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1. Animal (I) (2023)

Not Rated | 204 min | Action, Crime, Drama

The hardened son of a powerful industrialist returns home after years abroad and vows to take bloody revenge on those threatening his father's life.

Director: Sandeep Reddy Vanga | Stars: Ranbir Kapoor, Anil Kapoor, Bobby Deol, Rashmika Mandanna

Votes: 90,328

2. Young Frankenstein (1974)

PG | 106 min | Comedy

An American grandson of the infamous scientist, struggling to prove that his grandfather was not as insane as people believe, is invited to Transylvania, where he discovers the process that reanimates a dead body.

Director: Mel Brooks | Stars: Gene Wilder, Madeline Kahn, Marty Feldman, Peter Boyle

Votes: 169,076 | Gross: $86.30M

3. The Ninth Gate (1999)

R | 133 min | Mystery, Thriller

A book broker discovers his latest find may summon Satan.

Director: Roman Polanski | Stars: Johnny Depp, Frank Langella, Lena Olin, Emmanuelle Seigner

Votes: 197,770 | Gross: $18.66M

4. Bedknobs and Broomsticks (1971)

G | 117 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy

An apprentice witch, three kids and a cynical magician conman search for the missing component to a magic spell to be used in the defense of Britain in World War II.

Directors: Robert Stevenson, Ward Kimball | Stars: Angela Lansbury, David Tomlinson, Roddy McDowall, Sam Jaffe

Votes: 40,767 | Gross: $18.53M

5. The Haunting (1963)

G | 112 min | Horror

Hill House has stood for about 90 years and appears haunted: its inhabitants have always met strange, tragic ends. Now Dr. John Markway has assembled a team of people who he thinks will prove whether or not the house is haunted.

Director: Robert Wise | Stars: Julie Harris, Claire Bloom, Richard Johnson, Russ Tamblyn

Votes: 42,532 | Gross: $2.62M

6. Miss Marple: The Body in the Library (1984)

52 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Amateur detective Miss Jane Marple investigates the murder of a young woman whose body is found in the library at Gossington Hall, home of Colonel and Mrs. Arthur Bantry.

Stars: Joan Hickson, Gwen Watford, Moray Watson, Valentine Dyall

Votes: 2,676

7. Don't Be Afraid of the Dark (2010)

R | 99 min | Fantasy, Horror, Thriller

A young girl sent to live with her father and his new girlfriend believes that she has released creatures from a sealed ash pit in the basement of her new home.

Director: Troy Nixey | Stars: Katie Holmes, Guy Pearce, Bailee Madison, Bruce Gleeson

Votes: 50,608 | Gross: $24.04M

8. Son of Frankenstein (1939)

Approved | 99 min | Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi

Returning to the ancestral castle long after the death of the monster, the son of Dr. Frankenstein meets a mad shepherd who is hiding the comatose creature. To clear the family name, he revives the creature and tries to rehabilitate him.

Director: Rowland V. Lee | Stars: Boris Karloff, Basil Rathbone, Bela Lugosi, Lionel Atwill

Votes: 11,719

9. The Island of Dr. Moreau (1977)

PG | 99 min | Adventure, Fantasy, Horror

A shipwrecked survivor discovers a remote island owned by a crazed scientist who is carrying out sinister experiments on the island's inhabitants.

Director: Don Taylor | Stars: Burt Lancaster, Michael York, Nigel Davenport, Barbara Carrera

Votes: 7,163 | Gross: $8.72M

10. Miss Marple: The Moving Finger (1985)

Not Rated | 102 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

The normally friendly village of Lymston is plagued by vile anonymous letters. When a mother of three takes her own life, following such a letter, Ms. Marple is not at all convinced things are as they seem.

Stars: Joan Hickson, Michael Culver, Deborah Appleby, Andrew Bicknell

Votes: 2,163

11. Thirteen at Dinner (1985 TV Movie)

Not Rated | 87 min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller

An American movie actress, best known for playing dumb blondes, is Scotland Yard's prime suspect when her husband, Lord Edgware, is murdered. The great detective, Hercule Poirot, digs deeper into the case.

