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1. Memento (2000)
R | 113 min | Mystery, Thriller
A man with short-term memory loss attempts to track down his wife's murderer.
Director: Christopher Nolan | Stars: Guy Pearce, Carrie-Anne Moss, Joe Pantoliano, Mark Boone Junior
Votes: 1,325,752 | Gross: $25.54M
2. Martyrs (2008)
R | 99 min | Horror
A young woman's quest for revenge against the people who kidnapped and tormented her as a child leads her and a friend, who is also a victim of child abuse, on a terrifying journey into a living hell of depravity.
Director: Pascal Laugier | Stars: Morjana Alaoui, Mylène Jampanoï, Catherine Bégin, Robert Toupin
Votes: 106,842
3. Hard Candy (2005)
R | 104 min | Drama, Thriller
Hayley's a smart, charming teenage girl. Jeff's a handsome, smooth fashion photographer. An Internet chat, a coffee shop meet-up, an impromptu fashion shoot back at Jeff's place. Jeff thinks it's his lucky night. He's in for a surprise.
Director: David Slade | Stars: Patrick Wilson, Elliot Page, Sandra Oh, Odessa Rae
Votes: 168,297 | Gross: $1.01M
4. Peeping Tom (1960)
Not Rated | 101 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller
A young man murders women, using a movie camera to film their dying expressions of terror.
Director: Michael Powell | Stars: Karlheinz Böhm, Anna Massey, Moira Shearer, Maxine Audley
Votes: 39,419 | Gross: $0.08M
5. Creepshow (1982)
R | 120 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
"Creepshow" is a 1982 movie that tells five grisly tales from a children's comic book: a murdered father rising from his grave, a bizarre meteor, a vengeful husband, a mysterious crate's occupant, and a plague of cockroaches.
Director: George A. Romero | Stars: Hal Holbrook, Leslie Nielsen, Adrienne Barbeau, E.G. Marshall
Votes: 53,359 | Gross: $21.03M
6. Like Stars on Earth (2007)
PG | 162 min | Drama, Family
An eight-year-old boy is thought to be a lazy trouble-maker, until the new art teacher has the patience and compassion to discover the real problem behind his struggles in school.
Directors: Aamir Khan, Amole Gupte | Stars: Darsheel Safary, Aamir Khan, Tisca Chopra, Vipin Sharma
Votes: 207,188 | Gross: $1.22M
7. G.I. Jane (1997)
R | 125 min | Action, Drama, War
Lt. Jordan, a US Navy topographic analyst, joins the US Navy Special Warfare Group and struggles to prove her worth in a unit dominated by men. But a cynical woman Texan senator has sold her out.
Director: Ridley Scott | Stars: Demi Moore, Viggo Mortensen, Anne Bancroft, Jason Beghe
Votes: 87,154 | Gross: $48.17M
8. Swept Away (2002)
R | 89 min | Comedy, Romance
A snooty socialite is stranded on a Mediterranean island with a communist sailor.
Director: Guy Ritchie | Stars: Madonna, Adriano Giannini, Bruce Greenwood, Elizabeth Banks
Votes: 17,929 | Gross: $0.01M
9. Silenced (2011)
Not Rated | 125 min | Drama
Based on real events, this film depicts the story of a school for the hearing-impaired where young deaf students were sexually assaulted by the faculty members over a long period of time.
Director: Hwang Dong-hyuk | Stars: Gong Yoo, Jung Yu-mi, Kim Hyeon-soo, Kim Jee-young
Votes: 21,801
10. Holy Smoke (1999)
R | 115 min | Comedy, Drama
Ruth's been brainwashed by a guru in Delhi, India. Her parents in Sydney hire a specialist in reversing this. Ruth is tricked to return to Australia and is isolated in an outback cabin with the specialist. It gets messy.
Director: Jane Campion | Stars: Kate Winslet, Harvey Keitel, Julie Hamilton, Sophie Lee
Votes: 15,663 | Gross: $1.76M
11. The Experiment (2001)
R | 120 min | Drama, Thriller
For two weeks, 20 male participants are hired to play prisoners and guards in a prison. The "prisoners" have to follow seemingly mild rules, and the "guards" are told to retain order without using physical violence.
Director: Oliver Hirschbiegel | Stars: Moritz Bleibtreu, Christian Berkel, Oliver Stokowski, Wotan Wilke Möhring
Votes: 96,185 | Gross: $0.14M
12. Affliction (1997)
R | 114 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
A deeply troubled small-town cop investigates a suspicious hunting death while other events jeopardize his sanity.
Director: Paul Schrader | Stars: Nick Nolte, Sissy Spacek, James Coburn, Brigid Tierney
Votes: 19,145 | Gross: $6.30M
13. The Road (1954)
Not Rated | 108 min | Drama
A care-free girl is sold to a traveling entertainer, consequently enduring physical and emotional pain along the way.
