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1. Beetlejuice (1988)
PG | 92 min | Comedy, Fantasy
The spirits of a deceased couple are harassed by an unbearable family that has moved into their home, and hire a malicious spirit to drive them out.
Director: Tim Burton | Stars: Alec Baldwin, Geena Davis, Michael Keaton, Annie McEnroe
Votes: 339,996 | Gross: $73.71M
2. The Fall (I) (2006)
R | 117 min | Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
In 1920s Los Angeles, a bedridden patient in a hospital captivates a young girl with a fantastic tale of heroes, myths, and villains on a desert island.
Director: Tarsem Singh | Stars: Lee Pace, Catinca Untaru, Justine Waddell, Kim Uylenbroek
Votes: 116,674 | Gross: $2.28M
3. Annabelle: Creation (2017)
R | 109 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Twelve years after the tragic death of their little girl, a doll-maker and his wife welcome a nun and several girls from a shuttered orphanage into their home, where they become the target of the doll-maker's possessed creation, Annabelle.
Director: David F. Sandberg | Stars: Anthony LaPaglia, Samara Lee, Miranda Otto, Brad Greenquist
Votes: 150,851 | Gross: $102.09M
4. The Skeleton Key (2005)
PG-13 | 104 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
A hospice nurse working at a spooky New Orleans plantation home finds herself entangled in a mystery involving the house's dark past.
Director: Iain Softley | Stars: Kate Hudson, Peter Sarsgaard, Joy Bryant, Gena Rowlands
Votes: 122,969 | Gross: $47.81M
5. The Miracle Worker (1962)
Approved | 106 min | Biography, Drama
The story of Anne Sullivan's struggle to teach the blind and deaf Helen Keller how to communicate.
Director: Arthur Penn | Stars: Anne Bancroft, Patty Duke, Victor Jory, Inga Swenson
Votes: 20,499 | Gross: $5.45M
6. The Healer (IV) (2016)
Not Rated | 113 min | Comedy, Drama, Family
A young man suddenly discovers that he has the gift of healing. As he tries to understand it and the new reality it offers, a teenage girl with terminal cancer unexpectedly shows him the way.
Director: Paco Arango | Stars: Oliver Jackson-Cohen, Jonathan Pryce, Camilla Luddington, Jorge Garcia
Votes: 8,551
7. The Amazing Maurice (2022)
PG | 93 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy
A streetwise cat and his gang of rats come up with the perfect money making scheme.
Directors: Toby Genkel, Florian Westermann | Stars: Hugh Laurie, Emilia Clarke, David Thewlis, Himesh Patel
Votes: 5,549
8. Torso (1973)
R | 92 min | Crime, Horror, Mystery
A string of appalling lust murders shocks the University of Perugia as a sadistic serial killer strangles to death beautiful college girls with a red and black scarf.
Director: Sergio Martino | Stars: Suzy Kendall, Tina Aumont, Luc Merenda, John Richardson
Votes: 7,822 | Gross: $0.74M
9. Haunter (2013)
Not Rated | 97 min | Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
A teenager is stuck in a time loop that is not quite the same each time. She must uncover the truth, but her actions have consequences for herself and others.
Director: Vincenzo Natali | Stars: Abigail Breslin, Peter Outerbridge, Michelle Nolden, Stephen McHattie
Votes: 18,699
10. Murder by Contract (1958)
Approved | 81 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Claude is a ruthless and efficient contract killer - until he finds his next target is a woman.
Director: Irving Lerner | Stars: Vince Edwards, Phillip Pine, Herschel Bernardi, Caprice Toriel
Votes: 4,362
11. Irma Vep (1996)
Not Rated | 99 min | Comedy, Drama
A Hong Kong actress, Maggie Cheung playing a fictional version of herself, is cast in France to star in a remake of Les vampires (1915), but petty intrigues and clashing egos plague the production.
Director: Olivier Assayas | Stars: Maggie Cheung, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Nathalie Richard, Antoine Basler
Votes: 9,719 | Gross: $0.19M
12. Innocence (II) (2004)
R | 122 min | Drama, Mystery
A look inside an offbeat boarding school for young girls.
Director: Lucile Hadzihalilovic | Stars: Zoé Auclair, Lea Bridarolli, Bérangère Haubruge, Marion Cotillard
Votes: 6,448
13. Cop (1988)
R | 110 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
An obsessive, insubordinate homicide cop is convinced a serial killer is loose in the Hollywood area and disobeys orders in order to catch him.
