Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "tied-to-a-stake"

1. Van Helsing (2004)

PG-13 | 131 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy

The famed monster hunter is sent to Transylvania to stop Count Dracula, who is using Dr. Frankenstein's research and a werewolf for nefarious purposes.

Director: Stephen Sommers | Stars: Hugh Jackman, Kate Beckinsale, Richard Roxburgh, Shuler Hensley

Votes: 285,214 | Gross: $120.18M

2. Predators (2010)

R | 107 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

A group of elite warriors parachute into an unfamiliar jungle and are hunted by members of a merciless alien race.

Director: Nimród Antal | Stars: Adrien Brody, Laurence Fishburne, Topher Grace, Alice Braga

Votes: 244,181 | Gross: $52.00M

3. Addams Family Values (1993)

PG-13 | 94 min | Comedy, Fantasy

The Addams Family try to rescue their beloved Uncle Fester from his gold-digging new love, a black widow named Debbie.

Director: Barry Sonnenfeld | Stars: Anjelica Huston, Raul Julia, Christopher Lloyd, Joan Cusack

Votes: 109,788 | Gross: $48.92M

4. DragonHeart (1996)

PG-13 | 103 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy

The last dragon and a disillusioned dragonslaying Knight must cooperate to stop an evil King, who was given partial immortality.

Director: Rob Cohen | Stars: Dennis Quaid, Sean Connery, Dina Meyer, Pete Postlethwaite

Votes: 101,879 | Gross: $51.37M

5. Elvira: Mistress of the Dark (1988)

PG-13 | 96 min | Comedy, Horror

"Elvira: Mistress of the Dark" is a 1988 comedy, horror movie - upon arriving in a small town where Elvira has inherited a rundown mansion, the famous horror host must battle an evil uncle, and townspeople who want her burned at the stake.

Director: James Signorelli | Stars: Cassandra Peterson, Phil Rubenstein, Larry Flash Jenkins, Damita Jo Freeman

Votes: 20,892 | Gross: $5.60M

6. Evil (2003)

Not Rated | 113 min | Drama

A teenage boy expelled from school for fighting arrives at a boarding school where the systematic bullying of younger students is encouraged as a means to maintain discipline, and decides to fight back.

Director: Mikael Håfström | Stars: Andreas Wilson, Henrik Lundström, Gustaf Skarsgård, Linda Zilliacus

Votes: 42,126 | Gross: $0.02M

7. Jonah Hex (2010)

PG-13 | 81 min | Action, Drama, Fantasy

The U.S. military makes a scarred bounty hunter with warrants on his own head an offer he cannot refuse: in exchange for his freedom, he must stop a terrorist who is ready to unleash Hell on Earth.

Director: Jimmy Hayward | Stars: Josh Brolin, Megan Fox, John Malkovich, Michael Fassbender

Votes: 61,839 | Gross: $10.54M

8. Twins of Evil (1971)

R | 87 min | Horror

A religious sect led by Gustav Weil hunts all women suspected of witchcraft, killing a number of innocent victims. Young Frieda, Gustav's niece, will involve herself in a devilish cult, and become an instrument of Justice in the region.

Director: John Hough | Stars: Peter Cushing, Dennis Price, Mary Collinson, Madeleine Collinson

Votes: 6,516

9. Black Sunday (1960)

Approved | 87 min | Horror

A vengeful witch and her fiendish servant return from the grave and begin a bloody campaign to possess the body of the witch's beautiful look-alike descendant.

Director: Mario Bava | Stars: Barbara Steele, John Richardson, Andrea Checchi, Ivo Garrani

Votes: 17,626

10. Day of the Evil Gun (1968)

Approved | 95 min | Western

A woman and two children are kidnapped by Apaches. The husband of the captured woman enlists the help of his neighbor to find the Apaches that seized his family; not knowing his neighbor has unknown reasons of his own for helping him.

Director: Jerry Thorpe | Stars: Glenn Ford, Arthur Kennedy, Dean Jagger, John Anderson

Votes: 1,441

11. Doctor Dolittle (1967)

Approved | 152 min | Adventure, Comedy, Family

After the animal communicating veterinarian goes too far for his clientele, he and his friends escape their hometown to the sea in search of the Great Pink Sea Snail.

Director: Richard Fleischer | Stars: Rex Harrison, Samantha Eggar, Anthony Newley, Richard Attenborough

Votes: 10,280 | Gross: $13.52M

12. Pilgrimage (II) (2017)

Not Rated | 96 min | Action, Drama, History

In 13th-century Ireland, a group of monks must escort a sacred relic across a landscape fraught with peril.

