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1. War of the Worlds (2005)

PG-13 | 116 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

An alien invasion threatens the future of humanity. The catastrophic nightmare is depicted through the eyes of one American family fighting for survival.

Director: Steven Spielberg | Stars: Tom Cruise, Dakota Fanning, Tim Robbins, Miranda Otto

Votes: 475,489 | Gross: $234.28M

2. World War Z (2013)

PG-13 | 116 min | Action, Adventure, Horror

Former United Nations employee Gerry Lane traverses the world in a race against time to stop a zombie pandemic that is toppling armies and governments and threatens to destroy humanity itself.

Director: Marc Forster | Stars: Brad Pitt, Mireille Enos, Daniella Kertesz, James Badge Dale

Votes: 719,901 | Gross: $202.36M

3. Turtles All the Way Down (2024)

PG-13 | 111 min | Drama, Romance

A teenager with OCD tries to solve a mystery surrounding a fugitive billionaire.

Director: Hannah Marks | Stars: Isabela Merced, Cree, Judy Reyes, Felix Mallard

Votes: 851

4. Five Feet Apart (2019)

PG-13 | 116 min | Drama, Romance

A pair of teenagers with cystic fibrosis meet in a hospital and fall in love, though their disease means they must avoid close physical contact.

Director: Justin Baldoni | Stars: Haley Lu Richardson, Cole Sprouse, Moises Arias, Kimberly Hebert Gregory

Votes: 82,692 | Gross: $45.73M

5. Primer (2004)

PG-13 | 77 min | Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller

Four friends/fledgling entrepreneurs, knowing that there's something bigger and more innovative than the different error-checking devices they've built, wrestle over their new invention.

Director: Shane Carruth | Stars: Shane Carruth, David Sullivan, Casey Gooden, Anand Upadhyaya

Votes: 114,223 | Gross: $0.42M

6. The Good Girl (2002)

R | 93 min | Drama, Romance

A discount store clerk strikes up an affair with a stock boy who considers himself the incarnation of Holden Caulfield.

Director: Miguel Arteta | Stars: Jennifer Aniston, Jake Gyllenhaal, Deborah Rush, Mike White

Votes: 47,449 | Gross: $14.02M

7. The Rig (2023– )

13+ | 51 min | Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi

A group of workers on a remote Scottish oil rig are due to return to the mainland when a mysterious fog enshrouds them and supernatural forces take hold.

Stars: Emily Hampshire, Iain Glen, Molly Vevers, Abraham Popoola

Votes: 12,678

8. The War of the Worlds (1953)

G | 85 min | Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller

A small town in California is attacked by Martians, beginning a worldwide invasion.

Director: Byron Haskin | Stars: Gene Barry, Ann Robinson, Les Tremayne, Robert Cornthwaite

Votes: 38,562 | Gross: $4.36M

9. The Last Days on Mars (2013)

R | 98 min | Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi

A group of astronaut explorers succumb one by one to a mysterious and terrifying force while collecting specimens on Mars.

Director: Ruairi Robinson | Stars: Liev Schreiber, Elias Koteas, Romola Garai, Olivia Williams

Votes: 38,987 | Gross: $0.02M

10. Wetlands (2013)

Not Rated | 109 min | Comedy, Drama

The adventures of an eccentric girl who has strange attitudes towards hygiene and sexuality longs for the reunion of her divorced parents.

Director: David Wnendt | Stars: Carla Juri, Christoph Letkowski, Marlen Kruse, Meret Becker

Votes: 12,364 | Gross: $0.06M

11. Phantoms (1998)

R | 96 min | Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller

In the peaceful town of Snowfield, Colorado something evil has wiped out the community. And now, its up to a group of people to stop it, or at least get out of Snowfield alive.

Director: Joe Chappelle | Stars: Peter O'Toole, Rose McGowan, Joanna Going, Liev Schreiber

Votes: 22,372 | Gross: $5.66M

12. The Awakening (1980)

R | 101 min | Horror

An archeologist discovers his daughter is possessed by the spirit of an Egyptian queen. To save mankind he must destroy her.

Director: Mike Newell | Stars: Charlton Heston, Susannah York, Jill Townsend, Stephanie Zimbalist

Votes: 2,868 | Gross: $8.42M

13. Godzilla vs. Biollante (1989)

PG | 104 min | Action, Fantasy, Horror

Desolate by the loss of his daughter, a geneticist creates a monstrous new mutation.

