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1. Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood (2019)
R | 161 min | Comedy, Drama
A faded television actor and his stunt double strive to achieve fame and success in the final years of Hollywood's Golden Age in 1969 Los Angeles.
Director: Quentin Tarantino | Stars: Leonardo DiCaprio, Brad Pitt, Margot Robbie, Emile Hirsch
Votes: 850,383 | Gross: $142.50M
2. The Longest Ride (2015)
PG-13 | 123 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Sophia and Luke make an unexpected and fateful connection with Ira, a 90-years old man, when they save him from a car crash. Ira's memories of his own decades-long romance with his beloved wife deeply inspire the young couple.
Director: George Tillman Jr. | Stars: Scott Eastwood, Britt Robertson, Alan Alda, Jack Huston
Votes: 88,996 | Gross: $37.45M
3. Inland Empire (2006)
R | 180 min | Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
As an actress begins to adopt the persona of her character in a film, her world becomes nightmarish and surreal.
Director: David Lynch | Stars: Karolina Gruszka, Krzysztof Majchrzak, Grace Zabriskie, Laura Dern
Votes: 62,501 | Gross: $0.75M
4. Lux Æterna (2019)
51 min | Drama, Thriller
Two actresses, Béatrice Dalle and Charlotte Gainsbourg, are on a film set telling stories about witches - but that's not all. 'Lux Æterna' is also an essay on cinema, the love of film, and on-set hysterics.
Director: Gaspar Noé | Stars: Béatrice Dalle, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Abbey Lee, Claude-Emmanuelle Gajan-Maull
Votes: 7,423
5. Vortex (2021)
142 min | Drama
The last days of an elderly couple stricken by dementia.
Director: Gaspar Noé | Stars: Dario Argento, Françoise Lebrun, Alex Lutz, Kylian Dheret
Votes: 9,310
6. Killing Ground (2016)
Not Rated | 88 min | Horror, Thriller
A couple's camping trip turns into a frightening ordeal when they stumble across the scene of a horrific crime.
Director: Damien Power | Stars: Aaron Pedersen, Ian Meadows, Harriet Dyer, Aaron Glenane
Votes: 9,348
7. Wonderstruck (2017)
PG | 116 min | Adventure, Drama, Mystery
Tells the tale of two children separated by fifty years. In 1927, Rose searches for the actress whose life she chronicles in her scrapbook; in 1977, Ben runs away from home to find his father.
Director: Todd Haynes | Stars: Oakes Fegley, Julianne Moore, Michelle Williams, Millicent Simmonds
Votes: 11,092 | Gross: $1.03M
8. Embrace of the Serpent (2015)
Not Rated | 125 min | Adventure, Biography, Drama
The story of the relationship between Karamakate, an Amazonian shaman and last survivor of his people, and two scientists who work together over the course of forty years to search the Amazon for a sacred healing plant.
Director: Ciro Guerra | Stars: Nilbio Torres, Jan Bijvoet, Antonio Bolívar, Brionne Davis
Votes: 24,500 | Gross: $1.33M
9. The Name of the Game (1968–1971)
TV-PG | 90 min | Adventure, Drama, Mystery
Sandy, a young woman in the research dept of Howard Publications has wild romantic daydreams about her boss Glenn Howard that confuse her sense of reality, hampering Howard in an investigation.
Stars: Gene Barry, Susan Saint James, Robert Stack, Anthony Franciosa
Votes: 698
10. The Incident (2014)
100 min | Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Two parallel stories about characters trapped in illogical endless spaces: two brothers and a detective locked on an infinite staircase, and a family locked on an infinite road - for a very long time.
Director: Isaac Ezban | Stars: Raúl Méndez, Magda Brugengheim, Humberto Busto, Erick Trinidad Camacho
Votes: 4,331
11. Melinda and Melinda (2004)
PG-13 | 99 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Two alternating stories, one comedy and the other tragedy, about Melinda's attempts to straighten out her life.
