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1. The Shawshank Redemption (1994)

R | 142 min | Drama

Over the course of several years, two convicts form a friendship, seeking consolation and, eventually, redemption through basic compassion.

Director: Frank Darabont | Stars: Tim Robbins, Morgan Freeman, Bob Gunton, William Sadler

Votes: 2,894,190 | Gross: $28.34M

2. Charlie Wilson's War (2007)

R | 102 min | Biography, Comedy, Drama

A drama based on a Texas congressman Charlie Wilson's covert dealings in Afghanistan, where his efforts to assist rebels in their war with the Soviets have some unforeseen and long-reaching effects.

Director: Mike Nichols | Stars: Tom Hanks, Julia Roberts, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Amy Adams

Votes: 124,992 | Gross: $66.66M

3. Journey 2: The Mysterious Island (2012)

PG | 94 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy

Sean Anderson partners with his mom's husband on a mission to find his grandfather, who is thought to be missing on a mythical island.

Director: Brad Peyton | Stars: Josh Hutcherson, Dwayne Johnson, Michael Caine, Luis Guzmán

Votes: 112,248 | Gross: $103.86M

4. Disturbing Behavior (1998)

R | 84 min | Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi

The new kid in Cradle Bay, Washington stumbles across something sinister about the town's method of transforming its unruly teens into upstanding citizens.

Director: David Nutter | Stars: James Marsden, Katie Holmes, Nick Stahl, Tobias Mehler

Votes: 25,333 | Gross: $17.41M

5. To Sir, with Love (1967)

Approved | 105 min | Drama

Idealistic engineer-trainee and his experiences in teaching a group of rambunctious white high school students from the slums of London's East End.

Director: James Clavell | Stars: Sidney Poitier, Judy Geeson, Christian Roberts, Suzy Kendall

Votes: 20,466 | Gross: $42.43M

6. Needful Things (1993)

R | 121 min | Crime, Drama, Fantasy

A mysterious new shop opens in a small town which always seems to stock the deepest desires of each shopper, with a price far heavier than expected.

Director: Fraser C. Heston | Stars: Max von Sydow, Ed Harris, Bonnie Bedelia, Amanda Plummer

Votes: 27,547 | Gross: $15.19M

7. Cruel Intentions 2 (2000 Video)

R | 87 min | Drama

This takes place several years before Cruel Intentions (1999), back to when Kathryn first meets Sebastian, their sexual attraction to each other and their enjoyment in destroying the lives of their peers.

Director: Roger Kumble | Stars: Robin Dunne, Sarah Thompson, Keri Lynn Pratt, Amy Adams

Votes: 16,198

8. Jack the Ripper (1988)

TV-PG | 91 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

A Scotland Yard police inspector, battling the booze, investigates the Jack the Ripper murders and discovers a conspiracy that leads all the way up to the Queen.

Stars: Michael Caine, Armand Assante, Ray McAnally, Lewis Collins

Votes: 5,681

9. Dr. Jekyll and Ms. Hyde (1995)

PG-13 | 90 min | Comedy, Romance, Sci-Fi

A scientist creating perfumes inherits his great grandfather Dr. Jekyll's formula and decides to use modern technology to improve it. He ends up as an ambitious, ruthless woman. She tries to prevent returning into the spineless man.

Director: David Price | Stars: Sean Young, Tim Daly, Lysette Anthony, Stephen Tobolowsky

Votes: 3,024 | Gross: $2.76M

10. Butterfly (1999)

R | 96 min | Drama, War

Based in 1936 Spain, Moncho is an outcast at school but is able to form a strong bond with his outspoken teacher. When fascism arrives to Spain, his teacher is considered an enemy of the regime & arrested.

Director: José Luis Cuerda | Stars: Manuel Lozano, Fernando Fernán Gómez, Uxía Blanco, Gonzalo Uriarte

Votes: 9,767 | Gross: $2.09M

11. Susan Slade (1961)

Not Rated | 116 min | Drama

Premarital sex, secrets, and society. At 17, shy Susan Slade is on her way to California after a 10-year stay at a remote Chilean mine where her father was chief engineer. Onboard ship, ... See full summary »

Director: Delmer Daves | Stars: Troy Donahue, Dorothy McGuire, Connie Stevens, Lloyd Nolan

Votes: 946

12. My Donkey, My Lover & I (2020)

96 min | Adventure, Comedy, Romance

A schoolteacher crashes her married lover's family vacation and befriends a donkey named Patrick.

Director: Caroline Vignal | Stars: Laure Calamy, Benjamin Lavernhe, Olivia Côte, Marc Fraize

Votes: 3,779

13. Clair Obscur (2016)

105 min | Drama

Two Turkish women, one oppressed by sexist traditions and one liberated by modern mores, have more in common than it would seem.

