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1. SOS Coast Guard (1937)
224 min | Adventure, Horror, Romance
A mad scientist tries to sell his formula for a dist integrating gas to foreign powers.
Directors: Alan James, William Witney | Stars: Ralph Byrd, Bela Lugosi, Maxine Doyle, Richard Alexander
Votes: 181
2. Pacific Rendezvous (1942)
76 min | Comedy, Drama, Mystery
Anxious to see some naval action in the Pacific during WWII, Lt. Bill Gordon makes the mistake of telling his new girlfriend, ditzy Elaine Carter, that he was an expert in deciphering codes... See full summary »
Director: George Sidney | Stars: Lee Bowman, Jean Rogers, Mona Maris, Carl Esmond
Votes: 153
3. The Secret Code (1942)
275 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
A police detective goes undercover and joins a gang of Nazi agents using explosive gases and artificial lightning to sabotage the war effort, whom he battles in disguise as The Black Commando.
Director: Spencer Gordon Bennet | Stars: Paul Kelly, Anne Nagel, Trevor Bardette, Rudolph Anders
Votes: 47
4. Secrets of Scotland Yard (1944)
68 min | Mystery
Scotland Yard's Room 40 was instrumental in Allied victory during WW1, but has been compromised in the decades since, a killer in their midst.
Director: George Blair | Stars: Edgar Barrier, Stephanie Bachelor, C. Aubrey Smith, Lionel Atwill
Votes: 43
5.
Foreign Intrigue (1951–1955)
Episode:
The Boy in the Park
(1955)
Crime, Mystery, Thriller
A cryptographer finally breaks an important code while resting in a quaint Viennese park. When he suffers a heart attack, a small boy picks up the paper he was working on and uses it is ... See full summary »
Director: Eugène Lourié | Star: Gerald Mohr
6.
Science Fiction Theatre (1955–1957)
Episode:
Y..O..R..D..
(1955)
30 min | Drama, Sci-Fi
The world's leading expert on telepathy, Dr. Lawton, is rushed with his assistant to a military weather station at the North Pole. The men there have suddenly become psychic. The mysterious... See full summary »
Director: Leon Benson | Stars: Truman Bradley, Walter Kingsford, Rachel Ames, Louis Jean Heydt
Votes: 29
7.
Rocky and His Friends (1959–1963)
Episode:
Two for the Ripsaw... or Goodbye, Mr. Chips/Farewell, My Ugly or Knots to You
(1960)
G | 30 min | Animation, Comedy, Family
Rocky & Bullwinkle, "Jet Fuel" Part 17 Aesop and Son "The Lion and the Mouse" Peabody's Improbably History "Robert Fulton" Rocky & Bullwinkle, "Jet Fuel" Part 18
Directors: Gerard Baldwin, Jim Hiltz, William T. Hurtz, Ted Parmelee, Gerald Ray, Dun Roman, Rudy Zamora | Stars: Edward Everett Horton, June Foray, Paul Frees, William Conrad
Votes: 27
8. The Gallant Hours (1960)
115 min | Biography, Drama, War
A semi-documentary dramatization of five weeks in the life of Vice Admiral William F. "Bull" Halsey, Jr., from his assignment to command the U.S. naval operations in the South Pacific to the Allied victory at Guadalcanal.
Director: Robert Montgomery | Stars: James Cagney, Dennis Weaver, Ward Costello, Vaughn Taylor
Votes: 1,341
9.
The Twilight Zone (1959–1964)
Episode:
To Serve Man
(1962)
G | 25 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
An alien race comes to Earth, promising peace and sharing technology. A linguist and his team set out to translate the aliens' language, using a book whose title they deduce is "To Serve Man".
Director: Richard L. Bare | Stars: Lloyd Bochner, Susan Cummings, Richard Kiel, Hardie Albright
Votes: 3,446
10. Sebastian (1968)
100 min | Drama, Romance
During the Cold War, the chief of a British intelligence code-breaking section falls in love with a new employee and shields an old co-worker, accused of Communist affiliations, from the wrath of the security branch.
Director: David Greene | Stars: Dirk Bogarde, Susannah York, Lilli Palmer, John Gielgud
Votes: 520
11.
The Invaders (1967–1968)
Episode:
Inquisition
(1968)
60 min | Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
In Washington, a senator is killed by a bomb blast just after David and Edgar try unsuccessfully to convince him that a security advisor is an alien. A zealous and politically ambitious ... See full summary »
Director: Robert Glatzer | Stars: Roy Thinnes, Peter Mark Richman, Susan Oliver, John Milford
Votes: 95
12.
