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1. Godzilla vs. Kong (2021)
PG-13 | 113 min | Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
The epic next chapter in the cinematic Monsterverse pits two of the greatest icons in motion picture history against each other--the fearsome Godzilla and the mighty Kong--with humanity caught in the balance.
Director: Adam Wingard | Stars: Alexander Skarsgård, Millie Bobby Brown, Rebecca Hall, Brian Tyree Henry
Votes: 241,165 | Gross: $100.92M
2. The Shining (1980)
R | 146 min | Drama, Horror
A family heads to an isolated hotel for the winter where a sinister presence influences the father into violence, while his psychic son sees horrific forebodings from both past and future.
Director: Stanley Kubrick | Stars: Jack Nicholson, Shelley Duvall, Danny Lloyd, Scatman Crothers
Votes: 1,105,997 | Gross: $44.02M
3. Braveheart (1995)
R | 178 min | Biography, Drama, War
Scottish warrior William Wallace leads his countrymen in a rebellion to free his homeland from the tyranny of King Edward I of England.
Director: Mel Gibson | Stars: Mel Gibson, Sophie Marceau, Patrick McGoohan, Angus Macfadyen
Votes: 1,090,973 | Gross: $75.60M
4. The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002)
PG-13 | 179 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
While Frodo and Sam edge closer to Mordor with the help of the shifty Gollum, the divided fellowship makes a stand against Sauron's new ally, Saruman, and his hordes of Isengard.
Director: Peter Jackson | Stars: Elijah Wood, Ian McKellen, Viggo Mortensen, Orlando Bloom
Votes: 1,782,980 | Gross: $342.55M
5. Zombieland: Double Tap (2019)
R | 99 min | Action, Comedy, Horror
Columbus, Tallahassee, Wichita, and Little Rock move to the American heartland as they face off against evolved zombies, fellow survivors, and the growing pains of the snarky makeshift family.
Director: Ruben Fleischer | Stars: Woody Harrelson, Jesse Eisenberg, Emma Stone, Abigail Breslin
Votes: 202,501 | Gross: $73.12M
6. Friday the 13th (2009)
R | 97 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
A group of young adults visit a boarded up campsite named Crystal Lake where they soon encounter the mysterious Jason Voorhees and his deadly intentions.
Director: Marcus Nispel | Stars: Jared Padalecki, Amanda Righetti, Derek Mears, Danielle Panabaker
Votes: 116,881 | Gross: $65.00M
7. The Old Guard (2020)
R | 125 min | Action, Thriller
A covert team of immortal mercenaries is suddenly exposed and must now fight to keep their identity a secret just as an unexpected new member is discovered.
Director: Gina Prince-Bythewood | Stars: Charlize Theron, KiKi Layne, Matthias Schoenaerts, Marwan Kenzari
Votes: 183,562
8. High Tension (2003)
R | 91 min | Horror
Best friends Marie and Alexia decide to spend a quiet weekend at Alexia's parents' secluded farmhouse. But on the night of their arrival, the girls' idyllic getaway turns into an endless night of horror.
Director: Alexandre Aja | Stars: Cécile de France, Maïwenn, Philippe Nahon, Franck Khalfoun
Votes: 77,819 | Gross: $3.68M
9. Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter (1984)
R | 91 min | Horror, Thriller
After being announced dead and taken to a morgue, Jason Voorhees spontaneously revives, escapes from the hospital, and stalks a group of friends renting a house in the countryside near Crystal Lake.
Director: Joseph Zito | Stars: Erich Anderson, Judie Aronson, Peter Barton, Kimberly Beck
Votes: 59,128 | Gross: $32.98M
10. Frailty (2001)
R | 100 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A mysterious man arrives at the offices of an FBI agent and recounts his childhood: how his religious fanatic father received visions telling him to destroy people who were in fact "demons."
Director: Bill Paxton | Stars: Bill Paxton, Matthew McConaughey, Powers Boothe, Matt O'Leary
Votes: 91,312 | Gross: $13.10M
11. Doomsday (I) (2008)
R | 105 min | Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
A futuristic action thriller where a team of people work to prevent a disaster threatening the future of the human race.
Director: Neil Marshall | Stars: Rhona Mitra, Bob Hoskins, Alexander Siddig, Caryn Peterson
Votes: 79,916 | Gross: $10.96M
12. Epic Movie (2007)
PG-13 | 86 min | Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
A spoof on previous years' epic movies (The Da Vinci Code (2006), The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (2005) + 20 more), TV series, music videos and celebs. 4 orphans are on an epic adventure.
Directors: Jason Friedberg, Aaron Seltzer | Stars: Kal Penn, Jennifer Coolidge, Fred Willard, Adam Campbell
Votes: 109,530 | Gross: $39.74M
13. Patient Zero (I) (2018)
R | 93 min | Action, Drama, Horror
After an unprecedented global pandemic turns the majority of humankind into violent "Infected," a man gifted with the ability to speak the Infected's new language leads the last survivors on a hunt for Patient Zero and a cure.
