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51. Overland Mail (1942)

Approved | 279 min | Drama, Western

Two investigators for a stagecoach company are assigned to find out why the company's stages keep being ambushed. They discover that the culprits are white men disguised as Indians, and they set out to discover who is behind the plot.

Directors: Ford Beebe, John Rawlins | Stars: Lon Chaney Jr., Helen Parrish, Noah Beery Jr., Don Terry

Votes: 81

52. Shadow of Chinatown (I) (1936)

Passed | 281 min | Action, Adventure, Crime

A madman sets out to destroy a group of Chinatown merchants.

Director: Robert F. Hill | Stars: Bela Lugosi, Bruce Bennett, Joan Barclay, Luana Walters

Votes: 297

53. Flying G-Men (1939)

Passed | 257 min | Action, Adventure, Crime

Three government aviators called the "Flying G-Men", one of whom is disguised as "The Black Falcon", fight to protect the US and its allies from an enemy spy ring and to avenge the death of the fourth Flying G-Man.

Directors: James W. Horne, Ray Taylor | Stars: Robert Paige, Richard Fiske, James Craig, Lorna Gray

Votes: 44

54. The Intruder (1933)

Passed | 66 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

A murder is committed aboard a cruise ship just before it sinks in a storm. The survivors, including the killer, land on a mysterious jungle island.

Director: Albert Ray | Stars: Lila Lee, Monte Blue, Gwen Lee, Arthur Housman

Votes: 146

55. Undercover Doctor (1939)

Approved | 67 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance

Dr. Bartley Morgan covers up his profitable illegalities with the respectable veneer of a posh, highly profitable private practice, he runs with his nurse Margaret Hopkins. The FBI agent ... See full summary »

Director: Louis King | Stars: Lloyd Nolan, Janice Logan, J. Carrol Naish, Heather Angel

Votes: 41

56. Double Deal (1950)

Approved | 64 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

A woman inherits an Oklahoma oil well and hires an itinerant oil engineer to start drilling but she runs afoul of a greedy oil tycooness who wants her company at any cost, even if it means murder, sabotage and deceit.

Director: Abby Berlin | Stars: Marie Windsor, Richard Denning, Taylor Holmes, Fay Baker

Votes: 262

57. Jungle Manhunt (1951)

Passed | 66 min | Action, Adventure, Romance

Football player Bob Miller, played by an actual football player, is lost in the jungle. Who else to find him but Jungle Jim.

Director: Lew Landers | Stars: Johnny Weissmuller, Robert Waterfield, Sheila Ryan, Rick Vallin

Votes: 392

58. Bowery Boy (1940)

Approved | 71 min | Action, Adventure, Crime

Dr. Tom O'Hara takes over a public clinic in New York's desperately poor Bowery section. Boy gangleader Sock Dolan resents Tom's interference in moving Sock's kid brother to a hospital, ... See full summary »

Director: William Morgan | Stars: Dennis O'Keefe, Louise Campbell, Jimmy Lydon, Helen Vinson

Votes: 30

59. A Small Town Idol (1921)

Passed | 70 min | Action, Comedy, Romance

Sam, a young man in a small town, is accused of being a thief. Unable to prove his innocence--and not knowing that he's being framed by a local villain to keep him away from pretty young ... See full summary »

Directors: Erle C. Kenton, Mack Sennett | Stars: Ben Turpin, James Finlayson, Phyllis Haver, Bert Roach

Votes: 80

60. The Tiger's Trail (1919)

Passed | 300 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

A cult of Hindu tiger worshippers and a gang of Western outlaws try to cheat a young woman out of rich mines that belong to her.

Directors: Robert Ellis, Louis J. Gasnier, Paul Hurst | Stars: Ruth Roland, George Larkin, Mark Strong, Harry Moody

Votes: 24

61. Prairie Thunder (1937)

Passed | 55 min | Drama, Music, Western

To increase profits for his shipping company, Lynch has goaded the Indians to attack both the telegraph line and the new railroad. When Lynch sells rifles to the Indians, Rod Farrell ... See full summary »

Director: B. Reeves Eason | Stars: Dick Foran, Janet Shaw, Smoke, Frank Orth

Votes: 113

62. Get That Girl (1932)

Passed | 67 min | Action, Adventure, Crime

A young girl who is about to receive a large inheritance is abducted to an isolated sanitarium where a crazed doctor is performing strange experiments.

Director: George Crone | Stars: Richard Talmadge, Shirley Grey, Fred Malatesta, Carl Stockdale

Votes: 121

63. Secret Service Investigator (1948)

Passed | 60 min | Crime, Drama, Romance

A returning war hero who looks like a forger gets mixed up with gangsters and the Secret Service.

