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51. One on Top of the Other (1969)

R | 108 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller

An unscrupulous doctor is accused of killing his asthmatic wife as part of an insurance scam, despite discovering that she has a doppelgänger who works as a stripper and call girl.

Director: Lucio Fulci | Stars: Jean Sorel, Marisa Mell, Elsa Martinelli, Alberto de Mendoza

Votes: 2,684

52. 24 Hours in Police Custody (2014– )

TV-PG | 60 min | Documentary, Crime

Cameras follow Bedfordshire Police over a 24 hour period as they respond to emergencies, investigate crimes, arrest suspects and battle against the clock.

Stars: Zawe Ashton, Royce Pierreson, Attiq Malik, Brett Jones

Votes: 954

53. Going Postal (2010)

TV-14 | 93 min | Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy

A con artist is conned into taking the job as Postmaster General in the Ankh-Morpork Post Office.

Stars: Richard Coyle, Charles Dance, David Suchet, Claire Foy

Votes: 9,807

54. School Spirit (1985)

R | 90 min | Comedy, Fantasy

A college student gets into a car crash and becomes a special kind of ghost who can make himself invisible or corporeal at will. He takes advantage of his powers to pursue his fellow female students, during the infamous 'Hog Day'.

Director: Alan Holleb | Stars: Tom Nolan, Elizabeth Foxx, Larry Linville, Roberta Collins

Votes: 1,296

55. Porridge (1974–1977)

TV-14 | 30 min | Comedy, Crime

The prison life of Fletcher, a criminal serving a five-year sentence, as he strives to bide his time, keep his record clean, and refuses to be ground down by the prison system.

Stars: Ronnie Barker, Brian Wilde, Fulton Mackay, Richard Beckinsale

Votes: 6,866

56. Metal Gear Solid (1998 Video Game)

M | Action, Adventure, Drama

A crack government anti-terrorist squad takes over an obscure Alaskan nuclear disposal facility. Solid Snake is up for the task to infiltrate the facility, rescue the two hostages and thwart the terrorists' plans.

Director: Hideo Kojima | Stars: David Hayter, Patric Zimmerman, Peter Lurie, Akio Ôtsuka

Votes: 12,883

57. Let Us Prey (2014)

Not Rated | 92 min | Horror, Thriller

Held in a remote police station, a mysterious stranger takes over the minds and souls of everyone inside.

Director: Brian O'Malley | Stars: Liam Cunningham, Pollyanna McIntosh, Bryan Larkin, Hanna Stanbridge

Votes: 10,769

58. Carry on Constable (1960)

86 min | Comedy

With a flu epidemic running rife, three new bumbling recruits are assigned to Inspector Mills police station. They manage to totally wreck the operations of the police force and let plenty of criminals get away.

Director: Gerald Thomas | Stars: Sidney James, Kenneth Williams, Eric Barker, Kenneth Connor

Votes: 2,835

59. Hot Pursuit (1987)

PG-13 | 93 min | Comedy

Dan arrives too late for his girlfriend's family's plane to the Caribbean. He gets the next. Once there, Dan's hot pursuit of his girlfriend includes 3 friendly locals, a dubious yacht skipper, corrupt police, hijacker, pirates etc.

Director: Steven Lisberger | Stars: John Cusack, Robert Loggia, Jerry Stiller, Wendy Gazelle

Votes: 4,052 | Gross: $4.22M

60. Quien a hierro mata (2019)

TV-MA | 107 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

A drug dealer looking for rest. A nurse looking for revenge. A crossroads where no one is safe.

Director: Paco Plaza | Stars: Luis Tosar, Xan Cejudo, Ismael Martínez, Enric Auquer

Votes: 8,799

61. Sex Guaranteed (2017)

Not Rated | 81 min | Comedy

Kevin has sworn off sex to win back his former fiancé when he meets a beautiful escort named Zade. Over the course of a legendary party, Zade just might provide the spark that this heartbroken idealist needs to turn his life around.

Directors: Brad Barnes, Todd Barnes | Stars: Grey Damon, Bella Dayne, Stephen Dorff, Dan Fogler

Votes: 700

62. The Informer (1962)

Not Rated | 108 min | Crime, Thriller

A burglar betraying other criminals prepares for a big heist with a trusted friend who might be as untrustworthy as he.

