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1. Curiosa (2019)
18+ | 107 min | Biography, Drama, History
A passionate love story set against a backdrop of sexual freedom, loosely based on the relationship between 19th-century authors Pierre Louÿs and Marie de Régnier.
Director: Lou Jeunet | Stars: Noémie Merlant, Niels Schneider, Benjamin Lavernhe, Camélia Jordana
Votes: 3,567
2. Inherent Vice (2014)
R | 148 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
In 1970, drug-fueled Los Angeles private investigator Larry "Doc" Sportello investigates the disappearance of a former girlfriend.
Director: Paul Thomas Anderson | Stars: Joaquin Phoenix, Josh Brolin, Owen Wilson, Katherine Waterston
Votes: 110,725 | Gross: $8.11M
3. Exodus: Gods and Kings (2014)
PG-13 | 150 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
The defiant leader Moses rises up against Egyptian Pharaoh Ramses II, setting six hundred thousand slaves on a monumental journey of escape from Egypt and its terrifying cycle of deadly plagues.
Director: Ridley Scott | Stars: Christian Bale, Joel Edgerton, Ben Kingsley, Sigourney Weaver
Votes: 179,235 | Gross: $65.01M
4. Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark (2019)
PG-13 | 108 min | Adventure, Horror, Mystery
In 1968, the night of Halloween brings mayhem in a small town when a group of friends discovers a notebook written by a mysterious girl that foretells terrifying events.
Director: André Øvredal | Stars: Zoe Colletti, Michael Garza, Gabriel Rush, Austin Abrams
Votes: 85,277 | Gross: $68.95M
5. Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter (2012)
R | 105 min | Action, Fantasy, Horror
Abraham Lincoln, the 16th President of the United States, discovers vampires are planning to take over the United States. He makes it his mission to eliminate them.
Director: Timur Bekmambetov | Stars: Benjamin Walker, Rufus Sewell, Dominic Cooper, Anthony Mackie
Votes: 161,651 | Gross: $37.52M
6. Brotherhood of the Wolf (2001)
R | 142 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
In 18th-century France, the Chevalier de Fronsac and his Native American friend Mani are sent to the Gevaudan province at the king's behest to investigate the killings of hundreds by a mysterious beast.
Director: Christophe Gans | Stars: Samuel Le Bihan, Mark Dacascos, Jérémie Renier, Vincent Cassel
Votes: 71,479 | Gross: $11.26M
7. Dracula's Daughter (1936)
Unrated | 71 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
When Countess Marya Zaleska appears in London, mysterious events occur that lead Dr. Von Helsing to believe that the Countess must be a vampire.
Director: Lambert Hillyer | Stars: Otto Kruger, Gloria Holden, Marguerite Churchill, Edward Van Sloan
Votes: 8,009
8. Stage Fright (1950)
Approved | 110 min | Film-Noir, Mystery, Thriller
A struggling actress tries to help a friend prove his innocence after he's accused of murdering the husband of a high-society entertainer.
Director: Alfred Hitchcock | Stars: Marlene Dietrich, Jane Wyman, Richard Todd, Michael Wilding
Votes: 16,147
9. Lion of the Desert (1980)
PG | 173 min | Biography, Drama, History
In 1929, Italian Fascist dictator Benito Mussolini appoints General Rodolfo Graziani as colonial governor to Italian Libya with orders to stamp-out all resistance from Libyan nationalists led by rebel guerrilla leader Omar Mukhtar.
Director: Moustapha Akkad | Stars: Anthony Quinn, Oliver Reed, Rod Steiger, Irene Papas
Votes: 17,376 | Gross: $3.27M
10. Nana (1983)
R | 92 min | Comedy, Drama
A beautiful and willful prostitute puts her appearance and body to use to become the toast of the town.
Director: Dan Wolman | Stars: Katya Berger, Jean-Pierre Aumont, Yehuda Efroni, Mandy Rice-Davies
Votes: 713
11. The Portrait of a Lady (1996)
PG-13 | 144 min | Drama, Romance
An American girl inherits a fortune and falls into a misguided relationship with a gentleman confidence artist whose true nature, including a barbed and covetous disposition, turns her life into a nightmare.
Director: Jane Campion | Stars: Nicole Kidman, John Malkovich, Barbara Hershey, Martin Donovan
Votes: 12,673 | Gross: $3.69M
12. Daddy Long Legs (1955)
Approved | 126 min | Musical, Romance
A wealthy American has a chance encounter with a joyful young French woman, and anonymously pays for her education. She writes letters to her mysterious benefactor, nicknaming him from the description given by some of her fellow orphans.