Director: Woody Allen | Stars: Will Ferrell, Vinessa Shaw, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Wallace Shawn
Votes: 33,224 | Gross: $3.83M
12. The Forbidden Room (2015)
Not Rated | 130 min | Comedy, Mystery
In this non-linear amalgamation, submarine crewmen and a woodsman wend their way through a voyage of odd experiences.
Directors: Guy Maddin, Evan Johnson | Stars: Roy Dupuis, Clara Furey, Louis Negin, Udo Kier
Votes: 3,421 | Gross: $0.03M
13. In the Basement (2014)
Not Rated | 81 min | Documentary
A documentary that reveals what its subjects do in their respective basements.
Director: Ulrich Seidl | Stars: Fritz Lang, Alfreda Klebinger, Manfred Ellinger, Inge Ellinger
Votes: 3,107 | Gross: $0.00M
14. Tristram Shandy (2005)
R | 94 min | Comedy
Director Michael Winterbottom (Northam) attempts to shoot the adaptation of Laurence Sterne's essentially unfilmable novel, "The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman."
Director: Michael Winterbottom | Stars: Steve Coogan, Jeremy Northam, Rob Brydon, Keeley Hawes
Votes: 13,181 | Gross: $1.25M
15. What If... (2012)
Not Rated | 111 min | Drama, Romance
Under the Athenian night sky, before the silent threat of an imminent socio-economic crisis, a young man goes for a stroll and meets the love of his life. Does fate govern one's existence? What would have happened if he stayed in, instead?
Director: Christopher Papakaliatis | Stars: Christopher Papakaliatis, Marina Kalogirou, Giorgos Konstadinou, Maro Kodou
Votes: 8,413
16. Night of the Kings (2020)
R | 93 min | Drama, Fantasy
A young man is sent to "La Maca", a prison of Ivory Coast in the middle of the forest ruled by its prisoners. With the red moon rising, he is designated by the Boss to be the new "Roman" and must tell a story to the other prisoners.
Director: Philippe Lacôte | Stars: Bakary Koné, Steve Tientcheu, Jean Cyrille Digbeu, Rasmané Ouédraogo
Votes: 2,864
17. The Undead (1957)
Unrated | 71 min | Fantasy, Horror
A beautiful woman is sent back in time via hypnosis to the Middle Ages where she finds she is suspected of being a witch, and subject to being executed.
Director: Roger Corman | Stars: Pamela Duncan, Richard Garland, Allison Hayes, Val Dufour
Votes: 2,594
18. Las chicas del tanga (1987)
84 min | Comedy
Three crazy couples in Benidorm, Spain making mischief.
Directors: Lina Romay, Jesús Franco | Stars: Lina Romay, Antonio Mayans, Eva León, Analía Ivars
Votes: 121
19. Halal Love (2015)
94 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Four tragicomic interconnected stories about how devoted Muslim men and women are trying to manage their love life and desires without breaking any religious rules.
Director: Assad Fouladkar | Stars: Darine Hamze, Rodrigue Sleiman, Zeinab Hind Khadra, Hussein Mokadem
Votes: 558
20. Travelers and Magicians (2003)
Not Rated | 108 min | Adventure, Drama
The two men embark on parallel, if separate, journeys. Their yearning is a common one--for a better and different life. Dondup, delayed by the timeless pace of his village, is forced to ... See full summary »
Director: Khyentse Norbu | Stars: Tshewang Dendup, Gup Kado Duba, Dasho Kado, Sonam Lhamo
Votes: 2,332 | Gross: $0.51M
21. Mylène Farmer: California (1996 Music Video)
5 min | Short, Drama, Music
Farmer appears in the movie in two roles: as a woman of high society, and as a street prostitute. The partner of the singer in the video is an American TV actor Giancarlo Esposito, who also... See full summary »
Director: Abel Ferrara | Stars: Mylène Farmer, Giancarlo Esposito
Votes: 404
22. Relativity (2019)
111 min | Drama
Have you ever had a Déja Vu? Have you ever met a person you think you already know?
