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1. Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire (2024)

PG-13 | 115 min | Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy

When the discovery of an ancient artifact unleashes an evil force, Ghostbusters new and old must join forces to protect their home and save the world from a second ice age.

Director: Gil Kenan | Stars: Paul Rudd, Carrie Coon, Finn Wolfhard, Mckenna Grace

Votes: 37,154

2. Ghostbusters (1984)

PG | 105 min | Action, Comedy, Fantasy

Three parapsychologists forced out of their university funding set up shop as a unique ghost removal service in New York City, attracting frightened yet skeptical customers.

Director: Ivan Reitman | Stars: Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Sigourney Weaver, Harold Ramis

Votes: 451,264 | Gross: $238.63M

3. The Age of Adaline (2015)

PG-13 | 112 min | Drama, Fantasy, Romance

A young woman, born at the turn of the 20th century, is rendered ageless after an accident. After many solitary years, she meets a man who complicates the eternal life she has settled into.

Director: Lee Toland Krieger | Stars: Blake Lively, Michiel Huisman, Harrison Ford, Kathy Baker

Votes: 203,715 | Gross: $42.48M

4. It (I) (2017)

R | 135 min | Fantasy, Horror

In the summer of 1989, a group of bullied kids band together to destroy a shape-shifting monster, which disguises itself as a clown and preys on the children of Derry, their small Maine town.

Director: Andy Muschietti | Stars: Bill Skarsgård, Jaeden Martell, Finn Wolfhard, Sophia Lillis

Votes: 607,443 | Gross: $327.48M

5. Your Name. (2016)

PG | 106 min | Animation, Drama, Fantasy

Two teenagers share a profound, magical connection upon discovering they are swapping bodies. Things manage to become even more complicated when the boy and girl decide to meet in person.

Director: Makoto Shinkai | Stars: Ryunosuke Kamiki, Mone Kamishiraishi, Ryo Narita, Aoi Yûki

Votes: 321,537 | Gross: $5.02M

6. Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961)

Approved | 115 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

A young New York socialite becomes interested in a young man who has moved into her apartment building, but her past threatens to get in the way.

Director: Blake Edwards | Stars: Audrey Hepburn, George Peppard, Patricia Neal, Buddy Ebsen

Votes: 192,390

7. The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart (2023)

420 min | Drama

Follows a young girl, Alice Hart, whose violent childhood casts a dark shadow over her adult life.

Stars: Sigourney Weaver, Asher Keddie, Leah Purcell, Frankie Adams

Votes: 12,767

8. The Changeling (1980)

R | 107 min | Horror, Mystery

After the death of his wife and daughter in a car crash, a music professor staying at a long-vacant Seattle mansion is dragged into a decades-old mystery by an inexplicable presence in the mansion's attic.

Director: Peter Medak | Stars: George C. Scott, Trish Van Devere, Melvyn Douglas, Jean Marsh

Votes: 40,089

9. Beautiful Girls (1996)

R | 112 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

A piano player at a crossroads in his life returns home to his friends and their own problems with life and love.

Director: Ted Demme | Stars: Matt Dillon, Timothy Hutton, Noah Emmerich, Annabeth Gish

Votes: 34,776 | Gross: $10.60M

10. Things Heard & Seen (2021)

TV-MA | 121 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery

An artist relocates to the Hudson Valley and begins to suspect that her marriage has a sinister darkness, one that rivals her new home's history.

Directors: Shari Springer Berman, Robert Pulcini | Stars: Amanda Seyfried, James Norton, Natalia Dyer, Alex Neustaedter

Votes: 36,195

11. Sliding Doors (1998)

PG-13 | 99 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy

After personal and professional setbacks, a woman experiences an alternate reality.

Director: Peter Howitt | Stars: Gwyneth Paltrow, John Hannah, John Lynch, Jeanne Tripplehorn

Votes: 71,547 | Gross: $11.88M

12. The Big Sleep (1946)

Passed | 114 min | Crime, Film-Noir, Mystery

Private detective Philip Marlowe is hired by a wealthy family. Before the complex case is over, he's seen murder, blackmail and what might be love.

Director: Howard Hawks | Stars: Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, John Ridgely, Martha Vickers

Votes: 90,594 | Gross: $6.54M

13. Something Wicked This Way Comes (1983)

PG | 95 min | Fantasy, Mystery, Thriller

In a small American town, a diabolical circus and its demonic proprietor prey on the townsfolk.

