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1. In Time (2011)
PG-13 | 109 min | Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
In a future where people stop aging at 25, but are engineered to live only one more year, having the means to buy your way out of the situation is a shot at immortal youth. Will Salas is accused of murder and on the run with a hostage.
Director: Andrew Niccol | Stars: Justin Timberlake, Amanda Seyfried, Cillian Murphy, Olivia Wilde
Votes: 447,134 | Gross: $37.52M
2. The Tree of Life (2011)
PG-13 | 139 min | Drama, Fantasy
The story of a family in Waco, Texas in 1956. The eldest son witnesses the loss of innocence and struggles with his parents' conflicting teachings.
Director: Terrence Malick | Stars: Brad Pitt, Sean Penn, Jessica Chastain, Hunter McCracken
Votes: 184,268 | Gross: $13.30M
3. Adaptation. (2002)
R | 115 min | Comedy, Drama
A lovelorn screenwriter becomes desperate as he tries and fails to adapt 'The Orchid Thief' by Susan Orlean for the screen.
Director: Spike Jonze | Stars: Nicolas Cage, Meryl Streep, Chris Cooper, Tilda Swinton
Votes: 203,287 | Gross: $22.25M
4. Mad God (2021)
Unrated | 83 min | Animation, Fantasy, Horror
The Assassin travels through a nightmare underworld of tortured souls, ruined cities and wretched monstrosities forged from the primordial horrors of the unconscious mind of Phil Tippett, the world's preeminent stop-motion animator.
Director: Phil Tippett | Stars: Alex Cox, Niketa Roman, Satish Ratakonda, Harper Taylor
Votes: 14,814
5. Cobra (1986)
R | 87 min | Action, Crime, Thriller
A tough-on-crime street cop must protect the only surviving witness to a strange murderous cult with far-reaching plans.
Director: George P. Cosmatos | Stars: Sylvester Stallone, Brigitte Nielsen, Reni Santoni, Andrew Robinson
Votes: 79,717 | Gross: $49.04M
6. Before the Fall (2004)
110 min | Drama, Sport, Thriller
Friedrich's boxing skills gets him in an elite Nazi high school in a castle in 1942. He enrolls against his dad's wish as it promises a brighter future. It's not what he expected.
Director: Dennis Gansel | Stars: Max Riemelt, Tom Schilling, Devid Striesow, Jonas Jägermeyr
Votes: 17,167 | Gross: $0.14M
7. Black Friday (III) (2021)
84 min | Comedy, Horror
A group of toy store employees must protect each other from a horde of parasite infected shoppers.
Director: Casey Tebo | Stars: Devon Sawa, Ivana Baquero, Ryan Lee, Stephen Peck
Votes: 8,090
8. Creation (I) (2009)
PG-13 | 108 min | Biography, Drama, Romance
Torn between faith and science, and suffering hallucinations, English naturalist Charles Darwin struggles to complete 'On the Origin of Species' and maintain his relationship with his wife.
Director: Jon Amiel | Stars: Paul Bettany, Jennifer Connelly, Ian Kelly, Guy Henry
Votes: 15,140 | Gross: $0.34M
9. Paradise Lagoon (1957)
Approved | 94 min | Adventure, Comedy, Romance
In 1905, Lord Henry Loam and his family and servants are shipwrecked on a deserted island where the survival of the fittest renders the rigid class system irrelevant.
Director: Lewis Gilbert | Stars: Kenneth More, Diane Cilento, Cecil Parker, Sally Ann Howes
Votes: 1,994
10. Sands of the Kalahari (1965)
Approved | 119 min | Adventure, Crime, Drama
After a small aircraft crashes in the Kalahari Desert, one of the seven passengers decides that his survival chances would increase if he eliminates the other men in the group.
Director: Cy Endfield | Stars: Stanley Baker, Stuart Whitman, Susannah York, Harry Andrews
Votes: 1,501
11. Master of the World (1983)
Not Rated | 105 min | Adventure
Primitive humans had to adapt to their brutal and savage environment or disappear into oblivion. For Bog, a great warrior, this struggle means conquering the land and gaining supremacy over his rivals.
Director: Alberto Cavallone | Stars: Sven Kruger, Sasha D'Arc, Viviana Maria Rispoli, Maria Vittoria Garlanda
Votes: 223
12. The Savage Is Loose (1974)
R | 114 min | Adventure, Drama
A husband, wife and their son are stranded on a remote island with no way off; as the son grows older, sexual tensions emerge.
Director: George C. Scott | Stars: George C. Scott, Trish Van Devere, John David Carson, Lee Montgomery
Votes: 441 | Gross: $0.84M
13. Darwin's Nightmare (2004)
107 min | Documentary
A documentary on the effect of fishing the Nile perch in Tanzania's Lake Victoria. The predatory fish, which has wiped out the native species, is sold in European supermarkets, while starving Tanzanian families have to make do with the leftovers.
