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51. Graduation (2016)
R | 128 min | Crime, Drama
A film about compromises and the implications of the parent's role.
Director: Cristian Mungiu | Stars: Adrian Titieni, Maria Dragus, Lia Bugnar, Mãlina Manovici
Votes: 14,732 | Gross: $0.18M
52. The Sweetest Heart (2018 TV Movie)
TV-G | 82 min | Romance
Maddie (Julie Gonzalo), who owns a cupcake business, gets help from an investment banker, but a potential new romance between them is complicated by the unexpected return of her first love, Nate.
Director: Steven R. Monroe | Stars: Julie Gonzalo, Chris McNally, Tammy Gillis, Victor Zinck Jr.
Votes: 1,761
53. Duffle Bag Boy (2024)
Action, Adventure, Crime
Lost and forgotten, a homeless veteran hitchhikes his way into becoming an outlaw and goes to war with the kingpin of a criminal empire.
Director: Alexander Raye Pimentel | Stars: Alexander Raye Pimentel, James Anthony Perez, Cheryce Livingston, Don Tempesta
Votes: 25
54. Izzy Gets the Fuck Across Town (2017)
86 min | Comedy, Drama, Music
A woman at rock bottom must find her way across Los Angeles in order to crash her ex-boyfriend's engagement party.
Director: Christian Papierniak | Stars: Mackenzie Davis, Dolly Wells, Alex Russell, LaKeith Stanfield
Votes: 2,051 | Gross: $0.03M
55. Before I Disappear (2014)
Unrated | 93 min | Adventure, Drama
At the lowest point of his life, Richie gets a call from his estranged sister, asking him to look after his 11-year old niece Sophia for a few hours.
Director: Shawn Christensen | Stars: Shawn Christensen, Fatima Ptacek, Emmy Rossum, Paul Wesley
Votes: 10,077 | Gross: $0.01M
56. The Lovers (I) (2015)
R | 109 min | Action, Adventure, Romance
An epic, sweeping and riveting tale of an impossible love set across two time periods and continents.
Director: Roland Joffé | Stars: Josh Hartnett, Bipasha Basu, Tamsin Egerton, James Mackay
Votes: 3,437
57. Tokyo Ghoul (2017)
TV-MA | 119 min | Action, Drama, Fantasy
A Tokyo college student is attacked by a ghoul, a superpowered human who feeds on human flesh. He survives, but has become part ghoul and becomes a fugitive on the run.
Director: Kentarô Hagiwara | Stars: Masataka Kubota, Fumika Shimizu, Nobuyuki Suzuki, Hiyori Sakurada
Votes: 3,912
58. Eastern Boys (2013)
Unrated | 128 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
A businessman makes a regular arrangement with a Ukrainian prostitute, despite the youngster's involvement in a controlling street gang.
Director: Robin Campillo | Stars: Olivier Rabourdin, Kirill Emelyanov, Daniil Vorobyov, Edéa Darcque
Votes: 3,846 | Gross: $0.02M
59. Shrew's Nest (2014)
Not Rated | 91 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller
1950s Madrid: The agoraphobic Montse raised her now 18 y.o. kid sister. The upstairs neighbor falls down the stairs and breaks a leg. The crazy Montse takes him in.
Directors: Juanfer Andrés, Esteban Roel | Stars: Macarena Gómez, Nadia de Santiago, Hugo Silva, Luis Tosar
Votes: 7,733
60. 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: 4,463
61. The Boys Club (1996)
R | 91 min | Adventure, Crime, Drama
In Ontario, Canada, three fourteen-year-old boys, Kyle, Brad and Eric are forced to perform an ordeal when they find a wounded mysterious fugitive named Luke, who has a gun and claiming to be a cop, has taken a hiding in their clubhouse.
Director: John Fawcett | Stars: Chris Penn, Dominic Zamprogna, Stuart Stone, Devon Sawa
Votes: 1,345
62. How to Make Love to a Woman (2010)
R | 91 min | Comedy
When Andy hears his girlfriend Lauren sigh after sex, he panics. After getting fruitless help from friends, porn stars and tantric experts, he finally realizes that in order to give Lauren the "O" word, he first needs to say the "L" word.
Director: Scott Culver | Stars: Josh Meyers, Krysten Ritter, Eugene Byrd, Ian Somerhalder
Votes: 3,130
63. Guernica (2016)
R | 110 min | Drama, History, Romance
The fates of Henry - a cynical American correspondent who has lost his soul - and Teresa, one of the Republic's censors and in charge of overseeing the news that journalists can send abroad, cross in Gernika.
