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1. Goodfellas (1990)

R | 145 min | Biography, Crime, Drama

The story of Henry Hill and his life in the mafia, covering his relationship with his wife Karen and his mob partners Jimmy Conway and Tommy DeVito.

Director: Martin Scorsese | Stars: Robert De Niro, Ray Liotta, Joe Pesci, Lorraine Bracco

Votes: 1,259,587 | Gross: $46.84M

2. Meg 2: The Trench (2023)

PG-13 | 116 min | Action, Adventure, Horror

A research team encounters multiple threats while exploring the depths of the ocean, including a malevolent mining operation.

Director: Ben Wheatley | Stars: Jason Statham, Jing Wu, Shuya Sophia Cai, Cliff Curtis

Votes: 79,177 | Gross: $82.60M

3. Don't Look Up (2021)

R | 138 min | Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi

Two low-level astronomers must go on a giant media tour to warn humankind of an approaching comet that will destroy planet Earth.

Director: Adam McKay | Stars: Leonardo DiCaprio, Jennifer Lawrence, Meryl Streep, Cate Blanchett

Votes: 603,226

4. Doctor Sleep (2019)

R | 152 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror

Years following the events of The Shining (1980), a now-adult Dan Torrance must protect a young girl with similar powers from a cult known as The True Knot, who prey on children with powers to remain immortal.

Director: Mike Flanagan | Stars: Ewan McGregor, Rebecca Ferguson, Kyliegh Curran, Cliff Curtis

Votes: 218,958 | Gross: $31.58M

5. Blazing Saddles (1974)

R | 93 min | Comedy, Western

In order to ruin a western town, a corrupt politician appoints a black Sheriff, who promptly becomes his most formidable adversary.

Director: Mel Brooks | Stars: Cleavon Little, Gene Wilder, Slim Pickens, Harvey Korman

Votes: 152,725 | Gross: $119.50M

6. Traffic (2000)

R | 147 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

A conservative judge is appointed by the President to spearhead America's escalating war against drugs, only to discover that his teenage daughter is a crack addict. Two DEA agents protect an informant. A jailed drug baron's wife attempts to carry on the family business.

Director: Steven Soderbergh | Stars: Michael Douglas, Benicio Del Toro, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Jacob Vargas

Votes: 219,976 | Gross: $124.12M

7. Black Panther (2018)

PG-13 | 134 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

T'Challa, heir to the hidden but advanced kingdom of Wakanda, must step forward to lead his people into a new future and must confront a challenger from his country's past.

Director: Ryan Coogler | Stars: Chadwick Boseman, Michael B. Jordan, Lupita Nyong'o, Danai Gurira

Votes: 838,776 | Gross: $700.06M

8. Training Day (2001)

R | 122 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

A rookie cop spends his first day as a Los Angeles narcotics officer with a rogue detective who isn't what he appears to be.

Director: Antoine Fuqua | Stars: Denzel Washington, Ethan Hawke, Scott Glenn, Tom Berenger

Votes: 473,741 | Gross: $76.63M

9. Hostiles (2017)

R | 134 min | Drama, Western

In 1892, a legendary Army Captain reluctantly agrees to escort a Cheyenne chief and his family through dangerous territory.

Director: Scott Cooper | Stars: Scott Shepherd, Rosamund Pike, Ava Cooper, Stella Cooper

Votes: 95,882 | Gross: $29.82M

10. A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors (1987)

R | 96 min | Fantasy, Horror

A psychiatrist familiar with knife-wielding dream demon Freddy Krueger helps teens at a mental hospital battle the killer who is invading their dreams.

Director: Chuck Russell | Stars: Heather Langenkamp, Robert Englund, Craig Wasson, Patricia Arquette

Votes: 90,498 | Gross: $44.79M

11. The Glass Castle (2017)

PG-13 | 127 min | Biography, Drama

A young girl comes of age in a dysfunctional family of nonconformist nomads with a mother who's an eccentric artist and an alcoholic father who would stir the children's imagination with hope as a distraction to their poverty.

Director: Destin Daniel Cretton | Stars: Brie Larson, Woody Harrelson, Naomi Watts, Ella Anderson

Votes: 38,614 | Gross: $17.27M

12. Jigsaw (I) (2017)

R | 92 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller

Bodies are turning up around the city, each having met a uniquely gruesome demise. As the investigation proceeds, evidence points to one suspect: John Kramer, the man known as Jigsaw, who has been dead for over 10 years.