Director: Hubert Sauper | Stars: Elizabeth 'Eliza' Maganga Nsese, Raphael Tukiko Wagara, Dimond Remtulia, Marcus Nyoni
Votes: 5,664 | Gross: $0.20M
14. Alleged (2010)
Not Rated | 94 min | Drama, History, Romance
When a teacher is arrested in Tennessee for trying to teach evolution in 1925, a young ambitious reporter must choose whether to take advice from his sweetheart or the notorious columnist when it comes to his approach to the story.
Director: Tom Hines | Stars: Nathan West, Colm Meaney, Ashley Johnson, Brian Dennehy
Votes: 307
15. Inshite miru: 7-kakan no desu gêmu (2010)
107 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Ten people who agree to take the same lucrative "job" find themselves locked in an underground complex and forced to play a murder game for seven days.
Director: Hideo Nakata | Stars: Kin'ya Kitaôji, Nagisa Katahira, Shinji Takeda, Masanori Ishii
Votes: 1,388
16. Cry of the Penguins (1971)
101 min | Adventure, Drama
A womanizing biologist studies life in a colony of penguins.
Directors: Alfred Viola, Roy Boulting | Stars: John Hurt, Hayley Mills, Dudley Sutton, Tony Britton
Votes: 353
17. Jesse & Lester - Two Brothers in a Place Called Trinity (1972)
97 min | Comedy, Western
After inheriting a land plot in a dusty place called Trinity, the antagonistic half-brothers, Lester and Jesse, reunite to pursue different aspirations, only to find themselves neck-deep in trouble. Will they ever fulfil their dreams?
Directors: Renzo Genta, Richard Harrison | Stars: Richard Harrison, Donald O'Brien, Anna Zinnemann, George Wang
Votes: 176
18. The Redeemed and the Dominant: Fittest on Earth (2018)
TV-PG | 119 min | Documentary
Elite athletes take on a series of grueling tests to vie for the title of "Fittest on Earth." Follow the drama as they endure the unknown and unknowable during four of the most intense days of competition in CrossFit Games history.
Directors: Heber Cannon, Mariah Moore, Marston Sawyers | Stars: Justin Bergh, Dave Castro, Katrin Tanja Davidsdottir, Brent Fikowski
Votes: 1,407
19. It's Great to Be Alive (1933)
Passed | 69 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
An aviator who crash-landed on an island in the South Pacific returns home to find that he is the last fertile man left on Earth after an epidemic of masculitus.
Director: Alfred L. Werker | Stars: Raul Roulien, Gloria Stuart, Edna May Oliver, Herbert Mundin
Votes: 88
20. Blood on the Tracks (2013)
11 min | Short, Drama
Director: Nick Eagles | Stars: Logan Eagles, Zack Eagles
21.
Performance (1991–1998)
Episode:
After Miss Julie
(1995)
77 min | Drama
After Miss Julie is an adaptation of the 1888 play Miss Julie by August Strindberg. The narrative takes place on the night of July 26 1945, after the British Labour Party's landslide defeat... See full synopsis »
Director: Patrick Marber | Stars: Kathy Burke, Phil Daniels, Geraldine Somerville
Votes: 35
22.
The Outer Limits (1995–2002)
Episode:
Relativity Theory
(1998)
TV-PG | 45 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
A survey team searching for resources for Earth lands on a promising planet which appears to be uninhabited. However, they soon come under attack and must decide how to respond.
Director: Ken Girotti | Stars: Melissa Gilbert, Jeremy Ratchford, Tim Guinee, Hiro Kanagawa
Votes: 338
23.
The Outer Limits (1995–2002)
Episode:
The Vaccine
(1998)
TV-PG | 45 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
After a doomsday cult releases a genetically engineered virus, a nurse named Marie must decide which patients under quarantine get a vaccine that may cure the plague.
Director: Neill Fearnley | Stars: Maria Conchita Alonso, Lane Gates, Brent David Fraser, Biski Gugushe
Votes: 270
24.
Star Trek (1966–1969)
Episode:
Bread and Circuses
(1968)
TV-PG | 50 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
The Enterprise crew investigates the disappearance of a ship's crew on a planet that is a modern version of the Roman Empire.
Director: Ralph Senensky | Stars: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, William Smithers
Votes: 3,287
25.
How to Lose a War (2023)
Episode:
The Homefront
(2023)
Documentary, History, War
In our final episode, we examine how each Axis Power had troubles on their own home front, leading to disaster in the final days of the war.
Director: Tim Bosanquet | Stars: Alexander Henry, Giuseppe Finaldi, Russell A. Hart, Guy Walters
29.
Creation Training Initiative (2013– )
Episode:
Evolution, Not a Chance: Part 1
(2013)
30 min | Talk-Show
Stars: David Menton, Mike Riddle
30.
Fear the Walking Dead (2015–2023)
Episode:
Leave What You Don't
(2019)
TV-MA | 44 min | Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
Logan's motives are revealed; Sarah, Dwight, and Luciana negotiate for the sake of the mission; Strand and Alicia race to the aid of a new survivor in a familiar place; a dangerous threat emerges.
Director: Daisy von Scherler Mayer | Stars: Lennie James, Alycia Debnam-Carey, Maggie Grace, Colman Domingo
Votes: 2,103