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1. Under the Skin (I) (2013)
R | 108 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
A mysterious young woman seduces lonely men in the evening hours in Scotland. However, events lead her to begin a process of self-discovery.
Director: Jonathan Glazer | Stars: Scarlett Johansson, Jeremy McWilliams, Lynsey Taylor Mackay, Dougie McConnell
Votes: 157,892 | Gross: $2.61M
2. Ladyhawke (1985)
PG-13 | 121 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama
The thief Gaston escapes the dungeon of medieval Aquila through the latrine. Soldiers are about to kill him when Navarre saves him. Navarre, traveling with his spirited hawk, plans to kill the bishop of Aquila with help from Gaston.
Director: Richard Donner | Stars: Matthew Broderick, Rutger Hauer, Michelle Pfeiffer, Leo McKern
Votes: 50,868 | Gross: $18.43M
3. Ran (1985)
R | 160 min | Action, Drama, War
In Medieval Japan, an elderly warlord retires, handing over his empire to his three sons. However, he vastly underestimates how the new-found power will corrupt them and cause them to turn on each other...and him.
Director: Akira Kurosawa | Stars: Tatsuya Nakadai, Akira Terao, Jinpachi Nezu, Daisuke Ryû
Votes: 135,975 | Gross: $4.14M
4. Reign of Fire (2002)
PG-13 | 101 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy
A brood of fire-breathing dragons emerges from the earth and begins setting everything ablaze, establishing dominance over the planet.
Director: Rob Bowman | Stars: Matthew McConaughey, Christian Bale, Izabella Scorupco, Gerard Butler
Votes: 145,337 | Gross: $43.06M
5. Leap Year (2010)
PG | 100 min | Comedy, Romance
Anna Brady plans to travel to Dublin, Ireland to propose to her boyfriend Jeremy on February 29, leap day, because, according to Irish tradition, a man who receives a marriage proposal on a leap day must accept it.
Director: Anand Tucker | Stars: Amy Adams, Matthew Goode, Adam Scott, John Lithgow
Votes: 110,591 | Gross: $25.92M
6. Dead Man's Shoes (2004)
Not Rated | 90 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A disaffected soldier returns to his hometown to get even with the thugs who brutalized his mentally-challenged brother years ago.
Director: Shane Meadows | Stars: Paddy Considine, Gary Stretch, Toby Kebbell, Stuart Wolfenden
Votes: 58,304 | Gross: $0.01M
7. The Medallion (2003)
PG-13 | 88 min | Action, Comedy, Fantasy
A Hong Kong detective suffers a fatal accident involving a mysterious medallion and is transformed into an immortal warrior with superhuman powers.
Director: Gordon Chan | Stars: Jackie Chan, Lee Evans, Claire Forlani, Julian Sands
Votes: 43,906 | Gross: $22.11M
8. Six Minutes to Midnight (2020)
PG-13 | 99 min | Drama, Thriller, War
UK, Aug. 15, 1939: 17 days before WWII, an English teacher and his camera disappear from a coastal boarding school with 20 German teen girls. Miller gets the job six days later, secretly trying to find out what happened.
Director: Andy Goddard | Stars: Nigel Lindsay, Judi Dench, Eddie Izzard, Jim Broadbent
Votes: 6,023
9. A Very British Christmas (2019 TV Movie)
TV-G | 90 min | Comedy, Family, Romance
Opera singer Jessica's flight to her concert in Vienna gets delayed and she is stranded in Yorkshire. The only place to stay is a bed-and-breakfast in an enchanting village run by a handsome widower named Andrew.
Director: Steven Nesbit | Stars: Rachel Shenton, Mark Killeen, Isla Cook, Michele Dotrice
Votes: 786
10. Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man (1943)
Passed | 74 min | Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi
The resurrected Wolf Man, seeking a cure for his malady, enlists the aid of a mad scientist, who claims he will not only rid the Wolf Man of his nocturnal metamorphosis, but also revive the frozen body of Frankenstein's inhuman creation.
