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1. Snowfall (2017–2023)
TV-MA | 44 min | Crime, Drama
A look at the early days of the crack cocaine epidemic in Los Angeles during the beginning of the 1980s.
Stars: Damson Idris, Carter Hudson, Sergio Peris-Mencheta, Isaiah John
Votes: 30,109
2. The Suicide Squad (2021)
R | 132 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
Supervillains Harley Quinn, Bloodsport, Peacemaker, and a collection of nutty cons at Belle Reve prison join the super-secret, super-shady Task Force X as they are dropped off at the remote, enemy-infused island of Corto Maltese.
Director: James Gunn | Stars: Margot Robbie, Idris Elba, John Cena, Joel Kinnaman
Votes: 409,928 | Gross: $55.82M
3. Sicario (2015)
R | 121 min | Action, Crime, Drama
An idealistic FBI agent is enlisted by a government task force to aid in the escalating war against drugs at the border area between the U.S. and Mexico.
Director: Denis Villeneuve | Stars: Emily Blunt, Josh Brolin, Benicio Del Toro, Jon Bernthal
Votes: 477,042 | Gross: $46.89M
4. Don't Look Up (2021)
R | 138 min | Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi
Two low-level astronomers must go on a giant media tour to warn humankind of an approaching comet that will destroy planet Earth.
Director: Adam McKay | Stars: Leonardo DiCaprio, Jennifer Lawrence, Meryl Streep, Cate Blanchett
Votes: 602,115
5. The Punisher (2017–2019)
TV-MA | 60 min | Action, Crime, Drama
After his revenge on those who murdered his family, aimless Marine veteran Frank Castle finds a new meaning in life as a vigilante known as "The Punisher".
Stars: Jon Bernthal, Amber Rose Revah, Ben Barnes, Jason R. Moore
Votes: 265,182
6. Burn After Reading (2008)
R | 96 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
A disk containing mysterious information from a CIA agent ends up in the hands of two unscrupulous and daft gym employees who attempt to sell it.
Directors: Ethan Coen, Joel Coen | Stars: Brad Pitt, Frances McDormand, George Clooney, John Malkovich
Votes: 353,371 | Gross: $60.36M
7. Death Stranding (2019 Video Game)
M | Action, Adventure, Drama
Deliveryman Sam Porter must travel across a ravaged wasteland and reconnect the city states of America formed after a mysterious apocalyptic event dubbed 'death stranding' left the world in ruins and plagued by supernatural tar creatures.
Director: Hideo Kojima | Stars: Norman Reedus, Mads Mikkelsen, Léa Seydoux, Troy Baker
Votes: 11,146
8. The X Files (1998)
PG-13 | 121 min | Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Mulder and Scully must fight the government in a conspiracy and find the truth about an alien colonization of Earth.
Director: Rob Bowman | Stars: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, John Neville, William B. Davis
Votes: 110,200 | Gross: $83.90M
9. The Pelican Brief (1993)
PG-13 | 141 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A law student uncovers a conspiracy, putting herself and others in danger.
Director: Alan J. Pakula | Stars: Julia Roberts, Denzel Washington, Sam Shepard, John Heard
Votes: 96,021 | Gross: $100.77M
10. Above the Law (1988)
R | 99 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A former Special Operations Vietnam vet works as a Chicago cop, and uncovers C.I.A. wrongdoing.
Director: Andrew Davis | Stars: Steven Seagal, Pam Grier, Henry Silva, Ron Dean
Votes: 34,622 | Gross: $18.87M
11. Deep Cover (1992)
R | 107 min | Action, Crime, Thriller
A uniformed police officer is recruited by the DEA to infiltrate a drug smuggling ring looking to expand its operation.
Director: Bill Duke | Stars: Laurence Fishburne, Jeff Goldblum, Lira Angel, René Assa
Votes: 14,064 | Gross: $16.64M
12. Adolf Hitler: The Greatest Story Never Told (2013)
350 min | Documentary, Biography, History
Adolf Hitler, born in Braunau, a man who will forever change the history of the world.
Director: Dennis Wise | Stars: Eva Braun, Winston Churchill, Charles de Gaulle, Adolf Galland
Votes: 6,243
13. Kill the Messenger (2014)
R | 112 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
Journalist Gary Webb, California 1996, started investigating CIA's role in the 1980s in getting crack cocaine to the black part of LA to get money and weapons to the Contra insurgents in Nicaragua.
