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1. Shameless (2011–2021)
TV-MA | 60 min | Comedy, Drama
A scrappy, feisty, fiercely loyal Chicago family makes no apologies.
Stars: Emmy Rossum, William H. Macy, Ethan Cutkosky, Jeremy Allen White
Votes: 285,922
2. In Time (2011)
PG-13 | 109 min | Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
In a future where people stop aging at 25, but are engineered to live only one more year, having the means to buy your way out of the situation is a shot at immortal youth. Will Salas is accused of murder and on the run with a hostage.
Director: Andrew Niccol | Stars: Justin Timberlake, Amanda Seyfried, Cillian Murphy, Olivia Wilde
Votes: 446,765 | Gross: $37.52M
3. The Florida Project (2017)
R | 111 min | Drama
Set over one summer, the film follows precocious six-year-old Moonee as she courts mischief and adventure with her ragtag playmates and bonds with her rebellious but caring mother, all while living in the shadows of Walt Disney World.
Director: Sean Baker | Stars: Brooklynn Prince, Bria Vinaite, Willem Dafoe, Christopher Rivera
Votes: 128,539 | Gross: $5.90M
4. Snowpiercer (2013)
R | 126 min | Action, Drama, Sci-Fi
In a future where a failed climate change experiment has killed all life except for the survivors who boarded the Snowpiercer (a train that travels around the globe), a new class system emerges.
Director: Bong Joon Ho | Stars: Chris Evans, Jamie Bell, Tilda Swinton, Ed Harris
Votes: 389,263 | Gross: $4.56M
5. Lola (2024)
84 min | Drama
Lola James works to save enough money to get her little brother, Arlo, out of their toxic home. Arlo keeps her hopeful, until one tragic night, when her whole world gets uprooted. From that moment on, nothing will ever be the same.
Director: Nicola Peltz Beckham | Stars: Nicola Peltz Beckham, Raven Goodwin, Richie Merritt, Luke David Blumm
Votes: 578
6. Fish Tank (2009)
Not Rated | 123 min | Drama
Everything changes for 15-year-old Mia when her mum brings home a new boyfriend.
Director: Andrea Arnold | Stars: Katie Jarvis, Michael Fassbender, Kierston Wareing, Rebecca Griffiths
Votes: 65,066 | Gross: $0.37M
7. War Pony (2022)
R | 115 min | Crime, Drama
The interlocking stories of two young Oglala Lakota men growing up on the Pine Ridge Reservation.
Directors: Gina Gammell, Riley Keough | Stars: Anjeliq Aurora, Sean Baker, Iona Red Bear, Jessica Poor Bear
Votes: 2,539
8. Beautiful Thing (1996)
R | 90 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Jamie is a shy teenager, often bullied at school. His neighbour Ste has a rough time at home, being beaten by his father and brother. This issues bring them together and they find that what they feel for each other is more than friendship.
Director: Hettie Macdonald | Stars: Glen Berry, Linda Henry, Scott Neal, Tameka Empson
Votes: 25,767 | Gross: $1.50M
9. Nil by Mouth (1997)
R | 128 min | Drama
A rough, short-tempered patriarch of a working-class family sees his life and the relationships around him slowly unravel.
Director: Gary Oldman | Stars: Ray Winstone, Kathy Burke, Charlie Creed-Miles, Laila Morse
Votes: 10,200
10. The Krays (1990)
R | 115 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
This fact-based movie follows the life of the twin crime-lords in London's '60s underworld.
Director: Peter Medak | Stars: Gary Kemp, Martin Kemp, Billie Whitelaw, Tom Bell
Votes: 9,058 | Gross: $2.06M
11. Swept Away (1974)
R | 114 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama
A trip into the Mediterranean sea becomes a trip into the discovery of how society's frameworks of the rich and poor are delicate and temporary.
Director: Lina Wertmüller | Stars: Giancarlo Giannini, Mariangela Melato, Riccardo Salvino, Isa Danieli
Votes: 6,787
12. Earth Mama (2023)
R | 101 min | Drama
An intimate coming of age story of a pregnant single mother who embraces her Bay Area community as she determines the fate of her family.
Director: Savanah Leaf | Stars: Tia Nomore, Erika Alexander, Keta Price, Doechii
Votes: 960
13. Super 30 (2019)
Not Rated | 154 min | Biography, Drama
Based on the life of Patna-based mathematician Anand Kumar who runs the famed Super 30 program for IIT aspirants in Patna.
