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1. The Devil's Advocate (1997)
R | 144 min | Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
An exceptionally-adept Florida lawyer is offered a job at a high-end New York City law firm with a high-end boss--the biggest opportunity of his career to date.
Director: Taylor Hackford | Stars: Keanu Reeves, Al Pacino, Charlize Theron, Jeffrey Jones
Votes: 401,871 | Gross: $60.98M
2. The House That Jack Built (2018)
R | 152 min | Crime, Drama, Horror
In five episodes, failed architect and vicious sociopath Jack recounts his elaborately orchestrated murders -- each, as he views them, a towering work of art that defines his life's work as a serial killer in the Pacific Northwest.
Director: Lars von Trier | Stars: Matt Dillon, Bruno Ganz, Uma Thurman, Siobhan Fallon Hogan
Votes: 91,997 | Gross: $0.09M
3. Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile (2019)
R | 110 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
A chronicle of the crimes of Ted Bundy from the perspective of Liz, his longtime girlfriend, who refused to believe the truth about him for years.
Director: Joe Berlinger | Stars: Lily Collins, Zac Efron, Angela Sarafyan, Sydney Vollmer
Votes: 103,408
4. Conspiracy (2001 TV Movie)
R | 96 min | Biography, Drama, History
At the Wannsee Conference on January 20, 1942, senior Nazi officials meet to determine the manner in which the so-called "Final Solution to the Jewish Question" can be best implemented.
Director: Frank Pierson | Stars: Clare Bullus, Stanley Tucci, Simon Markey, David Glover
Votes: 24,803
5. Suck Me Shakespeer (2013)
119 min | Comedy
A comedy that follows an ex-convict who lands a position at a school that sits over the spot where money from one of his earlier robberies was stashed.
Director: Bora Dagtekin | Stars: Elyas M'Barek, Karoline Herfurth, Katja Riemann, Jana Pallaske
Votes: 31,682
6. Denial (II) (2016)
PG-13 | 109 min | Biography, Drama
Acclaimed writer and historian Deborah E. Lipstadt must battle for historical truth to prove the Holocaust actually occurred when David Irving, a renowned denier, sues her for libel.
Director: Mick Jackson | Stars: Rachel Weisz, Tom Wilkinson, Timothy Spall, Andrew Scott
Votes: 23,517 | Gross: $4.07M
7. Jules and Jim (1962)
Not Rated | 105 min | Drama, Romance
Decades of a love triangle concerning two friends and an impulsive woman.
Director: François Truffaut | Stars: Jeanne Moreau, Oskar Werner, Henri Serre, Vanna Urbino
Votes: 44,406
8. Pay the Ghost (2015)
Not Rated | 94 min | Horror, Mystery
A professor frantically searches for his son who was abducted during a Halloween carnival.
Director: Uli Edel | Stars: Nicolas Cage, Sarah Wayne Callies, Veronica Ferres, Lyriq Bent
Votes: 18,877
9. All Quiet on the Western Front (1979 TV Movie)
TV-14 | 150 min | Drama, War
A young soldier faces profound disillusionment in the soul-destroying horror of World War I.
Director: Delbert Mann | Stars: Richard Thomas, Ernest Borgnine, Donald Pleasence, Ian Holm
Votes: 10,535
10. Our Brand Is Crisis (2015)
R | 107 min | Comedy, Drama
A battle-hardened American political consultant is sent to help re-elect a controversial president in Bolivia, where she must compete with a long-term rival working for another candidate.
Director: David Gordon Green | Stars: Sandra Bullock, Billy Bob Thornton, Anthony Mackie, Joaquim de Almeida
Votes: 23,265 | Gross: $7.00M
11. A Promise (2013)
R | 98 min | Drama, Romance
A romantic drama set in Germany just before WWI and centered on a married woman who falls in love with her husband's protégé. Separated first by duties and then by the war, they pledge their devotion to one another.
Director: Patrice Leconte | Stars: Rebecca Hall, Alan Rickman, Richard Madden, Toby Murray
Votes: 4,519
12. The Naked Kiss (1964)
Approved | 90 min | Crime, Drama
A former prostitute relocates to a buttoned-down suburb, determined to fit in with mainstream society. But perverse secrets simmer beneath the wholesome surface.
