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1. E.T. (1982)

PG | 115 min | Adventure, Family, Sci-Fi

A troubled child summons the courage to help a friendly alien escape from Earth and return to his home planet.

Director: Steven Spielberg | Stars: Henry Thomas, Drew Barrymore, Peter Coyote, Dee Wallace

Votes: 437,897 | Gross: $435.11M

2. Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)

R | 137 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

A cyborg, identical to the one who failed to kill Sarah Connor, must now protect her ten year old son John from an even more advanced and powerful cyborg.

Director: James Cameron | Stars: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Linda Hamilton, Edward Furlong, Robert Patrick

Votes: 1,175,089 | Gross: $204.84M

3. The King's Man (2021)

R | 131 min | Action, Adventure, Thriller

In the early years of the 20th century, the Kingsman agency is formed to stand against a cabal plotting a war to wipe out millions.

Director: Matthew Vaughn | Stars: Ralph Fiennes, Gemma Arterton, Rhys Ifans, Harris Dickinson

Votes: 173,800 | Gross: $37.18M

4. Chinatown (1974)

R | 130 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller

A private detective hired to expose an adulterer in 1930s Los Angeles finds himself caught up in a web of deceit, corruption, and murder.

Director: Roman Polanski | Stars: Jack Nicholson, Faye Dunaway, John Huston, Perry Lopez

Votes: 350,122

5. Paris, Texas (1984)

R | 145 min | Drama

Travis Henderson, an aimless drifter who has been missing for four years, wanders out of the desert and must reconnect with society, himself, his life, and his family.

Director: Wim Wenders | Stars: Harry Dean Stanton, Nastassja Kinski, Dean Stockwell, Sam Berry

Votes: 119,230 | Gross: $2.18M

6. Killer Joe (2011)

R | 102 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

When a debt puts a young man's life in danger, he turns to putting a hit out on his evil mother in order to collect the insurance.

Director: William Friedkin | Stars: Matthew McConaughey, Emile Hirsch, Juno Temple, Thomas Haden Church

Votes: 83,358 | Gross: $1.99M

7. Paranormal Activity 4 (2012)

R | 88 min | Horror, Mystery

It has been five years since the disappearance of Katie and Hunter, and a suburban family witness strange events in their neighborhood when a woman and a mysterious child move in.

Directors: Henry Joost, Ariel Schulman | Stars: Stephen Dunham, Katie Featherston, Matt Shively, Brendon Eggertsen

Votes: 70,304 | Gross: $53.92M

8. The Biggest Little Farm (2018)

PG | 91 min | Documentary, Family

Documentarian John Chester and his wife Molly work to develop a sustainable farm on 200 acres outside of Los Angeles.

Director: John Chester | Stars: John Chester, Molly Chester, Todd, Alan York

Votes: 8,907 | Gross: $4.37M

9. Lean on Pete (2017)

R | 121 min | Adventure, Drama, Sport

A teenager gets a summer job working for a horse trainer and befriends the fading racehorse, Lean on Pete.

Director: Andrew Haigh | Stars: Charlie Plummer, Amy Seimetz, Travis Fimmel, Steve Buscemi

Votes: 13,960 | Gross: $1.16M

10. The Young Girls of Rochefort (1967)

G | 125 min | Comedy, Drama, Musical

Two sisters leave their small seaside town of Rochefort in search of romance. Hired as carnival singers, one falls for an American musician, while the other must search for her ideal partner.

Director: Jacques Demy | Stars: Catherine Deneuve, George Chakiris, Françoise Dorléac, Jacques Perrin

Votes: 12,044 | Gross: $0.09M

11. Going Clear: Scientology & the Prison of Belief (2015)

Not Rated | 119 min | Documentary

A documentary looking at the inner-workings of the Church of Scientology.

Director: Alex Gibney | Stars: Paul Haggis, Jason Beghe, Spanky Taylor, David Miscavige

Votes: 40,925

12. Someone Has to Die (2020)

TV-MA | 149 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

The story begins with a young boy being asked by his parents to return to Spain to meet his fiance. He returns accompanied by Lazaro, a mysterious ballet dancer.

Stars: Cecilia Suárez, Ernesto Alterio, Alejandro Speitzer, Isaac Hernández

Votes: 5,663

13. Murder, My Sweet (1944)

Approved | 95 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

After being hired to find an ex-con's former girlfriend, Philip Marlowe is drawn into a deeply complex web of mystery and deceit.

