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1. Minority Report (2002)

PG-13 | 145 min | Action, Crime, Mystery

John works with the PreCrime police which stop crimes before they take place, with the help of three 'PreCogs' who can foresee crimes. Events ensue when John finds himself framed for a future murder.

Director: Steven Spielberg | Stars: Tom Cruise, Colin Farrell, Samantha Morton, Max von Sydow

Votes: 584,129 | Gross: $132.07M

2. Nightmare Alley (2021)

R | 150 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

A grifter working his way up from low-ranking carnival worker to lauded psychic medium matches wits with a psychologist bent on exposing him.

Director: Guillermo del Toro | Stars: Bradley Cooper, Cate Blanchett, Toni Collette, Willem Dafoe

Votes: 165,212 | Gross: $11.34M

3. Good Luck Chuck (2007)

R | 96 min | Comedy, Romance

In order to keep the woman of his dreams from falling for another guy, Charlie Logan has to break the curse that has made him wildly popular with single women: Sleep with Charlie once, and the next man you meet will be your true love.

Director: Mark Helfrich | Stars: Dane Cook, Jessica Alba, Dan Fogler, Connor Price

Votes: 94,466 | Gross: $35.02M

4. Pink Flamingos (1972)

NC-17 | 93 min | Comedy, Crime

Notorious Baltimore criminal and underground figure Divine goes up against a sleazy married couple who make a passionate attempt to humiliate her and seize her tabloid-given title as "The Filthiest Person Alive".

Director: John Waters | Stars: Divine, David Lochary, Mary Vivian Pearce, Mink Stole

Votes: 27,891 | Gross: $0.18M

5. The Devils (1971)

R | 111 min | Biography, Drama, History

In 17th-century France, Father Urbain Grandier's protection of the city of Loudun from the corrupt Cardinal Richelieu is undermined by a sexually repressed nun's accusation of witchcraft.

Director: Ken Russell | Stars: Vanessa Redgrave, Oliver Reed, Dudley Sutton, Max Adrian

Votes: 18,652 | Gross: $1.13M

6. The Producers (2005)

PG-13 | 134 min | Comedy, Crime, Musical

After putting together another Broadway flop, down-on-his-luck producer Max Bialystock teams up with timid accountant Leo Bloom in a get-rich-quick scheme to put on the world's worst show.

Director: Susan Stroman | Stars: Nathan Lane, Matthew Broderick, Uma Thurman, Will Ferrell

Votes: 44,767 | Gross: $19.38M

7. Henry & June (1990)

NC-17 | 136 min | Biography, Drama

Anaïs Nin meets American writer Henry Miller in Paris in 1931. She keeps a diary of her sexual awakening, which includes Henry and his wife June.

Director: Philip Kaufman | Stars: Fred Ward, Uma Thurman, Maria de Medeiros, Richard E. Grant

Votes: 14,184 | Gross: $11.57M

8. La Vie En Rose (2007)

PG-13 | 140 min | Biography, Drama, Music

Biopic of the iconic French singer Édith Piaf. Raised by her grandmother in a brothel, she was discovered while singing on a street corner at the age of 19. Despite her success, Piaf's life was filled with tragedy.

Director: Olivier Dahan | Stars: Marion Cotillard, Sylvie Testud, Pascal Greggory, Emmanuelle Seigner

Votes: 90,723 | Gross: $10.30M

9. The Love Guru (2008)

PG-13 | 87 min | Comedy, Romance, Sport

Pitka, an American raised outside of his country by gurus, returns to the States in order to break into the self-help business. His first challenge is to settle the romantic troubles and subsequent professional skid of a star hockey player whose wife left him for a rival athlete.

Director: Marco Schnabel | Stars: Mike Myers, Jessica Alba, Romany Malco, Jessica Simpson

Votes: 54,964 | Gross: $32.24M

10. Holy Motors (2012)

Not Rated | 115 min | Drama, Fantasy

A man boards a limousine to be driven to his day's work: nine mysterious "appointments."

Director: Leos Carax | Stars: Denis Lavant, Edith Scob, Eva Mendes, Kylie Minogue

Votes: 48,891

11. Bratz (2007)

PG | 110 min | Comedy, Family, Music

During their first year of high school, four best girlfriends face off against the domineering student body President, who wants to split them up into different social cliques.

Director: Sean McNamara | Stars: Skyler Shaye, Janel Parrish, Logan Browning, Nathalia Ramos

Votes: 24,880 | Gross: $10.01M

12. The Devil Inside (2012)

R | 83 min | Horror

In Italy, a woman becomes involved in a series of unauthorized exorcisms during her mission to discover what happened to her mother, who allegedly murdered three people during her own exorcism.

