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1. Glass (2019)

PG-13 | 129 min | Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi

Security guard David Dunn uses his supernatural abilities to track Kevin Wendell Crumb, a disturbed man who has twenty-four personalities.

Director: M. Night Shyamalan | Stars: James McAvoy, Bruce Willis, Samuel L. Jackson, Anya Taylor-Joy

Votes: 272,620 | Gross: $111.05M

2. Tombstone (1993)

R | 130 min | Biography, Drama, History

A successful lawman's plans to retire anonymously in Tombstone, Arizona are disrupted by the kind of outlaws he was famous for eliminating.

Directors: George P. Cosmatos, Kevin Jarre | Stars: Kurt Russell, Val Kilmer, Sam Elliott, Bill Paxton

Votes: 166,331 | Gross: $56.51M

3. 8½ (1963)

Not Rated | 138 min | Drama

A harried movie director retreats into his memories and fantasies.

Director: Federico Fellini | Stars: Marcello Mastroianni, Anouk Aimée, Claudia Cardinale, Sandra Milo

Votes: 125,205 | Gross: $0.05M

4. The Poison Rose (2019)

R | 98 min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller

Inspired by classic film noir, Carson Phillips, an ex-football star turned PI, has a soft spot for a lady in distress.

Directors: Francesco Cinquemani, George Gallo | Stars: John Travolta, Morgan Freeman, Brendan Fraser, Famke Janssen

Votes: 11,163

5. A Star Is Born (1954)

Passed | 154 min | Drama, Musical, Romance

A film star helps a young singer and actress find fame, even as age and alcoholism send his own career on a downward spiral.

Director: George Cukor | Stars: Judy Garland, James Mason, Jack Carson, Charles Bickford

Votes: 19,678 | Gross: $14.93M

6. Hour of the Gun (1967)

Approved | 100 min | Drama, Western

Marshal Wyatt Earp kills a couple of men of the Clanton gang in a fight. In revenge, Clanton's thugs kill the Marshal's brother. Thus, Wyatt starts to chase the killers together with his friend Doc Holliday.

Director: John Sturges | Stars: James Garner, Jason Robards, Robert Ryan, Albert Salmi

Votes: 4,598

7. Shock (1977)

R | 93 min | Horror

A couple is terrorized in their new house haunted by the vengeful ghost of the woman's former husband, who possesses their young son.

Directors: Mario Bava, Lamberto Bava | Stars: Daria Nicolodi, John Steiner, David Colin Jr., Ivan Rassimov

Votes: 4,678

8. The Sandglass (1973)

124 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror

Józef visits his dying father at a remote mental institution, where time itself doesn't seem to exist, and the line between dreams and memories becomes indistinguishable.

Director: Wojciech Has | Stars: Jan Nowicki, Tadeusz Kondrat, Irena Orska, Halina Kowalska

Votes: 4,970

9. Amen. (2002)

Not Rated | 132 min | Biography, Crime, Drama

During WWII SS officer Kurt Gerstein tries to inform Pope Pius XII about Jews being sent to extermination camps. Young Jesuit priest Riccardo Fontana helps him in the difficult mission to inform the world.

Director: Costa-Gavras | Stars: Ulrich Tukur, Mathieu Kassovitz, Ulrich Mühe, Michel Duchaussoy

Votes: 14,979 | Gross: $0.27M

10. Never Take Candy from A Stranger (1960)

Approved | 81 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery

In Canada, a British schoolmaster meets official resistance when he learns that his 9-year-old daughter has been the victim of the pedophile patriarch of the town's most powerful family.

Director: Cyril Frankel | Stars: Gwen Watford, Patrick Allen, Felix Aylmer, Niall MacGinnis

Votes: 1,983

11. Shock (1946)

Passed | 70 min | Film-Noir, Thriller

A psychologically distraught woman is committed to a private sanitarium by the man she witnessed commit a murder.

Director: Alfred L. Werker | Stars: Vincent Price, Lynn Bari, Frank Latimore, Anabel Shaw

Votes: 3,299

12. A Fine Madness (1966)

Not Rated | 104 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

Samson Shillitoe, mad genius of a poet irresistible to women, but plagued by writer's block, agrees to see a psychiatrist, and his beautiful wife.