Director: Yesim Ustaoglu | Stars: Funda Eryigit, Ecem Uzun, Mehmet Kurtulus, Okan Yalabik

Votes: 2,907

14. My Sex Life... or How I Got Into an Argument (1996)

178 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

Paul Dedalus is at a crossroads in his life. He has to make several decisions; should he complete his doctorate, does he want to become a full professor, does he really love his ... See full summary »

Director: Arnaud Desplechin | Stars: Mathieu Amalric, Emmanuelle Devos, Emmanuel Salinger, Marianne Denicourt

Votes: 1,704

15. Horror High (1973)

PG | 85 min | Horror

A shock-filled tale of a serious and shy but brilliant science student who, when wrongfully forced to consume a new drug he'd created, becomes a modern day Jekyll and Hyde.

Director: Larry N. Stouffer | Stars: Pat Cardi, Austin Stoker, Rosie Holotik, John Niland

Votes: 1,182

16. Pursuit to Algiers (1945)

Approved | 65 min | Adventure, Crime, Mystery

Holmes is recruited to escort the heir to a European throne safely back to his homeland after his father's assassination.

Director: Roy William Neill | Stars: Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Marjorie Riordan, Rosalind Ivan

Votes: 4,098

17. The Trials of Oscar Wilde (1960)

PG | 123 min | Biography, Drama, History

A chronicle of Oscar Wilde's libel suit against the Marquis of Queensberry and the tragic turn his life takes because of it.

Director: Ken Hughes | Stars: Peter Finch, Yvonne Mitchell, James Mason, Nigel Patrick

Votes: 1,123

18. Trio (1950)

Not Rated | 91 min | Drama, Romance

Three short stories by W. Somerset Maugham, "The Verger", "Mr. Know-All", and "The Sanatorium" are introduced by the author.

Directors: Ken Annakin, Harold French | Stars: James Hayter, Kathleen Harrison, Felix Aylmer, Lana Morris

Votes: 905

19. The History of Time Travel (2014)

PG-13 | 72 min | Drama, Sci-Fi

A fictional documentary about the creation of the worlds first time machine, the men who created it, and the unintended ramifications it has on world events.

Director: Ricky Kennedy | Stars: Stephen Adami, Krista Ales, Valerie Black, Ryan Blackburn

Votes: 1,651

20. La Flor (2018)

808 min | Drama, Fantasy, Musical

A film in six episodes, connected by the same four actresses, full of various subplots that play with narrative and different cinematic genres , everything structured in an unusual way.

Director: Mariano Llinás | Stars: Elisa Carricajo, Valeria Correa, Pilar Gamboa, Laura Paredes

Votes: 819 | Gross: $0.00M

21. Three Crowns of the Sailor (1983)

Not Rated | 117 min | Adventure, Drama, Fantasy

A drunken sailor recounts the surrealistic odyssey of his life story to a murderous student.

Director: Raúl Ruiz | Stars: Jean-Bernard Guillard, Philippe Deplanche, Nadège Clair, Lisa Lyon

Votes: 1,158

22. Dangerous Money (1946)

Approved | 66 min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller

A treasury agent on the trail of counterfeit money confides to fellow ocean liner passenger Charlie Chan that there have been two attempts on his life.

Director: Terry O. Morse | Stars: Sidney Toler, Gloria Warren, Victor Sen Yung, Rick Vallin

Votes: 1,280

23. Bethune: The Making of a Hero (1990)

115 min | Biography, Drama, Romance

Canadian surgeon Dr. Norman Bethune (Donald Sutherland) journeys 1,500 miles into China to reach Mao Zedong's eighth route Army in the Wu Tai mountains where he will build hospitals, ... See full summary »

Director: Phillip Borsos | Stars: Donald Sutherland, Helen Mirren, Helen Shaver, Colm Feore

Votes: 414

24. TimeSplitters: Future Perfect (2005 Video Game)

M | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

Sent to undo the TimeSplitter threat, Cortez journeys into 6 different time periods to track down Jacob Crow who created the TimeSplitter creatures.

Directors: David Doak, Stephen Ellis | Stars: Tom Clarke Hill, Sarah Mennell, Wayne Forester, Melli Bond

Votes: 856

25. The Incredible Hulk (1978–1982)
Episode: Married (1978)

TV-PG | 95 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

David and Carolyn marry in Honolulu, Hawaii and continue to work to find a cure for both their afflictions in a race against time.

Director: Kenneth Johnson | Stars: Bill Bixby, Jack Colvin, Lou Ferrigno, Mariette Hartley

Votes: 625

26. The Beverly Hillbillies (1962–1971)
Episode: Jed Becomes a Movie Mogul (1964)

TV-G | 30 min | Comedy, Family

Mr. Drysdale buys Mammoth Pictures, a movie studio. Jed, Granny, Elly and Jethro try to "help" the studio, which is losing money, by working at the studio.

