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51. Deep Valley (1947)

Passed | 104 min | Action, Crime, Drama

A girl living with her parents on an isolated California farm falls in love with a chain-gang convict working at a nearby highway construction site, and sets out to help him when he escapes.

Director: Jean Negulesco | Stars: Ida Lupino, Dane Clark, Wayne Morris, Fay Bainter

Votes: 1,072

52. Black Garden (2019)

90 min | Sci-Fi

Based on the 9th circle of hell in Dante's Inferno, Black Garden begins on Christmas Eve in the near future. It's eight days after the end of World War III and a handful of survivors wait ... See full summary »

Director: Shaun Wilson | Stars: Cara Culligan, Phil Edwards, Tammy Honey, Garry Keltie

Votes: 2,766

53. Le grand jeu (1934)

120 min | Drama, Romance

Pierre (Pierre Richard-Willm), a young lawyer, has enormous debts due to his mistress Florence (Marie Bell), and her whims of luxury life. Pierre has gone too far and put the family firm in... See full summary »

Director: Jacques Feyder | Stars: Marie Bell, Pierre Richard-Willm, Charles Vanel, Georges Pitoëff

Votes: 427

54. Blues Harp (1998)

107 min | Crime, Drama, Music

Ambitious yakuza Kenji befriends harmonica-playing bartender Chuji, who moonlights as a part-time drug-dealer for the opposing gang. Their friendship is threatened by Kenji's plans for ... See full summary »

Director: Takashi Miike | Stars: Hiroyuki Ikeuchi, Seiichi Tanabe, Saori Sekino, Mickey Curtis

Votes: 1,186

55. Easton's Article (2012)

TV-14 | 89 min | Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller

After receiving his future obituary via a cryptic Internet file, Easton Denning is forced to confront his troubled past in order to prevent his predicted demise.

Director: Tim Connery | Stars: Chad Meyer, Kristina Johnson, Dan Flannery, Benjamin Barlow

Votes: 216

56. Prep School (2015)

Not Rated | 85 min | Drama, Mystery, Sport

When the star player of an elite prep school rugby team suffers an emotional collapse, his friends and teammates respond in their own ways, ranging from heroic to horrifying.

Director: Sean Nichols Lynch | Stars: Carly Schroeder, Taylor Lambert, Ben Bellamy, Austin Scott

Votes: 563

57. Snow on the Blades (2014)

119 min | Action, Drama, History

Shimura Kingo fails his duty to protect the life of the Shogun's chief minister, and spends his life tracking down the assassins. However, all but one of the assassins die before Kingo can reach them. Still, Kingo presses on.

Director: Setsurô Wakamatsu | Stars: Kiichi Nakai, Hiroshi Abe, Ryôko Hirosue, Masahiro Takashima

Votes: 273

58. David (1979)

125 min | Drama, War

David (Mario Fischel), the son of a local rabbi (Walter Taub), sees the rise in anti-Semitism in 1930s Germany, but it isn't until his father's synagogue is burned down and his mother (... See full summary »

Director: Peter Lilienthal | Stars: Mario Fischel, Walter Taub, Irena Vrkljan, Eva Mattes

Votes: 171

59. Ein Tag - Bericht aus einem deutschen Konzentrationslager 1939 (1965 TV Movie)

110 min | Drama

Germany, January 1939: a day in a concentration camp. Subjected to harsh military discipline the hungry prisoners are digging a huge hole and filling it up again. Several are tortured, die of exhaustion, in the electric fence, or are shot.

Director: Egon Monk | Stars: Harald Eggers, Eberhard Fechner, Willem Fricke, Norbert Friese

Votes: 66

60. Garbage Dreams (2009)

79 min | Documentary

A look at the lives of Egyptian trash collectors.

Director: Mai Iskander

Votes: 159

61. Hijos del viento: Entre la luz y las tinieblas (2000)

96 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance

Durante la conquista de México por los españoles, Rodri, un náufrago español y Tizcuitl, la joven y bella hija azteka del rey de Tlacopan, poderoso súbdito del emperador Moctezuma, viven ... See full synopsis »

Director: José Miguel Juárez | Stars: Carlos Fuentes, Úrsula Murayama, José Sancho, Bud Spencer

Votes: 191

62. Lions (2012)

82 min | Drama

Five young people are involved in a serious car accident that leaves four of them dead. Isabel, the youngest, is the only survivor and helps her four friends realize they have passed on.