Mission: Impossible (1966–1973)
Episode:
The Code
(1969)
G | 60 min | Action, Adventure, Crime
Paris poses as a legendary and colorful revolutionary leader to get close to two conspirators planning an invasion and takeover of the democratic nation of San Cristobal and turn them ... See full summary »
Director: Stuart Hagmann | Stars: Peter Graves, Leonard Nimoy, Greg Morris, Peter Lupus
Votes: 106
13.
Mannix (1967–1975)
Episode:
Medal for a Hero
(1970)
PG | 52 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Mannix investigates when police uncover evidence that suggest Peggy's police husband killed while stopping a burglary, was actually an accomplice.
Director: Seymour Robbie | Stars: Mike Connors, Gail Fisher, Frank Marth, Jack Ging
Votes: 56
14. Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970)
144 min | Action, Drama, History
In 1941, following months of economic embargo, Japan prepares to open its war against the United States with a preventive attack on the US naval base at Pearl Harbor.
Directors: Richard Fleischer, Kinji Fukasaku, Toshio Masuda | Stars: Martin Balsam, Sô Yamamura, Jason Robards, Joseph Cotten
Votes: 30,970 | Gross: $29.55M
15.
Elizabeth R (1971– )
Episode:
Horrible Conspiracies
(1971)
89 min | Biography, Drama, History
It is 1586 and Mary Queen of Scots has been imprisoned in England for nearly 20 years, Walsingham is determined to strike Mary and the catholic faction down. Elizabeth tries to protect her ... See full summary »
Director: Roderick Graham | Stars: Glenda Jackson, Vivian Pickles, Stephen Murray, Hamilton Dyce
Votes: 42
16. Midway (1976)
PG | 132 min | Action, Drama, History
A dramatization of the battle that was widely heralded as a turning point of the Pacific Theatre of World War II.
Director: Jack Smight | Stars: Charlton Heston, Henry Fonda, James Coburn, Glenn Ford
Votes: 17,362
17. Alien (1979)
R | 117 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
After a space merchant vessel receives an unknown transmission as a distress call, one of the crew is attacked by a mysterious life form and they soon realize that its life cycle has merely begun.
Director: Ridley Scott | Stars: Sigourney Weaver, Tom Skerritt, John Hurt, Veronica Cartwright
Votes: 763,609 | Gross: $78.90M
18. Sekret Enigmy (1979)
158 min | Biography, Drama, History
Three Polish mathematicians are the first to crack the sophisticated Enigma code used by the Germans just before the Second World War. They build replicas of the Enigma machines and manage ... See full summary »
Director: Roman Wionczek | Stars: Tadeusz Borowski, Piotr Fronczewski, Piotr Garlicki, Tadeusz Plucinski
Votes: 42
19.
American Playhouse (1981– )
Episode:
Overdrawn at the Memory Bank
(1983)
PG | 83 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
The mind of a computer programmer forced to take a virtual vacation is removed by a totalitarian government and accidentally trapped in the virtual reality simulation. He must find a way out before he expires.
Director: Douglas Williams | Stars: Raul Julia, Linda Griffiths, Donald Moore, Wanda Cannon
Votes: 2,333
20.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1984–1985)
Episode:
The Dancing Men
(1984)
52 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A gentleman is baffled when the childish drawings of little dancing men terrify his American wife. Sherlock Holmes soon discovers why.
Director: John Bruce | Stars: Jeremy Brett, David Burke, Tenniel Evans, Betsy Brantley
Votes: 847
21. Manhunter (1986)
R | 120 min | Crime, Horror, Mystery
Former F.B.I. profiler Will Graham (William Petersen) returns to service to pursue a deranged serial killer named "the Tooth Fairy" (Tom Noonan) by the media.
Director: Michael Mann | Stars: William Petersen, Kim Greist, Joan Allen, Brian Cox
Votes: 63,566 | Gross: $8.62M
22. Bios + politeia (1987)
105 min | Comedy
A smart electronic technician needs his fifteen minutes of fame to scrutinise the corrupt Government, threatening to blow a building to smithereens with his devilishly intricate explosive device. Who can stop a man with nothing to lose?