Director: Samuel Fuller | Stars: Constance Towers, Anthony Eisley, Michael Dante, Virginia Grey
Votes: 8,754
13. Suck Me Shakespeer 2 (2015)
115 min | Comedy
Mr. Müller and his class are taking a school trip to Thailand to strengthen the reputation of their school.
Director: Bora Dagtekin | Stars: Elyas M'Barek, Jella Haase, Karoline Herfurth, Katja Riemann
Votes: 14,579
14. Die Wannseekonferenz (1984 TV Movie)
87 min | Drama, History
At the Wannsee Conference on January 20, 1942, senior Nazi officials meet to determine the manner in which the so-called "Final Solution to the Jewish Question" can be best implemented.
Director: Heinz Schirk | Stars: Dietrich Mattausch, Gerd Böckmann, Friedrich G. Beckhaus, Robert Atzorn
Votes: 1,268
15. Dangerous Moves (1984)
100 min | Drama, Sport, Thriller
During the Cold War, the World Chess Championship clashed complete opposites - personal and political.
Director: Richard Dembo | Stars: Michel Piccoli, Alexandre Arbatt, Liv Ullmann, Leslie Caron
Votes: 1,478
16. Manifesto (III) (2015)
Not Rated | 95 min | Drama
Cate Blanchett performs manifestos as a series of striking monologues.
Director: Julian Rosefeldt | Stars: Cate Blanchett, Erika Bauer, Ruby Bustamante, Carl Dietrich
Votes: 7,246 | Gross: $0.14M
17. Amour Fou (2014)
Not Rated | 96 min | Comedy, Drama
Berlin, the Romantic Era. Young poet Heinrich wishes to conquer the inevitability of death through love, yet is unable to convince his skeptical cousin Marie to join him in a suicide pact. ... See full summary »
Director: Jessica Hausner | Stars: Christian Friedel, Birte Schnöink, Stephan Grossmann, Sandra Hüller
Votes: 1,740 | Gross: $0.01M
18. How About Adolf? (2018)
91 min | Comedy
Stephan (Christoph Maria Herbst) and his wife Elisabeth (Caroline Peters) organize a dinner in their house in Bonn. Invited are family friend René (Justus von Dohnányi), Thomas (Florian ... See full summary »
Director: Sönke Wortmann | Stars: Christoph Maria Herbst, Florian David Fitz, Caroline Peters, Justus von Dohnányi
Votes: 7,639
19. The Silence of the Sea (1949)
Not Rated | 87 min | Drama, Romance, War
In occupied France, an elderly man and his niece are forced to give shelter to a German army lieutenant who seemingly loves their country and culture.
Director: Jean-Pierre Melville | Stars: Howard Vernon, Nicole Stéphane, Jean-Marie Robain, Ami Aaröe
Votes: 5,656
20. Coming Out (I) (1989)
Unrated | 113 min | Drama, Romance
A young teacher in East Berlin struggles with accepting his homosexuality.
Director: Heiner Carow | Stars: Matthias Freihof, Dagmar Manzel, Dirk Kummer, Michael Gwisdek
Votes: 1,838
21. The Forbidden Room (1977)
Not Rated | 102 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
Bizarre events keep occurring in an old mansion in Venezia, and it's soon obvious that something mysterious is up in the attic.
Director: Dino Risi | Stars: Vittorio Gassman, Catherine Deneuve, Danilo Mattei, Anicée Alvina
Votes: 1,309
22. Go Trabi Go (1991)
92 min | Comedy
Family Struutz lives in Bitterfeld (GDR). After the fall of the wall, they take the opportunity to go on holiday with their car, an old Trabant. They simply want to visit Italy. But there ... See full summary »
Director: Peter Timm | Stars: Wolfgang Stumph, Claudia Schmutzler, Marie Gruber, Dieter Hildebrandt
Votes: 1,654
23. And Next Year at Lake Balaton (1980)
85 min | Adventure, Comedy
A true road movie. Set in the 1970-s, in Communist Central Europe. An East German guy with a Dutch girl -- hitchhiking their way, with all sorts of adventures. This movie feels like you're on a holiday yourself.
