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1. The Lorax (2012)
PG | 86 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy
A 12-year-old boy searches for the one thing that will enable him to win the affection of the girl of his dreams. To find it he must discover the story of the Lorax, the grumpy yet charming creature who fights to protect his world.
Directors: Chris Renaud, Kyle Balda | Stars: Zac Efron, Taylor Swift, Danny DeVito, Ed Helms
Votes: 129,881 | Gross: $214.03M
2. Rango (2011)
PG | 107 min | Animation, Action, Adventure
Rango is an ordinary chameleon who accidentally winds up in the town of Dirt, a lawless outpost in the Wild West in desperate need of a new sheriff.
Director: Gore Verbinski | Stars: Johnny Depp, Isla Fisher, Timothy Olyphant, Abigail Breslin
Votes: 293,141 | Gross: $123.48M
3. Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs (2009)
PG | 90 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy
A local scientist is often regarded as a failure until he invents a machine that can make food fall from the sky. But little does he know that things are about to take a turn for the worst.
Directors: Phil Lord, Christopher Miller | Stars: Anna Faris, Bill Hader, Bruce Campbell, James Caan
Votes: 258,003 | Gross: $124.87M
4. Isle of Dogs (2018)
PG-13 | 101 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy
Set in Japan, Isle of Dogs follows a boy's odyssey in search of his lost dog.
Director: Wes Anderson | Stars: Bryan Cranston, Koyu Rankin, Edward Norton, Bob Balaban
Votes: 190,904 | Gross: $32.02M
5. The Toxic Avenger (1984)
R | 82 min | Action, Comedy, Horror
Tromaville has a monstrous new hero. The Toxic Avenger is born when meek mop boy Melvin falls into a vat of toxic waste. Now evildoers will have a lot to lose.
Directors: Michael Herz, Lloyd Kaufman | Stars: Andree Maranda, Mitch Cohen, Jennifer Babtist, Cindy Manion
Votes: 32,172
6. PAW Patrol: The Movie (2021)
G | 86 min | Animation, Action, Adventure
Ryder and the PAW Patrol pups are called to Adventure City in order to stop the recently-elected Mayor Humdinger from wreaking havoc.
Director: Cal Brunker | Stars: Tyler Perry, Ron Pardo, Will Brisbin, Kingsley Marshall
Votes: 8,395 | Gross: $40.13M
7. City of Ember (2008)
PG | 90 min | Adventure, Drama, Family
For generations, the people of the City of Ember have flourished in an amazing world of glittering lights. But Ember's once powerful generator is failing and the great lamps that illuminate the city are starting to flicker.
Director: Gil Kenan | Stars: Saoirse Ronan, Toby Jones, Bill Murray, David Ryall
Votes: 69,751 | Gross: $7.87M
8. The Salvation (2014)
R | 92 min | Action, Drama, Thriller
In 1870s America, the fury of a notorious gang leader is unleashed when a peaceful American settler avenges the death of his family. Then as his cowardly fellow townspeople betray him, he is forced to hunt down the outlaws alone.
Director: Kristian Levring | Stars: Mads Mikkelsen, Eva Green, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Eric Cantona
Votes: 43,206 | Gross: $0.01M
9. Motherless Brooklyn (2019)
R | 144 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
In 1950s New York, Lionel, a private detective with Tourette syndrome, sets out to uncover the mystery behind his mentor and only friend Frank's murder. Scouring the jazz clubs and slums of Brooklyn, he soon uncovers a web of secrets.
Director: Edward Norton | Stars: Edward Norton, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Alec Baldwin, Willem Dafoe
Votes: 62,841
10. Penny Dreadful: City of Angels (2020)
TV-MA | 60 min | Crime, Drama, Fantasy
When a grisly murder shocks Los Angeles in 1938, Detective Tiago Vega and his partner Lewis Michener become embroiled in an epic story that reflects the troubled history of the city.
Stars: Natalie Dormer, Daniel Zovatto, Kerry Bishé, Adriana Barraza
Votes: 10,665
11. Leviathan (2014)
R | 140 min | Crime, Drama
In a Russian coastal town, Kolya is forced to fight the corrupt mayor when he is told that his house will be demolished. He recruits a lawyer friend to help, but the man's arrival brings further misfortune for Kolya and his family.
Director: Andrey Zvyagintsev | Stars: Aleksey Serebryakov, Elena Lyadova, Roman Madyanov, Vladimir Vdovichenkov
Votes: 56,915 | Gross: $1.09M
12. Black Scorpion (2001)
TV-PG | Action, Crime, Drama
The City of Angels is falling apart, and crime has invaded the city to its very core. The mayor is corrupt, the police are incompetent, the city needs a cipher to take control of the situation.