Director: James B. Harris | Stars: James Woods, Lesley Ann Warren, Charles Durning, Charles Haid
Votes: 6,170 | Gross: $1.88M
14. The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T. (1953)
G | 89 min | Family, Fantasy, Music
A young boy dreams that he is in an imaginary world where, assisted by his family's plumber, he must save other piano-playing kids like himself from the dungeons of his dictatorial piano teacher who also mind-controls his mother.
Director: Roy Rowland | Stars: Peter Lind Hayes, Mary Healy, Hans Conried, Tommy Rettig
Votes: 4,459
15. Ebirah, Horror of the Deep (1966)
PG | 83 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy
A young man searching for his brother steals a boat that shipwrecks on Letchi island, where terrorists have enslaved the Infant Island natives. Discovering Godzilla asleep, he and some others decide to awaken him to liberate the natives.
Director: Jun Fukuda | Stars: Akira Takarada, Kumi Mizuno, Chôtarô Tôgin, Hideo Sunazuka
Votes: 6,369
16. Seven Dials Mystery (1981 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 132 min | Adventure, Mystery, Romance
Lady Eileen "Bundle" Brent is a pert, aggressive young aristocrat that insinuates herself into a series of murders, stolen state secrets, and a mysterious secret society.
Director: Tony Wharmby | Stars: John Gielgud, Harry Andrews, Cheryl Campbell, James Warwick
Votes: 807
17. The Edukators (2004)
R | 127 min | Drama, Romance
Three activists cobble together a kidnapping plot after they encounter a businessman in his home.
Director: Hans Weingartner | Stars: Daniel Brühl, Julia Jentsch, Stipe Erceg, Burghart Klaußner
Votes: 32,375 | Gross: $0.18M
18. The Secret Garden (1975)
G | 210 min | Drama, Family
In 19th-century India, Mary Lennox is suddenly orphaned by cholera. Her only living relative is her uncle, Archibald Craven, so Mary is sent to live at his estate on the Yorkshire moors. Where she discovers a secret garden and a cousin.
Stars: Sarah Hollis Andrews, Hope Johnstone, William Marsh, Jacqueline Hoyle
Votes: 357
19. 21 Hours at Munich (1976 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 101 min | Drama, History, Sport
A dramatization of the incident in 1972 when Arab terrorists broke into the Olympic compound in Munich and murdered eleven Israeli athletes.
Director: William A. Graham | Stars: William Holden, Shirley Knight, Franco Nero, Anthony Quayle
Votes: 1,225
20. Christmas in Evergreen: Tidings of Joy (2019 TV Movie)
TV-G | 85 min | Romance
A skeptical writer shows up in Evergreen to get the scoop on the town's famed passion for Christmas during a search for a long-lost time capsule.
Director: Sean McNamara | Stars: Maggie Lawson, Paul Greene, Rukiya Bernard, Holly Robinson Peete
Votes: 1,863
21. The Case of the Stuttering Bishop (1937)
Approved | 70 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
An improbable stuttering bishop from Australia asks for Perry's help in proving the identity of the legitimate heir to a millionaire.
Director: William Clemens | Stars: Donald Woods, Ann Dvorak, Anne Nagel, Linda Perry
Votes: 592
22. The Falcon's Brother (1942)
Approved | 63 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Tom Lawrence, Gay's brother, takes over for his injured sibling in a case which involves Nazi espionage and political assassination.
Director: Stanley Logan | Stars: George Sanders, Tom Conway, Jane Randolph, Don Barclay
Votes: 972
23. Choose Your 'Weppins' (1935)
6 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
Policeman Wimpy loses his handcuffed prisoner when he's distracted by a hamburger shop. The escapee drops into the weapon-filled pawn shop Popeye and Olive are running, and quickly gets in a fight with Popeye.
Directors: Dave Fleischer, Dave Tendlar | Stars: William Costello, Mae Questel, Gus Wicke
Votes: 280
24. Tomorrow at Seven (1933)
Passed | 62 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
People in an old, dark mansion are menaced by a maniac called "The Black Ace."
