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1. Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003)

PG-13 | 143 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy

Blacksmith Will Turner teams up with eccentric pirate "Captain" Jack Sparrow to save his love, the governor's daughter, from Jack's former pirate allies, who are now undead.

Director: Gore Verbinski | Stars: Johnny Depp, Geoffrey Rush, Orlando Bloom, Keira Knightley

Votes: 1,211,592 | Gross: $305.41M

2. Your Highness (2011)

R | 102 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy

When Prince Fabious's bride is kidnapped, he goes on a quest to rescue her... accompanied by his lazy useless brother Thadeous.

Director: David Gordon Green | Stars: Danny McBride, Natalie Portman, James Franco, Rasmus Hardiker

Votes: 104,468 | Gross: $21.60M

3. The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)

PG | 102 min | Action, Adventure, Romance

When Prince John and the Norman Lords begin oppressing the Saxon masses in King Richard's absence in 1190s England, a Saxon lord fights back as the outlaw leader of a resistance movement.

Directors: Michael Curtiz, William Keighley | Stars: Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Basil Rathbone, Claude Rains

Votes: 54,539 | Gross: $3.98M

4. Holmes & Watson (2018)

PG-13 | 90 min | Comedy, Crime, Mystery

A humorous take on Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's classic mysteries featuring Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson.

Director: Etan Cohen | Stars: Will Ferrell, John C. Reilly, Ralph Fiennes, Rebecca Hall

Votes: 39,416 | Gross: $30.57M

5. Exodus (1960)

Approved | 208 min | Action, Drama, War

The State of Israel is created in 1948, resulting in war with its Arab neighbors.

Director: Otto Preminger | Stars: Paul Newman, Eva Marie Saint, Ralph Richardson, Peter Lawford

Votes: 11,403 | Gross: $18.97M

6. Appaloosa (2008)

R | 115 min | Action, Crime, Drama

Two friends hired to police a small town that is suffering under the rule of a rancher find their job complicated by the arrival of a young widow.

Director: Ed Harris | Stars: Ed Harris, Viggo Mortensen, Renée Zellweger, Jeremy Irons

Votes: 64,758 | Gross: $20.21M

7. Time Without Pity (1957)

85 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

The day before a young man is to be executed for killing his girlfriend, his alcoholic father shows up to try to prove his innocence.

Director: Joseph Losey | Stars: Michael Redgrave, Ann Todd, Leo McKern, Paul Daneman

Votes: 1,894

8. The Limehouse Golem (2016)

Not Rated | 109 min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller

In Victorian London, a Scotland Yard inspector hunts down the sadistic killer behind a series of gory, Jack the Ripper-Like murders.

Director: Juan Carlos Medina | Stars: Douglas Booth, Olivia Cooke, Sam Reid, María Valverde

Votes: 23,332

9. Safe in Hell (1931)

Passed | 73 min | Crime, Drama, Romance

After accidentally killing the man who raped her and forced her into prostitution, a New Orleans woman flees to a Caribbean island. While she awaits her fiancé, the vicious local police chief sets his sights on her.

Director: William A. Wellman | Stars: Dorothy Mackaill, Donald Cook, Ralf Harolde, John Wray

Votes: 2,042

10. Princess Caraboo (1994)

PG | 97 min | Comedy, Drama, History

A mysterious young woman speaking a strange language shows up in an English village, where she is taken in by aristocrats who assume she is a foreign princess

Director: Michael Austin | Stars: Phoebe Cates, Jim Broadbent, Wendy Hughes, Kevin Kline

Votes: 2,982 | Gross: $3.02M

11. The Left Handed Gun (1958)

Approved | 102 min | Drama, Western

After his employer is murdered by rival cattlemen, a troubled and uneducated young cowboy vows revenge on the murderers.

Director: Arthur Penn | Stars: Paul Newman, Lita Milan, John Dehner, Hurd Hatfield

Votes: 4,652

12. China 9, Liberty 37 (1978)

R | 102 min | Romance, Western

The railroad hires a condemned killer to murder an uncooperative rancher but the assassin fails to deliver, prompting the railroad men to go after him instead.