Director: Roy William Neill | Stars: Lon Chaney Jr., Ilona Massey, Patric Knowles, Lionel Atwill
Votes: 9,946
11. Lisa and the Devil (1973)
Not Rated | 95 min | Horror, Mystery
A tourist spends the night in a derelict Spanish villa seemingly held in the supernatural grip of an eccentric butler, who resembles a depiction of the Devil she had seen on an old fresco.
Director: Mario Bava | Stars: Telly Savalas, Elke Sommer, Sylva Koscina, Alessio Orano
Votes: 5,336
12. The Night Evelyn Came Out of the Grave (1971)
R | 103 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
A rich, mentally-unstable man - with a penchant for playing deadly S&M games with women who resemble his dead wife - sparks off a chain of bizarre events after getting remarried.
Director: Emilio Miraglia | Stars: Anthony Steffen, Marina Malfatti, Enzo Tarascio, Giacomo Rossi Stuart
Votes: 2,917
13. Herbie Goes Bananas (1980)
G | 100 min | Adventure, Comedy, Family
The adorable little VW helps its owners break up a counterfeiting ring in Mexico.
Director: Vincent McEveety | Stars: Charles Martin Smith, Stephen W. Burns, Cloris Leachman, John Vernon
Votes: 6,240 | Gross: $18.00M
14. Interstella 5555: The 5tory of the 5ecret 5tar 5ystem (2003)
Not Rated | 68 min | Animation, Adventure, Music
A continuation of the story told in the Daft Punk music videos "One More Time," "Aerodynamic," "Digital Love," and "Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger."
Directors: Daisuke Nishio, Hirotoshi Rissen, Leiji Matsumoto, Kazuhisa Takenouchi | Stars: Romanthony, Thomas Bangalter
Votes: 15,548
15. Bathory: Countess of Blood (2008)
R | 141 min | Biography, Drama, Fantasy
With an unquenchable thirst for blood, Countess Elizabeth Bathory was one of the most prolific serial killers in history.
Director: Juraj Jakubisko | Stars: Anna Friel, Karel Roden, Vincent Regan, Hans Matheson
Votes: 4,688
16. Forever in My Heart (2019 TV Movie)
TV-G | 88 min | Romance
Jenna (Merritt Patterson) and Charlie (Jack Turner) found love in Ireland but their dreams drove them apart. Five years later, they reunite and Jenna has to decide where her heart belongs - back home or in the Emerald Isle.
Director: Steven R. Monroe | Stars: Merritt Patterson, Jack Turner, Emmet Byrne, Roisin O'Donovan
Votes: 1,396
17. The Music of Chance (1993)
R | 98 min | Drama
A thrill seeker agrees to help a shady professional gambler win a high stakes poker game. However, they lose and become captives of two eccentric rich men who decide to forcibly keep them on their remote gated ranch as indentured servants.
Director: Philip Haas | Stars: James Spader, Mandy Patinkin, M. Emmet Walsh, Charles Durning
Votes: 2,539 | Gross: $0.31M
18. Love's Portrait (2022 TV Movie)
84 min | Drama, Romance
It follows Lily, a museum curator who discovers a painting that looks just like her. She goes to find where the painting came from and who painted it.
Director: John Lyde | Stars: Aubrey Reynolds, Richard McWilliams, Kathryn McKiernan, Tamari Dunbar
Votes: 803
19. The Last September (1999)
R | 103 min | Drama, History, Romance
In the heart of a young woman, lies a secret that divides a nation.
Director: Deborah Warner | Stars: Michael Gambon, Tom Hickey, Keeley Hawes, David Tennant
Votes: 947 | Gross: $0.47M
20. The Triumph of Sherlock Holmes (1935)
Unrated | 75 min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Holmes, retired to Sussex, is drawn into a last case when his arch enemy Moriarty arranges with an American gang to kill one John Douglas, a country gentleman with a mysterious past.
