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1. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
G | 149 min | Adventure, Sci-Fi
After uncovering a mysterious artifact buried beneath the Lunar surface, a spacecraft is sent to Jupiter to find its origins: a spacecraft manned by two men and the supercomputer HAL 9000.
Director: Stanley Kubrick | Stars: Keir Dullea, Gary Lockwood, William Sylvester, Daniel Richter
Votes: 721,438 | Gross: $56.95M
2. A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)
R | 91 min | Horror
Teenager Nancy Thompson must uncover the dark truth concealed by her parents after she and her friends become targets of the spirit of a serial killer with a bladed glove in their dreams, in which if they die, it kills them in real life.
Director: Wes Craven | Stars: Heather Langenkamp, Johnny Depp, Robert Englund, John Saxon
Votes: 263,288 | Gross: $25.50M
3. Antichrist (2009)
Not Rated | 108 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller
A grieving couple retreat to their cabin in the woods, hoping to repair their broken hearts and troubled marriage, but nature takes its course and things go from bad to worse.
Director: Lars von Trier | Stars: Willem Dafoe, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Storm Acheche Sahlstrøm
Votes: 136,828 | Gross: $0.40M
4. Easy Rider (1969)
R | 95 min | Adventure, Drama
Two bikers head from L.A. to New Orleans through the open country and desert lands, and along the way they meet a man who bridges a counter-culture gap of which they had been unaware.
Director: Dennis Hopper | Stars: Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper, Jack Nicholson, Antonio Mendoza
Votes: 117,197 | Gross: $41.73M
5. Mad God (2021)
Unrated | 83 min | Animation, Fantasy, Horror
The Assassin travels through a nightmare underworld of tortured souls, ruined cities and wretched monstrosities forged from the primordial horrors of the unconscious mind of Phil Tippett, the world's preeminent stop-motion animator.
Director: Phil Tippett | Stars: Alex Cox, Niketa Roman, Satish Ratakonda, Harper Taylor
Votes: 14,899
6. El Topo (1970)
Not Rated | 125 min | Drama, Western
A mysterious black-clad gunfighter wanders a mystical Western landscape encountering multiple bizarre characters.
Director: Alejandro Jodorowsky | Stars: Alejandro Jodorowsky, Brontis Jodorowsky, José Legarreta, Alfonso Arau
Votes: 31,481 | Gross: $0.04M
7. Trash Humpers (2009)
Not Rated | 78 min | Comedy, Drama, Horror
Follows the lives of a small group of sociopathic elderly people in Nashville, Tennessee.
Director: Harmony Korine | Stars: Rachel Korine, Brian Kotzur, Travis Nicholson, Harmony Korine
Votes: 5,502
8. Begotten (1989)
Unrated | 72 min | Fantasy, Horror
Presented in a surreal, gory and entirely visual manner, Begotten tells of the death of religion, the abuse of nature by Man and a nihilistic outlook on what life ultimately is.
Director: E. Elias Merhige | Stars: Brian Salzberg, Donna Dempsey, Stephen Charles Barry, James Gandia
Votes: 11,790
9. The Cure for Insomnia (1987)
Unrated | 5,220 min | Documentary, Music
Not really following any standard plot structure, the film mostly consists of poet L.D. Groban reciting his own poem of 4,080 pages, inter-spliced with X-rated film footage and rock music videos.
Director: John Henry Timmis IV | Stars: Cosmic Lightning, L.D. Groban, J.T.4
Votes: 420
10. The Wayward Cloud (2005)
Not Rated | 112 min | Comedy, Drama, Musical
Hsiao-Kang, now working as a pornographic actor, meets Shiang-chyi once again. Meanwhile, the city of Taipei faces a water shortage that makes the sales of watermelons skyrocket.
Director: Tsai Ming-liang | Stars: Kang-sheng Lee, Shiang-chyi Chen, Yi-ching Lu, Kuei-Mei Yang
Votes: 5,649
11. Black Moon (1975)
R | 100 min | Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
To escape a gender war, a girl flees to a remote farmhouse and becomes part of an extensive family's unusual, perhaps even supernatural, lifestyle.
Director: Louis Malle | Stars: Cathryn Harrison, Therese Giehse, Alexandra Stewart, Joe Dallesandro
Votes: 6,233
12. L'Age d'Or (1930)
Not Rated | 63 min | Comedy, Drama
A surrealist tale of a man and a woman who are passionately in love with each other, but their attempts to consummate that passion are constantly thwarted by their families, the Church, and bourgeois society.