Director: Stefan Ruzowitzky | Stars: Matt Smith, Natalie Dormer, John Bradley, Clive Standen
Votes: 9,942
14. Centurion (2010)
R | 97 min | Action, Drama, History
A splinter group of Roman soldiers fight for their lives behind enemy lines after their legion is devastated in a guerrilla attack.
Director: Neil Marshall | Stars: Michael Fassbender, Dominic West, Olga Kurylenko, Andreas Wisniewski
Votes: 86,345 | Gross: $7.89M
15. Fear Street: Part Two - 1978 (2021)
R | 109 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
Shadyside, 1978. School's out for summer and the activities at Camp Nightwing are about to begin. But when another Shadysider is possessed with the urge to kill, the fun in the sun becomes a gruesome fight for survival.
Director: Leigh Janiak | Stars: Sadie Sink, Emily Rudd, Ryan Simpkins, McCabe Slye
Votes: 76,236
16. Solomon Kane (2009)
R | 104 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy
A ruthless mercenary renounces violence after learning his soul is bound for hell. When a young girl is kidnapped and her family slain by a sorcerer's murderous cult, he is forced to fight and seek his redemption slaying evil.
Director: M.J. Bassett | Stars: James Purefoy, Max von Sydow, Rachel Hurd-Wood, Pete Postlethwaite
Votes: 76,382
17. Halloween H20: 20 Years Later (1998)
R | 86 min | Horror, Thriller
Laurie Strode, now the dean of a Northern California private school with an assumed name, must battle the Shape one last time, as the life of her own son hangs in the balance.
Director: Steve Miner | Stars: Jamie Lee Curtis, Josh Hartnett, Adam Arkin, Michelle Williams
Votes: 82,021 | Gross: $55.04M
18. The Ward (2010)
R | 89 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
An institutionalized young woman becomes terrorized by a ghost.
Director: John Carpenter | Stars: Amber Heard, Mamie Gummer, Danielle Panabaker, Laura-Leigh
Votes: 44,869
19. U Turn (1997)
R | 125 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A man heading to Vegas to pay off his gambling debt before the Russian mafia kills him is forced to stop in an Arizona town where everything that can go wrong does go wrong.
Director: Oliver Stone | Stars: Sean Penn, Jennifer Lopez, Nick Nolte, Billy Bob Thornton
Votes: 54,755 | Gross: $6.63M
20. Jonah Hex (2010)
PG-13 | 81 min | Action, Drama, Fantasy
The U.S. military makes a scarred bounty hunter with warrants on his own head an offer he cannot refuse: in exchange for his freedom, he must stop a terrorist who is ready to unleash Hell on Earth.
Director: Jimmy Hayward | Stars: Josh Brolin, Megan Fox, John Malkovich, Michael Fassbender
Votes: 61,779 | Gross: $10.54M
21. Cell (I) (2016)
R | 98 min | Action, Adventure, Horror
When a mysterious cell phone signal causes apocalyptic chaos, an artist is determined to reunite with his young son in New England.
Director: Tod Williams | Stars: John Cusack, Samuel L. Jackson, Isabelle Fuhrman, Clark Sarullo
Votes: 30,676
22. Punisher: War Zone (2008)
R | 103 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Frank Castle, known as the Punisher, ruthlessly demolishes organized crime, but it starts an even bigger war.
Director: Lexi Alexander | Stars: Ray Stevenson, Dominic West, Julie Benz, Doug Hutchison
Votes: 67,150 | Gross: $8.05M
23. House of the Dead (2003)
R | 90 min | Action, Adventure, Horror
A group of college students travels to a mysterious island to attend a rave, which is soon taken over by bloodthirsty zombies.
Director: Uwe Boll | Stars: Jonathan Cherry, Tyron Leitso, Clint Howard, Ona Grauer
Votes: 38,555 | Gross: $10.25M
24. Final Girl (2015)
R | 84 min | Horror, Thriller
A man teaches a young woman how to become a complete weapon. Later, she is approached by a group of sadistic teens who kill blonde women for unknown reasons. The hunting season begins.
Director: Tyler Shields | Stars: Abigail Breslin, Wes Bentley, Logan Huffman, Alexander Ludwig
Votes: 16,812
25. The Colony (I) (2013)
Not Rated | 95 min | Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
Forced underground by the next ice age, a struggling outpost of survivors must fight to preserve humanity against a threat even more savage than nature.
Director: Jeff Renfroe | Stars: Kevin Zegers, Laurence Fishburne, Bill Paxton, Charlotte Sullivan
Votes: 47,104
26. Braven (2018)
R | 94 min | Action, Thriller
A logger defends his family from a group of dangerous drug runners.