Director: Jean-Pierre Melville | Stars: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Serge Reggiani, Jean Desailly, René Lefèvre

Votes: 12,022 | Gross: $0.08M

63. Carry on Up the Khyber (1968)

Not Rated | 88 min | Adventure, Comedy

Sir Sidney Ruff-Diamond looks after the British outpost near the Khyber Pass. Protected by the kilted Third Foot and Mouth regiment, you would think they were safe but the Khazi of Kalabar has other ideas.

Director: Gerald Thomas | Stars: Sidney James, Kenneth Williams, Charles Hawtrey, Roy Castle

Votes: 5,475

64. Badlapur (2015)

Not Rated | 134 min | Action, Crime, Drama

Raghu begins walking a fine line between good and evil as he exacts violent revenge on two criminals who killed his family 15 years ago.

Director: Sriram Raghavan | Stars: Varun Dhawan, Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Yami Gautam, Huma Qureshi

Votes: 25,915 | Gross: $0.37M

65. Shipwrecked (1990)

PG | 92 min | Adventure, Family

A young Norwegian boy in 1850s England goes to work as a cabin boy and discovers some of his shipmates are actually pirates.

Director: Nils Gaup | Stars: Stian Smestad, Gabriel Byrne, Louisa Milwood-Haigh, Trond Peter Stamsø Munch

Votes: 3,150

66. Pandemic (2016)

TV-MA | 91 min | Action, Horror, Sci-Fi

A New York doctor travels with her team to Los Angeles to find survivors of a worldwide pandemic.

Director: John Suits | Stars: Rachel Nichols, Alfie Allen, Missi Pyle, Mekhi Phifer

Votes: 8,487

67. Denmark (2019)

91 min | Comedy, Drama

A down-on-his-luck Welshman travels across Europe with one crazy goal: to get himself arrested and sent to a Danish prison where the beds are warm and the water is hot.

Director: Adrian Shergold | Stars: Rafe Spall, Simone Lykke, Joel Fry, Thomas W. Gabrielsson

Votes: 1,983

68. Stolen Kisses (1968)

R | 91 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

After being discharged from the army, Antoine Doinel centers a screwball comedy where he applies for different jobs and tries to make sense of his relationships with women.

Director: François Truffaut | Stars: Jean-Pierre Léaud, Claude Jade, Delphine Seyrig, Michael Lonsdale

Votes: 15,150

69. Don (I) (2006)

Not Rated | 171 min | Action, Crime, Thriller

Vijay is recruited by a police officer to masquerade as his lookalike Don, the leader of an international gang of smugglers. Things go wrong when the officer is killed and Vijay is left to fend for himself.

Director: Farhan Akhtar | Stars: Shah Rukh Khan, Priyanka Chopra Jonas, Arjun Rampal, Isha Koppikar

Votes: 41,127 | Gross: $0.80M

70. Infinity Chamber (2016)

103 min | Sci-Fi, Thriller

A man trapped in an automated prison must outsmart a computer in order to escape.

Director: Travis Milloy | Stars: Christopher Soren Kelly, Cassandra Clark, Cajardo Lindsey, Jesse D. Arrow

Votes: 11,766

71. The Canterville Ghost (1996 TV Movie)

PG | 92 min | Family, Drama, Fantasy

When an American family moves into a haunted mansion in England, the family's teenage daughter could be the key in fulfilling a prophecy and finally set the house's ghost free.

Director: Syd Macartney | Stars: Patrick Stewart, Neve Campbell, Joan Sims, Donald Sinden

Votes: 2,845

72. The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer (1947)

Approved | 95 min | Comedy, Romance

A high school girl falls for a playboy artist, with screwball results.

Director: Irving Reis | Stars: Cary Grant, Myrna Loy, Shirley Temple, Rudy Vallee

Votes: 9,634

73. Rising High (2020)

TV-MA | 94 min | Comedy, Drama

Charting the rise and fall of three corrupt real estate agents who accumulate absurd wealth in no time but fall into a vortex of fraud, greed and drugs.

Director: Cüneyt Kaya | Stars: Ellen Dubin, David Kross, Frederick Lau, Emily Goss

Votes: 5,727

74. Brute Force (1947)

Passed | 98 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

At a tough penitentiary, prisoner Joe Collins plans to rebel against Captain Munsey, the power-mad chief guard.

Director: Jules Dassin | Stars: Burt Lancaster, Hume Cronyn, Charles Bickford, Yvonne De Carlo

Votes: 11,587

75. Invisible Sister (2015 TV Movie)

TV-G | 80 min | Adventure, Comedy, Family

Teenager Cleo's school science project goes quite awry, causing her popular older sister Molly to go invisible.