Director: Michael Cuesta | Stars: Jeremy Renner, Robert Patrick, Jena Sims, Robert Pralgo
Votes: 48,765 | Gross: $2.45M
14. The Night Stalker (1972 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 74 min | Horror, Mystery
An abrasive Las Vegas newspaper reporter investigates a series of murders committed by a vampire.
Director: John Llewellyn Moxey | Stars: Darren McGavin, Carol Lynley, Simon Oakland, Ralph Meeker
Votes: 7,385
15. Citizenfour (2014)
R | 114 min | Documentary, Biography
A documentarian and a reporter travel to Hong Kong for the first of many meetings with Edward Snowden.
Director: Laura Poitras | Stars: Edward Snowden, Glenn Greenwald, William Binney, Jacob Appelbaum
Votes: 57,989 | Gross: $2.80M
16. The Cassandra Crossing (1976)
R | 129 min | Drama, Thriller
Passengers on a European train have been exposed to a deadly disease. Nobody will let them off the train. So what happens next?
Director: George P. Cosmatos | Stars: Sophia Loren, Richard Harris, Martin Sheen, O.J. Simpson
Votes: 9,887
17. The Andromeda Strain (2008)
44 min | Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
A crack team of top scientists work feverishly in a secret, state-of-the-art laboratory to discover what has killed the citizens of a small town and learn how this deadly contagion can be stopped.
Stars: Benjamin Bratt, Christa Miller, Ricky Schroder, Louis Ferreira
Votes: 14,613
18. Bob Roberts (1992)
R | 102 min | Comedy, Drama
A conservative folk singer turns his hand to politics, running for the US Senate. He is not above dirty tricks and smear campaigns to gain an advantage over his opponent.
Director: Tim Robbins | Stars: Tim Robbins, Giancarlo Esposito, Alan Rickman, Ray Wise
Votes: 15,638 | Gross: $4.48M
19. Beyond: Two Souls (2013 Video Game)
M | Action, Adventure, Drama
Live the life of Jodie Holmes, a young woman who possesses supernatural powers through her psychic link to a mysterious invisible entity.
Director: David Cage | Stars: Elliot Page, Willem Dafoe, Eric Winter, Kadeem Hardison
Votes: 13,081
20. Hidden Agenda (1990)
R | 108 min | Drama, Thriller
When an American human rights lawyer is assassinated in Belfast, it remains for the man's girlfriend, as well as a tough, no nonsense, police detective to find the truth.
Director: Ken Loach | Stars: Frances McDormand, Maurice Roëves, Robert Patterson, Bernard Bloch
Votes: 4,606 | Gross: $1.03M
21. Secret State (2012)
42 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Secret State explores the relationship between a democratically elected government, big business and the banks.
Stars: Gabriel Byrne, Ralph Ineson, Charles Dance, Jamie Sives
Votes: 2,989
22. Collective (2019)
Not Rated | 109 min | Documentary, Crime
Director Alexander Nanau follows a crack team of investigators at the Romanian newspaper Gazeta Sporturilor as they try to uncover a vast health-care fraud that enriched moguls and politicians and led to the deaths of innocent citizens.
Director: Alexander Nanau | Stars: Dan Alexandru Condrea, Liviu Iolu, Razvan Lutac, Mirela Neag
Votes: 13,443
23. Victim Number 8 (2018)
53 min | Action, Drama, Thriller
An attack of a yihadist nature in the Old Town of Bilbao ends up with the lives of seven people and leaves malwounds to more than one thirteenth, many of them gravity. Victims and ... See full summary »
Stars: César Mateo, María de Nati, Verónika Moral, Iñaki Ardanaz
Votes: 2,380
24. Golden Years (1991)
Not Rated | 232 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
An elderly janitor hurt in an explosion at a secret army lab run by "The Shop" starts to grow younger. A ruthless operative is sent to cover it up, so the janitor and his wife go on the run with help from a sympathetic female agent.
Stars: Keith Szarabajka, Felicity Huffman, Ed Lauter, R.D. Call
Votes: 3,234
25. Heat Vision and Jack (1999 TV Movie)
30 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
Astronaut on the run with special powers and his talking motorcycle must deal with a malevolent artificial life form that's possessing people and turning them into dust, as well as NASA's hitman and real life actor Ron Silver.
Director: Ben Stiller | Stars: Jack Black, Owen Wilson, Ron Silver, Christine Taylor
Votes: 1,780
26. Chill Factor (1999)
R | 102 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
A new biological chemical weapon that explodes up to temperatures over fifty degrees Fahrenheit, falls into the hands of two men who try to make sure that it doesn't get stolen by a terrorist.
