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1. Basic Instinct (1992)
R | 127 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
A violent police detective investigates a brutal murder that might involve a manipulative and seductive novelist.
Director: Paul Verhoeven | Stars: Michael Douglas, Sharon Stone, George Dzundza, Jeanne Tripplehorn
Votes: 219,457 | Gross: $117.73M
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: 165,583 | Gross: $11.34M
3. Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation (2015)
PG-13 | 131 min | Action, Adventure, Thriller
Ethan and his team take on their most impossible mission yet when they have to eradicate an international rogue organization as highly skilled as they are and committed to destroying the IMF.
Director: Christopher McQuarrie | Stars: Tom Cruise, Rebecca Ferguson, Jeremy Renner, Simon Pegg
Votes: 411,347 | Gross: $195.04M
4. Lovelace (2013)
R | 93 min | Biography, Drama
The story of Linda Lovelace, who is used and abused by the porn industry at the behest of her coercive husband before taking control of her life.
Directors: Rob Epstein, Jeffrey Friedman | Stars: Amanda Seyfried, Peter Sarsgaard, Sharon Stone, Juno Temple
Votes: 42,776 | Gross: $0.36M
5. My Spy (2020)
PG-13 | 99 min | Action, Comedy
A hardened CIA operative finds himself at the mercy of a precocious 9-year-old girl, having been sent undercover to surveil her family.
Director: Peter Segal | Stars: Dave Bautista, Chloe Coleman, Parisa Fitz-Henley, Kristen Schaal
Votes: 34,535
6. Breach (2007)
PG-13 | 110 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
FBI upstart Eric O'Neill enters into a power game with his boss, Robert Hanssen, an agent who was put on trial for selling secrets to the Soviet Union.
Director: Billy Ray | Stars: Chris Cooper, Ryan Phillippe, Dennis Haysbert, Laura Linney
Votes: 61,795 | Gross: $33.23M
7. Going Clear: Scientology & the Prison of Belief (2015)
Not Rated | 119 min | Documentary
A documentary looking at the inner-workings of the Church of Scientology.
Director: Alex Gibney | Stars: Paul Haggis, Jason Beghe, Spanky Taylor, David Miscavige
Votes: 40,926
8. The Bloodstained Butterfly (1971)
Not Rated | 99 min | Mystery, Thriller
A popular television presenter is accused of killing a teenage girl in a park, who happens to be his daughter's best friend.
Director: Duccio Tessari | Stars: Helmut Berger, Giancarlo Sbragia, Ida Galli, Silvano Tranquilli
Votes: 2,067
9. The Strangler (1964)
Approved | 89 min | Crime, Drama, Horror
An overweight lab technician with low self esteem, brought on by his dominant mother, becomes a serial killer of female nurses.
Director: Burt Topper | Stars: Victor Buono, David McLean, Diane Sayer, Davey Davison
Votes: 1,095
10.
The Prisoner (1967–1968)
Episode:
Free for All
(1967)
TV-PG | 60 min | Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Number Six runs for the office of Number Two.
Director: Patrick McGoohan | Stars: Patrick McGoohan, Eric Portman, Rachel Herbert, George Benson
Votes: 917
11.
Riverdale (2017–2023)
Episode:
Chapter Seventy: The Ides of March
(2020)
TV-14 | 42 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Worried about his future after high school, Archie seeks advice from Hiram; Veronica begins to spiral; Jughead confronts a critical accusation.
Director: Claudia Yarmy | Stars: K.J. Apa, Lili Reinhart, Camila Mendes, Cole Sprouse
Votes: 903
12.
Lawrence Leung's Unbelievable (2011)
Episode:
Manipulation
(2011)
Comedy
Lawrence looks at manipulation, and finds out how to judge if someone is lying.
Directors: Nathan Earl, Craig Melville | Stars: Lawrence Leung, Craig Melville
Votes: 6