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1. The Green Mile (1999)
R | 189 min | Crime, Drama, Fantasy
A tale set on death row, where gentle giant John Coffey possesses the mysterious power to heal people's ailments. When the lead guard, Paul Edgecombe, recognizes John's gift, he tries to help stave off the condemned man's execution.
Director: Frank Darabont | Stars: Tom Hanks, Michael Clarke Duncan, David Morse, Bonnie Hunt
Votes: 1,407,743 | Gross: $136.80M
2. Sin City (2005)
R | 124 min | Crime, Thriller
An exploration of the dark and miserable Basin City and three of its residents, all of whom are caught up in violent corruption.
Directors: Frank Miller, Quentin Tarantino, Robert Rodriguez | Stars: Mickey Rourke, Clive Owen, Bruce Willis, Jessica Alba
Votes: 793,881 | Gross: $74.10M
3. Misery (1990)
R | 107 min | Drama, Thriller
After a famous author is rescued from a car crash by a fan of his novels, he comes to realize that the care he is receiving is only the beginning of a nightmare of captivity and abuse.
Director: Rob Reiner | Stars: James Caan, Kathy Bates, Richard Farnsworth, Frances Sternhagen
Votes: 235,627 | Gross: $61.28M
4. Friday the 13th (2009)
R | 97 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
A group of young adults visit a boarded up campsite named Crystal Lake where they soon encounter the mysterious Jason Voorhees and his deadly intentions.
Director: Marcus Nispel | Stars: Jared Padalecki, Amanda Righetti, Derek Mears, Danielle Panabaker
Votes: 116,932 | Gross: $65.00M
5. Mindhunters (2004)
R | 106 min | Crime, Horror, Thriller
A group of FBI trainees are taken to a remote island for simulation training. However, once there, they realize that they are being hunted by a serial killer, who might be someone amidst them.
Director: Renny Harlin | Stars: Val Kilmer, LL Cool J, Christian Slater, Eion Bailey
Votes: 64,213 | Gross: $4.48M
6. Day of the Dead (1985)
Not Rated | 101 min | Horror, Thriller
As the world is overrun by zombies, a group of scientists and military personnel sheltering in an underground bunker in Florida must decide on how they should deal with the undead horde.
Director: George A. Romero | Stars: Lori Cardille, Terry Alexander, Joseph Pilato, Jarlath Conroy
Votes: 74,377 | Gross: $5.80M
7. The Collector (I) (2009)
R | 90 min | Horror, Thriller
Desperate to repay his debt to his ex-wife, an ex-con plots a heist at his new employer's country home, unaware that a second criminal has also targeted the property, and rigged it with a series of deadly traps.
Director: Marcus Dunstan | Stars: Josh Stewart, Andrea Roth, Juan Fernández, William Prael
Votes: 72,227 | Gross: $7.71M
8. Assault on Precinct 13 (1976)
R | 91 min | Action, Crime, Thriller
A Highway Patrol Officer, two criminals and a station secretary defend a defunct Los Angeles precinct office against a siege by a bloodthirsty street gang.
Director: John Carpenter | Stars: Austin Stoker, Darwin Joston, Laurie Zimmer, Martin West
Votes: 55,631
9. Secret Window (2004)
PG-13 | 96 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
A successful writer in the midst of a painful divorce is stalked at his remote lake house by a would-be scribe who accuses him of plagiarism.
Director: David Koepp | Stars: Johnny Depp, Maria Bello, John Turturro, Timothy Hutton
Votes: 209,561 | Gross: $48.02M
10. Friday the 13th: Part 3 (1982)
R | 95 min | Horror, Thriller
Jason Voorhees stalks a group of friends who have just arrived to spend the weekend at a cabin near Crystal Lake.
Director: Steve Miner | Stars: Dana Kimmell, Tracie Savage, Richard Brooker, Terry Ballard
Votes: 60,424 | Gross: $36.69M
11. Maniac (1980)
18+ | 87 min | Crime, Drama, Horror
A psychopathic man goes on a killing and mutilation spree in New York City.
