Wait... Did they really?
by cwbellor | created - 04 Mar 2023 | updated - 1 month ago | PublicSome ideas are bad - John Wayne as Genghis Khan. Some ideas are bold - hell yeah, you should raise that Titanic! Some of these are just fascinating titles and make me genuinely curious.
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1. The Conqueror (1956)
Approved | 111 min | Adventure, Biography, History
Mongol chief Temujin battles against Tartar armies and for the love of the Tartar princess Bortai. Temujin becomes the emperor Genghis Khan.
Director: Dick Powell | Stars: John Wayne, Susan Hayward, Pedro Armendáriz, Agnes Moorehead
Votes: 3,869 | Gross: $4.50M
2. Raise the Titanic (1980)
PG | 115 min | Action, Drama, Thriller
Once they said God himself couldn't sink her. Then they said no man on Earth could reach her. But an underwater research agency, headed by Admiral James Sandecker, is assigned the job of finding the doomed ship in her North Atlantic grave.
Director: Jerry Jameson | Stars: Jason Robards, Richard Jordan, David Selby, Anne Archer
Votes: 5,444 | Gross: $14.82M
3. Prayer of the Rollerboys (1990)
R | 95 min | Action, Crime, Drama
In a dystopian near future America, a young man infiltrates a powerful drug dealing rollerblading youth gang that runs his town in order to end their reign for good.
Director: Rick King | Stars: Corey Haim, Patricia Arquette, Christopher Collet, Julius Harris
Votes: 2,772
4. China Girl (1987)
R | 90 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
A modern day Romeo & Juliet story is told in New York when an Italian boy and a Chinese girl become lovers, causing a tragic conflict between ethnic gangs.
Director: Abel Ferrara | Stars: James Russo, Richard Panebianco, Sari Chang, David Caruso
Votes: 2,337 | Gross: $1.26M
5. Order of Death (1983)
R | 113 min | Crime, Thriller
A pair of corrupt cops spend their illegal cash on an uptown New York City apartment.
Director: Roberto Faenza | Stars: Harvey Keitel, John Lydon, Nicole Garcia, Leonard Mann
Votes: 1,114
6. Who Killed Teddy Bear (1965)
Not Rated | 94 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
In New York, a disco hostess is stalked by a sexual predator and she requests help from a vice squad detective who takes a personal interest in the case.
Director: Joseph Cates | Stars: Sal Mineo, Juliet Prowse, Jan Murray, Elaine Stritch
Votes: 1,031
7. The Sterile Cuckoo (1969)
M | 107 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
In this romantic comedy, an eccentric girl forces a reluctant college student into an affair.
Director: Alan J. Pakula | Stars: Liza Minnelli, Wendell Burton, Tim McIntire, Anita Alberts
Votes: 2,418 | Gross: $13.98M
8. Zig Zag (1970)
PG | 105 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
In order to collect the ransom offered by the family of a kidnapped industrialist, a terminally-ill man frames himself for the crime, but he accidentally uncovers the real culprit.
Director: Richard A. Colla | Stars: George Kennedy, Eli Wallach, Anne Jackson, Steve Ihnat
Votes: 424
9. Black Friday (1940)
Approved | 70 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Dr. Sovac transplants the brain of a gangster into his professor friend's body to save his life, but there is a side effect that causes a dangerous split personality.
Director: Arthur Lubin | Stars: Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi, Stanley Ridges, Anne Nagel
Votes: 2,878
10. Back Door to Hell (1964)
Approved | 75 min | Drama, War
During World War II, a three man commando team places its trust in the hands of a band of Filipino resistants, as they try to knock out a Japanese communication center.
Director: Monte Hellman | Stars: Jimmie Rodgers, Jack Nicholson, John Hackett, Annabelle Huggins
Votes: 925
11. Murder Most Foul (1964)
Unrated | 90 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
When Miss Jane Marple joins a theatrical company after a blackmailer is murdered, several members of the troupe are also dispatched by this mysterious killer.