Director: William Brent Bell | Stars: Fernanda Andrade, Simon Quarterman, Evan Helmuth, Ionut Grama

Votes: 37,499 | Gross: $53.26M

13. Three... Extremes (2004)

R | 125 min | Horror

An Asian cross-cultural trilogy of horror films from accomplished indie directors.

Directors: Fruit Chan, Park Chan-wook, Takashi Miike | Stars: Bai Ling, Lee Byung-hun, Kyoko Hasegawa, Pauline Lau

Votes: 20,861 | Gross: $0.08M

14. Micmacs (2009)

R | 105 min | Action, Comedy, Crime

A man and his friends come up with an intricate and original plan to destroy two big weapons manufacturers.

Director: Jean-Pierre Jeunet | Stars: Dany Boon, André Dussollier, Nicolas Marié, Yolande Moreau

Votes: 31,266 | Gross: $1.26M

15. Encounters at the End of the World (2007)

G | 99 min | Documentary

Film-maker Werner Herzog travels to the McMurdo Station in Antarctica, looking to capture the continent's beauty and investigate the characters living there.

Director: Werner Herzog | Stars: Werner Herzog, Scott Rowland, Stefan Pashov, Doug MacAyeal

Votes: 19,247 | Gross: $0.94M

16. La fille sur le pont (1999)

R | 90 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

One night, a fading entertainer intervenes when a woman contemplates suicide, beginning a strange, unpredictable relationship.

Director: Patrice Leconte | Stars: Vanessa Paradis, Daniel Auteuil, Frédéric Pfluger, Dimitris Georgalas

Votes: 14,357 | Gross: $1.71M

17. Man of a Thousand Faces (1957)

Approved | 122 min | Biography, Drama

The life and career of vaudevillian and silent-screen horror star Lon Chaney, including his contentious relationship with his neurotic wife and his premature death.

Director: Joseph Pevney | Stars: James Cagney, Dorothy Malone, Jane Greer, Marjorie Rambeau

Votes: 2,961

18. Cirque du Soleil: Worlds Away (2012)

PG | 91 min | Fantasy

A young woman is entranced by an Aerialist. When they fall into the dreamlike world of Cirque du Soleil and are separated, they travel through the different tent worlds trying to find each other.

Director: Andrew Adamson | Stars: Erica Linz, Igor Zaripov, Lutz Halbhubner, John Clarke

Votes: 8,229 | Gross: $12.50M

19. Houdini (1953)

Approved | 106 min | Biography, Drama, Romance

From his beginnings as a "wildman" carnival act to the internationally famous feat of escaping from a locked trunk in an ice-jammed river, the great Harry Houdini emerged as the world's most captivating magician and escape artist.

Director: George Marshall | Stars: Tony Curtis, Janet Leigh, Torin Thatcher, Angela Clarke

Votes: 3,725

20. Two Knights of Vaudeville (1915)

11 min | Comedy, Short

Two Actors try their hands at stage comedy.

Stars: Jimmy Marshall, Florence McClain, Frank Montgomery, Bert Murphy

Votes: 246

21. Silent Tongue (1993)

PG-13 | 102 min | Drama, Horror, Western

Mad with grief after the death of his Kiowa wife, Talbot awaits death under a tree with her body beside him. She begins to haunt him because he won't burn her. His father, who bought him the wife, thinks her sister might reason with him.

Director: Sam Shepard | Stars: Alan Bates, Richard Harris, River Phoenix, Dermot Mulroney

Votes: 1,308 | Gross: $0.06M

22. The Girl of Your Dreams (1998)

R | 121 min | Comedy, Drama

A company of Spanish movie makers leaves Franco's Spain and moves to Hitler's Germany to produce a film. Problems soon arise.

Director: Fernando Trueba | Stars: Penélope Cruz, Antonio Resines, Jorge Sanz, Rosa Maria Sardà

Votes: 4,514

23. Howling VI: The Freaks (1991 Video)

R | 100 min | Comedy, Drama, Horror

A villainous carnival owner traps a young werewolf to include in his growing menagerie of inhuman exhibits.

Director: Hope Perello | Stars: Brendan Hughes, Michele Matheson, Sean Sullivan, Antonio Fargas

Votes: 2,464

24. The Prince Who Was a Thief (1951)

Approved | 88 min | Adventure

In 13th-century Tangiers, regent Mustapha hires a paid assassin to kill baby Prince Hussein in order to usurp his throne but the assassin has second thoughts and steals the baby for himself.

