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1. As Above, So Below (2014)
R | 93 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
When a team of explorers venture into the catacombs that lie beneath the streets of Paris, they uncover the dark secret that lies within this city of the dead.
Director: John Erick Dowdle | Stars: Perdita Weeks, Ben Feldman, Edwin Hodge, François Civil
Votes: 112,272 | Gross: $21.20M
2. The Wild Thornberrys (1998–2004)
TV-Y7 | 30 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy
Eliza Thornberry is not your ordinary kid. It's not just because she travels the world in an RV with her parents: famous nature show hosts. Eliza also happened to be granted the magical ability to talk with and understand animals.
Stars: Lacey Chabert, Jodi Carlisle, Tim Curry, Danielle Harris
Votes: 16,030
3. The Last Summer (2019)
TV-14 | 109 min | Comedy, Romance
Standing on the precipice of adulthood, a group of friends navigate new relationships, while reexamining others, during their final summer before college.
Director: William Bindley | Stars: K.J. Apa, Maia Mitchell, Norman Johnson Jr., Jacob Latimore
Votes: 14,330
4. Hemingway & Gellhorn (2012 TV Movie)
TV-MA | 155 min | Biography, Drama, Romance
A drama centered on the romance between Ernest Hemingway and World War II correspondent Martha Gellhorn, Hemingway's inspiration for For Whom the Bell Tolls, and the only woman who ever asked for a divorce from the writer.
Director: Philip Kaufman | Stars: Nicole Kidman, Clive Owen, David Strathairn, Rodrigo Santoro
Votes: 10,432
5. Living Among Us (2018)
TV-MA | 87 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
Vampires have just made themselves public. Now a group of documentarians have been granted access to learn how they live and coexist with humans. But as reality sets in, the crew realize their very lives are in danger.
Director: Brian A. Metcalf | Stars: Esmé Bianco, Jordan Danger, William Sadler, Andrew Keegan
Votes: 3,048
6. Daniel (II) (2023)
72 min | Documentary, Adventure, Biography
Daniel Northcott began documenting his surroundings at 7 when he got his dad's video camera. He filmed his family and friends growing up then traveled, capturing meaningful moments with new people and places.
Director: Daniel Northcott | Stars: Daniel Northcott, Erin Northcott, Lyn MacBeath, Bousse Ershadi
Votes: 434
7. Other People's Children (2015)
85 min | Drama, Romance
A filmmaker, reeling from the death of her famous father, falls down the rabbit hole of a charismatic homeless man who becomes the subject of her latest documentary and her new love interest.
Director: Liz Hinlein | Stars: Diane Gaeta, Chad Michael Murray, Michael Mosley, Alexandra Breckenridge
Votes: 160
8. Ghoul (2015)
Not Rated | 86 min | Horror, Thriller
Three American filmmakers become the targets of the evil spirit of the most violent cannibal in recorded history.
Director: Petr Jákl | Stars: Jennifer Armour, Alina Golovlyova, Jeremy Isabella, Paul S. Tracey
Votes: 2,243
9. Recep Ivedik 6 (2019)
110 min | Comedy
Surprisingly Recep founds himself in Kenya instead of Konya (an Anatolian city of Turkey) and the adventure begins.
Director: Togan Gökbakar | Stars: Sahan Gökbakar, Nurullah Celebi, Somer Karvan, Chidi Benjamin John
Votes: 9,047
10. You've Been Trumped (2011)
Not Rated | 79 min | Documentary
In this David and Goliath story for the 21st century, a group of proud Scottish homeowners take on celebrity tycoon Donald Trump as he buys up one of Scotland's last wilderness areas to build a golf resort.
Director: Anthony Baxter | Stars: Michael Forbes, Donald Trump, Anthony Baxter, Kevin Brown
Votes: 2,310 | Gross: $0.03M
11. Pornocratie: Les nouvelles multinationales du sexe (2017 TV Movie)
77 min | Documentary
The wonders of internet has made the shady industry of pornography rich, but is now in death cramps due to the piracy ruining the market, and forcing the participants to perform more extreme sex.