Director: Mariko Minoguchi | Stars: Saskia Rosendahl, Jeanette Hain, Edin Hasanovic, Hanns Zischler
Votes: 683
23. Something Different (1963)
85 min | Drama
Two stories are simultaneously told. One dutiful mother progressively becomes a frustrated woman who is the only one assuming the family responsibilities of working at home and looking ... See full summary »
Director: Vera Chytilová | Stars: Eva Bosáková, Vera Uzelacová, Josef Langmiler, Jirí Kodet
Votes: 871
24. Photon (2017)
107 min | Animation, Drama, Mystery
A scientist explains to a journalist how atoms formed in the early universe and how the world has developed to the present day. When pressed, he gives his opinion on what's going to happen in the future.
Director: Norman Leto | Stars: Andrzej Chyra, Karolina Kominek-Skuratowicz, Lukasz Grudzinski, Alex Mru Kijania
Votes: 644
25. Cronies (2015)
Not Rated | 86 min | Comedy, Drama
Louis and Jack have been friends since forever, so how could anything as lame as adulthood change that? But Louis's first adorable attempts at grown-folk business are increasingly at odds ... See full summary »
Director: Michael Larnell | Stars: George Sample III, Zurich Buckner, Brian Kowalski, Landra Taylor
Votes: 112
26. Marysia i Napoleon (1966)
114 min | Comedy, History, Romance
A young French historian, Napoleon Beranger, comes to Warsaw on a foreign scholarship. While driving his car along a detour he runs into an old manor in Walewice village. On the wall of the... See full summary »
Director: Leonard Buczkowski | Stars: Beata Tyszkiewicz, Gustaw Holoubek, Juliusz Luszczewski, Ewa Berger-Jankowska
Votes: 60
27. People We Know Are Confused (2021)
99 min | Drama
Set in Vilnius, a modern city still in search for its relation to the past, three parallel stories with three average people marooned in a state of change, looking to the future with hope, ... See full summary »
Director: Tomas Smulkis | Stars: Juozas Budraitis, Milda Noreikaite, Arunas Sakalauskas, Paulius Markevicius
Votes: 105
28. Den nás kazdodenný... (1969)
88 min | Drama
Director: Otakar Krivánek | Stars: Adela Gáborová, Michal Ravinger Jr., Michal Ravinger Sr., Marcel Ravinger
Votes: 24
29. Poor Folk (2012)
105 min | Drama
Arranged by a smuggling syndicate, A-Hong and his young teen sister along with a group of Burmese youngsters sneak across the Myanmar/Thailand border and arrive in a remote town called ... See full summary »
Director: Midi Z | Stars: Shin-Hong Wang, Ke-Xi Wu, Defu Zhao, Meng-Lan Zheng
Votes: 107
30. Vreme bliskosti (2012)
8 min | Short, Romance
Parallel stories of a first sexual encounter and a last sexual experience.
Director: Milos Milosevic | Stars: Pavle Vasic, Katarina Kovacevic, Vesna Gakovic, Ognjen Vitkovic
Votes: 9
31. Puzz 3D: Neuschwanstein Bavarian Castle (1999 Video Game)
Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Part of Puzz 3D video game series. Complete the 3D jigsaw puzzle of the historical Neuschwanstein Castle in Bavaria, Germany to help the protagonists of Richard Wagner's operas lift a curse. The story is told through FMV sequences.
Director: Philippe-Andre Briere
32.
Supernatural (2005–2020)
Episode:
Safe House
(2016)
TV-14 | 42 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
After dangerous creature is released into an old house, a mother and child are comatose. Sam and Dean find that Bobby and Rufus tracked the same creature so the Winchesters look to the past to catch the monster before any one dies.
Director: Stefan Pleszczynski | Stars: Jared Padalecki, Jensen Ackles, Jim Beaver, Steven Williams
Votes: 3,568