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1. Gone Girl (2014)
R | 149 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
With his wife's disappearance having become the focus of an intense media circus, a man sees the spotlight turned on him when it's suspected that he may not be innocent.
Director: David Fincher | Stars: Ben Affleck, Rosamund Pike, Neil Patrick Harris, Tyler Perry
Votes: 1,067,311 | Gross: $167.77M
2. The Killing of a Sacred Deer (2017)
R | 121 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
Steven, a charismatic surgeon, is forced to make an unthinkable sacrifice after his life starts to fall apart, when the behavior of a teenage boy he has taken under his wing turns sinister.
Director: Yorgos Lanthimos | Stars: Barry G. Bernson, Herb Caillouet, Bill Camp, Raffey Cassidy
Votes: 187,332 | Gross: $2.29M
3. Queen of Hearts (2019)
Not Rated | 127 min | Drama
A successful lawyer jeopardizes her career and threatens to tear her family apart after engaging in an affair with her teenage stepson.
Director: May el-Toukhy | Stars: Trine Dyrholm, Gustav Lindh, Magnus Krepper, Liv Esmår Dannemann
Votes: 14,501
4. What Happens in Vegas (2008)
PG-13 | 99 min | Comedy, Romance
A man and a woman are compelled, for legal reasons, to live life as a couple for a limited period of time. At stake is a large amount of money.
Director: Tom Vaughan | Stars: Cameron Diaz, Ashton Kutcher, Rob Corddry, Lake Bell
Votes: 187,873 | Gross: $80.28M
5. The Awful Truth (1937)
Passed | 90 min | Comedy, Romance
A married couple file an amicable divorce, but find it harder to let go of each other than they initially thought.
Director: Leo McCarey | Stars: Irene Dunne, Cary Grant, Ralph Bellamy, Alexander D'Arcy
Votes: 21,375
6. Leave Her to Heaven (1945)
Passed | 110 min | Drama, Film-Noir, Romance
A writer falls in love with a young socialite and they're soon married, but her obsessive love for him threatens to be the undoing of them both as well as everyone around them.
Director: John M. Stahl | Stars: Gene Tierney, Cornel Wilde, Jeanne Crain, Vincent Price
Votes: 14,777
7. The High and the Mighty (1954)
Not Rated | 147 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
When a commercial airliner develops engine problems on a trans-Pacific flight and the pilot loses his nerve, it is up to the washed-up co-pilot Dan Roman to bring the plane in safely.
Director: William A. Wellman | Stars: John Wayne, Claire Trevor, Laraine Day, Robert Stack
Votes: 6,551
8. Ace in the Hole (1951)
Approved | 111 min | Drama, Film-Noir
A frustrated former big-city journalist now stuck working for an Albuquerque newspaper exploits a story about a man trapped in a cave to rekindle his career, but the situation quickly escalates into an out-of-control circus.
Director: Billy Wilder | Stars: Kirk Douglas, Jan Sterling, Robert Arthur, Porter Hall
Votes: 39,113 | Gross: $3.97M
9. From the Terrace (1960)
Passed | 149 min | Drama, Romance
An ambitious young executive chooses a loveless marriage and an unfulfilling personal life in exchange for a successful Wall Street career.
Director: Mark Robson | Stars: Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Myrna Loy, Ina Balin
Votes: 3,190 | Gross: $11.34M
10. Gold Digger Killer (2021 TV Movie)
TV-14 | 87 min | Crime, Drama
Multimillionaire Steven Beard, a retired broadcasting executive, falls hard for Celeste, an attractive waitress who serves him his nightly cocktail at his local country club in Austin, Texas.
Director: Robin Hays | Stars: Julie Benz, Roan Curtis, Georgia Bradner, Eli Gabay
Votes: 455
11. Four Flies on Grey Velvet (1971)
PG | 104 min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller
A musician is stalked by an unknown homicidal maniac, who blackmails him for the accidental killing of another stalker.
Director: Dario Argento | Stars: Michael Brandon, Mimsy Farmer, Jean-Pierre Marielle, Aldo Bufi Landi
Votes: 9,879
12. Demetrius and the Gladiators (1954)
Approved | 101 min | Action, Drama, History
In first-century Rome, Christian slave Demetrius is sent to fight in the gladiatorial arena and Emperor Caligula seeks Jesus' robe for its alleged magical powers.
Director: Delmer Daves | Stars: Victor Mature, Susan Hayward, Michael Rennie, Debra Paget
Votes: 4,263 | Gross: $26.00M
13. Zoo (I) (2018)
Not Rated | 95 min | Comedy, Drama, Horror
A couple try to save their marriage during a zombie apocalypse.
