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1. Poor Things (2023)

R | 141 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

An account of the fantastical evolution of Bella Baxter, a young woman brought back to life by the brilliant and unorthodox scientist Dr. Godwin Baxter.

Director: Yorgos Lanthimos | Stars: Emma Stone, Mark Ruffalo, Willem Dafoe, Ramy Youssef

Votes: 252,561

2. Lucy (I) (2014)

R | 89 min | Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller

A woman, accidentally caught in a dark deal, turns the tables on her captors and transforms into a merciless warrior evolved beyond human logic.

Director: Luc Besson | Stars: Scarlett Johansson, Morgan Freeman, Choi Min-sik, Amr Waked

Votes: 534,565 | Gross: $126.66M

3. The Butterfly Effect (2004)

R | 113 min | Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller

Evan Treborn suffers blackouts during significant events of his life. As he grows up, he finds a way to remember these lost memories and a supernatural way to alter his life by reading his journal.

Directors: Eric Bress, J. Mackye Gruber | Stars: Ashton Kutcher, Amy Smart, Melora Walters, Elden Henson

Votes: 521,338 | Gross: $57.94M

4. Pacific Rim: Uprising (2018)

PG-13 | 111 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

Jake Pentecost, son of Stacker Pentecost, reunites with Mako Mori to lead a new generation of Jaeger pilots, including rival Lambert and 15-year-old hacker Amara, against a new Kaiju threat.

Director: Steven S. DeKnight | Stars: John Boyega, Scott Eastwood, Cailee Spaeny, Burn Gorman

Votes: 127,343 | Gross: $59.87M

5. The Death of Stalin (2017)

R | 107 min | Comedy, Drama, History

Moscow, 1953. After being in power for nearly 30 years, Soviet dictator, Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin, takes ill and quickly dies. Now the members of the Council of Ministers scramble for power.

Director: Armando Iannucci | Stars: Steve Buscemi, Simon Russell Beale, Jeffrey Tambor, Andrea Riseborough

Votes: 113,492 | Gross: $8.05M

6. Solace (II) (2015)

R | 101 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Psychic John Clancy (Sir Anthony Hopkins) works with the F.B.I. in order to hunt down a serial killer.

Director: Afonso Poyart | Stars: Anthony Hopkins, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Abbie Cornish, Colin Farrell

Votes: 68,886

7. Assassin's Creed (2016)

PG-13 | 115 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

Callum Lynch explores the memories of his ancestor Aguilar de Nerha and gains the skills of a Master Assassin, before taking on the secret Templar society.

Director: Justin Kurzel | Stars: Michael Fassbender, Marion Cotillard, Jeremy Irons, Brendan Gleeson

Votes: 208,928 | Gross: $54.65M

8. Warm Bodies (2013)

PG-13 | 98 min | Comedy, Horror, Romance

After a highly unusual zombie saves a still-living girl from an attack, the two form a relationship that sets in motion events that might transform the entire lifeless world.

Director: Jonathan Levine | Stars: Nicholas Hoult, Teresa Palmer, John Malkovich, Lio Tipton

Votes: 243,656 | Gross: $66.38M

9. Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1994)

R | 123 min | Drama, Horror, Romance

When the brilliant but unorthodox scientist Dr. Victor Frankenstein rejects the artificial man that he has created, the Creature escapes and later swears revenge.

Director: Kenneth Branagh | Stars: Robert De Niro, Kenneth Branagh, Helena Bonham Carter, Tom Hulce

Votes: 59,359 | Gross: $22.01M

10. The Promised Neverland (2019–2021)

TV-14 | 23 min | Animation, Action, Adventure

When three gifted kids at an isolated idyllic orphanage discover the secret and sinister purpose they were raised for, they look for a way to escape from their evil caretaker and lead the other children in a risky escape plan.

Stars: Sumire Morohoshi, Mariya Ise, Shinei Ueki, Lynn

Votes: 46,913

11. Pi (1998)

R | 84 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery

A paranoid mathematician searches for a key number that will unlock the universal patterns found in nature.

Director: Darren Aronofsky | Stars: Sean Gullette, Mark Margolis, Ben Shenkman, Pamela Hart

Votes: 186,485 | Gross: $3.22M

12. Frankenstein (1931)

Passed | 70 min | Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi

Dr Henry Frankenstein is obsessed with assembling a living being from parts of several exhumed corpses.