Directors: Monte Hellman, Tony Brandt | Stars: Jenny Agutter, Warren Oates, Fabio Testi, Sam Peckinpah

Votes: 1,412

13. Along the Great Divide (1951)

Approved | 88 min | Western

A U.S. Marshall and two deputies rescue a cattle rustler from a lynch mob led by a local cattle baron convinced that the rustler also killed his son.

Director: Raoul Walsh | Stars: Kirk Douglas, Virginia Mayo, John Agar, Walter Brennan

Votes: 2,269

14. Fanfan la Tulipe (1952)

Not Rated | 102 min | Adventure, Comedy, Romance

Swashbuckling adventures of young army recruit Fanfan la Tulipe during the reign of King Louis XV in 18th Century France.

Director: Christian-Jaque | Stars: Gérard Philipe, Gina Lollobrigida, Marcel Herrand, Olivier Hussenot

Votes: 3,438

15. We Who Are About to Die (1936)

Approved | 81 min | Crime, Drama

An innocent man (John Beal) sits on death row in colorful company, as friends race to save his life.

Director: Christy Cabanne | Stars: Preston Foster, Ann Dvorak, John Beal, Ray Mayer

Votes: 233

16. Shoot-Out at Medicine Bend (1957)

Passed | 87 min | Western

In Medicine Bend, a crooked businessman has the town mayor and sheriff in his pocket while his henchmen raid the wagon trains passing through the region.

Director: Richard L. Bare | Stars: Randolph Scott, James Craig, Angie Dickinson, Dani Crayne

Votes: 814

17. The Golden Coach (1952)

Not Rated | 103 min | Comedy, Drama, History

Three men of varying social standing - a viceroy, a bullfighter, and a soldier - vie for the affections of an actress in 18th-century Peru.

Director: Jean Renoir | Stars: Anna Magnani, Odoardo Spadaro, Nada Fiorelli, Duncan Lamont

Votes: 3,446

18. Notre-Dame de Paris (1998 TV Movie)

150 min | Drama, Music, Musical

A musical adaptation of Victor Hugo's novel "Notre-Dame de Paris" which follows the gypsy dancer Esmeralda and the three men who vie for her love: the kind hunchback Quasimodo, the twisted priest Frollo, and the unfaithful soldier Phoebus.

Director: Gilles Amado | Stars: Hélène Ségara, Daniel Lavoie, Bruno Pelletier, Garou

Votes: 1,746

19. Tarzan's Desert Mystery (1943)

Passed | 70 min | Adventure, Mystery, War

With Jane still away for the war effort, Tarzan and Boy set off to retrieve rare medicinal herbs, only to run into an American messenger, German spies, and the mysterious desert's treacherous fauna and flora.

Director: Wilhelm Thiele | Stars: Johnny Weissmuller, Nancy Kelly, Johnny Sheffield, Otto Kruger

Votes: 2,254

20. The Son of Monte Cristo (1940)

Approved | 102 min | Drama, Romance

General Gurko Lanen is the dictator of Lichtenburg, a country set in the Balkans. With the help of Napoleon II, the rightful ruler Grand Duchess Zona aims to overthrow the general. She is also helped by the visiting Count of Monte Cristo.

Director: Rowland V. Lee | Stars: Louis Hayward, Joan Bennett, George Sanders, Florence Bates

Votes: 880

21. The Beloved Rogue (1927)

Not Rated | 99 min | Adventure, Drama, History

François Villon, in his lifetime the most renowned poet in France, is also a prankster, an occasional criminal, and an ardent patriot.

Director: Alan Crosland | Stars: John Barrymore, Conrad Veidt, Marceline Day, Lawson Butt

Votes: 902

22. Frisco Jenny (1932)

Passed | 73 min | Crime, Drama, Music

The San Francisco earthquake shakes up the life of Jenny, a madam who gives birth to an illegitimate son and gives him up to protect him.

Director: William A. Wellman | Stars: Ruth Chatterton, Louis Calhern, Helen Jerome Eddy, Donald Cook

Votes: 1,188

23. Day of the Bad Man (1958)

Not Rated | 81 min | Western

Judge Jim Scott must contend with the vicious relatives of a murderer he's about to sentence...and his unfaithful fiancee.

