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1. Upgraded (2024)
R | 104 min | Comedy, Romance
When Ana is upgraded to first class on a work trip, she meets handsome Will, who mistakes Ana for her boss, Claire. A white lie then sets off a glamorous chain of events, romance and opportunity, until her fib threatens to surface.
Director: Carlson Young | Stars: Camila Mendes, Archie Renaux, Marisa Tomei, Lena Olin
Votes: 20,563
2. Homefront (I) (2013)
R | 100 min | Action, Crime, Thriller
A former DEA agent moves his family to a quiet town, where he soon tangles with a local meth druglord.
Director: Gary Fleder | Stars: Jason Statham, James Franco, Winona Ryder, Kate Bosworth
Votes: 130,706 | Gross: $20.16M
3. The Mechanic (2011)
R | 93 min | Action, Crime, Thriller
An elite hitman teaches his trade to an apprentice who has a connection to one of his previous victims.
Director: Simon West | Stars: Jason Statham, Ben Foster, Donald Sutherland, Tony Goldwyn
Votes: 172,084 | Gross: $29.12M
4. Drive Angry (2011)
R | 104 min | Action, Comedy, Fantasy
A vengeful father escapes from hell and chases after the men who killed his daughter and kidnapped his granddaughter.
Director: Patrick Lussier | Stars: Nicolas Cage, Amber Heard, William Fichtner, Billy Burke
Votes: 103,549 | Gross: $10.71M
5. The Iceman (2012)
R | 106 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
The story of Richard Kuklinski, the notorious contract killer and family man. When he was finally arrested in 1986, neither his wife nor his daughters had any clue about his real profession.
Director: Ariel Vromen | Stars: Michael Shannon, Chris Evans, James Franco, Winona Ryder
Votes: 79,609 | Gross: $1.94M
6. Texas Chainsaw (2013)
R | 92 min | Horror, Thriller
A young woman travels to Texas to collect an inheritance. Little does she know that an encounter with a chainsaw-wielding killer is part of the reward.
Director: John Luessenhop | Stars: Alexandra Daddario, Tania Raymonde, Scott Eastwood, Trey Songz
Votes: 56,142 | Gross: $34.34M
7. The Taking of Deborah Logan (2014)
R | 90 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
An elderly woman battling Alzheimer's disease agrees to let a film crew document her condition, but what they discover is something far more sinister going on.
Director: Adam Robitel | Stars: Jill Larson, Anne Ramsay, Michelle Ang, Brett Gentile
Votes: 40,474
8. Trust (I) (2010)
R | 106 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A teenage girl is targeted by an online sexual predator.
Director: David Schwimmer | Stars: Clive Owen, Catherine Keener, Liana Liberato, Jason Clarke
Votes: 44,091 | Gross: $0.12M
9. Good Mourning (I) (2022)
R | 93 min | Comedy
Follows London Clash, a movie star whose world is turned upside down when he must choose between pursuing his one true love and landing a life-changing, starring role in a major motion picture.
Directors: Colson Baker, Mod Sun | Stars: Colson Baker, Mod Sun, Becky G, Dove Cameron
Votes: 2,529
10. The Tale (2018)
TV-MA | 114 min | Biography, Drama, Mystery
A woman filming a documentary on childhood rape victims starts to question the nature of her childhood relationship with her riding instructor and running coach.
Director: Jennifer Fox | Stars: Laura Dern, Jason Ritter, Common, Elizabeth Debicki
Votes: 19,760
11. Trespass (2011)
R | 91 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
As they're held for ransom, a husband and wife's predicament grows more dire amid the discovery of betrayal and deception.
Director: Joel Schumacher | Stars: Nicolas Cage, Nicole Kidman, Cam Gigandet, Ben Mendelsohn
Votes: 45,623 | Gross: $0.02M
12. The Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call - New Orleans (2009)
R | 122 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Terence McDonagh is a drug- and gambling-addled detective in post-Katrina New Orleans investigating the killing of five Senegalese immigrants.
