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1. Shooter (I) (2007)
R | 124 min | Action, Drama, Thriller
A marksman living in exile is coaxed back into action after hearing of a plot to kill the President. After being-double crossed for the attempt and on the run, he sets out for the real killer and the truth.
Director: Antoine Fuqua | Stars: Mark Wahlberg, Michael Peña, Rhona Mitra, Danny Glover
Votes: 357,550 | Gross: $47.00M
2. 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: 219,653 | Gross: $31.58M
3. The Place Beyond the Pines (2012)
R | 140 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
Two men and their sons must deal with the unforeseen consequences of their actions.
Director: Derek Cianfrance | Stars: Ryan Gosling, Bradley Cooper, Eva Mendes, Craig Van Hook
Votes: 292,036 | Gross: $21.38M
4. Greenland (2020)
PG-13 | 119 min | Action, Thriller
A family struggles for survival in the face of a cataclysmic natural disaster.
Director: Ric Roman Waugh | Stars: Gerard Butler, Morena Baccarin, Roger Dale Floyd, Scott Glenn
Votes: 135,144
5. Brothers (I) (2009)
R | 105 min | Drama, Thriller, War
While on tour in Afghanistan, Sam's helicopter is shot down and he is presumed dead. Back home, it is his screw-up brother who looks after the family. Sam does return, but with a lot of excess baggage.
Director: Jim Sheridan | Stars: Jake Gyllenhaal, Natalie Portman, Tobey Maguire, Sam Shepard
Votes: 147,377 | Gross: $28.50M
6. Space Jam (1996)
PG | 88 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy
In a desperate attempt to win a basketball match and earn their freedom, the Looney Tunes seek the aid of retired basketball champion, Michael Jordan.
Director: Joe Pytka | Stars: Michael Jordan, Wayne Knight, Theresa Randle, Manner Washington
Votes: 214,618 | Gross: $90.46M
7. Color of Night (1994)
R | 121 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance
A color-blind psychoanalyst is stalked by an unknown killer after taking over his murdered friend's therapy group, all of whom have a connection to a mysterious young woman that he begins having intense sexual encounters with.
Director: Richard Rush | Stars: Bruce Willis, Jane March, Rubén Blades, Lesley Ann Warren
Votes: 25,861 | Gross: $19.72M
8. Escape Plan (2013)
R | 115 min | Action, Thriller
When a structural-security authority finds himself set up and incarcerated in the world's most secret and secure prison, he has to use his skills to escape with help from the inside.
Director: Mikael Håfström | Stars: Sylvester Stallone, Arnold Schwarzenegger, 50 Cent, Vincent D'Onofrio
Votes: 258,924 | Gross: $25.13M
9. Riders of Justice (2020)
Not Rated | 116 min | Action, Comedy, Drama
Markus goes home to his teenage daughter, Mathilde, when his wife dies in a train crash. All appears to be a tragic accident until a mathematics geek, who was also a fellow passenger on the train, and his two colleagues show up.
Director: Anders Thomas Jensen | Stars: Mads Mikkelsen, Nikolaj Lie Kaas, Andrea Heick Gadeberg, Lars Brygmann
Votes: 63,908
10. Death Wish (2018)
R | 107 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Dr. Paul Kersey is an experienced trauma surgeon, a man who has spent his life saving lives. After an attack on his family, Paul embarks on his own mission for justice.
Director: Eli Roth | Stars: Bruce Willis, Vincent D'Onofrio, Elisabeth Shue, Camila Morrone
Votes: 76,942 | Gross: $34.02M
11. Cat's Eye (1985)
PG-13 | 94 min | Comedy, Horror, Thriller
A stray cat is the linking element of three tales of suspense and horror.
Director: Lewis Teague | Stars: Drew Barrymore, James Woods, Alan King, Kenneth McMillan
Votes: 28,339 | Gross: $13.09M
12. 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: 45,140
13. Gothika (2003)
R | 98 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
A psychiatrist awakens as a patient in a mental institution, with no memory of the murder she's accused of committing. As she tries to regain her memory, a vengeful spirit manipulates her.
Director: Mathieu Kassovitz | Stars: Halle Berry, Penélope Cruz, Robert Downey Jr., Charles S. Dutton
Votes: 119,740 | Gross: $59.69M
14. Unsane (2018)
R | 98 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
A young woman is involuntarily committed to a mental institution, where she is confronted by her greatest fear - but is it real or a product of her delusion?