Directors: Kazuki Ômori, Koji Hashimoto, Kenjirô Ohmori | Stars: Kunihiko Mitamura, Yoshiko Tanaka, Masanobu Takashima, Kôji Takahashi

Votes: 6,788

14. The Andromeda Strain (2008)

44 min | Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi

A crack team of top scientists work feverishly in a secret, state-of-the-art laboratory to discover what has killed the citizens of a small town and learn how this deadly contagion can be stopped.

Stars: Benjamin Bratt, Christa Miller, Ricky Schroder, Louis Ferreira

Votes: 14,614

15. ReGenesis (2004–2008)

TV-14 | 49 min | Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi

Geneticist David Sandstrom is the chief scientist at the prestigious virology/micro-biology NORBAC laboratory, a joint enterprise between the USA, Canada and Mexico for countering bio-terrorism.

Stars: Peter Outerbridge, Conrad Pla, Dmitry Chepovetsky, Mayko Nguyen

Votes: 3,450

16. War of the Worlds (1988–1990)

TV-PG | 45 min | Action, Adventure, Horror

Humanity must resume its war against the Martians when they revive after decades of hibernation following their defeat in the 1950s.

Stars: Jared Martin, Lynda Mason Green, Philip Akin, Richard Chaves

Votes: 1,470

17. Black Mountain Side (2014)

Not Rated | 99 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery

At a cold, desolate, northmost outpost in Canada, an archaeological discovery is made. A specialist arrives Nov. 1. Strange things happen. All contact with the outside world is down.

Director: Nick Szostakiwskyj | Stars: Shane Twerdun, Michael Dickson, Carl Toftfelt, Marc Anthony Williams

Votes: 6,208

18. The Oh in Ohio (2006)

R | 88 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

Priscilla Chase is a woman who has never had an orgasm.

Director: Billy Kent | Stars: Parker Posey, Paul Rudd, Danny DeVito, Winter Ave Zoli

Votes: 6,518 | Gross: $0.42M

19. Blue Monkey (1987)

R | 96 min | Horror, Sci-Fi

Detective Jim Bishop and Dr. Rachel Carson must find a way to stop a giant monstrous insect that's eating people in her quarantined hospital before it procreates and spreads a deadly infection it's carrying.

Director: William Fruet | Stars: Ivan E. Roth, Steve Railsback, Gwynyth Walsh, Don Lake

Votes: 1,317

20. Collective (2019)

Not Rated | 109 min | Documentary, Crime

Director Alexander Nanau follows a crack team of investigators at the Romanian newspaper Gazeta Sporturilor as they try to uncover a vast health-care fraud that enriched moguls and politicians and led to the deaths of innocent citizens.

Director: Alexander Nanau | Stars: Dan Alexandru Condrea, Liviu Iolu, Razvan Lutac, Mirela Neag

Votes: 13,444

21. A Zed & Two Noughts (1985)

Not Rated | 115 min | Comedy, Drama

Twin zoologists lose their wives in a car accident and become obsessed with decomposing animals.

Director: Peter Greenaway | Stars: Brian Deacon, Eric Deacon, Andréa Ferréol, Frances Barber

Votes: 7,576

22. Voyage of Time (2016)

G | 44 min | Documentary, Animation

This documentary examines the origins of the universe, including the beginning of life on Earth.

Director: Terrence Malick | Stars: Brad Pitt, Jamal Cavil, Maisha Diatta, Yagazie Emezi

Votes: 2,720

23. Il était une fois... la vie (1987–1988)

30 min | Animation, Family

The workings of the human body explained by animated characters.

Stars: Roger Carel, Marie-Laure Beneston, Alain Dorval, Gilles Laurent

Votes: 5,588

24. Dogman (2012)

TV-14 | 91 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery

Hanklin and Dorothy Purvis enjoy outdoor life on their midwestern farm, that is until odd, violent incidents begin to occur towards the end of summer. What nobody realizes is that the attacker is not human, and seethes with a dark purpose.

Director: Richard Brauer | Stars: Larry Joe Campbell, Mariann Mayberry, Kimberly Guerrero, Stacie Mitchell

Votes: 444

25. Cells at Work! (2018–2021)

TV-14 | 24 min | Animation, Action, Comedy

One newcomer red blood cell just wants to do her job. Between bacteria incursions and meeting a certain white blood cell, she's got a lot to learn.

Stars: Mamiko Noto, Qiege Qin, Karen Strassman, Dorah Fine

Votes: 2,858

26. Warning Sign (1985)

R | 99 min | Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller

A woman working as a security guard in an agricultural research facility finds herself and her co-worker Schmidt fighting to survive against their former friends.

