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1. Barbie (I) (2023)
PG-13 | 114 min | Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
Barbie and Ken are having the time of their lives in the colorful and seemingly perfect world of Barbie Land. However, when they get a chance to go to the real world, they soon discover the joys and perils of living among humans.
Director: Greta Gerwig | Stars: Margot Robbie, Ryan Gosling, Issa Rae, Kate McKinnon
Votes: 544,415 | Gross: $636.24M
2. Ex Machina (2014)
R | 108 min | Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
A young programmer is selected to participate in a ground-breaking experiment in synthetic intelligence by evaluating the human qualities of a highly advanced humanoid A.I.
Director: Alex Garland | Stars: Alicia Vikander, Domhnall Gleeson, Oscar Isaac, Sonoya Mizuno
Votes: 593,154 | Gross: $25.44M
3. Free Guy (2021)
PG-13 | 115 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
When Guy, a bank teller, learns that he is a non-player character in a bloodthirsty, open-world video game, he goes on to become the hero of the story and takes the responsibility of saving the world.
Director: Shawn Levy | Stars: Ryan Reynolds, Jodie Comer, Taika Waititi, Lil Rel Howery
Votes: 428,891 | Gross: $121.63M
4. Blade Runner (1982)
R | 117 min | Action, Drama, Sci-Fi
A blade runner must pursue and terminate four replicants who stole a ship in space and have returned to Earth to find their creator.
Director: Ridley Scott | Stars: Harrison Ford, Rutger Hauer, Sean Young, Edward James Olmos
Votes: 825,240 | Gross: $32.87M
5. Toy Story (1995)
G | 81 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy
A cowboy doll is profoundly threatened and jealous when a new spaceman action figure supplants him as top toy in a boy's bedroom.
Director: John Lasseter | Stars: Tom Hanks, Tim Allen, Don Rickles, Jim Varney
Votes: 1,071,920 | Gross: $191.80M
6. District 9 (2009)
R | 112 min | Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Violence ensues after an extraterrestrial race forced to live in slum-like conditions on Earth finds a kindred spirit in a government agent exposed to their biotechnology.
Director: Neill Blomkamp | Stars: Sharlto Copley, David James, Jason Cope, Vanessa Haywood
Votes: 718,417 | Gross: $115.65M
7. Big Trouble in Little China (1986)
PG-13 | 99 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
A rough-and-tumble trucker and his side kick face off with an ancient sorcerer in a supernatural battle beneath Chinatown.
Director: John Carpenter | Stars: Kurt Russell, Kim Cattrall, Dennis Dun, James Hong
Votes: 154,636 | Gross: $11.10M
8. Serenity (I) (2019)
R | 106 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
A fishing boat captain juggles facing his mysterious past and finding himself ensnared in a reality where nothing is what it seems.
Director: Steven Knight | Stars: Matthew McConaughey, Anne Hathaway, Diane Lane, Jason Clarke
Votes: 45,590 | Gross: $8.55M
9. Dollhouse (2009–2010)
TV-14 | 44 min | Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
A top secret organization erases the identities of attractive young people, turning them into blank "dolls" ready for imprints of temporary identities they need to fulfill assignments for clients.
Stars: Eliza Dushku, Harry Lennix, Fran Kranz, Tahmoh Penikett
Votes: 51,892
10. Zardoz (1974)
R | 105 min | Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
In the late 23rd century, a savage trained only to kill finds a way into the community of bored immortals that alone preserves humanity's achievements.
Director: John Boorman | Stars: Sean Connery, Charlotte Rampling, Sara Kestelman, John Alderton
Votes: 24,629 | Gross: $0.07M
11. Bros (I) (2022)
R | 115 min | Comedy, Romance
Two men with commitment problems attempt a relationship.
Director: Nicholas Stoller | Stars: Billy Eichner, Luke Macfarlane, Guy Branum, Miss Lawrence
Votes: 35,324
12. The Artifice Girl (2022)
93 min | Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
A team of special agents discovers a revolutionary new computer program to bait and trap online predators. After teaming up with the program's troubled developer, they soon find that the AI is rapidly advancing beyond its original purpose.