Director: Brendan Muldowney | Stars: Tom Holland, Richard Armitage, Jon Bernthal, Nikos Karathanos

Votes: 6,444

13. Witch Hunt (I) (2021)

R | 98 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror

In a modern America where witches are real and witchcraft is illegal, a sheltered teenager must face her own demons and prejudices as she helps two young witches avoid law enforcement and cross the southern border to asylum in Mexico.

Director: Elle Callahan | Stars: Gideon Adlon, Abigail Cowen, Elizabeth Mitchell, Echo Campbell

Votes: 1,886

14. Unconquered (1947)

Passed | 146 min | Adventure, Drama, History

Intrepid frontiersman Chris Holden foils the political and personal ambitions of renegade Martin Garth in the Ohio Valley following the French and Indian War.

Director: Cecil B. DeMille | Stars: Gary Cooper, Paulette Goddard, Howard Da Silva, Boris Karloff

Votes: 2,900

15. Mountains of the Moon (1990)

R | 136 min | Adventure, Drama, History

The legendary true-story of Capt. Richard Francis Burton and Lt. John Hanning Speke's tumultuous expedition to find the source of the Nile river.

Director: Bob Rafelson | Stars: Patrick Bergin, Iain Glen, Richard E. Grant, Fiona Shaw

Votes: 4,258 | Gross: $4.01M

16. About Endlessness (2019)

78 min | Drama, Fantasy

Roy Andersson adds to his cinematic oeuvre with a reflection on human life in all its beauty and cruelty, its splendour and banality.

Director: Roy Andersson | Stars: Jessica Louthander, Tatiana Delaunay, Anders Hellström, Bertil J. Nyberg

Votes: 7,793

17. The Island at the Top of the World (1974)

G | 93 min | Adventure, Family, Fantasy

In 1907, four explorers discover a lost colony of Vikings in the Arctic.

Director: Robert Stevenson | Stars: David Hartman, Donald Sinden, Jacques Marin, Mako

Votes: 3,163

18. Jane and the Lost City (1987)

PG | 93 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy

Jane and the colonel must journey to Africa to the lost city to retrieve the diamonds before the Germans do. Based on the classic adult UK comic strip "Jane," especially popular during World War II for its strong pin-up elements.

Director: Terry Marcel | Stars: Sam J. Jones, Maud Adams, Jasper Carrott, Kirsten Hughes

Votes: 628

19. Even the Rain (2010)

Not Rated | 103 min | Drama, History

As a director and his crew shoot a controversial film about Christopher Columbus in Cochabamba, Bolivia, local people rise up against plans to privatize the water supply.

Director: Icíar Bollaín | Stars: Gael García Bernal, Luis Tosar, Karra Elejalde, Juan Carlos Aduviri

Votes: 14,232 | Gross: $0.56M

20. The Saga of the Viking Women and Their Voyage to the Waters of the Great Sea Serpent (1957)

Not Rated | 66 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy

A group of lonely Viking women build a ship and set off across the sea to locate their missing menfolk, only to fall into the clutches of the barbarians that also hold their men captive. There is a cameo appearance by the sea serpent.

Director: Roger Corman | Stars: Abby Dalton, Susan Cabot, Bradford Jackson, June Kenney

Votes: 1,597

21. Pigsty (1969)

Not Rated | 99 min | Drama

A man wandering in a volcanic desert forms a band of murderous cannibals. A post-war German industrialist learns that his son is unable to make decisions or form relationships.

Director: Pier Paolo Pasolini | Stars: Pierre Clémenti, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Alberto Lionello, Ugo Tognazzi

Votes: 3,981

22. Black Ribbon (2007)

107 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller

A writer buys a typewriter which brings out his deepest and darkest desires.

Director: John Orrichio | Stars: Tony Rugnetta, Jacki Vogel, Rudy J. Altenor, Berenice Di Piazza

Votes: 218

23. Tarzan and the Leopard Woman (1946)

Passed | 72 min | Action, Adventure, Romance

As a spate of leopard attacks causes panic, a sceptical Tarzan joins a hunting expedition, only to face a pagan cult of leopard-god worshippers and their fiendish high priestess. Can he escape the sharp claws of the savage Leopard Woman?

Director: Kurt Neumann | Stars: Johnny Weissmuller, Brenda Joyce, Johnny Sheffield, Acquanetta

Votes: 2,447

24. Buffalo Bill (1944)

Approved | 90 min | Drama, Western

The story of William "Buffalo Bill" Cody, legendary westerner, from his days as an army scout to his later activities as owner of a Wild West show.

Director: William A. Wellman | Stars: Joel McCrea, Maureen O'Hara, Linda Darnell, Thomas Mitchell

Votes: 1,702

25. Island of Doomed Men (1940)

Passed | 68 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

Undercover agent Mark Sheldon gets paroled to a remote tropical island with a diamond mine manned by slave labor run by sadistic Stephen Danel.