Director: Hal Barwood | Stars: Sam Waterston, Kathleen Quinlan, Yaphet Kotto, Jeffrey DeMunn

Votes: 2,912 | Gross: $1.92M

27. Return of the Secaucus Seven (1980)

R | 104 min | Drama

Seven former college friends, along with a few new friends, gather for a weekend reunion at a summer house in New Hampshire to reminisce about the good old days, when they got arrested on the way to a protest in Washington, DC.

Director: John Sayles | Stars: Bruce MacDonald, Maggie Renzi, Adam LeFevre, Maggie Cousineau

Votes: 2,230 | Gross: $2.00M

28. Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet (1940)

Approved | 103 min | Biography, Drama

True story of the doctor who considered it was not immoral to search for a drug that would cure syphillis.

Director: William Dieterle | Stars: Edward G. Robinson, Ruth Gordon, Otto Kruger, Donald Crisp

Votes: 1,831

29. Cells at Work! Code Black (2021)

TV-14 | 24 min | Animation, Action, Comedy

Humans are complex biological robots that are made up of trillion of cells, each with their own structure and function. Even a single cell cannot slack off. Scientists have come a long way ... See full summary »

Stars: Allegra Clark, Andrew Russell, Jon Allen, Lizzie Freeman

Votes: 667

30. The Story of Louis Pasteur (1936)

Passed | 86 min | Biography, Drama, History

The biography of the pioneering French microbiologist who helped revolutionize agriculture and medicine.

Director: William Dieterle | Stars: Paul Muni, Josephine Hutchinson, Anita Louise, Donald Woods

Votes: 3,155

31. The Quiet Duel (1949)

95 min | Drama

A surgeon gets syphilis from a patient when he cuts himself during an operation. The doctor's life is destroyed, but unlike the patient, he doesn't destroy others along with him.

Director: Akira Kurosawa | Stars: Toshirô Mifune, Takashi Shimura, Miki Sanjô, Kenjirô Uemura

Votes: 3,907

32. Lily C.A.T. (1987 Video)

TV-14 | 67 min | Animation, Action, Horror

The expendable crew of a corporate space vessel must stop a murderous shape-shifting alien organism that somehow got on board.

Director: Hisayuki Toriumi | Stars: Hiroyuki Okita, Masako Katsuki, Osamu Saka, Chikao Ôtsuka

Votes: 1,208

33. Refuge: American Apocalypse (I) (2013)

Not Rated | 74 min | Thriller

Refuge is a suspense-thriller about a family struggling to survive in the wake of a great catastrophic event.

Director: Andrew Robertson | Stars: Carter Roy, Amy Rutberg, Eva Grace Kellner, Chris Kies

Votes: 616

34. Isle of Flowers (1989)

13 min | Documentary, Short

The ironic, heartbreaking and acid "saga" of a spoiled tomato: from the plantation of a "Nisei" (Brazilian with Japanese origins); to a supermarket; to a consumer's kitchen to become sauce ... See full summary »

Director: Jorge Furtado | Stars: Paulo José, Ciça Reckziegel, Douglas Trainini, Júlia Barth

Votes: 6,526

35. Murderball (2005)

R | 88 min | Documentary, Sport

Quadriplegics, who play full-contact rugby in wheelchairs, overcome unimaginable obstacles to compete in the Paralympic Games in Athens, Greece.

Directors: Henry Alex Rubin, Dana Adam Shapiro | Stars: Joe Soares, Keith Cavill, Mark Zupan, Robert Soares

Votes: 10,459 | Gross: $1.52M

36. Déjà Vu (1997)

PG-13 | 117 min | Drama, Romance

L.A. shop owner Dana and Englishman Sean meet and fall in love at first sight, but Sean is married and Dana is to marry her business partner Alex.

Director: Henry Jaglom | Stars: Victoria Foyt, Stephen Dillane, Vanessa Redgrave, Glynis Barber

Votes: 959 | Gross: $0.82M

37. The War of the Worlds (2005 Video)

Unrated | 179 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

In one of the most faithful adaptations of HG Wells' science fiction masterpiece, Martians launch a ruthless assault on an unsuspecting Victorian England, in an attempt to escape their dying planet.

Director: Timothy Hines | Stars: Anthony Piana, Jack Clay, James Lathrop, Darlene Sellers

Votes: 2,266

38. Paradise Lost (1999)

Not Rated | 105 min | Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi

A scientist in the rain forest squares off against a land developer while trying to solve some unexplained deaths of his workers. An archaeologist, who's researching the jungle ruins of an extinct local tribe, might know more.

