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1. Jaws (1975)
PG | 124 min | Adventure, Mystery, Thriller
When a killer shark unleashes chaos on a beach community off Cape Cod, it's up to a local sheriff, a marine biologist, and an old seafarer to hunt the beast down.
Director: Steven Spielberg | Stars: Roy Scheider, Robert Shaw, Richard Dreyfuss, Lorraine Gary
Votes: 660,233 | Gross: $260.00M
2. Hope Street (2020– )
TV-PG | 44 min | Crime, Drama
The arrival of DC Leila Hussain sets tongues wagging - what brings this big city girl to a sleepy Northern Irish seaside town?
Stars: Kerri Quinn, Des McAleer, Ciarán McMenamin, Niall Wright
Votes: 2,437
3. Luca (2021)
PG | 95 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy
On the Italian Riviera, an unlikely but strong friendship grows between a human being and a sea monster disguised as a human.
Director: Enrico Casarosa | Stars: Jacob Tremblay, Jack Dylan Grazer, Emma Berman, Saverio Raimondo
Votes: 194,835
4. Ponyo (2008)
G | 101 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy
A five-year-old boy develops a relationship with Ponyo, a young goldfish princess who longs to become a human after falling in love with him.
Director: Hayao Miyazaki | Stars: Cate Blanchett, Matt Damon, Liam Neeson, Tomoko Yamaguchi
Votes: 163,843 | Gross: $15.09M
5. Kinky Boots (2005)
PG-13 | 107 min | Comedy, Drama, Music
A drag queen comes to the rescue of a man who, after inheriting his father's shoe factory, needs to diversify his product if he wants to keep the business afloat.
Director: Julian Jarrold | Stars: Chiwetel Ejiofor, Joel Edgerton, Sarah-Jane Potts, Jemima Rooper
Votes: 21,491 | Gross: $1.82M
6. The Shipping News (2001)
R | 111 min | Drama
An emotionally beaten man with his young daughter moves to his ancestral home in Newfoundland to reclaim his life.
Director: Lasse Hallström | Stars: Kevin Spacey, Julianne Moore, Judi Dench, Cate Blanchett
Votes: 33,931 | Gross: $11.43M
7. Spiral (2000)
90 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
The inhabitants of a small Japanese town become increasingly obsessed with and tormented by spirals.
Director: Higuchinsky | Stars: Eriko Hatsune, Fhi Fan, Hinako Saeki, Shin Eun-kyung
Votes: 9,011
8. La Cérémonie (1995)
Not Rated | 111 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A newly hired maid for a rich countryside family befriends a post-office clerk who encourages her to rebel against her employers.
Director: Claude Chabrol | Stars: Isabelle Huppert, Sandrine Bonnaire, Jacqueline Bisset, Jean-Pierre Cassel
Votes: 13,836 | Gross: $0.08M
9. Carry on Girls (1973)
Not Rated | 88 min | Comedy, Romance
Local councillor Sidney Fiddler persuades the Mayor to help improve the image of their rundown seaside town by holding a beauty contest. But formidable Councillor Prodworthy, head of the ... See full summary »
Director: Gerald Thomas | Stars: Sidney James, Barbara Windsor, Joan Sims, Kenneth Connor
Votes: 3,186
10. Half Light (2006)
R | 110 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
Rachel Carlson, a successful novelist moves to a small Scottish village to move on with her life after the death of her son. Strange things start to happen when she is haunted by ghosts and real life terror.
Director: Craig Rosenberg | Stars: Demi Moore, Henry Ian Cusick, Nicholas Gleaves, James Cosmo
Votes: 14,544
11. Buster and Billie (1974)
R | 100 min | Crime, Drama
In a rural 1940s southern town, a socially awkward high school girl is taken advantage of by the boys, because it's the only way she knows to relate to boys.
