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1. Fried Green Tomatoes (1991)
PG-13 | 130 min | Drama
Evelyn, an ordinary housewife, visits a nursing home and befriends the old lady Ninny. Together, they bond over stories from the past about two intrepid women of Whistle Stop Cafe.
Director: Jon Avnet | Stars: Kathy Bates, Jessica Tandy, Mary Stuart Masterson, Mary-Louise Parker
Votes: 83,624 | Gross: $82.42M
2. Brimstone (2016)
R | 148 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
From the moment the new Reverend climbs the pulpit, Liz knows that she and her family are in great danger.
Director: Martin Koolhoven | Stars: Guy Pearce, Dakota Fanning, Emilia Jones, Carice van Houten
Votes: 45,169
3. Martyrs (2008)
R | 99 min | Horror
A young woman's quest for revenge against the people who kidnapped and tormented her as a child leads her and a friend, who is also a victim of child abuse, on a terrifying journey into a living hell of depravity.
Director: Pascal Laugier | Stars: Morjana Alaoui, Mylène Jampanoï, Catherine Bégin, Robert Toupin
Votes: 106,423
4. I, Tonya (2017)
R | 119 min | Biography, Comedy, Drama
Competitive ice skater Tonya Harding rises amongst the ranks at the U.S. Figure Skating Championships, but her future in the activity is thrown into doubt when her ex-husband intervenes.
Director: Craig Gillespie | Stars: Margot Robbie, Sebastian Stan, Allison Janney, Julianne Nicholson
Votes: 242,760 | Gross: $30.01M
5. Monster (2003)
R | 109 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
Based on the life of Aileen Wuornos, a Daytona Beach prostitute who became a serial killer.
Director: Patty Jenkins | Stars: Charlize Theron, Christina Ricci, Bruce Dern, Lee Tergesen
Votes: 161,816 | Gross: $34.47M
6. Thunderball (1965)
PG | 130 min | Action, Adventure, Thriller
James Bond heads to the Bahamas to recover two nuclear warheads stolen by S.P.E.C.T.R.E. Agent Emilio Largo in an international extortion scheme.
Director: Terence Young | Stars: Sean Connery, Claudine Auger, Adolfo Celi, Luciana Paluzzi
Votes: 127,100 | Gross: $63.60M
7. The Nightingale (I) (2018)
R | 136 min | Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Set in 1825, Clare, a young Irish convict woman, chases a British officer through the rugged Tasmanian wilderness, bent on revenge for a terrible act of violence he committed against her family. On the way she enlists the services of an Aboriginal tracker named Billy, who is also marked by trauma from his own violence-filled past.
Director: Jennifer Kent | Stars: Aisling Franciosi, Maya Christie, Baykali Ganambarr, Addison Christie
Votes: 35,648 | Gross: $0.39M
8. Ichi the Killer (2001)
R | 129 min | Action, Crime, Drama
As sadomasochistic yakuza enforcer Kakihara searches for his missing boss he comes across Ichi, a repressed and psychotic killer who may be able to inflict levels of pain that Kakihara has only dreamed of achieving.
Director: Takashi Miike | Stars: Tadanobu Asano, Nao Ômori, Shin'ya Tsukamoto, Paulyn Sun
Votes: 60,046 | Gross: $0.02M
9. The People Under the Stairs (1991)
R | 102 min | Comedy, Horror, Mystery
Two adults and a juvenile break into a house occupied by a brother and sister and their stolen children. There, they must fight for their lives.
Director: Wes Craven | Stars: Brandon Quintin Adams, Everett McGill, Wendy Robie, A.J. Langer
Votes: 39,660 | Gross: $24.20M
10. Widows (2018)
R | 129 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
Four women with nothing in common except a debt left behind by their dead husbands' criminal activities take fate into their own hands and conspire to forge a future on their own terms.
Director: Steve McQueen | Stars: Viola Davis, Michelle Rodriguez, Elizabeth Debicki
Votes: 104,135 | Gross: $42.40M
11. Locked Up (I) (2017 Video)
TV-MA | 86 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
When an American teenager gets bullied at her school in Southeast Asia, she fights back--and gets sent to a reform school. But the "school" is more like a prison, and the young teenager ... See full summary »
Director: Jared Cohn | Stars: Kelly McCart, Katrina Grey, Jared Cohn, Kat Ingkarat
Votes: 1,222
12. The Seasoning House (2012)
Not Rated | 90 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller
Sold at a brothel deep in the woods to work as a caretaker, a hapless deaf girl must summon the courage to fight for her life.
