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1. Basic Instinct (1992)
R | 127 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
A violent police detective investigates a brutal murder that might involve a manipulative and seductive novelist.
Director: Paul Verhoeven | Stars: Michael Douglas, Sharon Stone, George Dzundza, Jeanne Tripplehorn
Votes: 219,463 | Gross: $117.73M
2. Showgirls (1995)
NC-17 | 128 min | Drama
A mysterious young drifter who calls herself Nomi Malone hitches a ride to Las Vegas, Nevada, and begins working as a strip club dancer, and sets about clawing her way to the top of the Vegas showgirls.
Director: Paul Verhoeven | Stars: Elizabeth Berkley, Kyle MacLachlan, Gina Gershon, Glenn Plummer
Votes: 74,744 | Gross: $20.30M
3. Flashdance (1983)
R | 95 min | Drama, Music, Romance
An 18-year-old female amateur dancer who performs nightly at a dancing bar, and works as a welder during the day, dreams of joining the Pittsburgh ballet school.
Director: Adrian Lyne | Stars: Jennifer Beals, Michael Nouri, Lilia Skala, Sunny Johnson
Votes: 59,636 | Gross: $94.90M
4. Sliver (1993)
R | 107 min | Drama, Thriller
A woman moves into an exclusive New York City apartment building that she soon discovers houses tenants with all manner of shocking secrets.
Director: Phillip Noyce | Stars: Sharon Stone, William Baldwin, Tom Berenger, Polly Walker
Votes: 34,079 | Gross: $36.30M
5. Basic Instinct 2 (2006)
R | 114 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Novelist Catherine Tramell is once again in trouble with the law, and Scotland Yard appoints psychiatrist Dr. Michael Glass to evaluate her. Though, like Detective Nick Curran before him, Glass is entranced by Tramell and lured into a seductive game.
Director: Michael Caton-Jones | Stars: Sharon Stone, David Morrissey, David Thewlis, Stan Collymore
Votes: 41,614 | Gross: $5.97M
6. The Daily Show (1996– )
TV-14 | 22 min | Comedy, News, Talk-Show
A comedy news show featuring humorous takes on top stories.
Stars: Jon Stewart, Trevor Noah, Stephen Colbert, Roy Wood Jr.
Votes: 48,204
7. Jagged Edge (1985)
R | 108 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
A wealthy woman is murdered in her beach house. The husband is allegedly knocked out first. He inherits all. He has a female ex criminal prosecutor represent him in court.
Director: Richard Marquand | Stars: Jeff Bridges, Glenn Close, Peter Coyote, Robert Loggia
Votes: 16,849 | Gross: $40.50M
8. Jade (1995)
R | 95 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A bright assistant D.A. investigates a gruesome hatchet murder and hides a clue he found at the crime scene. Under professional threats and an attempt on his life, he goes on heartbroken because evidence point to the woman he still loves.
Director: William Friedkin | Stars: David Caruso, Linda Fiorentino, Chazz Palminteri, Richard Crenna
Votes: 14,265 | Gross: $9.80M
9. Nowhere to Run (1993)
R | 94 min | Action, Drama, Romance
Sam, an escaped convict, lands up on a farmland owned by a widow. When he learns that a ruthless contractor is trying to take over her land, he helps her to fight against the injustice.
Director: Robert Harmon | Stars: Jean-Claude Van Damme, Rosanna Arquette, Kieran Culkin, Ted Levine
Votes: 26,179 | Gross: $22.19M
10. One Night Stand (1997)
R | 102 min | Drama, Romance
Max/W.Snipes has a one night stand with Karen/N.Kinski in NYC. He returns to his wife, 2 kids and career in LA but is affected. A year later, Max and Karen meet again by chance, but this time they're with their spouses.
Director: Mike Figgis | Stars: Wesley Snipes, Nastassja Kinski, Kyle MacLachlan, Ming-Na Wen
Votes: 7,226 | Gross: $2.62M
11. Betrayed (1988)
R | 127 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
An FBI agent posing as a combine driver becomes romantically involved with a Midwest farmer who lives a double life as a white supremacist.
Director: Costa-Gavras | Stars: Debra Winger, Tom Berenger, John Heard, Betsy Blair
Votes: 7,021 | Gross: $25.82M
12. Sly (2023)
R | 95 min | Documentary, Biography
The nearly fifty year prolific career of Sylvester Stallone, who has entertained millions, is seen in retrospective in an intimate look of the actor, writer, director-producer, paralleling with his inspirational life story.
Director: Thom Zimny | Stars: Sylvester Stallone, Frank Stallone, John Herzfeld, Wesley Morris
Votes: 11,127
13. F.I.S.T. (1978)
PG | 145 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A rebellious Cleveland warehouse worker rises through the ranks of a trucking industry union to become union president but his organized crime links cause his eventual downfall.