Director: George Pollock | Stars: Margaret Rutherford, Ron Moody, Charles 'Bud' Tingwell, Andrew Cruickshank
Votes: 6,314
12. The Hearse (1980)
PG | 99 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller
A schoolteacher moves into her deceased aunt's home in a small town, only to find herself plagued by supernatural occurrences and unexplained hostility from the local townspeople connected to her aunt's past.
Director: George Bowers | Stars: Trish Van Devere, Joseph Cotten, David Gautreaux, Donald Hotton
Votes: 2,375
13. Windows (1980)
R | 96 min | Drama, Thriller
A weird woman admires and spies on her shy mousy neighbor with a telescope.
Director: Gordon Willis | Stars: Talia Shire, Joe Cortese, Elizabeth Ashley, Kay Medford
Votes: 946 | Gross: $2.13M
14. Phobia (1980)
R | 91 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller
A psychiatrist involved in a radical new therapy comes under suspicion when his patients are murdered, each according to their individual phobias.
Director: John Huston | Stars: Paul Michael Glaser, Susan Hogan, John Colicos, David Bolt
Votes: 839 | Gross: $0.06M
15. The Trygon Factor (1966)
M/PG | 88 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
Scotland Yard Superintendent Cooper-Smith investigates the suspicious looking Emberday estate where the Emberday family and an order of nuns reside.
Director: Cyril Frankel | Stars: Stewart Granger, Susan Hampshire, Cathleen Nesbitt, James Culliford
Votes: 475
16. The Moonshine War (1970)
GP | 100 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
A federal agent attempts to make some real money before the alcohol ban is lifted so he sets his sights on the whiskey cache of an old army buddy.
Director: Richard Quine | Stars: Patrick McGoohan, Richard Widmark, Alan Alda, Melodie Johnson
Votes: 680
17. The Brain That Wouldn't Die (1962)
Approved | 82 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
A doctor experimenting with transplant techniques keeps his girlfriend's head alive when she is decapitated in a car crash, then goes hunting for a new body.
Director: Joseph Green | Stars: Jason Evers, Virginia Leith, Anthony La Penna, Adele Lamont
Votes: 7,576
18. Kiss the Blood Off My Hands (1948)
Approved | 79 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Fugitive Bill Saunders and lonely nurse Jane Wharton are crossed by fate when he hides out in her apartment.
Director: Norman Foster | Stars: Joan Fontaine, Burt Lancaster, Robert Newton, Lewis L. Russell
Votes: 2,156
19. Don't Torture a Duckling (1972)
Not Rated | 105 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
When a southern Italian town is rocked by a string of child murders, the police and two urban outcasts search for the culprit amid scapegoating within the superstitious community.
Director: Lucio Fulci | Stars: Florinda Bolkan, Barbara Bouchet, Tomas Milian, Irene Papas
Votes: 10,704
20. Cockfighter (1974)
R | 83 min | Drama
In the Deep South, a trainer of fighting cocks takes a vow of silence and gambles his loves and possessions in a bid to win a championship.
Director: Monte Hellman | Stars: Warren Oates, Richard B. Shull, Harry Dean Stanton, Ed Begley Jr.
Votes: 2,620
21. Ghost of Dragstrip Hollow (1959)
Approved | 65 min | Comedy, Horror
Hot rods, monsters and rock'n'roll... In this teen-oriented picture, a gang of greasers hole up in a reputedly haunted mansion after getting evicted from their clubhouse.
Director: William J. Hole Jr. | Stars: Jody Fair, Russ Bender, Henry McCann, Martin Braddock
Votes: 747
22. Billy the Kid Versus Dracula (1966)
Passed | 74 min | Action, Drama, Horror
Dracula travels to the American West intent on making a beautiful ranch owner his next victim. Her fiance', outlaw Billy the Kid, finds out about it and rushes to save her.
