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1. The Color Purple (1985)

PG-13 | 154 min | Drama

A tale spanning forty years in the life of Celie, an African-American woman living in the South who survives incredible abuse and bigotry.

Director: Steven Spielberg | Stars: Danny Glover, Whoopi Goldberg, Oprah Winfrey, Margaret Avery

Votes: 97,446 | Gross: $98.47M

2. Sense and Sensibility (1995)

PG | 136 min | Drama, Romance

Rich Mr. Dashwood dies, leaving his second wife and her three daughters poor by the rules of inheritance. The two eldest daughters are the title opposites.

Director: Ang Lee | Stars: Emma Thompson, Kate Winslet, James Fleet, Tom Wilkinson

Votes: 125,846 | Gross: $43.18M

3. Independence Day: Resurgence (2016)

PG-13 | 120 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

Two decades after the first Independence Day invasion, Earth is faced with a new extra-Solar threat. But will mankind's new space defenses be enough?

Director: Roland Emmerich | Stars: Liam Hemsworth, Jeff Goldblum, Bill Pullman, Maika Monroe

Votes: 188,811 | Gross: $103.14M

4. Lights Out (II) (2016)

PG-13 | 81 min | Horror, Mystery

Rebecca must unlock the terror behind her little brother's experiences that once tested her sanity, bringing her face to face with a supernatural spirit attached to their mother.

Director: David F. Sandberg | Stars: Teresa Palmer, Gabriel Bateman, Maria Bello, Billy Burke

Votes: 142,470 | Gross: $67.27M

5. Mommie Dearest (1981)

R | 129 min | Biography, Drama

The abusive and traumatic adoptive upbringing of Christina Crawford at the hands of her mother, screen queen Joan Crawford, is depicted.

Director: Frank Perry | Stars: Faye Dunaway, Diana Scarwid, Steve Forrest, Howard Da Silva

Votes: 18,369 | Gross: $19.03M

6. The Manchurian Candidate (1962)

PG-13 | 126 min | Drama, Thriller

An American POW in the Korean War is brainwashed as an unwitting assassin for an international Communist conspiracy.

Director: John Frankenheimer | Stars: Frank Sinatra, Laurence Harvey, Janet Leigh, Angela Lansbury

Votes: 79,881

7. A Thousand and One (2023)

R | 117 min | Crime, Drama

After unapologetic and fiercely loyal Inez kidnaps her son Terry from the foster care system, mother and son set out to reclaim their sense of home, identity, and stability, in a rapidly changing New York City.

Director: A.V. Rockwell | Stars: Teyana Taylor, Aaron Kingsley Adetola, Aven Courtney, Josiah Cross

Votes: 6,962

8. Critters 3 (1991)

PG-13 | 86 min | Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi

The tiny fur ball aliens that will eat anything or anyone set their sights on a Los Angeles apartment tower.

Director: Kristine Peterson | Stars: John Calvin, Aimee Brooks, Christian Cousins, Joseph Cousins

Votes: 13,247

9. The Opposite of Sex (1998)

R | 105 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

A 16-year-old girl visits her gay half-brother and ends up seducing his boyfriend, thus wreaking havoc on all of their lives.

Director: Don Roos | Stars: Christina Ricci, Martin Donovan, Lisa Kudrow, Lyle Lovett

Votes: 21,764 | Gross: $5.88M

10. The Curse (1987)

R | 92 min | Horror, Sci-Fi

When a meteorite lands near his family farm during a storm in Tennessee, the son of a struggling farmer believes it's connected to strange plague-like events afflicting the crops, the farm animals and even the family themselves.

Director: David Keith | Stars: Wil Wheaton, Claude Akins, Malcolm Danare, Cooper Huckabee

Votes: 3,888 | Gross: $1.93M

11. Burning Bright (2010)

PG-13 | 89 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller

A thriller centered on a young woman and her autistic little brother who are trapped in a house with a ravenous tiger during a hurricane.

Director: Carlos Brooks | Stars: Briana Evigan, Charlie Tahan, Garret Dillahunt, Meat Loaf

Votes: 7,974

12. High Heels (1991)

R | 112 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

A singer returns after 15 years abroad to perform in Madrid and finds her 27 y.o. daughter married to one of her mom's ex-lovers.

