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1. Romancing the Stone (1984)

PG | 106 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy

A mousy romance novelist sets off for Colombia to ransom her kidnapped sister, and soon finds herself in the middle of a dangerous adventure hunting for treasure with a mercenary rogue.

Director: Robert Zemeckis | Stars: Michael Douglas, Kathleen Turner, Danny DeVito, Zack Norman

Votes: 103,269 | Gross: $76.57M

2. 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: 197,423 | Gross: $18.66M

3. Runaway Jury (2003)

PG-13 | 127 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

A juror on the inside and a woman on the outside manipulate a court trial involving a major gun manufacturer.

Director: Gary Fleder | Stars: John Cusack, Rachel Weisz, Gene Hackman, Dustin Hoffman

Votes: 104,567 | Gross: $49.44M

4. American Gigolo (1980)

R | 117 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

A Los Angeles escort is accused of a murder which he did not commit.

Director: Paul Schrader | Stars: Richard Gere, Lauren Hutton, Hector Elizondo, Nina van Pallandt

Votes: 29,427 | Gross: $23.00M

5. The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones (2013)

PG-13 | 130 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy

When her mother disappears, Clary Fray learns that she descends from a line of warriors who protect our world from demons. She joins forces with others like her and heads into a dangerous alternate New York called the Shadow World.

Director: Harald Zwart | Stars: Lily Collins, Jamie Campbell Bower, Robert Sheehan, Jemima West

Votes: 138,754 | Gross: $31.17M

6. 1900 (1976)

Unrated | 317 min | Drama, History

The epic tale of a class struggle in twentieth-century Italy as seen through the eyes of two childhood friends on opposing sides.

Director: Bernardo Bertolucci | Stars: Robert De Niro, Gérard Depardieu, Dominique Sanda, Francesca Bertini

Votes: 27,279

7. Klute (1971)

R | 114 min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller

A small-town detective searching for a missing man has only one lead: a connection with a New York prostitute.

Director: Alan J. Pakula | Stars: Jane Fonda, Donald Sutherland, Charles Cioffi, Roy Scheider

Votes: 29,612 | Gross: $17.44M

8. An Officer and a Spy (2019)

132 min | Drama, History, Thriller

In 1894, French Captain Alfred Dreyfus is wrongfully convicted of treason and sentenced to life imprisonment at Devil's island.

Director: Roman Polanski | Stars: Louis Garrel, Christophe Maratier, Pierre Poirot, Stéfan Godin

Votes: 21,080

9. Defense of the Realm (1985)

PG | 96 min | Thriller

After a newspaper reporter helps expose a Member of Parliament as a possible spy, he finds that there's much more to the story than that.

Director: David Drury | Stars: Gabriel Byrne, Greta Scacchi, Denholm Elliott, Ian Bannen

Votes: 2,521 | Gross: $0.75M

10. Missing (1982)

PG | 122 min | Biography, Drama, History

When an idealistic American writer disappears during the Chilean coup d'état in September 1973, his wife and father try to find him.

Director: Costa-Gavras | Stars: Jack Lemmon, Sissy Spacek, Melanie Mayron, John Shea

Votes: 23,356 | Gross: $14.00M

11. The Perfect Guy (I) (2015)

PG-13 | 100 min | Drama, Romance, Thriller

After breaking up with her boyfriend, a professional woman gets involved with a man who seems almost too good to be true.

Director: David M. Rosenthal | Stars: Sanaa Lathan, Michael Ealy, Morris Chestnut, L. Scott Caldwell

Votes: 11,282 | Gross: $57.02M

12. Universal Soldier: Day of Reckoning (2012)

R | 114 min | Action, Horror, Mystery

John looks to take down Luc Deveraux after a home invasion claims his wife and daughter. The fight pits John against Andrew Scott and an army of genetically enhanced warriors; meanwhile, he must contend with a UniSol in relentless pursuit.

Director: John Hyams | Stars: Jean-Claude Van Damme, Dolph Lundgren, Scott Adkins, Mariah Bonner

Votes: 21,387 | Gross: $0.01M

13. The Forger (2022)

116 min | Biography, Drama

Cioma Schönhaus, a 21-year-old Jewish man, escapes the Gestapo and saves lives thanks to his ability to forge passports. His other talent is forging his own identity.

Director: Maggie Peren | Stars: Louis Hofmann, Jonathan Berlin, Luna Wedler, Nina Gummich

Votes: 1,137

14. Cold Comes the Night (2013)

R | 90 min | Action, Crime, Mystery

A struggling motel owner and her daughter are taken hostage by a nearly blind career criminal to be his eyes as he attempts to retrieve his cash package from a crooked cop.

