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1. To Die For (1995)
R | 106 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
A beautiful but naïve aspiring television personality films a documentary on teenagers with a darker ulterior motive.
Director: Gus Van Sant | Stars: Nicole Kidman, Matt Dillon, Joaquin Phoenix, Casey Affleck
Votes: 53,135 | Gross: $21.28M
2. Big Fish (2003)
PG-13 | 125 min | Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
A frustrated son tries to determine the fact from fiction in his dying father's life.
Director: Tim Burton | Stars: Ewan McGregor, Albert Finney, Billy Crudup, Jessica Lange
Votes: 459,220 | Gross: $66.26M
3. The Ninth Gate (1999)
R | 133 min | Mystery, Thriller
A book broker discovers his latest find may summon Satan.
Director: Roman Polanski | Stars: Johnny Depp, Frank Langella, Lena Olin, Emmanuelle Seigner
Votes: 197,721 | Gross: $18.66M
4. Clickbait (2021)
TV-MA | 46 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
When family man Nick Brewer is abducted in a crime with a sinister online twist, those closest to him race to uncover who is behind it and why.
Stars: Zoe Kazan, Betty Gabriel, Phoenix Raei, Adrian Grenier
Votes: 60,600
5. Tokyo Story (1953)
Not Rated | 136 min | Drama
An old couple visit their children and grandchildren in the city, but receive little attention.
Director: Yasujirô Ozu | Stars: Chishû Ryû, Chieko Higashiyama, Sô Yamamura, Setsuko Hara
Votes: 68,756
6. Tristan + Isolde (2006)
PG-13 | 125 min | Action, Drama, Romance
An affair between the second in line to Britain's throne and the princess of the feuding Irish spells doom for the young lovers.
Director: Kevin Reynolds | Stars: James Franco, Sophia Myles, Rufus Sewell, David O'Hara
Votes: 54,320 | Gross: $14.73M
7. A Star Is Born (1954)
Passed | 154 min | Drama, Musical, Romance
A film star helps a young singer and actress find fame, even as age and alcoholism send his own career on a downward spiral.
Director: George Cukor | Stars: Judy Garland, James Mason, Jack Carson, Charles Bickford
Votes: 19,691 | Gross: $14.93M
8. Steam: The Turkish Bath (1997)
94 min | Drama, Romance
Francesco inherits an old palace from a Turkish aunt and moves to Istanbul to renovate it.
Director: Ferzan Özpetek | Stars: Alessandro Gassmann, Francesca d'Aloja, Carlo Cecchi, Halil Ergün
Votes: 7,221 | Gross: $0.66M
9. Bel Ami (2012)
R | 102 min | Crime, Drama, History
A chronicle of a young man's rise to power in Paris via his manipulation of the city's wealthiest and most influential women.
Directors: Declan Donnellan, Nick Ormerod | Stars: Robert Pattinson, Uma Thurman, Kristin Scott Thomas, Christina Ricci
Votes: 19,286 | Gross: $0.12M
10. Mahabharat (2013–2014)
20 min | Drama, History, War
The mother of all wars, the epitome of all rivalries, the cauldron of emotions, insecurities, jealousies, and power play - Mahabharat.
Stars: Saurabh Raj Jain, Shaheer Sheikh, Pooja Sharma, Aham Sharma
Votes: 11,357
11. Nightmare Alley (1947)
Passed | 110 min | Drama, Film-Noir
The rise and fall of Stanton Carlisle, a mentalist whose lies and deceit prove to be his downfall.
Director: Edmund Goulding | Stars: Tyrone Power, Joan Blondell, Coleen Gray, Helen Walker
Votes: 13,424
12. Mirror Mirror (I) (1990)
R | 104 min | Horror, Thriller
A teenage girl begins receiving black magic power through an antique mirror that drips blood, not realizing the mirror is controlled by demonic forces.
Director: Marina Sargenti | Stars: Karen Black, Yvonne De Carlo, William Sanderson, Rainbow Harvest
Votes: 2,203
13. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1945)
PG | 129 min | Drama, Family, Romance
Encouraged by her idealistic if luckless father, a bright and imaginative young woman comes of age in a Brooklyn tenement during the early 1900s.
Director: Elia Kazan | Stars: Dorothy McGuire, Joan Blondell, James Dunn, Lloyd Nolan
Votes: 8,418
14. A Woman of Substance (1984)
300 min | Drama, Romance
Emma Harte, a bright and ambitious servant girl, overcomes her impoverished beginnings in her quest to become a retailing magnate and one of the world's richest women.
Stars: Jenny Seagrove, Barry Bostwick, Deborah Kerr, Diane Baker
Votes: 1,132
15. Baazigar (1993)
Not Rated | 175 min | Crime, Drama, Musical
A young man with a vendetta against a business tycoon seduces the man's younger daughter, but she begins to suspect her new lover's connection with her elder sister and his ulterior motive.
Directors: Abbas Alibhai Burmawalla, Mastan Alibhai Burmawalla | Stars: Shah Rukh Khan, Kajol, Dalip Tahil, Rakhee Gulzar
Votes: 30,028
16. Marquise (1997)
120 min | Comedy, Drama, History
The rise and fall of a beauteous actress. She rises from an impoverished background to become a favorite of the Sun King, Louis XIV.
