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1. Georgia Rule (2007)
R | 113 min | Comedy, Drama
A troubled young woman is sent to live with her grandmother for the summer, while hiding a secret that could potentially tear her family apart.
Director: Garry Marshall | Stars: Jane Fonda, Lindsay Lohan, Felicity Huffman, Dermot Mulroney
Votes: 26,951 | Gross: $18.88M
2. The Stalking Moon (1968)
G | 109 min | Drama, Western
U.S. Army soldiers round up a group of Apache, mostly women and children. Surprisingly, they find among them a white woman and her half-Apache son.
Director: Robert Mulligan | Stars: Gregory Peck, Eva Marie Saint, Robert Forster, Noland Clay
Votes: 3,182
3. The Exception (2016)
R | 107 min | Drama, Romance, War
A German soldier tries to determine if the Dutch resistance has planted a spy to infiltrate the home of Kaiser Wilhelm in Holland during the onset of World War II, but falls for a young Jewish Dutch woman during his investigation.
Director: David Leveaux | Stars: Lily James, Jai Courtney, Christopher Plummer, Ella Holland
Votes: 15,437 | Gross: $0.61M
4. I Think We're Alone Now (2018)
R | 99 min | Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
The apocalypse proves a blessing in disguise for one lucky recluse--until a second survivor arrives with the threat of companionship.
Director: Reed Morano | Stars: Peter Dinklage, Elle Fanning, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Paul Giamatti
Votes: 12,647
5. The Rhythm Section (2020)
R | 109 min | Action, Drama, Mystery
A woman seeks revenge against those who orchestrated a plane crash that killed her family.
Director: Reed Morano | Stars: Blake Lively, Richard Brake, Elly Curtis, David Duggan
Votes: 19,663 | Gross: $5.44M
6. Dream House (2011)
PG-13 | 92 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Soon after moving into their seemingly idyllic new home, a family learns of a brutal crime committed against former residents of the dwelling.
Director: Jim Sheridan | Stars: Daniel Craig, Rachel Weisz, Naomi Watts, Elias Koteas
Votes: 69,182 | Gross: $21.28M
7. Wind Chill (2007)
R | 91 min | Adventure, Drama, Horror
Two college students share a ride home for the holidays, but when they break down on a deserted stretch of road, they are preyed upon by the ghosts of people who have died there.
Director: Gregory Jacobs | Stars: Emily Blunt, Ashton Holmes, Martin Donovan, Ned Bellamy
Votes: 24,998 | Gross: $0.02M
8. Strange Invaders (1983)
PG | 94 min | Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Alien beings, who settle in a small midwestern town, are disturbed by a young professor determined to rescue his daughter from their clutches.
Director: Michael Laughlin | Stars: Paul Le Mat, Nancy Allen, Diana Scarwid, Michael Lerner
Votes: 3,460 | Gross: $1.36M
9. Phoenix (II) (2014)
PG-13 | 98 min | Drama, History, Music
After surviving Auschwitz, a former cabaret singer has her disfigured face reconstructed and returns to her war-ravaged hometown to seek out her gentile husband, who may or may not have betrayed her to the Nazis.
Director: Christian Petzold | Stars: Nina Hoss, Ronald Zehrfeld, Nina Kunzendorf, Trystan Pütter
Votes: 20,693
10. Angel Eyes (2001)
R | 102 min | Drama, Romance
A mysterious man is drawn to a feisty female police officer and an unusual relationship ensues, as not everything is as it seems.
Director: Luis Mandoki | Stars: Jennifer Lopez, Jim Caviezel, Jeremy Sisto, Terrence Howard
Votes: 25,715 | Gross: $24.04M
11. Night of the Lepus (1972)
PG | 88 min | Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Giant mutant rabbits terrorize the south-west.
Director: William F. Claxton | Stars: Stuart Whitman, Janet Leigh, Rory Calhoun, DeForest Kelley
Votes: 5,458
12. Angelica (2015)
95 min | Drama, Thriller
A couple living in Victorian London endures an unusual series of psychological and supernatural happenings following the birth of their child.
