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1. Midsommar (2019)
R | 148 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
A couple travels to Northern Europe to visit a rural hometown's fabled Swedish mid-summer festival. What begins as an idyllic retreat quickly devolves into an increasingly violent and bizarre competition at the hands of a pagan cult.
Director: Ari Aster | Stars: Florence Pugh, Jack Reynor, Vilhelm Blomgren, William Jackson Harper
Votes: 403,358 | Gross: $27.33M
2. Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)
R | 137 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
A cyborg, identical to the one who failed to kill Sarah Connor, must now protect her ten year old son John from an even more advanced and powerful cyborg.
Director: James Cameron | Stars: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Linda Hamilton, Edward Furlong, Robert Patrick
Votes: 1,174,152 | Gross: $204.84M
3. The Sting (1973)
PG | 129 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
Two grifters team up to pull off the ultimate con.
Director: George Roy Hill | Stars: Paul Newman, Robert Redford, Robert Shaw, Charles Durning
Votes: 279,914 | Gross: $159.60M
4. Tag (I) (2018)
R | 100 min | Action, Comedy
A small group of former classmates organize an elaborate, annual game of tag that requires some to travel all over the country.
Director: Jeff Tomsic | Stars: Jeremy Renner, Ed Helms, Jake Johnson, Jon Hamm
Votes: 146,766 | Gross: $54.55M
5. Cool Runnings (1993)
PG | 98 min | Adventure, Comedy, Family
When a Jamaican sprinter is disqualified from the Olympic Games, he enlists the help of a dishonored coach to start the first Jamaican Bobsled Team.
Director: Jon Turteltaub | Stars: John Candy, Leon, Doug E. Doug, Rawle D. Lewis
Votes: 113,772 | Gross: $68.86M
6. Strangers on a Train (1951)
PG | 101 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
A psychopathic man tries to forcibly persuade a tennis star to agree to his theory that two strangers can get away with murder by submitting to his plan to kill the other's most-hated person.
Director: Alfred Hitchcock | Stars: Farley Granger, Robert Walker, Ruth Roman, Leo G. Carroll
Votes: 141,018 | Gross: $7.63M
7. Another 48 Hrs. (1990)
R | 95 min | Action, Comedy, Crime
Jack Cates once again enlists the aid of ex-con Reggie Hammond - this time to take down The Iceman, a ruthless drug lord operating in the San Francisco bay area.
Director: Walter Hill | Stars: Eddie Murphy, Nick Nolte, Brion James, Kevin Tighe
Votes: 44,528 | Gross: $80.82M
8. Elizabethtown (2005)
PG-13 | 123 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
During a hometown memorial for his Kentucky-born father, a young man begins an unexpected romance with a too-good-to-be-true stewardess.
Director: Cameron Crowe | Stars: Orlando Bloom, Kirsten Dunst, Susan Sarandon, Alec Baldwin
Votes: 72,701 | Gross: $26.84M
9. Happy Hour (2015)
Not Rated | 317 min | Drama
A slow-burning epic chronicling the emotional journey of four thirty something women in the misty seaside city of Kobe.
Director: Ryûsuke Hamaguchi | Stars: Sachie Tanaka, Hazuki Kikuchi, Maiko Mihara, Rira Kawamura
Votes: 2,940
10. Early Summer (1951)
Not Rated | 125 min | Drama, Romance
A family chooses a match for their daughter Noriko, but she, surprisingly, has her own plans.
Director: Yasujirô Ozu | Stars: Setsuko Hara, Chishû Ryû, Chikage Awashima, Kuniko Miyake
Votes: 9,679
11. Night Train (I) (2009)
R | 91 min | Crime, Horror, Mystery
Two passengers and the conductor discover that a man has passed away on their night train cabin. They come across a mysterious object in a box the dead man was carrying and they all wish to keep for themselves.
Director: Brian King | Stars: Danny Glover, Leelee Sobieski, Steve Zahn, Matthias Schweighöfer
Votes: 9,862
12. No Rest for the Wicked (2011)
Not Rated | 114 min | Crime, Thriller
A corrupt policeman commits a crime when drinking late at night. While his colleagues are trying to investigate his murder, he tries to clean up the evidence.
Director: Enrique Urbizu | Stars: Jose Coronado, Rodolfo Sancho, Helena Miquel, Juanjo Artero
Votes: 5,531
13. Monster Dog (1984)
R | 84 min | Horror, Music
A rock star returns to his childhood home to shoot a music video while a pack of wild dogs are on the loose killing off the local residents.