Director: Pedro Almodóvar | Stars: Victoria Abril, Marisa Paredes, Miguel Bosé, Anna Lizaran

Votes: 17,459 | Gross: $1.71M

13. Surveillance (I) (2008)

R | 97 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Two FBI agents attempt to clarify the murders occurring in a desolate region. They approach the witnesses of the latest incident with the help of the local police. All of them hide something and all have wildly different stories to tell.

Director: Jennifer Lynch | Stars: Julia Ormond, Bill Pullman, Pell James, Caroline Aaron

Votes: 18,471 | Gross: $0.03M

14. I Dreamed of Africa (2000)

PG-13 | 114 min | Adventure, Biography, Drama

A bored Italian socialite (Kim Basinger) abandons her jet-set lifestyle for the rigors and rewards of rural Kenya in this true story, based on the best-selling memoir by Kuki Gallmann. Directed by Hugh Hudson (Chariots of Fire).

Director: Hugh Hudson | Stars: Kim Basinger, Vincent Perez, Liam Aiken, Garrett Strommen

Votes: 4,895 | Gross: $6.54M

15. The Silver Chalice (1954)

Approved | 142 min | Drama, Romance

A Greek artisan is commissioned to cast the cup of Christ in silver, and sculpt around its rim, the faces of the disciples and Jesus. He travels to Jerusalem and eventually to Rome to ... See full summary »

Director: Victor Saville | Stars: Virginia Mayo, Pier Angeli, Jack Palance, Paul Newman

Votes: 1,789

16. The Spitfire Grill (1996)

PG-13 | 117 min | Drama

Oscar-winner Ellen Burstyn (The Exorcist) headlines this critically praised drama about a young woman, just out of prison, who finds spiritual redemption working at a cafe in Maine.

Director: Lee David Zlotoff | Stars: Alison Elliott, Ellen Burstyn, Marcia Gay Harden, Will Patton

Votes: 7,214 | Gross: $12.64M

17. Without Apparent Motive (1971)

PG | 100 min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller

A strange series of murders are being committed in Nice on the French riviera. The commissionaire Carella is in charge and tries desperately to find a missing link between all of these ... See full summary »

Director: Philippe Labro | Stars: Jean-Louis Trintignant, Dominique Sanda, Sacha Distel, Carla Gravina

Votes: 949

18. Scream Bloody Murder (1973)

R | 90 min | Horror

A deranged kid murders his father and has his arm crushed by the farm tractor. After being discharged from the mental hospital with an amputee, he discovers that his mother has remarried, prompting him to go on a homicidal rampage.

Director: Marc B. Ray | Stars: Fred Holbert, Leigh Mitchell, Robert Knox, Ron Bastone

Votes: 1,200

19. Iona (2015)

85 min | Drama

Iona takes her teenage son to the holy island where she was born so they can hide from a violent crime. As her son seeks forgiveness for what he has done Iona comes to terms with her loss of faith.

Director: Scott Graham | Stars: Ruth Negga, Douglas Henshall, Tom Brooke, Michelle Duncan

Votes: 355

20. Jack Be Nimble (1993)

R | 92 min | Horror, Thriller

Jack and Dora, abandoned by their parents as babies, are desperate to find each other after years of adoption. Jack's young life has been spent with a sadistic family. Dora, whose life has ... See full summary »

Director: Garth Maxwell | Stars: Alexis Arquette, Sarah Smuts-Kennedy, Bruno Lawrence, Tony Barry

Votes: 661

21. Fade to Black (2006)

R | 99 min | Mystery, Thriller

Attempting to recover from his failed marriage to Rita Hayworth and restart his career, Orson Welles travels to Italy only to be drawn into a dangerous web of intrigue, murder and politics when an actor is murdered on his set.

Director: Oliver Parker | Stars: Danny Huston, Diego Luna, Paz Vega, Christopher Walken

Votes: 915

22. Her Name Was Jo (2020)

104 min | Adventure

Ten year old Jo spends her days along the Shenandoah River with her imaginary best friend Selma, fishing, scrapping for metal-surviving. But when her abusive junkie stepdad dies, Jo decides... See full summary »

Director: Joe Duca | Stars: Mary Cate Williams, Elisa Duca, Jim Constable, Nichole Naccash

Votes: 257

23. What War May Bring (2010)

120 min | Drama

Ilva runs her stepfather's Eden Palace cinema in wartime Paris against a background of Resistance activities, the frequent sight of less fortunate Parisians being shipped east in ... See full summary »

Director: Claude Lelouch | Stars: Audrey Dana, Dominique Pinon, Raphaël Haroche, Samuel Labarthe

Votes: 753

24. Siblings (2004)

R | 85 min | Comedy

SIBLINGS is a dark comedy about love, lust, murder and other issues of normal family life.

