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1. Forrest Gump (1994)
PG-13 | 142 min | Drama, Romance
The history of the United States from the 1950s to the '70s unfolds from the perspective of an Alabama man with an IQ of 75, who yearns to be reunited with his childhood sweetheart.
Director: Robert Zemeckis | Stars: Tom Hanks, Robin Wright, Gary Sinise, Sally Field
Votes: 2,267,203 | Gross: $330.25M
2. Guardians of the Galaxy (2014)
PG-13 | 121 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
A group of intergalactic criminals must pull together to stop a fanatical warrior with plans to purge the universe.
Director: James Gunn | Stars: Chris Pratt, Vin Diesel, Bradley Cooper, Zoe Saldana
Votes: 1,277,028 | Gross: $333.18M
3. Don't Look Up (2021)
R | 138 min | Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi
Two low-level astronomers must go on a giant media tour to warn humankind of an approaching comet that will destroy planet Earth.
Director: Adam McKay | Stars: Leonardo DiCaprio, Jennifer Lawrence, Meryl Streep, Cate Blanchett
Votes: 605,222
4. The Longest Ride (2015)
PG-13 | 123 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Sophia and Luke make an unexpected and fateful connection with Ira, a 90-years old man, when they save him from a car crash. Ira's memories of his own decades-long romance with his beloved wife deeply inspire the young couple.
Director: George Tillman Jr. | Stars: Scott Eastwood, Britt Robertson, Alan Alda, Jack Huston
Votes: 89,232 | Gross: $37.45M
5. The Platform (2019)
TV-MA | 94 min | Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
A vertical prison with one cell per level. Two people per cell. Only one food platform and two minutes per day to feed. An endless nightmare trapped in The Hole.
Director: Galder Gaztelu-Urrutia | Stars: Ivan Massagué, Zorion Eguileor, Antonia San Juan, Emilio Buale
Votes: 274,664
6. Presumed Innocent (1990)
R | 127 min | Mystery, Thriller
As a lawyer investigates the murder of a colleague, he finds himself more connected to the crime than anyone else.
Director: Alan J. Pakula | Stars: Harrison Ford, Raul Julia, Greta Scacchi, Brian Dennehy
Votes: 45,995 | Gross: $86.30M
7. Solo: A Star Wars Story (2018)
PG-13 | 135 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
During an adventure in the criminal underworld, Han Solo meets his future co-pilot Chewbacca and Lando Calrissian years before joining the Rebel Alliance.
Director: Ron Howard | Stars: Alden Ehrenreich, Woody Harrelson, Emilia Clarke, Donald Glover
Votes: 380,819 | Gross: $213.77M
8. Primal Fear (1996)
R | 129 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
An altar boy is accused of murdering a priest, and the truth is buried several layers deep.
Director: Gregory Hoblit | Stars: Richard Gere, Laura Linney, Edward Norton, John Mahoney
Votes: 248,042 | Gross: $56.12M
9. Sunset Boulevard (1950)
Passed | 110 min | Drama, Film-Noir
A screenwriter develops a dangerous relationship with a faded film star determined to make a triumphant return.
Director: Billy Wilder | Stars: William Holden, Gloria Swanson, Erich von Stroheim, Nancy Olson
Votes: 237,171
10. Notes on a Scandal (2006)
R | 92 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
A veteran high school teacher befriends a younger art teacher, who is having an affair with one of her fifteen-year-old students. However, her intentions with this new "friend" also go well beyond a platonic friendship.
Director: Richard Eyre | Stars: Cate Blanchett, Judi Dench, Andrew Simpson, Tom Georgeson
Votes: 84,802 | Gross: $17.51M
11. Sick of Myself (2022)
97 min | Comedy, Drama
Increasingly overshadowed by her boyfriend's recent rise to fame as a contemporary artist creating sculptures from stolen furniture, Signe hatches a vicious plan to reclaim her rightfully deserved attention within the milieu of Oslo's cultural elite.
Director: Kristoffer Borgli | Stars: Kristine Kujath Thorp, Eirik Sæther, Fanny Vaager, Sarah Francesca Brænne
Votes: 16,018
12. Jesse Stone: Stone Cold (2005 TV Movie)
R | 87 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Jesse Stone (Selleck) is a New England police chief investigating a series of murders, in an adaptation of Robert B. Parker's novel.
Director: Robert Harmon | Stars: Tom Selleck, Jane Adams, Reg Rogers, Viola Davis
Votes: 8,312
13. A Place in the Sun (1951)
Passed | 122 min | Drama, Romance
A poor boy gets a job working for his rich uncle and ends up falling in love with two women.