Directors: Daniel Petrie, Sidney Sheldon | Stars: Jan-Michael Vincent, Joan Goodfellow, Pamela Sue Martin, Clifton James
Votes: 951 | Gross: $2.30M
12. Jigsaw (1962)
Not Rated | 97 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A woman is found murdered in a house along the coast from Brighton. Local detectives Fellows and Wilks lead an investigation methodically following up leads and clues mostly in Brighton and Hove but also further afield.
Director: Val Guest | Stars: Jack Warner, Ronald Lewis, Yolande Donlan, Michael Goodliffe
Votes: 1,581
13. Out of the Blue (I) (2006)
103 min | Crime, Drama
Based on the Aramoana Massacre that occurred on 13 November and 14 November 1990. Resident David Gray, an unemployed gun collector, went on a rampage in which 13 people were shot dead, before Gray himself was shot by police.
Director: Robert Sarkies | Stars: Matthew Sunderland, Stuart Mathieson, Natalie Ellis, Patrick Paynter
Votes: 3,923 | Gross: $0.00M
14. The Little Thief (1988)
R | 109 min | Comedy, Drama
In a small town in post-World-War-II France, an unhappy sixteen-year-old (Janine Castang) tries to escape her dreary situation by any means at her disposal. Three successive friends (Michel... See full summary »
Director: Claude Miller | Stars: Charlotte Gainsbourg, Didier Bezace, Simon de La Brosse, Clotilde de Bayser
Votes: 2,325 | Gross: $1.06M
15. Phantasmagoria (1995 Video Game)
M | Drama, Horror, Mystery
A young successful author and her photographer husband buy a stunning and mysterious mansion on the outskirts of a small town in New England, but soon enough start to experience maddening horrors of its previous owner.
Director: Peter Maris | Stars: Victoria Morsell, David Homb, Robert Miano, Taylor Bernard
Votes: 781
16. The Killing Time (1987)
R | 94 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
A murderer who assumes the identity of a new deputy is unbeknownst to the sheriff planning to pin a separate murder on him.
Director: Rick King | Stars: Beau Bridges, Kiefer Sutherland, Wayne Rogers, Joe Don Baker
Votes: 1,273 | Gross: $0.50M
17. The Cost of Living (2005 TV Movie)
35 min | Drama
A disparate group of dancers, preferring to express themselves through dance rather than speech, clash with each other and members of the local community.
Director: Lloyd Newson | Stars: Jose Maria Alves, Gabriel Castillo, Robin Dingemans, Tom Hodgson
Votes: 253
18. French Dressing (1964)
Not Rated | 86 min | Comedy, Drama
A drab little English seaside town tries to improve its image--and increase its revenues--by holding a film festival. When a famous continental star agrees to attend, things get out of hand.
Director: Ken Russell | Stars: James Booth, Roy Kinnear, Marisa Mell, Alita Naughton
Votes: 453
19. Lawless Heart (2001)
R | 100 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Three intersecting stories about people whose lives are affected by the death of a gay restaurateur.
Directors: Tom Hunsinger, Neil Hunter | Stars: Douglas Henshall, Tom Hollander, Bill Nighy, Clémentine Célarié
Votes: 1,435 | Gross: $0.33M
20. The Falcon and the Co-eds (1943)
Passed | 67 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Posing as an insurance investigator, Tom Lawrence investigates a murder of a teacher disguised as a suicide at a women's college.
Director: William Clemens | Stars: Tom Conway, Jean Brooks, Paula Corday, Amelita Ward
Votes: 907
21. Killing Dad or How to Love Your Mother (1989)
89 min | Comedy
A man, always very devoted to his mother, decides to look for his father whom he never met. He meets a seductive older woman prone to drinking and her aged boyfriend with whom she has grown tired.
Director: Michael Austin | Stars: Richard E. Grant, Denholm Elliott, Julie Walters, Anna Massey
Votes: 255
22. Gorko! (2013)
100 min | Comedy
In a Russian coastal town, Natasha is forced by her stepfather to celebrate her wedding with Roma in the restaurant. They plan to celebrate by the sea and decide to spend their dream wedding in secret from conservative families.
