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1. Scarface (1983)
R | 170 min | Crime, Drama
In 1980 Miami, a determined Cuban immigrant takes over a drug cartel and succumbs to greed.
Director: Brian De Palma | Stars: Al Pacino, Michelle Pfeiffer, Steven Bauer, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio
Votes: 919,741 | Gross: $45.60M
2. Black Swan (2010)
R | 108 min | Drama, Thriller
Nina is a talented but unstable ballerina on the verge of stardom. Pushed to the breaking point by her artistic director and a seductive rival, Nina's grip on reality slips, plunging her into a waking nightmare.
Director: Darren Aronofsky | Stars: Natalie Portman, Mila Kunis, Vincent Cassel, Winona Ryder
Votes: 827,468 | Gross: $106.95M
3. Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles (1994)
R | 123 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
A vampire tells his epic life story: love, betrayal, loneliness, and hunger.
Director: Neil Jordan | Stars: Brad Pitt, Tom Cruise, Antonio Banderas, Kirsten Dunst
Votes: 348,550 | Gross: $105.26M
4. Fargo (1996)
R | 98 min | Crime, Thriller
Minnesota car salesman Jerry Lundegaard's inept crime falls apart due to his and his henchmen's bungling and the persistent police work of the quite pregnant Marge Gunderson.
Directors: Joel Coen, Ethan Coen | Stars: William H. Macy, Frances McDormand, Steve Buscemi, Peter Stormare
Votes: 728,542 | Gross: $24.61M
5. The Fly (1986)
R | 96 min | Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
A brilliant but eccentric scientist begins to transform into a giant man/fly hybrid after one of his experiments goes horribly wrong.
Director: David Cronenberg | Stars: Jeff Goldblum, Geena Davis, John Getz, Joy Boushel
Votes: 202,739 | Gross: $40.46M
6. Eastern Promises (2007)
R | 100 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A teenager who dies during childbirth leaves clues in her journal that could tie her child to a rape involving a violent Russian mob family.
Director: David Cronenberg | Stars: Naomi Watts, Viggo Mortensen, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Josef Altin
Votes: 261,906 | Gross: $17.11M
7. Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007)
R | 116 min | Drama, Horror, Musical
The legendary tale of a barber who returns from wrongful imprisonment to 1840s London, bent on revenge for the rape and death of his wife, and resumes his trade while forming a sinister partnership with his fellow tenant, Mrs. Lovett.
Director: Tim Burton | Stars: Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter, Alan Rickman, Timothy Spall
Votes: 387,527 | Gross: $52.90M
8. A History of Violence (2005)
R | 96 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A mild-mannered man becomes a local hero through an act of violence, which sets off repercussions that will shake his family to its very core.
Director: David Cronenberg | Stars: Viggo Mortensen, Maria Bello, Ed Harris, William Hurt
Votes: 253,426 | Gross: $31.49M
9. What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962)
Passed | 134 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller
A former child star torments her paraplegic sister in their decaying Hollywood mansion.
Director: Robert Aldrich | Stars: Bette Davis, Joan Crawford, Victor Buono, Wesley Addy
Votes: 62,148 | Gross: $4.05M
10. Blood Simple (1984)
R | 99 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
The owner of a seedy small-town Texas bar discovers that one of his employees is having an affair with his wife. A chaotic chain of misunderstandings, lies, and mischief ensues after he devises a plot to have them murdered.
Directors: Joel Coen, Ethan Coen | Stars: John Getz, Frances McDormand, Dan Hedaya, M. Emmet Walsh
Votes: 105,612 | Gross: $2.15M
11. Inside (2007)
R | 82 min | Horror
Four months after the death of her husband, a woman on the brink of motherhood is tormented in her home by a strange woman who wants her unborn baby.
Directors: Alexandre Bustillo, Julien Maury | Stars: Alysson Paradis, Jean-Baptiste Tabourin, Claude Lulé, Dominique Frot
Votes: 44,827
12. Quills (2000)
R | 124 min | Biography, Drama
In a Napoleonic era insane asylum, an inmate, the irrepressible Marquis De Sade, fights a battle of wills against a tyrannically prudish doctor.
Director: Philip Kaufman | Stars: Geoffrey Rush, Kate Winslet, Joaquin Phoenix, Michael Caine
Votes: 56,814 | Gross: $7.06M
13. Harold and Maude (1971)
PG | 91 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Young, rich, and obsessed with death, Harold finds himself changed forever when he meets lively septuagenarian Maude at a funeral.