Director: Vikas Bahl | Stars: Hrithik Roshan, Mrunal Thakur, Nandish Singh Sandhu, Veerendra Saxena
Votes: 37,015 | Gross: $2.27M
14. Wasp (2003)
26 min | Short, Drama
A struggling single mother is determined not to let her four young children be an obstacle in the pursuit of starting a relationship with an old acquaintance.
Director: Andrea Arnold | Stars: Natalie Press, Danny Dyer, Jodie Mitchell, Molly Griffiths
Votes: 5,568
15. The Second Mother (2015)
R | 112 min | Comedy, Drama
When the estranged daughter of a hard-working live-in housekeeper suddenly appears, the unspoken class barriers that exist within the home are thrown into disarray.
Director: Anna Muylaert | Stars: Regina Casé, Helena Albergaria, Michel Joelsas, Camila Márdila
Votes: 16,728 | Gross: $0.38M
16. S.O.S. Titanic (1979 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 194 min | Drama, History
On her maiden voyage in April 1912, the supposedly unsinkable R.M.S. Titanic strikes an iceberg in the Atlantic Ocean.
Director: William Hale | Stars: David Janssen, Cloris Leachman, Harry Andrews, David Battley
Votes: 1,507
17. Henry Fool (1997)
R | 137 min | Comedy, Drama
An introverted garbageman writes his thoughts in a notebook after Henry Fool, writer and ex-con, rents the basement and gives him a notebook and the idea. He writes poetry and Henry helps him along.
Director: Hal Hartley | Stars: Thomas Jay Ryan, James Urbaniak, Parker Posey, Maria Porter
Votes: 7,889 | Gross: $1.34M
18. Georgy Girl (1966)
Approved | 99 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A traditional girl (Lynn Redgrave) resists the advances of a swinger (James Mason) who wants her as his mistress in 1960s London.
Director: Silvio Narizzano | Stars: James Mason, Alan Bates, Lynn Redgrave, Charlotte Rampling
Votes: 4,246 | Gross: $16.87M
19. All's Faire in Love (2009)
PG-13 | 104 min | Comedy
Two rival Medieval shows vie for supremacy in the world of Renaissance Faires.
Director: Scott Marshall | Stars: Owen Benjamin, Blake Friedman, Christina Ricci, Chris Wylde
Votes: 1,060 | Gross: $0.02M
20. Girlhood (2014)
Unrated | 113 min | Drama
A girl with few real prospects joins a gang, reinventing herself and gaining a sense of self confidence in the process. However, she soon finds that this new life does not necessarily make her any happier.
Director: Céline Sciamma | Stars: Karidja Touré, Assa Sylla, Lindsay Karamoh, Mariétou Touré
Votes: 10,056
21. Basil (1998)
R | 113 min | Drama, Romance
A lonely young aristocrat in turn-of the century England stuggles to meet the approval of his over-bearing, class-conscious father while trying to please the selfish woman he loves.
Director: Radha Bharadwaj | Stars: Christian Slater, Jared Leto, Claire Forlani, Derek Jacobi
Votes: 2,103
22. The Moon in the Gutter (1983)
R | 137 min | Drama
He is a revenge-obssessed stevedore whose sister was brutally raped and murdered. She is a wealthy, elusive woman. They try hard to get together... or do they?
Director: Jean-Jacques Beineix | Stars: Gérard Depardieu, Nastassja Kinski, Victoria Abril, Bertice Reading
Votes: 1,538
23. The Simple-Minded Murderer (1982)
108 min | Drama
A mentally challenged man escapes from his tyrannical master and finds happiness when a poor family takes him in.
Director: Hans Alfredson | Stars: Stellan Skarsgård, Maria Johansson, Hans Alfredson, Per Myrberg
Votes: 3,714
24. The Pizza Triangle (1970)
R | 99 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A three-way love affair in the Rome of the early seventies.
Director: Ettore Scola | Stars: Marcello Mastroianni, Monica Vitti, Giancarlo Giannini, Manuel Zarzo
Votes: 2,252
25. Can You Hear Me (2018–2021)
TV-MA | 30 min | Comedy, Drama
-'M'entends-tu?' is a dramatic comedy that plunges us into the unusual daily life of Ada, Fabiola and Carolanne, three long-time friends from the midst of poverty.
Stars: Ève Landry, Holly Uloth, Florence Longpré, Mélissa Bédard
Votes: 873
26. Amber: The Girl Behind the Alert (2023)
TV-PG | 92 min | Documentary, Crime
Amber Hagerman's mother details her daughter's shocking murder and shares chilling documentary footage that captures the 9-year-old's final days; Amber's legacy is an alert system that has saved over a thousand children.