Director: Werner Herzog | Stars: Nicolas Cage, Eva Mendes, Russell M. Haeuser, Val Kilmer
Votes: 81,028 | Gross: $1.70M
13. Stonehearst Asylum (2014)
PG-13 | 112 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
An Oxford graduate takes up a job in a mental asylum, only to discover that the "revolutionary" new treatments are inhumane, and that there is more going on than meets the eye.
Director: Brad Anderson | Stars: Kate Beckinsale, Jim Sturgess, David Thewlis, Brendan Gleeson
Votes: 60,510
14. The Estate (II) (2022)
R | 96 min | Comedy
Two sisters attempt to win over their terminally ill, difficult-to-please Aunt in hopes of becoming the beneficiaries of her wealthy estate, only to find the rest of their greedy family members have the same idea.
Director: Dean Craig | Stars: Toni Collette, Anna Faris, David Duchovny, Rosemarie DeWitt
Votes: 5,078
15. Stone (2010)
R | 105 min | Action, Drama, Mystery
A convicted arsonist looks to manipulate a parole officer into a plan to secure his parole by placing his beautiful wife in the lawman's path.
Director: John Curran | Stars: Edward Norton, Milla Jovovich, Robert De Niro, Frances Conroy
Votes: 42,958 | Gross: $1.80M
16. Gigi & Nate (2022)
PG-13 | 114 min | Drama, Family
A young man's life is turned upside down becoming quadriplegic. Moving forward seems near impossible until he meets his unlikely service animal, Gigi - a curious and intelligent capuchin monkey.
Director: Nick Hamm | Stars: Charlie Rowe, Marcia Gay Harden, Jim Belushi, Josephine Langford
Votes: 1,662
17. Stolen (2012)
R | 96 min | Action, Crime, Thriller
A former thief frantically searches for his missing daughter, who has been kidnapped and locked in the trunk of a taxi.
Director: Simon West | Stars: Nicolas Cage, Malin Akerman, Josh Lucas, Danny Huston
Votes: 46,488 | Gross: $0.30M
18. Beast of Burden (2018)
R | 89 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Sean Haggerty only has an hour to deliver his illegal cargo. An hour to reassure a drug cartel, a hitman, and the DEA that nothing is wrong. An hour to make sure his wife survives. And he must do it all from the cockpit of his Cessna.
Director: Jesper Ganslandt | Stars: Daniel Radcliffe, Grace Gummer, Pablo Schreiber, Robert Wisdom
Votes: 3,215
19. Boundless (2022)
TV-MA | 40 min | Adventure, Drama
Ferdinand Magellan and Juan Sebastián Elcano's epic voyage around the world after they set sail from Spain 500 years ago.
Stars: Álvaro Morte, Rodrigo Santoro, Niccolò Senni, Paulo Pinto
Votes: 2,230
20. Paradise Highway (2022)
R | 115 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A truck driver has been forced to smuggle illicit cargo to save her brother from a deadly prison gang. With FBI operatives hot on her trail, Sally's conscience is challenged when the final package turns out to be a teenage girl.
Director: Anna Gutto | Stars: Juliette Binoche, Frank Grillo, Hala Finley, Cameron Monaghan
Votes: 6,647
21. Leaves of Grass (2009)
R | 105 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
An Ivy League professor is lured back to his Oklahoma hometown, where his twin brother, a small-time pot grower, has concocted a scheme to take down a local drug lord.
Director: Tim Blake Nelson | Stars: Edward Norton, Keri Russell, Henry Max Nelson, Lucy DeVito
Votes: 27,906 | Gross: $0.07M
22. Driven (I) (2018)
R | 113 min | Biography, Comedy, Crime
Intense thriller where politics, big business and narcotics collide.
Director: Nick Hamm | Stars: Jason Sudeikis, Lee Pace, Judy Greer, Isabel Arraiza
Votes: 8,410
23. Speed Kills (2018)
R | 102 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Speedboat racing champion and multimillionaire Ben Aronoff leads a double life that lands him in trouble with the law and drug lords.
Director: Jodi Scurfield | Stars: John Travolta, Katheryn Winnick, Jennifer Esposito, Michael Weston
Votes: 3,993
24. Ordinary Love (2019)
R | 92 min | Drama, Romance
An extraordinary look at the lives of a middle-aged couple in the midst of the wife's breast cancer diagnosis.
