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1. North by Northwest (1959)

Approved | 136 min | Action, Adventure, Mystery

A New York City advertising executive goes on the run after being mistaken for a government agent by a group of foreign spies, and falls for a woman whose loyalties he begins to doubt.

Director: Alfred Hitchcock | Stars: Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint, James Mason, Jessie Royce Landis

Votes: 346,344 | Gross: $13.28M

2. Snowpiercer (2013)

R | 126 min | Action, Drama, Sci-Fi

In a future where a failed climate change experiment has killed all life except for the survivors who boarded the Snowpiercer (a train that travels around the globe), a new class system emerges.

Director: Bong Joon Ho | Stars: Chris Evans, Jamie Bell, Tilda Swinton, Ed Harris

Votes: 389,222 | Gross: $4.56M

3. Back to the Future Part II (1989)

PG | 108 min | Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi

After visiting 2015, Marty McFly must repeat his visit to 1955 to prevent disastrous changes to 1985...without interfering with his first trip.

Director: Robert Zemeckis | Stars: Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd, Lea Thompson, Tom Wilson

Votes: 572,954 | Gross: $118.50M

4. Beverly Hills Cop II (1987)

R | 100 min | Action, Comedy, Crime

Axel Foley returns to Beverly Hills to help Taggart and Rosewood investigate Chief Bogomil's near-fatal shooting and the series of "alphabet crimes" associated with it.

Director: Tony Scott | Stars: Eddie Murphy, Judge Reinhold, Jürgen Prochnow, Ronny Cox

Votes: 130,608 | Gross: $153.67M

5. Men in Black³ (2012)

PG-13 | 106 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy

Agent J travels in time to M.I.B.'s early days in 1969 to stop an alien from assassinating his friend Agent K and changing history.

Director: Barry Sonnenfeld | Stars: Will Smith, Tommy Lee Jones, Josh Brolin, Jemaine Clement

Votes: 387,265 | Gross: $179.02M

6. Halloween (1978)

R | 91 min | Horror, Thriller

Fifteen years after murdering his sister on Halloween night 1963, Michael Myers escapes from a mental hospital and returns to the small town of Haddonfield, Illinois to kill again.

Director: John Carpenter | Stars: Donald Pleasence, Jamie Lee Curtis, Tony Moran, Nancy Kyes

Votes: 306,954 | Gross: $47.00M

7. Bridge of Spies (2015)

PG-13 | 142 min | Drama, History, Thriller

During the Cold War, an American lawyer is recruited to defend an arrested Soviet spy in court, and then help the CIA facilitate an exchange of the spy for the Soviet captured American U2 spy plane pilot, Francis Gary Powers.

Director: Steven Spielberg | Stars: Tom Hanks, Mark Rylance, Alan Alda, Amy Ryan

Votes: 327,886 | Gross: $72.31M

8. 10 Cloverfield Lane (2016)

PG-13 | 103 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery

A young woman is held in an underground bunker by a man who insists that a hostile event has left the surface of the Earth uninhabitable.

Director: Dan Trachtenberg | Stars: John Goodman, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, John Gallagher Jr., Douglas M. Griffin

Votes: 355,011 | Gross: $72.08M

9. From Beyond (1986)

R | 85 min | Horror, Sci-Fi

A group of scientists have developed the Resonator, a machine which allows whoever is within range to see beyond normal perceptible reality. But when the experiment succeeds, they are immediately attacked by terrible life forms.

Director: Stuart Gordon | Stars: Jeffrey Combs, Barbara Crampton, Ted Sorel, Ken Foree

Votes: 30,787 | Gross: $1.26M

10. The Long Kiss Goodnight (1996)

R | 121 min | Action, Crime, Drama

Samantha Caine lives in a small town with her daughter. Eight years ago she emerged, two months pregnant, from a nearby river with no memory of her past or who she is. However, she's getting closer to finding out about her past.

Director: Renny Harlin | Stars: Geena Davis, Samuel L. Jackson, Yvonne Zima, Craig Bierko

Votes: 85,703 | Gross: $33.33M

11. Paycheck (2003)

PG-13 | 119 min | Action, Mystery, Sci-Fi

What seemed like a breezy idea that would net an engineer millions of dollars ends up leaving him on the run for his life and trying to piece together why he's being chased.

Director: John Woo | Stars: Ben Affleck, Aaron Eckhart, Uma Thurman, Michael C. Hall

Votes: 113,312 | Gross: $53.79M

12. The Night Clerk (2020)

R | 90 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

A voyeuristic hotel clerk becomes the subject of a murder investigation.

