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51. August Underground's Mordum (2003 Video)
Unrated | 77 min | Horror
Two friends bring along a newcomer to go on a killing spree.
Directors: Jerami Cruise, Killjoy, Michael Todd Schneider, Fred Vogel, Cristie Whiles | Stars: Cristie Whiles, Fred Vogel, Michael Todd Schneider, Jerami Cruise
Votes: 3,934
52. Scarlet Street (1945)
Approved | 102 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
A man in mid-life crisis befriends a young woman, though her fiancé persuades her to con him out of the fortune they mistakenly assume he possesses.
Director: Fritz Lang | Stars: Edward G. Robinson, Joan Bennett, Dan Duryea, Margaret Lindsay
Votes: 19,286
53. Hell Is Where the Home Is (2018)
Unrated | 88 min | Action, Crime, Horror
Two couples renting a luxury home in the desert are thrust into chaos when a mysterious woman arrives, claiming car trouble and refusing to leave.
Director: Orson Oblowitz | Stars: Angela Trimbur, Janel Parrish, Jonathan Howard, Zach Avery
Votes: 2,776
54. Clean and Sober (1988)
R | 124 min | Drama
A hustling drug addict checks himself into rehabilitation to escape trouble with the law and realizes that it's exactly what he needs.
Director: Glenn Gordon Caron | Stars: Michael Keaton, Kathy Baker, Morgan Freeman, Tate Donovan
Votes: 7,259 | Gross: $8.67M
55. Good Luck, Miss Wyckoff (1979)
R | 105 min | Drama
An abusive sexual relationship between a white spinster schoolteacher and a young black janitor in 1956 Kansas complicates her struggle to come to grips with her sexuality and emotions.
Director: Marvin J. Chomsky | Stars: Anne Heywood, Donald Pleasence, Robert Vaughn, Earl Holliman
Votes: 465
56. Hooking Up (II) (2009)
R | 95 min | Comedy, Drama
In this over-the-top comedy, the relationships of three girls and fours guys - in affluent, adolescent suburban reality - intersect through the topsy-turvy world of love, power...and hooking up.
Directors: Vincent Scordia, Jeff Siegel | Stars: Corey Feldman, Brian O'Halloran, Bronson Pinchot, Parker Croft
Votes: 1,854
57. Complete Strangers (2020)
Not Rated | 105 min | Drama, Thriller
A recovering alcoholic returns to his hometown after a hiatus and falls in love with a man who will turn his world upside down.
Director: Pau Masó | Stars: Pau Masó, Matthew Crawley, Sian Abrahams, Fraser Fraser
Votes: 717
58. Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion (1970)
R | 115 min | Crime, Drama
A chief of detectives, homicide section, kills his mistress and deliberately leaves clues to prove his own responsibility for the crime.
Director: Elio Petri | Stars: Gian Maria Volontè, Florinda Bolkan, Gianni Santuccio, Orazio Orlando
Votes: 13,434 | Gross: $0.27M
59. The Great Gatsby (2000 TV Movie)
90 min | Drama, Romance
Stock broker Nick Carraway consents to play Cupid for his rich married cousin Daisy Buchanan and her former love, nouveau riche Jay Gatsby.
Director: Robert Markowitz | Stars: Mira Sorvino, Toby Stephens, Paul Rudd, Martin Donovan
Votes: 1,978
60. I Love You Forever (2024)
89 min | Comedy, Drama
A subversive romantic comedy gone wrong that follows a young woman into and out of an emotionally abusive relationship.
Directors: Cazzie David, Elisa Kalani | Stars: Sofia Black-D'Elia, Ray Nicholson, Raymond Cham Jr., Oliver Cooper
Votes: 14
61. The Merry Gentleman (2008)
R | 110 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A woman leaves an abusive husband to start a new life in Chicago, where she befriends a man undergoing an emotional crisis, who she does not know is a professional killer, and a detective, who is investigating the hit man.
Director: Michael Keaton | Stars: Michael Keaton, Kelly Macdonald, Bobby Cannavale, Kareem Bandealy
Votes: 3,443 | Gross: $0.35M
62. Street Smart (1987)
R | 97 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A New York journalist lies when his fake story about a pimp describes a real pimp up for murder.
Director: Jerry Schatzberg | Stars: Christopher Reeve, Kathy Baker, Mimi Rogers, Jay Patterson
Votes: 3,827 | Gross: $1.12M
63. Eraser: Reborn (2022)
R | 102 min | Action, Crime, Thriller
It is based on U.S. Marshal Mason Pollard who is specialized in engineering the fake deaths of witnesses that leaves no trace of their existence.