Director: Tze Chun | Stars: Alice Eve, Bryan Cranston, Logan Marshall-Green, Ursula Parker

Votes: 9,835

15. Devils of Darkness (1965)

Approved | 88 min | Horror

A secret vampire cult, which has its headquarters beneath the town cemetery, searches for victims for its human sacrifice rituals.

Director: Lance Comfort | Stars: William Sylvester, Hubert Noël, Carole Gray, Tracy Reed

Votes: 1,056

16. Deceived (1991)

PG-13 | 104 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

A man is murdered when checking authenticity of ancient Egyptian jewelry at a museum. Adrienne finds out after the death of her husband, that he was using a fake name. Are the 2 deaths linked?

Director: Damian Harris | Stars: Goldie Hawn, John Heard, Damon Redfern, Charles Kassatly

Votes: 7,958 | Gross: $28.74M

17. Funeral in Berlin (1966)

Not Rated | 102 min | Thriller

Sent to East Berlin to retrieve a Communist defector, British spy Harry Palmer suspects the situation is not what his superiors believe it to be.

Director: Guy Hamilton | Stars: Michael Caine, Oscar Homolka, Paul Hubschmid, Eva Renzi

Votes: 7,777

18. Scorpio (1973)

PG | 114 min | Action, Drama, Thriller

During the Cold War, the CIA orders free-lance operative Scorpio to assassinate his former CIA mentor Cross and a deadly cat-and-mouse game ensues.

Director: Michael Winner | Stars: Burt Lancaster, Alain Delon, Paul Scofield, John Colicos

Votes: 5,206

19. Our Man in Havana (1959)

Not Rated | 111 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

Jim Wormold, who is a vacuum cleaner salesman, participates as an Agent in the British Secret Service. But he soon realizes that his plans by lying are going to get him into trouble.

Director: Carol Reed | Stars: Alec Guinness, Maureen O'Hara, Burl Ives, Ernie Kovacs

Votes: 6,098

20. Hammett (1982)

PG | 97 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Fictional account of real-life mystery writer Dashiell Hammett, and his involvement in the investigation of a beautiful Chinese cabaret actress' mysterious disappearance in San Francisco.

Director: Wim Wenders | Stars: Frederic Forrest, Peter Boyle, Marilu Henner, Roy Kinnear

Votes: 3,687 | Gross: $0.04M

21. The Prisoner of Second Avenue (1975)

PG | 98 min | Comedy

A suddenly-unemployed company executive suffers a nervous breakdown, and his supporting wife tries everything to console him and pick up the slack.

Director: Melvin Frank | Stars: Jack Lemmon, Anne Bancroft, Gene Saks, Elizabeth Wilson

Votes: 3,853

22. Le plus beau métier du monde (1996)

105 min | Comedy, Drama

Gerard Depardieu is a new teacher in a lower class school. He has a hard time with a special eighth grade class, and in his building.

Director: Gérard Lauzier | Stars: Gérard Depardieu, Michèle Laroque, Souad Amidou, Ticky Holgado

Votes: 1,217 | Gross: $0.02M

23. Crack-Up (1946)

Approved | 93 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

Art curator George Steele experiences a train wreck...which may not have actually happened. Is he cracking up, or the victim of a wicked plot?

Director: Irving Reis | Stars: Pat O'Brien, Claire Trevor, Herbert Marshall, Ray Collins

Votes: 1,628

24. The Tenants (2005)

R | 93 min | Crime, Drama, Romance

In an abandoned tenement, an African-American militant writer and a Jewish novelist develop a friendship while struggling to complete their novels, but inner tension rises between the two.

Director: Danny Green | Stars: Dylan McDermott, Snoop Dogg, Rose Byrne, Seymour Cassel

Votes: 1,114 | Gross: $0.00M

25. Satan Met a Lady (1936)

Passed | 74 min | Comedy, Crime, Mystery

A double-crossing woman, the two-timing P.I. she hired, the corpulent "empress of crime", and a gentleman thief are all after a legendary priceless eighth-century ram's horn.

Director: William Dieterle | Stars: Bette Davis, Warren William, Alison Skipworth, Arthur Treacher

Votes: 2,451

26. The Eavesdropper (2016)

91 min | Action, Mystery, Thriller

The unemployed Duval is contacted by a mysterious organization to transcribe intercepted calls. He accepts the job with no suspicions, since it restores stability to his life, but it will soon result in political shenanigans of all kinds.