Director: Michael Cristofer | Stars: Tye Sheridan, Ana de Armas, Helen Hunt, John Leguizamo

Votes: 18,672

13. Spinning Man (2018)

R | 100 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller

A happily married professor, known for having many affairs with students, becomes the prime suspect when a young woman has gone missing.

Director: Simon Kaijser | Stars: Guy Pearce, Pierce Brosnan, Minnie Driver, Alexandra Shipp

Votes: 12,870

14. Frantic (1988)

R | 120 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

In a hotel room in Paris, a doctor comes out of the shower and finds that his wife has disappeared. He soon finds himself caught up in a world of intrigue, espionage, gangsters, drugs and murder.

Director: Roman Polanski | Stars: Harrison Ford, Betty Buckley, Emmanuelle Seigner, Djiby Soumare

Votes: 57,834 | Gross: $17.64M

15. Friday the 13th: The New Blood (1988)

R | 88 min | Horror, Thriller

Jason Voorhees is accidentally freed from his watery prison by a telekinetic teenager. Now, only she can stop him.

Director: John Carl Buechler | Stars: Terry Kiser, Jennifer Banko, John Otrin, Susan Blu

Votes: 42,386 | Gross: $19.17M

16. Dream Lover (1993)

R | 103 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller

A successful businessman tries to uncover what is wrong with his wife.

Director: Nicholas Kazan | Stars: James Spader, Mädchen Amick, Fredric Lehne, Bess Armstrong

Votes: 6,084 | Gross: $0.26M

17. The Lost Weekend (1945)

Passed | 101 min | Drama, Film-Noir

The desperate life of a chronic alcoholic is followed through a four-day drinking bout.

Director: Billy Wilder | Stars: Ray Milland, Jane Wyman, Phillip Terry, Howard Da Silva

Votes: 40,216 | Gross: $9.46M

18. The Incredible Shrinking Man (1957)

Approved | 81 min | Horror, Sci-Fi

After Scott Carey begins to shrink because of exposure to a combination of radiation and insecticide, medical science is powerless to help him.

Director: Jack Arnold | Stars: Grant Williams, Randy Stuart, April Kent, Paul Langton

Votes: 19,981

19. Ships in the Night: A Martha's Vineyard Mystery (2020 TV Movie)

84 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

When an art gallery robbery leads to the death of the contemptible gallery manager, former Boston detective Jeff Jackson teams up with local doctor - and old flame - Dr. Zee Madeiras, to catch the killer.

Director: Mark Jean | Stars: Jesse Metcalfe, Sarah Lind, Eric Keenleyside, Chelsea Hobbs

Votes: 871

20. Universal Soldier: Day of Reckoning (2012)

R | 114 min | Action, Horror, Mystery

John looks to take down Luc Deveraux after a home invasion claims his wife and daughter. The fight pits John against Andrew Scott and an army of genetically enhanced warriors; meanwhile, he must contend with a UniSol in relentless pursuit.

Director: John Hyams | Stars: Jean-Claude Van Damme, Dolph Lundgren, Scott Adkins, Mariah Bonner

Votes: 21,395 | Gross: $0.01M

21. Making Love (1982)

R | 113 min | Drama

A successful young L.A. doctor and his equally successful television-producer wife find their happily-ever-after life torn assunder when he suddenly confronts his long-repressed attraction ... See full summary »

Director: Arthur Hiller | Stars: Michael Ontkean, Kate Jackson, Harry Hamlin, Wendy Hiller

Votes: 2,962 | Gross: $11.90M

22. City Island (2009)

PG-13 | 104 min | Comedy, Drama

Prison guard Vince tells Molly from acting class, that one inmate is his 24 y.o. love child. Vince takes him home to stay with his family - straight A son with fat girl fetish, college dropout/stripper daughter and cute wife.

Director: Raymond De Felitta | Stars: Andy Garcia, Julianna Margulies, Steven Strait, Emily Mortimer

Votes: 32,564 | Gross: $6.67M

23. The Curse of the Jade Scorpion (2001)

PG-13 | 103 min | Comedy, Crime, Mystery

An insurance investigator and an efficiency expert who hate each other are both hypnotized by a crooked hypnotist with a jade scorpion into stealing jewels.

Director: Woody Allen | Stars: Greg Stebner, Woody Allen, John Tormey, John Schuck

Votes: 42,442 | Gross: $7.50M

24. The Contractor (2007 Video)

R | 99 min | Action, Drama, Thriller

Ex-C.I.A. Agent James Dial (Wesley Snipes) is asked to take out terrorist Ali Mahmud Jahar (Nikolai Sotirov), only to realize he's been set up by his former employer, Jeremy Collins (Ralph Brown).