Director: Leslie S. Hiscott | Stars: Arthur Wontner, Lyn Harding, Leslie Perrins, Jane Carr
Votes: 800
21. Agent 505 - Todesfalle Beirut (1966)
93 min | Action, Adventure, Crime
Something bad is being planned in Beirut, and it has something to do with a man called The Sheikh, who has only four fingers. It seems this isn't a lone incident. The Sheikh is also thought... See full summary »
Director: Manfred R. Köhler | Stars: Frederick Stafford, Geneviève Cluny, Chris Howland, Willy Birgel
Votes: 168
22. A Hitch in Time (1978)
57 min | Family, Fantasy
On their way to school Paul and Fiona find and help a Professor Wagstaff who's trapped inside his new, untested time machine, so beginning an adventure that will send them back and forth through their local history.
Director: Jan Darnley-Smith | Stars: Michael McVey, Pheona McLellan, Patrick Troughton, Jeff Rawle
Votes: 141
23. Don Q Son of Zorro (1925)
Not Rated | 111 min | Adventure, Romance
Don Cesar, son of Zorro, is framed for murder while visiting Spain, and becomes the whip-wielding outlaw Don Q.
Director: Donald Crisp | Stars: Douglas Fairbanks, Mary Astor, Jack McDonald, Donald Crisp
Votes: 567
24. Long Live Ghosts! (1977)
85 min | Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Trespassing gang of boys encounter a ghost in the ruins of a castle. When they rescue the ghost who is caught in a trapset, they become allies in a fight to prevent ruins from being turned into mushroom farm by the city authorities.
Director: Oldrich Lipský | Stars: Dana Vávrová, Jirí Procházka, Jirí Sovák, Vlastimil Brodský
Votes: 722
25. Monkey's Playtime (1978)
87 min | Comedy, Fantasy
The fisherman Fuksa fishes in the creek an old bottle and he sells it to innkeeper Merta. When Merta opens it, a genie appears, who can fulfill all his wishes.
Director: Milan Muchna | Stars: Josef Kemr, Josef Vinklár, Vladimír Dlouhý, Otakar Brousek
Votes: 88
26. The Mysteries of the Chateau de De (1929)
27 min | Documentary, Short
Two masked men playing dice in a bar leave, get in a car, and drive to the ruins of a castle on a hill. There. they find a modern chateau filled with contemporary furniture and abstract art. Time to roll the dice.
Director: Man Ray | Stars: Man Ray, Jacques-André Boiffard, Georges Auric, Le Comte de Beaumont
Votes: 722
27. David Macaulay: Castle (1983 TV Movie)
Unrated | 60 min | Documentary, Animation, History
The architecture and life of medieval castles are explored while we follow the story of one such English castle in medieval Wales.
Director: Peter Newington | Stars: David Macaulay, Sarah Bullen, Ronald Baddiley, Brian Blessed
Votes: 69
28. The Phantom Baron (1943)
99 min | Drama, Romance
Elfy, Countess of Saint-Hélié's daughter, was brought up with her foster sister Anne, in an old dilapidated castle whose landlord, Baron Julius Carol, disappeared mysteriously some day. The... See full summary »
Director: Serge de Poligny | Stars: André Lefaur, Odette Joyeux, Jany Holt, Alain Cuny
Votes: 141
29. Le roman d'un jeune homme pauvre (1936)
120 min
A ruined aristocrat becomes a steward for Nouveaux riches..
Director: Abel Gance | Stars: Marie Bell, Pierre Fresnay, André Baugé, Marcelle Praince
Votes: 67
30. Paramount-Bray Pictographs, No. 154 (1919)
Documentary, Short
Subjects may include: "Sculptures in Sugar", "Our Picturesque Neighbors", "Winter Sports", "The Passing on the Cannibal", "Theory of the Long-Range Shell".
