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1. Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977)
PG | 121 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Luke Skywalker joins forces with a Jedi Knight, a cocky pilot, a Wookiee and two droids to save the galaxy from the Empire's world-destroying battle station, while also attempting to rescue Princess Leia from the mysterious Darth Vader.
Director: George Lucas | Stars: Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, Alec Guinness
Votes: 1,451,081 | Gross: $322.74M
2. One Piece (2023– )
TV-14 | 60 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
In a seafaring world, a young pirate captain sets out with his crew to attain the title of Pirate King, and to discover the mythical treasure known as 'One Piece.'
Stars: Iñaki Godoy, Emily Rudd, Mackenyu, Morgan Davies
Votes: 150,085
3. Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
PG | 124 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy
After the Rebel Alliance are overpowered by the Empire, Luke Skywalker begins his Jedi training with Yoda, while his friends are pursued across the galaxy by Darth Vader and bounty hunter Boba Fett.
Director: Irvin Kershner | Stars: Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, Billy Dee Williams
Votes: 1,381,212 | Gross: $290.48M
4. Last Action Hero (1993)
PG-13 | 130 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
With the help of a magic ticket, a young movie fan is transported into the fictional world of his favorite action movie character.
Director: John McTiernan | Stars: Arnold Schwarzenegger, F. Murray Abraham, Art Carney, Charles Dance
Votes: 163,999 | Gross: $50.02M
5. The Purple Rose of Cairo (1985)
PG | 82 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
In 1935 New Jersey, a movie character walks off the screen and into the real world.
Director: Woody Allen | Stars: Mia Farrow, Jeff Daniels, Danny Aiello, Irving Metzman
Votes: 55,329 | Gross: $10.63M
6. Brain Damage (1988)
R | 84 min | Comedy, Horror
One morning, a young man wakes to find that a small, disgusting creature has attached itself to the base of his brain stem. The creature gives him a euphoric state of happiness but demands human victims in return.
Director: Frank Henenlotter | Stars: Rick Hearst, Gordon MacDonald, Jennifer Lowry, Theo Barnes
Votes: 13,182
7. Euphoria (2012–2013)
TV-MA | 52 min | Drama
Euphoria portrays a sexy, troubling, and bold profile of the teens of the nineties, within a raging drama going on behind teenagers' closed doors.
Stars: Roni Dalumi, Dekel Adin, Amit Erez, Avi Mazliah
Votes: 278
8. I Am Not Your Negro (2016)
PG-13 | 93 min | Documentary, History
Writer James Baldwin tells the story of race in modern America with his unfinished novel, Remember This House.
Director: Raoul Peck | Stars: Samuel L. Jackson, James Baldwin, Martin Luther King, Malcolm X
Votes: 23,521 | Gross: $7.12M
9. Mediterraneo (1991)
R | 96 min | Comedy, Drama, War
In WW2, an Italian Army unit of misfits occupies an isolated non-strategic Greek island for the duration of the war.
Director: Gabriele Salvatores | Stars: Diego Abatantuono, Claudio Bigagli, Giuseppe Cederna, Claudio Bisio
Votes: 16,434 | Gross: $4.53M
10. Guyana Tragedy: The Story of Jim Jones (1980 TV Movie)
TV-14 | 192 min | Biography, Drama
The real-life story of the Peoples Temple cult led by Reverend Jim Jones and the events involving its move to Guyana and its eventual mass suicide.
Director: William A. Graham | Stars: Powers Boothe, Ned Beatty, Irene Cara, Veronica Cartwright
Votes: 1,656
11. Night Light (2016–2017)
Drama
The drama is about ambitious people clamoring to claim more power and success for themselves: an ambitious woman, a man born in a wealthy family and another woman who wants to escape from her poor background.
Stars: Jung Hae-in, Jin Goo, Kim You-Jin, Lee Yo-won
Votes: 356
12. Jonestown: Paradise Lost (2007 TV Movie)
PG-13 | 100 min | Documentary, Drama, History
Cult leader Jim Jones leads his followers to a mass-suicide.
