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51. Grey Owl (1999)
PG-13 | 118 min | Biography, Drama, Western
The story of the life and work of the Canadian fur trapper-turned-conservationist who claimed to be an aboriginal North American.
Director: Richard Attenborough | Stars: Pierce Brosnan, Stewart Bick, Vlasta Vrana, Annie Galipeau
Votes: 4,052 | Gross: $0.63M
52. She (1935)
Passed | 101 min | Adventure, Fantasy, Romance
A group of explorers search of the legendary "flame of life," a mysterious force that bestows immortality.
Directors: Lansing C. Holden, Irving Pichel | Stars: Helen Gahagan, Randolph Scott, Helen Mack, Nigel Bruce
Votes: 1,919
53. Siberiade (1979)
190 min | Drama, History, Romance
In the Siberian wilderness in the village of Yelan, two families live, who have long been at war with each other: the «kulaks» of Solomina and the «poor people» of Ustyuzhanina.
Director: Andrey Konchalovskiy | Stars: Nikita Mikhalkov, Vitali Solomin, Sergey Shakurov, Natalya Andreychenko
Votes: 2,318
54. Painted Fire (2002)
Unrated | 120 min | Biography, Drama, History
In a time of political and social unrest in nineteenth-century Korea, an uncouth, self-taught painter explores his natural talent amidst the repressive world around him.
Director: Im Kwon-taek | Stars: Choi Min-sik, Ahn Sung-ki, Yoo Ho-jeong, Kim Yeo-jin
Votes: 2,826 | Gross: $0.06M
55. Fangs of the Living Dead (1969)
PG | 88 min | Comedy, Drama, Horror
A beautiful virgin inherits a castle, but when she arrives at it, she finds that the inhabitants include a strange nobleman and a bevy of beautiful women she suspects may be vampires.
Director: Amando de Ossorio | Stars: Anita Ekberg, Gianni Medici, Diana Lorys, Adriana Ambesi
Votes: 1,189
56. Lingaa (2014)
Not Rated | 174 min | Action, Comedy, Drama
A small-time thief reforms after learning about the role played by his grandfather in building a dam.
Director: K.S. Ravikumar | Stars: Rajinikanth, Anushka Shetty, Sonakshi Sinha, Jagapathi Babu
Votes: 6,298
57. Curse of the Devil (1973)
R | 73 min | Horror
A man whose ancestors executed a witch is turned into a werewolf by modern-day descendants of the executed witch.
Director: Carlos Aured | Stars: Paul Naschy, Fabiola Falcón, Mariano Vidal Molina, Maritza Olivares
Votes: 904
58. Ten Canoes (2006)
Unrated | 90 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama
In Australia's Northern Territory, a man tells us a story of his people and his land. It's about an older man, Minygululu, who has three wives and realizes that his younger brother Dayindi may try to steal away the youngest wife.
Directors: Rolf de Heer, Peter Djigirr | Stars: Crusoe Kurddal, Jamie Gulpilil, Richard Birrinbirrin, Peter Minygululu
Votes: 5,119 | Gross: $0.28M
59. Battle of Little Bighorn (2020)
TV-PG | 45 min | Documentary, Action, Biography
The U.S. expands westward after the Civil War displacing the last of the free-roaming Native Americans onto Reservations. This show focuses special attention on General George A. Custer and... See full summary »
Director: Molly Hermann | Stars: Steve Alexander, Kirk Chapman, Ron Glasgow, Marshall Dancing Elk Lucas
Votes: 112
60. Night of Dark Shadows (1971)
GP | 95 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
A painter and his wife move into a home and find themselves plagued by ghosts and spirits of his ancestors that used to be witches.
Director: Dan Curtis | Stars: David Selby, Grayson Hall, Kate Jackson, Lara Parker
Votes: 1,837 | Gross: $3.05M
61. Terror (1978)
R | 84 min | Horror
The descendants of a witch hunting family and their close friends are stalked and killed by a mysterious entity.
Director: Norman J. Warren | Stars: John Nolan, Carolyn Courage, James Aubrey, Sarah Keller
Votes: 1,658
62. Tess of the D'Urbervilles (1998 TV Movie)
180 min | Drama, Romance
A free-spirited yet naive country girl is caught between her wealthy, manipulative "cousin" Alec and the handsome, educated farmer Angel Clare in this Victorian tragedy from novelist Thomas Hardy.