Director: Nicos Perakis | Stars: Giorgos Kimoulis, Dimitris Kallivokas, Giorgos Kotanidis, Pavlos Kontoyannidis
Votes: 625
23. La fille de d'Artagnan (1994)
R | 125 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
France, 1654: D'Artagnan's girl grows up in a convent. When the mother superior is murdered, Eloïse suspects a plan to murder the king and hopes to prevent this and revenge the murder by finding her father and the 3 musketeers.
Director: Bertrand Tavernier | Stars: Sophie Marceau, Philippe Noiret, Claude Rich, Sami Frey
Votes: 3,085 | Gross: $0.31M
24. Breaking the Code (1996 TV Movie)
75 min | Biography, Drama
A biography of the English mathematician Alan Turing, who was one of the inventors of the digital computer and one of the key figures in the breaking of the Enigma code, used by the Germans... See full summary »
Director: Herbert Wise | Stars: Derek Jacobi, Alun Armstrong, Blake Ritson, William Mannering
Votes: 618
25. Ngo si seoi (1998)
PG-13 | 120 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
A Secret Agent loses his memory after falling from a crashing helicopter. He is then chased by several other agency operatives, but he has no idea why.
Directors: Benny Chan, Jackie Chan | Stars: Jackie Chan, Michelle Ferre, Mirai Yamamoto, Ron Smerczak
Votes: 35,900
26.
Secrets of World War II (1998– )
Episode:
The Secrets Behind the Battle of Guadalcanal
(1998)
52 min | Documentary
Hundreds of sailors, eight ships and two American Admirals were to be lost in actions where valour overcame many mistakes on both sides - leading to the defeat of the Japanese Admiral Yamamoto.
Director: Jonathan Martin | Star: Robert Powell
Votes: 8
27. Hollow Man (2000)
18A | 112 min | Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
When the leader of a team of scientists volunteers to be the test subject for their experiment in human invisibility, he slowly unravels and turns against them, with horrific consequences.
Director: Paul Verhoeven | Stars: Kevin Bacon, Elisabeth Shue, Josh Brolin, Kim Dickens
Votes: 121,100 | Gross: $73.21M
28. Enigma (2001)
PG | 119 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance
A young genius frantically races against time to crack an enemy code and solve the mystery surrounding the woman he loves.
Director: Michael Apted | Stars: Dougray Scott, Kate Winslet, Saffron Burrows, Jeremy Northam
Votes: 19,804 | Gross: $4.30M
29. A Beautiful Mind (2001)
PG | 135 min | Biography, Drama
After John Nash, a brilliant but asocial mathematician, accepts secret work in cryptography, his life takes a turn for the nightmarish.
Director: Ron Howard | Stars: Russell Crowe, Ed Harris, Jennifer Connelly, Christopher Plummer
Votes: 822,482 | Gross: $170.74M
30.
Battlefront (2001– )
Episode:
Battle of Midway
(2001)
23 min | Documentary, War
Only one isolated atoll prevents an enemy invasion of Hawaii. Midway Island is where the Japanese fleet converges on a tiny American base with a massive strafing and bombing attack.
31. About Enigma - The Movie (2002 Video)
9 min | Documentary, Short
Stars: Michael Apted, Saffron Burrows, Robert Harris, Adolf Hitler
32. Enigma: Behind the Scenes (2002 Video)
11 min | Documentary, Short
Stars: Michael Apted, Saffron Burrows, Robert Harris, Mick Jagger
33. Enigma: Cast & Crew Interviews (2002 Video)
23 min | Documentary, Short, Talk-Show
Stars: Michael Apted, Saffron Burrows, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Robert Harris
34.
The Wire (2002–2008)
Episode:
The Pager
(2002)
18A | 60 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
Avon Barksdale is becoming paranoid and thinks he's being watched. He's also worried his phone is being tapped. He also thinks there's a snitch in D'Angelo's crew and he's told not to pay ... See full summary »
Director: Clark Johnson | Stars: Dominic West, John Doman, Idris Elba, Frankie Faison
Votes: 3,174
35. Red Dragon (2002)
18A | 124 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A retired FBI agent with psychological gifts is assigned to help track down "The Tooth Fairy", a mysterious serial killer. Aiding him is imprisoned forensic psychiatrist Dr. Hannibal "The Cannibal" Lecter.
Director: Brett Ratner | Stars: Anthony Hopkins, Edward Norton, Ralph Fiennes, Harvey Keitel
Votes: 244,623 | Gross: $93.15M
36. Who Got Diana Dors' Millions (2003 TV Movie)
Documentary
Diana Dors secret code revealing the whereabouts of a hidden family fortune.