Director: Charles Barton | Stars: Peter Lorre, Rochelle Hudson, Robert Wilcox, Don Beddoe

Votes: 629

26. Blood of Dracula's Castle (1969)

M | 84 min | Horror

Count Dracula and his wife capture beautiful young women and chain them in their dungeon, to be used when they need to satisfy their thirst for blood.

Directors: Al Adamson, Don Hulette | Stars: John Carradine, Paula Raymond, Alexander D'Arcy, Robert Dix

Votes: 1,295

27. Sword of Lancelot (1963)

Approved | 116 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy

Lancelot is King Arthur's most valued Knight of the Round Table and a paragon of courage and virtue. Things change, however, when he falls in love with Queen Guinevere.

Director: Cornel Wilde | Stars: Cornel Wilde, Jean Wallace, Brian Aherne, George Baker

Votes: 626

28. Jungle Girl (1941)

Passed | 267 min | Adventure, Family

Dr. Meredith has been driven from civilization by the criminal activities of his twin brother Bradley. With his infant daughter, he settles in the African jungle. But the Masamba tribes possess vast diamond mines coveted by crooks.

Directors: John English, William Witney | Stars: Frances Gifford, Tom Neal, Trevor Bardette, Gerald Mohr

Votes: 232

29. Cabeza de Vaca (1991)

R | 111 min | Adventure, Biography, Drama

A handful of survivors from a disastrous 1528 Spanish expedition to Florida journey across the coast until they reach Mexico.

Director: Nicolás Echevarría | Stars: Juan Diego, Daniel Giménez Cacho, Roberto Sosa, Carlos Castañón

Votes: 1,201 | Gross: $0.79M

30. White Ghost (1988)

R | 90 min | Action, Adventure, War

An M.I.A. US soldier nicknamed White Ghost lives in hiding in the jungles of communist Vietnam. The US army finds out about him and sends a black ops team to rescue him. However, the team is led by a man who wants White Ghost dead.

Director: BJ Davis | Stars: William Katt, Rosalind Chao, Martin Hewitt, Wayne Crawford

Votes: 472

31. Long Live Robin Hood (1971)

G | 103 min | Adventure, Drama

A fun film with stylish costumes that has Gemma as the heir to the Nottingham dukedom who is robbed of his heritage. He joins the already-established 'Merrie Men' and becomes their leader.

Director: Giorgio Ferroni | Stars: Giuliano Gemma, Mark Damon, Luis Dávila, Silvia Dionisio

Votes: 421

32. Conquest of Cochise (1953)

Passed | 70 min | Western

A cavalry officer tries to keep a lid on a volatile situation when Indian leader Cochise is being prodded into starting a war.

Director: William Castle | Stars: John Hodiak, Robert Stack, Joy Page, Rico Alaniz

Votes: 391

33. Yankee (1966)

96 min | Western

A man referred to only as "Yankee" rides into a dying, desolate town in frontier New Mexico which is completely controlled by a man called the "Grand Cougar." Almost immediately, a battle for dominance ensues.

Director: Tinto Brass | Stars: Philippe Leroy, Adolfo Celi, Jacques Herlin, Tomás Torres

Votes: 465

34. The Paleface (1922)

Not Rated | 20 min | Short, Comedy, Western

Buster helps a Native American tribe save their land from greedy oil barons.

Director: Buster Keaton | Stars: Buster Keaton, Virginia Fox, Joe Roberts

Votes: 3,271

35. Ursus (1961)

90 min | Action, Fantasy, Adventure

Ursus returns from war to find his fiancée, Attea, has been kidnapped by a mysterious sect which sacrifices virgins to its patron goddess. Ursus faces much treachery and is forced to ... See full summary »

Director: Carlo Campogalliani | Stars: Ed Fury, Cristina Gaioni, Moira Orfei, Mario Scaccia

Votes: 213

36. Brick Bradford (1947)

Approved | 257 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

An adventurer travels to the moon to stop a madman from getting hold of the Interceptor Ray, a weapon that could destroy Earth.

Directors: Spencer Gordon Bennet, Thomas Carr | Stars: Kane Richmond, Rick Vallin, Linda Leighton, Pierre Watkin

Votes: 96

37. Spare the Rod (1954)

7 min | Animation, Short, Comedy

Donald's nephews are always playing instead of doing their chores. Donald is going to punish them, but the "voice of child psychology" convinces him to play along instead. This works well ... See full summary »

Director: Jack Hannah | Stars: Pinto Colvig, Clarence Nash, Bill Thompson

Votes: 331

38. Jungle Drums (1943)

Approved | 8 min | Animation, Short, Action

Superman vs. a secret Nazi outpost disguised as a jungle temple.

