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1. The Lion King (1994)
G | 88 min | Animation, Adventure, Drama
Lion prince Simba and his father are targeted by his bitter uncle, who wants to ascend the throne himself.
Directors: Roger Allers, Rob Minkoff | Stars: Matthew Broderick, Jeremy Irons, James Earl Jones, Whoopi Goldberg
Votes: 1,146,668 | Gross: $422.78M
2. Mulholland Drive (2001)
R | 147 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
After a car wreck on Mulholland Drive renders a woman amnesiac, she and a Hollywood-hopeful search for clues and answers across Los Angeles in a twisting venture beyond dreams and reality.
Director: David Lynch | Stars: Naomi Watts, Laura Harring, Justin Theroux, Jeanne Bates
Votes: 385,145 | Gross: $7.22M
3. My Own Private Idaho (1991)
R | 104 min | Drama
Two best friends living on the streets of Portland as hustlers embark on a journey of self discovery and find their relationship stumbling along the way.
Director: Gus Van Sant | Stars: River Phoenix, Keanu Reeves, James Russo, William Richert
Votes: 61,960 | Gross: $6.40M
4. Gypsy (2017)
TV-MA | 51 min | Drama, Thriller
Therapist Jean Holloway becomes too immersed in the lives of her patients.
Stars: Naomi Watts, Billy Crudup, Sophie Cookson, Karl Glusman
Votes: 18,789
5. Balto (1995)
G | 78 min | Animation, Adventure, Drama
An outcast Husky risks his life with other sled dogs to prevent a deadly epidemic from ravaging Nome, Alaska.
Director: Simon Wells | Stars: Kevin Bacon, Bob Hoskins, Bridget Fonda, Jim Cummings
Votes: 48,268 | Gross: $11.35M
6. Hedwig and the Angry Inch (2001)
R | 95 min | Comedy, Drama, Music
A gender-queer punk-rock singer from East Berlin tours the U.S. with her band as she tells her life story and follows the former lover/band-mate who stole her songs.
Director: John Cameron Mitchell | Stars: John Cameron Mitchell, Miriam Shor, Stephen Trask, Theodore Liscinski
Votes: 37,417 | Gross: $3.03M
7. Metropolis (2001)
PG-13 | 108 min | Animation, Adventure, Drama
Kenichi and his uncle Shunsaku Ban must find the mystery behind robot girl Tima.
Director: Rintarô | Stars: Toshio Furukawa, Scott Weinger, Yuka Imoto, Kei Kobayashi
Votes: 22,686 | Gross: $0.64M
8. Laurence Anyways (2012)
Not Rated | 168 min | Drama, Romance
A drama that charts ten years in a transgender woman's relationship with her lover.
Director: Xavier Dolan | Stars: Melvil Poupaud, Emmanuel Schwartz, Suzanne Clément, Nathalie Baye
Votes: 22,258
9. Thunder in My Heart (2021– )
29 min | Drama
A group of young friends as they come of age and strive to meet the unexpected demands of adult life while coming to terms with their own identities, pasts, and passions.
Stars: Amy Deasismont, Alexander Abdallah, Julia Lyskova, Benjamin Shaps
Votes: 1,720
10. Forever Young (2022)
126 min | Comedy, Drama
Follows a troupe of young students at one of France's most prestigious performing arts academies as they navigate the ups and downs of art and love.
Director: Valeria Bruni Tedeschi | Stars: Nadia Tereszkiewicz, Sofiane Bennacer, Louis Garrel, Micha Lescot
Votes: 1,413
11. Looking for Alibrandi (2000)
103 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
At seventeen Josie Alibrandi is about to enter her final year as a scholarship student at an exclusive Catholic College. It's the year her life is turned upside down and changed forever.
Director: Kate Woods | Stars: Greta Scacchi, Anthony LaPaglia, Elena Cotta, Kerry Walker
Votes: 3,604
12. Madame Satã (2002)
Unrated | 105 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
Loose portrait of João Francisco dos Santos, also known as Madame Satã, a sometime chef, transvestite, lover, father, hero and convict from Rio de Janeiro.
Director: Karim Aïnouz | Stars: Lázaro Ramos, Marcelia Cartaxo, Flavio Bauraqui, Fellipe Marques
Votes: 3,164 | Gross: $0.20M
13. Dagger Eyes (1983)
84 min | Horror, Thriller
Assassins are after a prostitute who has come into possession of a cigarette lighter that, unbeknownst to her, contains the negatives that show a politician's assassination.