Director: Isabel Tang | Stars: Mark Dawson, Jason Dors Lake
37. Bletchley Park and Enigma (2003 Video)
18 min | Documentary, Short, History
Stars: Michael Apted, Saffron Burrows, Robert Harris, Mick Jagger
38. Putting It All Together (2003 Video)
20 min | Documentary, Short
Stars: Michael Apted, Saffron Burrows, Robert Harris, Mick Jagger
39. Out of Reach (2004 Video)
14 | 86 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Billy Ray Lansing, a former covert agent turned survivalist, discovers that the foster program he is using to help a young girl is actually a human trafficking network. Lancing heads overseas to find the girl and shut down the operation.
Director: Po-Chih Leong | Stars: Steven Seagal, Ida Nowakowska, Agnieszka Wagner, Matt Schulze
Votes: 4,534
40. Dus (2005)
G | 152 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A team of specialist must catch a terrorist before he carries out an attack.
Director: Anubhav Sinha | Stars: Sanjay Dutt, Sunil Shetty, Abhishek Bachchan, Zayed Khan
Votes: 3,041
41.
Days That Shook the World (2003– )
Episode:
The Battle of Midway
(2005)
60 min | Documentary, History
Following the embarrassment caused by the Doolittle Raid on Tokyo, the Japanese devised a climactic battle over the island of Midway intended to finish U.S. naval power in the Pacific. On ... See full summary »
Director: Stuart Elliott | Stars: Terry Bowden, Noah Michael Levine, David Polinsky, Jun Suenaga
Votes: 11
42.
Numb3rs (2005–2010)
Episode:
Undercurrents
(2006)
60 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
The bodies of young Asian girls wash up on the beach, including one with bird flu. Amita gets a job offer.
Director: J. Miller Tobin | Stars: Rob Morrow, David Krumholtz, Judd Hirsch, Alimi Ballard
Votes: 194
44. Zodiac (2007)
14A | 157 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
In the late 1960s/early 1970s, a San Francisco cartoonist becomes an amateur detective obsessed with tracking down the Zodiac Killer, an unidentified individual who terrorizes Northern California with a killing spree.
Director: David Fincher | Stars: Jake Gyllenhaal, Robert Downey Jr., Mark Ruffalo, Anthony Edwards
Votes: 438,149 | Gross: $33.08M
45. Transformers (2007)
14A | 144 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
An ancient struggle between two Cybertronian races, the heroic Autobots and the evil Decepticons, comes to Earth, with a clue to the ultimate power held by a teenager.
Director: Michael Bay | Stars: Shia LaBeouf, Megan Fox, Josh Duhamel, Tyrese Gibson
Votes: 587,247 | Gross: $319.25M
46. Oswald's Ghost (2007)
83 min | Documentary
It accounts the events before and after one the most important events during that time, and they were told through eyewitnesses who were living at that time.
Director: Robert Stone | Stars: Hugh Aynesworth, David Bellin, Hale Boggs, Judith Campbell Exner
Votes: 200
47. National Treasure: Book of Secrets (2007)
PG | 124 min | Action, Adventure, Mystery
Benjamin Gates must follow a clue left in John Wilkes Booth's diary to prove his ancestor's innocence in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln.
Director: Jon Turteltaub | Stars: Nicolas Cage, Diane Kruger, Justin Bartha, Jon Voight
Votes: 214,353 | Gross: $219.96M
48.
Battle 360 (2008– )
Episode:
Vengeance at Midway
(2008)
55 min | Documentary, History, War
Wise to the Japanese trap at Midway the American carrier force prepares an ambush. Despite winning a tremendous victory, poorly executed air operations by the American forces lead to the ... See full summary »
Stars: Garth R. Hassell, Alan Pietruszewski
Votes: 21
49.
Criminal Minds (2005–2020)
Episode:
The Angel Maker
(2008)
TV-14 | 43 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
On the anniversary of a serial killer's execution, a murder spree which appears to be connected to him begins and the team must try and understand his mind in order to stop it.
Director: Glenn Kershaw | Stars: Joe Mantegna, Paget Brewster, Shemar Moore, Matthew Gray Gubler
Votes: 1,633
50.
Atashinchi no danshi (2009– )
Episode:
Hômuresu musume vs Henjin 6-kyôdai
(2009)
Comedy
Director: Hidetomo Matsuda | Stars: Maki Horikita, Jun Kaname, Yoshinori Okada, Osamu Mukai
Votes: 5