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1. The Conversation (1974)
PG | 113 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
A paranoid, secretive surveillance expert has a crisis of conscience when he suspects that the couple he is spying on will be murdered.
Director: Francis Ford Coppola | Stars: Gene Hackman, John Cazale, Allen Garfield, Frederic Forrest
Votes: 122,053 | Gross: $4.42M
2. Bridget Jones's Baby (2016)
R | 123 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Forty-something and single again, Bridget decides to focus on her job and surround herself with friends. Then she discovers that she is pregnant--but she is only 50% sure of the baby's father's identity.
Director: Sharon Maguire | Stars: Renée Zellweger, Gemma Jones, Jim Broadbent, Sally Phillips
Votes: 82,415 | Gross: $24.25M
3. Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris (2022)
PG | 115 min | Comedy, Drama
A widowed cleaning lady in 1950s London falls madly in love with a couture Dior dress, and decides that she must have one of her own.
Director: Anthony Fabian | Stars: Lesley Manville, Isabelle Huppert, Lambert Wilson, Alba Baptista
Votes: 26,433
4. A Perfect Ending (2012)
Not Rated | 110 min | Drama, Romance
Rebecca has a very unusual secret, one that not even her best friends know about. The last person on earth she expects to reveal it to is a high priced escort named Paris.
Director: Nicole Conn | Stars: Barbara Niven, Bryan Mordechai Jackson, Jessica Clark, John Heard
Votes: 4,817
5. Julieta (2016)
R | 99 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance
After a casual encounter, a brokenhearted woman decides to confront her life and the most important events involving her estranged daughter.
Director: Pedro Almodóvar | Stars: Emma Suárez, Adriana Ugarte, Daniel Grao, Inma Cuesta
Votes: 33,938 | Gross: $1.49M
6. Sick of It (2018–2020)
30 min | Comedy, Drama
Tragi-comedy following middle-aged taxi driver Karl and the voice inside his head as he attempts to move on from his ex-girlfriend Zoe and care for his auntie Norma.
Stars: Karl Pilkington, Sondra James, Marama Corlett, Edward MacLiam
Votes: 2,481
7. The Prisoner of Second Avenue (1975)
PG | 98 min | Comedy
A suddenly-unemployed company executive suffers a nervous breakdown, and his supporting wife tries everything to console him and pick up the slack.
Director: Melvin Frank | Stars: Jack Lemmon, Anne Bancroft, Gene Saks, Elizabeth Wilson
Votes: 3,855
8. The Jigsaw Murders (1989)
R | 98 min | Action, Crime, Mystery
A dedicated middle-aged cop must find the serial killer that preys on erotic models before his estranged daughter who's also in the photo shoot business becomes the killer's next victim.
Director: Jag Mundhra | Stars: Chad Everett, Michelle Johnson, Michael Sabatino, Yaphet Kotto
Votes: 327
9. Ginger in the Morning (1974)
PG | 90 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
An attractive young hitchhiker named Ginger meets and and takes up with a lonely, middle-aged advertising executive who is recently divorced. He is inspired by her free-spirited ... See full summary »
Director: Gordon Wiles | Stars: Monte Markham, Susan Oliver, Mark Miller, Sissy Spacek
Votes: 379
10. Pulse (2018)
103 min | Drama, Thriller
A cheating husband decides to seek revenge against the woman who infected him with HIV.
Director: Giancarlo Beras-Goico | Stars: Alfonso Rodríguez, Ana Carmen Leon, Francisco Alejandro Vásquez, Nanssie Santelises
Votes: 50
11. Law and Disorder (1974)
R | 101 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
In the crime-ridden '70s New York City, two cops have had enough. They, along with few other disgruntled people decide to take the things into their own hands only to realize too late that they're in over their heads.
Director: Ivan Passer | Stars: Carroll O'Connor, Ernest Borgnine, Ann Wedgeworth, Anita Dangler
Votes: 330 | Gross: $1.60M
12. The Practice (1976–1977)
30 min | Comedy
Jules Bedford and son David are both doctors who often clash. The dad living working class, the son in a wealthy neighborhood. Jules is assisted by longtime nurse Molly and receptionist Helen. Jenny is David's wife and they have two sons.