Director: Edward Dmytryk | Stars: Dick Powell, Claire Trevor, Anne Shirley, Otto Kruger

Votes: 14,709

14. Ariel (1988)

Not Rated | 72 min | Comedy, Crime, Romance

A Finnish man goes to the city to find a job after the mine where he worked is closed and his father commits suicide.

Director: Aki Kaurismäki | Stars: Turo Pajala, Susanna Haavisto, Matti Pellonpää, Eetu Hilkamo

Votes: 8,351

15. Eddie Macon's Run (1983)

PG | 95 min | Action, Adventure, Crime

A young man, harshly sentenced for a few minor infractions, escapes from a prison in Huntsville Texas and flees to Laredo, Texas, where he hopes to cross into Mexico for a reunion with his wife and small son.

Director: Jeff Kanew | Stars: Kirk Douglas, John Schneider, Lee Purcell, Lisa Dunsheath

Votes: 1,315 | Gross: $1.26M

16. Midnight (1939)

Passed | 94 min | Comedy, Romance

A chorus girl stranded in Paris is set up by a millionaire to break up his wife's affair with another man, while being romantically pursued by a cab driver.

Director: Mitchell Leisen | Stars: Claudette Colbert, Don Ameche, John Barrymore, Francis Lederer

Votes: 5,610

17. 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: 1,706

18. Angel Face (1952)

Approved | 91 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

Ambulance driver Frank Jessup is ensnared in the schemes of the sensuous but dangerous Diane Tremayne.

Director: Otto Preminger | Stars: Robert Mitchum, Jean Simmons, Mona Freeman, Herbert Marshall

Votes: 9,035

19. Between Midnight and Dawn (1950)

Passed | 89 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

Prowl car cops on night duty romance a reluctant young woman who works for the department while in danger from a vengeful racketeer.

Director: Gordon Douglas | Stars: Mark Stevens, Edmond O'Brien, Gale Storm, Donald Buka

Votes: 1,281

20. Johnny O'Clock (1947)

Passed | 96 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

A high-class crook gets in trouble with the law.

Director: Robert Rossen | Stars: Dick Powell, Evelyn Keyes, Lee J. Cobb, Ellen Drew

Votes: 2,663

21. Shockproof (1949)

Approved | 79 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

A parole officer falls in love with his client, a ravishing blonde who served time for murder, and he's determined to help her go straight despite her interfering criminal boyfriend.

Director: Douglas Sirk | Stars: Cornel Wilde, Patricia Knight, John Baragrey, Esther Minciotti

Votes: 2,293

22. Lies and Deception (2005 TV Movie)

Not Rated | 90 min | Thriller, Drama, Mystery

A private investigator helps a woman uncover the secret life of her dead husband.

Director: Louis Bélanger | Stars: Mädchen Amick, Andrew W. Walker, Joseph Kell, Ellen Dubin

Votes: 559

23. Lucy Gallant (1955)

Approved | 104 min | Drama

The success story of a dressmaker who comes to run a group of fashion shops at the expense of her love life.

Director: Robert Parrish | Stars: Jane Wyman, Charlton Heston, Claire Trevor, Thelma Ritter

Votes: 675

24. Warrior of Justice (1995)

R | 89 min | Action

A karate expert enters a deadly underground tournament to avenge one of his students who was killed there and stop the disgraced marshal arts champion who organized this deadly competition.

Directors: Jorgo Ognenovski, Mike Tristano | Stars: Jorgo Ognenovski, Jorge Rivero, Richard Lynch, Shari Blum

Votes: 89

25. Speed of Life (2019)

76 min | Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi

Storyline dealing with the late musician, David Bowie.

Director: Liz Manashil | Stars: Colvin Ang, Nicolaas Bertelsen, Erica Criddle, Ann Dowd

Votes: 332

26. Savage Gringo (1966)

82 min | Action, Drama, Western

A drifter helps a ranch couple fend off the approaches of a ruthless landowner.

Directors: Antonio Román, Mario Bava | Stars: Ken Clark, Yvonne Bastien, Piero Lulli, Howard Ross

Votes: 264

27. Silent Lies (1996)

88 min | Crime, Drama

In this earnest, unflinching drama, sisters unite in the face of their father's constant abuse. The story unfolds in a small Texas town as Shelley's senior year in high school draws to a ... See full synopsis »

Director: Peter Kiwitt | Stars: Elizabeth Anne Allen, Dana Daurey, Michael Harris, Bonnie Burroughs

Votes: 154

28. The Mansion (2017)

PG-13 | 100 min | Comedy, Horror

A band of students comes to celebrate the New Year in an old manor house isolated from everything. But soon after their arrival, strange events disrupt the atmosphere, before the party turns squarely to the nightmare.

