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1. Megan Is Missing (2011)
Not Rated | 85 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller
Two teenage girls encounter an Internet child predator.
Director: Michael Goi | Stars: Amber Perkins, Rachel Quinn, Dean Waite, Jael Elizabeth Steinmeyer
Votes: 15,696
2. Daisy Jones & The Six (2023)
TV-MA | 49 min | Drama, Music, Romance
Following the rise of rock band Daisy Jones and The Six through the 1970s Los Angeles music scene on their quest for worldwide icon status.
Stars: Riley Keough, Sam Claflin, Camila Morrone, Suki Waterhouse
Votes: 37,992
3. Borat (2006)
R | 84 min | Comedy
Kazakh TV talking head Borat is dispatched to the United States to report on the greatest country in the world.
Director: Larry Charles | Stars: Sacha Baron Cohen, Ken Davitian, Luenell, Chester
Votes: 443,382 | Gross: $128.51M
4. This Is Spinal Tap (1984)
R | 82 min | Comedy, Music
Spinal Tap, one of England's loudest bands, is chronicled by film director Marty DiBergi on what proves to be a fateful tour.
Director: Rob Reiner | Stars: Rob Reiner, Michael McKean, Christopher Guest, Kimberly Stringer
Votes: 147,615 | Gross: $4.74M
5. Lake Mungo (2008)
R | 87 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
Strange things start happening after a girl is found drowned in a lake.
Director: Joel Anderson | Stars: Rosie Traynor, David Pledger, Martin Sharpe, Talia Zucker
Votes: 29,309
6. Host (II) (2020)
Not Rated | 57 min | Horror, Mystery
Six friends hire a medium to hold a seance via Zoom during lockdown, but they get far more than they bargained for as things quickly go wrong.
Director: Rob Savage | Stars: Haley Bishop, Jemma Moore, Emma Louise Webb, Radina Drandova
Votes: 39,788
7. Faces of Death (1978)
Not Rated | 105 min | Documentary, Horror
A collection of death scenes, ranging from TV material to homemade super 8 movies.
Director: John Alan Schwartz | Stars: Michael Carr, Samuel Berkowitz, Mary Ellen Brighton, Thomas Noguchi
Votes: 8,030 | Gross: $35.00M
8. 14 and Under (1973)
X | 87 min | Comedy
A series of "sex reports" intended to address the issue of pedophilia in the early 1970s.
Director: Ernst Hofbauer | Stars: Lis Kertelge, Melitta Tegeler, Harald Baerow, Hans Billian
Votes: 480
9. Brüno (2009)
R | 81 min | Comedy
Flamboyant, gay Austrian Brüno looks for new fame in America.
Director: Larry Charles | Stars: Sacha Baron Cohen, Gustaf Hammarsten, Clifford Bañagale, Chibundu Orukwowu
Votes: 154,020 | Gross: $60.05M
10. Goodbye Uncle Tom (1971)
Unrated | 123 min | Drama
Two documentary filmmakers go back in time to the pre-Civil War American South, to film the slave trade.
Directors: Gualtiero Jacopetti, Franco Prosperi | Stars: Stefano Sibaldi, Susan Hampshire, Dick Gregory, Gualtiero Jacopetti
Votes: 1,776
11. The Battle of Algiers (1966)
Not Rated | 121 min | Drama, War
In the 1950s, fear and violence escalate as the people of Algiers fight for independence from the French government.
Director: Gillo Pontecorvo | Stars: Brahim Hadjadj, Jean Martin, Yacef Saadi, Samia Kerbash
Votes: 65,886 | Gross: $0.06M
12. Wellington Paranormal (2018–2022)
TV-14 | 30 min | Comedy, Crime, Fantasy
Sergeant Maaka, and Officers Minogue and O'Leary, are members of the Wellington, New Zealand, police. Their job is to investigate paranormal phenomena.
Stars: Mike Minogue, Karen O'Leary, Maaka Pohatu, Thomas Sainsbury
Votes: 7,919
13. A Hard Day's Night (1964)
G | 87 min | Comedy, Musical
Over two "typical" days in the life of The Beatles, the boys struggle to keep themselves and Sir Paul McCartney's mischievous grandfather in check while preparing for a live TV performance.
Director: Richard Lester | Stars: John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, Ringo Starr
Votes: 48,200 | Gross: $13.78M
14. The Set-Up (1949)
Approved | 73 min | Crime, Film-Noir, Sport
Expecting the usual loss, a boxing manager takes bribes from a betting gangster without telling his fighter.