Director: Norman Jewison | Stars: Sylvester Stallone, Rod Steiger, Peter Boyle, Melinda Dillon
Votes: 8,749 | Gross: $20.39M
14. Showgirls 2: Penny's from Heaven (2011)
Not Rated | 145 min | Comedy, Drama, Thriller
Penny Slot, a stripper from Las Vegas, tries to become a star dancer on a dance television show.
Director: Rena Riffel | Stars: Rena Riffel, Glenn Plummer, Greg Travis, Dewey Weber
Votes: 758
15. Music Box (1989)
PG-13 | 124 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A lawyer defends her father accused of war crimes, but there is more to the case than she suspects.
Director: Costa-Gavras | Stars: Jessica Lange, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Frederic Forrest, Donald Moffat
Votes: 8,673 | Gross: $6.26M
16. An Alan Smithee Film: Burn Hollywood Burn (1997)
R | 86 min | Comedy
When a rookie filmmaker with the unfortunate name Alan Smithee realizes he's an unwitting studio puppet, being forced to make a big-budget action movie he knows is horrible, he steals the master reels and tries to make a deal.
Director: Arthur Hiller | Stars: Ryan O'Neal, Coolio, Chuck D, Eric Idle
Votes: 3,770 | Gross: $0.05M
17. Big Shots (1987)
PG-13 | 94 min | Adventure, Comedy, Crime
Ivan Reitman brings you Big Shots, a slam-bang comedy-adventure with a heart as big as Chicago.
Director: Robert Mandel | Stars: Ricky Busker, Darius McCrary, Robert Joy, Robert Prosky
Votes: 906 | Gross: $3.39M
18. Telling Lies in America (1997)
PG-13 | 101 min | Drama, Music
A loner befriends a local celebrity, Billy Magic, but he soon begins to tell lies in order to maintain the friendship and the newfound status.
Director: Guy Ferland | Stars: Kevin Bacon, Brad Renfro, Maximilian Schell, Calista Flockhart
Votes: 2,427 | Gross: $0.25M
19. Hearts of Fire (1987)
R | 95 min | Drama, Music, Romance
A reclusive musician, once a huge rock star, takes a young female protegee. While on a tour she meets a younger, more popular rocker and switches her loyalties.
Director: Richard Marquand | Stars: Bob Dylan, Fiona, Rupert Everett, Julian Glover
Votes: 528
20. Checking Out (1988)
R | 96 min | Comedy
A successful family man who works for an airline becomes consumed by fear of death after his colleague and best friend dies in front of him from a heart attack while telling the setup for the joke: "Why don't Italians like barbecues?"
Director: David Leland | Stars: Jeff Daniels, Melanie Mayron, Michael Tucker, Kathleen York
Votes: 496
21. Szabadság, szerelem (2006)
123 min | Drama, History, Romance
At the 1956 Olympic Games in Melbourne, the Hungarian water polo team faces off against the Russians in what will become known as one of the bloodiest matches in the sport's history.
Director: Krisztina Goda | Stars: Kata Dobó, Iván Fenyö, Sándor Csányi, Károly Gesztesi
Votes: 4,529
22. Jackie Chan: My Story (1998 Video)
PG-13 | 74 min | Documentary
About Jackie Chan is written and filmed very much. A living legend, a unique creative personality, one of the biggest movie stars in the history of cinema, a man whose enthusiastic love for... See full summary »
Director: Jackie Chan | Stars: Jackie Chan, Willie Chan, Charles Chan, Stanley Tong
Votes: 783
23. Basic Instinct: Sex, Death & Stone (2020 TV Movie)
52 min | Documentary
Director: Jacinto Carvalho | Stars: Paul Verhoeven, Sharon Stone, Michael Douglas, Frank J. Urioste
Votes: 103
24. The Impact (2022)
142 min | Action, Drama, Sci-Fi
'The Impact' is the result of a collaborative filmmaking initiative run by Create50. The feature film is comprised of thirty-seven short films made by various filmmakers from around the world.
Directors: Zade Aerial, Rob Ayling, Emma Baggott, Damien Beaton, Carlos Cardoso, Louise Clover, Lee Crompton, Adrian G. de la Peña, Paul W. Franklin, Mark Hampton, Rob Holder, Chris Jones, Kristjan Knigge, James Lingwood, Pieter Lombaard, Matt George Lovett, Julien Madelénat, Evan Marlowe, Andrew McGee, Peter Mimmack, Nuru Mkali, Ben Mole, Richard Osborne, Laurel Parker, Deb Richardson, Hilla Sewell, James Skinner, Andy Sowerby, Milethia Thomas, Alisa Tritenko, Carrie Wachob, James Winters, Vitaliy Zharkov-Galitsev | Stars: Daniel Adenjii, Oliver Albel-Stevenson, Daphne Alexander, Hettie Allen
Votes: 148
25. The First Film (2015)
Not Rated | 111 min | Documentary, Biography, History
Leeds born filmmaker David Nicholas Wilkinson's thirty three year quest to prove that the worlds film industry started in Leeds, Yorkshire, England in 1888.