Director: George Stevens | Stars: Montgomery Clift, Elizabeth Taylor, Shelley Winters, Anne Revere
Votes: 24,871
14. Alfie (2004)
R | 103 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A cockney womanizer learns the hard way about the dangers of his actions.
Director: Charles Shyer | Stars: Jude Law, Sienna Miller, Susan Sarandon, Renée Taylor
Votes: 55,055 | Gross: $13.40M
15. Before the Fall (2004)
110 min | Drama, Sport, Thriller
Friedrich's boxing skills gets him in an elite Nazi high school in a castle in 1942. He enrolls against his dad's wish as it promises a brighter future. It's not what he expected.
Director: Dennis Gansel | Stars: Max Riemelt, Tom Schilling, Devid Striesow, Jonas Jägermeyr
Votes: 17,234 | Gross: $0.14M
16. The Occupant (2020)
TV-MA | 103 min | Drama, Thriller
Javier Muñoz, once a successful executive, makes the fateful decision to leave his home, which he and his family can no longer afford.
Directors: David Pastor, Àlex Pastor | Stars: Javier Gutiérrez, Mario Casas, Bruna Cusí, Ruth Díaz
Votes: 20,000
17. Nights of Cabiria (1957)
Not Rated | 110 min | Drama
A waifish prostitute wanders the streets of Rome looking for true love but finds only heartbreak.
Director: Federico Fellini | Stars: Giulietta Masina, François Périer, Franca Marzi, Dorian Gray
Votes: 52,058 | Gross: $0.75M
18. The Conspirator (2010)
PG-13 | 122 min | Crime, Drama, History
Mary Surratt is the lone female charged as a co-conspirator in the assassination trial of Abraham Lincoln. As the whole nation turns against her, she is forced to rely on her reluctant lawyer to uncover the truth and save her life.
Director: Robert Redford | Stars: Robin Wright, James McAvoy, Tom Wilkinson, Kevin Kline
Votes: 30,050 | Gross: $11.54M
19. The Stoning of Soraya M. (2008)
R | 114 min | Drama
A story told by Zahra to a French journalist of her niece Soraya Manutchehri, a 35-year-old married woman, who received capital punishment and stoned to death because of false accusations in the remote village of Kuhpayeh, Iran, in 1986.
Director: Cyrus Nowrasteh | Stars: Shohreh Aghdashloo, Jim Caviezel, Mozhan Navabi, Navid Negahban
Votes: 21,797 | Gross: $0.66M
20. Big Miracle (2012)
PG | 107 min | Biography, Drama, Romance
In small-town Alaska, a news reporter recruits his Greenpeace-volunteer ex-girlfriend on a campaign to save a family of gray whales trapped by rapidly-forming ice in the Arctic Circle.
Director: Ken Kwapis | Stars: Drew Barrymore, John Krasinski, John Pingayak, Ahmaogak Sweeney
Votes: 20,551 | Gross: $20.11M
21. Cheap Thrills (I) (2013)
Not Rated | 88 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
A scheming couple put a struggling family man and his old friend through a series of increasingly twisted dares over the course of an evening at a local bar.
Director: E.L. Katz | Stars: Pat Healy, Ethan Embry, Sara Paxton, David Koechner
Votes: 20,509 | Gross: $0.06M
22. Poison Ivy (1985 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 97 min | Comedy, Romance
Two teenage summer camp counselors struggle with their younger campers, providing a variety of humorous situations and romantic encounters.
Director: Larry Elikann | Stars: Michael J. Fox, Nancy McKeon, Caren Kaye, Adam Baldwin
Votes: 1,542
23. Fists in the Pocket (1965)
Not Rated | 110 min | Drama
A young man takes drastic measures to rid his dysfunctional family of its various afflictions.
Director: Marco Bellocchio | Stars: Lou Castel, Paola Pitagora, Marino Masé, Liliana Gerace
Votes: 4,958
24. The Sorrow and the Pity (1969)
PG | 251 min | Documentary, History, War
An in-depth exploration of the various reactions by the French people to the Vichy government's acceptance of the German invasion.
Director: Marcel Ophüls | Stars: Helmut Tausend, Marcel Verdier, Alexis Grave, Louis Grave
Votes: 4,116
25. Lacombe, Lucien (1974)
R | 138 min | Drama, War
In 1944, an 18-year-old boy from small-town France collaborates with the Gestapo and subsequently falls in love with a Jewish girl.