Director: Véra Belmont | Stars: Sophie Marceau, Bernard Giraudeau, Lambert Wilson, Patrick Timsit
Votes: 1,473 | Gross: $0.07M
17. Flic Story (1975)
112 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
The hunt for a seasoned killer becomes a matter of life for a policeman. Action-packed drama based on real events.
Director: Jacques Deray | Stars: Alain Delon, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Renato Salvatori, Claudine Auger
Votes: 2,939
18. Doble Kara (2015–2017)
TV-14 | Crime, Drama, Family
Stars: Carmina Villaroel, Julia Montes, Mylene Dizon, Carl John Barrameda
Votes: 60
19. Ruby Gentry (1952)
82 min | Drama, Romance
A sexy but poor young girl marries a rich man she doesn't love, but carries a torch for another man.
Director: King Vidor | Stars: Jennifer Jones, Charlton Heston, Karl Malden, Tom Tully
Votes: 1,769 | Gross: $3.85M
20. In This Our Life (1942)
Approved | 97 min | Drama
The day before her wedding, a pampered young woman absconds with her sister's husband. Her sister begins seeing the woman's former fiancé.
Directors: John Huston, Raoul Walsh | Stars: Bette Davis, Olivia de Havilland, George Brent, Dennis Morgan
Votes: 5,265
21. An Unlikely Romance (2013)
Drama, Romance
Luisa and Erika are prototypes of young women who plunge into relationships with the "wrong" men. Luisa (Berenika Kohoutová) wants to become an actress, which upsets her husband Igor to no ... See full summary »
Director: Ivan Vojnár | Stars: Berenika Kohoutová, Alzbeta Pazoutová, Ivan Vojnár, Michal Capka
Votes: 43
22. Strange Interlude (1932)
Passed | 109 min | Drama
After Nina Leeds finds out that insanity runs in her husband's family, she has a love child with a handsome doctor and lets her husband believes the child is his.
Director: Robert Z. Leonard | Stars: Norma Shearer, Clark Gable, Alexander Kirkland, Ralph Morgan
Votes: 840
23. Kyo Kii... Main Jhuth Nahin Bolta (2001)
Not Rated | 131 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Raj is a successful lawyer due to constant cheating and dishonesty. When his wife comes to know about this, she threatens to leave him. Fearful of his parents' divorce, Raj's son wishes that his father become unable to lie.
Director: David Dhawan | Stars: Govinda, Sushmita Sen, Rambha, Anupam Kher
Votes: 2,557
24. Poslední závod (2022)
102 min | Biography, Drama, Sport
The drama The Last Race recounts the true story of ski race in 1913, in the Giant Mountain peaks, and two pioneers of Czech skiing, Bohumil Hanc and Vaclav Vrbata participating. The story's third hero is the German athlete, Emerich Rath.
Director: Tomás Hodan | Stars: Krystof Hádek, Oldrich Kaiser, Marek Adamczyk, Vladimír Pokorný
Votes: 230
25. Ram Balram (I) (1980)
169 min | Action, Comedy, Drama
Ram and Balram are 2 young boys who live with their loving parents. Their scheming uncle, Jagatpal, however kills the boy's father and mother. Jagatpal lies to the boys that their parents ... See full summary »
Director: Vijay Anand | Stars: Dharmendra, Amitabh Bachchan, Zeenat Aman, Rekha
Votes: 576
26. Women on the Run (2019)
93 min | Comedy, Romance
Women on the Run. Vera has lived a wonderful life with Jindrich, and she is fully determined to fulfill his last wish - running a marathon. The emancipated and spirited mother of three ... See full summary »
Director: Martin Horský | Stars: Zlata Adamovská, Tereza Kostková, Veronika Khek Kubarová, Jenovéfa Boková
Votes: 842
27. Babangon ako't dudurugin kita (2008– )
Action, Crime, Drama
Salve is a sweet girl, the kind who would wait hand and foot on her husband. But she lacks the qualities Alfred is looking for in a wife. He wants a woman who can be his business partner, ... See full summary »
Stars: Dina Bonnevie, Marvin Agustin, Yasmien Kurdi, JC De Vera
Votes: 24
28. I Give My Love (1934)
Approved | 70 min | Crime, Drama
A woman devotes her life to her son, who went to prison for killing her abusive husband.
Director: Karl Freund | Stars: Paul Lukas, Wynne Gibson, Eric Linden, Anita Louise
Votes: 30
29. Periferie (2017 TV Movie)
150 min | Crime, Drama
Director: Martin Huba | Stars: Igor Bares, Vojtech Bartos, Andrea Cerná, Tomás Dastlík
30. The Traitor Within (1942)
Approved | 62 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Ambitious young truck driver Sam Starr is in love with Molly Betts, who shares with her father a resentment against John Scott Ryder,the town's Mayor. In WW I, Ryder took credit for an act ... See full summary »
Director: Frank McDonald | Stars: Don 'Red' Barry, Jean Parker, George Cleveland, Ralph Morgan
31. Ztrácím te, lásko (1978 TV Movie)
85 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A rough behind-the-scenes look at the world of the record industry, famous pop stars and the fierce competition for the public's favor.
Director: Eva Sadková | Stars: Jana Hlavácová, Viktor Preiss, Petr Hanicinec, Frantisek Vicena
Votes: 21