Director: Paul Hyett | Stars: Rosie Day, Sean Pertwee, Kevin Howarth, Anna Walton
Votes: 11,041
13. Even Lambs Have Teeth (2015)
Unrated | 79 min | Horror, Thriller
Two young women terrorized by a group of small town psychos seek revenge on their tormentors.
Director: Terry Miles | Stars: Tiera Skovbye, Kirsten Zien, Darren Mann, Manny Jacinto
Votes: 3,145
14. Frankie and Johnny (1991)
R | 118 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Johnny has just been released from prison, and gets a job in a café beside waitress Frankie. Frankie is a bit of a loner, but Johnny is determined their romance will blossom.
Director: Garry Marshall | Stars: Al Pacino, Michelle Pfeiffer, Hector Elizondo, Nathan Lane
Votes: 34,216 | Gross: $22.77M
15. Les Misérables (1998)
PG-13 | 134 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
Valjean, a former criminal, has atoned for his past and now finds himself in the midst of the French Revolution, avoiding a law-obsessed policeman hell-bent on capturing him.
Director: Bille August | Stars: Liam Neeson, Geoffrey Rush, Uma Thurman, Christopher Adamson
Votes: 43,185 | Gross: $14.10M
16. Ride or Die (2021)
TV-MA | 142 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
Rei helps the woman she's been in love with for years escape her abusive husband. While on the run, their feelings for each other catch fire.
Director: Ryûichi Hiroki | Stars: Kiko Mizuhara, Honami Satô, Shinya Niiro, Shunsuke Tanaka
Votes: 2,533
17. Martyrs (2015)
Not Rated | 86 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller
A woman and her childhood friend seek out revenge on those who victimized and abused them.
Directors: Kevin Goetz, Michael Goetz | Stars: Troian Bellisario, Bailey Noble, Kate Burton, Caitlin Carmichael
Votes: 6,914
18. Suffragette (2015)
PG-13 | 106 min | Drama, History
In 1912 London, a young working mother is galvanized into radical political activism supporting the right for women to vote, and is willing to meet violence with violence to achieve this end.
Director: Sarah Gavron | Stars: Carey Mulligan, Anne-Marie Duff, Helena Bonham Carter, Meryl Streep
Votes: 44,747 | Gross: $4.69M
19. Tyrannosaur (2011)
Not Rated | 92 min | Drama
Joseph, a man plagued by violence and a rage that is driving him to self-destruction, earns a chance of redemption that appears in the form of Hannah, a Christian charity shop worker.
Director: Paddy Considine | Stars: Peter Mullan, Archie Lal, Jag Sanghera, Mike Fearnley
Votes: 33,769 | Gross: $0.02M
20. Alfie (2004)
R | 103 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A cockney womanizer learns the hard way about the dangers of his actions.
Director: Charles Shyer | Stars: Jude Law, Sienna Miller, Susan Sarandon, Renée Taylor
Votes: 54,976 | Gross: $13.40M
21. No Mercy (1986)
R | 106 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
A Chicago detective, seeking to avenge his partner's death, travels to New Orleans, where he unexpectedly becomes involved in a cat and mouse game of survival.
Director: Richard Pearce | Stars: Richard Gere, Kim Basinger, Jeroen Krabbé, George Dzundza
Votes: 8,471 | Gross: $12.30M
22. Three Sisters (2022–2024)
150 min | Drama
The tale of three sisters and the obstacles they must overcome will be told. With Turkan's marriage, dark clouds will begin to hover over the family, and nothing will be the same as before.
Stars: Berker Güven, Özgü Kaya, Reha Özcan, Almila Ada
Votes: 806
23. Wanda (1970)
GP | 102 min | Crime, Drama
Wanda, a lonely housewife, drifts through mining country until she meets a petty thief who takes her in.
Director: Barbara Loden | Stars: Barbara Loden, Michael Higgins, Dorothy Shupenes, Peter Shupenes
Votes: 5,702 | Gross: $0.05M
24. Women in Cages (1971)
R | 81 min | Action, Crime, Drama
American women prisoners in a foreign country. Sex and action.
Director: Gerardo de Leon | Stars: Judith Brown, Roberta Collins, Jennifer Gan, Pam Grier
Votes: 1,939
25. The Burning Bed (1984 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 95 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
An abused battered wife has had enough of her husband beating up on her. Everywhere she turns for help, there's not much anyone will do. After he rapes her one night, she sets the bed on fire with him in it asleep.