Director: Jazmín López | Stars: Julia Volpato, Pablo Sigal, Macarena del Corro, Diego Vegezzi

Votes: 301

63. Stringless Puppets (2022)

76 min | Drama

A young man living far from his beloved one wastes his existence absorbed in modern distractions until he loses contact with her. Determined to find his love, he embarks on a journey around the world. Not a word is spoken in this film.

Director: José Peña Coto | Star: Jaime María Cortés-Echanove García

Votes: 16

64. Lost Dream (2009)

Not Rated | 90 min | Drama

Two rebellious boys dabble in drugs and self-harm, until their reckless actions get them into more trouble than they ever imagined.

Director: Asif Ahmed | Stars: Michael Welch, Shaun Sipos, Sarah Foret, Katie Stuart

Votes: 176

65. Ferestadeh (1983)

103 min | Drama

An Iranian assassin is sent to the United States to kill a former Iranian official who served under the Shah of Iran. The night before the assassination he find out that his target (Mr. ... See full summary »

Director: Parviz Sayyad | Stars: Parviz Sayyad, Mary Apick, Houshang Touzie, Saeed Rajai

Votes: 238

66. Torpedoed (1937)

66 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance

Trouble is brewing in the banana republic of Bianco for both His Excellency, El Presidente, and the British Consul, Brant. Rebels, led by Diego De Costa, the trusted "Minister of the ... See full summary »

Director: Norman Walker | Stars: Robert Douglas, Richard Cromwell, Hazel Terry, H.B. Warner

Votes: 48

67. In the Fall (2011)

2 min | Animation, Short, Comedy

While watering plants, a man slips on a banana peel and falls from the rooftop of a tall building. As he's falling to his death, blackbirds appear and play him a movie reel that recapitulates his life, which makes him realize something.

Director: Steve Cutts

Votes: 597

68. Day of the Angel (1994)

82 min | Comedy, Fantasy

Nyatollah is a rich stingy guy who loves money. One day when he goes to the court to do a job for a friend he is thrown from the roof. This is the beginning of his acquaintance with Djin and the beginning of his adventure.

Director: Behruz Afkhami | Stars: Ezzatolah Entezami, Akbar Abdi, Mina Lakani, Mohamad Reza Honarmand

Votes: 513

69. Aisheen (Still Alive in Gaza) (2010)

86 min | Documentary, Family

Through encounters in these otherwise ordinary places (but places that, here, take on another meaning), the film portrays a different Gaza. Poetic, surreal at times. "Aisheen" is a tribute to life.

Director: Nicolas Wadimoff

Votes: 67

70. Dawn (aka. Morgenrøde) (2014)

70 min | Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Thriller

At the beginning of a new aeon is a water polluted world years after a global fall. Where the legacy of what was, has been quenched and world understanding must take shape again. Surrounded... See full summary »

Director: Anders Elsrud Hultgreen | Stars: Torstein Bjørklund, Ingar Helge Gimle

Votes: 98

71. Sella Turcica (2017)

75 min | Drama

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Director: Yusup Razykov | Stars: Vitali Daushev, Sergey Genkin, Ilya Kovrizhnykh, Valeri Maslov

Votes: 69

72. Saltimbancos (1951)

98 min | Drama

Lives of circus performers in times of decay.

Director: Manuel Guimarães | Stars: Maria Olguim, Helga Liné, Artur Semedo, Jose Vitor

Votes: 70

73. The Boys from Baghdad High (2007)

88 min | Documentary, War

Four students from different religious backgrounds in Baghdad document their final year in high school.