Director: James Whale | Stars: Colin Clive, Mae Clarke, Boris Karloff, John Boles

Votes: 79,738

13. Horror Hospital (1973)

R | 90 min | Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi

Two British companions who met on a train heading to the rural countryside stay with a bizarre host of characters in a secluded, curious mansion. Unknown to them, there is a sinister secret behind closed doors.

Director: Antony Balch | Stars: Michael Gough, Robin Askwith, Vanessa Shaw, Ellen Pollock

Votes: 1,836

14. Dracula: Dead and Loving It (1995)

PG-13 | 88 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Horror

Mel Brooks' parody of the classic vampire story and its famous film adaptations.

Director: Mel Brooks | Stars: Leslie Nielsen, Mel Brooks, Peter MacNicol, Steven Weber

Votes: 45,209 | Gross: $10.77M

15. Fantastic Voyage (1966)

PG | 100 min | Adventure, Sci-Fi

When a blood clot renders a scientist comatose, a submarine and its crew are shrunk and injected into his bloodstream in order to save him.

Director: Richard Fleischer | Stars: Stephen Boyd, Raquel Welch, Edmond O'Brien, Donald Pleasence

Votes: 20,839

16. Horror Express (1972)

R | 88 min | Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi

While on the Trans-Siberian Express, an anthropologist and his rival must contain the threat posed by the former's cargo: a prehistoric ape which is the host for a parasitic life-form.

Director: Eugenio Martín | Stars: Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing, Alberto de Mendoza, Telly Savalas

Votes: 12,770

17. Moonwalker (1988)

PG | 93 min | Action, Crime, Fantasy

Anthology movie by, and starring, Michael Jackson in his prime, combining a number of music videos from his bestselling "Bad" album with a fantasy tale of Michael's confrontation with a ruthless drug dealer known as Mr. Big.

Directors: Jerry Kramer, Jim Blashfield, Colin Chilvers | Stars: Michael Jackson, Joe Pesci, Sean Lennon, Kelley Parker

Votes: 18,241

18. Puppet Master II (1990 Video)

R | 88 min | Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi

The puppets return and hunt paranormal researchers in an attempt to take their brain fluid for their master, Andre Toulon.

Director: David Allen | Stars: Elizabeth Maclellan, Collin Bernsen, Steve Welles, Greg Webb

Votes: 6,139

19. Cosmos (1980)

TV-PG | 60 min | Documentary

Astronomer Carl Sagan leads us on an engaging guided tour of the various elements and cosmological theories of the universe.

Stars: Carl Sagan, Jaromír Hanzlík, Jonathan Fahn, Jean Charney

Votes: 44,175

20. Brain Damage (1988)

R | 84 min | Comedy, Horror

One morning, a young man wakes to find that a small, disgusting creature has attached itself to the base of his brain stem. The creature gives him a euphoric state of happiness but demands human victims in return.

Director: Frank Henenlotter | Stars: Rick Hearst, Gordon MacDonald, Jennifer Lowry, Theo Barnes

Votes: 13,175

21. Accidental Love (2015)

PG-13 | 100 min | Comedy, Romance

A small town waitress gets a nail accidentally lodged in her head causing unpredictable behavior that leads her to Washington, D.C., where sparks fly when she meets a clueless young senator who takes up her cause - but what happens when love interferes with what you stand for?

Director: David O. Russell | Stars: Jessica Biel, Ray Brown, Jenny Gulley, Beverly D'Angelo

Votes: 9,129

22. Wolfen (1981)

R | 115 min | Horror, Thriller

A New York cop investigates a series of brutal deaths that resemble animal attacks.

Director: Michael Wadleigh | Stars: Albert Finney, Diane Venora, Edward James Olmos, Gregory Hines

Votes: 11,482 | Gross: $10.63M

23. The Gorgon (1964)

Not Rated | 83 min | Horror

In the early twentieth century, a Gorgon takes human form and terrorizes a small European village by turning its citizens to stone.

Director: Terence Fisher | Stars: Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing, Richard Pasco, Barbara Shelley

Votes: 6,851

24. My American Uncle (1980)

PG | 125 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

The intersecting stories of three people who face difficult choices in life-changing situations are used to illustrate the theories espoused by Henri Laborit about human behavior and the relationship between the self and society.

Director: Alain Resnais | Stars: Gérard Depardieu, Nicole Garcia, Roger Pierre, Nelly Borgeaud

Votes: 6,854

25. The Dinner Party (2020)

116 min | Horror, Thriller

A budding playwright and his wife attend a dinner party hosted by wealthy, cultural elites, who have promised to bankroll the writer's latest play to Broadway, but, in fact, have darker designs in mind for the couple.