Directors: Michael Spierig, Peter Spierig | Stars: Matt Passmore, Tobin Bell, Callum Keith Rennie, Hannah Emily Anderson

Votes: 92,444 | Gross: $38.05M

13. 99 Homes (2014)

R | 112 min | Crime, Drama

A recently unemployed single father struggles to get back his foreclosed home by working for the real estate broker who is the source of his frustration.

Director: Ramin Bahrani | Stars: Andrew Garfield, Michael Shannon, Laura Dern, Clancy Brown

Votes: 38,331 | Gross: $1.41M

14. Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas (2004 Video Game)

M | Action, Crime

Carl "CJ" Johnson, a member of the Grove Street street gang, comes home after a family tragedy to find it overtaken by crime and corruption, which he must take back before things become worse.

Stars: Young Maylay, Faizon Love, Yolanda 'Yo-Yo' Whittaker, Clifton Powell

Votes: 44,610

15. Fifty Shades of Black (2016)

R | 92 min | Comedy

An inexperienced college student meets a wealthy businessman whose sexual practices put a strain on their relationship.

Director: Michael Tiddes | Stars: Marlon Wayans, Kali Hawk, Fred Willard, Mike Epps

Votes: 23,260 | Gross: $11.69M

16. Bad Samaritan (2018)

R | 110 min | Crime, Horror, Thriller

A pair of burglars stumble upon a woman being held captive in a home they intended to rob.

Director: Dean Devlin | Stars: David Tennant, Robert Sheehan, Kerry Condon, Carlito Olivero

Votes: 26,142 | Gross: $3.44M

17. Blindness (2008)

R | 121 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller

A city is ravaged by an epidemic of instant white blindness.

Director: Fernando Meirelles | Stars: Julianne Moore, Mark Ruffalo, Gael García Bernal, Yûsuke Iseya

Votes: 75,234 | Gross: $3.07M

18. First Cow (2019)

PG-13 | 122 min | Drama, Western

A skilled cook has traveled west and joined a group of fur trappers in Oregon, though he only finds true connection with a Chinese immigrant also seeking his fortune. Soon the two collaborate on a successful business.

Director: Kelly Reichardt | Stars: Alia Shawkat, John Magaro, Dylan Smith, Ryan Findley

Votes: 22,025

19. American Ninja (1985)

R | 95 min | Action, Adventure, Romance

American soldier, obviously very skilled in martial arts, single-handedly takes on mercenaries in the Philippines.

Director: Sam Firstenberg | Stars: Michael Dudikoff, Steve James, Judie Aronson, Guich Koock

Votes: 16,767 | Gross: $10.50M

20. Boxcar Bertha (1972)

R | 88 min | Crime, Drama, Romance

During the Great Depression, a union leader and a young woman become criminals to exact revenge on the management of a railroad.

Director: Martin Scorsese | Stars: Barbara Hershey, David Carradine, Barry Primus, Bernie Casey

Votes: 10,933

21. Ain't Them Bodies Saints (2013)

R | 96 min | Crime, Drama, Romance

The tale of an outlaw who escapes from prison and sets out across the Texas hills to reunite with his wife and the daughter he has never met.

Director: David Lowery | Stars: Rooney Mara, Casey Affleck, Ben Foster, Nate Parker

Votes: 22,828 | Gross: $0.39M

22. Duffle Bag Boy (2024)

Action, Adventure, Crime

Lost and forgotten, a homeless veteran hitchhikes his way into becoming an outlaw and goes to war with the kingpin of a criminal empire.

Director: Alexander Raye Pimentel | Stars: Alexander Raye Pimentel, James Anthony Perez, Cheryce Livingston, Don Tempesta

Votes: 32

23. Tall Tale (1995)

PG | 96 min | Adventure, Family, Fantasy

A young boy's imagination summons cowboy legend Pecos Bill, who helps him save the family farm from a greedy land-grabber. With the help of a lumberjack and a railroad worker, they all embark on a surprise-filled adventure.

Director: Jeremiah S. Chechik | Stars: Patrick Swayze, Oliver Platt, Roger Aaron Brown, Nick Stahl

Votes: 4,272 | Gross: $8.25M

24. No Good Deed (I) (2014)

PG-13 | 84 min | Crime, Drama, Horror

An unstable escaped convict terrorizes a woman who is alone with her two children.

Director: Sam Miller | Stars: Taraji P. Henson, Idris Elba, Leslie Bibb, Kate del Castillo

Votes: 22,049 | Gross: $52.54M

25. King of California (2007)

PG-13 | 93 min | Comedy, Drama

An unstable dad who after getting out of a mental institution tries to convince his daughter that there's Spanish gold buried somewhere under suburbia.