Director: Paul Hoen | Stars: Rowan Blanchard, Paris Berelc, Karan Brar, Rachel Crow

Votes: 3,716

76. Killer Tongue (1996)

R | 98 min | Comedy, Sci-Fi, Horror

This horror story involves a woman hiding out with four pastel colored poodles in a desert gas station with the loot from a heist while her boy friend does prison time. A meteorite crashes ... See full summary »

Director: Alberto Sciamma | Stars: Melinda Clarke, Jason Durr, Mapi Galán, Mabel Karr

Votes: 1,339

77. The Last Remake of Beau Geste (1977)

PG | 85 min | Adventure, Comedy, War

An aging Sir Hector Geste (Trevor Howard) takes a young greedy wife who's after his famed Blue Water sapphire, but his sons hide the gem and join the French Foreign Legion in North Africa.

Director: Marty Feldman | Stars: Marty Feldman, Ann-Margret, Michael York, Peter Ustinov

Votes: 2,636

78. Daughters (2024)

102 min | Documentary

Four young girls prepare for a special Daddy Daughter Dance with their incarcerated fathers, as part of a unique fatherhood program in a Washington, D.C., jail.

Directors: Angela Patton, Natalie Rae

Votes: 86

79. The Lovers (I) (2015)

R | 109 min | Action, Adventure, Romance

An epic, sweeping and riveting tale of an impossible love set across two time periods and continents.

Director: Roland Joffé | Stars: Josh Hartnett, Bipasha Basu, Tamsin Egerton, James Mackay

Votes: 3,435

80. Irmandade (2019– )

TV-MA | 50 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

A hard-working lawyer discovers that her missing brother has been jailed for years and is a leader of an ascendant criminal faction.

Stars: Seu Jorge, Bruce Wexler, Hermila Guedes, Naruna Costa

Votes: 1,803

81. Naked Among Wolves (2015 TV Movie)

Not Rated | 105 min | Drama, History, War

As WWII comes to an end, a group of Buchenwald's emaciated prisoners risk their lives for the safety of the camp's youngest inmate: a four-year-old Auschwitz-born Jewish prisoner. Is there a future for the Buchenwald boy?

Director: Philipp Kadelbach | Stars: Florian Stetter, Peter Schneider, Sylvester Groth, Sabin Tambrea

Votes: 4,191

82. Django Kill... If You Live, Shoot! (1967)

Not Rated | 100 min | Horror, Western

Various factions, including a half-breed bandit, a gang of homosexual cowboys, and a priest, feud over stolen gold in a surreal town.

Director: Giulio Questi | Stars: Tomas Milian, Marilù Tolo, Piero Lulli, Milo Quesada

Votes: 2,945

83. The Cell 2 (2009 Video)

R | 94 min | Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller

The Cusp is a serial killer who kills his victims and then brings them back to life over and over, until they beg to die. Psychic Maya is an investigator who gained her powers after being ... See full summary »

Director: Tim Iacofano | Stars: Tessie Santiago, Chris Bruno, Frank Whaley, Bart Johnson

Votes: 2,991

84. A Girl at My Door (2014)

119 min | Drama

A young police officer is sent to work in a small village and takes in a teenager to protect her from her abusive stepfather.

Director: July Jung | Stars: Bae Doona, Kim Sae-ron, Song Sae-byeok, Son Jong-hak

Votes: 3,215

85. Poor White Trash (2000)

R | 85 min | Comedy, Crime

A white-trash family must resort to crime to send their teenage son to college.

Director: Michael Addis | Stars: Sean Young, William Devane, Tony Denman, Jacob Tierney

Votes: 1,396 | Gross: $0.00M

86. Zinda (2006)

Not Rated | 116 min | Action, Drama, Mystery

A man, taken and locked up for 14 years without any sane reason, is suddenly released, and has 4 days to figure out why this was done to him.

Director: Sanjay Gupta | Stars: Sanjay Dutt, John Abraham, Lara Dutta, Celina Jaitly

Votes: 3,766 | Gross: $0.33M

87. Horror Hospital (1973)

R | 90 min | Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi

Two British companions who met on a train heading to the rural countryside stay with a bizarre host of characters in a secluded, curious mansion. Unknown to them, there is a sinister secret behind closed doors.

Director: Antony Balch | Stars: Michael Gough, Robin Askwith, Vanessa Shaw, Ellen Pollock

Votes: 1,843

88. Taxi to the Dark Side (2007)

R | 106 min | Documentary, Crime, History

Alex Gibney exposes the haunting details of the USA's torture and interrogation practices during the War in Afghanistan.