Director: Harry Keller | Stars: Fred MacMurray, Joan Weldon, John Ericson, Robert Middleton

Votes: 532

24. The Blue Exile (1993)

108 min | Biography, Drama

Cevat Sakir is an exile punished for publishing an article regarding that government executed deserters from army, subsequently he was sent to Bodrum where he realized Bodrum is a heavenly ... See full summary »

Director: Erden Kiral | Stars: Kürsat Alniaçik, Mevlüt Demiryay, Suavi Eren, Halil Ergün

Votes: 197

25. Wagon Trail (1935)

Passed | 55 min | Western

The son of Sheriff Clay Hartley, of the frontier town Elder, has gotten into bad company and hangs out with an outlaw gang in which, Collins, owner of the Golden Rule Saloon, is the secret ... See full summary »

Director: Harry L. Fraser | Stars: Harry Carey, Gertrude Messinger, Edward Norris, Roger Williams

Votes: 90

26. Strange People (1933)

Passed | 64 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

All 12 jury members who sent an innocent man to the gallows are gathered together for a demonstration of how convictions can be made on circumstantial evidence. During the proceedings, a phony murder is quickly revealed as the real thing.

Director: Richard Thorpe | Stars: John Darrow, Gloria Shea, Hale Hamilton, Wilfred Lucas

Votes: 80

27. Held by the Law (1927)

Passed | 76 min | Crime, Drama, Romance

The engagement party for Mary Travis and Tom Sinclair is thrown into turmoil when Tom's father is shot and killed. Tom unwittingly casts suspicion on Mary's father, who happens to be ... See full summary »

Director: Ernst Laemmle | Stars: Ralph Lewis, Johnnie Walker, Marguerite De La Motte, Robert Ober

28. The Spy (I) (1914)

Passed | Drama, War

Borrowing shamelessly from "A Tale of Two Cities", an American agent, Harvey Birch (Herbert Rawlinson), exchanges places in prison with Henry Wharton (J. W. Pike'), a condemned British ... See full summary »

Director: Otis Turner | Stars: Herbert Rawlinson, Edna Maison, Ella Hall, William Worthington

29. Dark Shadows (1991)
Episode: Episode #1.11 (1991)

TV-14 | 45 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror

Victoria's witchcraft trial begins where the Trask tries to play on the jury and the communities fears to act in his favor as well as testimony from the equally fanatical Abigail. Despite ... See full summary »

Director: Mark Sobel | Stars: Ben Cross, Lysette Anthony, Barbara Blackburn, Jim Fyfe

Votes: 50

30. Homicide (1964–1977)
Episode: I, Mick O'Byrne (1969)

Action, Crime, Drama

Sen. Det. Patterson joins the Homicide squad in an extensive manhunt for jail escapees Reynolds and O'Byrne. They shoot dead a prison warder, steal a car, hide out and later rob a bank.

Directors: Alex Emanuel, David Lee | Stars: Alwyn Kurts, Leonard Teale, Norman Yemm, George Mallaby

31. The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp (1955–1961)
Episode: Hang 'Em High (1957)

TV-PG | 30 min | Western

Bat is forced to hang Dal who he believes is innocent in 24 hours by a Judge in Ford County. Dal's girlfriend asks Earp for help but Dal refuses to defend himself. He has been framed by the White Cap vigilantes and Earp wants to stop them.

Director: Frank McDonald | Stars: Hugh O'Brian, Mason Alan Dinehart, Darryl Hickman, Damian O'Flynn

Votes: 42

32. Little Men (1998–1999)
Episode: Home for Christmas (1999)

TV-PG | 44 min | Drama, Family

Nick is accused of murder, and the residents of Plumfield think his brother Ben is behind the crime.

Director: Robert Malenfant | Stars: Michelle Burke, Spencer Rochfort, Corey Sevier, Trevor Blumas

Votes: 10

33. Robin Hood (1984–1986)
Episode: Adam Bell (1986)

TV-PG | 51 min | Action, Drama, Fantasy

Much, trying to assist a sick relative in Nottingham, is caught by Gisburne, thrown into the Nottingham Castle dungeons, and sentenced to be hanged. Meanwhile, the legendary outlaw Adam ... See full summary »

Director: Gerry Mill | Stars: Peter Llewellyn Williams, Patrick Travis, Nickolas Grace, Robert Addie

Votes: 113

34. Star Trek (1966–1969)
Episode: The Squire of Gothos (1967)

TV-PG | 50 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

A being that controls matter and creates planets wants to play with the Enterprise crew.

