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1. WarGames (1983)
PG | 114 min | Action, Drama, Sci-Fi
A young man finds a back door into a military central computer in which reality is confused with game-playing, possibly starting World War III.
Director: John Badham | Stars: Matthew Broderick, Ally Sheedy, John Wood, Dabney Coleman
Votes: 110,890 | Gross: $79.57M
2. The Courier (2020)
PG-13 | 112 min | Drama, History, Mystery
Businessman Greville Wynne is asked by a Russian source to try to help put an end to the Cuban Missile Crisis.
Director: Dominic Cooke | Stars: Benedict Cumberbatch, Merab Ninidze, Rachel Brosnahan, Vladimir Chuprikov
Votes: 73,756 | Gross: $6.61M
3. Crimson Tide (1995)
R | 116 min | Action, Drama, Thriller
On a U.S. nuclear missile sub, a young First Officer stages a mutiny to prevent his trigger happy Captain from launching his missiles before confirming his orders to do so.
Director: Tony Scott | Stars: Gene Hackman, Denzel Washington, Matt Craven, George Dzundza
Votes: 123,478 | Gross: $91.40M
4. Rio Bravo (1959)
Passed | 141 min | Western
A small-town sheriff in the American West enlists the help of a disabled man, a drunk, and a young gunfighter in his efforts to hold in jail the brother of the local bad guy.
Director: Howard Hawks | Stars: John Wayne, Dean Martin, Ricky Nelson, Angie Dickinson
Votes: 68,157 | Gross: $12.54M
5. The Money Pit (1986)
PG | 91 min | Comedy
A young couple struggles to repair a hopelessly dilapidated house.
Director: Richard Benjamin | Stars: Tom Hanks, Shelley Long, Alexander Godunov, Maureen Stapleton
Votes: 62,314 | Gross: $37.50M
6. Dare Me (2019–2020)
TV-MA | 42 min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Relationships topple and loyalties flip when Colette French, an icy new cheerleading coach, takes over the suburban high school squad ruled by Beth and her devoted BFF, Addy.
Stars: Willa Fitzgerald, Herizen F. Guardiola, Marlo Kelly, Rob Heaps
Votes: 6,411
7. Brubaker (1980)
R | 131 min | Crime, Drama
The new warden of a small prison farm in Arkansas tries to clean it up of corruption after initially posing as an inmate.
Director: Stuart Rosenberg | Stars: Robert Redford, Yaphet Kotto, Morgan Freeman, Jane Alexander
Votes: 19,456 | Gross: $37.12M
8. Cora Bora (2023)
92 min | Comedy, Drama
Follows Cora, who feels that her relationship is not going well. She goes back home to win her girlfriend back but she will realize that it's much more than her love life that needs salvaging.
Director: Hannah Pearl Utt | Stars: Caitlin Reilly, Chelsea Peretti, Heather Elizabeth Morris, Manny Jacinto
Votes: 92
9. Zero Hour! (1957)
Passed | 81 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
In 1950s Canada, during a commercial flight, the pilots and some passengers suffer food poisoning, thus forcing an ex-WWII fighter pilot (Dana Andrews) to try to land the airliner in heavy fog.
Director: Hall Bartlett | Stars: Dana Andrews, Linda Darnell, Sterling Hayden, Elroy 'Crazylegs' Hirsch
Votes: 2,298
10. Brute Force (1947)
Passed | 98 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
At a tough penitentiary, prisoner Joe Collins plans to rebel against Captain Munsey, the power-mad chief guard.
Director: Jules Dassin | Stars: Burt Lancaster, Hume Cronyn, Charles Bickford, Yvonne De Carlo
Votes: 11,560
11. The Boys Club (1996)
R | 91 min | Adventure, Crime, Drama
In Ontario, Canada, three fourteen-year-old boys, Kyle, Brad and Eric are forced to perform an ordeal when they find a wounded mysterious fugitive named Luke, who has a gun and claiming to be a cop, has taken a hiding in their clubhouse.
Director: John Fawcett | Stars: Chris Penn, Dominic Zamprogna, Stuart Stone, Devon Sawa
Votes: 1,346
12. The St. Louis Bank Robbery (1959)
Not Rated | 89 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A gang's plans for a St. Louis bank robbery are complicated when the sister of one of the thieves starts voicing her well-founded suspicions.
Directors: Charles Guggenheim, John Stix | Stars: Steve McQueen, Crahan Denton, David Clarke, James Dukas
Votes: 1,710
13. Riot in Cell Block 11 (1954)
Not Rated | 80 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Fed up with the inhumane prison living conditions, a general prison riot breaks out, leading to hostage-taking, a stand-off with the guards and eventual negotiations with the prison administration officials.
Director: Don Siegel | Stars: Neville Brand, Emile Meyer, Frank Faylen, Leo Gordon
Votes: 2,439
14. Cold War (1998)
47 min | Documentary, History
A 24-part series which deals with the relations between the United States, the Soviet Union and their respective allies between the end of World War II to the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991.
Stars: Kenneth Branagh, Anatoli Dobrynin, Robert McNamara, Vladimir Yerofeyev
Votes: 1,039
15. Four Hours at the Capitol (2021)
TV-MA | 92 min | Documentary, Crime
A chronicle of the incursion at the U.S. Capitol, when thousands of citizens from across the country gathered in Washington D.C., many with the intent of disrupting the certification of Joe Biden's presidency.
Director: Jamie Roberts | Stars: Eddie Block, Buddy Carter, Jim McGovern, Leah Han
Votes: 3,856
16. Cloudfall (2024)
Short, Drama, Thriller | Post-production
The lives of eight people are interconnected by a singular event - when an explosive backpack is brought into a government building.