Director: Carlo Vanzina | Stars: Carole Bouquet, Phil Coccioletti, Duilio Del Prete, John Steiner
Votes: 288
14. House of Boys (2009)
Unrated | 117 min | Drama, Music, Romance
Two young soul mates find each other while working at an all-male performance club/brothel. Eventually, one contracts AIDS.
Director: Jean-Claude Schlim | Stars: Loïc Peckels, Layke Anderson, Harry Ferrier, Michael N. Kuehl
Votes: 1,358
15. Hotel du Nord (1938)
83 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
On the meandering Canal St. Martin, at the Parisian Hôtel du Nord, a nearly fatal gunshot separates a dejected young couple. But, amid a sad but beautiful panorama of lively characters, love has the final say. Can life be a fairy tale?
Director: Marcel Carné | Stars: Annabella, Jean-Pierre Aumont, Louis Jouvet, Arletty
Votes: 3,254
16. The Magic Garden of Stanley Sweetheart (1970)
R | 117 min | Drama
Based on a semi-autobiographical novel by Robert T. Westbrook, the movie is about 23 year old Columbia University dropout (Stanley Sweetheart) who seeks his identity during the sexual revolution.
Director: Leonard J. Horn | Stars: Linda Gillen, Michael Greer, Dianne Hull, Holly Near
Votes: 189
17. Robin Robin (2021)
G | 32 min | Animation, Short, Adventure
In this stop-motion short film, a bird raised by mice begins to question where she belongs and sets off on a daring journey of self-discovery.
Directors: Daniel Ojari, Michael Please | Stars: Bronte Carmichael, Richard E. Grant, Gillian Anderson, Adeel Akhtar
Votes: 6,932
18. Time of Eve (2010)
106 min | Animation, Drama, Romance
In a not too distant future, a young man's outlook on his home android begins to change after tracking the android's behavioral log to a mysterious cafe.
Director: Yasuhiro Yoshiura | Stars: Jun Fukuyama, Kenji Nojima, Rie Tanaka, Rina Satô
Votes: 4,088
19. Gushing Prayer: A 15-Year-Old Prostitute (1971)
72 min | Drama
A young girl, already a jaded sexual veteran, embarks on an odyssey of self-discovery to find out the true reasons for her dissatisfaction and total desensitization.
Directors: Masao Adachi, Haruhiko Arai | Stars: Aki Sasaki, Hiroshi Saitô, Makiko Kim, Yûji Aoki
Votes: 442
20. Alpine Fire (1985)
R | 119 min | Drama
Isolated in the Swiss Alps, a young woman who would have liked to become a teacher teaches her deaf brother arithmetic and writing. An incestuous relationship develops between them.
Director: Fredi M. Murer | Stars: Thomas Nock, Johanna Lier, Dorothea Moritz, Rolf Illig
Votes: 1,044
21. Shugo Chara! (2007–2008)
TV-PG | 23 min | Animation, Comedy, Family
Young girl Amu is blessed with three tiny guardian spirits and gains the power to transform and fight alongside a group of fellow students to free others' hearts from corruption.
Stars: Matthew Leonhart, Kanae Itô, Kana Asumi, Reiko Takagi
Votes: 273
22. Hitler: A Film from Germany (1977)
442 min | Biography, Drama
Director Hans-Jurgen Syberberg examines the rise and fall of the Third Reich in this brooding seven-hour masterpiece, which incorporates puppetry, rear-screen projection, and a Wagnerian ... See full summary »
Director: Hans-Jürgen Syberberg | Stars: Heinz Schubert, Peter Kern, Hellmut Lange, Rainer von Artenfels
Votes: 906
23. My Dearest Senorita (1972)
80 min | Romance, Drama
A 43-year-old woman living in a small town discovers that she is actually a man. Will she change her sex and suffer the reaction of a narrow-minded society?
Director: Jaime de Armiñán | Stars: José Luis López Vázquez, Julieta Serrano, Antonio Ferrandis, Enrique Ávila
Votes: 669
24. Pregnant Man (2008 TV Movie)
TV-PG | Documentary
An exclusive and intimate portrait following the first pregnant man, Thomas Beatie and his wife Nancy, into the delivery room as Thomas gives birth to their baby daughter Susan.