Director: Lou Antonio | Stars: Peter Ustinov, Faye Dunaway, David Suchet, Jonathan Cecil

Votes: 2,680

12. She-Wolf of London (1946)

Passed | 61 min | Crime, Horror, Mystery

A young heiress finds evidence suggesting that at night she acts under the influence of a family curse and has begun committing ghastly murders in a nearby park.

Director: Jean Yarbrough | Stars: Don Porter, June Lockhart, Sara Haden, Jan Wiley

Votes: 3,037

13. The Vampire Happening (1971)

Not Rated | 102 min | Comedy, Horror

An American actress inherits a castle in Transylvania. What she doesn't know is that her ancestor, the Baroness Catali, was in actuality a vampire countess, and emerges from her tomb to ravage the nearby village and Catholic seminary.

Director: Freddie Francis | Stars: Pia Degermark, Thomas Hunter, Yvor Murillo, Ingrid van Bergen

Votes: 723

14. The Submarine Kid (2015)

Unrated | 109 min | Drama, Romance

Despite a returning Marine's mundane reality, his haunting wartime past shepherds him into a magical and destructive new existence to expose his ultimate truth.

Director: Eric Bilitch | Stars: Emilie de Ravin, Dylan Wittrock, Paul Eiding, Nancy Travis

Votes: 927

15. Sherlock Holmes Faces Death (1943)

Passed | 68 min | Crime, Mystery, Romance

During WWII, several murders occur at a convalescent home where Dr. Watson has volunteered his services. He summons Holmes for help and the master detective proceeds to solve the crime from... See full summary »

Director: Roy William Neill | Stars: Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Dennis Hoey, Arthur Margetson

Votes: 5,171

16. The Undying Monster (1942)

Not Rated | 63 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery

Surviving members of an aristocratic English family are threatened by a legendary monster when they venture out on chilly, foggy nights.

Director: John Brahm | Stars: James Ellison, Heather Angel, John Howard, Bramwell Fletcher

Votes: 1,543

17. The House of Fear (1945)

Passed | 69 min | Crime, Film-Noir, Mystery

Sherlock Holmes investigates a series of deaths at a castle with each foretold by the delivery of orange pips to the victims.

Director: Roy William Neill | Stars: Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Aubrey Mather, Dennis Hoey

Votes: 5,545

18. Umberto Eco: A Library of the World (2022)

80 min | Documentary

Wandering these rooms, hallways, salons is a lover, a collector and above all a reader of books: Umberto Eco in his private library.

Director: Davide Ferrario | Stars: Giuseppe Cederna, Carlotta Eco, Emanuele Eco, Pietro Eco

Votes: 203

19. Romola (1924)

Not Rated | 102 min | Drama, History

In Renaissance Florence, Tito, a no-good young man pretending to be a scholar, wins the admiration of a blind man who has long looked for someone to finish his scholarly work. He has a ... See full summary »

Director: Henry King | Stars: Lillian Gish, Dorothy Gish, William Powell, Ronald Colman

Votes: 250 | Gross: $0.50M

20. Nothing Is Truer Than Truth (2018)

75 min | Documentary, Biography, History

NOTHING IS TRUER THAN TRUTH is a feature length documentary about Edward de Vere, Seventeenth Earl of Oxford, A-list party boy on the continental circuit, who spent a year and a half in ... See full summary »

Director: Cheryl Eagan-Donovan | Stars: Charles Bird, Michael Cecil, Alberto Toso Fei, Derek Jacobi

Votes: 126

21. Secrets of Ancient Empires: The First Cities (2001 Video)

50 min | Documentary, History

As the concept of society grew and developed, the first great cities of the ancient world came to prominence. This episode from the Secrets of Ancient Empires collection investigates the ... See full summary »

Director: Chris Gormlie

Votes: 14

22. Private Library (2008)

3 min | Short

A short film about New York architect Andrew Berman's dream project. Commissioned to design a writing studio in the woods in Long Island.

