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1. Flight (I) (2012)
R | 138 min | Drama, Thriller
Troubling questions arise after airline pilot Whip Whitaker makes a miracle landing after a mid-air catastrophe.
Director: Robert Zemeckis | Stars: Denzel Washington, Nadine Velazquez, Don Cheadle, John Goodman
Votes: 376,279 | Gross: $93.77M
2. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2009)
R | 152 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A journalist is aided by a young female hacker in his search for the killer of a woman who has been dead for forty years.
Director: Niels Arden Oplev | Stars: Michael Nyqvist, Noomi Rapace, Ewa Fröling, Lena Endre
Votes: 223,370 | Gross: $10.10M
3. Tango & Cash (1989)
R | 104 min | Action, Comedy, Crime
Framed by their ruthless arch-nemesis, a pair of mismatched LAPD officers must put their differences aside to get even with the brutal crime baron who sent them to rot in a maximum-security prison.
Directors: Andrey Konchalovskiy, Albert Magnoli | Stars: Sylvester Stallone, Kurt Russell, Teri Hatcher, Jack Palance
Votes: 113,624 | Gross: $63.41M
4. National Security (2003)
PG-13 | 88 min | Action, Comedy, Crime
Two mismatched security guards are thrown together to bust a smuggling operation.
Director: Dennis Dugan | Stars: Martin Lawrence, Steve Zahn, Colm Feore, Bill Duke
Votes: 54,414 | Gross: $36.38M
5. True History of the Kelly Gang (2019)
R | 124 min | Action, Biography, Crime
Australian bushranger Ned Kelly and his gang flee from authorities during the 1870s.
Director: Justin Kurzel | Stars: George MacKay, Essie Davis, Nicholas Hoult, Ben Corbett
Votes: 13,193
6. Henry's Crime (2010)
R | 108 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
Released from prison for a crime he didn't commit, an ex-con targets the same bank he was sent away for robbing.
Director: Malcolm Venville | Stars: Keanu Reeves, Vera Farmiga, James Caan, Judy Greer
Votes: 21,370 | Gross: $0.10M
7. Nothing But the Truth (I) (2008)
R | 108 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
In Washington, D.C., a reporter faces a possible jail sentence for outing a CIA agent and refusing to reveal her source.
Director: Rod Lurie | Stars: Kate Beckinsale, Matt Dillon, Vera Farmiga, Angela Bassett
Votes: 39,862 | Gross: $0.00M
8. 13th (2016)
TV-MA | 100 min | Documentary, Crime, History
An in-depth look at the prison system in the United States and how it reveals the nation's history of racial inequality.
Director: Ava DuVernay | Stars: Melina Abdullah, Michelle Alexander, Cory Booker, Dolores Canales
Votes: 37,686
9. Adam (I) (2009)
PG-13 | 99 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Adam, a lonely man with Asperger's Syndrome, develops a relationship with his upstairs neighbor, Beth.
Director: Max Mayer | Stars: Hugh Dancy, Rose Byrne, Peter Gallagher, Amy Irving
Votes: 35,778 | Gross: $2.28M
10. Studio 54 (2018)
TV-MA | 98 min | Documentary, History, Music
The story of the notorious 1970s New York City nightclub.
Director: Matt Tyrnauer | Stars: Ian Schrager, Steve Rubell, Donald Rubell, Neil Schlesinger
Votes: 3,542 | Gross: $0.20M
11. Salt of the Earth (1954)
Not Rated | 94 min | Drama, History
Mexican workers at a zinc mine call a general strike. It is only through the solidarity of the workers, and importantly the indomitable resolve of their wives, mothers, and daughters, that they eventually triumph.
Director: Herbert J. Biberman | Stars: Juan Chacón, Rosaura Revueltas, Will Geer, David Bauer
Votes: 4,045
12. Remember the Night (1939)
Passed | 94 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Love blooms between a sympathetic attorney and the comely shoplifter he has taken home for the Christmas holiday.
Director: Mitchell Leisen | Stars: Barbara Stanwyck, Fred MacMurray, Beulah Bondi, Elizabeth Patterson
Votes: 7,193 | Gross: $0.17M
13. Savannah (2013)
PG-13 | 101 min | Drama, Family, History
Drama about the friendship between an Oxford-educated Southerner and a former black slave in turn-of-the-century Savannah.