Director: Zhora Kryzhovnikov | Stars: Evgeniya Agenorova, Yuliya Aleksandrova, Dmitriy Burenkov, Anastasiya Dobakhova
Votes: 3,124
23. My Friend Joe (1996)
101 min | Drama, Family
During the course of one summer, a young Irish lad named Chris befriends an American boy named Joe. The two couldn't be more different, yet they become inseparable. Things turn horribly ... See full summary »
Director: Chris Bould | Stars: Schuyler Fisk, John Cleere, Stephen McHattie, Stanley Townsend
Votes: 305
24. Mystery in Dracula's Castle (1973 TV Movie)
TV-G | 91 min | Adventure, Comedy, Horror
Two brothers and a stray dog stumble upon some jewel thieves in a lighthouse.
Director: Robert Totten | Stars: Clu Gulager, Mariette Hartley, Johnny Whitaker, Mills Watson
Votes: 150
25. Bayo (1985)
99 min | Drama
Sharon and her ten year old son Bayo live in Tickle Cove on the shores of Bonavista Bay, Newfoundland like generations of their family have before them. Sharon hates her life there. She ... See full summary »
Director: Mort Ransen | Stars: Ed McNamara, Patricia Phillips, Stephen McGrath, Hugh Webster
Votes: 50
26. Caterpillar Wish (2006)
Not Rated | 100 min | Drama
A young girl's view on belonging and loss.
Director: Sandra Sciberras | Stars: Victoria Thaine, Jamie Black, Susie Porter, Wendy Hughes
Votes: 291
27. Woman of the Ganges (1974)
85 min | Drama
A man returns to the places where he lived a passionate love with a woman who has died today. The sensation he feels is so strong that he imagines that she is still alive.
Director: Marguerite Duras | Stars: Catherine Sellers, Christian Baltauss, Gérard Depardieu, Dionys Mascolo
Votes: 158
28. Aita (2001 TV Movie)
56 min | Comedy, Drama
A devoted family man falls in love with his daughter's new friend.
Director: Matti Ijäs | Stars: Antti Virmavirta, Pirkko Hämäläinen, Elena Leeve, Janne Reinikainen
Votes: 157
29. Something Evil, Something Dangerous: New Moon Rising (2011)
79 min | Horror
A successful young author begins experiencing visions through her dreams, she begins having psychic connections to an ancient race of lycanthropes responsible for several unsolved murders in a small coastal town.
Director: Richard Albiston | Stars: Gwenllian Thurstan, John Michael Lowe, Ricky Cusimano, Declan Whelan
Votes: 112
30. The Hollow Men (1993)
90 min | Drama
Two brothers. Matthew and Mark. One is a playwright who composes avant-garde works of art; while the other is a theatre actor. The latter is chosen to play Napoleon on a new play, but what ... See full summary »
Directors: Józef Skolimowski, Michal Skolimowski | Stars: Michal Skolimowski, Józef Skolimowski, Agnieszka Wagner, Barbara Kosmal
Votes: 19
31. Biikenbrennen - Der Fluch des Meeres (1999 TV Movie)
90 min | Thriller
Some businessman of a software company moves to the seashore because his daughter suffers from asthma as her mother did before she died. He doesn't like the villagers and he doesn't want ... See full summary »
Director: Sebastian Niemann | Stars: Christoph M. Ohrt, Anja Kling, Heinrich Giskes, Clara-Paulina Witsch
Votes: 136
32. Colin Thiele and 'Storm Boy' Talk (2016 Video)
18 min | Documentary, Short, History
Director: G.W. 'Frodo' Krochmal | Stars: Bill Cox, Colin Thiele, Jo McLeay, Avis Rohde
34. Susan Mitchell with Colin Thiele (1993 Video)
16 min | Documentary, Short, Biography
Director: Graham Norman | Stars: Susan Mitchell, Colin Thiele
35. Meet Colin Thiele (1989 Video)
45 min | Documentary, Biography
Director: Shane Winter | Stars: Dianne Taylor, Colin Thiele