Director: Franklin Ritch | Stars: Tatum Matthews, Lance Henriksen, Sinda Nichols, David Girard
Votes: 9,524
13. Center Stage (2000)
PG-13 | 115 min | Drama, Music, Romance
A group of teenagers from various backgrounds enroll at the American Ballet Academy in New York to make it as ballet dancers and each one deals with the problems and stress of training and getting ahead in the world of dance.
Director: Nicholas Hytner | Stars: Amanda Schull, Ethan Stiefel, Sascha Radetsky, Christine Dunham
Votes: 22,838 | Gross: $17.17M
14. Ghost Stories (2000–2001)
TV-MA | 24 min | Animation, Comedy, Fantasy
A group of school kids and a possessed cat fight ghosts in their neighborhood.
Stars: Takako Honda, Kurumi Mamiya, Tomoko Kawakami, Makoto Tsumura
Votes: 2,739
15. The Kids in the Hall (1988–2021)
TV-14 | 25 min | Comedy
The TV series of the Canadian sketch comedy troupe that, more often than not, puts bizarre, unique, and insane twists in their skits.
Stars: Dave Foley, Bruce McCulloch, Kevin McDonald, Mark McKinney
Votes: 11,114
16. Automata (I) (2014)
R | 109 min | Action, Drama, Sci-Fi
Human race is at edge of the end. Robot race is at edge of the beginning.
Director: Gabe Ibáñez | Stars: Antonio Banderas, Birgitte Hjort Sørensen, Dylan McDermott, Melanie Griffith
Votes: 59,458
17. Bokeh (I) (2017)
TV-MA | 92 min | Drama, Sci-Fi
On a romantic getaway to Iceland, a young American couple wake up one morning to discover every person on earth has disappeared.
Directors: Geoffrey Orthwein, Andrew Sullivan | Stars: Maika Monroe, Matt O'Leary, Arnar Jónsson, Gunnar Helgason
Votes: 7,879
18. Monsters of Man (2020)
Not Rated | 131 min | Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
A US weapons manufacturer tests its 4 killer robots on heroin producers in the Golden Triangle in SEAsia. It goes haywire.
Director: Mark Toia | Stars: Neal McDonough, Brett Tutor, Jose Rosete, David Haverty
Votes: 8,121
19. An Unmarried Woman (1978)
R | 124 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A wealthy woman from Manhattan's Upper East Side struggles to deal with her new identity and her sexuality after her husband of 16 years leaves her for a younger woman.
Director: Paul Mazursky | Stars: Jill Clayburgh, Alan Bates, Michael Murphy, Cliff Gorman
Votes: 6,079 | Gross: $24.00M
20. Unknown (I) (2006)
Not Rated | 85 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Five men wake up in a locked-down warehouse with no memory of who they are. They are forced to figure out who is good and who is bad to stay alive.
Director: Simon Brand | Stars: Jim Caviezel, Greg Kinnear, Bridget Moynahan, Joe Pantoliano
Votes: 31,512 | Gross: $0.14M
21. NieR: Automata (2017 Video Game)
M | Action, Adventure, Drama
In the forsaken wasteland below, the war between the machines and the androids rages on. A war that is soon to unveil the long-forgotten truth of this world.
Director: Yoko Taro | Stars: Yui Ishikawa, Natsuki Hanae, Ayaka Suwa, Tatsuhisa Suzuki
Votes: 3,767
22. Cargo (2009)
112 min | Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Dr. Laura P. takes a job on a cargo spaceship for 4 years plus 4 years back. She'll join her sister on Rhea. 44 months later, in Laura's shift, strange things happen in cargo. The crew is reanimated and the captain dies mysteriously.
Directors: Ivan Engler, Ralph Etter | Stars: Anna Katharina Schwabroh, Martin Rapold, Regula Grauwiller, Yangzom Brauen
Votes: 20,141
23. Chatterbox! (1977)
R | 73 min | Comedy, Fantasy
A young woman who works in a beauty parlor discovers that her vagina can talk, which causes her no end of trouble.