Director: Luis Buñuel | Stars: Gaston Modot, Lya Lys, Caridad de Laberdesque, Max Ernst
Votes: 14,840 | Gross: $0.03M
13. Brand Upon the Brain! (2006)
Not Rated | 95 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Returned home to his long-estranged mother upon a request from her deathbed, a man raised by his parents in an orphanage has to confront the childhood memories that have long haunted him.
Director: Guy Maddin | Stars: Gretchen Krich, Sullivan Brown, Maya Lawson, Jake Morgan-Scharhon
Votes: 3,726 | Gross: $0.23M
14. Calla Lily (2015)
Not Rated | 83 min | Drama
An experimental drama, Melanie, who was drugged and raped in college. Now ten years later, she is in an abusive relationship and has a child. A chance encounter with someone from her past leads her to re-evaluate her past.
Director: Mark Penney | Stars: Cynthia Stone, Rudolph Mendy, Jonah Kaplun, Crystal Williams
Votes: 3,765 | Gross: $0.03M
15. Body Swap (2019)
72 min | Comedy, Romance
CJ (played by Ella Jordan) is a high strung business woman working at the Versa Corporation on the biggest deal in her company's history. Casey (Jimmy Kustes) is a laid-back slacker who ... See full summary »
Director: Timothy Morton | Stars: Ella Jordan, Jimmy Kustes, Gunner Willis, Kayte Giralt
Votes: 110
16. Xx: Where Your Heart Should Be (2007 Video)
Unrated | 64 min
Director: Todd Verow | Stars: Philly Abe, Michael Burke, William Burl, Richard C.
Votes: 46
17. Reflections of Evil (2002)
Unrated | 138 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Julie, who died of a PCP overdose as a teen in the early '70s, searches from beyond the ethers for her little brother, Bob, an obese watch-seller, who is dying of sucrose intolerance, in the early '90s.
Director: Damon Packard | Stars: Damon Packard, Nicole Vanderhoff, Beverly Miller, Dean Spunt
Votes: 747
18. Friend of the World (2020)
TV-MA | 50 min | Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
After a catastrophic war, an eccentric general guides a filmmaker through a ravaged bunker.
Director: Brian Patrick Butler | Stars: Nick Young, Alexandra Slade, Michael C. Burgess, Kathryn Schott
Votes: 89
19. Three Mirrors Creature's Flashes of Flesh (2023)
442 min | Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
In the aftermath of an emotional shock, a ruthless high-class manager faces her own abyss, becomes pervaded by a sensory spirit and undertakes a purifying voyage.
Director: Giuliano Tomassacci | Stars: Michela Bruni, Samantha Abear, Claudio Losavio, Piervito Bonifacio
Votes: 35
21. Invasion (IV) (2019)
64 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Death roams among us. Death follows each of us. Death is all the same, for death is immortal.
Director: Sergey A. | Stars: Sergey A., Nikita Inozemtsev, Georgiy Sushko
Votes: 200
22. L'hypothèse du tableau volé (1978)
66 min | Drama, Mystery
Two narrators, one seen and one unseen, discuss possible connections between a series of paintings. The on-screen narrator walks through three-dimensional reproductions of each painting, ... See full summary »
Director: Raúl Ruiz | Stars: Jean Rougeul, Chantal Paley, Jean Raynaud, Daniel Grimm
Votes: 1,213
23. The Second Coming of Suzanne (1974)
R | 90 min | Drama
Jared Martin plays an aspiring filmmaker obsessed with the idea of Christ as a woman, and tries to film his vision with Sondra Locke as his subject. Supposedly based on a song by Leonard Cohen, which is used in the film.
Director: Michael Barry | Stars: Sondra Locke, Paul Sand, Jared Martin, Richard Dreyfuss
Votes: 785
24. 46-okunen no koi (2006)
Unrated | 85 min | Drama, Fantasy
A visually stylish tale of two male prisoners bonded by emotion, love and murder.