Director: Ovidie | Stars: Alissiya, Leyla Bentho, Grégory Dorcel, Márton Fülöp
Votes: 927
12. Finsterworld (2013)
91 min | Drama
A number of individuals in Germany whose lives are connected in some ways, and all of them have dark sides which may shock us to the core.
Director: Frauke Finsterwalder | Stars: Gisela Aderhold, Christoph Bach, Margit Carstensen, Jakub Gierszal
Votes: 2,032
13. Clash of the Dead (2015)
80 min | Horror
To celebrate the centenary of WW1, a TV Documentary team travels to the Somme to put together a ratings smash about new mysteries relating to the famous battle. However, what they unearth ... See full summary »
Directors: Freddie Hutton-Mills, Bart Ruspoli | Stars: Michael J. Ansley, Philip Barantini, Robert Bladen, Kacey Clarke
Votes: 356
14. Lync (2018– )
Crime, Drama
Lukás Zemlicka is a young blogger and director of documentary films in Prague. He goes to the Bohemian town of Buchnov to make a film about the lynching of the young Rom Denis, who was murdered virtually before the eyes of all.
Stars: Matej Andel, Marcel Bendig, Janek Gregor, Jiri Roskot
Votes: 50
15. Noctem (2017)
R | 97 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Nights in a row, Adrian finds himself in his apartment, with no lights and strange sounds coming from the inside. He asks his friends for help and one of them decides to make a documentary of what is happening to him.
Director: Marcos Cabotá | Stars: Adrián Lastra, Sara Lopez, Esteban Piñero, Carla Nieto
Votes: 330
16. Moreno (2007)
Unrated | 81 min | Drama
When Chris arrives at the village of T'boli in lake Sebu, South Cotabato, he thought he has left his dark recent past behind. He is working on commission as a video documentarist to make a ... See full summary »
Director: Crisaldo Pablo | Stars: Ynez Veneracion, Ray An Dulay, Mark Dionisio, Roy Castillon
Votes: 45
17. God Is Alive (2017 Video)
TV-14 | 70 min | Documentary
Many have created concepts of what God actually means believing it to be the one defined by Christians, Jews or Muslims or other religious belief systems of the world.
Director: Philip Gardiner | Stars: Melissa Hollett, Charles Thompson
Votes: 22
18. Shoky & Morthy: Last Big Thing (2021)
99 min | Comedy, Mystery, Thriller
Shoky and Morthy are best friends and successful YouTubers, but their fame is slowly beginning to fade. While Morthy would like to quit, Shoky comes up with ideas for making their videos ... See full summary »
Director: Andy Fehu | Stars: Stepán Kozub, Jakub Stáfek, Tomás Magnusek, Martina Babisova
Votes: 242
19. Desperate Ladies Act Desperately (2018) (2018)
PG-13 | 82 min | Comedy
Olga's life begins to "stink" in the maternity ward. As a natural uniqueness she admired not only the head of the department but also her little son Míša. Meeting a naked newborn and ... See full summary »
Director: Filip Renc | Stars: Klára Issová, Aneta Krejcíková, Václav Vasák, Matous Ruml
Votes: 122
20. Cowboys in India (2009)
PG | 79 min | Documentary
Orissa, India - where tribal people fight with their bows and arrows against multinational mining moguls from London. The filmmaker, aided by two endearing, bumbling local guides, searches ... See full summary »
Director: Simon Chambers
Votes: 24
21. Delight (2013)
111 min | Drama
The film's main theme is obsession. An obsession with love, with art, originality, copying, with success, money and... with oneself. Sooner or later, if we lose our rational upper hand over... See full summary »
Director: Jitka Rudolfová | Stars: Jana Plodková, Martin Mysicka, Jaroslav Plesl, Jan Budar
Votes: 68
22. Deep Inside Carmen Hayes (2017 Video)
90 min | Biography
Has Adult become so mainstream and excepted part of today's society? Anita Thomas stepped from modeling into full length feature adult films and lived to tell about it. This is a REAL look ... See full summary »
Star: Anita Thomas
23. Cascabel (1977)
105 min | Drama
A young filmmaker travels to Chiapas to film natives of Lacandona Jungle. In spite of being financed by the censorious Mexican Government, he expects that some of the truth about the living conditions of poor native people come to surface.