Director: Steven Soderbergh | Stars: Claire Foy, Joshua Leonard, Jay Pharoah, Juno Temple
Votes: 50,179 | Gross: $7.73M
15. Infinity Train (I) (2019–2021)
TV-PG | 11 min | Animation, Short, Action
Various people get trapped on a mysterious train with an endless number of cars, each one being its own universe, and they must resolve their psychological trauma and emotional issues in order to get home in this animated anthology series.
Stars: Ashley Johnson, Owen Dennis, Jeremy Crutchley, Kirby
Votes: 9,706
16. The Forgotten (2004)
PG-13 | 91 min | Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
After being told that their children never existed, a man and woman soon discover there is a much bigger enemy at work.
Director: Joseph Ruben | Stars: Julianne Moore, Dominic West, Christopher Kovaleski, Matthew Pleszewicz
Votes: 68,661 | Gross: $66.64M
17. Ben Is Back (2018)
R | 103 min | Drama
A drug addicted teenage boy shows up unexpectedly at his family's home on Christmas Eve.
Director: Peter Hedges | Stars: Julia Roberts, Lucas Hedges, Courtney B. Vance, Kathryn Newton
Votes: 24,270 | Gross: $3.70M
18. House Arrest (1996)
PG | 108 min | Comedy, Family
Desperate to keep their various parents from getting divorced, a group of teenagers kidnaps them and holds them prisoner in a basement to force them to reconcile.
Director: Harry Winer | Stars: Jamie Lee Curtis, Kevin Pollak, Kyle Howard, Herbert Russell
Votes: 9,299 | Gross: $6.97M
19. Little Evil (2017)
TV-MA | 94 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
Gary, who has just married Samantha, the woman of his dreams, discovers that her six-year-old son may be the Antichrist.
Director: Eli Craig | Stars: Evangeline Lilly, Owen Atlas, Adam Scott, Marcus Terrell Smith
Votes: 23,368
20. The Road Within (2014)
R | 100 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama
A young man with Tourette's Syndrome embarks on a road trip with his recently-deceased mother's ashes.
Director: Gren Wells | Stars: Robert Sheehan, Dev Patel, Zoë Kravitz, Robert Patrick
Votes: 16,362
21. Heavy Trip (2018)
92 min | Comedy, Music
After years of playing songs by other artists, the opportunity of a concert in Norway encourages a metal band to compose their own material, but not before overcoming some unexpected difficulties.
Directors: Juuso Laatio, Jukka Vidgren | Stars: Johannes Holopainen, Samuli Jaskio, Antti Tuomas Heikkinen, Max Ovaska
Votes: 10,684 | Gross: $0.01M
22. Meet the Applegates (1990)
R | 90 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
Modelling themselves after an idyllic cookie-cutter suburban 1950s family, a colony of insects move from South America into the United States with the intent of getting access to the nation's nuclear resources.
Director: Michael Lehmann | Stars: Ed Begley Jr., Stockard Channing, Dabney Coleman, Bobby Jacoby
Votes: 2,619 | Gross: $0.49M
23. Demons of the Mind (1972)
R | 89 min | Horror, Thriller
A physician discovers that two children are being kept virtually imprisoned in their house by their father. He investigates, and discovers a web of sex, incest, and Satanic possession.
Director: Peter Sykes | Stars: Robert Hardy, Shane Briant, Gillian Hills, Yvonne Mitchell
Votes: 1,849
24. Scorned 2 (1997)
R | 98 min | Drama, Thriller
Amanda Foley has confusing nightmares and flashbacks that lead her to seek professional help. Nothing can shed light on her repressed memories, until she happens to catch her husband a ... See full summary »
Director: Rodney McDonald | Stars: Tane McClure, Andrew Stevens, Myles O'Brien, Alexander Keith
Votes: 543
25. Sordid Lives (2000)
R | 111 min | Comedy, Romance
As three generations of a family in a small Texas town gather for a funeral, we learn the hilarious, sad, trashy truth of their "Sordid Lives."
Director: Del Shores | Stars: Delta Burke, Bonnie Bedelia, Olivia Newton-John, Kirk Geiger
Votes: 3,531 | Gross: $1.11M
26. Advantages of Travelling by Train (2019)
106 min | Comedy, Mystery, Thriller
Bizarre stories unfold surrounding the encounter of a woman and her husband's psychiatrist in a train.
Director: Aritz Moreno | Stars: Luis Tosar, Pilar Castro, Ernesto Alterio, Quim Gutiérrez
Votes: 3,300
27. Citadel (I) (2012)
R | 84 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller
An agoraphobic father teams up with a renegade priest to save his daughter from the clutches of a gang of twisted feral children who committed an act of violence against his family years earlier.