Stars: Danny Thomas, David Spielberg, Dena Dietrich, Didi Conn
Votes: 51
13. The Bridge Partner (2015)
14 min | Short, Drama, Mystery
A timid housewife is jolted into a fight for her survival or sanity when she thinks she hears her new partner at a weekly bridge game whisper a shocking threat.
Director: Gabriel Olson | Stars: Beth Grant, Sharon Lawrence, Catherine Carlen, Robert Forster
Votes: 222
14. Valóság.exe (2023)
Not Rated | 52 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
A middle aged man called Dávid downloads an unknown software one day what can be used to rewrite reality and fate.
Director: Tóth Milán | Stars: Kolonits Ferenc, Szilágyi Ferenc, Gáti Mónika, Kovács József
Votes: 55
15. Shinmai Ossan Bôkensha, Saikyô Party ni Shinu Hodo Kitaerarete Muteki ni Naru (2024– )
Animation, Action, Adventure | Post-production
An adventurer who served with the strongest fighters finally sets out on his own, in middle age.
Stars: Takuya Sato, Saori Ônishi, Kenta Miyake, Toshiyuki Toyonaga
16. Father, Behave Yourself! (1967)
97 min | Comedy
Antonis is a wealthy peasant who finds out that his son spends money and time partying instead of studying. He decides to visit him and restore him to track but instead of achieving his purpose, he falls into the trap of sweet life too.
Director: Kostas Karagiannis | Stars: Labros Konstadaras, Mirka Kalatzopoulou, Alekos Tzanetakos, Giorgos Moutsios
Votes: 294
17. Mothers (I) (2019)
11 min | Short, Comedy
Two women explore the themes of Empty Nest Syndrome and transition, over the course of one night's misadventures in a hotel hot tub.
Director: Leslie Murphy | Stars: Nan McNamara, Treva Tegtmeier, Summer Marie Thomas
Votes: 6
18. Veszélyroham 2: Újabb Rivális (2021)
10 min | Short, Action, Sci-Fi
A middle-aged man called Botond meets an unknown person named Csaba who offers money in exchange for defeat monsters in the lake. Botond decides to do the job, so he sets out to defeat the monsters, but he doesn't know that Csaba is lying.
Director: Tóth Milán | Stars: Tóth Péter Attila, Kolonits Ferenc, Szilágyi Ferenc, Kovács József
Votes: 18
19.
Millennium (1996–1999)
Episode:
...Thirteen Years Later
(1998)
TV-14 | 60 min | Crime, Drama, Horror
As Halloween approaches, a killer obsessed with famous horror movies stalks members of a production crew as they film a movie based upon one of Frank's cases. Rock band Kiss cameos as themselves.
Director: Thomas J. Wright | Stars: Lance Henriksen, Klea Scott, Jeff Yagher, Jim Pirri
Votes: 321
20.
Millennium (1996–1999)
Episode:
19:19
(1997)
TV-14 | 60 min | Crime, Drama, Horror
Lara joins Frank and Watts in their search for a busload of missing children abducted by a disturbed young man obsessed with fulfilling a biblical prophecy.
Director: Thomas J. Wright | Stars: Lance Henriksen, Megan Gallagher, Terry O'Quinn, Kristen Cloke
Votes: 322
21.
Millennium (1996–1999)
Episode:
5-2-2-6-6-6
(1996)
TV-14 | 60 min | Crime, Drama, Horror
Frank and Peter head to Washington in order to help the FBI investigate a serial bomber.
Director: David Nutter | Stars: Lance Henriksen, Megan Gallagher, Terry O'Quinn, Brittany Tiplady
Votes: 431
22.
Millennium (1996–1999)
Episode:
A Room with No View
(1998)
TV-14 | 60 min | Crime, Drama, Horror
Frank senses that his demonic archnemesis who killed Bletch is responsible for the disappearance of a teenage boy, but that's just the first step in a much larger game of pure evil in which the goal is to rob the world of its future.
Director: Thomas J. Wright | Stars: Lance Henriksen, Megan Gallagher, Terry O'Quinn, Stephen J. Lang
Votes: 376
23.