Director: Raúl Araiza | Stars: Ernesto Gómez Cruz, Raúl Ramírez, Aarón Hernán, Héctor Gómez
Votes: 86
24. Do vetru (2018)
78 min | Drama
Two siblings set sail as a crew on a yacht on the Aegean Sea. Circumstances soon change when a young documentary filmmaker comes aboard.
Director: Sofie Sustková | Stars: Vladimír Polívka, Jenovéfa Boková, Matyás Reznícek
Votes: 63
25. Ceresnovy chlapec (2010)
107 min | Drama
Famous actor Juraj is bound to wheel-chair after accident. On charity auction of disabled children paintings he urges to get one of the paintings. That starts interest of short movie director Hana to start making a documentary about him.
Director: Stanislav Párnicky | Stars: Jakub Gogál, Zuzana Kanócz, Milan Knazko, Katarína Kolajová
Votes: 30
26. Onun Filmi (2017)
80 min | Documentary
Two film school graduates intimidated by the gender stereotypes that pervade film industry decide to make a documentary to explore the issue. The two women spend two years shooting, make 5000 kilometers, talk to established women directors and record every moment of this journey of discovery and self-discovery. But the real journey is just about to begin.
Directors: Merve Bozcu, Su Baloglu | Stars: Nisan Akman, Ilksen Basarir, Zeynep Dadak, Nisan Dag
Votes: 64
27. Shelly (2016)
15 min | Short, Comedy, Drama
A socially bewildered aspiring filmmaker struggles to differentiate between the imaginary world of her latest project and reality.
Director: Lauren Rothery | Stars: Gore Abrams, Dominic Haydn Rawle, Maddison Rothery
Votes: 26
28. The Making of En Las Afueras de la Ciudad (2013)
24 min | Documentary, Short
A behind-the-scenes documentary about Patricio Valladares' grindhouse exploitation film En Las Afueras de la Ciudad.
Director: Vittorio Farfan | Stars: Daniel Antivilo, Evelyn Belmar, Daniel Candia, Carolina Escobar
29. Aperture: The Dorothea Lange Story
Drama, History | Announced
The most profound events of the 1930's, 40's and 50's come alive in this uniquely cinematic and relevant period biopic of the career of Dorothea Lange.
30. Robert Drew in His Own Words (2016 Video)
34 min | Documentary, Short, Biography
Stars: Robert Drew, Jill Drew, Jacqueline Kennedy, John F. Kennedy
Votes: 6
31. Ammatti: elokuvaohjaaja - Pirjo Honkasalo (2012 TV Movie)
58 min | Documentary, Biography
Directors: Laura Joutsi, Juha Suomalainen | Stars: Pirjo Honkasalo, Mikko Niskanen, Pirkko Saisio, Rauni Mollberg
Votes: 18
32. 24: Twenty Four (2017)
15 min | Short
Showing life in 24 hours around the world with stunning visuals and sounds in a modern setting the movie was filmed in Dresden Norway Toronto Montreal and Berlin. The film has been nominated and shown in Film Festivals in North America.
Director: Jennifer Athena Galatis
33. It All Started with Hillside Ave (2008)
Not Rated | 53 min | Biography
This is the story about a great friendship, six living in a two-bedroom apartment, and selling peanuts in Manhattan.
Directors: Slawomir Grunberg, Krzysztof Piotrowski | Star: Slawomir Grunberg
34. Lastuja - taiteilijasuvun vuosisata (2011)
74 min | Documentary
Director: Peter von Bagh | Stars: Erja Manto, Eero Saarinen, Peter von Bagh
Votes: 23
35. Karmapa - matka maailman katolla (1998)
61 min | Documentary
Karmapa - a Voyage on the Roof of the World, the follow-up documentary to the film Karmapa - Two Ways of Divinity, is about the many-year-long realisation of the difficult project and how ... See full summary »
Director: Arto Halonen | Stars: The Dalai Lama, Arto Halonen, Viliam Poltikovic
36. Britain Through a Lens - The Documentary Film Mob (2011 TV Movie)
60 min | Documentary
A film that shows how, from 1929 to the end of World War Two, a small group of well-to-do film makers' and government bureaucrats started the British documentary genre.