Director: Louis Malle | Stars: Pierre Blaise, Aurore Clément, Holger Löwenadler, Therese Giehse
Votes: 7,739
26. Prisoners of the Lost Universe (1983)
94 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
Three people are transported into a parallel reality, where they find they must use modern technology, but medieval weapons, in order to save the citizenry from a murderous warlord.
Director: Terry Marcel | Stars: Richard Hatch, Kay Lenz, John Saxon, Peter O'Farrell
Votes: 2,025
27. I Served the King of England (2006)
R | 113 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A look at the glamorous life at an old-world Prague hotel.
Director: Jirí Menzel | Stars: Ivan Barnev, Oldrich Kaiser, Julia Jentsch, Marián Labuda
Votes: 8,204 | Gross: $0.62M
28. Something for Everyone (1970)
R | 112 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
In post-war Austria, young, handsome country lad Konrad Ludwig (Michael York) charms his way into a butler position at the castle of the widowed (and destitute) Countess von Ornstein (... See full summary »
Director: Harold Prince | Stars: Angela Lansbury, Michael York, Anthony Higgins, Heidelinde Weis
Votes: 1,097 | Gross: $0.30M
29. Coldblooded (1995)
R | 92 min | Action, Comedy, Thriller
A bookie is promoted to Hitman and seemingly excels at his new found job.
Director: Wallace Wolodarsky | Stars: Jason Priestley, Kimberly Williams-Paisley, Peter Riegert, Robert Loggia
Votes: 4,095
30. Tenderness of the Wolves (1973)
Not Rated | 82 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
Using his status as a police informant to procure his victims, baby-faced, shaven-headed Fritz Haarmann dismembers their bodies after death and sells the flesh to restaurants, dumping the remainder out of sight.
Director: Ulli Lommel | Stars: Kurt Raab, Jeff Roden, Margit Carstensen, Ingrid Caven
Votes: 1,589
31. Shakedown (1950)
Approved | 80 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Unscrupulous and opportunistic San Francisco news media photographer Jack Early steps on and uses folks to get ahead, but in the end he tangles with the wrong people.
Director: Joseph Pevney | Stars: Howard Duff, Peggy Dow, Brian Donlevy, Lawrence Tierney
Votes: 742
32. A Matter of Time (1976)
PG | 97 min | Drama, Fantasy, Romance
A simple young woman helps eccentric old countess deal with her old age and she introduces the young woman to a world of upper class society.
Director: Vincente Minnelli | Stars: Liza Minnelli, Ingrid Bergman, Charles Boyer, Spyros Fokas
Votes: 776
33. The Passion of Ayn Rand (1999 TV Movie)
TV-MA | 104 min | Biography, Drama, Romance
The rather eccentric (especially in her thinking) author of "The Fountainhead" and "Atlas Shrugged" becomes involved with a much younger, and married man, to the dismay of those close to her.
Director: Christopher Menaul | Stars: Helen Mirren, Eric Stoltz, Julie Delpy, Peter Fonda
Votes: 1,655
34. Hollywood Horror House (1970)
R | 91 min | Horror, Thriller
An aging actress living in her Hollywood mansion with a retinue of elderly servants employs a new, mentally disturbed, personal assistant who schemes to take over the large estate.
Director: Donald Wolfe | Stars: Miriam Hopkins, David Garfield, Gale Sondergaard, Virginia Wing
Votes: 545
35. The Power of Nightmares (2004)
60 min | Documentary, History
A series of three documentaries about the use of fear for political gain.
Stars: Gilles Kepel, William Kristol, Melvin Goodman, Richard Perle
Votes: 4,552
36. Lessons of a Dream (2011)
113 min | Drama, Sport
An English teacher brings soccer from England to Germany in the late 19th Century by teaching it to his class.
Director: Sebastian Grobler | Stars: Daniel Brühl, Burghart Klaußner, Thomas Thieme, Justus von Dohnányi
Votes: 2,609
37. Sally, Irene and Mary (1925)
75 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Three women performing in a Broadway show face temptation, love, money, betrayal and tragedy as the cost of fame.
Director: Edmund Goulding | Stars: Constance Bennett, Joan Crawford, Sally O'Neil, William Haines
Votes: 291
38. What a Woman! (1956)
92 min | Comedy, Drama
A photographer named Corrado snaps a picture of Antonietta. When it shows up on the front page of a magazine, she wants to take him to court over it.
Director: Alessandro Blasetti | Stars: Sophia Loren, Charles Boyer, Marcello Mastroianni, Elisa Cegani
Votes: 483
39. Safe Conduct (2002)
Not Rated | 170 min | Biography, Drama, History
In German-occupied France, two filmmakers solve the collaboration dilemma differently.