Director: William Lustig | Stars: Joe Spinell, Caroline Munro, Abigail Clayton, Kelly Piper
Votes: 20,219
12. Pet Sematary II (1992)
R | 100 min | Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
A teenage boy and his father move to his recently-deceased mother's hometown, where they encounter the ancient Native American cemetery with the power to raise the dead.
Director: Mary Lambert | Stars: Edward Furlong, Anthony Edwards, Clancy Brown, Jared Rushton
Votes: 23,495 | Gross: $17.09M
13. The Last Man on Earth (1964)
Not Rated | 86 min | Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
When a disease turns all of humanity into the living dead, the last man on earth becomes a reluctant vampire hunter.
Directors: Ubaldo Ragona, Sidney Salkow | Stars: Vincent Price, Franca Bettoia, Emma Danieli, Giacomo Rossi Stuart
Votes: 21,507
14. The First Power (1990)
R | 98 min | Crime, Horror, Thriller
A dedicated L.A. police detective and a psychic must stop a demonic serial killer who was given the powers of resurrection, teleportation and possession.
Director: Robert Resnikoff | Stars: Lou Diamond Phillips, Tracy Griffith, Jeff Kober, Mykelti Williamson
Votes: 4,883 | Gross: $22.42M
15. Murder-Set-Pieces (2004)
R | 105 min | Horror
A fashion photographer exposes his demented childhood and zooms his evil lens on the oldest profession under the moon, in quite possibly the most notorious serial killer film ever made.
Director: Nick Palumbo | Stars: Sven Garrett, Cerina Vincent, Tony Todd, Gunnar Hansen
Votes: 4,502
16. Mutant (1984)
R | 99 min | Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Two brothers discover that the residents of a small Southern town are being infected by a form of toxic waste, turning them into blood-ravenous zombies.
Directors: John 'Bud' Cardos, Mark Rosman | Stars: Wings Hauser, Bo Hopkins, Jody Medford, Lee Montgomery
Votes: 2,860
17. Lynch/Oz (2022)
108 min | Documentary
Victor Fleming's film The Wizard of Oz (1939) is one of David Lynch's most enduring obsessions. This documentary goes over the rainbow to explore this Technicolor through-line in Lynch's work.
Director: Alexandre O. Philippe | Stars: Amy Nicholson, Rodney Ascher, John Waters, Karyn Kusama
Votes: 1,060
18. Five Came Back (2017)
TV-14 | 60 min | Documentary, Biography, History
The wartime contributions of five prominent Hollywood film directors during World War II are profiled.
Stars: Francis Ford Coppola, Steven Spielberg, Meryl Streep, Guillermo del Toro
Votes: 5,279
19. The Undertaker (1988)
R | 89 min | Horror
A deranged undertaker kills various people to keep as his friends in his seedy funeral home.
Directors: Frank Avianca, Steve Bono | Stars: Joe Spinell, Rebecca Varon, Patrick Askin, Susan Bachli
Votes: 771
20. Point of Terror (1971)
R | 88 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
A nightclub singer has nightmares about being involved in adultery and murder, only to wake up and find that they may not be nightmares.
Director: Alex Nicol | Stars: Peter Carpenter, Dyanne Thorne, Lory Hansen, Leslie Simms
Votes: 614
21. Kill Game (2016)
Not Rated | 102 min | Horror
Five years after a high school prank gone horribly wrong, a group of good looking, shallow, and at times cruel pranksters find themselves on the wrong end of the joke.
Director: Robert Mearns | Stars: Joe Adler, Laura Ashley Samuels, Pierson Fode, Mouzam Makkar
Votes: 894
22. La classe américaine (1993 TV Movie)
70 min | Comedy
George Abitbol, "the Most Classy Man on Earth", dies sputtering his famous last words: "cr*ppy world!" What the heck did he mean? Reporters Steven, Peter and Dave investigate. La Classe ... See full summary »
Directors: Michel Hazanavicius, Dominique Mézerette | Stars: John Wayne, Burt Lancaster, Lana Turner, Jason Robards
Votes: 2,750
23. Fast Film (2003)
14 min | Animation, Short, Adventure
Bits of found film and different types of animation illustrate a classic chase scene scenario: A woman is abducted and a man comes to her rescue, but during their escape they find themselves in the enemy's secret headquarters.