Director: Miles Doleac | Stars: Jeremy London, Bill Sage, Sherri Eakin, Alli Hart

Votes: 7,796

26. The Colossus of New York (1958)

Unrated | 70 min | Horror, Sci-Fi

A brilliant surgeon encases his dead son's brain in a large robot body, with unintended results...

Director: Eugène Lourié | Stars: John Baragrey, Mala Powers, Otto Kruger, Robert Hutton

Votes: 1,244

27. Fiend Without a Face (1958)

Approved | 74 min | Horror, Sci-Fi

A scientist's thoughts materialize as an army of invisible brain-shaped monsters (complete with spinal-cord tails!) who terrorize an American military base in this nightmarish chiller.

Director: Arthur Crabtree | Stars: Marshall Thompson, Terry Kilburn, Michael Balfour, Gil Winfield

Votes: 4,804

28. A Cat in the Brain (1990)

R | 93 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Horror

A horror film director is stalked by a mad psychiatrist/serial killer bent on killing people to model the killings after the director's gory death scenes from his movies.

Director: Lucio Fulci | Stars: Lucio Fulci, Brett Halsey, Ria De Simone, David L. Thompson

Votes: 3,777

29. Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed (1969)

PG-13 | 101 min | Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi

Baron Frankenstein, with the aid of a young doctor and his fiancée, kidnaps the mentally sick Dr. Brandt in order to perform the first brain transplant operation.

Director: Terence Fisher | Stars: Peter Cushing, Veronica Carlson, Freddie Jones, Simon Ward

Votes: 5,290 | Gross: $0.10M

30. Someone Behind the Door (1971)

GP | 97 min | Crime, Drama

A neurosurgeon with a cheating wife takes an amnesiac into his home and conditions him to believe that the cheating wife is his own and to take the "appropriate" action.

Director: Nicolas Gessner | Stars: Charles Bronson, Anthony Perkins, Jill Ireland, Henri Garcin

Votes: 1,724

31. The Revenge of Frankenstein (1958)

Not Rated | 90 min | Horror, Sci-Fi

Having escaped execution and assumed an alias, Baron Frankenstein transplants his deformed underling's brain into a perfect body, but the result proves to be mortally perilous.

Director: Terence Fisher | Stars: Peter Cushing, Francis Matthews, Eunice Gayson, Michael Gwynn

Votes: 6,124

32. The Devil's Rock (2011)

Not Rated | 83 min | Horror

Set in the Channel Islands on the eve of D Day, two Kiwi commandos, sent to destroy German gun emplacements to distract Hitler's forces away from Normandy, discover a Nazi occult plot to unleash demonic forces to win the war.

Director: Paul Campion | Stars: Craig Hall, Matthew Sunderland, Gina Varela, Karlos Drinkwater

Votes: 4,560

33. Unspeakable (2002)

R | 108 min | Horror, Thriller

A woman battles an unspeakable terror.

Director: Thomas J. Wright | Stars: Pavan Grover, Michelle Wolff, Mark Voltura, Marco Rodríguez

Votes: 1,511

34. The Garden of Sinners: Paradox Spiral (2008)

TV-MA | 114 min | Animation, Action, Crime

A teenage demon hunter uses her mystical powers to investigate supernatural events.

Director: Takayuki Hirao | Stars: Maaya Sakamoto, Ken'ichi Suzumura, Takako Honda, Ayumi Fujimura

Votes: 2,099

35. Terror Toons (2002 Video)

R | 75 min | Horror, Comedy

In a quiet suburban neighborhood, two sisters are about to experience the dark and sinister world of Terror Toons. Candy and Cindy's parents have traveled out of town for the weekend ... See full summary »

Director: Joe Castro | Stars: Beverly Lynne, Lizzy Borden, Brandon Ellison, Kaycee

Votes: 1,219

36. UUelcome (1997– )

Game-Show

Link Egglepple Starbureiy (lnq)

Stars: Lnq, Joey Koala, Puwun, Honne Bay

37. Happy (2012)

Not Rated | 76 min | Documentary, Drama, Family

Happy takes us on a journey from the swamps of Louisiana to the slums of Kolkata in search of what really makes people happy.

Director: Roko Belic | Stars: Marci Shimoff, Ed Diener, Richard Davidson, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Votes: 3,382

38. Borderline (II) (2021)

100 min | Biography, Drama, Romance

Craving that girl she was never able to replace and seeking inspiration in her presence, or absence, or rather fantasy, a troubled writer embarks on a stormy journey of love, passion and potentially perdition.