Director: Tony T. Datis | Stars: Marc Jarousseau, Nathalie Odzierejko, Ludovik, Jérôme Niel

Votes: 2,995

29. One More Tomorrow (1946)

Passed | 87 min | Drama, Romance

Shiftless playboy Tom Collier meets photographer Christie Sage, takes over ownership of a liberal magazine, proposes to Christie but she declines. Scheming Cecelia Henry marries Tom.

Director: Peter Godfrey | Stars: Ann Sheridan, Dennis Morgan, Jack Carson, Alexis Smith

Votes: 588

30. Crawl (2012)

95 min | Drama

First-time filmmaker Hervé Lasgouttes puts an aimless young man to the test in a crime-tinged romance set on the stormy Brittany coast.

Director: Hervé Lasgouttes | Stars: Swann Arlaud, Anne Marivin, Nina Meurisse, Gilles Cohen

Votes: 70

31. The Great American Pastime (1956)

Approved | 90 min | Comedy, Sport

Bruce Hallerton becomes coach of the Panthers, a little league baseball team. The fact that an attractive widow has her son in the team causes problems with his wife.

Director: Herman Hoffman | Stars: Tom Ewell, Anne Francis, Ann Miller, Dean Jones

Votes: 329

32. The Ring (1952)

Approved | 79 min | Drama, Sport

A young American of Mexican decent in East Los Angeles, California uses the boxing ring to make a better life for himself and his family, and learns as much about being a Latino in a white society as he does about boxing.

Director: Kurt Neumann | Stars: Gerald Mohr, Rita Moreno, Lalo Rios, Robert Arthur

Votes: 851

33. Santa Fe Saddlemates (1945)

Approved | 58 min | Drama, Western

Governor Price sends Sunset Carson to investigate a smuggling ring which is baffling the Border Patrol. Newspaper woman Ann Morton is working incognito in the saloon waiting for a break on ... See full summary »

Directors: Thomas Carr, Yakima Canutt | Stars: Sunset Carson, Linda Stirling, Olin Howland, Roy Barcroft

Votes: 64

34. Red Hot Chili Peppers: Soul to Squeeze (1993 Music Video)

5 min | Music

Red Hot Chili Peppers performs in the music video "Soul to Squeeze" from the original motion picture soundtrack for the film Coneheads (1993) recorded for Warner Brothers Records. The music... See full summary »

Director: Kevin Kerslake | Stars: Red Hot Chili Peppers, Chris Farley, Flea, John Frusciante

Votes: 62

35. No alla violenza (1977)

93 min | Crime, Drama

The city of Messina is subject to a crime wave.

Director: Tano Cimarosa | Stars: Al Cliver, Ninetto Davoli, Martine Carell, Tano Cimarosa

Votes: 55

36. RiffTrax Live: House on Haunted Hill (2010)

116 min | Comedy, Horror

Hosted from Nashville on October 28th, 2010, the RiffTrax guys riff on "House on Haunted Hill (1959)" while also watching the short subjects "Paper and I (1960)" and "Magical Disappearing Money (1972)". Comedian, actor, and writer Paul F. Tompkins guest stars.

Stars: Bill Corbett, Kevin Murphy, Michael J. Nelson, Paul F. Tompkins

Votes: 331

37. Tous les chats sont gris (1963 TV Movie)

70 min | Comedy, Drama

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Director: Guy Lessertisseur | Stars: Mireille Darc, Jacques Jouanneau, Yves Rénier, Christian Marin

38. Make America Great? (2017)

13 min | Short, Comedy, Drama

It's 2021, the beginning of the second term after the most anticipated Presidential election in 2016. The 13th and 14th amendments no longer exist.