Director: Ciarán Foy | Stars: Aneurin Barnard, James Cosmo, Wunmi Mosaku, Jake Wilson
Votes: 7,360
28. Are You My Daughter? (2015 TV Movie)
TV-14 | 85 min | Drama, Thriller
Laura Paddington is overcome with joy when her daughter, Zoe, returns to her after being abducted 17 years before--but is Zoe really her long lost child?
Director: Jason Bourque | Stars: Brooke Langton, Peter Benson, Stephanie Bennett, Mike Dopud
Votes: 366
29. Close Your Eyes (2002)
R | 108 min | Crime, Horror, Mystery
A hypnotherapist is caught up in the pursuit of a serial killer.
Director: Nick Willing | Stars: Goran Visnjic, Paddy Considine, Shirley Henderson, Miranda Otto
Votes: 3,259 | Gross: $0.04M
30. The New Adventures of Pinocchio (1999)
Not Rated | 94 min | Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Puppeteer Geppetto becomes a puppet himself after drinking an elixir that Pinocchio bought from a traveling carnival.
Director: Michael Anderson | Stars: Martin Landau, Udo Kier, Gabriel Thomson, Sarah Alexander
Votes: 868
31. Deadly Daycare (2014)
TV-14 | 88 min | Drama, Thriller
Rachel decides to take her three year old daughter to daycare. As the days pass, the woman feels that the teacher turns too with her daughter, reaching an almost obsessive relationship.
Director: Michael Feifer | Stars: Kayla Ewell, Christy Carlson Romano, Bryce Johnson, Ariella Nurkovic
Votes: 544
32. The Wrong Neighbor (2017 TV Movie)
TV-14 | 88 min | Thriller
Newly trial separated Dad takes care of sixteen year old daughter, but meets new neighbor who threatens to unravel his old life.
Director: Sam Irvin | Stars: Michael Madsen, Andrea Bogart, Steve Richard Harris, Cristine Prosperi
Votes: 405
33. Believers (2007 Video)
R | 102 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Two paramedics responding to an emergency call find themselves kidnapped by a religious sect whose great obsession is to stop the end of the world by committing suicide and killing people.
Director: Daniel Myrick | Stars: Johnny Messner, Jon Huertas, Daniel Benzali, Erik Passoja
Votes: 2,375
34. Heil (2015)
102 min | Comedy
An African-German author loses his memory and is used by a modern National Socialist Party as promotion-figure for more political power over Germany.
Director: Dietrich Brüggemann | Stars: Benno Fürmann, Jerry Hoffmann, Liv Lisa Fries, Jacob Matschenz
Votes: 934
35. In the Shadow of Evil (1995 TV Movie)
96 min | Drama, Crime, Mystery
Jack Brenner is a hot-shot cop on the trail of a serial killer known as The Roper. Just as he's getting close to catching the killer, he is injured and develops amnesia. Dr. Molly Nostrand ... See full summary »
Director: Daniel Sackheim | Stars: Treat Williams, Margaret Colin, Joe Morton, William H. Macy
Votes: 159
36. Pussy (2004)
32 min | Comedy, Short
Fag hag/vigilante Pussy and her side kick kidnap men to play out their decadent and evil sexual fantasies. Can her ineffectual therapist really help?
Director: Stanimir Stoykov
Votes: 121
37. The Resolve (2010– )
25 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
The Resolve centers around Mike Patterson (Russ Cootey), a beleaguered man, gripped by O.C.D. issues with humanity, unleashed by fiery clashes on others. He explains to his therapist Sean ... See full summary »
Stars: Russ Cootey, Alex Ballar, Les Brandt, Anthony Ray Parker
Votes: 43
38. Raspberry Heaven (2004)
R | 102 min | Drama
A brother and sister's tormented past becomes a detective's obsession, a psychologist's nightmare, and a forgotten soldier's personal war.
Director: David Oas | Stars: Alicia Lagano, Morgan Spector, Michael Elich, Douglas Rowe
Votes: 26
39. Alphamann: Amok (1999 TV Movie)
Thriller
Blind ex-cop psychologist Tom Leschek applies with Dutch-born therapist Jessica van der Laan for a job in her Berlin practice, probably unsuccessfully, they go shopping and happen to ... See full summary »
Director: Thomas Jauch | Stars: Hannes Jaenicke, Renée Soutendijk, Michael Trischan, Tatjana Blacher
Votes: 47
40. Alphamann: Die Selbstmörderin (1999 TV Movie)
90 min | Crime
Arms trader Claus Hübner is respected by staff and boss. Nobody suspects he keeps escaped juvenile inmate Nadja in servitude in his home cellar. She escapes, but Hübner chases her to a ... See full summary »
Director: Thomas Jauch | Stars: Hannes Jaenicke, Renée Soutendijk, Michael Trischan, André Hennicke
Votes: 34
41. Accidents at Home and How They Happen (2008)
89 min | Drama
A young Colombian woman's violent and expected suicide prompts her estranged twin sister to confront an adolescent trauma.
