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51. Sweet Virginia (2017)
R | 93 min | Action, Drama, Thriller
A former rodeo champ befriends a young man with a propensity for violence.
Director: Jamie M. Dagg | Stars: Jon Bernthal, Christopher Abbott, Imogen Poots, Rosemarie DeWitt
Votes: 11,690 | Gross: $0.01M
52. Time of the Wolf (2003)
R | 114 min | Drama
When Anna and her family arrive at their holiday home, they find it occupied by strangers. This confrontation is just the beginning of a painful learning process.
Director: Michael Haneke | Stars: Isabelle Huppert, Anaïs Demoustier, Béatrice Dalle, Patrice Chéreau
Votes: 11,549 | Gross: $0.06M
53. The Mephisto Waltz (1971)
R | 115 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
An old, dying satanist arranges to transfer his soul into the body of a young concert pianist.
Director: Paul Wendkos | Stars: Alan Alda, Jacqueline Bisset, Barbara Parkins, Bradford Dillman
Votes: 3,282
54. Black Work (2015)
Not Rated | 135 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A policewoman sets out to discover who murdered her husband, an undercover officer.
Stars: Sheridan Smith, Matthew McNulty, Oliver Woollford, Honor Kneafsey
Votes: 1,930
55. The Bad Sleep Well (1960)
Not Rated | 151 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A vengeful young man marries the daughter of a corrupt industrialist in order to seek justice for his father's suicide.
Director: Akira Kurosawa | Stars: Toshirô Mifune, Masayuki Mori, Kyôko Kagawa, Tatsuya Mihashi
Votes: 14,084
56. Desperation (2006 TV Movie)
R | 131 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
When a sheriff arrests a writer, a family, a couple, and a hitchiker and throws them in a jail cell in the deserted town of Desperation, they must fight for their lives.
Director: Mick Garris | Stars: Tom Skerritt, Steven Weber, Annabeth Gish, Charles Durning
Votes: 11,793
57. Julia's Eyes (2010)
Not Rated | 118 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
The story of a woman who is slowly losing her sight whilst trying to investigate the mysterious death of her twin sister.
Director: Guillem Morales | Stars: Belén Rueda, Lluís Homar, Pablo Derqui, Francesc Orella
Votes: 37,483
58. High Heels (1991)
R | 112 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A singer returns after 15 years abroad to perform in Madrid and finds her 27 y.o. daughter married to one of her mom's ex-lovers.
Director: Pedro Almodóvar | Stars: Victoria Abril, Marisa Paredes, Miguel Bosé, Anna Lizaran
Votes: 17,497 | Gross: $1.71M
59. Emanuelle and the Last Cannibals (1977)
R | 94 min | Adventure, Horror
Photojournalist Emanuelle is joined by an anthropologist, two female missionary workers and a treacherous hunter's party in a search for an Amazon cannibal tribe long thought extinct.
Director: Joe D'Amato | Stars: Laura Gemser, Gabriele Tinti, Nieves Navarro, Donald O'Brien
Votes: 3,285
60. Home from the Hill (1960)
Passed | 150 min | Drama, Romance
Dramatic story of the influential Hunnicutt family set in Texas during the late 1950s.
Director: Vincente Minnelli | Stars: Robert Mitchum, Eleanor Parker, George Peppard, George Hamilton
Votes: 3,887
61. Strait-Jacket (1964)
Approved | 93 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller
After a twenty-year stay at an asylum for a double murder, a mother returns to her estranged daughter where suspicions arise about her behavior.
Director: William Castle | Stars: Joan Crawford, Diane Baker, Leif Erickson, Howard St. John
Votes: 6,678
62. Murder in New Hampshire: The Pamela Smart Story (1991 TV Movie)
PG-13 | 100 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
Pamela Smart knows exactly what she wants and is willing to do anything to get it. She is fed up with teaching, and her marriage offers little excitement. Looking for a way out she applies ... See full summary »
Director: Joyce Chopra | Stars: Helen Hunt, Chad Allen, Larry Drake, Riff Regan
Votes: 715
63. In Cold Blood (1996)
240 min | Crime, Drama, History
Based on Truman Capote's true-crime classic and nominated for two Primetime Emmys, "In Cold Blood" follows a pair of ex-cons (Anthony Edwards and Eric Roberts) who brutally murdered a respected Midwestern rancher and his family.
Stars: Anthony Edwards, Eric Roberts, Sam Neill, Kevin Tighe
Votes: 1,045
64. McQ (1974)
PG | 111 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Seattle cop is caught up in a corrupt police force that he is trying to make right. McQ is a cop with a mission.
