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1. Young Royals (2021–2024)

TV-MA | 50 min | Drama, Romance

Prince Wilhelm adjusts to life at his prestigious new boarding school, Hillerska, but following his heart proves more challenging than anticipated.

Stars: Edvin Ryding, Omar Rudberg, Malte Gårdinger, Frida Argento

Votes: 44,058

2. Virgin Territory (2007)

R | 97 min | Adventure, Comedy, Romance

Young Florentines take refuge from the black plague and engage in bawdy adventures and lusty exchanges.

Director: David Leland | Stars: Hayden Christensen, Mischa Barton, Ryan Cartwright, Christopher Egan

Votes: 8,703

3. Classroom of the Elite (2017– )

TV-14 | 24 min | Animation, Drama, Thriller

When Kiyotaka enters government-sponsored elite high school, he finds out just how merit-based this education system is.

Stars: Shoya Chiba, Brandon McInnis, Justin Briner, Felecia Angelle

Votes: 13,640

4. The Beguiled (2017)

R | 93 min | Drama, History, Thriller

The unexpected arrival of a wounded Union soldier at a girls school in Virginia during the American Civil War leads to jealousy and betrayal.

Director: Sofia Coppola | Stars: Nicole Kidman, Kirsten Dunst, Elle Fanning, Colin Farrell

Votes: 61,767 | Gross: $10.58M

5. We Have Always Lived in the Castle (2018)

Not Rated | 95 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery

Merricat, Constance and their Uncle Julian live in isolation after experiencing a family tragedy six years earlier. When cousin Charles arrives to steal the family fortune, he also threatens a dark secret they've been hiding.

Director: Stacie Passon | Stars: Taissa Farmiga, Alexandra Daddario, Crispin Glover, Sebastian Stan

Votes: 9,544 | Gross: $7.67M

6. What Is a Woman? (2022)

95 min | Documentary

Political commentator Matt Walsh explores the changing concepts of sex and gender in the digital age, particularly the transgender rights movement, anti-transgender bigotry, and what it means to be a woman.

Director: Justin Folk | Stars: Matt Walsh, Gert Comfrey, Marci Bowers, Don Sucher

Votes: 42,078

7. Icarus (2017)

TV-MA | 120 min | Documentary, Sport

When Bryan sets out to uncover the truth about doping in sports, a chance meeting with a Russian scientist transforms his story from a personal experiment into a geopolitical thriller.

Director: Bryan Fogel | Stars: Bryan Fogel, Dave Zabriskie, Don Catlin, Grigory Rodchenkov

Votes: 54,722

8. Based on a True Story (I) (2017)

100 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller

A writer goes through a tough period after the release of her latest book, as she gets involved with an obsessive admirer.

Director: Roman Polanski | Stars: Emmanuelle Seigner, Eva Green, Vincent Perez, Dominique Pinon

Votes: 7,391

9. Brexit (2019 TV Movie)

TV-14 | 98 min | Biography, Drama, History

Political strategist Dominic Cummings leads a popular but controversial campaign to convince British voters to leave the European Union from 2015 up until the present day.

Director: Toby Haynes | Stars: Benedict Cumberbatch, Sarah Belcher, Malcolm Freeman, Lucy Russell

Votes: 17,752

10. Guyana Tragedy: The Story of Jim Jones (1980 TV Movie)

TV-14 | 192 min | Biography, Drama

The real-life story of the Peoples Temple cult led by Reverend Jim Jones and the events involving its move to Guyana and its eventual mass suicide.

Director: William A. Graham | Stars: Powers Boothe, Ned Beatty, Irene Cara, Veronica Cartwright

Votes: 1,656

11. The Drowning (2016)

Not Rated | 95 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller

A psychiatrist faces his past, present and future when he finds himself involved in the treatment of a young man recently released from prison for a murder committed when the boy was just 11 years old.

Director: Bette Gordon | Stars: Julia Stiles, John C. McGinley, Tracie Thoms, Avan Jogia

Votes: 3,345

12. Forgive Us Our Trespasses (I) (2022)

TV-14 | 13 min | Short, Drama

Targeted by Nazis as they hunt down and murder people with disabilities, a boy with a limb difference makes a daring decision while running for his life.

Director: Ashley Eakin | Stars: Knox Gibson, Hanneke Talbot, Justin Mader, Nathaniel McParland

Votes: 2,430

13. Jonestown: Paradise Lost (2007 TV Movie)

PG-13 | 100 min | Documentary, Drama, History

Cult leader Jim Jones leads his followers to a mass-suicide.