Director: Bertrand Tavernier | Stars: Jacques Gamblin, Denis Podalydès, Charlotte Kady, Marie Desgranges
Votes: 1,616 | Gross: $0.03M
40. 7 Plus Seven (1970 TV Movie)
52 min | Documentary, Biography
Director Michael Apted revisits the same group of British-born children after a seven-year wait. The subjects are interviewed as to the changes that have occurred in their lives during the last seven years.
Director: Michael Apted | Stars: Bruce Balden, Jacqueline Bassett, Symon Basterfield, Andrew Brackfield
Votes: 3,233
41. The Case Is Closed, Forget It (1971)
106 min | Crime, Thriller
An architect jailed for a traffic violation discovers the grim reality of life behind bars, including corrupt staff and inmates, an inhuman judicial system, and the power of the Mafia.
Director: Damiano Damiani | Stars: Franco Nero, Riccardo Cucciolla, Georges Wilson, John Steiner
Votes: 735
42. The Most Wonderful Evening of My Life (1972)
106 min | Comedy, Drama, Mystery
A salesman chasing by car a beautiful female biker in order to flirt finds a castle where he is accused in a game trial for murder.
Director: Ettore Scola | Stars: Alberto Sordi, Michel Simon, Charles Vanel, Claude Dauphin
Votes: 868
43. The Nazis: A Warning from History (1997)
292 min | Documentary, History, War
An examination of how a cultured people could have allowed Adolf Hitler's rise to power.
Stars: Samuel West, Adolf Buchner, Jutta Rüdiger, Günther Ruschin
Votes: 1,723
44. 21 Up (1977 TV Movie)
100 min | Documentary, Biography
Director Michael Apted interviews the same group of British-born adults after a seven-year wait as to the changes that have occurred in their lives during the last seven years.
Director: Michael Apted | Stars: Bruce Balden, Jacqueline Bassett, Symon Basterfield, Andrew Brackfield
Votes: 2,929
45. Picco (2010)
105 min | Crime, Drama, Horror
Kevin is new in youth prison. Due to over-occupancy he has to share a cell with Tommy, Andy and Marc. A partnership of convenience in a system where only the strong prevail and which is ... See full summary »
Director: Philip Koch | Stars: Constantin von Jascheroff, Joel Basman, Frederick Lau, Martin Kiefer
Votes: 772
46. Volha (2023– )
Comedy, Drama
Standa Pekárek finishes compulsory military service and becomes a chauffeur at communist Czech TV in 1971 dreaming of his own Volga (Volha). Willing to do anything to fulfill his dream he agrees to be a spy under code-name Volha.
Stars: Krystof Hádek, Klára Melísková, Tomás Jerábek, Martin Pechlát
Votes: 140
47. Évocateur: The Morton Downey Jr. Movie (2012)
R | 90 min | Documentary, Biography
Before entire networks were built on populist personalities; before reality morphed into a TV genre; the masses fixated on a single, sociopathic star: controversial talk-show host Morton Downey, Jr.
Directors: Seth Kramer, Daniel A. Miller, Jeremy Newberger | Stars: Morton Downey Jr., Glenn Beck, Victoria Jackson, Bob Pittman
Votes: 1,043 | Gross: $0.02M
48. Lída Baarová (2016)
TV-14 | 106 min | Biography, Drama, History
A biographical film about the black-and-white era Czech actress Lída Baarová and her doomed love affair with one of the Third Reich's most powerful men: the Minister of Propaganda, Joseph Goebbels.
Director: Filip Renc | Stars: Tatiana Pauhofová, Karl Markovics, Gedeon Burkhard, Simona Stasová
Votes: 2,483
49. Lesson Plan (2010)
Not Rated | 76 min | Documentary, Biography, History
'Lesson Plan' is a documentary featuring interviews of the original students and teacher of the 1967 Third Wave experiment. This exercise in fascism took place in Palo Alto, California. ... See full summary »
Directors: David Jeffery, Philip Carr Neel | Stars: Ron Jones, Philip Zimbardo, Scott Thomson, Sherry Tousley
Votes: 184
50. Lazare (2020)
108 min | Drama, Fantasy, Musical
A team of French-Brazilian actors goes to Bucharest to shoot a film at a lower cost. But the Romanian technical team secretly shoot their own film.
Director: Philippe Chalem | Stars: Emine Meyrem, Milena Straube, Lionel Rousselot, Stanislas Siwiorek
Votes: 11