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1. My First Kiss and the People Involved (2016)
81 min | Drama, Mystery
Sam's silent world confounds the fellow residents of her group home. When her only friend goes missing Sam sets out to find her, uncovering a tale of violence that shatters her fragile reality.
Director: Luigi Campi | Stars: Bobbi Salvör Menuez, Robert Beitzel, Liza Thorn, Josh Caras
Votes: 27
2. Incendies (2010)
R | 131 min | Drama, Mystery, War
Twins journey to the Middle East to discover their family history and fulfill their mother's last wishes.
Director: Denis Villeneuve | Stars: Lubna Azabal, Mélissa Désormeaux-Poulin, Maxim Gaudette, Mustafa Kamel
Votes: 201,037 | Gross: $6.86M
3. Dear Mom, Love Cher (2013 TV Movie)
TV-14 | 60 min | Documentary
Dear Mom, Love Cher provides a rare peek into Cher's fascinating family history and features in depth interviews with Georgia Holt, her daughters Cher and Georganne LaPiere Bartylak, and ... See full summary »
Director: P. David Ebersole | Stars: Cher, Georgia Holt, Georganne LaPiere, Chaz Bono
Votes: 149
4. Furever (2013)
Not Rated | 80 min | Documentary, News
A documentary about pet loss, attachment, and the many processes by which we preserve more than our pet's memories.
Director: Amy Finkel | Star: Illeana Douglas
Votes: 63
5. La americana (2008)
Documentary
Documentary about a single mother who leaves her ailing daughter behind in Bolivia to find work in New York City in order to support her, and her relationship with another Bolivian illegal immigrant.
Directors: Nicholas Bruckman, John Mattiuzzi
Votes: 21
6. Stone Barn Castle (2015)
98 min | Documentary
In 2007, Academy Award winning actor Adrien Brody fell in love with a partially burned stone barn, reminiscent of an old European castle, hidden in the woods of upstate New York. Looking to... See full summary »
Directors: Adrien Brody, Kevin Ford | Star: Adrien Brody
Votes: 22
7. Mississippi I Am (2012)
46 min | Documentary
In 2006, 'NSync's Lance Bass came out publicly as gay. Once the "most beloved son" of his home state of Mississippi, he was instantly rejected and his hopes that Mississippi could ever ... See full summary »
Directors: Harriet Hirshorn, Katherine Linton | Stars: Lance Bass, Constance McMillen
Votes: 17
8. Jess Plus None (2023)
101 min | Comedy
A reluctant maid-of-honor attending an off-the-grid wedding in the woods must confront her perfect ex-girlfriend, her more successful college friends, and every single one of her life choices.
Director: Mandy Fabian | Stars: Abby Miller, Marielle Scott, Rory O'Malley, Matt Walsh
Votes: 38
9. Ronny & i (2013)
Not Rated | 20 min | Short, Comedy, Drama
A young man comes to terms with his sexuality and his hidden love for his best friend
Director: Guy Shalem | Stars: Adam Berry, Luke Humphrey
Votes: 792
10. Sissyboy (2008)
68 min | Documentary
Sissyboy is a big, loud mess of glitter, booze and cynical drag queens. At least on the surface. But it's also the story of 12 talented artists with razor-sharp wits and a fetish for ... See full summary »
Director: Katie Turinski | Stars: Mark Thomas, Jeffrey Darling, Kaj-Anne Pepper, Caedmonster
Votes: 15
11. The Widowmaker (2015)
Not Rated | 96 min | Documentary, News
Every minute of every year an American drops dead of a heart attack, hundreds of thousands without any warning or prior symptom. But these people could have been saved. The Widowmaker ... See full summary »
Director: Patrick Forbes | Stars: Gillian Anderson, Melinda Murray, Julio Palmaz, Martin B. Leon
Votes: 244
12. Bay of All Saints (2012)
74 min | Documentary
In Bahia, Brazil, generations of impoverished families live in palafitas, a vast network of shacks built on stilts above a rising tide of garbage over the ocean bay. When the government ... See full summary »
Director: Annie Eastman
Votes: 27
13. English Vinglish (2012)
Not Rated | 134 min | Comedy, Drama, Family
A quiet, sweet tempered housewife endures small slights from her well-educated husband and daughter every day because of her inability to speak and understand English.
Director: Gauri Shinde | Stars: Sridevi, Adil Hussain, Mehdi Nebbou, Priya Anand
Votes: 39,636 | Gross: $1.67M
14. Plant Heist (2021)
18 min | Short
California's fight to protect native succulents from an international poaching ring worth millions.
