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1. Dune (1984)
PG-13 | 137 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
A Duke's son leads desert warriors against the galactic emperor and his father's evil nemesis to free their desert world from the emperor's rule.
Director: David Lynch | Stars: Kyle MacLachlan, Virginia Madsen, Francesca Annis, Leonardo Cimino
Votes: 180,716 | Gross: $30.93M
2. Idiocracy (2006)
R | 84 min | Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Corporal Joe Bauers, a decidedly average American, is selected for a top-secret hibernation program but is forgotten and left to awaken to a future so incredibly moronic that he's easily the most intelligent person alive.
Director: Mike Judge | Stars: Luke Wilson, Maya Rudolph, Dax Shepard, Terry Crews
Votes: 183,990 | Gross: $0.44M
3. Orphan Black (2013–2017)
TV-MA | 44 min | Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
A streetwise hustler is pulled into a compelling conspiracy after witnessing the suicide of a girl who looks just like her.
Stars: Tatiana Maslany, Dylan Bruce, Jordan Gavaris, Kevin Hanchard
Votes: 117,315
4. Gattaca (1997)
PG-13 | 106 min | Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
A genetically inferior man assumes the identity of a superior one in order to pursue his lifelong dream of space travel.
Director: Andrew Niccol | Stars: Ethan Hawke, Uma Thurman, Jude Law, Gore Vidal
Votes: 324,361 | Gross: $12.34M
5. The Island (2005)
PG-13 | 136 min | Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
A man living in a futuristic sterile colony begins to question his circumscribed existence when his friend is chosen to go to the Island, the last uncontaminated place on earth.
Director: Michael Bay | Stars: Scarlett Johansson, Ewan McGregor, Djimon Hounsou, Steve Buscemi
Votes: 328,286 | Gross: $35.82M
6. The Boys from Brazil (1978)
R | 125 min | Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
A Nazi hunter in Paraguay discovers a sinister and bizarre plot to rekindle the Third Reich.
Director: Franklin J. Schaffner | Stars: Gregory Peck, Laurence Olivier, James Mason, Lilli Palmer
Votes: 30,696 | Gross: $19.00M
7. The Knick (2014–2015)
TV-MA | 58 min | Drama, History
A look at the professional and personal lives of the staff at New York's Knickerbocker Hospital during the early part of the twentieth century.
Stars: Clive Owen, André Holland, Jeremy Bobb, Juliet Rylance
Votes: 52,688
8. Never Look Away (2018)
R | 189 min | Biography, Drama, Romance
German artist Kurt Barnert has escaped East Germany and now lives in West Germany, but is tormented by his childhood under the Nazis and the GDR-regime.
Director: Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck | Stars: Tom Schilling, Sebastian Koch, Paula Beer, Saskia Rosendahl
Votes: 25,514 | Gross: $1.30M
9. Piranha (1978)
R | 94 min | Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
When flesh-eating piranhas are accidentally released into a summer resort's rivers, the guests become their next meal.
Director: Joe Dante | Stars: Bradford Dillman, Heather Menzies-Urich, Kevin McCarthy, Keenan Wynn
Votes: 24,901 | Gross: $6.00M
10. Wrong Turn 4: Bloody Beginnings (2011 Video)
R | 93 min | Adventure, Horror
A group of college students gets lost in a storm during their snowmobiling trip and takes shelter in an abandoned sanitarium which, unbeknown to them, is home to deformed cannibals.
Director: Declan O'Brien | Stars: Sean Skene, Blane Cypurda, Dan Skene, Tristan Carlucci
Votes: 28,114
11. Humanoids from the Deep (1980)
R | 80 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
Humanoid sea creatures start killing a fishing town's residents, and raping their women. It's up to the townsfolk and a visiting biologist to fight back and fend them off.
Directors: Barbara Peeters, Jimmy T. Murakami | Stars: Doug McClure, Ann Turkel, Vic Morrow, Cindy Weintraub
Votes: 10,582
12. The Thinning (2016)
Not Rated | 81 min | Action, Drama, Horror
In a future, overcrowded, dystopian society, students with the lowest test scores are culled. Two students discover errors with the test.
Director: Michael J. Gallagher | Stars: Logan Paul, Peyton List, Lia Marie Johnson, Calum Worthy
Votes: 10,510
13. Mutant X (2001–2004)
TV-PG | 60 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
A fugitive geneticist and four of his "creations" search for others of their kind while attempting to stay a step ahead of a morally ambiguous government agent.