Director: Robert Greenwald | Stars: Farrah Fawcett, Paul Le Mat, Richard Masur, Grace Zabriskie
Votes: 3,434
26. Walk on the Wild Side (1962)
Approved | 114 min | Drama, Romance
A man arrives in New Orleans searching for his former girlfriend, an artist who now works in a bordello.
Director: Edward Dmytryk | Stars: Laurence Harvey, Capucine, Jane Fonda, Anne Baxter
Votes: 2,943
27. Snuff 102 (2007)
Unrated | 105 min | Horror, Thriller
A young reporter fascinated by the urban legend of snuff movies gets more than she bargained for when her deep research begins.
Director: Mariano Peralta | Stars: Andrea Alfonso, Julián Alfonzo, Rodrigo Bianco, Nicolás Blanco
Votes: 1,166
28. Nude Nuns with Big Guns (2010)
Not Rated | 91 min | Action, Comedy, Thriller
A left-for-dead nun forced into prostitution embarks on a deadly revenge mission to do the Lord's work, punishing sinners in a strictly personal vigilante Holy War.
Director: Joseph Guzman | Stars: Asun Ortega, David Castro, Perry D'Marco, Maxie Santillan Jr.
Votes: 6,293
29. The Stendhal Syndrome (1996)
Not Rated | 113 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
A young policewoman slowly goes insane while tracking down an elusive serial rapist/killer through Italy when she herself becomes a victim of the brutal man's obsession.
Director: Dario Argento | Stars: Asia Argento, Thomas Kretschmann, Marco Leonardi, Luigi Diberti
Votes: 9,206
30. Brother (1997)
99 min | Action, Crime, Drama
An ex-soldier with a personal honor code enters the family crime business in St. Petersburg, Russia.
Director: Aleksey Balabanov | Stars: Sergey Bodrov, Viktor Sukhorukov, Svetlana Pismichenko, Mariya Zhukova
Votes: 24,531
31. 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: 7,572
32. Last Train from Gun Hill (1959)
Passed | 95 min | Western
A marshal tries to bring the son of an old friend, an autocratic cattle baron, to justice for his role in the rape and murder of the marshal's Native American wife.
Director: John Sturges | Stars: Kirk Douglas, Anthony Quinn, Carolyn Jones, Earl Holliman
Votes: 8,806 | Gross: $2.50M
33. Red White & Blue (2010)
Not Rated | 103 min | Drama, Thriller
A woman attracts the attention of a psychopathic former Army interrogator and an emotionally fragile young man caring for his depressed mother.
Director: Simon Rumley | Stars: Amanda Fuller, Marc Senter, Jon Michael Davis, Nick Holden
Votes: 6,148
34. Baby Blood (1990)
R | 88 min | Horror
When a strange creature crawls into a woman's uterus she becomes a killer in order to feed the tiny terror growing within her.
Director: Alain Robak | Stars: Emmanuelle Escourrou, Christian Sinniger, Jean-François Gallotte, Roselyne Geslot
Votes: 2,326
35. The Method (2015– )
TV-MA | 53 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
An ambitious young law enforcement graduate is thrilled when her idol takes her on as a trainee. But his methods aren't anything like she imagined.
Stars: Konstantin Khabenskiy, Paulina Andreeva, Kirill Polukhin, Alexander Petrov
Votes: 3,325
36. The Whip and the Body (1963)
Not Rated | 87 min | Horror, Romance
The ghost of a sadistic nobleman attempts to rekindle his romance with his terrorized, masochistic former lover, who is unwillingly betrothed to his brother.
Director: Mario Bava | Stars: Daliah Lavi, Christopher Lee, Tony Kendall, Ida Galli
Votes: 4,668
37. Love in Chains (2019–2023)
Drama, Romance
Katerina Verbitskaya grew up as a noble lady with her godmother Anna Chervinskaya. But everyone thinks that she was only Peter Chervinsky's property.
Stars: Olesya Zhurakivska, Katerina Kovalchuk, Mikhail Gavrilov, Fabiola Stevenson
Votes: 475
38. Prime Suspect: Inner Circles (1995 TV Movie)
R | 102 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A seemingly straightforward sex murder investigation by Superintendent Jane Tennison (Dame Helen Mirren) leads to a hidden political scandal.