Directors: Chelsi de Cuba, Gabriel de Cuba | Stars: Jade Davis, Patrick Foy, Patrick Freeling, Dan Gleusencamp
Votes: 8
15. Lady Trojans (2008)
58 min | Documentary, Sport
Lady Trojans is a 60-minute documentary about a girls' high school basketball team in 1990's Tucson, AZ. The story focuses on Anna, star player and one of the group who identified as ... See full summary »
Director: Elizabeth Hesik | Stars: Donielle Aitken, Mia Allec, Jennipher Foster, Amanda Hunt
Votes: 9
16. I Always Said Yes: The Many Lives of Wakefield Poole (2013)
Unrated | 93 min | Documentary, Biography, History
I Always Said Yes is a portrait of pioneering filmmaker Wakefield Poole, whose careers as dancer, choreographer, and director spanned the golden years of Broadway, television, porno chic, and gay liberation.
Director: Jim Tushinski | Stars: Tim Kincaid, Wakefield Poole, Marvin Shulman, Linda Williams
Votes: 56
17. Heaven Without People (2017)
91 min | Drama
As all the children and their spouses gathers for Easter's dinner, conversation flows. When something bad happens, everyone is on edge, especially Josephine, and Serge who wants to uncover the truth!
Director: Lucien Bourjeily | Stars: Laeticia Semaan, Nadim Abou Samra, Samira Sarkis, Etafar Aweke
Votes: 1,369
18. The Green Wave (2010)
Not Rated | 80 min | Documentary
A documentary on Iran's 2010 Green Revolution.
Director: Ali Samadi Ahadi | Stars: Mohsen Kadivar, Mitra Khalatbari, Shadi Sadr, Mehdi Mohseni
Votes: 366
19. Once I Was a Champion (2011)
Not Rated | 93 min | Documentary
Adventure seeker, fighter, philosopher, writer and alcoholic died on September 8th, 2008 in the desert north of Brawley, California. He was on a quest to find buried treasure. "Treasure" does not necessarily refer to something material.
Director: Gerard Roxburgh | Stars: Danny Acosta, Randy Couture, Rich Franklin, Forrest Griffin
Votes: 240
20. This Is Not a Burial, It's a Resurrection (2019)
Not Rated | 120 min | Drama
When her village is threatened with forced resettlement due to reservoir construction, an 80-year-old widow finds a new will to live and ignites the spirit of resilience within her community.
Director: Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese | Stars: Mary Twala, Jerry Mofokeng, Makhaola Ndebele, Tseko Monaheng
Votes: 1,460
21. B.O.H.I.C.A. (2008)
91 min | Comedy, Drama, War
Just when they think the Army can't screw with them any more, four U.S. Army Reservists are sent on a meaningless mission guarding a radio tower on a barren patch of desert in ... See full synopsis »
Director: D.J. Paul | Stars: Joshua Coleman, Joseph 'Bo' Colen, Matthew Del Negro, Nicholas Gonzalez
Votes: 25
22. Stella Polaris Ulloriarsuaq (2017)
86 min | Documentary, Adventure, Biography
The history of the world has been settling on the Greenlandic ice sheet for millions of years. Massive glaciers constantly unearth long gone states of the planet. The Kalaallit people have ... See full summary »
Director: Yatri N. Niehaus | Stars: Angaangaq Angakkorsuaq, Nomi Baumgartl, Laali Lyberth, Sven Nieder
Votes: 7
23. The UnXplained (2019– )
TV-14 | Documentary
The show will explore the facts behind the world's most fascinating, strange and inexplicable mysteries.
Stars: William Shatner, Michio Kaku, Jonathan Young, Tok Thompson
Votes: 1,888
24. 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: 10,078 | Gross: $0.01M
25. The Dare Project (2018)
34 min | Short, Drama
The fan-demanded sequel to the award winning, internationally distributed 2005 short film 'Dare.' Ben and Johnny, now in their early 30s, fortuitously run into each other at a party in Los ... See full summary »
Director: Adam Salky | Stars: Adam Fleming, Michael Cassidy, Adam Hagenbuch, West Liang
Votes: 570
26. Good Vibrations (2012)
Not Rated | 103 min | Biography, Drama, Music
A chronicle of Terri Hooley's life, a record-store owner instrumental in developing Belfast's punk-rock scene.
Directors: Lisa Barros D'Sa, Glenn Leyburn | Stars: Cathal Maguire, Peter Kelly, Charlie Berkeley, Jack Carberry
Votes: 5,599
27. Scream, Queen! My Nightmare on Elm Street (2019)
Unrated | 99 min | Documentary, Horror
A retrospective look at A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge (1985) and the life of its lead actor, Mark Patton.
