Sort by IMDb Rating - Highest Rated Movies and TV Shows With John Ptak

1. U2 3D (2007)

G | 85 min | Documentary, Music

A 3-D presentation of U2's global "Vertigo" tour. Shot at seven different shows, this production employs the greatest number of 3-D cameras ever used for a single project.

Directors: Catherine Owens, Mark Pellington | Stars: Bono, Adam Clayton, The Edge, Larry Mullen Jr.

Votes: 2,937 | Gross: $12.90M

2. Bad Faith (2024)

89 min | Documentary

Exposes how Christian Nationalism has become the most powerful anti-democratic force in America. Leaders join forces to defend our country from this march to fascism, but American citizens seem unaware of the threat.

Directors: Stephen Ujlaki, Christopher Jacob Jones | Stars: Steve Schmidt, William J. Barber II, Randall Balmer, Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove

Votes: 58

3. Lost Forever (2011)

30 min | Documentary, Short

Reveals the rich and diverse American film heritage and shows us how preservation saves both the cultural heritage and the individual memories.

Directors: Paul Mariano, Kurt Norton | Stars: Robin Blaetz, Allen Daviau, Michael Gates, Robert A. Harris

Votes: 59

4. Adaptation. (2002)

R | 115 min | Comedy, Drama

A lovelorn screenwriter becomes desperate as he tries and fails to adapt 'The Orchid Thief' by Susan Orlean for the screen.

Director: Spike Jonze | Stars: Nicolas Cage, Meryl Streep, Chris Cooper, Tilda Swinton

Votes: 203,235 | Gross: $22.25M

5. Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché (2018)

Not Rated | 103 min | Documentary, Biography, History

Pamela B. Green's energetic film about pioneer filmmaker Alice Guy-Blaché is both a tribute and a detective story, tracing the circumstances by which this extraordinary artist faded from memory and the path toward her reclamation.

Director: Pamela B. Green | Stars: Jodie Foster, Alice Guy, Pamela B. Green, Catherine Hardwicke

Votes: 1,128 | Gross: $0.10M

6. Shake Hands with the Devil (2007)

R | 112 min | Drama, History, War

The story of General Romeo Dallaire's frustrated efforts to stop the madness of the Rwandan Genocide, despite the complete indifference of his superiors.

Directors: Jennifer Capraru, Roger Spottiswoode | Stars: Roy Dupuis, Owen Sejake, James Gallanders, Michel Ange Nzojibwami

Votes: 3,700

7. These Amazing Shadows (2011)

Not Rated | 88 min | Documentary

Tells the history and importance of The National Film Registry, a roll call of American cinema treasures that reflects the diversity of film, and indeed the American experience itself.

Directors: Paul Mariano, Kurt Norton | Stars: Jeff Adachi, James H. Billington, Robin Blaetz, Brooks Boliek

Votes: 1,758

8. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998)

R | 118 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama

An oddball journalist and his psychopathic lawyer travel to Las Vegas for a series of psychedelic escapades.

Director: Terry Gilliam | Stars: Johnny Depp, Benicio Del Toro, Tobey Maguire, Michael Lee Gogin

Votes: 301,760 | Gross: $10.68M

9. The Way Back (I) (2010)

PG-13 | 133 min | Adventure, Drama, History

Siberian gulag escapees travel four thousand miles by foot to freedom in India.

Director: Peter Weir | Stars: Jim Sturgess, Ed Harris, Colin Farrell, Dragos Bucur

Votes: 122,074 | Gross: $2.70M

10. King of Hearts (1966)

Not Rated | 102 min | Comedy, Drama, War

During World War I, a British private, sent ahead to a French town to scout for enemy presence, is mistaken for a King by the colorful patients of an insane asylum.

Director: Philippe de Broca | Stars: Alan Bates, Geneviève Bujold, Pierre Brasseur, Jean-Claude Brialy

Votes: 4,344 | Gross: $0.02M

11. Paris, I Love You (2006)

R | 120 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

Through the neighborhoods of Paris, love is veiled, revealed, imitated, sucked dry, reinvented, and awakened.

Directors: Olivier Assayas, Frédéric Auburtin, Gurinder Chadha, Sylvain Chomet, Ethan Coen, Joel Coen, Isabel Coixet, Wes Craven, Alfonso Cuarón, Gérard Depardieu, Christopher Doyle, Richard LaGravenese, Vincenzo Natali, Alexander Payne, Bruno Podalydès, Walter Salles, Oliver Schmitz, Nobuhiro Suwa, Daniela Thomas, Tom Tykwer, Gus Van Sant | Stars: Juliette Binoche, Leonor Watling, Ludivine Sagnier, Fanny Ardant

Votes: 74,579 | Gross: $4.86M

12. The Sleeping Car Murder (1965)

95 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

The witnesses of a train murder must take the investigation into their own hands if they want to survive.