Director: Jennifer Reeder | Stars: Tatiana Suarez-Pico, Jon Osbeck, Jesse Hernandez, Ed Blau
Votes: 9
42. Kamikazes: A Deathography (2009 Video)
Not Rated | 98 min | Crime, Drama
Spring 2004, Columbia County Maryland: 19-year-old Christopher Damsel and three accomplices (girlfriend Kelly Hauge and friends Rod Heckles and William Goddard), embarked on a five-day ... See full summary »
Director: Lin Fahrenheit | Stars: Sky Adams, Anna Bridgforth, Eric Buarque, Bob Creager
43.
Baywatch (1989–2001)
Episode:
Deep Trouble
(1995)
TV-PG | 42 min | Action, Adventure, Crime
Matt and C.J. find John D. Cort, now homeless and almost completely blind, living under her lifeguard tower in which C.J. questions his presence and it also brings up a slight case of ... See full summary »
Director: Gus Trikonis | Stars: David Hasselhoff, Pamela Anderson, David Charvet, Yasmine Bleeth
Votes: 136
44.
Baywatch (1989–2001)
Episode:
Tentacles: Part 2
(1993)
TV-PG | 43 min | Action, Adventure, Crime
On the boat, Mitch helps save the convict's life after the surgery, unaware that he and Debra plan to kill him anyway. Meanwhile, Stephanie's younger sister, Caroline, arrives in town for a... See full summary »
Director: Gregory J. Bonann | Stars: David Hasselhoff, Nicole Eggert, David Charvet, Pamela Anderson
Votes: 152
45.
The A-Team (1983–1987)
Episode:
Holiday in the Hills
(1983)
TV-PG | 49 min | Action, Adventure, Crime
After the A-Team completes a mission, they crash on the way home and have to take on hillbillies.
Director: Arnold Laven | Stars: George Peppard, Dirk Benedict, Melinda Culea, Dwight Schultz
Votes: 431
46.
Charmed (1998–2006)
Episode:
Hulkus Pocus
(2005)
TV-PG | 42 min | Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
Agent Murphy calls upon the sisters to help captured a demon who has been infected with a government created virus that causes magical beings to turn "Incredible Hulk." They have to find an antidote to the virus after Billie catches it.
Director: Joel J. Feigenbaum | Stars: Alyssa Milano, Rose McGowan, Holly Marie Combs, Kaley Cuoco
Votes: 519
47.
MacGyver (1985–1992)
Episode:
Nightmares
(1986)
TV-PG | 48 min | Action, Adventure, Crime
MacGyver is kidnapped by enemy agents to retrieve sensitive information he stole from them. To get him to talk, they inject MacGyver with a hallucinogenic drug that will kill him in six hours, unless an antidote they have is administered.
Director: Cliff Bole | Stars: Richard Dean Anderson, Tammy Lauren, Dana Elcar, Robert O'Reilly
Votes: 460
48.
Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987–1994)
Episode:
Code of Honor
(1987)
TV-PG | 46 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
When the leader of an alien culture takes a romantic interest in Lt. Yar, he claims her for his own, to the dismay of his own wife, who, in turn, challenges Tasha in a fight to the death.
Directors: Russ Mayberry, Les Landau | Stars: Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, LeVar Burton, Denise Crosby
Votes: 4,619
49.
Stargate SG-1 (1997–2007)
Episode:
Ripple Effect
(2006)
TV-14 | 44 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
SG-1 returns early from a mission only to realize that they and Gen. Landry aren't on the same page as far as the the mission they've just completed is concerned. The confusion is quickly ... See full summary »
Director: Peter DeLuise | Stars: Ben Browder, Amanda Tapping, Christopher Judge, Beau Bridges
Votes: 1,052
50.
Stargate: Atlantis (2004–2009)
Episode:
Runner
(2005)
TV-PG | 44 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
The team is searching for Ford on a planet. Teyla and Sheppard are taken hostage by a stranger, while Ford tries to convince McKay that he's normal.
Director: Martin Wood | Stars: Joe Flanigan, Torri Higginson, Rachel Luttrell, Rainbow Sun Francks
Votes: 1,040