Director: Federico Fellini | Stars: Anthony Quinn, Giulietta Masina, Richard Basehart, Aldo Silvani
Votes: 66,692
14. Pieles (2017)
TV-MA | 77 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
In a strange world where people share numerous deformities, the same problem we all face challenges each of them: to find someone who accepts you as you are. Sometimes, that means finding yourself first.
Director: Eduardo Casanova | Stars: Ana Polvorosa, Carmen Machi, Macarena Gómez, Candela Peña
Votes: 7,133
15. Instinct (1999)
R | 126 min | Drama, Thriller
When noted anthropologist Dr. Ethan Powell, who left society to live in the jungle, is imprisoned for murder, it's up to young psychiatrist Theo Caulder to get through to him.
Director: Jon Turteltaub | Stars: Anthony Hopkins, Cuba Gooding Jr., Donald Sutherland, Maura Tierney
Votes: 34,311 | Gross: $34.10M
16. Leah Remini: Scientology and the Aftermath (2016–2019)
TV-14 | 47 min | Documentary, History, Mystery
A series featuring stories from former members of the Church of Scientology whose lives have been affected by the Church's alleged harmful practices.
Stars: Leah Remini, Mike Rinder, Mary Kahn, Claire Headley
Votes: 6,455
17. Daughters of Eve (1985)
TV-MA | 125 min | Drama, Romance, Thriller
A young woman chooses celibacy, turns to religion, and demonizes men in order to control her intense sexual desire. Her sister suddenly visits her seaside village, which opens many old wounds and leads to tragedies.
Director: Elwood Perez | Stars: Sarsi Emmanuelle, Maria Isabel Lopez, Myra Manibog, Mark Joseph
Votes: 1,336
18. Who's Watching Oliver (2017)
TV-MA | 87 min | Drama, Horror
Oliver aimlessly wanders the streets on what can only be described as a truly shocking and humiliating killing spree. His only savior is the beautiful Sophia with her sweet eccentricity and naivety to the danger she has put herself in.
Director: Richie Moore | Stars: Russell Geoffrey Banks, Sara Malakul Lane, Margaret Roche, Kelly Woodcock
Votes: 1,283
19. The Green Elephant (1999)
90 min | Comedy, Horror, Thriller
Two Russian prisoners are abused mentally and physically.
Director: Svetlana Baskova | Stars: Sergey Pakhomov, Vladimir Epifantsev, Aleksandr Maslaev, Anatoliy Osmolovskiy
Votes: 3,106
20. That Forsyte Woman (1949)
Passed | 113 min | Drama, Romance
Love among the Forsytes is strange, full of tradition, melancholy and gold digging in this film treatise on Victorian-age rigidity and vestiges of a flawed society.
Director: Compton Bennett | Stars: Errol Flynn, Greer Garson, Walter Pidgeon, Robert Young
Votes: 1,502
21. The Guv'nor (2016)
85 min | Documentary
A feature documentary about the life of Lenny McLean, as seen through the eyes of his only son, Jamie.
Director: Paul Van Carter | Stars: Lenny McLean, Jamie McLean, Martin Askew, Guy Ritchie
Votes: 1,838
22. Voices Within: The Lives of Truddi Chase (1990 TV Movie)
240 min | Drama
A woman who suffers from multiple personality disorder is found during therapy to have suffered child abuse in this fact-based story.
Director: Lamont Johnson | Stars: Shelley Long, Tom Conti, John Rubinstein, Alan Fudge
Votes: 214
23. Opposing Force (1986)
R | 100 min | Action, Drama, Thriller
A group of soldiers, including a female for the first time, enroll in the ultimate training mission. They parachute onto an island in the Philippines, only to find that the commandant will stop at nothing to try and break his trainees.
Director: Eric Karson | Stars: Tom Skerritt, Lisa Eichhorn, Anthony Zerbe, Richard Roundtree
Votes: 956
24. Hustling (1975 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 98 min | Drama
During the 1970s, a NYC magazine reporter investigates to see who benefits financially the most from New York's prostitution industry.
Director: Joseph Sargent | Stars: Lee Remick, Monte Markham, Jill Clayburgh, Alex Rocco
Votes: 304
25. The Blackout Experiments (2016)
Not Rated | 78 min | Documentary, Horror
This documentary follows a group of people who discover the ultra-scary, psycho-sexual horror experience Blackout, and develop an obsession that hijacks their lives and blurs the line between reality and paranoid fantasy.
Director: Rich Fox | Stars: Josh Randall, Kristjan Thor, Russell Eaton, Bob Glouberman
Votes: 354
26. Witch Amusement (2007)
60 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A very annoying and not-attractive young boss became a beautiful and sensitive woman after meeting a man who messed up all her life.
