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1. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966)

Approved | 178 min | Adventure, Drama, Western

A bounty hunting scam joins two men in an uneasy alliance against a third in a race to find a fortune in gold buried in a remote cemetery.

Director: Sergio Leone | Stars: Clint Eastwood, Eli Wallach, Lee Van Cleef, Aldo Giuffrè

Votes: 813,270 | Gross: $6.10M

2. The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956)

PG | 120 min | Drama, Thriller

An American doctor and his wife, a former singing star, witness a murder while vacationing in Morocco, and are drawn into a twisting plot of international intrigue when their young son is kidnapped.

Director: Alfred Hitchcock | Stars: James Stewart, Doris Day, Brenda de Banzie, Bernard Miles

Votes: 69,822 | Gross: $10.25M

3. The Two Faces of January (2014)

PG-13 | 96 min | Crime, Mystery, Romance

A thriller centered on a con artist, his wife, and a stranger who flee Athens after one of them is caught up in the death of a private detective.

Director: Hossein Amini | Stars: Viggo Mortensen, Kirsten Dunst, Oscar Isaac, Daisy Bevan

Votes: 33,726 | Gross: $0.51M

4. The Invisible Man Returns (1940)

Passed | 81 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery

The owner of a coal mining operation, falsely imprisoned for fratricide, takes a drug to make him invisible, despite its side effect: gradual madness.

Director: Joe May | Stars: Cedric Hardwicke, Vincent Price, Nan Grey, John Sutton

Votes: 5,323

5. Winter Kills (1979)

R | 97 min | Comedy, Drama, Mystery

The younger brother of an assassinated US President is led down a rabbit hole of conspiracies and dead ends after learning of a man claiming to be the real shooter.

Director: William Richert | Stars: Jeff Bridges, John Huston, Anthony Perkins, Eli Wallach

Votes: 3,519 | Gross: $1.08M

6. Payback (1995)

R | 93 min | Thriller

Oscar Bonsetter tells a dying prisoner that he will take revenge on the sadistic guard who killed him. In exchange, Oscar is told of a stash of money. Oscar is eventually released from ... See full summary »

Director: Anthony Hickox | Stars: C. Thomas Howell, Joan Severance, Marshall Bell, Richard Burgi

Votes: 894

7. The Flame (1947)

Approved | 97 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

A woman falls for the victim of an intended blackmail plot.

Director: John H. Auer | Stars: John Carroll, Vera Ralston, Robert Paige, Broderick Crawford

Votes: 409

8. 4 for Texas (1963)

Approved | 124 min | Comedy, Western

Zack Thomas is a tough guy who hooks up with Joe Jarrett to open a casino.

Director: Robert Aldrich | Stars: Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Anita Ekberg, Ursula Andress

Votes: 3,663

9. Captain Nemo and the Underwater City (1969)

G | 105 min | Adventure, Family, Fantasy

When Captain Nemo saves the passengers of a sinking ship and takes them to his Utopian underwater city he discovers that not all of his guests agree to remain there forever.

Director: James Hill | Stars: Robert Ryan, Chuck Connors, Nanette Newman, Luciana Paluzzi

Votes: 1,808

10. Bataan (1943)

Approved | 114 min | Drama, History, War

In 1942, in the Bataan peninsula of the Philippines, a ragtag American unit commanded by Sergeant Bill Dane attempts to blow-up a bridge in order to slow the Japanese advance.

Director: Tay Garnett | Stars: Robert Taylor, George Murphy, Lloyd Nolan, Thomas Mitchell

Votes: 2,716

11. The Great Flamarion (1945)

Approved | 78 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

Part of an entertainment act, a beautiful but unscrupulous female performer manipulates all the men in her life in order to achieve her aims.

Director: Anthony Mann | Stars: Erich von Stroheim, Mary Beth Hughes, Dan Duryea, Steve Barclay

Votes: 1,463

12. Shareef Budmaash (1973)

Action, Crime, Thriller

The Government of India has devised plans for a new kind of super aircraft. A gangster, Diwan, manages to procure this plan from corrupt military officials, and hides it in his safe along ... See full summary »

Director: Raj Khosla | Stars: Dev Anand, Hema Malini, Ajit Khan, Jeevan Dhar

Votes: 67

13. The Desert Trail (1935)

Approved | 54 min | Western

Rodeo star John Scott and his gambler friend Kansas Charlie are wrongly accused of armed robbery. They leave town as fast as they can to go looking for their own suspects in Poker City.