Stars: Michelle Lintel, Scott Valentine, BT, Enya Flack
Votes: 613
13. The Business (2005)
R | 97 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
Frankie is sent from London to Spain to make a delivery to Charlie, who likes the kid and shows him the ropes including the use of guns and drugs. Frankie likes the sun, pools and the cute, bikini clad girls and stays in Spain.
Director: Nick Love | Stars: Danny Dyer, Tamer Hassan, Geoff Bell, Georgina Chapman
Votes: 15,349
14. Cruel Jaws (1995 Video)
Not Rated | 97 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
A huge shark terrorizes a beach in Florida, and the locals try everything to kill it.
Director: Bruno Mattei | Stars: David Luther, George Barnes Jr., Scott Silveria, Kirsten Urso
Votes: 1,669
15. Nightbeast (1982)
R | 81 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
A creature from outer space crash lands in a small town and starts killing people.
Directors: Don Dohler, Dave Geatty | Stars: Tom Griffith, Jamie Zemarel, Karin Kardian, George Stover
Votes: 2,260
16. The Nut Job 2: Nutty by Nature (2017)
PG | 91 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy
A group of squirrels try to stop a mayor from destroying the park where they live to make way for a dysfunctional amusement park.
Director: Cal Brunker | Stars: Will Arnett, Maya Rudolph, Bobby Cannavale, Bobby Moynihan
Votes: 7,287 | Gross: $28.37M
17. Goldstone (2016)
R | 110 min | Action, Crime, Mystery
Indigenous detective Jay Swan arrives in the town of Goldstone to search for a missing person, and his simple duty becomes complicated when he uncovers a web of crime and corruption.
Director: Ivan Sen | Stars: Aaron Pedersen, Alex Russell, Jacki Weaver, David Wenham
Votes: 6,245 | Gross: $0.09M
18. Funland (2005)
60 min | Comedy, Drama, Mystery
Carter Krantz arrives in Blackpool to investigate who killed his mother. He gets a job in the local strip club. He soon realizes that the town has many dark secrets and that the killer may even be his boss - the club's owner.
Stars: Daniel Mays, Ian Puleston-Davies, Sarah Smart, Kris Marshall
Votes: 642
19. Save the Cinema (2022)
109 min | Comedy, Drama
The story of Liz Evans from Carmarthen, Wales, who campaigned to save the Lyric Cinema in 1993.
Director: Sara Sugarman | Stars: Louisa Cliffe, Krrish Patel, Jonathan Pryce, Beatie Edney
Votes: 1,571
20. Ghosts (1996)
Not Rated | 39 min | Short, Fantasy, Horror
The mayor of a nameless town gathers a mob to confront a hermit living in a "haunted house," but when the mob arrives, the man has a few tricks up his sleeve to convince them that he's not that bad.
Director: Stan Winston | Stars: Michael Jackson, Pat Dade, Amy Smallman, Edwina Moore
Votes: 5,979
21. The Land (1970)
130 min | Drama
A small peasant village's struggles against the careless inroads of the large local landowner. The Land shows why political oppression does not necessarily lead to a sense of solidarity among the disinherited.
Director: Youssef Chahine | Stars: Mahmoud Al Meleji, Nagwa Ibrahim, Ezzat El Alaili, Hamdy Ahmed
Votes: 2,452
22. The Boy from Oklahoma (1954)
Approved | 87 min | Western
Corrupt mayor Barney Turlock appoints lawyer-wannabe greenhorn Tom Brewster as sheriff but regrets his choice when Brewster becomes efficient at fighting crime and solves the murder of the previous sheriff.
Director: Michael Curtiz | Stars: Will Rogers Jr., Nancy Olson, Lon Chaney Jr., Anthony Caruso
Votes: 463 | Gross: $1.40M
23. Playing for Keeps (1986)
PG-13 | 102 min | Comedy
Danny, Spikes and Silk have just recently graduated from high school in New York. Danny finds a title deed for a huge house in a small town. He has a dream to turn it into a Rock n' Roll ... See full summary »
Directors: Bob Weinstein, Harvey Weinstein | Stars: Daniel Jordano, Matthew Penn, Leon W. Grant, Mary B. Ward
Votes: 751 | Gross: $2.67M
24. Framed (1975)
R | 106 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A gambler kills a sheriff in self defense. But as everyone in conspiring against him, he is condemned to a long sentence in prison.
Director: Phil Karlson | Stars: Joe Don Baker, Conny Van Dyke, Gabriel Dell, John Marley
Votes: 737 | Gross: $2.12M
25. This Land Is Mine (1943)
Approved | 103 min | Drama, War
A mild-mannered school teacher in a German-occupied town during World War II finds himself torn between collaboration and resistance.