Director: Koldo Serra | Stars: James D'Arcy, María Valverde, Jack Davenport, Ingrid García Jonsson
Votes: 2,498
64. Fag (2019)
Not Rated | 35 min | Short, Drama, Romance
Thomas, a 17-year-old high school student, finds himself attracted to Esteban, another boy from his school. The rumor of Thomas's homosexuality is spreading fast, and he begins to suffer the gaze of others.
Director: Olivier Lallart | Stars: Paul Gomerieux, Jacques Lepesqueur, Yannis Perrier-Gustin, Henri Flesselle
Votes: 649
65. Nowhere to Hide (1987)
R | 90 min | Action, Thriller
Marine officer Rob Cutter and his wife Barbara have a son named Johnny. Rob discovers that two newly delivered helicopters in his squadron have crashed because a defective part, a C-ring, ... See full summary »
Director: Mario Azzopardi | Stars: Amy Madigan, Daniel Hugh Kelly, Robin MacEachern, Michael Ironside
Votes: 498 | Gross: $0.85M
66. Curfew (I) (2012)
19 min | Short, Drama
Having reached the lowest point in his life, a self-destructive man on the brink of demise receives an unexpected call from his estranged sister to look after her young daughter for the night. Could this be the beginning of a new reality?
Director: Shawn Christensen | Stars: Shawn Christensen, Fatima Ptacek, Kim Allen, Dana Segal
Votes: 7,050
67. King's Game (2011)
82 min | Horror
The students think of it as a silly joke when the mobile telephones ring with instructions for the classmates. The texts keep coming and the demands escalate under punishment of erasure ... See full summary »
Director: Norio Tsuruta | Stars: Yurina Kumai, Airi Suzuki, Mai Hagiwara, Yoshihiko Hosoda
Votes: 320
68. Kings & Queen (2004)
Unrated | 150 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Parallel storylines tell the current state of affairs for two ex-lovers: Nora's a single mother who comes to care for her terminally ill father; holed in up in mental ward, Ismael, a brilliant musician, plots his escape.
Director: Arnaud Desplechin | Stars: Emmanuelle Devos, Geoffrey Carey, Thierry Bosc, Olivier Rabourdin
Votes: 4,017 | Gross: $0.29M
69. Graceland (I) (2012)
Not Rated | 84 min | Crime, Thriller
When a kidnapping goes wrong, a desperate father risks everything to save his daughter from the men who hold her captive.
Director: Ron Morales | Stars: Arnold Reyes, Menggie Cobarrubias, Dido de la Paz, Leon Miguel
Votes: 1,707 | Gross: $0.02M
70. Passing Strange (2009)
TV-MA | 135 min | Documentary, Musical
Director Spike Lee's passionate adaptation of the thrilling Broadway musical about a young bohemian who experiences sex, drugs and rock and roll on his journey to selfhood.
Directors: Spike Lee, Annie Dorsen | Stars: Stew, De'Adre Aziza, Eisa Davis, Colman Domingo
Votes: 419
71. Welcome to Earth (2019)
18 min | Short, Drama, Sci-Fi
It's 2618 and humans are extinct. Four aliens travel to Earth to visit the museum of humanity. There they find the story of the last heroes of humanity, setting out to find help. Welcome to... See full summary »
Director: Daan van 't Einde | Stars: Marloes Blokland, Floris Boone, Babette Engelgeer, George Hansel
Votes: 102
72. A Castle in Italy (2013)
104 min | Comedy, Drama
A family is forced to sell their Italian home.
Director: Valeria Bruni Tedeschi | Stars: Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, Louis Garrel, Filippo Timi, Marisa Borini
Votes: 1,253
73. Long Life, Happiness & Prosperity (2002)
90 min | Comedy, Drama, Family
Twelve-year-old Mindy Ho inexpertly tries Taoist magic to fix her single mother's financial situation and seemingly hopeless romantic prospects.
Director: Mina Shum | Stars: Sandra Oh, Valerie Tian, Ric Young, Tseng Chang
Votes: 605
74. Shoot the Living and Pray for the Dead (1971)
PG-13 | 90 min | Western
After Dan Hogan and his gang rob a bank, they hire a mysterious man to guide them across the Mexican border in return for half of the loot.
Director: Giuseppe Vari | Stars: Klaus Kinski, Victoria Zinny, Paolo Casella, Dino Strano
Votes: 810
75. Paradox (2006)
19 min | Short, Drama, Thriller
Two men are stranded at the bottom of a well. One, with a serious injury to his head, thinks his has fallen in is own back garden in present-day Britain. But the other tells him they are really prisoners in a medieval dungeon. Who is right, and where are they really?