Director: William Beaudine | Stars: John Carradine, Chuck Courtney, Melinda Casey, Virginia Christine
Votes: 2,258
23. Auntie Lee's Meat Pies (1992)
R | 100 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
A devil-worshiping woman sends out her four beautiful nieces to lure men back to her place so they can be killed, ground up and sold as meat pies.
Director: Joseph F. Robertson | Stars: Karen Black, Pat Morita, Kristine Rose, Michael Berryman
Votes: 941
24. The Man Who Killed Hitler and Then the Bigfoot (2018)
Not Rated | 98 min | Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
A legendary American war veteran is recruited to hunt a mythical creature.
Director: Robert D. Krzykowski | Stars: Sam Elliott, Rocco Gioffre, Aidan Turner, Melissa Jalali
Votes: 13,811
25. The Cleaning Lady (2018)
Not Rated | 90 min | Horror, Thriller
As a means to distract herself from an affair, a love-addicted woman befriends a cleaning lady, badly scarred by burns. She soon learns, these scars run much deeper than the surface.
Director: Jon Knautz | Stars: Alexis Kendra, Stelio Savante, Rachel Alig, Elizabeth Sandy
Votes: 4,154
26. McCanick (2013)
R | 96 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Set over the course of one day, a narcotics detective hunts for a seemingly harmless young criminal who knows a truth about the cop's past.
Director: Josh C. Waller | Stars: David Morse, Mike Vogel, Cory Monteith, Ciarán Hinds
Votes: 1,743
27. Piggy (I) (2012)
Not Rated | 106 min | Horror, Thriller
London, modern day: Joe, a mild mannered young man is bored by his life. When his beloved brother is murdered Joe finds solace in Piggy, one of his brother's old friends. Piggy helps Joe to... See full summary »
Director: Kieron Hawkes | Stars: Ed Skrein, Paul Anderson, Martin Compston, Neil Maskell
Votes: 1,776
28. Trail of the Screaming Forehead (2007)
TV-MA | 88 min | Comedy, Sci-Fi
A small town infestation of crawling alien foreheads that begin attaching to people and taking them over collides with a scientist's experiments to extract foreheadazine and things go horribly horribly wrong.
Director: Larry Blamire | Stars: Daniel Roebuck, Susan McConnell, Fay Masterson, Andrew Parks
Votes: 913
29. Bad Milo (2013)
R | 85 min | Comedy, Horror
A man learns that his unusual stomach pains are being caused by a demon living in his intestines.
Director: Jacob Vaughan | Stars: Ken Marino, Gillian Jacobs, Patrick Warburton, Mary Kay Place
Votes: 7,976 | Gross: $0.02M
30. Blood Monkey (2006 Video)
Not Rated | 90 min | Action, Adventure, Horror
A renowned but mad professor leads a small group of American students into the jungles of Africa to investigate a remote tribe of killer chimpanzees rumored to be the missing link.
Director: Robert Young | Stars: F. Murray Abraham, Matt Ryan, Amy Manson, Matt Reeves
Votes: 1,501
31. Shrooms (2007)
Not Rated | 84 min | Comedy, Horror, Mystery
A group of friends are stalked and murdered whilst looking for psilocybin mushrooms in the Irish woods.
Director: Paddy Breathnach | Stars: Lindsey Haun, Jack Huston, Max Kasch, Maya Hazen
Votes: 17,678 | Gross: $0.00M
32. Paternity (1981)
PG | 94 min | Comedy, Romance
A single man searches for a woman who will bear his baby with no strings attached.
Director: David Steinberg | Stars: Burt Reynolds, Beverly D'Angelo, Norman Fell, Paul Dooley
Votes: 1,111 | Gross: $18.84M
33. Sand Sharks (2012)
R | 91 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
The residents of a small town team up to kill a group of evolved sharks that can swim in sand, and are terrorizing local beaches.
Director: Mark Atkins | Stars: Corin Nemec, Brooke Hogan, Vanessa Evigan, Eric Scott Woods
Votes: 5,445
34. Blood Beach (1980)
R | 92 min | Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Something is attacking and killing people on the beach. David and Mariana, old friends, search for clues where they played as kids to uncover the mysterious creature.