Director: Elizabeth Fisher | Stars: Dee Anderson, Deanna Boyd, Rae-Leigh Bradbury, George W. Bush
Votes: 495
27. The Lower Depths (1957)
Not Rated | 137 min | Drama
In a Japanese slum, various residents play out their lives, dreaming of better things or settling for their lot. Among them is a man who pines for a young woman but is stymied by her deceptive family.
Director: Akira Kurosawa | Stars: Toshirô Mifune, Isuzu Yamada, Kyôko Kagawa, Ganjirô Nakamura
Votes: 5,952
28. Lola and Billy the Kid (1999)
Unrated | 93 min | Drama, Romance
17-year old Murat from Turkey, living in Berlin, Germany, slowly discovers his homosexuality. His older brother Osman, head of the family since the father's death, wants him to finally lose... See full summary »
Director: Kutlug Ataman | Stars: Gandi Mukli, Baki Davrak, Erdal Yildiz, Inge Keller
Votes: 1,380
29. Ixcanul (2015)
Not Rated | 93 min | Drama
On the slopes of an active volcano in Guatemala, a marriage is arranged for seventeen-year-old María by her Kaqchikel parents.
Director: Jayro Bustamante | Stars: María Mercedes Coroy, María Telón, Manuel Antún, Justo Lorenzo
Votes: 3,264 | Gross: $0.29M
30. Acacias 38 (2015–2021)
Drama
Acacias 38' takes us to 1899 to narrate the story of a group of maids and the bourgeois families for whom they work. A story about the wealthy and the poor that reflects the meeting of two ... See full summary »
Stars: María Blanco, David Venancio Muro, Sandra Marchena, Inma Pérez-Quirós
Votes: 150
31. Shank (2009)
R | 94 min | Drama
A closeted teenage street punk takes up with the latest roughed-up gay victim of his bullying gang, which does not set well with the gang's drugged-up, brotherly leader.
Directors: Simon Pearce, Christian Martin | Stars: Wayne Virgo, Marc Laurent, Tom Bott, Alice Payne
Votes: 2,694
32. Southside with You (2016)
PG-13 | 84 min | Biography, Drama, History
Chronicles the 1989 summer afternoon when the future President of the United States, Barack Obama, wooed his future First Lady, Michelle Obama, on a first date across Chicago's South Side.
Director: Richard Tanne | Stars: Tika Sumpter, Parker Sawyers, Vanessa Bell Calloway, Phillip Edward Van Lear
Votes: 10,138 | Gross: $6.30M
33. Blueblood (1974)
90 min | Drama, Horror
An unusually nasty butler takes over the possessions of his degenerate master by means of witchcraft.
Director: Andrew Sinclair | Stars: Oliver Reed, Fiona Lewis, Anna Gaël, Derek Jacobi
Votes: 698
34. Freeze Die Come to Life (1990)
105 min | Drama
Two children living in a remote mining town in the distant wastes of Siberia in 1947, survive poverty and hardship through the warmth of their friendship and a shared sense of humour.
Director: Vitali Kanevsky | Stars: Dinara Drukarova, Pavel Nazarov, Elena Popova, Valeriy Ivchenko
Votes: 933
35. The Best Christmas Pageant Ever (1983 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 48 min | Comedy, Family
A teacher puts on a Christmas pageant and puts the worst children in school as the stars.
Director: George Schaefer | Stars: Loretta Swit, Jackson Davies, Antony Holland, David Alexander
Votes: 825
36. A Kid for Two Farthings (1955)
Approved | 91 min | Comedy, Drama, Family
Kandinsky informs Joe that a unicorn can grant wishes, the hopeful lad ends up buying a baby goat with one tiny horn, believing it to be a real unicorn. Undaunted by his rough surroundings, Joe sets about to prove that wishes come true.
Director: Carol Reed | Stars: Celia Johnson, Diana Dors, David Kossoff, Joe Robinson
Votes: 1,153
37. Lena (2011)
119 min | Drama
Lena is a lonely, plump adolescent girl. Much to her surprise she gets a relationship with the popular but unreliable Daan. Lena moves in with Daan and his strange father Tom and is willing to do a lot for his love. More than a lot.
Director: Christophe Van Rompaey | Stars: Emma Levie, Niels Gomperts, Jeroen Willems, Agata Buzek
Votes: 592
38. 20 centímetros (2005)
Unrated | 112 min | Comedy, Musical
A narcoleptic transvestite who yearns to become a transsexual dreams up elaborate musical numbers in which she's the star.