Director: Jeremy Haccoun | Stars: Simon McLinden, George Tardios, Martin Wimbush, Julian Agnew
Votes: 960
76. Sabina K. (2015)
125 min | Drama
Sabina, a divorced mother of two small children, falls in love with an old friend from the Bosnian war. The two plan to marry, but things go terribly wrong.
Director: Cristobal Krusen | Stars: Dragan Micanovic, Alena Dzebo, Alban Ukaj, Asja Talic
Votes: 148
77. Heroine Disqualified (2015)
112 min | Comedy, Romance
Hatori is in love with her childhood friend Rita, but when Rita gets himself a girlfriend Hatoris world turns upside down.
Director: Tsutomu Hanabusa | Stars: Mirei Kiritani, Kento Yamazaki, Kentarô Sakaguchi, Towa Araki
Votes: 1,541
78. The Overnighters (2014)
PG-13 | 102 min | Documentary, Drama
Broken, desperate men chase their dreams and run from their demons in the North Dakota oil fields. A local Pastor risks everything to help them.
Director: Jesse Moss | Stars: Jay Reinke, Andrea Reinke, Alan Mezo, Shelly Schultz
Votes: 2,553 | Gross: $0.11M
79. Hell of a Cruise (2022)
TV-14 | 78 min | Documentary
Onboard at the luxury Diamond Princess cruise ship in January of 2020, people had no idea that the deadly novel coronavirus boarded the ship with them turning the floating paradise into their worst nightmare.
Director: Nick Quested | Stars: Jennifer Catron, Gordon Christoph, Phil Courtner, Simon Denyer
Votes: 230
80. Magikland (2020)
106 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Mama Mandalagan tells the four children they are destined to save Magikland by obtaining four weapons to defeat Mogrodo-Or.
Director: Christian Acuña | Stars: Miggs Cuaderno, Princess Aliyah, Elijah Alejo, Joshua Eugenio
Votes: 48
81. A Better Life (2011)
110 min | Drama
Yann (Guillaume Canet) and Nadia (Leïla Bekhti) fall in love. Nadia has acquired a crumbling building in a Paris suburb and the couple decide to renovate it to launch a restaurant. But ... See full summary »
Director: Cédric Kahn | Stars: Guillaume Canet, Leïla Bekhti, Slimane Khettabi, Abraham Belaga
Votes: 1,798
82. 8 Remains (2018)
80 min | Mystery, Thriller
Preceding her death a young woman relives her life in a mirror world, giving her the chance to fight her killer.
Director: Juliane Block | Stars: Maja-Celiné Probst, Gregory B. Waldis, Kevin Leslie, Anne Alexander-Sieder
Votes: 386
83. Soundproof (2006 TV Movie)
90 min | Drama
When Chris is thrown from the balcony of a high-rise block of flats, suspicion falls on his flatmate Dean, who is profoundly deaf.
Director: Edmund Coulthard | Stars: Susan Lynch, Joseph Mawle, Joanna Dunbar, Brendan Coyle
Votes: 111
84. Home: The House Imp (2012)
109 min | Drama, Family
A family in ruins recovers through their encounter with a "Zasikiwarashi", the japanese spirit.
Director: Akiyoshi Kimata | Stars: Ai Hashimoto, Renji Ishibashi, Tatsuomi Hamada, Yutaka Mizutani
Votes: 106
85. Still (2010)
TV-MA | 100 min | Horror, Thriller
An omnibus film of four stories pulled straight from Thailand's most gruesome headlines. In "Flame", a man is haunted by regret and a ghost after he survives a nightclub fire that killed ... See full summary »
Directors: Poj Arnon, Chatchai Katenut, Tanwarin Sukkhapisit, Manussa Vorasingha | Stars: Mai Charoenpura, Akara Amarttayakul, Supakson Chaimongkol, TAE
Votes: 385
86. Gerry Dee: The Substitute (2014 TV Movie)
60 min | Comedy
Gerry Dee from CBC's Mr. D puts on a funny wolf man beard and pretends he is an Eastern European substitute teacher and then he talks to the students all day, but then he takes his beard ... See full summary »
Directors: Gerry Dee, Michael Volpe | Stars: Gerry Dee, Sara Mitich, Verity Fiction, Sandy Forsyth
Votes: 176
87. Blood of Havana (2010)
2 min | Short, Drama
Director: Harmony Korine | Star: Charles-Marie Anthonioz
Votes: 79
88. San Lazaro (2011)
97 min | Comedy, Horror, Thriller
Two estranged friends journey to the town of San Lazaro to ask a faith-healer for help in saving the life of one's brother, who is possessed by an evil spirit.
