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1. The American (2010)
R | 105 min | Action, Crime, Drama
An assassin hides out in Italy for one last assignment.
Director: Anton Corbijn | Stars: George Clooney, Paolo Bonacelli, Violante Placido, Irina Björklund
Votes: 102,202 | Gross: $35.61M
2. Moonwalker (1988)
PG | 93 min | Action, Crime, Fantasy
Anthology movie by, and starring, Michael Jackson in his prime, combining a number of music videos from his bestselling "Bad" album with a fantasy tale of Michael's confrontation with a ruthless drug dealer known as Mr. Big.
Directors: Jerry Kramer, Jim Blashfield, Colin Chilvers | Stars: Michael Jackson, Joe Pesci, Sean Lennon, Kelley Parker
Votes: 18,259
3. Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (1988)
R | 88 min | Comedy, Drama
A television actress encounters a variety of eccentric characters after embarking on a journey to discover why her lover abruptly left her.
Director: Pedro Almodóvar | Stars: Carmen Maura, Antonio Banderas, Julieta Serrano, Rossy de Palma
Votes: 46,536 | Gross: $7.18M
4. Appointment with Death (1988)
PG | 102 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
When a former prison wardress who dominates the lives of her three adult stepchildren and her daughter is found dead at an archaeological dig near the Dead Sea, there are a great many suspects.
Director: Michael Winner | Stars: Peter Ustinov, Lauren Bacall, Carrie Fisher, John Gielgud
Votes: 6,065 | Gross: $0.96M
5. Ugly, Dirty and Bad (1976)
Not Rated | 115 min | Comedy, Drama
Four generations of a family live in a shantytown in the outskirts of Rome. The household engages in various forms of sexual idiosyncrasies, land swindles, incest, drugs and adultery.
Director: Ettore Scola | Stars: Francesco Anniballi, Maria Bosco, Giselda Castrini, Alfredo D'Ippolito
Votes: 9,126 | Gross: $0.01M
6. The Medusa Touch (1978)
PG | 109 min | Drama, Mystery
A telekinetic novelist causes disasters simply by thinking about them.
Director: Jack Gold | Stars: Richard Burton, Lee Remick, Lino Ventura, Harry Andrews
Votes: 7,510
7. The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother (1975)
PG | 91 min | Comedy, Crime, Music
The younger brother of the consulting detective tries to steal Sherlock's glory by solving an important case assisted by an eccentric Scotland Yard detective and a lovely but suspicious actress.
Director: Gene Wilder | Stars: Gene Wilder, Madeline Kahn, Marty Feldman, Dom DeLuise
Votes: 7,320
8. Snow White (2012)
PG-13 | 104 min | Drama, Fantasy
A twist on the Snow White fairy tale that is set in 1920s Seville and centered on a female bullfighter.
Director: Pablo Berger | Stars: Maribel Verdú, Emilio Gavira, Daniel Giménez Cacho, Ángela Molina
Votes: 11,647 | Gross: $0.28M
9. Mad Dogs and Englishmen (1995)
R | 97 min | Thriller, Drama, Mystery
Antonia is a cute drug addict in London, who meets a nice motorbike courier. They get caught between a corrupt drug cop and a drug dealer.
Director: Henry Cole | Stars: Elizabeth Hurley, C. Thomas Howell, Joss Ackland, Claire Bloom
Votes: 673
10. Paranoiac (1963)
Not Rated | 80 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
A man long believed dead returns to the family estate to claim his inheritance.
Director: Freddie Francis | Stars: Janette Scott, Oliver Reed, Sheila Burrell, Maurice Denham
Votes: 3,301
11. The Ax (2005)
Not Rated | 117 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
A chemist (Garcia) loses his job to outsourcing. Two years later and still jobless, he hits on a solution: to genuinely eliminate his competition.
Director: Costa-Gavras | Stars: José Garcia, Karin Viard, Geordy Couturiau, Ulrich Tukur
Votes: 8,422
12. Little Sweetheart (1988)
R | 89 min | Thriller
A criminal couple, hiding out in a remote property become the unwitting victims of a plot to blackmail them by the most unlikely of conspirators.