Director: Claudio Fragasso | Stars: Alice Cooper, Victoria Vera, Carlos Santurio, Pepa Sarsa
Votes: 1,600
14. Female Prisoner Scorpion: Beast Stable (1973)
Not Rated | 87 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
Matsu is sheltered by an incestuous prostitute on her run from the police, her ex-prison mate and a cop whose arm she hacked off.
Director: Shun'ya Itô | Stars: Meiko Kaji, Mikio Narita, Reisen Ri, Yayoi Watanabe
Votes: 2,105
15. Café Funiculi Funicula (2018)
117 min | Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
In a specific cafe and chair in Japan, one can travel back in time while drinking a cup of coffee. There are, however, 5 rules/restrictions. It opens for closure and changing one's future but not present.
Director: Ayuko Tsukahara | Stars: Kasumi Arimura, Motoki Fukami, Haru, Kento Hayashi
Votes: 1,302
16. Perfect World (2018)
102 min | Drama, Romance
Kawana Tsugumi works at an interior design company. She happens to meet her first love Ayukawa Itsuki from her high school days. He is now an architect and in a wheelchair because of an accident.
Director: Kenji Shibayama | Stars: Hana Sugisaki, Sei Ashina, Takanori Iwata, Aya Ohmasa
Votes: 201
17. Angel (2016)
80 min | Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Devastated with grief after the mysterious disappearance of her magician lover, Louise is sent to a psychiatric asylum. Nine months later, she gives birth to Angel, a baby boy with an ... See full summary »
Director: Harry Cleven | Stars: Hannah Boudreau, Maya Dory, Fleur Geffrier, Elina Löwensohn
Votes: 499
18. Complicity (2018)
116 min | Drama
A Chinese man moves illegally to Japan in order to improve his life and gain opportunity. He buys and assumes a false identity at considerable cost and is, therefore, more than happy to ... See full summary »
Director: Kei Chika-ura | Stars: Yulai Lü, Tatsuya Fuji, Sayo Akasaka, Yasuyuki Hayashi
Votes: 264
19. Nanimono (2016)
97 min | Drama
Looking for jobs, five young friends regularly meet at one's apartment. Judging and gauging one another by their ability to land job pits the friends as also competitors. When one of the ... See full summary »
Director: Daisuke Miura | Stars: Kasumi Arimura, Fumi Nikaidô, Masaki Okada, Takeru Satoh
Votes: 753
20. Junior and Karlson (1968)
19 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
A Soviet cartoon adaptation of a classic Swedish tale by Astrid Lindgren about Karlsson-on-the-Roof.
Director: Boris Stepantsev | Stars: Klara Rumyanova, Vasiliy Livanov, Valentina Leontyeva, Faina Ranevskaya
Votes: 3,406
21. Dexter: The First Season - Witnessed in Blood: A True Murder Investigation (2007 Video)
25 min | Documentary, Short, Crime
Jim Conley, the forensics supervisor of the Anaheim Police, tells the story of a murder investigation in which his knowledge of blood spatter was crucial.
Director: Chris Angel | Stars: John McStravick, David Tayar, Mike Wood, James Kazakos
Votes: 130
22. Au Revoir L'Ete (2013)
125 min | Drama
After failing her university entrance exam, Sakuko is invited by her aunt Mikie to spend summer vacation in a beautiful seaside town. Sakuko gets to know the people of the town, including Takashi, a shy relative of her childhood friend.
Director: Kôji Fukada | Stars: Fumi Nikaidô, Mayu Tsuruta, Taiga Nakano, Kanji Furutachi
Votes: 456
23. Hospitality (2010)
Unrated | 96 min | Comedy, Drama, Mystery
The film follows the follies that ensue when a man and his wife shack up with a family that owns a printing press in their building, the husband takes it over, and the couple begin inviting a motley crew of friends.
Director: Kôji Fukada | Stars: Kenji Yamauchi, Kiki Sugino, Kanji Furutachi, Bryerly Long
Votes: 539
24. Promises (II) (2020)
112 min | Drama, Romance
Latchkey kids lose touch when one of them moves away, only to reconnect years later without realizing it, having changed their names to escape their pasts. Once they realize who each other are; they are able heal the wounds of their pasts.
Directors: Melody Brooke, Mike Henricks | Stars: Manu Intiraymi, Kim Jackson Davis, Melody Brooke, Benjamin Dane
Votes: 86
25. A Christmas Without Snow (1980 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 95 min | Drama, Music
A divorced woman moves to a new city, trying to rebuild her life. She joins the choir of a local church and is inspired by the choirmaster, a curmudgeonly old gentleman who will accept ... See full summary »
Director: John Korty | Stars: Michael Learned, John Houseman, Ramon Bieri, James Cromwell
Votes: 410
26. Kazim (2018)
86 min | Documentary, Biography
Nothing is coincidence, or everything is.