Millennium (1996–1999)
Episode:
A Single Blade of Grass
(1997)
TV-14 | 60 min | Crime, Drama, Horror
A Native American doomsday cult targets Frank after he joins forces with a female archaeologist to investigate the ritualistic murder of a Native American man whose body was found at an archaeological site in New York City.
Director: Rodman Flender | Stars: Lance Henriksen, Megan Gallagher, Amy Steel, Michael Greyeyes
Votes: 328
24.
Millennium (1996–1999)
Episode:
Anamnesis
(1998)
TV-14 | 60 min | Crime, Drama, Horror
Catherine and Lara investigate a small town high school girl who claims to have been chosen as the prophet of Mary. The two women must learn to trust each other in order to find answers and protect the girl from local zealots.
Director: John Peter Kousakis | Stars: Lance Henriksen, Megan Gallagher, Terry O'Quinn, Gwynyth Walsh
Votes: 318
25.
Millennium (1996–1999)
Episode:
Antipas
(1999)
TV-14 | 43 min | Crime, Drama, Horror
Frank finds a connection between the murder of a federal prosecutor and his evil archnemesis, Lucy Butler, who now lives with the family of a gubernatorial candidate as the nanny of their little daughter whom she wants for herself.
Director: Thomas J. Wright | Stars: Lance Henriksen, Klea Scott, Art Hindle, Stephen E. Miller
Votes: 282
26.
Millennium (1996–1999)
Episode:
Bardo Thodol
(1999)
TV-14 | 60 min | Crime, Drama, Horror
Frank and Emma are called in when five severed hands and a mysterious red bowl are found on a Japanese cargo ship.
Director: Thomas J. Wright | Stars: Lance Henriksen, Klea Scott, Brittany Tiplady, James Hong
Votes: 249
27.
Millennium (1996–1999)
Episode:
Beware of the Dog
(1997)
TV-14 | 60 min | Crime, Drama, Horror
The Group asks Frank to investigate the brutal death of an old couple killed by a pack of vicious dogs in an odd small town in Montana. A hermit who represents the Group there explains to Frank how the pact between Heaven and Hell works.
Director: Allen Coulter | Stars: Lance Henriksen, Megan Gallagher, Terry O'Quinn, Brittany Tiplady
Votes: 360
28.
Millennium (1996–1999)
Episode:
Blood Relatives
(1996)
TV-14 | 60 min | Crime, Drama, Horror
Frank tries to catch a troubled young pretender who is the main suspect in a string of brutal murders at funerals.
Director: Jim Charleston | Stars: Lance Henriksen, Megan Gallagher, Brittany Tiplady, Terry O'Quinn
Votes: 399
29.
Millennium (1996–1999)
Episode:
Borrowed Time
(1999)
TV-14 | 60 min | Crime, Drama, Horror
When Jordan falls gravely ill for no apparent reason, Frank likens her condition to the mysterious demise of three people who had previously survived a brush with death. A supernatural stalker appears to be behind it all.
Director: Dwight H. Little | Stars: Lance Henriksen, Klea Scott, Brittany Tiplady, Eric Mabius
Votes: 280
30.
Millennium (1996–1999)
Episode:
Broken World
(1997)
TV-14 | 60 min | Crime, Drama, Horror
Frank hunts down a serial-killer-in-the-making who takes pleasure in slaughtering horses.
Director: Winrich Kolbe | Stars: Lance Henriksen, Megan Gallagher, Terry O'Quinn, Jo Anderson
Votes: 342
31.
Millennium (1996–1999)
Episode:
Closure
(1998)
TV-14 | 60 min | Crime, Drama, Horror
Emma tracks a spree killer and his two accomplices but refuses to accept Frank's theory that the killer has no deeper motive for the rampage.
Director: Daniel Sackheim | Stars: Lance Henriksen, Klea Scott, Garret Dillahunt, Shelley Owens
Votes: 274
32.
Millennium (1996–1999)
Episode:
Collateral Damage
(1999)
TV-14 | 60 min | Crime, Drama, Horror
A disgruntled war veteran kidnaps Peter Watts' daughter in order to force him to confess to the world the horrific sins of the Millennium Group.