Director: Josef Rusnak | Stars: Wesley Snipes, Eliza Bennett, Lena Headey, Ralph Brown

Votes: 9,989

25. The Woman in Green (1945)

Approved | 68 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Sherlock Holmes investigates when young women around London turn up murdered, each with a finger severed. Scotland Yard suspects a madman, but Holmes believes the killings to be part of a diabolical plot.

Director: Roy William Neill | Stars: Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Hillary Brooke, Henry Daniell

Votes: 6,874

26. Ticker (2001)

R | 92 min | Action, Crime, Thriller

After a San Francisco detective's partner is murdered by Northern Irish terrorists, the officer joins the bomb squad in order to bring them to justice.

Director: Albert Pyun | Stars: Tom Sizemore, Dennis Hopper, Steven Seagal, Jaime Pressly

Votes: 7,738

27. Some of My Best Friends Are... (1971)

R | 110 min | Drama

A dramatic expose of the lives of a group of gays who meet in a New York City bar on Christmas Eve.

Director: Mervyn Nelson | Stars: Tom Bade, James Murdock, Paul Blake, Gary Campbell

Votes: 367 | Gross: $0.12M

28. Keen Eddie (2003–2004)

TV-14 | 44 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

Wisecracking New York City cop Detective Eddie Arlette (Mark Valley), who has no respect for authority, is himself a fish out of water when he is assigned to a police precinct in the U.K.

Stars: Mark Valley, Sienna Miller, Julian Rhind-Tutt, Colin Salmon

Votes: 2,368

29. Armored Car Robbery (1950)

Passed | 67 min | Action, Adventure, Crime

A well-planned robbery goes awry with tough cop Jim Cordell in pursuit of the thieves.

Director: Richard Fleischer | Stars: Charles McGraw, Adele Jergens, William Talman, Douglas Fowley

Votes: 2,997

30. L.A. Without a Map (1998)

Unrated | 107 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

A British writer pursues a young actress to Hollywood and needs all the help he can get to win her love.

Director: Mika Kaurismäki | Stars: Tony Peers, Steve Huison, David Tennant, Margo Stanley

Votes: 2,649

31. The Girlfriends (1955)

Not Rated | 104 min | Drama, Romance

A young woman returns to her hometown of Turin to set up a new fashion salon and gets involved with a troubled woman and her three wealthy friends.

Director: Michelangelo Antonioni | Stars: Eleonora Rossi Drago, Gabriele Ferzetti, Franco Fabrizi, Valentina Cortese

Votes: 3,408 | Gross: $0.05M

32. Death in Buenos Aires (2014)

TV-MA | 90 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

A businessman is murdered at his home. Experienced police Inspector Chávez uses a rookie officer as a bait to catch the killer, while struggling with his own deepest desires.

Director: Natalia Meta | Stars: Demián Bichir, Chino Darín, Carlos Casella, Mónica Antonópulos

Votes: 2,318

33. OSS 117 se déchaîne (1963)

104 min | Action, Adventure, Thriller

An American agent disappears after a scuba diving reconnaissance mission in Corsica. The Secret Service sends agent code name OSS 117 to investigate.

Director: André Hunebelle | Stars: Kerwin Mathews, Nadia Sanders, Irina Demick, Henri-Jacques Huet

Votes: 334

34. Sin (2003)

R | 107 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

When his sister is brutally raped, an ex-cop goes after a mysterious man from his past.

Director: Michael Stevens | Stars: Gary Oldman, Ving Rhames, Kerry Washington, Alicia Coppola

Votes: 2,006

35. The Case of the Curious Bride (1935)

Passed | 80 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

Perry interrupts his vacation plans when an ex-girlfriend, now newly married, asks him to help her with murder and bigamy charges.

Director: Michael Curtiz | Stars: Warren William, Margaret Lindsay, Donald Woods, Claire Dodd

Votes: 1,169

36. Eat with Me (2014)

Not Rated | 95 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

When Emma moves in with her estranged, gay son, the pair must learn to reconnect through food where words fail, and face the foreclosure of the family's Chinese restaurant and a stubborn fear of intimacy.

Director: David Au | Stars: Sharon Omi, Edward Chen, Nicole Sullivan, Aidan Bristow

Votes: 1,418

37. Calling Dr. Death (1943)

Approved | 63 min | Film-Noir, Horror, Mystery

A doctor is not sure if he murdered his beautiful but wicked wife, and has his attractive nurse try to find the truth by hypnotizing him.