Director: Rudolph Maté | Stars: Tony Curtis, Piper Laurie, Everett Sloane, Jeff Corey

Votes: 784

25. Innocence (2000)

R | 94 min | Drama

After more than forty years apart, Andreas and Claire embark on an affair as reckless and intense as when they were young lovers. Widowed musician Andreas decides to get back in touch with ... See full summary »

Director: Paul Cox | Stars: Julia Blake, Charles 'Bud' Tingwell, Kristine Van Pellicom, Kenny Aernouts

Votes: 1,993 | Gross: $0.29M

26. Tian can di que (1979)

R | 90 min | Action, Drama

Two men skilled in the arts of Kung-Fu are betrayed by their master and crippled for life, one left with no arms and the other with no legs. Despite their obvious disadvantages, they learn ... See full summary »

Director: Chi Lo | Stars: Sung-Chuan Shen, Chao-Ming Kang, Chiu Ho, Chung-Kuei Chang

Votes: 1,010

27. Sally, Irene and Mary (1925)

75 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

Three women performing in a Broadway show face temptation, love, money, betrayal and tragedy as the cost of fame.

Director: Edmund Goulding | Stars: Constance Bennett, Joan Crawford, Sally O'Neil, William Haines

Votes: 289

28. Gambling with Souls (1936)

Unrated | 70 min | Drama

Young girls are cheated in rigged gambling games and then forced into prostitution to pay off their debts.

Director: Elmer Clifton | Stars: Martha Chapin, Wheeler Oakman, Bryant Washburn, Gay Sheridan

Votes: 211

29. Alegría (1999)

PG | 94 min | Drama, Romance, Fantasy

The acclaimed Canadian performance troupe Cirque de Soleil, which combines acrobatics, magic, music, and theater into spectacular stage productions, brings one of their most popular shows to the screen.

Director: Franco Dragone | Stars: René Bazinet, Frank Langella, Mako, Julie Cox

Votes: 584

30. Dixiana (1930)

Passed | 100 min | Comedy, Drama, Music

In antebellum New Orleans, two men vie for the affections of a beautiful young girl during Mardi Gras.

Director: Luther Reed | Stars: Bebe Daniels, Everett Marshall, Bert Wheeler, Robert Woolsey

Votes: 423

31. Slaves in Bondage (1937)

Passed | 70 min | Crime, Drama

Berrywood Roadhouse is a den of iniquity outside of town. Crooks use a beauty shop to recruit floozies into vice. The crooks target Dona Lee, who works at the beauty salon and is pursued by reporter wannabe Phillip as their next victim.

Director: Elmer Clifton | Stars: Lona Andre, Donald Reed, Wheeler Oakman, Florence Dudley

Votes: 242

32. The Magic of the Golden Bear: Goldy III (1994)

G | 104 min | Adventure, Comedy, Family

When a sly magician casts a spell so that he can buy Goldy, the last Golden Bear, Jesse runs away with her pet. Hiding deep in the heart of the forest, the youngster meets a 'Ghostman' who believes all animals should be free. In HD.

Director: John Quinn | Stars: Cheech Marin, Mr. T, Bonnie Morgan, Danny Woodburn

Votes: 85

33. Whirlpool (1934)

Passed | 80 min | Crime, Drama, Romance

Carnie owner Buck Rankin marries local girl Helen and plans to go straight, but after a brawl ends up with a twenty-year sentence for manslaughter. When a pregnant Helen vows to wait for ... See full summary »

Director: Roy William Neill | Stars: Jack Holt, Jean Arthur, Donald Cook, Allen Jenkins

Votes: 445

34. More Than a Secretary (1936)

Passed | 77 min | Comedy, Romance

When the co-owner of a secretarial school visits a magazine editor to find out why he runs through secretaries, she's mistaken for an applicant. Drawn to him, she accepts the position.

Director: Alfred E. Green | Stars: Jean Arthur, George Brent, Lionel Stander, Ruth Donnelly

Votes: 651

35. Broadway Rhythm (1944)

Passed | 115 min | Music, Romance

A reluctantly-retired vaudevillian clashes with his producer son, who thinks his father's entertainment is passe'--audiences need something more sophisticated. Meanwhile, the producer's father and sister secretly produce their own show.

Director: Roy Del Ruth | Stars: George Murphy, Ginny Simms, Charles Winninger, Gloria DeHaven

Votes: 341

36. Red Hot Chili Peppers: Soul to Squeeze (1993 Music Video)

5 min | Music

Red Hot Chili Peppers performs in the music video "Soul to Squeeze" from the original motion picture soundtrack for the film Coneheads (1993) recorded for Warner Brothers Records. The music... See full summary »

Director: Kevin Kerslake | Stars: Red Hot Chili Peppers, Chris Farley, Flea, John Frusciante

Votes: 62

37. Vendus (2004)

91 min | Comedy

An adulterous man married to a wealthy Realtor plans on killing his wife with the assistance of his young lover. Little does the cheating husband know that his young lover is planning to blackmail him.

