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1. The 355 (2022)

PG-13 | 122 min | Action, Thriller

When a top-secret weapon falls into mercenary hands, a wild-card C.I.A. agent joins forces with three international agents on a mission to retrieve it, while staying a step ahead of a mysterious woman who's tracking their every move.

Director: Simon Kinberg | Stars: Jessica Chastain, Penélope Cruz, Bingbing Fan, Diane Kruger

Votes: 37,837

2. Mary Queen of Scots (2018)

R | 124 min | Biography, Drama, History

Mary Stuart's (Saoirse Ronan's) attempt to overthrow her cousin Elizabeth I (Margot Robbie), Queen of England, finds her condemned to years of imprisonment before facing execution.

Director: Josie Rourke | Stars: Saoirse Ronan, Margot Robbie, Jack Lowden, Joe Alwyn

Votes: 55,412 | Gross: $16.47M

3. Cube (1997)

R | 90 min | Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi

A group of strangers awaken to find themselves placed in a giant cube. Each one of them is gifted with a special skill and they must work together to escape an endless maze of deadly traps.

Director: Vincenzo Natali | Stars: Nicole de Boer, Maurice Dean Wint, David Hewlett, Andrew Miller

Votes: 247,910 | Gross: $0.50M

4. The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956)

PG | 120 min | Drama, Thriller

An American doctor and his wife, a former singing star, witness a murder while vacationing in Morocco, and are drawn into a twisting plot of international intrigue when their young son is kidnapped.

Director: Alfred Hitchcock | Stars: James Stewart, Doris Day, Brenda de Banzie, Bernard Miles

Votes: 69,710 | Gross: $10.25M

5. The Professionals (1966)

PG-13 | 117 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

An arrogant Texas millionaire hires four adventurers to rescue his kidnapped wife from a notorious Mexican bandit.

Director: Richard Brooks | Stars: Burt Lancaster, Lee Marvin, Robert Ryan, Woody Strode

Votes: 18,862 | Gross: $19.54M

6. Dead End (1937)

Approved | 93 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

The lives of a young man, a young woman, an notorious gangster, and a group of street kids converge one day in a volatile New York City slum.

Director: William Wyler | Stars: Sylvia Sidney, Joel McCrea, Humphrey Bogart, Wendy Barrie

Votes: 8,603

7. The Looking Glass War (1970)

M/PG | 108 min | Action, Drama, Thriller

From the John le Carré novel about a British spy who sends a Polish defector to East Germany to verify missile sites.

Director: Frank Pierson | Stars: Christopher Jones, Pia Degermark, Ralph Richardson, Paul Rogers

Votes: 1,441 | Gross: $0.17M

8. All the Little Animals (1998)

R | 112 min | Adventure, Drama, Thriller

Bobby Platt is a mentally slow young man who escapes an abusive, hateful stepfather who has killed his pets one by one. To save himself, Bobby runs away and meets a strange old man who ... See full summary »

Director: Jeremy Thomas | Stars: John Hurt, Christian Bale, Daniel Benzali, James Faulkner

Votes: 3,206 | Gross: $0.03M

9. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1938)

Passed | 91 min | Adventure, Drama, Family

Tom Sawyer and his pal Huckleberry Finn have great adventures on the Mississippi River, pretending to be pirates, attending their own funeral and witnessing a murder.

Director: Norman Taurog | Stars: Tommy Kelly, Jackie Moran, Ann Gillis, May Robson

Votes: 2,243

10. Yogen (2004)

R | 95 min | Horror

A newspaper predicts the deaths of a man's (Hiroshi Mikami) family members and friends.

Director: Norio Tsuruta | Stars: Hiroshi Mikami, Noriko Sakai, Maki Horikita, Mayumi Ono

Votes: 4,607

11. The Pursuit of Happiness (1971)

PG-13 | 93 min | Crime, Drama

A young college student is sent to prison as much for killing a pedestrian with his car as for not paying his parking tickets. When the opportunity presents itself he escapes and is ... See full summary »

Director: Robert Mulligan | Stars: Michael Sarrazin, Barbara Hershey, Arthur Hill, Ruth White

Votes: 446 | Gross: $0.05M

12. Strange Cargo (1940)

Passed | 113 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance

Convicts escaping from Devil's Island come under the influence of a strange Christ-like figure (Ian Hunter).

Director: Frank Borzage | Stars: Clark Gable, Joan Crawford, Ian Hunter, Peter Lorre

Votes: 2,977

13. The Last of the Mohicans (1920)

Not Rated | 73 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

In the midst of the French and Indian War, the eldest daughter of a British officer develops an attraction towards an Indian ally who is the last living warrior of his tribe, the Mohicans.

Directors: Clarence Brown, Maurice Tourneur | Stars: Wallace Beery, Barbara Bedford, Alan Roscoe, Lillian Hall

Votes: 1,445

14. The Penalty (1920)

Passed | 90 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

A deformed criminal mastermind plans to loot the city of San Francisco as well as revenge himself on the doctor who mistakenly amputated his legs.