Director: Antonio Tublen | Stars: Zoë Tapper, Ed Speleers, Antonia Campbell-Hughes, Jan Bijvoet
Votes: 2,143
14. House of the Damned (1963)
Approved | 62 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
An architect and his wife encounter bizarre occurrences as they survey a mansion built by an eccentric heiress.
Director: Maury Dexter | Stars: Ron Foster, Merry Anders, Richard Crane, Erika Peters
Votes: 688
15. Scandal Sheet (1952)
Passed | 82 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
The editor of an exploitation newspaper commits a murder and assigns his protégé to investigate hoping to divert attention away from himself.
Director: Phil Karlson | Stars: John Derek, Donna Reed, Broderick Crawford, Rosemary DeCamp
Votes: 3,477
16. The Long Haul (1957)
Approved | 100 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
After leaving his U.S. Army job in Germany, a trucker takes a long-haul driver job in Britain where he runs into an organized-crime syndicate that controls the trucking industry.
Director: Ken Hughes | Stars: Victor Mature, Diana Dors, Patrick Allen, Gene Anderson
Votes: 989
17. Dead in a Week Or Your Money Back (2018)
TV-MA | 90 min | Comedy, Drama
After his ninth unsuccessful attempt on his own life, a young man outsources his suicide to an ageing assassin. "If you're serious about ending it, you need professional help"
Director: Tom Edmunds | Stars: Tom Wilkinson, Aneurin Barnard, Marion Bailey, Freya Mavor
Votes: 6,798
18. No Down Payment (1957)
Approved | 105 min | Drama
In California, four couples who have bought houses near one another face problems, alcoholism, racism, promiscuity, and discrimination against lack of education, until a tragic event forces them to reassess their lives.
Director: Martin Ritt | Stars: Joanne Woodward, Sheree North, Tony Randall, Jeffrey Hunter
Votes: 1,200
19. Man in the Dark (1964)
Not Rated | 80 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
When the wife of a blind composer discovers that her husband will cut her out of his estate, if he discovers that she is having an affair with a young artist, she and her lover plan to commit the perfect murder.
Director: Lance Comfort | Stars: William Sylvester, Barbara Shelley, Elizabeth Shepherd, Alexander Davion
Votes: 243
20. Sons and Lovers (1960)
Approved | 103 min | Drama
A young man with artistic talent lives in a close-knit coal-mining town and finds himself inhibited by his emotionally manipulative mother.
Director: Jack Cardiff | Stars: Trevor Howard, Dean Stockwell, Wendy Hiller, Mary Ure
Votes: 1,772
21. The Sweet Body of Deborah (1968)
R | 95 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
A sexy newlywed couple visits the husband's hometown in Geneva, where they are subjected to threats stemming from the death of his former fiancée.
Director: Romolo Guerrieri | Stars: Carroll Baker, Jean Sorel, Ida Galli, Luigi Pistilli
Votes: 957
22. The Fall Guy (1930)
Passed | 66 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
When a hapless pharmacist loses his job and falls in with criminals, he's soon made The Fall Guy. Unemployed, Johnny Quinlan (Jack Mulhall) starts doing jobs for underworld chieftain Nifty ... See full summary »
Director: Leslie Pearce | Stars: Jack Mulhall, Mae Clarke, Ned Sparks, Wynne Gibson
Votes: 200
23. It's a Gift (1934)
Passed | 68 min | Comedy
A henpecked New Jersey grocer makes plans to move to California to grow oranges, despite the resistance of his overbearing wife.
Director: Norman Z. McLeod | Stars: W.C. Fields, Kathleen Howard, Jean Rouverol, Julian Madison
Votes: 5,760
24. Employees' Entrance (1933)
Passed | 75 min | Drama, Romance
A working girl is menaced by her tyrannical employer.
Director: Roy Del Ruth | Stars: Warren William, Loretta Young, Wallace Ford, Alice White
Votes: 1,639
25. Love Nest (1951)
Not Rated | 84 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Two married New Yorkers purchase an old, run-down building full of colorful tenants.
Director: Joseph M. Newman | Stars: June Haver, William Lundigan, Frank Fay, Marilyn Monroe
Votes: 1,451
26. King, Queen, Knave (1972)
R | 94 min | Comedy
Adopted by his rich uncle from Germany, British teenager Frank falls in-love with his uncle's Italian wife Martha, and has conflicting feelings when she suggests he should kill his uncle in order to have her and the family fortune.