Director: Dilek Kaya | Stars: Mustafa Kazim Kucukalp, Dilek Kaya, Yasemin Kumbasar Gok, Yasar Akinci
Votes: 64
27. Old Stone (2016)
Unrated | 80 min | Thriller
A psychological thriller about a taxi driver battling bureaucracy and legal manipulation in China.
Director: Johnny Ma | Stars: Gang Chen, Nai An, Hongwei Wang, Zebin Zhang
Votes: 606 | Gross: $0.00M
28. Blank 13 (2017)
70 min | Drama, Family
A son discovers the unknown life of his deserted father's after his death.
Director: Takumi Saitô | Stars: Cookie, Yoshikazu Ebisu, Lily Franky, Seiji Fukushi
Votes: 245
29. Terminator the Second (2011 TV Movie)
96 min | Action, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Terminator the Second is a parody of the film Terminator 2: Judgment Day, constructed solely of lines and phrases from the plays of William Shakespeare.
Directors: Cody DeVos, Marshall Weber | Stars: Jamie Bradley, Randal Cooper, Jasson Cring, Phillip Currie
Votes: 6
30. Akko's Secret (2012)
120 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Young Atsuko Kagami comes into possession of a magical mirror that lets her transform into anything she wishes. Atsuko Kagami then attempts to save a company which is about to be sold by ... See full summary »
Director: Yasuhiro Kawamura | Stars: Haruka Ayase, Ai Yoshikawa, Masaki Okada, Takeshi Kaga
Votes: 329
31. Murder in Aquitaine (2018 TV Movie)
TV-14 | 90 min | Crime, Drama
While setting up an exhibition of "The Mummies of St. Michael" an archaeologist discovers a real skeleton in a red robe.
Director: David Morley | Stars: Lucie Lucas, Pierre-Yves Bon, Marianne Basler, Cyrielle Debreuil
Votes: 66
32. Let Me Buy You a Drink (2019)
98 min | Comedy
Christian is a dreamer who cannot find his place in this world; for the past 10 years he's been living in London, a city of a million opportunities, and training to become a professional in... See full summary »
Director: Ilaria Gambarelli | Stars: Beatrice D'Andrea, Ottavia De Rege, Ernesto Garibotto, Ilaria Gelmi
Votes: 488
33. Akira & Akira (2017)
60 min | Drama
The story begins in April 1986 and is set during the days of the bubble economy. Kaidou Akira comes from a wealthy background and is the heir of a large company Tokai Yuusen. On the other ... See full summary »
Stars: Osamu Mukai, Takumi Saitô, Kôtarô Koizumi, Rena Tanaka
Votes: 23
34. Le couteau sous la gorge (1955)
90 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
Pacos Le Maltais, leader of a gang,lays down the law on the quay of Marseille .He fires one of his henchmen ,Le Chinois ,who killed a woman during the last bank stickup.
Director: Jacques Séverac | Stars: Jean Servais, Madeleine Robinson, Jean Chevrier, Yves Deniaud
Votes: 37
35. The Girl Under the Waves (2001)
80 min | Drama
Four actors, an off-screen narrator, and a director put together an improvisation. Savannah arrives in New York, having arranged to stay in the empty apartment of Michael, an acquaintance. ... See full summary »
Director: Jay Anania | Stars: Jonathan Ames, Isabel Gillies, Savannah Haske, David Thornton
Votes: 45
36. Les beaux jours (2003 TV Movie)
100 min | Comedy, Drama
In 1936, when French workers finally earn the right to paid vacations, the "proletariat" discover for the first time in their lives the pleasure, adventures and other aspects of the annual ... See full summary »
Director: Jean-Pierre Sinapi | Stars: Clotilde Courau, Nadine Marcovici, Guillaume Cramoisan, Emilie Gavois-Kahn
Votes: 50
37. Tombé sur la tête (2010 TV Movie)
Comedy
Thomas is an arrogant and merciless businessman who live in a universe of luxury.Mathilde is a very sensible and insecure woman who recuperates a lot things in the dustbins.This day Thomas ... See full summary »
Director: Didier Albert | Stars: Michèle Bernier, Bruno Madinier, Lilou Fogli, Pierre-Arnaud Juin
Votes: 19
38. Kafe (2010)
7 min | Short, Drama
Director: Tufan Simsekcan | Stars: Sevval Sam, Ruhi Sari
Votes: 45
39. Conjunction (2004)
12 min | Short
Amanda gets in her car on an ordinary morning to go to work, only to find that her car is inhabiited by Dave a total stranger. Dave asks her to drive him to a certain meeting point and ... See full summary »
Director: Victoria Trzeciak | Stars: Fiona England, Victoria Trzeciak, Aidan Walker
40. Biele vrany (1977 TV Movie)
54 min | Drama
Director: Milos Pietor | Stars: Zdena Studenková, Jozef Vajda, Nada Hejna, Mikulás Huba
41.
