a photo shoot but Jason believes that he's just hitting on her. Sam breaks a date with Scott for a session with Devon. Scott watches as ... See full summary »

Director: Gary Shimokawa | Stars: Trevor Merszei, Jason Hayes, Wendi Kenya, Brandon Brooks

48. Monarch of the Glen (2000–2005)
Episode: Episode #7.3 (2005)

TV-14 | 60 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

Paul launches his new idea of turning Glenbogle into a luxury retreat when a wealthy couple come to stay at the house. But when Golly has a back injury and Molly rushes to his aid, Paul finds himself short staffed and strapped for cash.

Director: David Caffrey | Stars: Susan Hampshire, Kellyanne Farquhar, Martin Compston, Lloyd Owen

Votes: 50

49. Saved by the Bell: The College Years (1993–1994)
Episode: A Thanksgiving Story (1993)

TV-G | 22 min | Comedy, Romance

After car trouble strands them at the college, the gang helps Mike, Leslie, and Screech prepare Thanksgiving dinner for a group of inner-city kids.

Director: Jeff Melman | Stars: Mark-Paul Gosselaar, Mario Lopez, Dustin Diamond, Anne Tremko

Votes: 111

50. Science Fiction Theatre (1955–1957)
Episode: The Miracle Hour (1956)

30 min | Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi

A man is determined to help his fiancée's blind son, even though doctors say the case is hopeless. He and a doctor friend decide to see if the boy can react to items and colors based on ... See full summary »

Director: Paul Guilfoyle | Stars: Truman Bradley, Dick Foran, Jean Byron, Donald Curtis

Votes: 22