Director: Robert Wise | Stars: Robert Ryan, Audrey Totter, George Tobias, Alan Baxter
Votes: 10,127
15. Be My Cat: A Film for Anne (2015)
87 min | Crime, Horror, Thriller
An aspiring filmmaker goes to shocking extremes to convince Hollywood actress Anne Hathaway to star in his film. First entry in Adrian Tofei's trilogy which includes We Put the World to Sleep and Pure.
Director: Adrian Tofei | Stars: Adrian Tofei, Sonia Teodoriu, Florentina Hariton, Alexandra Stroe
Votes: 2,418
16. Apollo 18 (2011)
PG-13 | 86 min | Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Decades-old found footage from NASA's abandoned Apollo 18 mission, where three American astronauts were sent on a secret expedition, reveals the reason the U.S. has never returned to the moon.
Director: Gonzalo López-Gallego | Stars: Warren Christie, Lloyd Owen, Ryan Robbins, Michael Kopsa
Votes: 58,042 | Gross: $17.69M
17. Schoolgirl Report Part 8: What Parents Must Never Know (1974)
88 min | Drama
A group of boarding school students share stories about their first sexual experiences. It includes three 1960s-70s erotic short films.
Director: Ernst Hofbauer | Stars: Manuela Widman, Wolf Ackva, Judith Armbrüster, Sandra Atia
Votes: 275
18. I'm Still Here (I) (2010)
R | 108 min | Comedy, Drama, Music
Documents Joaquin Phoenix's transition from the acting world to a career as an aspiring rapper.
Director: Casey Affleck | Stars: Joaquin Phoenix, Antony Langdon, Carey Perloff, Larry McHale
Votes: 23,933 | Gross: $0.41M
19. Hell House LLC II: The Abaddon Hotel (2018)
Not Rated | 89 min | Horror, Mystery
Two years after escaping from demonic terror, a young woman is still haunted by unnatural visions.
Director: Stephen Cognetti | Stars: Vas Eli, Jillian Geurts, Joy Shatz, Dusty Austen
Votes: 7,191
20. The Roaring Twenties (1939)
Passed | 106 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Three men attempt to make a living in Prohibitionist America after returning home from fighting together in World War I.
Director: Raoul Walsh | Stars: James Cagney, Humphrey Bogart, Priscilla Lane, Gladys George
Votes: 15,600
21. Vagabond (1985)
Not Rated | 105 min | Drama
A young woman's body is found frozen in a ditch. Through flashbacks and interviews, we see the events that led to her inevitable death.
Director: Agnès Varda | Stars: Sandrine Bonnaire, Macha Méril, Stéphane Freiss, Setti Ramdane
Votes: 13,781
22. Catfish (2010)
PG-13 | 87 min | Documentary, Drama, Mystery
Young filmmakers document their colleague's budding online friendship with a young woman and her family which leads to an unexpected series of discoveries.
Directors: Henry Joost, Ariel Schulman | Stars: Nev Schulman, Ariel Schulman, Henry Joost, Angela Wesselman-Pierce
Votes: 43,775 | Gross: $3.23M
23. The Legend of Boggy Creek (1972)
G | 87 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
A documentary-style drama about the "Fouke Monster", a Bigfoot-type creature that has been sighted in and around Fouke, Arkansas since the 1950s.
Director: Charles B. Pierce | Stars: Willie E. Smith, John P. Hixon, Vern Stierman, Chuck Pierce Jr.
Votes: 3,655 | Gross: $0.34M
24. 44 Minutes: The North Hollywood Shoot-Out (2003 TV Movie)
R | 103 min | Action, Crime, Drama
After a failed bank robbery, two heavily armed men hold the Los Angeles Police Department at bay for 44 minutes.
Director: Yves Simoneau | Stars: Michael Madsen, Ron Livingston, Ray Baker, Douglas Spain
Votes: 5,485
25. What the #$*! Do We (K)now!? (2004)
Not Rated | 109 min | Documentary, Comedy, Drama
A fictional photographer's quest to spiritually rediscover herself is interspersed with documentary footage of scientists and theologians discussing the philosophical aspects of quantum physics.
Directors: William Arntz, Betsy Chasse, Mark Vicente | Stars: Marlee Matlin, Elaine Hendrix, John Ross Bowie, Robert Bailey Jr.