Director: Hal Ashby | Stars: Ruth Gordon, Bud Cort, Vivian Pickles, Cyril Cusack
Votes: 81,989
14. The Limehouse Golem (2016)
Not Rated | 109 min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller
In Victorian London, a Scotland Yard inspector hunts down the sadistic killer behind a series of gory, Jack the Ripper-Like murders.
Director: Juan Carlos Medina | Stars: Douglas Booth, Olivia Cooke, Sam Reid, María Valverde
Votes: 23,379
15. Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte (1964)
Not Rated | 133 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
An aging, reclusive Southern belle plagued by a horrifying family secret descends into madness after the arrival of a lost relative.
Director: Robert Aldrich | Stars: Bette Davis, Olivia de Havilland, Joseph Cotten, Agnes Moorehead
Votes: 16,096 | Gross: $7.63M
16. House of Wax (1953)
GP | 88 min | Horror
An associate burns down a wax museum with the owner inside, but he survives only to become vengeful and murderous.
Director: André De Toth | Stars: Vincent Price, Frank Lovejoy, Phyllis Kirk, Carolyn Jones
Votes: 20,311 | Gross: $23.75M
17. Eyes Without a Face (1960)
Not Rated | 90 min | Drama, Horror
A surgeon causes an accident which leaves his daughter disfigured and goes to extreme lengths to give her a new face.
Director: Georges Franju | Stars: Pierre Brasseur, Alida Valli, Juliette Mayniel, Alexandre Rignault
Votes: 35,290 | Gross: $0.05M
18. Lost River (2014)
R | 95 min | Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
A single mother is swept into a dark underworld, while her teenage son discovers a road that leads him to a secret underwater town.
Director: Ryan Gosling | Stars: Christina Hendricks, Iain De Caestecker, Matt Smith, Saoirse Ronan
Votes: 19,142 | Gross: $0.04M
19. Cronos (1992)
R | 94 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
A mysterious device designed to provide its owner with eternal life resurfaces after four hundred years, leaving a trail of destruction in its path.
Director: Guillermo del Toro | Stars: Federico Luppi, Ron Perlman, Claudio Brook, Margarita Isabel
Votes: 33,213 | Gross: $0.62M
20. Spider (2002)
R | 98 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
A mentally disturbed man takes residence in a halfway house. His mind gradually slips back into the realm created by his illness, where he replays a key part of his childhood.
Director: David Cronenberg | Stars: Ralph Fiennes, Miranda Richardson, Gabriel Byrne, Lynn Redgrave
Votes: 41,190 | Gross: $1.64M
21. The Phantom of the Opera (1989)
R | 93 min | Drama, Horror, Music
A young soprano becomes the obsession of a horribly disfigured composer, who has plans for those who oppose him or the young singer.
Director: Dwight H. Little | Stars: Robert Englund, Jill Schoelen, Alex Hyde-White, Bill Nighy
Votes: 4,531 | Gross: $3.95M
22. Three... Extremes (2004)
R | 125 min | Horror
An Asian cross-cultural trilogy of horror films from accomplished indie directors.
Directors: Fruit Chan, Park Chan-wook, Takashi Miike | Stars: Bai Ling, Lee Byung-hun, Kyoko Hasegawa, Pauline Lau
Votes: 20,910 | Gross: $0.08M
23. Blood Sucking Freaks (1976)
Unrated | 84 min | Comedy, Horror
In the Theatre of the Macabre in New York Sardu and his assistants present a show involving the torture and mutilation of young women. The audience assumes it is just an act but the torture is real, as are the deaths.
Director: Joel M. Reed | Stars: Seamus O'Brien, Viju Krem, Niles McMaster, Dan Fauci
Votes: 6,298
24. The Legacy (1978)
R | 102 min | Horror
An American couple in England stumble upon a rambling mansion where a number of powerful individuals have been summoned by its patriarch regarding the home's legacy.
Director: Richard Marquand | Stars: Katharine Ross, Sam Elliott, John Standing, Ian Hogg
Votes: 3,449
25. Trog (1970)
GP | 93 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
A sympathetic anthropologist uses drugs and surgery to try to communicate with a primitive troglodyte who is found living in a local cave.
Director: Freddie Francis | Stars: Joan Crawford, Michael Gough, Bernard Kay, Kim Braden
Votes: 3,212
26. The Mangler (1995)
R | 106 min | Horror, Mystery
A laundry-folding machine has been possessed by a demon, causing it to develop homicidal tendencies.