Director: Annette Haywood-Carter | Stars: Jim Caviezel, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Jaimie Alexander, Bradley Whitford
Votes: 1,771 | Gross: $0.04M
14. Man Called Rocca (1961)
102 min | Crime, Drama
(1961) Jean Paul Belmondo, Christine Kaufman. In this fine thriller, JP's friend ends up in prison. JP then tracks down the man responsible.
Director: Jean Becker | Stars: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Christine Kaufmann, Béatrice Altariba, Mario David
Votes: 557
15. 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: 1,465
16. Lies My Mother Told Me (2005 TV Movie)
TV-PG | 87 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
Inspired by actual events, about a young girl and her mother, Laren Sims, a con-artist and master of disguises who steals the identities of other women and then turns to murder to protect her secrets.
Director: Christian Duguay | Stars: Joely Richardson, Colm Feore, Hayden Panettiere, Jasmine Berg
Votes: 916
17. You Disappear (2017)
TV-MA | 117 min | Drama
A teachers' world is turned upside down when her husband, a successful headmaster, is caught embezzling from their own school. Did he do this of his own free will - or has his personality been altered by the tumor lurking in his brain? As the teacher is assisting an attorney in providing a legal defense, recent neuroscience forces her to rethink who her husband really is.
Director: Peter Schønau Fog | Stars: Trine Dyrholm, Nikolaj Lie Kaas, Michael Nyqvist, Mikkel Boe Følsgaard
Votes: 1,151
18. The House I Live In (2012)
Not Rated | 98 min | Documentary
From the dealer to the narcotics officer, the inmate to the federal judge, a penetrating look inside America's criminal justice system, revealing the profound human rights implications of U.S. drug policy.
Director: Eugene Jarecki | Stars: Eugene Jarecki, David Simon, Shanequa Benitez, William Julius Wilson
Votes: 5,394 | Gross: $0.21M
19. My Dog Stupid (2019)
106 min | Comedy, Drama
Henri is a middle-aged writer in crisis. Just at a time when he assesses of his life, an enormous gray dog, impolite and smelly, sneaks into Henri's house.
Director: Yvan Attal | Stars: Yvan Attal, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Eric Ruf, Pascale Arbillot
Votes: 2,386
20. Karalahti (2021)
117 min | Documentary, Biography
Documentary about the Finnish ice hockey player Jere Karalahti.
Director: Juuso Syrjä | Stars: Jere Karalahti, Jari Aarnio, Semir Ben-Amor, Esko Blom
Votes: 211
21. Fight Night Champion (2011 Video Game)
M | Action, Sport
Take control of Andre Bishop, a talented boxer, who is forced to overcome great setbacks including a prison sentence and a corrupt fight promoter as he rises through the boxing ranks.
Directors: Elin Anderson, Dave 'Foots' Footman | Stars: Joe Tessitore, Teddy Atlas, Al Murdock, Jay Jones
Votes: 417
22. Il capitano (1991)
110 min | Crime, Drama
A Finnish couple murders a young boy and his parents when they prevent the theft of their son's bicycle.
Director: Jan Troell | Stars: Maria Heiskanen, Antti Reini, Berto Marklund, Antti Vierikko
Votes: 912
23. Sinful Davey (1969)
R | 95 min | Adventure, Comedy, Crime
The humorous adventures of the notorious Scottish highwayman and thief Davey Haggart during the 1820s in Britain.
Director: John Huston | Stars: John Hurt, Pamela Franklin, Nigel Davenport, Ronald Fraser
Votes: 579
24. Starting Over with Brooke Shields (2013)
TV-14 | 3 min | Short, Comedy
Miranda Huntington (Brooke Shields) needs a new lease on life and she's going to follow her dreams until she finds it.