Director: Lin Oeding | Stars: Jason Momoa, Garret Dillahunt, Jill Wagner, Stephen Lang
Votes: 42,105
27. Death Warrant (1990)
R | 89 min | Action, Crime, Mystery
In a violent and corrupt prison, decorated cop Louis Burke must infiltrate the jail to find answers to a number of inside murders. What he finds is a struggle of life and death tied in to his own past.
Director: Deran Sarafian | Stars: Jean-Claude Van Damme, Robert Guillaume, Cynthia Gibb, George Dickerson
Votes: 20,773 | Gross: $16.85M
28. Hatchet II (2010)
R | 85 min | Action, Comedy, Horror
Marybeth escapes the clutches of the bayou-butcher Victor Crowley and returns to the swamp with an army of hunters and gunmen, determined to end Crowley's reign of horror once and for all.
Director: Adam Green | Stars: Danielle Harris, Kane Hodder, Tony Todd, Parry Shen
Votes: 15,084 | Gross: $0.06M
29. The Forgotten (1973)
R | 89 min | Horror, Thriller
A young psychiatric nurse goes to work at a remote asylum following a murder. There, she experiences varying degrees of torment from the patients.
Director: S.F. Brownrigg | Stars: Bill McGhee, Jessie Lee Fulton, Robert Dracup, Harryette Warren
Votes: 3,508
30. Dying Breed (2008)
R | 92 min | Horror, Thriller
Dying Breed interweaves the two most fascinating icons of Tasmanian history: the extinct Tasmanian tiger and "The Pieman" (aka Alexander Pearce) who was hanged for cannibalism in 1824. ... See full summary »
Director: Jody Dwyer | Stars: Nathan Phillips, Leigh Whannell, Bille Brown, Mirrah Foulkes
Votes: 6,302
31. The Tripper (2006)
R | 93 min | Comedy, Horror
A Ronald Reagan-obsessed serial killer targets a bunch of hippies who are heading to a weekend-long concert.
Director: David Arquette | Stars: Jaime King, Thomas Jane, Lukas Haas, David Arquette
Votes: 6,408 | Gross: $0.02M
32. Horror Rises from the Tomb (1973)
R | 88 min | Horror
In Medieval France a warlock is be-headed and his wife tortured and executed. Hundreds of years later an isolated group of people discover his head buried on their property. Soon it comes ... See full summary »
Director: Carlos Aured | Stars: Paul Naschy, Emma Cohen, Víctor Barrera, Helga Liné
Votes: 1,533
33. Simhadri (2003)
Not Rated | 170 min | Action, Drama
Simhadri, a loyal servant in a landlord's house, also leads a secret life as Singamalai, a powerful leader in the state of Kerala.
Directors: S.S. Rajamouli, G.R. Krishna, J.V.V. Sathyanarayana | Stars: N.T. Rama Rao Jr., Bhoomika Chawla, Ankita, Nassar
Votes: 3,510
34. The Terror of the Tongs (1961)
Approved | 76 min | Action, Adventure, Crime
In 1910, Hong Kong members of a secret Tong crime syndicate protect their identities by murdering the daughter of a British sea captain who vows revenge.
Director: Anthony Bushell | Stars: Christopher Lee, Yvonne Monlaur, Geoffrey Toone, Marne Maitland
Votes: 1,183
35. Earth and Blood (2020)
TV-MA | 80 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Saïd owns a sawmill deep in the woods, which he decides to sell. Little does he know that one of his apprentices was cornered by his brother and forced to hide a large amount of cocaine inside the factory.
Director: Julien Leclercq | Stars: Sami Bouajila, Eriq Ebouaney, Samy Seghir, Sofia Lesaffre
Votes: 2,885
36. Steel Frontier (1995 Video)
R | 105 min | Action, Sci-Fi
In a post-apocalyptic 2019, a lone gunman named Yuma fights a gang of bandits called the United Regime who have invaded the town of New Hope.
Directors: Jacobsen Hart, Paul G. Volk | Stars: Joe Lara, Bo Svenson, Stacie Foster, Brion James
Votes: 639
37. Il giorno del Cobra (1980)
95 min | Action, Crime, Drama
An American narcotics agent is murdered in Italy. The head of the department decides to hire Larry Stanziani, 'The Cobra'. Larry, a former agent and now a third-rate private detective, uses... See full summary »
Director: Enzo G. Castellari | Stars: Franco Nero, Sybil Danning, Mario Maranzana, Licinia Lentini
Votes: 577
38. Clay Pigeon (1971)
R | 93 min | Action, Drama
An ex-soldier is recruited by the FBI to go undercover in L.A. and find other ex-soldiers who are part of a drug-dealing gang.