Director: John Pogue | Stars: Dominic Sherwood, Jacky Lai, McKinley Belcher III, Eddie Ramos
Votes: 2,505
64. You Will Be Mine (2009)
Not Rated | 96 min | Drama, Music
Marie leaves home to study the piano at the conservatory in Lyons. Through lack of money, she is obliged to share an apartment with Emma, a friend of the family who has lived alone since ... See full summary »
Director: Sophie Laloy | Stars: Judith Davis, Marc Chapiteau, Fabienne Babe, Cécile Laloy
Votes: 1,346
65. Dr. Jekyll and Ms. Hyde (1995)
PG-13 | 90 min | Comedy, Romance, Sci-Fi
A scientist creating perfumes inherits his great grandfather Dr. Jekyll's formula and decides to use modern technology to improve it. He ends up as an ambitious, ruthless woman. She tries to prevent returning into the spineless man.
Director: David Price | Stars: Sean Young, Tim Daly, Lysette Anthony, Stephen Tobolowsky
Votes: 3,031 | Gross: $2.76M
66. Terror at Tenkiller (1986)
Not Rated | 87 min | Horror, Thriller
Two girlfriends try to relax at Lake Tenkiller, but a slasher won't let them.
Director: Ken Meyer | Stars: Michael Shamus Wiles, Stacey Logan, Michele Merchant, Dale Buckmaster
Votes: 865
67. Nina Forever (2015)
R | 98 min | Comedy, Drama, Horror
Suicidal Rob starts dating a colleague at the supermarket. But whenever they have sex, his dead girlfriend, Nina, pops up.
Directors: Ben Blaine, Chris Blaine | Stars: Cian Barry, Abigail Hardingham, Mandeep Dhillon, Katharine Bennett-Fox
Votes: 5,256
68. Red White & Blue (2010)
Not Rated | 103 min | Drama, Thriller
A woman attracts the attention of a psychopathic former Army interrogator and an emotionally fragile young man caring for his depressed mother.
Director: Simon Rumley | Stars: Amanda Fuller, Marc Senter, Jon Michael Davis, Nick Holden
Votes: 6,153
69. Prick Up Your Ears (1987)
R | 105 min | Biography, Drama
Biographer John Lahr is writing a book about playwright Joe Orton. Joe and Kenneth meet at drama school and live together for ten years as lovers and collaborators. Both want to be writers, but only one of them is successful.
Director: Stephen Frears | Stars: Gary Oldman, Alfred Molina, Vanessa Redgrave, Wallace Shawn
Votes: 6,555 | Gross: $1.65M
70. Di Di Hollywood (2010)
96 min | Drama
Dreams of fame take Diana from Madrid to Hollywood. She seems to be on the right path when a powerful agent notices her, but he only wants someone for a sham marriage with a secretly gay star.
Directors: Seth Gordon, Bigas Luna | Stars: Elsa Pataky, Peter Coyote, Paul Sculfor, Giovanna Zacarías
Votes: 710
71. Jagged Mind (2023)
18+ | 88 min | Horror, Thriller
Billie is plagued by blackouts and strange visions that lead her to discover she's stuck in a series of time loops, possibly related to her mysterious new girlfriend.
Director: Kelley Kali | Stars: Maisie Richardson-Sellers, Shannon Woodward, Rosaline Elbay, Shein Mompremier
Votes: 989
72. Hamlet 2 (2008)
R | 92 min | Comedy, Music
In this irreverent comedy, a failed actor-turned-worse-high-school-drama-teacher rallies his Tucson, AZ students as he conceives and stages politically incorrect musical sequel to Shakespeare's Hamlet.
Director: Andrew Fleming | Stars: Steve Coogan, Elisabeth Shue, Catherine Keener, J.J. Soria
Votes: 17,374 | Gross: $4.88M
73. Night Killer (1990)
Not Rated | 93 min | Crime, Drama, Horror
A surviving amnesiac victim of a serial killer is terrorized while the police works with a psychiatrist to bring him to justice and stop the crime wave.
Directors: Claudio Fragasso, Bruno Mattei | Stars: Peter Hooten, Tara Buckman, Richard Foster, Mel Davis
Votes: 1,129
74. Minnie and Moskowitz (1971)
GP | 114 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A museum curator falls in love with a crazy parking attendant.
Director: John Cassavetes | Stars: Gena Rowlands, Seymour Cassel, Val Avery, Timothy Carey
Votes: 5,318
75. Truth (2013)
TV-MA | 94 min | Drama, Romance, Thriller
A suspenseful, psychological thriller, "Truth" exposes the hidden demons buried deep inside each and every one of us. After a chance encounter over the Internet, Caleb, who suffers from ... See full summary »
Director: Rob Moretti | Stars: Rob Moretti, Sean Paul Lockhart, Blanche Baker, Rebekah Aramini
Votes: 799
76. .45 (2006)
R | 101 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A woman hatches a plan for revenge after seeking independence from her drug-dealing boyfriend.