31. Faith in Ruins (2009)
32 min | Short, Action, Drama
A holy relic is unearthed and all wish to seize it for the power it brings.
Directors: Robert Dietman, Luke Todd | Stars: Michael Karnecki, Shaeran Thomas, Karma Rae, Robert Dietman
32.
Relic Hunter (1999–2002)
Episode:
Gypsy Jigsaw
(2000)
TV-14 | 42 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Romania, 1830: The dying Romani king gives orders to hide the crown. Trinity College, 2000: Sydney receives a deck of rare tarot cards by mail from her friend who just died. The infamous ... See full summary »
Director: Larry A. McLean | Stars: Tia Carrere, Christien Anholt, Lindy Booth, Noam Jenkins
Votes: 93
33.
Time Team (1994– )
Episode:
Dungannon, Northern Ireland
(2008)
Not Rated | 47 min | Documentary, History
A former military compound is between reverting back to a council open space. From illustrations there was a castle here. But where? The adjacent communication mast does not help geophys, nor does military grade concrete covering.
Director: Michael Douglas | Stars: Tony Robinson, Mick Aston, Phil Harding, Stewart Ainsworth
Votes: 10
34.
Time Team (1994– )
Episode:
Hamsterley, County Durham
(2008)
Not Rated | 47 min | Documentary, History
The rocky, tree covered area is called 'The Castles' but what was it built for?
Director: Nick Gillam-Smith | Stars: Tony Robinson, Mick Aston, Phil Harding, Francis Pryor
Votes: 17
35.
George Clarke's National Trust Unlocked (2020– )
Episode:
Standen
(2020)
Documentary, History
George visits Standen, the embodiment of the Arts and Crafts movement, the gardens of Tyntesfield, a magnificent Gothic Revival estate, the medieval ruins of Corfe Castle, and takes Loki along Dorset's Jurassic Coast up to the Golden Cap.
Star: George Clarke
36.
Castle Builders (2015)
Episode:
Dreams and Decoration
(2015)
Documentary
For a ruler living in a castle a certain level of opulence was required. And that opulence wasn't just for the ruler's own comfort. He needed to impress, engage and entertain other rulers ... See full summary »
Stars: Amelie Delaunay, Karl Von Und Zu Eltz-Kempenich, Robert Glenister
37.
Historic Hauntings (2018)
Episode:
Wales
(2018)
History
Deep in Wales' long memory is a history of violence and bloody curses. Acts of treachery and vengeance leave their stain within Wales' haunted castles.
Star: Robert Hardy
Votes: 6
38.
Historic Hauntings (2018)
Episode:
Ireland
(2018)
History
Ireland's dark history of magic, ritual and prime evil worship has caused elemental forces to come back as apparitions and many of these restless souls are trapped in Ireland's castles.
Stars: Robert Hardy, Samantha Leslie
Votes: 5
39.
Four Women and a Funeral (2005– )
Episode:
Feierabend
(2010)
48 min | Comedy, Crime
Director: Wolfgang Murnberger | Stars: Adele Neuhauser, Brigitte Kren, Julia Stinshoff, Martina Poel
Votes: 14
40.
Game of Thrones (2011–2019)
Episode:
A Man Without Honor
(2012)
TV-MA | 56 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Bran and Rickon have escaped Winterfell. Theon tries to hunt them down. Daenerys' dragons have been stolen. Jon travels through the wilderness with Ygritte as his prisoner. Sansa has bled and is now ready to have Joffrey's children.
Director: David Nutter | Stars: Peter Dinklage, Lena Headey, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Michelle Fairley
Votes: 31,875
41.
Time Team (1994– )
Episode:
Kenfig, South Wales
(2012)
Not Rated | 49 min | Documentary, History
800 years ago the people of Kenfig on the south coast of Wales thought they had built the perfect town. The town appears to have been a thriving commercial success but then it vanished, ... See full summary »
Director: James Franklin | Stars: Tony Robinson, Mary-Ann Ochota, Phil Harding, Francis Pryor
Votes: 16
42.