Director: Jean Negulesco | Stars: Fred Astaire, Leslie Caron, Terry Moore, Thelma Ritter
Votes: 4,283
13. Mata Hari (1985)
R | 108 min | Drama, Thriller, War
Mata Hari is a beautiful dancer of Dutch origin working in Paris. It is August 1914 and war between France and Germany seems imminent. However, she accepts an invitation to travel to Berlin as part of a show.
Director: Curtis Harrington | Stars: Sylvia Kristel, Christopher Cazenove, Oliver Tobias, Gaye Brown
Votes: 1,097
14. The Dark Mirror (1946)
Approved | 85 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
A man is found murdered, and witnesses are sure about the woman they saw leaving his apartment. However, it becomes apparent that the woman has a twin, and finding out which one is the killer seems impossible.
Director: Robert Siodmak | Stars: Olivia de Havilland, Lew Ayres, Thomas Mitchell, Richard Long
Votes: 5,679
15. The Haunting in Connecticut 2: Ghosts of Georgia (2013)
R | 100 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
A young family moves into a historic house in Georgia and learns that they're not the house's only inhabitants. They find themselves in the presence of a secret rising from underground that threatens to bring down anyone in its path.
Director: Tom Elkins | Stars: Abigail Spencer, Chad Michael Murray, Katee Sackhoff, Emily Alyn Lind
Votes: 18,251
16. The Scorpion King 3: Battle for Redemption (2012 Video)
PG-13 | 105 min | Action, Fantasy
Since his rise to power, Mathayus' kingdom has fallen. Now an assassin for hire, he must defend a kingdom from an evil tyrant and his ghost warriors for the chance to regain the power and glory he once knew.
Director: Roel Reiné | Stars: Dave Bautista, Bostin Christopher, Tanapol Chuksrida, Kevin 'Kimbo Slice' Ferguson
Votes: 9,142
17. Wadjda (2012)
PG | 98 min | Comedy, Drama
An enterprising Saudi girl signs on for her school's Koran recitation competition as a way to raise the remaining funds she needs in order to buy the green bicycle that has captured her interest.
Director: Haifaa Al-Mansour | Stars: Waad Mohammed, Reem Abdullah, Abdullrahman Al Gohani, Ahd
Votes: 21,473 | Gross: $1.35M
18. Morocco (1930)
Passed | 92 min | Drama, Romance
A cabaret singer and a Legionnaire fall in love, but their relationship is complicated by the results of his womanizing and the appearance of a rich man who wants her for himself.
Director: Josef von Sternberg | Stars: Gary Cooper, Marlene Dietrich, Adolphe Menjou, Ullrich Haupt
Votes: 7,478
19. Algiers (1938)
Passed | 96 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance
A wanted jewel thief ensconced in the Casbah meets a beautiful woman who makes him long for an escape.
Director: John Cromwell | Stars: Charles Boyer, Hedy Lamarr, Sigrid Gurie, Joseph Calleia
Votes: 3,247
20. Terror by Night (1946)
Approved | 60 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
When the fabled Star of Rhodesia diamond is stolen on a London to Edinburgh train and the son of its owner is murdered, Sherlock Holmes must discover which of his suspicious fellow passengers is responsible.
Director: Roy William Neill | Stars: Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Alan Mowbray, Dennis Hoey
Votes: 6,919
22. The Invisible Woman (1940)
Approved | 72 min | Comedy, Romance, Sci-Fi
An attractive model with an ulterior motive volunteers as guinea pig for an invisibility machine.
Director: A. Edward Sutherland | Stars: Virginia Bruce, John Barrymore, John Howard, Charles Ruggles
Votes: 3,356
23. Reign of Terror (1949)
Approved | 89 min | History, Romance, Thriller
Robespierrre, a powerful figure in the French revolution, is desperately looking for his black book, a death list of those marked for the guillotine.
Director: Anthony Mann | Stars: Robert Cummings, Richard Basehart, Richard Hart, Arlene Dahl
Votes: 2,121
24. The Saddest Music in the World (2003)
R | 100 min | Comedy, Musical
A musical of sorts set in Winnipeg during the Great Depression, where a beer baroness organizes a contest to find the saddest music in the world. Musicians from around the world descend on the city to try and win the $25,000 prize.
Director: Guy Maddin | Stars: Isabella Rossellini, Mark McKinney, Maria de Medeiros, David Fox
Votes: 6,322 | Gross: $0.67M
25. Roman Scandals (1933)
Passed | 92 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Musical
A kind-hearted young man is thrown out of his corrupt home town of West Rome, Oklahoma. He falls asleep and dreams that he is back in the days of olden Rome, where he gets mixed up with court intrigue and a murder plot against the Emperor.