Director: Hugh Johnson | Stars: Cuba Gooding Jr., Skeet Ulrich, Peter Firth, David Paymer
Votes: 10,104 | Gross: $11.23M
27. Intruders (1992)
163 min | Biography, Horror, Mystery
All over the world, people report being visited by aliens, taken aboard spaceships and clinically examined. Authorities seem to know all about these visitations but will not admit it publicly.
Stars: Richard Crenna, Mare Winningham, Susan Blakely, Daphne Ashbrook
Votes: 1,458
28. Attack on Titan: Part 2 (2015)
Not Rated | 87 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy
A young boy name Eren Jaeger has to use his gift to know about the mystery of the Titans.
Director: Shinji Higuchi | Stars: Haruma Miura, Hiroki Hasegawa, Kanata Hongô, Kiko Mizuhara
Votes: 6,036 | Gross: $0.31M
29. JFK to 9/11: Everything Is a Rich Man's Trick (2014 Video)
208 min | Documentary, History, War
This is one of the only documentaries that actually speaks on the real Secret Societies which for most are still a secret.
Stars: Francis Richard Conolly, Gordon Arnold, Charles Brehm, Howard Brennan
Votes: 716
30. The Last of the Finest (1990)
R | 106 min | Action, Crime, Drama
4 LA cops are fighting the war on drugs. Corrupt superiors manage to break up their team when one of them gets killed. The 3 quit LAPD and continue investigating.
Director: John Mackenzie | Stars: Brian Dennehy, Joe Pantoliano, Jeff Fahey, Bill Paxton
Votes: 1,649 | Gross: $1.53M
31. The X Files: Resist or Serve (2004 Video Game)
M | Action, Adventure, Horror
Survival horror game set during season 7 of The X-Files (1993). Scully and Mulder travel to Red Falls, Colorado to look for two missing teenage girls accused of witchcraft only to find the place infested with black oil zombies.
Stars: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Mitch Pileggi, Tom Braidwood
Votes: 702
32. Plandemic (2020– )
99 min | Documentary, Biography, Crime
Documentary series that shows the connections and conflicts of interest between the media, the medical industry, politics and the financial industry during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Stars: David Martin, Judy Mikovits
Votes: 1,878
33. A Good American (2015)
TV-14 | 100 min | Documentary, Biography, History
How a group of NSA code-breakers had a chance of preventing 9/11.
Director: Friedrich Moser | Stars: William Binney, Jesselyn Radack, Kirk Wiebe, Diane Roark
Votes: 1,334
34. Push, Nevada (2002)
60 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A Federal agent travels to a small town in search of a missing $1 million (while the audience gets a chance to find - and win - the money first).
Stars: Derek Cecil, Scarlett Chorvat, Melora Walters, Josh Todd
Votes: 249
35. Freeway: Crack in the System (2015)
R | 103 min | Documentary, Biography, Crime
FREEWAY: CRACK IN THE SYSTEM tells the story of broken dreams, drug dealers, dirty cops, and government complicity-more compelling than fiction, it's the real story behind America's longest... See full summary »
Director: Marc Levin | Stars: Michael Levine, 'Freeway' Ricky Ross, Eric Sterling
Votes: 899
36. The Real Anthony Fauci (2022)
111 min | Documentary, Biography, Crime
Different experts make a stand against today's putatively criminal and harmful health system, focusing on Anthony Fauci and his role in the shaping of the AIDS and COVID-19 epidemics.
Director: Kala Mandrake | Stars: Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Peter McCullough, Stephanie Seneff, Sherri Tenpenny
Votes: 875
37. 200 Proofs Earth Is Not a Spinning Ball (2015 Video)
119 min | Documentary, Comedy, Fantasy
Stars: Cabbage, Eric Dubay
Votes: 170
38. The War You Don't See (2010)
97 min | Documentary, War
Thought-provoking documentary on war propaganda: how governments manipulate the facts and how most media let them get away with it.
Directors: Alan Lowery, John Pilger | Stars: John Pilger, Stuart Ewen, Melvin Goodman, Dan Rather
Votes: 1,526
39. The Journalist (2019)
113 min | Drama
It is the job of the press to cover corporate crime, government plots and society. It is in this context that young female reporter on the beat Erika rolls up her sleeves and goes to work ... See full summary »
Director: Michihito Fujii | Stars: Shim Eun-kyung, Tôri Matsuzaka, Tsubasa Honda, Amane Okayama
Votes: 724
40. America's War on Drugs (2017)
TV-14 | 480 min | Documentary, History
"America's War on Drugs" is an immersive trip through the last five decades, uncovering how the CIA, obsessed with keeping America safe in the fight against communism, allied itself with the mafia and foreign drug traffickers.