Director: Joseph Depew | Stars: Buddy Ebsen, Irene Ryan, Donna Douglas, Max Baer Jr.

Votes: 102

27. Leave It to Beaver (1957–1963)
Episode: Beaver's Library Book (1960)

TV-G | 30 min | Comedy, Family

Eddie Haskell convinces Beaver that the "library police" will soon come to arrest Ward after Beaver ignores the late notices for a lost library book he checked out with his father's library card.

Director: Norman Tokar | Stars: Barbara Billingsley, Hugh Beaumont, Tony Dow, Jerry Mathers

Votes: 124

28. Relic Hunter (1999–2002)
Episode: Treasure Island (2001)

TV-14 | 44 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy

Sydney's on the hunt for a Pirate's booty, ...but will a traitor force her to walk the plank?

Director: John Bell | Stars: Tia Carrere, Christien Anholt, Tanja Reichert, Tara Spencer-Nairn

Votes: 89

29. In Search of... (1977–1982)
Episode: Moon Madness (1980)

Not Rated | 23 min | Documentary

Can the full moon drive men mad? Once dismissed as a myth, scientists are reevaluating the effect exerted by our nearest neighbor.

Stars: Leonard Nimoy, Arnold L. Lieber, George O. Abell, Sherry Shaw

Votes: 28

30. Svengoolie (1995– )
Episode: The Black Cat (2006)

120 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy

On a train in Hungary, a couple meet a man returning after being a POW. In a freak turn of events, their hotel bus wrecks, injuring the woman near the home of the man the POW blames for his incarceration and taking his wife and daughter.

Director: Christopher M. Faulkner | Stars: Rich Koz, Doug Scharf, Jim Barton, Amanda Conner

Votes: 11

31. The Bullwinkle Show (1959–1963)
Episode: Jet Fuel Formula/Bullwinkle's Ride or Goodbye, Dollink (1959)

TV-G | 22 min | Animation, Action, Adventure

With a cheerful "Hi," Rocket J. Squirrel introduces his pal Bullwinkle Moose. We first glimpse our heroes via telescope, on the moon, retrieving their stove blown there by an all-powerful ... See full summary »

Directors: Gerard Baldwin, Pete Burness, Jim Hiltz, William T. Hurtz, Ted Parmelee, Gerald Ray, Dun Roman, Bob Schleh, George Singer, Ernest Terrazas, Rudy Zamora | Stars: Edward Everett Horton, June Foray, Paul Frees, William Conrad

Votes: 98

32. Monk (2002–2009)
Episode: Mr. Monk and the Buried Treasure (2007)

TV-PG | 44 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

Monk, in competition with one of Dr. Kroger's other patients, gets conned into helping his son find buried treasure. The problem is, it has ties to a recent bank robbery.

Director: Sam Weisman | Stars: Tony Shalhoub, Traylor Howard, Jason Gray-Stanford, Ted Levine

Votes: 1,156

33. Nancy Drew (2019–2023)
Episode: The Curse of the Dark Storm (2019)

TV-PG | 41 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery

A nor'easter hits Horseshoe Bay and Ace warns everyone that the storm has been known to blow restless spirits ashore. Nancy confronts Nick about the secrets he's been keeping.

Director: John T. Kretchmer | Stars: Kennedy McMann, Leah Lewis, Maddison Jaizani, Tunji Kasim

Votes: 469

34. Stefan Molyneux Livestreams (2018– )
Episode: Stefan Molyneux vs Jay Dyer: The Purpose of Philosophy (2020)

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Stars: Stefan Molyneux, Jay Dyer

35. Leverage: Redemption (2021– )
Episode: The Bucket Job (2021)

TV-14 | 47 min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller

The Leverage team's holiday good deed goes awry when their attempt to give a small-town librarian the spy-thriller adventure of a lifetime is interrupted by a shadowy spy organization.

Director: Beth Riesgraf | Stars: Gina Bellman, Christian Kane, Beth Riesgraf, Aleyse Shannon

Votes: 739

36. Impossible (2017–2021)
Episode: Episode #8.4 (2021)

44 min | Game-Show

Nine of this week's players remain, they will answer multiple choice questions in a bid to progress to the final challenge and the chance to win the ten thousand pound prize.

Director: Derek Hallworth | Star: Rick Edwards

37. Toon in with Me (2021– )
Episode: Billoween (2021)

TV-PG | Animation, Comedy

It's Halloween at the studio.

Director: Mike Schmiedeler | Stars: Bill Leff, Kevin Fleming, Leila Gorstein, Rich Koz

38. Toon in with Me (2021– )
Episode: Fun with Phobias #2 (2021)

TV-PG | Animation, Comedy

The cast members of "Toon In With Me" reveal some of their greatest fears.