Director: Ryan Perez | Stars: Michael R. Carlson, Brett Davern, Ryan Doom, Ally Downs
Votes: 24
25. So This Is Paris (1926)
Passed | 60 min | Comedy
Georgette lives in Paris with her unexciting, effeminate husband, an actor and interpretive dancer. Meanwhile, Suzanne lives across the street and reads romance novels while dreaming of ... See full summary »
Director: Ernst Lubitsch | Stars: Monte Blue, Patsy Ruth Miller, Lilyan Tashman, George Beranger
Votes: 755 | Gross: $0.11M
26. Newlywed and Dead (2016 TV Movie)
TV-14 | 88 min | Drama, Thriller
A young newlywed begins to doubt her husband's love when his rival is found dead. When she starts investigating the death and her husband's past, she becomes his next target.
Director: Penelope Buitenhuis | Stars: Shenae Grimes-Beech, Christopher Russell, Samantha Ferris, James Kirk
Votes: 377
27. Vena
Drama | Post-production
A young couple struggles with an unplanned pregnancy, turning to crystal meth to cope with their troubled lives until a midwife intervenes, offering guidance and support to help them face their challenges and find a path forward.
Director: Chiara Fleischhacker | Stars: Emma Drogunova, Friederike Becht, Barbara Philipp, Paul Wollin
28. The Mad Kings (2015)
100 min | Comedy, Drama
In Casteljaloux, a town in southwestern France, friendship, drunken nights, heat and tall tales set the pace of daily life. And here, men are Kings of the World. But when Jeannot gets out ... See full summary »
Director: Laurent Laffargue | Stars: Sergi López, Eric Cantona, Céline Sallette, Romane Bohringer
Votes: 119
29. The Man Who Would Be Polka King (2009)
69 min | Documentary, Crime, Music
A look at the rise and fall of band leader Jan Lewan, whose international Polka empire led to the greatest polka-related financial crime in history.
Directors: Joshua Brown, John Mikulak | Stars: Michael Byrne, Pete Chacho, Catherine Damavandi, Kent Jackson
Votes: 679
30. Blind Alibi (1938)
Approved | 61 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Paul Dover lives in Paris and works as an artist. He is visited by Julia Fraser an art buyer and critic who irritates Dover with her opinionated attitude. When she finally finds a piece of ... See full summary »
Director: Lew Landers | Stars: Richard Dix, Whitney Bourne, Eduardo Ciannelli, Frances Mercer
Votes: 191
31. Paperitähti (1989)
91 min | Drama
Anna Kelanen is an ex-model who has just been released from prison. She thinks back on her life as a rather successful model, and on the things that went wrong.
Director: Mika Kaurismäki | Stars: Pirkko Hämäläinen, Kari Väänänen, Hannu Lauri, Matti Rasila
Votes: 244
32. Pulakapina (1977)
113 min | Drama, History
A group of farmers start to rebel against the authorities after it is announced that their malnourished horse will be killed. Based on the events of Nivala rebellion of 1932.
Director: Mikko Niskanen | Stars: Mikko Niskanen, Erkki Ruokokoski, Aapo Vilhunen, Eeva-Maija Haukinen
Votes: 56
33. A Mother (2019)
91 min | Drama
Freed from prison, Eeva returns to her old home region to look for her grown-up daughter.
Director: Samppa Batal | Stars: Jaana Saarinen, Matti Pajulahti, Helmi-Leena Nummela, Liina Valtonen
Votes: 159
34. The Gauntlet (1971)
91 min | Crime, Drama
Ossi Virtanen is accused of murdering a teenage girl at the end of a brawl and drunkenness, for which he is sentenced to imprisonment despite insufficient evidence.
