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51. The Sign of Four (1983 TV Movie)

Not Rated | 97 min | Crime, Mystery

Hired by a young lady, Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson investigate the strange recent deaths of her missing father's friends from the army, as well as the whereabouts of the Great Mogul, the second-largest diamond in the world.

Director: Desmond Davis | Stars: Ian Richardson, David Healy, Thorley Walters, Cherie Lunghi

Votes: 844

52. Booloo (1938)

Approved | 61 min | Action, Adventure, Thriller

A young stiff-upper-lipped British officer, Robert Rogers, writes a book about a white tiger and sacrifices of native girls by the Sakai tribe in Malaya. But the critics ridicule the book. ... See full summary »

Director: Clyde E. Elliott | Stars: Colin Tapley, Jayne Regan, Mamo Clark, Herbert DeSouza

Votes: 43

53. Bomba and the Jungle Girl (1952)

Passed | 70 min | Action, Adventure, Thriller

Bomba, the Jungle Boy and now animal protector, discovers human skeletons which turn out to be those of his parents.

Director: Ford Beebe | Stars: Johnny Sheffield, Karen Sharpe, Walter Sande, Suzette Harbin

Votes: 199

54. You'll Find Out (1940)

Approved | 97 min | Comedy, Crime, Horror

The manager of Kay Kyser's band books them for a birthday party bash for an heiress at a spooky mansion, where sinister forces try to kill her.

Director: David Butler | Stars: Kay Kyser, Peter Lorre, Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi

Votes: 1,455

55. The Alternate (2000)

R | 95 min | Action, Drama

A staged kidnapping of the President of the United States becomes very real, forcing a lone hero to save the day.

Director: Sam Firstenberg | Stars: Eric Roberts, Bryan Genesse, Ice-T, Michael Madsen

Votes: 905

56. The Lost World (1998)

R | 97 min | Adventure, Sci-Fi

A scientist discovers dinosaurs on a remote plateau in Mongolia.

Director: Bob Keen | Stars: Patrick Bergin, Jayne Heitmeyer, Julian Casey, David Nerman

Votes: 948

57. Lion Strike (1994)

R | 90 min | Action, Crime, Thriller

A holiday vacation for Dr. Johnny Wu, his young son Bobby, and a beautiful forest ranger turns into a nightmare when they are thrown headfirst into a whirling maelstrom of violence involving a new breed of evil; the Global Mafia.

Directors: Rick Jacobson, Jacobsen Hart, Paul G. Volk | Stars: Don Wilson, Bobbie Phillips, Marcus Aurelius, Timothy D. Baker

Votes: 494

58. Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem (2002 Video Game)

M | Adventure, Fantasy, Horror

Over the course of two millenia, twelve men and women are linked together by an accursed book known as the Tome of Eternal Darkness.

Director: Denis Dyack | Stars: Michael Bell, Earl Boen, Cam Clarke, Neil Dickson

Votes: 836

59. The Crucifer of Blood (1991 TV Movie)

Not Rated | 103 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

A beautiful young woman asks Holmes to help her father, a former army captain and hopeless opium addict break free of the curse surrounding a stolen treasure.

Director: Fraser C. Heston | Stars: Charlton Heston, Richard Johnson, Susannah Harker, Edward Fox

Votes: 601

60. Charlie Chan at the Wax Museum (1940)

Approved | 63 min | Mystery

An escaped convicted murderer hides out at a New York wax museum where he hopes to get plastic surgery, which will help him revenge himself on Charlie Chan.

Director: Lynn Shores | Stars: Sidney Toler, Victor Sen Yung, C. Henry Gordon, Marc Lawrence

Votes: 1,760

61. The Hunters of the Golden Cobra (1982)

TV-PG | 92 min | Action, Adventure, Crime

An American soldier and a British intelligence agent try to track down an ancient relic called the Golden Cobra, rumored to have supernatural powers.

