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51. The Nutcracker and the Four Realms (2018)
PG | 99 min | Adventure, Family, Fantasy
A young girl is transported into a magical world of gingerbread soldiers and an army of mice.
Directors: Lasse Hallström, Joe Johnston | Stars: Mackenzie Foy, Keira Knightley, Morgan Freeman, Helen Mirren
Votes: 37,519 | Gross: $54.86M
52. The Swan Princess (1994)
G | 90 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy
A power-hungry sorcerer curses a princess to live as a swan by day in this tale of everlasting love.
Director: Richard Rich | Stars: Jack Palance, Howard McGillin, Michelle Nicastro, Liz Callaway
Votes: 27,153 | Gross: $9.77M
53. Astro Boy (2009)
PG | 94 min | Animation, Action, Adventure
When an android replica of a boy is rejected by his aggrieved creator, he goes off to find his own identity in an adventure that would make him the greatest hero of his time.
Director: David Bowers | Stars: Freddie Highmore, Nicolas Cage, Kristen Bell, Charlize Theron
Votes: 40,007 | Gross: $19.55M
54. Highlander II: The Quickening (1991)
R | 91 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy
In the future, Highlander Connor MacLeod must prevent the destruction of Earth under an anti-ozone shield.
Director: Russell Mulcahy | Stars: Christopher Lambert, Sean Connery, Virginia Madsen, Michael Ironside
Votes: 48,191 | Gross: $15.56M
55. Fellini Satyricon (1969)
R | 129 min | Drama, Fantasy
A series of disjointed mythical tales set in first-century Rome.
Director: Federico Fellini | Stars: Martin Potter, Hiram Keller, Max Born, Salvo Randone
Votes: 17,225 | Gross: $1.14M
56. One Million Years B.C. (1966)
Approved | 92 min | Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
Prehistoric man Tumak is banished from his savage tribe and meets pretty Loana, who belongs to a gentler coastal tribe, but he must fight caveman Payto to win her favors.
Director: Don Chaffey | Stars: Raquel Welch, John Richardson, Percy Herbert, Robert Brown
Votes: 9,684
57. Choke (2008)
R | 92 min | Comedy, Drama
A sex-addicted con-man pays for his mother's hospital bills by playing on the sympathies of those who rescue him from choking to death.
Director: Clark Gregg | Stars: Sam Rockwell, Anjelica Huston, Kelly Macdonald, Kathryn Alexander
Votes: 33,664 | Gross: $2.93M
58. The Libertine (2004)
R | 114 min | Biography, Drama, History
The story of John Wilmot, a.k.a. the Earl of Rochester, a 17th century poet who famously drank and debauched his way to an early grave, only to earn posthumous critical acclaim for his life's work.
Director: Laurence Dunmore | Stars: Johnny Depp, Samantha Morton, John Malkovich, Paul Ritter
Votes: 37,837 | Gross: $4.84M
59. Coriolanus (2011)
R | 123 min | Drama, Thriller, War
A banished hero of Rome allies with a sworn enemy to take his revenge on the city.
Director: Ralph Fiennes | Stars: Ralph Fiennes, Gerard Butler, Brian Cox, Lubna Azabal
Votes: 33,568 | Gross: $0.76M
60. Anonymous (I) (2011)
PG-13 | 130 min | Drama, Thriller
The theory that it was in fact Edward De Vere, Earl of Oxford, who penned Shakespeare's plays. Set against the backdrop of the succession of Queen Elizabeth I and the Essex rebellion against her.
Director: Roland Emmerich | Stars: Rhys Ifans, Vanessa Redgrave, David Thewlis, Sebastian Armesto
Votes: 42,189 | Gross: $4.46M
61. Titus (1999)
R | 162 min | Drama, History, Thriller
Titus returns victorious from war, only to plant the seeds of future turmoil for himself and his family.
Director: Julie Taymor | Stars: Anthony Hopkins, Jessica Lange, Osheen Jones, Dario D'Ambrosi
Votes: 21,513 | Gross: $1.92M
62. Grace of Monaco (2014)
Not Rated | 103 min | Biography, Drama, Romance
The story of former Hollywood star Grace Kelly's crisis of marriage and identity, during a political dispute between Monaco's Prince Rainier III and France's Charles De Gaulle, and a looming French invasion of Monaco in the early 1960s.
Director: Olivier Dahan | Stars: Nicole Kidman, Tim Roth, André Penvern, Frank Langella
Votes: 21,232
63. The Tempest (I) (2010)
PG-13 | 110 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Shakespeare's epic play is translated from page to screen, with the gender of the main character, Prospero, changed from male to female.