Stars: Victoria Pratt, Forbes March, Victor Webster, John Shea
Votes: 4,660
14. The Crimson Rivers (2000)
R | 106 min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller
A murder detective must follow the footsteps of a brutal killer within the secrets of a classist college.
Director: Mathieu Kassovitz | Stars: Jean Reno, Vincent Cassel, Nadia Farès, Dominique Sanda
Votes: 65,801 | Gross: $0.63M
15. Flesh for Frankenstein (1973)
R | 95 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
Baron Frankenstein creates two "zombies" - one male, one female - planning to mate them in order to create a master race.
Directors: Paul Morrissey, Antonio Margheriti | Stars: Joe Dallesandro, Udo Kier, Dalila Di Lazzaro, Monique van Vooren
Votes: 7,012 | Gross: $10.25M
16. Mass Effect: Andromeda (2017 Video Game)
M | Action, Adventure, Drama
The Andromeda Initiative sets a course for a new galaxy, hoping to find a new home for the species of the Milky Way.
Directors: Mac Walters, Sam McGlynn | Stars: Fryda Wolff, Tom Taylorson, Jules de Jongh, Nyasha Hatendi
Votes: 5,967
17. Prayer of the Rollerboys (1990)
R | 95 min | Action, Crime, Drama
In a dystopian near future America, a young man infiltrates a powerful drug dealing rollerblading youth gang that runs his town in order to end their reign for good.
Director: Rick King | Stars: Corey Haim, Patricia Arquette, Christopher Collet, Julius Harris
Votes: 2,785
18. Immortal (2004)
R | 103 min | Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
In the distant future, Earth is occupied by ancient gods and genetically altered humans. When a god is sentenced to death he seeks a new human host and a woman to bear his child.
Director: Enki Bilal | Stars: Linda Hardy, Thomas Kretschmann, Charlotte Rampling, Yann Collette
Votes: 21,802
19. The U.S. and the Holocaust (2022)
TV-14 | 398 min | Documentary, History
Explores America's response to the Holocaust, and how it challenged the ideals of democracy.
Stars: Peter Coyote, Daniel Mendelsohn, Peter Hayes, Deborah Lipstadt
Votes: 1,608
20. Freakonomics (2010)
PG-13 | 85 min | Documentary
A collection of documentaries that explores the hidden side of human nature through the use of the science of economics.
Directors: Heidi Ewing, Alex Gibney, Seth Gordon, Rachel Grady, Eugene Jarecki, Morgan Spurlock | Stars: James Ransone, Tempestt Bledsoe, Morgan Spurlock, Melvin Van Peebles
Votes: 7,752 | Gross: $0.10M
21. Exterminate All the Brutes (2021)
TV-MA | 58 min | Documentary, History
The path to the new world, an unsettling and intricate story of genocides. Conquest, slavery and the fabrication of "Whiteness".
Stars: Raoul Peck, Josh Hartnett, Caisa Ankarsparre, Fraser James
Votes: 2,994
22. Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror (2021)
194 min | Documentary, Horror
A thorough overview and dissection of the subgenre of 'folk horror, ' with contributions from many of the major creators and clips from cinema all over the world.
Director: Kier-La Janisse | Stars: Linda Hayden, Ian Ogilvy, Kevin Kölsch, Sean Hogan
Votes: 1,652
23. Neon City (1991)
R | 99 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
"Mad Max" clone set in the not-too-distant future about a group of people trying to escape to a safe haven called Neon City after a solar disaster that has decimated the Earth.
Director: Monte Markham | Stars: Michael Ironside, Vanity, Lyle Alzado, Valerie Wildman
Votes: 1,267
24. Max (I) (2002)
R | 106 min | Drama, War
A film studying the depiction of a friendship between an art dealer named Rothman and his student, Adolf Hitler.
Director: Menno Meyjes | Stars: John Cusack, Noah Taylor, Leelee Sobieski, Molly Parker
Votes: 8,799 | Gross: $0.53M
25. Elves (1989)
PG-13 | 89 min | Horror
A woman finds she is part of a Nazi breeding experiment with elves to create supermen. She and friends are trapped in a store with an elf. Only a renegade Santa Claus can save them.
Director: Jeffrey Mandel | Stars: Dan Haggerty, Julie Austin, Deanna Lund, Borah Silver
Votes: 1,802
26. The Twilight of the Golds (1996)
PG-13 | 92 min | Drama, Romance
When Suzanne Stein has a genetic analysis done on her unborn child, she discovers that although she has a healthy baby, the child will most likely be born gay, like her brother, David. She ... See full summary »
Director: Ross Kagan Marks | Stars: Garry Marshall, Faye Dunaway, Jill Bernstein, Mark Shunkey
Votes: 1,193
27. Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed (2008)
PG | 90 min | Documentary
Ben Stein examines the issue of academic freedom and decides that there is none when it comes to the debate over intelligent design.