Director: Mitchell Lichtenstein | Stars: Jena Malone, Janet McTeer, Ed Stoppard, Tovah Feldshuh
Votes: 883
13. Mad Max (2015 Video Game)
M | Action, Adventure, Crime
Max Rockatansky, a former highway patrol officer known across the post apocalyptic wasteland of Australia as Mad Max, has his V8 Interceptor stolen by Immortan Joe's warlord son, Scrotus. Max goes on a bloody crusade to take it back.
Directors: Frank Rooke, Neil Huxley | Stars: Elise Björner, Olivia Carmryd, Orion Acaba, Robin Atkin Downes
Votes: 3,952
14. Black Bullet (2014)
TV-MA | 25 min | Animation, Action, Mystery
A decade after a virus forces people to live in confinement behind barium walls, two childhood friends with superpowers fight to save the human race.
Stars: Yûki Kaji, Rina Hidaka, Yui Horie, Luci Christian
Votes: 3,248
15. Red Dawn (1990)
96 min | Drama, Thriller
A Claustrophobic experience which involves a Mexican middle class family into the atrocities made by wild and heartless army forces whose main objective seems to be students who do not permit the 1968's Olimpic games' to develop normally.
Director: Jorge Fons | Stars: Héctor Bonilla, María Rojo, Jorge Fegán, Ademar Arau
Votes: 2,042
16. Rattlers (1976)
PG | 82 min | Horror
A herpetologist investigating a series of fatal rattlesnake attacks discovers that the creatures have been infected by a mysterious nerve gas disposed of in the desert by the military.
Director: John McCauley | Stars: Sam Chew Jr., Elisabeth Chauvet, Dan Priest, Ronald Gold
Votes: 1,022
17. Ohara (1987–1988)
60 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
Crime drama about a wise, elderly, Asian-American LAPD cop investigating crimes with his culturally insensitive and thickheaded but overall good-natured younger partner, Lt. George Shaver.
Stars: Pat Morita, Robert Clohessy, Rachel Ticotin, Meagen Fay
Votes: 176
18. Timestalkers (1987 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 100 min | Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Scott McKenzie, a history professor, becomes involved with two time travelers from the year 2586 after making a discovery in an old photograph from 1886.
Director: Michael Schultz | Stars: William Devane, Lauren Hutton, John Ratzenberger, Forrest Tucker
Votes: 1,547
19. To the Stars by Hard Ways (1981)
148 min | Sci-Fi
A female creature created in space tries to live on earth and has special (and sometimes dangerous) powers.
Directors: Richard Viktorov, Nikolay Viktorov | Stars: Yelena Metyolkina, Nadezhda Sementsova, Vadim Ledogorov, Uldis Lieldidzs
Votes: 1,478
20. The Babysitter (1980 TV Movie)
Unrated | 96 min | Drama, Thriller
Spoiled 12-year-old Tara's new best friend from next door gets hired as a live-in babysitter, but things soon go horribly wrong when Tara's mom starts hitting the bottle and fighting with her dad.
Director: Peter Medak | Stars: Patty Duke, William Shatner, Quinn Cummings, David Wysocki
Votes: 735
21. Guardians of the Galaxy: The Telltale Series (2017 Video Game)
T | Action, Adventure, Comedy
The Guardians of the Galaxy discover an artifact of great power and must defend it from those who want to possess it while also deciding whether to use it themselves.
Directors: Chris Rebbert, Jonathan Stauder, Sean Ainsworth, Jason Latino | Stars: Scott Porter, Brandon Paul Eells, Emily O'Brien, Adam Harrington
Votes: 960
22. Black Angel (1980)
PG | 25 min | Short, Adventure, Fantasy
A knight finds his village destroyed and abandoned. He tries to track the attackers down and avenge his family, but almost drowns. A maiden, prisoner of Black Knight, saves him, so he vows to free her, even though she warns him not to.