Director: Tom DeSimone | Stars: Candice Rialson, Larry Gelman, Jane Kean, Perry Bullington
Votes: 823
24. Man-Proof (1938)
Passed | 75 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Mimi has tried everything to become the bride to Alan, but he chooses Elizabeth instead. The ironic part is that Mimi's mother writes romance novels and neither one has had any luck with ... See full summary »
Director: Richard Thorpe | Stars: Myrna Loy, Franchot Tone, Rosalind Russell, Walter Pidgeon
Votes: 679
25. 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: 858
26. The Hiding Place (2000)
PG-13 | 97 min | Drama
A son visits his aging mother and sees tragic, intermittent signs of senility, but she pleads with him not to send her to a sanitarium.
Director: Douglas Green | Stars: Kim Hunter, Timothy Bottoms, Kim Greist, Katie Hagan
Votes: 110
27. Wir sind die Neuen (2014)
91 min | Comedy
Three old friends from college move back in together in an apartment in Munich for financial reasons.
Director: Ralf Westhoff | Stars: Gisela Schneeberger, Heiner Lauterbach, Michael Wittenborn, Claudia Eisinger
Votes: 1,699
28. One-way to Moscow (2020)
99 min | Comedy
Around the time of the fall of the Berlin Wall, hundreds of thousands of people were spied on in Switzerland. Policeman Schuler goes undercover to reveal a possible political coup in the Zurich Schauspielhaus.
Director: Micha Lewinsky | Stars: Miriam Stein, Philippe Graber, Mike Müller, Michael Maertens
Votes: 258
29. Mixing Nia (1998)
R | 92 min | Comedy, Drama
Nia is a successful copy writer at ad agency, and she leads white yuppie life (though her mother is black). She quits the agency when she is ordered to push a new brand of beer to black ... See full summary »
Director: Alison Swan | Stars: Karyn Parsons, Isaiah Washington, Eric Thal, Diego Serrano
Votes: 202
30. A Beautiful Star (2017)
127 min | Drama, Family, Sci-Fi
It portrays a family on Earth who come to believe that they are actually from other planets all of a sudden. They try so hard to save the endangered planet Earth but things get crazy on the way.
Director: Daihachi Yoshida | Stars: Lily Franky, Kazuya Kamenashi, Ai Hashimoto, Tomoko Nakajima
Votes: 257
31. People v. The State of Illusion (2012)
86 min | Documentary, Drama
A compelling docudrama that explores the science and power of perception and imagination through the most important trial you will ever witness.
Director: Scott Cervine | Stars: Amy Baklini, Tad Jones, Kevin Owen McDonald, J.B. Tuttle
Votes: 47 | Gross: $0.04M
32. Miss Monday (1998)
R | 90 min | Drama, Thriller
A writer suffering a block decides to watch a young woman as a role model for his novel, but finds more than he bargained for.
Director: Benson Lee | Stars: James Hicks, Andrea Hart, Alex Giannini, Nick Moran
Votes: 212
33. The Narrator (I) (2018)
10 min | Short, Drama
Katelyn discovers she is a character in a film after fighting back against 'The Narrator' that controls her life.
Director: Nicholas Connor | Stars: Gavin James, Michael Watson-Gray, Bebe Barry, Hannah Brackstone-Brown
Votes: 13
34. Cactus (1986)
PG | 93 min | Drama, Romance
A woman who injured her eyes in car accident and a young blind man fall for each other. Is sight the only way to see the world?
Director: Paul Cox | Stars: Isabelle Huppert, Robert Menzies, Norman Kaye, Monica Maughan
Votes: 239
35. Die Tochter (2008)
100 min | Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
A woman in her mid-forties goes on a journey to the country. She visits her mother, whom she hasn't seen for quite a while. Of course, her father, who has been missing for many years, ... See full summary »
Director: Bernhard Kammel | Stars: Sofia Tchernev, Vera Baranyai, Imo Heite, Daniel Kamen
36. The Powers of the Universe (2004 Video)
Documentary
Brian Swimme, the mathematical cosmologist, discusses eleven powers of the universe: seamlessness, centration, allurement, emergence, homeostasis, cataclysm, synergy, transmutation, transformation, interrelatedness and radiance.