Director: Virgil Widrich
Votes: 1,100
24. To Hell and Back: The Kane Hodder Story (2017)
Not Rated | 108 min | Documentary, Biography
The emotional story of Kane Hodder who survived a harrowing childhood and near-death accident to become one of films biggest and most beloved horror icons.
Director: Derek Dennis Herbert | Stars: Kane Hodder, Mike Aloisi, John Carl Buechler, Bruce Campbell
Votes: 862
25. Jerry Lewis: The Man Behind the Clown (2016 TV Movie)
61 min | Documentary, Biography, Comedy
Jerry Lewis: The Man Behind the Clown chronicles the remarkable life and genius work of one of the most iconic and incomparable comic performers and filmmakers of our time.
Director: Gregory Monro | Stars: Jerry Lewis, Frank Krutnik, Tony Lewis Comedian, Ted Okuda
Votes: 901
26. John Ford: The Man Who Invented America (2019 TV Movie)
54 min | Documentary, Biography, History
This documentary follows the life of the renowned American director, author of more than 150 works and winner of more Oscar awards than any other, and shed light on the significance of his most outstanding films.
Director: Jean-Christophe Klotz | Stars: Paul Bandey, John Ford, Joseph McBride, Cécile Gornet
Votes: 278
27. 'Rear Window' Ethics: Remembering and Restoring a Hitchcock Classic (2001 Video)
Not Rated | 56 min | Documentary
A retrospective look at Alfred Hitchcock's Rear Window (1954).
Director: Laurent Bouzereau | Stars: Curtis Hanson, Peter Bogdanovich, Alfred Hitchcock, Herb Steinberg
Votes: 327
28. Spanish Western (2014)
57 min | Documentary
During the 60s and 70s, more than 600 westerns were filmed in the Tabernas desert, in Almería, which represented a change in the modus vivendi of the region as well as a global showcase for... See full summary »
Director: Alberto Esteban | Stars: Ricardo Palacios, Francisco Arias, Placido Martínez, Paco Barrilado
Votes: 37
29. Lifeboat: Hitchcock/Truffaut (1962 Video)
12 min | Short, Biography, History
Stars: Alfred Hitchcock, François Truffaut, Helen Scott
30. DGA Moments in Time (2011)
22 min | Documentary, Short
In 1936 a small group of prominent screen directors pledged to work together to protect the economic and creative rights of filmmakers. Risking their careers, they came together to form the... See full summary »
Director: Michael Stevens | Stars: Artt Butler, Clint Eastwood, Martin Scorsese, Mark Silverman
Votes: 16
31. The Alexander Film Studio Project
Documentary | Filming
Perhaps the only long running and certainly the largest motion picture sound stage studio outside of New York and Hollywood, the Alexander Film Company of Colorado Springs was active in ... See full summary »
Director: Stefan Huddleston | Star: Stefan Huddleston
32. Psycho: Hitchcock/Truffaut (2008 Video)
15 min | Short, Biography, History
Stars: François Truffaut, Helen Scott, Janet Leigh, Anthony Perkins
33. Paris, Texas: Cannes Footage - Wim Wenders & Nastassja Kinski in Cannes (1984 Video)
5 min | Short, News
Stars: Wim Wenders, Nastassja Kinski, Harry Dean Stanton, Aurore Clément
34. Norman Jewison, Director (1986 Video)
32 min | Documentary, Short, Biography
Star: Norman Jewison
35. Out of the Blue and into the Black (1987 TV Special)
106 min | Documentary, History
Director: Paul Joyce | Stars: Peter Bogdanovich, Roger Corman, Monte Hellman, Dennis Hopper
36. Film: Robert Altman and Pauline Kael (1977 Video)
30 min | Documentary, Short, Talk-Show
Stars: Robert Altman, Pauline Kael
37.
American Cinema (1995–1996)
Episode:
The Studio System
(1995)
60 min | Documentary
The studio system created the Golden Age of Hollywood, its classic film stars and big budget hits that captivated generations all across the world. However, the following decades proved that nothing lasts forever, even in Hollywood.
Stars: John Lithgow, Peter Coyote
Votes: 10