Director: M. Cahill | Stars: Michael Douglas, Evan Rachel Wood, Willis Burks II, Laura Kachergus

Votes: 23,679 | Gross: $0.26M

26. Urban Legends: Bloody Mary (2005 Video)

R | 93 min | Horror, Thriller

On a prom-night dare, a trio of high school friends chant an incantation, unleashing an evil spirit from the past with deadly consequences.

Director: Mary Lambert | Stars: Kate Mara, Robert Vito, Tina Lifford, Ed Marinaro

Votes: 9,560

27. Undertow (2004)

R | 108 min | Drama, Thriller

Pig farmer and widower John Munn is raising his two sons in an isolated farmhouse, until his troubled brother arrives and changes their lives forever.

Director: David Gordon Green | Stars: Jamie Bell, Josh Lucas, Dermot Mulroney, Devon Alan

Votes: 9,363 | Gross: $0.02M

28. Diablo (2015)

R | 90 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

A young civil war veteran is forced on a desperate journey to save his kidnapped wife.

Director: Lawrence Roeck | Stars: Scott Eastwood, Walton Goggins, Camilla Belle, Adam Beach

Votes: 5,283

29. The Benefactor (I) (2015)

Not Rated | 93 min | Drama

A philanthropist meddles in the lives of newly-married couples in an attempt to relive his past.

Director: Andrew Renzi | Stars: Richard Gere, Dakota Fanning, Theo James, Dylan Baker

Votes: 5,252

30. Stop-Loss (2008)

R | 112 min | Drama, War

A veteran soldier returns from his completed tour of duty in Iraq, only to find his life turned upside down when he is arbitrarily ordered to return to field duty by the Army.

Director: Kimberly Peirce | Stars: Ryan Phillippe, Abbie Cornish, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Rob Brown

Votes: 20,901 | Gross: $10.91M

31. Child of God (2013)

R | 104 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

A dispossessed, violent man's disastrous attempt to exist outside the social order.

Director: James Franco | Stars: Scott Haze, Tim Blake Nelson, Jim Parrack, Steve Hunter

Votes: 4,399 | Gross: $0.04M

32. America America (1963)

Approved | 174 min | Adventure, Drama

A young Greek stops at nothing to secure a passage to America.

Director: Elia Kazan | Stars: Stathis Giallelis, Frank Wolff, Elena Karam, Harry Davis

Votes: 5,998

33. Bucktown (1975)

R | 94 min | Action, Crime, Drama

After being hassled by The Man in a southern town, a cool operator asks some violent friends for help. After all, if you can't trust another brother, who can you trust?

Director: Arthur Marks | Stars: Fred Williamson, Pam Grier, Thalmus Rasulala, Tony King

Votes: 1,605

34. The Free World (2016)

R | 100 min | Drama, Romance

A recently released former convict becomes involved with a married woman with an abusive husband.

Director: Jason Lew | Stars: Boyd Holbrook, Elisabeth Moss, Octavia Spencer, Sung Kang

Votes: 2,078

35. The Winner (1996)

R | 92 min | Comedy, Crime, Thriller

When it is discovered that a man is having luck in the casinos in Las Vegas, people start attempting to take his money.

Director: Alex Cox | Stars: Rebecca De Mornay, Vincent D'Onofrio, Richard Edson, Saverio Guerra

Votes: 905 | Gross: $0.01M

36. Point Blank (1998)

R | 89 min | Action, Crime, Drama

Convicted corporate criminal Howard engineers a prison break as he and a number of fellow inmates are being transferred to a new facility. The escapees storm a shopping mall and take a ... See full summary »

Director: Matt Earl Beesley | Stars: Mickey Rourke, Danny Trejo, Frederic Forrest, Werner Schreyer

Votes: 1,922

37. Intruder in the Dust (1949)

Approved | 87 min | Crime, Drama, Family

In 1940s Mississippi, two teenage boys and an elderly woman combine forces to prevent a miscarriage of justice and clear a black man of a murder charge.

Director: Clarence Brown | Stars: David Brian, Claude Jarman Jr., Juano Hernandez, Porter Hall

Votes: 2,672

38. Cameraperson (2016)

Not Rated | 102 min | Documentary, Biography, History

Exposing her role behind the camera, Kirsten Johnson reaches into the vast trove of footage she has shot over decades around the world. What emerges is a visually bold memoir and a revelatory interrogation of the power of the camera.