Director: Irvin Kershner | Stars: Sean Connery, Joanne Woodward, Jean Seberg, Patrick O'Neal

Votes: 1,524

13. The Return of the Vampire (1943)

Not Rated | 69 min | Drama, Horror

When an errant bomb unearths the coffin of a vampire during the London Blitz, a gravedigger unknowingly reanimates the monster by removing the stake from his heart

Director: Lew Landers | Stars: Bela Lugosi, Frieda Inescort, Nina Foch, Roland Varno

Votes: 2,745 | Gross: $1.09M

14. Morgan! (1966)

97 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy

After his wife leaves him for his former best friend, a failed London artist begins his descent into madness in trying to win her back.

Director: Karel Reisz | Stars: David Warner, Vanessa Redgrave, Robert Stephens, Irene Handl

Votes: 2,110

15. The Other Love (1947)

Passed | 95 min | Drama, Film-Noir, Romance

Karen Duncan, a seriously ill concert pianist, enters a Swiss sanatorium where she's attracted to Dr. Tony Stanton. Ignoring his warnings about resting, she leaves for Monte Carlo with Paul Clermont despite possibly fatal consequences.

Director: André De Toth | Stars: Barbara Stanwyck, David Niven, Richard Conte, Gilbert Roland

Votes: 920

16. The Case of the Velvet Claws (1936)

Passed | 63 min | Mystery

Perry marries Della but a beautiful woman interrupts their honeymoon night and demands Perry take her case at gunpoint.

Director: William Clemens | Stars: Warren William, Claire Dodd, Wini Shaw, Bill Elliott

Votes: 665

17. Trio (1950)

Not Rated | 91 min | Drama, Romance

Three short stories by W. Somerset Maugham, "The Verger", "Mr. Know-All", and "The Sanatorium" are introduced by the author.

Directors: Ken Annakin, Harold French | Stars: James Hayter, Kathleen Harrison, Felix Aylmer, Lana Morris

Votes: 905

18. The Courage to Love (2000 TV Movie)

PG-13 | 95 min | Drama, History, Romance

In 19th century New Orleans creole Henriette must choose between love and devotion to the church. Neither choice is going to be easy, as there is great opposition to her ideas of breaking traditions.

Director: Kari Skogland | Stars: Vanessa Williams, Gil Bellows, Karen Williams, Lisa Bronwyn Moore

Votes: 531

19. Jungle Woman (1944)

Approved | 61 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror

Paula the ape woman (Acquanetta) is alive and well, and running around a creepy old sanitarium run by the kindly Dr. Fletcher (J. Carrol Naish), also reverting to her true gorilla form every once in a while to kill somebody.

Director: Reginald Le Borg | Stars: Evelyn Ankers, J. Carrol Naish, Samuel S. Hinds, Lois Collier

Votes: 547

20. Manifesto (1988)

R | 96 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

In a small European country, the king is scheduled to visit a small, quiet and "safe" village. It turns out that while the village may indeed be small, it's neither as quiet nor as safe as it's expected to be.

Director: Dusan Makavejev | Stars: Camilla Søeberg, Alfred Molina, Simon Callow, Eric Stoltz

Votes: 436

21. A Brief Vacation (1973)

PG | 112 min | Drama, Romance

Clara, diagnosed with tuberculosis, is treated in a sanatorium in the Alps where she can finally take a break from her miserable life.

Director: Vittorio De Sica | Stars: Florinda Bolkan, Renato Salvatori, Daniel Quenaud, José María Prada

Votes: 977 | Gross: $0.66M

22. Death Tunnel (2005)

R | 97 min | Horror

For an initiation stunt, five college women are locked in a Kentucky hospital built in 1910 where 63,000 people died from a disease known as the "white plague". Deep under the hospital is the "Death Tunnel" which once were used to secretly remove the dead from the grounds.