Director: Eke Chukwu | Stars: Lily Cordelia, Albertine Sins, Lemar Moller, Rowan Mason
17. The Secret (1974)
Not Rated | 102 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
A stranger enters into and forever alters the life of a couple. He claims to be pursued by certain authorities who intend to prevent him from disclosing a secret that only he holds, whence ... See full summary »
Director: Robert Enrico | Stars: Jean-Louis Trintignant, Marlène Jobert, Philippe Noiret, Jean-François Adam
Votes: 927
18. Tailspin: Behind the Korean Airliner Tragedy (1989 TV Movie)
82 min | Thriller
Chronicle of the shooting down of a Korean passenger plane by Soviet air force on 1st September 1983. Over 280 people died in this incident.
Director: David Darlow | Stars: Michael Murphy, Michael Moriarty, Chris Sarandon, Harris Yulin
Votes: 141
19. Mogadischu (2008 TV Movie)
90 min | Crime, Drama
In 1977, skyjackers abduct Lufthansa Flight 181, subsequently involving Germany's special operations unit GSG 9 to free all the hostages.
Director: Roland Suso Richter | Stars: Thomas Kretschmann, Nadja Uhl, Saïd Taghmaoui, Herbert Knaup
Votes: 1,308
20. Ringolevio (2020)
80 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Ada, a reserved young woman with a passion for entomology, travels north to meet her girlfriend's family, but struggles to find common ground.
Director: Kristin Peterson Kaszubowski | Stars: Nicole Velasco Lockard, Meredith Johnston, Joshua Koopman, Cory Hardin
Votes: 56
21. Back at the Staircase (2018)
TV-MA | 77 min | Comedy, Drama
Five distinctive people, each with a flimsy coping strategy, find themselves stuck together after an accident.
Director: Drew Britton | Stars: Jennifer Lafleur, Stephen Plunkett, Leonora Pitts, Mickey O'Hagan
Votes: 29
22. Merkel (2020 TV Movie)
118 min | Drama, History
Angela Merkel's decision in autumn 2015 to open the borders for refugees split the country: some praised the moral stance, others criticized the surrender of sovereignty. Yet what would ... See full summary »
Director: Stephan Wagner | Stars: Imogen Kogge, Josef Bierbichler, Wolfgang Pregler, Tristan Seith
Votes: 410
23. He Comes to Kill (2022)
Not Rated | 50 min | Horror
Stanley Elk has escaped the mental asylum and is on his way into town with one intention...He Comes to Kill
Director: August Anthony Aguilar | Stars: Blake Best, Celeste Blandon, Joe Casterline, William Kyzer Cooper
Votes: 17
24. False Alarm (2021)
53 min | Documentary
The surreal, traumatic, and revelatory fallout from the morning when everyone on Hawai'i thought a nuclear missile strike was imminent.
Director: Nick Lyell
Votes: 12
25. The Artist & the Wall of Death (2022)
86 min | Documentary
The unlikely story of a Glaswegian visual artist, Stephen Skrynka, and his dangerous life-long obsession with riding the 'Wall of Death', the traditional fairground motorbike attraction.
Director: Maurice O'Brien
Votes: 20
26. The Pact (2020)
93 min | Mystery
After leaving Australia for a fresh start in Germany, former hard drinking party animal Morgan Carlin is drawn back into her dark past when she learns her troubled ex-boyfriend has gone missing.
Stars: Rose Flanagan, Christopher Farrell, James Biasetto, Gregory Caine
27. Please LIKE Me (2019)
14 min | Short, Drama
An isolated, middle aged man becomes increasingly more obsessed with his younger neighbor's social media profiles.
Director: Brian McDonnell | Stars: Paul Ronan, Slaney Power, Mary Murray, Tadhg O'Rourke
28. Flug in Gefahr (1964 TV Movie)
70 min | Drama, Thriller
The fate of everyone onboard a stricken airplane depends on not only finding someone who can fly the plane, but also someone who DIDN'T have fish for dinner.
Director: Theo Mezger | Stars: Hanns Lothar, Benno Sterzenbach, Klaus Schwarzkopf, Günther Neutze
Votes: 179
29. Otto (2019)
Short, Sci-Fi
The story explores the relationship between man and machine, as a home AI unit begins to test the full extent of it's control.
Director: Burton Howell | Star: Christian Dalton
30. Unassuming (2021)
5 min | Short, Horror
An unassuming, young woman walks into a pharmacy on an errand run only to meet an unexpected end.
Director: Conner Zornow | Stars: Autumn Christensen, Ken Bressers
31. On the Brink: Doomsday (1997 TV Movie)
120 min | Documentary, War
The A-Bomb, the H-Bomb, Cold War, Kennedy, Khrushchev, Yeltsin, Reagan...Who said that the world was a safe place?
Director: Gary Parker | Stars: Ed Green, Peter Roman, R. Cargill Hall, Vassily Reshetnikov
Votes: 23
32. Lady Tree (I) (2021)
1 min | Short, Drama, Mystery
An abstract and atmospheric piece about a mysterious lady.
Director: Matthew Goodeve | Star: Jan Goodeve
33. Lady Tree (II) (2021)
1 min | Short, Drama, Mystery
An abstract and atmospheric piece about a mysterious lady.
34.
Roter Stern über Deutschland (2001– )
Episode:
Heiße Front im Kalten Krieg
(2001)
44 min | Documentary
Directors: Christian Klemke, Jan Lorenzen | Stars: Rif Akhmedganeev, Yuri Basistov, Hubertus Bengsch, Alexander Bogomolov
35.
Jeff Lewis Live (2019– )
Episode:
Doug Crisis, Jeff & Gage Interview
(2021)
Comedy, Talk-Show
Stars: Doug Budin, Shane Douglas, Jeff Lewis, Elisabeth Röhm