Votes: 13,861 | Gross: $10.94M
26. Duffle Bag Boy (2024)
Action, Adventure, Crime
Lost and forgotten, a homeless veteran hitchhikes his way into becoming an outlaw and goes to war with the kingpin of a criminal empire.
Director: Alexander Raye Pimentel | Stars: Alexander Raye Pimentel, James Anthony Perez, ZsaNell Sims, Lavios Brown
Votes: 33
27. The Devil's Doorway (2018)
Unrated | 76 min | Horror
In the fall of 1960, Father Thomas Riley and Father John Thornton were sent by the Vatican to investigate a miraculous event in an Irish home for 'fallen women', only to uncover something much more horrific.
Director: Aislinn Clarke | Stars: Lalor Roddy, Ciaran Flynn, Helena Bereen, Lauren Coe
Votes: 4,041
28. The Chinese (1967)
Not Rated | 95 min | Comedy, Drama
A small group of French students are studying Mao, trying to find out their position in the world and how to change the world to a Maoistic community using terrorism.
Director: Jean-Luc Godard | Stars: Anne Wiazemsky, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Juliet Berto, Michel Semeniako
Votes: 8,380 | Gross: $0.04M
29. A Girl Like Her (2015)
PG-13 | 91 min | Drama
Jessica Burns enlists the help of her best friend, Brian, in order to document the relentless harassment she's received from her former friend, Avery Keller, one of South Brookdale High School's most popular students.
Director: Amy S. Weber | Stars: Lexi Ainsworth, Hunter King, Jimmy Bennett, Amy S. Weber
Votes: 7,396
30. The War Game (1966)
48 min | Drama, War
A docudrama depicting a hypothetical nuclear attack on Britain.
Director: Peter Watkins | Stars: Michael Aspel, Peter Graham, Dave Baldwin, Kathy Staff
Votes: 7,338
31. Schoolgirl Report Part 5: What All Parents Should Know (1973)
86 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Six more first-hand accounts of sexual awakening amongst school girls in the early Seventies - some with a happy end, some without.
Directors: Walter Boos, Ernst Hofbauer | Stars: Judith Armbrüster, Ekkehardt Belle, Erika Blumberger, Marina Blümel
Votes: 380
32. Punishment Park (1971)
R | 91 min | Drama, Thriller
"Punishment Park" is a pseudo-documentary purporting to be a film crews's news coverage of the team of soldiers escorting a group of hippies, draft dodgers, and anti-establishment types ... See full summary »
Director: Peter Watkins | Stars: Patrick Boland, Kent Foreman, Carmen Argenziano, Luke Johnson
Votes: 7,660
33. M.O.M. Mothers of Monsters (2020)
98 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller
A distraught mother suspects her teenage son of plotting a school shooting, but when the system ignores her, she's forced to take matters into her own hands.
Director: Tucia Lyman | Stars: Sevan Aliksanian, Edward Asner, Cynthia Bell, Janet Ulrich Brooks
Votes: 2,267
34. Carnal Campus (1978)
83 min | Drama, Comedy, Romance
The framework action is this time the editorial meeting of a school newspaper. In five episodes, the film describes how school-age young women in search for (physical) love in precarious situations.
Director: Walter Boos | Stars: Willy Adler, Sascha Atzenbeck, Ulrich Beiger, Eva Berthold
Votes: 195
35. Campus Pussycats (1973)
R | 89 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
The sexual adventures of young German girls.
Director: Ernst Hofbauer | Stars: Marisa Feldy, Lis Kertelge, Ralph Martens, Marita Vogelsang
Votes: 289
36. Schoolgirls Growing Up (1972)
X | 97 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
After the first part of the legendary report dealing with the sexual behavior of underage schoolgirls, and the second part dealing with the psychological background, the third part is devoted to striking individual cases.
Directors: Walter Boos, Ernst Hofbauer | Stars: Friedrich von Thun, Werner Abrolat, Gerd Arnau, Johannes Buzalski
Votes: 486
37. Campus Swingers (1972)
R | 88 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A fake documentary about the sex lives of teenage girls.
Director: Ernst Hofbauer | Stars: Judith Armbrüster, Marina Blümel, Ulrike Butz, Walter Feuchtenberg
Votes: 411
38. Schoolgirl Report Vol. 13: Don't Forget Love During Sex (1980)
R | 86 min | Comedy, Drama
During rehearsals for a school performance, a group of students discusses whether sex and love belong together, and whether both together in a relationship is possible.