Director: Chris Durlacher | Stars: Steven Mackintosh, Edgar Anstey, H.E. Fowle, Stuart Legg
Votes: 16
37. The Celestial Darkroom (2017)
77 min | Documentary, Biography, History
All people are beautiful when they work. Respectfully, Jean Hermanson photographed workers, mainly of the Swedish engineering and industrial divisions, and the images later became part of our modern cultural heritage.
Director: Nils Petter Löfstedt | Stars: Elisabeth Arvidsson, Micke Berg, Björn Borg, Jean Hermanson
Votes: 69
39. Suomalainen elokuvaohjaaja: Peter von Bagh (2010 TV Movie)
52 min | Documentary, Biography
Directors: Marjaana Mykkänen, Esko Rautakorpi | Stars: Peter von Bagh, Petteri Evilampi, Lauri Tykkyläinen, Tuija Söderman
Votes: 31
40. Idi i ne oglyadyvaysya (1992)
71 min | Drama, Sport
Director: Aleksey Menshikov | Stars: Marina Sakharova, Igor Mirkurbanov, Nadezhda Ozerova, Yuriy Alekseev
41. Compass Cabaret 55 (2014)
94 min | Documentary
A documentary about the birth of modern theatrical improvisation.
Director: Mark Siska | Stars: Edward Asner, Shelley Berman, Andrew Duncan, Mark Gordon
42. Robert Drew & Associates at the Museum of Tolerance (2016 Video)
27 min | Documentary, Short, Biography
Director: Tony Silver | Stars: Robert Drew, Richard Leacock, Albert Maysles, D.A. Pennebaker
43. Oscar menee Meksikoon (2009)
10 min | Documentary, Short
Director: Alvaro Pardo | Star: Barbara Trent
Votes: 6
44. Movie Stories of Slawek Grunberg (2004)
Not Rated | 56 min | Documentary, Biography
Story about life and work of Slawomir Grunberg - the director, cameraman and producer born in Lublin, Poland, who has lived and worked in the USA since 1981. He's an acknowledged documentary filmmaker, an author of over 50 documentaries.
Director: Krzysztof Tusiewicz | Star: Slawomir Grunberg
45. Taliya.Date.Com (2010)
54 min | Documentary, Biography, Comedy
The story of Taliya's quest for finding love in the estranged world of Internet dating, based on a mouse, a keyboard and Photoshop tricks. In this comic-tragic voyage with the guidance of ... See full summary »
Director: Taliya Finkel | Stars: Gilad Adler, Elad Aviran, Daniel Broide, Mickey Edlis
Votes: 28
46. Busking for Berlin (2014)
82 min | Documentary
Film maker Carl Tomich wanted to see what it was like to step into the shoes of a street performer, only living of the money he made from playing on the streets of Berlin for a year.
Director: Carl Tomich | Stars: Max Buskohl, Temple Hayes, Frederik Konradsen, Chloë Lewer
Votes: 19
47. Takao eiga (2016 Video)
180 min | Talk-Show
In the 2016 international cinema cultural event that governed by Taiwanese government, Corman Award-winning filmmaker Ryota Nakanishi performs a pro-Taiwan film stand-up show deep in the heart of Tokyo, Japan.
Directors: Kek Huat Lau, Jinx-Huai Lee, Mian-Mian Lu, Ryota Nakanishi | Stars: Shih-Yi Ho, Kek Huat Lau, Jinx-Huai Lee, Mian-Mian Lu
Votes: 257
48. Pra Ficar na História (2018)
70 min | Documentary, History
Director: Boca Migotto | Star: Luiz Henrique Fitarelli
49. Patrícia (2014)
90 min | Documentary
A prostitute looking for respect and self knowledge through the city of Ribeirão Preto.
Director: Alexandre Carlomagno
50. Sharon Malone and Eric Holder (2016 Video)
26 min | Documentary, Short, Biography
Stars: Sharon Malone, Eric Holder, James Hood, Robert F. Kennedy
Votes: 7