Director: Roger Christian | Stars: Tony Vogel, James Gibb, John Young, Patricia Christian
Votes: 685
23. The Owl (1991 TV Movie)
84 min | Action
After the violent murder of his family, a man becomes a vigilante dispensing his own kind of justice to people in need.
Director: Tom Holland | Stars: Adrian Paul, Patricia Charbonneau, Brian Thompson, Erika Flores
Votes: 269
24. Crackerjack 2 (1997)
R | 96 min | Action
A policeman working alone must rescue his girlfriend and a trainload of other hostages from vicious criminals in a mountain tunnel hideout.
Director: Robert Lee | Stars: Judge Reinhold, Carol Alt, Michael Sarrazin, Karel Roden
Votes: 314
25. Zibahkhana (2007)
Unrated | 77 min | Horror, Thriller
On their way to a concert, a group of teens are diverted by a political protest, only to encounter a family of flesh-hungry psychopaths.
Director: Omar Khan | Stars: Kunwar Ali Roshan, Rooshanie Ejaz, Rubya Chaudhry, Haider Raza
Votes: 908
26. Dot and the Whale (1986)
75 min | Animation, Adventure, Family
Young girl Dot and her friend Nelson the dolphin find Tonga, a beached whale who lost her family in whalers attack and wants to die. Dot believes that Moby Dick could convince Tonga to live, so Nelson takes Dot to Antarctica to find him.
Director: Yoram Gross | Stars: Kim Deacon, Robyn Moore, Keith Scott
Votes: 167
27. Ascension (I) (2002)
108 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
An unknown creature has murdered the Creator of Universe and unleashed the ability to produce miracles. This ability is now in the hands of human beings who have driven themselves into ... See full summary »
Director: Karim Hussain | Stars: Marie-Josée Croze, Barbara Ulrich, Ilona Elkin, Gregoire Dunlevy
Votes: 505
28. The Hunter (2010)
90 min | Drama, Thriller
In an act of vengeance, a young man randomly kills two police officers. He escapes to the forest, where he is arrested by two other officers. The three men are surrounded by trees, the ... See full summary »
Director: Rafi Pitts | Stars: Rafi Pitts, Javad Nazari, Mitra Hajjar, Malek Jahan Khazai
Votes: 1,598
29. Triton of the Sea (1972)
23 min | Animation, Action, Adventure
5000 years ago, evil demigod Poseidon and his minions attack the good mermen. A dolphin saves one of them, baby Triton. Later, as a young boy, Triton decides to avenge his family and end the reign of evil Poseidon and his monsters.
Stars: Hidekatsu Shibata, Jôji Yanami, Keiichi Noda, Kaneta Kimotsuki
Votes: 83
30. Triton of the Sea (1979)
74 min | Animation, Action, Adventure
Edited version for theaters of the eponymous 1972 show, about Triton, a sole survivor who seeks vengeance against evil sea demigod Poseidon and his monsters who eradicated his clan of good mermen and usurped their throne.
Directors: Yoshiyuki Tomino, Toshio Masuda | Stars: Akemi Hirokawa, Kaneta Kimotsuki, Haruko Kitahama, Toshiko Sawada
Votes: 138
31. Mystery Case Files: The 13th Skull (2010 Video Game)
Adventure, Fantasy, Mystery
The player is a detective, who's asked to investigate the case of a man who went missing after moving into a mansion in Louisiana, that's supposedly haunted by the ghost of en evil pirate captain.
Director: Matt Daniels | Stars: Talena Bennett, Russell Hodgkinson, Linda Jensen, Sophia Mitri Schloss
Votes: 39
32. Stanza IV: Deep In Earth
15 min | Short, Drama, Horror | Post-production
Inspired by the homonymous poem by Edgar Allan Poe 'Deep In Earth' explores the pain of a young painter who suffers the loss of his wife.