Directors: Roman Chimienti, Tyler Jensen | Stars: Cecil Baldwin, Mark Patton, Robert Englund, Jack Sholder
Votes: 2,023
28. Pilgrim Song (2012)
Not Rated | 116 min | Drama
Seeking escape from his stalled relationship and unhappy place in the world, a recently pink-slipped music teacher sets out to hike Kentucky's Sheltowee Trace Trail. Among the verdant hills... See full summary »
Director: Martha Stephens | Stars: Michael Abbott Jr., Sonny Burnette, Kristin Slaysman, Earl Lynn Nelson
Votes: 86
29. Fall and Winter (2013)
Not Rated | 102 min | Documentary, History
A journey, reaching to the past to understand the origins of the catastrophic environmental transitions we now face. Over two years, director Matt Anderson traveled 16,000 miles to document... See full summary »
Director: Matt Anderson | Stars: Dean Blanchard, Grace Lee Boggs, Kevin Curole, Margaret Curole
Votes: 38
30.
The UnXplained (2019– )
Episode:
The Hunt for Hidden Treasures
(2021)
TV-PG | 42 min | Documentary
Sunken ships filled with priceless cargo. Lost cities of gold. Ancient temples concealing untold riches. There's something about these hidden treasures that captures the human imagination. ... See full summary »
Stars: William Shatner, Tony McMahon, Lynn Picknett, Eliezer Stern
Votes: 63
31. Hannah Arendt (2012)
Not Rated | 113 min | Biography, Drama
A look at the life of philosopher and political theorist Hannah Arendt, who reported for 'The New Yorker' on the trial of the Nazi leader Adolf Eichmann in Jerusalem.
Director: Margarethe von Trotta | Stars: Barbara Sukowa, Axel Milberg, Janet McTeer, Julia Jentsch
Votes: 12,033 | Gross: $0.71M
32. 3000 Nights (2015)
103 min | Drama
A young Palestinian schoolteacher gives birth to her son in an Israeli prison where she fights to protect him, survive and maintain hope.
Director: Mai Masri | Stars: Maisa Abd Elhadi, Nadira Omran, Rakeen Saad, Raida Adon
Votes: 1,092
33. The Last Gladiators (2011)
R | 94 min | Documentary, Sport
In ice hockey, no one is tougher than the "goon". Those players have one mission: to protect the star players at any price.
Director: Alex Gibney | Stars: Donald Brashear, Lyndon Byers, Guy Carbonneau, Don Cherry
Votes: 1,759
34. Friedkin Uncut (2018)
Not Rated | 107 min | Documentary, Biography, History
In this documentary, the hotshot director of The Exorcist (1973) and The French Connection (1971), now 83 years old, is interviewed about his career, and a number of his colleagues and admirers weigh in with reminiscences and tributes.
Director: Francesco Zippel | Stars: William Friedkin, Wes Anderson, Dario Argento, Samuel Blumenfeld
Votes: 1,146
35. Big Brother Volcano (2017)
TV-MA | 87 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama
When Alan's wife flakes on a last-ditch effort to save their marriage, he's joined by his all too eager brother-in-law Mike on a trip to Nicaragua's 'Mercado Village,' a hipster resort for American tourists. As the two settle in, they meet Barbara, an American ex-pat who co-founded Mercado Village years earlier as a utopian haven for artists and free spirits. As Alan's relationship with Barbara ... See full summary »
Director: Paul Briganti | Stars: Aya Cash, George Basil, Brandon Scott, Echo Kellum
Votes: 45
36. La mujer del animal (2016)
120 min | Drama
Amparo flees the convent and lands in a marginal neighborhood at her sister's house. Cousin Libardo becomes infatuated with Amparo, forcing her to live under his roof; the Animal's family, ... See full summary »
Director: Víctor Gaviria | Stars: Natalia Polo, Tito Alexander Gomez, Jesús Vásquez
Votes: 462
37. Small Town Gay Bar (2006)
Not Rated | 76 min | Documentary
The story of community in the Deep South that is forced to deal with the struggles of ignorance, hypocrisy and oppression.
Director: Malcolm Ingram | Stars: Jim Bishop, Terry Capps, Bill Curtis, Rick Gladish
Votes: 1,174
38. The View from Tall (2016)
87 min | Drama
17-year-old Justine is having the worst year of her life, when she finds an unlikely lifeline in her disabled therapist.