Director: Tim Wolochatiuk | Stars: Ted Biggs, Stephan Jones, Vernon Gosney, Tim Reiterman
Votes: 1,245
13. Camp Beaverton: Meet the Beavers (2013)
Not Rated | 61 min | Documentary, Adventure, Comedy
Camp Beaverton: Meet the Beavers is a documentary film by Ana Grillo and Beth Nelsen, aka Ana Mission and Agent Nelsen. Camp Beaverton is the Home for Wayward Girls, the only queer, all ... See full summary »
Directors: Ana Blue Grillo, Beth Nelsen
Votes: 175
14. Allegro non troppo (1976)
PG | 75 min | Animation, Comedy, Fantasy
An enthusiastic filmmaker thinks he's come up with a totally original idea: animation set to classical music! When he is informed that some American named "Prisney" (or something) has ... See full summary »
Director: Bruno Bozzetto | Stars: Maurizio Nichetti, Maurizio Micheli, Marialuisa Giovannini, Néstor Garay
Votes: 3,218
15. Trash Fire (2016)
R | 91 min | Comedy, Drama, Horror
When Owen is forced to confront the past he's been running from his whole adult life, he and his girlfriend, Isabel, become entangled in a horrifying web of lies, deceit and murder.
Director: Richard Bates Jr. | Stars: Adrian Grenier, Angela Trimbur, Fionnula Flanagan, AnnaLynne McCord
Votes: 3,306
16. Otvorena vrata (1994–1995)
30 min | Comedy
Katarina Andjelic, nicknamed "Cakana", lives with her two children, her brother Bata, and his daughter. She is an sculpture and painting artist, but there are not many people who can see ... See full summary »
Stars: Vesna Trivalic, Bojana Maljevic, Milan 'Lane' Gutovic, Nikola Djuricko
Votes: 4,183
17. Full Dive: This Ultimate Next-Gen Full Dive RPG Is Even Shittier Than Real Life! (2021– )
TV-14 | Animation, Action, Comedy
Yuuki Hiroshi has just picked up Kiwame Quest, the realest VRMMO ever made. But this RPG is TOO lifelike; he can smell, taste, feel, and when he's hurt in it, his physical body is hurt too.... See full summary »
Stars: Daiki Yamashita, Fairouz Ai, Ayana Taketatsu, Haruki Ishiya
Votes: 606
18. Bedroom Story (2020)
90 min | Comedy, Romance
A long-married couple hits a rough patch.
Director: Courtney Daniels | Stars: Annie Cavalero, Elisa Cawley, Christal Marie Deloney, Natalie Fabrizio
Votes: 118
19. Pin Cushion (2017)
Not Rated | 82 min | Drama
When a socially awkward teen and her outcast mother become targets for the petty and cruel denizens of their small town, they seek refuge in an elaborate fantasy world of their own making.
Director: Deborah Haywood | Stars: Lily Newmark, Joanna Scanlan, Chanel Cresswell, Bethany Antonia
Votes: 1,184
20. Hitler's Hollywood (2017)
Not Rated | 105 min | Documentary, History
Rüdiger Suchsland examines German cinema from 1933, when the Nazis came into power, until 1945 when the Third Reich collapsed.
Director: Rüdiger Suchsland | Stars: Rüdiger Suchsland, Rike Schmid, Hans Henrik Wöhler, Udo Kier
Votes: 848 | Gross: $0.04M
21. A Gun, a Car, a Blonde (1997)
Unrated | 107 min | Drama, Thriller
The story's hero Richard has lost much of his spine and love of his life, due to cancer.
Director: Stefani Ames | Stars: Jim Metzler, Andrea Thompson, Kay Lenz, Norma Maldonado
Votes: 357
22. Assault Girls (2009)
Not Rated | 65 min | Action, Sci-Fi
In the aftermath of a global thermonuclear war three battle tested women wage war in a virtual video game against giant mutant sand whales.
Director: Mamoru Oshii | Stars: Yoshikazu Fujiki, Rinko Kikuchi, Meisa Kuroki, Hinako Saeki
Votes: 1,331
23. Next of Kin (1984)
Not Rated | 70 min | Comedy, Drama
Unhappy living with his loveless parents, a young man convinces a family of Armenian immigrants that he's their long-lost son and moves in with them, improving all of their lives in the process.
Director: Atom Egoyan | Stars: Patrick Tierney, Berj Fazlian, Sirvart Fazlian, Arsinée Khanjian
Votes: 1,047
24. Manolo: The Boy Who Made Shoes for Lizards (2017)
Not Rated | 89 min | Documentary, Biography, Drama
An in-depth portrait of MANOLO BLAHNIK, self-confessed 'cobbler' and the man regarded by most influential fashion figures as 'the best shoe-maker of the 20th and 21st centuries. A film for ... See full summary »
Director: Michael Roberts | Stars: Manolo Blahnik, David Bailey, Mary Beard, Lucy Burley
Votes: 573 | Gross: $0.06M
25. Red Sonja (2011–2012)
TV-MA | 25 min | Comedy, Drama
In Antwerp, Belgium, a financially strapped fifty-five-year-old woman named Odette, whose husband is in a coma, flees her harsh reality by spending time in the virtual world of the internet, where she's known as the sexy "Red Sonja".