Director: Julie Taymor | Stars: Helen Mirren, Felicity Jones, Djimon Hounsou, Russell Brand
Votes: 8,210 | Gross: $0.28M
64. Blithe Spirit (2020)
PG-13 | 99 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
A spiritualist medium holds a seance for a writer suffering from writer's block but accidentally summons the spirit of his deceased first wife, which leads to an increasingly complex love triangle with his current wife of five years.
Director: Edward Hall | Stars: Dan Stevens, Isla Fisher, Aimee-Ffion Edwards, Michele Dotrice
Votes: 8,613
65. Beyond Utopia (2023)
PG-13 | 115 min | Documentary, Biography, History
The story of several families as they attempt to escape oppression in North Korea, revealing a world most of us have never seen.
Director: Madeleine Gavin | Stars: Hyeonseo Lee, Sung-eun Kim, So-yeon Lee, Sue Mi Terry
Votes: 3,591
66. Cracks (I) (2009)
R | 104 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
A look at the lives and relationships among girls at an elite boarding school.
Director: Jordan Scott | Stars: Eva Green, Juno Temple, María Valverde, Imogen Poots
Votes: 21,144 | Gross: $0.02M
67. The Woodsman (2004)
R | 87 min | Drama
A child molester returns to his hometown after 12 years in prison and attempts to start a new life.
Director: Nicole Kassell | Stars: Kevin Bacon, Kyra Sedgwick, Yasiin Bey, David Alan Grier
Votes: 35,441 | Gross: $0.04M
68. Torso (1973)
R | 92 min | Crime, Horror, Mystery
A string of appalling lust murders shocks the University of Perugia as a sadistic serial killer strangles to death beautiful college girls with a red and black scarf.
Director: Sergio Martino | Stars: Suzy Kendall, Tina Aumont, Luc Merenda, John Richardson
Votes: 7,865 | Gross: $0.74M
69. An Officer and a Spy (2019)
132 min | Drama, History, Thriller
In 1894, French Captain Alfred Dreyfus is wrongfully convicted of treason and sentenced to life imprisonment at Devil's island.
Director: Roman Polanski | Stars: Louis Garrel, Christophe Maratier, Pierre Poirot, Stéfan Godin
Votes: 21,186
70. The Tale of Despereaux (2008)
G | 93 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy
An unusually brave mouse helps to restore happiness to a forlorn kingdom after making friends with a gentleman rat.
Directors: Sam Fell, Robert Stevenhagen | Stars: Matthew Broderick, Emma Watson, Dustin Hoffman, Tracey Ullman
Votes: 39,998 | Gross: $50.88M
71. The Blood of Heroes (1989)
R | 90 min | Action, Sci-Fi, Sport
In a future where most of mankind and technology is wiped out, six people travel from place to place playing a brutal form of football with a dog skull. They hope one day to play in the league in a city.
Director: David Webb Peoples | Stars: Rutger Hauer, Joan Chen, Delroy Lindo, Anna Katarina
Votes: 7,608 | Gross: $0.88M
72. The Weight of Water (2000)
R | 114 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A newspaper photographer researches an 1873 double homicide and finds her own life paralleling that of a witness who survived the tragic ordeal.
Director: Kathryn Bigelow | Stars: Catherine McCormack, Sean Penn, Sarah Polley, Elizabeth Hurley
Votes: 10,049 | Gross: $0.10M
73. A United Kingdom (2016)
PG-13 | 111 min | Biography, Drama, History
The story of King Seretse Khama of Botswana and how his loving but controversial marriage to a British white woman, Ruth Williams, put his kingdom into political and diplomatic turmoil.
Director: Amma Asante | Stars: David Oyelowo, Rosamund Pike, Tom Felton, Jack Davenport
Votes: 17,006 | Gross: $3.90M
74. The Octagon (1980)
R | 103 min | Action, Drama, Romance
A martial artist must defeat a plan by ninjas to create a worldwide training camp for terrorists.
Director: Eric Karson | Stars: Chuck Norris, Karen Carlson, Lee Van Cleef, Art Hindle
Votes: 6,203 | Gross: $18.97M
75. Jan Dara (2001)
108 min | Drama, Romance
Jan Dara grows up in a house devoid of love, but rich in lust. He soon takes up the sinful lifestyle of his stepfather, Khun Luang, who married his mother after she was raped.
Director: Nonzee Nimibutr | Stars: Santisuk Promsiri, Christy Chung, Wipawee Charoenpura, Eakarat Sarsukh
Votes: 2,462
76. Sansho the Bailiff (1954)
Not Rated | 124 min | Drama
In medieval Japan, a compassionate governor is sent into exile. His wife and children try to join him, but are separated, and the children grow up amid suffering and oppression.