Director: Jack Clayton | Stars: Mary Grace Canfield, Richard Davalos, Jake Dengel, Jack Dodson

Votes: 10,634 | Gross: $8.40M

14. Out of the Blue (II) (2022)

R | 104 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Connor, a man whose dull life is transformed into a thrilling fantasy world thanks to the seductive Marilyn.

Director: Neil LaBute | Stars: Diane Kruger, Ray Nicholson, Gia Crovatin, Hank Azaria

Votes: 1,399

15. Awake (III) (2021)

TV-MA | 96 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

After a devastating global event wiped out all electronics and eliminated people's ability to sleep, a former soldier may have found a solution with her daughter.

Director: Mark Raso | Stars: Gina Rodriguez, Ariana Greenblatt, Lucius Hoyos, Shamier Anderson

Votes: 26,246

16. Shadow of a Doubt (1943)

Passed | 108 min | Film-Noir, Thriller

A teenage girl, overjoyed when her favorite uncle comes to visit the family in their quiet California town, slowly begins to suspect that he is in fact the "Merry Widow" killer sought by the authorities.

Director: Alfred Hitchcock | Stars: Teresa Wright, Joseph Cotten, Macdonald Carey, Henry Travers

Votes: 70,594

17. Peeping Tom (1960)

Not Rated | 101 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller

A young man murders women, using a movie camera to film their dying expressions of terror.

Director: Michael Powell | Stars: Karlheinz Böhm, Anna Massey, Moira Shearer, Maxine Audley

Votes: 39,340 | Gross: $0.08M

18. Can You Ever Forgive Me? (2018)

R | 106 min | Biography, Comedy, Crime

When Lee Israel falls out of step with current tastes, she turns her art form to deception.

Director: Marielle Heller | Stars: Melissa McCarthy, Richard E. Grant, Dolly Wells, Ben Falcone

Votes: 56,222 | Gross: $8.80M

19. Blood Work (2002)

R | 110 min | Action, Crime, Drama

Still recovering from a heart transplant, retired F.B.I. profiler Terry McCaleb returns to service when his own blood analysis offers clues to the identity of a serial killer.

Director: Clint Eastwood | Stars: Clint Eastwood, Jeff Daniels, Anjelica Huston, Wanda De Jesus

Votes: 47,797 | Gross: $26.20M

20. Regarding Henry (1991)

PG-13 | 108 min | Drama, Romance

After being shot, a lawyer loses his memory and must relearn speech and mobility, but he has a loving family to support him.

Director: Mike Nichols | Stars: Harrison Ford, Annette Bening, Michael Haley, Stanley Swerdlow

Votes: 34,392 | Gross: $43.00M

21. I Lost My Body (2019)

16+ | 81 min | Animation, Drama, Fantasy

A story of Naoufel, a young man who is in love with Gabrielle. In another part of town, a severed hand escapes from a dissection lab, determined to find its body again.

Director: Jérémy Clapin | Stars: Hakim Faris, Victoire Du Bois, Patrick d'Assumçao, Alfonso Arfi

Votes: 36,654

22. The Boy and the Beast (2015)

PG-13 | 119 min | Animation, Action, Adventure

When a young orphaned boy living on the streets of Shibuya stumbles upon a fantastic world of beasts, he's taken in by a gruff warrior beast looking for an apprentice.

Director: Mamoru Hosoda | Stars: Koji Yakusho, Aoi Miyazaki, Shôta Sometani, Suzu Hirose

Votes: 26,974 | Gross: $0.45M

23. Comet (2014)

R | 91 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

Set in a parallel universe, Comet bounces back and forth over the course of an unlikely but perfectly paired couple's six-year relationship.

Director: Sam Esmail | Stars: Justin Long, Emmy Rossum, Kayla Servi, Eric Winter

Votes: 19,668

24. Worlds Apart (2015)

Not Rated | 113 min | Drama, Romance

In modern Greece, while socioeconomic turmoil ravages Southern Europe, three distinct stories unfold, each representing a different generation of Greeks in love with a foreigner, each story coming together in the end to form a whole.

Director: Christopher Papakaliatis | Stars: J.K. Simmons, Maria Kavoyianni, Andrea Osvárt, Christopher Papakaliatis

Votes: 9,212

25. Of Unknown Origin (1983)

R | 88 min | Horror, Thriller

A man becomes destructively obsessed with killing a dangerous rat, which has taken residence in his recently renovated house.

