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1. Fallen (1998)
R | 124 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Homicide detective John Hobbes witnesses the execution of serial killer Edgar Reese. Soon after the execution, the killings start again, and they are very similar to Reese's style.
Director: Gregory Hoblit | Stars: Denzel Washington, John Goodman, Donald Sutherland, Embeth Davidtz
Votes: 92,651 | Gross: $25.19M
2. The Room (2003)
R | 99 min | Drama
In San Francisco, an amiable banker's seemingly perfect life is turned upside down when his deceitful fiancée embarks on an affair with his best friend.
Director: Tommy Wiseau | Stars: Tommy Wiseau, Juliette Danielle, Greg Sestero, Philip Haldiman
Votes: 95,037 | Gross: $0.22M
3. Vivarium (2019)
R | 97 min | Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
A young couple looking for the perfect home find themselves trapped in a mysterious labyrinth-like neighborhood of identical houses.
Director: Lorcan Finnegan | Stars: Imogen Poots, Danielle Ryan, Molly McCann, Jesse Eisenberg
Votes: 74,003
4. Troll 2 (1990)
PG-13 | 95 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
A vacationing family discovers that the entire town they're visiting is inhabited by goblins, disguised as humans, who plan to eat them.
Director: Claudio Fragasso | Stars: Michael Paul Stephenson, George Hardy, Margo Prey, Connie Young
Votes: 34,685
5. Macbeth (1971)
R | 140 min | Drama, History
A ruthlessly ambitious Scottish lord seizes the throne with the help of his scheming wife and a trio of witches.
Director: Roman Polanski | Stars: Jon Finch, Francesca Annis, Martin Shaw, Terence Bayler
Votes: 14,978
6. Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia (1974)
R | 112 min | Action, Crime, Drama
An American barroom pianist and his prostitute girlfriend go on a trip through the Mexican underworld to collect the bounty on the head of a dead gigolo.
Director: Sam Peckinpah | Stars: Warren Oates, Isela Vega, Robert Webber, Gig Young
Votes: 21,532 | Gross: $0.58M
7. Happy End (2017)
R | 107 min | Drama
A well-to-do French family deals with a series of setbacks and crises.
Director: Michael Haneke | Stars: Isabelle Huppert, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Mathieu Kassovitz, Fantine Harduin
Votes: 16,938 | Gross: $0.30M
8. The Turin Horse (2011)
Not Rated | 155 min | Drama
A rural farmer is forced to confront the mortality of his faithful horse.
Directors: Béla Tarr, Ágnes Hranitzky | Stars: János Derzsi, Erika Bók, Mihály Kormos, Ricsi
Votes: 19,431 | Gross: $0.05M
9. The Exterminating Angel (1962)
Not Rated | 95 min | Drama, Fantasy
The guests at an upper-class dinner party find themselves unable to leave.
Director: Luis Buñuel | Stars: Silvia Pinal, Jacqueline Andere, Enrique Rambal, José Baviera
Votes: 35,560
10. Good Morning (1959)
Not Rated | 94 min | Comedy, Drama, Family
Two boys begin a silence strike to press their parents into buying them a television set.
Director: Yasujirô Ozu | Stars: Keiji Sada, Yoshiko Kuga, Chishû Ryû, Kuniko Miyake
Votes: 11,056
11. The Fire Within (1963)
Not Rated | 108 min | Drama
Depressed Alain Leroy leaves the clinic where he was detoxified. He meets friends, acquaintances and women, trying to find a reason to continue living. Will this help him?
Director: Louis Malle | Stars: Maurice Ronet, Léna Skerla, Yvonne Clech, Hubert Deschamps
Votes: 10,472
12. Greed (1924)
Not Rated | 140 min | Drama, Thriller, Western
The sudden fortune won from a lottery fans such destructive greed that it ruins the lives of the three people involved.
Director: Erich von Stroheim | Stars: Gibson Gowland, Zasu Pitts, Jean Hersholt, Dale Fuller
Votes: 10,766 | Gross: $0.16M
13. The Devil, Probably (1977)
Not Rated | 95 min | Drama
Charles drifts through politics, religion and psychoanalysis, rejecting them all. Once he realises the depth of his disgust with the moral and physical decline of the society he lives in, ... See full summary »
Director: Robert Bresson | Stars: Antoine Monnier, Tina Irissari, Henri de Maublanc, Laetitia Carcano
Votes: 4,736 | Gross: $0.03M
14. Wild Rovers (1971)
GP | 136 min | Drama, Western
Tired of cow-punching for a living, two Montana cowboys rob a bank and flee but their employer's sons chase after them.