Director: Antonio Margheriti | Stars: David Warbeck, Almanta Suska, Luciano Pigozzi, Protacio Dee

Votes: 399

62. Tarzan's Revenge (1938)

Passed | 70 min | Adventure, Family

Eleanor and her parents are hunting big game, accompanied by her wimpish fiance. Ben Alleu Bey wants to add her to his 100-woman harem. Tarzan wants her too.

Director: D. Ross Lederman | Stars: Glenn Morris, Eleanor Holm, George Barbier, C. Henry Gordon

Votes: 675

63. The Strange Case of Doctor Rx (1942)

Approved | 66 min | Horror, Mystery

A mysterious vigilante known as "Dr. Rx" strikes again. Assigned to the case is private detective Jerry Church but the crimes are baffling and involve strangulation and a possible attempt to implant a gorilla's brain into a human body.

Director: William Nigh | Stars: Patric Knowles, Lionel Atwill, Anne Gwynne, Samuel S. Hinds

Votes: 611

64. The Diamond of Jeru (2001 TV Movie)

120 min | Adventure, Drama

Based on Louis L'Amour novel, The Diamond of Jeru tells the story of an American scientist and his wife who hire an ex-pat war veteren to act as a guide on a journey up an unchartered Borneo river in search of diamonds.

Directors: Ian Barry, Dick Lowry | Stars: Billy Zane, Paris Jefferson, Keith Carradine, Jackson Raine

Votes: 504

65. Three Golden Serpents (1969)

R | 85 min | Action, Adventure, Crime

Madame Kim Soo is a respected benefactor to social causes in Thailand, but she enjoys viewing Muay-Thai matches with a handsome male escort. Jo Walker and his friend Tom Rowland notice her ... See full summary »

Director: Roberto Mauri | Stars: Tony Kendall, Brad Harris, Monica Pardo, Loni Heuser

Votes: 159

66. King of the Wild (1931)

Passed | 248 min | Action, Adventure, Horror

American adventurer Richard Grant is falsely accused of murdering an Indian noble and escapes to Africa in search of diamond field and the real culprit.

Director: Richard Thorpe | Stars: Walter Miller, Nora Lane, Tom Santschi, Boris Karloff

Votes: 138

67. Robinson Crusoe of Clipper Island (1936)

Approved | 256 min | Action, Adventure, Crime

A 14-episode serial in which Mala, a Polynesian in the employ of U.S. Intelligence investigates sabotage on Clipper Island. A gang of spies causes the eruption of a volcano, for which our ... See full summary »

Directors: Ray Taylor, Mack V. Wright | Stars: Mala, Rex, Buck the Dog, Mamo Clark

Votes: 121

68. Killer Constable (1980)

Not Rated | 98 min | Action, Drama

Righteous constable Leng Tian-Ying has a fearsome reputation of killing criminals without remorse. But after being assigned to track a gang that robbed the imperial treasury, he comes to find that his reputation is being used against him.

Director: Chih-Hung Kuei | Stars: Kuan Tai Chen, Feng Ku, Jason Piao Pai, Tsui-Ling Yu

Votes: 514

69. Ang syota kong balikbayan (1995)

118 min | Action, Comedy, Romance

Da King Fernando Poe Jr. stars as a jeepney driver that sparks a romance with a spoiled balikbayan heiress, played by beauty queen Anjanette Abayari. But when an evil man is after her wealth, their lives are at stake.

Director: Pablo Santiago | Stars: Fernando Poe Jr., Anjanette Abayari, Maritoni Fernandez, Paquito Diaz

Votes: 20

70. The Golden Idol (1954)

Approved | 71 min | Adventure

It's Bomba the Jungle Boy to the rescue when the evil Arab chieftain Ali Ben Mamoud steals a golden idol from the Watusi tribe.