Directors: Luke Campbell, Elizabeth Mcdonald | Stars: Nancy Beatie, Thomas Beatie, Luke Campbell
Votes: 41
25. The Lion King (1994 Video Game)
K-A | Action, Adventure, Family
To survive and grow into a powerful adult lion, Simba must perfect his savage pounce and master fighting with all four paws. Scrap with hyenas, dash through an elephant graveyard, defeat your evil uncle Scar and recapture the Pridelands.
Stars: Jeremiah Hake, Robert Guillaume, Jeremy Irons, James Earl Jones
Votes: 1,947
26. Lazare (2020)
108 min | Drama, Fantasy, Musical
A team of French-Brazilian actors goes to Bucharest to shoot a film at a lower cost. But the Romanian technical team secretly shoot their own film.
Director: Philippe Chalem | Stars: Emine Meyrem, Milena Straube, Lionel Rousselot, Stanislas Siwiorek
Votes: 11
27. Pankh (2010)
Not Rated | 98 min | Drama
After maturing, a Bollywood child artiste longs to act as an adult.
Director: Sudipto Chattopadhyay | Stars: Bipasha Basu, Lillete Dubey, Mahesh Manjrekar, Maradona Rebello
Votes: 144
28. Nathalie Granger (1972)
83 min | Drama
This art film has no conventional dialog between the main characters. This tells a strangely compelling story of two women in a suburban home who are listening to radio news broadcasts about a missing child in their area.
Director: Marguerite Duras | Stars: Lucia Bosè, Jeanne Moreau, Gérard Depardieu, Luce Garcia-Ville
Votes: 667
29. Kielletty hedelmä (2009)
104 min | Drama
Two teen girls from a very restrictive Conservative Laestadian faith community, go alone to Helsinki for the first time.
Director: Dome Karukoski | Stars: Marjut Maristo, Amanda Pilke, Malla Malmivaara, Joel Mäkinen
Votes: 2,192
30. Adult Camp (2015)
90 min | Comedy
Adult Camp is a comedy about the bumpy road to personal growth. A group of men and women, strangers to one another, choose to spend a different kind of summer-holiday week by traveling to ... See full summary »
Director: Johanna Vuoksenmaa | Stars: Minttu Mustakallio, Taneli Mäkelä, Eppu Salminen, Iina Kuustonen
Votes: 473
31. A Free Woman (1972)
100 min | Drama
A divorced woman in her thirties fights a losing battle in Munich to attain belated self-fulfillment. The die is cast in a briskly impersonal society geared to male dominance and early training for career women.
Director: Volker Schlöndorff | Stars: Margarethe von Trotta, Friedhelm Ptok, Martin Lüttge, Walter Sedlmayr
Votes: 214
32. Octane (2007)
R | 112 min | Action, Drama, Romance
High-octane romance set in the recognizable - and sometimes gritty - world of Brighton's homegrown youth, as Boy Racer gangs uneasily coexist with the Indie scene.
Directors: Mark Jay, Ian McIntyre | Stars: Karl Davies, Lauren Steventon, Layke Anderson, Gemma Dyllen
Votes: 422
33. The Musician Killer (1975)
124 min | Drama
After the conductor of the orchestra he has been playing in commits suicide, a young clarinettist is left with a quite valuable violin.
Director: Benoît Jacquot | Stars: Anna Karina, Joël Bion, Philippe March, Hélène Coulomb
Votes: 49
34. John Fox (2021)
97 min | Drama, Thriller
When a young pub owner witnesses a suicide, her quiet life is thrown into turmoil. Between troubling amnesia and enigmatic reminiscences, she embarks on a journey to unravel the threads of her own history.
Director: Nino Ilacqua | Stars: Jack O'Halloran, Roberta Catanese, Giuseppe De Domenico, Asia Sottile
35. Fatso! (2009)
98 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Killed too soon due to a clerical error in heaven, a man is sent back to earth with a new lease on life, this time in the body of his portly friend.
Director: Rajat Kapoor | Stars: Gul Panag, Purab Kohli, Ranvir Shorey, Bharti Achrekar
Votes: 487
36. Chloé (2019)
15 min | Short, Drama
A fight with another girl condemns Chloé to return to school. After a goodbye to her best friend, Chloe gets into her father's car with whom she will make the road through the Gers countryside.