Director: Jean Renoir | Stars: Charles Laughton, Maureen O'Hara, George Sanders, Walter Slezak
Votes: 3,731
26. Family of Cops III: Under Suspicion (1999 TV Movie)
PG-13 | 90 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Police Inspector Paul Fein (Bronson) copes with family troubles while also dealing with the possibility of advancement to police chief. Meanwhile, his son (Joe Penny) is investigating the murder of a banker.
Director: Sheldon Larry | Stars: Charles Bronson, Sebastian Spence, Barbara Williams, Kim Weeks
Votes: 726
27. Pinocchio 3000 (2003)
G | 80 min | Animation, Family, Fantasy
The year is 3000. Geppetto, with the help of his faithful assistant, Spencer the cyber penguin, and by the holographic fairy Cyberina, creates Pinocchio, a prototype super-robot equipped for emotions.
Director: Daniel Robichaud | Stars: Malcolm McDowell, Sonja Ball, Howard Ryshpan, Whoopi Goldberg
Votes: 1,510
28. Shoot-Out at Medicine Bend (1957)
Passed | 87 min | Western
In Medicine Bend, a crooked businessman has the town mayor and sheriff in his pocket while his henchmen raid the wagon trains passing through the region.
Director: Richard L. Bare | Stars: Randolph Scott, James Craig, Angie Dickinson, Dani Crayne
Votes: 814
29. White Boy (2017)
TV-14 | 82 min | Documentary, Crime
In 1980's Detroit, 17 year-old Richard Wershe, Jr. allegedly ran a sophisticated inner-city drug dealing operation. Now, journalists, police, federal agents and hit men are speaking for the first time about the legend of "White Boy Rick."
Director: Shawn Rech | Stars: Richard Wershe Jr., Scott M. Burnstein, Dana Hathaway, Joe Swickard
Votes: 2,260
30. Pizza Man (1991)
PG-13 | 87 min | Comedy, Crime, Mystery
A pizza man is on a quest to get $15.23 when someone orders one. He uncovers a plot to rule the world and stops at nothing to get his pay.
Director: J.F. Lawton | Stars: Bill Maher, Annabelle Gurwitch, David McKnight, Bob Delegall
Votes: 193
31. Body of My Enemy (1976)
116 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Francois always despised the textile barons who ruled his local town. But he fell in love with the family heiress Gilberte. Ten years ago, he would have married her. Now only hatred holds them together. Francois is accused of murder. A hooker and a football star lie slaughtered. He thinks he has been framed by the mob. Going underground, he finds that the trail leads all the way to the top - to ... See full summary »
Director: Henri Verneuil | Stars: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Bernard Blier, Marie-France Pisier, Charles Gérard
Votes: 2,399
32. Fuccbois (2019)
Not Rated | 96 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
Ace (23) and Miko (17) desperately want to become famous actors but it seems the universe has a different plan for their lives.
Director: Eduardo W. Roy Jr. | Stars: Royce Cabrera, Kokoy De Santos, Ricky Davao, Yayo Aguila
Votes: 309
33. Great Guy (1936)
Passed | 66 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
The adventures of an investigator (Cagney) for the Bureau of Weights and Measures.
Director: John G. Blystone | Stars: James Cagney, Mae Clarke, James Burke, Edward Brophy
Votes: 1,142
34. Tombstone: The Town Too Tough to Die (1942)
Passed | 79 min | Western
Wyatt Earp cleans up Tombstone and faces the Clanton gang at the O.K. Corral.
Director: William C. McGann | Stars: Richard Dix, Kent Taylor, Edgar Buchanan, Frances Gifford
Votes: 240
35. Invalid (2023)
112 min | Comedy
Grumpy handyman Laco loses everything to a group of mobsters. Now wheelchair-bound and with his life spiraling, it's his new friend Gabo, a local Roma who helps Laco see things with a new perspective. Revenge is sweet.
Director: Jonas Karasek | Stars: Gregor Holoska, Zdenek Godla, Helena Krajciová, Daniel Fischer
Votes: 880
36. The Secret 6 (1931)
Passed | 83 min | Crime, Drama
After rising bootlegger Slaughterhouse Scorpio eliminates his gangland competition, two reporters and a cabal of six businessmen work to expose him.
Director: George W. Hill | Stars: Wallace Beery, Lewis Stone, Johnny Mack Brown, Jean Harlow
Votes: 1,050
37. A Stranger in Town (1943)
Passed | 67 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
In a small corrupt town, an honest crusading lawyer running for mayor gets unexpected help from a tourist who happens to be a Supreme Court judge.
Director: Roy Rowland | Stars: Frank Morgan, Richard Carlson, Jean Rogers, Porter Hall
Votes: 1,018
38. Taking Chances (2009)
R | 99 min | Comedy
A troubled town is having an Indian casino built on a historic battlefield. Chase, working at the town museum, opposes it. He meets the cute Lucy. They start a petition against the casino.