Director: Candice Vernon | Stars: Cheryl Francis Harrington, Malachi Crawford, Stephen Barrington, Karnell Matthews

Votes: 7

39. Preserving with Thomasina Miers (2014)

3 min | Documentary, Short

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Director: Oscar Hudson | Star: Thomasina Miers

40. CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (2000–2015)
Episode: Butterflied (2004)

TV-14 | 45 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

When the nurse Debbie Marlin is found murdered in her bathroom, the CSI team investigates the case. They learn that Debbie was a promiscuous woman that used to date doctor. Her last ... See full summary »

Director: Richard J. Lewis | Stars: William Petersen, Marg Helgenberger, Gary Dourdan, George Eads

Votes: 908

41. CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (2000–2015)
Episode: Fight Night (2002)

TV-PG | 45 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Boxer LaRoi Steele didn't survive his third fight against Javier Molina, whom he defeated in both earlier encounters. Grissom works out what happened exactly and why after learning how that... See full summary »

Director: Richard J. Lewis | Stars: William Petersen, Marg Helgenberger, Gary Dourdan, George Eads

Votes: 808

42. CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (2000–2015)
Episode: Snakes (2005)

TV-14 | 44 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

When a delivery boy finds a severed head with the hair ripped off inside a newspaper stand, Catherine, Nick and Det. Sam Vega assume the case. In the autopsy, Dr. Robbins pull out a snake ... See full summary »

Director: Richard J. Lewis | Stars: William Petersen, Marg Helgenberger, Gary Dourdan, George Eads

Votes: 756

43. CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (2000–2015)
Episode: The Finger (2002)

TV-PG | 44 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Wealthy Roy Logan acts suspiciously when withdrawing $1,000,000 cash and his blood on his hands, but must be released for lack of a crime. When Catherine rushes after him with his ... See full summary »

Director: Richard J. Lewis | Stars: William Petersen, Marg Helgenberger, Gary Dourdan, George Eads

Votes: 978

44. CSI: NY (2004–2013)
Episode: Corporate Warriors (2005)

TV-14 | 42 min | Action, Crime, Drama

Three cases. A murder during the Feast of San Gennaro with ties to a financial services company. A body sitting upright on a Central Park bench. An apartment fire where a 10-year-old boy is dead of smoke inhalation.

Director: Rob Bailey | Stars: Gary Sinise, Melina Kanakaredes, Carmine Giovinazzo, Anna Belknap

Votes: 337

45. Law & Order (1990– )
Episode: 3 Dawg Night (2001)

TV-14 | 60 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

A hip-hop star goes on trial for the murder of a nightclub patron who accused him of being a sellout.

Director: Stephen Wertimer | Stars: Jerry Orbach, Jesse L. Martin, S. Epatha Merkerson, Sam Waterston

Votes: 261

46. Law & Order (1990– )
Episode: Sects (2005)

TV-14 | 44 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

A murder/attempted suicide investigation leads to a religious cult that promotes pedophilia, but finding charges that will stick to the group's leader proves to be difficult.

Director: Richard Dobbs | Stars: Dennis Farina, Jesse L. Martin, S. Epatha Merkerson, Sam Waterston

Votes: 262

47. Law & Order: Criminal Intent (2001–2011)
Episode: Legion (2003)

TV-14 | 44 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

After a father and son are found with their throats cut, detectives Goren and Eames find everyone in the victims' supposedly "low-crime" neighborhood strangely reluctant to cooperate with the murder investigation.

Directors: Frank Prinzi, Steve Shill | Stars: Vincent D'Onofrio, Kathryn Erbe, Jamey Sheridan, Courtney B. Vance

Votes: 332

48. Miami Vice (1984–1989)
Episode: Calderone's Return: Part 1 - The Hit List (1984)

TV-14 | 49 min | Action, Crime, Drama

The team moves to protect Crockett and his family from an assassin, hired by Calderone to re-empty the void he left behind.

Director: Richard A. Colla | Stars: Don Johnson, Philip Michael Thomas, Saundra Santiago, Michael Talbott

Votes: 922

49. Miami Vice (1984–1989)
Episode: Heart of Darkness (1984)

TV-14 | 49 min | Action, Crime, Drama

Investigating a porn baron, Crockett and Tubbs become involved with an undercover FBI agent who may have gone native and become a criminal, and may have murdered an underage porn starlet. ... See full summary »

Director: John Llewellyn Moxey | Stars: Don Johnson, Philip Michael Thomas, Saundra Santiago, Michael Talbott

Votes: 958

50. Miami Vice (1984–1989)
Episode: The Cows of October (1988)

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

Miami Vice is on the trail of a stolen canister containing priceless semen of a prized bull called Gargantua. A dangerous Cuban spy is also after the canister, but why?

Director: Vern Gillum | Stars: Don Johnson, Philip Michael Thomas, Saundra Santiago, Michael Talbott

Votes: 328