Director: Sarah Pia Anderson | Stars: Helen Mirren, Thomas Russell, James Laurenson, Helene Kvale
Votes: 2,697
39. Marked Woman (1937)
Approved | 96 min | Crime, Film-Noir, Thriller
A crusading district attorney persuades a clip joint hostess to testify against her mobster boss after her innocent sister is accidentally murdered during one of his unsavory parties.
Directors: Lloyd Bacon, Michael Curtiz | Stars: Bette Davis, Humphrey Bogart, Lola Lane, Isabel Jewell
Votes: 4,832
40. Kiraware Matsuko no isshô (2006)
130 min | Comedy, Drama, Musical
When Matsuko is murdered, her nephew, Sho, gets to progressively unveil the many details of her mysterious past, discovering she wasn't just a forgotten outcast and had led an intriguing yet bizarre life.
Director: Tetsuya Nakashima | Stars: Miki Nakatani, Eita Nagayama, Yûsuke Iseya, Mikako Ichikawa
Votes: 8,739
41. Twilight Portrait (2011)
105 min | Drama
Marina, an upper-class social worker with a doting husband and an enviable downtown apartment, is suddenly transformed into a bizarre twilight version of herself after having been raped by three policemen.
Director: Angelina Nikonova | Stars: Olga Dykhovichnaya, Roman Merinov, Sergey Golyudov, Sergey Borisov
Votes: 902
42. Bettie Page Reveals All (2012)
R | 101 min | Documentary, Biography
The world's greatest pinup model and cult icon, Bettie Page, recounts the true story of how her free expression overcame government witch-hunts to help launch America's sexual revolution.
Director: Mark Mori | Stars: Bettie Page, Hugh Hefner, Olivia de Berardinis, Dita Von Teese
Votes: 1,631 | Gross: $0.10M
43. Dr. Lamb (1992)
Not Rated | 89 min | Crime, Thriller
An abnormal taxi driver lusts for blood every rainy night, and several young women are killed as a result.
Directors: Danny Lee, Billy Hin-Shing Tang | Stars: Danny Lee, Simon Yam, Kent Cheng, Pik Yu Chung
Votes: 938
44. If Someone Had Known (1995 TV Movie)
80 min | Biography, Drama
A young wife and mother is abused by her husband and keeps the secret from her friends and family.
Director: Eric Laneuville | Stars: Kellie Martin, Kevin Dobson, Linda Kelsey, Ivan Sergei
Votes: 533
45. Provoked (2006)
Not Rated | 113 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
Based on the true story of Kiranjit Ahluwalia, a Punjabi woman, who was abused by her husband for 10 years. After killing her husband in self-defense, Ahluwalia is imprisoned as those close to her fight to set her free.
Director: Jag Mundhra | Stars: Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, Michael Watson, Miranda Richardson, Naveen Andrews
Votes: 2,233
46. Dangerous Intentions (1995 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 96 min | Drama
A man stalks his wife and child when they leave for an abused women's shelter.
Director: Michael Toshiyuki Uno | Stars: Donna Mills, Corbin Bernsen, Allison Hossack, Sheila Larken
Votes: 580
47. Lord of Darkness (2012)
R | 90 min | Crime, Horror, Thriller
Scottish cannibal Sawney Bean and his murderous, inbred family are responsible for over a thousand murders over the centuries.
Director: Ricky Wood | Stars: David Hayman, Samuel Feeney, Gavin Mitchell, William Houston
Votes: 1,376
48. A Day, 365 Hours (2023)
79 min | Documentary
Two young women are joined by their shared experience of being abused. Their unexpected meeting forms a strong bond which gives them both the strength to take on their abusers in court and to help other young women to seek justice.
Director: Eylem Kaftan
Votes: 33
49. Dilberay Küçük Dev Kadin (2022)
130 min | Biography, Drama, Music
The life story of the iconic Turkish singer Dilberay, full of ups and downs.
Director: Ketche | Stars: Büsra Pekin, Ayberk Pekcan, Nursel Köse, Zeliha Kendirci
Votes: 1,172
50. Lyubi ikh vsekh (2019)
Not Rated | 100 min | Drama
She always has a plan. For each one. Each has its own name. One needs Faith. To another - Hope. And Love to almost everyone. She has a special approach to each of the men. But they always ... See full summary »
Director: Mariya Agranovich | Stars: Alyona Mikhaylova, Aleksandr Kuznetsov, Sergey Garmash, Aleksandra Kiseleva
Votes: 291