Director: Ramón Salazar | Stars: Mónica Cervera, Pablo Puyol, Miguel O'Dogherty, Concha Galán
Votes: 1,941 | Gross: $0.00M
39. The New Babylon (1929)
120 min | Drama, History
In the beginning of the industrial revolution, the Paris Commune was established in 1871 against the rich and the powerful, and violently repressed by the army that remained faithful to a ... See full summary »
Directors: Grigoriy Kozintsev, Leonid Trauberg | Stars: David Gutman, Yelena Kuzmina, Andrei Kostrichkin, Sofiya Magarill
Votes: 935
40. Mysterious Object at Noon (2000)
Not Rated | 89 min | Documentary, Drama, Fantasy
A film crew documents a folk story-exquisite corpse combination by random Thai people; the story is reenacted.
Director: Apichatpong Weerasethakul | Stars: Duangjai Hiransri, Kome Kongkiat Komesiri, Saisiri Xoomsai
Votes: 1,732
41. My Brother the Devil (2012)
Not Rated | 111 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
Two teenage brothers must face their own prejudices head on if they are to survive the perils of being Egyptians growing up on the streets of gangland London.
Director: Sally El Hosaini | Stars: James Krishna Floyd, Elarica Johnson, Fady Elsayed, Saïd Taghmaoui
Votes: 3,367 | Gross: $0.01M
42. The Razing (2022)
109 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
A group of estranged friends gather for a night of tradition which takes a deadly turn after old secrets and wounds resurface.
Directors: J. Arcane, Paul Erskine | Stars: Jack Wooton, Logan Paul Price, Mia Heavner, Carson Flis
Votes: 763
43. The Lower Depths (1936)
Not Rated | 90 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
A charismatic thief makes friends with a bankrupt baron who comes to live in the thief's slum. Meanwhile the thief seeks the love of a young woman, who is held emotionally captive by her slumlord family.
Director: Jean Renoir | Stars: Jean Gabin, Suzy Prim, Louis Jouvet, Jany Holt
Votes: 3,677
44. Albert Pinto Ko Gussa Kyon Ata Hai (1980)
110 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A man from Mumbai (then Bombay) is angry about various issues in different circumstances.
Director: Saeed Akhtar Mirza | Stars: Naseeruddin Shah, Shabana Azmi, Smita Patil, Dilip Dhawan
Votes: 505
45. Low Low (2019)
Unrated | 92 min | Drama
On their last day of summer, four high-school girls confront sex, violence and their uncertain future as they struggle to reconcile a rebellious youth with impending adulthood.
Director: Nick Richey | Stars: Ali Richey, Alexis Raich, Kacie Rogers, Montana Roesch
Votes: 316
46. The Terrorism and the Kebab (1992)
105 min | Action, Comedy, Crime
A family man frustrated by bureaucracies of Egyptian public system as well as difficulties of life finds himself inadvertently accused of terrorism.
Directors: Sherif Arafa, Sherif Arafa, Yehia Hassanein, Mohamed Yasine | Stars: Adel Emam, Youssra, Kamal El-Shinnawi, Ahmed Rateb
Votes: 3,298
47. Homeless: The Motel Kids of Orange County (2010 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 60 min | Documentary
A documentary that explores the world of children who reside in discounted motels within walking distance of Disneyland, living in limbo as their families struggle to survive in one of the ... See full summary »
Director: Alexandra Pelosi
Votes: 434
48. Rich Hill (2014)
Not Rated | 91 min | Documentary, Biography, Drama
Rich Hill intimately chronicles the turbulent lives of three boys living in an impoverished Midwestern town and the fragile family bonds that sustain them.
Directors: Andrew Droz Palermo, Tracy Droz Tragos | Stars: Alyssa Jewell, Andrew Jewell, Elizabeth Jewell, Willie Jewell
Votes: 2,510
49. Voll normaaal (1994)
91 min | Animation, Comedy, Thriller
Tommie works as mechanic in a garage and loves crazy exhausts. But when he steals the exhaust of the procurer Jupp a lot of trouble starts: Jupp gives Tommie an ultimatum to replace the ... See full summary »
Director: Ralf Huettner | Stars: Tom Gerhardt, Hilmi Sözer, Veronica Ferres, Grace Simon
Votes: 3,587
50. The Christmas Party (1996)
84 min | Comedy
Mike is getting out of prison after serving four years for a bank robbery. Bona is arranging the party of all parties for him: a Christmas party.
Director: Jari Halonen | Stars: Jorma Tommila, Antti Reini, Rauno Juvonen, Oiva Lohtander
Votes: 465