Stars: Han Ga-in, Jae Hee, Jeong-hoon Kim, Dennis Oh
Votes: 109
27. Marian, Again (2005 TV Movie)
180 min | Crime, Drama, Horror
School teacher Chris Bevan is a dutiful husband to his dull wife, Josie, and ingrate daughters. His best friend knows Chris' heart always belonged to Marian, his vibrant, flippant fiancée, ... See full summary »
Director: David Drury | Stars: Stephen Tompkinson, Owen Teale, Samantha Beckinsale, Kelly Harrison
Votes: 266
28. Slavery by Another Name (2012 TV Movie)
90 min | Documentary, History
A documentary that recounts the many ways in which American slavery persisted as a practice many decades after its supposed abolition.
Director: Sam Pollard | Stars: Laurence Fishburne, Turron Kofi Alleyne, Michael Bacon, Douglas A. Blackmon
Votes: 312
29. Rules (I) (2009)
84 min | Action, Drama, Thriller
With its dark horror-crime underworld storyline and outlandish martial arts action, Rules inspired by a true story is an offbeat action film, it tells the story of a mysterious Italian, who... See full summary »
Director: Zak Lee | Stars: Zak Lee, Darren Kendrick, Amanda Chism, Nina Manni
Votes: 25
30. The Guiding Light (1953)
111 min | Drama
13-year old Bruce Lee plays San, a child up for adoption. Finally accepted by his surrogate parents, he is faced with a dilemma when his real parents show up and want him back.
Director: Kim Chun | Stars: Yin Pak, Cho-Fan Ng, Ying Cheung, Wood-Yau Cheung
Votes: 65
31. Jeevan Saathi: Humsafar Zindagi Ke (2008– )
Drama
About a girl face a lots of problems with her family to reach to her boyfriend which her family stopped in their way .
Stars: Gaurav Khanna, Jayant Rawal, Nihar Thakkar, Suzanne Bernert
Votes: 29
32. Times Gone By (1952)
Approved | 106 min | Comedy, Drama, Music
A number of different segments taken from 19th century Italian stories.
Director: Alessandro Blasetti | Stars: Aldo Fabrizi, Pina Renzi, Enzo Staiola, Luigi Cimara
Votes: 161
33. Altered States of Plaine (2012)
88 min | Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
A young man on the run from a mysterious government agency is desperate to find the cure for a condition that causes him to wake up at random places around the world when he falls asleep.
Director: Nick Gaglia | Stars: George Gallagher, Kether Donohue, Michael G. Mathis, Donald Pritt
Votes: 213
34. West 47th Street (2001)
TV-14 | 104 min | Documentary, Drama
WEST 47th STREET is a feature-length theatrical documentary film. It follows the lives of four people with serious mental illness, over three years. The film provides an unprecedented ... See full summary »
Directors: Bill Lichtenstein, June Peoples | Stars: Fitzroy Fredericks, Tex Gordon, Frances Olivero, Zeinab Wali
Votes: 34
35. The Pool at Dusk (2007)
Not Rated | 10 min | Short, Fantasy
Directors: Rafid Ali, Max Painter | Stars: Angela Duffy, Lauren Brea, Cary Joseph, Katharine Stapleton
36. Qui tacet (2023)
10 min | Short, Drama
Every morning, Benedetta packs her suitcase and goes to the sea to observe the waves, and on the foam find the answer to her torment.
Director: Anaïs Lucien | Stars: Nadia Boulif, Marco Mazza
38. Tystnaden (2021)
Short, Drama
Bella spends her childhood hiding in her room, struggling to escape the mental abuse her mother submits her sister Leyla to, until one day.
Director: Henrik Henziger | Stars: Bella Lund Waser, Anna Åstrand, Linnea Möller, Thea Fransson
39. Das Spiel (2007)
25 min | Short, Thriller
Director: Daniel Schumann | Stars: Nenia Rauscher, Andre Borkowski, Kathrin Scholz, Yvo René Scharf
40. Das Spiel 2.0 (2008)
Thriller
Director: Daniel Schumann | Stars: Nenia Rauscher, Kathrin Scholz, Yvo René Scharf, Andre Borkowski
41.
Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987–1994)
Episode:
Violations
(1992)
TV-PG | 45 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Transporting three Ullian mind-probing historians, the Enterprise crew is stymied when some of its members fall into a coma. Deanna Troi, the first crew member to come through it, cannot recall anything surrounding the incident.
Director: Robert Wiemer | Stars: Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, LeVar Burton, Michael Dorn
Votes: 2,863
42.
Poirot (1989–2013)
Episode:
Appointment with Death
(2008)
Not Rated | 80 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Syria 1937. While accompanying her husband on an archaeological dig, the abusive and overbearing Lady Boynton is found stabbed to death.
Director: Ashley Pearce | Stars: David Suchet, Tim Curry, Jawad Elalami, Christina Cole
Votes: 2,533