37. 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
38. The Empath Awakening: Documentary (2020)
90 min | Documentary
During all of the world's pandemics our overall well-being is important. Everything around us is energy and we are affected by how it makes us feel and the emotions it causes. Negativity is... See full summary »
Director: Sy Shanti | Stars: Joanie Barton, Bee Berna, Claudia Del Cid, Ayana Yogini Kwan-Yin
39. Out of Touch (1971)
97 min | Documentary
Shows highlights from a 36-hour marathon encounter session, conducted by Californian psychotherapist Paul Bindrim, founder of the nude therapy.
Director: John Gaisford | Stars: Paul Bindrim, Doug McGrath
40. Theories of Human Development (2002 Video)
720 min | Documentary
Professor Malcolm W. Watson introduces six theories of human development, a field that is in large part about child development, and the people who devised each theory.
Director: Tom Dunton | Star: Malcolm W. Watson
41. Nanolyubov (2010)
47 min | Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi
A beautiful robot learns to become human.
Stars: Anna Marlioni, Stanislav Shmelev, Lyubov Bakhankova, Vera Bakhankova
Votes: 48
42. Between You and Me (I) (2015)
117 min | Drama, Romance, Thriller
Two characters of repelling personal life choices find a bind that should never have been created.
Director: Tomasz Drezek | Stars: Chandler Macocha, Dominic Ryan Gabriel, Sadie Pappas, Tobi Ogunyemi
Votes: 21
43. Underage (1982)
58 min | Documentary
Underage lifts the lid on the insular world of a group of wayward Coventry teenagers in the early 1980s.
Directors: Lizzie Lemon, Kim Longinotto | Star: The Specials
Votes: 13
44. Saturday Morning (1971)
GP | 82 min | Documentary
Discusses the issues of adolescence which young people find most urgent - their feelings about parents, sex, and morality, and their search for identity and love.
Director: Kent Mackenzie
Votes: 11
45. The Light (1988 TV Movie)
24 min | Drama
Director: S. Torriano Berry | Stars: Cecelia Ann Birt, Cliff McMullen, Umar Raheem, Lelia Lewis
46. En quête de sens (2015)
Not Rated | 88 min | Documentary, Adventure
Two childhood friends travel the world to meet some of the greatest thinkers of our time. This incredible voyage, full of moments of doubt and moments of joy, will lead them to question the... See full summary »
Directors: Nathanaël Coste, Marc De La Ménardière, Marc de la Ménardière | Stars: Nathanaël Coste, Marc de la Ménardière, Hervé Kempf, Frédéric Lenoir
Votes: 251
47. Ein Leben auf Probe (2010)
Sci-Fi
Director: David Emmenlauer | Stars: Alexander Beyer, Janin Ullmann, Eva Kruijssen, Stephen Sikder
Votes: 24
48. Ierô Kiddo (2009)
111 min | Drama
Tamura is a struggling amateur boxer, who was raised by his grandmother, who now suffers from dementia. One day he meets Hattori, who has based the head character of his manga 'Yellow Kid' on Tamura.
Director: Tetsuya Mariko | Stars: Kaname Endô, Ryô Iwase, Marie Machida, Kazuki Namioka
Votes: 485
49. Living with Pride: Ruth C. Ellis @ 100 (1999)
60 min | Documentary
Documentary on the oldest known black lesbian activist, who pioneered in creating a safe space for people like herself in the heartland of America.
Director: Yvonne Welbon | Stars: Ruth C. Ellis, Sanford E. Gaylord, James E. Sanford
Votes: 91
50. Lobus Frontalis (2023)
16 min | Short, Thriller
LOBUS FRONTALIS is a psychological thriller that tells the emotional roller coaster of Robert, a writer, as he waits for an answer as to whether his script will finally end up on the screen... See full summary »
Director: Kristina Atovska | Stars: Deniz Abdula, Dejan Lilic, Ivana Pavlakovic, Natalija Teodosieva