Director: R.G. Springsteen | Stars: Lynne Roberts, Lloyd Bridges, George Zucco, June Storey

Votes: 54

64. The Foolish Virgin (1924)

Passed | 58 min | Drama, Romance

Jim Owens (Robert Frazer), a reformed thief and successful inventor, meets quiet, meek, refined Mary Adams (Elaine Hammerstein) at a jazz party. They fall in love and all goes well until ... See full summary »

Director: George W. Hill | Stars: Elaine Hammerstein, Robert Frazer, Gladys Brockwell, Phyllis Haver

65. Virgin Lips (1928)

Passed | 59 min | Action, Drama, Romance

In a banana republic way south of the Texas border, dumb-Dora American girl Norma (Olive Borden) lets her ruby-red lips promise more than she is willing to deliver, and she finds herself a ... See full summary »

Director: Elmer Clifton | Stars: Olive Borden, John Boles, Marshall Ruth, Alexander Gill

66. Fifty Fathoms Deep (1931)

Passed | 70 min | Action, Drama, Romance

A shady lady has an affair with one deep sea diver, marries his buddy and breaks up their friendship. Ere long, she cheats on her husband and runs off with an oily yacht owner. Shortly ... See full summary »

Director: Roy William Neill | Stars: Jack Holt, Mary Doran, Richard Cromwell, Loretta Sayers

67. Rookie Fireman (1950)

Approved | 63 min | Action, Drama, Romance

Merchant seaman Joe Blake, in love with Peggy Walters, takes the job of a rookie fireman in a big city department. His commander is strict-disciplinarian Fire Captain Jess Henshaw. Margie ... See full summary »

Director: Seymour Friedman | Stars: Bill Williams, Barton MacLane, Marjorie Reynolds, Gloria Henry

Votes: 24

68. The Man from Brodney's (1923)

Passed | 80 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance

A drama of the India Seas that has Hollingsworth Chance (J. Warren Kerrigan), a young American, tangled in court intrigue to, is put to the supreme test to save the girl he loves, Princess Geneva (Alice Calhoun).

Director: David Smith | Stars: J. Warren Kerrigan, Alice Calhoun, Pat O'Malley, Wanda Hawley

69. Speed Madness (1932)

Passed | Action, Adventure, Drama

Bob Stuart, the idle son of a shipbuilding magnate gets a job at his father's shipyard. The company's major project is to design a new speedboat in order to win a major new contract.

Director: George Crone | Stars: Richard Talmadge, Charles Sellon, Lucien Littlefield, Nancy Drexel

Votes: 23

70. When Lightning Strikes (1934)

Approved | 55 min | Action, Adventure, Crime

Lightning the German Shepherd dog stars in this wilderness melodrama.

Directors: Burton L. King, Harry Revier | Stars: Lightning, Francis X. Bushman Jr., Terry Walker, J.P. McGowan

Votes: 21

71. Desert Man (1934)

Approved | 20 min | Short, Western

Undercover government man Wally Bradley (Wally Wales) and his pal Chuck (Jim Sheridan) come to the aid of ranch owner Jean Simmons (Peggy Djarling) when a gang of outlaws try to take over her ranch.

Director: Robert Emmett Tansey | Stars: Hal Taliaferro, Silver King the Horse, Peggy Djarling, James Sheridan

72. Headin' for God's Country (1943)

Passed | 78 min | Drama

On 16 Sep 1941, stranger Michael Banyan treks from the Alaskan interior into the small town of Sunivak, Alaska, and is treated with suspicion by the locals. General store owner Hilary ... See full synopsis »

Director: William Morgan | Stars: William Lundigan, Virginia Dale, Harry Davenport, Harry Shannon

Votes: 24

73. George's in Love (1926)

Comedy, Short

George quits the shoe business and becomes a fireworks salesman working one week a year. When he calls on his girl, Elvira, her dog gets hold of a time bomb and playfully runs all over town... See full summary »

Director: Francis Corby | Stars: Syd Saylor, Thelma Daniels

74. The Rookie (2018– )
Episode: Day of Death (2020)

TV-14 | 43 min | Action, Crime, Drama

Officer Nolan and the entire team are in a desperate search to rescue Officer Chen after her abduction and must attempt to get Rosalind to help them in their search.

Director: David McWhirter | Stars: Nathan Fillion, Mekia Cox, Alyssa Diaz, Richard T. Jones

Votes: 1,467

75. C.B. Strike (2017– )
Episode: Lethal White: Part 4 (2020)

TV-MA | 61 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

After ditching her husband, Robin becomes prone to panic attacks - although not when confronting a murderer.

Director: Susan Tully | Stars: Holliday Grainger, Adam Long, Ann Akinjirin, Tom Burke

Votes: 674

76. The Watch (2020–2021)
Episode: Twilight Canyons (2021)

TV-14 | 43 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

Carcer is willing to do anything to find the sword for Gawain; the Watch is close on his tail, following him to Twilight Canyons, a place where the elderly residents await death; death patiently waits for them to draw their last breaths.