Director: Bastien Solignac | Stars: Ilys Barillot, Rodolphe Briand, Melha Mammeri, Matilda Marty-Giraut
37. Runt (2005)
Not Rated | Drama, Thriller
When Christopher confronts his own violent temper which threatens his wife and children, he flies home to Jamaica and engages in an exorcism of the spirit, from his memories of his abusive,... See full summary »
Director: Michael Phillip Edwards | Stars: Michael Phillip Edwards, Carl Bradshaw, Nadège August, Patrice Pitman Quinn
Votes: 86
38. Die Tochter (2008)
100 min | Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
A woman in her mid-forties goes on a journey to the country. She visits her mother, whom she hasn't seen for quite a while. Of course, her father, who has been missing for many years, ... See full summary »
Director: Bernhard Kammel | Stars: Sofia Tchernev, Vera Baranyai, Imo Heite, Daniel Kamen
39. Checking In (I) (2014)
123 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
In any Hotel, there are stories. Each guest there has one, a past, a conflict, as well as hope. Set in a hotel over the course of 24 hours, 'Checking In', tells five stories, each allowing ... See full summary »
Directors: Mark Adams, Troy Dennison, Rebecca Harris-Smith, David Hastings, Kaushy Patel, Leah Solmaz | Stars: Noshand Marysoomy, David Claridge, Rushaun Cookhorn, Michelle Cox
Votes: 22
40. Killing Tony (2020)
58 min | Documentary
A workaholic deliveryman struggles not to be terminated by the flashy social butterfly screaming inside him.
Director: Panu Suuronen | Stars: Jenni Salomaa, Tony Kammonen, Jasmin Ruokolainen, Jari Paldanius
Votes: 15
41. Vårfesten (2017)
14 min | Short, Drama
Director: Salla Sorri | Stars: Hilda Purhonen, Maria Sid, Nella Rosenlew, Ina Sunden
Votes: 19
42. L'étreinte des hommes (2019)
2 min | Short, Drama, Romance
Two young men are attacked by thugs after sharing a kiss while walking along the Seine in Paris.
Director: Nicolas Goergen | Stars: Matthieu Charneau, Lazaro Cuervo Costa, Fayçal Acloque, Bocar Diop
Votes: 9
43. How I Got Lost in the Candyland (1992)
56 min | Documentary
Director: Kaisa Rastimo | Star: Leea Klemola
Votes: 19
44. Rakastunut rampa (1975)
67 min | Comedy, Drama
Krokelby in the 1920s. Sakris Kukkelman is a crippled, Nietzsche reading village idiot who believes himself to be a romantic hero.
Directors: Esko Favén, Tarja Laine | Stars: Vesa-Matti Loiri, Leena Uotila, Ritva Valkama, Heikki Nousiainen
Votes: 110
45. Full of Love: Escape from a Deep Freeze (2018)
74 min | Documentary
Documentary on Finnish burlesque star and shows, with (doc)maker's associated performance empowerment.
Director: Iina Terho | Stars: Iina Terho, Petra Innanen, Chika Noguchi, Scotty Grabell
Votes: 25
46. In the Year of the Ape (1983)
94 min | Drama
Director: Janne Kuusi | Stars: Heikki Salomaa, Tiina Bergström, Laura Munsterhjelm, Rea Mauranen
Votes: 106
47. Red Light August (1999)
30 min | Drama, Short
The budding friendship between an idealistic painter and a teenage street hustler is haunted by addiction and sexual obsession in this short film, set against the New York City underground rave scene.
Director: Jeff Gomez | Stars: Richard H. Blake, Adrian Johansson, Darlene Tejeiro, David Titus
Votes: 66
48. V dvizhenii (2002)
97 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
Modern Russian take on Felinni's "La Dolce Vita" focuses on a few days from one popular Moscow journalist's life and the essential attributes of his life: Sex, betrayal, love, friendship, murders, etc.
Director: Filipp Yankovskiy | Stars: Konstantin Khabenskiy, Oksana Fandera, Elena Perova, Mikhail Efremov
Votes: 564
49. Mia (I) (2019)
Short
A 20-year-old girl realizes her relationship with her boyfriend defines who she is. Despite her deep love for him she lets him go in order to start answering the question 'Who am I?'.
Director: Celia Scheij | Stars: Villads Bøye, My Hyttel
50. Chameleon (2017)
23 min | Short, Drama, Thriller
Unable to fit into the corporate machine, a desperate man is willing to do anything to make his dreams of power a reality even if it means losing himself completely.
Director: Trevvor Riley | Stars: Spiros Psihos, Michael Sean Erickson, Roger Duplease, Michael Crate
Votes: 19