Directors: Dan Gordon, Orestes Calpini, Dave Fleischer | Stars: Joan Alexander, Jackson Beck, Jack Mercer, Julian Noa

Votes: 760

39. Final Reprisal (1988 Video)

88 min | Action, War

Seargant David Callahan leads a task force of U.S. Marines that are sent in behind enemy lines to perform a secret mission. The mission becomes a failure, when commandos kills daughter of ... See full summary »

Director: Teddy Page | Stars: El Chameleon, Gary Daniels, Oscar Daniels, Protacio Dee

Votes: 99

40. The Sexy Dark Ages (2011)

3 min | Short, Comedy

Faux trailer for a supposed Showtime series set in medieval times with an emphasis on sex and naked women.

Director: Alex Fernie | Stars: Robert Englund, Diora Baird, Daniel Sharman, Natalie Zea

Votes: 59

41. Desert Desperados (1959)

Approved | 81 min | Drama, History, Romance

A caravan guarded by Roman soldiers comes across a woman (Ruth Roman)bound to a stake and left to die. A wealthy merchant (Akim Tamiroff) who hired the caravan is against taking The Woman ... See full summary »

Directors: Steve Sekely, Gianni Vernuccio | Stars: Ruth Roman, Akim Tamiroff, Otello Toso, Gianni Musy

Votes: 18

42. Tharus figlio di Attila (1962)

90 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

King Bohlem, brother of the late Attila, reconquers former Hun territory. To secure this territory, he sends his son, Otto, and his nephew, Tharus, to forge an alliance with King Haadem, ... See full summary »

Director: Roberto Bianchi Montero | Stars: Jerome Courtland, Lisa Gastoni, Mimmo Palmara, Rik Van Nutter

Votes: 54

43. The Conqueror of Atlantis (1965)

93 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

Hercules searches for a mysterious "phantom invader" that is raiding villages in the desert for gold.

Director: Alfonso Brescia | Stars: Kirk Morris, Luciana Gilli, Piero Lulli, Andrea Scotti

Votes: 120

44. Suicide Squad Vs the Junkyard Witch (2018)

9 min | Short, Adventure

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Director: Terry Hogan | Stars: Cyn Shepard, Joe Jauch, William 'Bill' Connor, Ziva Fey

45. Nyoka and the Lost Secrets of Hippocrates (1966 TV Movie)

Approved | 100 min | Action, Adventure

In this feature-length reediting of the serial 'Perils of Nyoka (1942)', the famed African jungle girl Nyoka competes with an equally resourceful (and white) female nemesis, Vultura, to obtain a set of mysterious tablets of wondrous power.

Director: William Witney | Stars: Kay Aldridge, Clayton Moore, William 'Billy' Benedict, Lorna Gray

46. Injun Trouble (1951)

7 min | Animation, Short

Terrytoon in which Mighty Mouse saves an old prospector from indians.

Director: Eddie Donnelly

Votes: 43

47. Big Chief Koko (1925)

7 min | Animation, Comedy, Short

A Native American artist with a feather headdress offers his work to Max, and Ko-Ko takes the place of a cartoon Indian character, who seeks revenge against Ko-Ko and his dog pal.

Director: Dave Fleischer | Star: Max Fleischer

Votes: 47

48. Fantasy Island (1977–1984)
Episode: Return to Fantasy Island (1978)

TV-PG | 60 min | Adventure, Family, Fantasy

Career woman Margo Dean's assistant Lowell Benson hopes to romance her; Brian and Lucy Faber want to see the daughter they gave up for adoption; Janet Fleming, who lost her memory on her honeymoon, wants to relive it to cure her amnesia.

Director: George McCowan | Stars: Ricardo Montalban, Adrienne Barbeau, Horst Buchholz, Joseph Campanella

Votes: 254

49. Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955–1962)
Episode: Kill with Kindness (1956)

TV-14 | 26 min | Drama, Mystery

Katherine Oldham feeds stew to a homeless man as she struggles to keep the mind of her brother, Fitzhugh--a butterfly hunter and birdwatcher--on the task of murder.

Director: Herschel Daugherty | Stars: Alfred Hitchcock, Hume Cronyn, Carmen Mathews, James Gleason

Votes: 710

50. Charmed (1998–2006)
Episode: Morality Bites (1999)

TV-PG | 42 min | Drama, Fantasy, Mystery

Phoebe has a vivid premonition foretelling her own death - burned at the stake for killing a man with her powers - in the year 2009. To prevent her execution, the sisters travel to the future.

Director: John Behring | Stars: Shannen Doherty, Holly Marie Combs, Alyssa Milano, Brian Krause

Votes: 1,185