Director: Mike Schmiedeler | Stars: Bill Leff, Kevin Fleming, Leila Gorstein

39. CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (2000–2015)
Episode: Meat Jekyll (2010)

TV-14 | 60 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

The crime lab reluctantly brings in imprisoned serial killer Nate Haskell after he claims to know the identity of "Dr. Jeckyll." Meanwhile, clues revealing his next and perhaps final victim are mailed to Dr. Langston.

Director: Alec Smight | Stars: Laurence Fishburne, Marg Helgenberger, George Eads, Eric Szmanda

Votes: 687

40. Warehouse 13 (2009–2014)
Episode: Merge with Caution (2010)

TV-PG | 43 min | Adventure, Drama, Mystery

Pete and Myka's attempt to get normal is interrupted by an artifact.

Director: Anton Cropper | Stars: Eddie McClintock, Joanne Kelly, Saul Rubinek, Allison Scagliotti

Votes: 573

41. Today I Found Out (2013– )
Episode: Is Genuine Multiple Personality Disorder an Actual Thing? Or Just a Hollywood Invention for Movies? (2021)

23 min | Documentary

Dissociative identity disorder, formerly referred to as multiple personality disorder, is a recognized psychological condition thought to be due to extensive childhood trauma or abuse. But ... See full summary »

Star: Simon Whistler

42. Jack the Ripper (1988)
Episode: Episode #1.1 (1988)

TV-PG | 96 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

London, autumn 1888. Chief Inspector Frederick Abberline of Scotland Yard is assigned by his superiors to investigate the murder and brutal mutilation of a prostitute in the East End of ... See full summary »

Director: David Wickes | Stars: Michael Caine, Armand Assante, Ray McAnally, Lewis Collins

Votes: 176

43. Criminal Minds (2005– )
Episode: Hashtag (2014)

TV-14 | 41 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

People in Maryland with large social media followings are murdered by an unsub who takes on the persona of an Internet urban legend. Meanwhile, Morgan and Savannah struggle to find quality time for each other due to their business careers.

Director: Constantine Makris | Stars: Joe Mantegna, Shemar Moore, Matthew Gray Gubler, A.J. Cook

Votes: 1,710

44. Pop Culture Beast's Halloween Horror Picks (2014– )
Episode: The Body Snatcher (2015)

12 min | Documentary

Ryan Stockstad and Elissa Cohn discuss the movie The Body Snatcher (1945).

Director: Ryan Stockstad | Stars: Elissa Cohn, Ryan Stockstad, Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi

Votes: 8

45. Tracey Ullman's Show (2016–2018)
Episode: Episode #1.5 (2016)

TV-MA | 30 min | Comedy

It's the turn of the Middleton's to babysit Prince George, Dame Judi Dench keys someone's car, American tourists Jacki and Hal are still admiring the worst bits of Britain and Maggie Smith makes a bid for an action movie franchise.

Director: Dominic Brigstocke | Stars: Tracey Ullman, Joan Linder, Geoffrey McGivern, Kim Wall

Votes: 34

46. Archer (2009–2023)
Episode: Danger Island: Strange Doings in the Taboo Groves (2018)

TV-MA | 23 min | Animation, Action, Comedy

But there is no joy in Mudville- mighty Pam has struck out.

Stars: H. Jon Benjamin, Mischa Pfister, Judy Greer, Amber Nash

Votes: 940

47. The Blacklist (2013–2023)
Episode: Abraham Stern (No. 100) (2018)

TV-14 | 42 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Red goes on the hunt for a legendary treasure; Liz studies the methods of one of the Blacklist's most dangerous criminals.

Director: Andrew McCarthy | Stars: James Spader, Megan Boone, Diego Klattenhoff, Amir Arison

Votes: 1,426

48. The Bullwinkle Show (1959–1963)
Episode: Topsy Turvy World: Parts 1-2 (1962)

TV-G | Animation, Action, Adventure

Rocky and Bullwinkle "Topsy Turvy World" Part 1, Fractured Fairy Tales "The Little Tinker", Peabody's Improbable History "Geronimo", Rocky and Bullwinkle "Topsy Turvy World" Part 2.

Directors: Gerard Baldwin, Pete Burness, Sal Faillace, William T. Hurtz, Lew Keller, Ted Parmelee, George Singer | Stars: June Foray, Paul Frees, Edward Everett Horton, Hans Conried

Votes: 16

49. Beautiful Excursions (2006– )
Episode: Les Cévennes (2010)

91 min | Documentary

A nice journey of Jérôme from the Mount Aigoual (the meteorological observatory at 1565 meters about the sea level, Francis Truel-the technician of the observatory-, the nice panorama-at ... See full summary »

Director: François Fèvre | Star: Jérôme Pitorin