Director: Philip Adrian Booth | Stars: Steffany Huckaby, Melanie Lewis, Yolanda Pecoraro, Kristin Novak

Votes: 5,351

23. Warlock Moon (1973)

PG | 89 min | Horror, Thriller

A college girl meets a reporter, they take a trip to the country, and they wind up meeting a creepy old woman who lives in a closed-down resort.

Director: William Herbert | Stars: Laurie Walters, Joe Spano, Edna MacAfee, Harry Bauer

Votes: 531

24. House of Secrets (1993 TV Movie)

120 min | Mystery, Romance, Thriller

Marion Ravinel is trapped in an abusive spousal relationship. She forms a plan with her husband's former lover to kill him. However, the outcome turns out to be more than she planned on as ... See full summary »

Director: Mimi Leder | Stars: Melissa Gilbert, Bruce Boxleitner, Kate Vernon, Michael Boatman

Votes: 255

25. Mysterious Intruder (1946)

Passed | 61 min | Crime, Film-Noir, Mystery

Amid murders and kidnappings, a private detective is hired to find a missing girl whose family inheritance contains two rare collectible song recordings worth a lot of money.

Director: William Castle | Stars: Richard Dix, Barton MacLane, Nina Vale, Regis Toomey

Votes: 643

26. Run Away Home (2004)

96 min | Drama, Romance

A coming-of-age story of a teenage girl from a liberal upbringing who moves to a conservative baptist community in rural 1950s America.

Director: Gail Harvey | Stars: Katie Boland, Stuart Wilson, Alberta Watson, Geraint Wyn Davies

Votes: 411

27. Feestje (2004)

95 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

Thijs uses the money he's offered to organize his best mate Ben's wedding to finance his own restaurant.

Director: Ruud van Hemert | Stars: Antonie Kamerling, Daphne Bunskoek, Beau van Erven Dorens, Chantal Janzen

Votes: 435

28. Radio Patrol (1937)

Passed | 242 min | Action, Adventure, Crime

A young radio cop and a beautiful girl try to stop an international criminal gang from getting their hands on the formula for a new bulletproof steel.

Directors: Ford Beebe, Clifford Smith | Stars: Grant Withers, Adrian Morris, Kay Hughes, Mickey Rentschler

Votes: 63

29. Stick Around (1925)

24 min | Short, Comedy

Two paperhangers are employed by a sanitarium to hang up some posters. Chaos Ensures.

Director: Ward Hayes | Stars: Oliver Hardy, Bobby Ray, Hazel Newman, Harry McCoy

Votes: 216

30. Partners in Crime (1983–1984)
Episode: The Secret Adversary (1983)

PG | 115 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

After two old friends accidentally meet and resolve to become investigators for hire, they quickly become embroiled in a missing treaty and a Bolshevik conspiracy.

Director: Tony Wharmby | Stars: James Warwick, Francesca Annis, Gavan O'Herlihy, Alec McCowen

Votes: 510

31. Maigret (1992–1993)
Episode: Maigret and the Minister (1993)

TV-PG | 51 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

After the collapse of a children's sanatorium kills 62, Maigret unofficially investigates the theft of engineer's report which had correctly predicted the disaster.

Director: Nicholas Renton | Stars: Michael Gambon, Geoffrey Hutchings, Jack Galloway, James Larkin

Votes: 109

32. The Bureau (2015–2020)
Episode: Episode #5.2 (2020)

TV-MA | 53 min | Drama, Thriller

The Bureau is looking for César after he failed to catch a flight to Riga. Could he have been kidnapped? Meanwhile, Ellenstein is questioning JJA's power of judgment.

Directors: Samuel Collardey, Anna Novion, Eric Rochant, Mathieu Kassovitz | Stars: Mathieu Kassovitz, Florence Loiret Caille, Jonathan Zaccaï, Mathieu Amalric

Votes: 197

33. Decoy (1957–1958)
Episode: Dream Fix (1957)

26 min | Crime, Drama

Casey poses as a nurse in a sanatorium to trace the source of a stream of illegal narcotics.

