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1. Mulholland Drive (2001)

R | 147 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller

After a car wreck on Mulholland Drive renders a woman amnesiac, she and a Hollywood-hopeful search for clues and answers across Los Angeles in a twisting venture beyond dreams and reality.

Director: David Lynch | Stars: Naomi Watts, Laura Harring, Justin Theroux, Jeanne Bates

Votes: 384,435 | Gross: $7.22M

2. Monster (2023)

PG-13 | 127 min | Drama, Thriller

A mother demands answers from her son's teacher when her son begins acting strangely.

Director: Kore-eda Hirokazu | Stars: Sakura Andô, Eita Nagayama, Soya Kurokawa, Hinata Hiiragi

Votes: 21,900

3. Basic Instinct (1992)

R | 127 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller

A violent police detective investigates a brutal murder that might involve a manipulative and seductive novelist.

Director: Paul Verhoeven | Stars: Michael Douglas, Sharon Stone, George Dzundza, Jeanne Tripplehorn

Votes: 219,544 | Gross: $117.73M

4. Clue (1985)

PG | 94 min | Comedy, Crime, Mystery

Six guests are anonymously invited to a strange mansion for dinner, but after their host is killed, they must cooperate with the staff to identify the murderer as the bodies pile up.

Director: Jonathan Lynn | Stars: Eileen Brennan, Tim Curry, Madeline Kahn, Christopher Lloyd

Votes: 109,509 | Gross: $14.64M

5. Rashomon (1950)

Not Rated | 88 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

The rape of a bride and the murder of her samurai husband are recalled from the perspectives of a bandit, the bride, the samurai's ghost and a woodcutter.

Director: Akira Kurosawa | Stars: Toshirô Mifune, Machiko Kyô, Masayuki Mori, Takashi Shimura

Votes: 180,788 | Gross: $0.10M

6. Snake Eyes (1998)

R | 98 min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller

A shady police detective finds himself in the middle of a murder conspiracy at an important boxing match in an Atlantic City casino.

Director: Brian De Palma | Stars: Nicolas Cage, Gary Sinise, John Heard, Carla Gugino

Votes: 86,883 | Gross: $55.59M

7. Hoodwinked! (2005)

PG | 80 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy

Little Red Riding Hood, the Wolf, the Woodsman and Granny all tell the police the events that led up to their encounter.

Directors: Cory Edwards, Todd Edwards, Tony Leech | Stars: Anne Hathaway, Glenn Close, Patrick Warburton, Jim Belushi

Votes: 66,411 | Gross: $51.39M

8. Basic (2003)

R | 98 min | Action, Crime, Drama

A D.E.A. Agent investigates the disappearance of a legendary Army Ranger Drill Sergeant and several of his cadets during a training exercise gone severely awry.

Director: John McTiernan | Stars: John Travolta, Samuel L. Jackson, Connie Nielsen, Tim Daly

Votes: 66,609 | Gross: $26.54M

9. Courage Under Fire (1996)

R | 116 min | Action, Drama, Mystery

A U.S. Army officer, despondent about a deadly mistake he made, investigates a female chopper commander's worthiness for the Medal of Honor.

Director: Edward Zwick | Stars: Denzel Washington, Meg Ryan, Lou Diamond Phillips, Michael Moriarty

Votes: 59,644 | Gross: $59.03M

10. Vantage Point (2008)

PG-13 | 90 min | Action, Crime, Drama

The attempted assassination of the American President is told and re-told from several different perspectives.

Director: Pete Travis | Stars: Dennis Quaid, Forest Whitaker, Matthew Fox, Bruce McGill

Votes: 154,134 | Gross: $72.27M

11. One Night at McCool's (2001)

R | 93 min | Comedy, Crime

Every man has a different recollection of the beautiful young woman who wreaked havoc on their lives during one heated night.

Director: Harald Zwart | Stars: Liv Tyler, Matt Dillon, Mary Jo Smith, Michael Douglas

Votes: 31,332 | Gross: $6.29M

12. Autumn Leaves (1956)

Approved | 107 min | Drama

A lonely middle-aged woman meets a younger man, but their relationship is threatened after the man's troubled past reveals itself.

Director: Robert Aldrich | Stars: Joan Crawford, Cliff Robertson, Vera Miles, Lorne Greene

Votes: 3,202

13. The Legend of Lylah Clare (1968)

Approved | 130 min | Drama

A dictatorial film director (Peter Finch) hires an unknown actress (Kim Novak) to play the lead role in a planned movie biography of a late, great Hollywood star.