Director: Lewis D. Collins | Stars: John Wayne, Mary Kornman, Paul Fix, Eddy Chandler

Votes: 1,033

14. Nobody's Children (1951)

102 min | Drama, Romance

The tragic love story between marble-quarry owner Mario and Luisa, daughter of one of his employees.

Director: Raffaello Matarazzo | Stars: Yvonne Sanson, Amedeo Nazzari, Françoise Rosay, Folco Lulli

Votes: 417

15. Tornado (1943)

Approved | 83 min | Drama

Pete Ramsey (Morris) is a hard-working coal miner who falls in love with and marries scheming showgirl Victory Kane (Kelly). Victory presses Pete to fight for the position of the mine ... See full summary »

Director: William Berke | Stars: Chester Morris, Nancy Kelly, William Henry, Gwen Kenyon

Votes: 127

16. The White Sister (1923)

143 min | Drama, Romance

A young woman becomes a nun when she believes her sweetheart has been killed, then things get complicated when he returns alive.

Director: Henry King | Stars: Lillian Gish, Ronald Colman, Gail Kane, J. Barney Sherry

Votes: 540 | Gross: $0.66M

17. The Menace (1932)

Approved | 64 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Ronald Quayle escapes from prison. He was sent there for murdering his father, based on the testimony of his stepmother, Caroline. An explosion disfigures him, but plastic surgery gives him... See full summary »

Director: Roy William Neill | Stars: H.B. Warner, Walter Byron, Bette Davis, Natalie Moorhead

Votes: 629

18. The Line-Up (1929)

Short, Crime

A gangster asks a struggling nightclub owner to deliver a letter. Soon, his club is packed, and a gambler is gunned down.

Director: Charles L. Glett | Stars: William Black, Viola Richard, Charles Slattery, Joseph Garry

Votes: 23

19. The Flirty Sleepwalker (1932)

19 min | Short, Comedy

A husband forgets his wife's birthday, but his buddy doesn't. The buddy's sleepwalking only makes the problem worse.

Director: Del Lord | Stars: Arthur Stone, Dorothy Granger, Wade Boteler, Patsy O'Leary

Votes: 11

20. The Return of Soapweed Scotty (1917)

Short, Comedy, Drama

Soapweed Scotty is a cowboy employed by Pete Bronson, the ranch foreman. Scotty loves Alice West, the sheriff's sister, and so does Pete. Scotty is made to appear an outlaw through the ... See full summary »

Director: Burton L. King | Stars: Robyn Adair, Ed Brady, Virginia Kirtley, Leo Pierson

21. Thriller (1960–1962)
Episode: The Fatal Impulse (1960)

TV-PG | 60 min | Crime, Drama, Horror

A man fleeing from an attempt to assassinate a political candidate puts a small bomb in the bag of a woman in an elevator. The police spend the evening looking for the mystery girl and the bomb.

Director: Gerald Mayer | Stars: Boris Karloff, Robert Lansing, Whitney Blake, Conrad Nagel

Votes: 207

22. The Spoils of Babylon (2014)
Episode: So Sweet the Bells (2014)

TV-14 | 23 min | Comedy

Jonrosh's (Ferrell) final chapter finds Winston (Osment) out to destroy his family, stopping at nothing to get his revenge. A Christmas party brings together Cynthia (Wiig), Devon (Maguire), Winston and the Shah of Iran.

Director: Matt Piedmont | Stars: Tobey Maguire, Kristen Wiig, Tim Robbins, Jessica Alba

Votes: 127

23. Once Upon a Time in Wonderland (2013–2014)
Episode: Bad Blood (2013)

TV-PG | 43 min | Adventure, Drama, Fantasy

Alice learns her father is in Wonderland and they start healing their relationship; young Jafar is distressed by his mother's death.

Director: Ciaran Donnelly | Stars: Sophie Lowe, Michael Socha, Peter Gadiot, Emma Rigby

Votes: 266