Director: Alex Gibney | Stars: Alex Gibney, Brian Keith Allen, Moazzam Begg, Christopher Beiring

Votes: 16,828 | Gross: $0.27M

89. Miracle in Cell No. 7 (2019)

120 min | Drama

Joselito (Aga Muhlach), an intellectually-disabled man, is wrongfully charged with sexual assault, kidnapping, and murder of a little girl. In prison he becomes friends with his fellow ... See full summary »

Director: Nuel C. Naval | Stars: Aga Muhlach, Bela Padilla, Xia Vigor, Joel Torre

Votes: 2,044

90. You Only Live Once (1937)

Passed | 86 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

The public defender's secretary and an ex-convict get married and try to make a life together, but a series of disasters sends their lives spiraling out of control.

Director: Fritz Lang | Stars: Sylvia Sidney, Henry Fonda, Barton MacLane, Jean Dixon

Votes: 7,668

91. They Call Me Bruce (1982)

PG | 87 min | Action, Comedy

A goofy Korean finds his life hopelessly complicated with people continually confusing him with Bruce Lee.

Director: Elliott Hong | Stars: Johnny Yune, Margaux Hemingway, Raf Mauro, Pam Huntington

Votes: 1,860 | Gross: $16.89M

92. Someone Is Bleeding (1974)

R | 105 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller

On a beach in Nice, François meets the mysterious Peggy and falls in love with her. Following her to a villa, he meets Marc, a lawyer who has a strange relationship with the girl. Marc tells François that Peggy is a drug addict: she kills men who approach her.

Director: Georges Lautner | Stars: Alain Delon, Mireille Darc, Claude Brasseur, Fiore De Rienzo

Votes: 1,044

93. The Broken Crown (2016)

113 min | Biography, Drama, History

In a Spain consumed by ambition and power, the future of an empire depends on one woman's state of mind.

Director: Jordi Frades | Stars: Rodolfo Sancho, Irene Escolar, Raúl Mérida, Eusebio Poncela

Votes: 869

94. Il était une fois... la vie (1987–1988)

30 min | Animation, Family

The workings of the human body explained by animated characters.

Stars: Roger Carel, Marie-Laure Beneston, Alain Dorval, Gilles Laurent

Votes: 5,599

95. Father There Is Only One (2019)

Not Rated | 98 min | Comedy, Family

A family father discovers how hard is care of his five children when his wife leaves him alone with them during a week of holidays.

Director: Santiago Segura | Stars: Santiago Segura, Toni Acosta, Sílvia Abril, Leo Harlem

Votes: 3,260

96. Alibi.com (2016)

89 min | Comedy, Romance

Greg and his company provide alibis for infidelities, among other sins. He falls in love with Flo, whose dad turns out to be his customer.

Director: Philippe Lacheau | Stars: Philippe Lacheau, Élodie Fontan, Julien Arruti, Tarek Boudali

Votes: 10,052

97. The German Lesson (2019)

125 min | Drama

Siggi is in prison during the post-war period and tasked to write an essay. He remembers that his father was supposed to ban his profession from a friend who was a painter and Siggi was supposed to help him but he rebelled.

Director: Christian Schwochow | Stars: Ulrich Noethen, Tobias Moretti, Levi Eisenblätter, Tom Gronau

Votes: 1,443

98. The Platform 2

Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller | Post-production

A thrilling physical journey that allows an approach to the darkness, where it is scary to look. It appeals to the viewer's civil responsibility and forces them to face the limits of their own solidarity.

Director: Galder Gaztelu-Urrutia | Stars: Hovik Keuchkerian, Milena Smit

99. The Life of Emile Zola (1937)

Passed | 116 min | Biography, Drama

The biopic of the famous French muckraking writer and his involvement in fighting the injustice of the Dreyfus Affair.

Director: William Dieterle | Stars: Paul Muni, Gale Sondergaard, Joseph Schildkraut, Gloria Holden

Votes: 9,044

100. House of Whipcord (1974)

R | 102 min | Horror

An insane couple take over the operation of an old jail and seek out young women who they believe have escaped justice. A beautiful young French model becomes their latest victim and must attempt escape or face an almost certain death.

Director: Pete Walker | Stars: Barbara Markham, Patrick Barr, Ray Brooks, Ann Michelle

Votes: 1,876