Director: Ian Sharp | Stars: Justine Waddell, Jason Flemyng, Oliver Milburn, John McEnery
Votes: 2,107
63. The Canterville Ghost (1986 TV Movie)
PG | 95 min | Comedy, Family, Fantasy
A girl befriends a mischievous English ghost trying to scare her family (his descendants) back to America.
Director: Paul Bogart | Stars: John Gielgud, Ted Wass, Andrea Marcovicci, Alyssa Milano
Votes: 902
64. Dementia 13 (2017)
Unrated | 83 min | Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
At a wealthy family's estate, extortionists go after their matriarch and her inheritance while a ghost and an ax-wielding figure lurk in the shadows.
Director: Richard LeMay | Stars: Julia Campanelli, Channing Pickett, Steve Polites, Marianne Noscheze
Votes: 1,066
65. Frankenstein 1970 (1958)
Not Rated | 83 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
Needing money, the last member of the Frankenstein family leases his family's castle out to a film company as he tries to continue his ancestor's gruesome experiments to create life.
Director: Howard W. Koch | Stars: Boris Karloff, Tom Duggan, Jana Lund, Don 'Red' Barry
Votes: 1,549
66. Who Do You Think You Are? (I) (2008– )
Documentary, Biography, History
Well-known Australians play detective as they go in search of their family history, revealing secrets from the past.
Stars: Richard Mellick, Andrea Bentschneider, Kristoffer Born, Jack Thompson
Votes: 247
67. Close to Eden (1991)
PG | 119 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance
A curious friendship develops between Gombo, a young Mongolian shepherd living with his wife and family in a hut, deep in the wilderness of the steppes, and Sergei, a Russian worker whose truck breaks down not far from Gombo's hut.
Director: Nikita Mikhalkov | Stars: Badema, Bayaertu, Vladimir Gostyukhin, Baoyinhexige
Votes: 3,851
68. Holes (2003 Video)
Adventure, Drama, Family
A audiobook of 'Holes' narrated by Kerry Beyer.
Star: Kerry Beyer
Votes: 14
69. The Man in Grey (1943)
Approved | 90 min | Drama, History, Romance
After a brutish, hedonistic Marquis marries a pretty young Clarissa to act as a 'brood sow,' he begins an affair with her friend who plots to take her place.
Director: Leslie Arliss | Stars: Margaret Lockwood, James Mason, Phyllis Calvert, Stewart Granger
Votes: 1,599
70. Castello Cavalcanti (2013)
Not Rated | 8 min | Short, Comedy, Drama
Italy, September 1955. A Formula One driver crashes his car during a race, leaving him stuck in a small village but good surprises will come his way.
Director: Wes Anderson | Stars: Jason Schwartzman, Giada Colagrande, Giorgio Zancolla, Paolo Coluccio
Votes: 9,005
71. That Lady in Ermine (1948)
Approved | 89 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Musical
That Lady in Ermine tells two parallel stories, both taking place in the small Mittel-European duchy of Bergamo, with one set in the 19th century and the other in the 16th.
Directors: Ernst Lubitsch, Otto Preminger | Stars: Betty Grable, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Cesar Romero, Walter Abel
Votes: 930 | Gross: $1.41M
72. The Ghost Goes West (1935)
Approved | 95 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
A haunted Scottish castle is dismantled and transported to Florida, bringing the family ghost along with it.
Director: René Clair | Stars: Robert Donat, Jean Parker, Eugene Pallette, Elsa Lanchester
Votes: 2,135
73. Out of the Dark (1995)
R | 86 min | Comedy, Horror
A cast of new faces and old favorites to take on ghostbusting in a film full of both laughs and thrills.
Director: Jeffrey Lau | Stars: Stephen Chow, Karen Mok, Yat-Fei Wong, Kin-Yan Lee
Votes: 2,824
74. Spiritpact (2016–2018)
TV-14 | 24 min | Action, Comedy, Drama
You Keika is heir of Exorcists, stricken with poverty and computer tech, until one night he gets hit by car and become a ghost. Tanmoku Ki appears and asks him to make a pact to fight Evil Spirits. Here starts the friendship of our heroes.
Stars: Shunsuke Takeuchi, Zhenji Huang, Jiayi Li, Lanling Li
Votes: 314
75. Exils (2004)
Unrated | 104 min | Adventure, Drama, Music
Two French lovers, Zano and Naima, decided to travel to the land of their parents: Algeria. Their road trip gradually becomes a spiritual quest.