Director: Thomas J. Wright | Stars: Lance Henriksen, Klea Scott, James Marsters, Stephen E. Miller
Votes: 296
33.
Millennium (1996–1999)
Episode:
Covenant
(1997)
TV-14 | 60 min | Crime, Drama, Horror
Frank is asked to develop a psychological profile on a sheriff who confessed to murdering his entire family.
Director: Rod Pridy | Stars: Lance Henriksen, Megan Gallagher, Brittany Tiplady, John Finn
Votes: 379
34.
Millennium (1996–1999)
Episode:
Darwin's Eye
(1999)
TV-14 | 60 min | Crime, Drama, Horror
An escaped homicidal female psychiatric patient seduces a young patrolman into helping her prove her innocence. Emma believes that a conspiracy may have been behind the woman's imprisonment but Frank is not so sure.
Director: Kenneth Fink | Stars: Lance Henriksen, Klea Scott, Peter Outerbridge, Tracy Middendorf
Votes: 273
35.
Millennium (1996–1999)
Episode:
Dead Letters
(1996)
TV-14 | 60 min | Crime, Drama, Horror
Frank teams up with Jim Horn, a troubled profiler and candidate for the Millennium Group, in order to catch a deranged serial killer, but Horn's psyche starts to crack under pressure.
Director: Thomas J. Wright | Stars: Lance Henriksen, Megan Gallagher, Brittany Tiplady, Chris Ellis
Votes: 472
36.
Millennium (1996–1999)
Episode:
Exegesis
(1998)
TV-14 | 60 min | Crime, Drama, Horror
Frank and Agent Hollis investigate the deaths of several sisters and their daughters who appear to be genetically engineered "remote viewers". They must find the remaining sisters before the Millennium Group's assassins do.
Director: Ralph Hemecker | Stars: Lance Henriksen, Klea Scott, Brittany Tiplady, Peter Outerbridge
Votes: 281
37.
Millennium (1996–1999)
Episode:
Force Majeure
(1997)
TV-14 | 60 min | Crime, Drama, Horror
The Group investigates the suicides of identical twin girls born seven years apart in different families. Dennis Hoffman, a noisy man obsessed with the apocalyptic planetary alignment prophesied to occur in 2000, helps Frank on the case.
Director: Winrich Kolbe | Stars: Lance Henriksen, Megan Gallagher, Terry O'Quinn, Brittany Tiplady
Votes: 385
38.
Millennium (1996–1999)
Episode:
Forcing the End
(1999)
TV-14 | 60 min | Crime, Drama, Horror
Frank and Emma investigate when a group of religious fanatics kidnap a pregnant Jewish woman.
Director: Thomas J. Wright | Stars: Lance Henriksen, Klea Scott, Andreas Katsulas, Stephen E. Miller
Votes: 255
39.
Millennium (1996–1999)
Episode:
Gehenna
(1996)
TV-14 | 60 min | Crime, Drama, Horror
Discovery of cremated human remains in a public park, leads Frank, his mentor Mike Atkins and Peter Watts from the Millennium Group to a doomsday cult of teenage telemarketers brainwashed by their mysterious monstrous leader.
Director: David Nutter | Stars: Lance Henriksen, Megan Gallagher, Brittany Tiplady, Terry O'Quinn
Votes: 511
40.
Millennium (1996–1999)
Episode:
Goodbye Charlie
(1998)
TV-14 | 60 min | Crime, Drama, Horror
Frank and Lara are in pursuit of an otherworldly doctor who assists the terminally ill by helping them commit suicide. But, is his motivation mercy - or murder?
Director: Kenneth Fink | Stars: Lance Henriksen, Megan Gallagher, Stephen J. Lang, Kristen Cloke
Votes: 333
41.
Millennium (1996–1999)
Episode:
Goodbye to All That
(1999)
TV-14 | 60 min | Crime, Drama, Horror
In the impromptu series finale, Frank, suspecting the Millennium Group's involvement, burns all bridges in his pursuit of the copycat killer. Emma makes her Sophie's choice. The Group betrays Watts. Frank returns in The X-Files: Millennium (1999).
Director: Thomas J. Wright | Stars: Lance Henriksen, Klea Scott, Brittany Tiplady, Peter Outerbridge
Votes: 274
42.