Director: Costa-Gavras | Stars: Catherine Allégret, Jacques Perrin, Simone Signoret, Michel Piccoli

Votes: 2,243

13. The Olive Trees of Justice (1962)

81 min | Drama

A man returns to his native Algeria to visit his dying father there, at a time when the French colonial hold on that country is coming to its end.

Director: James Blue | Stars: Pierre Prothon, Jean Pélégri, Marie Decaître, Huguette Poggi

Votes: 85

14. Wild (I) (2014)

R | 115 min | Adventure, Biography, Drama

A chronicle of one woman's 1,100-mile solo hike undertaken as a way to recover from a recent personal tragedy.

Director: Jean-Marc Vallée | Stars: Reese Witherspoon, Laura Dern, Gaby Hoffmann, Michiel Huisman

Votes: 138,987 | Gross: $37.88M

15. Let Me In (I) (2010)

R | 116 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror

A bullied young boy befriends a young female vampire who lives in secrecy with her guardian.

Director: Matt Reeves | Stars: Kodi Smit-McPhee, Chloë Grace Moretz, Richard Jenkins, Cara Buono

Votes: 127,404 | Gross: $12.13M

16. Map of the Human Heart (1992)

R | 109 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance

Arctic, 1965: Avik tells his story starting in 1931. A mapmaker flies Avik, then a preteen Eskimo boy with TB, to a hospital in Montreal where he meets Albertine. They meet again when Avik joins World War II in the UK.

Director: Vincent Ward | Stars: Jason Scott Lee, Anne Parillaud, Patrick Bergin, Robert Joamie

Votes: 3,434 | Gross: $2.81M

17. Shock Troops (1967)

Approved | 110 min | Action, Drama, History

A French resistance group liberates some prisoners from the German. Could one of the prisoners be a spy?

Director: Costa-Gavras | Stars: Charles Vanel, Bruno Cremer, Jean-Claude Brialy, Michel Piccoli

Votes: 819

18. The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus (2009)

PG-13 | 123 min | Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy

Having made a deal with the Devil himself for immortality many millennia ago, the now decrepit mystic Doctor Parnassus fights for the freedom of his only daughter's soul.

Director: Terry Gilliam | Stars: Christopher Plummer, Lily Cole, Heath Ledger, Andrew Garfield

Votes: 153,996 | Gross: $7.69M

19. Until the End of the World (1991)

R | 158 min | Action, Drama, Sci-Fi

In 1999, Claire Tourneur's life is forever changed after she survives a car crash. She rescues Sam and travels the world with him. Writer Eugene Fitzpatrick follows and writes their story as a method of recording dreams is being developed.

Director: Wim Wenders | Stars: William Hurt, Solveig Dommartin, Pietro Falcone, Enzo Turrin

Votes: 11,352 | Gross: $0.75M

20. Onegin (1999)

R | 106 min | Drama, Romance

Russia, 1820s: Onegin inherits his uncle's country estate and moves there from St. Petersburg. He befriends his neighbor, Lensky, and meets Tatyana through him. She falls in love with Onegin but he just wants friendship.

Director: Martha Fiennes | Stars: Ralph Fiennes, Liv Tyler, Toby Stephens, Lena Headey

Votes: 8,316 | Gross: $0.21M

21. Che: Part Two (2008)

Not Rated | 135 min | Biography, Drama, History

In 1967, Ernesto 'Che' Guevara leads a small partisan army to fight an ill-fated revolutionary guerrilla war in Bolivia, South America.

Director: Steven Soderbergh | Stars: Demián Bichir, Rodrigo Santoro, Benicio Del Toro, Catalina Sandino Moreno

Votes: 35,066

22. The Boys Are Back (2009)

PG-13 | 104 min | Drama

A sports writer becomes a single parent in tragic circumstances.

Director: Scott Hicks | Stars: Clive Owen, Emma Booth, Laura Fraser, George MacKay

Votes: 10,488 | Gross: $0.81M

23. Sliding Doors (1998)

PG-13 | 99 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy

After personal and professional setbacks, a woman experiences an alternate reality.

Director: Peter Howitt | Stars: Gwyneth Paltrow, John Hannah, John Lynch, Jeanne Tripplehorn

Votes: 71,526 | Gross: $11.88M

24. K-19: The Widowmaker (2002)

PG-13 | 138 min | Drama, History, Thriller

When Russia's first nuclear submarine malfunctions on its maiden voyage, the crew must race to save the ship and prevent a nuclear disaster.