Director: Herrmann Zschoche | Stars: Gudrun Ritter, Peter Bause, Odette Bereska, Fred Delmare
Votes: 137
24. Cuckoo in a Dark Forest (1985)
95 min | Drama, War
A portrait of a Nazi officer, the commander of a concentration camp, touches on the contradictory sides of his personality - on the one hand, a caring, nurturing family man, on the other, a... See full summary »
Director: Antonín Moskalyk | Stars: Miroslava Soucková, Oleg Tabakov, Alicja Jachiewicz, Vilém Besser
Votes: 111
25. Nena (I) (2014)
95 min | Biography, Comedy, Drama
In the summer of 1989, a teenage girl finds herself facing adulthood as she deals with her handicapped father's suicide attempt - while also falling in love for the first time in her life.
Director: Saskia Diesing | Stars: Abbey Hoes, Uwe Ochsenknecht, Gijs Blom, Monic Hendrickx
Votes: 598
26. Shiverstone Castle 2 (2017)
100 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama
The pupils of Castle Schreckenstein and Castle Rosenfels look for a solution to forestall the sale of Castle Schreckenstein due to debts.
Director: Ralf Huettner | Stars: Henning Baum, Alexander Beyer, Uwe Ochsenknecht, Caspar Kryzsch
Votes: 156
27. The Big Scare (1964)
85 min | Comedy, Crime, Horror
Two police inspectors Triquet and Vergus launch their investigations to arrest a dangerous escaped forger named Mickey Le Bénedictin.
Director: Jean-Pierre Mocky | Stars: Bourvil, Jean-Louis Barrault, Francis Blanche, Victor Francen
Votes: 547
28. Wir sind die Neuen (2014)
91 min | Comedy
Three old friends from college move back in together in an apartment in Munich for financial reasons.
Director: Ralf Westhoff | Stars: Gisela Schneeberger, Heiner Lauterbach, Michael Wittenborn, Claudia Eisinger
Votes: 1,696
29. Das war der wilde Osten (1992)
100 min | Comedy
The Struutz family return from holidays after the fall of the Berlin Wall to find their home being bulldozed to make way for a golf course. It gets worse when Udo inherits a nearly-bankrupt garden gnome factory.
Directors: Wolfgang Büld, Reinhard Klooss | Stars: Wolfgang Stumph, Marie Gruber, Claudia Schmutzler, Rolf Zacher
Votes: 523
30. 3 Seasons in Hell (2009)
110 min | Drama, Romance
A 19 year old nonconformist poet living in 1947 Czechoslovakia is blind to the Communist behemoth looking over him, and instead lives a bohemian life with sexually liberated girls. There he... See full summary »
Director: Tomas Masin | Stars: Krystof Hádek, Karolina Gruszka, Martin Huba, Jan Kraus
Votes: 422
31. Lítost (1970 TV Movie)
64 min | Drama
The popular folk singer Jaro Zárubecký, a former waiter, follows the motto "A man is not what he is, but what people think of him", and that is how he is raising his son Pavel. He lives ... See full summary »
Director: Evald Schorm | Stars: Rudolf Hrusínský, Jan Hrusínský, Vlasta Chramostová, Miroslav Homola
Votes: 17
32. Leroy (2007)
89 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Leroy (16) is an Afro-German boy who, not only notoriously unlucky, must also battle with an identity crisis born of the fact that he is both a highly cultured, well-mannered German AND ... See full summary »
Director: Armin Völckers | Stars: Alain Morel, Anna Hausburg, Constantin von Jascheroff, Günther Kaufmann
Votes: 678
33. Magdalena Dobromila Rettigová (1961 TV Movie)
101 min | Biography, Comedy, History
The story takes us to Litomysl in 1836. The local bourgeoisie, who, as a proof of good manners and better origins, does not forget to include some German words in their conversation, ... See full summary »
Director: Frantisek Filip | Stars: Jirina Sejbalová, Blanka Waleská, Bozena Pulpánová, Alena Vránová
Votes: 19
34. Martin XIII. (1981 TV Movie)
93 min | Comedy, Drama
Director: Konrad Petzold | Stars: Herbert Köfer, Agnes Kraus, Bianka Ungar, Gerald Ungar
Votes: 18
35. Ladder of Philosophy
Documentary, History | Announced
Four philosophers - an atheist, an agnostic, a Christian, and a Hindu - settle down to discuss life, reason, faith, and whatever else comes to mind.
Director: Martin Horlacher | Star: Martin Horlacher
36. Matter of Heart (1986)
107 min | Documentary, Biography
Documentary on the famous Swiss psychoanalyst, Carl Gustav Jung, featuring interviews with those who knew him and archive footage of Jung.