Director: Gary Lennon | Stars: Milla Jovovich, Angus Macfadyen, Stephen Dorff, Aisha Tyler
Votes: 8,900
77. Love Me or Leave Me (1955)
Passed | 122 min | Biography, Drama, Music
A fictionalized account of the career of jazz singer Ruth Etting and her tempestuous marriage to gangster Marty Snyder, who helped propel her to stardom.
Director: Charles Vidor | Stars: Doris Day, James Cagney, Cameron Mitchell, Robert Keith
Votes: 4,764
78. The Cool Surface (1993)
R | 88 min | Thriller
During a heatwave in a secluded L.A. suburb, an unhinged writer falls for his new neighbor, a gorgeous struggling actress. They form an intense erotic bond, but his psychosis and her ambition turn their relationship dangerously toxic.
Director: Erik Greenberg Anjou | Stars: Robert Patrick, Steve Tyler, Teri Hatcher, Cyril O'Reilly
Votes: 1,353
79. The Killing of Sister George (1968)
X | 138 min | Drama
The life of a soap opera actress begins to unravel as she fears her character will be written out of the series.
Director: Robert Aldrich | Stars: Beryl Reid, Susannah York, Coral Browne, Ronald Fraser
Votes: 2,568
80. Nightmare Castle (1965)
Unrated | 90 min | Horror
A woman and her lover are tortured and killed by her sadistic husband. The pair return from the grave to seek vengeance.
Director: Mario Caiano | Stars: Barbara Steele, Paul Muller, Helga Liné, Marino Masé
Votes: 2,725
81. The Lost (II) (2006)
Not Rated | 119 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
19-year-old Ray Pye murders two young women. Four years later, detective Charlie Schilling knows that Ray did it. He just needs to prove it. Meanwhile, Ray has met his match in a new girl in town, Katherine Wallace.
Director: Chris Sivertson | Stars: Marc Senter, Shay Astar, Alex Frost, Megan Henning
Votes: 2,900
82. Never Die Alone (2004)
R | 88 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A drug kingpin's return home touches off a turf war.
Director: Ernest R. Dickerson | Stars: DMX, David Arquette, Michael Ealy, Drew Sidora
Votes: 6,134 | Gross: $5.64M
83. Storm (2005)
Not Rated | 110 min | Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
A shiftless loner finds that he suddenly has something worth living for, as he tries to protect the enigmatic love of his life from the men who want to do her harm.
Directors: Måns Mårlind, Björn Stein | Stars: Eric Ericson, Eva Röse, Jonas Karlsson, Lina Englund
Votes: 2,747
84. Men of Hard Skin (2019)
Not Rated | 96 min | Drama
José Celestino Campusano's exploration of sex, power and ecclesiastical abuse in Argentine society is a complex and often confrontational piece of work, posing tough questions without resorting to easy answers.
Director: José Celestino Campusano | Stars: Wall Javier, Germán Tarantino, Claudio Medina, Juan Salmeri
Votes: 410
85. Orgies of Edo (1969)
Not Rated | 94 min | Drama, Horror
A collection of stories dealing with punishment toward women.
Director: Teruo Ishii | Stars: Teruo Yoshida, Toyozô Yamamoto, Masumi Tachibana, Michiko Ai
Votes: 573
86. It Happened Again Last Night (2017)
16 min | Short, Drama
Paige must choose between love and fear before she has no choices left to make.
Directors: Roze, Gabrielle Stone | Stars: Sydney Sweeney, Amanda Wyss, Chris Mulkey, Randy Wayne
Votes: 51
87. Tanya's Island (1980)
R | 82 min | Drama
Tanya and her beau escape to the solitude of a tropical island. When a hulking gorilla sets his sights, and paws, on the lovely Tanya's attention, a bizarre battle for the woman's love ensues between the three desperate island dwellers.
Director: Alfred Sole | Stars: Vanity, Richard Sargent, Mariette Lévesque, Don McLeod
Votes: 443
88. Under Your Bed (2019)
98 min | Drama, Thriller
Naoto was ignored by other people. During his school days, Chihiro was the first person who called his name. Naoto dreams of seeing her again and tries to find her. Finally, after 11 years,... See full summary »
Director: Mari Asato | Stars: Ken'ichi Abe, Kengo Kôra, Yûgo Mikawa, Ryôsuke Miyake
Votes: 564
89. Dance with a Stranger (1985)
R | 96 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
A stormy relationship, complicated by the strictures of 1950s social class and gender roles, ends in death. Based on the life of Ruth Ellis, the last woman hanged in Britain.