Director: Jeffrey Bloom | Stars: David Huffman, Marianna Hill, Burt Young, Otis Young
Votes: 2,862
35. Clifford (1994)
PG | 90 min | Comedy
A bratty 10-year-old boy is obsessed with visiting a dinosaur-themed amusement park. His uptight uncle takes the wily tyke in for a week, and barely lives to regret it.
Director: Paul Flaherty | Stars: Martin Short, Charles Grodin, Mary Steenburgen, Dabney Coleman
Votes: 8,519 | Gross: $7.41M
36. The Headless Eyes (1971)
X | 78 min | Horror
Poor artist gets eye gouged out while committing a robbery. When his eye heals, he goes on a killing spree and cuts out women's eyes with a spoon.
Director: Kent Bateman | Stars: Bo Brundin, Ramon Gordon, Kelly Swartz, Ann Wells
Votes: 541
37. Three on a Meathook (1972)
R | 80 min | Horror
Four girls go on a romping weekend at a lake, and have car problems on the way home. A nice local boy takes them back to his farm, where he lives with his father. Something ghastly happens,... See full summary »
Director: William Girdler | Stars: Charles Kissinger, James Carroll Pickett, Sherry Steiner, Madelyn Buzzard
Votes: 863
38. Hell Comes to Frogtown (1988)
R | 86 min | Action, Comedy, Sci-Fi
After a worldwide nuclear war, where 68% of the male population was wiped out and virile men becoming a rarity, Sam Hell, a scavenger and a highly virile man, is assigned to help rescue a group of fertile women kidnapped by humanoid frogs.
Directors: Donald G. Jackson, R.J. Kizer | Stars: Julius LeFlore, RCB, Roddy Piper, William Smith
Votes: 7,321
39. Nice Girls Don't Explode (1987)
PG | 92 min | Comedy, Romance, Sci-Fi
A young lady is kept away from boys by her overprotective mother because flames tend to spontaneously erupt whenever her hormones are aroused; for her, "protection" on a dinner date is carrying a fire extinguisher.
Director: Chuck Martinez | Stars: Barbara Harris, Michelle Meyrink, William O'Leary, Wallace Shawn
Votes: 532
40. Vroom (1990)
89 min | Drama, Romance
Two young men hope to fulfill their dreams by hitting the open road in a classic American car they have lovingly restored. Taking along the sultry divorcee with whom one of them has fallen in love is an idea bound to cause tension.
Director: Beeban Kidron | Stars: Diana Quick, Clive Owen, David Thewlis, Melanie Kilburn
Votes: 189
41. Whore (1991)
NC-17 | 85 min | Drama
A night in the life of a cynical prostitute forms the basis of Ken Russell's portrait of the world's oldest profession.
Director: Ken Russell | Stars: Theresa Russell, Benjamin Mouton, Antonio Fargas, Elizabeth Morehead
Votes: 4,338 | Gross: $1.01M
42. Shark Side of the Moon (2022)
Unrated | 88 min | Action, Horror
Decades ago, the USSR developed unkillable sharks and launched them to the moon. Today, a team of American astronauts will endure the fight of their lives.
Directors: Glenn Campbell, Tammy Klein | Stars: Mark Anthony Serna, Maxi Witrak, Ego Mikitas, Tania Fox
Votes: 879
43. Snake Dick (2020)
8 min | Short, Fantasy, Horror
Jill's got the snake. Julia's got the flute. Alone, they have nothing. But together, they have a secret weapon to fight the darkness.