Director: Éric Tessier | Stars: Brigitte Paquette, Serge Thériault, Véronique Bannon, Jean-Robert Bourdage

Votes: 128

38. Le grand jour (2015)

Not Rated | 86 min | Documentary

Separated by the distance of the countries where they live, four young people are united by their desire to overcome obstacles to conquer their dreams and passions in search of a better life.

Director: Pascal Plisson | Stars: Nidhi Jha, Albert Gonzalez Monteagudo, Delgermurun 'Deegii' Batjargal, Tom Ssekabira

Votes: 98

39. You Can't Buy Luck (1937)

Approved | 61 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Wealthy and superstitious race-horse owner Joe Baldwin practices philanthropy because he believes his charity donations bring luck to his ponies. One object of his bounty is gold-digger ... See full summary »

Director: Lew Landers | Stars: Onslow Stevens, Helen Mack, Vinton Hayworth, Maxine Jennings

Votes: 136

40. All-Star Vaudeville (1935)

Approved | 11 min | Short, Comedy, Music

A miniature vaudeville show, complete with a title card introducing each act, is presented. First up is The On-Wah Troupe, an East Asian group of contortionists. Next, Blossom Seeley and ... See full summary »

Director: Roy Mack | Stars: Pat Rooney, Pat Rooney Jr., Blossom Seeley, Benny Fields

Votes: 67

41. Hello, Sucker (1941)

Passed | 60 min | Action, Comedy

A young couple buy a bankrupt vaudeville booking agency, and try to make it a success.

Director: Edward F. Cline | Stars: Hugh Herbert, Tom Brown, Peggy Moran, Lewis Howard

Votes: 23

42. Strictly Unreliable (1932)

20 min | Comedy, Short

Zasu inadvertently turns Thelma's vaudeville act into a shambles.

Director: George Marshall | Stars: Zasu Pitts, Thelma Todd, Charlotte Mineau, Bud Jamison

Votes: 139

43. Falling in Reverse: Just Like You (2015 Music Video)

3 min | Music

A parody of The Voice, called The Choice.

Director: Zach Merck | Stars: Falling in Reverse, Derek Jones, Ronnie Radke, Ryan Seaman

Votes: 12

44. Luis Martinetti, Contortionist (1894)

Unrated | 1 min | Short

Luis Martinetti, a contortionist suspended from acrobatic flying rings, contorts himself for about thirty seconds. This is one of the first films made for Edison's kinetoscopes.

Director: William K.L. Dickson | Star: Luis Martinetti

Votes: 710

45. His Busy Day (II) (1918)

Short, Comedy

A two-reel comic number featuring Toto in his usual knockabout tricks. He is first seen flirting in a park, but later appears at a moving picture studio. He gets in trouble here and escapes... See full summary »

Director: Hal Roach | Stars: Armando Novello, Clarine Seymour, Bud Jamison, Margaret Joslin

Votes: 20

46. Lindsey Stirling: Underground (2019 Music Video)

4 min | Music

Official music video for "Underground" by Lindsey Stirling.

Director: Tom Teller | Stars: Bdash, Miranda Derrick, Sofie Dossi, Lindsey Stirling

47. A Merry Tudor Christmas with Lucy Worsley (2019 TV Movie)

Not Rated | 60 min | Documentary, History

Lucy Worlsey takes us back in time to see what it was like for the 12 days of Christmas in King Henry VIII day. From the food, presents, dress, dances, music, celebrations, customs and more... See full summary »

Director: Peter Sweasey | Stars: Tom Cosnel, Sean Cunningham, Annie Gray, Maria Hayward

Votes: 189

48. Nancy Drew: The Shattered Medallion (2014 Video Game)

E | Adventure, Mystery

Teen detective Nancy Drew travels to New Zealand to compete in a reality TV competition and ends up investigating the strange mishaps that are causing the show to spiral out of control.

Director: Tim Burke | Stars: Lani Minella, Jennifer Pratt, Sofia Rybin, Shiromi Arserio

Votes: 41

49. Cameron vs. Rosie: Fight Rehearsal (2009 Video)

6 min | Short

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Stars: Summer Glau, Joel Kramer, James Middleton, Bonnie Morgan

Votes: 13

50. Naked! Bound! Helpless! (2003 Video)

45 min | Adventure

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Stars: Penny Flame, Jade Flowers, Ann Harlow, Anna Mills