Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "spontaneous-combustion"

1. The Green Knight (2021)

R | 130 min | Adventure, Drama, Fantasy

A fantasy retelling of the medieval story of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.

Director: David Lowery | Stars: Dev Patel, Alicia Vikander, Joel Edgerton, Sarita Choudhury

Votes: 118,136

2. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002)

PG | 161 min | Adventure, Family, Fantasy

Harry Potter lives his second year at Hogwarts with Ron and Hermione when a message on the wall announces that the legendary Chamber of Secrets has been opened. The trio soon realize that, to save the school, it will take a lot of courage.

Director: Chris Columbus | Stars: Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, Emma Watson, Richard Harris

Votes: 692,758 | Gross: $261.99M

3. Superhero Movie (2008)

PG-13 | 75 min | Action, Comedy, Sci-Fi

Orphaned high school student Rick Riker is bitten by a radioactive dragonfly, develops super powers (except for the ability to fly), and becomes a hero.

Director: Craig Mazin | Stars: Drake Bell, Leslie Nielsen, Sara Paxton, Christopher McDonald

Votes: 75,656 | Gross: $26.64M

4. Iron Man Three (2013)

PG-13 | 130 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

When Tony Stark's world is torn apart by a formidable terrorist called the Mandarin, he starts an odyssey of rebuilding and retribution.

Director: Shane Black | Stars: Robert Downey Jr., Guy Pearce, Gwyneth Paltrow, Don Cheadle

Votes: 899,685 | Gross: $409.01M

5. Cinema Paradiso (1988)

R | 174 min | Drama, Romance

A filmmaker recalls his childhood when falling in love with the pictures at the cinema of his home village and forms a deep friendship with the cinema's projectionist.

Director: Giuseppe Tornatore | Stars: Philippe Noiret, Enzo Cannavale, Antonella Attili, Isa Danieli

Votes: 283,112 | Gross: $11.99M

6. This Is Spinal Tap (1984)

R | 82 min | Comedy, Music

Spinal Tap, one of England's loudest bands, is chronicled by film director Marty DiBergi on what proves to be a fateful tour.

Director: Rob Reiner | Stars: Rob Reiner, Michael McKean, Christopher Guest, Kimberly Stringer

Votes: 147,412 | Gross: $4.74M

7. A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge (1985)

R | 87 min | Horror

A teenage boy is haunted in his dreams by deceased child murderer Freddy Krueger, who is out to possess him in order to continue his reign of terror in the real world.

Director: Jack Sholder | Stars: Robert Englund, Mark Patton, Kim Myers, Robert Rusler

Votes: 77,498 | Gross: $30.00M

8. Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters (2013)

R | 88 min | Action, Fantasy, Horror

Brother/sister duo Hansel and Gretel are professional witch-hunters who help innocent villagers. One day they stumble upon a case that could hold the key to their past.

Director: Tommy Wirkola | Stars: Jeremy Renner, Gemma Arterton, Peter Stormare, Famke Janssen

Votes: 216,807 | Gross: $55.70M

9. Queen of the Damned (2002)

R | 101 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror

In this loose sequel to Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles (1994), the vampire Lestat becomes a rock star whose music wakes up the equally beautiful and monstrous queen of all vampires.

Director: Michael Rymer | Stars: Aaliyah, Stuart Townsend, Marguerite Moreau, Vincent Perez

Votes: 59,988 | Gross: $30.34M

10. Project Power (2020)

R | 113 min | Action, Crime, Sci-Fi

When a pill that gives its users unpredictable superpowers for five minutes hits the streets of New Orleans, a teenage dealer and a local cop must team with an ex-soldier to take down the group responsible for its creation.

Directors: Henry Joost, Ariel Schulman | Stars: Jamie Foxx, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Dominique Fishback, Rodrigo Santoro

Votes: 97,780

11. Gothika (2003)

R | 98 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller

A psychiatrist awakens as a patient in a mental institution, with no memory of the murder she's accused of committing. As she tries to regain her memory, a vengeful spirit manipulates her.

Director: Mathieu Kassovitz | Stars: Halle Berry, Penélope Cruz, Robert Downey Jr., Charles S. Dutton

Votes: 119,217 | Gross: $59.69M

12. Arabian Nights (1974)

X | 130 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy

In ancient Arabia, a beautiful slave girl chooses a youth to be her new master, then she is kidnapped and they must search for each other. Stories are told within stories: love, travel and the whims of destiny.