Director: Kathryn Bigelow | Stars: Harrison Ford, Sam Spruell, Peter Stebbings, Christian Camargo

Votes: 67,447 | Gross: $35.17M

25. Being George Clooney (2016)

88 min | Documentary

A documentary that delves into the creative, often humorous world of audio dubbing a Hollywood motion picture for the international market.

Director: Paul Mariano | Stars: Christian Brückner, Francesco Pannofino, Samuel Labarthe, Martin Umbach

Votes: 282

26. Shattered (2007)

R | 95 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

A perfect family's dynamic is ruined by a kidnapper's brutally efficient plot.

Director: Mike Barker | Stars: Pierce Brosnan, Maria Bello, Gerard Butler, Emma Karwandy

Votes: 33,607

27. Clay Pigeons (1998)

R | 104 min | Comedy, Crime

After hearing that his wife sleeps with Clay, Earl kills himself, making it look like Clay shot him. The widow doesn't like it when Clay starts sees another woman instead. Bodies start piling up.

Director: David Dobkin | Stars: Joaquin Phoenix, Vince Vaughn, Janeane Garofalo, Gregory Sporleder

Votes: 12,144 | Gross: $1.79M

28. Don't Come Knocking (2005)

R | 122 min | Drama, Music

An aging cowboy movie star deserts a film set and tries to reconnect with his mother, whom he hasn't seen in thirty years, only to learn that he has a child he never knew about.

Director: Wim Wenders | Stars: Sam Shepard, Jessica Lange, Tim Roth, James Roday Rodriguez

Votes: 7,922 | Gross: $0.44M

29. Shattered (1991)

R | 98 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

After a horrific car wreck leaves him an amnesiac, a man slowly begins to unravel his shocking past.

Director: Wolfgang Petersen | Stars: Tom Berenger, Bob Hoskins, Greta Scacchi, Joanne Whalley

Votes: 11,423 | Gross: $11.51M

30. Marilyn Hotchkiss' Ballroom Dancing & Charm School (2005)

PG-13 | 103 min | Comedy, Drama, Musical

A widowed man's life turns upside down when he embarks on a journey to find a dying man's long lost love.

Director: Randall Miller | Stars: Robert Carlyle, Marisa Tomei, Mary Steenburgen, John Goodman

Votes: 3,597 | Gross: $0.25M

31. City 40 (2016)

73 min | Documentary, Drama, History

Behind the walls of a forbidden city, the only thing more dangerous than its secrets is the truth.

Director: Samira Goetschel | Stars: Lavrenti Beria, Viktor Fetisov, Mikhail Gorbachev, Sergei Kirillov

Votes: 1,576

32. 1492: Conquest of Paradise (1992)

PG-13 | 154 min | Adventure, Biography, Drama

Christopher Columbus' discovery of the Americas and the effect this has on the indigenous people.

Director: Ridley Scott | Stars: Gérard Depardieu, Armand Assante, Sigourney Weaver, Loren Dean

Votes: 32,837 | Gross: $7.19M

33. Unauthorized: The Harvey Weinstein Project (2011)

Not Rated | 90 min | Documentary, Biography

An uncensored look at the life and work of film producer Harvey Weinstein.

Director: Barry Avrich | Stars: Matt Affleck, Ken Auletta, Peter Bart, Peter Biskind

Votes: 323

34. Green Card (1990)

PG-13 | 107 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

A man wanting to stay in the US enters into a marriage of convenience, but it turns into more than that.

Director: Peter Weir | Stars: Gérard Depardieu, Andie MacDowell, Bebe Neuwirth, Gregg Edelman

Votes: 25,859 | Gross: $29.89M

35. Where the Money Is (2000)

PG-13 | 89 min | Drama, Comedy, Crime

Old bank robber Henry, paralyzed from a stroke, is moved from a prison hospital to a retirement home, where Carol is a nurse. She doesn't believe he's paralyzed and sees him as a way out of her boring life.

Director: Marek Kanievska | Stars: Paul Newman, Linda Fiorentino, Dermot Mulroney, Susan Barnes

Votes: 6,410 | Gross: $5.66M

36. Outlander (2008)

R | 115 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

During the reign of the Vikings, Kainan, a man from a far-off world, crash lands on Earth, bringing with him an alien predator known as the Moorwen. Though both man and monster are seeking revenge for violence committed against them, Kainan leads the alliance to kill the Moorwen by fusing his advanced technology with the Viking's Iron Age weaponry.

Director: Howard McCain | Stars: Jim Caviezel, Sophia Myles, Ron Perlman, Jack Huston

Votes: 78,735 | Gross: $0.16M

37. K2 (1991)

R | 104 min | Adventure, Drama, Sport

A U.S. climbing team, funded by millionaire Clairborne is determined to conquer K2.