Director: Mark Whitney | Stars: Carl Gustav Jung, Marie-Louise von Franz, Barbara Hannah, Liliane Frey-Rohn
Votes: 168
37. Les Milles (1995)
103 min | Comedy, Drama, War
A World War II drama where people, many of whom opposed to Nazism, get on board a train from France that could lead them to freedom.
Director: Sébastien Grall | Stars: Jean-Pierre Marielle, Ticky Holgado, Rüdiger Vogler, Philippe Noiret
Votes: 312
38. Tréfa (2009)
93 min | Comedy, Drama
It is 1912 and war looms on the horizon. The school year begins in a boarding school run by priests. Zoltán's father, is one of the masters and struggling with questions that challenge ... See full summary »
Director: Péter Gárdos | Stars: Lóránd Váta, Tamás Lengyel, Mihály Kovács, Zsolt Kovács
Votes: 174
39. The Wizard's Apprentice (1930)
10 min | Short, Fantasy
A sorcerer leaves his apprentice unsupervised with a tiny nymph and a broom. An early live-action film based on the Goethe poem, using the Dukas score.
Director: Sidney Levee | Stars: Fritz Feld, Greta Granstedt, Bernard Siegel, Josef Swickard
Votes: 68
40. La valse du gorille (1959)
100 min | Drama
The Russian, British, American and German secret services are fighting over plans for a missile. When the Gorilla learns that its former leader is threatened, it abandons its garrison in Bayonne to enter this waltz of spies
Director: Bernard Borderie | Stars: Charles Vanel, Jess Hahn, Ursula Herwig, Roger Hanin
Votes: 64
41. Vampýr (1989 TV Movie)
34 min | Horror, Mystery
Director: Jaroslav Hanus | Stars: Zdena Herfortová, Ladislav Lakomý, Marcela Penázová, Ján Sedal
Votes: 13
42. Levé krídlo (1984)
81 min | Drama, Family, Romance
Director: Jirí Hanibal | Stars: Filip Renc, Lucie Zednícková, Pavel Kríz, Zbynek Honzík
Votes: 20
43. The Secret of a Great Narrator (1972)
101 min | Biography, Comedy, Drama
Alexandre Dumas Sr. is a charming but poor young man who comes to Paris in the 1820s and enters the service of the king. He is hired as a scribe, and from the moment he picks up a pen for the first time, his fate is sealed.
Director: Karel Kachyna | Stars: Martin Stepánek, Petr Stepánek, Otakar Brousek, Jana Hlavácová
Votes: 40
44. Hovory s TGM (2018)
80 min | Biography, Drama, History
On 26 September 1928, Karel Capek and President T.G. Masaryk meet in the gardens of Topolcianky castle to decide about the fate of their joint literary work. Their fiction film dialogue is ... See full summary »
Director: Jakub Cervenka | Stars: Jan Budar, Martin Huba
Votes: 176
45. Vune jehlicí (1987 TV Special)
56 min | Music, Talk-Show
Director: Jan Eisner | Stars: Pavel Barton, Iveta Bartosová, Milan Drobný, Jana Hlavácová
46. Otevrený kruh (1973 TV Movie)
88 min | Biography, Drama
The last decades of the life of the now world-renowned painter Karel Purkyne and his struggle for the possibility of creative expression. After studying in Paris, he returned to Prague. He ... See full summary »
Director: Marie Polednáková | Stars: Ludek Munzar, Karel Höger, Jana Hlavácová, Hana Maciuchová
47. Písnicky roku 1973 (1973 TV Movie)
31 min | Music
Director: Ivo Paukert | Stars: Frantisek Cech, Petra Cernocká, Milan Drobný, Milan Dufek
48. Rozprávky z Hollywoodu (1992 TV Movie)
Biography, Drama
Director: Stanislav Párnicky | Stars: Emil Horváth, Milan Bahúl, Jela Buckova, Vladimir Cerny
Votes: 16
49. Rozhovor v dome Steinových o neprítomném panu Goethovi (1980 TV Movie)
110 min | Drama
Director: Zdenek Míka | Star: Iva Janzurová
50. L'esprit du loup (2016)
18 min | Short
Director: Katia Scarton-Kim | Stars: Arndt Schwering-Sohnrey, Jochen Hägele, Gintare Parulyte, Charlton Guttin
Votes: 14