Director: Robert Aldrich | Stars: Kim Novak, Peter Finch, Ernest Borgnine, Milton Selzer

Votes: 1,505

14. The Outrage (1964)

Approved | 96 min | Crime, Drama, Western

Travelers in the 1870s Southwest discuss a recent murder trial in which all the principals told differing stories about the events.

Director: Martin Ritt | Stars: Paul Newman, Laurence Harvey, Claire Bloom, Edward G. Robinson

Votes: 2,527 | Gross: $3.92M

15. Five Angles on Murder (1950)

Approved | 88 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

A woman is murdered, but she is seen in different ways by different people.

Director: Anthony Asquith | Stars: Jean Kent, Dirk Bogarde, John McCallum, Susan Shaw

Votes: 1,083

16. Les Girls (1957)

Approved | 114 min | Comedy, Musical

The former members of a dance troupe are suing because of recently published memoirs. Each one insists on own point of view.

Director: George Cukor | Stars: Gene Kelly, Mitzi Gaynor, Kay Kendall, Taina Elg

Votes: 3,060

17. The Party's Over (1965)

94 min | Drama

An American businessman visits London and is horrified to discover his nubile teenage daughter has become involved with a gang of thuggish "beatniks". Her involvement leads to wild parties, sex, death and necrophilia.

Director: Guy Hamilton | Stars: Oliver Reed, Clifford David, Ann Lynn, Katherine Woodville

Votes: 730

18. Lazare (2020)

108 min | Drama, Fantasy, Musical

A team of French-Brazilian actors goes to Bucharest to shoot a film at a lower cost. But the Romanian technical team secretly shoot their own film.

Director: Philippe Chalem | Stars: Emine Meyrem, Milena Straube, Lionel Rousselot, Stanislas Siwiorek

Votes: 11

19. The Name of the Game Is Kill! (1968)

84 min | Thriller

A desert family offers a traveling stranger hospitality, but the stranger doesn't realize exactly what they have in store for him.

Director: Gunnar Hellström | Stars: Jack Lord, Susan Strasberg, Collin Wilcox Paxton, Tisha Sterling

Votes: 227

20. Andha Naal (1954)

130 min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller

After an engineer is shot dead, several people around him relate different versions and the related incidents that may have led to the murder.

Director: Sundaram Balachander | Stars: Shivaji Ganesan, Pandari Bai, Jawar N. Sitaraman, T.K. Balachandran

Votes: 479

21. Shan cun hu qi (2022 Video)

93 min | Crime, Fantasy, Horror

During the Republican Era of China, a heavy rain traps a troupe of opera singers with a group of policemen and their prisoner. A mysterious incident that happened 15 years ago nearby is recalled from their different perspectives.

Director: Xuandi Liu | Stars: Guansen Sheng, Ming Wang, Fengye Lin, Angel Fuhe

Votes: 22

22. Silent Voyeur (2004)

80 min | Mystery, Thriller

A man wakes up naked and alone in the middle of the vast Florida Everglades.

Director: Georg Koszulinski | Stars: Eric Cheek, Georg Koszulinski, Shamrock McShane, Jake Molzan

Votes: 55

23. Faithless (1998)

R | 94 min | Drama, Romance

Lars meets the smoldering Karis at a nightclub. Instantly drawn to each other, they embark on a night of frenzied sex. What follows is a riveting story of obsession, lust and revenge, ultimately revealing that everyone has their own truth.

Director: Raul Inglis | Stars: Christopher Shyer, Nicole Oliver, Rob Lee, John Cassini

Votes: 78

24. Natalie Wood: An American Murder Mystery (2018)

42 min | Crime

A silver screen icon vanishes in open water on a cold November day in 1981. What happened to Natalie Wood on the fateful day she disappears from the yacht she's staying on off Catalina ... See full summary »

Stars: Eric Congdon, Mark Ebner, Beth Karas, Matt Morrow

Votes: 171

25. Km 72 (2015)

TV-14 | 95 min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller

The millionaire Diego Verastegui has been murdered at his house, and somebody has taken a valuable briefcase from the safe-deposit box. Dimas -Verastegui's bodyguard- comes back to the ... See full summary »

Director: Samuel Henríquez | Stars: George Akram, Marco Antonio Alcalá, Beto Benites, Pedro González

Votes: 122

26. Bezmiar sprawiedliwosci (2006)

128 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Young Lukasz, who was persuaded by his father to study law, listens to the story of experienced lawyer Wilczek about a memorable murder case from his past.