Director: Teddy Sills | Stars: Beverly Garland, Phyllis Newman, Les Damon, Simon Oakland

Votes: 46

34. Pole to Pole (1992– )
Episode: Russian Steps (1992)

49 min | Adventure, Documentary

Palin meets up with a Vladimir Lenin impersonator, witnesses a Russian Orthodox baptism ceremony, visits the cemetery where the likes of Mussorgsky, Tchaikovsky, and Fyodor Dostoyevsky are ... See full summary »

Director: Roger Mills | Star: Michael Palin

Votes: 93

35. Psychic Kids: Children of the Paranormal (2008– )
Episode: Night Terrors (2010)

TV-14 | 45 min | Documentary, Reality-TV

Coffey and Nathan help two teenage girls face their fears of the spirits they see and build their confidence in the psychic abilities they possess. Nathan also counsels the girls' mothers on the three-day retreat to an historical building.

Director: Christopher Bozak | Stars: Chip Coffey, Robert Moss, Edy Nathan

36. Mob Stories (2002– )
Episode: Born to the Mob (2003)

Documentary, Drama

Episode 2: Born to the Mob On a warm spring day in 1997, a 73 year old man lay facedown, motionless in the middle of the Hamilton neighbourhood where he was born and raised. John Papalia, ... See full summary »

Director: Mitchell Gabourie | Stars: Nick Mancuso, Hector Colantoni, Louis Simone, Allesandro Neglia

37. Flowers in the Attic: The Origin (2022)
Episode: Part Three: The Murderer (2022)

88 min | Drama

After unimaginable loss, Olivia finds both her son and daughter in forbidden relationships. She opposes their unions, but as she tries to hold on, more destruction finds her and pushes her further to her breaking point.

Director: Robin Sheppard | Stars: Jemima Rooper, Max Irons, Hannah Dodd, T'Shan Williams

Votes: 116

38. The Wingless Bird (1997– )
Episode: Episode #1.3 (1997)

Drama

As Charles recovers, WWI breaks out. Reggie feels the impact of fighting and a tragic accident changes the family dynamic for the Farriers.

Director: David Wheatley | Stars: Dinsdale Landen, Elspet Gray, Michelle Charles, Edward Atterton

Votes: 6

39. Project Fear (2023– )
Episode: Confronting Pure Evil: Our Night From Hell (2023)

64 min | Adventure, History, Horror

We Confronted Pure Evil at Cresson Sanatorium and Prison. A Demonic "mimic" spirit and the ghost of a serial killer haunt this terrifying facility.

Stars: Chelsea Laden, Dakota Laden, Alex Schroeder, Connor Stallings

Votes: 6

40. Project Fear (2023– )
Episode: We're Never Returning to This Demonic Prison (2023)

53 min | Adventure, History, Horror

We slept alone at Cresson Sanatorium and Prison, confronting Pure Evil and uncovering Demonic Secrets. Watch why we're never going back.

Stars: Chelsea Laden, Dakota Laden, Alex Schroeder, Connor Stallings

Votes: 7

41. Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries (2012–2015)
Episode: Death & Hysteria (2015)

TV-PG | 55 min | Crime, Drama, History

When Phryne's Aunt Prudence opens her home to psychiatrist and natural healer Hayden Samuels to conduct his sanatorium for 'hysterical' women, Phryne takes on more than she bargained for.

Director: Mat King | Stars: Essie Davis, Nathan Page, Ashleigh Cummings, Miriam Margolyes

Votes: 362

42. Kaukasia 30 päivässä (2015)
Episode: Georgia (2015)

43 min | Documentary

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Directors: Ossi Käki, Vera Olsson, Nanna Ripattila-Tulikoura | Star: Ville Haapasalo

43. Kaukasia 30 päivässä (2015)
Episode: Azerbaidzhan (2015)

43 min | Documentary

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Directors: Ossi Käki, Vera Olsson, Nanna Ripattila-Tulikoura | Star: Ville Haapasalo

44. Volga 30 päivässä (2016)
Episode: Happicocktaileja ja olutta (2016)

41 min | Documentary

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Director: Inka Achté | Star: Ville Haapasalo

Votes: 7

45. Altai 30 päivässä (2017)
Episode: Rallia lumihuippujen keskellä (2017)

42 min | Documentary

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Director: Vera Olsson | Star: Ville Haapasalo

Votes: 8