Director: Ford Beebe | Stars: Johnny Sheffield, Anne Kimbell, Paul Guilfoyle, Leonard Mudie

Votes: 168

71. The Circus Queen Murder (1933)

Passed | 63 min | Action, Crime, Drama

Suave, lip-reading DA Thatcher Colt plans to get away from the big city for a while. So he and his secretary, Miss Kelly hop on a train for an Upstate NY town called Gilead. They expect a ... See full summary »

Director: Roy William Neill | Stars: Adolphe Menjou, Donald Cook, Greta Nissen, Ruthelma Stevens

Votes: 338

72. Drums of Fu Manchu (1943)

Approved | 69 min | Adventure, Thriller

Dr. Fu Manchu is trying to take over the world by using the scepter of Genghis Khan, who was hidden in his tomb. With this scepter Fu Manchu gets all the Asian peoples in his power, and ... See full summary »

Directors: John English, William Witney | Stars: Henry Brandon, William Royle, Robert Kellard, Gloria Franklin

Votes: 51

73. The Secret of the Black Widow (1963)

107 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

A journalist with a drinking problem investigates, along with the police, a string of strange murders. Someone is killing members of a South American expedition using poison darts with rubber black widow spider on top of them.

Director: Franz Josef Gottlieb | Stars: O.W. Fischer, Karin Dor, Klaus Kinski, Werner Peters

Votes: 215

74. I Killed That Man (1941)

Passed | 71 min | Mystery

Just prior to his execution, a condemned murderer decides to tell the authorities who hired him to commit the murder. However, he's killed by a poison dart in front of a roomful of ... See full summary »

Director: Phil Rosen | Stars: Ricardo Cortez, Joan Woodbury, Pat Gleason, George Pembroke

Votes: 208

75. Kung Fu Arts (1978)

88 min | Action

The emperor's right hand man frames the princess's fiancé, King Chi, who goes into hiding for ten years, vowing revenge. Meanwhile, the princess is married to King Chi's monkey.

Directors: Kuang Hui, Hsi-Chieh Lai, Ju-Shou Li | Stars: Carter Wong, Sing Chen, Chi-Min Chin, Chung-Kuei Chang

Votes: 138

76. Vengeance (I) (1930)

Passed | 66 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

John Meadham, has for years been in charge of a West Africa trading post, wire the home office in London that he is tired and worn out, and they need to send a replacement to take over. The... See full summary »

Director: Archie Mayo | Stars: Jack Holt, Dorothy Revier, Philip Strange, George C. Pearce

Votes: 46

77. Life and Death Entrance (1969)

99 min | Action

Two ladies of the sword are transporting a valuable Dragon Pearl and all the bad guys want it. They are assisted by two heroes, one of whom is somewhat less heroic and more a rascal.

Director: Sheng-En Chin | Stars: Fang-Yu Niu, Chun Chen, Chi Chen, Ching-Hsia Chiang

Votes: 10

78. D-Day on Mars (1966 TV Movie)

Approved | 100 min | Sci-Fi

This is a shortened version of the 1945 Republic serial "The Purple Monster Strikes," which was released to television in 1966.

Directors: Spencer Gordon Bennet, Fred C. Brannon | Stars: Dennis Moore, Linda Stirling, Roy Barcroft, James Craven

Votes: 21

79. Sherlock Holmes (1964–1968)
Episode: The Sign of Four (1968)

TV-PG | 50 min | Crime, Drama, History

When a woman receives a series of valuable pearls from an unknown party after the disappearance of her father, Sherlock Holmes is hired to investigate.

Director: William Sterling | Stars: Peter Cushing, Nigel Stock, Ann Bell, Paul Daneman

Votes: 430

80. Poirot (1989–2013)
Episode: Death in the Clouds (1992)

TV-14 | 103 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

While Poirot sleeps on an airplane flight from Paris to London, a notorious French moneylender is murdered with a poisoned dart.

Director: Stephen Whittaker | Stars: David Suchet, Philip Jackson, Sarah Woodward, Shaun Scott

Votes: 2,055

81. Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955–1962)
Episode: Final Arrangements (1961)

TV-14 | 30 min | Drama, Mystery

A man who's fed up with his invalid wife's incessant nagging plans her funeral and prepays for a stylish coffin.

Director: Gordon Hessler | Stars: Alfred Hitchcock, Martin Balsam, Vivian Nathan, O.Z. Whitehead

Votes: 448

82. Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997–2003)
Episode: Graduation Day: Part 1 (1999)

TV-PG | 60 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

In an effort to distract Buffy from the Ascension, the mayor instructs Faith to poison Angel.