Director: Blake Edwards | Stars: William Holden, Ryan O'Neal, Karl Malden, Lynn Carlin
Votes: 2,012 | Gross: $0.28M
15. The Governess (1998)
R | 115 min | Drama, Romance
In this sensuous romance, Minnie Driver stars as a governess who is hired into a remote Scottish household and strongly affects all those she comes into contact with.
Director: Sandra Goldbacher | Stars: Minnie Driver, Tom Wilkinson, Florence Hoath, Jonathan Rhys Meyers
Votes: 3,155 | Gross: $3.90M
16. The Trial of Joan of Arc (1962)
64 min | Biography, Drama, History
A Joan of Arc's trial reconstruction concerning her imprisonment, interrogation and final execution at the hands of the English. Filmed in a spare, low-key fashion.
Director: Robert Bresson | Stars: Florence Delay, Jean-Claude Fourneau, Roger Honorat, Marc Jacquier
Votes: 5,970
17. Torment (VII) (2017)
Unrated | 75 min | Horror
Freely inspired to the GACY's torture insane world, this film promise to tell what in other movies no one had the courage to push the limits!
Director: Adam Ford | Stars: Matteo De Liberato, Rikky Fiore, Marco Pielich, Favaretto Manuel
Votes: 145
18. Silent Ones (2013)
97 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
A girl wakes up after a car crash. Her younger brother has disappeared. As she promised him, she boards a cargo ship to find a new life. Then the shady Gábor crosses her path. A surreal trip on the fragile edge of life and death.
Director: Ricky Rijneke | Stars: Fatih Dervisoglu, Roland Rába, Orsolya Tóth
Votes: 4,527
19. Give Us This Day (1949)
Passed | 120 min | Drama
One of the few (if any at the time this film was made) films shot in England with New York City's 'Little Italy" as the locale. This was Edward Dmytryk's first film after he had refused to ... See full summary »
Director: Edward Dmytryk | Stars: Sam Wanamaker, Lea Padovani, Kathleen Ryan, Bonar Colleano
Votes: 391
20. Black Garden (2019)
90 min | Sci-Fi
Based on the 9th circle of hell in Dante's Inferno, Black Garden begins on Christmas Eve in the near future. It's eight days after the end of World War III and a handful of survivors wait ... See full summary »
Director: Shaun Wilson | Stars: Cara Culligan, Phil Edwards, Tammy Honey, Garry Keltie
Votes: 2,766
21. The Art of Losing (2015)
Not Rated | 86 min | Drama
The story of Victor, a thirty year old boy suffering from the Spanish recession, who has no job, no girlfriend and an unfairly bad relationship with his parents.
Director: Pau Masó | Stars: Pau Masó, Mariangels Punyet, Josep Maria Alejandre, Noé Blancafort
Votes: 140
22. Le berceau de cristal (1976)
80 min | Drama
An androgynous poet/dreamer sits and writes and meditates on the aching void that is her life.
Director: Philippe Garrel | Stars: Nico, Dominique Sanda, Anita Pallenberg, Margareth Clémenti
Votes: 130
23. Requited (2011)
Not Rated | 20 min | Short, Drama, Romance
Nicolas, a young man in his mid 20s, struggles to decide whether or not to go to the wedding of his best friend from high school, Aaron, who he's always been quietly in love with. The two ... See full summary »
Director: Sal Bardo | Stars: Chris Damon, Max Rhyser, Matthew Watson, Crystal Arnette
Votes: 132
24. A Tale of Delight (2010)
23 min | Short, Drama
Blaise Pascal wrote, 'all men seek happiness, this is without exception... whatever different means they employ, they all tend to this end... This is the motive of every action of every man... See full summary »
Director: Edd Blott | Stars: Michael James Venske, Victoria Nohl, Jessie Welsch, Dan Welsch
Votes: 14
25. Verhängnis (1994)
80 min | Drama
The paths of people from various countries cross during the course of one night.