Director: George P. Cosmatos | Stars: Peter Weller, Jennifer Dale, Lawrence Dane, Kenneth Welsh

Votes: 3,794 | Gross: $1.08M

26. The Passengers of the Night (2022)

111 min | Drama

Left by her husband, Elisabeth finds herself alone, responsible for the day-to-day care of her two children. She picks up a job on a night-time radio show, where she meets Talulah, a youngster she decides to take under her wing.

Director: Mikhaël Hers | Stars: Charlotte Gainsbourg, Quito Rayon Richter, Noée Abita, Megan Northam

Votes: 3,037

27. The Public (2018)

PG-13 | 119 min | Drama

An act of civil disobedience turns into a standoff with police when homeless people in Cincinnati take over the public library to seek shelter from the bitter cold.

Director: Emilio Estevez | Stars: Alec Baldwin, Taylor Schilling, Emilio Estevez, Jena Malone

Votes: 4,526 | Gross: $0.57M

28. The Show (II) (2020)

115 min | Drama, Fantasy, Mystery

A man's search for a stolen artifact leads him to the haunted town filled with Voodoo gangsters, masked adventurers, Depression-era private eyes and violent chiaroscuro women.

Director: Mitch Jenkins | Stars: Kezzabelle Ambler, Roger Ashton-Griffiths, Sheila Atim, Ellie Bamber

Votes: 1,356

29. The Chosen (1981)

PG | 108 min | Drama

In 1944, in Brooklyn, two Jewish kids become friends. One is from a very conservative family, and the other is more liberal. The issues of importance of tradition, parental expectations and the formation of Israel cause constant friction.

Director: Jeremy Kagan | Stars: Maximilian Schell, Rod Steiger, Robby Benson, Barry Miller

Votes: 2,411

30. Step Down to Terror (1958)

Passed | 76 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

A killer on the lam takes refuge in his childhood home where his mother and widowed sister-in-law are ignorant of his criminal past.

Director: Harry Keller | Stars: Colleen Miller, Charles Drake, Rod Taylor, Josephine Hutchinson

Votes: 321

31. Magical Girl (2014)

127 min | Drama, Thriller

The father of a terminally ill girl is determined to grant his daughter's last wish, a ridiculously expensive collectors' costume from a Japanese TV series. The request will drive him into a journey within his city's dark underbelly.

Director: Carlos Vermut | Stars: José Sacristán, Marina Andruix, Raimundo de los Reyes, Lucía Pollán

Votes: 7,498

32. Morning Glory (1993)

PG-13 | 96 min | Drama

An ex-convict on parole is accused of murdering a loose woman in the town where he works.

Director: Steven Hilliard Stern | Stars: Christopher Reeve, Deborah Raffin, Lloyd Bochner, Nina Foch

Votes: 556 | Gross: $0.02M

33. Cemetery of Splendor (2015)

Unrated | 122 min | Drama, Fantasy, Mystery

A group of soldiers in a small town on the Mekong River in northern Thailand are struck with a bizarre sleeping illness.

Director: Apichatpong Weerasethakul | Stars: Jenjira Pongpas, Banlop Lomnoi, Jarinpattra Rueangram, Petcharat Chaiburi

Votes: 5,435 | Gross: $0.05M

34. Polar Park (2023– )

53 min | Comedy, Crime, Mystery

Crime author Rousseau travels to Mouthe. Here, Brother Giacomo is waiting for him, who has important info about Rousseau's deceased mother. But when he arrives, Giacomo has just died. Rousseau decides to investigate.

Stars: Jean-Paul Rouve, Guillaume Gouix, India Hair, Pierre Lottin

Votes: 627

35. Colors of Love (2021)

G | 85 min | Drama, Romance

When librarian Taylor Harris suddenly loses her job, she visits her brother's small town in Montana, where she gets involved in helping save her brother's small-town hotel from tycoon, Joel Sheenan, who wants to renovate it.

Director: Bradley Walsh | Stars: Jessica Lowndes, Chad Michael Murray, Dennis Andres, Michael Brown

Votes: 2,977

36. Die drei ??? - Erbe des Drachen (2023)

100 min | Adventure, Family, Mystery

Follows a famous detective trio of boys in Transylvania who must unravel mysteries involving a long-missing boy, a mysterious brotherhood and a mysterious undead.

Director: Tim Dünschede | Stars: Natalia Belitski, Levi Brandl, Gedeon Burkhard, Andreea Coff

Votes: 680

37. The Mystery of Henri Pick (2019)

Not Rated | 100 min | Comedy, Drama, Mystery

An editor discovers a novel that she considers to be a masterpiece in a library whose particularity is to collect the manuscripts refused by publishers. The text is signed "Henri Pick", a Breton pizza-maker who died two years earlier.