Directors: Lisa Barros D'Sa, Glenn Leyburn | Stars: Lesley Manville, Liam Neeson, Esh Alladi, Melanie Clark Pullen
Votes: 5,262
25. Military Wives (2019)
PG-13 | 112 min | Comedy, Drama, Music
With their partners away serving in Afghanistan, a group of women on the home front form a choir and quickly find themselves at the center of a media sensation and global movement.
Director: Peter Cattaneo | Stars: Kristin Scott Thomas, Sharon Horgan, Emma Lowndes, Gaby French
Votes: 5,973
26. Manic (2001)
R | 100 min | Drama
After attacking another player with a bat during baseball at school, Lyle's sent to the psych ward. He meets other teenagers with problems. Will group therapy help?
Director: Jordan Melamed | Stars: Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Michael Bacall, Zooey Deschanel, Don Cheadle
Votes: 10,053 | Gross: $0.07M
27. Solitary Man (2009)
R | 90 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A car magnate watches his personal and professional life hit the skids because of his business and romantic indiscretions.
Directors: Brian Koppelman, David Levien | Stars: Michael Douglas, Susan Sarandon, Jesse Eisenberg, Danny DeVito
Votes: 17,136 | Gross: $4.36M
28. Straight A's (2013)
R | 91 min | Comedy, Drama
Pressured by his deceased mother's ghost to return home to the family he abandoned, a former addict grabs a bag of pills and a sack of marijuana and hits the road to Louisiana.
Director: James Cox | Stars: Ryan Phillippe, Anna Paquin, Luke Wilson, Riley Thomas Stewart
Votes: 4,846
29. Gun Shy (2017)
R | 92 min | Action, Comedy, Thriller
An aging rock star's wife is kidnapped while vacationing in Chile.
Director: Simon West | Stars: Antonio Banderas, Olga Kurylenko, Ben Cura, Mark Valley
Votes: 3,342
30. The Free World (2016)
R | 100 min | Drama, Romance
A recently released former convict becomes involved with a married woman with an abusive husband.
Director: Jason Lew | Stars: Boyd Holbrook, Elisabeth Moss, Octavia Spencer, Sung Kang
Votes: 2,078
31. Until Death (2007)
R | 101 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Stowe is a dirty cop who is hooked on heroin, and everyone dislikes him. Because of an accident he is put into a coma, and comes out of it a better person. He wakes up wanting to put things right.
Director: Simon Fellows | Stars: Jean-Claude Van Damme, Stephen Rea, Selina Giles, Mark Dymond
Votes: 10,385
32. Imaginary Heroes (2004)
R | 111 min | Drama
Members of a dysfunctional family react differently to the suicide of the eldest son.
Director: Dan Harris | Stars: Sigourney Weaver, Jeff Daniels, Emile Hirsch, Michelle Williams
Votes: 10,039 | Gross: $0.23M
33. Spare Room (2018)
97 min | Drama
When a young widow rents a room to a mysterious veteran, their attraction sparks unforeseen circumstances.
Director: Jenica Bergere | Stars: Skyler Samuels, Martin Sensmeier, Thomas Cocquerel, Cole Sibus
Votes: 358
34. Half Moon (I) (2010)
Unrated | 95 min | Horror
When down on her luck prostitute Rose goes to a hotel to meet a man who seems like the perfect guy things soon change and she suspects he could be the killer ...or worse a Werewolf.
Director: Jason Toler | Stars: Tori Black, Marek Matousek, Torey D. Sutton, Nicki Hunter
Votes: 373
35. Destined (2016)
95 min | Drama, Fantasy
Destined tells the parallel stories of Sheed and Rasheed the same actor played by (Cory Hardrict) as they explore the idea of destiny as well as how the smallest incident can manifest itself into a life changing event.
Director: Qasim Basir | Stars: Jesse Metcalfe, Hill Harper, Jason Dohring, James McCaffrey
Votes: 179
36. AFI Life Achievement Award (1973– )
Documentary
The Award is the highest honor for a career in film and celebrates an individual whose career has greatly contributed to the enrichment of American culture.