Director: Reginald Le Borg | Stars: Lon Chaney Jr., Patricia Morison, J. Carrol Naish, David Bruce

Votes: 1,262

38. Hot Cars (1956)

Not Rated | 60 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

A salt-of-earth family man needs money for his sick son, and decides to keep a job at a used car lot despite realizing it is selling stolen cars.

Director: Don McDougall | Stars: John Bromfield, Joi Lansing, Mark Dana, Carol Shannon

Votes: 406

39. The Circle (1957)

84 min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller

When Dr. Howard Latimer finds the German actress that he had just met at London Airport murdered in his flat. It leads him into the world of murder, blackmail, and a fake passport scam.

Director: Gerald Thomas | Stars: John Mills, Derek Farr, Noelle Middleton, Wilfrid Hyde-White

Votes: 767

40. The Invisible Mouse (1947)

Approved | 7 min | Animation, Short, Comedy

Tom chases Jerry into a bottle of invisible ink, and Jerry then proceeds to have fun torturing Tom.

Directors: Joseph Barbera, William Hanna | Star: William Hanna

Votes: 1,373

41. It's a Pleasure (1945)

Approved | 90 min | Comedy, Drama, Musical

Don Martin is a star hockey player with the Wildcats until he is barred from the game for hitting a referee. Through the actions of Chris, Don is able to get a job with Buzz Fletcher's ... See full summary »

Director: William A. Seiter | Stars: Sonja Henie, Michael O'Shea, Marie McDonald, Bill Johnson

Votes: 247

42. Buccaneer Bunny (1948)

Approved | 7 min | Animation, Short, Adventure

Bugs infuriates pirate Yosemite Sam by stealing his treasure and Yosemite chases Bugs onto the pirate ship.

Director: Friz Freleng | Star: Mel Blanc

Votes: 1,333

43. Murder in Miami (2014)

Not Rated | 87 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller

In modern Miami, gleaming new condo skyscrapers become the backdrop to this Film Noir thriller. After several beautiful models are murdered by a disguised serial killer, a young and ... See full summary »

Director: Will Vázquez | Stars: Joseph Myers, Caroline Gutierrez, Oscar A. Diaz, Andy Sottilare

Votes: 78

44. Dick Francis: Blood Sport (1989 TV Movie)

89 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Cleveland teams with an insurance investigator in the search for a stolen $6 million dollar horse in the Canadian Rockies.

Director: Harvey Hart | Stars: Ian McShane, Heath Lamberts, Lloyd Bochner, Kenneth Welsh

Votes: 92

45. Dean's Place (1976 TV Special)

51 min | Comedy, Music

TV special airing January 13, 1976: Dean returns as host and owner of his Beverly Hills nightclub, Dean's Place, spotlighting new, young talent.

Director: Greg Garrison | Stars: Dean Martin, Jack Cassidy, Foster Brooks, Vincent Gardenia

Votes: 5

46. Lucky Losers (1950)

Passed | 70 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy

To solve the death of a friend, the boys go to gambling school, then go undercover as croupiers in an illegal gambling house.

Director: William Beaudine | Stars: Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall, Hillary Brooke, Gabriel Dell

Votes: 362

47. Hollywood Mouth 3 (2018)

109 min | Drama

A film buff learns something new about her family and encounters noir-like situations in Hollywood.

Director: Jordan Mohr | Stars: Heidi Appe, Anastasia Art, Barbara Bologna, Angelica Coralvine

48. The Sneezing Weasel (1938)

7 min | Animation, Family, Short

Mama hen takes her chicks out to breakfast, but little Wilbur can't get any worms. Finally, a big worm escapes, and he runs after it; meanwhile, the rest of the family has gone inside to ... See full summary »

Director: Tex Avery | Stars: Elvia Allman, Tex Avery, Count Cutelli, Bernice Hansen

Votes: 220

49. Captain Hareblower (1954)

7 min | Family, Animation, Short

Bugs will not bend to the threats of Pirate (Yosemite) Sam.

Director: Friz Freleng | Star: Mel Blanc

Votes: 494

50. Three Blondes in His Life (1961)

86 min | Crime, Drama

An insurance investigator goes to Los Angeles to investigate the disappearance of a colleague.

Director: Leon Chooluck | Stars: Jock Mahoney, Greta Thyssen, Jesse White, Elaine Edwards

Votes: 128