Director: Wallace Worsley | Stars: Charles Clary, Doris Pawn, Jim Mason, Lon Chaney

Votes: 2,635

15. Judge Priest (1934)

Passed | 80 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

Judge Priest, a proud Confederate veteran, uses common sense and considerable humanity to dispense justice in a small town in the Post-Bellum Kentucky.

Director: John Ford | Stars: Will Rogers, Tom Brown, Anita Louise, Henry B. Walthall

Votes: 2,521

16. The Frogmen (1951)

Approved | 96 min | Adventure, Drama, War

The new commander of a Navy Underwater Demolition Team--nicknamed "Frogmen"--must earn the respect of the men in his unit, who are still grieving over the death of their former commander and resentful of the new one.

Director: Lloyd Bacon | Stars: Richard Widmark, Dana Andrews, Gary Merrill, Jeffrey Hunter

Votes: 1,542

17. An American Summer (1990)

PG-13 | 100 min | Comedy, Drama

Divorcing Chicago parents send their only son to live with his aunt in Los Angeles for the summer, where he befriends a local, learns to surf, gets a girlfriend, and witnesses a murder.

Director: James Slocum | Stars: Michael Landes, Brian Austin Green, Joanna Kerns, Amber Susa

Votes: 283

18. The Emperor Jones (1933)

Not Rated | 72 min | Drama, Music

Unscrupulously ambitious Brutus Jones escapes from jail after killing a guard and through bluff and bravado finds himself the emperor of a Caribbean island.

Directors: Dudley Murphy, William C. de Mille | Stars: Paul Robeson, Dudley Digges, Frank H. Wilson, Fredi Washington

Votes: 1,263

19. The Little Minister (1934)

Approved | 110 min | Drama, Romance

In rural 1840s Scotland, Gavin Dishart arrives to become the new "little minister" of Thrums' Auld Licht church. He meets a mysterious young gypsy girl in the dens and to his horror Babbie ... See full summary »

Director: Richard Wallace | Stars: Katharine Hepburn, John Beal, Alan Hale, Donald Crisp

Votes: 854

20. Quelques jours en septembre (2006)

116 min | Drama, Thriller

On September 1st, 2001 a spy receives information that something terrible will happen soon.

Director: Santiago Amigorena | Stars: Juliette Binoche, John Turturro, Sara Forestier, Tom Riley

Votes: 1,868

21. The Saint in London (1939)

Passed | 72 min | Action, Comedy, Crime

The Saint returns to London and with the help of an American pickpocket and a beautiful adventuress breaks a counterfeiting ring.

Director: John Paddy Carstairs | Stars: George Sanders, Sally Gray, David Burns, Gordon McLeod

Votes: 995

22. The Regeneration (1915)

Passed | 72 min | Biography, Crime, Drama

A boy surrounded by violence grows up to become an infamous gangster.

Director: Raoul Walsh | Stars: Rockliffe Fellowes, Anna Q. Nilsson, William Sheer, Carl Harbaugh

Votes: 1,432

23. Back to God's Country (1919)

Unrated | 73 min | Adventure, Romance, Western

A woman finds herself all alone in a remote harbor with the man responsible for the murder of her father. With seemingly nobody around to protect her, she has to be resourceful.

Director: David Hartford | Stars: Nell Shipman, Charles Arling, Wheeler Oakman, Wellington A. Playter

Votes: 975

24. Code of the Secret Service (1939)

Passed | 58 min | Action, Adventure, Crime

Brass is assigned to uncovering a counterfeiting ring that has stolen bona fide treasury plates and is converting $1 bills to $100 bills through a Mexican casino.

Director: Noel M. Smith | Stars: Ronald Reagan, Rosella Towne, Eddie Foy Jr., Moroni Olsen

Votes: 329

25. Borderline (2017)

97 min | Crime, Drama, Horror

When two estranged sisters go to a mountain to scatter their mother's ashes on the 10th anniversary of her death, past and present start merging causing them to become increasingly paranoid.

Director: Pau Masó | Stars: Paula Roy, Mireia Vallès, Txema Lorente, Mariangels Punyet

Votes: 163

26. Champagne Charlie (1936)

Approved | 59 min | Crime, Drama

The story is told in flashback. Backers want a gambler to marry a rich girl for her dowry. When he double-crosses them he's murdered and the murderer blackmails the girl. Then he is murdered.

Director: James Tinling | Stars: Paul Cavanagh, Helen Wood, Thomas Beck, Minna Gombell

Votes: 159

27. Flaming Ears (1992)

Unrated | 89 min | Fantasy, Sci-Fi

Flaming Ears is a pop sci-fi lesbian fantasy feature set in the year 2700 in the fictive burned-out city of Asche. It follows the tangled lives of three women - Volley, Nun and Spy.