Director: Tim Wolochatiuk | Stars: Ted Biggs, Stephan Jones, Vernon Gosney, Tim Reiterman

Votes: 1,245

14. Max and the Junkmen (1971)

Not Rated | 112 min | Crime, Drama, Romance

A detective decides to go undercover and set up a group of robbers, but he may be getting too caught up in the task at hand.

Director: Claude Sautet | Stars: Danielle Durou, Alain Belart, Michel Piccoli, Romy Schneider

Votes: 3,137 | Gross: $0.03M

15. Where's My Roy Cohn? (2019)

PG-13 | 97 min | Documentary

Roy Cohn personified the dark arts of American politics, turning empty vessels into dangerous demagogues - from Joseph McCarthy to his final project, Donald J. Trump.

Director: Matt Tyrnauer | Stars: Roy M. Cohn, Ken Auletta, Marie Brenner, Robert Cohen

Votes: 1,209

16. Scarlet and Black (1993)

238 min | Drama, Romance

The story of an ambitious but impoverished young man who seduces women of social class in order to improve his own prospects in 19th century France.

Stars: Ewan McGregor, Christopher Fulford, Alice Krige, T.P. McKenna

Votes: 515

17. Escaping Dad (2017 TV Movie)

TV-PG | 90 min | Thriller

A woman goes on the run with her children to escape an abusive husband, who is the District Attorney. He puts out an Amber Alert for them.

Director: Ross Kohn | Stars: Trevor Donovan, Sunny Mabrey, Jason Wiles, Grace Van Dien

Votes: 517

18. Ishq Mein Marjawan (2017–2019)

22 min | Crime, Musical, Mystery

She had the perfect life, the perfect man but little did she know that she was walking into the perfect trap. What happens when the man you love turns out to be a genius manipulator?

Stars: Jannat Zubair Rahmani, Tunisha Sharma, Urvashi Dholakia, Sonarika Bhadoria

Votes: 600

19. Lyubi ikh vsekh (2019)

Not Rated | 100 min | Drama

She always has a plan. For each one. Each has its own name. One needs Faith. To another - Hope. And Love to almost everyone. She has a special approach to each of the men. But they always ... See full summary »

Director: Mariya Agranovich | Stars: Alyona Mikhaylova, Aleksandr Kuznetsov, Sergey Garmash, Aleksandra Kiseleva

Votes: 292

20. Trinity (2009)

60 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

As a new academic year begins at ancient, prestigious Trinity College, Charlotte is among the new students, determined to prove that her father's death is somehow linked to the college.

Stars: Charles Dance, Claire Skinner, Antonia Bernath, Isabella Calthorpe

Votes: 478

21. The All-American Boy (1973)

R | 118 min | Drama, Sport

Episodic story in six acts ("The Manly Art in Six Rounds") about young boxer Vic Bealer in search for some direction in his life.

Director: Charles Eastman | Stars: Jon Voight, Nancie Phillips, Art Metrano, Kathy Mahoney

Votes: 269

22. Abused by My Girlfriend (2019 TV Movie)

50 min | Documentary

Documentary combining observational filming, interviews, personal and police archive footage to tell the story of Alex Skeel, a 23-year-old man from Bedford who survived an abusive relationship with his girlfriend Jordan Worth.

Director: Niamh Kennedy | Stars: Alex Skeel, Jordan Worth

Votes: 141

23. Kennedy, Sinatra and the Mafia (2023 TV Movie)

Documentary, Crime, History

With his mafia wiseguy links and access to entertainment industry star power, Frank Sinatra helped John F. Kennedy into the White House in 1960. But it all came to a bitter end.

Director: David Harvey | Stars: Chuck Granata, Lenny Luizzi, Robert Foster, Robbyn Swan

Votes: 57

24. Love & Rage (1999)

R | 100 min | Drama

This film is based on true events that happened in the Valley House on Achill Island off the west coast of Ireland.

Director: Cathal Black | Stars: Greta Scacchi, Daniel Craig, Stephen Dillane, Valerie Edmond

Votes: 523

25. The Rise of the Murdoch Dynasty (2020)

179 min | Documentary, Biography

A dramatic three-part series tells the incredible story of Rupert Murdoch's Empire, interweaving his behind-the-scenes influence on world events with the personal battle for power at the heart of his own family.