Director: Tony Gatlif | Stars: Romain Duris, Lubna Azabal, Zouhir Gacem, Lila Makhlouf
Votes: 3,193
76. Fertile Ground (2011)
R | 95 min | Horror
Emily and Nate Weaver leave the city for the rural comfort of Nate's ancestral home in the country. Once there, Emily is plagued by horrifying visions and haunted by the ghosts inhabiting their isolated new home.
Director: Adam Gierasch | Stars: Leisha Hailey, Gale Harold, Chelcie Ross, JoNell Kennedy
Votes: 3,198
77. 1001 Arabian Nights (1959)
75 min | Animation, Family, Fantasy
Mr. Magoo's ancestor, Abdul Aziz Magoo, is the uncle of Aladdin, who falls in love with a princess.
Director: Jack Kinney | Stars: Jim Backus, Kathryn Grant, Dwayne Hickman, Hans Conried
Votes: 369
78. Nestor, the Long-Eared Christmas Donkey (1977 TV Movie)
TV-G | 30 min | Animation, Drama, Family
An outcast donkey in Roman era Judea with overlong ears finds his destiny on the way to Bethlehem.
Directors: Jules Bass, Arthur Rankin Jr. | Stars: Roger Miller, Brenda Vaccaro, Paul Frees, Don Messick
Votes: 2,454
79. My Forbidden Past (1951)
Passed | 70 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
Barbara Beaurevel lives with her aunt and cousin in New Orleans in the late 1800s. In love with Mark Lucas, a research doctor at Tulane University, her plans to marry him are thwarted. ... See full summary »
Director: Robert Stevenson | Stars: Robert Mitchum, Ava Gardner, Melvyn Douglas, Lucile Watson
Votes: 1,161
80. Strange Paradise (1969–1970)
22 min | Drama, Horror
A Gothic soap opera that took place on a small Caribbean island, Strange Paradise featured the occult in the story of wealthy but cursed Jean Paul Desmond who resided in his castle ... See full summary »
Stars: Colin Fox, Cosette Lee, Sylvia Feigel, Kurt Schiegl
Votes: 90
81. Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers (1993 Video Game)
T | Adventure, Drama, Horror
Gabriel Knight, the owner of a New Orleans, Louisiana bookstore, gets tangled up in the investigation of a series of voodoo-related murders currently plaguing the city.
Director: Jane Jensen | Stars: Tim Curry, Mark Hamill, Leah Remini, Virginia Capers
Votes: 751
82. The Extraordinary Seaman (1969)
G | 80 min | Adventure, Comedy, War
In World War 2 four American sailors are marooned in the Philippines and encounter an old vessel captained by Commander Finchhaven, apparently a relic from WW1. They help him get his engine going and ask him for a passage to Australia.
Director: John Frankenheimer | Stars: David Niven, Faye Dunaway, Alan Alda, Mickey Rooney
Votes: 833
83. Enslaved (2020)
TV-MA | 60 min | Documentary, History
A look at 400 years of human trafficking from Africa to the New World, from the perspective of three different storylines.
Stars: Samuel L. Jackson, Kinga Philipps, Simcha Jacobovici, Ty Hurley
Votes: 666
84. Last Train Home (2009)
Not Rated | 85 min | Documentary, Drama
A couple embarks on a journey home for Chinese new year along with 130 million other migrant workers, to reunite with their children and struggle for a future. Their unseen story plays out as China soars towards being a world superpower.
Director: Lixin Fan | Stars: Changhua Zhang, Yang Zhang, Suqin Chen, Qin Zhang
Votes: 3,718 | Gross: $0.29M
85. Pavilion of Women (2001)
R | 116 min | Drama, Romance, War
With World War 2 looming, a prominent family in China must confront the contrasting ideas of traditionalism, communism and Western thinking, while dealing with the most important ideal of all: love and its meaning in society.
Director: Ho Yim | Stars: Willem Dafoe, Luo Yan, Sau Sek, John Cho
Votes: 1,078 | Gross: $0.04M
86. A Dream of Kings (1969)
R | 110 min | Drama
A Greek American father of a dying boy decides to take his son to Greece to breathe the clean air of his ancestors, in an attempt to save the boy's life. However, money is a problem.
Director: Daniel Mann | Stars: Anthony Quinn, Irene Papas, Inger Stevens, Sam Levene
Votes: 559
87. My Blood Runs Cold (1965)
Approved | 104 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Disturbed young man meets a girl he believes to be a long-dead ancestor.