Director: David Weaver | Stars: Alex Campbell, Paul Soles, Andrew Chalmers, Samantha Weinstein

Votes: 685

25. La India blanca (1979)

85 min | Drama, Romance

A Mexican indigenous woman is segregated in her native town for having fair skin.

Director: Alberto Mariscal | Stars: Yolanda del Río, Jaime Moreno, Norma Herrera, Sandra Chávez

Votes: 12

26. Unholy Kiss (2013)

15 min | Short, Drama, Romance | Completed

The death of a woman's father brings long-suppressed feelings between her and her step-brother to the surface on the night before the father's burial.

Director: Jim Shollenberger | Stars: Skyler Thomas, Christian Green

27. Halgato (1995)

105 min | Crime, Drama, Music

A tragedy looms for a young Gypsy violinist whose half brother is in the throes of first love.

Director: Andrej Mlakar | Stars: Ludvik Bagari, Ljerka Belak, Kristjan Borovsak, Peter Bostjancic

Votes: 68

28. Triangulo (1972)

82 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

A young woman is the principal suspect during the investigation of the murder of her stepfather, with whom she was supposed to leave the city.

Director: Alejandro Galindo | Stars: Claudio Brook, Ana Luisa Peluffo, Jorge Lavat, Norma Lazareno

Votes: 13

29. The Crane Poison Case (1932)

Passed | 18 min | Short, Crime, Mystery

This entry in the Vitaphone Inspector Carr series, based on the character created by S.S. Van Dyne, finds the detective investigating the death of a rich man by snake-venom poison. ... See full summary »

Director: Joseph Henabery | Stars: John Hamilton, Donald Meek, Janet Rathburn, Douglas Gilmore

30. The Rebel (1959–1961)
Episode: Dark Secret (1959)

Approved | 25 min | Western

After Yuma kills a man in self defense, he finds himself in the position of having to mediate between the man's dangerously defensive widow and his associates who include his employer and co-workers.

Director: Irvin Kershner | Stars: Nick Adams, Tyler McVey, Grace Lenard, William Bryant

Votes: 49

31. The Streets of San Francisco (1972–1977)
Episode: Cry Help! (1974)

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

An abusive step father is murdered. The boy's mother attempts to blame a neighborhood kid. The abused boy knows the truth but is afraid that he he will incriminate someone close to him no matter what he tells the police.

Director: Corey Allen | Stars: Karl Malden, Michael Douglas, Mariette Hartley, Clint Howard

Votes: 117

32. Everglades! (1961–1962)
Episode: Lie Detector (1961)

30 min | Action, Adventure, Crime

Although Mary Webster has flunked a lie detector test, Linc's instinct tells him that the woman did not murder her abusive husband and investigates other suspects.

Director: John Florea | Stars: Ron Hayes, Mary Webster, Tyler McVey, Louise Lorimer

33. Deadwood (2004–2006)
Episode: The Catbird Seat (2006)

TV-MA | 49 min | Crime, Drama, History

Another attack is made at Hearst's behest, Harry and Bullock travel to Sturgis for campaigning, and there's unrest in Langrishe's troupe.

Director: Gregg Fienberg | Stars: Timothy Olyphant, Ian McShane, Molly Parker, Jim Beaver

Votes: 1,482

34. Women Behind Bars (2008– )
Episode: Alicia Williamson & Patricia Donnelly (2009)

TV-14 | 42 min | Documentary

A single mother pleads self-defense after fatally stabbing a man she met on a dating website after he rejected her. A woman who strangled a man she just met at a swinger's club after changing her mind about having sex with him for money.

Director: Richard Swindell | Stars: Ashley Crary, Alicia Williamson, Willie Kidd, Angela Kidd

Votes: 14

35. CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (2000–2015)
Episode: Altered Stakes (2012)

TV-14 | 44 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

A killer is about to go free because of a dirty cop, so the team tries to connect him to an earlier crime to keep him in jail.

Director: David Semel | Stars: Ted Danson, Elisabeth Shue, George Eads, Jorja Fox

Votes: 602