Director: Anna Alfieri | Stars: Anna Alfieri, Agathe Ferré, Caspian Faye, Ali Keane

Votes: 42

39. Ghost Hound (2007–2008)

TV-14 | 25 min | Animation, Drama, Horror

The experiences of three boys who have had traumatic experiences in childhood from which they have learned to transfer their souls to a parallel world known as the "Unseen World".

Stars: Jessie James Grelle, Clint Bickham, Corey Hartzog, Brittney Karbowski

Votes: 854

40. La machine (1994)

96 min | Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller

The psychiatrist Marc Laxroix is a studious scientist of the brains of criminals. He has an unhappy and loveless marriage with his wife Marie Lacroix and they have a boy, Léonard Lacroix. ... See full summary »

Director: François Dupeyron | Stars: Gérard Depardieu, Nathalie Baye, Didier Bourdon, Natalia Wörner

Votes: 746

41. Terror Toons 2 (2007 Video)

76 min | Comedy, Horror

A girl gets a DVD entitled Terror Toons for her birthday. Meanwhile, "cartoon" characters Hansel and Gretel wander into the house of a witch who poisons them, but instead of dying, they ... See full summary »

Director: Joe Castro | Stars: Emma Bing, Bart Burson, Jonathan Kowalsky, Randy Wayne

Votes: 290

42. Glitch (2008 TV Movie)

Not Rated | 90 min | Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller

A new communication technology is invented, but when the inventors test the new product on themselves, there is a bug or two that needs to be fixed.

Director: Randy Daudlin | Stars: Steve Byers, Greg Campbell, Maury Chaykin, Matthew Edison

Votes: 489

43. Blood Relations (1988)

R | 90 min | Horror

Thomas takes his beautiful girlfriend to meet his crazy surgion father at a remote mansion and things get out of control a twist ending that will make you love this horror movie.

Director: Graeme Campbell | Stars: Jan Rubes, Kevin Hicks, Lydie Denier, Lynne Adams

Votes: 412

44. Disembodied (1998 Video)

78 min | Horror, Sci-Fi

Connie Sproutz, a likeable young woman with the sad problem of a spore-generating deformity on her face which causes difficulties in her day-to-day life such as dissolving into a gelatinous... See full summary »

Director: William Kersten | Stars: Anastasia Woolverton, Hannah Nease, James Diederichsen, Patricia Mathews

Votes: 119

45. Lucinda's Spell (1998)

R | 105 min | Fantasy

A great wizard returns to Earth where he lands in New Orleans in search of a mate, but he runs into a woman with whom he had an affair 8 years previously resulting in a son that is unknown to the wizard.

Director: Jon Jacobs | Stars: Jon Jacobs, Christina Fulton, Shana Betz, Leon Herbert

Votes: 580

46. Interview with a Serial Killer (2008 TV Movie)

PG-13 | 44 min | Documentary, Crime

In this jailhouse interview, Arthur Shawcross, the Genesee River Killer, shares candid details of his crimes and his surprising family bonds.

Director: Christopher Martin | Stars: Augustine Capone, Maggie Deming, Paul Dierdorf, Lynde Johnston

Votes: 649

47. Hauser's Memory (1970 TV Movie)

GP | 96 min | Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller

A scientist is persuaded by the government to inject himself with the brain fluid of a dying colleague in order to preserve missile-defense secrets. However, he finds that he is now torn ... See full summary »

Director: Boris Sagal | Stars: David McCallum, Susan Strasberg, Helmut Käutner, Leslie Nielsen

Votes: 133

48. Robot Stories (2003)

Not Rated | 85 min | Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi

Four tales: a robot baby as a pre-adoption test, a mother and her dying son's toy robot collection, a lonely robot office worker, and a sculptor contemplating robot-enabled immortality.

Director: Greg Pak | Stars: Tamlyn Tomita, James Saito, Vin Knight, Gina Quintos

Votes: 1,443 | Gross: $0.13M

49. The Brain Hack (2015)

20 min | Short, Sci-Fi, Thriller

A metaphysical thriller for the digital generation.

Director: Joseph White | Stars: Edward Franklin, Alexander Owen

Votes: 798

50. Your Brain on Porn (2017 Video)

Talk-Show

Stefan Molyneux interviews Gary Wilson, author of "Your Brain on Porn: How Internet Porn Affects the Brain".

Stars: Gary Wilson, Stefan Molyneux