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1. 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: 171,863 | Gross: $29.12M
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: 130,458 | Gross: $20.16M
3. 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: 103,474 | Gross: $10.71M
4. 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: 80,959 | Gross: $1.70M
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: 79,485 | Gross: $1.94M
6. 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: 60,432
7. 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: 56,084 | Gross: $34.34M
8. 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: 46,461 | Gross: $0.30M
9. 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: 45,592 | Gross: $0.02M
10. 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: 44,057 | Gross: $0.12M
11. 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: 42,934 | Gross: $1.80M
12. 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: 40,295
13. 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: 27,896 | Gross: $0.07M
14. 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: 19,811
15. 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: 19,730
16. 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: 17,129 | Gross: $4.36M
17. 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: 10,377
18. 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: 10,046 | Gross: $0.07M
19. 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: 10,025 | Gross: $0.23M
20. 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: 8,400
21. 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: 6,629
22. 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: 5,966
23. 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: 5,252
24. 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: 5,053
25. 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: 4,840
26. 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: 3,989
27. 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: 3,338
28. 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: 3,214
29. 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: 2,519
30. 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: 2,221
31. 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: 2,076
32. 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: 1,649
33. 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: 370
34. 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: 357
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, Jason Dohring, James McCaffrey, Hill Harper
Votes: 179
36.
Boundless (2022)
Episode:
Mi rey no ha querido verme
(2022)
TV-MA | Adventure, Drama
After being rejected by the King of Portugal, Magellan seeks for another way to achieve his dream.
Director: Simon West | Stars: Niccolò Senni, Paulo Pinto, Rodrigo Santoro, Bárbara Goenaga
Votes: 170
37. E! News Live (1996– )
60 min | News
The latest entertainment news is reported.
Stars: Justin Sylvester, Melanie Bromley, Carissa Culiner, Zuri Hall
Votes: 143
38.
Boundless (2022)
Episode:
Te buscan por traición
(2022)
TV-MA | Adventure, Drama
The Portuguese fleet can't allow the expedition to succeed and will do everything they can to ensure it fails.
Director: Simon West | Stars: Niccolò Senni, Paulo Pinto, Rodrigo Santoro, Bárbara Goenaga
Votes: 138
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.
Boundless (2022)
Episode:
La rebelión está castigada con la muerte
(2022)
TV-MA | Adventure, Drama
After almost a year of traveling, and still having yet to find the destination, the crew organizes a mutiny against Magellan.
Director: Simon West | Stars: Niccolò Senni, Paulo Pinto, Rodrigo Santoro, Bárbara Goenaga
Votes: 129
41.
Boundless (2022)
Episode:
Os han elegido como capitán
(2022)
TV-MA | Adventure, Drama
Mactans will have to see the light or face the cannons and the cross.
Director: Simon West | Stars: Niccolò Senni, Paulo Pinto, Rodrigo Santoro, Bárbara Goenaga
Votes: 129
42.
AFI Life Achievement Award (1973– )
Episode:
AFI Life Achievement Award: A Tribute to Robert Wise
(1998)
Documentary
A taping of the American Film Institute's special honoring the achievements of film director Robert Wise.
Director: Louis J. Horvitz | Stars: Robert Wise, Loni Anderson, Julie Andrews, Carole Bayer Sager
Votes: 127
43.
Boundless (2022)
Episode:
Las ballenas no nadan en ríos
(2022)
TV-MA | Adventure, Drama
The joy and euphoria from having found the destination contrasts with the death and despair the crew will find on the way.
Director: Simon West | Stars: Niccolò Senni, Paulo Pinto, Rodrigo Santoro, Bárbara Goenaga
Votes: 127
44.
Boundless (2022)
Episode:
Son vientos del este
(2022)
TV-MA | Adventure, Drama
Elcano makes a risky decision that will change the course of History.
Director: Simon West | Stars: Niccolò Senni, Paulo Pinto, Rodrigo Santoro, Bárbara Goenaga
Votes: 121
45. 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
46. 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: 50
47. 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
48. 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
49. 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
50. Trespass: Inside the Thriller (2011 Video)
5 min | Documentary, Short
This making-of piece includes comments from director Joel Schumacher, writer Eli Richbourg, producer Rene Besson, and actors Nicolas Cage, Nicole Kidman, Liana Liberato, Ben Mendelsohn, and... See full summary »
Stars: René Besson, Nicolas Cage, Cam Gigandet, Nicole Kidman
Votes: 18