Director: David Mahmoudieh | Stars: Poppy Drayton, Sierra Pond, Micah Fitzgerald, Ross Francis
Votes: 2,004
44. Excessive Force II: Force on Force (1995)
R | 88 min | Action, Drama
Stacie Randall plays Harley, a Special Forces agent-turned-investigator, who arrives on the scene of an apparent mob hit to help the local police. In actuality, she's hunting down Francis ... See full summary »
Director: Jonathan Winfrey | Stars: Mandingo Warrior, Bradford Tatum, David Hugghins, Rick Tyler Barnes
Votes: 481
45. A Deadly Adoption (2015 TV Movie)
TV-14 | 84 min | Drama, Thriller
A distanced couple decide to take in a seemingly innocent pregnant woman in hopes of adopting her unborn child. However, there is more to a book than its cover.
Director: Rachel Lee Goldenberg | Stars: Will Ferrell, Kristen Wiig, Jessica Lowndes, Alyvia Alyn Lind
Votes: 3,769
46. Zapped! (1982)
R | 98 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
A high school science nerd gains telekinetic powers after a laboratory accident and uses them for revenge upon bullies.
Director: Robert J. Rosenthal | Stars: Scott Baio, Willie Aames, Robert Mandan, Felice Schachter
Votes: 7,610 | Gross: $16.90M
47. Mazes and Monsters (1982 TV Movie)
PG | 100 min | Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
Bound together by a desire to play "Mazes and Monsters," Robbie and his three college classmates decide to move the board game into the local legendary cavern.
Director: Steven Hilliard Stern | Stars: Tom Hanks, Wendy Crewson, David Wysocki, Chris Makepeace
Votes: 4,301
48. Pro God - Pro Gun (2022)
70 min | Action, Drama
In order to keep a promise, Vietnam War veteran, Colton, returns a precious locket to a fallen soldier's family. In doing so, this lost soul will find God, love and the fight of his life.
Director: Rene Perez | Stars: Chase Bloomquist, Ana Isabel Rosso, Joseph Camilleri, Chelsea Evered
Votes: 11
49. They Want Us Woke Not Awake (2023)
18+ | 130 min | Mystery
Director: Rene Perez | Stars: Chelsea Evered, Michael Jarrod, Mark McCauley, Carlos Perez
Votes: 12
50. The Year I Started Masturbating (2022)
98 min | Comedy, Drama
Goal-oriented Hanna wants another child before it is too late, but unexpectedly her boyfriend breaks up with her, and Hanna's world collapses. Hanna begins to realize that she may be chasing the wrong things in life.
Director: Erika Wasserman | Stars: Katia Winter, Jesper Zuschlag, Henrik Dorsin, Nour El-Refai
Votes: 3,422
51. Blacula (1972)
PG | 93 min | Fantasy, Horror, Romance
An 18th-century African prince, turned into a vampire by Dracula, finds himself in modern-day Los Angeles.
Director: William Crain | Stars: William Marshall, Vonetta McGee, Denise Nicholas, Thalmus Rasulala
Votes: 7,868 | Gross: $3.00M
52. The Black Gestapo (1975)
R | 90 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
General Ahmed has started an inner-city People's Army to try and relieve the misery of the citizens of Watts. When the locals are put under increasing pressure by Mafia thugs, Ahmed's ... See full summary »
Director: Lee Frost | Stars: Rod Perry, Charles Robinson, Phil Hoover, Edward Cross
Votes: 1,338
53. Ilsa: She Wolf of the SS (1975)
R | 96 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller
Ilsa is an evil Nazi warden at a death camp that conducts "medical experiments." Ilsa's goal is to prove women can withstand more pain and suffering than men, and therefore should be allowed to fight on the front lines.
Director: Don Edmonds | Stars: Dyanne Thorne, Gregory Knoph, Tony Mumolo, Maria Marx
Votes: 8,212
54. A Recipe for Seduction (2020 TV Short)
TV-PG | 15 min | Short, Drama, Romance
Colonel Harland Sanders has a steamy (and savory?) love affair with a young heiress who must choose between her young chef with a dream of fried chicken glory and a wealthy, duplicitous suitor handpicked by her mother.
Directors: Eric Eckelman, Armand Prisco, Natalie Prisco | Stars: Mario Lopez, Justene Alpert, Tessa Munro, Chad Doreck
Votes: 505
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