Director: Tobe Hooper | Stars: Robert Englund, Ted Levine, Daniel Matmor, Jeremy Crutchley
Votes: 9,992 | Gross: $1.78M
27. The Last Circus (2010)
R | 107 min | Comedy, Drama, Horror
A young trapeze artist must decide between her lust for Sergio, the Happy Clown, or her affection for Javier, the Sad Clown, both of whom are deeply disturbed.
Director: Álex de la Iglesia | Stars: Carlos Areces, Antonio de la Torre, Carolina Bang, Manuel Tallafé
Votes: 15,255 | Gross: $0.04M
28. Ed Gein (2000)
Not Rated | 89 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
The story of Ed Gein, who dug up the corpses of over a dozen women and made things out of their remains before finally shooting two people to death and butchering their bodies like beef sides.
Director: Chuck Parello | Stars: Steve Railsback, Carrie Snodgress, Carol Mansell, Sally Champlin
Votes: 5,628 | Gross: $0.01M
29. What's the Matter with Helen? (1971)
R | 101 min | Crime, Horror, Musical
Two middle-aged women move to Hollywood, California after their sons are convicted of a notorious murder and open a dance school for children eager to tap their way to stardom.
Director: Curtis Harrington | Stars: Debbie Reynolds, Shelley Winters, Dennis Weaver, Micheál MacLiammóir
Votes: 2,308
30. Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (1982 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 140 min | Drama, Horror, Musical
Barber Sweeney Todd returns to London to uncover the past, along the way meeting pie shop owner Mrs. Nellie Lovett, and begins to start his life of crime.
Director: Terry Hughes | Stars: Angela Lansbury, George Hearn, Cris Groenendaal, Sara Woods
Votes: 3,898
31. What Ever Happened to Aunt Alice? (1969)
M/PG | 101 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
An aging widow hides a deadly secret which she will do anything to keep buried.
Directors: Lee H. Katzin, Bernard Girard | Stars: Geraldine Page, Ruth Gordon, Rosemary Forsyth, Robert Fuller
Votes: 2,806
32. Murders in the Rue Morgue (1971)
PG-13 | 87 min | Crime, Horror, Mystery
Paris...at the turn of the century. Inspector Vidocq investigates a series of unexplained murders at a Grand Guignol-type theatre...where the players have suddenly become real-life victims. Based on the story by Edgar Allan Poe.
Director: Gordon Hessler | Stars: Jason Robards, Herbert Lom, Christine Kaufmann, Adolfo Celi
Votes: 1,557
33. Mad Love (1935)
Passed | 68 min | Horror, Romance, Sci-Fi
In Paris, a demented surgeon's obsession with a British actress leads him to secretly replace her concert-pianist husband's mangled hands with those of a guillotined murderer with a gift for knife-throwing.
Director: Karl Freund | Stars: Peter Lorre, Frances Drake, Colin Clive, Ted Healy
Votes: 5,890 | Gross: $0.37M
34. Frankenstein 1970 (1958)
Not Rated | 83 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
Needing money, the last member of the Frankenstein family leases his family's castle out to a film company as he tries to continue his ancestor's gruesome experiments to create life.
Director: Howard W. Koch | Stars: Boris Karloff, Tom Duggan, Jana Lund, Don 'Red' Barry
Votes: 1,550
35. Whoever Slew Auntie Roo? (1972)
PG-13 | 91 min | Horror, Thriller
A demented widow lures unsuspecting children into her mansion in a bizarre "Hansel and Gretel" twist.
Director: Curtis Harrington | Stars: Shelley Winters, Mark Lester, Chloe Franks, Ralph Richardson
Votes: 2,544
36. Chamber of Horrors (1966)
Unrated | 80 min | Crime, Horror, Thriller
A one-handed madman uses various detachable devices as murder weapons to gain revenge on those he believes have wronged him.
Director: Hy Averback | Stars: Patrick O'Neal, Cesare Danova, Wilfrid Hyde-White, Laura Devon
Votes: 1,432
37. The Night Digger (1971)
R | 97 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller
The dreary existence of middle-aged spinster Maura Prince takes an unexpected turn with the arrival of young handyman Billy Jarvis, but there is more to Billy than meets the eye.