Director: David Wilkinson | Stars: David Wilkinson, Bernard Atha, Tom Courtenay, Nigel Cross
Votes: 200
26. Sliver: Alternate Ending (1993 Video)
20 min | Short, Drama, Thriller
The original ending to Sliver (1993).
Director: Phillip Noyce | Stars: William Baldwin, Tom Berenger, Allison Mackie, CCH Pounder
Votes: 40
27. The Making of 'Showgirls' (1995 TV Short)
PG-13 | 5 min | Documentary, Short
A short behind-the-scenes look at Paul Verhoeven's film Showgirls (1995).
Stars: Elizabeth Berkley, Gina Gershon, Kyle MacLachlan, Paul Verhoeven
Votes: 83
28. Charisma
Thriller | Announced
Sam Madden, Pulitzer Prize winning writer, and his best friend Pete Kearney, the Democratic Party candidate grew up together in Ohio. They thought they knew everything about each other, but one of them was hiding a deep dark secret.
29. Untitled Joe Eszterhas/Virgin of Guadalupe Project
Drama | Announced
The story of the first sighting of the virgin of Guadalupe by an Aztec peasant in the 16th century.
30. Moving Pictures (1990–1996)
40 min | Documentary
Award winning in-depth arts journalism series reporting on cinema around the globe.
Stars: Howard Schuman, Kate Leys, Roman Polanski, Joe Eszterhas
Votes: 29
31. Lust (I)
Thriller | Announced
A Miami real estate broker in a loving marriage with an older man, is unexpectedly seduced into an affair with a younger, charming playboy from Los Angeles, only to suffer the consequences as she ends up in a dangerous love triangle.
32. Verhoeven Versus Verhoeven (2016)
54 min | Documentary
Paul Verhoeven, a Dutch filmmaker for whom sex, violence and religion are "the three most important elements on Earth", likes to press where it hurts. Born in 1938, he grew up in The Hague ... See full summary »
Director: Elisabeth van Zijll Langhout | Stars: Antoinette Beijen-van den Steenhoven, Derek de Lint, Dolf de Vries, Michael Douglas
Votes: 123
33. Sliver: Alternate Opening (1993 Video)
4 min | Short, Thriller
The original opening to Sliver (1993).
Director: Phillip Noyce | Star: CCH Pounder
Votes: 9
34. Tabac, retenez votre souffle! (2006 TV Movie)
92 min | Documentary
The tobacco industry's conspiratorial efforts to market their products in the face of public health facts and public opposition.
Director: Nadia Collot | Star: Joe Eszterhas
Votes: 71
35. Killer Business: Joe Eszterhas on 'Jagged Edge' (2021 Video)
23 min | Documentary, Short
Acclaimed screenwriter Joe Eszterhas revisits one of his favourite scripts.
Star: Joe Eszterhas
36. Koniec/Poczatek (2009)
22 min | Short
Director: Natalia Kostenko | Stars: Jolanta Jurkiewicz, Piotr Polk, Agnieszka Wagner
37. The Fight for F.I.S.T. (2015 Video)
Documentary, Short
Director: Elijah Drenner | Stars: Joe Eszterhas, Norman Jewison
38. You Gotta Gamble If You're Gonna Win: Joe Eszterhas on 'Showgirls' (2023 Music Video)
Documentary
Star: Joe Eszterhas
39.
The Daily Show (1996– )
Episode:
Joe Eszterhas
(2000)
TV-14 | 30 min | Comedy, News, Talk-Show
Director: Chuck O'Neil | Stars: Jon Stewart, Lewis Black, Vance DeGeneres, Joe Eszterhas
Votes: 15
40.
Moving Pictures (1990–1996)
Episode:
Episode #1.1
(1990)
Documentary
BBC2's first regular cinema magazine for a decade presents features and comment on new films. This week's programme has a special report from America on the Hollywood script wars, in which ... See full summary »
Stars: Kate Leys, Manny Coto, Lem Dobbs, Joe Eszterhas
41.
Moving Pictures (1990–1996)
Episode:
Episode #2.6
(1992)
Documentary
Joe Eszterhas is the highest paid screenwriter in the world. He got$3 million for his latest film Basic Instinct. He is also the most controversial writer in Hollywood - currently accusing ... See full summary »
Stars: Howard Schuman, Bertrand Blier, Costa-Gavras, Joe Eszterhas