Director: Anthony Simmons | Stars: John Hurt, Karen Young, Cassie Barasch, Ellie Raab
Votes: 376
13. R.A.I.D. Special Unit (2016)
Not Rated | 105 min | Action, Comedy, Crime
A clumsy girl dreams about joining to an elite special forces team.
Director: Dany Boon | Stars: Alice Pol, Dany Boon, Michel Blanc, Yvan Attal
Votes: 4,501
14. The Killer of Dolls (1975)
98 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller
A groundskeeper's son, who is mentally unstable due to childhood trauma, goes on a murdering spree where his perception of reality is distorted by imagining people as mannequins and vice versa.
Director: Miguel Madrid | Stars: David Rocha, Inma de Santis, Helga Liné, Elisenda Ribas
Votes: 393
15. Miss Golem (1972)
96 min | Comedy, Crime, Romance
The inventor Petr takes Vera to his laboratory. There he works on a machine to create perfect "golems" or "human doubles". Vera unwittingly creates her own golem.
Director: Jaroslav Balík | Stars: Jana Brejchová, Jan Tríska, Martin Ruzek, Josef Somr
Votes: 51
16. An Imbecile and a Half (1959)
69 min | Comedy
A gullible but good-natured man who is head over heels for a lavish widow is willing to get his hands dirty for her when an unforeseen situation calls for desperate measures. But, does he really have the guts to do anything for love?
Director: Giannis Dalianidis | Stars: Christos Efthimiou, Rika Dialyna, Andreas Barkoulis, Dionysis Papagiannopoulos
Votes: 238
17. I Killed Einstein, Gentlemen (1970)
95 min | Comedy, Romance, Sci-Fi
This futuristic science fiction comedy features an atomic bomb blast that causes women to grow beards and lose the ability to have children. A summit meeting is held at the United Nations, ... See full summary »
Director: Oldrich Lipský | Stars: Jirí Sovák, Jana Brejchová, Lubomír Lipský, Iva Janzurová
Votes: 574
18. The Ripper (1997 TV Movie)
R | 96 min | Thriller
In 1888, in London, a prostitute is slaughtered on the street. The Scotland Yard Chief Inspector Jim Hansen is in charge of the investigation and realizes that the killer is a person with ... See full summary »
Director: Janet Meyers | Stars: Patrick Bergin, Gabrielle Anwar, Samuel West, Michael York
Votes: 640
19. I Wonder Who's Killing Her Now? (1975)
PG | 87 min | Comedy, Crime
Oliver is in trouble. He's been caught embezzling money from his father's company, and unless he can pay back the $250,000 he took (which he can't), he will be fired from his job, arrested, and probably sent to jail.
Director: Steven Hilliard Stern | Stars: Bob Dishy, Joanna Barnes, Bill Dana, Harvey Jason
Votes: 236
20. Old Stone (2016)
Unrated | 80 min | Thriller
A psychological thriller about a taxi driver battling bureaucracy and legal manipulation in China.
Director: Johnny Ma | Stars: Gang Chen, Nai An, Hongwei Wang, Zebin Zhang
Votes: 606 | Gross: $0.00M
21. Banaz: A Love Story (2012)
69 min | Documentary, Biography, Crime
This is a documentary film chronicling the brutal Honour Killing of Banaz Mahmod, a young British Kurdish woman in London, killed by her own family for choosing a life for herself.
Directors: Deeyah Khan, Darin Prindle | Stars: Nazir Afzal, Bobbie Cheema, Andy Craig, Caroline Goode
Votes: 247
22. Bloody Mary (1996)
97 min | Comedy
Director: James Westby | Stars: Ken Centers, Nolan Chard, Peter Lorre, Melik Malkasian
Votes: 25
23.
Barnaby Jones (1973–1980)
Episode:
Murder-Go-Round
(1973)
60 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A suspicious hit and run brings Barnaby to a little town where sudden riches are obvious. "Town council meetings" are a cover for plotting murder, and Barnaby is in their sights.
Director: Marc Daniels | Stars: Buddy Ebsen, Lee Meriwether, Claude Akins, Neva Patterson
Votes: 141
24.