Director: Kenji Mizoguchi | Stars: Kinuyo Tanaka, Yoshiaki Hanayagi, Kyôko Kagawa, Eitarô Shindô
Votes: 18,299
77. The Banished Former Hero Lives as He Pleases (2024– )
TV-14 | 24 min | Animation, Action, Adventure
A boy who was called a failure after not receiving God's blessing, the "Gift," is actually a former hero with memories and powers from his previous life?.
Stars: Takehito Koyasu, Megumi Han, Ryôta Ôsaka, Minami Kurisaka
Votes: 110
78. Invader ZIM: Enter the Florpus (2019 TV Movie)
TV-Y7-FV | 71 min | Animation, Action, Adventure
ZIM discovers his almighty leaders never had any intention of coming to Earth and he loses confidence in himself for the first time in his life, which is the big break his human nemesis, Dib has been waiting for.
Directors: Hae Young Jung, Young Kyun Park, Jhonen Vasquez | Stars: Richard Steven Horvitz, Rikki Simons, Andy Berman, Melissa Fahn
Votes: 6,528
79. The Devil and Daniel Webster (1941)
Passed | 107 min | Drama, Fantasy, Romance
A nineteenth-century New Hampshire farmer makes a pact with Satan for economic success, then enlists famed orator Daniel Webster to extract him from his contract.
Director: William Dieterle | Stars: Edward Arnold, Walter Huston, Jane Darwell, Simone Simon
Votes: 5,652
80. As You Like It (2006)
PG | 127 min | Drama, Comedy, Romance
A daughter of the powerful Duke must show her courage and inventiveness to be with the man she loves.
Director: Kenneth Branagh | Stars: Takuya Shimada, Brian Blessed, Richard Clifford, Bryce Dallas Howard
Votes: 3,755
81. Edward II (1991)
R | 87 min | Drama, History, Romance
In this Derek Jarman version of Christopher Marlowe's Elizabethan drama, in modern costumes and settings, Plantagenet king Edward II hands the power-craving nobility the perfect excuse by ... See full summary »
Director: Derek Jarman | Stars: Steven Waddington, Kevin Collins, Andrew Tiernan, John Lynch
Votes: 3,047 | Gross: $0.69M
82. Chimes at Midnight (1965)
Not Rated | 115 min | Comedy, Drama, History
When King Henry IV ascends to the throne, his heir, the Prince of Wales, is befriended by Sir John Falstaff, an old, overweight, fun-loving habitual liar. Through Falstaff's eyes we see the reign of King Henry IV and the rise of Henry V.
Director: Orson Welles | Stars: Orson Welles, Jeanne Moreau, Margaret Rutherford, John Gielgud
Votes: 10,207 | Gross: $0.12M
83. 15 Minutes of Shame (2021)
TV-MA | 85 min | Documentary
A look at public shaming in modern day culture.
Director: Max Joseph | Stars: Max Joseph, Monica Lewinsky, Jon Ronson, Kara Swisher
Votes: 989
84. The Point (1971 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 74 min | Animation, Adventure, Family
A father reads his son a bedtime story about young Oblio, who is banished from the fantastical kingdom of pointed heads and things for having no point.
Director: Fred Wolf | Stars: Ringo Starr, Dustin Hoffman, Paul Frees, Lennie Weinrib
Votes: 3,076
85. Jimmy's Hall (2014)
PG-13 | 109 min | Biography, Drama, History
During the Depression, Jimmy Gralton returns home to Ireland after ten years of exile in America. Seeing the levels of poverty and oppression, the activist in him reawakens and he looks to re-open the dance hall that led to his deportation.
Director: Ken Loach | Stars: Barry Ward, Francis Magee, Aileen Henry, Simone Kirby
Votes: 6,972 | Gross: $0.56M
86. Jonathan Livingston Seagull (1973)
G | 99 min | Drama, Family
A skilled flyer but very rebellious young seagull is kicked out of his clan. However, instead of being sad or lonely, he decides to enjoy and explore his newfound freedom.
Director: Hall Bartlett | Stars: James Franciscus, Juliet Mills, Philip Ahn, David Ladd
Votes: 2,339 | Gross: $1.60M
87. Salome (1953)
Approved | 103 min | Drama, History
After her banishment from Rome, Jewish Princess Salome returns to her Roman-ruled native land of Galilee, where prophet John the Baptist preaches against Salome's parents, King Herod and Queen Herodias.