Millennium (1996–1999)
Episode:
Human Essence
(1998)
TV-14 | 60 min | Crime, Drama, Horror
Emma is investigated by the Internal Affairs when she tries to help her junkie sister who claims that a new designer drug is turning addicts into monsters - literally. She and Frank find evidence of a conspiracy.
Director: Thomas J. Wright | Stars: Lance Henriksen, Klea Scott, Peter Outerbridge, Stephen E. Miller
Votes: 269
43.
Millennium (1996–1999)
Episode:
In Arcadia Ego
(1998)
TV-14 | 60 min | Crime, Drama, Horror
Frank tries to track down a couple of desperate escaped female convicts, who are in love and believe that God had bless them with miraculous pregnancy, before the trigger happy sheriff and his men find them first.
Director: Thomas J. Wright | Stars: Lance Henriksen, Megan Gallagher, Terry O'Quinn, Missy Crider
Votes: 305
44.
Millennium (1996–1999)
Episode:
Jose Chung's 'Doomsday Defense'
(1997)
TV-14 | 60 min | Crime, Drama, Horror
In this funny satire with a grim twist, quirky novelist Jose Chung, first seen in The X-Files: Jose Chung's 'From Outer Space' (1996), authors a short story critical of a millennial self-help movement similar to Scientology and becomes the target of one of its followers.
Director: Darin Morgan | Stars: Lance Henriksen, Megan Gallagher, Terry O'Quinn, Stephen J. Lang
Votes: 496
45.
Millennium (1996–1999)
Episode:
Kingdom Come
(1996)
TV-14 | 60 min | Crime, Drama, Horror
Frank investigates a serial killer who seems to be targeting the clergy.
Director: Winrich Kolbe | Stars: Lance Henriksen, Megan Gallagher, Brittany Tiplady, Lindsay Crouse
Votes: 422
46.
Millennium (1996–1999)
Episode:
Lamentation
(1997)
TV-14 | 60 min | Crime, Drama, Horror
While assisting the FBI in the hunt for an escaped serial killer, a mad doctor he put in prison, Frank unknowingly meets his demonic, inhuman nemesis and the mastermind of unspeakable evil who claims the life of someone close to him.
Director: Winrich Kolbe | Stars: Lance Henriksen, Megan Gallagher, Terry O'Quinn, Brittany Tiplady
Votes: 447
47.
Millennium (1996–1999)
Episode:
Loin Like a Hunting Flame
(1997)
TV-14 | 60 min | Crime, Drama, Horror
A pharmacist drugs unsuspecting couples and forces them to enact his sexual fantasies.
Director: David Nutter | Stars: Lance Henriksen, Megan Gallagher, Terry O'Quinn, William Lucking
Votes: 369
48.
Millennium (1996–1999)
Episode:
Luminary
(1998)
TV-14 | 60 min | Crime, Drama, Horror
Frank seriously jeopardizes his relationship with the Millennium Group when he refuses to swear absolute loyalty to them and goes against their wishes to find a young man who disappeared on his pilgrimage to the Alaskan wilderness.
Director: Thomas J. Wright | Stars: Lance Henriksen, Megan Gallagher, Terry O'Quinn, Brittany Tiplady
Votes: 355
49.
Millennium (1996–1999)
Episode:
Maranatha
(1997)
TV-14 | 60 min | Crime, Drama, Horror
Frank and Peter try to catch a Russian murderer with links to Chernobyl. In their search they discover chilling information with apocalyptic ramifications.
Director: Peter Markle | Stars: Lance Henriksen, Megan Gallagher, Terry O'Quinn, Bill Nunn
Votes: 347
50.
Millennium (1996–1999)
Episode:
Matryoshka
(1999)
TV-14 | 60 min | Crime, Drama, Horror
Frank and Emma investigate the cryptic suicide of Michael Lanyard, an ex-FBI Agent turned member of the Millennium Group, and his final case, the supernatural death of one of the physicists who worked on the Trinity nuclear test in 1945.
Director: Arthur W. Forney | Stars: Lance Henriksen, Klea Scott, Peter Outerbridge, Dean Winters
Votes: 261