Director: Fred Kelemen | Stars: Valerij Fedorenko, Marc Ottiker, Sanja Spengler, Eddi Zacharias
Votes: 105
26. Dawn (aka. Morgenrøde) (2014)
70 min | Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Thriller
At the beginning of a new aeon is a water polluted world years after a global fall. Where the legacy of what was, has been quenched and world understanding must take shape again. Surrounded... See full summary »
Director: Anders Elsrud Hultgreen | Stars: Torstein Bjørklund, Ingar Helge Gimle
Votes: 97
27. Cien juz niedaleko (1985)
87 min | Drama
A story of a crippled, ex-steelworker at the Nowa Huta plant near Cracow, now living in Szczecin. He returns to Nowa Huta to receive an award on the plant's 30th anniversary, but it turns ... See full summary »
Director: Kazimierz Karabasz | Stars: Mariusz Dmochowski, Jaroslaw Kopaczewski, Wlodzimierz Kwaskowski, Michal Bajor
Votes: 11
28. Last Chance: The Moment I Finally Embraced the Futility of Existence (2019)
74 min | Comedy, Drama
When an outrageously absurd event results in the world having only 2 hours left before nuclear annihilation, a group of amateur student filmmakers decide to make one last film to consecrate human existence.
Director: Ronit Jadhav | Stars: Ronit Jadhav, Rohit D'Souza, Darshil Gandhi, Ishaan Trivedi
Votes: 10
29. Zhivoy srez (1980)
20 min | Drama, Family, Short
A soldier returns from the war in good health but with his soul damaged. His heart is still driven by ire, fury and rage and remains alien to love.
Director: Valeri Rybarev | Stars: Vladimir Gostyukhin, Olegar Fedoro, Natalya Brazhnikova, Misha Baburov
Votes: 34
30. Futility (2010)
TV-G | 11 min | Short, Action, Drama
A fallen photo makes a moment of difference in the lives of two enemy soldiers.
Director: Wayne Bradford | Stars: Evert McQueen, Shinji Ikefuji, Anna Waters-Massey, Cleo Massey
Votes: 19
31. Mutant Factory (2005)
Not Rated | 2 min | Animation, Short
Creatures are manufactured in an underground factory and labor towards their inevitable doom.
Director: Ted Voltolina
Votes: 20
33. Naked and Bound (1993 Video)
40 min | Short, Adventure
Director: Brian Tarsis | Stars: Dusty Flynn, Jessica Hunter, Jennifer Ingles, Jasae
34. Wrecked on Cannibal Island (1986)
10 min | Short
A young man and woman have a dispute over housework which escalates into violence. After a brief angry period of separation they reunite in an unexpected way on the rooftop of their apartment building.
Director: Casandra Stark | Stars: Jack Natz, Casandra Stark
Votes: 23
35. Rextrogenics (2006)
7 min | Short
Hypnosis-inspiring sound and picture display the static of an atmosphere in decay. A roach unable to get on its feet lays bare as an expressionistic focus. Optical hallucinations set in as part of the roach's torment and demise.
Director: Geoffrey Sexton
Votes: 16
36. Last Chance (III) (2017)
7 min | Short
Student filmmakers shoot one last message before the end of the world.
Director: Ronit Jadhav | Stars: Ronit Jadhav, Darshil Gandhi, Zishan Zaffar, Ishaan Trivedi
Votes: 8
37. Cell (I) (2009)
7 min | Short, Horror
Life is for the birds. They require so little. Every day gathering their lives from the wind. Doron has no wind. If only he could harness the voice of every bird, every jay, every sparrow. ... See full summary »
Director: Dawn Boyd | Star: Jim Kretzschmar
38. Abstract No. 5 (2011)
5 min | Short
Director: Amanda Prentiss | Stars: Terri Watts, Alan August, Sonja Cimone
39. Aftermath (VII) (2020)
9 min | Short, Drama, Horror
Set in a dystopian wasteland, a group of strangers struggle to survive both the elements and each other.
Director: Andrew Reynolds | Stars: Tom Hedgepeth, Sam Lukowski, Jess Liberatore, Shannon Graham-Latrice
Votes: 8
40.
Kino's Journey (2003)
Episode:
Three Men Along the Rails
(2003)
TV-PG | 25 min | Animation, Adventure, Drama
Kino meets a series of workers along a railroad, all of which are apparently performing pointless tasks. She tells each one a story which reflects their own, even if they don't realize it.
Director: Ryûtarô Nakamura | Stars: Ai Maeda, Ryuji Aigase, Yoshimi Akiba, David Born
Votes: 101
41.
Souls Logic (2020– )
Episode:
Lost Souls
(2020)
3 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
Stars: Hamish Parkinson, Ben Van Lier
42.
Souls Logic (2020– )
Episode:
Awful Areas
(2020)
2 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
Stars: Hamish Parkinson, Ben Van Lier
43.
Souls Logic (2020– )
Episode:
Crystal Lizard
(2021)
2 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
Star: Ben Van Lier