Stars: Sien Eggers, Charlotte Vandermeersch, Stefaan Degand, Wim Willaert
Votes: 122
26. Places (2014)
108 min | Drama
A coming of age story about love, loss and revenge centers around two teenage friends, Adam (Vladimír Polívka) and Marek (Jan Cina), whose aimless lives in a small town are suddenly ... See full summary »
Director: Radim Spacek | Stars: Vladimír Polívka, Jan Cina, Johana Matousková, Jirí Strébl
Votes: 56
27. The Directive (2019)
113 min | Action, Comedy, Sci-Fi
One year after a catastrophic pandemic wipes out most of humanity, a lone survivor embarks on a journey to find Safe Zone 57 with the help of a broken robot.
Director: Alexander Raye Pimentel | Stars: Nicholas Winand, Thomas Betthauser, Scott Thompson, Blaiden D. Cordle
Votes: 1,315
28. The Man from Beyond (1922)
Not Rated | 74 min | Mystery, Sci-Fi
A man who has been frozen in the Arctic ice for 100 years returns to civilization to find his lost love.
Director: Burton L. King | Stars: Harry Houdini, Arthur Maude, Albert Tavernier, Erwin Connelly
Votes: 334
29. Boyhood Daze (1957)
7 min | Family, Animation, Short
Scolded by his mother for breaking a window, young Ralph Phillips waits in his bedroom and lets his imagination run amok as he pictures himself as a famous explorer, a space force pilot, and a prisoner before his dad comes home.
Director: Chuck Jones | Stars: Dick Beals, Mel Blanc, Daws Butler, Marian Richman
Votes: 461
30. Soul Boys of the Western World (2014)
Unrated | 110 min | Documentary, Biography, Music
A documentary about Spandau Ballet, who were one of the biggest pop groups of the 1980s and a defining act of the New Romantic scene.
Director: George Hencken | Stars: Tony Hadley, John Keeble, Gary Kemp, Martin Kemp
Votes: 614
31. The Summer of Love (2017 TV Movie)
Documentary, History, Music
The story of the cultural, social, and political changes that were brought about following the 1967 Summer of Love in San Francisco.
Director: Lyndy Saville | Stars: Ryan Mandrake, Johnnie Walker, Simon Crocker, Anne Nightingale
Votes: 33
32. The Master Mystery (1918)
238 min | Action, Adventure, Mystery
Justice Department agent Quentin Locke must investigate a powerful cartel protected by a robot (here referred to as "The Automaton") and using a gas weapon "The Madagascar Madness".
Directors: Harry Grossman, Burton L. King | Stars: Harry Houdini, Marguerite Marsh, Ruth Stonehouse, Edna Britton
Votes: 161
33. Superheroes: A Never-Ending Battle (2013)
TV-PG | 180 min | Documentary, History
A comprehensive history of the superhero comic book fantasy genre and its influence on American culture.
Stars: Liev Schreiber, Danny Fingeroth, Mark Waid, Stan Lee
Votes: 784
34. Winesburg, Ohio (1973 TV Movie)
90 min | Drama
An Ohio town and its citizens trying to escape an apathetic and wasted life.
Director: Ralph Senensky | Stars: Gary Barton, Joseph Bottoms, Curt Conway, Norman Foster
Votes: 21
35. The 12 Lives of Sissy Carlyle (2017)
87 min | Comedy, Drama
After a life-changing loss, a young woman creates 11 alternative worlds to live in. As these imaginary worlds impact her REAL world in surprising ways, Sissy Carlyle leads us on a fantastical journey with an unexpected outcome.
Director: Fran Burst-Terranella | Stars: April Billingsley, Jason Burkey, Stephanie Northrup, Brad Mills
Votes: 49
36. This Giant Papier-Mâché Boulder Is Actually Really Heavy (2016)
112 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
Three ordinary guys are thrust into a parallel world of an old Sci-Fi movie. Trapped in a low budget universe they must somehow fight their way home before it is too late.