Director: Pier Paolo Pasolini | Stars: Ninetto Davoli, Franco Citti, Franco Merli, Tessa Bouché

Votes: 9,049

13. Cursed (2005)

PG-13 | 97 min | Comedy, Horror

A werewolf loose in Los Angeles changes the lives of three young adults who, after being mauled by the beast, learn they must kill it in order to avoid becoming werewolves themselves.

Director: Wes Craven | Stars: Christina Ricci, Jesse Eisenberg, Portia de Rossi, Mya

Votes: 35,008 | Gross: $19.30M

14. Sorceress (1982)

R | 83 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy

Sword and sorcery story of the cosmic struggle between white magic and black magic.

Director: Jack Hill | Stars: Leigh Harris, Lynette Harris, Roberto Nelson, David Millbern

Votes: 2,657

15. To the Devil a Daughter (1976)

R | 95 min | Horror

An American occult novelist battles to save the soul of a young girl from a group of Satanists, led by an excommunicated priest, who plan on using her as the representative of the Devil on Earth.

Directors: Peter Sykes, Don Sharp | Stars: Richard Widmark, Christopher Lee, Honor Blackman, Denholm Elliott

Votes: 4,908

16. Spontaneous (II) (2020)

R | 101 min | Comedy, Drama, Horror

Get ready for the outrageous coming-of-age love story about growing up...and blowing up. When students in their school begin exploding (literally), seniors Mara and Dylan struggle to survive in a world where each moment may be their last.

Director: Brian Duffield | Stars: Katherine Langford, Charlie Plummer, Yvonne Orji, Hayley Law

Votes: 17,441

17. The Reaping (2007)

R | 99 min | Horror, Thriller

A former Christian missionary, who specializes in debunking religious phenomena, investigates a small town which seems to be suffering from the 10 biblical plagues.

Director: Stephen Hopkins | Stars: Hilary Swank, David Morrissey, AnnaSophia Robb, Idris Elba

Votes: 44,649 | Gross: $25.12M

18. Demonic (2015)

R | 83 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller

A police officer and a psychologist investigate the deaths of five people who were killed while trying to summon ghosts.

Director: Will Canon | Stars: Dustin Milligan, Scott Mechlowicz, Cody Horn, Maria Bello

Votes: 16,257

19. The Quiet Ones (2014)

PG-13 | 98 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller

A university professor and a team of students conduct an experiment on a young woman, uncovering terrifyingly dark, unexpected forces in the process.

Director: John Pogue | Stars: Jared Harris, Sam Claflin, Olivia Cooke, Erin Richards

Votes: 21,117 | Gross: $8.50M

20. Virgin Witch (1971)

R | 88 min | Horror

A pair of miniskirted birds who travel to a remote castle in order to land a contract in the modeling agency of the mysterious lesbian Sybil Waite (In HD).

Director: Ray Austin | Stars: Ann Michelle, Vicki Michelle, Keith Buckley, Patricia Haines

Votes: 1,574

21. Spellbinder (1988)

R | 99 min | Drama, Horror, Romance

A young lawyer, after falling in love with a beautiful woman, finds that she has an extremely mysterious past.

Director: Janet Greek | Stars: Tim Daly, Kelly Preston, Rick Rossovich, Audra Lindley

Votes: 2,826 | Gross: $1.94M

22. The Kiss (1988)

R | 101 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror

After the death of her mother, a teenage girl is faced with bizarre supernatural occurrences when her mother's estranged sister arrives and begins to infiltrate her and her father's lives.

Director: Pen Densham | Stars: Joanna Pacula, Meredith Salenger, Mimi Kuzyk, Nicholas Kilbertus

Votes: 1,920 | Gross: $1.87M

23. The Resurrected (1991)

R | 108 min | Horror

Charles Dexter Ward's wife enlists the help of a private detective to find out what her husband is up to in a remote cabin owned by his family for centuries.

Director: Dan O'Bannon | Stars: John Terry, Jane Sibbett, Chris Sarandon, Robert Romanus

Votes: 4,920

24. Fallen (2006 TV Movie)

81 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

Aaron is a high school jock with a promising future. But on his 18th birthday, his life forever changes when his incredible powers emerge, revealing the terrifying truth of his identity. As... See full summary »

Director: Mikael Salomon | Stars: Paul Wesley, Kwesi Ameyaw, Fernanda Andrade, Kevan Cameron

Votes: 4,103

25. The Nesting (1981)

R | 103 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller

A writer suffering from agoraphobia rents an isolated house so she can concentrate on her writing. She doesn't know that the house is a former brothel, and is inhabited by the ghosts of dead prostitutes.