Director: Jerzy Skolimowski | Stars: David Niven, Gina Lollobrigida, John Moulder-Brown, Mario Adorf
Votes: 293
27. The Inheritance (1976)
R | 120 min | Drama
Rome, 1880. Gregorio has decided to close the family business. Then he tells his children that they will have to fend for themselves, but his beautiful, calculating, ambitious young daughter-in-law, will do anything for the inheritance.
Director: Mauro Bolognini | Stars: Anthony Quinn, Dominique Sanda, Fabio Testi, Gigi Proietti
Votes: 1,013
28. Terror Is a Man (1959)
Approved | 90 min | Horror, Romance, Sci-Fi
A mad scientist transforms a panther into a man-like creature that escapes and goes on a murderous rampage.
Directors: Gerardo de Leon, Eddie Romero | Stars: Francis Lederer, Greta Thyssen, Richard Derr, Oscar Keesee
Votes: 835
29. The Rains of Ranchipur (1955)
Approved | 104 min | Adventure, Drama, Mystery
Despite marital problems, English Lord Albert Esketh and his rich American socialite wife Lady Edwina Esketh travel to India to buy a prize horse from the ruler of Ranchipur.
Director: Jean Negulesco | Stars: Lana Turner, Richard Burton, Fred MacMurray, Joan Caulfield
Votes: 1,153
30. Arrivederci, Baby! (1966)
Unrated | 100 min | Comedy, Crime
Nick tries to kill his wife to get her money, but when learning of this, she plans the same for him!
Director: Ken Hughes | Stars: Tony Curtis, Rosanna Schiaffino, Lionel Jeffries, Zsa Zsa Gabor
Votes: 661
31. When Tomorrow Comes (1939)
Passed | 90 min | Drama, Romance
A concert pianist unhappily married to a mentally ill woman falls in love with a waitress.
Director: John M. Stahl | Stars: Irene Dunne, Charles Boyer, Barbara O'Neil, Onslow Stevens
Votes: 755
32. Sag mir nichts (2016 TV Movie)
90 min | Drama, Romance
Lena is happily married to Bodo. She spots a very attractive man on a tram and has a spontaneous sexual encounter with him. The stranger, Martin, also thinks this secret encounter will not ... See full summary »
Director: Andreas Kleinert | Stars: Ursina Lardi, Ronald Zehrfeld, Roeland Wiesnekker, Sarah Hostettler
Votes: 230
33. Our Relations (1936)
Approved | 71 min | Comedy, Family
Two pairs of long-lost twin brothers experience high jinks involving a valuable ring, cases of mistaken identity, and gangsters.
Director: Harry Lachman | Stars: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Alan Hale, Sidney Toler
Votes: 3,452
34. Parterapi (2010)
Not Rated | 99 min | Comedy
A couple buy their "dream" house with rot. To pay for repairs, they rent out the basement to a couples therapist. He helps them with therapy as well.
Director: Kenneth Kainz | Stars: Nikolaj Lie Kaas, Sidse Babett Knudsen, Søren Pilmark, Rasmus Bjerg
Votes: 1,087
35. The Great Waltz (1972)
G | 135 min | Biography, Drama, Music
Composer Johann Strauss becomes the "Waltz-King" and woos a baron's mistress in 19th-century Austria.
Director: Andrew L. Stone | Stars: Horst Buchholz, Mary Costa, Nigel Patrick, Yvonne Mitchell
Votes: 280 | Gross: $0.89M
36. Fort Dobbs (1958)
Approved | 93 min | Drama, Western
Eluding a sheriff's posse, an escaped man saves a farming family from a Comanche attack and escorts it to the nearby Fort Dobbs.
Director: Gordon Douglas | Stars: Clint Walker, Virginia Mayo, Brian Keith, Richard Eyer
Votes: 894
37. The Baroness and the Butler (1938)
Passed | 80 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A butler gets elected to the Hungarian parliament where he opposes his master's government.
Director: Walter Lang | Stars: William Powell, Annabella, Helen Westley, Henry Stephenson
Votes: 692
38. Foxfire (1955)
Approved | 92 min | Action, Drama, Romance
In Arizona, during the 1950s, privileged white girl Amanda Lawrence marries half-Apache mining engineer Jonathan Dartland who dreams of finding gold in an old abandoned Apache mine.
Director: Joseph Pevney | Stars: Jane Russell, Jeff Chandler, Dan Duryea, Mara Corday
Votes: 573
39. Kept Husbands (1931)
Passed | 76 min | Drama, Romance
Daughter of a wealthy family decides to marry a poor working man.