Director: Mike Newell | Stars: Miranda Richardson, Rupert Everett, Ian Holm, Matthew Carroll
Votes: 2,982 | Gross: $2.17M
90. The Stripper (1963)
Not Rated | 95 min | Drama, Romance
Lila Green is an insecure and aging showgirl for Madame Olga's stage shows. When her boyfriend, Rick, runs off with the show's money, Madame Olga and Ronny let Lila go. Lila goes to stay ... See full summary »
Director: Franklin J. Schaffner | Stars: Joanne Woodward, Richard Beymer, Claire Trevor, Carol Lynley
Votes: 456
91. Dead Bodies (2003)
Not Rated | 88 min | Comedy, Drama, Horror
The return of a vengeful ex-girlfriend sets into motion a series of gruesome events for a hapless Irish bachelor in director Robert Quinn's grim black comedy.
Director: Robert Quinn | Stars: Andrew Scott, Katy Davis, Eamonn Owens, Darren Healy
Votes: 1,089
92. If Someone Had Known (1995 TV Movie)
80 min | Biography, Drama
A young wife and mother is abused by her husband and keeps the secret from her friends and family.
Director: Eric Laneuville | Stars: Kellie Martin, Kevin Dobson, Linda Kelsey, Ivan Sergei
Votes: 537
93. Mujer, casos de la vida real (1985–2007)
TV-14 | 60 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
It is a Mexican series that shares real stories that have been sent to Silvia Pinal, the host of the show; the episodes deal with strong issues surrounding women that don't always end well.
Stars: Silvia Pinal, Eduardo De Gortari, Ricardo Vera, Thelma Dorantes
Votes: 294
94. Terminal Exposure (1987)
R | 105 min | Comedy, Crime
Two beach combing-shutterbugs accidentally capture a murder on film. Now detectives, the boys set out to capture a murderess shot only from behind, with a rose tattoo on her behind. Fun in ... See full summary »
Director: Nico Mastorakis | Stars: Mark Hennessy, Scott King, Hope Marie Carlton, Steve Donmyer
Votes: 1,391
95. The Dream Children (2015)
98 min | Drama
Troubled TV personality Steven Evans struggles to find meaning in his life in the face of the superficial world he has created. Smothered by celebrity and materialism, Steven's only respite... See full summary »
Director: Robert Chuter | Stars: Graeme Squires, Nicholas Gunn, Jessikah Brown, Chris Pender
Votes: 512
96. Luster (2002)
Unrated | 92 min | Comedy, Drama
Luster is a twisted LA comedy about unrequited love, featuring Jackson, a poet, who struggles with his crush on Billy, Derek, Sam, Jed, and his lesbian friend.
Director: Everett Lewis | Stars: Justin Herwick, Barry Wyatt, Shane Powers, Pamela Gidley
Votes: 1,222
97. The Buddy System (1984)
PG | 110 min | Drama, Comedy, Romance
A quiet school truant officer, Joe, uncovers a young boy's attempt to fake a residential address, and subsequently gets involved romantically with the boy's mother. The truant officer ... See full summary »
Director: Glenn Jordan | Stars: Richard Dreyfuss, Susan Sarandon, Nancy Allen, Jean Stapleton
Votes: 1,499 | Gross: $1.82M
98. Strangler vs. Strangler (1984)
96 min | Comedy, Crime, Horror
A mentally-disturbed flower seller starts killing young girls on the streets of Belgrade. While the frustrated police inspector is trying to stop him, an aspiring musician finds his life and work deeply intertwined with that of a killer.
Director: Slobodan Sijan | Stars: Tasko Nacic, Nikola Simic, Srdjan Saper, Sonja Savic
Votes: 4,383
99. Savage Attraction (I) (1983)
R | 93 min | Biography, Drama, Thriller
Horrific true tale set in late-1970s Australia and later West Germany about an abused wife who learns in horror that her sadistic German-born husband is actually a fanatical neo-Nazi.
Director: Frank Shields | Stars: Kerry Mack, Ralph Schicha, Gabriella Barraket, Judy Nunn
Votes: 388
100. Magic Beyond Words: The J.K. Rowling Story (2011 TV Movie)
TV-14 | 90 min | Biography, Drama
An inspiring look at JK Rowling's rise to become one of the most influential writers-from her humble beginnings as an imaginative young girl and awkward teenager to the loss of her mother and the genesis of the Harry Potter phenomenon.
Director: Paul A. Kaufman | Stars: Poppy Montgomery, Emily Holmes, Antonio Cupo, Janet Kidder
Votes: 2,770