Directors: Ursula Puerrer, A. Hans Scheirl, Dietmar Schipek | Stars: Susana Helmayr, Ursula Puerrer, A. Hans Scheirl, Margarete Neumann

Votes: 140

28. The Sea Bat (1930)

Passed | 58 min | Action, Romance, Thriller

The West Indies island of Portuga exists mainly for sponge diving. But the best area of collection is frequented by a very large manta ray. Nina loses her brother to the creature and is ... See full summary »

Directors: Lionel Barrymore, Wesley Ruggles | Stars: Raquel Torres, Charles Bickford, Nils Asther, George F. Marion

Votes: 298

29. The Son-Daughter (1932)

Passed | 79 min | Drama

A large group of Chinese immigrants in San Francisco is clandestinely donating whatever money they earn to smuggle arms into China for the rebels in their fight against the centuries old ... See full summary »

Directors: Clarence Brown, Robert Z. Leonard | Stars: Helen Hayes, Ramon Novarro, Lewis Stone, Warner Oland

Votes: 188

30. Bad Lands (1939)

Passed | 70 min | Action, Drama, Western

A posse of nine and Sheriff Bill Cummings set out after a renegade named Apache Jack, who has murdered the wife of Lopez, one of the posse members. The others are Rayburn, Chic Lyman, Billy... See full summary »

Director: Lew Landers | Stars: Robert Barrat, Noah Beery Jr., Guinn 'Big Boy' Williams, Andy Clyde

Votes: 211

31. The Chechahcos (1923)

Unrated | 87 min | Adventure, Drama, Western

Following a shipwreck, a family of prospectors become separated from their infant daughter in the Klondike. Years later, the grown-up daughter begins to unravel the truth about her heritage.

Director: Lewis H. Moomaw | Stars: William Dills, Albert Van Antwerp, Eva Gordon, Alexis B. Luce

Votes: 273

32. Dream House (I) (2009 Video)

14 min | Short, Drama, Horror

The story of a newly wed couple who wanted the American Dream but ended up in the middle of a terrifying nightmare. Gary and Jessica move into a suburban home in the rural countryside. Soon... See full summary »

Director: J.L. Carrozza | Stars: Mike Amado, Neil Cicierega, Jonathan Daire, Luda Erukhova

Votes: 27

33. A Killer Walks (1952)

Not Rated | 57 min | Crime, Drama

In order to inherit his grandmother's farm, Ned Harsten plans to kill her and blame the murder on his younger brother, Frankie, who is a notorious sleep-walker.

Director: Ronald Drake | Stars: Susan Shaw, Laurence Harvey, Trader Faulkner, Laurence Naismith

Votes: 74

34. Fugitive in the Sky (1936)

Passed | 58 min | Action, Drama, Mystery

Reporter Terry Brewer goes to the Los Angeles airport to say goodbye to his sweetheart, airline hostess Rita Moore. He notices G-Man Mike Phelan among the passengers and assuming Phelan is ... See full summary »

Director: Nick Grinde | Stars: Jean Muir, Warren Hull, Gordon Oliver, Carlyle Moore Jr.

Votes: 227

35. Yhden yön hinta (1952)

80 min | Crime, Drama

The streets of Helsinki, Finland, at night. Violence mixed with incidents and everyday life. Reported by police officers on the graveyard shift.

Director: Edvin Laine | Stars: Sasu Haapanen, Joel Rinne, Eila Peitsalo, Rauha Rentola

Votes: 64

36. The Alfred Hitchcock Hour (1962–1965)
Episode: Memo from Purgatory (1964)

TV-PG | 48 min | Crime, Drama, Horror

Wannabee writer Jay Shaw arrives in NYC. He decides if he's going to write fiction about juvenile delinquent gangs, he'd best learn what they're really like. Using the alias Phil Beldone, ... See full summary »

Director: Joseph Pevney | Stars: Alfred Hitchcock, James Caan, Lynn Loring, Walter Koenig

Votes: 473

37. Miami Vice (1984–1989)
Episode: French Twist (1986)

TV-14 | 48 min | Action, Crime, Drama

When a known terrorist comes to Miami the team tries to find him. And an Interpol operative comes to assist them. Crockett is taken with her but Tubbs thinks there's something odd about her.

Director: David Jackson | Stars: Don Johnson, Philip Michael Thomas, Saundra Santiago, Michael Talbott

Votes: 429

38. The Lawbreakers (1963– )
Episode: Greenburg, New York: October 20 - Youth Gangs Active in County (1963)

30 min | Documentary, Crime

The police force of a small suburban town in New York confronts an epidemic of juvenile delinquency. Their quick action averts a pair of rumbles between rival gangs of teenagers, but they ... See full summary »

Director: Kenneth Gilbert | Stars: Lee Marvin, Mike Mann, Tommy King, Jan Tanzy