Director: Ray Enright | Stars: Chester Morris, Vivienne Osborne, Frank McHugh, Allen Jenkins
Votes: 408
25. Guardians (2009)
Not Rated | 87 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
Twilight Cove, a small forgotten town, is besieged by hideous creatures summoned into our dimension. It's only a matter of time before the army of creatures attacks the rest of civilization... See full summary »
Director: Drew Maxwell | Stars: Chris Bell, Benjamin Budd, Tylan Canady, Eric Cherney
Votes: 304
26. Riff Raffy Daffy (1948)
7 min | Animation, Family, Comedy
Patrolman Porky Pig orders vagrant Daffy Duck out of a gopher hole in the City Park. So, Daffy takes up residence near a fireplace inside a closed-for-business department store. When Porky ... See full summary »
Director: Arthur Davis | Star: Mel Blanc
Votes: 264
27. Reminiscence: The Beginning (2014)
Not Rated | 100 min | Horror, Romance, Thriller
There are worlds, there are humans and there are Others. But there is only one Time which is the border between worlds. What if time breaks down?
Director: Akçay Karaazmak | Stars: Özlem Begtas, Fatih Güler, Sefika Karaaslan, Serhat Karaaslan
Votes: 1,606
28. Rocketman (2014)
12 min | Short, Drama, Fantasy
Nine year old Harry has a plan. A plan to build a rocket and fly his mum to safety just like his hero The Star Ship Captain from his favourite TV show. With only his best friend Jordan by his side, can they blast off before it's too late?
Director: Nicholas Colla | Stars: Philip Manifavas, Rory Mackenzie, Gabriella Rose-Carter, Scott Major
Votes: 45
29. This Film Hates You
Drama, Horror, Mystery | Post-production
A gritty detective and a murder victim both hunt for the same killer through a dark, twisted, and surreal world.
Director: Anthony Kilburn | Stars: Krystyn Tsagarakis, Seth Langner, Christina May, Walter Colson
30. Hypnotized (1925)
Short, Comedy
A man tries to rescue a beautiful woman being held in a spooky old house by a mad hypnotist. This comedy is only known to survive in in partial form.
Director: Harry Sweet | Star: Jimmy Aubrey
32. The Shriek (1933)
7 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
Oswald the Rabbit comes to the rescue when a peg-legged sheik abducts his girlfriend and brings her to a mysterious pyramid filled with walking skeletons, animate hieroglyphics and other strange sights.
Directors: William Nolan, Walter Lantz | Stars: Tex Avery, Bernice Hansen
Votes: 49
33. Casper and The Ghostly Trio (2007 Video Game)
Casper's mischievous uncles Stinkie, Stretch and Fatso kidnap Wendy the Good Little Witch and it's up to Casper to save her.
34.
Lovejoy (1986–1994)
Episode:
The Prague Sun
(1992)
TV-14 | 90 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
Lovejoy's search for diamonds stolen from a priceless religious object takes him and Eric to Prague where dark forces are plotting against them.
Director: Geoffrey Sax | Stars: Ian McShane, Phyllis Logan, Dudley Sutton, Chris Jury
Votes: 75
35.
The Addams Family (1964–1966)
Episode:
Cousin Itt Visits the Addams Family
(1965)
TV-G | 25 min | Comedy, Family, Horror
Parks Commissioner Fiske visits the Addams house seeking contributions for expansion of the city zoo. Gomez believes visiting Cousin Itt - all hairy and gibbering four feet tall of him - ... See full summary »
Director: Sidney Lanfield | Stars: Carolyn Jones, John Astin, Jackie Coogan, Ted Cassidy
Votes: 295
36.
Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955–1962)
Episode:
The Creeper
(1956)
TV-14 | 30 min | Drama, Mystery
A frightened housewife is alone in her apartment when she begins to suspect just about anyone could be the unknown killer who has been strangling women.
Director: Herschel Daugherty | Stars: Alfred Hitchcock, Constance Ford, Steve Brodie, Harry Townes
Votes: 980
37.
Annie Oakley (1954–1957)
Episode:
Outlaw Brand
(1956)
Not Rated | 30 min | Western
While rummaging through an old trunk, Tagg and his friend Johnny Ward, the son of a murdered lawman, find evidence that they believe proves his uncle is an ex-convict and may be part of the outlaw gang who recently robbed Diablo's bank.
Director: Frank McDonald | Stars: Gail Davis, Jimmy Hawkins, Brad Johnson, Leonard Penn
Votes: 17
38.
Dark Shadows (1991)
Episode:
Episode #1.4
(1991)
TV-14 | 44 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Dr. Hoffman continues her treatments with Barnabas Collins. Victoria is led to Sarah Collin's diary. An apparition from the past haunts Barnabas and Willie. Elsewhere, clairvoyant Maggie Evans believes young David is possessed.