Director: John Sturges | Stars: John Wayne, Eddie Albert, Diana Muldaur, Colleen Dewhurst
Votes: 5,953 | Gross: $0.24M
65. House of D (2004)
PG-13 | 97 min | Comedy, Drama
By working through problems stemming from his past, Tom Warshaw, an American artist living in Paris, begins to discover who he really is, and returns to his home to reconcile with his family and friends.
Director: David Duchovny | Stars: David Duchovny, Téa Leoni, Robin Williams, Anton Yelchin
Votes: 9,826 | Gross: $0.37M
66. How to Murder Your Husband (2023 TV Movie)
TV-14 | 87 min | Drama
Nancy Crampton-Brophy, who had a knack for writing about murder and wrote about tumultuous relationships, fantasies about killing or running from her husband, and faking her own death, was arrested in 2022 for murdering her husband.
Director: Stephen Tolkin | Stars: Cybill Shepherd, Steve Guttenberg, Sandy Minh Abley, Primo Allon
Votes: 396
67. Justice League: Gods and Monsters (2015 Video)
PG-13 | 76 min | Animation, Action, Adventure
In an alternate universe, very different versions of DC's Trinity (Superman, Batman and Wonder Woman), who operate outside of the law, are framed for murders of prominent scientist and the government decides to take them out.
Director: Sam Liu | Stars: Benjamin Bratt, Michael C. Hall, Tamara Taylor, Paget Brewster
Votes: 16,918
68. Eye of the Devil (1966)
Not Rated | 96 min | Horror, Mystery
Workers employed at a French vineyard quietly follow old pagan rituals that call for the life of the marquis owner to save his crops during dry seasons.
Director: J. Lee Thompson | Stars: David Niven, Sharon Tate, Deborah Kerr, Donald Pleasence
Votes: 3,236
69. Empire of Passion (1978)
R | 105 min | Drama, Horror, Romance
A married woman and her lover murder her husband and dump his body into a well. After a while, his ghost comes to haunt them while the local gossip grows stronger.
Director: Nagisa Ôshima | Stars: Tatsuya Fuji, Kazuko Yoshiyuki, Takahiro Tamura, Takuzô Kawatani
Votes: 4,964
70. Ride in the Whirlwind (1966)
G | 82 min | Drama, Western
Three cowboys, mistaken for members of an outlaw gang, are relentlessly pursued by a posse.
Director: Monte Hellman | Stars: Jack Nicholson, Cameron Mitchell, Millie Perkins, Katherine Squire
Votes: 4,423
71. End of the Spear (2005)
PG-13 | 108 min | Adventure, Biography, Drama
Two people come to the end of a spear in order to realize that the divisions between them are not real.
Director: Jim Hanon | Stars: Louie Leonardo, Chad Allen, Jack Guzman, Christina Souza
Votes: 5,509 | Gross: $11.97M
72. Million Dollar Murder (2005 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 88 min | Drama, Mystery
Based on the true events leading up to the murder of Ted Ammon, a multi-millionaire found bludgeoned to death while in the midst a combative divorce from his mentally unstable wife.
Director: Jerry Ciccoritti | Stars: Poppy Montgomery, David Sutcliffe, Peter Outerbridge, Donna Goodhand
Votes: 655
73. The Afflicted (2011)
Not Rated | 85 min | Horror, Thriller
A story of incomprehensible abuse delivered by an explosively violent mother of four. Journey through the mind of a child that experiences a living hell, defined and defended by the twisted religious beliefs of her mother.
Director: Jason Stoddard | Stars: Leslie Easterbrook, Kane Hodder, J.D. Hart, Michele Grey Hartsoe
Votes: 1,496 | Gross: $0.18M
74. Charlie's Angels (1976 TV Movie)
74 min | Crime, Drama
The Angels head for wine country to discover what happened to a missing man before he's declared legally dead and the estate goes up for grabs.
Director: John Llewellyn Moxey | Stars: Kate Jackson, Farrah Fawcett, Jaclyn Smith, David Doyle
Votes: 972
75. What Have I Done to Deserve This? (1984)
Not Rated | 101 min | Comedy, Drama
The vicissitudes of Gloria, a neurotic housewife, and her family's peculiar characters.
Director: Pedro Almodóvar | Stars: Carmen Maura, Gonzalo Suárez, Luis Hostalot, Ryo Hiruma
Votes: 11,159
76. Sitcom (1998)
Unrated | 85 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
The adventures of an upper-class suburban family abruptly confronted with the younger brother's discovery of his homosexuality, the elder sister's suicide attempt and how much do you ... See full summary »
Director: François Ozon | Stars: Évelyne Dandry, François Marthouret, Marina de Van, Adrien de Van
Votes: 5,589
77. Child Bride (1938)
62 min | Drama
A schoolteacher in a rural community campaigns to stop the practice of older men marrying underage girls.