Stars: Kate Fleetwood, Piers Morgan, Andrew Neil, Sarah Ellison

Votes: 708

26. Manson: Music from an Unsound Mind (2019)

Not Rated | 108 min | Documentary, Biography, Music

The untold story of Charles Manson's obsession to become a rock star, his rise in the LA music scene, the celebrities who championed his music including the Beach Boys' Dennis Wilson and his descen...

Director: Tom O'Dell | Stars: Simon Wells, Jeff Guinn, Anthony DeCurtis, Peter Richardson

Votes: 307

27. Slay the Dragon (2019)

PG-13 | 101 min | Documentary

It influences elections and sways outcomes-gerrymandering has become a hot-button political topic and symbol for everything broken about the American electoral process. But there are those on the front lines fighting to change the system.

Directors: Chris Durrance, Barak Goodman | Stars: Stephen Wolf, Rick Pluta, Charles Williams II, Curt Guyette

Votes: 477

28. Arhangelos tou pathous (1987)

105 min | Drama, Fantasy, Romance

An unhinged Greek composer makes a promise to his dead girlfriend to kill himself on his birthday if he doesn't hear from her. Meanwhile, he also becomes obsessed with a married vamp French woman named Aphrodite.

Director: Nikos Vergitsis | Stars: Antonis Kafetzopoulos, Isabel Otero, Patrick Bauchau, Olia Lazaridou

Votes: 39

29. Aufbruch ins Ungewisse (2017 TV Movie)

88 min | Drama

In the near future: Europe is in chaos. Right-wing extremists have taken power in many countries. The democratic state that once was Germany has become a totalitarian system that persecutes... See full summary »

Director: Kai Wessel | Stars: Fabian Busch, Maria Simon, Athena Strates, Anton Figl

Votes: 213

30. Putin: The New Tsar (2018)

59 min | Documentary

This documentary will provide the first authoritative account of who Vladimir Putin actually is. What drives him, what does he fear, who does he love and hate?

Director: Patrick Forbes | Stars: Patrick Forbes, Vladimir Putin

Votes: 175

31. Fuis-moi, je te suis! (2022)

34 min | Short, Comedy, Romance

Adèle and Thibault play the dangerous game of desire. But Adèle is not sure of her feelings or those of her lover.

Director: Abigaëlle Janssens-Rivallain | Stars: Victor Perret, Abigaëlle Janssens-Rivallain, Severine Leus, Sabine Rivallain

32. Embrace of the Scorpions

Short, Crime, Drama | Announced

The relationship between an obsessive widower and a self-destructive medical administrator reaches a crisis point when they discover dark secrets about each other during a one-night stand.

Director: Angel Connell | Stars: Marybeth Paul, Corey Wells

33. Geheimsache Doping - Im Schattenreich der Leichtathletik (2015 TV Special)

56 min | News

Half a year after his film "Geheimsache Doping - Wie Russland seine Sieger macht" reporter Hajo Seppelt summarizes what has happened in the meantime in Russia's sport scene and follows hints about doping in Kenyan athletics.

Director: Hajo Seppelt | Stars: Michael Ashenden, Rita Jeptoo, Paul Simbolei Kibet, Frimin Kiplagat Kipchoge

34. Stick It (2014)

5 min | Short, Romance, Sport

The single channel video STICK IT combines television footage of women's gymnastics with recordings of the artist attempting the same routines. Merging himself and the young gymnasts of the... See full summary »

Director: Stefan Ramirez Perez

35. The Many (2019)

Short, Drama

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Director: Zoe Yeoman | Stars: Laura Workman, Sam Holdren, Raven Valdes, Tyneckia Lewis

36. TiDE (2021)

9 min | Short, Drama, Romance

Valerie is breaking up with Carmelo.

Directors: Lambert Majambele, Finn Ashton | Stars: Coco Bevan, Eric Lee

37. Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1985–1989)
Episode: In the Driver's Seat (1989)

TV-PG | Crime, Drama, Mystery

An abrasive race driver has trouble adjusting to paralysis.