Director: Wieslaw Saniewski | Stars: Jan Frycz, Robert Olech, Jan Englert, Artur Barcis

Votes: 340

27. Happenings of the Eighth Day (2014)

82 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance

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Director: Arya Ghavamian | Stars: Arya Ghavamian, Jason Kapoor, Travis Cole Watkins, Joseph Pisacane

Votes: 15

28. All in the Family (1971–1979)
Episode: Everybody Tells the Truth (1973)

TV-PG | 25 min | Comedy, Drama

All about how the time a repairman and his black apprentice came over to fix the Bunkers' refrigerator. Mike and Archie exchange wildly inaccurate versions about what happened, but Edith knows the real story.

Directors: Bob LaHendro, John Rich | Stars: Carroll O'Connor, Jean Stapleton, Rob Reiner, Sally Struthers

Votes: 344

29. The Dick Van Dyke Show (1961–1966)
Episode: The Night the Roof Fell In (1962)

TV-G | 30 min | Comedy, Family

Having each had a rough day, Laura and Rob argue, but only their goldfish can report the truth as Laura and Rob later tell colorful, self-aggrandizing versions to others of what happened.

Director: Hal Cooper | Stars: Dick Van Dyke, Rose Marie, Morey Amsterdam, Larry Mathews

Votes: 255

30. A Different World (1987–1993)
Episode: The Cat's in the Cradle (1992)

TV-PG | 22 min | Comedy

At a hotly contested Hillman-Virginia A&M game, Ron accepts a sucker bet from three white A&M students, then gets into a fight with them when one of them starts to spray a racial epithet on... See full summary »

Director: Peter Werner | Stars: Jasmine Guy, Dawnn Lewis, Kadeem Hardison, Lou Myers

Votes: 109

31. Drake & Josh (2004–2007)
Episode: Foam Finger (2005)

TV-Y7 | 25 min | Comedy, Family

An eight-year-old argument between Drake and Josh suddenly rekindles when their conflicting accounts of a incident at a San Diego Padres game finds them each placing the blame on the other.

Director: Roger Christiansen | Stars: Josh Peck, Drake Bell, Nancy Sullivan, Jonathan Goldstein

Votes: 321

32. Fame (1982–1987)
Episode: The Incident (1986)

TV-14 | Drama, Music, Musical

Jesse is hospitalized as he suffers a concussion. He's unconscious and thus unable to testify to what happened. Mr. Dyrenforth, Miss Sherwoord, and Christopher try to get to the bottom of ... See full summary »

Director: Win Phelps | Stars: Debbie Allen, Jesse Borrego, Loretta Chandler, Albert Hague

Votes: 18

33. Happy Days (1974–1984)
Episode: Fonzie Gets Shot (1981)

TV-G | 30 min | Comedy, Family, Music

During a week-end at Potsie's uncle's hunting cabin, Fonzie is accidentally shot in the vicinity of his favorite jeans' back pocket; but accounts of the incident vary when the guys tell ... See full summary »

Director: Jerry Paris | Stars: Henry Winkler, Marion Ross, Anson Williams, Erin Moran

Votes: 98

34. Highlander (1992–1998)
Episode: Dramatic License (1996)

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

Carolyn Marsh is a romance author whose latest book features the exploits of a hero named Duncan MacLeod and a villain named Terence Coventry, the name of another Immortal who Duncan knows ... See full summary »

Director: Peter Ellis | Stars: Adrian Paul, Stan Kirsch, Jim Byrnes, Elizabeth Gracen

Votes: 165

35. Highlander (1992–1998)
Episode: Through a Glass, Darkly (1996)

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

In flashback to 1700's Scotland, Duncan and Immortal Warren Cochrane are among those fighting for Bonnie Prince Charlie. But only Duncan eventually realizes that the Scots must abandon the ... See full summary »

Director: Dennis Berry | Stars: Adrian Paul, Stan Kirsch, Jim Byrnes, Peter Wingfield

Votes: 161

36. Highlander: The Raven (1998–1999)
Episode: Passion Play (1998)

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

Lucy discovers that Wilson Geary, the immortal that killed her immortal husband Marco Becker many years ago, is in town, and she decides to take her revenge.

Director: Dennis Berry | Stars: Elizabeth Gracen, Paul Johansson, Gordon Currie, Patricia Gage

Votes: 46

37. Laverne & Shirley (1976–1983)
Episode: The Road to Burbank (1981)

TV-G | 30 min | Comedy, Family

A hotel in Nevada is suing for room damages caused by Laverne, Shirley, and the boys while en route to California. Both say it's the others' fault, and both tell different versions of what went down. Who's truly guilty here?

Director: Frank Alesia | Stars: Penny Marshall, Cindy Williams, Betty Garrett, David L. Lander

Votes: 84

38. Magnum, P.I. (1980–1988)
Episode: I Witness (1984)

Not Rated | 48 min | Action, Adventure, Crime

Higgins, Rick, TC and others are in the King Kamehameha Club when three burglars with guns demand money.