Directors: Caitlin Parrish, Erica Weiss | Stars: Amanda Drinkall, Michael Patrick Thornton, Carolyn Braver, Lia D. Mortensen
Votes: 90
39. Sons of a Gun (2008)
75 min | Documentary
Lance, Craig, and Ubaldo live with schizophrenia. They also live with Larry, their alcoholic caregiver/"Dad". And even though none of them is related by blood, they've lived together as a ... See full summary »
Directors: Rivkah Beth Medow, Greg O'Toole
Votes: 24
40. Buried (2010)
R | 95 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Paul is a U.S. truck driver working in Iraq. After an attack by a group of Iraqis he wakes to find he is buried alive inside a coffin. With only a lighter and a cell phone it's a race against time to escape this claustrophobic death trap.
Director: Rodrigo Cortés | Stars: Ryan Reynolds, José Luis García-Pérez, Robert Paterson, Stephen Tobolowsky
Votes: 168,686 | Gross: $1.03M
41. Chestnut (2023)
87 min | Drama
A recent graduate becomes entangled in a relationship with a man and a woman during her summer after college.
Director: Jac Cron | Stars: Natalia Dyer, Rachel Keller, Danny Ramirez, Chella Man
Votes: 47
42. That Evening Sun (2009)
PG-13 | 109 min | Drama
An aging Tennessee farmer returns to his homestead and must confront a family betrayal, the reappearance of an old enemy, and the loss of his farm.
Director: Scott Teems | Stars: Hal Holbrook, Barlow Jacobs, Mia Wasikowska, Carrie Preston
Votes: 2,921 | Gross: $0.28M
43. Beasts Clawing at Straws (2020)
108 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A struggling restaurant owner, caring for his sick mom, finds a bag of cash in a sauna locker, while a customs officer gets into trouble when his girlfriend runs off with money he borrowed from a loan shark.
Director: Kim Yong-hoon | Stars: Jeon Do-yeon, Jung Woo-sung, Bae Sung-woo, Youn Yuh-jung
Votes: 5,631
44. The Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister (2010 TV Movie)
TV-14 | 92 min | Biography, Drama, Romance
A look at the life of 19th-century Yorkshire landowner Anne Lister (1791-1840), who lived openly as a lesbian and kept diaries chronicling the details of her daily life.
Director: James Kent | Stars: Maxine Peake, Anna Madeley, Susan Lynch, Christine Bottomley
Votes: 2,249
45. Amreeka (2009)
PG-13 | 96 min | Drama
A drama centered on the trials and tribulations of a proud Palestinian Christian immigrant single mother and her teenage son in small town Indiana.
Director: Cherien Dabis | Stars: Nisreen Faour, Melkar Muallem, Hiam Abbass, Alia Shawkat
Votes: 3,687 | Gross: $0.62M
46. Man of the Century (1999)
R | 77 min | Comedy, Romance
Fantasy-comedy about a young man who lives as if it is 1928 or so, and his encounters with modern-day women and modern-day criminals.
Director: Adam Abraham | Stars: Gibson Frazier, Cara Buono, Ian Edwards, Brian Davies
Votes: 1,271 | Gross: $0.03M
47. Wrangler: Anatomy of an Icon (2008)
Not Rated | 85 min | Documentary, Biography
The outrageous story of 1970s porn icon Jack Wrangler, and how he rose to the top of the gay, and then straight, adult film industry.
Director: Jeffrey Schwarz | Stars: Jack Wrangler, Margaret Whiting, Robert Alvarez, Brooks Ashmanskas
Votes: 600
48. Valley of Saints (2012)
Not Rated | 82 min | Drama
War and poverty force Gulzar, a young tourist boatman, to run away from Kashmir with his best friend. But a military crackdown derails their escape, and they become trapped in Gulzar's lake... See full summary »
Director: Musa Syeed | Stars: Mohammed Afzal, Gulzar Ahmed Bhat, Neelofar Hamid
Votes: 202
49. Circo (I) (2010)
Unrated | 75 min | Documentary
A hardscrabble traveling Mexican circus troupe has lived and performed on the road since the 19th Century, but will their art survive into the 21st?
Director: Aaron Schock
Votes: 277 | Gross: $0.08M
50. Camp Out (2006)
Unrated | 78 min | Documentary
10 campers attend the first summer camp for gay Christian youth. These Midwestern teenagers enjoy a week in an accepting environment where they can begin to reconcile their sexuality with ... See full summary »
Directors: Larry Grimaldi, Kirk Marcolina | Stars: Allison, Lauren Busey, Christine, Brad Froslee
Votes: 119