Director: Frank Tuttle | Stars: Eddie Cantor, Ruth Etting, Gloria Stuart, Edward Arnold
Votes: 804 | Gross: $5.33M
26. Shakedown (1950)
Approved | 80 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Unscrupulous and opportunistic San Francisco news media photographer Jack Early steps on and uses folks to get ahead, but in the end he tangles with the wrong people.
Director: Joseph Pevney | Stars: Howard Duff, Peggy Dow, Brian Donlevy, Lawrence Tierney
Votes: 729
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. Blood Scarab (2008 Video)
Not Rated | 81 min | Horror
Countess Elizabeth Bathory, history's infamous lesbian vampire who, centuries ago, bathed in the blood of virgins to preserve her youth, arrives from Transylvania to take over the Los ... See full summary »
Director: Donald F. Glut | Stars: Monique Parent, Del Howison, Brinke Stevens, Tony Clay
Votes: 284
29. That Uncertain Feeling (1941)
Passed | 84 min | Comedy
A psychoanalyst causes a woman to doubt her happy marriage.
Director: Ernst Lubitsch | Stars: Merle Oberon, Melvyn Douglas, Burgess Meredith, Alan Mowbray
Votes: 2,987
30. Abbott and Costello in the Foreign Legion (1950)
Passed | 80 min | Adventure, Comedy
Two Brooklyn wrestling promoters go to French Algeria in search of a famous Algerian wrestler but accidentally end-up in the French Foreign Legion.
Director: Charles Lamont | Stars: Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Patricia Medina, Walter Slezak
Votes: 3,119
31. Blind Husbands (1919)
Not Rated | 102 min | Drama, Romance
An Austrian officer sets out to seduce a neglected young wife.
Director: Erich von Stroheim | Stars: Sam De Grasse, Francelia Billington, Erich von Stroheim, Gibson Gowland
Votes: 1,691
32. The Devil Plays (1931)
Passed | 63 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A murder mystery evolves during a weekend at an exclusive mansion.
Director: Richard Thorpe | Stars: Jameson Thomas, Florence Britton, Thomas E. Jackson, Richard Tucker
Votes: 191
33. The Eyes of the Mummy (1918)
Approved | 63 min | Drama, Horror
A girl is kidnapped and held captive in an ancient Egyptian temple. She is rescued and flees to England, but soon finds that her mysterious captor is still haunting her.
Director: Ernst Lubitsch | Stars: Pola Negri, Harry Liedtke, Emil Jannings, Max Laurence
Votes: 735
34. It's Love Again (1936)
83 min | Comedy, Musical
Elaine Bradford is a young singer and dancer, looking for her big break. Peter Carlton is a gossip columnist facing a deadline and a blank page. So, Peter invents "Mrs. Smythe-Smythe", a ... See full summary »
Director: Victor Saville | Stars: Jessie Matthews, Robert Young, Sonnie Hale, Ernest Milton
Votes: 334
35. Haunted Spooks (1920)
Passed | 25 min | Short, Comedy, Horror
After numerous failed attempts to commit suicide, our hero (Lloyd) runs into a lawyer who is looking for a stooge to stand in as a groom in order to secure an inheritance for his client (... See full summary »
Directors: Alfred J. Goulding, Hal Roach | Stars: Harold Lloyd, Mildred Davis, Wally Howe, Marie Benson
Votes: 1,427
36. Doorkeeper (2023)
11 min | Short, Drama
A young woman struggling to find meaning and beauty in life, journeys down a path of the mind in search of a way out.
Director: Havilah Galaxy | Stars: Moriah Brooklyn, Tom Olson, Kristine Artymowski, Selah Rodgers
37. What Price Goofy? (1925)
Passed | 22 min | Short, Comedy
A wife suspects her husband is cheating when seen on the street talking to an attractive young woman. She believes she has caught him his mistress. A dancing butler, a game-playing dog and an accommodating burglar complicate things.
Director: Leo McCarey | Stars: Charley Chase, Katherine Grant, Lucien Littlefield, Jane Sherman
Votes: 169
38. A Lover's Oath (1925)
60 min | Romance, Fantasy
Only a fragment of this partially lost film survives. The son of the chief of one desert tribe, betrothed to the daughter of the chief of a neighboring tribe, almost loses the woman to a riotous rich man who attempts to abduct her.