Director: Maunu Kurkvaara | Stars: Aarre Karén, Markku Salonen, Esko Mannermaa, Esa Saario
Votes: 47
35. El profeta Mimi (1973)
90 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
Mexican thriller about a mentally perturbed serial killer who considers himself a prophet. He lives with his elderly mother, who went many years to jail because she took blame of his first ... See full summary »
Director: José Estrada | Stars: Ignacio López Tarso, Ofelia Guilmáin, Ana Martín, Carmen Montejo
Votes: 77
36. Omat koirat purivat (1974 TV Movie)
148 min | Biography, Drama, History
Director: Mikko Niskanen | Stars: Mikko Niskanen, Mervi Kauppi, Kaarina Perola, Hannu Vuorinen
Votes: 45
37. Nina ja Erik (1960)
86 min | Drama
Director: Aarne Tarkas | Stars: Pirkko Mannola, Martti Katajisto, Tauno Palo, Ville-Veikko Salminen
Votes: 65
38. Tolonen (2014)
75 min | Documentary, Biography, Music
A documentary film about music and life - about letting go and starting over In the early 70s, the Finnish guitarist Jukka Tolonen, celebrated by the international music press, chose to ... See full summary »
Director: Lasse Keso | Stars: Jukka Tolonen, Vesa Aaltonen, Heikki Virtanen, Liisa Tolonen
Votes: 76
39. Mis hijos (1944)
85 min | Drama
Director: René Cardona | Stars: Sara García, Andrés Soler, Gustavo Rojo, Esther Luquín
40. Härmästä poikia kymmenen (1950)
86 min | Drama
Director: Ilmari Unho | Stars: Tauno Palo, Yrjö Kantoniemi, Kalervo Nissilä, Kalle Kirjavainen
Votes: 109
41. Matti Nykänen - omin sanoin (2016)
90 min | Documentary, Biography
Director: Kim Finn | Stars: Matti Nykänen, Tomi Brotherus, Juha Jokinen, Matti Kuusi
Votes: 63
44.
Masterpiece (1971– )
Episode:
The Railway Children
(2000)
108 min | Drama, History, Mystery
Dramatization of E. Nesbit's classic novel about three children whose lives change dramatically after they move to a Yorkshire cottage near a railway line.
Director: Catherine Morshead | Stars: Jack Blumenau, Clare Thomas, Jemima Rooper, Jenny Agutter
Votes: 1,003
45.
The Old Fox (1977– )
Episode:
Anstiftung zum Mord
(1993)
58 min | Crime, Drama
Elke Mayerhof wanted to get rid of his wife : for his work he contracted the bar owner Alex Karlow.But Alex Karlow went to the police and so Mr. Mayerhof was sent to prison.This morning the... See full summary »
Director: Helmuth Ashley | Stars: Rolf Schimpf, Michael Ande, Charles M. Huber, Markus Böttcher
Votes: 20
46.
The Old Fox (1977– )
Episode:
Die Tat
(1996)
57 min | Crime, Drama
Fred Langdorf has been sent to prison because he committed physical abuse against Vera König.Now he will be released from prison under a condition: a psychological therapy.The Prof. Robert ... See full summary »
Director: Helmuth Ashley | Stars: Rolf Schimpf, Michael Ande, Charles M. Huber, Markus Böttcher
Votes: 19
47.
The Old Fox (1977– )
Episode:
Spiel mit dem Feuer
(2001)
Crime, Drama
Ralph Kubik who participated in a holdup and stabbed to death his girlfriend has spent 12 years in prison and now he has been released.During his stay in prison he had a correspondence with... See full summary »
Director: Gero Erhardt | Stars: Rolf Schimpf, Michael Ande, Pierre Sanoussi-Bliss, Markus Böttcher
Votes: 15
48.
The Old Fox (1977– )
Episode:
Trauma
(1994)
57 min | Crime, Drama
Stefan Reiter has been released from prison: some years ago Stefan Reiter killed with his rifle Irina Falk, a years old girl; he was sentenced to prison.Judith Reiter, the wife of Stefan ... See full summary »
Director: Gero Erhardt | Stars: Rolf Schimpf, Michael Ande, Charles M. Huber, Markus Böttcher
Votes: 19
49.
Death Valley Days (1952–1970)
Episode:
The Informer Who Cried
(1967)
TV-PG | 25 min | Western
Jim Murphy is about to be sentenced when Texas Ranger Captain Peak offers him a deal in exchange for his freedom. He must help capture bandit Sam Bass dead or alive but fellow gang member Barnes is suspicious of his return.
Director: Jean Yarbrough | Stars: Scott Thomas, Ed Bakey, Steve Sandor, Barry Sadler
Votes: 31
50.
The Practice (1997–2004)
Episode:
Infected
(1999)
TV-PG | 45 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Still devastated from losing the Armbrust murder trial, an enraged Helen seeks vengeance over Gary Armbrust who lied on the stand, by charging him with murder. But a passionate and erratic ... See full summary »
Director: Dylan McDermott | Stars: Dylan McDermott, Michael Badalucco, LisaGay Hamilton, Steve Harris
Votes: 116