Maigret (1991–2005)
Episode:
Maigret et la grande perche
(1991)
95 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Maigret learns from a shady acquaintance that a murder has occurred during a burglary at a dentist's home. Tho his wife has disappeared, neither the suspiciously uncooperative dentist nor ... See full summary »
Director: Claude Goretta | Stars: Bruno Cremer, Michael Lonsdale, Renée Faure, Elisabeth Macocco
Votes: 156
42.
Maigret (1991–2005)
Episode:
Maigret et les sept petites croix
(2004)
87 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Mid-August in Paris, and Maigret is due to leave on vacation. His travel plans get interrupted when a 60-year-old woman is killed in her own apartment. The police suspect it may be the ... See full summary »
Director: Jérôme Boivin | Stars: Bruno Cremer, Rémi Martin, Didier Agostini, Alain Floret
Votes: 69
43.
Leipzig Homicide (2001– )
Episode:
Die Tote aus Riga
(2004)
88 min | Crime
It's Christmas and in this Sunday morning the team has been called for the corpse of a woman. The medical examiner says that she is about 25 years old and that she has been hit by a car. They don't know her name.
Director: Patrick Winczewski | Stars: Andreas Schmidt-Schaller, Marco Girnth, Gabriel Merz, Melanie Marschke
Votes: 10
44.
The Old Fox (1977– )
Episode:
Alte Kameraden
(1979)
59 min | Crime, Drama
Hans Pagel has been released from prison, the old fox sees a man with a handgun in a car , shouts and Hans Pagel can save his life from a murder attempt.
Director: Theodor Grädler | Stars: Siegfried Lowitz, Michael Ande, Jan Hendriks, Henning Schlüter
Votes: 32
45.
The Old Fox (1977– )
Episode:
Das Attentat
(1986)
58 min | Crime, Drama
A man has arrived at a great department store, goes to the higher level of the parking and climbs to the top of a small building.There the man menaces to commit suicide.The local policeman ... See full summary »
Director: Zbynek Brynych | Stars: Rolf Schimpf, Michael Ande, Charles M. Huber, Herbert Stass
Votes: 24
46.
The Old Fox (1977– )
Episode:
Der Detektiv
(1980)
58 min | Crime, Drama
In a customs deposit a guardian has been killed by a shot.The brother of the victim, a former colleague of the old Fox ,now private detective wants to help the old fox to find the murderer.
Director: Dietrich Haugk | Stars: Siegfried Lowitz, Michael Ande, Jan Hendriks, Henning Schlüter
Votes: 29
47.
The Old Fox (1977– )
Episode:
Der Freund
(1980)
59 min | Crime, Drama
The Commissary has some days of vacation and returns to the town where he was working 30 years ago.There he sees a police car before a house and observes a old lady who died by suicide,but he is not convinced about it.
Director: Zbynek Brynych | Stars: Siegfried Lowitz, Walter Sedlmayr, Ida Krottendorf, Ruth Drexel
Votes: 31
48.
The Old Fox (1977– )
Episode:
Reihe 7 Grab 11
(1984)
59 min | Crime, Drama
A prisoner, who was participating in forestry activities, manages to knock one of the guards and to stay with his revolver.He flees towards the next motorway and finds a young couple in a ... See full summary »
Director: Theodor Grädler | Stars: Siegfried Lowitz, Michael Ande, Jan Hendriks, Karl Walter Diess
Votes: 28
49.
Andromeda (2000–2005)
Episode:
Waking the Tyrant's Device
(2003)
TV-PG | 43 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Dylan's sent on a mission, but isn't informed of the danger he faces. Andromeda's captured by a gravity field which is the target of their mission. Dylan discovers the moon's the base of ... See full summary »
Director: Andrew Potter | Stars: Kevin Sorbo, Lisa Ryder, Gordon Michael Woolvett, Laura Bertram
Votes: 157
50.
Babylon 5 (1993–1998)
Episode:
Points of Departure
(1994)
TV-PG | 43 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
As Captain John Sheridan assumes command of Babylon 5, he learns the reason why the Minbari inexplicably surrendered to Earth in the Earth-Minbari War while a renegade Minbari ship seeks to restart it.
Director: Janet Greek | Stars: Bruce Boxleitner, Claudia Christian, Jerry Doyle, Mira Furlan
Votes: 792