Mannix (1967–1975)
Episode:
The Crimson Halo
(1972)
TV-PG | 52 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Mannix is hired by attorney Noah Otway to find out why someone tried to kill Otway's client, Dr. Graham Aspinall, a renowned surgeon whose specialty is removing tumors that are otherwise ... See full summary »
Director: Leslie H. Martinson | Stars: Mike Connors, Gail Fisher, Joseph Campanella, Laraine Stephens
Votes: 98
25.
Mission: Impossible (1966–1973)
Episode:
The Falcon: Part 3
(1970)
TV-PG | 50 min | Action, Adventure, Crime
Barney and Phelps use an optical illusion to help them free Stephan from his cell. But, everything goes haywire when an assassination attempt against Sabattini fails and unmasks Paris in ... See full summary »
Director: Reza Badiyi | Stars: Peter Graves, Leonard Nimoy, Greg Morris, Peter Lupus
Votes: 172
26.
Night Gallery (1969–1973)
Episode:
I'll Never Leave You - Ever/There Aren't Any More MacBanes
(1972)
TV-PG | 30 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Two vignettes about the black arts: Adulterous Morah uses witchcraft to dispose of her sickly husband Owen. / Arthur Porter threatens to cut off his freeloading nephew, who turns to the occult for revenge and summons a demon.
Directors: Daniel Haller, John Newland | Stars: Joel Grey, Lois Nettleton, Royal Dano, Howard Duff
Votes: 289
27.
The X-Files (1993–2018)
Episode:
Terms of Endearment
(1999)
TV-14 | 45 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A pregnant woman's baby is snatched away from her belly by a devil. Agent Spender believes the case is a joke, but Mulder decides to look into it on his own anyway. His investigation focuses on the woman's husband.
Director: Rob Bowman | Stars: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Chris Owens, Bruce Campbell
Votes: 3,724
28.
The North Water (2021)
Episode:
To Live Is to Suffer
(2021)
TV-MA | 57 min | Adventure, Drama, Mystery
After healing in a missionary cabin, Sumner returns to Hull to demand money from Baxter to start a new life. Can he outrun his demons, and has he really seen the last of Henry Drax?
Director: Andrew Haigh | Stars: Nive Nielsen, Peter Mullan, Jack O'Connell, Ipeelie Ootoova
Votes: 524
29.
Serangoon Road (2013)
Episode:
Reach Out
(2013)
TV-14 | 57 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
When Feng, arrives from China looking for the husband she hasn't seen since the war, no-one but she is even certain that he is still alive. But Sam knows what it's like to lose family and ... See full summary »
Director: Peter Andrikidis | Stars: Don Hany, Joan Chen, Maeve Dermody, Alaric
Votes: 34
30.
Atlantis (2013–2015)
Episode:
Touched by the Gods: Part One
(2013)
TV-PG | 43 min | Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
Jason is reminded of his promise to Circe and her grim warning should he fail to Honor their pact. With her threat hanging over him he has no choice but to act. He must kill the Queen. ... See full summary »
Director: Jeremy Webb | Stars: Mark Addy, Jack Donnelly, Robert Emms, Sarah Parish
Votes: 199
31.
De deal (2014)
Episode:
Overlevers
(2014)
50 min | Drama
Director: Arno Dierickx | Stars: Carolien Spoor, Jacob Derwig, Achmed Akkabi, Bart Klever
Votes: 9
32.
Van God los (2011– )
Episode:
Rehab
(2017)
TV-MA | Thriller
In a luxury rehabilitation clinic, alcoholic Simone and cocaine-addicted Luis experience a stormy love life for the rest of their lives. The only problem is that Simone is already married.
Stars: Femke Lakerveld, Javier Guzman, Cees Geel, Rom Elzakkers
Votes: 17
33.
Vengeance: Killer Lovers (2019– )
Episode:
In Cold Blood (Ashley Humphrey)
(2019)
Documentary, Crime
Timothy "Tracey" Humphrey, and his wife Ashley Laney Humphrey, were arrested and then convicted of the July 05th, 2003, murder of bartender Sandra Lee "Sandee" Rozzo to avoid a criminal conviction for a trial that was set to start.
Director: Christopher Mitchell | Stars: Mocean Melvin, Sandra Rozzo, Ashley Humphrey, Tracey Humphrey
Votes: 10