Director: Wincy Aquino Ong | Stars: Ramon Bautista, Wincy Aquino Ong, Nicco Manalo, Bianca King
Votes: 80
89. Extra! Extra! (1932)
20 min | Short, Comedy
A fired reporter seeking a speakeasy to drown his sorrows in stumbles upon the secret lair of a medium and a hypnotist, who offer him a different form of spirits than the kind he is trying to find.
Director: Harry Sweet | Stars: Frank McHugh, Mae Busch, Ralph Ince, Jerry Mandy
Votes: 9
90. Ishmael (2010)
Action, Drama
An ex-convict who is ostracized by his neighborhood. Little does he know that this neighborhood he once knew is set to awaken his past. Ishmael decided to come back home to find peace and ... See full summary »
Director: Richard Somes | Stars: Ronnie Lazaro, Mark Gil, Ria Garcia, Pen Medina
Votes: 15
91. Family Rewritten (2017)
14 min | Documentary, Animation, Short
Despite battling Cystic Fibrosis, Camilla, age 16, identifies as a typical middle-class American teenager until the thread that holds her family together suddenly snaps.
Director: Yasmin Mistry | Stars: Camilla Tecsy, Lesley Frey, Farhan Ali, Kim Flodin
93. Proxy (V) (2017)
14 min | Short, Comedy, Drama
Russ lives and works at a motel with his parents. When a seemingly sick girl and her mother come through, Russ becomes fascinated and tries to befriend the girl.
Director: Eric Schuman | Stars: Jocelyn Hillen, Joceyln Hillen, Nicolina Marra, Tom Martin
Votes: 16
94. Omero bello-di-nonna (2011)
12 min | Short, Fantasy
Omero is a grown up child living with his beloved grandmother. His life takes place in a world of fantasies, heroes and magic creatures. When his grandma suffers of a diabetes attack, he is... See full summary »
Director: Marco Chiarini | Stars: Isa Barzizza, Elena Di Cioccio, Nicola Nocella
Votes: 16
95.
24 (2001–2010)
Episode:
2:00 a.m.-3:00 a.m.
(2001)
TV-14 | 41 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Jack thinks he's identified the mole inside CTU. Kim and Janet realize they are being kidnapped and try to escape. Palmer orders an employee to get dirt on a reporter who might jeopardize his campaign. Ira Gaines' plans come to a halt when he must renegotiate with a conspirator.
Director: Stephen Hopkins | Stars: Kiefer Sutherland, Leslie Hope, Sarah Clarke, Elisha Cuthbert
Votes: 2,242
96.
Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955–1962)
Episode:
The Cheney Vase
(1955)
TV-14 | 25 min | Drama, Mystery
When Lyle Endicott is fired from his job at an art museum, he comes up with a plan to take advantage of a trusting invalid whom he befriended at the museum.
Director: Robert Stevens | Stars: Alfred Hitchcock, Patricia Collinge, Darren McGavin, Carolyn Jones
Votes: 1,323
97.
Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1985–1989)
Episode:
Fogbound
(1988)
TV-PG | Crime, Drama, Mystery
On a fogbound night haunted by a serial killer, a man plans to seek revenge on the woman he blames for his girlfriend's murder.
Director: Mark Sobel | Stars: Alfred Hitchcock, Kathleen Quinlan, Stephen Mendel, Jonathan Crombie
Votes: 116
98.
Angel (1999–2004)
Episode:
Just Rewards
(2003)
Unrated | 44 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Angel and Spike challenge a necromancer who is unhappy with Wolfram and Hart's new leadership.
Director: James A. Contner | Stars: David Boreanaz, James Marsters, J. August Richards, Amy Acker
Votes: 1,916
99.
Angel (1999–2004)
Episode:
Reprise
(2001)
Unrated | 43 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
On the eve of a 75-year review at Wolfram and Hart, Angel seeks a magic ring that will take him to hell to look for the firm's "senior partners."
Director: James Whitmore Jr. | Stars: David Boreanaz, Charisma Carpenter, Alexis Denisof, J. August Richards
Votes: 2,029
100.
Babylon 5 (1993–1998)
Episode:
Signs and Portents
(1994)
TV-PG | 43 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Londo obtains a priceless Centauri artifact and a stranger visits each alien ambassador asking only one question.
Director: Janet Greek | Stars: Michael O'Hare, Claudia Christian, Jerry Doyle, Mira Furlan
Votes: 907