Director: Nathan Frankowski | Stars: Ben Stein, Lili Asvar, Peter Atkins, Hector Avalos
Votes: 12,199 | Gross: $7.69M
28. Human Nature (I) (2019)
95 min | Documentary
A breakthrough called CRISPR opens the door to curing diseases, reshaping the biosphere, and designing our own children. A provocative exploration of its far-reaching implications, through the eyes of the scientists who discovered it.
Director: Adam Bolt | Stars: Jennifer Doudna, George Church, Alta Charo, Fyodor Urnov
Votes: 1,729
29. Captive Wild Woman (1943)
Passed | 61 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
An insane scientist doing experimentation in glandular research becomes obsessed with transforming a female gorilla into a human...even though it costs human life.
Director: Edward Dmytryk | Stars: John Carradine, Evelyn Ankers, Milburn Stone, Lloyd Corrigan
Votes: 1,046
30. Alleged (2010)
Not Rated | 94 min | Drama, History, Romance
When a teacher is arrested in Tennessee for trying to teach evolution in 1925, a young ambitious reporter must choose whether to take advice from his sweetheart or the notorious columnist when it comes to his approach to the story.
Director: Tom Hines | Stars: Nathan West, Colm Meaney, Ashley Johnson, Brian Dennehy
Votes: 306
31. Endgame: Blueprint for Global Enslavement (2007 Video)
Unrated | 139 min | Documentary, Biography, Crime
For the New World Order, a world government is just the beginning. Once in place they can engage their plan to exterminate 80% of the world's population, while enabling the "elites" to live... See full summary »
Director: Alex Jones | Stars: Alex Jones, Jeremie Rhodes, George Bush, George W. Bush
Votes: 2,185
32. To the Stars by Hard Ways (1981)
148 min | Sci-Fi
A female creature created in space tries to live on earth and has special (and sometimes dangerous) powers.
Directors: Richard Viktorov, Nikolay Viktorov | Stars: Yelena Metyolkina, Nadezhda Sementsova, Vadim Ledogorov, Uldis Lieldidzs
Votes: 1,483
33. Little New York (2009)
R | 96 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
The lives of three residents of New York's Staten Island intersect as they struggle to get ahead.
Director: James DeMonaco | Stars: Ethan Hawke, Vincent D'Onofrio, Seymour Cassel, Julianne Nicholson
Votes: 5,352
34. Joe Gould's Secret (2000)
R | 104 min | Drama
Around 1940, The New Yorker staff writer Joe Mitchell meets Joe Gould, a Greenwich Village character, who is writing a voluminous Oral History of the World, a record of twenty thousand conversations he's overheard.
Director: Stanley Tucci | Stars: Ian Holm, Stanley Tucci, Hope Davis, Sarah Hyland
Votes: 1,648 | Gross: $0.64M
35. I accuse (1941)
110 min | Drama
In this pro-euthanasia melodrama, a successful doctor is forced to make a heart-wrenching decision after his beautiful young wife is diagnosed with multiple sclerosis.
Director: Wolfgang Liebeneiner | Stars: Heidemarie Hatheyer, Paul Hartmann, Mathias Wieman, Margarete Haagen
Votes: 184
36. Century (1993)
R | 112 min | Drama, Romance
Paul Reisner, a young doctor, becomes a researcher in a prestigious medical institute. He feels he has a chance to be part of a movement of unending progress in science and civilization. ... See full summary »
Director: Stephen Poliakoff | Stars: Charles Dance, Clive Owen, Miranda Richardson, Robert Stephens
Votes: 416
37. Replikator (1994)
R | 97 min | Sci-Fi
A ruthless criminal kingpin has taken control of the technology to replicate people and a veteran street cop and his two cyberpunk friends must stop him.
Director: G. Philip Jackson | Stars: Michael St. Gerard, Brigitte Bako, Ned Beatty, Ilona Staller
Votes: 277
38. The Architecture of Doom (1989)
Not Rated | 119 min | Documentary, History
An absorbing and chilling documentary about the National Socialist aesthetic, and how attempts to create the Aryan Ideal caused the extermination of millions. Aspects covered include: ... See full summary »
Director: Peter Cohen | Stars: Rolf Arsenius, Bruno Ganz, Sam Gray, Martin Bormann
Votes: 1,139
39. The Unborn (1935)
Not Rated | 70 min | Drama
A young woman wishes to marry her boyfriend and raise a family, but because her own family has been deemed "defective" by the state health authorities--her parents are lazy alcoholics who ... See full summary »
Director: Crane Wilbur | Stars: Diane Sinclair, Donald Douglas, John Preston, Carlyle Moore Jr.