Director: Talmage Cooley | Stars: Justin Long, Emmanuelle Chriqui, Rob Corddry, Keir O'Donnell
Votes: 1,449
39. The Pied Piper of Hamelin (1957 TV Movie)
Unrated | 89 min | Musical, Family, Fantasy
Overwhelmed by rats, a medieval town hires a magical piper who can rid the town of the pest in exchange for gold but the crooked mayor has no intention of honoring the deal.
Director: Bretaigne Windust | Stars: Van Johnson, Claude Rains, Lori Nelson, Jim Backus
Votes: 559
40. Black Bart (1975 TV Movie)
25 min | Comedy, Crime, Western
Western spoof concerning the adventures of a black Sheriff and his fast-drawing sidekick fighting corruption and bigotry in the old west. Based on Blazing Saddles (1974).
Director: Robert Butler | Stars: Louis Gossett Jr., Millie Slavin, Noble Willingham, Steve Landesberg
Votes: 298
41. Schellebelle 1919 (2011)
100 min | Drama
After the Great War, traumatized Yser front hero Casimir Van De Velde returns home. He's not amused to see his bitchy sister Coralie turned it into a virtual orphanage and home for other ... See full summary »
Directors: Johan Heldenbergh, Kenneth Taylor | Stars: Raouf Hadj Mohamed, Arne Vereecken, Jan Baeyens, Thomas Bauwens
Votes: 341
42. Midnight Chronicles (2009)
Not Rated | 100 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy
In the world of MIDNIGHT, it is a time of overwhelming darkness. After three ages of scheming and war, the dark god Izrador has finally defeated the heroes and armies of the free races. Now... See full summary »
Director: Christian T. Petersen | Stars: Charles Hubbell, Matt Amendt, Steve Sweere, Dawn Brodey
Votes: 1,068
43. Afro Ninja (2009 Video)
Unrated | 88 min | Action, Comedy, Fantasy
This homage to martial arts legend Jim Kelly is based on a hugely successful Youtube video. Reggie's got a dead end job, a cruel boss, and no real propsects. Until, that is, he uncovers a ... See full summary »
Director: Mark Hicks | Stars: James Black, D.T. Carney, Marla Gibbs, Nick Hermz
Votes: 148
44. Toxic Crusaders: The Movie (1997 Video)
Not Rated | 76 min | Animation, Action, Comedy
Several episodes of the 1991 show edited together tell the story of Toxie and his hideously deformed super human mutant friends who fight insectoid alien Dr. Killemoff and his henchmen who use radioactive waste to take over the world.
Directors: Bill Hutten, Tony Love | Stars: Gregg Berger, Susan Blu, Rodger Bumpass, Paul Eiding
Votes: 126
45. The Brothers O'Toole (1973)
G | 95 min | Comedy, Western
The brothers, a couple of ne'er-do-wells, turn a sleepy mining town upside-down in their search for quick riches.
Director: Richard Erdman | Stars: John Astin, Pat Carroll, Hans Conried, Richard Erdman
Votes: 194
46. Indrudu Chandrudu (1989)
Not Rated | 158 min | Comedy, Drama
A corrupt mayor decides to live honest life.
Director: Suresh Krishna | Stars: Kamal Haasan, Vijayshanti, Charan Raj, Narayana P.L.
Votes: 374
47. Miracle Child (1993 TV Movie)
100 min | Drama, Family
A despairing young widow who abandons her baby pondside among bulrushes and a man who's fighting to reclaim his own son are drawn together. A baby plops out of a rainy, stormy sky into the ... See full summary »
Director: Michael Pressman | Stars: Crystal Bernard, Cloris Leachman, John Terry, Graham Sack
Votes: 57
48. Anak ng Kumander (2008)
110 min | Action
Director: Jose 'Kaka' Balagtas | Stars: Manny Pacquiao, Ara Mina, Dan Alvaro, Alvin Anson
Votes: 27
49. The Blue Tiger (2012)
90 min | Adventure, Comedy, Family
In a city ruled by the diabolical Mayor, it appears that only one thing can save the old botanical garden from being demolished for the construction of an entertainment center: the Blue ... See full summary »
Directors: Petr Oukropec, Bohdan Sláma | Stars: Jan Hartl, Daniel Drewes, Tereza Bocková, Jana Brezková
Votes: 138
50. The Overcoat (1952)
Approved | 102 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Based on the Nikolai Gogol story but set in 1950s Italy, THE OVERCOAT is the story of a poor city hall clerk (Renato Rascel) whose only desire is to buy a new overcoat.
Director: Alberto Lattuada | Stars: Renato Rascel, Yvonne Sanson, Giulio Stival, Ettore Mattia
Votes: 696