Director: Herb Freed | Stars: William Forsythe, Marina Sirtis, Nigel Havers, Miguel Ángel Suárez

Votes: 304

39. Bakterion (1982)

R | 90 min | Horror, Sci-Fi

A scientist's experiment with a deadly bacteria goes awry and leaves him horribly deformed. The monstrous man then runs amok in his town.

Director: Tonino Ricci | Stars: David Warbeck, Janet Agren, Roberto Ricci, José Lifante

Votes: 879

40. Topaze (I) (1933)

Approved | 78 min | Comedy, Drama

An honest and naive schoolteacher gets a lesson in how the world works outside the classroom, when a rich Baron and his mistress use the teacher's name and outstanding reputation in a crooked business scheme.

Director: Harry d'Abbadie d'Arrast | Stars: John Barrymore, Myrna Loy, Reginald Mason, Jobyna Howland

Votes: 1,032

41. I'm Not Me (2021)

Horror, Thriller

A group of friends start to notice something weird happening in their home town. The residents start displaying rage like symptoms after a buried bacteria is released into the public.

Director: Drew Kochera | Stars: Chamane Barbatti, Kyle A. Lee, Scarlett O'Shaughnessy, Joe Hammerstone

42. The Gut: Our Second Brain (2014 TV Movie)

PG-13 | 55 min | Documentary

For years, scientists have known about the existence of another brain within our bodies. Our stomach functions totally independently and does far more than just digestion. It reigns over a ... See full summary »

Director: Cécile Denjean | Stars: Liu Bo, Bruno Bonaz, Patrice Cani, Stephen M. Collins

Votes: 146

43. History of the World in 2 Hours (2011 TV Movie)

TV-PG | 120 min | Documentary, History

A rapid-fire history of our world, from the beginning of time as we know it to present day. This two-hour CGI-driven special delves into the key turning points: the formation of earth, ... See full summary »

Director: Douglas Cohen | Stars: Corey Burton, Alex Filippenko, Peter Ward, Clifford V. Johnson

Votes: 1,043

44. Miami Golem (1985)

85 min | Action, Horror, Sci-Fi

A Miami TV reporter is sent to a local university to do a story on a professor who is cloning a cell from DNA found inside a meteorite. Soon after the reporter leaves, a gunman kills ... See full summary »

Director: Alberto De Martino | Stars: David Warbeck, Laura Trotter, Loris Loddi, Giorgio Favretto

Votes: 219

45. Great Gift (2024)

Crime, Mystery, Thriller

An original medical murder mystery surrounding an unknown killer coccus (bacteria), that leaves no trace in the victim's body, which enables it to be used as the perfect weapon to kill. ... See full summary »

Stars: Rio Asumi, Ryôko Fujino, Shôgo Hama, Haru

46. A Twist of the Knife (1993 TV Movie)

89 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Dr Sloan suspects that his flame of long ago, famous heart surgeon Dr Rachel Walters, has murdered US Senator Cabot on the occasion of a guest operation at the community hospital. After a ... See full summary »

Director: Jerry London | Stars: Dick Van Dyke, Suzanne Pleshette, Cynthia Gibb, Stephen Caffrey

Votes: 272

47. Thirst (1998 TV Movie)

TV-14 | 120 min | Drama, Thriller

A chemical engineer, who recently moved to town, struggles to find a way to kill a deadly new variant of Cryptosporidium that has infiltrated the town's water supply, causing people who drink it to die of thirst.

Director: Bill Norton | Stars: Adam Arkin, Joely Fisher, Giancarlo Esposito, Ken Jenkins

Votes: 357

48. The Directive (2019)

113 min | Action, Comedy, Sci-Fi

One year after a catastrophic pandemic wipes out most of humanity, a lone survivor embarks on a journey to find Safe Zone 57 with the help of a broken robot.

Director: Alexander Raye Pimentel | Stars: Kyle Abraham, Paul Askedall, Nicholas Winand, Hashim Gari

Votes: 1,315

49. When the Day Breaks (1999)

10 min | Animation, Short, Comedy

A chance encounter, a juicy yellow lemon and an unfortunate twist of fate will reveal that the symbiotic relationship between people is inextricable.

Directors: Amanda Forbis, Wendy Tilby

Votes: 1,387

50. Karius og Baktus (1955)

15 min | Animation, Short, Family

The little tooth trolls Karius and Baktus tries to persuade Jens not to brush his teeth, and their picking wholes in his teeth can go on as planned. If the mother's plea to Jens is winning, the happy days of white bread and syrup is over.

Director: Ivo Caprino | Stars: Turid Haaland, Kari Diesen

Votes: 1,229