Stars: Richard Stratton, Ty Hurley, Sam Shoubber, Alberto Maneiro
Votes: 222
41. The People vs. Agent Orange (2020)
87 min | Documentary
The Agent Orange catastrophe did not end with the Vietnam War. Today, a primary chemical of the toxic defoliant causes deformed births and deadly cancers. Two heroic women fight to hold the manufacturers accountable.
Directors: Alan Adelson, Kate Taverna | Stars: Carol Van Strum, Bruce Anderson, To Nga Tran, William Bourdon
Votes: 126
42. Cy Warrior (1989)
90 min | Action, Sci-Fi
Part man. Part robot. All ass kick. Unaffected by extreme heat and cold, impervious to bio-weapons and totally obedient, Cyber Warrior One will be the soldier of the future for the U.S. military. There's just one problem - he has a heart.
Director: Giannetto De Rossi | Stars: Frank Zagarino, Henry Silva, Sherrie Rose, Brandon Hammond
Votes: 237
43. The Hidden Hand: Alien Contact and the Government Cover-Up (2013)
Not Rated | 80 min | Documentary, History, News
The Hidden Hand is a controversial Award-winning documentary that explores the possibility of an extraterrestrial presence here on Earth. The film takes a keen look at a spectrum of topics ... See full summary »
Director: James Carman | Stars: Tristan Layton, Richard Dolan, Whitley Strieber, Robert Dean
Votes: 348
44. The Clinton Chronicles (1994 Video)
Not Rated | 85 min | Documentary
A documentary accusing Bill Clinton of crimes in Arkansas.
Director: Patrick Matrisciana | Stars: Jim Johnson, Nora Waye, Larry Nichols, Doc DeLaughter
Votes: 137
45. Terrorstorm (2006 Video)
Not Rated | 113 min | Documentary
Throughout history, criminal elements inside governments have carried out terror attacks against their own populations as a pretext to enslave them. TerrorStorm reveals how, in the last ... See full summary »
Director: Alex Jones | Stars: Alex Jones, Ray McGovern, Cindy Sheehan, Steven E. Jones
Votes: 1,853
46. Dwellers (2021)
Not Rated | 80 min | Horror
While shooting a documentary on the suspicious disappearances within the homeless community, a filmmaker and his crew go missing while uncovering a terrifying and vicious secret below the city's surface.
Director: Drew Fortier | Stars: Drew Fortier, James L. Edwards, Douglas Esper, Omar Baig
Votes: 182
47. American Drug War: The Last White Hope (2006)
Not Rated | 120 min | Documentary, Crime
With commentary from soldiers on both sides of the conflict, filmmaker Kevin Booth's incisive documentary wades into the murky waters of the American war on drugs, the longest and costliest war in U.S. history.
Director: Kevin Booth | Stars: Joe Arpaio, Jello Biafra, Osama bin Laden, Jeff Blackburn
Votes: 1,643
48. Ferguson Rises (2021)
82 min | Documentary
Ferguson Rises is the inspiring story of the residents of Ferguson, Missouri, a small town that suffered a powerful loss and became the flash point for a modern day civil rights movement.
Director: Mobolaji Olambiwonnu | Stars: Jeffrey Amado Ahrens, Rasheen Aldridge, Dominique Alexander, Ank Ankenbrand
Votes: 56
49. Mufon and UFOs: The Proof Is Out There (2022)
Approved | 82 min | Documentary
Researchers have been searching for proof of extraterrestrial life for years. Earl Anderson, the head of Investigations of MUFON Los Angeles, and his team search for proof of the existence ... See full summary »
Director: Jeremy Norrie | Stars: Earl Grey Anderson, Benjamin Fields, Gino Meregillano
Votes: 44
50. The Death of Vince Foster: What Really Happened? (1995 Video)
Not Rated | 60 min | Documentary
What really happened to White House counsel Vince Foster on 20 July, 1993? Suicide or murder? The documentary explores several evidences that indicates a foul play could have happened and ... See full summary »
Director: Patrick Matrisciana | Stars: Bob Bennett, James C. Beyer, Barbara Boxer, Cheryl Braun
Votes: 24