Director: Dan Curtis | Stars: Ben Cross, Barbara Blackburn, Jim Fyfe, Joanna Going
Votes: 54
39.
The Goodies (1970–1982)
Episode:
Winter Olympics
(1973)
Comedy
The Goodies are recruited to replace the British Winter Olympics team, on a budget.
Director: Jim Franklin | Stars: Tim Brooke-Taylor, Graeme Garden, Bill Oddie, Peter Jones
Votes: 37
40.
Mission: Impossible (1966–1973)
Episode:
Shape-Up
(1971)
TV-PG | 50 min | Action, Adventure, Crime
The IMF topple the man who runs a dockyard for organized crime by making it seem that he's losing his mind.
Director: Paul Krasny | Stars: Peter Graves, Greg Morris, Lynda Day George, Peter Lupus
Votes: 126
41.
A Touch of Frost (1992–2010)
Episode:
Deep Waters
(1996)
TV-14 | 102 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Frost is frustrated in his interrogations of two men that stabbed a young woman during a robbery and a predatory professor possibly involved in an assault on a pretty co-ed.
Director: Don Leaver | Stars: David Jason, Bruce Alexander, John Lyons, Tamzin Malleson
Votes: 316
42.
A Touch of Frost (1992–2010)
Episode:
Paying the Price
(1996)
TV-14 | 120 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A ruthless kidnapper tests Frost's skills to the full - it proves a tough case to crack and, for one woman, time is running out.
Director: Ross Devenish | Stars: David Jason, Bruce Alexander, John Lyons, Marc Warren
Votes: 352
43.
A Touch of Frost (1992–2010)
Episode:
Quarry
(1995)
TV-14 | 102 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Two animal rights activists are murdered following a protest of a fox hunt.
Director: Roy Battersby | Stars: David Jason, Bruce Alexander, Matt Bardock, Lindy Whiteford
Votes: 337
44.
A Touch of Frost (1992–2010)
Episode:
The Things We Do for Love
(1996)
TV-14 | 102 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
When a beautiful therapist is found stabbed to death 18 times in a parking lot, Frost suspects one of her clients, a reformed alcoholic and family man.
Director: Peter Smith | Stars: David Jason, Bruce Alexander, John Lyons, Neil Stuke
Votes: 299
45.
Criminal Minds (2005– )
Episode:
The Fisher King: Part 1
(2006)
TV-14 | 42 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Team members become pawns of a psychopathic killer.
Director: Edward Allen Bernero | Stars: Mandy Patinkin, Thomas Gibson, Lola Glaudini, Shemar Moore
Votes: 3,235
46.
Oggy and the Cockroaches (1997–2018)
Episode:
Petit, petit, petit
(1998)
TV-Y | Animation, Adventure, Comedy
After the Cockroaches steal the key to the refrigerator lock, Oggy shrinks himself with the copy machine to get it back.
Director: Olivier Jean-Marie | Star: Hugues Le Bars
Votes: 35
47.
Supernatural (2005–2020)
Episode:
Unity
(2020)
TV-14 | 42 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Dean hits the road with Jack who needs to complete a final ritual in the quest to beat Chuck; a difference of opinion leaves Sam and Castiel behind looking for answers to questions of their own.
Director: Catriona McKenzie | Stars: Jared Padalecki, Jensen Ackles, Alexander Calvert, Misha Collins
Votes: 4,563
48.
The Mentalist (2008–2015)
Episode:
Red John's Friends
(2009)
TV-14 | 44 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Patrick makes a deal to try and prove a convict's innocence in exchange for information about Red John.
Director: John Polson | Stars: Simon Baker, Robin Tunney, Tim Kang, Owain Yeoman
Votes: 1,890
49.
Star Trek: Picard (2020–2023)
Episode:
Hide and Seek
(2022)
TV-MA | 50 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Picard must face the ghosts of his past when he and his crew are attacked by a new incarnation of an old enemy; Seven and Raffi face Jurati in a final showdown.
Director: Michael Weaver | Stars: Patrick Stewart, Alison Pill, Jeri Ryan, Michelle Hurd
Votes: 3,504
50.
Star Trek: Picard (2020–2023)
Episode:
Farewell
(2022)
TV-MA | 48 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
With just hours until the Europa Launch, Picard and the crew find themselves in a race against time to save the future.
Director: Michael Weaver | Stars: Patrick Stewart, Alison Pill, Jeri Ryan, Michelle Hurd
Votes: 3,761