Director: Franc Roddam | Stars: Michael Biehn, Matt Craven, Annie Grindlay, Elena Wohl

Votes: 7,232 | Gross: $3.11M

38. Push (2009)

PG-13 | 111 min | Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller

Two young Americans with special abilities must race to find a girl in Hong Kong before a shadowy government organization called Division does.

Director: Paul McGuigan | Stars: Camilla Belle, Dakota Fanning, Chris Evans, Colin Ford

Votes: 115,621 | Gross: $31.81M

39. The Glass Shield (1994)

PG-13 | 109 min | Crime, Drama

Two cops become compelled to act against corruption and discrimination within their police precinct.

Director: Charles Burnett | Stars: Michael Boatman, Lori Petty, Erich Anderson, Richard Anderson

Votes: 3,575 | Gross: $3.31M

40. Brainscan (1994)

R | 96 min | Horror, Sci-Fi

A teenager is part of an interactive video game where he kills innocent victims. Later, the murders become real.

Director: John Flynn | Stars: Edward Furlong, Frank Langella, T. Ryder Smith, Amy Hargreaves

Votes: 12,928 | Gross: $4.26M

41. Half Light (2006)

R | 110 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery

Rachel Carlson, a successful novelist moves to a small Scottish village to move on with her life after the death of her son. Strange things start to happen when she is haunted by ghosts and real life terror.

Director: Craig Rosenberg | Stars: Demi Moore, Henry Ian Cusick, Nicholas Gleaves, James Cosmo

Votes: 14,544

42. Up at the Villa (2000)

PG-13 | 115 min | Drama, Romance

A widow finds choosing a new husband might not be her choice at all, as the actions of her various prospects confine her freedom.

Director: Philip Haas | Stars: Kristin Scott Thomas, Sean Penn, Anne Bancroft, James Fox

Votes: 2,852 | Gross: $2.93M

43. Love's Labour's Lost (2000)

PG | 93 min | Romance, Comedy, Musical

An update of the classic Shakespeare story, director Kenneth Branagh shot the film like a classic 1930s musical. It tells the story of four best friends who swear off love.

Director: Kenneth Branagh | Stars: Alessandro Nivola, Alicia Silverstone, Natascha McElhone, Kenneth Branagh

Votes: 4,905 | Gross: $0.28M

44. She's So Lovely (1997)

R | 100 min | Drama, Romance

After being released from a psychiatric institution, a man tries to redeem himself in the eyes of his now-ex wife from the events that led up to his incarceration.

Director: Nick Cassavetes | Stars: Sean Penn, Robin Wright, John Travolta, James Gandolfini

Votes: 8,749 | Gross: $7.22M

45. Laws of Attraction (2004)

PG-13 | 90 min | Comedy, Romance

Amidst a sea of litigation, two New York City divorce lawyers find love.

Director: Peter Howitt | Stars: Pierce Brosnan, Julianne Moore, Parker Posey, Michael Sheen

Votes: 24,603 | Gross: $17.85M

46. Reasonable Doubt (2014)

R | 91 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

A District Attorney has his life turned upside down when he's involved in a hit and run and another man is arrested for his crime and charged with murder.

Director: Peter Howitt | Stars: Dominic Cooper, Samuel L. Jackson, Gloria Reuben, Ryan Robbins

Votes: 20,852

47. My Father the Hero (1994)

PG | 90 min | Comedy, Romance

A teenage girl on vacation in the Bahamas with her divorced father tries to impress a potential boyfriend by saying that her father is actually her lover.

Director: Steve Miner | Stars: Gérard Depardieu, Katherine Heigl, Dalton James, Lauren Hutton

Votes: 11,725 | Gross: $25.48M

48. Slipstream (2007)

R | 96 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy

Aging screenwriter Felix Bonhoeffer has lived his life in two states of existence: in reality and his own interior world. While working on a murder mystery script, and unaware that his brain is on the verge of implosion, Felix is baffled when his characters start to appear in his life, and vice versa.

Director: Anthony Hopkins | Stars: Anthony Hopkins, Stella Hopkins, Christian Slater, John Turturro

Votes: 4,914 | Gross: $0.01M

49. One Missed Call (2008)

PG-13 | 87 min | Horror, Mystery

Several people start receiving voice-mails from their future selves - messages which include the date, time, and some of the details of their deaths.

Director: Eric Valette | Stars: Edward Burns, Shannyn Sossamon, Ana Claudia Talancón, Ray Wise

Votes: 34,021 | Gross: $26.88M

50. The Sharp Edge of Peace (2024)

95 min | Documentary

The Sharp Edge of Peace is a feature-length documentary that follows the only women on the Afghan government negotiating team as they navigate the hard road to peace and broker a shared ... See full summary »

Director: Roya Sadat