Director: Walter Boos | Stars: Katja Bienert, Manuela Kohlhofer, Sylvia Engelmann, Renate Langer
Votes: 237
39. Taxi (III) (2015)
Not Rated | 82 min | Comedy, Drama
Banned from making movies by the Iranian government, Jafar Panahi poses as a taxi driver and makes a movie about social challenges in Iran.
Director: Jafar Panahi | Stars: Jafar Panahi, Nasrin Sotoudeh
Votes: 16,582 | Gross: $0.32M
40. S&man (2006)
R | 84 min | Horror
An exploration of voyeurism in cinema, from Psycho and Peeping Tom in 1960 to the low-budget underground genre films of recent years.
Director: J.T. Petty | Stars: Elizabeth Cartier, Carol J. Clover, Debbie D, Freddie Dingo
Votes: 1,102
41. Followed (II) (2018)
R | 96 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
To gain more subscribers, a controversial social media influencer stays at a cursed hotel to terrifying results.
Director: Antoine Le | Stars: Matthew Solomon, John Savage, Tim Drier, Sam Valentine
Votes: 1,954
42. Amateur Porn Star Killer (2006)
X | 71 min | Crime, Horror
The unofficial story of a killer who kidnaps and kills three girls is told through the tale of his last victim, 'Amateur Porn Star Killer' is about a girl he picks up on the street and ... See full summary »
Director: Shane Ryan-Reid | Stars: Michiko Jimenez, Jan Gould, Shane Ryan-Reid
Votes: 1,279
43. The Devil and Father Amorth (2017)
Not Rated | 68 min | Documentary
Father Gabriele Amorth performs his ninth exorcism on an Italian woman.
Director: William Friedkin | Stars: William Friedkin, Jeffrey Burton Russell, Christina, Gabriele Amorth
Votes: 2,667 | Gross: $0.02M
44. Ghoul (2015)
Not Rated | 86 min | Horror, Thriller
Three American filmmakers become the targets of the evil spirit of the most violent cannibal in recorded history.
Director: Petr Jákl | Stars: Jennifer Armour, Alina Golovlyova, Jeremy Isabella, Paul S. Tracey
Votes: 2,250
45. Forgotten Silver (1995 TV Movie)
53 min | Comedy
The film deals with the career of a supposedly forgotten pioneer of international cinema, Colin McKenzie, who was allegedly born in rural New Zealand in 1888.
Directors: Costa Botes, Peter Jackson | Stars: Peter Jackson, Jeffrey Thomas, Costa Botes, Leonard Maltin
Votes: 6,323 | Gross: $0.03M
46. Teenage Sex Report (1971)
R | 95 min | Drama
A gynecologist describes seven cases of young girls between the ages of 15 and 18 who have encountered him in his practice.
Director: Ernst Hofbauer | Stars: Monika Dahlberg, Christine Schuberth, Brigitte Harrer, Evelyne Traeger
Votes: 111
47. The Beaches of Agnès (2008)
Not Rated | 112 min | Documentary, Biography
Agnès Varda explores her memories, mostly chronologically, with photographs, film clips, interviews, reenactments, and droll, playful contemporary scenes of her narrating her story.
Director: Agnès Varda | Stars: Agnès Varda, André Lubrano, Blaise Fournier, Vincent Fournier
Votes: 4,802 | Gross: $0.24M
48. Cypher (2023)
R | 81 min | Documentary, Music, Thriller
Cypher is a fictional pseudo-music documentary about the artist Tierra Whack and the conspiracy theory that secret societies run the music world.
Director: Chris Moukarbel | Stars: Brian Alvarez, Chris Anthony, Vanya Asher, Bionca Bradley
Votes: 143
49. Mondo oscenità (1966)
69 min | Documentary
Our Mondo Narrator discusses the rise of Sado Masochism in the world of cinema while showing us varied scenes of Sado Masochism
Director: Joseph P. Mawra | Stars: Joel Holt, Rickey Bell, Darlene Bennett, Audrey Campbell
Votes: 34
50. Las Hurdes (1933)
30 min | Documentary, Short
A surrealist film, a pseudo-documentary portrait of Las Hurdes, a remote region of Spain where civilisation has barely developed, showing how the local peasants try to survive without even the most basic utilities and skills.
Director: Luis Buñuel | Stars: Abel Jacquin, Alexandre O'Neill
Votes: 6,278