Secrets of the Dead (2000– )
Episode:
The Princes in the Tower
(2023)
TV-PG | Documentary, History, War
Find out if one of history's greatest cold cases-the imprisonment of two princes in the Tower of London-can finally be solved. Their disappearance led to centuries of mystery and speculation.
Director: Janice Sutherland | Stars: Tracy Borman, Henrike Lahnemann, Philippa Langley, Matt Lewis
Votes: 27
43.
Medieval Dead (2013–2016)
Episode:
The Mysterious Woman of Tadcaster
(2013)
46 min | Documentary
Experts investigate the life and death of a medieval woman when her skeleton is found at Tadcaster Castle, North Yorkshire.
Director: Jeremy Freeston | Stars: Jeremy Freeston, Malin Holst, Vashti MacLachlan, Michelle Mundee
Votes: 7
44.
Edward and Mary: The Unknown Tudors (2002– )
Episode:
Edward VI: The Boy King
(2002)
TV-14 | 48 min | Documentary, History
When Edward was just nine their father died and the young boy became King, surrounded by advisors and further distanced from his beloved elder sister. But by now they were divided not just ... See full summary »
Director: Rachel Bell | Stars: David Starkey, Tim Wright, Rachel Jenkins
Votes: 9
45.
Britain's Bloodiest Dynasty: The Plantagenets (2014– )
Episode:
Richard II
(2014)
45 min | Documentary, Biography, History
Tyranny: Last in the part-dramatised history series with Dan Jones. Richard II was the boy king who stopped a peasants revolt but grew up to be hated.
Director: James Tovell | Stars: Dragos Onisei, Dan Jones
Votes: 46
46.
Grand Designs (1999– )
Episode:
Cloontykilla Castle, Roscommon, Ireland
(2012)
TV-G | Documentary, Reality-TV
Entertainer Sean Simon rescues a derelict folly castle in Ireland with plans to make it his home while (sort of) following local regulations for buildings of such historical importance.
Stars: Kevin McCloud, Sean Simon
Votes: 40
47.
Walking Through History (2013– )
Episode:
King John's Ruin: The Peak District
(2015)
47 min | Documentary
The presenter walks over 3 days joining together King John's connections in the Midlands to the Magna Carta.
Director: Peter Gauvain | Stars: Tony Robinson, Sophie Ambler, Paul Cook, David Crook
Votes: 14
48.
Britain's Bloody Crown (2016– )
Episode:
The Mad King
(2016)
Not Rated | 45 min | Drama, History
After the death of the Duke of Suffolk in 1450, various factions compete for control over the feeble-minded King Henry VI. Richard of York struggles with Henry's French wife, Margaret of Anjou, and her favorite, Edmund, Duke of Somerset.
Director: Nick Green | Stars: Steffan Boje, Constantin Florescu, Voicu Hetel, Dan Jones
Votes: 42
49.
Justice League Action (2016–2018)
Episode:
Hat Trick
(2017)
TV-Y7 | 10 min | Animation, Action, Adventure
Felix Faust steals Zatanna's hat in order to free a massive demon and get his youth back. While Batman and Etrigan face off against the demon, Zatanna uses every trick in her arsenal to get her hat back from Felix Faust.
Director: Shaunt Nigoghossian | Stars: Kevin Conroy, Lacey Chabert, Jon Cryer, Patrick Seitz
Votes: 107
50.
Homes by the Sea (2014– )
Episode:
Northern Island
(2015)
Documentary, Reality-TV
Charlie gushes over a classic Irish longhouse. Then it's back to normal with tours of a 5 story futuristic house, a cubist house by Newton Penprase with a scenic view from every window, a ... See full summary »
Star: Charlie Luxton