Votes: 218
40. College Holiday (1936)
Approved | 86 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
Expecting to put on a musical show, singing and dancing college students are brought to a struggling hotel to be guinea pigs in an ancient Greek-themed eugenics experiment.
Director: Frank Tuttle | Stars: Jack Benny, George Burns, Gracie Allen, Mary Boland
Votes: 200
41. The Genius of Charles Darwin (2008– )
60 min | Documentary
In this three-part series Richard Dawkins, the evolutionary scientist and bestselling author, takes us on a journey of discovery. How does evolution work? How do we know it's true - and why... See full summary »
Stars: Richard Dawkins, The Naked Cowboy, Steven Pinker
Votes: 1,001
42. Where Are My Children? (1916)
Approved | 62 min | Drama
A District Attorney's outspoken stand on abortion lands him in trouble with the local community.
Directors: Phillips Smalley, Lois Weber | Stars: Tyrone Power Sr., Mrs. Tyrone Power, Marie Walcamp, Cora Drew
Votes: 872
43. Nazis: The Occult Conspiracy (1998)
104 min | Documentary
How Adolf Hitler and the Nazi regime made use of ancient mysticism and occultism to win the war. The Nazi's also used occult mind control techniques to brainwash Germans to perceive themselves as the master-race.
Directors: Tracy Atkinson, Joan Baran | Stars: Malcolm McDowell, Michael Kater, Peter Padfield, J.H. Brennan
Votes: 270
44. Doggiewoggiez! Poochiewoochiez! (2012)
55 min | Comedy
A surrealist remake of Alejandro Jodorowsky's 1973 film, "The Holy Mountain," consisting entirely of borrowed clips from countless dog films.
Directors: Nic Maier, Dimitri Simakis | Stars: Tim Allen, Michael Badalucco, Jim Belushi, Matthew Broderick
Votes: 198
45. The Black Stork (1917)
50 min | Drama
Eugenicist Harry J. Haiselden warns a young couple who are considering marriage that they are ill-matched and will produce defective offspring. He is right; their baby is born defective, dies quickly, and floats up into heaven.
Directors: Leopold Wharton, Theodore Wharton | Stars: Jane Fearnley, Allan Murnane, Hamilton Revelle, Elsie Esmond
Votes: 41
46. Archive (2017)
Short, Drama, Romance
David and Cecilia are archivists, assigned to rid the world of history's burdens; artwork, books, movies, and music. They follow their orders, until one day in an especially peculiar house,... See full summary »
Directors: Hailey Jackson Boucher, Chris Weingart | Stars: Veronica Argentieri, Maria Boas, Dominic Boucher, Hailey Jackson Boucher
47. Trinity (2003)
82 min | Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
In a remote Arctic research station, government agents Brach (Stephen Moyer) and Schiller (Lucy Akhurst) discover the mysterious genetic scientist Dr. Clerval (Tom McCamus). A psychological... See full summary »
Director: Gary Boulton-Brown | Stars: Tom McCamus, Lucy Akhurst, Stephen Moyer, Marlene Dunn
Votes: 106
48. Wilbur and the Baby Factory (1970)
X | 91 min | Comedy
As an alternative to being drafted, a young man is given the job of fathering 2000 children for a future perfect race.
Director: Tom McGowan | Stars: Peter Ford, Keith McConnell, Larisa Schubert, Stuart Lancaster
Votes: 128
49. The Arbiter (2013)
PG-13 | 100 min | Drama
A scientist goes mad after his girlfriend's abortion and starts weeding out the 'genetically incompetent'.
Director: Kadri Kõusaar | Stars: Lee Ingleby, Bille Neeve, Sofia Berg-Böhm, Tony Aitken
Votes: 145
50. Homo Sapiens 1900 (1998)
Not Rated | 88 min | Documentary
Homo Sapiens 1900 is a stunning exploration of the history of eugenics, race hygiene and the quest to improve the human race. Emerging at the turn of the century, eugenic movements spawned government sanctioned research projects
Director: Peter Cohen | Stars: Jan Holmquist, Vladimir Lenin, Trofim Lysenko, Joseph Stalin
Votes: 216 | Gross: $0.00M