Director: Christian Nicolson | Stars: Christian Nicolson, Sez Niederer, Daniel Pujol, Lewis Roscoe
Votes: 188
37. 24 Hr Sunshine (2023)
117 min | Comedy, Drama
Stuck in a "rat race", a businessman sells his company and joins a tourist group heading to the North Pole.
Director: Juris Poskus | Stars: Jeppe Beck Laursen, Trond Halbo, Juris Bartkevics, Andris Keiss
Votes: 92
38. The Invisible Boy (2021)
14 min | Short, Drama
A young boy immerses himself in reading sci-fi novels, to escape his abusive household.
Director: Glen Delahaye | Stars: Tobias Clifton, Frankie Cianfini, Josh Loki, Jennifer Oliver
39. The Count (1971)
92 min | Biography, Comedy, Drama
Sleazy impostor, then dance-band singer Pertti Ylermi Lindgren merrily re-enacts some of his real-life engagements to 76 different women in the late 1960s. After posing as an aristocrat, ... See full summary »
Director: Peter von Bagh | Stars: Pertti Ylermi Lindgren, Irma Martinkauppi, Titta Karakorpi, Elina Salo
Votes: 211
40. Maid in Britain (2010 TV Movie)
60 min | Documentary
An examination of the British obsession with class divide, and the great television dramas which have resulted.
Director: Rachel Boyd | Stars: Anthony Andrews, Charlotte Bingham, Terence Brady, Alastair Bruce
Votes: 11
41. Rush: Subdivisions (1982 Music Video)
6 min | Drama, Music
Music video by the rock band Rush about a lonely high school kid who has to deal with being a social outcast, and escapism and playing video games helps. The song also criticizes the intolerance of cliques towards those who don't fit it.
Director: Grant Lough | Stars: Rush, Dave Glover, Geddy Lee, Alex Lifeson
Votes: 40
42. Introspection (2014)
5 min | Animation, Short, Adventure
A silent protagonist explores the entheogen Dimethyltryptamine in this animated, allegoric depiction of the mechanisms society has to damage and abstract the self.
Director: Georgie Smart | Star: Christopher Taylor
43. Eve's Secret (1925)
60 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Having no use for women of his own rank, the Duke of Poltava falls in love with Eve, a peasant girl whom he sends to Paris to be educated preparatory to becoming his duchess. Having learned... See full summary »
Director: Clarence G. Badger | Stars: Betty Compson, Jack Holt, William Collier Jr., Vera Lewis
Votes: 14
44. War Save Me (2019)
40 min | Short
WAR SAVE ME gives us a raw, both alienating and poetic insight into the thoughts of P, a restless homeless man. As he roams the city in search of ways to function, he starts to long for the clarity and clean purpose of war.
Director: Jelmer Wristers | Stars: Aminata Demba, Sergio Hasselbaink, Krisjan Schellingerhout
45. Home (XI) (2013)
83 min | Drama
Where does suburbia end and life begin?
Director: James Paul Bailey | Stars: Sam Auvil, Chuck Beatty, Brittany Belland, Lauren Bernstein
46. Number 13 (2017)
Short, Sci-Fi
"Number 13" is a Sci-fi, dark comedy, drama short film, written and directed by Jonell Rowe. That explores the themes of Escapism, Man vs machine, personal identity, and fear of Technology.... See full summary »
Director: Jonell Rowe | Stars: Marion Barron, Saffiya Lea, Nevele Lewis, Yana Penrose
47. Music for the End of the World (2020)
Short, Comedy, Drama
Would the apocalypse really be all that bad? Teenage Freddie certainly doesn't think so, as he boogies his troubles away on a gorgeous sunny hill.
Director: Emmanuel Li | Stars: Emmanuel Li, Nicola Kelsall
Votes: 6
48. Velvet Cut (2019)
26 min | Short, Western
A troubled Man gets bitten by a rattlesnake while alone in the late 1800's American West. He struggles to come to terms with his past, future and present during the course of a very luminescent desert night.
Director: Shaun Stander | Stars: Steven Roberts, Vanessa Crouch, Sunny Chen, Cassidy Bast
Votes: 28
49. Zbabelá (1972 TV Movie)
87 min | Drama
Director: Milan Semík | Stars: Eva Poláková, Milan Knazko, Ladislav Chudík, Eduard Bindas
50. Svoya Zhizn (2014)
19 min | Documentary, Short, Drama
Zapolyan'e is a small, relatively new ecovillage in the Lipetsk region. This is a story of three inhabitants of this settlement trying to escape from civilization and city lifestyle. ... See full summary »
Director: Anatoly Grishin