Director: Joss Whedon | Stars: Sarah Michelle Gellar, Nicholas Brendon, Alyson Hannigan, Charisma Carpenter

Votes: 3,918

83. Highlander (1992–1998)
Episode: Unusual Suspects (1997)

TV-14 | 49 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy

In 1929, Fitz is enjoying the life of an English lord. He has good friends, a beautiful wife, trusted servants...until one of them "murders" him.

Director: Dennis Berry | Stars: Adrian Paul, Elizabeth Gracen, Peter Wingfield, Jim Byrnes

Votes: 169

84. Lovejoy (1986–1994)
Episode: Montezuma's Revenge (1991)

TV-14 | 50 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

After Lovejoy is recruited to sell an ancient Colombian funerary figure with a curse on it, and it soon lives up to its reputation as murders soon follow.

Director: William Brayne | Stars: Ian McShane, Dudley Sutton, Chris Jury, Phyllis Logan

Votes: 71

85. MacGyver (1985–1992)
Episode: Murderers' Sky (1988)

TV-PG | 47 min | Action, Adventure, Crime

The grandson and only heir of a rich Chinese shipping magnate is living in a monastery. MacGyver enlists his help to fight a criminal takeover of the business.

Director: Michael Vejar | Stars: Richard Dean Anderson, Dana Elcar, Roderick Cook, Soon-Tek Oh

Votes: 298

86. Popular (1999–2001)
Episode: Hard on the Outside, Soft in the Middle (2000)

TV-14 | Comedy, Drama, Romance

Blonds and brunettes switch hair color to test Sam's natural selection theory that blonds always get preferential treatment. Bowling decides it. Losers get mohawks. Sugar falls for an Asian exchange student. Lily fails to save a lobster.

Director: Jamie Babbit | Stars: Leslie Bibb, Carly Pope, Tamara Mello, Christopher Gorham

Votes: 83

87. Rosemary & Thyme (2003–2006)
Episode: Seeds of Time (2006)

TV-14 | 47 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

The house of a respected, long-dead botanist becomes sought after because it's believed to contain seeds of a now-extinct plant that may offer a cure for malaria.

Director: Simon Langton | Stars: Felicity Kendal, Pam Ferris, Margaret Tyzack, Lucy Scott

Votes: 194

88. Rosemary & Thyme (2003–2006)
Episode: Up the Garden Path (2004)

TV-PG | 47 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Investigating a disease that is attacking the competing gardens of a small town, Rosemary and Thyme are put in the middle of murder involving revenge and whole lot of competition.

Director: Simon Langton | Stars: Felicity Kendal, Pam Ferris, Cassandra Holliday, Lucy Fleming

Votes: 188

89. Tarzan (1966–1968)
Episode: The Blue Stone of Heaven: Part 1 (1967)

60 min | Action, Adventure

After a guide for an archaeological expedition is killed, Tarzan decides to accompany the group in their quest to enter the forbidden "City Of Death", not only to protect them, but also to ... See full summary »

Director: William Witney | Stars: Ron Ely, Manuel Padilla Jr., Sam Jaffe, Jason Evers

Votes: 18

90. The Adventures of Tintin (1991–1992)
Episode: Cigars of the Pharaoh: Part 2 (1991)

TV-G | 24 min | Animation, Action, Adventure

After learning about the opium being smuggled from India, Tintin heads over there in a plane he stole from an Arabic army that was in cahoots with the syndicate. Once he arrives there, he ... See full summary »

Director: Stéphane Bernasconi | Stars: Colin O'Meara, Thierry Wermuth, Christian Pelissier, Henri Labussière

Votes: 411

91. The Adventures of Tintin (1991–1992)
Episode: The Blue Lotus: Part 1 (1991)

TV-G | 24 min | Animation, Action, Adventure

After the arrest of most of the members of the drug syndicate, the leader behind the organization was never found and is still at large. Tintin, who is enjoying his stay at the palace of ... See full summary »

Director: Stéphane Bernasconi | Stars: Colin O'Meara, Thierry Wermuth, Christian Pelissier, Henri Labussière

Votes: 418

92. American Dad! (2005– )
Episode: Bush Comes to Dinner (2007)

TV-14 | 22 min | Animation, Comedy

When Stan enters an essay-writing contest to have his personal hero, President Bush, come over for dinner, he is overcome with joy when the President arrives at his doorstep.