Director: Armand Weston | Stars: Robin Groves, Christopher Loomis, Michael David Lally, John Carradine

Votes: 1,658

26. The Unholy (1988)

R | 102 min | Horror

A priest battles a demon that kills sinners in the act of sinning.

Director: Camilo Vila | Stars: Ben Cross, Hal Holbrook, Ruben Rabasa, Nicole Fortier

Votes: 2,074 | Gross: $6.34M

27. Frightmare (1983)

R | 86 min | Comedy, Horror

When his loyal fans decide to steal his fresh corpse from the mortuary to party with it all night long, a true horror film star returns from the grave as a ghastly blood-sucker, bent on revenge. At least, will he spare his followers?

Director: Norman Thaddeus Vane | Stars: Ferdy Mayne, Luca Bercovici, Nita Talbot, Leon Askin

Votes: 1,750

28. Spontaneous Combustion (1989)

R | 97 min | Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller

A young man finds out that his parents had been used in an atomic-weapons experiment shortly before he was born, and that the results have had some unexpected effects on him.

Director: Tobe Hooper | Stars: Brad Dourif, Cynthia Bain, Jon Cypher, William Prince

Votes: 2,997

29. Nice Girls Don't Explode (1987)

PG | 92 min | Comedy, Romance, Sci-Fi

A young lady is kept away from boys by her overprotective mother because flames tend to spontaneously erupt whenever her hormones are aroused; for her, "protection" on a dinner date is carrying a fire extinguisher.

Director: Chuck Martinez | Stars: Barbara Harris, Michelle Meyrink, William O'Leary, Wallace Shawn

Votes: 532

30. Silent Night, Deadly Night 4: Initiation (1990 Video)

R | 87 min | Horror

A reporter investigating the bizarre death of a woman who leaped from a building in flames finds herself mixed up in a cult of witches who are making her part of their sacrificial ceremony during the Christmas season.

Director: Brian Yuzna | Stars: Clint Howard, Neith Hunter, Tommy Hinkley, Hugh Fink

Votes: 2,814

31. The Omen (1995 TV Movie)

45 min | Fantasy, Mystery, Sci-Fi

Epidemiologist Dr. Linus, A.P. photojournalist Jack Mann and E.R. nurse Annalisse try to stop a demonic entity that's possessing people from unleashing a biological weapon during the Saint Patrick's Day parade.

Director: Jack Sholder | Stars: Brett Cullen, Chelsea Field, William Sadler, Norman Lloyd

Votes: 164

32. The Spell (1977 TV Movie)

Not Rated | 86 min | Horror

A teenaged girl, taunted by her schoolmates because she's overweight, uses her supernatural powers to take revenge.

Director: Lee Philips | Stars: Lee Grant, Susan Myers, Lelia Goldoni, Helen Hunt

Votes: 1,110

33. Out for Blood (2004 Video)

R | 95 min | Horror, Action, Fantasy

A police detective is investigating some mysterious disappearances and uncovers a horrible truth.

Director: Richard Brandes | Stars: Kevin Dillon, Vanessa Angel, Jodi Lyn O'Keefe, Lance Henriksen

Votes: 1,402

34. Dawson City: Frozen Time (2016)

120 min | Documentary, History

The history of Dawson City, the gold rush town that had a historical treasure of forgotten silent films buried in permafrost for decades until 1978.

Director: Bill Morrison | Stars: Michael Gates, Kathy Jones-Gates, Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle, Frank Barrett

Votes: 2,153 | Gross: $0.13M

35. Nostradamus (I) (2000)

TV-MA | 88 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

A policeman must stop a medieval cult, who plan to bring about armageddon by summoning the spirit of Nostradamus.

Director: Tibor Takács | Stars: Rob Estes, Joely Fisher, Fintan McKeown, David Millbern

Votes: 725

36. Revue Starlight the Movie (2021)

120 min | Animation, Action, Drama

Starlight - This is a story of a far off star, a long time ago, and in the distant future. Two young girls, captivated by the glamour of the performance, exchange promises: "We'll become stars." "I'll wait for you on stage."

Director: Tomohiro Furukawa | Stars: Momoyo Koyama, Suzuko Mimori, Haruki Iwata, Aina Aiba

Votes: 197

37. 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

38. Alien Space Avenger (1989)

80 min | Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi

In 1939 a spaceship carrying four alien escaped prisoners crash-lands on Earth and the aliens take over the bodies of four locals. Fifty years later the aliens find out that an artist has ... See full summary »

Director: Richard W. Haines | Stars: Robert Prichard, Michael McCleery, Charity Staley, Gina Mastrogiacomo

Votes: 325

39. Specimen (1996)

R | 85 min | Sci-Fi

Searching for answers about his parents, a man with superhuman abilities travels to his mother's hometown and learns she was impregnated by an alien.