Director: William Conrad | Stars: Troy Donahue, Joey Heatherton, Barry Sullivan, Nicolas Coster
Votes: 360
88. Wolfman (1979)
PG | 102 min | Horror
A man finds out that his family has a werewolf curse put upon them.
Director: Worth Keeter | Stars: Earl Owensby, Kristina Reynolds, Sid Rancer, Ed Grady
Votes: 440
89. The Inseminator (2014)
87 min | Drama
Feeling that his end is near, a father seeks extreme measures to guarantee that his mentally disabled son would continue the family lineage.
Director: Kim Quy Bui | Stars: Viet Son Le, Thu Trang Nguyen, Trung Kien Nguyen
Votes: 96
90. Bold King Cole (1936)
Passed | 7 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
Felix the Cat is perched in a tree playing his guitar and serenading himself and a canary with a little ditty called "Nature and Me." It is a beautiful day in cartoon-land but Mother Nature... See full summary »
Director: Burt Gillett | Star: Walter Tetley
Votes: 294
91. Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey (2018 Video Game)
T | Adventure, History, Horror
In the game, players control a lineage of primates and are tasked to ensure its survival in prehistoric Africa and facilitate its evolution.
Stars: Jennifer Seguin, Marcel Jeannin, Roy Abramsohn, Martin Astles
Votes: 118
92. Ant & Dec's DNA Journey (2019– )
Documentary
Celebrities embark on a life-changing journey to explore their family history. Alongside their best mate or family member, the celebs will set off on the ultimate road trip as they discover family members they never even knew existed.
Stars: Rory McCann, Michael McElhatton, Michala Hulme, Paul Edward McNeil
Votes: 71
93. To hamini (1960)
87 min | Drama, Romance
Having only her pride, a feisty street urchin meets a charming aristocrat, and an ardent romance beyond social classes begins; however, a stubborn denial leads to a head-on confrontation. Will the gamine and the nobleman find happiness?
Director: Odysseas Kosteletos | Stars: Nikos Kourkoulos, Kakia Analyti, Hristos Tsaganeas, Nitsa Tsaganea
Votes: 23
94. Karate Girl (2011)
TV-MA | 92 min | Action
A mysterious group kidnap a girl's sister. Years later, the group reappears and she is determined to get her sister back.
Director: Yoshikatsu Kimura | Stars: Rina Takeda, Hina Tobimatsu, Tatsuya Naka, Kazutoshi Yokoyama
Votes: 596
95. Happy (2012)
Not Rated | 76 min | Documentary, Drama, Family
Happy takes us on a journey from the swamps of Louisiana to the slums of Kolkata in search of what really makes people happy.
Director: Roko Belic | Stars: Marci Shimoff, Ed Diener, Richard Davidson, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Votes: 3,384
96. La llorona (1933)
73 min | Horror, Mystery
In modern day Mexico, a man on the street is supernaturally killed after hearing the eerie sound of a wailing woman. We then arrive at the manor of an upper class family, who are ... See full summary »
Director: Ramón Peón | Stars: Ramón Pereda, Virginia Zurí, Carlos Orellana, Adriana Lamar
Votes: 348
97. Woman Who Came Back (1945)
Approved | 68 min | Horror, Mystery
After a bus accident, a woman comes to believe that she's actually a 300-year-old witch.
Director: Walter Colmes | Stars: John Loder, Nancy Kelly, Otto Kruger, Ruth Ford
Votes: 399
98. Gildersleeve's Ghost (1944)
Passed | 63 min | Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
Gildersleeve, running for office, is aided by two ghosts and hindered by a mad scientist and an invisible woman.
Director: Gordon Douglas | Stars: Harold Peary, Marion Martin, Richard LeGrand, Amelita Ward
Votes: 446
99. Chac (1975)
Not Rated | 95 min | Adventure, Drama
Unique story of a village's attempts to solve drought by appealing to the powers of a mysterious mountain-dwelling diviner.
Director: Rolando Klein | Stars: Pablo Canche Balam, Alonzo Mendez Ton, Sebastian Santis, Pedro Tiez
Votes: 195
100. Now & Forever (2002)
R | 101 min | Drama, Romance
Against a backdrop of clashing cultures, John Myron and Angela Wilson find each other and over the years form a powerful bond. One tragic night, John rescues Angela from a wicked act of ... See full summary »
Director: Bob Clark | Stars: Mia Kirshner, Adam Beach, Gordon Tootoosis, Theresa Russell
Votes: 487