Director: Don McDougall | Stars: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, William Campbell, DeForest Kelley

Votes: 4,163

35. The Virginian (1962–1971)
Episode: A Bad Place to Die (1967)

TV-PG | 75 min | Western

Trampas is sentenced to hang for a murder he didn't commit. The Virginian and Stacey try to find new evidence while Clay Grainger and the attorney try for a new trial. Meanwhile, a desperate Trampas escapes prison with his cell mate.

Director: Don McDougall | Stars: Charles Bickford, Doug McClure, Clu Gulager, Don Quine

Votes: 73

36. Inés of My Soul (2020)
Episode: La tierra prometida (2020)

Drama

THE PROMISED LAND: Inés, Valdivia and the rest of the Spanish expedition finally leave for Chile. But to reach the 'Promised Land' they will first have to cross the Atacama desert, an ... See full summary »

Directors: Nicolás Acuña, Vicente Sabatini | Stars: Elena Rivera, Eduardo Noriega, Benjamín Vicuña, Enrique Arce

Votes: 21

37. Hudson's Bay (1959– )
Episode: Retribution

26 min | Adventure, Family, Western

While the fort's commander is away, a young martinet sentences a Shoshone Indian to death based upon perjured testimony. Banner tries to delay the execution of the sentence until he can ... See full summary »

Director: Sidney J. Furie | Stars: Barry Nelson, George Tobias, Tom Harvey, Teresa Celli

38. Murder, Mystery and My Family (2018– )
Episode: Lowson (2021)

44 min | Documentary, Crime, History

Sasha and Jeremy return to look again at the case they examined in the fourth episode of series 4 - the brutal murder of a policeman at Butterknowle in County Durham in 1884. Three men who accused but only one was hung.

Directors: Clare Wales, James Pearson, Emily Wallis | Stars: Tony Hirst, Sasha Wass, Jeremy Dein, David Radford

39. American Experience (1987– )
Episode: Billy the Kid (2011)

TV-PG | 53 min | Documentary, Biography, History

On April 28, 1881, just days from being hanged for murder, 21-year-old Henry McCarty, alias Billy the Kid, outfoxed his jailors and electrified the nation with the last in a long line of daring escapes.

Director: John Maggio | Stars: Michael Murphy, Hampton Sides, Denise Chávez, Michael Wallis

Votes: 105

40. Murdoch Mysteries (2008– )
Episode: Crime & Punishment (2013)

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

Detective Murdoch and his methods are compromised when one of his colleagues is implicated in a suspicious murder.

Director: Laurie Lynd | Stars: Yannick Bisson, Thomas Craig, Helene Joy, Jonny Harris

Votes: 340

41. The Bletchley Circle (2012–2014)
Episode: Blood on Their Hands: Part 1 (2014)

TV-PG | 46 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

During the war Alice Merren was one of Bletchley's brightest code-breakers. Now it is 1953. Lucy has a clerical job for Scotland Yard, Millie works as a German translator and Susan a ... See full summary »

Director: Jamie Payne | Stars: Paul McGann, Jonathan McGuinness, Hattie Morahan, Julie Graham

Votes: 426

42. The Bletchley Circle (2012–2014)
Episode: Blood on Their Hands: Part 2 (2014)

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

Alice is to hang, though she tells her friends she assumed Lizzie had killed John and so taken the blame. The women though know that John was killed and the attempt made on Lizzie's life to... See full summary »

Director: Jamie Payne | Stars: Hattie Morahan, Rachael Stirling, Julie Graham, Faye Marsay

Votes: 369

43. Outlander (2014– )
Episode: America the Beautiful (2018)

TV-MA | 64 min | Drama, Fantasy, Romance

Claire and Jamie cross paths with Stephen Bonnet, a pirate and smuggler who enlists their help. Claire illuminates Jamie on some of America's history, leading him to wonder if it's possible for them to lay down roots.

Director: Julian Holmes | Stars: Caitríona Balfe, Sam Heughan, John Bell, Ed Speleers

Votes: 2,943