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1. Teeth (I) (2007)
R | 94 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
Still a stranger to her own body, a high school student discovers she has a physical advantage when she becomes the object of male violence.
Director: Mitchell Lichtenstein | Stars: Jess Weixler, John Hensley, Josh Pais, Hale Appleman
Votes: 46,471 | Gross: $0.35M
2. The Seventh Sign (1988)
R | 97 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Abby Quinn is eagerly awaiting childbirth but is haunted by dreams where she suffers a miscarriage. When she decides to rent a room to a mysterious stranger, she realizes a chain of events that will unleash the end of humanity.
Director: Carl Schultz | Stars: Demi Moore, Michael Biehn, Jürgen Prochnow, Peter Friedman
Votes: 15,685 | Gross: $18.88M
3. The Gorgon (1964)
Not Rated | 83 min | Horror
In the early twentieth century, a Gorgon takes human form and terrorizes a small European village by turning its citizens to stone.
Director: Terence Fisher | Stars: Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing, Richard Pasco, Barbara Shelley
Votes: 6,851
4. Die Nibelungen: Siegfried (1924)
Not Rated | 100 min | Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
Siegfried, son of King Siegmund of Xanten, sets off on a treacherous journey to the Kingdom of Burgundy to ask King Gunther for the hand of his sister, the beautiful Princess Kriemhild.
Director: Fritz Lang | Stars: Paul Richter, Margarete Schön, Theodor Loos, Gertrud Arnold
Votes: 6,560
5. Bad Milo (2013)
R | 85 min | Comedy, Horror
A man learns that his unusual stomach pains are being caused by a demon living in his intestines.
Director: Jacob Vaughan | Stars: Ken Marino, Gillian Jacobs, Patrick Warburton, Mary Kay Place
Votes: 7,976 | Gross: $0.02M
6. Quest for the Lost Civilization (1998)
151 min | Documentary, History, Mystery
Graham Hancock is a bestselling author and journalist who specializes in ancient civilizations. He explores, amongst other things, the submerged Yonaguni monument off the coast of Japan, Easter Island, Angkor Wat in Cambodia, the pyramids of Egypt and looks at astronomical alignments.
Stars: Graham Hancock, Santha Faiia, Robert Schoch, John Anthony West
Votes: 265
7. MythQuest (2001)
49 min | Adventure, Family, Fantasy
While searching for their missing father, a brother & sister Alex & Cleo Bellows are drawn into the actual myths when entering the Cyber Museum.They encounter Gorgos, a trickster god, who ... See full summary »
Stars: Christopher Jacot, Meredith Henderson, Bill Switzer, Wendy Anderson
Votes: 288
8. The Goddess of Spring (1934)
Approved | 10 min | Animation, Short, Family
The lovely goddess of spring, Persephone, is kidnapped by Hades, thus bringing about the winter season.
Director: Wilfred Jackson | Stars: Kenny Baker, Jessica Dragonette, Tudor Williams
Votes: 1,344
9. Father Noah's Ark (1933)
Approved | 8 min | Family, Comedy, Animation
Noah, his family (wife, 3 sons, their wives), and various animals all help build the ark. The rains come, and the skunks barely miss the boat (not that anyone was particularly looking for ... See full summary »
Director: Wilfred Jackson | Stars: Dorothy Compton, Beatrice Hagen, Lucille La Verne, Mary Moder
Votes: 692
10. Gilgames (1976 TV Movie)
51 min | Adventure, History
The life-long fight against Gods of Gilgamesh, king of the Sumerian city-state of Uruk.
Director: András Rajnai | Stars: István Bujtor, Miklós Tolnay, Teri Tordai, Anikó Sáfár
Votes: 22
11. Noah's Ark (1959)
Approved | 19 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
Noah gets the word: build an ark in seven days. His sons cut the necessary trees in three days, and much furious sawing and hammering follows. But there's no rest, as they need to round up ... See full summary »
Director: Bill Justice | Stars: Jerome Courtland, Jeanne Bruns, James MacDonald, Paul Frees
Votes: 355
12. Rameses: Wrath of God or Man? (2004 TV Movie)
100 min | Documentary, History
This documentary examines what historians know about the Bible's Old Testament account of the Plague of the Firstborn and about Egypt's Pharaoh, Rameses. Egyptologists discuss whether the ... See full summary »
Directors: Mark Aldridge, Tom Pollock | Stars: Daz Crawford, Morgan Freeman, Claudia Lynx
Votes: 79
13. El invierno de las anjanas (2000)
90 min | Drama, History, Romance
A young worker enjoying an affair with an upper class beauty, Adelaida, is drafted by the Spanish Army to fight in the Cuban War of Independence. After Adelaida receives an unusual ... See full summary »
Director: Pedro Telechea | Stars: Eduardo Noriega, Elena Anaya, Elvira Mínguez, Juan Diego
Votes: 199
14. Captain Calamity (1936)
Passed | 66 min | Action, Adventure, Crime
A South Seas skipper fights off thieves and pirates who are after a lost treasure.