Director: Thomas Kruithof | Stars: François Cluzet, Denis Podalydès, Sami Bouajila, Simon Abkarian

Votes: 2,606

27. Le grand jeu (I) (2015)

99 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller

Ostensible puppet master is an affable white-haired gentleman named Joseph Paskin casually approaches the sullen Pierre Blum outside a French casino. Joseph pretends not to recognize the 40... See full summary »

Director: Nicolas Pariser | Stars: Melvil Poupaud, André Dussollier, Clémence Poésy, Sophie Cattani

Votes: 442

28. Dress Gray (1986)

192 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

When a first-classman's insignia is found on the riverbank near the drowned body of plebe David Hand, the specter of murder casts a shadow of scandal across the U.S. Grant Military Academy.... See full summary »

Stars: Eddie Albert, Alec Baldwin, Lloyd Bridges, Patrick Cassidy

Votes: 392

29. Bombay Waterfront (1952)

71 min | Crime, Mystery

The Temples investigate a series of gruesome murders attributed to a mysterious figure known as "The Marquis".

Director: Maclean Rogers | Stars: John Bentley, Patricia Dainton, Grey Blake, Peter Gawthorne

Votes: 188

30. We Have Everywhere to Go (2019)

25 min | Short, Comedy, Drama

An embittered intellectual's plan to steal a case of drugs and start a new life for himself are thwarted by the arrival of his ambitious yet naïve nephew, who has travelled to London for his first audition out of drama school.

Director: Ben Hunter | Stars: Hamish Clark, Angus Yellowlees, Aran Bert, Kirsty Dillon

Votes: 6

31. Stick It (2014)

5 min | Short, Romance, Sport

The single channel video STICK IT combines television footage of women's gymnastics with recordings of the artist attempting the same routines. Merging himself and the young gymnasts of the... See full summary »

Director: Stefan Ramirez Perez

32. CSI: NY (2004–2013)
Episode: Night, Mother (2004)

TV-14 | 42 min | Action, Crime, Drama

Mac and Stella investigate the murder of a woman who was stabbed in the heart with a wooden stake. The police arrest a woman who was kneeling over the body with blood on her, but Mac isn't convinced that she committed the crime.

Director: Deran Sarafian | Stars: Gary Sinise, Melina Kanakaredes, Carmine Giovinazzo, Vanessa Ferlito

Votes: 359

33. CSI: NY (2004–2013)
Episode: Three Generations Are Enough (2004)

TV-14 | 42 min | Action, Crime, Drama

A suspicious brief case is found at a mercantile marker and a bomb squad is immediately summoned to the scene where Dectective Taylor is using a robot to lift a fingerprint off of it. Meanwhile, an apparent suicide takes place at a church.

Director: Alex Zakrzewski | Stars: Gary Sinise, Melina Kanakaredes, Carmine Giovinazzo, Vanessa Ferlito

Votes: 345

34. Cannon (1971–1976)
Episode: Target in the Mirror (1973)

TV-PG | 60 min | Action, Crime, Drama

Cannon turns down a client, and when she is killed in her house shortly after his visit, he is drawn into both her murder investigation and the reason she called him.

Director: Gene Nelson | Stars: William Conrad, Claude Akins, Frank Marth, Alex Rocco

Votes: 113

35. The Equalizer (1985–1989)
Episode: Beyond Control (1987)

TV-PG | 48 min | Action, Crime, Drama

The death of a KGB mole forces Control to operate without the resources or knowledge of the Company; he asks for McCall's help to locate the stolen files of a secret committee while avoiding one of the KGB's top operatives.

Director: Alan Metzger | Stars: Edward Woodward, Liane Curtis, Brian Bedford, Philip Kraus

Votes: 85

36. The Fall Guy (1981–1986)
Episode: No Way Out (1982)

TV-14 | 49 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy

A wanted, deep-in-debt gambler gives himself up, hoping that Colt and Howie can get him out of Las Vegas alive.

Director: Bruce Bilson | Stars: Lee Majors, Douglas Barr, Heather Thomas, Jo Ann Pflug

Votes: 115

37. Naked City (1958–1963)
Episode: Murder Is a Face I Know (1961)

TV-14 | 60 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

Hitman's arrest destroys his double life as a small businessman who earned his new community's respect. Hurting the most is his son, a university basketball ace who worships his father, and... See full summary »

Director: Arthur Hiller | Stars: Theodore Bikel, Paul Burke, Horace McMahon, Nancy Malone

Votes: 84

38. Silk Stalkings (1991–1999)
Episode: Mother Love (1994)

TV-14 | 47 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

A scheming stepmother seduces her husband's son in order to Inherit his fortune.

Director: Mitzi Kapture | Stars: Mitzi Kapture, Rob Estes, Tim Thomerson, Stacie Randall

Votes: 24

39. The X-Files (1993–2018)
Episode: Tempus Fugit (1997)

TV-14 | 44 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

While investigating the unexplained crash of a commercial airliner the agents' search for answers leads to the bottom of a desolate lake and a startling discovery involving Mulder's alien abductee friend Max Fenig.