Director: Takashi Miike | Stars: Ryûhei Matsuda, Masanobu Andô, Shunsuke Kubozuka, Kiyohiko Shibukawa
Votes: 2,105
25. The Monster's Christmas (1981 TV Movie)
47 min | Adventure, Family, Fantasy
In her bed on Christmas Eve, a little girl reads an illustrated storybook entitled "The Monster's Christmas" to her teddy bear as something sneaks around in the trees outside her window. ... See full summary »
Director: Yvonne Mackay | Stars: Paul Farrell, Lee Hatherly, Paul Jenden, Bernard Kearns
Votes: 95
26. The Crazy-Quilt (1966)
75 min | Drama
A man with no illusions marries a young woman who is brimming with idealism. She attempts to remake her husband with her overflowing optimism, but the marriage is severely strained when her... See full summary »
Director: John Korty | Stars: Tom Rosqui, Ina Mela, Burgess Meredith, Ellen Frye
Votes: 64
27. Erotic Salad (1967)
X | Comedy
Confined to a wheelchair, Martin Kleshay is lost in fantasies of being a great photographer for the imaginary erotic magazine Fettish.
Director: Robert Robert | Stars: Daniel Landau, Virginia Lust, Samantha Face, Dennis Podes
28. Poor Little Rich Girl (1965)
66 min | Documentary, Biography
A young, jobless woman stays in bed, reads, talks on the phone, smokes cigarettes, makes fresh coffee, and tries on some clothes from a large wardrobe.
Director: Andy Warhol | Star: Edie Sedgwick
Votes: 232
29. Desu pawuda (1986)
63 min | Sci-Fi, Horror
Two people, a man and a woman enters a warehouse that will change their life and minds forever.
Director: Shigeru Izumiya | Stars: Shigeru Izumiya, Takichi Inukai, Rikako Murakami, Mari Natsuki
Votes: 365
30. Bike Boy (1967)
Unrated | 96 min | Drama
Joe Spencer, a member of a motorcycle gang, is taking a shower. After his bout with personal hygiene, Joe encounters Andy Warhol's "superstars," who engage him in conversation. The ... See full summary »
Director: Andy Warhol | Stars: Joseph Spencer, Ed Wiener, Vera Cruz, George Ann
Votes: 121
31. 4 (2004)
Not Rated | 126 min | Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Two men and a woman happen to meet in a bar. We learn from their conversations both the intriguing and banal details of their lives. But is anyone really telling the truth? From the meat ... See full summary »
Director: Ilya Khrzhanovskiy | Stars: Yuriy Laguta, Marina Vovchenko, Sergey Shnurov, Andrei Kudriashov
Votes: 2,260
32. Thirty Five (2022)
70 min | Documentary
A farewell to the generation who grew up making 35mm movies. We watch a mock attempt to produce the last celluloid film in Bangladesh investigating the emotion and nostalgia for the good ... See full summary »
Director: Ashique Mostafa | Stars: Mahfuzur Rahman Khan, Airin Sultana, Saif Khan Kalu, Shah Alam Kiron
33. See You at Mao (1970)
Not Rated | 54 min | Documentary
An examination of the daily routine at a British auto factory assembly line, set against class-conflict and The Communist Manifesto.
Directors: Jean-Luc Godard, Jean-Henri Roger
Votes: 582
34. Connie Lynn (2022)
R | 100 min | Mystery, Thriller
Connie Lynn suffering post traumatic stress and depression navigates her way through life with Benny Lynn, she enters in to a whole new world she does not even know she is in without help to figure out where and who she is.
Directors: Joshua Morrison, Lee Westwick | Stars: Kate Hargrave, Lee Westwick, Nick Field, Nazeku
Votes: 1,665
35. Ace Jackson Is a Dead Man (2015 Video)
75 min | Crime, Thriller
A man has to pay back a gangster for stolen drugs to save his own life.
Directors: Sean Weathers, Aswad Issa | Stars: David A. Bynoe, Waliek Crandall, Buddy Love, Sean Weathers
Votes: 30
36. The Fisherman's Daughter (2020)
70 min | Comedy, Drama
Fishmonger Polina drinks some tea given to her by a strange old woman that transforms her sleep into a fairy tale where she thinks she's the tsar's daughter.
Director: Uldus Bakhtiozina | Stars: Viktoria Assovskaya, Uldus Bakhtiozina, Albina Berens, Alina Korol
Votes: 80
37. 24 Hour Psycho (1993)
TV-MA | 1,440 min | Horror
An art installation in which Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho (1960) is slowed down to approximately two frames a second, making the piece exactly 24 hours long.
Director: Douglas Gordon | Star: Janet Leigh
Votes: 26
38. Death Files (2020)
47 min | Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
2 locksmiths find a flash drive at an old warehouse. One of them activates the flash drive at a computer and opens the shocking world of mysterious creatures, broken lives and violence.