Stars: Carole Bayer Sager, George Stevens Jr., Jack Nicholson, Gregory Peck
Votes: 51
37. The Hiding Place (2000)
PG-13 | 97 min | Drama
A son visits his aging mother and sees tragic, intermittent signs of senility, but she pleads with him not to send her to a sanitarium.
Director: Douglas Green | Stars: Kim Hunter, Timothy Bottoms, Kim Greist, Katie Hagan
Votes: 110
38. The Garden of Last Days
Drama | Announced
GARDEN OF LAST DAYS, based on the novel by Andre Dubus III, tells three, interwoven and ultimately explosive stories: GRACE, a young mother out of options who strips to build a future for ... See full summary »
Director: Hanna Weg
39. Circadian Rhythm (2005)
90 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Focuses on a young woman and her radical journey to discover who she is and to find out why multiple enemies want her dead. The woman, SARAH CAUL, is thrown into an action filled construct ... See full summary »
Director: René Besson | Stars: Rachel Miner, Robert Berson, Seymour Cassel, Sarah Wynter
Votes: 134
40. E! News Live (1996– )
60 min | News
The latest entertainment news is reported.
Stars: Justin Sylvester, Melanie Bromley, Carissa Culiner, Zuri Hall
Votes: 144
41. The Hunters (I)
Action | Announced
A team of renegades are assembled by a mysterious benefactor to track down the world's greatest treasures.
Director: Simon West
42. The Cost of Bread (2004)
18 min | Drama, Short
Nine-year-old Mariuzzedda lives in post-World War II Calabria, Italy. Each morning, she goes to work harvesting olives, then to school, with a grumbling, empty tummy. She cannot resist the ... See full summary »
Director: Lucia Grillo | Stars: Vincent Schiavelli, Lucia Grillo
Votes: 9
43. Boxes (2000)
Not Rated | 93 min | Comedy
A businessman begins to realize that his whole life is made out of metaphorical and literal boxes.
Director: René Besson | Stars: Jimmy Vollman, John Bagdasarian, Robert Berson, Don Danielson
Votes: 43
44. The Decade (1999)
Unrated | 93 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller
Director: James Portolese | Stars: David Mokus, Scott Boyer, Cynthia Holloway, Bracha Jade
Votes: 16
45. Saved by the Rules (2003)
Comedy, Romance
It's hard finding love in a town where everyone's looking for the next B. B. D. (Bigger Better Deal). Especially for Terry, who with her Southern beliefs is having an extrememly hard time finding love and honesty in Los Angeles.
Director: René Besson | Stars: Teresa DePriest, Tracy Reiner, Jay Huguley, Nancy La Scala
Votes: 15
46. Recoil (I) (2001)
75 min | Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Director: Wendell Hubbard | Stars: Theodore Borders, Lynndi Scott, Wes Hubbard, Terrance P.N. Smith
Votes: 49
47. Landfall (2001)
94 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance
The story of two horrific natural disasters that hit Florida sixty years apart, the 1935 Labor Day Hurricane and the 1992 Hurricane Andrew, and a 74-year-old woman named Emily who lived through both of them.
Director: Dan Hamilton | Stars: Jean Louisa Kelly, Frances Sternhagen, Stephen Anthony, Dottie Arbogast
Votes: 21
48. Main Street (2005)
3 min | Short, Drama
A metaphor for how the world views America, 'Main Street' stars Academy Award nominee Seymour Cassel, Kate Clarke and Arcadio Cadena.
Director: Brent Roske | Stars: Seymour Cassel, Kate Clarke, Arcadio Cadena
49. Hollywood, Unapologetic! (2016– )
Talk-Show
The purpose of 'Hollywood, Unapologetic!' is to positively empower one another and to empower our industry. It is important to engage in discussions that will initiate constructive lines of... See full summary »
Star: Orlando Delbert
50. Heaven on Brighton Beach (2009)
5 min | Short, Action, Crime
A true story about the Russian Mafia coming to America after the fall of Communism.
Director: Rouslan Ovtcharoff | Stars: Armen Kardashian, Matt Maenpaa, Frank Megna, Spas Muleshkov