Director: John Llewellyn Moxey | Stars: Tom Selleck, John Hillerman, Roger E. Mosley, Larry Manetti

Votes: 299

39. PSI Factor: Chronicles of the Paranormal (1996–2000)
Episode: Force Majeure (2000)

TV-14 | 45 min | Drama, Fantasy, Mystery

Lindsay and Peter give contradictory accounts of why a man they were investigating went up in flames. Peter believes he was a drunk swinger who spontaneously combusted, while Lindsay believes he was a demon trying to take Peter's soul.

Director: John Bell | Stars: Nancy Anne Sakovich, Barclay Hope, Joanne Vannicola, Colin Fox

Votes: 12

40. South Park (1997– )
Episode: City on the Edge of Forever (1998)

TV-14 | 22 min | Animation, Comedy

As their school bus teeters over the edge of a cliff, the boys recall past memories.

Director: Trey Parker | Stars: Trey Parker, Matt Stone, Mary Kay Bergman, Bruce Howell

Votes: 3,176

41. The X-Files (1993–2018)
Episode: Jose Chung's 'From Outer Space' (1996)

TV-14 | 45 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Scully recounts the investigation of an alleged UFO encounter for the famous quirky author Jose Chung's latest novel. The case gives a whole new meaning to the term Rashomon effect. Chung later returns in Millennium: Jose Chung's 'Doomsday Defense' (1997).

Director: Rob Bowman | Stars: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Charles Nelson Reilly, William Lucking

Votes: 6,579

42. Thirtysomething (1987–1991)
Episode: Couples (1987)

TV-14 | 48 min | Drama, Romance

A night out with friends degenerates as Nancy and Elliot's marital woes become apparent.

Director: Marshall Herskovitz | Stars: Timothy Busfield, Polly Draper, Mel Harris, Peter Horton

Votes: 83

43. Everybody Loves Raymond (1996–2005)
Episode: The Can Opener (1999)

TV-PG | 22 min | Comedy

Ray and Debra have a fight over a can opener.

Director: Will Mackenzie | Stars: Ray Romano, Patricia Heaton, Brad Garrett, Madylin Sweeten

Votes: 526

44. Mama's Family (1983–1990)
Episode: Rashomama (1983)

TV-PG | 21 min | Comedy

Naomi, Ellen, and Eunice give their own versions of Mama's accident.

Directors: Roger Beatty, Dick Martin | Stars: Vicki Lawrence, Ken Berry, Dorothy Lyman, Carol Burnett

Votes: 138

45. Sons of Butcher (2005–2006)
Episode: Spinnin' the Yarn (2006)

TV-14 | Animation, Comedy

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Director: Karl DiPelino | Stars: Dave Dunham, Jay Ziebarth, Trevor Ziebarth, Jeff Lumby

46. Corner Gas (2004–2009)
Episode: I, Witness (2006)

TV-14 | 22 min | Comedy

Hank has an epiphany and decides to live out his life-long dream of becoming a "professional" rodeo clown. Meanwhile, Davis tricks Karen into giving a speech about the unreliability of ... See full summary »

Director: Mark Farrell | Stars: Brent Butt, Gabrielle Miller, Fred Ewanuick, Eric Peterson

Votes: 132

47. Small Wonder (1985–1989)
Episode: Rashomon (1988)

TV-G | Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi

A burglar strikes the Lawsons at a health resort.

Director: Bob Claver | Stars: Richard Christie, Marla Pennington, Jerry Supiran, Emily Schulman

Votes: 20

48. Murder, Mystery and My Family (2018– )
Episode: Smith (2021)

44 min | Documentary, Crime, History

Barristers Sasha and Jeremy re-investigate a lethal shooting from 1937, when a barge captain was allegedly murdered by his best friend.

Directors: James Pearson, Gary John Senior | Stars: Tony Hirst, Jeremy Dein, Sasha Wass, David Radford

49. Pure Pwnage (2010)
Episode: The Day the LAN Centre Stood Still (2010)

Comedy

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Director: Ian MacDonald | Stars: Jarett Cale, Geoff Lapaire, Joel F. Gardiner, Melanie Scrofano

Votes: 19

50. The Sixth Commandment (2023)
Episode: Episode #1.4 (2023)

TV-MA | 58 min | Crime, Drama, History

When the case comes to court the victims' families discover the true horror of what has happened to their loved ones as new revelations emerge.

Director: Saul Dibb | Stars: Adrian Rawlins, Amanda Root, Annabel Scholey, Ben Bailey Smith

Votes: 166