Directors: Ivan O'Mahoney, Laura Winter | Stars: Hayder Khalid, Mohammad Raed, Anmar Refat, Ali Shadman

Votes: 180

74. Die Gerichtsmedizinerin (2005–2008)

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Stars: Lisa Fitz, Peter Ketnath, Michael Sideris, Heikko Deutschmann

Votes: 20

75. To Stay Alive (2002)

95 min | Drama

A woman tries to escape from the much older man she was forced to marry.

Director: Dariush Mehrjui | Stars: Neda Aghaei, Masoumeh Bakhshi, Mohammad Habibian, Ghader Heydari

Votes: 167

76. Havet stiger (1990)

88 min | Drama, Sci-Fi

In a room behind high walls to protect against the catastrophe, humans try to survive, closing the ruined Earth out of their lives. the disillusioned Heiki meets the broken angel Susanne trying to find hope.

Director: Oddvar Einarson | Stars: Gard B. Eidsvold, Petronella Barker, Piotr Bajor, Filip Centkowski

Votes: 17

77. Zoetrope (1999)

18 min | Short, Horror

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Director: Charlie Deaux | Stars: Nigel Bonfield, Michael Bradley, Robert Deacon

Votes: 290

78. One Way Home (2011)

Unrated | 28 min | Short, Thriller

Three women traveling across the New Mexican desert become stranded and must ask an old, half-crazy widower for help. He invites them into his home for the night, promising them help in the... See full summary »

Director: A.J. Brown | Stars: Sylvie Obledo, LeeAnn Powers, Art Westgate, Katherine Ygbuhay

Votes: 11

79. Doel Belang (2007)

30 min | Short, Mystery

After encountering a stranger, gardener Adam starts questioning if he and all other people around him are just characters in an unfinished book.

Director: Veno Musinovic | Stars: Gordan Sarajlic, Lovro Lajos, Filip Saric, Marko Hrenovic

80. Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955–1962)
Episode: Cell 227 (1960)

TV-14 | 30 min | Drama, Mystery

Professor Herbert Morrison is on death row awaiting his sentence to go through. His lawyer is trying to get a last-minute stay of execution but the professor says he doesn't want a reprieve.

Director: Paul Henreid | Stars: Alfred Hitchcock, Brian Keith, James Best, James Westerfield

Votes: 421

81. Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955–1962)
Episode: The Day of the Bullet (1960)

TV-14 | 30 min | Drama, Mystery

When a young boy reports a mob-beating to the police and his father fails to support him under questioning in the presence of the mobster, he's adversely affected for the rest of his life.

Director: Norman Lloyd | Stars: Alfred Hitchcock, Barry Gordon, Glenn Walken, Dennis Patrick

Votes: 515

82. Tales from the Darkside (1983–1988)
Episode: Slippage (1984)

TV-14 | 30 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy

When graphic designer Rich Hall fails to receive timely news about the outcome of a job interview, he begins to discover that he is slowly ceasing to exist.

Director: Michael Gornick | Stars: David Patrick Kelly, Philip Casnoff, Kerry Armstrong, Harriet Rogers

Votes: 466

83. Numb3rs (2005–2010)
Episode: Guns and Roses (2006)

TV-14 | 60 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

An ATF agent is found in her home, an apparent victim of suicide. Don, having been involved with her, asks Charlie to run algorithms to determine if she was likely suicidal, or she was murdered.

Director: Stephen Gyllenhaal | Stars: Rob Morrow, David Krumholtz, Judd Hirsch, Alimi Ballard

Votes: 276

84. Masters of the Air (2024)
Episode: Part Four (2024)

TV-MA | 52 min | Action, Drama, Thriller

Lt. Rosenthal joins the 100th just as one of its crews reaches a milestone. The U-boat pens at Bremen become a target for the second time.