Director: David Vegezzi | Stars: Andrew Berman, Julia Frisoli

23. Night Gallery (1969–1973)
Episode: The Boy Who Predicted Earthquakes/Miss Lovecraft Sent Me/The Hand of Borgus Weems/Phantom of What Opera? (1971)

TV-PG | 60 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror

A boy's gift for prophecy pressures him when he forecasts disaster. / A babysitter fears that the baby is a monster. / Peter Lacland asks a doctor to amputate his possessed hand. / A comic twist on "Phantom of the Opera."

Directors: John Badham, Gene R. Kearney, John Meredyth Lucas | Stars: Michael Constantine, Clint Howard, Joseph Campanella, Sue Lyon

Votes: 480

24. Relic Hunter (1999–2002)
Episode: A Good Year (2000)

TV-14 | 44 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy

Sydney and Nigel travel to France to find the lost stones from Marie Antoinette's Crown.

Director: Paolo Barzman | Stars: Tia Carrere, Christien Anholt, Lindy Booth, Ed Stoppard

Votes: 102

25. Stargate SG-1 (1997–2007)
Episode: Uninvited (2006)

TV-PG | 44 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

A mysterious creature targets members of Stargate Command one by one.

Director: William Waring | Stars: Ben Browder, Amanda Tapping, Christopher Judge, Claudia Black

Votes: 936

26. The Ascent of Man (1973)
Episode: The Long Childhood (1973)

Documentary, History

Man, as a species, goes through a long childhood.

Director: Adrian Malone | Star: Jacob Bronowski

Votes: 48

27. Supernatural (2005–2020)
Episode: Frontierland (2011)

TV-14 | 60 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror

Castiel sends Sam and Dean back in time to 1861 to collect the ashes of a phoenix.

Director: Guy Norman Bee | Stars: Jared Padalecki, Jensen Ackles, Misha Collins, Jim Beaver

Votes: 4,870

28. Beware the Batman (2013–2014)
Episode: Tests (2013)

TV-PG | 23 min | Animation, Action, Adventure

A new villain has arrived in Gotham to challenge Batman: Anarky who prides himself on his brilliance and intends to prove it to Batman by manipulating a pair of street thugs. But Anarky's real plan is far more devastating.

Directors: Curt Geda, Butch Lukic | Stars: Anthony Ruivivar, Carlos Alazraqui, JB Blanc, Arif S. Kinchen

Votes: 180

29. Beware the Batman (2013–2014)
Episode: Broken (2013)

TV-PG | 23 min | Animation, Action, Adventure

Life-sized army men have started appearing, armed with real weapons. When Batman investigates, he discovers that they are not toys, but people trapped inside explosive shells. All clues lead to a former mob accountant named Humpty Dumpty.

Directors: Rick Morales, Butch Lukic | Stars: Anthony Ruivivar, JB Blanc, Matt Jones, Michael Patrick McGill

Votes: 172

30. Billions (2016–2023)
Episode: The Kingmaker (2017)

TV-MA | 58 min | Drama

Axe investigates the breakdown in his Sandicot dealings but faces formidable opposition. Chuck digs up dirt on a political rival. Lara makes a PR trip to Sandicot. Wendy helps Taylor solve a problem at Axe Capital.

Director: Oliver Hirschbiegel | Stars: Paul Giamatti, Damian Lewis, Maggie Siff, Malin Akerman

Votes: 1,206

31. Hunter Street (2017–2021)
Episode: Saganash (2017)

TV-G | 22 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy

The Hunters stay home from school to search for their missing parents and find more than they were expecting in the Hunter House Library. Anika leads a museum tour.

Director: Erwin van den Eshof | Stars: Stony Blyden, Maemae Renfrow, Kyra Isako Smith, Thomas Jansen

Votes: 38

32. Homes by the Sea (2014– )
Episode: Scotland (2015)

Documentary, Reality-TV

Along Scotland's southern coast. the Solway Firth, Charlie visits a modern cliff top house, a restored tower house, a unique newly constructed round house and a huge secluded farm house on ... See full summary »

Star: Charlie Luxton