Director: William Dieterle | Stars: Rita Hayworth, Stewart Granger, Charles Laughton, Judith Anderson
Votes: 2,211
88. It's Alive III: Island of the Alive (1987)
R | 95 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
The monster babies have been placed by court order on a deserted island so that they can live out their lives as far away from normal humans as possible without killing them. Enraged by the... See full summary »
Director: Larry Cohen | Stars: Michael Moriarty, Karen Black, Laurene Landon, James Dixon
Votes: 2,195
89. The Life of Oharu (1952)
Not Rated | 133 min | Drama
Follows a woman's fight and survival amid the vicissitudes of life and the cruelty of society.
Director: Kenji Mizoguchi | Stars: Kinuyo Tanaka, Tsukie Matsuura, Ichirô Sugai, Toshirô Mifune
Votes: 7,674
90. West Beirut (1998)
PG-13 | 105 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
In April, 1975, civil war breaks out; Beirut is partitioned along a Moslem-Christian line. Tarek is in high school, making Super 8 movies with his friend, Omar. At first the war is a lark: ... See full summary »
Director: Ziad Doueiri | Stars: Rami Doueiri, Naamar Sahli, Mohamad Chamas, Rola Al Amin
Votes: 4,875 | Gross: $0.34M
91. The Borrower (1991)
R | 92 min | Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Aliens punish one of their own by sending him to earth. The alien is very violent, and when the body he occupies is damaged, he is forced to find another.
Director: John McNaughton | Stars: Rae Dawn Chong, Don Gordon, Tom Towles, Antonio Fargas
Votes: 2,133
92. Catherine the Great (1995 TV Movie)
100 min | Biography, Drama, History
Trapped in a loveless arranged marriage to the immature future Czar, a young German Princess proves a skillful political infighter and rises to become Catherine the Great.
Directors: Marvin J. Chomsky, John Goldsmith | Stars: Catherine Zeta-Jones, Paul McGann, Ian Richardson, Brian Blessed
Votes: 1,349
93. Kickassia (2010 Video)
Unrated | 92 min | Action, Comedy
The Nostalgia Critic's team try to take over the one-acre nation of Molossia and turn it into Kickassia.
Director: Doug Walker | Stars: Doug Walker, Lindsay Ellis, Lewis Lovhaug, Noah Antwiler
Votes: 2,197
94. Mindwarp (1991)
R | 96 min | Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
In post-apocalyptic 2037, Judy rebels against the AI-ruled utopia where people live in a happy VR simulation. She's exiled to a post-nuclear wasteland where she meets drifter Stover. Mutated cannibals capture them for their leader Seer.
Director: Steve Barnett | Stars: Bruce Campbell, Angus Scrimm, Marta Martin, Elizabeth Kent
Votes: 2,921
95. Robin Hood (1922)
Not Rated | 143 min | Adventure, Family, Romance
A nobleman becomes the vigilante Robin Hood who protects the oppressed English people from the tyrannical Prince John.
Director: Allan Dwan | Stars: Douglas Fairbanks, Wallace Beery, Sam De Grasse, Enid Bennett
Votes: 2,494 | Gross: $5.45M
96. The Blue Umbrella (2005)
90 min | Comedy, Drama, Family
In a small village when a little girl's prescious umbrella is stolen, things goes wrong for a greedy tea seller who was very much interested in buying that umbrella from her.
Director: Vishal Bhardwaj | Stars: Pankaj Kapur, Shreya Sharma, Deepak Dobriyal, Rahul Kumar
Votes: 2,203
97. Hercules (2005)
Not Rated | 89 min | Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
A chronicle of the life of the Greek hero who after killing his three sons must perform five labors to repent.
Stars: Paul Telfer, Elizabeth Perkins, Sean Astin, Leeanna Walsman
Votes: 2,111
98. Medea (1988 TV Movie)
76 min | Drama
Medea is in Corinth with Jason and their two young sons. King Kreon wants to reward Jason for his exploits: he gives the hand of his daughter, Glauce, to Jason as well as the promise of the... See full summary »
Director: Lars von Trier | Stars: Udo Kier, Kirsten Olesen, Henning Jensen, Solbjørg Højfeldt
Votes: 3,646 | Gross: $0.02M
99. Dorothy Mills (2008)
R | 102 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
A psychiatrist is assigned to work on the case of a disturbed young girl.
Director: Agnès Merlet | Stars: Carice van Houten, Jenn Murray, David Wilmot, Ger Ryan
Votes: 6,000
100. The Land Before Time VII: The Stone of Cold Fire (2000 Video)
G | 75 min | Animation, Adventure, Drama
A mysterious object crashes near the great valley, and Petrie's untrustful uncle arrives in search of it, believing it to be "a storm of cold fire", a susposed rock of great powers.
Director: Charles Grosvenor | Stars: Jeff Bennett, Anndi McAfee, Thomas Dekker, Aria Noelle Curzon
Votes: 3,428