Director: Ferdinand P. Earle | Stars: Ramon Novarro, Kathleen Key, Edwin Stevens, Frederick Warde
Votes: 25
39. The Wild Goose Chaser (1925)
Comedy, Short
A wife is tired of her husband (Ben Turpin) ignoring her to go hunting so she runs off with one of his friends.
Director: Lloyd Bacon | Stars: Ben Turpin, Trilby Clark, Jack Cooper, Eugenia Gilbert
Votes: 22
40. The Final Moments of Karl Brant (2013)
16 min | Short, Sci-Fi
Set in the near future where experimental technology allows two detectives to bring a murder victim back to life in a digital state in order to question him about his final moments.
Director: M. Francis Wilson | Stars: Paul Reubens, Janina Gavankar, Pete Chekvala, Fay Masterson
Votes: 139
41. Les hors-la-loi (1969)
107 min | Drama
Very very very very good movie. Excellent music from « Georges Moustaki» Takes place before the independence Algerian war. Shows how people restart to fight after a 100 year of colonization And after the end of «emir Abdelkader».
Director: Tewfik Fares | Stars: Sid Ahmed Agoumi, Cheikh Nourredine, Mohamed Chouikh, Malek Kateb
Votes: 20
42. The Freeloader (II) (1917)
12 min | Short, Comedy
Charlie Chaplin-impersonator Billy West pesters hotel guests, guilelessly ending up in a compromising situation with a PJ-clad bride as her jealous husband, Babe Hardy, searches for her.
Director: Arvid E. Gillstrom | Stars: Billy West, Oliver Hardy, Ethelyn Gibson, Bud Ross
Votes: 31
43. La Dame aux Camélias (2008)
Unrated | 132 min | Musical, Romance
Based on the Alexandre Dumas novel that also inspired the stories of Verdi's La Traviata and Hollywood's Moulin Rouge, John Neumeier creates a riveting dance drama around the famous woman of lore.
Director: Thomas Grimm | Stars: Stéphane Bullion, Corps de Ballet de l'Opéra national de Paris, Michaël Denard, Dorothée Gilbert
Votes: 7
44. Hatta Marri (1932)
21 min | Musical, Short, Comedy
Arabian princess Dorothy Granger has all the sheikhs pining, but she loves a Hollywood singing cowboy. When she discovers he is to wed Babe Kane, arranges to steal his trusty steed. His wedding is off until he recovers his horse.
Director: Babe Stafford | Stars: Harry Gribbon, Marjorie Kane, Dorothy Granger, Marvin Loback
Votes: 7
45. Bou: Bride (2017 Video)
29 min | Documentary, Short
The short documentary looks at the trafficking of young Rohingya girls from Myanmar, who are then sold as child brides to Rohingya men in Malaysia. Bou (bride) also explores the mindset of ... See full summary »
Director: Mahi Ramakrishnan | Stars: Sharifah Shakirah, Hafsar Tameesuddin, Richard Towle
46. Quest of the Perfect Woman: The Vampire of Marrakesh (1933)
9 min | Short
Tom Terriss (billed as 'The Vagabond Adventurer') is on the search for the perfect woman. This global quest has found him and his friend in Marrakesh, Morocco. Just before taking their ... See full summary »
Star: Tom Terriss
47. Faceology (2012)
4 min | Short
This experimental art film explores a woman's choices in life, the faces she dons in public, the place she needs to make for herself in the world, how she struggles to fit in, the labels she feels forced into, and how she resents them.
Director: Francesco Giannini | Star: Mikaela Lily Davies
48. Active Service (1916)
Short, Comedy
Things happen fast in the appropriately named town of While-U-Wait. Food, dry-cleaning, even marriage, all in minutes. Be very careful what you order.
Director: Louis Myll | Stars: Harry Watson, George Bickel, Rosa Gore, Della Connor
Votes: 8
49.
Babylon 5 (1993–1998)
Episode:
The Coming of Shadows
(1995)
TV-PG | 43 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
The Centauri emperor visits the station, leading G'Kar to attempt to assassinate him. Lord Refa and Londo conspire to expand their power on Centauri Prime.
Director: Janet Greek | Stars: Bruce Boxleitner, Claudia Christian, Jerry Doyle, Mira Furlan
Votes: 991
50.
Charlie's Angels (1976–1981)
Episode:
Angels on Ice
(1977)
Not Rated | 100 min | Action, Adventure, Crime
Performers for an ice show mysteriously disappear before the big opening. Kelly learns it's part of an assassination plot on the show's opening night, but she's captured before she can alert anyone.
Director: Bob Kelljan | Stars: Kate Jackson, Jaclyn Smith, Cheryl Ladd, David Doyle
Votes: 229