Directors: Lane Slate, Tom Stern | Stars: Tom Stern, Telly Savalas, Robert Vaughn, John Marley
Votes: 182
39. Dead Above Ground (2002)
R | 90 min | Crime, Horror
Students and teachers begin dying the same way as a video depicts.
Director: Chuck Bowman | Stars: Corbin Bernsen, Stephen J. Cannell, Robert Conrad, Adria Dawn
Votes: 422
40. Ditch Day Massacre (2016)
TV-MA | 77 min | Horror, Thriller
Jenny Bilson, a high school senior, is the perfect student, a wonderful daughter to a veteran police detective and an all American Dream. But the one mistake she is unaware of making is ... See full summary »
Director: Joe Hendrick | Stars: Bill Oberst Jr., Katy Foley, Zach Silverman, Morgan Benoit
Votes: 407
41. Blood Runs Cold (2011)
Not Rated | 77 min | Horror
Winona, a successful artist looking to get away from her stressful life. Her manager rents her a house in her home town where she runs in to an old boyfriend. They go back to the house, only to find out it is not as empty as they assumed.
Director: Sonny Laguna | Stars: Hanna Oldenburg, Ralf Beck, Andreas Rylander, Elin Hugoson
Votes: 1,421
42. The Wise Guys (1965)
G | 128 min | Action, Comedy, Crime
An ex-con with ulterior motives convinces the struggling inheritor of a sawmill to use convicts as affordable lumberjacks.
Director: Robert Enrico | Stars: Bourvil, Lino Ventura, Marie Dubois, Jess Hahn
Votes: 1,136
43. Long Arm of the Law: Part 4 (1990)
100 min | Action, Crime, Thriller
The story of gangsters versus police, focusing on the difference between how both factions act depending if they're coming from Hong Kong or Mainland China.
Director: Michael Mak | Stars: Elvis Tsui, Jing Chen, Ching Siu-Lung, Frankie Chi-Leung Chan
Votes: 202
44. La casa del sortilegio (1989 TV Movie)
86 min | Horror, Mystery
A man has dreams of a house and a witch, his girlfriend suggests a break and and head for her family home unbeknown to him the house is the same as in his dreams.
Director: Umberto Lenzi | Stars: Andy J. Forest, Sonia Petrovna, Susanna Martinková, Marina Giulia Cavalli
Votes: 327
45. Ram Shastra (1995)
Action, Drama
Ram Sinha doesn't know that he can re-write his destiny by joining the police force, and at the same time make an enemy with a criminal don named Dhonga the Great. Dhonga swears to avenge ... See full summary »
Director: Sanjay Gupta | Stars: Jackie Shroff, Manisha Koirala, Deepti Bhatnagar, Aditya Pancholi
Votes: 111
46. Fraternity Massacre at Hell Island (2007 Video)
80 min | Comedy, Horror
Jack Jones, a pledge in Zeta Alpha Rho Fraternity must battle homophobia and a killer clown during his fraternity's Hell Night.
Director: Mark Jones | Stars: Gary Berglund, Helen Walk Bowman, Jeff Capps, Antoinette Cheney
Votes: 124
47.
Carnivàle (2003–2005)
Episode:
Babylon
(2003)
TV-MA | 48 min | Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
The carnival finally arrives in Babylon, a tapped-out silver mining town in rural Texas with few inhabitants. Samson tries to improve the troupe's spirits with a night of revelry at the ... See full summary »
Director: Tim Hunter | Stars: Michael J. Anderson, Adrienne Barbeau, Patrick Bauchau, Clancy Brown
Votes: 835
48.
In-Laws (2002–2003)
Episode:
Halloween: Resurrection
(2002)
Comedy, Romance
Surprised that the Pellets have no decoration at all just before Halloween, Matt hangs a witch on their door. Before his in-laws can undo that naive error, it rekindles an old rivalry among... See full summary »
Director: Steve Zuckerman | Stars: Dennis Farina, Elon Gold, Bonnie Somerville, Jean Smart
Votes: 18
49.
24 (2001–2010)
Episode:
Day 8: 4:00 p.m.-5:00 p.m.
(2010)
TV-14 | 42 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A plot to assassinate the President of the Islamic Republic at the UN building comes to Jack Bauer's attention.
Director: Brad Turner | Stars: Kiefer Sutherland, Mary Lynn Rajskub, Anil Kapoor, Mykelti Williamson
Votes: 1,422
50.
The Walking Dead (2010–2022)
Episode:
Guts
(2010)
TV-14 | 45 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller
In Atlanta, Rick is rescued by a group of survivors, but they soon find themselves trapped inside a department store surrounded by walkers.
Director: Michelle MacLaren | Stars: Andrew Lincoln, Jon Bernthal, Sarah Wayne Callies, Laurie Holden
Votes: 18,788