Director: Cary Joji Fukunaga | Stars: Austin Butler, Harry Ames, Darragh Cowley, Elliot Warren

Votes: 2,355

85. The World at War (1973–1974)
Episode: Inside the Reich: Germany - 1940-1944 (1974)

TV-PG | 52 min | Documentary, History, War

Germany is jubilant after the surrender of France. Then the unsuccessful expansion of the war to include Russia and England gradually turns German morale from joy to fatalism. Even der ... See full summary »

Stars: Laurence Olivier, Marlene Tucking, Hans Kehrl, Christabel Bielenberg

Votes: 391

86. I, Claudius (1976)
Episode: Old King Log (1976)

Not Rated | 53 min | Biography, Drama, History

AD 54: Claudius feels that Rome should return to be a Republic but nonetheless marries his niece Agripinilla and makes her son Nero co-heir with his own, teen-aged son Britannicus. Aware of... See full summary »

Director: Herbert Wise | Stars: Derek Jacobi, Bernard Hepton, John Cater, Barbara Young

Votes: 352

87. Lost (2004–2010)
Episode: The Life and Death of Jeremy Bentham (2009)

TV-14 | 46 min | Adventure, Drama, Fantasy

John Locke, now alive again and back on the island after the second plane crash, flashes back to his return to civilization, where he is brought in by Charles Widmore and asked to convince the Oceanic 6 to return to the island.

Director: Jack Bender | Stars: Naveen Andrews, Henry Ian Cusick, Jeremy Davies, Michael Emerson

Votes: 5,816

88. Watchmen (2008–2009)
Episode: Chapter IV: Watchmaker (2008)

Not Rated | 30 min | Animation, Drama, Mystery

Cursed with perceiving all time periods at once, Dr. Manhattan reviews his life while on Mars.

Director: Jake Strider Hughes | Star: Tom Stechschulte

Votes: 143

89. Watchmen (2008–2009)
Episode: Chapter IX: The Darkness of Mere Being (2009)

Not Rated | 28 min | Animation, Drama, Mystery

As Doctor Manhattan brings Laurie to Mars to debate why he should return to Earth to save it, her personal memories and a shattering revelation from them play a critical role.

Directors: Jake Strider Hughes, Richard Zangrande Gaubert | Star: Tom Stechschulte

Votes: 120

90. Nova (1974– )
Episode: Who Killed the Red Baron? (2003)

TV-PG | Documentary

Who killed Baron Manfred von Richthofen (the Red Baron)? Forensic evidence and recently discovered papers hold clues about why the celebrated WWI German air ace met his fate on April 21, 1918.

Director: Peter Nicholson | Stars: Oswald Boelcke, Roy Brown, Suzanne Fischer, Roland Garros

Votes: 18

91. Hitler's Bodyguard (2008– )
Episode: Kill the New Chanchellor (2010)

TV-14 | 47 min | Documentary, History

During Hitler's first year in office--as he steered Germany abruptly towards tyranny--he faced no fewer than a dozen attempts on his life.

Directors: Jonathan Martin, Philip Nugus | Stars: Sepp Dietrich, Josef Felder, Joseph Goebbels, Hermann Göring

Votes: 41

92. All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace (2011)
Episode: The Monkey in the Machine and the Machine in the Monkey (2011)

TV-14 | 50 min | Documentary

Humankind's progressive belief in being machines, and how no one believes anymore that the world can be changed for the better.

Director: Adam Curtis | Stars: Adam Curtis, David Attenborough, Richard Dawkins, Robin Day

Votes: 105

93. The Power of Film (2024)
Episode: Part 2 - Trapped Between Fate & Destiny (2024)

TV-PG | 40 min | Documentary

Nearly all memorable stories, whether told in movies or in real life, are about traps. The most memorable are generally about the loss, sacrifice, and ultimate triumph the central character must engage in to escape their trap.

Director: Laura Gabbert | Star: Howard Suber

Votes: 63

94. American Dynasties: The Kennedys (2018)
Episode: The Power of Wealth (2018)

42 min | Documentary, History

Joseph Kennedy's political ambition passes first to his son Joe Jr. and then to reluctant second son, Jack.

Director: Tim Dunn | Stars: Martin Sheen, Tim Naftali, Alexis Coe, Barbara Perry

Votes: 73

95. Watchmen (2019)
Episode: A God Walks into Abar (2019)

TV-MA | 63 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Doctor Manhattan meets Angela, setting the stage for future events.

Director: Nicole Kassell | Stars: Regina King, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Tom Mison, Sara Vickers

Votes: 9,989