Director: John Bradshaw | Stars: Mark-Paul Gosselaar, Douglas O'Keeffe, Ingrid Kavelaars, Andrew Jackson

Votes: 510

40. Crackle of Death (1974 TV Movie)

Unrated | 92 min | Comedy, Horror, Mystery

In this first of two Kolchak compilation TV films, reporter Carl Kolchak investigates a ghostly arsonist and an evil Native American spirit haunting a hospital.

Directors: Alexander Grasshoff, Don Weis | Stars: Darren McGavin, Simon Oakland, William Smith, Elaine Giftos

Votes: 98

41. Merlin (1993)

PG-13 | 115 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy

Reincarnated Lady of the Lake and knight John Pope must stop evil immortal wizard Pendragon from obtaining Merlin's Sword in the Stone on Halloween in the present, which would create October 32nd and end time. Wizard Leong helps them.

Director: Paul Hunt | Stars: Nadia Cameron-Blakey, Rodney Wood, Richard Lynch, Peter Phelps

Votes: 218

42. Medium (1985)

TV-MA | 98 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller

Story of four people in Sopot in 1933, mysteriously brought together to an old villa to reenact a murder ritual that took place 36 years earlier.

Director: Jacek Koprowicz | Stars: Wladyslaw Kowalski, Michal Bajor, Jerzy Zelnik, Jerzy Stuhr

Votes: 729

43. Freezer Burn: The Invasion of Laxdale (2008)

R | 90 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy

FREEZER BURN is an action comedy - aimed at a young male audience. Disguised as executives from a Dutch Oil Company, Aliens from outer space buy a local farming company and promise to ... See full summary »

Director: Grant Harvey | Stars: Tom Green, Crispin Glover, Sarain Boylan, Scott Hylands

Votes: 454

44. Jesus, Bro! (2017)

Not Rated | 85 min | Comedy, Fantasy

An angry internet atheist has a near death experience and must deliver the news of Jesus Christ to his devout internet followers.

Director: Ryan Mitchelle | Stars: David Gobble, Fard Muhammad, Allison Pregler, Rob Walker

Votes: 231

45. Ordinary Failures (2022)

85 min | Drama, Sci-Fi

Three women find themselves at a crossroad in their life, while a mysterious natural phenomenon turns their world upside down.

Director: Cristina Grosan | Stars: Vica Kerekes, Jirí Simek, Jana Plodková, Petra Buckova

Votes: 170

46. Armageddon (1997)

117 min | Fantasy, Action, Comedy

In the near future, 10 men are voted as the 10 who could lead the world; on the list is leading Hong Kong scientist Dr. Ken.

Director: Gordon Chan | Stars: Andy Lau, Michelle Reis, Anthony Chau-Sang Wong, Claudia Lau

Votes: 323

47. SHC: Freak Accident (2022)

2 min | Short, Horror, Mystery

Texas authorities release bizarre footage pertaining to a man's death during a video call.

Director: Thomas Burke | Stars: Thomas Burke, Zachary T. Scott

Votes: 12

48. MeTV's Super Colossal Cartoon Christmas (2021 TV Special)

TV-PG | 120 min | Animation, Comedy

Bill and Toony co-host a special two-hour showcase of classic yuletide cartoons featuring Bugs Bunny, Popeye, Tom and Jerry, and more. There's also a sackful of seasonal silliness with Mr. ... See full summary »

Director: Mike Schmiedeler | Stars: Bill Leff, Kevin Fleming, Leila Gorstein, Rich Koz

Votes: 22

49. Seventh Column (1943)

Approved | 9 min | Comedy, Short

A short showing how carelessness and accidents can harm the war effort, and steps on how to avoid them.

Director: Will Jason | Stars: Pete Smith, Dave O'Brien

Votes: 91

50. The Stop 6 Project (2009 Video)

105 min | Horror

Done as a feature length 1 hour and 45 min. "spec production" (speculative movie not originally intended for production) for presentation to movie studios. A documentary filmmaker vanishes ... See full summary »

Director: Walter 'Big Walt' Anderson | Stars: Carmen Albright, Kedrick Brown, Michael Miller, Akron Watson