Directors: Sergey A., Mikhail Ryabkov, Nastasya Sharapova, Eldar Bogunov, Elisey Vishnyov, Mykola Yeriomin | Stars: Mikhail Ryabkov, Evgeniy Toroschin, Nastasya Sharapova, Sergey A.
Votes: 1,042
39. All My Friends Are Funeral Singers (2010)
Not Rated | 84 min | Comedy, Drama, Music
Zel is a fortune teller. She lives and works in an old house at the edge of the woods. The house is crowded with ghosts (including a priest, a bride, a mute child, some washed up ... See full summary »
Director: Tim Rutili | Stars: Angela Bettis, Emily Candini, Reid Coker, Kevin Ford
Votes: 271
40. Taylor Mead's Ass (1965)
70 min
Taylor Mead bares his ass.
Director: Andy Warhol | Star: Taylor Mead
Votes: 68
41. Illuminated Texts (1982)
180 min | Mystery
A montage provides a meditation on opposing extremes and the inevitability of destruction.
Director: R. Bruce Elder | Stars: Anna Pafomow, Henry Jesionka, R. Bruce Elder, Jim Smith
Votes: 65
42. Chinatown Film Project (2009)
75 min | Biography, Comedy, Drama
Chinatown is an evocative place. It exists in our cities, in our imaginations, on our television screens, and in our memories. It is at once a sprawling, vibrant immigrant community and a forgotten strip mall of buffet restaurants.
Directors: Miguel Arteta, Patty Chang, Jem Cohen, Cary Joji Fukunaga, Bradley Rust Gray, So Yong Kim, Sam Pollard, Shelly Silver, Rose Troche, Wayne Wang, Richard Wong | Star: Brian Yang
Votes: 33
43. À l'ombre de la canaille bleue (1986)
82 min | Drama, Thriller
Necrocity, a city of nightly terrors and a place where even the authorities seem to reinforce this state of mayhem, as a way to impose cruel laws and the use of police brutality with ... See full summary »
Director: Pierre Clémenti | Stars: Nadine Clémenti, Pierre Clémenti, Olivier Corneille, Ricky Darling
Votes: 127
44. Erased, Ascent of the Invisible (2018)
74 min | Documentary
Thirty-five years ago, I witnessed the event of someone I've known since, he was gone. Ten years ago, I saw his face in the street but I was not sure it was him. Part of his face was ... See full summary »
Director: Ghassan Halwani
Votes: 61
45. Out-Takes from the Life of a Happy Man (2012)
68 min | Documentary
A motion picture composed of brief scenes not used in completed films from the years 1960-2000.
Director: Jonas Mekas | Stars: Friedl Bondy, James Broughton, William S. Burroughs, Richard Foreman
Votes: 228
46. Will You Dance with Me? (2014)
Not Rated | 78 min | Documentary, Music
Twenty years after the death of Derek Jarman, a heretofore unknown Jarman film comes to light. Found by friend Ron Peck, Jarman shot inside Benjy's, a now closed gay nightclub in east ... See full summary »
Director: Derek Jarman | Star: Phillip Williamson
Votes: 57
47. Hole in the Moon (1964)
90 min | Comedy
A new immigrant, Tzelnik, arrives at the port of Jaffa. He goes to live in the Negev desert where he opens a kiosk in the middle of nowhere. Mizrachi comes along and opens a competing ... See full summary »
Director: Uri Zohar | Stars: Uri Zohar, Avraham Heffner, Arik Lavie, Shmulik Kraus
Votes: 176
48. Heaven and Earth (1992 Video)
Continuously running video installation: in a small alcove, a wood column extends from the floor and ceiling, with a gap in the center formed by two exposed video monitors facing each other... See full summary »
Director: Bill Viola | Stars: Andrei Viola, Wynne Lee Viola
49. Sex (1970)
26 min | Short, Drama
While a poem being read and an Hassidic melody sung a naked woman on a bed moves with sexual pleasure, her limbs splayed cruciform as in ecstasy.
Director: David Avidan
Votes: 40
50. On Top of the Whale (1982)
90 min | Fantasy, Mystery
A parody of anthropology, linguistics, and cultural imperialism. The film follows an unlikely team of linguists into the wilds of an ersatz Patagonia to study the last speakers of a dying ... See full summary »
Director: Raúl Ruiz | Stars: Willeke van Ammelrooy, Jean Badin, Fernando Bordeu, Herbert Curiel
Votes: 253