Director: Lloyd Bacon | Stars: Clara Kimball Young, Joel McCrea, Dorothy Mackaill, Ned Sparks
Votes: 618
40. Robbery Under Arms (1957)
Not Rated | 83 min | Action, Adventure, Crime
Two brothers join their father in Captain Starlight's bush ranger gang in 19th Century Australia.
Director: Jack Lee | Stars: Peter Finch, Ronald Lewis, David McCallum, Maureen Swanson
Votes: 302
41. Three Who Loved (1931)
Approved | 64 min | Drama
John Hanson (Conrad Nagel) is a bank teller and invests in stocks. He and his best friend (another bank teller) Phil Wilson (Robert Ames) live at a boarding house run by his Swedish ... See full summary »
Director: George Archainbaud | Stars: Betty Compson, Conrad Nagel, Robert Ames, Robert Emmett O'Connor
Votes: 182
42. You Can't Have Everything (1937)
Passed | 100 min | Comedy, Music, Mystery
Starving playwright Judith Wells meets playboy writer of musicals George Macrae over a plate of stolen spaghetti. He persuades producer Sam Gordon to buy her ridiculous play "North Winds" ... See full summary »
Director: Norman Taurog | Stars: Alice Faye, The Ritz Brothers, Don Ameche, Charles Winninger
Votes: 275
43. Sexo às Avessas (1982)
96 min | Comedy
Heleno and Cláudia reverse the roles traditionally reserved for men and women in marriage. He dedicates himself to domestic chores, feels like a sexual object, and in the club defends the ... See full summary »
Director: Fauzi Mansur | Stars: Darby Daniel, Ênio Gonçalves, Kleber Afonso, Deusa Angelino
Votes: 52
44. Fast Workers (1933)
Passed | 66 min | Drama
Gunner and Bucker are pals who work as riveters. Whenever Bucker gets the urge to marry, which is often, Gunner will hit on his girl to see if she is true or not. So far, Gunner has not ... See full summary »
Director: Tod Browning | Stars: John Gilbert, Robert Armstrong, Mae Clarke, Muriel Kirkland
Votes: 855
45. Thunder Island (1963)
Approved | 65 min | Action, Drama, Thriller
A Central American woman hires an American hit man to assassinate the former dictator of her island country. The plan is foiled by another American while attempting to save the lives of his wife and child.
Director: Jack Leewood | Stars: Gene Nelson, Fay Spain, Brian Kelly, Miriam Colon
Votes: 227
46. Tiger Theory (2016)
107 min | Comedy, Drama
The last drop for Jan's resolution is the voluntary death of his father-in-law, whose strength and patience ran dry. Grandma made decisions about Grandpa's life, old age as well as the ... See full summary »
Director: Radek Bajgar | Stars: Jirí Bartoska, Eliska Balzerová, Tatiana Dyková, Jirí Havelka
Votes: 808
47. Silver Dollar (1932)
TV-G | 83 min | Biography, Drama
Yates and Sarah Martin are barely getting by in a Colorado boom town grocery store. Sudden wealth leads to greater prosperity and political power. In Denver Yates buys a mansion and builds ... See full summary »
Director: Alfred E. Green | Stars: Edward G. Robinson, Bebe Daniels, Aline MacMahon, DeWitt Jennings
Votes: 469
48. Where the Truth Lies (1962)
83 min | Thriller
François is a vet surgeon on the Noirmoutier island. He is married to Catherine. One day, he is called by a mysterious attractive woman, Myriam, whose leopard is sick. They become lovers. ... See full summary »
Director: Henri Decoin | Stars: Juliette Gréco, Liselotte Pulver, Jean-Marc Bory, Georges Chamarat
Votes: 120
49. Divorce (1945)
Not Rated | 71 min | Drama, Romance
A woman who has been married and divorced five times comes back to her small hometown, where she proceeds to complicate, and potentially destroy, the marriage of her childhood boyfriend.
Director: William Nigh | Stars: Kay Francis, Bruce Cabot, Helen Mack, Jerome Cowan
Votes: 383
50. Chlap na strídacku (2020)
Comedy, Drama, Thriller
Happily married for fifteen years, Zuzana finds out one day that her husband has been having an affair with another woman for a long time. Zuzana does not hesitate and decides to visit her ... See full summary »
Director: Petr Zahrádka | Stars: Jirí Langmajer, Ivana Chýlková, Lucie Zácková, Iva Janzurová
Votes: 139