Director: Harry Revier | Stars: Shirley Mills, Bob Bollinger, Warner Richmond, Diana Durrell
Votes: 1,101
78. Elena (2011)
Not Rated | 109 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
When a sudden illness and an unexpected reunion threaten dutiful housewife Elena's potential inheritance, she must hatch a desperate plan ...
Director: Andrey Zvyagintsev | Stars: Nadezhda Markina, Andrey Smirnov, Aleksey Rozin, Elena Lyadova
Votes: 15,240 | Gross: $0.02M
79. Fatal Trust (2006 TV Movie)
TV-14 | 89 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
After the father of her kid son Sam was killed by an escaped psychiatric patient, Kate decides it's time for a new chapter in her life. She moves to the town where her former lover Tom ... See full summary »
Director: Philippe Gagnon | Stars: Amy Jo Johnson, David Haydn-Jones, Paul Popowich, Carol Alt
Votes: 540
80. Dark Command (1940)
Approved | 94 min | Drama, Romance, War
In Kansas during the Civil War, opposing pro-Union and pro-Confederate camps clash and visiting Texan Bob Seton runs afoul of William Cantrell's Raiders.
Director: Raoul Walsh | Stars: Claire Trevor, John Wayne, Walter Pidgeon, Roy Rogers
Votes: 3,058
81. My Cousin Rachel (1952)
Approved | 98 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance
A young man plots revenge against the woman he believes murdered his cousin, but his plans are shaken when he comes face to face with the enigmatic beauty.
Director: Henry Koster | Stars: Olivia de Havilland, Richard Burton, Audrey Dalton, Ronald Squire
Votes: 3,406
82. White Material (2009)
Not Rated | 106 min | Drama, War
Amidst turmoil and racial conflict in a Francophone African state, a white French woman fights for her coffee crop, her family and ultimately for her life.
Director: Claire Denis | Stars: Isabelle Huppert, Christopher Lambert, Isaach De Bankolé, Nicolas Duvauchelle
Votes: 8,446 | Gross: $0.30M
83. Forever Amber (1947)
Approved | 138 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance
In seventeenth-century England, Amber St. Clair aims to raise herself from country girl to nobility, and succeeds, but loses her true love in the process.
Directors: Otto Preminger, John M. Stahl | Stars: Linda Darnell, Cornel Wilde, Richard Greene, George Sanders
Votes: 1,699 | Gross: $16.00M
84. Ultraviolet (1998)
TV-14 | 300 min | Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
The six-episode series, first aired in 1998, stars Jack Davenport as Detective Sergeant Michael Colefield, who discovers a secret government vampire-hunting unit while investigating the disappearance of his partner.
Stars: Jack Davenport, Susannah Harker, Idris Elba, Philip Quast
Votes: 2,829
85. Locust (2014)
124 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
First erotic thriller In Russia. Story starts with a summer fling between a provincial guy and a big-city girl. The holiday is over, the beauty returns to the city and receives a marriage ... See full summary »
Director: Egor Baranov | Stars: Anastasiya Akatova, Paulina Andreeva, Evgeniya Dmitrieva, Sergey Frolov
Votes: 708
86. Kansas City (1996)
R | 116 min | Crime, Drama, Music
A pair of kidnappings expose the complex power dynamics within the corrupt and unpredictable workings of 1930s Kansas City.
Director: Robert Altman | Stars: Jennifer Jason Leigh, Miranda Richardson, Harry Belafonte, Michael Murphy
Votes: 5,436 | Gross: $1.35M
87. Track 29 (1988)
R | 90 min | Drama, Mystery
Linda is still tormented by giving up a baby for adoption at 15. She wants a baby, but her husband has enough in his model trains, mistress and being a doctor.
Director: Nicolas Roeg | Stars: Theresa Russell, Gary Oldman, Christopher Lloyd, Colleen Camp
Votes: 2,493 | Gross: $0.43M
88. Day of the Outlaw (1959)
Not Rated | 92 min | Drama, Western
Blaise Starrett is a rancher at odds with homesteaders when outlaws hold up the small town. The outlaws are held in check only by their notorious leader, but he is diagnosed with a fatal wound and the town is a powder keg waiting to blow.