Director: Rémi Bezançon | Stars: Fabrice Luchini, Camille Cottin, Alice Isaaz, Bastien Bouillon

Votes: 4,788

38. After Words (2015)

TV-14 | 91 min | Drama

A librarian facing a mid-life crisis travels to Costa Rica.

Director: Juan Feldman | Stars: Marcia Gay Harden, Ron Canada, Yvette Thor, Haydee Bisval

Votes: 933

39. Undercover Angel (1999)

PG | 91 min | Comedy, Drama

A writer with no focus in his work, becomes the unwilling babysitter of a precocious little girl who turns his life around.

Director: Bryan Michael Stoller | Stars: Yasmine Bleeth, Dean Winters, Emily Mae Young, Lorraine Ansell

Votes: 1,099

40. The Long Wait (1954)

Approved | 94 min | Adventure, Crime, Drama

An amnesiac finally learns his true identity...as a murder suspect. And he doesn't even know whether he is guilty...

Director: Victor Saville | Stars: Anthony Quinn, Charles Coburn, Gene Evans, Peggie Castle

Votes: 529 | Gross: $1.50M

41. Only Two Can Play (1962)

106 min | Comedy, Drama

A frustrated librarian (Sellers) in Swansea, Wales is torn between his wife Jean (Markell) and a glamorous married woman, Liz (Zetterling), who wants to have an affair.

Director: Sidney Gilliat | Stars: Peter Sellers, Mai Zetterling, Virginia Maskell, Kenneth Griffith

Votes: 1,418

42. The Cursed (I) (2010)

88 min | Horror, Romance, Thriller

A supernatural thriller set in a cozy Tennessee town where Sheriff Jimmy Muldoon and younger brother, Deputy Lloyd Muldoon, have a firm grasp of law and order until a stranger, Denny White,... See full summary »

Director: Joel Bender | Stars: Louis Mandylor, Brad Thornton, Costas Mandylor, Francesca Cecil

Votes: 2,114

43. Gangster Story (1959)

Not Rated | 65 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

Hoodlum Jack Martin is on the lam and robs a small town bank which brings the local cops and local crime boss into the mix.

Director: Walter Matthau | Stars: Walter Matthau, Carol Grace, Bruce MacFarlane, Garry Walberg

Votes: 624

44. Shadow of a Doubt (1991 TV Movie)

100 min | Drama, Thriller

Remake of Alfred Hitchcock's Shadow of a Doubt (1943).

Director: Karen Arthur | Stars: Mark Harmon, Margaret Welsh, Norm Skaggs, William Lanteau

Votes: 328

45. City of Ghosts (2021)

TV-PG | 20 min | Animation, Adventure, Family

A group of kids discover stories around their city by communicating directly with the ghosts who inhabit it.

Stars: August Nuñez, Blue Chapman, Daysha Ligeon, Honor Calderon

Votes: 468

46. Quiet Please: Murder (1942)

Approved | 70 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

Book thief/forger sells a fake book to a Nazi through a female agent. A detective tries to uncover who the forger is and gets in the middle of a three way struggle for rare books and revenge in a public library.

Director: John Francis Larkin | Stars: George Sanders, Gail Patrick, Richard Denning, Lynne Roberts

Votes: 421

47. Homeless (II) (2015)

92 min | Drama

An 18 year old boy navigates his way through life in a shelter after the passing of his grandmother.

Director: Clay Riley Hassler | Stars: Michael McDowell, Lance Megginson, Julie Dunagan, Hosanna Gourley

Votes: 285

48. Davy Wallace (2022)

151 min | Drama

As he graduates from college in North Carolina, a troubled, young artist must confront his traumatic childhood, with support from an older, grieving high school teacher.

Director: Drew Bowen | Star: Drew Bowen

49. Hauser's Memory (1970 TV Movie)

GP | 96 min | Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller

A scientist is persuaded by the government to inject himself with the brain fluid of a dying colleague in order to preserve missile-defense secrets. However, he finds that he is now torn ... See full summary »

Director: Boris Sagal | Stars: David McCallum, Susan Strasberg, Helmut Käutner, Leslie Nielsen

Votes: 133

50. The Real Da Vinci Code (2005 TV Movie)

90 min | Documentary

Tony Robinson examines the claims made in Dan Brown's best-selling novel, "The Da Vinci Code."

Director: Kashaf Chaudhry | Stars: Tony Robinson, Dan Brown, Oliver Davies, Graham Phillips

Votes: 417