Director: Kirsten Johnson | Stars: Kirsten Johnson, Aisha Bukar, Eric W. Davis, Jacques Derrida

Votes: 3,257 | Gross: $0.10M

39. Bad Meat (2011)

TV-MA | 83 min | Comedy, Horror

Ordered to a delinquent camp by their exasperated parents, a group of wayward teens fall foul of a deadly virus that infects the guards and turns them into flesh-eating monsters! Gristle ... See full summary »

Director: Lulu Jarmen | Stars: Mark Pellegrino, Elisabeth Harnois, Dave Franco, Tahj Mowry

Votes: 945

40. The Better Angels (2014)

PG | 95 min | Biography, Drama, History

The story of Abraham Lincoln's childhood in the harsh wilderness of Indiana and the hardships that shaped him, the tragedy that marked him for ever and the two women who guided him to immortality.

Director: A.J. Edwards | Stars: Jason Clarke, Diane Kruger, Brit Marling, Wes Bentley

Votes: 1,466

41. WrestleMania 36 (2020 TV Special)

TV-PG | 383 min | Action, Drama, Sport

Legacies will be defined, and legends will be born in part one of The ONLY WrestleMania Too Big for Just One Night.

Director: Kevin Dunn | Stars: Mark Calaway, AJ Styles, Brock Lesnar, Drew Galloway

Votes: 707

42. Echoes (I) (2014)

Not Rated | 93 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller

Struggling with horrifying, sleep-paralysis induced visions, a young writer retreats with her boyfriend to an isolated desert house. As the visions intensify, she finds herself on the verge... See full summary »

Director: Nils Timm | Stars: Kate French, Steven Brand, Steve Hanks, Billy Wirth

Votes: 1,569

43. WrestleMania X8 (2002 TV Special)

TV-14 | 223 min | Action, Sport

As the nWo continues their crusade against the WWF, wrestling's past meets wrestling's future when Hollywood Hulk Hogan meets the People's Champion, The Rock. Meanwhile, Tripe H faces the ... See full summary »

Director: Kevin Dunn | Stars: Dwayne Johnson, Hulk Hogan, Chris Jericho, Paul Levesque

Votes: 1,309

44. Vampz (2004 Video)

90 min | Horror

The downtown jungle of Los Angeles home to the downtrodden, forlorn and desperate makes the perfect roost for this trio of ancient one's. When going out to "feed" becomes too dangerous, ... See full summary »

Director: Steve Lustgarten | Stars: Terrence Flack, Terrence Atkins, Richard Azurdia, Jonathon Blair

Votes: 68

45. WWF Buried Alive: In Your House (1996 TV Special)

120 min | Action, Sport

Buried Alive Match: Mankind vs. The Undertaker, WWF Tag Team Titles: Davey Boy Smith & Owen Hart vs. The Smoking Gunns, WWF Intercontinental Title: Marc Mero vs. Goldust, Steve Austin vs. ... See full summary »

Director: Kevin Dunn | Stars: Mark Calaway, Mick Foley, Marc Mero, Dustin Rhodes

Votes: 253

46. WWE: The Undertaker's Deadliest Matches (2010 Video)

Action, Sport

A collection of The Undertaker's most memorable and intense matches.

Director: Kevin Dunn | Stars: Brian Adams, Ken Anderson, Afa Anoai, Steve Austin

Votes: 135

47. ECW November to Remember '95 (1995 Video)

155 min | Action, Sport

Tommy Dreamer and Terry Funk wage war against Raven and Cactus Jack. The Sandman and 2 Cold Scorpio defend the ECW World Tag Team Titles against the Public Enemy in a match where the winner... See full summary »

Director: Paul Heyman | Stars: Terry Funk, Tommy Dreamer, Mick Foley, Scott Levy

Votes: 36

48. WCW SuperBrawl III (1993 TV Special)

180 min | Action, Sport

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Director: Craig Leathers | Stars: Steve Austin, Marcus Bagwell, Wendy Barlow, Chris Benoit

Votes: 64

49. Extreme Championship Wrestling: The Best of Cactus Jack (2001 Video)

Sport

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Stars: Mick Foley, Bill Alfonso, Jeff Bradley, Terry Brunk

Votes: 41

50. Ring of Honor Wrestling (2009– )
Episode: Episode #13.27 (2021)

TV-14 | Action, Sport

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Stars: Bandido, Mike Bennett, Caprice Coleman, Bobby Cruise