Director: Gianluigi Carella | Stars: Gianluigi Carella, Kerrin Shinners
33. The Badd One (1987)
Director: James I. Nicholson | Stars: William Smith, Clement Blake, Laura Albert, Travis Shepard
34. Images of Death: Highway of Blood (1994 Video)
80 min | Documentary
This mondo/shockumentary is mostly a collection of clips from driver's educational films and has at least one scene lifted from "Faces of Death".
Director: Rick Masters
Votes: 14
35. Badlands (1984 Video Game)
Action, Adventure, Comedy
Animated FMV light gun arcade that was later ported to LaserDisc. A gunslinger is after the gang who killed his family. He chases them into the badlands where human, animal and supernatural foes await.
Votes: 14
36.
Dragnet (2003–2004)
Episode:
The Cutting of the Swath
(2003)
40 min | Crime, Drama
Friday and Frank go from investigating a homicide to the search for an enraged serial killer. Both men struggle with their emotions as the body count goes up. Each asks what could he have done to change the outcome.
Director: Guy Norman Bee | Stars: Ed O'Neill, Ethan Embry, Jessica Steen, Anna Gunn
Votes: 34
37.
The Outer Limits (1995–2002)
Episode:
Patient Zero
(2001)
TV-PG | 44 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Colonel Beckett goes back in time to poison a physician who unintentionally spread a global pandemic. When the traveler returns to the future, nothing has changed. Though haunted by the ... See full summary »
Director: Mario Azzopardi | Stars: Michael Rooker, Tanya Allen, Laurie Murdoch, Gillian Barber
Votes: 324
38.
The Outer Limits (1995–2002)
Episode:
Summit
(1999)
TV-PG | 44 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
A planet of genetically engineering humanoids that are mining resources for Earth are demanding their independence from human oppression.
Director: James Head | Stars: Marcia Cross, Michael Ironside, Andrew Airlie, Jonathan Walker
Votes: 237
39.
The Outer Limits (1995–2002)
Episode:
The Human Factor
(2002)
TV-PG | 43 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
In the year 2084, humans fight an android whose artificial intelligence has determined humans must no longer be allowed to spread colonies throughout space.
Director: Robert Habros | Stars: Kevin Conway, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Robert Duncan McNeill, Kevan Ohtsji
Votes: 161
40.
PSI Factor: Chronicles of the Paranormal (1996–2000)
Episode:
The Haunting
(1998)
TV-14 | Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
A ghost scares a man to death in an elite hotel. The team discovers that the haunting may have something to do with the shady owner. Anton hopes the case might help him learn what happened to his family that vanished in a freak accident.
Director: John Bell | Stars: Matt Frewer, Nancy Anne Sakovich, Barclay Hope, Colin Fox
Votes: 18
41.
The Martian Chronicles (1980)
Episode:
The Martians
(1980)
97 min | Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
With Earth destroyed in a nuclear war, Colonel Wilder finds himself alone with his family on Mars. To rebuild what he has lost, Wilder chooses to make Mars his new home.
Director: Michael Anderson | Stars: Rock Hudson, Gayle Hunnicutt, Bernie Casey, Darren McGavin
Votes: 139
42.
Highlander: The Animated Series (1994–1996)
Episode:
The Last of the Macleods
(1994)
Not Rated | 22 min | Animation, Action, Adventure
Immortal tyrant Kortan raids a village for slaves. Young Quentin MacLeod and his mother are killed in the attack but Quentin soon revives. Immortals Ramirez and Mangus help him and his kid stepsister Clyde find their captured clansmen.
Stars: Miklos Perlus, Benedict Campbell, Lawrence Bayne, Katie Zegers
Votes: 30
43.
Day 5 (2016–2017)
Episode:
Waking Nightmare
(2016)
44 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama
After a two day drug binge, meth addict Jake awakes to find himself a survivor of an unknown apocalyptic event spurred when sleep becomes deadly.
Director: Josh Flanagan | Stars: Jesse C. Boyd, Walker Satterwhite, Stephanie Drapeau, Davi Jay
Votes: 109