Director: Brian Kelly | Stars: Paul Kaye, Marama Corlett, Adam Hugill, Joni Ayton-Kent

Votes: 319

77. SEAL Team (2017–2024)
Episode: Forever War (2020)

TV-14 | 42 min | Action, Drama, War

Bravo Team reunites with Jason and Cerberus, then go underground to search booby-trapped tunnels for terrorist leader Al-Hazred.

Director: Christopher Chulack | Stars: David Boreanaz, Max Thieriot, Jessica Paré, Neil Brown Jr.

Votes: 472

78. Riverdale (2017–2023)
Episode: Chapter Seventy-Eight: The Preppy Murders (2021)

TV-14 | 41 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Betty and Jughead's investigation into the auteur takes a twisted turn after receiving a call from Bret. Archie is forced to make an impossible decision when the person responsible for his father's death needs his help.

Director: Gabriel Correa | Stars: K.J. Apa, Lili Reinhart, Camila Mendes, Cole Sprouse

Votes: 1,117

79. The Blacklist (2013–2023)
Episode: Rakitin (No. 28) (2021)

TV-14 | 43 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

The Task Force's determination to identify a Russian asset in the U.S. government puts Cooper and Reddington in increasingly treacherous positions.

Director: Mahesh Pailoor | Stars: James Spader, Megan Boone, Diego Klattenhoff, Amir Arison

Votes: 1,502

80. 9-1-1: Lone Star (2020– )
Episode: The Big Heat (2021)

TV-14 | 44 min | Action, Drama, Thriller

A recovering Owen becomes the prime suspect in the serial arsonist case. Meanwhile, T.K. and Carlos find themselves in a fiery situation and Tommy gets the surprise of her life.

Director: Ben Hernandez Bray | Stars: Rob Lowe, Gina Torres, Ronen Rubinstein, Sierra Aylina McClain

Votes: 736

81. Superman & Lois (2021–2024)
Episode: Worlds War Bizarre (2022)

TV-PG | Action, Adventure, Drama

Superman is rendered powerless by Ally's attack, and the others rally as the two Earths merge.

Director: Sheelin Choksey | Stars: Tyler Hoechlin, Elizabeth Tulloch, Jordan Elsass, Alex Garfin

Votes: 988

82. Monarch: Legacy of Monsters (2023– )
Episode: Parallels and Interiors (2023)

TV-14 | 41 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

The team is left stranded in the frozen tundra after a narrow escape. Kentaro reflects on his relationships.

Director: Julian Holmes | Stars: Anna Sawai, Kiersey Clemons, Ren Watabe, Joe Tippett

Votes: 2,790

83. Line of Duty (2012–2021)
Episode: The Probation (2012)

TV-14 | 58 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Gates returns to rescue Arnott but leaves before Kate, her cover now blown, arrives to find evidence that a body had been stored at the warehouse. Arnott recalls that the chief torturer was... See full summary »

Director: Douglas Mackinnon | Stars: Tomi May, Gregory Piper, Martin Compston, Vicky McClure

Votes: 1,566

84. Balthazar (2018–2023)
Episode: Game Over (2023)

TV-14 | 48 min | Crime, Thriller

Maya escapes from prison with Alexandre's help. Their plan becomes clear when Camille wakes up in a coffin, with a live feed playing at the institute. But that's only the start of the deadly game between the Balthazar brothers.

Directors: Coline Beal, Vincent Jamain | Stars: Tomer Sisley, Constance Labbé, Yannig Samot, Philypa Phoenix

Votes: 41

85. The Son (2017–2019)
Episode: No Prisoners (2017)

TV-14 | 42 min | Drama, History, Western

An enemy forces Young Eli to question his loyalties in 1849. In 1915, the McCulloughs' past comes back to haunt them with deadly results.

Director: Olatunde Osunsanmi | Stars: Pierce Brosnan, Jacob Lofland, Henry Garrett, Paola Núñez

Votes: 304

86. Pure (2017–2019)
Episode: Baptism (2017)

TV-MA | 42 min | Drama

While Noah is held captive Eli Voss goes about tying up loose ends. Anna continues to show her resourcefulness in the face of dangers arising from the business. Agent Riley and Novak refuse... See full summary »

Director: Ken Girotti | Stars: Ryan Robbins, Alex Paxton-Beesley, A.J. Buckley, Dylan Taylor

Votes: 55

87. Fear the Walking Dead (2015–2023)
Episode: Leave What You Don't (2019)

TV-MA | 44 min | Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi

Logan's motives are revealed; Sarah, Dwight, and Luciana negotiate for the sake of the mission; Strand and Alicia race to the aid of a new survivor in a familiar place; a dangerous threat emerges.

Director: Daisy von Scherler Mayer | Stars: Lennie James, Alycia Debnam-Carey, Maggie Grace, Colman Domingo

Votes: 2,116