Director: Rob Bowman | Stars: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Joe Spano, Tom O'Brien

Votes: 3,943

40. Policías, en el corazón de la calle (2000–2003)
Episode: Algo fieramente puro (2000)

Action, Crime, Drama

Unable to find evidence to put JC behind bars, Rafa promises prostitute Lidia to protect her until she is safe, but after taking her to his apartment he soon sees he is putting in risk the ... See full summary »

Director: Sandra Gallego | Stars: Adolfo Fernández, Natalia Millán, Daniel Guzmán, Toni Sevilla

41. The Sons of Sam: A Descent into Darkness (2021)
Episode: The Ultimate Evil (2021)

TV-MA | 58 min | Documentary, Crime, History

New leads send Maury down a twisted path, investigating a web of cults. As a "satanic panic" grips the nation, he publishes a book.

Director: Joshua Zeman | Stars: Paul Giamatti, Maury Terry, Frank Anthony, David Berkowitz

Votes: 617

42. The Sons of Sam: A Descent into Darkness (2021)
Episode: Rabbit Hole (2021)

TV-MA | 61 min | Documentary, Crime, History

In 1993, Maury interviews the elusive Berkowitz, who substantiates his theories about the cult. But his obsession with the case begins to take a toll.

Director: Joshua Zeman | Stars: Paul Giamatti, Maury Terry, Wayne Darwen, David Berkowitz

Votes: 603

43. Being Human (2008–2013)
Episode: Flotsam and Jetsam (2009)

TV-14 | 58 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy

While Mitchell struggles with his growing lust for blood when asked out on a date, Annie has a harder time dealing with her emotions than she thought when she comes face to face with a someone from her past.

Director: Toby Haynes | Stars: Lenora Crichlow, Russell Tovey, Aidan Turner, Annabel Scholey

Votes: 477

44. CSI: NY (2004–2013)
Episode: Pot of Gold (2010)

TV-14 | 60 min | Action, Crime, Drama

The team discovers that a double homicide is related to a pair of journalist bloggers' investigation into fraud by a company that makes gold bullion.

Director: Eriq La Salle | Stars: Gary Sinise, Melina Kanakaredes, Carmine Giovinazzo, Anna Belknap

Votes: 284

45. The Mentalist (2008–2015)
Episode: 18-5-4 (2010)

TV-14 | 43 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

A brilliant mathematician is shot and killed by a clown, and the team discovers that he was working on a priceless code-breaking device.

Director: Charles Beeson | Stars: Simon Baker, Robin Tunney, Tim Kang, Owain Yeoman

Votes: 1,387

46. White Collar (2009–2014)
Episode: By the Book (2010)

TV-PG | 43 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

For the first time ever, Mozzie must turn for help to the FBI, via Neal, desperately worried when the person of his affection, waitress Gina De Stefano from a local diner, disappears. ... See full summary »

Director: Michael Smith | Stars: Matt Bomer, Tim DeKay, Willie Garson, Marsha Thomason

Votes: 863

47. The Mentalist (2008–2015)
Episode: Red Carpet Treatment (2010)

TV-14 | 42 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Patrick battles with a former defense attorney-turned courtroom talk show host as CBI tries to find the person who killed a convicted felon who was set free because of faulty DNA evidence.

Director: Charles Beeson | Stars: Simon Baker, Robin Tunney, Tim Kang, Owain Yeoman

Votes: 1,381

48. First Blood (2022– )
Episode: Richard Ramirez: The Nightstalker (2022)

TV-14 | Documentary, Crime, History

One of the most well-known serial killers, Richard Ramirez terrorized Southern California in the mid-1980s, where anyone could be a target of the sadistic murderer.

Director: David Bispham | Stars: Gisele Lavigne, Glynn Martin, Alan Yochelson, Gary Brucato

Votes: 10

49. White Collar (2009–2014)
Episode: Gloves Off (2012)

TV-PG | 44 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

Neal has to resume his Wall Street alias to apply for a broker position in the investment firm of slick 'friend' Eric Dunham, who is suspected of systematic insider trading. That requires ... See full summary »

Director: Renny Harlin | Stars: Matt Bomer, Tim DeKay, Willie Garson, Marsha Thomason

Votes: 724

50. The Equalizer (2021– )
Episode: He Ain't Heavy (2023)

TV-14 | 42 min | Action, Crime, Drama

Mel is hot on the trail of a mysterious stranger who she believes knows the whereabouts of her brother Edison. She believes he is involved in his disappearance and she is going on a rampage... See full summary »

Director: John Terlesky | Stars: Queen Latifah, Tory Kittles, Adam Goldberg, Liza Lapira

Votes: 190