Director: André De Toth | Stars: Robert Ryan, Burl Ives, Tina Louise, Alan Marshal
Votes: 4,441
89. Last Rites (1988)
R | 103 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Angela, the beautiful Mexican mistress of a NY mobster, asks virginal Father Michael for protection after Zena, the mobster's wife, kills her cheating husband. Michael becomes torn between his vows, Angela and his sister - Zena.
Director: Donald P. Bellisario | Stars: Tom Berenger, Daphne Zuniga, Chick Vennera, Anne Twomey
Votes: 1,371 | Gross: $0.43M
90. The Railway Station Man (1992)
96 min | Drama, Romance
A Northern Irish artist, widowed by an IRA bomb, embarks on a new life on the coast with her teenaged son. Romance slowly blossoms when she meets a mysterious American, but then her son gets involved with a violent political group.
Director: Michael Whyte | Stars: Julie Christie, Donald Sutherland, John Lynch, Frank McCusker
Votes: 319
91. The Third Generation (1979)
111 min | Crime, Drama
A wildly anarchic satire of urban guerrilla warfare in which a band of leftist radicals inadvertently become puppets of the West German government, which uses them to justify its authoritarian policies.
Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder | Stars: Eddie Constantine, Hanna Schygulla, Volker Spengler, Margit Carstensen
Votes: 2,823
92. 7 Women (1965)
Passed | 87 min | Drama
In 1935 China, seven dedicated missionary women try to protect themselves from the advances of a barbaric Mongolian warlord and his cut-throat gang of warriors.
Director: John Ford | Stars: Anne Bancroft, Sue Lyon, Margaret Leighton, Flora Robson
Votes: 2,669
93. Blue-Eyed Butcher (2012 TV Movie)
TV-14 | 85 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
BLUE-EYED BUTCHER is the shocking true story of a wife and mother driven to kill by her abusive husband, starring Justin Bruening (TV’s “Ringer”), Sara Paxton (The Innkeepers) and Lisa Edelstein (TV’s “The Good Wife”).
Director: Stephen Kay | Stars: Sara Paxton, Justin Bruening, W. Earl Brown, Michael Gross
Votes: 1,472
94. Jism (2003)
136 min | Drama, Romance, Thriller
When an unemployed man falls for a wealthy woman and he is willing to do whatever he must to get her away from her abusive husband.
Director: Amit Saxena | Stars: Bipasha Basu, John Abraham, Gulshan Grover, Vinay Pathak
Votes: 2,339
95. Demon Rage (1982)
R | 98 min | Horror
A woman in an unhappy marriage finds sexual fulfillment in her relationship with a ghostly, speechless presence who, obviously, doesn't quite say who he is.
Director: James Polakof | Stars: Britt Ekland, Lana Wood, Kabir Bedi, Don Galloway
Votes: 644
96. Cousin Bette (1998)
R | 108 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
When her sister dies in 1846, Bette moves from the château to Paris to work as a theater seamstress. She helps a handsome, starving artist. When her niece lures him away from her, she plans a devious revenge.
Director: Des McAnuff | Stars: Jessica Lange, Elisabeth Shue, Bob Hoskins, Geraldine Chaplin
Votes: 2,843 | Gross: $1.20M
97. Kaos (1984)
R | 187 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Five stories by Luigi Pirandello set in turn-of-the-century Italy.
Directors: Paolo Taviani, Vittorio Taviani | Stars: Margarita Lozano, Orazio Torrisi, Carlo Cartier, Biagio Barone
Votes: 3,148 | Gross: $0.33M
98. Ram Lakhan (1989)
Not Rated | 174 min | Action, Comedy, Drama
Ram Lakhan is the story of two brothers who part ways due to their ideological differences, but how they come to each other's rescue as the story unfolds.
Director: Subhash Ghai | Stars: Rakhee Gulzar, Jackie Shroff, Anil Kapoor, Dimple Kapadia
Votes: 2,933
99. After All These Years (2013 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 87 min | Mystery, Thriller
When a woman is wrongly accused of the death of her ex-husband, she sets out to solve the murder mystery and find the real killer before the day of the funeral, when she is to be taken into custody.
Director: Scott Smith | Stars: Wendie Malick, Andrea Martin, Martha Burns, Gregory Harrison
Votes: 829
100. They Won't Forget (1937)
Passed | 95 min | Drama, Film-Noir, Mystery
A politically ambitious district attorney, unscrupulous tabloid journalists, and regional prejudice combine to charge a teacher with the murder of his student.
Director: Mervyn LeRoy | Stars: Claude Rains, Gloria Dickson, Edward Norris, Otto Kruger
Votes: 1,948