Director: Alastair Reid | Stars: Patricia Neal, Pamela Brown, Nicholas Clay, Jean Anderson
Votes: 1,167
38. The Landlady (1998)
R | 95 min | Horror, Thriller
Melanie decides that one of her tenants would be perfect as her husband and decides to eliminate everyone who might interfere in her plans.
Director: Robert Malenfant | Stars: Talia Shire, Jack Coleman, Bruce Weitz, Melissa Behr
Votes: 733
39. Mommy (1995)
89 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
After twelve-year-old Jessica-Ann's teacher breaks her neck, Jessica-Ann starts suspecting her cold and overprotective mother as the killer.
Director: Max Allan Collins | Stars: Patty McCormack, Rachel Lemieux, Jason Miller, Brinke Stevens
Votes: 440
40. Bernie (1996)
87 min | Comedy, Drama
A 30 year old orphan finds his life's official version hard to swallow. His parents couldn't possibly have abandoned him in a trash can as a baby. No, they were victims of a mafia plot and today, if they're still alive, they need his help.
Director: Albert Dupontel | Stars: Claude Perron, Albert Dupontel, Roland Blanche, Hélène Vincent
Votes: 4,051
41. Rocktober Blood (1984)
R | 93 min | Horror, Music
A crazed rock singer returns from the dead to murder members of his former band.
Director: Beverly Sebastian | Stars: Tray Loren, Donna Scoggins, Cana Cockrell, Renee Hubbard
Votes: 965
42. The Kingdom of Var (2019)
81 min | Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
College student Sonja summons the demonic sorcerer Var after viewing a 500-year-old film containing his spirit.
Director: Nicholas Kleban | Stars: Brittany Clough, Madison Graves, Joey Freddy Larsen, Matthew Sears
Votes: 94
43. Burroughs: The Movie (1983)
Not Rated | 90 min | Documentary, Biography
Burroughs: The Movie explores the life and times of controversial Naked Lunch author William S. Burroughs, with an intimacy never before seen and never repeated. The film charts the ... See full summary »
Director: Howard Brookner | Stars: William S. Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, Herbert Huncke, James Grauerholz
Votes: 803
44. The Lighthouse Keepers (1929)
82 min | Drama
Two lighthouse keepers (the father and the son) are to spend one entire month in the middle of the sea near the coasts of Brittany; the young man is ill.
Director: Jean Grémillon | Stars: Paul Fromet, Geymond Vital, Genica Athanasiou, Gabrielle Fontan
Votes: 210
45. That Day (2003)
105 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
A father (Michel Piccoli) is scheming to have his slightly mental daughter from an earlier marriage (Elsa Zylberstein) killed by allowing a murderous psychopath (Bernard Giraudeau) to be ... See full summary »
Director: Raúl Ruiz | Stars: Bernard Giraudeau, Elsa Zylberstein, Jean-Luc Bideau, Jean-François Balmer
Votes: 783
46. Ecco (1963)
100 min | Documentary, Musical
A documentary highlighting some of the oddest, strangest and more grotesque examples of human behavior. Included are a tour of the Grand Guignol theater in Paris, a man who sticks long ... See full summary »
Director: Gianni Proia | Stars: George Sanders, Alexander, Maria Ansaldi, Laura Betti
Votes: 134
47. While Paris Sleeps (1923)
60 min | Drama, Horror
When a sculptor falls in love with his model but finds his love unrequited, he plans to kill his love rival with the help of the owner of a Horror Wax museum.
Director: Maurice Tourneur | Stars: Lon Chaney, Mildred Manning, John Gilbert, Hardee Kirkland
Votes: 46
48. The House of Hanging (1979)
139 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Kosuke visits a photo studio to take photo for his passport. There he happens to meet a daughter who came to request a wedding anniversary photo shoot.
Director: Kon Ichikawa | Stars: Kôji Ishizaka, Yoshiko Sakuma, Junko Sakurada, Takako Irie
Votes: 165
49. Grand Guignol (1987)
88 min | Comedy, Drama, Horror
It narrates the trials and tribulations of a company of second-rate actors trying to revive the customs and habits of the grand guignol.
Director: Jean Marboeuf | Stars: Caroline Cellier, Guy Marchand, Michel Galabru, Marie Dubois
Votes: 82
50. L'homme mystérieux (1933)
40 min | Short, Drama
When the night comes,the wife's terror will rise..
Director: Maurice Tourneur | Stars: Charles Vanel, Paul Amiot, Georges Paulais, Henry Bonvallet
Votes: 44