Directors: Mike Kim, Ron Hughart, Anthony Lioi | Stars: Seth MacFarlane, Wendy Schaal, Scott Grimes, Rachael MacFarlane

Votes: 805

93. The Adventures of McGraw (1957–1958)
Episode: The Long Aloha (1958)

30 min | Crime, Drama

In Hawaii, a friend of McGraw's is murdered by a poison dart in the middle of a barbecue party. Partners in his import/export company are suspected.

Director: Frank McDonald | Stars: Frank Lovejoy, Jacques Aubuchon, Shepperd Strudwick, Mari Aldon

94. Going Tribal (2005– )
Episode: Matis (2007)

51 min | Documentary

Bruce Parry joins the Matis, an Amazonian tribe wrongly nicknamed the jaguar people, in the 1980s nearly extinguished by exposure to Western germs, still quite a problem, and much of the ... See full summary »

Star: Bruce Parry

Votes: 11

95. Man vs. Wild (2006–2020)
Episode: Jungle (2007)

TV-PG | 44 min | Adventure, Reality-TV

Bear joins a group of natives in a blow gun hunt in the Panamanian rain forest and manages to bag an iguana himself. Then, as he climbs into the mountains, he demonstrates some beneficial plants and a fishing technique.

Director: Justin Kelly | Star: Bear Grylls

Votes: 81

96. Mysterious Island (1995)
Episode: The Price of Vengeance (1995)

43 min | Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi

The pirate, Cutler, survives a mysterious explosion on board his ship. He then wreaks havoc on the island, grazing Herbert with a bullet and shooting Jack with a poison dart before his reign of terror is brought to an end.

Director: Mark Beesley | Stars: Alan Scarfe, C. David Johnson, Colette Stevenson, Stephen Lovatt

Votes: 16

97. Matty's Funnies with Beany and Cecil (1959–1962)
Episode: The Spots Off a Leopard/Invasion of Earth by Robots/Cecil Meets the Singing Dinasor (1962)

29 min | Animation, Comedy, Family

Beany and Cecil hunt for Old Spot the Leopard. Cecil confronts a pair of Venusian robots - a mother robot and her baby. The gang sets out to capture a singing dinosaur.

Director: Robert Clampett | Stars: Jim MacGeorge, Irv Shoemaker

98. Unnatural History (2010)
Episode: Pilot (2010)

TV-PG | 45 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

After being attacked by a yak in Bhutan, Henry's anthropologist parents decide to send him some place where he can't get himself into any more trouble, Washington, D.C., to live with his ... See full summary »

Director: Mikael Salomon | Stars: Kevin G. Schmidt, Jordan Gavaris, Italia Ricci, Martin Donovan

Votes: 54

99. Todd and the Book of Pure Evil (2010–2012)
Episode: The Phantom of Crowley High (2010)

TV-MA | 23 min | Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi

A girl uses the book to become a better singer, but the spell backfires and her tongue falls out. She becomes the Phantom of Crowley High and Curtis falls for her. Meanwhile Atticus, Todd, and Jenny try to whip up a heavy metal musical.

Director: James Dunnison | Stars: Alex House, Maggie Castle, Bill Turnbull, Melanie Leishman

Votes: 98

100. Ben 10: Ultimate Alien (2010–2012)
Episode: Map of Infinity (2010)

TV-Y7 | 23 min | Animation, Action, Adventure

Aggregor has absorbed all the powers of his captured aliens. Now he's after the Map of Infinity.

Director: Butch Lukic | Stars: Yuri Lowenthal, Ashley Johnson, Greg Cipes, Dee Bradley Baker

Votes: 329