Director: John Reinhardt | Stars: George Houston, Marian Nixon, Vince Barnett, Crane Wilbur
Votes: 158
15. Avalon: Beyond the Abyss (1999 TV Movie)
92 min | Mystery, Sci-Fi
An island blows up, and from its remains a black poison fills the ocean. A team of underwater specialists with high-tech gear have to stop the poison before it contaminates the earth, but ... See full summary »
Director: Philip Sgriccia | Stars: Parker Stevenson, Mehgan Heaney-Grier, Billy Rieck, Shelli Lether
Votes: 375
16. Lovelorn (2010)
Not Rated | 86 min | Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Set between the parallel worlds of contemporary London, the deserted afterlife and a mysterious dreamscape, Lovelorn is a story of lost souls trying to save each other. John has always been... See full summary »
Director: Becky Preston | Stars: Phillip James, Orlando Seale, Olivia Chappell, Sophie Lovell Anderson
Votes: 70
17. Penthesilea: Queen of the Amazons (1974)
99 min | Documentary, History
Investigation into alternative didactic methods and the relationship between independently expressive surfaces and texts. The film is composed of five sequences, each preceded by a quotation.
Directors: Laura Mulvey, Peter Wollen | Stars: Debra Dolnansky, Michael Thomas, Jan Creighton, Jim Goode
Votes: 50
18. Old Czech Legends (1953)
91 min | Animation, Fantasy
Excellent stop-motion animation film from one of the best Czech filmmakers, Jirí Trnka. It tells the ancient story of Bohemia, how it was founded by Czech, the Forefather, and a series of ... See full summary »
Director: Jirí Trnka | Stars: Zdenek Stepánek, Eduard Kohout, Karel Höger, Rùzena Nasková
Votes: 285
19. Phaeton, the Son of the Sun (1972)
17 min | Animation, Short, Sci-Fi
Too many myths and too few facts.
Director: Vasiliy Livanov | Stars: Yuriy Yakovlev, Mariya Babanova, Nikolay Burlyaev, Aleksey Konsovskiy
Votes: 41
20. King Neptune (1932)
Approved | 7 min | Animation, Short, Adventure
King Neptune and an array of sea creatures come to the rescue of a mermaid captured by lecherous pirates.
Director: Burt Gillett | Stars: Dorothy Compton, Marcellite Garner, Beatrice Hagen, Mary Moder
Votes: 570
21. El Gran Tour de Jorge Bonsor (2017)
64 min | Documentary, Adventure, Biography
Approach to the life and achievements of George Bonsor, pioneer of Archaeology who settled in Andalusia, South Spain, in early 20th century and played a key role in the development of such a new and fashionable science.
Director: Antonio Lobo
22. The Stars Are Beautiful (1974)
19 min | Short
We move back and forth between scenes of a family at home and thoughts about the stars and creation. Children hold chickens while an adult clips their wings; we see a forest; a narrator ... See full summary »
Director: Stan Brakhage | Stars: Bearthm Brakhage, Crystal Brakhage, Neowyn Brakhage, Rarc Brakhage
Votes: 529
23. Solsticio (2014)
65 min | Documentary, Adventure, Biography
An attempt to perform "Tartessos", Miguel Romero Esteo's most celebrated play, will lead Martin and Ariana to discover the magic of tradition and ancient rites in their ordinary lives. But ... See full summary »
Director: Daniel Martín Novel | Stars: Ángel Velasco, Macarena de Rueda, Eduardo Velasco, Juan Carlos Montilla
25. Fo fa wu bian (1978)
Adventure, Fantasy
Director: Chia-Chih Li | Stars: Barry Chan, Jing Fang, Tan-Feng Fan, Hui-Shan Yang
26. El Tartessos de Schulten: La conquista de la ciudad perdida (2012)
67 min | Documentary, History
A mythical civilization, Tartessos, became the obsession of German historian Adolf Schulten, seeking his own private Troy in South region of Spain, a sort of Atlantis, origin of Europe and his dream as pioneer of a new science: Archaology.
Director: Antonio Lobo | Stars: Mercedes Bernal, Michael Blech, Fernando Wulff, María Eugenia Rodríguez Tajuelo
Votes: 6
29. Quo Vadis (1993 TV Movie)
43 min | Biography
Directors: Jens-Peter Behrend, Ray Müller, Jürgen Vogt | Star: Rolf Schult
30. The Birth Goddess (1978)
Adventure, Fantasy
Director: Han-Hsiang Yu | Stars: Bao-Yun Tang, Chang-Ming Liu, Ah-Hsi, Ching-Feng Chiang
31. Chen Jing gu (1970)
Biography, Fantasy
Director: Che-Fu Liang | Stars: Hsuan Li, Shih Chin, Ching Chen, Kuang-Chao Chiang
32. Tales from the Epic of Kings
Fantasy | Announced
Based on the popular book of Persian mythology written one-thousand years ago by Ferdowsi, Tales from the Book of Kings is a Transmedia property shaped around the legend of Siyavash and his... See full summary »
33.
PSI Factor: Chronicles of the Paranormal (1996–2000)
Episode:
The Creeping Darkness/Power
(1996)
TV-14 | Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
A mysterious field of darkness inexplicably appears in the home of an Argentinian family and starts to slowly expand. A single mother begins to lose control over her psychokinetic power and asks the O.S.I.R. team for help.
Directors: John Bell, Allan Kroeker | Stars: Paul Miller, Nancy Anne Sakovich, Barclay Hope, Colin Fox
Votes: 30
34.
Ancient Aliens (2009– )
Episode:
Chariots, Gods and Beyond
(2009)
TV-PG | 120 min | Documentary, History, Sci-Fi
According to ancient alien theorists, extraterrestrials with superior knowledge of science and engineering landed on Earth thousands of years ago, sharing their expertise with early ... See full summary »
Director: Kevin Burns | Stars: Luis Navia, Barry Downing, Erich von Däniken, Michael Cremo
Votes: 704