Director: Timothy Bond | Stars: Alfred Hitchcock, David James Elliott, Greg Evigan, Nadine Van der Velde

Votes: 89

38. Extras (2005–2007)
Episode: Les Dennis (2005)

TV-MA | 30 min | Comedy, Drama

Andy gets a role in a pantomime, starring opposite British TV presenter Les Dennis. As Dennis begins to approach a breakdown, Maggie gets to know the pantomime director's daughter, who ... See full summary »

Directors: Ricky Gervais, Stephen Merchant | Stars: Ricky Gervais, Ashley Jensen, Stephen Merchant, Gerard Kelly

Votes: 1,144

39. Friday the 13th: The Series (1987–1990)
Episode: The Inheritance (1987)

TV-14 | 46 min | Fantasy, Horror, Mystery

Two cousins, Ryan Dallion and Micki Foster, inherit an antiques shop from their uncle. Together with his partner, they must track down cursed objects that their devil-worshiping uncle had created. The first object is a demonic killer doll.

Director: William Fruet | Stars: John D. LeMay, Louise Robey, Chris Wiggins, R.G. Armstrong

Votes: 351

40. Miami Vice (1984–1989)
Episode: Hell Hath No Fury (1988)

TV-14 | 47 min | Action, Crime, Drama

Trudy's friend hires an assassin to kill the man who raped her, became a poster child for rehabilitation in prison to get paroled, and is now continuing to torture her psychologically by using the media to paint her as the villain.

Director: Virgil W. Vogel | Stars: Don Johnson, Philip Michael Thomas, Saundra Santiago, Michael Talbott

Votes: 291

41. Very Scary People (2019– )
Episode: Jim Jones: Unholy Massacre Part 1 (2019)

TV-14 | 42 min | Documentary, Crime, History

More than 900 Americans died in an isolated jungle in northern Guyana in November 1978. The man responsible, Jim Jones, has gone down in history as a madman who drove his followers to ... See full summary »

Director: Renee Cullen | Stars: Donnie Wahlberg, Stephan Jones, John R. Hall, John Cobb

Votes: 41

42. Very Scary People (2019– )
Episode: Charles Manson: The Devil's Work Part 1 (2019)

TV-14 | 42 min | Documentary, Crime, History

Charles Manson was born a bad kid, became a teenage thief and a violent predator, and by the end, spent far more than half his life behind bars. He had the ability to charm and the power of... See full summary »

Director: Renee Cullen | Stars: Donnie Wahlberg, Sara Sidner, Lis Wiehl, Stephen Kay

Votes: 42

43. Very Scary People (2019– )
Episode: Jim Jones: Unholy Massacre Part 2 (2019)

TV-14 | 42 min | Documentary, Crime, History

More than 900 Americans died in an isolated jungle in northern Guyana in November 1978. The man responsible, Jim Jones, has gone down in history as a madman who drove his followers to ... See full summary »

Director: Renee Cullen | Stars: Donnie Wahlberg, Jeff Guinn, Laura Johnston Kohl, Stephan Jones

Votes: 36

44. Very Scary People (2019– )
Episode: Charles Manson: The Devil's Work Part 2 (2019)

TV-14 | 42 min | Documentary, Crime, History

Charles Manson was born a bad kid, became a teenage thief and a violent predator, and by the end, spent far more than half his life behind bars. He had the ability to charm and the power of... See full summary »

Director: Renee Cullen | Stars: Donnie Wahlberg, Steven V. Roberts, Rick Alan Ross, Sara Sidner

Votes: 38

45. Night Shade with Michael Malice (2018–2020)
Episode #1.352 (2020 Podcast Episode)

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Star: Michael Malice

46. Faking It: Tears of a Crime (2017– )
Episode: Faking It - Jimmy Savile (2020)

45 min | Documentary, Crime, News

Experts examine how one of the biggest stars in British showbusiness got away with decades of sexual abuse.

Stars: Cliff Lansley, Dawn Archer, Kerry Daynes, Rob Warner

Votes: 32

47. Jeff Lewis Live (2019– )
Episode: Jeff Lewis Wants to Be Cardi B (2021)

Comedy, Talk-Show

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Stars: Shane Douglas, Alyssa Heimrich, Mercedes Javid, Jeff Lewis

48. Rapunzel's Tangled Adventure (2017–2020)
Episode: Happiness Is... (2018)

TV-G | 22 min | Animation, Action, Adventure

Rapunzel is homesick until she discovers an idol with the power to bring instant happiness. But, there is a dark side to that power and it threatens the cohesion of the group.

Director: Joe Oh | Stars: Zachary Levi, Mandy Moore, Eden Espinosa, James Monroe Iglehart

Votes: 113